Record ID: NARC-5C03F2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval silver penny of Archbishop Wulfred of Canterbury (810-15), Group II 'transitional monogram' type (815-23; North 240). Minted by the moneyer Swefherd at Canterbury. Reference: North 1994: No.240, Fig.18.
Created on: Thursday 18th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2016
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Record ID: NARC-1B5978
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The head plate and partial arched bow of a copper alloy Early Medieval (Fifth - Sixth century) Cruciform brooch. Integrally cast top and side knobs wityh plain collars, the side knobs in particular mis-shapen through wear. Rectangular head plate with expanded wings. An arched bow, triangular in cross-section with faceted corners. The horizontal break is part way (12mm) across the bow. The revers ehas a central lug on a vertical axis with some iron staninng from the corroded iron pin. A small fragment of the iron spring, or suspension loop, remains corroded in place. The obje…
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 28th September 2016
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Record ID: NARC-343966
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Cnut (1016 - 1035). Quatrefoil type issued 1017 - 1023. Minted in Thetford by Leofwine. Reference: North 781
Created on: Thursday 6th August 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2020
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Record ID: NARC-70AEA5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver penny of Cnut. In Fine condition, although only c.50% survives. "Short Cross type" (1029 - 1036). The legend still present on the reverse reads [...]FPINE or [...]EPINE for both of which there are many options (for example, Aelfwine, Leofwine, Hunewine, wulfwine) Some of these names occur at several different mints and so further defining the mint and moneyer is not possible. (With thanks to Laura Burnett, FLO for Somerset, for comments. 28.05.15) Reference: North cf. 790
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2015
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Record ID: NARC-B49685
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval (800 - 900) Thomas Class A anthropomorphic strap end with niello inlay.
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 15th March 2017
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Record ID: NARC-D280A7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy penannular ring with a circular cross-section, wide in the centre and tapering to pointed ends. One end is bifurcated and flattened, as if it were meant to fit into another component; this may be the result of damage. The patina is an uneven green, and corrosion has created a pitted surface. The frame is misshapen, giving an oval shape. Originally recorded as a post-medieval ear-ring, this artefact type is normally recorded as a late early-medieval finger-ring with parallels at the Viking-age town of Thetford (Rogerson and Dallas 1984, fig. 110, nos. 17-21). F…
Created on: Tuesday 14th April 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2016
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Record ID: NARC-D24E6D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A penannular ring with a thick mid section to the frame, tapering to pointed terminals that do not quite meet. Exterior width estimated from photo, 25mm. Originally recorded as an ear-ring of unknown date, this artefact type is normally recorded as a late early-medieval finger-ring with parallels at the Viking-age town of Thetford (Rogerson and Dallas 1984, nos. 17-21). This example, however, is very thick, and although its interior diameter of c. 17mm would allow it to be worn on the finger, the identification is not certain. See NARC-D24A5D for a version with a more convention…
Created on: Tuesday 14th April 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2016
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Record ID: NARC-D24A5D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy penannular ring with a circular cross-section, wide in the centre and tapering to pointed ends. One terminal is bifurcated and flattened, as if it were meant to fit into another component; this may be the result of damage. The patina is an uneven green, and corrosion has created a pitted surface. The frame is misshapen, giving an oval shape. Originally recorded as an ear-ring of unknown date, this artefact type is normally recorded as a late early-medieval finger-ring with parallels at the Viking-age town of Thetford (Rogerson and Dallas 1984, fig. 110, nos. 17-21). …
Created on: Tuesday 14th April 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2016
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Record ID: NARC-D19065
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver penny of Aethelred II (978-1016). Helmet type (c. 1003-1009; North 775; bmc viii). Minted by Eadric at Thetford. Obverse: +EÐELRED REX ANGL; Bust left in armour and radiate helmet Reverse: +[EADRIC MON ÐEODF]? Long cross voided, each limb terminating in three crescents over square with trefoil at each point There is a feint crack forming across the centre of the coin (from the 3oclock position to its centre) possibly caused where it has bent backwards slightly along a weak point in the metal. Reference: Spink (2010) cf. 1152.
Created on: Tuesday 14th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2015
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Record ID: NARC-DEDC08
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy gilded Square-Headed brooch. Early Medieval (Saxon). The brooch head is incomplete, with no edges and a small portion of the bow present. The fragment is 32mm wide and 28mm long. It weighs 10.57g. In two pieces with very worn breaks, although the two fragments do not together exactly the recorder is confident that these fragments are part of the same brooch.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2015
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Record ID: NARC-C95B71
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon (6th century AD) copper alloy openwork disc brooch with four apertures forming a swastika design with 10 irregularly spaced punched ring-and-dot motifs around the circular frame ad at its centre. Complete but broken in two pieces with some further cracks developing. A catchplate and single lug to hold the pin survive on the reverse. There is some corrosion showing through an otherwise even mid-green patina. There is some iron staining on the reverse from the iron pin, now missing. Brooches of this type are not common (MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 69). Two simil…
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
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Record ID: NARC-C8AC41
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Anglo-Saxon Long brooch of developed Anglian Cruciform type. Cast in one piece. A single head knob adorns the upper edge of the headplate. The headplate is decorated with a serieds of punched annulets (or semi-circles) around the edge of the two side panels. Althouh worn, there does not seem to be any pinched decoration on the central panel. The arch is concave and 32mm long. There are small semi-circular side lugs below the arch. The reverse of the arch is concave. The foot is moulded with a stylised horse's head, which has projecting pellets as eyes, and flattened cir…
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2014
Last updated: Monday 28th November 2016
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Record ID: NARC-907F83
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A very worn and corroded 10th century, Winchester style strap end. Thomas Class E, Type 1. A thin rectamgular section, 20mm wde and 7mm long, with two rivet holes to allow attachment to a leather strap. One corner is broken across a rivet hole. The main body of the strap end is thicker with openwork decoration. In this example, the first pair of decorative holes are very worn and the horizontal break runs across the next pair of holes. The full length of the strap end is 26mm. A more complete example can be seen at SUR-996B96, and a less complete example at WAW-4F6FB1. Similar t…
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 20th May 2014
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Record ID: NARC-904250
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount with zoomorphic decoration etched into the face. This style of mount can be classified as Williams Class A, Type 5. See Williams, D. (1997). Late Saxon Stirrup Strap Mounts. CBA Research Report 111. Page 41, nos. 98 - 101. L-shaped in cross section, and lozenge shaped in plan, with tendrils at the upper edges. There are two circular holes placed near the flat edge. A third hole would have been situated at the now missing upper corner.
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 7th May 2014
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Record ID: NARC-8FF0C6
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount with zoomorphic decoration etched into the face. This style of mount can be classified as Williams Class A, Type 1. See Williams, D. (1997). Late Saxon Stirrup Strap Mounts. CBA Research Report 111. Page 27, no. 2, 8 and 9. L-shaped in cross section, and lozenge shaped in plan, with a flattened lower corner. There are three circular holes, two placed near the flat edge and one at the top corner. All holes appear placed irregularly. The decoration features symetrically placed beasts with heads facing each other and snouts downwards.
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 7th May 2014
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Record ID: NARC-073AB4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver sceatta of Series BIa-c copy (type 27b; Rigold group d); c.695-700.
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 16th June 2014
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Record ID: NARC-77D151
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Small Long Brooch of cross potent form dating to to 6th century AD (500 - 575 AD). Cast bow brooch with tripartite cruciform head with three pelta shaped arms, separated from a plain curved mid bow by a horizontal rib. The bow is D-shaped in cross section and is broken at 10mm from the base of the head. There is a single lug placed on teh reverse for holding a pin, now missing. This form of Early Anglo-Saxon brooch is more frequently reported from mortuary rather than occupation contexts. It is a type common in East Anglia, and also the English Midlands, …
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Monday 19th January 2015
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Record ID: NARC-159173
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn early medieval silver penny of Edward the Confessor (1042-66), 'Small flan' type (North 818; 1048 - 1050), moneyer: illegible (P[ ]), mint: illegible (P[ ]).
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2014
Last updated: Friday 24th January 2014
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Record ID: NARC-FCC956
Object type: HANGING BOWL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy disc with enameled and silvered decoration. Early Medieval date ( AD 450 - 650). This is a mount which would have been an escutcheon for an Early Medieval hanging bowl. The reverse is undecorated with some green corrosion in areas which maybe as a result of an adhesion product used to hold the mount in place. The front carries a design of four spirals and a triskele motif eminating from the central spiral. The design is infilled with yellow enamel, some of which has faded to white. The arms of the triskele and the spirals are all connected.The surface is silver…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 23rd January 2014
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Record ID: NARC-F166E8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Trewhiddle style strap end, complete apart from one corner broken across the rivet hole. 8th to 9th century AD. There is one rivet still in place and is likely to be silver. The strap end has zoomorphic terminal with an etched (or possibly chip carved) decorated panel containing interlocking animals/beasts. The reverse is undecorated. The snout is flat at the end and the ears are square with depressed T-shapes as the hollows of the ears. The decoration probably contained neillo to enhance the design, but no infill remains. This strap end fits into the Thomas Cla…
Created on: Wednesday 4th December 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
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