Record ID: IOW-6FC2C8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy buckle pin (c. 450-c. 600). In plan, the base is trapezoidal in plan and narrows to the incomplete pin shaft. At the front the base is sunken in order to accommodate decorative material, possibly glass or garnet. The base of sunken area is uneven. Between the base and shaft there is a small projection at each side. The pin is triangular in cross-section. On the rear face are the remains of an imbedded iron loop. This pin is corroded and has patches of a green patina. Traces of silvering or tinning can be seen at the front. …
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F4E674
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper alloy strap end of c. AD 800-925 date; Thomas Class A, Type 3. The strap end is lozenge in plan with a flattened, wider eged at one end and has a flat rectangular cross secton. The object is formed of one peice with a slit at the flattered end where there are two rivet holes, the rivets are absent. One of the holes is damaged. The other end the strap end terminates in a very worn zoomorphic terminal. The upper surface has been deocrated with a silvered anthropomorphic design, most of which has now been lost. The design depicts a stylised human face in the cent…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2015
Last updated: Thursday 4th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ripple', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-F917D1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy disc, possibly a mount or a brooch of probable Early Medieval date (c.400-1100 AD). The disc is flat and circular with a central circular hole (diameter 3.2mm) which is filled with a corroded iron fragment. What is presumably the upper surface appears to have been decorated with an applied layer of silver, two small fragments of which remain while the rest of the surface retains uneven patches of a dark grey residue. The reverse is plain but very worn, as are the edges of the disc. There are no obvious means of attachment apart from the central hole with possible remain…
Created on: Thursday 16th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-F93A8D
Object type: SHIELD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval cast copper-alloy stud, possibly from a shield boss, dating to c.450 - 700 AD. The head is flat and circular in shape with an incomplete layer of a possibly silvered or tinned metal on the upper surface. At the rear there is an integral shank, square in section but tapering down to a rounded end. The object is in a fairly good condition but the edges are slightly worn and the metal is discoloured. The head measures 23.06mm in diameter and is c.1.5mm thick. The shank is c.9.3mm long and narrows from 4.47mm wide to 2.50mm at the end. In total the stud stands at 11.2…
Created on: Monday 2nd February 2015
Last updated: Friday 6th February 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-0DE022
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Saxon copper alloy strap-end, Thomas type A1. The body is tongue-shaped and broken at both ends. Both breaks a patinated and are old. The attachment end has two incomplete rivet holes. The body contains a rectangular panel containing an incised, unclear geometric motif. The animal-head terminal is missing. A small patch of silvering is visible on the reverse.
Created on: Friday 17th October 2014
Last updated: Friday 17th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Wragby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-6FA53C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Remains of a silvered, cast copper alloy, Middle Saxon, strap end probably of Thomas' Class A1, with Trewhiddle style decoration, now obscured by wear/corrosion. The upper section of the strap end with the bifurcation is truncated and, owing to to the objects fragile state, it has been backed with resin making the determination of its mass difficult. On the terminal are two eyes separated by a narrow bar, a transverse bar and a broad groove separates them from the nose which is marked by a longitudinal notch. The face of the strap end appears to have been heavily silvered but the pres…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 4th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elloughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-D2197B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Early Early-Medieval (500-600) copper alloy silvered brooch, consisting of the headplate with single lug to the reverse. The fragment is irregular in plan. The fragment is 40.3mm long, 26.7mm wide, 0,8mm thick and weighs 7.69 grams.
Created on: Monday 21st July 2014
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-50DF00
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval silver and copper-alloy strap-end dating to the 9th century AD.This strap is a typical example of Thomas's Class A Type 1, except for its materials; it is largely made of copper alloy, but the front has been coated with silver, which is largely still attached apart from a small missing part on the animal-head terminal. The strap-end is sub-rectangular. One end is bifurcated with two rivet holes, and the sides curve and taper to form a rounded point. Below the rivet holes is a fan-shaped field with a bi-lobed rather than the usual trilobate motif. Below this, the …
Created on: Tuesday 15th July 2014
Last updated: Thursday 7th August 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-C7F214
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A contemporary copy of a silver sceat of Series N, type 41b dating from about AD 715 - 720. The coin is possibly base silver or copper alloy with silver plating, missing in places. It is probably a contemporary imitation, as are most examples of Type N found North of Kent and the Thames area (Abramson, 2006, page 21). It has a diameter of 12mm and is 1.67mm thick. It weighs 0.96g.
Created on: Friday 9th May 2014
Last updated: Friday 9th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-68D957
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Saxon silvered copper alloy strap-end. The strap-end is tongue-shaped and elaborately decorated with moulded zoomorphic panels. Two incomplete arms extend from the split attachment end. Next to this is a downward facing animal head with large rounded ears. The animal resembles a bear, and is similar to those found on stirrup strap mounts of Williams Class B.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 14th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caistor area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-98D7D3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 10th or 11th century cast copper alloy buckle frame with a thick oval-sectioned outer edge. Two zoomorphic animal heads with projecting ears clasp the bar, which has a constriction for the missing pin. The buckle has a white metal surface coating which partly survives.
Created on: Monday 31st March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 9th April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-C633A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible Brooch fragment. Cast fragment of an ansate or caterpillar brooch, comprising a catch plate at one end and about one half of a curving D section bow with a projecting collar part way along its curve. Traces of white metal plating remain on the back of the bow. The form is simpler than many examples ascribed to a Carolingian context, though that is where the type was most common. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 700-800. Length: 30.5mm, Height: 20.3mm, Thickness: 5.3mm, Weight: 4.73gms.
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 26th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wilberfoss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-156C25
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy strap end dating to the early-medieval period. The strap end can be described as Thomas' (2003) Class B2. The strap end has a flared split end that tapers towards the elaborate zoomorphic terminal. The zoomorphic termial is in the form of a beast's head with flared nostrils, inset eyes and square head with the ears lying flat behind the head. An undecorated panel flalnked either side by moulded transverse lines seperates the zoomprohic terminal with the rear decorative panel and flared end. This decorative panel is in the Trewhiddle style and comprises an inter…
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wallingford area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-71D764
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an unidentified object probably dating to the Early Medieval period. The fragment is roughly triangular and flat. The two long edges are breaks, while the shorter edge is orginal and curved. The front is decorated with an incised band containing three ringed dots. Below the band are three further ringed dots. The object has a green-black appearance suggesting a silver content, however where corrosion reaches the surface this is green in colour suggesting that the object is probably plated copper-alloy.
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-CF3BB5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete vessel escutcheon of Early Medieval date. The object is cast copper alloy with a silvered surface and red and yellow enamel in the cells. A cast copper alloy mount from a hanging bowl, its face tinned and bearing traces of red and yellow chaplevé namel inlay. The mount is tear shaped with an opening in its centre. At its upper end is a hook the end of which is expanded to form an amimal's head [more details needed] its sides marked by incised angled lines separated by two longitudinal lines. The head is divided from the a plain zone by a circumferential line. At the bas…
Created on: Thursday 14th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 23rd January 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DUR-F9B4C8
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy hooked tag possibly of Early Medieval date. The object is square shaped in plan with a small project which has been broken in antiquity and could have functioned as a hook. At the opposite side of the tag, there is a circular perforation which would have attached the tag to an item of clothing. There is an incised line on one side of the tag running across the width at the same level as the circular perforation. There is some evidence of silvering although any further decoration has worn away.
Created on: Monday 4th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-019283
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A plated contemporary copy (silver on copper-alloy core) of an Early-Medieval Secondary Sceat, Series J, Type 36, struck c. 710-25. Ref.: Metcalf nos. 301-302 (1993: 361-364). Dimensions: 11.2mm diameter, 1.5mm thick. Weight: 0.7g.
Created on: Friday 11th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clothall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-BAC646
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Anglo-Scandinavian tongue shaped strap end of the Borre style, Tenth century AD in date. The strap end has been made from a single plate of cast copper alloy and is tongue shaped, with a slight border around the edge of the tongue with two rivet attachment and three ring and dot patterns above the border. The front plate is decorated with a Borre Style head and shoulders with face animal mask with ring and dot eyes and rounded ears there are slight traces of white-metal coating. Below these motifs there is the head and shoulders of a human figure in low relief, facing for…
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2012
Last updated: Sunday 12th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NOCTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-755407
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy strap-end (c. AD 775-925). Thomas Class A. This strap end is an elongated oval shape in plan. It has a split attachment end and a zoomorphic terminal end. At the split end there are two circular rivet holes but the rivets are missing. The zoomorphic terminal is worn and indistinct. The front is decorated with a plain cross in low relief which has a circle at the centre. In each angle of the cross there is a raised decorated rectangular panel in raised relief. However, due to corrosion the detail is unclear. This s…
Created on: Sunday 12th August 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-FDF1A5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silvered copper-alloy sceat (silver plate on copper core), Series N (type 41b), c.715-20. The coin is most likely a contemporary copy.
Created on: Monday 6th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Spatial data recorded.