Record ID: YORYM-69A852
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case : 2009 T124 Object Date: 7th century Description: Gold mount Curved gold panel inlaid with garnet cloisonné. A small, gently curving, sub-rectangular tray set inside a cable-twist gold border. Nine garnets on waffered gold foils are inserted into the tray. The back of the mount is plain except for two areas of damage, which are likely to represent previous attachment points. Discussion: It is unclear what kind of object the small mount might have come from. There are numerous possibilities, including large disc brooches (Avent 1975), buckles or sword fittings. Non-destr…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Stonegrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-715F42
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2009 T223 Description: Gold finger ring set with a large blue gemstone and red glass cloisonné. The central cabochon gem is surrounded by four triangular cells. Where these meet, small round cells have been set. Three of these round cells still contain minute granular inlays, although it is impossible to determine whether they are glass pastes, glass or gem stones. A short, straight cell wall emanates from each roundel and meets the corners of the outer, square frame of the bezel, thus bisecting the space between the triangles. Glass slips are still present in on…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 9th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near York', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-32E6E6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Severely damaged and distorted gold finger ring of tenth-century date. Oval to round hoop narrowing down to a parallel-sided band at both sides. The band was torn open at some point and while its shorter side accordingly ends in a ragged edge, the longer end has a straight, cut-off edge. The bezel carries a central, damaged glass cabochon, (now) dark brown, in a dog-tooth setting surrounded by a fine beaded wire. Around the cabochon, 14 gold pellets - of varying sizes and some of them squashed and abraded - are placed inside beaded wire filigree. Originally, there wa…
Created on: Wednesday 13th February 2008
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kirk Deighton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-FAD886
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2004 T291 Description: An Anglo-Saxon gold cross-shaped pendant cut from a sheet of gold. One of the arms is perforated quite near the edge, most probably to allow its use as a pendant. It is of Greek form, with expanding arms of equal length, and the armpits are rounded. It is totally plain and undecorated on both sides, and slightly convex on the 'good side' (the back shows some displaced metal near the cut hole). There are some signs of wear. Dimensions: Length and width 18mm, weight 1.7g. Discussion: The cross is difficult to date exactly due to its …
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2009
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'A riverine site in North Yorkshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-FB1AE2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2004 T292 Late 9th- early 10th century Anglo-Saxon gold fragment. The fragment weighs 1.1g, measures 1.5mm in width and 7mm in height, and it is slightly bent at one corner (here the filigree border is lost). The shape of the fragment suggests that the original object was cut as a cruciform pattern from a circular plate in order to give a splayed out cross with empty rounded armpits (for a similar shape, see the Beeston Tor Cave brooch, deposited c. 875 in The Making of England, no. 245a). The cross-shape was decorated with gold rather coarse filigree, which also provi…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'A riverine site in North Yorkshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-063002
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2010 T19 Description: A heavily corroded, dark blue glass stud set in a gold frame and backplate. Inlaid into the glass mass is a copper-alloy, pseudo-cloisonné grid which is clearly imitating garnet cloisonné. The plain, upright gold frame is circled by a beaded gold wire, a section of which is missing. The gold backplate is plain but creased and carrying recent scratches. It shows the remains of what looks like an attachment tab, suggesting that the missing portion of the gold wire rim represents an attachment loop that has torn off. Discussion: Studs of …
Created on: Friday 15th January 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 8th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yapham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM-E7CE31
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2006 T495 Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate gold content for the ingot of 81-84%, and 13-16% silver, the remainder being copper; it weighs 18.16 grams. The ingot is of faceted cigar-shape with flattened ends and has been hammered into a roughly seven or eight-sided section; length, 30 mm. Although the ingot has no secure archaeological context, gold ingots of round-ended rod form from the Danelaw region of England and from Scotland, which occasionally have signs of hammered surfaces, have usually been dated to the Viking pe…
Created on: Friday 21st August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Driffield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM1267
Object type: ARMLET
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure report from B.M. Ager: Gold arm ring, cut through and partly straightened into a curved L-shape, but otherwise complete; length, 260 mm (total); diameter, 15 mm at centre and 6 mm at ends. It is made of two thick, round rods with beaded wires between them, twisted into a cable and tapering to the ends. The original ends (now together at one end of the cable because of the cut) are joined to a plain, polyhedral knob and are closely bound with plain wires on either side of it. The beaded wires of the cable show girth grooves round many of the 'beads', which were caused in …
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH YORKSHIRE YORK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM214
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 1998 T63. Anglo-Saxon pectoral cross pendant made from gold cloisonné work inlaid with garnets. 58 of the 95 original garnets now remain, and through X-ray diffraction it has been shown that the garnets are sited on a bed of calcium carbonate; this is a common technique in Anglo-Saxon jewellery manufacture. It is likely to date from the first half of the 7th century (see below) and is thus a very early example of a pectoral cross. Angela Care-Evans contributed the following report: Description: The cross is equal-armed, each arm with rounded corners and…
Created on: Thursday 9th September 1999
Last updated: Monday 13th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holderness', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYMB1675
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2002 T110. Fragment of gold sheet decorated with filigree. The filligree forms an outer border (2 mm wide) running parallel to the outer edge of the piece. Within this border is a herringbone pattern of filligree work. This border creates a central area divided down the middle by a single piece of twisted wire. Within either side of this wire are pairs of filigree S's that mirror each other. Two of these pairs survive intact and the beginings of a third survive. On the reverse side is a rectangular gold 'washer' fixed to the back by a gold pin. This is no doubt in…
Created on: Wednesday 1st May 2002
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldbrough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-90EAA5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE: 2011 T742. Description: Gold object made from a piece of sheet folded in half and originally found in one piece, but now broken at the fold into two halves. Both halves are flat and circular, approximately 14mm in diameter, with a projection quickly tapering to 2.5mm wide. These projections were originally linked at a fold at the top so that each circular half rested on top of each other. Each half has a straight cut across the edge opposite the fold, so that it appears that the piece of gold sheet was folded in half and then the projections and circles were cut out t…
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tibthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-B3B254
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thick, bevelled, re-used cabochon garnet, the upper surface ground flat, set in a simple, well-fitting cell which is edged with a single strand of twisted wire rope. The suspension loop, which is made in one with the thin back plate, survives only as a damaged stub of lightly swaged strip. The back plate is deeply concave.
Created on: Monday 24th August 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 7th June 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-7706AD
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2014 T783. Scientific analysis: Surface metal analysis of the ingot was undertaken at the British Museum, which indicated a metal content of approximately 42% gold, 47% silver and 11% copper. This surface analysis is likely to give a slight overestimate of the precious metal content of the core metal, as corrosion alters the composition of the surface of the ingot by preferentially leaching out copper. Description: A complete gold and silver-alloy ingot of Early-Medieval date. The ingot is sub-rectangular with rounded bevelled edges resulting in an …
Created on: Monday 3rd November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-6056B7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2006 T629. Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate gold content for the ring of 70-73%, and 24-26% silver, the remainder being copper; it weighs 2.61 grams. The ring consists of a slightly convex gold band tapering towards each end, one of which has been broken off; length: 20 mm. It is decorated with two rows of interlocking punched triangles containing single pellets and forming two raised zigzags either side of a median ridge. The other end is square with folded-back corners and both ends have been crushed inwards, appare…
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2008
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pocklington Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-AE4897
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case : 2016 T1031 Description: An incomplete gold jewellery element of unidentified function (see Discussion). The artefact comprises an elongated oval-shaped plate made from thin gold sheet, with integral attachment loops at either end. One loop retains a double-looped hinge fitting. One side of the plate is plain and generally flat, with some distortion. The other side is decorated with applied filigree ornament surrounding a raised central setting of cloisonné enamel, contained within a gold collar. The setting comprises a quatrefoil motif, formed from a central…
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 8th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-78A342
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A mid 7th-century early-medieval gold thrymsa of an anonymous ruler, York Group (Sutherland V; Blackburn variety C), circa AD 640-60. North Vol 1, p.55, no.27.
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Riding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-379F9F
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2018 T202. An incomplete Early Medieval circular gold setting, comprising a gold frame set with a red cabochon gem, probably a garnet. The gold frame comprises a sheet gold back-plate two which has been soldered a circular cell made from an upright rectangular gold strip, surrounded by a collar comprising two concentric strands of beaded wire, the innermost of narrower gauge than the outermost. At the top (as pictured) are the remains of an integral, sub-rectangular projection possibly representing a broken attachment loop. The back-plate is plain but creased with…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fangfoss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-EA5D0E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2018 T333. Description: A complete gold finger ring of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 800 - 925. The bezel of the finger ring is lozenge-shaped tapering at opposing points to form an integral circular sectioned hoop. The hoop and bezel are both distorted, presumably due to its deposition. The upper surface of the bezel is decorated with a narrow border decorated with a series of incised linear grooves. Within the border is a smaller lozenge panel with Trewhiddle style zoomorphic decoration. The beast has a broadly S-shaped body with pointed tail to one end, a…
Created on: Friday 18th May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-F67716
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2014 T46. A complete gold finger-ring of late Early-Medieval date. It is composed of two plain circular-sectioned rods twisted together with two finer beaded wires twisted in between, resulting in alternating plain and beaded bands. The rods taper in diameter to the ends which are hammered together to form a narrow, square-sectioned join. This ring is of a late Viking type dating to the 11th century and possibly into the early 12th century in Scandinavia. Date: Early-Medieval: 9th - 11th Century Dimensions: Length: 26.1mm; Width: 21.9mm; T…
Created on: Monday 3rd February 2014
Last updated: Friday 17th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-504283
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon gold shilling of the 'York' group, type C. The coin is one of 19 known examples of the 'York' group of Gold Shillings. These were struck in the first half of the seventh century, the first coinage ever made in the town of York. Until recently their attribution to a mint in York was uncertain but recent finds, which show a clear Yorkshire focus, have made this attribution very likely. This find from near York would further strengthen this pattern. It would also be the first coin found so close to the mint since the 1840s discoveries of several shillings in the centre …
Created on: Tuesday 12th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 9th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fulford', grid reference and parish protected.