Record ID: NMGW-3457EA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Silver strap-end with incised 'vine-scroll' interlace motifs, interwoven with harps and set around a centrally placed equal-arm cross with circular terminals. There are traces of niello, and of further decoration at the break, where the split attachment would have had two circular rivet holes (missing). The strap-end terminates in a stylised animal head with large rounded ears and small circular eyes, with incised lines on brow and to represent snout/mouth. The back is plain, apart from the suggestion of a single incised line border beneath the terminal head. The strap-end reflects…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 5th November 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-32E51F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
The reported object is an annular brooch. The silver frame is of circular cross-section, and slightly distorted. One face is decorated with four groups of diagonally-set incised lines inlaid; the other face has transverse lines around 50% of the frame, and pairs of parallel lines set herringbone pattern fashion for the other half. There are traces of black niello within the incised lines. The two sides of the wrap-around head overlap at the top, and the head swivels freely on the frame. The pin shaft is of diamond cross-section, each facet being decorated with wriggle-work zig-zag lin…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMS-B92F8C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy strap end with two rivet holes at the split end and niello with silver wire inlay, complete except for the loss of much inlay but bent transversely. Thomas 2003, Class A, Type 5. The lay-out of the three inlaid cells on the body of the object is exceptional. At the top a triangular cell retains its niello and silver wire spirals. The other two, now largely empty, are kite-shaped and topped by scrolls at both corners. All three are flanked by a pair of sub-triangular sunken and V-sectioned moulded depressions. The ears of the animal-head terminal…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-B8801E
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy strap end with two iron rivets and niello inlay. Thomas 2003, Class A, Type 1. The front part of the split end has been lost along with most of a palmette motif. The Trewhiddle-style ornament comprises a "Large-eared looping animal with subsidiary snake-like beast" (Thomas 2000, 76) reserved on a field of niello, now off-white in colour. The surface of the creatures has been very finely pecked. The design is very close to that of a number of other examples with provenances in Lincolnshire and further north, Thomas Group A1avii (ibid.,…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th May 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-38769C
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy purse bar dating from the late medieval to Post Medieval period, about AD 1450 - 1600. It is of Williams Class C2, having a short bar, and a shield shaped block. The bar is circular in section, with a recessed area in which the (missing) frame would articulate. One loop from the end of the frame survives. The bar terminates with flattened globular knops. The block has a flat top, straight sides which then angle inwards towards the base. It is decorated on one face with three grooves, one vertical, and one oblique on on each side. The grooves retain some traces of niello…
Created on: Wednesday 26th June 2019
Last updated: Friday 12th July 2019
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Record ID: NMS-B8D49B
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very abraded central part of a medieval copper alloy purse bar of Williams 2018 Class A2. The lower end of the swivelling loop remains with the shield-shaped block. Most of the niello inlay has been lost. The two sides of the block are indecipherable. On one face of one stump of the bar the letters (?)P L can be discerned and an A remains on another. Extant length 57mm, of which the block accounts for 17.8mm. Height of block 17mm. Second half 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 20th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2019
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Record ID: BH-B65EF9
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy purse bar, Williams Class A1, dating c. AD 1450-1500. The bar is circular in section with a single flat tab projecting from the lower edge. There are two circular perforations through the tab where the bag would have hung. One end of the bar is broken and worn. The other end comprises a sub-cylindrical terminal. The bar is decorated with a double stranded lattice pattern, possibly inlaid with niello. The bar is 50.2mm long, a maximum of 7.4mm diameter, 12.8mm wide including the flat tab, and weighs 19.11 grams.
Created on: Thursday 20th June 2019
Last updated: Friday 19th July 2019
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Record ID: DOR-8E8749
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy purse bar. A Williams Class A1, bar and loop type. The bar has a central ovoid boss, one complete arm and one arm bent and broken. The outer surface. The boss has a central longitudinal perforation which retains the the shaft of the missing suspension loop. On the underside of the boss is the expanded terminal knop of the shaft. The circular sectioned integral arms extend from opposite sides of the boss. One is complete with an integral flange projecting from the lower edge, pierced with two circular sewing holes. This arm terminates in a constriction which …
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 1st July 2019
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Record ID: NMS-7BA02A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower part of a Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy strap end with niello and silver wire spiral inlay in two panels on the main part and along the brow and snout of the animal-head terminal. Thomas 2003 Class A, Type 5. Two very small blind drilled holes representing the animal's eyes are now empty. The end of the snout is marked by a double-line chevron. The transverse break is not recent. Weight 5.77g. Extant length 34.4mm. Width 13.2mm. Thickness 2.7mm. 9th century.
Created on: Wednesday 5th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-BECE1C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete early medieval cast silver disc brooch inlaid with niello, in well-preserved condition. The front of the brooch is decorated extensively with foliar and zoomorphic motifs in the Trewhiddle style. On the reverse is a one-piece pin mechanism comprising spring, pin and catch-plate, secured to the disc by three rivets. The pin was in a closed position when the brooch was found. The main design on the front of the brooch comprises a cross with concave-sided arms, overlaying a saltire of four tongue-shaped lobes. The edges of both cross and saltire consist of rows of pellets…
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2019
Last updated: Monday 10th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Swaffham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A74FCE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusually large and decorative medieval silver annular brooch complete with pin and decorated with incised lines, inlaid niello and an inscription. The brooch is circular in cross section and, while weighty, the weight suggests it is hollow. There is a constriction at one point where the pin head is looped and corresponding slight wear on the opposite side of the ring, on the front where the pin point rests. The front is decorated with four bands of decoration with plain areas between. The bands are evenly spaced around the ring with one starting adjacent to the pin constrict…
Created on: Tuesday 14th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 23rd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B1338C
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Approximately one half of a medieval to post-medieval copper alloy round-sectioned purse bar with the break across the shield-shaped central boss and the perforation for a swivelling loop. The integrally cast terminal is globular. On one face of the boss a narrow double-line of inlaid niello is probably part of the letter M, and a single but much thicker line of inlay remains on the other. . Extant length 37.2mm. Height of boss 14mm. Williams 2018, Class H. First half 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 2nd May 2019
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Record ID: NMS-1F8161
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Middle to Late Saxon silver strap-end. Broadly rectangular in form, the split end has a scalloped edge with two rivet holes housing silver rivets with roved-over ends. The central panel is divided into two by a longitudinal beaded ridge. On either side is an asymmetrical recessed field and a teardrop-shaped field, possibly intended to depict a wing, which tapers to meet a roundel around each rivet hole. Each wing has a central recessed field with reserved zoomorphic decoration comprising a serpentine animal with rounded, double-nicked body and interlaced tail. The st…
Created on: Monday 1st April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
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Record ID: SOM-4A3091
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a Medieval copper-alloy purse bar probably dating to c. AD 1450-1500. The artefact consists of one arm and the central boss of the purse bar. The central boss is cylindrical being 11.4mm with a diameter of 14.7mm. A central longitudinal hole with a diameter of 6.0mm passes through the centre of boss to accommodate a copper alloy swivel, now lost. Projecting from one side of the boss is one arm of the purse bar, the other arm being lost to a very worn break at the boss' edge. The central bar is cylindrical with a diameter of 9.5mm and projects for 68.1mm from the boss.…
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shoscombe CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-01D446
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy strap end dating to the middle Early Medieval period, about AD 750-950. It is of zoomorphic design with Trewhiddle style decoration, and corresponds to Thomas Class A, type 1 (Trewhiddle style). It has conves sides on the tapering plate, a zoomorphic terminal and decoration enhanced with niello. It can probably be further refined to Thomas Class A1a, ix which is summarised as 'Other single animal forms with looping bodies' as the looped body of the Trewhiddle style beast is visible, even if details of the limbs are not. However, it appears to be a single hea…
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2019
Last updated: Sunday 13th June 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-FED2E9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold and glass mourning ring of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1725-1735. The ring is circular and the band is D-shaped in cross-section with a plain rectangular bezel set with a rectangular cut faceted transparent glass setting. Beneath the setting is what appears to be a small piece of textile. The outer surface of the band is decorated with a floral motif consisting of four evenly spaced panels of foliage separated by three flowers. The raised floral motif is highlighted by a background of niello. A hallmark is present on the inner surface of the band, to one side of the …
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 28th July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-D1E23D
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a late medieval to early post medieval copper alloy purse bar of Williams' (2018) Class A2 dating to the period c. AD 1420 - 1600. A rectangular-sectioned bar with a break at either end and two integrally cast sewing loops projecting from the underside. Both faces exhibit traces of an engraved inscription which retains traces of inlaid niello. Only one side is now legible, the remaining fragment reading TECVM, part of the popular religious inscription 'AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENA DOMINUS TECUM' ('Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with you/thee'). The other side bears traces …
Created on: Monday 4th March 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Field Dalling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-90ED04
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval silver book clasp with niello inlay of Howsam type A.10 (with similarities in style and decoration to Howsam type A.9.2), incomplete insofar as a small section of the underside is missing (recentish break) and dating probably to the late 14th century. The object consists of a rectangular plate, damaged at one end and with a moulded zoomorphic terminal extending from the other. Directly behind the terminal, on the plate, is a lozenge-shaped box 2.2mm tall and 7.0x6.4mm. Inlaid niello fills the surrounding area of a quatrefoil with lozenge-shaped 'leaves'. Beyond is an …
Created on: Friday 1st March 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Downton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-BDA53D
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval copper alloy purse bar fragment, dating to c.AD 1450  -1550. 67mm in length, 9mm wide and 5mm thick with a weight of 16.83g. The object is rectangular in form and sub rectangular in cross section and represents about one half of a complete bar. Its complete end has a stepped rounded terminal 7mm in diameter and 7-8mm wide. From here the bar is flatter and bows slightly outwards in the centre. It has two semi-circular flat projections on its underside, 5mm wide, which have circular holes for sewing on the purse body. The object has broken at the opposite end. …
Created on: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2023
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Record ID: HESH-AEAADD
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Specialist Report for HM Coroner A Medieval Silver Finger Ring from the Clun Area, Shropshire. Treasure Case:                                  2019-T174 Circumstances of discovery:          Found whilst searching with a metal detector. County:                       &…
Created on: Monday 18th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2023
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