Record ID: PAS-8C3A73
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval copper-alloy strap-end, classified as Thomas's (2003, 2) Class A, Type 2 (probably geometric style), surviving well. This would date the artefact to around the 9th century AD. The strap-end is flat in profile. The plate widens very slightly from the attachment end to a widest point at around the mid-point of the plate, not including the terminal; it can be described as shallowly convex, or bowed. This latter is an integral animal head. The split end has been bent down slightly, with the lower split part bent down slightly more besides. It is slightly abraded, and …
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 11th November 2015
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Record ID: PAS-E3C058
Object type: PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval terminal, pin or lace-tag, in the form of a short, circular-section socket with a polyhedral head. Each facet of the head is engraved with a simple design enhanced with a niello inlay. The socket flares slightly to its base where it is pierced and an internal rivet is held in place. This clearly acted as a form of attachment either for a leather strap or a length of textile, suggesting that the terminal is a type of lace-tag; alternatively, the rivet might have secured the terminal to a thin rod possibly serving as a pin or pointer. A similar find from Re…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd January 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ewell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-265947
Object type: FINIAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval, cube-shaped finial with slightly rounded facets, four of which are decorated with circles inlaid with gold and carrying a four point design drawn in niello. Within the spandrel formed by the meeting of each of these circles is placed another, smaller circle in relief. This decoration might indicate the ‘top’ of the finial. The top facet has gold inlay but without any niello, whilst the bottom has no decoration, merely evidence of a break where it has been wrenched from the object to which it was originally attached. Dimensions and metal content: X-ray fluo…
Created on: Thursday 7th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Ormsby', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-3BBB37
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
The brooch is miniature in type and is decorated with a series of engraved chevrons which may once have been nielloed. Niello is a black inlay composed of sulphides of silver and copper which was used in the Middle Ages to distinguish incised decoration on silver and gold.
Created on: Tuesday 15th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: PAS-E91188
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast silver pin, the lower shank is missing. The head is offset on a short arm and carries a semicircular plate below an arc of three rounded beads linked on the front by narrower beaded bands. A neat ladder pattern is incised around the vertical edge of the front plate. The plate has on its main front surface a symmetrical pattern in low relief against a background inlay of degraded niello, with arcs forming a small central palmette and two outward spirals with lobed ends. The back of the arc of beads has pairs of incised lines running in radially from the top of each bead…
Created on: Friday 11th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 21st August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Welton le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-E87CB3
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Silver hooked tag with circular plate boldly decorated with a symmetrical pattern of eight pointed hollow segments forming a circle against a recessed background; the hook tip detached and part of plate with attachment loop missing. The background is keyed for black niello inlay. Discussion: The use of niello, form and style of ornament confirm that this is an Anglo-Saxon dress tag of late 9th-century date. This roundel of formal stylised vegetable pattern is matched by one on the Lyminge border of the great 'Fuller Brooch' where three other versions of the pattern are also employed…
Created on: Friday 11th July 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyminge', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-D81747
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two silver and niello strap-ends, roughly oval with moulded details top and bottom. Similar, but not identical strap-ends with an animal mask at the apex in low relief with protruding eyes and comma-shapoed ears, the mask on the shorter strap-end is larger. On each strap-end the top of the piece is split to accommodate a strap and has holes for two rivets, three of which are in situ. The rivet holes flank a pendant a semi-circular panel with a looped vegetal motif in low relief, one with a pronounced central arrow head. The flat central panels are not clean but appear to have differen…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'York', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-D77184
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A small silver Anglo-Saxon strap-end of sub-triangular form terminating in a stylised animal mask with comma shaped ears and split at the other end for attachment to a narrow strap by one rivet. The rivet is missing, as is the top of the front plate. The central panel is filled with a contorted animal which was originally set against a background of black niello inlay, since lost. The animal's head turns over its body with lolling tongue. Forelegs are depicted but the lower torso tapers into a complex knot. The shape of the strap-end is datable to the 9th century by analogy with finds…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Sunday 2nd March 2014
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Record ID: PAS-D757B2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon silver strap-end with long narrow plate split at the top with two attachment holes, while the opposite end is cast as a flat animal mask with large rounded ears. The main field carries one animal in profile, much elongated with the head curved back and biting the etiolated body. The hindquarters end in a regular leg but the forequarters are obscure and part of the field is filled with a large pointed leaf. Worn or heavily cleaned, it may originally have been inlaid with niello. Back plain. The style of the animal is typical of 9th century Anglo-Saxon fine metalwork, kno…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Sunday 2nd March 2014
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Record ID: PAS-D49861
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of silver-gilt Anglo-Saxon disc brooch of Sutton type, with detached dome-headed rivet. On the main fragment there is one complete silver-gilt lentoid field, about half of a second and the border of a third flanking a panel with a silver decoration emerging from an incised background filled with niello. The lentoid fields have a notched inner border and are decorated with vegetation motifs: three triangular leaves of increasing size, notched, develop from a tendril to fill the shape. The main field of the brooch is also decorated with a vegetation motif, this tim…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
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Record ID: PAS-D30EA3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
The fragment forms part of the foot-plate of an Anglo-Saxon miniature square-headed brooch. The terminal is broken off and the opposite end rises slightly to an old break across the end of the bow of the brooch. On the back is the projecting stub of a pin-catch. In the centre of the plate is a plain, flat lozenge enclosed by a narrow rib, and the whole is bordered by a raised flat frame decorated with small nielloed triangles; there is a plain lobe at either side. In the angle between each of these lobes and the end of the bow is a stylised animal motif in Salin's Style I consisting of…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breamore', grid reference and parish protected.