Record ID: LEIC-705DCA
Object type: COMB
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy comb, 107 mm long, 22 mm wide and 1 mm thick with a weight of 10.05g. The object is sub-rectangular in form and rectangular in cross section. It consists of a solid sub rectangular plate with a curved/bowed upper surface and rounded ends. One end is intact and has a small circular hole, 2 mm in diameter, centrally placed. The other end is damaged but appears to only be missing a small area and part of a second circular hole may be visible at the centre of the break. The object is decorated on this upper edge on both sides with a solid double incised b…
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton Cheney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-8D0E07
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Anglo-Viking) St Edmund memorial silver penny, incomplete, 895-910AD.
Created on: Tuesday 18th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-364A4E
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval gilded copper alloy mount, 26mm in length, 16mm wide and 1mm thick with a weight of 3.22g. The object is incomplete and is rectangular and flat. It is decorated with a plain raised border, c.1mm wide, and inside this is a narrow depression and a further raised border, c.0.5mm wide. The main field is filled with double-strand plaited interlace forming an entwined beast. At the complete end are two diverging raised lines emerging from the body, suggesting an open mouth (or possibly forked tail), sitting over or perhaps biting a loop of interlace. It is difficult to be …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Last updated: Friday 26th April 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-33DBDC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Viking-age) copper alloy trefoil brooch, 46mm in length, 27mm wide and 3mm thick with a weight of 11.18g. The brooch is incomplete, missing most of one arm. The surviving arms are sub- rectangular, with a rounded tip. The front is slightly convex and the reverse is flat and undecorated. The front has been decorated with a plain raised outer border, then a double-strand interlace design running around the edge of the brooch and underneath three sub triangular motifs, each one sitting in the curve formed where the arms join and running to the object's edge. These surr…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-36241D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Scandinavian) Quidenham type copper alloy gilded disc brooch, 26mm in diameter, 3mm thick and weighing 8.08g. The brooch is circular in form and sub rectangular in cross section. It has a slightly dished surface and is decorated with an outer raised border, 2mm wide, which has a gilded linear recess in its centre. Inside this are two opposing 'S' shaped Jellinge-style animals arranged around a slight central boss, 2mm in diameter. Each beast is a sub figure of 8 shape. Each head is very slightly different, but it appears to have a gaping mouth with a jaw placed ei…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Last updated: Sunday 1st August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-F3BA97
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval copper-alloy brooch fragment. Length: 34 mm, width: 20 mm, thickness: 4 mm, weight: 6.21 g. The object comprises the incomplete headplate only, and is probably from a cruciform brooch. The headplate is flat and rectangular, and missing most of its edge; it is decorated with five (two incomplete) ring-and-dot motifs, one centrally placed and the others in each corner. There is no evidence for any wings. At one edge of the headplate is a centrally placed top knob cast in one with the headplate. This is very worn, but is half-round, so semi-circular in cross-section. It…
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 13th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rutland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-C26523
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval copper alloy pin, dating to 700-800AD, Length: 62 mm, width; 10 mm, thickness: 3 mm, weight: 4.09 grams. The object consists of a circular cross sectioned incomplete shaft which is bent, and c.2mm in diameter. This terminates with a raised collar below an oval shaped, rectangular cross sectioned termina, 20 x 10 x 3mm. This is in the form of a mouse like creature and has a pointed nose with a blue glass eye in a raised circle behind. On the upper edge of the object, to the left of the eye (as photographed) is a triangular projection representing an ear. From here the…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 20th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-57BE78
Object type: AESTEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval gold terminal mount in the form of an animal's head. The mount is hollow (now filled with mud), and has been constructed from a sheet of gold that has been shaped into a three-dimensional horse-like head, beneath which is a plain gold sheet back-plate probably attached by soldering. A single strand of beaded wire runs around the base of the artefact, masking the join between the head and the back-plate. Overall the mount is sub-rectangular in form and cross-section. The head is bulbous in the centre and tapers towards the blunt snout at one end, and the open socket at t…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-C6C96A
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval lead alloy weight with gilded copper alloy insert, 17mm in diamter and 12mm high with a weight of 20.33grams. The object is sub circular in form and rectangular in cross section. Its upper surface has a fragment of gilded copper alloy inset into it. This is sub triangular in form and is corroded, but appears to have two rounded motifs at one end and a hevaily gilded pointed terminal at the other. This is probably a fragment of a larger object of Irish, or more probably, Anglo-Saxon manufacture which has been re-used as decoration in the weight. These objects are asso…
Created on: Wednesday 16th November 2016
Last updated: Sunday 1st August 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-B1BEA8
Object type: LOOMWEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Clay loomweight. Length: 69 mm, width: 30 mm, thickness: 28 mm, weight 72.7 grams. The object represents half of a circular loom weight and has a circular cross section. It has been roughly cast from a buff clay.
Created on: Thursday 3rd November 2016
Last updated: Saturday 3rd June 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-8BE932
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval copper alloy buckle, 42mm long, 24mm wide and 12mm thick witha weight of 22.78g. The buckle consists of a D shaped circular cross sectioned, plain loop which swells in its centre. The loop narrows to a recessed circular section bar onto which is attached a folded plate. The plate has a thick circular shaped upper surface with a thinner, rectangular lower surface and these are rivetted together through the centre of the circular portion. A rectangular slit in this allows the fixing of a large buckle tongue. This has a rectangular cross sectioend, circular loop fixing it …
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2016
Last updated: Friday 3rd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-47AE03
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy bowl fragments. A scatter of copper-alloy fragments from a copper alloy 'Coptic' bowl was found surrounding the gold buckle's find spot. The fragments comprise two large pieces from the base and one smaller non-joining piece, all with remnants of the openwork footring; four possible rim pieces; one plain piece from the body; one fragment of openwork footring; two rim pieces with integral circular loops and ridges matching the four smaller rim fragments; and one detached loop. All appear to come from the same vessel. The joining pieces of base and the sma…
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rutland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-47843A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
A plain gold buckle of rectangular cross-section, comprising a hollow triangular plate and an oval loop. The buckle plate consists of a flat upper plate which is soldered to side walls, creating a box-like hollow-backed element. The apex of the triangular box expands into a circular lobe; there are also two curved projections, each slightly smaller than the apex lobe, along the long sides near to the wider end. The upper part of the buckle plate is then fixed to a sheet gold back-plate by (probably) five rivets. One rivet is placed at each of the rounded projections, one at the ape…
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2016
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rutland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-763F79
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medeival silver penny of Aethelstan of East Anglia, 825-845, Moneyer Mon. The moneyer, Mon (Man/Monne) is listed as possibly of the Ipswich mint. See EMC 2005.0031 and Naismith, R. The Coinage of Southern England 796-865 (E45.3).
Created on: Tuesday 26th July 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-F700AF
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy zoomorphic strap end terminal, 24mm long, 9mm wide and 4mm thick with a weight of 2.95g.The object is triangular in form and semi circular in cross section. It terminates in a pointed, rounded snout with slight recesses at either side. Above this are two rounded projections which could be ears or eyes, the surface being rather worn. Above this is a plain slightly recessed band with two large rounded ears above. At this point the object has broken and the reverse side is flat and plain and slightly shorter than the upper The animal head terminal, with eye…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RUTLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-E45DE0
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver gilt sword pommel cap, 53mm long, 20mm high and 16mm wide, with a weight of 20.1g. The pommel cap is pyramidal in form, a shape widely referred to as 'cocked hat' in academic literature. It has two broad faces (front and back) and two 'shoulders' which curve downwards from the peak to a straight terminal. Each terminal has two projecting rivet-tubes (4mm high and 5mm diameter), three empty and one with a silver dome-headed rivet in situ. The pommel cap is hollow and has a patch of iron concretion near the base on the inside of one broad face, p…
Created on: Wednesday 13th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-9E22BD
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver pyramidal mount. The object has a rectangular form and a triangular cross section. It has a slightly rounded apex which is bordered by a very thin line of gilding forming a rectangle 3.5mm wide. Its hollow underside contains a slightly curving circular cross sectioned bar fixed across the centre. Each outer face is decorated with three pyramid shaped depressions, one in each corner, which are gilded. In between the depressions, forming a V-shape, is a ladder like pattern of a two sets of vertical lines joined by a series of short horizontal lines. T…
Created on: Monday 16th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 1st March 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-9E14B1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval gilded copper alloy mount, 25mm long, 11mm wide and 3mm thick with a weight of 3.26 grams. The object is sub rectangular in form and cross section and consists of a rectangular plate with a triangular plate emerging from one side. The rectangular section is decorated with a raised solid border which surrounds a raised knot like motif representing a snake. The triangular section forms a 'beaked' head consisting of a triangle with the apex curling and turning under itself. At the top corner, where it joins the rectangular plate, there is a raised circle with a raised '…
Created on: Monday 16th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-BB0325
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete late early-medieval copper-alloy openwork strap end, measuring 37mm long, 26mm wide, 5.1mm thick and weighing 17.22g. The object has a rectangular form and cross-section and is in poor condition. The decorative part has a solid raised transverse line forming the border with the recessed attachment end, which projects above but is incomplete, retaining part of one circular hole. The decoration consists of a central raised linear area which emerges from the border and then narrows as it runs down the centre. There appear to be a pair of drilled dots on the wider part of this …
Created on: Monday 12th October 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 14th October 2015
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Record ID: LEIC-E51A11
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an early medieval cast gilded silver radiate-headed brooch. The fragment comprises one of the knobs originally attached to the head-plate, in the form of a stylised animal mask. It is sub-rectangular in form and semi-circular in cross section, with a hollow underside. The flat end is semi-circular, with a semi-circular hole cut out of the centre of its straight edge. Below this is the animal mask, with exaggerated raised brows that converge in a central V-shape from which protrudes a central line, which runs down the snout to terminate in a raised semi-spherical pellet. The…
Created on: Friday 2nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.