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Record ID: LVPL209
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Viking buckle plate
Created on: Wednesday 22nd July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM730
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Viking belt buckle with plate, pin preserved. Frame oval with animal head, plate with very stylised animals and geometric decoration. 2 rivets still in place. Similar to an example excavated at St Faith's Lane, Norwich (Popescu forthcoming). Other less complete examples are known from Fishergate, York (Rogers 1993, figs. 650 and 652, nos. 5314 and 5320) and a strap-end decorated with similar multiple Borre-style heads was excavated in Norwich (Margeson 1993, fig. 20, no. 227). Such strap-ends are Thomas's Class B, Type 4 (Thomas 2003, fig. 2, nos. 16-17).
Created on: Wednesday 9th September 1998
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH KESTEVEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM732
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Little Viking buckle, no pin, narrowed bar, two stylised animal heads, snouts towards the bar.
Created on: Wednesday 9th September 1998
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH KESTEVEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM946
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Square little Anglo-Saxon buckle, buckle and plate cast in one, back separate and riveted on, plate terminating in a broad animals head. Iron pin. This was originally thought to be of Viking date but Helen Geake kindly comments as follows: 'This one anyway is paralleled at Fishergate so I think is 9th century and Anglo-Saxon rather than 11th and Anglo-Scand. Compare SWYOR-CB35F3'.
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 1998
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH KESTEVEN', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NLM2682
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Strap end or buckle plate. Three rivet holes. Impressed decoration with central knot motive. Viking.
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM2686
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Borre style buckle plate, with two perforated lugs at the bottom. Viking. Similar to Thomas Class B, Type 4 strap-ends.
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 1999
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2018
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM4249
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
D-shaped buckle with animal head protruding, Viking, Urnes/Ringerike style. No pin. Helen Geake writes: Although the original description identified this as Urnes/Ringerike style, it seems more like the series of buckles decorated with Borre-style animal heads, as exemplified by the complete example at NLM730.
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2000
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LINCOLNSHIRE FREISTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3700
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle frame with incomplete integral plate. The frame is D-shaped and has a knop at either end of the 'bar', plus three more knops around the outer edge. There is a notch cut out of the interior edge of the 'bar', next to the circular pin hole, to allow the (missing) pin to swivel freely. The 'bar' is decorated with a double rouletted line of punchmarks. The plate was perhaps originally rectangular, but the attachment end is missing. It has a geometric design of similar rouletting, and a rivet hole in each surviving corner forming a line with the pin hole. One copp…
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BROMESWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS84
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end. The main body of the strap-end is D-shaped in section; the top is flattened and split, with a single iron rivet. The flat area is decorated with four rather wiggly vertical rows of tiny punchmarks. The rest of the strap-end has decoration derived from animal heads, but now stylised to the point where it appears merely as a series of transverse grooves and mouldings. The topmost moulding is large and flat-topped, and decorated with two eccentrically placed dots which may be intended to represent eyes. A little way down the strap-end are three transverse grooves and then anot…
Created on: Friday 24th November 2000
Last updated: Friday 20th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK BURNHAM MARKET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM5242
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
D-shaped flat frame with shaped outline and impressed line decoration. Bar missing. The decoration has clear afinities with late Anglo-Scandinavian metal work.
Created on: Friday 7th September 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Osbournby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM6194
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
D-shaped buckle with shaped outer edge, Viking.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2001
Last updated: Monday 26th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LINCOLNSHIRE SILK WILLOUGHBY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7450
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy object, perhaps a strap-fitting. One right-angled corner survives, with surviving dimensions of 25 x 33 mm. The two surviving edges both have angled flanges on the reverse, and also on the reverse is a chunky but broken pierced D-shaped lug. The front is corroded but many of the details of the decoration can be seen. There are three rectangular bosses, all with the remains of sheet silver covering them. The most complete area of silver retains some irregular diagonal cross-hatched grooves. The bosses sit on top of relief ribbons which curve around in a rather angular…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS559
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon cast copper-alloy mount in the form of a bearded and moustached bust surmounted with horns. On the flat reverse are three integrally cast, round-sectioned, tapering, blunt spikes. The nose and eyes are in high relief and the hair, beard and moustache are picked out by closely spaced vertical, horizontal and diagonal grooves, and in part outlined by lines in relief. Both ends of the drooping moustache project beyond the outline of the face. The pointed-oval mouth and the non-bearded parts of the cheeks are emphasised by their plainness. The horns spring directly …
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Monday 12th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LETHERINGSETT WITH GLANDFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DA7852
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A beautiful cast copper alloy ornate late early-medieval buckle frame in excellent condition. This buckle frame is oval in shape and measures 27mm in length and 26mm in width. This frame is decorated on its convex front face around its outer edge with a curving Urnes-style ribbon beast, with head adjoining one end of the pin bar, and its hindquarters adjoining the other end. A diagonal bar runs between the interlace decoration and there is a square protrusion projecting from the outer edge of it. The bar of this buckle frame is cylindrical in shape. The back face is smooth, undecorate…
Created on: Monday 16th June 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chilton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2967D3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy buckle frame. It is roughly D-shaped and measures 25mm in length and 20mm in width. The outer edge is expanded and decorated with possibly a foliage or zoomorphic design, however, it is now worn and the exact nature of the decoration can no longer be clearly seen. The bar is circular in cross section and narrowed and offset slightly for the missing plate. The front face of this buckle is convex and the back face is flat. A similar shaped buckle, although with more intricate zoomorphic decoration, was found at Chilton and is Viking in date.
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0C2447
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon silver-gilt great square headed brooch fragments, silver wrist clasp, silver belt stud and associated finds (2003 T375) Date: First half of the sixth century Description: 1) Gilded silver brooch fragments (7). The fragments are from a great square-headed brooch and are as follows. A) Two joining fragments from the upper frame of the head plate approaching the top right (facing) corner. The fragments show a panelled design within borders filled with a running zig-zag, made with a triangular punch, whose impressions are inlaid with niello. Two panels survive, one…
Created on: Tuesday 11th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North of Ipswich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-531374
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy buckle plate. The attachment end is a plain split end with a single central rivet hole. The plate tapers from the attachment end towards a very stylised animal head made up of three transverse mouldings. The first is the tallest, with raised semi-circular ears with blind-drilled centres; the next moulding has drilled eyes and the third represents the animal's nose or muzzle. Part of a second, even more schematic head faces the first, with a low moulding for the nose and a second beyond. The plate then ends in two cast hinge loops. The zoomorphic features are very worn. Th…
Created on: Thursday 8th April 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-76F478
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is apparently a Viking-age belt-buckle, and is a composite production having a cast frame, a pin cut from sheet, and a folded over sheet metal plate for attachment to the belt. The cast frame is D-shaped, the pin-bar representing the straight bar of the D and the fore-edge being entirely rounded. The curving part of the frame ends in two animal-head terminals which project back beyond the pin-bar, and have squared snouts and pairs of rounded set-back ears. A third beast-head of the same kind appears projecting outward from the fore-edge at the central point of its bow. This is so…
Created on: Tuesday 4th May 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-FF2A20
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle dating to 11th century. The buckle frame is square shaped with a narrow bar. The part of the frame opposite the bar is wider and decorated. The decoration is worn but could be a leaf or knot design (possibly Viking Borre style) at the top and bottom with a notch for the pin between. The front decorated face of the buckle has evidence of gilding whilst the reverse of the buckle has been silvered or tinned although only part of this surface treatment survives. The buckle weighs 5.5g and measures 22mm in width, 21.5mm in length and 4.2mm in thickness.
Created on: Monday 28th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Market Weighton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-CE0AC5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The object is a possible vessel escutcheon. It is made from cast copper alloy. A similar escutcheon has can be found in Bruce-Mitford (Pre-Viking Lindsey, ed. By Alan Vince) from Sleaford. The zoomorphic design is different, but the general shape is similar. The Sleaford example dates to the late 4th to 5th centuries. The style of the zoomorphic detail on the escutcheon is reminiscent of late 4th to 5th century buckles, Dunning and Hawkes (1961), Figure 18, Nos. d, f and g. The upper 'hook' portion of the escutcheon appears to represent a possibly dolphin with a snub nose. In profil…
Created on: Monday 25th October 2004
Last updated: Monday 25th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.