Record ID: YORYM-D70725
Object type: HAIR ORNAMENT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver-gilt hair ornament, used as a hair slide. The object is formed from three conjoined pieces of metal. The back plate is the largest and is formed from an openwork decoratively shaped central feature, joined to two pointed ovals, there are small rivet holes in the point of the pointed oval. The back plate terminates on either end with a trefoil. The back plate has a silver surface, but some parts of it have worn through showing that the back frame is hollow and not solid. The hallmark can clearly be seen on the central feature. The hallmark is divided into three rectangles. Fir…
Created on: Tuesday 19th October 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 19th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shipton Thorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-E61E52
Object type: HAIR ORNAMENT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy post-medieval hair ornament. The lozenge-shaped hollow is made up of two copper-alloy plates. From inside each point of the plate protrudes a copper-alloy wire. One hook is complete; the other three are broken. The plate is decorated with an outer border of incised diagonal lines with two inner incised lozenges. The back of the plate is plain. The length is 32.3mm, the width is 23.1mm and the weight is 7.09g. A parallel of a complete hair ornament can be found in Egan & Forsyth, 1997, p227. This example has elaborate wound wire and beads around each of the hooks
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Selby', grid reference and parish protected.