Record ID: OXON-7EB1DD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver Sceatta, Series E, type E800 sub-variety k dating to the period c.AD720-40. The obverse has a quilled crescent coiled right with annulet and saltire. The reverse depcits a beaded standard with central annulet and angular symbols spelling TOTI. As Abramson (2006: 91). 
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanton St. John', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-55DFC9
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy pin dating to the Early Medieval period, (400-1066). The head of the pin is globular. The shaft is circular in cross-section and terminates with an ancient break. The head of the pin is decorated with two incised grooves crossing one another to form an X pattern. The pin has a medium green patina. The pin is 7.2mm in diameter at the head which is 7mm tall, the shaft is 2.3mm in diameter and the pin overall is 30.2mm long. it weighs 2.20 grams. Similar examples on the database include include SUR-ADFE30, LIN-1E770B and BUC-D4334E. It is most likely Early …
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanton St. John', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-4F0E5E
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Early Medieval stirrup terminal dating to circa AD 950-1100. The terminal is hollowed with a convex front face and concave reverse. It is rendered in the form of a styled animal foot consisting of a flat D-shaped base with evenly spaced trilobite projecting knops emerging from the front of the flat base. Above this is a rectangular shaft with D-shaped section. A moulded median transverse groove runs across the outer face just before the foot. The stirrup has a mottled reddish brown green colour. The stirrup is 67.8mm long, 24.1mm wide, 15mm thi…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Standlake CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-FF8CBB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Medieval silver penny or sceat dating to the period AD 650-750. Series L, type 15, London (imitative?) as shown in Abramson (2006, 78) Obverse: diademed and draped bust, right, Athenian eye gazing heavenward, wreath ties behind, cross pommée before, within beaded border. Reverse: cowled(?), square shouldered figure, looking right, wearing hatched(?) top, pellets either side of long robe, holding long cross pommée either side, pellets on cross, Beaded border.  The diameter of the sceat is 12.6mm it is 1.75mm thick a…
Created on: Friday 5th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-EC8D05
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Harness Fitting of Early-Medieval date (AD 1000-1100). Ascribed culture: Anglo-Scandinavian. The object is a harness bit link (double ended). The object consists of two loops, one incomplete, joined by a narrower central arm featuring a central ovate moulding. The complete loop has a lozenge shaped outer edge with small globular knops projecting from each of the three outer corner, the second loop is incomplete and retains one small knop and terminates in an old, abraded break.  The upper surface of each loop is convex and its r…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-BC5798
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy harness link or bridle cheek piece of late early-medieval (c. 11th century) date and Anglo-Scandinavian style. The remaining portion comprises a D-shaped loop with three peripheral knops and a stump of a narrow arm with a D-shaped cross section. The object has a flat reverse, with a concave hollow to the rear of the loop.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-BC3ACF
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy collared pin of early-medieval date (mid Anglo-Saxon, c. AD 700-900). The head is biconical with a flattened top and a broad flattened circumference of 8.1mm diameter. At the base of the head is a small collar at the top of the shaft, which ends in a bend to an old break. 
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-BC1BE6
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy pin of early-medieval date (mid Anglo-Saxon, c. AD 700-900). The head is globular with a slightly flattened top and decorated with a twisted and grooved design spiralling around the head (a style known as ‘wrythen-headed'). At the base of the head is a small collar at the top of the shaft, which ends in an old break. Much of the original surface has been lost to corrosion.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-BC0362
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusual cast copper alloy strap hook or hooked fitting of medieval date. The object has a subrectangular plate with slightly concave sides and a plano convex cross section. This has symmetrical decoration of scrolled forms running along the plate, rendered largely illegible by corrosion but probably intended to represent an elongated beast head. One end has a rounded attachment loop with five projections around the edge. The other end has an incomplete hook. C. later 11th-mid 12th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
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Record ID: OXON-06EB59
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap end. The strape end is made of two trapzoidal zones whose narrow parallel edges touch, the upper being much bigger than the lower so that it is similar to a butterfly or hourglass shape. The larger section is split into two to provide a slot for a strap to be placed within. It is also pierced by two circular holes which contain circular domed headed rivets. This section is decorated by three incised slightly diagonal and non-parallel lines running across its width. The reverse is plain and undecorated and plain barring one circular pit. The obj…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-06B522
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap end dating from the Early Medieval period, in the 9th century AD. Although in one piece, the strap end has two distinct parts: the strap attachment plate, and a long tapering shaft. The split-end strap attachment plate is trapezoidal in plan (being 13.4mm long and its width tapering from 9.6mm at the split end to 4.5mm where it joins to the shaft), and wedge-shaped in profile. Near its widest point is one rivet hole. The shaft is 27mm long, and in cross-section goes from circular at the tip, to sub-rectangular where it joins with the s…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-05913B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from an Early-Medieval cast copper alloy strap-end, classified as Thomas's (2003, 2) Class A. This would date the artefact to around the 9th century AD. Only the zoomorphic terminal and a small section of the plate survives. The fragment begins with a diagonal break truncating a section with a rectangular panel likely displaying a chip carved zoomorphic design. Below this it narrows to a squared off terminal which has incised decoration creating a zoomorphic style terminal This includes large comma-shaped ears and a snout. The strap end has a medium gree…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-056503
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early-Medieval cast copper alloy strap-end, classified as Thomas's (2003, 2) Class A. This would date the artefact to around the 9th century AD.  The strap-end is flat in profile and sub-rectangular in plan with sides which widen and then narrow from its upper terminal in smooth convex (almsot crinoline) curves. It has an elongated narrow squared off zoomorphic terminal. The plate is split for c. one sixth of its length to provide a slot for a strap to be placed within. The upper terminal of this split end are pierced by two circular holes (c.1.0mm d…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-8AD8A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon quoit brooch dating from the 5th or 6th centuries AD. Only the pin is missing. The frame is flat in cross section being made of metal plate. It is circular in plan with a wide (10.6mm) frame surrounding a large central oval hole (c.15mm by 14mm wide) which has a projecting triangular cut out extending into the frame. This would have formed a V-shaped notch for the pin to pass throuh. On the opposite side of the frame to this notch is a smaller circular hole (2mm diameter) which would have held the pin.  B…
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kirtlington CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-1E4033
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy strap end, dating to the Early Medieval period, circa AD 800 - 900. The strap end triangular in plan. The upper edge of the strap has a curved end with two rivet holes; one broken. The plate is divided into three sections by two raised transverse ridges. The upper section is decorated but worn. Th body of the object narrows to a stylised animal head at the tip. The head includes a rounded snout and indentations for the eyes.
Created on: Sunday 18th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: BERK-62D19A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A contemporary copy silver sceat of Primary Series F. Cross on steps. As As North 61 (BMC 24a). Abramson Variety 106.
Created on: Sunday 28th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: OXON-FDD1E5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval early silver penny (aka sceat), Primary Phase Series BII, type 27b, dating to c. AD 675-750, struck in south-east England. As in Abramson (2006: 49), no. B400. Obverse: Bird standing right on a cross pattée; small cross (?) before; annulets either side of the cross; within a beaded serpent circle (the serpent's mouth at 6 o'clock); vestigial legend in margin. Reverse: Crude diademed head right, within a beaded circle; vestigial legend in margin. The coin has a diameter of 12.00mm, a thickness of 1.70mm and a weight of 1.17 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-FD4CF5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy mount, taking the form of a stud with an integral spike. This is most likely of either Early Medieval or of Post-Medieval date. The mount consists of a flat plate which is circular in plan. The outer face is gilded over the top of a moulded concentric design. This takes the form of a flat raised central circle; around this a recessed band housing a narrower cabled ring; and beyond this a flat raised outer edge. Most of the front of the mount is still covered with gilding, but a dark green patina is evident underneath this as well as on the ungilded back and spike.…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-65A7BE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early Medieval gilded, copper alloy saucer brooch dating to the 4th or 5th centuries AD.  Part of the brooch is missing. There are three grooves running around the edge of the display face, before the brooch turns upward to form a lip.  The face has a zoomorphic design around the edge, possibly of two beasts or more chasing each other. Each appears to have 3-4 legs. The central design is of a reverse reuleaux triangle surrounded by three pointed oval shapes. The object has a dark green and brown patina, but sections of the gilding are visib…
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: OXON-EA152D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete Early Medieval cast copper alloy and gilded belt mount, buckle plate or other strap fitting dating to AD 500-600. The mount consists of a flat panel that is rectangular in plan and section, and on its front has a high relief border along the edges. Within this rectangular border is a design, also in cast high relief, depicting what looks like a figure of eight with a double twist at its centre. One of the loops, assumed to be the uppermost, is larger than the other, and contains a raised sub-circular shape within it. If the design is interpreted as anthro…
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.