Record ID: SOM-72A155
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a large, Early Medieval gilded copper alloy sheet mount with slightly concave sides and chip carved spiralling interlace decoration, probably of 8th century date. The fragment has part of one long edge which has a shallow, concave, curve. There is an unrecessed border along this edge from which an unrecessed line projects at right angled to bisect part of a unrecessed line circle before ending in a circular hole in the opposite, broken edge. It seems likely that the mount, or this part of it, was symmetrical with a central circular hole encircled by a plain line circle and fou…
Created on: Friday 3rd April 2020
Last updated: Friday 3rd April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ston Easton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-71A289
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably the lower edge of an Early Medieval copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, type 6, dating to c. AD 1000-1100. The fragment consists of the entire lower, straight edge and parts of the straight sides leading up at right angles before an irregular, worn break along the top which follows thinner, weaker points in the design. In the lower corners are circular attachment holes, one filled with iron corrosion. This corrosion continues across the back which is otherwise plain with no remaining flange. The front is moulded into a design a central 'tree' with centr…
Created on: Friday 3rd April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 21st May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ston Easton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7CFC25
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy plaque or possibly die of probably late 8th or 9th century date. The piece is flat and subrectangular, slightly curved along its long edges and therefore the short, straight ends are slightly angled. The front is decorated with a rectangular panel of indented decoration. The panel has a triple border formed of closely spaced oval pellets between fine lines. To one side an indented line continues from the border to meet one of the short edges. Filling the centre of this panel is a continuous interlace of two separate strands which both loop and cross in a complex repeating…
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weare CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-34D147
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Late Early Medieval tin-copper alloy pseudo-nummular brooch of Weetch type 2.Ai. The brooch is circular with a raised, cast, design on the front of a left facing radiate crowned bust with multiple lines of drapery below and to the lower right and a pseudo legend to the left all within a double line beaded border. The nonsense legend appears to read cHc or possibly oIID. An upside down V to the right of the head probably represents to tie from a diadem. The back is lain with the stubs of a broken pin lug and catchplate. These are arranged on opposites sides and run vertically down t…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 15th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weare CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D468DC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy incomplete probable buckle frame. Probably early high Medieval, possibly Early Medieval in date. The frame appears to have originally been D-shaped and single looped although it is now bent and distorted and the strap bar is worn and broken in the centre. The outer edge widens slightly towards the centre and is flat in cross section but angled downwards from the inner to the outer edge. At the centre of the loop is a thick triangular boss with a central groove making a pin rest. The outer edge and sides of the loop are covered in regularly spaced transverse incised lines.…
Created on: Thursday 2nd January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 2nd January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-C68444
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a possibly Early Medieval copper alloy object, possibly a buckle dating to either the late 4th or 5th cnetury or the 10th to 11th. The remaining section is not triangular but would have formed three sides of a rectangule with the long sides now bent in towards each other at the broken ends. How these broken ends were linked or what the remainder of the shape was like is unclear. The three remaining sides are circular in cross section with the remaining corners formed into thickened, moulded shapes, possibly animal heads with neck folds formed by diagonal grooving going pa…
Created on: Tuesday 8th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milverton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8341FC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Early Medieval silver penny probably of Athelstan dating to AD 924-939. Two-line type. Mint and moneyer uncertain. North (2004, 132) no. 668.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 5th August 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-C39446
Object type: FRANCISCA
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron axehead, probably of Early-Medieval date of 'Francisca' form dating from the 6th century AD or possibly a later Roman axe. The butt-end of the tool is flat and sub-rectangular in shape measuring 39.7mm wide and 69.9mm tall. The area around the socket meets the butt end at a c..45 degree angled although the socket through this area is parallel to the butt end. The sides of the tool-head expand slightly with a convex curve to accommodate an oval socket. The socket, which is filled with mud and corrosion, measures circa 31.4mm x 19.4mm. The top edge of the butt-end gently cu…
Created on: Saturday 27th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 14th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Frome', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C3B55B
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Medieval copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, type 8, probably dating to c. AD 1000-1100. The stirrup-strap mount consists of a sub-triangular plate from the base of which projects backwards a rectangular angled flange, at c. 90 degrees to the plane. There is a central circular hole through the plate about one third of the way form the apex and two others near the base, above the flange. The plate is moulded with a large head at the apex facing upwards with stepped in snout and nose and small heads as at the base corners, flanking the flange. Between …
Created on: Friday 3rd May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 14th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shillingford St George', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5C624A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy object, probably a gilded openwork mount, of possibly late Early Medieval date. The piece is broadly triangular with a old, patinated break along the shortest side. It is mostly flat with rounded sides and slightly thickened towards the centre. The long slides are slightly convex curved and converge towards the complete terminal which is expanded into two curved leaves with raised borders and an almost circular indent between. It is possible this indent was a drilled hole and a third leaf of a trefoil has been lost beyond it. In the constriction between the sid…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-D624DA
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The head and pat of the shaft of a copper alloy pin of probable Middle early-medieval date, c.AD 700-900. The end of the circular cross sectioned shaft has broken off and in its current state the pin measures 19.2mm in length and weighs 2.01g. It has a thirteen faceted polyhedral head, basically a cube with cut off corners and narrowing to a point at the base. The head is 8.3mm long and 6.6mm by 6.4mm. The sides are plain and worn with no clear decoration. At the base of the head where it meets the shaft is slight raised collar. A longitudinal seam down the shaft suggests it is made b…
Created on: Monday 4th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Knoyle CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8BF345
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast silver probable pinhead, possibly part of a triple linked pin set. Only two thirds of the pinhead survive, with bottom half of the plate and the left side missing. The breaks in the object reveal a base silver core. The pinhead appears to have been lozenge-shaped in original form. Its edges are slightly convex and its two surviving corners are rounded. A triangular 'tab' with a rounded point and two sequentially narrowing collars at the base projects from one of the surviving corners (at the top in the photograph). The pinhead's plate is flat and rectangular in…
Created on: Friday 11th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 5th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-FA4853
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The terminal of an Early Medieval copper alloy strap end dating to the period cAD750 - cAD1100. The fragment has broken part way down the strap end with probably about the bottom third or quarter remaining. This section is broad with parallel sides running to a semi-circular end. The openwork piece has 11 worn, mostly oval or sub-oval perforations. They are irregularly arranged and no-symmetrical but there is not enough of them remaining for the pattern to be identified and the raised sections between are extremely worn. There are some traces of a green patina on either side but it is…
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Last updated: Monday 31st December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piddletrenthide', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-2911DE
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One end of an Early-Medieval gilded copper alloy object, probably a mount. The remaining section is a flat plate with elaborate outline, at the complete end are two curved out points flanking a shorter central point. From the outer points the sides are concave curved curving in then out to a second point in the cnetre of the remaining sides then curving in a concave curve into a projecting narrowed 'neck' where it linked to the rest of the object, which is broken across with an old break. The front is decorated with chip carved decoration with a series of cells cotaining raised cne…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 21st June 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-DE2DDC
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five body sherds from late Early Medieval hand built vessels. The sherds appear to be from large round bodied vessels but too little survives to establish the form and there are no rims or bases. They may be from the same pot or several, one appears thinner and three have been burnt post breaking. The sherds all have abundant poorly sorted quartz and limestone temper up to 3.5mm across with occasional pieces up to 5.mm across and occasional rounded ironstone or grog inclusions. The fabric is pale with a mid-dark grey core and pale grey to pale buff-grey surface in un-sooted areas. T…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-63594D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a Early Early-Medieval buckle plate, of Aquitanian-Frankish type. The piece is part of a flat plate with downturned edges giving a hollow back and now slightly bent in from each side. One end is complete and straight with two broken projecting rectangular bars which would have connected to the frame. Immediately below this edge are two circles marking the attachment point of bosses, now missing; the outer halves of which project from the sides of the plate widening it in this section, beyond the circles the plate continues with a rectangular section which ends in an irregular,…
Created on: Saturday 3rd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 12th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pulham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5D0BDC
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy and garnet sword pyramid, a type of mount probablyused on the scabbard straps. It is square in shape with a base measuring 14.0 by 13.6mm, narrowing over its 6.8mm height to a 4.4 by 4.7mm apex set with a garnet. On the underside it is hollow to a depth of 4.1mm. A 3.9mm wide band runs across the centre of the hollow, level with the base. Each of the four sides is decorated in the same way. Incised lines mark a border following the trapezoid shape of the side. The border contains three deeply cut equilateral triangular indents, one in each corner and one a…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bulkington CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5C322D
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy Early Medieval stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, type 12 dating to the 11th century. The stirrup-strap mount is lozenge shaped. It has an integral flat rectangular flange with a rivet hole pierced centrally projecting backwards perpendicular to the main frame along the base. At the top is a circular loop for attachment. The main frame has four lozenge shaped openwork elements divided by a cross in the middle. At the very centre of the cross is a small boss and bosses also decorate the two side corners of the lozenge frame, the lower corner and are p…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-7E3282
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a gilded copper alloy Early Medieval, probably eighth century, item, probably a disc brooch. The fragment is part of a plate and broadly triangular in shape with the shorter edge slightly convex. The object bends back slightly towards this edge but this might be damage. All the edges are damaged with patinated breaks, it is possible the curved edge is only slightly abraded as the design appears to respect it while the other breaks run across the design. The front is decorated with a raised design probably chip carved, although the indents are filled with mud, making the…
Created on: Monday 18th December 2017
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Bagborough CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-54ED69
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small fragment of a copper aloy item, possibly an late Early Medieval buckle frame. Th piece is curved in plan and V shaped in cross section with a clear carination on the plain inside and more rounded outer. The shorter arm of the V forms a continuous curve, possibly the inside edge of the buckle loop whicvh is slightly thickened at the edge on the inner side. The other arm of the V has an irregular end with a very worn and broken outer edge. It appears to be the remains of openwork decoration and to have broken across the openwork. The outer face is decorated with the worn remains o…
Created on: Monday 4th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castle Cary CP', grid reference and parish protected.