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Record ID: KENT4337
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy diamond shaped bridle link with bar attachment decorated with zoomporhic head.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT4310
Object type: CASKET
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Sub rectangluar mount, with lip and adjoining composite rectangular plate. Curved reverse hook or fastening rivet. Central motif shows a stylisted quadrapoid, with backward facing head. Some gilt remains.
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT4322
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy sub-oval shaped strap end, tapering to a long point, rounded at strap edge. Two rivet holes at strap edge. Decorated with stylised geometric interlace pattern. Undecorated on reverse.
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT4323
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy sub-rectangular shaped strap end, narrowing to zoomporphic point. Silvered rivets equally placed at three intervals, and on snout. Silvered around (?) ears.
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT4165
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Foot of an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch with zoomorphic terminal.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT4166
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Foot and lower part of bow of a copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The terminal of the foot has zoomorphic decoration in the form of a horse's head. Part of the catchplate remains above the terminal on the reverse. The break, just above the junction of the bow and foot, is worn.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT4066
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Plain D-shaped copper-alloy buckle.
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT4021
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount, comprising an oval shaped disk with rounded protrusion at top, bottom and sides. Central raised boss, with radiating incised lines in form of cross. Open work hole in each arm of incised cross, and in each rounded protrusion. Rounded edges.
Created on: Monday 17th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT3990
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Convex circular copper-alloy Saxon(?) stud brooch, divided into quadrants, with yellow enamel (now almost white with age) in each quarter. Small spiral design on each arm of cross. Reverse stud has a square washer held in place by pin, which is square in section.
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT BOXLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT3991
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
D-Form copper alloy cast 'Germanic military style' buckle, with outer frame decorated with two dolphin heads. Very worn, with active corrosion. No pin.
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT3995
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Oval shaped gilt copper-alloy buckle (zoomorphic?). Narrowed offset bar, with knops at end of bar. Frame returns on itself create knop. Lip recessed to accommodate pin.
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT3996
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy strap end (type D), with straight shaft, expanding at rivet end. Two rivet holds. Seems to be zoomorphic, with oval 'eyes' near terminating end. Bent, just below rivet holes.
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT3997
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy strap end (type c), rougly oval shaped, with single rivet hole, flat at rivet end. Decorated with incised broken lines on outer edge.
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT3941
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Williams' Type 6, class A copper alloy stirrup strap mount. Intact but very corroded, and considerably oxidised with iron around lower rivet holes.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2001
Last updated: Monday 9th January 2017
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Record ID: KENT3916
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Sub triangular copper alloy mount, with trilobed terminal with central fixing hole, right angle flange and two lower fixing holes. Mount depicts a beast, left, with right front leg raised, head in air and tail wrapped around body. All fixing holes are closed and encrusted.
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 28th July 2015
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Record ID: KENT3917
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Sub-triangular mount, with 'ladder like' incised border decoration, and right angle flange. Three fixing holes, one in each corner. Broken at top, just above fixing hole.
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2001
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2015
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Record ID: KENT3758
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Saxon cast copper alloy button brooch with a gilt surface. This brooch is an example of Avent and Evison Class Aii. Button brooches are circular in shape and resemble miniature saucer brooches, although the relationship between these two brooch classes is not clear. The brooch is 16mm in diameter, the thickness and weight are unknown. The brooch is slightly worn and corroded on raised areas and on edge of rim. The bright yellow gilt survives on the recesses of the brooch, and on the wide decorative border. The brooch does not have an upturned rim, and it is unclear if a rim was …
Created on: Thursday 30th August 2001
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT BOXLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT3735
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Sub triangular copper alloy stirrup mount (Williams' class A11), depicting a 'lion', right, (or possibly a dog - which seems to be collared) looking upwards with its right front paw raised and its tail curled between its legs and over its back. The tri-lobed apex of the mount shows a pair of joined spirals, from which a pendant lobe penetrates the frame above the 'lions' head. Apex loop, and two lower fixing holes, with remains of right angle flange.
Created on: Thursday 23rd August 2001
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT BRIDGE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT3736
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A sub-oval copper alloy stirrup mount (Williams' class A3) in the form of a naked man, facing, with arms and legs apart. 'Around the mans waist is an 'm' like form which a rod like shape projects and expands into a rounded bulb and then contracts to terminate between his feet'. Flanking the figure is spiral interlace (possibly in the form of a snake), scrolling around the figure's legs. Behind the figure, but in front of his arms, are linear splays, which maybe zoomorphic. The mount has a rounded apex loop, two lower fixing holes (one is filled with a rivet), and remains of the right-…
Created on: Thursday 23rd August 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT BRIDGE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT3731
Object type: SHIELD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lozengiform shaped gilt copper alloy mount, with triple strand interlace motif. The mount has a central moulded boss upon a blank square field. The triple strand interlace motif loops back on itself, on one side of the mount. The reverse is flat, with the remains of two rivets.
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'EAST SUSSEX FIRLE', grid reference and parish protected.