Record ID: WMID-C161C8
Object type: SWIVEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy object, possibly a finger-ring or an incomplete swivel. Mass: 5.6g; length: 52.2mm; width: 24.0mm; depth: 11.7mm. The object consists of an oval plate with a central sub-circular perforation attached to a hoop which is now broken and distorted. The hoop has a sub-D shaped cross section which is flatter internally. The plate is flat with a rectangular cross section. The object has a pitted brown/green surface. The break in the hoop is not recent. The precise date and function of the object are unclear.
Created on: Sunday 7th June 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Market Drayton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-728DE8
Object type: SWIVEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt cast cu-alloy spherical swivel dating from the medieval period, i.e. c. 11th-12th century. The swivel only retains some of the gilding on the outside in the grooves of the moulded decoration (or possibly, it was only intended to have gilding in the grooves). Only one half of the sphere remains and this only survives in a larger and a smaller fragment. The swivel had an openwork decoration and the knop at the top was perforated to hold the 'swivelling' loop. The other (now missing) half of the sphere would have probably looked exactly the same. The sphere seems quite fragile and wa…
Created on: Friday 9th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cirencester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-17A886
Object type: SWIVEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy swivel ring from the Medieval period. The ring is D-shaped in plan and roughly rectangular in section. The width of the band of the increases in size as it nears the swivel fitting, from 3.81mm at its narrowest point to 7.5mm at the swivel fitting. The swivel fitting is rectangular in plan and section. On one side it is flush with the band of the ring and undecorated. On the other side, the fitting is a raised slightly above the band and decorated in a pattern of long horizontal grooves with alternating smaller vertical grooves or unmarked surfaces between them.…
Created on: Monday 19th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.