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Record ID: SUR-446B85
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a penny of Ethelred II, first hand type. Mint and moneyer uncertain.
Created on: Saturday 29th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-9A07A4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy strap end of the Early Medieval period. A Thomas type A strap end dating to the 8th-11th centuries. The strap end is corroded to an extent that most decoration is obscured. However, two rivet holes are visible on the upper face at the split end and the mouse head terminal retains a little detail. The basic outline of the central panel is also visible, as well as a beast's leg in the panel. The back is undecorated. The split end is infilled by corrosion and soil.
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-9DA4A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy disc of a later Early Medieval ansate brooch. The object is a disc from one end of an ansate brooch with one decorated face. The decoration consists of cells which would originally have been infilled with enamel/glass/coloured paste. Corrosion within the cells suggests some colour differentiation. There is no obvious organisation of the cells other than that they follow a circular pattern with a cross in the centre. The underside is undecorated and has a corroded lug. One edge of the disc has a break where the bow connected to the disc. Weetch allocated this brooch t…
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-9E1293
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Conical lead gaming piece or weight, with incurved sides, and casting line down each side. Slightly concave sub-circular base. No suspension loop. Probably either a standing weight or an Anglo-Scandinavian gaming piece. Length (height) 13.81mm, base width & thickness 18.69mm & 16.27mm, weight .12.54g.
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2007
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-B3E1B5
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An unusual medieval cast copper alloy comb pendant of Eastern Scandinavian or Baltic origin. The comb measures 47mm long, 35mm wide, and 3mm thick, and has a tooth gauge of approximately 4 teeth per cm. It has a deep green, mottled patina. The comb is decorated with Ringerike-style zoomorphic ornament, the primary theme being a pair of inturning zoomorphic heads, with the animals' necks represented using openwork casting. The use of this comb as a pendant is confirmed by the presence of a perforation for suspension at the top centre of the comb, through which is threaded the remains o…
Created on: Friday 4th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Lincolnshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-D7CB55
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Gold Gallic contemporary copy of a Solidus of Anastasius (491-518), possibly of the Pseudo-Merovingian coinage, c. 500-580. Copied from a coin of Constantinople. Found with associated Early Medieval finds from a ploughed cemetery site (Treasure case no. 2007 T203). Note: the BM has 7 imitations of solidi of Anastasius, but none are very similar to this piece. References: Hahn, MIB I, type as no. 4; MEC, plate 17, c. f. nos. 336 & 347-8.
Created on: Sunday 6th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 30th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-050256
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval, Anglo-Scandinavian copper alloy stirrup strap mount fragment, 27mm long, 12mm wide and 8mm thick. The object is in poor condition with a brown patina and weighs 6.50grams. The object represents the base of a mount and consists of a rounded flange protruding at right angles from the base. There are two circular fixing holes, 3mm in diameter, in the main rectangular surface. There is no sign of any decoration.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2016
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Record ID: DENO-0604D2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval mount; Anglo-Saxon, cast copper alloy mount in the shape of a bird, possibly a cockerel. Flat mount with incised decoration on one face showing a bird, facing left, with hooked beak, small crest on the head, pointed wing extending up and backwards and thick curved tail. The feet are openwork but the area inside the beak has not been pierced. There is an incised oval for the eye and an indication of some patterning on the wing, although this is indistinct. This object can be compared with a series of bird brooches of late Anglo-Saxon date, which have feet standing on a '…
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Sunday 14th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-0619F7
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval or medieval balance arm section; cast copper alloy arm from a folding balance arm set. The loop at the terminal end of the arm has broken away. The fragment consists of a shaft with a flattened end which is squared off at an angle. This flattened section has a small, circular rivet through it, where it would have been hinged into the central section of the balance arm (the section which would have had the pointer). The main shaft is circular in section with a squared and facetted area close to the hinged end. This area has punched ring and dot decoration on one face (in …
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DENO-06D1C5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval mount; Anglo-Saxon mount with Style 1 beasts, dating to the 6th or early 7th century; Cast copper alloy mount with gilded openwork sections. Mount is sub-rectangular with crossing, relief-moulded lines sectioning it into triangular sections. The crossing point of these lines is off-set, giving differing sizes to the resulting sections. The largest section is undecorated but has a possible remnant of solder present, which may indicate that something else was once attached, potentially a silver appliqué, in the Bichrome Style. The small section (diagonally opposite the l…
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Friday 7th February 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-07AAB3
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Saxon, copper alloy, polyhedral pin head. Only a small part of the shaft of the pin remains. No collar can be seen. Each face is lozenge shaped and plain, with no decoration
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-096757
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Cnut, short cross type, AD 1030-1035/6 moneyer Leofweald, mint signature ends in C or E which fits Winchester or more probably London (North, 129, no 790).
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-18D8F3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast silver strap-end of early-medieval date. The Thomas Class B, Type 1 (transverse grooved) strap-end measures 28.2mm by 7.5mm by 2.9mm and weighs 1.9g. Its width to length ratio is 1:2.6. It has a proximal split end with a trifid terminal and a central perforation. The interior side of the split end has broken off. A further perforation, which is filled with iron corrosion, is located close to the other end of the split. From the proximal end, the strap-end narrows until the point where the end splits, then tapers more gently into a stylised zoomorphic terminal. Two p…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-3BFA61
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy pin head with stamped ring-and-dot decoration. Early Medieval in date. The head is sub-circular, wth a flattened top. It is 10mm in diameter. The pin extends 3mm from the base before the break, and is circular in section and is 2.5mm in diameter. There are 20 ring-and-dot motifs stamped and equally spaced around the head.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd February 2011
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Record ID: SF-1E8422
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete silver strap end, one half of the attachment edge is missing due to an old break. It is rectangular in shape and the attachment end is solid but thinner than the rest of the strap end, it is flush with the back face. This attachment end has two and a half surviving circular rivet holes and is likely to have had four originally. There is a silver rivet in situ within one of the complete rivet holes. The front of the strap end is decorated with a stylised plant-like device. This has a central stem projecting downwards from the attachment end, which terminate…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Friday 17th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1EFD68
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete silver Anglo-Saxon hooked tag, a fragment of the upper edge of the plate is now missing due to an old break. The head is round in shape and has two small circular sewing holes near the centre of the upper edge. The front face is decorated with an incised Greek cross with rounded terminals and there is also a pair of transverse grooves at the beginning of each arm. The cross appears to have also been inlaid with niello, although only tiny traces survive. The hook is slender and turns backwards abruptly at its lower third, it tapers to a sharp point. Dis…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2DC6B6
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon hooked tag, AD 600-1100 in date. The head is oval in shape and measures 11.95mm in width and 10.11mm in length. There are two small circular sewing holes near the upper edge. The front face is decorated with an incised cross formed of bands ofthree grooves. The hook curves backwards abruptly at its terminal and tapers to a point.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Blakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-2E1FE7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Small Long brooch dating to the sixth century AD. The fragment comprises a small portion of the leg and the trapezoidal catchplate. The leg possesses a series of incised grooves and ribbed bands. The fragment measures 18mm in length and 6mm in width. It weighs 2.79g.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newmarket', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-2F7017
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary copper alloy buckle plate, dating to the early medieval period. The plate is rectangular in shape with a small sub-rectangular cut out at one end to accommodate the pin; at the other is one rivet hole with circular section rivet in situ. The fragment measures 27mm in length and 19mm in width.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newmarket', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-2F8287
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary copper alloy buckle plate, dating to the early medieval period. The plate is rectangular in shape with a small sub-rectangular cut out at one end to accommodate the pin; at the other is one rivet hole with acircular section iron rivet in situ securing a small rectangular strip of copper alloy. The fragment measures 25mm in length and 18mm in width.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newmarket', grid reference and parish protected.