Record ID: CORN-D114C6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy zoomorphic 'gaping mouth beast' buckle dating from the late Early Medieval to the early Medieval period, c.1000-1150. The buckle has a single loop frame that is trapezoidal in plan, with rounded knops on each external corner, and hole, 5 mm in diameter, just inside the frame for the pin, now missing. The moulding beyond the loop is in the form of the head of a beast, perhaps a fish or sea monster, with its mouth wide open like a basking shark. On the top of the head is a Y-shaped crest forming eyebrows and a n…
Created on: Friday 20th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
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Record ID: CORN-8EB1FB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy pin from a D-shaped buckle, possibly dating from the Anglo-Saxon period, c.AD 575-625. The pin has broken off from the base plate above the loop that would have wound around the pin bar. The broken end is circular in section and 8 mm in diameter and the pointed end has been chiselled from both sides into a rectangular edge that is 5 mm in length and 3 mm in width. The base plates were often shield shaped as seen in D-shaped buckles illustrated in MacGregor & Bolick (1993) om pp.203-204, nos.34.45-34.52. See LVPL-A115C7 for a similar buckle on the database, which i…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-40B360
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy zoomorphic foot from an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, dating from the later 5th to the 6th century AD. The foot is in the form of a horse's head with flared rounded nostrils creating a semi-circular terminal, incised with a pair of oblique grooves to define them from the nose, and stamped with ring and dot motifs to create the texture of a hairy snout. Above the nostrils, the nose is plain and narrows towards two projecting triangular eyes. The eyes narrow from 3 mm in diameter at the base to points that are 1 mm in diameter, and are divided by an incised …
Created on: Thursday 7th November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-4C58B4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy gilt fragment of perhaps a harness or scabbard mount in the form of a bird with a pointed beak at one terminal opposite a pointed wing following the curve of the back of the beast. The two projections at the bottom of the beast may represent an incomplete leg and body which have worn to curved edges but may have extended into part of the mount that could have been attached to a leather strap. The front face of the mount is decorated with a high-relief animal motif with a U-shaped element below the raised round eye, which is now black but may have originally had red en…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Record ID: CORN-11148E
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval cast copper-alloy horse harness fitting, a probable bit link, Anglo-Scandinavian in style, dating from c.AD 1000-1100. The bit link 36.5 mm in length, 23.3 mm in width, 7 mm in height and 4 mm in thickness and 15.3 g in weight. The bit link has a circular looped terminal, 17 mm in diameter and 3 mm in thickness, which is decorated with three projecting knobs. The terminal is attached to a 6.5 mm long projection, D-shaped in section, which then expands to form the 12 mm wide boss of a loop of which only two short broken ends remain. These bit links "were at…
Created on: Saturday 24th August 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th March 2021
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Record ID: CORN-D9B9D4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy brooch in the form of a back-biting beast, dating from the Early Medieval period. The beast has two legs that are bent into a crouched position with larger rear haunches, a curved belly and neck that is turning the head to the right over the back. The head is defined by a curved groove between the neck and head, leading to the ear. There is also another crescent-shaped groove below the eye dividing the snout and mouth. The mouth consists of an open jaw that extends into three tendrils that terminate in scrolls to represent an upper and lower jar on either side of a to…
Created on: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
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Record ID: CORN-8B8C57
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 3 depicting a male human figure standing flanked by a pair of serpents entwined round the figures legs. The central naked male human figure is standing facing with his arms everted and legs slightly apart. The surface is worn and some of the detail is lost but the eyes, mouth and chin are visible, possibly with a moustache above the transverse groove of the mouth. Above the rounded head is a square apex loop with a circular perforation that is 3 mm in diameter. Below the man's round stomach is an M-shaped element which ex…
Created on: Sunday 30th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-C166DE
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast gilded silver mount in the form of a hollow, four-sided pyramid. The pyramid has a square base with an integral flat bar, running transversely across the base. Each face is decorated with a punched motif comprising a triangle of three annulets, and the edges between each face with a line of paired dots. Most of the gilding survives on the upper face, and some corrosion product has accumulated in the hollow back of the mount.
Created on: Monday 27th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buckland Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-B02E1C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Cnut (1016-1035), Pointed Helmet type (1024-1030), moneyer Leofwold, London mint, Spink 1158, North 787.
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2019
Last updated: Sunday 5th May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-7AAE36
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy horse harness pendant with ogival edges and a perforated knop at the apex with a suspension hole that is 2.5 mm in diameter. The front face of the pendant is decorated with raised oblique lines radiating from the centre to pointed terminals within the undulating edges. The style of radiating lines which do not appear to curve around the edges like serpents may be a crude representation of a zoomorphic style or a more anthropomorphic style seen on some of the stirrup strap mounts referenced below, where the ribs of a central human figure radiate outwards. Simpler patt…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 7th April 2019
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