Record ID: NMS-C3AED5
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon/Late Saxon stone spindle whorl, fine-grained pale-grey limestone plano-convex with central perforation within three engraved concentric grooves on the upper surface and two on the base. Diameter 35mm, weight 26.01g. Cf. Late Saxon example from Thetford (Rogerson and Dallas 1984, fig.148, no.4) and broadly similar but more deeply grooved Middle Saxon example from grave 28 at Harford Farm (Penn 2000, 29 and fig.94, no.4 and plate VI).
Created on: Thursday 17th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-DCB785
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of enamelled copper-alloy hook-mount from a hanging bowl. This fragment comprises the lower section only, and represents around 30% of the whole object. The surviving piece measures 37mm high by 39mm wide. The complete fitting would have been pear-shaped, culminating in a hook which would have fitted over the rim of the bowl and would have retained a suspension ring. The body of the fragment has a raised decoration of spirals, with a somewhat asymmetrical rendition adapted to fit into an oval rather than circular field. The result has lent a somewhat ornithomorphic appearan…
Created on: Friday 18th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-2C8187
Object type: HANGING BOWL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval mount; Circular Anglo-Saxon mount from a hanging bowl. Cast copper alloy with silvery, polished surface. The mount has cast decoration of two triskele-type roundels with curved and foliate designs between. The mount is damaged on one side and some of the metal between the raised sections of design is missing, although the outer edge is complete. Diameter 26.1mm, thickness 1.7mm, weight 3.25g This object dates to the early Anglo-Saxon period. The overwhelming majority of hanging bowls were put in graves dating to the seventh century, although they may have been manuf…
Created on: Sunday 3rd June 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-F9D7C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small cast copper alloy bow brooch, with sub-triangular headplate and footplate. The brooch is similar to examples of small equal-armed brooches, although this example is not symmetrical, the headplate being slightly shorter than the footplate. It is thus also very similar to examples of miniature radiate-headed brooches, and perhaps sits somewhere between the two types. The reverse has remains of the iron pin and spring surviving, possibly with traces of mineralised textile preserved in the corrosion products. Compare IOW-FE1124, and an example from a 6th-century grave at Frilford…
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-75B8E1
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy pin of early Anglo-Saxon date. The object has a shaft tapering to a sharp point; the shaft is faceted with an octagonal cross-section. It has been bent a number of times and has corroded slightly over the course of time. At the top, the object terminates in a thick triangular, spatulate end (13.7 x 7.9 x 4.35mm). The very end is rounded in cross-section. The head of the pin below the spatulate end consists of a sub-square block, 6.7 x 6.45mm, with a transverse ridge at both end on both faces. In the centre of this block is a central circular recessed perforation…
Created on: Friday 13th July 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-0A2EC2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Trewhiddle-style strap end, dating to the 9th / 10th century AD (length: 28.5mm; width: 13mm; thickness: 3mm; weight: 3.0g). The bottom half and tip of the artefact are all that remains of this strap end. The incomplete artefact is triangular in plan and mostly flat in section. Immediately below the break at approximately halfway down the artefact, the front of the artefact is decorated with the following pattern heading towards the tip: one central crescent shaped incision, one incised line across the artefact’s width, two rows of three crescent sh…
Created on: Friday 20th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-899F77
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon wrist clasp, incomplete Hines (1993) Form C, miscellaneous type eye-plate. Of similar form to an example from Morningthorpe, grave 360. Projecting eye-plate broken at outside edge and set back from and on three sides contained within a rectangular moulding in the centre of the vertical bar, broken at both ends. There is a concave-sided projection from the inside edge that is broken towards its narrowed terminal. Ancient breaks. Length >18mm. Width >27mm.
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elm', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-0C2BE6
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy wrist clasp, dating to the Early-Medieval period, c.AD 450-570. Hines Form B7. The object is a piece of sheet metal with a damaged rectangular tab protruding from one side of the object and curled under to form the hook. The damaged plate is decorated with a row of raised bosses, punched from the reverse, along the front edge. The surviving short edge appears to be shaped into two lobes, one of which curved around the end of the row of bosses. There is one perforation close to the second lobe. The perforation would have been used to sew the clasp to the sleeve. The rear e…
Created on: Monday 1st October 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8528E1
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon unidentified object consisting of an hexagonally sectioned ring (broken and bent) attached to a biconical stem from the other end of which projects a flat arm (with another one or possibly three missing) pierced by a small transverse hole near the rounded end. Internally at the base of the stem before the springing of the arms a mass of iron is visible. Whether or not it extends into the stem is unknown. The ring is decorated on two opposite faces with a ring of punched dots, and there is a moulded collar at both ends of the stem and a pair of engraved circumferential lines…
Created on: Monday 12th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAJN-038883
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) saucer brooch dating to the second half of the 6th century, c.AD550-600. Approximately one-third of the brooch remains. The surviving brooch consists of a flat central panel with a plain outer edge of c. 5mm width angled to produce a 'saucer' shape. The reverse is encrusted but appears to be plain and includes one of the attachment lugs for the pin which no longer survives. The front consists of three sections: the plain, angled outer edge within which is a raised plain circle, and inside this a decorated central field. This c…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 5th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Faringdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-661023
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of unusual probable Early Saxon Cruciform brooch, splayed terminal from foot, transverse break across concave sides with bordering line of tiny stamped annulets, straight end with twin engraved lines and narrow trapezoidal projection with tiny stamped annulets along both sides. Cf. brooches from Morningthorpe (1987) Graves 129 (A) with similar splayed terminal and 131 (A) with narrowed projection from terminal. 6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sprowston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-E195A4
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A catch-piece from a copper alloy wrist clasp of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 450-570. Hines form B20. The clasp is formed from slightly convex rectangular plate of copper alloy. The rear edge has three lobes, the two end lobes are pierced. This is where the clasp would have been sewn to the sleeve. There is a vertical incised line and then two sets of horizontal parallel lines decorating the front edge (the bar). Extending out from this side is a pierced loop, the catch or 'eye'. Form B20 is a “populus and very diverse group” (Hines 1993, p.64). Wrist clasps have been stud…
Created on: Wednesday 14th January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bielby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-4ED784
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly incomplete, bent, and split sheet copper-alloy wrist-clasp dating from the early medieval period. Mass: 2.0g, approximate length of flat sheet: 37mm; width of sheet: 17.6mm; thickness: 0.9mm. The wrist-clasp is bent but would originally have been sub-rectangular. There is a perfoartion towards each of the narrower ends, near to the more complete of the longer edges. The wrist-clasp is split at both perforations. This find is the catchplate of a pair of wrist-clasps. It has an incomplete slot by one of the longer edges into which a similar but hooked hookplate would have fas…
Created on: Monday 19th January 2009
Last updated: Sunday 12th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilam CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-70C1F7
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost-complete copper alloy Early Anglo-Saxon sleeve clasp of Hines form B13a, with riveted bar. The object consists of a rectangular-sectioned bar which is complete. It is decorated with a row of vertical chevrons or arrows along one side of the top, and nine irregular ring and dot motifs. There is a copper alloy rivet through each end of the bar, fixing it to a piece of copper alloy sheet. The sheet appears to have been the same length as the bar, but wider. It projects on one side by the width of the bar again before what appears to be a finished edge. This projection is decora…
Created on: Wednesday 21st January 2009
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-1E93D6
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy wrist clasp of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 450-570.Probably Hines Form B20. The clasp is formed from slightly convex roughly rectangular plate of copper alloy. One side has four openwork lobes. There is a central double spine, which has been pierced by two rivet holes. This is where the clasp would have been sown to the sleeve. Extending out from this side are four pointed lobes. Form B20 is a “populus and very diverse group” (Hines 1993, p.64). Wrist clasps have been studied and classified by Hines (1993) and Penn and Brugmann (2007). Hines…
Created on: Thursday 29th January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bridlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-9632E3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Early-Medieval copper alloy hanging bowl mount of Kendrick's 'Developed Trumpet' type with remains of white enamel decoration, weighing 3.53g and measuring 32.32x17.60x1.88mm. It would have had a diameter of c.40-45mm. It is decorated with three joining spirals in a triskele-type roundel with curving foliate decoration between, and is likely to have formed part of a larger triskele, perhaps with an additional spiral/ roundel at the centre. The 'legs' of the spirals are long and trumpet-like, hence Kendrick's 'Developed Trumpet' type. The mount is concave to the rever…
Created on: Monday 16th February 2009
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cricklade area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT-EA9A58
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy bifurcate handle mount from a bucket. The mount is cast in one piece and has a vertical shaft which in 28.2mm long. This then splits into two lower curvilinear terminals, each of which would have had a zoomorphic tip, although only one now survives. The tip appears to represent a bird, with the very end narrowing to form a beak. The front surface is decorated with panels separated by parallel incised lines. Each of the panels is decorated with punched annular and triangular designs. There are three separate cylindrical rivets remaining that wo…
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2009
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chislet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-615765
Object type: CAULDRON
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval perhaps Anglo-Scandinavian virtually complete very well preserved bronze cauldron or skillet perhaps dating to the 9th centuryAD. The cauldron is made from bronze sheet metal one piece with step concave sides sloping sharply to a concave base. The caudron has an iron collar with riveted handles. One of three interlocking cauldrons perhaps associated with a known settlement perhaps from a grave. The diameter is 270mm, height 130mm and the weight is too heavy for scales.
Created on: Monday 14th June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GRASSINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-A3F6F2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy long brooch. The brooch is almost complete, lacking only the pin and a small portion of the ‘head’; the catchplate is also broken. The brooch is fairly basic in design, and not very symmetrical along its centre line. The head is decorated with pairs of lines along the edges of the ‘cross’; inside these lines are lines of V-shaped stamps; in the centre of the head may be the remains of a group of ring-and-dots. This brooch probably dates to the 7th or 8th century, and may represent a disturbed grave.
Created on: Saturday 18th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pickering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-D9F581
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap junction of medieval date. It is circular in plan and oval in section. The upper surface is decorated with a complex design representing a cross. Enamel is used to create the darker lines of decoration. The central decoration is in the shape of a square. Four decorative lines radiate out from the corners of the square to the outer border. Four short lines radiate out from each side of the square. These then split to the left and right of the main line and continue to the outer border of the object. The radiating lines and the border are a mid brown bordered by …
Created on: Tuesday 21st April 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oswestry', grid reference and parish protected.