Record ID: CORN-EC5F13
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy buckle frame, triangular in plan and semi-circular in cross-section, with a flat reverse. The frame may have originally been D-shaped, like the comparanda below, and been bent into this new form. At the apex of each of the points of the triangle, there is a sub-triangular animal head terminal with circular eye sockets which may have originally been settings for a stone. One of the three terminals is missing, but would probably have looked the same. The frame is chamfered on the outer edge, but still leaving a flat upper surface which is ornamented with a zig-za…
Created on: Friday 24th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 6th June 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-E82BF7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
a copper alloy buckle frame of probable Viking date. It is a complete oval with the sides curved upward and a central bar. The pin is missing. At one terminal the oval extends into an animal head, a domed oval 9.8mm in length and 7.1mm wide. There are eyes on either side of the head, and a single line curving round to indicate the mouth. The top of the head is faceted, but also has some corrosion so that the detail is unclear. The arms of the frame are 4.8mm in width and 2.75mm in thickness, and angled at about 45 degrees to the horizontal. The outside edges of the arms are decorated…
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-68FFE3
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2007 T186 Description of finds These are a series of 72 single finds from a productive site, rather than a hoard. Since they are all of precious metal and appear to come from the same ninth-century cultural horizon, with the exception of the tongue of a medieval buckle or brooch, they are being dealt with as a single Treasure case with sub-numbering to simplify administration for all parties, although each item should be considered as potential Treasure in its own right. 1. Viking hack gold fragment of round-sectioned rod; length: 13 mm; weight: 2.49g. …
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 8th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as ''A riverine site in North Yorkshire'', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-344A45
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper Alloy buckle frame. Cast D-shaped buckle of plano-convex section with a narrowed strap bar for a belt of 11mm width and simply moulded terminals for the frame where it meets the strap bar. A sunken pin rest appears opposite this. Incised decoration comprises closely spaced horizontal and diagonal lines on the main part of frame, positioned as if radiating from the base of the pin (which is now lost), and perhaps further emphasis of the moulded terminals. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 1000-1050. Length: 21.4mm, Height: 25.3mm, Thickness: 3.4mm, Weight: 7.14gms.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 18th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-589BE7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy D-shaped buckle with a separate spindle that forms the strapbar. The centre of the forward edge has a large lug that is shaped into an animal facemask. This consists of two large circular bulbous eyes and a crescent on the forward edge for the snout. On the top of the head, on the frame of the buckle is a symmetrical curvilinear moulding. This could represent antlers and may suggest that the animal facemask is depicting a deer. The top edges of the side arms are decorated with rectangular panels. The rear for the frame has a rectangular cross-section with a con…
Created on: Wednesday 13th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 29th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Guiting Power', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4F56F7
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This report concerns three items found near Carnforth in Lancashire in 2010. The items were found close to the find-spot of a Viking hoard discovered in 1997 (TAR 1998-1999, no. 84), and it was considered possible that the new finds might be stray finds from that hoard. Two of the finds are undiagnostic. Both appear to be a fairly base silver or lead alloy. One is a slender ingot with a section in the shape of an isosceles triangle with rounded angles, 72 x 8 x 8 mm, weight 39.38g, broken at one end. The form is known in the Viking Age, but it is undiagnostic, as the form is also kn…
Created on: Thursday 20th May 2010
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancaster Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-60E406
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Early-Medieval (1000-1200) copper alloy buckle frame with integral plate, missing the (iron) pin and an uncertain amount of integral plate. It measures 41.25mm in length, 27.72mm in max.width and 7.90mm in max.thickness (the iron corrosion from the pin). It weighs 9.37g. The frame is D-shaped, but with an extended, triangular outer edge from which a zoomorphic head projects. This head comprises a square snout behind which is a narrow ridge in front of two punched circles for eyes. The head appears to be held by two open-jawed heads of late Viking inspiration with …
Created on: Friday 1st October 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chippenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-CC4246
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy buckle dating from the Early Medieval period. The buckle is 36mm long, 38.2mm wide and 11mm thick. It has an oval sectioned bar which is worn at the ends and which is gripped by two animal heads. These extend into the extremely extended outer edge which is convex and rounded. It is decorated in Borre style with further designs which are probably the bodies of the two animals entwined, but the design is too worn to be certain. The reverse is hollow. The pin and plate are missing. The metal is dark grey green. Similar examples can be seen in figure 68.6 in Leahy (2007) an…
Created on: Wednesday 9th April 2008
Last updated: Saturday 12th July 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HESH-989BE4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy buckle frame with integrally cast plate of early medieval (probable Anglo-Scandinavian influenced) 11th century date (950-1100). The frame of the buckle is complete but broken and misshapen by movement in the ploughsoil. Overall the design is irregular in plan with a broadly oval (D shaped) buckle frame and sub-rectangular (wedge shaped) strap fitting / cast plate. The buckle measures 61.5mm length, 29.8mm width, is 10.7mm thick and weighs 23.99 grams. The buckle frame is faceted and has a broadly sub-rectangular cross section. In shape originally it would have had…
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-023A40
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy single looped D-shaped buckle. The buckle has a narrowed and off-set strap bar. The outer edge of the frame is wide. The frame is uninterrupted; so therefore has no pin recess. The pin is missing. The terminals of the D-shaped frame extend beyond the strap bar, with zoomorphic heads. This has been simply formed from an upturned nose and raised ears. The metal has lost most of its original surface and the metal is a light greenish-brown colour and is heavily pitted. This type of buckle is discussed in the Meols report (Griffiths, Philpott and Egan 2007, p. 62, nos…
Created on: Thursday 4th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Stamford Bridge', 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: 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.

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.

Record ID: SF-79DAF8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a buckle-frame of Viking Age (probably), with a zoomorphic detail of an animal head in the middle of the arc of the fore-edge of the frame. The metal of the frame is 5mm wide by 2mm thick, and is set in a plane angled to the flat. The ears of the snimal head project back across this D-frame's width, and the tapering snout projects by 8mm, tapering from 11 to 4mm. The pin-bar, which probably had two additional animal-head terminals facing back, away from the front edge, is broken off and the surviving part of the D-frame is bent out of shape. The recess between the ears of the s…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Claydon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-0B7A93
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy D-shaped buckle fragment, half only. Expanded outer edge with high relief zoomorphic interlace decoration, which also extends down the remaining side to the pin bar - the animal's foot grips the pin bar. Concave on the reverse. Narrowed, sub-circular sectioned pin bar. Probably 11th or 12th century. Length 22.63mm, width (broken) 21.5mm, thickness 5.75mm, weight 5.24g. A similar buckle is illustrated in Mills (2001) "Saxon & Viking Artefacts", p21, no.V16, dated to the late 11th century or 12th century.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanton by Dale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-709B85
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle frame from the early-medieval period. When complete this ornate frame would have been sub-rectangular in plan; it has since been broken and the remnant distorted. We have now been left with one of the original shorter sides decorated with a zoomorphic head at each end (10.5mm in length, 7.7mm in width). Each head is located at the point at which the side meets the inside and outside edges; the heads extend beyond the frame. Ears are formed by two drilled holes. There are incised longitudinal lines from the ears to the snout. Lozengiform eyes with…
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2005
Last updated: Sunday 4th September 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: NLM-9A1A34
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast D shaped zoomorphic buckle frame with narrowed strap bar gripped by the beast head terminals of a frame with ribbed relief decoration on its display face which confers a vermiform effect. A groove at the mid point of the outer edge served as a pin rest. The back of the buckle is lightly bevelled, more notably towards the outer edge. This object appears to represent a transitional stage between the thick framed zoomorphic buckles of the Viking Age and later high medieval buckle forms, retaining its Anglo-Scandinavian style. Suggested date: Medieval, 1050-1150.…
Created on: Thursday 13th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-03EEC4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Buckle frame. Cast zoomorphic buckle frame with round-section frame and narrowed strap bar; a pair of beast heads with long snouts, elongated eyes and larger oval ears pressed back grasp the ends of the strap bar. The beast heads are very reminiscent of those at the terminals of Middle Saxon strap ends; however, the contemporary buckles tend to be plain so a later, Anglo-Scandinavian, date is preferred. The brownish tint of the metal is also common on Viking Age finds. The Scandinavian flavour of material culture in the Danelaw was strong and persistent, so this item c…
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 10th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'High Risby', grid reference and parish protected.