Record ID: WMID-C2969E
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold cylindrical artefact with filigree decoration. The artefact is hollow (now filled with soil) and comprises a rectangular gold sheet rolled into a circular shape. Two 'bars' of twisted gold wire run across one open edge of the artefact, forming three 'slots' between them. Each bar is made from four fine gold wires, twisted in an SZSZ format. The outer face has been decorated extensively with gold beaded wire, forming three horizontal bands of decoration. The upper band comprises nine rows of twisted gold wire, in an SSSZSSZSS format. The central band comprises a ro…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-D4D9F2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy strap-end with silver rivets, of 9th-century date, now slightly bent. Description: The strap-end is made from a piece of copper alloy with a split attachment end. This is shaped around two well-preserved silver rivets whose heads are of different sizes. Below the rivets is a semi-circular or fan-shaped field, engraved with a trilobate motif. When the strap-end is held with the rivets uppermost, the trilobate motif appears to be a plant with drop-shaped centre (apex upwards) with a leaf to either side. Below the fan-shaped field, the body of the strap-end …
Created on: Tuesday 15th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rugby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-A4D7E1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy strap end, of Early Medieval dating (c. AD 900 to c. AD 1100). The strap end is of a long, narrow tongue shape. It has a series of holes and bands running down its length, giving an openwork pattern probably representing a plant design, now quite debased. There is a thicker, sturdy band forming a frame around the outer edge of the strap end, which has raised bumps on both faces at intervals along its length. At the attachment end is a single rectangular plate projecting from the strap end. It is the spacer from between a front and back plate, both of wh…
Created on: Monday 19th November 2012
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-77A22D
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete gilded silver pyramid mount of Early Medieval dating (first half of the 7th Century AD). Around 50% of the pyramid mount is present, consisting of the top (apex) and two sides (faces). The rest is missing, presumed lost in antiquity. The mount is hollow and originally would have had a square base. The broken stub of a transverse bar, originally for a strap attachment, is preserved on the base. The two surviving faces of the pyramid mount are decorated with the same chip-carved design, comprising a hanging triangle at the tip of the face, with sub-trian…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellesbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-1DCC87
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy pin dating to the middle Anglo-Saxon period, circa AD700-900. The head has a biconvex form with deep median band, and there is a collar under the head. Diameter: 8.94mm. Length: 16.58mm. Weight: 2.9g
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-05F4D2
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete sheet tin alloy 'scutiform' / disc pendant, of Early Early Medieval dating (AD 500 to AD 600). The pendant is sub circular in plan, with a rectangular extension to the top. This rectangular extension would have originally formed part of the suspension loop and is incomplete. The front of the pendant exhibits a central raised circular boss. This boss is surrounded by three concentric circles of silvered V-shape stamps. The reverse is plain and undecorated. Traces of white solder are present at the top, next to the incomplete suspension loop. The pendant has a diameter…
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2012
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-544058
Object type: NECKLACE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval: One complete and three partial silver wire links from a necklace of 7th Century AD dating. The complete link is sub circular in plan, with the ends fastened in a slip knot style. Each end is wrapped around twice. Three zones of incised parallel line decoration are present on the internal edge of the link. The wire has a circular section. The complete link measures 25.75mm in length and 21.77mm wide. The wire has a diameter of 0.84mm. It weighs 0.6 grams. The three partial links consists of one pieces of wire bent in a semi circle and two small fragments. The larg…
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2012
Last updated: Friday 9th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milton Keynes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-C02AF3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Coventry
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete circular gold setting, originally with a domed cloisonné garnet setting. The circular backplate is framed by a thin (0.4mm) outer and thicker (1.1mm) inner beaded wire. The thicker wire is carefully made with narrow even beads, but the thin wire has more oblique beads and many Aquätorschnitte, no doubt reflecting the difficulty of manufacturing such extremely fine beaded wire. Part of the narrower wire has broken away and survives loose. The central cloisonné setting has an outer upright strip which in side view is slightly bent over to retain the garn…
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2013
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coventry', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-E4F0C5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gilded copper alloy zoomorphic mount, of Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) dating (6th Century AD). The cast copper-alloy, openwork mount is in the form of a stylised bird of prey, shown in profile, crouched over and gripping a serpent. It dates to the early Anglo-Saxon period. The eyeless head and beak, claw, lappet wing and serpent are gilded. For contrast, the neck/body and fantail are silvered (?tinned). It belongs to a small group of bird fittings, similarly decorated in bichrome (gold and silver) fashion, from Kent and East Anglia. Some have been found in graves as shie…
Created on: Monday 28th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-448800
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast silver mount dating to the early medieval period. It is tongue-shaped, with a flat top, curved base and straight sides. The front is decorated in the Winchester Style with a pair of creatures (possibly birds or wyverns) at both top and bottom, their heads turned over their backs with a long tail that curls into the centre, where it meets a feline mask. The back is concave with a rectangular lug at the top. Two rivets are present at the base, one iron and the other silver. The top edge appears to be complete.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2017
Last updated: Monday 16th September 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-6D7257
Object type: LINKED PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy linked pin set, of Middle Anglo-Saxon dating (8th Century AD). Only the central circular pin head survives out of the set of three. It has been decorated with a quartered design. In the centre of each quarter is a spiral of three feathered tendrils. The tendrils curl outwards, two connect with the neighbouring quarters, the third into the outer border. In the corners are triangles. A total of five small holes are present. one at twelve o'clock, two at three o'clock and two at nine o'clock. This number of holes and their locations are suggestive of this be…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd July 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-AFE646
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy hooked tag, of Early Medieval dating (8th to 11th Centuries AD). The plate is triangular or shield-shaped, with squared corners at the top and curved lower edges. There is a broad groove around each of the two circular attachment holes, on one face only. The image appears also to show further very worn decoration on this face, of a line of zig-zag or rocker-arm engraving down the centre between the two holes, and a border of similar engraving around the edge of the plate. The holes have an internal diameter of 1.7 mm. The hook is slender and incomplete. …
Created on: Friday 14th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-399670
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A total of 91 items were recorded of which 86 are early Medieval and, with three possible exceptions, probably relate to the hoard. The finds recorded consist of 38.85g of gold and 100.90g of silver, including the 79.13g cheek piece, 5004 . It must be recognised that these figures include both earth and garnets and will be reduced by cleaning and that the descriptions of the metal alloys are based only on visual examination, not analysis. The finds include a block of earth which appears to contain gold, 5091. The preliminary x radiographs suggest that this contains a single, folded, s…
Created on: Monday 26th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-31E116
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver sceat, VERNVS/VERNUS group (type 3b), Metcalf variety 1a (obverse), c (reverse). 700-10. Diameter: 10.62 mm Thickness: 1.98 mm Weight: 1.1 g
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-900967
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete early medieval sceat, Series A (c.685-700). The coin appears to be quite base, and the style of the coin is not entirely consistent with Series A2 or A3, perhaps indicating this to be a contemporary imitation (cf. D M Metcalf, Thrymsas and Sceattas in the Ashmoleam Museum, pl. 5, nos.95-6. The obverse depicts a diademed bust facing right. The reverse depicts a square with TOTII within. Diameter: 11.63 mm Thickness: 1.91 mm Weight: 1.2 g
Created on: Friday 19th July 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North warwickshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-2C7897
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), moneyer: Pehtwald; mint: Canterbury; Chick 130/Blunt 73/North 277 (c.787-92). The coin is slightly bent along one side and possibly across the centre of the coin, and the edge of the coin is damaged and cracked. Diameter: 15.42 mm Thickness: 0.96 mm Weight: 1.0 g
Created on: Wednesday 25th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-8FE3D6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval base silver styca of Wigmund, Archbishop of York (837-5); moneyer: Coenred. Diameter: 12.4 mm Coin has been photographed and recorded through a cardboard coin presentation card.
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-222704
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver sceat of the Secondary Phase, Series E (bmc 53; stepped cross); North type 150; c. AD710-20. Diameter: 11.5 mm Thickness: 1.8 mm Weight: 0.9 g
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-23DA76
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete struck / hammered silver penny of Edward the Confessor (AD 1042 to AD 1066), dating to the period AD 1044 to AD 1046. Minted in London by moneyer Elman. Radiate / Small cross type. North 816. Hild. A. Copenhagen 1027. Different dies used compared to the Copenhagen example. Diameter: 17.5 mm Thickness: 1.0 mm Weight: 0.9 g
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-F2B8BF
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and fragmentary Early Medieval silver penny of Edward the Elder (899-924); two-line type (North 649); Moneyer: Brece; mint: probably Chester. Diameter: 22.1 mm Thickness: 0.9 mm Weight: 1.3 g
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Spatial data recorded.