Record ID: WREX-36E6FC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object of uncertain date and function, although stylistically it is possibly early medieval in date (c. 500-1100 AD). The object is broadly shield shape in plan with a broken edges at the bottom and in the central part of the top edge (as photographed).  It is decorated on one side only with an elaborate frieze of incised lines and chevrons above a central panel of incised diamonds, triangles, ovals and, ring and dot motifs, with possible niello dots or pellets.  The reverse of the object is undecorated.  The object has patches of corrosion and damage, but …
Created on: Friday 8th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dyserth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-A2E794
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An irregular fragment of cast copper alloy plate of uncertain date. The fragment is broadly rectangular in plan and cross section. All edges are heavily eroded and abraded; they do not represent the original edges. The upper surface has a poorly preserved cast pattern comprising radiating elements between oval lentoid open loops. It has a deep green coloured surface patina. A direct parallel has not been found although it is highly likely that it is from the rim of a decorated metal dish - possibly a chafing dish of later medieval date (AD 1200 - 1600). The fragment measures: 33.…
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton Bryan', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-CE821C
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy unidentified object of probable Post Medieval date. It is a hemisphere or solid dome with niello lattice cross hatched grooved decoration on the convex top. The base is flat and there is no evidence of attachment, nor of breaks. There is a plain band round the base of the dome. The object has a thin patina of light green revealing some red metal. Traces of dark grey, probable niello survive in the grooves. It is 11.6mm tall, 15.3mm diameter and 12.6g. No close parallel has been identified on the PAS database. The use of niello cross hatching is frequently found on Tu…
Created on: Monday 3rd September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-AF1111
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver unidentified object. Fragment of a cast round section rod with two or more circumferentially incised bands of width 0.5mm which may retain inlay traces. Both ends are indented by up to 0.7mm, and there is a deep gouge in one side. The black surface and density may suggest this to be a fragment from a bead-like object made of silver, though the object lacks a stringing hole. The decorative inlay of silver objects is characteristic of the Middle Saxon period, though the condition of this fragment vitiates further comment. Suggested date: possibly Early Medieval, 700-850. In view …
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2016
Last updated: Thursday 29th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulceby with Fordington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0BF886
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Three fragments of a medieval silver sheet object, possibly a scabbard chape, dating to c. AD 1200-1300. All three are decorated on one face with fields defined by engraved lines and filled with either rocker-arm engraving or niello. The other face is undecorated. The original find was too fragmentary to discern a possible pattern; the addition of two joining pieces show that there appears to be an abstract foliate design. Fragment 1: No original edge, broken across at least one rivet or attachment hole. The fragment is too small to determine what the decoration depi…
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2016
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-2A4954
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a silver and niello-inlaid artefact: possibly part of a pinhead and shaft. The fragment comprises a flat piece of cast silver, the right side lost to a diagonal break and the left side apparently complete, possibly representing the remains of a pinhead. A narrow projection on the bottom edge, also broken off, may represent the remains of a pin-shaft. The shape of the fragment is suggestive of the body and tail of a bird shown in profile. The upper edge curves downwards away from the broken end, and then upwards again and around into a sub-semi-circular 'tail' with a s…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2016
Last updated: Friday 20th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BUC-A0BA19
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unidentified copper-alloy object of uncertain date. The object comprises a tube, open at both ends, with a circular-sectioned aperture and six flat, longitudinal panels around its outside. One of these panels is decorated by a line of herringbone grooves, filled with a combination of niello and iron corrosion. the opposing panel has a central seam which is slightly open. At one end of the herringbone panel is a projection which tapers to a point and is decorated along its length by a series of niello-filled, transverse grooves. The use of niello, and the general form, suggest…
Created on: Monday 18th May 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Longwick-cum-Ilmer', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-32E11E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn cast copper alloy of uncertain date or original extent. The object is rod-like, straight and slightly tapering, and 30mm long. The section is triangular and towards one end each facet has a groove which runs from the centre towards the present break. Each groove is infilled with the remains of a niello or silver inlay. The object is too corroded and incomplete to suggest a date or purpose although it appears to be ancient.
Created on: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-8DED77
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy early-medieval to post-medieval (AD c.700-c.1700) unidentified object. Overall, the object measures 25.7mm long, 16.9mm wide and 5.5mm thick. It weighs 1.31g. The object is formed from a 0.8mm thick quadrilobate plate, missing the ends of its side lobes with an openwork cross at its centre. There is an incomplete loop at one end of the reverse, with its opening pointing along the length of the plate to the opposite end where there is a transverse ridge, possibly the stump of a lug. The front face has niello decoration forming a border along the edge of the p…
Created on: Monday 11th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 12th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-2073D8
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy object of 9th century date. The object measures 46mm in length and has one straight side and one side is shaped to fit the cast design. The surviving terminal is in the form of an animal head from whose mouth projects a rounded attachment loop. The head has flattened ears and small circular pits for the eyes, the latter probably intended to receive an inlay. Behind the head is a worn panel which is difficult to interpret and which has been inlaid with niello, a small patch of which survives. There are also two small patches which suggest the former pr…
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 20th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-CDED17
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy unidentified object of probable Late Medieval date, probably 15th or 16th century. It is a bar which is a rounded rectangle in section, slightly curved in profile and tapering towards one end. Both ends appear to be patinated breaks. The upper face (on the outside of the curve) is decorated with a central incised line and diagonal lines running from the centre to the edge forming a palm like design. The grooves appear to have been inlaid with niello. At the wide end, three crescents form a flower like motif round a circular recess; all are again infilled. The object has…
Created on: Friday 9th May 2014
Last updated: Sunday 3rd May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: STAFFS-EA4136
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of silver strip, inlaid with niello, strip, stepped.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: STAFFS-E8ACA0
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver niello inlaid strip with evidence of gilding. Geometric designs along length. Nails and rivets are still present.
Created on: Friday 5th April 2013
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: STAFFS-AF2EA3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver fragment, triangular with a chevron decoration. Niello decoration.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: STAFFS-73A6B6
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver niello inlaid strip, sheet metal edging with geometric decoration. Rivets present.
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-618F26
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete probably medieval copper alloy unidentified object. One end is broken (not recently) across a circular-sectioned bar which soon merges into a square-sectioned boss. This is decorated on three faces with a circle inlaid with a black substance, presumably niello. The circle are joined by two short similarly inlaid lines. On the opposite side of the boss the bar continues, expanding very slightly to an end, in the centre of which is a small conical projection. This final length of bar is decorated with a pair of longitudinal lines, again inlaid with the same material. The pair…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-4DB246
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver object inlaid with niello. It is a long oval in shape and made from two components, a sheet silver base and a heavy hollow-cast upper part. The upper part is D-shaped in cross-section, and has relief, engraved and inlaid decoration. To either end is an animal head, both identical. The snouts have narrow rounded ends with a pair of dots for nostrils; these may originally have been set with glass pellets, similar to but smaller than those in the eyes. There are niello-inlaid grooves dividing the nostrils from each other and the nose from the rest of the snout. The ey…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North-West Essex', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-509C03
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of thick flat silver object with gold wire and niello decoration. One near-rectilinear corner survives, with two very slightly concave edges meeting at a tiny rounded knop. Around the surviving edges is a border consisting of a ridge with a groove outside. A drop-shaped recess, with the point towards the corner, is lined a little way in from the edge with a strip of plain gold wire. The drop-shaped field contains a clockwise spiral scroll of extremely worn gold filigree wire; the base of the recess also appears to be gilded. The beaded and plain wires are both …
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2011
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newchurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-B39CC6
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded silver fragment of middle Anglo-Saxon date, perhaps a pin head. Treasure case no. 2011T584. Description: Fragment of silver, decorated on both faces with differing motifs, but gilded on only one. Both faces have motifs made up of grooves, and some of the grooves are coincident. Most of the fragment's edges are formed from coincident grooves, and so it is very hard to tell if they are original and deliberate, or whether it has been broken at these thin and fragile grooves; this question is addressed further below. The gilded face has niello inlay in the grooves. It has a p…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2011
Last updated: Monday 14th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burmarsh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-F0DC51
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval silver terminal of twelfth century date. The terminal has a multi-faceted head best described as being a cube with all of the corners cut off. The cube has a height of 8.12mm and the top of the cube is 8.41mm x 8.21mm. The vertical sides of the cube taper inwards giving base of the cube the dimensions 6.50mm x 6.61mm. The eight flat triangular facets at the corners of the cube are simply decorated by an incised boarder and plain centre. The four vertical and single top lozengiform faces have identical relief decoration of four lozenges set together with the points meeting…
Created on: Monday 20th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Offord Cluny and Offord D'Arcy', grid reference and parish protected.