Record ID: LANCUM-787C17
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman to Medieval copper alloy mount. It is square in plan and sub rectangular in section. It is decorated in relief with a flower that consists of four lentoid petals extending to each corner from a central boss. The central pellet retains the original black finish. On one edge there is a raised border but this is either absent or lost from the other three edges. The reverse face is still fully coated in black but is otherwise undecorated although there are remnants of a lip, up to 1.5mm high, on three edges. Dates to between c43 and c1500 AD, probably Early Medieval. The length i…
Created on: Friday 4th October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Skelmersdale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-ADFA0B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end fragment. Cast plate with its straight sides converging on a beast head terminal with large hollowed swept-back ears and a deeply incised line around its muzzle, with a less prominent incised line closer to the tip of the snout. The plate bears a bordered panel of straight interlaced strands, and is of Thomas Class A Type 2. The form is Middle Saxon though the simple plaited decoration was also favoured in the Viking Age. A black coating may represent degraded silver plating or its sulphide base, as the interlace [now appearing as if reserved] shows strongly aga…
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-8A8B13
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy hooked tag of Early Medieval date (AD 850-1150). Class B, type 1. The object is composed of a triangular plate that tapers to a downward projecting rectangular spur. This would have formed the integral recurved hook. The spur terminates in an old and abraded break resulting in the loss of the hook. The main plate is decorated with a double linear border that is in-filled with closely packed transvers lines runs around the edge of the plate. Inside the border is a double linear border that is in-filled with closely packed transvers lines which runs down the c…
Created on: Friday 12th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-79318F
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount fragment. Flat plate with straight and slightl convergent sides and a straight end between them; broken along two other straight edges. The display face bears an incised curvilinear image of the neck and head of a dragon or beast with upturned snout, open jaws and a long trail behind a large D-shaped eye. The body is perhaps scaled, indicated by a series of comma shaped cuts along its neck. The beast appears against a ground of finely executed cross hatch producing a field of delicate rhomboid daiperwork. There ias also an incised border following the outer edge of …
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Last updated: Thursday 21st April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton Ross', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-948BC7
Object type: BELL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval copper-alloy bell. The damaged bell chamber would originally have been of hexagonal section, with straight sides tapering towards the flat top, where there is a damaged loop. The sides surrounding the basal opening are heavily damaged, but what remains suggests that they were of typical form for this type of bell; slightly concave, with a lobe extending from each of the six corners. The clapper is absent, although there is a possible pair of wire holes within the unidentified, hard, black substance located on the underside of the apex. The outer surface of the bell r…
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2011
Last updated: Friday 8th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Raunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-948053
Object type: BELL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval copper-alloy bell. The bell chamber is of hexagonal section with straight sides tapering steeply towards the top, where it is surmounted by a damaged rounded loop. The six sides that surround the open bottom end are concave, giving the bell a fluted appearance, and have incurved bases. creating a knop or foot on each of the six corners. The bell's clapper is missing but two small holes, set within an unidentified substance beneath the point on the inside, mark its original position. The outer surfaces of the bell are corroded in places and possibly bear traces of a b…
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2011
Last updated: Friday 8th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Raunds', grid reference and parish protected.