Record ID: SWYOR-22FFC7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy D shaped buckle dating from the early medieval period, c. 1000-1100. It has some elements of the Ringerike style and is probably Anglo-Scandinavian or Viking. It has a broad, flat frame and a narrowed strap bar. The inner corners and the shoulders of the frame each carry a small rounded knop and there is a trilobed projection in the centre of the outer edge. The upper surface has decoration in the form of two narrow grooves following the curve of the D. The pin is missing. The buckle has a dark brown patina. It is 24.9mm long, 27.6mm wide and 2.9mm thick. It weighs…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2012
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BUC-027822
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy fitting of later early medieval or medieval date c. AD 1000- 1100, probably the plate of an idiosyncratic buckle. The artefact is sub-triangular, formed of a trapezoidal plate, which narrows in a step to a protrusion from its shorter side, itself stepped. The reverse face is flat and undecorated. Two integrally cast D shaped lugs project from the narrow edge; these are pierced, but no axis bar remains. The wider end is pierced in two places; the remains of a cast copper alloy rivet are present through both holes. The upper surface of the artefact is decorated in a …
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stone', grid reference and parish protected.

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.

Record ID: LANCUM-65C1B4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Note on discovery: all the small finds, except one coin, were found within a lead container (no. 198 below), at a depth of about 18 inches, while five of the larger, complete arm-rings were found underneath it. The objects are described in their uncleaned condition, in accordance with the terms of the Treasure Act 1996, and some of the details are currently obscured by adhering soil. After conservation, some of the weights may be slightly lighter, although there is unlikely to be any significant difference. Surface metal analysis of a sample of six objects from the hoard conducted a…
Created on: Sunday 18th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Silverdale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-647094
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
The coin appears to be a dirham of the Samanid ruler Isma'il I ibn Ahmad. The date is year Hijra 293 (= AD 905/6). There is usually a second, outer marginal inscription on the obverse of Samanid dirhams - unless the coin has been clipped. This could be an imitation, of a copper coin, with single marginal legends. It's not possible to read the mint, as there is a hole pierced, but the mint name is short, so probably Balkh. Samanid dirhams were transmitted in large numbers via river routes from the Caspian Sea to Scandinavia, as a result of Viking-Age trade, and from Scandinavia in smal…
Created on: Friday 20th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horncastle', 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: 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: 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: 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: CORN-902CE5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy buckle frame, semi-circular in plan and semi-circular in cross-section, with a flat reverse. The frame was originally D-shaped, like the comparanda below. Only one of the three terminals survives, in the form of a sub-triangular animal head terminal with circular eye sockets which may have originally been settings for a stone. The other two terminals on either side of this one are 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 zigzag pattern, with some…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 21st May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-EAF943
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2005 T384. A partly gilded silver Carolingian mount or brooch. Description: The object consists of a thick, rectangular plate with moulded edges, ribbed on the short sides and with triple, shallow arcs separated by points on the long sides. The front is divided into six fire-gilded, sunken fields, each decorated with a cast acanthus leaf, by a median rib and four raised, transverse chevrons with short bars across the apices. The rib is composed of a raised leaf motif at each end flanking a pair of Maltese crosses on pedestals separated by a double tooled col…
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2009
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Easingwold area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-C950D0
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Cast bronze strap-distributor dating to the Early-Medieval period. It consists of a ring 25.03mm in diameter, with a three-spoked construction and a central circular setting containing a domed green glass setting 6.48mm in diameter. Each of the spokes terminates in a moulded animal head with pronounced hollowed-out ears and a moulded snout. Attached to the ring are two zoomorphic clasps. Each clasp consists of a bar of metal bent in two around the ring, the lower half of which is flat while the upper half is moulded in the form of an animal head. The clasps have an oval mo…
Created on: Monday 19th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingsley', 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: SWYOR-AECB53
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
British Museum Report to HM Coroner on Treasure Case 2007 T2: The Vale of York Hoard The hoard was found while searching on farmland with a metal-detector. It consists of a silver-gilt cup, a gold armring, 67 pieces of silver comprising 4 armrings, and chopped-up fragments of brooches, ingots and rods (hacksilver); and 617 silver coins. The largest pieces of silver were found outside the cup, and 4 coins fell out during retrieval, while the rest of the silver, including the coins, was packed inside the cup and excavated in the Metals Conservation Workshop at the British Museum. The…
Created on: Friday 2nd November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 23rd May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Vale of York', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-15B622
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
The hoard comprises both items of Viking jewellery and coins recovered from a field near to the site of the discovery of a separate, coinless hoard of seven Viking-period brooches in 1989 (which was subsequently acquired by the British Museum in 1991; it is possible that two other silver brooches in the museum found in 1785 and 1830 originally formed part of this second hoard). There are: one complete ingot and nine ingot fragments, two brooch fragments, pieces of five or more neck-rings, at least three arm-rings, and possibly a fragment of a finger-ring. The numbers in brackets below…
Created on: Friday 7th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 8th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penrith', grid reference and parish protected.

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.