Record ID: BH-72F9D9
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval cast copper-alloy pin dating AD 700-850. The head is sub-spherical with a saltire at the apex. Radiating from this are swirled grooves extending to the base. There is a ring-shaped collar dividing the head from the rest of the integral circular-sectioned shaft. The shaft tapers to a worn point. The pin measures 18.3mm long. The head is 8.7mm diameter and the pin 2.1mm diameter. The entire object weighs 2.96 grams. For similar pins recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database see BH-AAA712 and BH-34AE6D.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: BH-72D7EC
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval cast copper-alloy polyhedral pin dating AD 700-900. The head is sub-cuboid with 11 angled facets, each with a moulded ring-and-dot motif. Extending from the base is the surviving circular-sectioned shaft with a transverse collar that extends to a broken point.  The pin is 17.1mm long. The head is 8.3mm diameter and the pin a maximum of 3.6mm diameter. The entire object weighs 2.25 grams. Similar polyhedral pins recorded on the PAS include NARC-685D0C, LANCUM-6B7592 and SUR-646CF1.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: BH-F7A7D8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval cast copper-alloy gilded oval saucer brooch dating c. AD 450-600. The disc is sub-D-shape in cross-section with a slightly hollowed face and slightly convex reverse. The face is decorated in relief with a double-grooved circumferential border. Within this is a central circular boss surrounded by a zoomorphic design in Anglo-Saxon Style I. This consists of a ring of animals, the details of which have been lost to corrosion. There are some small surviving patches of enamel within the grooves. The reverse of the brooch is undecorated. On one edge is a thin tra…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: BH-908CCD
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early Medieval (Late Anglo-Saxon) strap-end, of Thomas Class B, Type 1, dating to the period AD 750-1100. The attachment end is split into two sub-rectangular plates with a bi-lobed upper edge with two circular perforations through both plates. Two opposite corners of the plates and the corresponding holes are broken. The plates conjoin at the D-shape shaft which narrows gradually to a sub-square terminal. The front of the shaft is decorated with two sets of three transverse grooves at either end. The terminal has …
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-8F4601
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval cast copper-alloy strap end, of Thomas Class B, type 4, dating c. AD 900-1100. The strap end comprises broken, open-eneded attachment plates with circular perforations. There is no decoration on this part. The plates are rectangular in shape and in cross-section. They extend into a sub-cylindrical body that tapers to a rounded zoomorphic head. The front has moulded decoration of raised bands, while the head features two oval lobes and a pointed snout with angled grooves. The reverse of the body is relatively flat and undecorated. The patina across…
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-6661DB
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Early Medieval date, likely the 11th century AD. The mount is sub-triangular and D-shape in cross-section, with tapering sides and decoration of elaborate zoomorphic interlace in high relief with small, mostly circular, openwork fields. This is surmounted by a flat rectangular-sectioned loop with circular perforation. The exact nature of the decoration is difficult to identify but appears to be some sort of animal whose head is below the apex loop and faces upwards with a circular eye depicted by a crescentic groove. The head has a sl…
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: BH-C40F16
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early Saxon Cast Saucer brooch, dating to Early Medieval period (c.AD 430-550). Description: The brooch is sub-circular in plan and broadly rectangular in cross section, forming a disc shape. It is incomplete around the edges, retaining only a very small part of its upturned rim; it is also missing some of its flan.  The front of the brooch is decorated with moulded geometric design formed of a central pellet in ring within a pentagon, from each corner of which a clockwise spiral expands.  An oblique line connects each…
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: BH-C389A7
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy purse bar of Williams Class C2, dating from the late Medieval to early Post Medieval period (c.AD 1450-1550). Description: The purse bar consists of a central block and one arm, the other is missing.  In plan, the central block is sub-circular with a central cylindrical perforation.  The remaining arm expands from on edge of the block in the shape of an inverted cone, which a short recessed cylindrical section projects before terminating in a sub-spherical terminal.  The bar is a dark grey-brown colour with some abrasion to its surf…
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: BH-C32BC8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy late Saxon anthropomorphic strap end, dating to the Early Medieval period (c.AD 800-1000). Thomas Class E, Type 2. Description: In plan, the strap end is rectangular with a rectilinear attachment end and a slightly tapered, rounded terminal.  The attachment end is formed of a recessed rectangle that crosses the width of the plate.  It retains a thin, rectangular metal sheet that is attached to the strap end by three evenly spaced, domed, circular rivets.  The metal sheet is decorated with a boarder of transverse dots…
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: BH-99A71C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy small-long brooch dating to the early Early-Medieval period (c. AD 450-550). The brooch comprises the head plate, bow and catch plate. The end of the foot, and the pin, are missing. The head is rectangular and flat, decorated around the edges of the face with stamped ring and dots. The corners of the plate are rounded and there is considerable damage to one of the upper corners. The reverse of the plate is plain. Projecting at a 90-degree angle to the lower edge is a thin semi-circular attachment plate with circular perforation through it wher…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: BH-848671
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A damaged and incomplete early medieval penny of Coenwulf of Mercia (AD 796-821), portrait type (North 367; Naismith 12.1), moneyer: Wihtræd, mint: East Anglia (Ipswich?). Ref: North 1994: p.95; Naismith 2011: pl. 29, esp. E12.1c). The coin is incomplete, damage to the flan removing part of the outer circle resulting in a partial reading of the inscription. Obverse: COEN[...]REX M. Reverse: cross pattee with wedge in each angle, legend: [...]TDH+E[...].  Also recorded under EMC number : 2023.0355.
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-63CCEA
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete cast copper-alloy hair or dress pin, of Flixborough Type 112, dating to the Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) period (c. AD 700-800). The pin has a globular head with a collar at the base, with a tapering circular-sectioned shaft, the tip of which is broken. There is no further decoration. The surfaces have dark brown patination. The pin measures 45.2mm long, 7.2mm head diameter and weighs 2.4 grams. See Evans and Loveluck p. 48, fig. 1.23, no. 266 for a parallel.
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Record ID: BH-276EF2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy, probably Early Medieval, strap end, of either Thomas' Class A, Type 1 or Type 2, dating AD 750-950. The strap end is elongated triangular with a squared split plate terminal with two circular perforations, one of which is broken across the holes, and flat sides. The edges taper to a worn rounded terminal, which is thicker than the rest of the body above. On one face are the faint remains of what may be elements of Trewhiddle style decoration. The opposite face is decorated with cast cross-hatchings. On this face the rounded terminal a…
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Record ID: BH-270FD4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy Early Medieval, Anglo-Saxon, strap end of Thomas' Class A, Type 1 dating AD 750-950. The strap end is sub-oval with a zoomorphic terminal in the form of a forward-facing animal head. The centre of the upper surface is decorated in Trewhiddle style. It comprises multiple grooved angled and interlaced lines and, above this an etched cross motif within a sub-square border. The upper terminal is double-lobed and double-plated, with two circular perforations extending through both plates. The reverse of the strap-end is flat and unde…
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Record ID: BH-DD7D44
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper-alloy harness fitting, probably a bridle bit link, dating to the late Early Medieval period (c.AD 1000-1100). Description: The object is comprised of half of a loop, forming a semi-circle that is oval in cross-section. The outer edges of the loop have rounded knop; one at the apex of the semi-circle and the other at the bottom outer edge. The breaks are transverse and worn in line with the rest of the object. The patina is mottled light green and brown. Comparable to: SF-7587BB (c.AD 1…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th December 2023
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Record ID: BH-DD0CA6
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy late Saxon stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 1, dating to the Early Medieval (AD.1000-1100). Description: the mount is pentagonal in plan with rounded edges and is rectangular in cross-section.  Projecting from the lower edge is a right angled flange, which is recessed. From the flange, the lower two sides are angled vertically with a knop in the middle of the side edge.  After the knop the side becomes concave forming a scollop, which terminates in a knop where it meets the upper sides.  The upper sides…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
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Record ID: BH-DC106E
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper alloy bit link dating to the late Early Medieval period (c.AD 1000-1100). Description: The object is formed of an incomplete loop, arm and incomplete boss.  The loop has two opposing knops on the outer edges. It connects to an arm that is rectangular in plan and planoconvex in cross-section.  The arm connects the loop to a pentagon-shaped boss, which is concavo-convex (convex on the front and concave on the reverse).  There is a transverse break on the boss' edge that is opposite to where the arm …
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
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Record ID: BH-8B0281
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy Late Saxon stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 1, dating to the Early Medieval to Medieval period (AD.1000-1100). Description: the mount is pentagonal shaped in plan, with rounded edges and is rectangular in cross-section.  The mount has a slightly angled flange, which protrudes from the lower edge of the reverse.   From the flange, the lower sides are angled outwards with a protruding knop. After the knop the sides concave before another knop. The upper sides are straight and angled inwards, terminating at a k…
Created on: Friday 25th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
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Record ID: BH-4D7F66
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete copper-alloy hooked tag of Lewis and Naylor type A1.a.ii, dating to the Early Medieval period (c.AD 700-1066).  Description: the hooked tag is formed of a tear-shaped plate decorated with ring-and-dot motifs and three circular perforations arranged in a broad v-shape on the upper part of the plate. There are four ring-and-dot motifs on one of the faces. There is one above the perforation and three below arranged in an inverted V-shape. The bottom right ring-and-dot has a small aperture at its centre, probably due to wear. A simi…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
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Record ID: BH-B6B042
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a pair of copper-alloy tweezers dating to the Roman to Early Medieval period (AD.300-900). Description: The fragment consists of the lower portion of one arm.  The arm is sub-rectangular in plan and cross-section; one long edge expands out to form a flared edge, which bows out slightly and curves inwards to the rear.  The front of the arm is decorated with a multiple ring-and-dot motif and carries the remains of a silver coloured coating.  Due to corrosion it is difficult to determine if the motif is irregular or …
Created on: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2023
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