Record ID: BUC-7D52D5
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Late Anglo-Saxon artefact, probably a fragment of a hooked tag consisting of most of the plate with the distinguishing hook and attachment rivet-holes now missing. The surviving plate is circular in shape with a knop at one end. The knop is riveted through the centre and there is a second rivet above it. The two rivets fix a sub-rectangular sheet of silver on the back (8.6mm by 4.1mm), attached at a slight angle and possible representing the remains of a hook that may have been a later addition, perhaps a repair for a broken-off original. The front of the plate is de…
Created on: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2017
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Record ID: BUC-52DE42
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early medieval silver hooked tag. The plate is slightly concave and triangular-shaped, narrowing to a sharp integral hook measuring 3.1mm in width, which bends towards the reverse. The hook has two incised lines across the tip. Above the hook on the front of the plate is raised ridge decoration, forming two pointed oval eyes. Above this are two circular fields each containing a triangular groove, forming the ears. In between the ears and eyes is an incised bifurcating line with scrolled terminals, forming the animal's brow. This retains niello inlay. Running backwards fr…
Created on: Monday 6th June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 15th March 2017
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Record ID: NLM-ED32BB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. Long cast strap end with a bifurcated belt end with paired drilled holes of diameter 2.4mm, and a beast head terminal, too elongated to meet criteria for Thomas Class A, though cf. his Class A Type 5 with silver wire inlay. Decoration comprises a contoured terminal with four paired comma-shaped figures in moulded relief behind the head and possibly representing the pelt of a beast, with a long straight-sided panel of interlace with black inlay forming a reticulate pattern occupying most of the remaining surface, with a broad paired line border to either side of…
Created on: Wednesday 1st June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 1st June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-5846DD
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy medieval purse bar. Ward-Perkins Type A2, dating to between the late 15th and early 16th centuries AD. The fragment consists of the shield shaped central drilled boss with rectangular side bars. Only a small section of the bar remains on each side of the boss.. Part of the suspension loop remains in the boss. The boss is decorated on each side with a niello inscription, 'HIS' on one side the other side is now unreadable. The fragment measures 50.7mm long, 23.5mm wide and 10.9mm thick. It weighs 40.47 grams. The central boss measures 18.3mm long, 19…
Created on: Wednesday 25th May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2016
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Record ID: NMS-4628C6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy sharp hooked dress fastener of hollow semi-circular cross-section tapering very slightly to the closed end from which springs an integral hook (end missing). An o…
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 24th May 2016
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Record ID: SUR-018F5C
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval (16th century) copper-alloy purse bar minus its outer arms, handle and frame. On either side of the central block is a pair of animal heads whose open mouths grip the bar. Beyond the mouths are groups of closely-spaced grooves which run along the bar. The central boock is decorated on both sides and inlaid with niello. On one side is a shield within a frame and with pellets in the field. The other side of the block has a saltire with parallel lines and a single pellet in each field.
Created on: Saturday 21st May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2016
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Record ID: SF-DC62F8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end, probably of Thomas Class A Type 5. It is rectangular in shape with convex sides, tapering to a decorative zoomorphic terminal. This has an elongated rounded snout and bulging oval eyes with single circular indentations. On the brow is a small lozenge(?) shaped field of niello beneath two large oval ears with chip carved semi-circular indentations. On the front face of the plate are two rectangular nielloed panels each containing inlaid silver wire forming two large S-shaped motifs with scrolled terminals and small crescent shaped motifs to ei…
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 25th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haughley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1E33F6
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded fragment of medieval/post-medieval purse bar, broken scrap of constricted bar with separate conical terminal (diameter 9mm, length 9mm). The sides of the terminal have the remai…
Created on: Tuesday 10th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2016
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Record ID: NMS-9F5257
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment, broken at both ends, of the pendent loop of a medieval purse frame of Ward Perkins 1940 Type A, C-sectioned with engraved double-line criss-cross inlaid with niello (now off-white). Extant length 31mm. Width 6.5mm. c.1450 - c.1500.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 4th May 2016
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Record ID: LVPL-9C2BBD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case 2016 T360 Incomplete silver Medieval (13th-14th Century) annular brooch with niello decoration; the pin is missing. Circular brooch, round in section; decorated on one side with a series of grooves and dots that have been inlaid with a black material, possibly niello, a mixture of copper, silver and lead sulphides, commonly used as an inlay on engraved or etched metals. The pattern is made up of three grooves across the brooch followed by three dots, one above the other, then a further three grooves. This pattern is repeated around the whole of the brooch. Approximate…
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whittington', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-2064A7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy sharp hooked dress fastener of hollow semi-circular cross-section tapering very slightly to the closed end from which springs an integral hook. An offset runs the length of the long sides and lies against a sheet back-plate which is covered in file marks and in the centre of which is a cut square hole (7.5 x 7.5mm). The convex face is decorated with a pair of transverse grooves near both ends, and between them with filed lines in cross-hatched lozengiform pattern. The grooves and lines are inlaid with niello. Length 33mm, length (without hook) 25mm, width 15.2mm,…
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2016
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2016
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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
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Record ID: YORYM-F5C142
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete copper alloy strap end dating to the early medieval period (AD 750 - AD 950). The strap end is pointed oval in shape with a zoomorphic terminal at the closed end and an open split terminal at the attachment end. The object would have been cast in one piece, but the attachment end is split into an upper and lower plate to allow the strap material to be fitted. The attachment end also has two circular sectioned rivets, and the area between these rivets is decorated with a fan shaped field with a foliate design. The central panel depicts a Trewhiddle style pa…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2016
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Riding of Yorkshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-7652C6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Early Medieval strap end of Thomas Class A, Type 1, dating from AD 750 - 950. It is a tapering plate with a rounded attachment end, pierced by two rivet holes (now incomplete). A palmette design fills the attachment end, and then there is a small central panel which contains a Trewhiddle style animal in relief, with possible traces of niello in the recesses. The closed end is a zoomorphic moulded snout with prominent bulbous eyes, and between this and the central panel, is a moulded area with two motifs side by side, perhaps ornate and large ears.The metal has a smooth …
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-64CDC9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring with an English inscription around the interior and the exterior of the hoop, and inscriptions on the both of the flattened edges of the hoop. The letters are in Roman capitals, with crosses between each word on the hoop and an 'x' between each word on the edges of the ring. The phrases are in four lines. The interior of the hoop has a cross pattee at the start of the inscription: + I + AM + YOUR + OVNE The exterior of the hoop follows with: + AND + WILL + BE + EVER One raised and flattened edge then has, after another cross pattee: + DEPART x WHEN x YOU …
Created on: Tuesday 19th April 2016
Last updated: Monday 15th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bodmin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-E45DE0
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver gilt sword pommel cap, 53mm long, 20mm high and 16mm wide, with a weight of 20.1g. The pommel cap is pyramidal in form, a shape widely referred to as 'cocked hat' in academic literature. It has two broad faces (front and back) and two 'shoulders' which curve downwards from the peak to a straight terminal. Each terminal has two projecting rivet-tubes (4mm high and 5mm diameter), three empty and one with a silver dome-headed rivet in situ. The pommel cap is hollow and has a patch of iron concretion near the base on the inside of one broad face, p…
Created on: Wednesday 13th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-E25138
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount dating to the late early-medieval (AD850-1100) Anglo-Scandinavian period. It is a strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 8 (or possibly Type 7), with Williams' cloest parallel being no. 158 (Williams 1997, 50). It is roughly triangular in shape with a projecting ledge at the bottom on the reverse. There are three rivet holes: one in each corner. The reverse is plain, but there a decoration with niello inlay on the obverse: a double-circular with cental circlets and radiating lines resembling a windmill. Williams comments that this pat…
Created on: Wednesday 13th April 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horncastle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8B7CAB
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy Anglo Scandanavian Ringerike style openwork probable harness fitting. The centre body is triangular in shape with two equally spaced protruding hinge-loops at its base, only one of which is extant. The apex of the body bifurcates into two separate long-snouted beast heads that turn back on themselves to form the sides. The overall shape is sub square with openwork at the sides between the triangular body and the beast heads. There are two iron-filled circular rivet holes at the base of the body positioned just outside of where the hinge-loops are placed. The de…
Created on: Saturday 9th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 13th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A45C08
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval copper alloy purse bar of Ward Perkins 1940, Type B. Shield-shaped central boss with pairs of engraved lines forming a W on one face and a saltire on the other face, all…
Created on: Tuesday 29th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 29th March 2016
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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
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