Record ID: SOM-4003EB
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy early medieval stirrup strap mount, c. 11th century AD. Williams Class A Type 1. Only the base and a small portion of the plate survives, including the projecting foot and two iron rivets. On the surviving portion of plate surviving, white-filled engraved lines are evident, similar to SUR-FF9BB1 and HAMP-CBB354.  Length: 22.09mm, width: 25.57mm, thickness: 8.63mm, weight: 10.73g. 
Created on: Friday 27th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
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Record ID: SOM-89444D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy early medieval strap end, c. AD 750-1050. Thomas Class B Type 1 (B1): parallel-sided with a wedge-shaped split end, plain terminal and transverse-rib decoration. The split attachment end is sub-triangular in shape and has two perforations, with the shaft extending from the apex. The shaft tapers to a rounded terminal. It is sub rectangular in cross section and decorated with incised transverse lines below the split end, at the centre, and below the attechment. Cf. DOR-4AAF8A, HAMP-B380F2, and LEIC-9E570D. Length: 39.49mm, width at atta…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
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Record ID: SOM-8FA59E
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A globular copper alloy early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) ball headed pin head, missing the pin, possibly dating between 700-900 A.D. The pin head has four regular ring and dot motifs around the circumference of the head, and one slightly larger ring and dot motif on the top of the head. There is a small protrusion from which the pin would have attached, this area exhibits iron corrosion. The object exhibits a dark green patina. Height (from the small protrusion where the pin would have attached to the top of the head) 15.95mm, diameter 14.79mm, weight 15.21g. For…
Created on: Monday 7th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: SOM-804700
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy strap end of possible early medieval date, c. AD  800-1000. Thomas Class B7 (Hooked Terminal). The butt is undecorated and there are two sets of triple collars: one under the butt and another above the terminal end. The terminal is possibly zoomorphic in form, with the hook as an elongated snout and small moulded eyes on the sides. The butt is expanded and split-end, with an error in the attachment perforations; one side has been double-punched.  Cf. WAW-55E620, GLO-D7100E, BERK-4689DC, NM…
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
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Record ID: SOM-CAE2A5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver early medieval sceat, dating to AD 710-765, porcupine type. Obv. Quilled crescent of thin style, coiled right, triangular head enclosing pellet eye, pellet and annulet below Rev. Voided, stepped, cross within beaded border, with central pellet in annulet, vestigial chevrons in margin Diameter: 12.02mm, weight: 1.12g. Series E (420), stepped cross, BM type 52.
Created on: Monday 10th January 2022
Last updated: Monday 10th January 2022
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Record ID: SOM-7817FB
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy early medieval (Anglo Saxon) plate-headed pin, c. late 9th century AD. The pin comprises a flat, sub-circular head decorated on the front with ring-and-dot motif at the four cardinal points and one in the centre. There are four circular perforations, one in each corner. It is undecorated on the back. There is no collar around the shank, which tapers gradually to a point and show very slight evidence of being hipped. The end of the shank is bent slightly to the left. Length: 54.25mm, width of head: 17.87mm, thickness of shank (middle): 1.82mm, weight:…
Created on: Monday 13th December 2021
Last updated: Friday 7th January 2022
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Record ID: SOM-9892F1
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Early Medieval to early Medieval copper alloy stirrup strap mount, c. AD 1000-1100. Williams Class B, Unclassified (1997: p. 97, numbers 470 and 472). Cf. SF-A8B9E4, NLM-72D577, SUSS-929D3F and NMS114. 
Created on: Friday 15th October 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chewton Mendip', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-9F0DE1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, copper alloy, early medieval mount c. AD 1000 - 1100. The terminal is zoomorphic with a possibly canine form. There is a small knop for the nose, elongated snout, irregular, pierced holes for the eyes, and moulded decoration on the head. Above the nose there is a small attachment lug with a circular perforation. At the bottom, below the domed head, are two projecting knops, possibly representing ears. The rear is deeply convex. Length: 37.83mm, width: 19.05mm, thickness: 10.94mm, weight: 17.01g. Cf. BERK-204B1F.
Created on: Wednesday 16th December 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 21st September 2021
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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-9C0791
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete probable Early Medieval or possibly Roman strap end. The object is 26.1mm long and fairly flat, tapering in thickness from 4.1mm to 1.1mm along its length. It comprises a sub-circular disc section of diameter 12.5mm that has extensions on two opposite sides. One extension is a small terminal, sub-triangular in plan, tapering from 3.6mm where it leaves the disc to a point c5mm from the disc, a slight indented line divides it from the oval part. The opposite extension widens slightly from 7.1mm where it leaves the disc to 7.8mm where it terminates irregularly in an ol…
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Odcombe 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
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Record ID: SOM-F8440B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver sceatta of Wodan head-type, dating from AD 710 - 740. Mint of Hamwic (Southampton). BMC 49 Series H, variety 4i, H804. Refs.: Abramson (2006:16 & 72); North (1994:64) no. 103, plate 1, no. 48).
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 1st January 2020
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Record ID: SOM-C74E24
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of an Early Medieval copper openwork alloy strap end dating to the 10th and 11th centuries. The piece is the middle part of the strap end with both the terminal and attachment end lost to old breaks. The strap end was tounge shaped with sides converging slightly towards the rounded terminal. It has an openwork pattern of a central stem from which splits symmetrical side branches which curve up and down to form the outer side before curving back in to the central stem. The ends of the branches are formed of oval lobed terminals. This leaves a regular series of holes to each side o…
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-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-A08798
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and incomplete late early-medieval (11th century) copper alloy gilded cloisonné enamelled disc brooch of Weetch's type 20A with projecting lobes. It is missing the separately attached catchplate and lug on the reverse and part of its enamel. The brooch is broadly circular in shape. It would have originally had 12 projecting knops extending from its edge. However, these are all now extremely worn, with 3 being almost completely missing. Only one is somewhat well preserved, it representing half of the original feature. This demonstrated that each knop would have been rounded …
Created on: Tuesday 24th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Knoyle CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4C4D7B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early-medieval cast copper alloy strap-end, classified as Thomas's (2003, 2) Class A, Type 2. This would date the artefact to around the 9th century AD. The strap-end is flat in cross section and would have been flat in profile, however, it is now bent slightly, first one way then another giving it a very shallow s-shape profile. In plan its is sub-triangular shaped with a rounded point at the zoomorphic terminal from which the sides of the strap end expand before terminating in an irregular break. The object's maximum width (14.4mm) is at this break. The strap end is…
Created on: Friday 20th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 5th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Priddy CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F80D7F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Discussion:  Two silver coins found in close proximity, one broken with a patinated break. The coins are both Second Hand issues of Aethelraed II, dating to AD 985-991, from different mints and moneyers. Such coins are relatively rare single finds in Somerset and the discovery of two in close proximity of exactly the same ruler and type suggests they were lost together. Other finds in the area of the same period suggest there is 10th to early 11th century activity on this site but were not sufficiently clearly associated with this find in terms of findspot to be considered associa…
Created on: Monday 16th September 2019
Last updated: Friday 12th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weare', grid reference and parish protected.