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Record ID: BM-83BA92
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
Date: Late 6th-early 7th century
Finder: Museum of London Archaeology Service
Date of discovery: 13th November 2007
Circumstances of discovery: during controlled excavation in advance of redevelopment
Description: Part of a bent tubular or hemispherical object of silver, copper alloy or of tinned/silver plated copper alloy; this needs to be tested in order to determine whether it qualifies as Treasure or not. At the wider end is a flat fragment with one perforation and part of another. Also present (though not shown on the X-ray plate), is another fragment of flat p…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 30th November 2010
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This findspot is known as 'Westminster', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BM-9A7DD8
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Crumpled gold foil pommel cap ornamented with C scrolls executed in beaded filigree wire. The pommel cap is badly damaged with both ends crushed and distorted and the filigree ornament on one face missing. The surviving filigree is well made filling the surviving panel with a balanced pattern of graded pairs of loops with spiralled ends enclosing a central motif of an inverted ‘C’ scroll lying back to back with a kidney shaped element executed with two beaded filigree wires. The panel is enclosed by a border of filigree wire, of a heavier weigh…
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: BM-5FCB75
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon hilt fittings: pommel, upper and lower hilt fittings, part of upper guard, part of lower guard
Gold sheet, gold filigree wire, cabochon garnets, copper-alloy, lead
Early seventh century
The pommel is of ‘cocked hat’ form and is made of gold sheet, decorated with filigree wire, over a lead forma. The two faces of the pommel are filled with zoomorphic interlace in triple strand interlace, made with one broad band of beaded wire flanked by borders of a very fine beaded wire. Each face is filled with a balanced design of interlacing zoomor…
Created on: Wednesday 24th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: BM-25CA6C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete early medieval silver strap-end dating to the ninth to early tenth century. The strap-end is sub-rectangular in plan with convex sides, a split, bi-lobed attachment end and a moulded animal-headed terminal. The attachment end is pierced by two circular rivet-holes filled with earth. The animal-headed terminal has a stubbed snout, bulbous eyes and sub-circular ears. The upper surface of the strap-end is divided into a pair of rectangular decorative fields, each containing a continuous, interlacing ?plant motif. The remains of a semi-circular decorative field can be seen at th…
Created on: Monday 15th November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Ogbourne St Andrew', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BM-4C0345
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy wrist clasp of Hines form B18c, dating to the sixth century AD. The clasp comprises a flat, rectangular bar, the upper surface of which is decorated with two grooves which run its length. Four openwork, flat circular plates with central indentations extend from the rear side of the bar; these have just broken through to the other side on both end discs. From the other, front edge, two fragmentary trapezoidal lugs are visible, the remains of a projecting catch. The clasp measures 36mm in length, 16mm in width and 2mm in thickness. It weighs 4.6g.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
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Record ID: BM-32C110
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete, gilded silver early medieval pyramidal mount, probably from a sword scabbard. The mount has been cast and takes the form of a pyramid with a flat top and a square base. The underside is hollow with an integral, rectangular bar running transversely across the base. The top is inlayed with a square, flat red gem, presumably a garnet, slightly cracked with a waffled gold foil beneath. Each of the four outer faces is decorated with a repeating zoomorphic motif comprising a stylised creature in profile, defined by a long, interlacing leg with a foot resting on the l…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2023
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Record ID: BM-773C95
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A finger-ring or ear-ring, the ring is penannular in shape, with an almost circular section tapering from 6mm to less than 1mm in diameter.
This piece is very similar in size and form to a gold piece found near the Fishergate site in York and identified as an ear-ring (Rogers 1993, no. 1373 and 1495, fig. 670(b), no. 5789), and a copper-alloy example from Thetford (Rogerson and Dallas 1984, p. 69, fig. 110 no. 21). This example appears too inflexible to have functioned as an ear-ring.
There is a larger silver example from Ireland, without a findspot (diameter about 3–4cm),…
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
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Record ID: BM-0A374D
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
The ring is thicker on one side than the other and has a rounded, faceted section; diameter (external), 17.5 - 18.5 mm; diameter (internal), 9 - 10 mm. It is decorated round the girth with a row of punched dots, except on the thinner side where they are missing for about a quarter of the circumference, apparently because of heavy wear at this point. The upper and lower faces of the ring have been repeatedly nicked with the point of a knife in antiquity to test the metal, which has roughened the surface.
Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate si…
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
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Record ID: BM-F66EA5
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusual copper-alloy pin with perforated head, dating to the period AD 900 to 1000. The pin possesses a flat lozengiform head with a central, circular piercing. The head extends to a circular-section stem which tapers to a point. Compare with an example recovered from the Piercebridge excavations (No. 179, Fig. No. 140). See Allason-Jones archive report downloaded from the ADS - pdf/Ch11DMetal_Text.pdf
Compare with YORYM-C3BFBE which notes that although such pins are considered to be Irish in origin, their presence in the UK is reflective of Viking activity. Several flat headed…
Created on: Saturday 15th August 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 6th June 2018
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Record ID: BM-8CCEC6
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
The pin shaft is broken off, probably where it was originally bent. The shaft is connected to the head by a simple ring collar. The head of the pin is a plain faceted cube head.
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Deerhurst', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BM-8D43E1
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large silver gilt ball-headed pin (approx. diameter 20mm), decorated with four S-shaped double spirals set between four prominent bosses, with a further boss on the top of the pin. Each boss or setting has around it spiral filigree wire between further strands of spiral wire with spiral running in the other direction. Three of the four bosses around the side retain a flat cut disc of ?garnet or red glass in their setting. The boss on the top of the pin retains a damaged clear glass pellet or rock crystal cabochon.
The short collar of the pin springs from within a small boss compr…
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th June 2023
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Record ID: BM-F1D4E7
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and cloisonné garnet insect pendant with a suspension loop in the form of a biconical spacer bead. The pendant consists of a flaring bifurcated backplate cut with a triangular head which wraps around the back of the suspension bead which is soldered to it. The back-plate supports a single gold strip, soldered flush to its edges, whose ends form a poor butt join beneath the suspension loop. This frames the cloisonné cell-work which is made with thicker strips of gold sheet and laid out in a complex design which can be read …
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd June 2023
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Record ID: BM-182986
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver pendant in the shape of a hammer, with a hexagonal head angled back from a shallow point in the centre, towards a tapering shaft. The shaft is hammered flat at the terminal, so is deeper than the flat section of the rest of the hammer, and pierced through the terminal for suspension. It is decorated on both the front and back of the head and just onto the shaft by small punch-marked annulets, in some cases grouped into a quatrefoil design, but in other cases less regularly.
Analysis: Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface indicated a precious me…
Created on: Friday 17th July 2020
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
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Record ID: BM-4E550E
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Tubular casting of silver, broken at both ends and with cast decoration on all external surfaces and one glass inlay remaining; maximum length 38mm; width 14.5 mm. There appears to be gilding and this is neither confirmed nor denied by the scientific report. Part of the original upper edge remains together with a broken hole for an attachment rivet, showing that this is a discrete finial or decorative terminal. The broader part of the tube consists of three panels of similar six-strand interlace in low relief which taper slightly to a narrow collar above a prominent rounded collar (le…
Created on: Friday 6th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 1st June 2022
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Record ID: BM-99E1B1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver strip with gilding, possibly a mount. One side of the strip is decorated with incised and punched ornament, comprising a ribbed border along the upper and possibly lower edges, and a central line of more curvilinear-style ornament – possibly annulets, ring-and-dot and/or scrolls, but now obscured by wear and poor condition. The back of the strip is plain and appears to bear the remains of some form of adhesive.
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 20th March 2020
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Record ID: BM-D2F8C4
Object type: JEWELLERY FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete circular gold and garnet setting. It comprises a circular gold sheet back-plate to which has been soldered a domed framework of cells, made from upright strips of gold sheet. The framework has a central circular cell, which connects to three outer semi-circular cells. Between two of these is a straight cell wall, two more of which are probably missing from between the other semi-circular cells. All are now empty. A filigree collar, made from two strands of worn beaded wire, masks the junction between the back-plate and the framework.
The reverse is plain with a circular …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
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Record ID: BM-898068
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the ingot of 99%; it weighs 23.11 grams.
The fragment has been cut, possibly with a chisel, from one end of a cigar-shaped ingot of rounded trapezoidal section; length, 25 mm; width, 16.3 mm. It would have been cast in a simple, open-topped mould cut in stone or drawn in the earth, and there is a slight lip along one edge where the metal has overflowed the mould. There are three parallel, transverse incisions in the top next to the cut and what appear to be three worn nicks, or tes…
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Barmby Moor', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BM-893E52
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a gold ingot, one end rounded and thick, the other broken away jaggedly and transversely. The two broad surfaces are flat and smooth except adjacent to the break where a rounded hammer mark of the full width is visible on both. The edge, convex and less smooth, contains cracks and fissures, some of which may be the result of post-depositional damage.
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
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Record ID: BM-87F099
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
The plate of the tag is an elongated triangle, with two perforations at the wider end for attachment, whose areas are circumscribed by an incised line. A continuous incised line also runs around the perimeter of the field: at the side of the tag the spaces have been filled with a simple decoration of incised lines, forming a ladder-like pattern, whilst the area at the top is left plain. From the narrow end of the tag, reinforced by an animal mask, departs the long tapering hook.
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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This findspot is known as 'West Wratting', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BM-885BD4
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
The sub-triangular plate has three pierced attachment lugs at the broad end (producing a scalloped-effect) and it tapers to a form a hook, rounded in cross section, and broken off at the end.
As customary in the decoration of such pieces, the main field is subdivided, here in three portions by a pair of plain bands, departing form the central piercing on a dotted ‘stem. However, the main decoration on the field is not interrupted by these, and it consists of an elegant vegetation motif. From what might be interpreted as a vase at the narrowest end of the field depart a central bu…
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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