Anglo-Saxon silver coin which has been modified into a brooch by the addition of a pin and catch-plate. The coin itself is a silver penny of Edward the Confessor (1042-66), of the so called Sovereign Eagles type (British Museum Catalogue type ix), dating from the late 1050s. It was issued at the mint of London in the name of the moneyer Ælfsige. The coin has had the reverse gilded, and has had a hinged pin and catch-plate rivetted to the obverse with two rivets each, although the pin itself is missing. The effect is thus to show the reverse of the coin (which features a cross design) as the front of the brooch. This type of coin-brooch seems to have been particularly popular in the 1050s. For another example of a coin-brooch of the Expanding Cross type (dating from the early 1050s), issued by the moneyer Godwine of London see British Numismatic Journal 1994, Coin Register no. 22 and for a further example of the same type, issued by the moneyer Brand of Winchester and discovered near Winchester see Treasure Annual Report 2000, no. 39.
Photographs of a third coin-brooch of the Expanding Cross type, issued by the moneyer Edwig of London, were sent to the British Museum in 2000. A brooch of the same general pattern, but utilising a coin of the subsequent Pointed Helmet type from the mint of Oxford, appears as lot 231 in the Bonham’s sale catalogue of 12 September 1996, in which it is mistakenly attributed to the mint of Taunton (subsequently acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge). All four of the other brooches were mounted with the cross side showing, and three out of the four show evidence of gilding, so the find from Great Bedwyn is consistent with the general pattern.It is decorated in the style of type 3, ten other mounts are known of this unusual type. The decoration is open work and consists of a standing central facing male figure standing with his arms and legs apart with his feet facing the viewer. The man appears to be naked, on parallels from Sherbourne St John and Chicester, Sussex, details of the nipples, ribs and navel are clear (Williams 1997 36), however our example is too worn for such detail to be seen but is likely to follow the same stylised design. Around the mans waist there is an M-like form from which a rod like shape projects and then expands into a rounded bulb and then contracts to terminate between his feet, there are two circular perforations through the top half of this rod like shape.
Flanking the figure is pair of ribbon like serpents which entwine the once around the figure's legs and whose open jaws gape either side of the man's head. With his hands the figure grasps the snakes. Behind the trunk of the figure but passing in front of his arms is a splayed animal, with its head probably to the right and its tail to the left of the man. The head seems to be grasping the body of the snake in its mouth although this is unclear. The apex loop emerges from the mans head. This example is perhaps most similar to parallel from Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk and Polegate, East Sussex (Williams 1997, 37-39). ","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A3","anthropomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Kenton","KENTON",,"SUFFOLK" 3655,"LVPL-09A936","Looped-shaped bow with two side projections and a 'tongue' at the jumction of the bow and the shank which projects into the loop. The shank is broken and the bit is missing. ",,"KEY (LOCKING)",,,1000.00,1199.00,"LSx",7.00,,"CHELFORD","MACCLESFIELD","CHESHIRE" 3658,"KENT-45E563","Strap end. No other description recorded.","personal-related","STRAP END","unclassified","unknown",700.00,1800.00,"ASx only",0.00,,"OLD ROMNEY","SHEPWAY","KENT" 3659,"HAMP-45E5E2","Copper alloy Late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap mount of Williams Type 10 Class A. The mount is sub-triangular. The apex loop is sub-oval. The sides expand from the apex loop before turning through wide, rounded corners and tapering slightly to the lower edge, which is straight. The upper surface bears moulded decoration in the form of an interlaced animal seen from above with the head at the apex. There is a single rivet hole in the apex loop with the remains of the iron rivet surviving. There are two further rivet holes, also with the remains of the iron rivets surviving, at the base of the mount. The reverse is concave and undecorated and there are the remains of a right-angled flange at the base of the mount in the centre of the lower edge are (L. c.17mm. W. c.3.5mm). The traces of the two lower rivets project from the reverse just above the flange. The mount is heavily worn and has a dull, light-mid green patina.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A10","urnes",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"MICHELDEVER",,"HAMPSHIRE" 3660,"KENT-4610B3","Buckle. No other description given. ADDITIONAL: no image.","personal-related","Buckle","undescribed RB-postmed",,450.00,1800.00,"ASx only",0.00,,"OLD ROMNEY","SHEPWAY","KENT" 3663,"KENT-4683B7","Copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 12. Diamond-shaped openwork mount, with projecting circular bosses at centre and junctions of cross and frame (seven bosses total) and circular attachment loop projecting from top of frame. The front of the frame is decorated with linear ornament. ADDITIONAL: Numdate2 changed from 1066 to 1100.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A12","geometric lattice",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"OLD ROMNEY","SHEPWAY","KENT" 3664,"NCL-46D683","A silvered copper alloy strapend. It is of Thomas' Type A and is leaf shaped with an animal-head terminal and zoomorphic decoration on its upper surface. It dates to the ninth century AD. ","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",800.00,899.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"CARTHORPE","HAMBLETON","NORTH YORKSHIRE" 3665,"LEIC-46C372","Anglo-Scandanavian Copper alloy harness fitting, 47mm long and 35mm wide. This object is roughly rectangular, with one edge slightly wider and it has a cut out in the centre. It is incomplete with traces of breakage on its lower edge. The object is decorated with lines, some curved and some straight. The design also creates bulges on the outer surface. It is difficult to make out the design, but the object as a whole is very similar to a Scandanavian cheek piece on display at the British Museums treasure exhibition.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","Ringerike-Urnes related",900.00,1099.00,"LSx",7.00,,"GRIMSTON",,"LEICESTERSHIRE" 3667,"HAMP-476AD1","Copper alloy disc brooch with cloisonné enamel centrepiece. To a base-plate of copper sheet cut to the shape of a flat copper ring is soldered to a collar of copper strip (D. 18.5mm); set in the collar is a copper cloisonné enamel disc. The enamelling base is of copper sheet and the cellwork is of copper strip. The copper cloisonné enamel disc has seven contiguous semicircular cells round its perimetre, leaving a seven-pointed star in the centre. In the centre of the star is a square or lozenge of cellwork. The colours are: (semicircular cells) dark blue; (star) mid blue; (centre cell) off-white.","personal-related","Disc brooch","cloisonne decoration",,900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Micheldever CP","MICHELDEVER",,"HAMPSHIRE" 3669,"NMS-4985D3","Early to mid Saxon copper alloy buckle, oval frame with integral triangular openwork plate (69 x 36mm), facetted on face. The bar dividing plate and frame is slightly and rather crudely narrowed for the missing pin and is flanked on both sides by a serrated projection formed from small co-joined lobes, three on one side, four on the other. The frame is pierced at both serrated projections by a rivet-hole, one of which retains its copper alloy rivet. There is a further rivet-hole with surviving copper alloy rivet in the circular terminal lobe of the plate, the rivet burred-over to hold a thickness of 3mm. Although buckles with oval frames and integral plates have a wide distribution in the seventh century, the openwork frame is perhaps more unusual and this example could have a continental origin, cf. MacGregor (1997) 240, no.122.1. ","personal-related","Buckle","LOOK UP MacGregor (1997) 240, no.122.1.","LOOK UP MacGregor (1997) 240, no.122.1.",410.00,899.00,"E/MSx",7.00,"Roydon","ROYDON",,"NORFOLK" 3670,"SUSS-4A8FD1","This is a mid 11th Century Stirrup-Strap mount made of copper-alloy. It is a Class A sub-triangular mount, type 16. There are only 4 others that have been recorded by David Williams (these are from Somerset, East Sussex, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire). The front of the mount has been very badly destroyed by chemicals in the soil and so it is almost impossible to see what image is depicted. The apex loop still survives and the two holes (where the iron fitting would have gone still remain - although they do not contain any remains of iron). On the reverse of the artefact the right-angle flange juts out from the base of the mount, but again no iron fitting remains.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A16","zoomorphic",1025.00,1075.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nr. Tandridge","GODSTONE",,"SURREY" 3671,"NMS-59F552","Late Saxon fragment of a Lead model ?strap-end, cast tongue-shaped, bent with broken attachment end. Field has two bosses within relief curvilinear decoration and double border, the outer part beaded, unbent (at least) 22 x 38mm. This must be associated with the manufacture of such objects in copper-alloy. Lead models have increasingly been recognised as a part of the casting process, possibly as a replacement for wax in the ‘lost-wax’ method of casting (East 1986, 1-2). However, this example, being itself cast, probably represents either a finished object at the lower end of the market reproducing an item that more often survives in copper-alloy, or a trial-piece or a patron, a durable master form which would have been pressed into still-damp clay moulds for multiple production (Egan 1996, 92) ADDITIONAL: no image, hard to assign to any class with confidence but probably Thomas' Class E","personal-related","Strap end","unknown","moulded",850.00,1066.00,"M/LSx",9.00,"Congham","CONGHAM",,"NORFOLK" 3672,"NMS-5A3906","Late Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy disc brooch, central concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double-contoured knots, circular sunken field in centre, pierced lug on reverse, secondary perforation in position of missing catch-plate of which there is no trace, dia.28mm. Borre style. 10th century. Cf. West, 1998, 134.8. ","personal-related","Disc brooch","Borre style decoration","Borre",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Congham","CONGHAM",,"NORFOLK" 3675,"NMS-5F2AA5","Middle Saxon copper alloy tweezers, flaring terminals, one with in-turned flange, decorated with eight ring-and-dots on both faces, 12 x 44mm. ","personal-related","Tweezers",,,600.00,899.00,"E/MSx",7.00,"West Walton","WEST WALTON",,"NORFOLK" 3676,"NMS-5F3EC4","Late Saxon fragment of bridle cheek piece from horse harness, crudely cast with knopped perforated lozengiform terminal, trapezoidal bar with circular boss at broken expansion for central ?perforated lobe, crudely engraved circle on boss, 34 (at least) x 21mm. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 1aii",800.00,1099.00,"LSx",7.00,"West Walton","WEST WALTON",,"NORFOLK" 3677,"NLM-6F45E4","Circular, eight petal flower on the top with a rope work style rim. Groove running around the side. ",,"weight","lead, circular, floriate decoration","circular",1000.00,1399.00,"LSx",9.00,"barton","BARTON UPON HUMBER",,"HUMBERSIDE" 3678,"YORYM-710D07","A probable copper alloy Anglo-Saxon pin with a flat disc head. The overall length is 92.2mm, with shaft comprising 64.8mm of this. The shaft is sharply pointed at the terminal end and bent round almost 90 degrees. The head end of the shaft flattens out and forms a flat narrow disc approximetely 27.4mm long, 22.2mm across and 0.7mm thick. One face of the disc head is decorated with and incised cobweb pattern. There may have been one or possibly more perforations in the disc, but part of it is now missing so it is not certain. ADDITIONAL: no image, but probalby belongs to Hinton 1996 type Eb","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ed","incised geometric",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"NAFFERTON","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE" 3680,"NCL-7145F3","The buckle plate is made from copper alloy. It is D shaped with two zoomorphic heads (possibly dolphins?) biting the bar. The zoomorphic heads each have an engraved eye. The buckle plate is likely to be late Saxon in date and is similar to examples recorded by the PAS in Ainderby Steeple and Hovingham, North Yorkshire. ADDITIONAL: This example is likely to date to the 9th or 10th century. The animal ornament is not as pronounced as those shown in Backhouse et al (1984, no. 97) or Wilson (1964 no.34) but the loops are morphologically similar. No Esx parallels could be fopund in either Marzinzik (2003) or Geake (1997).","personal-related","Buckle","Class A1ib","zoomorphic decoration",800.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,,"NEWBY WISKE","HAMBLETON","NORTH YORKSHIRE" 3681,"NMS-725074","Late Saxon fragment of bridle cheek piece from horse harness, worn and broken D-sectioned bar with knopped perforated lozengiform terminal, 28 (at least) x 21mm. ADDITIONAL: no iamge","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 1a",800.00,1099.00,"LSx",0.00,"Barton Bendish","BARTON BENDISH",,"NORFOLK" 3682,"SF-72BC27","A complete copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap mount, of Williams' Class A type 14 (Williams 1997, 75, 77, fig 49, no 348-352). This stirrup strap mount is roughly triangular in shape and in the form of a cross, measuring 45.3mm in length and 28.5mm in width, at its widest point, it has a right angle flange as do all Class A mounts. There is no apex loop and the apex and the terminals of the 'arms' are clearly zoomorphic, and seem to represent animals heads, with long oval eyes. The front face of the body of the strap mount has been decorated with two pairs of longitudinal boarder grooves with zigzag edges. Through the centre of the mount, inbetween the 'arms,' there is ther remains of a corroded iron rivet. There is another central iron rivet, also corroded, near to the flange end of this mount. Similar stirrup strap mounts have been found at Harling, Norfolk, Histon, Cambridgeshire, Castle Rising Norfolk, and Coddenham, Suffolk (Williams 1997, 75, 77, fig 49, nos 348-352).","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A14","zoomorphic, incised linears",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Fordham","FORDHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE" 3683,"SF-73BE91","Fragment of copper alloy sheet about 0.3mm thick with leaden green patination, of irregular shape 18.5mm by 17.5mm. The object has an undulating outline at one edge which may be original. 1mm from the edge is a tiny round piercing 1mm in diameter.Its use is quite uncertain but it mat be the backplate from some object of composite manufacture, and the hole might be for a small rivet if not for a textile attachment.",,"Unidentified object",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK" 3684,"NLM-83DB05","Oval with a very thick frame, narrowed strap bar, pin missing. ADDITIONAL: appears to fit into Geake's (1997, 79) small simple buckle type.","personal-related","buckle","small simple buckle","undecorated",550.00,800.00,"E/MSx",7.00,,"SWINHOPE",,"LINCOLNSHIRE" 3685,"SOMDOR-844243","Copper alloy strap fitting. Strap end with open-work zoomorphic decoration. It has a rectangular split attachment plate with three circular attachment holes set in a line across the width of the strap end.The front of this element is decorated with two transverse ridges in parallel to the edge of the plate. From the attachment end projects a trifid plate (a small lobe at each side with a larger central one forming the terminus). The front of the object is decorated with two open-work, back-to-back birds flanking a central plant stem with symmetrical scrolls. The bird's heads are at the attachment side. Their feet rest on a domed knop at the distal end. The back is flat and undecorated. ADDITIONAL: no image, but probably belongs to Thomas' Class E1.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class E1","Winchester",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Puddletown","PUDDLETOWN",,"DORSET" 3690,"NLM-86D990","Rectangular arm with widened terminal that has two small knobs either side, recessed line separating the arm from the terminal, recessed cross decoration on the arm. Bow comprises of two rectangular sections each with a recessed cross in the centre. Collar at either end of the sections, the central collar has a rope work pattern. One arm is missing, catch plate on the reverse of the other. ","personal-related","ansate brooch","rectangular, lobed terminals","incised cross and ribbed decoration",600.00,800.00,"MSx",7.00,"tathwell","TATHWELL",,"LINCOLNSHIRE" 3694,"IOW-B47104","Copper alloy strap with a zoomorphic terminal. Length 66mm, width 14.5mm and 15mm thick. Weight 24.49g. The strap-end has a split end for the attachment of a strap or girdle. However, the front ""leaf"" has broken and has been repaired with a replacement leaf which has been riveted in place with a single rivet. This replacement leaf is not as thick as the original surviving back leaf. Near the attachment end both leaves have two rivet holes, the rivets are now missing. The terminal is in the form of a possible hound's head which has an extended neck and erect ears. ","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class B1","transverse moulding",800.00,899.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"near New Close House (from get-a-map)","Shide",,"ISLE OF WIGHT" 3695,"WILT-D86015","Incomplete copper alloy Late Saxon bridle cheekpiece, consisting of a D-shaped loop with a knop at the top, bottom and front of the D. From behind the D a projection extends for 10mm before the (ancient and very rounded) break. The hole is a very defined D in shape. The total broken length is 29mm and the width of the loop from knop to knop is 23mm. The D-shaped hole measures 12x8mm. All the original patina is missing apart from a few tiny areas, and as a result any other detail has been lost.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 4a",850.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,"Bromham","BROMHAM",,"WILTSHIRE" 3696,"NCL-D93A01","A possible fragment of an Anglo-Saxon wrist clasp. The object consists of a thin sheet of copper alloy shaped like a 'B'. The sheet has two circular perforations. On the underside of the sheet is a circular section shaft, measuring 3mm in length. The clasp measures 16.89mm in length and 13.44mm in width and weighs 1.3g.",,"Sleeve clasp",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Near Darlington","PIERCEBRIDGE","DARLINGTON","DURHAM" 3699,"SUR-F16901","A facetted pin head and part of the shaft. Each of the four diamond-shaped facets has a ring-and-dot stamp. ADDITIONAL: no image, but likely to belong to Hinton 1996 type Bb.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Bb","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"SHERINGTON",,"BUCKINGHAMSHIRE" 3701,"SF-045D24","A thin (0.2mm) piece of flat bronze sheet cut out to form a serpentine or undulating strip. The fragment is broken at both ends, but preserves two longitudinal edges which undulate in parallel. It is 41mm long and the metal is between 14 and 15mm wide at any point, though overall 18.5mm wide when accounting for undulations to left and right. There are two small peircings, one on each edge and positioned just in from the edge at the point nearest the crest or outermost point of the curve. The appearance is that this may be the backplate of something, or else that it was a cutout ornament of sheet metal for fastening (by pins or threads through these holes) to a wood or textile receiving base. This object is clearly related to the fragment SF-73BE91, probably both parts of the same item, though they do not re-fit. ",,"Unidentified object",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK" 3702,"SF-047761","A copper-alloy incomplete unidentified object. This object has a complete terminal suspension loop, c6mm in diameter. This is cast in one with rectangular shaft, with a triangular cross-section. The suspension loop is on the same plane as the triangular side faces of this shaft, which is 30.2mm in surviving length,6mm in width and 5mm in thickness. This shaft becomes thinner towards the incomplete end, at the break it is 0.90mm thick. The rectangular faces of the shaft, to which the suspension loop is set at a 90 degree angle, are decorated. One face has six transverse grooves and the other face has an oval shaped hollow. This decoration ceases just before the incomplete end of the shaft. No parallel could be found for this object, it appears to have been hung from the suspension loop, which is worn on the upper inside edge, it may therefore have been a pendant of some kind. It could date from any time after the Roman period to the post-medieval period. ",,"unidentified object",,,500.00,1650.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Laxfield","LAXFIELD",,"SUFFOLK" 3703,"SF-049766","Small pierced triangular fragment of sheet bronze with shiny bluish-green patination. It is shaped like an isosceles triangle with base of 9mm and height of 18mm which is incomplete both because the object is bent, and also because the upper tip of the triangle, which carried the little bent-over hook, is snapped off. This identification is based upon comparison with numerous other complete examples from the same area. The piercing is very perfectly circular and is about 1mm in diameter: the metal is 0.2mm thick.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C3b","undecorated",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK" 3704,"SF-04D988","Small iron buckle formed of a split loop turned into a circle, with a pin of strip iron rolled onto the thinnest part of the hoop. The iron rod of the hoop is 3mm thick, and the hoop itself is 17mm high and 14mm across (as the pin falls). The pin is made of strip iron 3mm wide and 2mm thick. In context and form the object should probably be considered middle Anglo-Saxon. ADDITIONAL: although very corroded this buckle loop looks very similar to Marzoinzik's (2003, 34) type I.12a-I, dated c.450-750.","personal-related","Buckle","ESx","undecorated",450.00,750.00,"E/MSx",8.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK" 3705,"SF-079017","A complete stone spindle whorl, conical in shape with a diameter of 33.2mm and a height of 18.34mm. The stone is dense and light grey in colour. There is a circular perforation through the centre of this spindle whorl, measuring 6.9mm at the tapering end and 8.6mm at the flat face. The flat face of this spindle whorl is decorated with two concentric incised circles. This spindle whorl is perhaps most likely to be Anglo-Saxon in date, especially due to the Anglo-Saxon objects it was found in the same area as. ","work/domestic-related","spindle whorl",,,500.00,1100.00,"ASx only",2.00,"Freckenham","FRECKENHAM",,"SUFFOLK" 3706,"SF-07AC03","A fragment of a stone probable spindle whorl, circular in shape and measuring c33mm in diameter and 8.9mm thick. The stone is mid grey in colour. The complete face is smooth and flat and the other face is missing due to an old break. The surviving sides do not seem to be tapering so it is likely that this possible spindle whorl was flat rather than conical in shape. There is a central circular perforation, 7.6mm in diameter. This spindle whorl is perhaps most likely to be early medieval or medieval in date due to the site where it was discovered and the fact that other finds of a similar date have been found in the surrounding area. ","work/domestic-related","spindle whorl",,,500.00,1500.00,"ASx only",2.00,"Freckenham","FRECKENHAM",,"SUFFOLK" 3707,"SF-07B1A2","A broken half of a double-looped cheekpiece of conventional type. The surviving loop, aperture diameter 9.5mm, is in a lozenge-formed terminal with outer sides of 15mm length and with small corner finials of 4mm width and thickness. This is linked by a bar, 7mm wide, 6mm thick and 11mm long from the edge of the aperture, to a central circular union 8mm thick. Two small finials 4mm thick and 3mm broad emerge from above and below this central boss, which is flat-topped,and is 8.5mm in diameter. The matching arm and loop of the other side have been broken away, apparently in antiquity. This is a late Early-Mediaeval (i.e. late Viking Age) artefact and may be compared with several others of very similar kind from Suffolk. They seem to have been susceptible to fracture at the point where this one is broken.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","Class 1aii",410.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK" 3709,"SF-084921","A complete copper-alloy hooked tag, 25mm in length and 8.3mm in width. The plate is flat and has two circular projecting lobes, each pierced with a central circular attachment hole, c1mm in diameter. Below this the plate is lozenge shaped and decorated on its front face with three longitudinal lines of continual incised zigzags. The hook is rectangular in shape, 8mm in length 1.8mm in width, and its tip is curving backwards and incomplete due to an old break. This hooked tag is most likely to be early-medieval/ Anglo-Saxon in date. ","personal-related","hooked tag","Class E1a","incised decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Freckenham","FRECKENHAM",,"SUFFOLK" 3710,"NCL-1AF0D6","Two circular glass beads, possibly Anglo-Saxon in date. One is dark blue in colour, doughnut shaped and has a circular perforation. It has a diameter of 10.94mm and a thickness of 7.97mm.The reverse of the brooch is undecorated. There is an intact transverse pin bar lug and an intact, simply curled over, catchplate, that appear integrally moulded. The pin is missing.The brooch is light grey in colour with some small flashes of orangey brown.
An example of this brooch form from Middle Harling, Norfolk (though with different decoration and lower bosses) is recorded by A. Rogerson in East Anglian Archaeology, volume 74, figure 34, number 3.","personal-related","Disc brooch","boss decoration",,900.00,1000.00,"LSx",9.00,"Rayne","RAYNE","BRAINTREE","ESSEX"
3907,"NMS-4CCBA6","Early Saxon fragment, less than one third, of a suspension ring, round section, alternating baluster-like swellings & single ribs between pairs of grooves. At one end next to break an abrupt narrowing is probably a casting defect. Internal diameter 56mm, external diameter 62mm. ",,"ring",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Quidenham","QUIDENHAM",,"NORFOLK"
3908,"NMS-4CDE26","Mid / Late Saxon hooked tag, triangular plate decorated with multiple punched dots, & collar above hook. Tip of hook missing. A large example, 39 x 23mm. 8th – 11th cent. ADDITIONAL: dates broadened","personal-related","Hooked Tag","Class C2ib","punched decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Quidenham","QUIDENHAM",,"NORFOLK"
3909,"NMS-4CF301","Late Saxon strap fitting: belt mount in the form of gable end of building, round-headed window-like aperture with two imposts, twelve punched ring-&-dots, two attachment holes. Height 31mm, width 18mm.",,"Strap fitting/mount","unclassified, ring-and-dot",,850.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,"Quidenham","QUIDENHAM",,"NORFOLK"
3910,"SF-4DDBB1","A incomplete sheet copper-alloy early-medieval hooked tag. Only the plate of this hooked tag now survives, the hook is missing due to an old break.
The plate is triangular, measuring 29.9mm in length and 20mm in width at its widest point, across the top edge of the plate. There are three circular sewing holes set parallel to and near to the top edge of the plate, each one about 1.5mm in diameter. The front face of the plate is decorated with a single border groove and within this a cross shape formed of a longitudinal row of six ring-and-dot motifs and a horizontal row of four ring-and-dot motifs. The back face is undecorated.
A triangular hooked tag with three sewing holes along its top edge has been discovered in Walsham Le Willows, Suffolk, although its decoration is much more elaborate and it is smaller in size (West 1998, 250, fig 132, no 7). Hooked tags came into use in the seventh century and went out of use in the eleventh. Large ones such as these probably date to the middle or late part of the Anglo-Saxon period, rather than to the earlier part.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C1ib","cruciform ring-and-dot decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Freckenham","FRECKENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
3911,"SF-4E0B61","A copper-alloy early medieval hooked tag, measuring 18.6mm in total length.
The plate of this hooked tag is triangular, measuring 13.6mm in length and 11.1mm in width. There are two circular sewing holes parallel to and near to the top edge of the plate each measuring about 1.2mm in diameter. The hook is rectangular and curves backwards sharply; it seems to be incomplete due to an old break, now worn. No decoration can be seen on either face of this hooked tag.
Hooked tags date from the seventh to the eleventh centuries, and small examples with no decoration cannot be dated more precisely than this.
","personal-related","hooked tag","Class B3b","undecorated",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Freckenham","FRECKENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
3913,"NMS-5FA413","Mid to Late Anglo-Saxon nummular brooch in fresh condition. A bust facing right is surrounded by three concentric beaded pseudo-filigree bands. There is no legend. Double pin lug and catchplate survive on an undecorated reverse. The pin and pin bar are missing; some traces of rust suggests they were of iron. Diameter 23mm, thickness less than 1mm.
The bust has an exceptionally large nose and pronounced eye. These features, along with the form of the headdress, bears some resemblance to diademed portrait issues of Ecgberht and Æthelwulf of Wessex, dating to c.828 c.843 (North nos. 587-8 & 591-3). Probably 9th century. ADDITIONAL: checked coin types and the 9th c. Wessex pennies do appear to be model copied.","personal-related","nummular disc brooch","Wessex penny derived",,800.00,870.00,"LSx",7.00,"Blakeney","BLAKENEY",,"NORFOLK"
3914,"NMS-5F8A32","Late Saxon stirrup-strap mount, unclassified according to Williams 1997. The apex is missing, broken across the top fixing hole. Of two holes in the angled flange one has been ripped through to the basal edge, one being completely ripped away. Two replacement holes have been driven through above the flange. This has been carried out from both directions, as the burred-over edges of both holes on both sides indicate. Decoration consists only of an engraved contour line along the base, up the sides and around a rounded cut-out towards the top of both sides. The pointed ends above the apertures are missing, one side being more damaged than the other. In the centre of the reverse a small excrescence is a casting flaw. In general form it is most reminiscent of a much more highly decorated mount from Pointon, Lincs. (Williams 1997, 100, fig.62 no.487. It is also close in form to a (non-stirrup) mount from Tattersett (31825). 11th century.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","unknown","linear, incised",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Quidenham","QUIDENHAM",,"NORFOLK"
3917,"SF-B1F1A7","Copper-alloy cheekpiece from a bridle set, showing an unusual configuration within the usual norms of the type. The object has the usual large circular aperture (12mm diameter) within a lozenge-shaped frame with side and end projections, a half-round shaft 8mm long, and a swollen central boss like that midway along the shaft in a typical double-ring cheekpiece. Here, however, the second ring is attached directly to the central boss, and has no side-projections or lozenge-shaped frame. It is therefore a variant of the type. There is distinct and considerable wear on the outer edge of this second ring. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","bit link","unclassified",950.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Yaxley","YAXLEY",,"SUFFOLK"
3923,"WAW-B6D305","Hooked tag made of cast copper alloy. The body of the tag is flat and sub-triangular. The upper edge is straight, and in each of the two upper corners there is a circular hole. The right-hand hole has the remains of a copper-alloy rivet, which is highly unusual for a hooked tag; normally the holes are empty, so they are thought to be sewing holes rather than rivet holes. The upper surface of the tag is decorated with four circular cells laid out in a lozenge pattern, around which is a faint ring border. The reverse of the body is undecorated and flat. Protruding from the edge of the apex of the body is a short, sharp hook which bends towards the reverse. The surface of the hooked tag is corroded and the patina is not visible. It measures 13.1mm in length by 12mm in maximum width.
Leslie Webster in the 'Making of England' dates a tag with similar decoration (no. 67c) to the 9th century.","personal-related","Hooked Tag","Class B1b","ring-and-dot decoration",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"ROWINGTON",,"WARWICKSHIRE"
3924,"NARC-C8B011","A copper-alloy Anglo-saxon pin head. The pin head is globular and covered with widely spaced deeply incised diagonal lines. The head has broken from the pin at 4 mm down the pin's length. ADDITIONAL: worn example, no visible collar and incomplete shaft. Assuming this is Anglo-Saxon and not Roman, it would belong to Hinton 1996 type Ab1. Date range changed from 410-1066 to 700-900","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ab1","Wrythen decoration",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"GRENDON","WELLINGBOROUGH","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE"
3925,"SF-CCD5D3","A complete lead weight, circular in plan, measuring 22.4mm in diameter and 8mm in thickness. The underside of this weight is flat and the upper face has a circular recess c15.3mm in diameter. Within this recess there are faint traces of lettering which is unintelligible due to wear. To one side of the lettering there is also a deep straight grooves, c5mm in length. The date of this weight is unknown and no parallel could be found, it could date from the early medieval to the post medieval periods.",,"weight","lead, circular, illegible inscription","circular",410.00,1650.00,"ASx only",9.00,"Glemsford","GLEMSFORD",,"SUFFOLK"
3926,"SF-E01B36","An incomplete and very worn copper-alloy strap end of Anglo-Saxon date.
The attachment end of the strap end is missing, due to an old break, now worn. It measures 28mm in suriving length and 10mm in width. It tapers towards the terminal end. On the front face of the terminal the faint mouldings of a zoomorphic head can be seen.
With two circular indentations to represent eyes and small ears. No other decoration can be seen.
This strap end is probably of Gabor Thomas's type A, dated to the late 8th century to the end of the 10th century.
","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A","undecorated",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Isleham","ISLEHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
3928,"SF-357EB5","A cast copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon stirrup terminal. Measuring 32mm in surviving length (part of the upper end of the terminal is missing due to old breaks), 17mm in width and 16.5mm in thickness.
This stirrup terminal is roughly a pointed oval shape, with a hollow rectangular shaped shaft. The front face of the terminal is rounded with a central longitudinal ridge, the rectangular shaft is decorated with three transverse mouldings. The back is hollow, it is within this hollow that the diagonal arms of the lower part of an iron stirrup would have been enclosed. This stirrup terminal is obviously not zoomorphic or as ornate as those illustrated an discussed in D. Williams' article (FRG Datasheet 24), however, it is still most likely to be a stirrup terminal due to its hollow back and its size.","horse-related","stirrup terminal","domed, elongate, ribbed","not zoomorphic, just an elongate terminal blob",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nacton","NACTON",,"SUFFOLK"
3929,"BERK-35A7E7","Fragment of a cast copper-alloy strap-end with openwork decoration. The openwork pattern is worked on both sides. Sub-rectangular with four small projections from one edge, probably the remains of a broken off section. One corner of the decoration is broken off and missing. The openwork design comprises a central plant stem flanked by a pair of confronted or addorsed birds. Dull, patchy green patina with red/brown patches showing through. This is a Winchester-style strap-end (Hinton in Biddle 1990:497-499 no. 1056). ADDITIONAL: No image. Winchester style but no morphology and may not fit into Thomas' Class E1 typology.","personal-related","strap end","unclassified, Winchester style","Winchester",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Tetsworth","TETSWORTH","OXFORD","OXFORDSHIRE"
3932,"SF-472D26","A worn and incomplete copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end of Gabor Thomas's type A, dated to c750-1000.
This strap end measures 35mm in length and 13mm in width, it is roughly rectangular in shape with tapering terminals. The split attachment end has the remains of two parallel rivet holes. The front face of the strap end is decorated with a boarder of small transverse grooves within which there is an incised interlaced pattern, now worn. The terminal end is shaped and represents a zoomorphic head, with rounded ears and a tapering snout. There is also traces of a possible white metal coating on the front face. The back face is undecorated. ADDITIONAL: the design appears to be some form of interlace, and as such probably belnogs to Thomas' Class A, type 2.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Bentley","BENTLEY",,"SUFFOLK"
3933,"SF-47A203","A terminal fragment of a copper-alloy middle Anglo-Saxon ansate (caterpillar) brooch. This fragment is 23.3mm in length and 9.5mm in width, it is rectangular in plan. The bow fragment is arched in profile and appears to have been flat backed, it has a four armed indentation with a lozenge shaped moulding around this. As well as transverse notches in opposing pairs on either edge. The bow flares slightly into the terminal, which has a central projection and two parallel longitudinal grooves running down from the bow to the tip of the terminal.
On the back face of the terminal the pin lug ( a single transverse loop) survives, with corroded iron within and around it, probably the remains of the pin.
This fragment is very similar to a complete example from Isleham, Cambridgeshire (see SF-8E07A2) and Suffolk examples from Wattisfield, WSF 049 (West 1998, p251, no 3), and Carlton Coalville(CAC 008). Hattatt discussed the possiblity that these are an East Anglian product (1987, p383).","personal-related","ansate brooch","trefoil terminals","incised decoration",650.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,"Bentley","BENTLEY",,"SUFFOLK"
3936,"BUC-4A7174","A copper alloy biconical bead",,"Bead",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Aston Abbotts","ASTON ABBOTTS","AYLESBURY VALE","BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
3937,"SF-4A8FA1","A small conical clapper bell, its basal diameter about 22mm (now deformed through slight crushing) and the bell itself of height 18mm with an integral cast-in suspension lug, giving an overall height of 24mm. The lug is approximately 8.5mm across with a central piercing of c.3mm. The walls of the bell are in openwork, having triangular shapes cut out of it, with the point of the triangle alternately up or down, creating a zone 8mm in height of zig-zag bars. Below this zone, the continuous lower rim of the bell is some 5mm broad. Within the bell, under its crown, are two small holes presumed for wire to support the clapper, which is missing. For comparisons, see SF-0A9956 or SF-2071B7.
This appears to be a regional type of object on current showing, and is attributed to a pre-conquest date. The openwork form has parallels in previous Suffolk finds. Such bells might have also been used in the early post-Conquest period, for instance on a rosary, or possibly on a domestic pet. A small conical bell was found in the Sutton Hoo Mound One ship-Burial.","horse-related","Bell","Norse?, domed conical, triangular openwork decoration","norse",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Barham","BARHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
3940,"NMS-4BB5B7","Middle Saxon copper alloy pin, large (diameter 11mm, length 12mm ), globular (inverted pear-shaped) collated head covered with deep ring-and-dot ( a total of 31), length of shank including collar 20mm. ADDITIONAL: Hinton type Ac2. Date range changed fron 410-1066 to 700-900.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ac2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"West Rudham","WEST RUDHAM","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
3941,"NMS-4C4606","Late Saxon stirrup terminal, hollow-cast with engraved details around ears, eyes and slightly hooked snout, much solder survives in hollow reverse where once attached to stirrup, length 34mm. Williams unclassified zoomorphic type, 11th century. ","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","unknown","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Shouldham","SHOULDHAM","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
3942,"SUSS-4CA8F2","A Late Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy strap end of Thomas's Class E, Type 1, decorated in Winchester style. The strap end has a symmetrical openwork design with fleshy foliage branching from a central spine. The strap end tapers to the terminal, terminating with a large blob of foliage consisting of a central rounded element and five surrounding similar elements.
The attachment end (which is missing) would once have had two rivet holes within the openwork design to allow the strap end to be attached to the strap. Just down from where these rivets should be is an animal head with prominent ears. This mixture of foliage with zoomorphic imagery is a common feature of this type of strap end. The reverse is undecorated. The strap end is worn; the breaks (where the rivets once would have been) are also well worn and the metal has gone very thin on the upper edge. The metal has been coated with a lacquer, so it has a mid reddish-brown patina, with traces of the copper alloy metal showing through.
Winchester Style is a tenth-century Anglo-Saxon art style which can be found on metalwork and manuscript art. Parallels for this piece can be seen in Biddle (1990) and Thomas (2003).","personal-related","STRAP END","Thomas Class E1","Winchester",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Southease","SOUTHEASE","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
3944,"KENT-5B98E3","Silver wire interlaced ring.",,"RING",,,800.00,1900.00,"LSx",22.00,,"DARENTH","DARTFORD","KENT"
3945,"KENT-5BCB51","Copper alloy penannular ring. Probably a finger ring with swollen band forming a bezel, the narrow part of the band having been worn away by use. Probably of late Anglo-Saxon date.","personal-related","FINGER RING",,,800.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"DARENTH","DARTFORD","KENT"
3950,"BERK-5E52B6","Cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williamss Class A, Type 1, broadly pentagonal in shape. There is a perforated apex loop that contains the remains of an iron rivet. The reverse is flat and undecorated and the mount has a right-angled flange, singly perforated with the remains of an iron rivet in place. The front of the mount is decorated with an engraved design, possibly inlaid with silver wire. The design consists of a pair of addorsed beasts, and the outline of the two heads creates a knobbed profile. The heads have upwardly turned noses, projecting ears and a crest; all three elements form a knob in the profile. The bodies of the beasts are delineated with a simple curvilinear design. The mount has a patchy green patina with large amount of red/brown metal showing through. There are possible traces of gilding present. (Williams 1997: 26-33). ","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"CHOLSEY","SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE","OXFORDSHIRE"
3953,"BERK-601C71","Fragment of a cast copper-alloy strap-end with openwork decoration. The openwork pattern is worked on both sides. Sub-rectangular with four small projections from one edge, probably the remains of a broken off section. One corner of the decoration is broken off and missing. The openwork design comprises a central plant stem flanked by a pair of confronted or addorsed birds. Dull, patchy green patina with red/brown patches showing through. This is a Winchester-style strap-end (Hinton in Biddle 1990:497-499 no. 1056). ADDITIONAL: Obviously Winchester style but doesn't really fit into Thomas' Class E1 typology as the strap-end is the wrong shape. More closely parallels stirrup-strap mounts of Class B but is a strap end.","personal-related","strap end","unclassified, Winchester style","Winchester",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,,"TETSWORTH","OXFORD","OXFORDSHIRE"
3954,"LIN-71BA17","Copper alloy elongated strap end, probably Thomas Type C. The narrow tapering strap end is broken just after where it divides into two to hold the strap. ","personal-related","strap end","Thomas class C","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Sleaford area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
3956,"SUR-754FB4","A simple strap end, worn, with no traces of decoration and with two rivets at the wide end for attachment to the strap. The terminal, circa 5.5mm wide, is zoomorphic with prominent bulging eyes. Possibly belongs to Haldenby's Group 17 'Banded Types', though there are no longer traces of bands.","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class B1","transverse moulding",900.00,999.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"BEDDINGHAM","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
3957,"YORYM-84FDD2","A pair of copper alloy tweezers with broad flaring ends. The overall length from loop to ends is 56mm, the arms being 33.0mm and the ends 23.0mm. The arms are thicker, 1.5mm, than the ends, 0.8mm. The arms are 5.0mm wide, flaring out to 17.0mm wide at the ends, which are straight-edged and triangular in shape. The last 2mm in length of the ends are turned in at about 60 degrees. The arms are decorated with a series of punched dots 0.7mm in diameter spaced at intervals of 1.5-2.0mm and aligned roughly along the centre line.
The ends are twisted out of alignment with the arms, and fragments have broken off the turn in of the ends at an undetermined date. There is also recent (plough?) damage bending one of the ends out, with a fresh break evident.
The tweezers probably date to the middle Anglo-Saxon period on the basis of the wide flare of the ends.","personal-related","tweezers",,,700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"YAPHAM","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
3958,"NMS-85D853","Middle Saxon copper alloy pin, collared cuboid head (5 x 5 x 7mm) with corners cut-off, short length of shank, length at least 15mm (including head). ADDITOINAL: wrong image attached on website. Probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Ba2 (assuming lack of description of decoration correlates with lack of decoration). Date range changed from 720-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ba2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"West Winch","WEST WINCH","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
3959,"BH-8742F1","Copper-alloy strap-end of probable 9th C. AD date. The piece has two equal length sides and is wider at one end. This wider end measures 9.3mm wide and has a double rounded terminal and two small rivet holes. The plate here is split in two, forming a slit into which the opposing strap-end attachment would have gone. The gap between the two plates measures a maximum of 1.2mm wide. The opposite end of the strap-end is 6.3mm wide. The entire display surface of the piece is decorated with geometric incised lines and, in the middle of the central decoration plate, a styleised flower. An unidentified white paste has been applied to the central decoration plate and to a small plate at the narrow end of the piece. The reverse is undecorated and has a corrosion product attached at the narrow end. This may be iron or mineralised leather.
The total dimensions of the piece are 28.4mm long, by 6.3mm wide and up to 4.8mm thick. Weight = 4.24g.
","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Colesden","ROXTON","MID BEDFORDSHIRE","BEDFORDSHIRE"
3962,"KENT-C66754","Copper alloy object, consisting of two interlinked pieces. The main piece may be a key; it has an oval loop with projecting, tapering shaft, off of which projects a rectangular openwork loop or bit. This object has a reddish-pink patina. A loop of copper alloy is threaded through the oval loop; this is formed from a single length of metal which has been bent over and the ends squeezed together. It measures 19.46mm by 10.58mm; the measurements below relate to the larger object. The patination of the metal on the key-like object would suggest either an 11th century or a post-Medieval date for this find. ADDITIONAL: quantity changed from 2 to 1, as appears to be parts of single object.",,"UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT",,,1000.00,1700.00,"LSx",7.00,,"HORTON KIRBY AND SOUTH DARENTH","SEVENOAKS","KENT"
3966,"YORYM-C9DFC6","A fragment of a polyhedral headed copper alloy pin. The surviving length of the piece is 25.4mm, the head being 10.6mm and the surviving shaft 14.8mm. The head is a cuboid measuring 8.1mm by 7.1mm wide and deep (and 10.6 long) with the corners cut off, giving 4 rectangular side face and a rectangular top face (opposite the shaft), and 8 triangular corner facets. Each of the 4 rectangular side faces and the triangular corner facets is decorated with a ring and dot. The rectangular top face has 3 parallel grooves along the length of the rectangle, and 2 v-shaped notches (modern damage?) cutting in from a short edge. The shaft is sub-circular (oval) in section and 2.5 to 2.9mm in diameter. It is staight for its surviving length, but is broken off. The break appears old rather than recent. There may be a collar, but is merged with the head for most of its circumference; it may be a mistake in cutting off the cuboid's corners.
The pin is probably middle Anglo-Saxon in date, going by the polyhedral head and ring and dot decoration. ADDITIONAL: no image, but consistent with Hinton 1996 type Bb. Numdate 1 changed to 700.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"ALLERTHORPE","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
3971,"NMS-F43404","Late Saxon fragment (47 x 20mm) of bridle cheek piece from horse harness, just over half missing, very worn, rounded rectangular sectioned bar with looped terminal, slightly hollowed on reverse, bar expands to globular collar at broken central loop.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","circular loop",850.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,"Ashwellthorpe","ASHWELLTHORPE","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
3973,"NMS-F4A5E4","Late Saxon stone spindle-whorl, fine-grained pale-grey limestone, flattened sphere with central perforation and incised decoration comprising three simple crosses each within bordering line and then one cross above another evenly spaced around median band, with four cross-hatched triangles around perforation on one side and rather more random oblique radiating lines around the other side of perforation, height 21mm, diameter 29mm, weighs 23.19g. ","work/domestic-related","Spindle whorl",,,850.00,1066.00,"LSx",2.00,"Tacolneston","TACOLNESTON","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
3989,"SUSS-F8FCE4","Probably a Late Saxon or Medieval copper-alloy strap end. There are four rivet holes that go through both layers of the copper-alloy plates. The strap end depicts the image of a crudely drawn small male figure. The man is wearing a helmet and has his arms are raised. His clothing is indicated by rough lines. The mans feet an replaced by a knop and the metal turns back on itself into a trefoil. ADDITIONAL: No image, and description not full enough to classify under Thomas 2003.","personal-related","strap end","unclassified","anthropomorphic",800.00,1300.00,"LSx",7.00,"Newhaven","NEWHAVEN","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
3991,"KENT-1D1142","Zoomorphic terminal of a silver strap end with gold wire inlay. The strap end terminates in an animal head seen from above. The head on this example is quite realistic and has large bulbous lentoid eyes and protruding nostrils; its pointed ears are set in a circle. As the general proportions of the head are rather squat, the general impression is of a rather tame creature. In a recess on the forehead a length of gold wire forms a triangular shape (pointed and elongated at the lower end) into which a shorter length of gold wire forms a miniature snake, curled up and with its beaked head downwards. The eye is suggested with a depression and consequent slight spreading of the metal in a lentoid shape. The strap end is further embellished by a roundel between the ears, and there is some hatching. The strap end is plain on the reverse, although one of the rivets which would have attached it to a strap partially survives. Stylistically this strap end dates to the 9th century AD. ","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A","unknown",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",22.00,"Northbourne","NORTHBOURNE","DOVER","KENT"
3992,"WILT-1A3996","Incomplete late Saxon copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A Type 6.
It is squat and broad-shouldered, like the other Williams examples, with old and worn breaks at the lower right hand corner across one of the beasts'heads (when held so the decorated side is facing you, zoomorphic apex pointing upwards) across a rivet hole, and also across the nose, just above the eyes, and where the third rivet hole would have been. No other rivet hole has been subsequently made as with some of the other Williams examples, suggesting it was not used after its break.
The decorated face of the stirrup strap mount is relatively flat behind the decoration, while the reverse is slightly concave. The reverse of the apex is also concave. The face is moulded in the round. The complete rivet hole is 3.5mm in diameter while the broken one is 4mm, and both are at the very bottom of the decorated face, just above the slightly-wider-than-right-angled flange. The complete rivet hole is'in a corner', with 1-3mm of metal flanking it. The incomplete rivet hole is , although on a horizontal level with the complete, closer to the middle of the object, and rather angular, suggesting an original rivet hole may have broken and this one is a replacement. The flange is rather worn at its edge and its projection is only 4mm.
A pair of snake-like beasts form the margins of the mount, as Williams no.102, the prototype of the Type. They have bifurcating tails and appear to join in a single collar, although much has been lost in the loss of the patina. However, it seems to be following along these ines, and has not been mis-interpreted as some of this class have been. Both beasts'heads have a pointed oval eye, and the gaping mouth, crest and exaggerated lip-lappet are all apparant on the complete head. The tree-like shape grows from the base of the mount upwards, as in no.102.
The zoomorphic apex has curved ears like no.108 above what appear to be boggely eyes, rather like no.109 and 110. Beneath the eyes are diagonal mouldings above a horizontal moulding, just against the break.
The incomplete length is 47mm, the width is 30mm. Almost all the patina is missing.
11th century in date.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A6","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Great Bedwyn","GREAT BEDWYN",,"WILTSHIRE"
3993,"SF-81D692","A circular lead weight 23.5mm in diameter and 14mm in maximum thickness, with a central piercing of about 5.5mm. The upper and lower surfaces are neatly domed, and meet at a carination or keel which surrounds the middle of the object. It is probably as Anglo-Saxon spindle-whorl, but might have some other function. ","work/domestic-related","spindle whorl",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",9.00,"Wickham Skeith","WICKHAM SKEITH",,"SUFFOLK"
3994,"SF-824A72","A small ansate brooch only 37mm long with pointed ends shaped not unlike fish or animal heads, but without visible detailing, and a slightly narrower, straight arched bar between. One endplate has a pair of pierced lugs of 7mm length, housing an iron pin to which the iron brooch-pin is fastened (and now evidenced only by corrosion products). At the other end are the remains of the small catchplate and further corrosion products.","personal-related","ansate brooch","rectangular terminal, Caterpillar type","ribbed decoration",650.00,1000.00,"MSx",7.00,"Wickham Skeith","WICKHAM SKEITH",,"SUFFOLK"
3995,"ESS-82BA10","Copper alloy pin head from a middle Saxon pin. This pin head is globular with a diameter of 9.98mm and weighing 3.93g. Including the shaft it has an over all length of 14.14mm. It is decorated with a ring and dot motif. Beneath the pin head is a collar and beneath that only 3.4mm survives of the circular shaft. The patina of the pinhead is an even mid green with some light green patches. The break on the shaft is smoothed over, suggesting it occurred sometime in antiquity. An identical parallel can be found in West 1998, A Corpus of Anglo Saxon material from Suffolk, page 221, figure 103, number 3. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Ac2. Date range changed from 650-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ac2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Thornham","THORNHAM","NORTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
3996,"NCL-841CF1","A small strip of gold, measuring 20mm in length and 2mm in width. The strip is slightly curved and is hemispherical in section. The strip has three, circular perforations at regular intervals along its length, presumably to attach it to another object.
The function of the object is uncertain although it is likely to have been decorative.",,"Unidentified object",,,500.00,799.00,"E/MSx",23.00,"Bamburgh","BAMBURGH","BERWICK UPON TWEED","NORTHUMBERLAND"
3999,"SF-87D6D1","3 gritty Ipswich ware body sherds and 2 sandy Ipswich ware body sherds. Middle Anglo-Saxon in date.","work/domestic-related","pot",,,600.00,860.00,"MSx",5.00,"Bentley","BENTLEY",,"SUFFOLK"
4000,"LVPL-87FA02","D-shaped copper-alloy buckle frame, pin missing. The frame is circular in cross-section, and the bar is slightly narrowed and oval in cross-section. The whole object is slightly mis-shapen and worn, suggesting a long period of use. ADDIITONAL: similar to a find from a 11th-12th century context at Fishergate, York (Rogers 1993, no.5046) and also known from 10th-11th levels in Thetford. Dates have been kept as previously however.","personal-related","Buckle","D-shaped frame","undecorated",1000.00,1500.00,"LSx",7.00,"Selby area","KELLINGTON","SELBY","NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4003,"NARC-98D0B5","A copper-alloy Anglo-saxon strap end of Thomas' A type. The strap end is 34 mm in length and 11 mm wide in its centre, tapering to 6 mm wide at its attachment end and 2 mm wide at its terminal end. The strap end would have been attached to the strap by inserting the strap into a gap in the metal at the attachment end. It was secured through four thread loops, one of which is missing. The terminal end is zoomorphic in style, and a pair of curved ears can be recognised, although other than the pointed shape of the terminal other zoomorphic features are absent. The strap end's central field has what appears to be an interwoven floral design although this is somewhat difficult to make out. This type of strap end tends to date from the early 9th to the early 11th centuries. ","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",800.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"PAULERSPURY","SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE"
4004,"NARC-995213","A broken copper-alloy Anglo-saxon strap end of Thomas' A type. The strap end is 32 mm in length and 14 mm wide at its widest, where it has broken, tapering to 5 mm wide at its terminal end. Its attachment end is missing. The terminal end is stylised animal headed in design, and two curving ears are apparent just below the strap end's central field. The central field design consists of a cross with flared arms. The reverse of the item is undecorated. The surface of the strap end appears to have been treated with niello. This item probably dates from the 9th to the 10th centuries. ","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",800.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"PAULERSPURY","SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE"
4005,"NMS-9A5FA8","Late Saxon copper alloy lozengiform open-work brooch, in good condition with cast detail surviving, moulding at junction of four arms on central roundel, arms end in linked triangular terminals. Twin engraved lines on arms and co-joined cat-like animal heads on terminals. Broken twin lugs for pin, broken single lug for chain for pendant and catch-plate on reverse. Probably made in Scandinavia. Cf Margeson 1997, 20-1, fig.21. 10th century. ","personal-related","Lozengiform brooch","openwork decoration",,900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Keswick","KESWICK","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4009,"ESS-AD5187","11th century copper alloy stirrup mount. This mount is a Williams class 11A mount. It is sub-triangular in plan with a trilobed apex. It is decorated with a moulded depiction of a left facing lion. The decoration in the apex is worn and smoothed over, but it is possible to discern a pendant lobe that crosses into the main body of the mount and appears to hang in the lions open mouth. The lion is well proportioned, with its front right paw raised and its tail curling around its hind left leg and over its back. Again this decoration is worn and smooth, so details such as individual claws are lost, but it is possible to make out the eye, ear and four downward segments of the lions mane where the neck meets body.
There are two fixing holes to the bottom of the mount, and one in the apex. All the iron rivets survive and iron has clearly spread from these rivets around the fixing holes to both front and back. The rear of the mount is flat and plain. There is no obvious flange at the bottom. The patina to the rear is dark brown with some patches of light green bronze disease. The patina to the front appears to be dark green and brown, but the object has been treated by the finder. ADDITIONAL: Assume classification should read Williams 1997 Class A Type 11A","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11a (L)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"HARLOW","HARLOW","ESSEX"
4010,"BUC-829D64","A very worn, copper alloy, D-shaped buckle. The curve of the D is broad and has traces of a raised, symetrical, interlaced design. The reverse is undecorated. ADDITIONAL: shape and decoration reminiscient of late Saxon buckle types rather than early, e.g. Backhouse et al (1984, no. 97) or Wilson (1964, no. 32). Decoration unclear but may have both zoomorphic and tendril elements. Probably 9th-11th c.","personal-related","Buckle","Class A5iii","zoomorphic and interlace decoration",800.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Sandridge Bury","SANDRIDGE",,"HERTFORDSHIRE"
4011,"NCL-B1D5B2","A decorated copper alloy strap-end with a projecting D sectioned end loop, dating to the later Anglo-Saxon period. The strap-end is rectangular in section and rectangular in shape with contoured sides. The split end has two horizontal rows of three rivets, emphasised by a groove encircling each; there is also a fragment of silver plate adhering to this area; the main body of the strap-end is divided into two fields separated by a further two horizontal rows of three rivets with encircling grooves. Each field has a central, rectangular gilded and ribbed cell. These are flanked by single thin, vertical cells of niello or silver. At the base of the strap-end, a D-sectioned end loop extends with a circular perforation. The circular perforation is blocked with iron corrosion suggesting that it was originally pierced by an iron bar. The underside of the strap-end is plain although the four rows of rivets are visible.
No close parallel can be found for the strap-end, although an example from North Pickenham in Norfolk (Thomas, 2004) possesses similar panels of ribbed gilding and Thomas' Class F of strap-ends have a number of features in common, including the scalloped edges and fields of decoration. It has been suggested that this object represents a hybridisation of two classes of Anglo-Saxon dress fittings, the hooked tag and the strap-end.","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class F","interlace, moulding.",800.00,999.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown NORTH YORKSHIRE",,"NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4012,"NCL-B20650","A highly decorated copper alloy strap end with a projecting D sectioned end loop. The strap end is rectangular in section and rectangular in shape with scalloped sides; the split end is decorated with a marginal zig-zag pattern and has a horizontal row of four rivets, the position of which is emphasised by a rib encircling each rivet; the main body of the strap end is divided into two fields separated by a further row of four rivets and circular ribs; each field is decorated with an applied panel of sheet silver with meshed interlace detail. The upper of the two sheet silver panels has an area where the interlace is replaced by vertical ribs which may represent a devolved animal head; a further two rivets with circular ribs can be seen at the apex of the lowest scallops. At the base of the strap end,a D shaped foot extends at right angles and continues to form the end loop with circular perforation; the foot is decorated with an applied panel of silver (now damaged) with interlace decoration. The long sides of the strap end are decorated with a lozenge and rib motif. The underside of the strap end is very worn but is similarly decorated to the upper - with two fields to accommodate applied panels of silver. These panels are now missing. The strap end measures 41mm in length and 17mm in width. ADDITIONAL: no image","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class F","interlace, moulding.",800.00,999.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"unknown NORTH YORKSHIRE",,"NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4014,"NCL-271393","A copper alloy strap end, probably dating to the late Saxon period. The strap end is tongue shaped and consists of a copper alloy sheet which splits in two at the attachment end. At the rectangular attachment end, the upper surface of the strapend is decorated. The decoration comprises two rows of three ring and dot motifs. There are two circular perforations at the attachment end, one at each corner. The body of the strap end also has incised decoration. This comprises vertical marginal grooves, then rows of vertical zig zags, enclosing a human face. The underside of the strap end is plain. The strap end measures 50mm in length and 18mm in width. ADDITIONAL: no image, and description is unclear. A tongue-shaped strap-end should fit into Thomas' Class E, but the decoration is more akin to Class A. It may be the terminology is unclear.","personal-related","STRAP END","unknown","ring-and-dot",800.00,899.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"unknown NORFOLK",,"NORFOLK"
4015,"LEIC-EBEC16","Copper alloy folded buckle plate, 36mm long and 31mm wide. The plate has a narrow oblong section 36mm long and C.8mm wide. It has a rivet in each external corner and has a semi-circular protrusion, 5mm wide, in the centre of its longer outer edge. An incised line runs 2mm inside the edge of the oblong, forming a frame which has a series of short incised lines within it. after this section it tapers to 25mm wide to allow for the buckles frame. In the middle of this section is a slit C.8mm wide which runs most of the plates length. On either side of this slit the plate is decorated with incised parrallel lines. The plate then folds over and the decoration continues on the reverse for about 5mm. The reverse is 25mm wide and c. 18mm long with straight edges. One of the rivets can be seen protruding from the upper surface. The plate is unusually short, but is probably medieval. ADDITIONAL: the dating of this is very unclear. I can find no parallel within Marzinizik (2003) or Geake (1997), but it doesnt look like a middle or late Saxon plate either. Is it also possible that it may be Roman or even Lmed?","personal-related","BUCKLE","unknown","incised linear decoration",410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"unknown LEICESTERSHIRE",,"LEICESTERSHIRE"
4016,"LEIC-EC1042","Copper alloy circular object, 24mm in diameter and 4mm thick. The object is dished and has a small ridge, 2mm wide, running around its upper edge. Within this is a red glass like substance, possibly enamel. The object may be a gaming piece and could date to the early medieval period.",,"Gaming piece",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"unknown LEICESTERSHIRE",,"LEICESTERSHIRE"
4018,"LEIC-EE1982","Spherical lead object, 17.5mm in diameter. The object has slightly flattened upper and lower edges where a hole has been made. The hole is 5mm in diameter and circular on the upper side, but 7mm wide and oval shaped on the lower side.The object is probably a spindle whorl.","work/domestic-related","Spindle whorl",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",9.00,,"unknown LEICESTERSHIRE",,"LEICESTERSHIRE"
4019,"NMS-F05542","Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon incomplete nummular brooch, circular (diameter 25mm) quarter segment missing, worn and obscure segmented decoration (possibly a stylised bust), broken pierced lug and catch-plate on reverse. ADDITIONAL: v poor images","personal-related","Nummular disc brooch","coin-derived decoration",,720.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Whissonsett","WHISSONSETT","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4020,"NMS-F079F7","Mid / Late Saxon incomplete strap-end (at least 15 x 36mm), convex-sided plate broken across beginning of (missing) split attachment end, transverse notches form pelleted sides, lower fragment of engraved fan-shaped trefoil above trapezoidal panel of niello containing longitudinal crouched reguardant beast, animal-head terminal with large engraved ears, prominent eyes and snout, engraved triangle on forehead. Thomas’s Type A. 9th century. ","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",800.00,899.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Whissonsett","WHISSONSETT","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4021,"NMS-F09465","Mid / Late Saxon incomplete hooked tag, shield-shaped fragment with remains of two broken perforated lugs at upper edge, remains of bordering pellets with stamped dots, transversely pecked rim around central oval with keying-in marks for missing niello and silver wire panel, springing of missing hook at base, 15 x (at least) 16mm. 9th century. ADDITIONAL: very poor image","personal-related","Hooked Tag","Class B4ia","niello/silver wire decoration",800.00,1050.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Whissonsett","WHISSONSETT","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4022,"WAW-000CC6","Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount. It is a sub-lozenge shape in plan, 43.7mm long and 28.2mm wide (measurements are from corner to corner).
The outer face of the mount is decorated with four sunken lozenge-shaped cells, forming a lozenge shape as a whole. In the centre of the mount there is a small circular high-relief dome around which the cells are positioned.
The upper corner of the mount has an integral sub-circular loop, the apex loop. The lower 'corner' is a flat edge 15.9mm wide. In profile this lower edge forms a 'L' flange. On this flange, which protrudes on the reverse, there is a central rivet hole, which has the remains of an iron rivet. Otherwise the reverse of the mount is undecorated.
The mount has a traces of a mid-green patina, but the surface is otherwise slightly rough and corroded.
The mount is very similar to Williams 1997, nos. 302-304.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A12","geometric lattice",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"DUMBLETON",,"GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
4023,"SUR-006756","A strap end of Gabor Thomas' Class A Type 1. The object is very worn but there are slight traces of a central panel. The terminal is zoomorphic and there are two holes for attachment to the strap.","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",800.00,899.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"LEATHERHEAD","MOLE VALLEY","SURREY"
4024,"WAW-008967","Copper-alloy object, perhaps a strap fitting. In plan it is a rectangular shape with rounded ends, but in profile the object has been distorted from its original flat shape, forming a crease angled at c. 45 degrees. The upper surface of the fitting has a central ridge, semi-circular in cross-section, which runs the width of the fitting. Either side of the ridge there is a interlace design within a low-relief border. On this surface there are traces of silvering or tinning. On the reverse, at either end, there are a pair of parallel lugs semi-circular in cross-section. Each has a central hole which supports an iron bar. Otherwise this surface is undecorated. In length, incorporating the fold, the object is 37.1mm long and is 15.6mm wide. The maximum depth is 7mm.
The fitting has red copper corrosion. The interlace design suggests an early-medieval date. ",,"Mount",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"SISLAND",,"NORFOLK"
4030,"NCL-059291","A rim sherd from a large pottery vessel, probably Saxon in date. The sherd is black in colour with a burnished surface. ADDITIONAL: photo indicates organically-tempered ware, and if Saxon (as opposed to prehistoric) then more likely to be of earlier date. Organic tempered wares most typical of the seventh century, although by no means exclusively so. Certainly likely to be pre-850 as hand thrown.","work/domestic-related","pot",,,400.00,850.00,"E/MSx",35.00,,"unknown",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
4031,"NCL-05BEE3","
An Anglo-Saxon pin head. The fragment measures 34mm in length, 19mm in width and weighs 2.4g. The fragment is of silver with gilding restricted to the front of the decorated head. The head is flat and shield-shaped with a scalloped top and sits on a hipped and collared shaft. The shaft measures 18mm in length. The decoration of the pin is incised and shows a backward-turning bird, probably to be identified as an eagle on account of its curved beak. The top of its head and the tips of the two upright wings and of the tail, all three ending in scrolls, are cleverly exploited to produce a neat scalloped shaped top to the pin head. The body of the bird is divided into discrete fields.
The head has an eye with a detailed pupil set in a lentoid field, reminiscent of the animal head stone carvings from Monkwearmouth and Lastingham and the birds of the on the cross-shaft fragment from Croft on Tees. The breast of the bird is decorated with dots, whilst the wings and tail are incised with lines. An additional oval panel marks the underside of the wing, detailed with lunette shapes. The birds from Croft on Tees furnish a good example of this detail. The upright wings with scroll endings are found on the Witham pin set and on Anglo-Saxon coins of the eighth century, which also furnish examples of the splayed out feet and backward looking birds.
The elegant zoomorphic design of the pin head, which cleverly dictates its shape, finds parallels in other pins of the eighth and early ninth centuries such as those from Brandon, Flixborough and York.
","personal-related","Pin","sub-triangular flat head","zoomorphic (bird), gilt,",700.00,900.00,"MSx",22.00,"Melton Ross (from get-map)","Melton Ross",,"LINCOLNSHIRE" 4034,"SWYOR-197DD8","Copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end of Thomas' type A, probably dating from early 9th century to the early 11th century. The strap end measures 44.9mm in length and is 14.5mm wide at the widest point across the centre. The strap end tapers both to the terminal end where it measures 4.2mm and to the attachment end where it measures 8.2mm. There are two rivet holes which go right through the strap end and would have secured it to the belt. The terminal end is zoomorphic in style with two eyes and two nostrils visible. The zoomorphic terminal end is separated from the main panel of the strap end with 3 incised lines. The central panel of the strap end depicts an animal crouched down with the head twisting back to look over the shoulder. The animal appears to have five spots on its back. The strap end appears to have been silvered or tinned but most of this has worn away. ADDITIONAL: Trewhiddle style decoration.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",800.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"near Santon Hill (from get-a-map)","Risby WaRREN",,"LINCOLNSHIRE" 4035,"DENO-1A4B33","copper alloy stirrup strap mount fragment. Length 33.46mm, width 37.5mm, thickness of metal c.2.5mm, weight 8.10g.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A (unclassified)","openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Radcliffe on Trent","RADCLIFFE ON TRENT",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE" 4036,"DENO-1AADC3","Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy strap-end with round-eared animal head terminal. The central panel has interlace design, possibly representing an animal, although the strap-end is worn so it is difficult to tell. The reverse is undecorated. There would probably originally have been a pair of rivet holes at the attachment end, but that end is broken off. Length 33.09mm, maximum width 8.73mm, thickness c.1.7mm, weight 2.69g. The strap-end dates to the 9th century. ADDITIONAL: very worn but belongs to Thomas' Class A, probably type 1 or 2 but this uncertain. Numdate2 changed from 900-1000","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A","unknown, possibly interlace",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Radcliffe on Trent","RADCLIFFE ON TRENT",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE" 4039,"SF-2D1243","A gold Viking age finger ring. This finger ring has a large flattened oval shaped bezel, measuring 22mm in width and 16mm in height. The front face of this bezel is decorated with impressed motifs, an upper row consisting of two figure of eight motifs flanking a lower case 'n' shape. A central row of cojoined circular rings with an 'n' shape with its open end facing inwards at either end. Finally two more figure of eight shapes flanking an upside doen 'n.' These motifs are obviously symbolic. The hoop consists of gold wire, tapering towards its terminals, it is complete but no longer forms a circular hoop, it is likely that originally the ends of the wire formed a knot, they are now apart. This finger ring will be examined in more detail under the Treasure Act. ","personal-related","finger ring",,,900.00,1000.00,"LSx",23.00,"near Bury St Edmunds","TOSTOCK",,"SUFFOLK" 4040,"WILT-2CFCD7","Middle/ Late Anglo Sxon copper alloy strap end of Thomas Type A, with animal head terminal and traces of niello inlay remaining.The centre of the cross is decorated with a raised out line of a 'cross patee (similar to those seen on the Medieval Long-cross pennies 1279-1489). This raised outline has been infilled with blue enamel. In each quarter of the 'cross patee' there is a blob of white material. This plate is connected to a back plate via a central support and four legs, which extend down from the underside of the crosses terminals.
This in effect gives the artefact its strap junction appearance because the two plates and the legs have created four strap loop for thin straps. Traces of gilding survive on this section of the find. The reverse, though undecorated is gilded. The artefact appears to be complete, though slightly worn. The metal has a mid green patina. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","Strap Junction",,500.00,1100.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Nr. Eastbourne","EAST DEAN AND FRISTON","EASTBOURNE","EAST SUSSEX" 4050,"DEV-81C4C5","Late Saxon stirrup-strap mount. Made of cast copper alloy, it is sub-traingular in shape. It has a common right angle flange, with the corroded remains of two iron rivets in place. This corrosion has slightly affected the front of the mount. The apex loop is damaged. The mount is decorated by engraving and openwork and the pattern appears to be an interlaced zoomorphic design. It is worn, so the images are difficult to make out clearly. The openwork comprises two elongated kidney-shapes in the shoulders of the mount and six small circluar holes randomly placed. The two lower fixing holes not only have the remains of the two iron rivets, but there are possibly the remains of the iron fitting or strap on the reverse. It is early medieval in date (850 to 1066) and conforms to Williams' Class A Type 1. ADDITIONAL: date range changed from 860-1066 to 1000-1100. Class A10 not A1.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A10","Urnes, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"WOODBURY","EAST DEVON","DEVON" 4051,"SF-82B6D4","A possible lead strap fitting, date unknown. This possible strap fitting is roughly oval in shape, measuring 48mm in surving length and 23mm in width at its widest central point.
There are no fixing holes to the bottom front of the mount. Instead there are two holes, with surviving iron rivets, in the right angled flange. The iron has clearly spread from these rivets (and also perhaps from the iron stirrup itself) around the fixing holes on the back of the mount and slightly to the front. The rear of the mount is flat and plain and slightly concave. The patina to the rear is mid green. The patina to the front is mid to light green. There is a nick in the mount half way up the left hand side. The stirrup mount is 44.06mm long, 27.36mm at the widest point and weighs 19.10g. See Williams, 1997, page 58, for parallels.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11A (R)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Frating","FRATING","TENDRING","ESSEX"
4244,"SUR-76EB18","The lower part of a stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, type 11 which depicts a lion looking upwards, often with its tail curled over its back. The lion faces left. There are holes for two rivets below the lion and there may originally have been a third in the right-angled flange. ADDITINOAL: date range changed from 1150-0 to 1000-1100","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11 (L)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"CRAWLEY","WINCHESTER","HAMPSHIRE"
4245,"NLM-890976","A cast lead tongue shaped strap end of Thomas’ Class E (2000). The front of the strap end is heavily worn, but some of the border decoration of pellets is still visible. The top of the strap end has been bent inwards. The surviving length of the strap end is 23.7mm and the width is 21.6mm. ADDITIONAL: date range changed to 800-1100.","personal-related","Strap End","Thomas Class E","unknown",800.00,1100.00,"LSx",9.00,,"NORMANBY LE WOLD","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4246,"LEIC-D5F7B1","Anglo-Scandinavian harness fitting, 50mm long and 28mm wide. The object is either a cheeck piece or a strap junction, unfortunately the diagnostic part is missing. The object has a green/red patina and consists of a diamond shaped loop which has a triangular section and has sub rectangular protrusions at each angle. From this emerges a shaft with the same triangular section. After 10mm the shaft becomes a flattened circle C12mm in diameter. On the other side of this the shaft widens considerably into a more substantial triangular form which has faint traces of incised decoration. The object has snapped at this point.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","uncertain",1000.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,,"MELTON MOWBRAY",,"LEICESTERSHIRE"
4247,"NLM-C81422","A cast, copper alloy trewhiddle style strap end. The sides of the strap end are convex and taper to a zoomorphic terminal. The head of an animal terminal is defined with rounded ears and circular eyes. The central panel of the strap end is divided into small panels with slightly worn trewhiddle style decoration. The top of the strap end has two copper alloy rivets. The length of the strap end is 31.0mm and the width is 12.0mm. ADDITIONAL: date range changed from 800-900 to 750-1000.","personal-related","Strap End","Thomas class A1","Trewhiddle",750.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"SWINHOPE","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4248,"NLM-C85265","A sheet copper alloy hooked tag. The sub-circular plate is extended at the apex to form a hook. There are two attachment holes in the top half of the plate. The length of the hooked tag is 18.3mm and the width is 11.1mm. ADDITIONAL: dates broadened","personal-related","Hooked Tag","Class D2b","undecorated",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"SWINHOPE","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4249,"BUC-C8B360","A worn and damaged, copper alloy strap end. 30 x 9mm. Traces of a latticed pattern, with a single line border, is incised on the front of the object. There does not appear to have been a moulded terminal at the end of this strap end and the back is undecorated
Thomass Class A Type 2 are similar in shape but Haldenbys [Treasure Hunting, Dec 97 & Feb 98 page 41] Group 16 are decorated the same way as this example. He dates these to late 9th century.
","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"unknown BUCKINGHAMSHIRE",,"BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
4251,"SUSS-C989B3","Probably a fragment of a bridle check piece with Ringerike-style engraving, dating to the Early medieval period, 11th century. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nr. Beddingham","BEDDINGHAM","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
4252,"NLM-C999F4","A cast, copper alloy Anglo Saxon pin. The head is globular and has a collar. The shaft is hipped and has two bends. The length of the pin is 43.4mm and the width of the head is 8.0mm. ADDITIONAL: spherical-headed pin with undecorated head. It has a relatively pronounced ring collar and in the image the shaft appears to swell rather than be hipped. Date range changed from 720-850 to 700-900. Hinton type Aa2ii.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Aa2ii","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"WEST RASEN","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4253,"DENO-C9A925","Copper alloy zoomorpic stirrup terminal, probably 11th century. ","horse-related","stirrup terminal","Williams Fig. 4","Ringerike/Urnes style",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Radcliffe on Trent","RADCLIFFE ON TRENT",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4254,"NCL-DA2CE1","A silvered copper alloy strap end, of Thomas' Class E. The strap end is Saxon or Anglo-Scandinavian in origin and was popular in England between the ninth and eleventh centuries AD. The strapend is flat and tongue shaped. At one end, the plate splits into two to allow attachment. Although damaged, it appears that there were two circular perforations to aid attachment, one in each corner of the plate. The intact perforation is pierced by an iron rivet which is corroded. The upper surface of the strapend is decorated with a marginal line of ring and dot motifs. Enclosed within the ring and dot, is an angular, engraved interlace motif. The underside of the strapend is flat and plain. Traces of silvering can be seen on both the upper and lower surface of the strapend, although they are more evident on the lower. The strapend measures 39mm in length and 18mm in width. ADDITIONAL: likely to belong to class E4 although a little uncertain.","personal-related","STRAP END","Thomas class E4","Borre",800.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,,"York","YORK","NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4255,"SUSS-DA73B8","Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 11A, depicting a lion in high relief, in profile facing the left. The lion is looking upwards and its front paw is raised. Extra decoration has been added to the grooves forming the mane, which have a zig-zag line in the bottom. The tail curls between the legs and up over the back, and ends in a clockwise-spiralling tip (most of this class have a tail-tip that spiral the other way). Between the back and front legs the metal has a hole, probably the result of a mis-casting in this very thin area.
The mount is basically triangular; the apex is rounded and pierced with a 3 mm diameter rivet hole. To either side is another rounded lobe, engraved to depict a curling tendril. A sub-triangular lobe extends downwards between the tendrils, towards the lions mouth. The lion is enclosed in an undecorated border to either side and across the base. The border is deeper at the base to accommodate two rivet holes, both 3 mm in diameter. There is a right-angled flange which does not run the whole width of the base. The mount is 30 mm wide at the base, and 47 mm long. The flange makes it a maximum of 8 mm thick, and it weighs 17.15g. It dates to the 11th century.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11a (L)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nr. Houghton","HOUGHTON","ARUN","WEST SUSSEX"
4256,"SF-D9C388","This appears to be part of a stirrup mount of the late Viking Age type, though it does not conform closely to any of the examples shown in Williams's typology. It is a small and (unusually) rather thin casting, roughly trapezoidal in shape. Two holes appear along one of the cast edges, a straight edge behind which the sheet or casting is folded back in the manner typical of the stirrup-mounts. Taking this as the basal edge, the right side of the object follows an irregular outline, and the left side strikes out and then tapers in towards the top. The upper edge is definitely broken, so that the upper part of the object is missing. Its upper surface is densely ornamented with decorative cast work in relief, suggesting interlaced straps, ribbons or limb-extensions. The subject might originally have been an S-shaped beats in urnes style, but the detail is so debased as to make this quite unclear. It does not appear that there was any openwork - the object is not pierced ornamentally. The short lengths of ribbon have central grooves, and there are swollen details with faceted sides as if produced by chip-carving, but actually raised from the surface rather than recessed. The back of the object is smooth, and shows residual rust staining near the two small holes at the base, one of which is clogged. ADDITIONAL: it is a little unclear where this fits into Williams typology but broadly it is probably of Class B.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B","urnes",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Dallinghoo","DALLINGHOO",,"SUFFOLK"
4257,"SUSS-D9CE22","ADDITIONAL: no description, so classified under Williams' scheme and re-dated from Emed to 1000-1100","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B2, group 1","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"DUNCTON","CHICHESTER","WEST SUSSEX"
4258,"SUSS-DA3BE5","ADDITIONAL: Williams 1997 Class A, probably type 1. Date range changed from 410-1066 to 1000-1100.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"OVING","CHICHESTER","WEST SUSSEX"
4259,"SUSS-DA4F53","ADDITIONAL: Williams 1997 Class A, Type 11, Date range changed from 410-1066 to 1000-1100.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11a (R)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nr. Steyning","STEYNING","ADUR","WEST SUSSEX"
4260,"HESH-DA48B5","Cast copper alloy zoomorphic strap end of later early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date, 750 - 1000 AD.
The strap-end is sub-triangular in plan and has a sub-rectangular profile. The edges of the strap-end are also slightly beveled. The cross section is sub-rectangular. The strap-end can be divided into two distinct parts; the body, and the terminal (head). This definition is made because of differences in the shape and size of the two parts as well as differences in decoration style. The body of the strap end is sub-rectangular in shape with two parallel tapering sides. It measures 20.3 mm in length, 10.4mm width, and it is 1.6mm thick. The terminal of the strap end is sub-triangular in shape and measures 14.5mm in length, 3mm width, and is 2.3mm thick. The strap-end weighs 2.47 grams.
The majority of the strap is cast as a solid piece, with the exception of the widest part of the terminal which divides, in profile, forming a '<' shape. Between these two plates the strap would have been riveted through the two circular holes which perforate both plates (diameter 1.7mm). Both of these rivet holes, on both plates, are complete.
The decoration on the upper surface of the strap can be divided into two zones (see above), the body and the terminal (head). Both these areas have been gilded, however, the majority of the gilt finish has been worn away and is only visible under magnification.
The body of the strap end is enclosed within a single sub-rectangular panel. This panel is formed from a series of linear incised lines which mirror the sides of the strap end. Within this single panel are a number of curvi-linear incised lines. These create a series of geometric patterns.
The decoration on the terminal (head) of the strap-end is entirely different, to that of the body, in that it is cast rather than incised. The cast decoration consists of a stylised zoomorphic, animal, head. This is likely to be either a horse or dog head, possibly a grey hound or similar. The major components in this design are two raised curvilinear lines which form both the sub-oval eyes and ears. There are also a number of sunken cast features these include; a small rectangular (diamond shape) hollow beneath the eyes; two shallow sub oval recesses on the side of the head (representing nostrils?); and two circular depressions at the point of the terminal.
The reverse of the strap end is flat and undecorated.
The strap-end isa dark green - mid brown colour with an even patina, and small areas of corrosion pitting. The strap-end is also slightly asymmetrical due to abrasion in the plough soil. As already mentioned, the majority of the gilt finish has also been rubbed off, either through use, or more likely the depositional environment.
Similar parallels can be seen in Gabor Thomas's paper on Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age strap-ends, specifically in his Class A. He describes these as strap-ends ""with a split end, convex sided or tapering plate, [and a] zoomorphic terminal"" (2003: page 2). This class of strap-end are dated to the 9th and 10th centuries AD (800-1000).
","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"MUCH MARCLE","HEREFORDSHIRE","HEREFORD AND WORCESTER"
4261,"NCL-DACBF7","A copper alloy object, possibly a Saxon pin. The object possesses a circular section shaft which expands to a flat, sub-circular head. The head is plain except for a central incised dot on both the upper and lower flat surface. Where the head meets the shaft, there are are three notches on either side of the head. The object measures 42mm in length. The shaft has a width of 4mm, whilst the head has a width of 16mm. The head has a thickness of 4mm. ADDITIONAL: no image, and description unclear. Cannot discern whether pin has spherical or biconical head, nor if the pin has a collar. The description has elements consistent with a Middle Saxon date but no change has been made as this is very uncertain.","personal-related","Pin","unknown","Incised dot",410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"no record","no record","no record","NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4262,"HESH-DCE693","Cast copper alloy zoomorphic strap end of later early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date, 750 - 1000 AD.
The strap-end is sub-rectangular in plan with two parallel sides which taper to a blunt point. The profile is sub-rectangular and also slightly bowed. The cross section is sub-rectangular. The edges of the strap-end are also slightly beveled. It measures 33.4 mm in length, 10mm width, and it is 2.2mm thick. The strap-end weighs 3.07 grams.
The majority of the strap is cast as a solid piece, with the exception of the widest part of the terminal which divides, in profile, forming a '<' shape. Only the upper part of the two plates partially survives. Between these two plates the strap would have been riveted through the two circular holes. However, these are not present due to the damage to the end of the strap-end.
The decoration on the upper surface of the strap-end can be divided into two zones. Both of these are obscured by the corrosion.
The first zone consists of a incised sub-rectangular panel divided into two fields (parts). Within these two fields are a series of incised curvilinear interlocking lines, forming a number of sworls and geometric shapes in the trewiddle style.
The second zone consists of a very stylised incised zoomorphic, animal, head. This is likely to be either the head of a horse or dog. The major components in this design are two incised curvilinear lines which form both the sub-oval eyes and ears. There are also two heavily carved curvilinear lines which could represent the nostrils.
The reverse of the strap end is flat and undecorated.
The strap-end has a dark-mid green and mid-brown patina, with large areas of inactive corrosion and pitting. The patina covers the areas which have been damaged, specifically around the rivet hole end. This suggests that the damage has not occurred recently. The strap-end is also slightly asymmetrical due to abrasion in the plough soil.
Similar parallels can be seen in Gabor Thomas's paper on Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age strap-ends, specifically in his Class A type I. He describes these as strap-ends ""with a split end, convex sided or tapering plate, [and a] zoomorphic terminal"" (2003: page 2). Type I are decorated in the trewiddle style. This class of strap-end are dated to the 9th and 10th centuries AD (800-1000).","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"HEYDON",,"NORFOLK"
4263,"LIN-F25105","Copper alloy stirrup terminal. The mount is sub-zoomorphic, depicting a slender beasts head with a long snout defined by a single diagonal ridge on either side. The back is hollow and contains the remains of the lead solder by which the mount was secured to the stirrup.","horse-related","stirrup terminal","Williams Fig. 4","Urnes style",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4265,"LIN-F29FC4","Copper-alloy strap distributor. The object consists of a convex disc with three evenly spaced circular holes, to each of which a separate arm or fitting was originally attached by a hook which turns under to form an incomplete loop. One of these fittings is largely complete except for a broken loop, and is now detached. Above the loop, the fitting widens into an open socket with a longitudinal bar to front and back, each about 14 mm in length. The bars run down to a circle 15 mm in diameter, which forms the mouth of the socket. The junction between the front bar and the circle is marked by an expanded quatrefoil with very worn grooved decoration which may (by analogy with comparable finds) have been intended as a cross. This near-complete fitting is 41 mm long. The second surviving fitting is still attached by its loop to the central disc, but is broken at the top of the openwork socket; the third is missing.
The disc is decorated with a grooved central circle, and three petals or ovals which project from the circle into the spaces between the attachment holes. The disc is 28 mm in diameter and 2 mm thick. Two of the attachment holes are broken and incomplete at the outer edge which suggests that they were broken as a result of wear and strain.
Similar detached fittings are known from perhaps a dozen finds in England, most of which have broken loops looking very like hooks. Their function has hitherto been mysterious, and so they have been known as 'socketed hooks'. This example is the first to be found with the central disc and suggests the objects function as a strap distributor or junction. The absence of attachment points on the disc would indicate that it would have merely linked the fittings, and not itself been fixed to anything. It is difficult to see how a conventional strap would have been attached to the fittings, as there are no rivets, and no bar around which leather can be sewn. They are perhaps more likely to have held a rope or cord, perhaps plaited around the openwork of the socket.
Examples of the fittings are known from south-west Wiltshire (Read, 2001, p. 8, no. 39), Cambridgeshire, recorded on this database as ESS-A983B8, High Wycombe, and Norfolk. Norfolk has produced by far the most from any English county, with finds of fittings from Attlebridge (SMR 34326), Cawston (SMR 32896), Roudham (SMR 25921) and East Walton (SMR 25856), and discs from Barwick (SMR 28705) and Fring (SMR 1659). It seems likely that this is due to the expertise of the late Sue Margeson at Norwich Castle Museum, who recognised them as Anglo-Scandinavian from their style of decoration, and began recording them in 1990. She suggested that the decoration was in Ringerike style, and that the objects should be dated to the eleventh century. Better awareness of the object type will no doubt result in more examples being recorded.
Circular strap-distributors with three perforations for strapends are well known from Scandinavia from the ninth century onwards, and occasionally turn up in English contexts (e.g. at Brighthampton in Oxfordshire and at New Fresh Wharf in London). In Scandinavia they adorn belts, and often only two of the perforations have strap ends attached. The development into socketed hooks, however, seems to be a distinctively English innovation.",,"strap distributor","circular, incised decoration","Ringerike",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Sleaford","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4266,"KENT-05D946","Fragment of a copper alloy strap distributor from a horse harness. Part of the central loop and one arm with part of loop at terminal is present. Strap distributors of this type date to the 11th century AD.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/bit link","uncertain",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"WINGHAM","DOVER","KENT"
4267,"NMS-090A85","Late Saxon lead nummular brooch, cast pattern in relief on face, unusual arrangement for attachment on reverse comprising opposed twin lugs on outside edges with transverse perforations linked by groove with raised sides, diameter 41mm. Pattern derived from penny of Cnut (pointed helmet type), North no.787, pl.13, 1024-30. There is no other English coin with this design. ","personal-related","nummular disc brooch","Cnut penny",,1000.00,1050.00,"LSx",9.00,"Felixstowe","FELIXSTOWE",,"SUFFOLK"
4268,"NMS-094805","Late Saxon incomplete copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, oval frame, apex broken, loop missing, decorated with clear representation of obscure mask-like design, flange with single rivet-hole with dome-headed iron and part of iron strap on reverse, 26 x (at least) 38mm. Cf. Williams (1997) fig.26, closest to nos.79 and 82, Class A, Type 4. 11th century. PHOTO. ADDITIONAL: date changed from 850-1066 to 1000-1100","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A4","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Witton","WITTON","NORTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4271,"NMS-4501C1","Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch, very worn, domed with remains of cast Borre-style decoration of three inward-facing cat-like animals between the lobes of a trefoil, on the reverse is a broken pierced lug and catch-plate, there is no loop for chain or pendant so probably of native rather than Scandinavian origin, diameter 22mm. Cf. Margeson 1997, 20-1, fig.22. 10th century","personal-related","Disc brooch","Borre style decoration","Borre",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Norton Subcourse","NORTON SUBCOURSE","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4273,"BERK-45C833","A curved (longditundinally), sub-rectangular copper alloy object that resembles a strap end, but does not have a split end nor rivet holes. One end of the object is perforated (although it has now broken across the perforation). It is decorated on the upper surface with a greek key design (angular running spiral) and there is gilding remaining.
Tom Plunkett suggests it may be either a strapend or a pendant, possibly Early or Middle Saxon or, more likely, Medieval.
At its widest point it measures 11.84mm the object then tapers to a width of 5.33mm. Length: 27.68mm. ADDITIONAL:no image","personal-related","Strap end","unclassified","unknown",400.00,1500.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Northmoor","NORTHMOOR","WEST OXFORDSHIRE","OXFORDSHIRE"
4275,"DENO-47F426","Copper alloy strap end with zoomorphic terminal, probably Anglo Saxon. The main part of the object is cast. The proximal end (where it attaches to the strap) of the shaft is splayed out and stepped down, with a length of sheet metal soldered onto it (rather than the main body being spilt in two) to form a V-shaped gap into which the strap would have been fixed by a single copper alloy rivet, which still survives. The shaft is rectangular sectioned and the distal end terminates in a long necked, open mouthed animal head (possibly a dragon or horse) set at right angles. Overall length 43.2mm, width of proximal end 5.9mm, thickness of proximal end 4.5mm, maximum possible thickness of strap 2.3mm, thickness of shaft 3.05mm, height of animal head 12.5mm, length of animal head 9.9mm, weight 3.57g. ADDITIONAL: belongs to Class B6 in Thomas' scheme, probably of 11th century date.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class B6","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"unknown NEWARK AND SHERWOOD","NEWARK AND SHERWOOD","NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4277,"SF-9C5DB4","A complete copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end of Gabor Thomas's type A, dated from between the late 8th to the 10th centuries.
This strap end is roughly rectangular in shape tapering towards its terminal and measures 31.07mm in length and 13.47mm in width. At the attachment end the strap end is split and two parallel rivets remain in situ. The front face is decorated with a upper triangular shaped moulding, below this there are two parallel rectangular panels, with the remains of a white material, possibly a 'cement-like' material, which would have held niello or silver wire in place, although any trace of these is now missing. Below this the animal head terminal begins with two parallel rounded ears and a slightly protruding forehead with transverse grooves across it and a copper-alloy rivet through its centre. The eyes are represented by two drilled circular indentations. The snout tapers towards its square terminal.
ADDITIONAL: Belongs to Thomas' class A although type more difficult ascertain. Strap-end is not particularly fine and patterning may simply place it in type 2, but possible fields of niello/silver wire indicate type 5. The image indicates that the two central fields were filled- type 5 preferred.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A5?","niello/silver wire?",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Swefling","SWEFLING",,"SUFFOLK"
4278,"NLM-832251","A complete cast, copper alloy buckle frame with integral buckle plate. The frame is drop-shaped with a central bar containing a copper alloy pin. The integral zoomorphic buckle plate has sunken eyes. The length of the buckle is 38.4mm and the width is 11.5mm ADDITIONAL: unsure of any parallels, but elements such as the protruding zoomorphic head is seen on later Saxon buckles. A little unlear why it has been assigned a 9th c. date unless it is based on the shapes of contemporary strap-ends.","personal-related","Buckle","Class D (other): drop-shaped frames, central bar and integral zoomorphic plate","zoomorphic",800.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"SWINHOPE","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4279,"LEIC-85F931","one body sherd of Stamford ware pottery. The fabric is yellow-orange colour with fine inclusions and has a shiny slip with a pale green hue. The fabric dates to the late Saxon and early Medieval periods.","work/domestic-related","pot",,,900.00,1100.00,"LSx",5.00,,"GADDESBY","MELTON","LEICESTERSHIRE"
4282,"NMS-967E13","Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, worn and corroded, oval with trilobate apex pierced by across rivet-hole, two further rivet-holes in expanded base, cast with a possible hirsute human mask with symmetrical looping shapes possibly representing hair, angled flange at base, 28 x 55mm. Cf. Williams 1997, Class A, Type 4, closest to no.81. 11th century","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A4","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Ashby with Oby","ASHBY WITH OBY","GREAT YARMOUTH","NORFOLK"
4287,"WAW-D621D2","The strap end has been made from cast copper alloy. In plan it is an elongated triangular shape. The narrow edge, where it divides in profile forming two plates is abraded and probably not the original edge. The length of the strap end is 39.7mm, the width across the plates is 8.2mm and the thickness at the approximate mid point is 3.4mm. It weighs 2.98g.
The upper surface of the strap end has been decorated with a column of two 'x's with four quarters having a low-relief 'pellet'. Twowards the tip the patina is damaged, therefore any other decoration is not visible.
The plates. in profile form a '<' shape, but both plates are incomplete.
The reverse of the strap end is undecorated and flat.
The surface of the strap end has a brown incomplete patina, and iron staining.
The strap end is similar to Thomas's Type B which dates to teh 8th to 11th centuries. ADDITIONAL: Class B1.","personal-related","Strap End","Thomas Class B4","zoomorphic",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Bidford-on-Avon area.","BIDFORD ON AVON",,"WARWICKSHIRE"
4288,"LEIC-D6F7C3",,,"Staple - bucket mount",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"unknown",,"LEICESTERSHIRE"
4289,"KENT-D824C6","Silver fitting, inlaid with sections of gold to form a decorative pattern. Possibly a pommel.",,"FITTING",,,700.00,1800.00,"M/LSx",22.00,"CLIFFE","CLIFFE AND CLIFF WOODS","MEDWAY","KENT"
4291,"KENT-D85156","Silver ingot of ovoid shape. ",,"INGOT",,,800.00,1066.00,"LSx",22.00,"Horton Kirby","HORTON KIRBY AND SOUTH DARENTH","SEVENOAKS","KENT"
4292,"KENT-D874F5","Fragment of a silver strap end, comprising the lower, zoomorphic, end. The strap end terminates in an elongated animal head seen from above. Deeply engraved lines define the shape of the muzzle. Traces of niello are visible in the grooves. The nostril areas are separated by two incised lines and the eye areas are large and lentoid-shaped. The eyes themselves are two black niello dots. Two incised lines fill the forehead field. The ears are triangular but set in circles: their original field also shows traces of niello; between them a raised elongated lobe pointing upwards, also defined by niello. The remaining fragment of the central field was divided in field by deeply incised lines, also filled with niello. Only part of the decoration that would have filled these fields is now visible: the remaining details are too small to interpret, but their sinuous line and nicked details are typical of the so-called Trewhiddle style. The design appears to have been symmetrical in both fields and it would have stood out on a black background of niello. It may have been zoomorphic. The back is plain. Stylistically this strap end can be dated to the 9th century AD. ADDITIONAL: date range changed to 750-1000.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",22.00,"Langley","LANGLEY","MAIDSTONE","KENT"
4295,"SF-DB7B41","A corroded copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon stirrup terminal. This terminal is roughly rectangular in plan, flaring towards its terminal. It measures 38.4mm in length, 11.6mm in width at its upper end and 15.5mm in width at its terminal end, it is 9.6mm in thickness. At the top of the front face of this stirrup terminal there is a rectangular moulding. The back face is hollow to accomodate the missing iron stirrup. The inside of the back face is heavily corroded and corrosion has eaten through the terminal end creating a small irregularly shaped hole. This stirrup terminal is similar to other examples discovered in Suffolk, one such example is known from Nacton (see Sf- 3576b5). ","horse-related","stirrup terminal","elongate","undecorated",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Laxfield","LAXFIELD",,"SUFFOLK"
4298,"NARC-F0C8F3","Head and part of the shaft of a copper-alloy pin. The pin has a flattened biconical top with a collar separating the pin head from the shaft. The head is 8 mm in diameter. What remains of the shaft is 9 mm in length and the total length of the pin is 18 mm in length. The presence of a collar on the pin is suggestive of an early medieval, Anglo-Saxon date. ADDITIONAL: image inconclusivde regarding head shape and it could equally be globular. However, original identification will be accepted, in which case pin belongs to Hinton 1996 type Ca2. Date range changed from 410-1066 to 700-900.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"PAULERSPURY","SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE"
4307,"CAM-039812","A small piece of rounded Silver Metal working debris. Possibly Viking in origin,
Length: 7.61mm, Width: 4.75mm, Weight 1.10 g.
This was found near by, where a Viking Ingot was found several months ago, that was declared Treasure Trove.
","work/domestic-related","Metal Working Debris",,,875.00,925.00,"LSx",22.00,,"HASLINGFIELD","SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE","CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4308,"SUSS-064D74","Copper-alloy nummular brooch, 32 mm in diameter. Around the edge, both on the front and reverse, is a single ring of pellets. On the front, made up of short engraved lines, is a motif consisting of a profile head. There is a double band around the forehead, and behind this short lines for hair. There is a circular eye, and two lines forming the angle of a nose; below the nose is a downturned mouth. More lines make the shape of a shoulder and arm, probably swathed in drapery. In front of the face is a row of lines radiating out from the centre. The head is facing right. On the reverse are two broken double lugs, one of which is slightly wider than the other. The latter is probably the pin lug and the other was probably the catchplate. The brooch dates to the later Anglo-Saxon period (9th or 10th century) and is based on a late 4th - early 5th century Roman coin. It weighs 6.52g. The copper-alloy disc has been cast and has incised decoration. Kevin Leahy informs me that similar brooches have been found in Barnetby Le Wold (North Lincolnshire) and Blakeney (Norfolk).
","personal-related","Nummular disc brooch","coin-derived decoration",,800.00,950.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Firle","FIRLE","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
4315,"SUSS-1AE651","Anglo-Saxon pin head, wrought in copper-alloy, with 13mm of the shaft surviving. The head is square in section, with facetted corners. Each of the four faces are decorated with single a punched circle/ dot. The break in the shaft is worn. The artefact has a dull green colour and a rough surface. ADDITIONAL: Collared middle Saxon type, Hinton 1996 type Bb2. Dates changed from 410-1066 to 700-900.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Alfriston","ALFRISTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
4317,"SF-1B6098","A complete cast copper-alloy disc-brooch of Anglo-Scandinavian type. Circular and measuring 30.30mm in diameter, one edge has been bent inwards, probably due to damage in the plough soil. The front face is decorated with a pattern showing four curling strands issuing from a central, voided cross, and each forming an asymmetrical knot around itself. The reverse of the disc shows lug attachments for pin and catchplate.
This type of brooch decoration was developed as a hybrid based upon higher-quality productions like a pendant from Kalmergarden, Store Fuglede, Denmark, and adapted to the English disc-brooch format. It dates from between 900-1100 and a very similar example is known from Braiseworth, Suffolk (see SF-97F312). ","personal-related","Disc brooch","Borre/Jellinge style decoration","Borre/Jellinge",850.00,1050.00,"LSx",7.00,"Isleham","ISLEHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4318,"SF-1B83C7","A complete but worn copper-alloy early medieval hooked tag. This hooked tag has a roughly oval shaped plate measuring 12.5mm in width and 12.8mm in length. It has a central longitudinal row of four ring-and-dot motifs with circular holes in their centres to either side of this central row there are three larger circular attachment holes running parallel to the edge of the plate. The hook is 6.8mm in length and 1.9mm in width, it turns backwards abruptly and tapers to a now blunted point. This hooked tag is similar to others discovered in Suffolk, especially examples from the Freckenham area.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class D6b","perforated",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Isleham","ISLEHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4319,"NCL-7E8100","A copper alloy strap end, dating to the early medieval period. The strap end has contoured sides. The split end has two horizontal rows of three rivets, each emphasised by an encircling groove; there is also the remains of a silver plate adhering to this area. The main body of the strap-end is divided into two fields separated by a further two horizontal rows of the three rivets with encircling grooves. Each field has a central rectangular gilded and ribbed cell. These are flanked by single narrow vertical cells of niello or silver. At the base of the strap-end a D sectioned end loop extends with a circular perforation. The circular perforation is blocked with iron corrosion, suggesting that it was originally pierced by an iron bar. The underside of the strap-end is undecorated, although the four rows of rivets are visible. The strap end measures 49mm in length and 14mm in width. ADDITIONAL: no image, and difficult to assess class given from description","personal-related","Strap end","unknown","niello",410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"unknown",,"NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4320,"SF-2C7AE4","A complete copper-alloy norse clapper bell. Conical in shape measuring 27.2mm in height and c18.8mm in rim diameter, the rim is now distorted and one half is squashed flat, probably due to damage in the plough soil. The integral suspension loop is roughly circular in shape with a central circular perforation with iron corrosion within it. Inside the bell there is no surviving clapper, it is likely that an iron clapper was used originally and this has since corroded away.
The sides of the bell are decorated with open work triangles arranged to form two opposing groups, two groups consist of four triangles each, with their points arranged inwards towards eachother. Inbetween these groups there are two pairs of opposing triangles, again with their points towards each other.
This norse bell dates to the late early-medieval period, c900-1066. Similar bells have been discovered elsewhere in Suffolk, from Covehithe (see SF-0A9956), Monks Eleigh(see SF-2071B7) and Barham (see SF-4A8FA1). ADDITIONAL: paralleled by SF-C1F282","horse-related","bell","Norse?, domed conical, triangular openwork decoration","norse",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Chippenham","CHIPPENHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4322,"SF-2F1AA1","A worn cast copper-alloy probable late early medieval stirrup terminal. Rectangular in plan but U-shaped in cross-section measuring 14.3mm in length and 9mm in width with a thickness of 8.3mm. The front face is arched and the back face hollow, to accomodate an iron stirrup and has corrosion products within it. There are two parallel oval protrusions from either side of the upper edge of the sides of the front face, these could possibly represent ears. There is also a transverse groove at the base of the front face which could represent a mouth. This probable stirrup terminal could therefore be zoomorphic in form. This probable stirrup terminal is similar to other examples found in Suffolk (see SF-db7b41). ","horse-related","stirrup terminal","domed, undecorated","not zoomorphic, just a terminal blob",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Rishangles","RISHANGLES",,"SUFFOLK"
4327,"SF-6D7152","A fragment of a lead-alloy nummular brooch, so called because their designs are ultimately derived from coins. Part of one edge of this brooch now survives, the fragment is slightly distorted and measures 24mm by 20mm in size and would have an original diameter of c40mm when complete. The fragment is decorated on its front face with relief decoration consisting of a double boarder of pellets, this boarder is likely to be imitating the filigree settings that were added to coins to make the originals. The inner field is decorated with straight lines and cuvilinear lines with transverse lines within them. The back face has a small solid rectangular projection, 8mm by 4mm in size, set at ninety degrees to the face. This could be a crude catch plate.
Similar nummular brooches have been discovered elsewhere in Suffolk at Ingham (see SF-6880) and Somerton (see SF-7796). They are late early medieval c900-1066 in date.","personal-related","Nummular disc brooch","coin-derived decoration",,800.00,1000.00,"LSx",25.00,"Rishangles","RISHANGLES",,"SUFFOLK"
4333,"LEIC-959088","Copper-alloy Anglo-Scandinavian mount, 100mm long, 10mm wide and 4mm thick. The object is in the form of a long flat shaft, 100mm long and 6mm wide, which is decorated with incised dots forming lines running down its length. The upper end of this shaft is in the form of an animal head with large rounded ear and pronounced snout with an upturned nose. The animal is facing right and has a ball in its mouth. The object has an eye formed of an open circle which has a rivet on the reverse. Another similar example seen on a website had a semi-precious stone for an eye and this example has room for such a fitting. There is a possible second rivet at the base of the shaft but there is no decoration on the reverse. The parallel on the website 'Viking Antiquities' is described as a scabbard mount, but this seems unlikely. The object is in fair condition with a brown patina and some original surface left. The decoration appears to be in Ringerike style, which would imply an eleventh-century date.",,"mount",,"Ringerike",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"LOWESBY","HARBOROUGH","LEICESTERSHIRE"
4346,"HESH-ADE183","Cast lead or lead alloy Papal Bulla of Pope Paschal I of early medieval date (817 824).
The bulla is sub-rectangular (rectangular with rounded corners) in plan and rectangular in cross section. It measures 32.5mm in length, 22.9mm width, and is 5.6mm thick. It weighs 28.912g (1.0198oz or 446.17 grains). Both the left and right edges of the bulla have been clipped or trimmed, however, this clipping respects the central inscriptions on both faces. Both edges have an even patina which matches the rest of the bulla. This suggests that this damage occurred in antiquity probably before deposition.
The obverse face has a raised cast centrally located inscription which reads: [cross] / PAS / CHA / LIS / [cross]. This lettering is contained by two semi-circular or crescent shaped lines formed from raised pellets. This decorative motif would originally have been a full circle which would enclose the inscription. The upper part of this face has a broken scar (3.2mm x 8.6mm) where a possible ribbon or cord attached the seal to the document. This scar has the same patination as the rest of the bulla suggesting damage in antiquity. The reverse face has a similar raised cast centrally located inscription which reads: [cross] / PA / PAE / [cross]. It is also contained within a broken curvilinear pellet border. The base of the bulla has a small rectangular indentation or hollow (6.4mm x 1.5mm). This would probably be for the cord or ribbon, described above.
The bulla has an even grey white patina which covers all surfaces. There are no areas of active corrosion evident on the surface. The bulla has been slightly abraded and rolled in the plough soil.
The bulla has been studied by Dr Tim Pestell of Norwich Castle Museum. His report is partially reproduced below. He writes:
Papal bull seal (bulla) of Pope Paschal I (24 January 817 d. ?11 February 824). The identification is quite clear, as comparison with a (worse) example illustrated in Serafini, Le Monete et le Bolle Plumbee Pontificie, Tav C No 10 shows. The obverse bears the legend +/PAS/CHA/LIS/+ while the reverse reads +/PA/PAE/+. The arrangement of the lettering is characteristic of the eighth and ninth-century papal bullae, in which seals bore only the name and title of each pope. More figurative designs emerged with Pope Leo IVs bulla (847-55) and then with those of Benedict III (858-67). That the present find is a bulla is shown clearly by the holes for the cord that ran between the two flan halves of the bulla, attaching the seal to the papal bull. Perhaps of equal interest is the fact that the bulla has clearly been cut down from its originally circular shape.
Not only are bullae of this date incredibly rare, so are any seals. Only a very few instances of lead bullae are known from this date. One, of Pope Zacharias (741-52) is now in the British Library (Detached Seal xxxviii.5: Webster and Backhouse, The Making of England Cat No. 149a), while a lead seal, said to be of a deacon, was found in clearance work at Whitby abbey. Despite this, papal bullae must have been relatively well known in pre-Conquest England as there was regular contact with Rome with many bulls and other documents sent by the curia. Indeed, the design of papal bullae seems likely to have influenced Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian coin design. This bulla represents the extremely rare survival of an object demonstrating the everyday use of documents by the Anglo-Saxon Church, yet issued in Italy.
The bulla has very clearly been neatly cut down on its two vertical sides to produce a slightly rounded rectangle that leaves all the lettering intact. The edges have a patination identical to the obverse and reverse faces of the bulla, demonstrating that this modification was carried out in antiquity. Exactly when is less obvious. The cutting is most plausibly explained by the object being reused as a weight, the trimming enabling a particular mass to be achieved. That the bulla today weighs some 28.912g (1.0198oz) suggests that an Imperial-equivalent 1oz weight was striven for.
The patination of the bullas edges, in matching that on the two faces, suggests some antiquity to the reuse. A medieval date for this is not impossible, but it would seem remarkable indeed if a bulla of this date was still in everyday circulation to be so modified. Equally, it would seem more likely that an object in everyday use would be converted into a weight in the medieval period. As a result, the modification is surely likely to have been made within the Anglo-Saxon period, relatively soon after the bulla had ceased to be of any use authenticating a papal document. This suggests an imperial ounce weight standard might then have been in use.
It is not inconceivable that the reuse of a papal bull seal as a weight in the Late Anglo-Saxon period was not just using a convenient piece of lead, but tapping into the notion of official weights bearing designs. This does not mean that the reuse of a bulla was somehow creating a fraudulent weight (indeed this seems unlikely given its weight also being so close to the 1oz mark) but that it might simply have looked like a proper weight.
",,"Papal Bulla","Papal",,817.00,824.00,"MSx",9.00,"Frome Valley","MUCH COWARNE","HEREFORDSHIRE","HEREFORD AND WORCESTER"
4348,"SF-C1CE84","An incomplete copper-alloy pin, only the head and a stub of the shaft of this pin now survive, the rest of the shaft is missing due to an old break, now worn. The head is large and ployhedral, the shape of a cuboid with its corners cut, off measuring 13mm in height and 12mm in width and 11mm in thickness. It is worn with patches of powdery green active corrosion visible. The shaft of the pin is 2mm in length and has a circular cross-section measuring 2mm in diameter.
This pin is perhaps most likely to be middle Anglo-Saxon in date due to the shape of its head and its circular cross-sectioned shaft. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Ba1. Date range changed from 600-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ba1","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sutton","SUTTON",,"SUFFOLK"
4349,"SF-C1F282","An incomplete copper-alloy norse clapper bell, roughly half of this bell survives the other half is missing due to old breaks, now worn. The suspension loop is lozenge shaped with a circular hole through its centre and the surviving side of the bell has been squashed flat. It measures 30mm in length and 25mm in surviving width at its rim. The body of the bell is decorated with three open work triangles, one lower larger one and two smaller ones with their tips pointing down towards the larger one, which has its tip pointing upwards.
This norse bell dates to the late early-medieval period, c900-1066. Similar bells have been discovered elsewhere in Suffolk, from Covehithe (see SF-0A9956), Monks Eleigh (see SF-2071B7) and Barham (see SF-4A8FA1) another example is also known from Chippenham, Cambridgeshire (see SF-2C7AE4). ADDITIONAL: its shape is a domed conical paralleled by NMS262 although that one is undecorated. This closely resembles 'Norse bells' although there Rogerson's attribution is not certain. Will be defined here as 'Norse?'","horse-related","bell","Norse?, domed conical, triangular openwork decoration","norse",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Sutton","SUTTON",,"SUFFOLK"
4350,"SF-C21EE3","An incomplete copper-alloy middle Anglo-Saxon ansate or caterpillar brooch. One terminal and part of the bow of this brooch survives the rest is now missing due to an old break. It is rectangular in shape and measures 28mm in surviving length and 15mm in width. The surviving terminal flares outwards slightly towards its tip and has corroded iron through and around its centre, this could be the remains of an iron pin loop or catch plate of some sort. The front face of the brooch is decorated with ring-and-dot motifs, at the terminal end these are arranged in three parallel rows of different lenghts, the central row having five motifs and the two flanking rows three or four motifs. There is then a small gap and part of two more parallel ring-and-dot motifs can be seen just before the bow ends due to an old break.
This ansate brooch is similar to other examples found in Suffolk from Hessett (see SF-9377), Great Barton (see SF-E242D4) and Stuston (see SF-BBEF11).","personal-related","ansate brooch","Sub-rectangular terminals","ring-and-dot decoration",650.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sutton","SUTTON",,"SUFFOLK"
4351,"SWYOR-FD18C1","Copper alloy strap-end dating to the 8th century and of Anglo-Carolingian origin. The strap-end is rectangular shaped and measures 30mm in length and 23mm in width. At one end of the strap-end there are three circular perforations (measuring 4mm in diameter)in a horizontal row for rivets to attach to the strap or belt. At this end of the object, the copper alloy is a thin sheet (on top of which another plate may have been attached) it then becomes thicker (4.5mm) to allow for the decorated part of the strap-end. This consists of deeply cut decoration, likely to be zoomorphic, although it is impossible to make out any specific animal. The object is broken across the decorated plate. The strap-end weighs 12.51g. ADDITIONAL: Thomas (2003) suggests that this type, Class E, were common in the 9th and 10th centuries rather than the 8th. Remaining decoration most reminiscient of the Winchester style, and not of the Carolingian examples. Dates changed accordingly.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class E1","Winchester",800.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Boroughbridge","ALDWARK","YORK","NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4352,"SWYOR-FF2A20","Copper alloy buckle dating to 11th century. The buckle frame is square shaped with a narrow bar. The part of the frame opposite the bar is wider and decorated. The decoration is worn but could be a leaf or knot design (possibly Viking Borre style) at the top and bottom with a notch for the pin between. The front decorated face of the buckle has evidence of gilding whilst the reverse of the buckle has been silvered or tinned although only part of this surface treatment survives. The buckle weighs 5.5g and measures 22mm in width, 21.5mm in length and 4.2mm in thickness. ADDITIONAL: possibly AScan style but image is a bit blurred.","personal-related","Buckle","square frame","Anglo-Scandinavian?",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"MARKET WEIGHTON","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4353,"SUSS-010A25","A collection of four sherds of Saxo-Norman (perhaps) handmade early-medieval pottery dating to the 10th - 12th century. Collectively the four sherds weigh 88g. Individually one large sherds weighs 55.2g, this sherd appears to be the remains of a large handle. The handle has been decoarted with five lines of crudely rouletted square holes. This sherd has a high flint temper content. It is a mid brownish-red colour. The other three sherds have few defining features but also have large flint inclusions and some mica tempering. ","work/domestic-related","pot","CONTAINER",,900.00,1100.00,"LSx",5.00,"Middleton-on-Sea","MIDDLETON ON SEA","ARUN","WEST SUSSEX"
4355,"KENT-120262","Pair of copper alloy tweezers with splayed terminals, decorated with ring-and-dot punchmarks.","personal-related","TWEEZERS",,,450.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Bilsington","BILSINGTON","ASHFORD","KENT"
4356,"LIN-134231","Complete copper alloy loop headed ringed pin. The shaft is 4mm in diameter and tapers to a point. The head of the pin is flattened and is rolled over to form a simple loop to hold the ring. The collar of the pin is decorated with five incised transverse grooves. Above and at the terminal of the loop on the other side are are two facets, which are perhaps sub-zoomorphic. Both perimeters of the loop are transversely ribbed. The copper alloy ring is undecorated, 19mm in diameter and 4mm thick. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Ga2i, very similar to Hinton 1996 fig 12 31/882 which he suggests is a 7th-9thc Irish example. Later Viking examples are generally decorated. Date changed to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ga2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"North East Lincolnshire","RIBY","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4358,"LIN-143411","Fragment of a cast copper alloy pin shaft. The pin consists of a single sheet rolled over to form a cylindrical shaft. The shaft tapers to a broken point. Similar pin shafts are found on certain types of Anglo-Scandinavian loop headed ringed pins, such as one found at Coppergate, York (Mainman, p2580).","personal-related","pin","shaft only","unknown",800.00,1066.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"North East Lincolnshire","RIBY","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4359,"LIN-145C85","Fragment of a cast copper alloy pin. The shaft is sub-rectangular in section and flattens towards the lower terminal. The head of the pin is also flattened, slightly expanded and starts to roll over before the break, presumably to secure a ring, such as those found on Anglo-Scandinavian loop headed ringed pins. A similar example was found on the same site, and is recorded on the Portable Antiquities database as LIN-134231 ADDITIONAL: check id and dating on this- is it similar to IA pins?","personal-related","pin","loop headed ringed","unknown",800.00,1066.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"North East Lincolnshire","RIBY","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4360,"KENT-146EB1","Copper alloy stirrup-strap mount. The mount is of an openwork design, with a central animal face design, suggesting it is an example of Williams Class B, Type 1 (Williams 1997, fig.54). It dates to the 11th century AD. ADDITIONAL: no image","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B1","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Langley","LANGLEY","MAIDSTONE","KENT"
4361,"LIN-167E53","Fragment of a copper alloy dress hook. The dress hook has a sub-triangular head, a form date dated by Webster to between the 7th and 9th centuries (Webster 1991, 235). On the face of the head are four punched ring and dot motifs and two holes for attachment. The tag is broken. ADDITIONAL: originally classed as a 'dress hook'. Re-named as a hooked tag, and dates broadened","personal-related","hooked tag","Class B1b","ring-and-dot decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"South Ormsby Cum Ketsby","SOUTH ORMSBY CUM KETSBY","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4362,"KENT-16DAD7","Copper alloy strap end with zoomorphic terminal. ADDITIONAL: although not easily placed within Thomas' scheme it best fits Class B, given overall shape and decoration, although the wedge-shaped split end is very reminiscient of Type G. Date changed to 800-1100","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class B1",,800.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"CLIFFE AND CLIFF WOODS","GRAVESHAM","KENT"
4363,"YORYM-2806B8","A cast iron 5 lobed Viking sword pommel. The central lobe is very dominant, being sustantianly larger than the others; at ca 38mm long it is approx half of the length of the pommel. Underneath the pommel there is a cavity to attach the pommel directly to the tang of the sword. There are also 2 lugs on either side of the hilt cavity extending down about 5mm, and 10mm long by 8mm wide, which would have held a separate upper guard bar in place. The side profile of the pommel is fairly flat rather than bulbous.
This pommel falls into Petersen's Type R or S, and so dates from ca 925 to 1000 AD. Originally it may have had an overlaid non-ferrous decorated surface but no traces survive.",,"Sword","Pommel",,925.00,1000.00,"LSx",8.00,,"GARGRAVE","CRAVEN","NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4369,"LIN-5580D0","Probable Urnes style mount or strap end. The passes of the interlace animal are not clear and there are no obvious attachment points. The mount is oval in section with a circular body and a projecting semi-circle with bulbous top. It not clear what the function of the object was, or what it was a originally a part of.",,"mount",,"urnes",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"South Ormsby cum Ketsby","SOUTH ORMSBY CUM KETSBY","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4370,"SF-BC2F96","A complete and very unusual copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap mount. This mount is most similar to Williams Class A type 1 mounts, as it is pentagonal in shape and has an engraved design on its front face (Williams 1997, 26-27, fig 19). However, it does not have a knobbed profile or rounded pendant lobe as type 1 does, but rather has straight angular sides and a circular hole measuring 5mm in diameter through a triangular shaped upper terminal. In shape it is rectangular for two thirds of its length and then tapers to a point, forming a triangular shape for its last third, it measures 58mm in length and 38mm in width, at its widest point. It also has an angled flange, unlike type 1 which have right-angle flanges, with two lower fixing holes. There is corroded iron adhering to the back face of the flange.
The front face has a boarder groove and within this there is an engraved design, both halves of which are roughly the same. This design consists, from the top down, of six grooves radiating upwards from the central circular hole, below and to either side of the hole there are opposing spirals, with three grooves radiating down from their lower edge. Inbetween these two sets of three grooves there is a cross shaped groove. Below and to either side of this there are two opposing sets of U-shaped grooves. Each of these has five U-shaped grooves arranged one inside the other with the open end of the U-shape facing the sides of the mount. There are three transverse grooves inbetween the two sets of U-shaped grooves. No parallel could be found for this engraving and it is likely to be unique, what is being represented it not clear, it could possibly be zoomorphic and the central cross shape could have Christian connotations.
This stirrup strap mount is likely to date to the 11th century and appears to be a new type of mount, as it does not fit easily into Williams 1997 typology.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A (unclassified)","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Rickinghall Superior","RICKINGHALL SUPERIOR",,"SUFFOLK"
4371,"LIN-5610F4","Cast copper alloy pin. The pin has a broken, tapering circular sectioned shaft with a small collar before the solid globular head. Plain pins of this type are used from the Roman period onwards, however the style, patina and associated finds would suggest an mid to late Anglo-Saxon date. ADDITIONAL: Collar probably precludes a Roman attribution. Hinton 1996 type Aa2i. Numdate2 changed to 900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa2i","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"South Ormsby cum Ketsby","SOUTH ORMSBY CUM KETSBY","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4372,"NARC-9172B5","Copper-alloy strap end. The strap end is of a long and thin type, 59 mm in length. The strap end is 9 mm wide at its attachment end, expanding to 13 mm wide before tapering to 3 mm at its terminal. It is decorated with a ring and dot design, comprising 11 vertical ring and dot motifs and two horizontal ones, producing a cross effect. The reverse is undecorated. The strap end is split at its attachment end where a strap would have been inserted. There are also two attachment loops for securing the strap end to the strap. The strap end is Anglo-Saxon and may date to the 9th century. ADDITIONAL: the strap-end is very plain, and as such does not easily fit into Thomas' classification given that it does not exhibit a zoomorphic terminal. However, the overall shape and decoration may place it within Class A, although I'm not overly convinced it is not ESx . Date range changed from 410-1066 to 750-1100.","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A","CHECK ESX TYPES",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"HANSLOPE","MILTON KEYNES","BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
4373,"NARC-939BA2","Copper-alloy strap end of early medieval date. The strap end is 32 mm in length and 10 mm wide. It gradually tapers to 5 mm wide at its terminal. The terminal is decorated in zoomorphic style with a stylised quadruped. Above the quadruped is a rectangular cell which may have been treated with a decorative finish, although if so no such finish remains. The strap end would originally have had a split attachment end where the strap would have slotted in. However, one of the sheets of metal that formed the split has broken off. The remaining part of the attachment end has two adjacent holes for securing the object to the strap. The reverse of the strap end is undecorated. The strap end is of Thomas' A type and dates from the late 8th to the llth century. ","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A","unknown inlaid",775.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"HANSLOPE","MILTON KEYNES","BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
4374,"BERK-958B91","A copper alloy ring, ?finger-ring. The hoop is more oval than circular and has a semi-circular cross-section. The ring probably originally had two globular decorative projections, one of which is now broken and missing. The remaining projection is flattened on two faces and each side is decorated with a single ring and dot. Traces of tinning or silvering are present.","personal-related","FINGER RING",,,410.00,1650.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Northmoor","NORTHMOOR","WEST OXFORDSHIRE","OXFORDSHIRE"
4378,"SF-BC5177","An incomplete copper-alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams Class B type 3 group 4 (Williams 91-92, fig 57, no 436-438). Only the upper half of this strap mount survives, the rest is missing due to an old break, now worn.
It is open work and trapezoidal in shape measuring 44mm in width and 27mm in surviving length. It has four upper circular apertures and the upper edge has triangular shaped protrusions along it. There is a single central projecting zoomorphic head, which is mouse/bat-like in character. The oval shaped ears and circular eyes are excentuated with decorative grooves. Around the head and the upper apertures there is engraved decoration. There are open oblong panels to either side of the head.
Similar Class B type 3 group 4 strap mounts have been found in Dersingham, Norfolk and Wargrave, Berks they are 11th century in date (Williams 1997, 94).","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B3, group 4","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Ixworth","IXWORTH",,"SUFFOLK"
4379,"SF-BC8C67","A complete copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end of Gabor Thomas's type A in very good condition. Measuring 40mm in length and 13mm in width it is roughly rectangular in shape with tapering terminals. The attachment end is split with a central notch, two parallel in situ copper-alloy rivets survive.
The front face of this strap end is decorated with incised decoration consisting of a small semi-circular panel directly below the attachment end, a rectangular panel below this and a zoomorphic terminal. Within the rectangular panel there is a central lozenge shaped boarder surrounding a four petalled flower. Each quadrant of the panel also has engraved foliage designs within it. The animal head terminal is mouse or bat like in character. With small rounded ears, a brow with decorative radiating grooves across it, circular indented eyes and a square snout.
Type A strap ends are dated from the late 8th century to 1000.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Ixworth","IXWORTH",,"SUFFOLK"
4381,"NMS-10A1E1","Late Saxon copper alloy trefoil brooch (or possibly harness fitting), worn and corroded, cast with simple and rather crude decoration of slight triangular central boss with three dots within incised bordering line, and dot at each point outside line, each foil has deep bordering line and single dot near central boss, reverse of each foil with rectangular scar from missing lugs (possibly pin lug, catch-plate and chain-loop) and traces of iron corrosion, 45mm across, thickness 3mm, weighs 19.28g. This does not have obviously Scandinavian or Anglo-Scandinavian decoration and may be of continental origin. 9th century. ","personal-related","Trefoil brooch","incised geometric decoration",,800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Wymondham","WYMONDHAM","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4384,"WILT-E74AB2","Incomplete, worn, pitted and missing all its original patina, copper alloy middle/ late Early-Medieval strap end.
It is roughly triangular in shape, its open end narrowing from 10mm in width to a point over a length of 51.5mm. It initially narrows to 7mm over 15mm then becomes more rectangular in shape, pointing inwards c.9mm from the end. The surface is extrememly worn, but the final 9mm long point appears to be rounder in section (D-shaped) and separated ?possibly by a band from the rest of the strap end. ??Perhaps an animal head.
The split end has two rivet holes, now so worn only half the hole survives. The gap for the strap at this point is c.1mm wide. The strap end is 2mm thick at the open end, 3mm thick at the rectangular part and c.2.5mm thick at the pointed end. ADDITIONAL: dates changed to 750-1100","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class B","unknown",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Kingscote","KINGSCOTE",,"GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
4386,"CAM-2CB082","A Silver Anglo Saxon Dress Hook or 'hook - fastener', 8th - 9th Century in date. In the form of a triangular plate, with two perforated attachment holes at the widest end. At the narrowest end of the tag it terminates into a zoomorphic Cat or Dog like head. The hook is slightly elongated and slightly tapered towards the end with a well pronounced over turned hook.
Decoration is a simple engraved design of horizontal Laddering around the Edges, with a horizontal plain Line border across the widest end, just inside this border it has been perforated with two attachment holes, and the back is plane .The Fastner is in fine condition and shows little wear on either the obverse or the reverse of the dress hook.
ADDITIONAL: originally classed as a 'dress hook'. Re-named as a hooked tag, and dates broadened. No image","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C7b","zoomorphic decoration",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",22.00,,"WESTON COLVILLE","SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE","CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4387,"ESS-29DF05","Incomplete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon mount. This mount is subcircular in plan, with a diameter of 43.06mm. It is extremely thin, measuring only 1.06mm thick and weighs 6.71g. The mount is decorated with an incised design of simple three-cornered knots. The geometric nature of the pattern and the curvature of the three-cornered knots result in any number of patterns visible to the eye. A simplified way of describing the pattern is of four semicircles placed around the borders of the disc, with their domes facing towards the centre. The domes but against each other so as to form a central four armed star shape. The three-cornered knots in fill the semicircles and star shape, with an incised square at the centre of the star. Remains of gilding can be seen on the front face of the mount. To one side of the mount are two rivet holes, one with a copper alloy rivet in situ. To the other side are three rivet holes, with no rivets surviving. The middle hole is clearly bisected by a later, fourth hole, which suggests that the disc may have been repaired or remounted at some point. The reverse of the mount is plain. Chipping damages the edges of the disc, but this presumably occurred in antiquity given the even patina and smoothed edges. The patina of the object is an even mid green with a small patch of lighter green corrosion.
Given the thin nature of the object and the fact that there is no sign of mountings for a pin, this object is probably not a brooch. Though this disc is similar in nature to the joined heads of the Witham pins, there is no evidence of it being attached to a pin shaft. Therefore it is suggested as being a mount. Similar disc mounts, though with different decoration and levels of craftsmanship, can be seen in Webster and Backhouse 1991, number 185 and in West 1998, number 132.5. Following these examples, this mount is presumed to be 8th century in date.",,"Mount",,,700.00,800.00,"MSx",7.00,"Berners Roding","MARGARET RODING","UTTLESFORD","ESSEX"
4388,"SF-3B04C6","Middle or Late Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy strap end of Gabor Thomas's Type B, a form less usual than his type A or F. This example is slightly damaged at the trailing end, where the very edge has been broken away on both leaves of the cleft section where the strap was attached. The break has however left half of the the two rivet-holes, one near each side, by which the tag was attached to the strap. The surviving length, which is therefore slightly less than complete, is 45.5mm, and the width is 10mm at the trailing end tapering smoothly and evenly to 5mm at the tip. Over a distance of 15mm rom the rivet holes the object is flat, with a thickness of 3mm. There is then a slight ridge, and over the next 13mm of length the object is domed in section, to a maximum thickness of 4mm. There is then a length of 5mm occupied by two bumps representing the ears, and finally a length of 9mm representing the eye-mounds and snout of the finial creature. Throughout this part the thickness is 4mm except just between the ears and eye mounds, where the object is laterally cut in to a thickness of 3mm. the underside is flat, and the sides are slightly squared.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class B1","transverse moulding",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Chelmondiston","CHELMONDISTON",,"SUFFOLK"
4389,"SF-3B3955","Small double-lugged attachment mount, apparently of Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon date, its precise function uncertain. The object is a squarish piece of copper alloy about 4.5mm thick. It tapers slightly on two sides, the third side 11mm long is slotted or split longitudinally (i.e. horizontally) in the thickness of the metal, and on the edge opposite to this the metal is extended into two ear-like loops which are pierced with slightly elongated holes of approximately 2mm gauge. On the tapering sides, on both faces of the object, there is a bulge or slight process suggestive of the raised eye of an animal. In fact the whole item resembles a Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon type of animal head with swept back ears and with the slot forming the mouth. It seems likely that this slot, which has sharply squared edges, was intended to receive a piece of flat metal or sheet, and possibly also that the pierced ears were designed to receive small nails to fasten the mount to a metal or bone/ivory backing. It may be, therefore, that this mount is part of a composite item such as an elaborate metalwork construction or an ivory box. A casket of some kind is in any case perhaps the most probable context. Nonetheless it is an unusual item not easy to parallel, despite the stylistic aspects which seem to place it between 800 and 1000 AD.",,"Mount","zoomorphic",,800.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Chelmondiston","CHELMONDISTON",,"SUFFOLK"
4390,"NLM-F6C022","An incomplete cast copper alloy pin with a polyhedral head. Each side of the head has ring and dot decoration and there is a small collar between the head and shaft. The incomplete shaft is circular and is bent to one side. The length of the pin is 28.0 and the width is 7.9m.
A similar example with no decoration can be found in Biddle, M, 1990, Vol. ii, p.555, no.1433 which was dated to 1065-70. ADDITIONAL: although mention made of Biddle's pin, this looks classic middle Saxon type. Hinton 1996 type Bb1. Re-dated 700-900.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"BINBROOK","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4394,"HESH-510D31","Incomplete cast copper alloy strap end with a stylised zoomorphic terminal of later early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date, 750 - 1000 AD.
The strap-end is sub-rectangular in plan with two parallel sides which taper slightly to a blunt point. The profile is sub-rectangular and the cross section is semi-cylindrical (D Shaped). The strap end measures 32.6 mm in length, 5.8mm width, and it is 3.4mm thick. The strap-end weighs 2.86 grams.
The majority of the strap is cast as a solid piece, with the exception of the widest part of the terminal which divides, in profile, forming a '<' shape. It is here that the strap end is broken and only a fragment of the lower part of the two plates survives. Between these two plates the strap would have been riveted through two circular holes. However, these are not present due to damage.
The decoration on the upper surface of the strap-end is fairly simple. It consists of three sets of double parallel transverse lines which are evenly spaced in the upper two thirds of the strap end. In the lower third of the strap end is a stylised zoomorphic terminal. This consists of two small transverse bars and two small incised dots located at the base of the terminal. These might represent the ears and snout of an animal.
The reverse of the strap end is flat and undecorated.
The strap-end has a dark-mid green and mid-brown patina. The patina covers the areas which have been damaged. This suggests that the damage has not occurred recently. The strap-end is also slightly asymmetrical due to abrasion in the plough soil.
Similar parallels can be seen in Gabor Thomas's paper on Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age strap-ends, specifically in his Class B type I: Transverse grooved. This class of strap-end are dated to the mid 8th through to the 11th centuries AD (750-1100).
","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class B1","transverse grooves",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Frome Valley","MUCH COWARNE","herefordshire","HEREFORD AND WORCESTER"
4396,"WMID-681361","A cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount (length: 44.5mm; width: 32mm; thickness: 16mm; weight: 24.31g). It has been classified by David Williams as a Class B, Type 4 mount (East Anglian-type face mounts). The edges of the mount are scalloped down the sides with a rounded tip at the top where the upper fixing hole is situated. There are slight incised markings at the top but there are stronger defined features below in the form of three grooved ridges and lines that radiate from below the fixing hole. A stylistic human face appears below these lines with well defined eyebrows and slanting eyes as well as a three-dimensional protruding nose at the bottom. There are also slight markings to possibly illustrate cheeks. On the back of the mount, there are remains of an iron fitting or strap with two intact iron rivets still in place at the lower fixing holes.
The mount is in an overall fair condition with slight iron corrosion at the back and base. It has a dark green patina. Similar examples have been found at Horspath, Oxon and Bentley, Suffolk (Williams, 1997, Ref nos. 463 & 464, fig 59, page 95).
A group of twelve East Anglian-type face mounts have been illustrated by Williams (1997), of which all but three come from East Anglia. The exceptions are from Oxfordshire. Each example depicts a fully modelled mask and it is the nose and eyes that are accentuated. The nine East Anglian mounts and Ref no. 463 all have scalloped edges (see Williams, 1997, page 95, fig 59).
Most copper alloy mounts are placed at the junction of the stirrup and stirrup leathers and mainly date to the 11th century AD. They have a wide distribution within England and to an uncertain extent on the near continent. Although most mounts appear in a variety of shapes, they can usually be recognised by a prominent flange/ ledge which projects from the lower edge of the undecorated reverse side. The flange appears at right angles or more obliquely, and the objects have two or more fixing holes, usually for iron rivets. Class B, in particular, have a trapezoidal or sub-rectangular shape. They are often openworked, mostly have flanges angled obliquely downwards and have bear zoomorphic heads facing outwards.
Williams, David, 'Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts: A Classification & Catalogue', 1997, CBA Research Report 111, Council for British Archaeology: pages 2, 22, 95-98.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B4","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"IDLICOTE","IDLICOTE",,"WARWICKSHIRE"
4400,"LIN-B83803","Gilt copper alloy fragment. The object is flat, circa 1mm thick and plain on the reverse. The obverse has an unclear moulded zoomorphic decoration. At first glance the object resembles the shape of a bird brooch, however most sides have been cut or reworked and so this appearance is likely to be coincidental. The curving outer edge appears to be an original edge as does the v-shaped recess on the inner side, indicating that the original object consisted of openwork decoration. The original object may have been a brooch or decorative head from a pin but the fragment is too small to say with any certainty. Its general form and and the use of gilding would fit in with an eighth century date but the decoration does not really fit although there is not enough of it surviving to be sure. ",,"unidentified object",,,500.00,799.00,"E/MSx",7.00,"North East Lincolnshire","RIBY","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4402,"LIN-B8AA32","Copper alloy fragment from an unidentified object. The reverse is plain and flat. The obverse has a worn moulded decoration resembling a stem with branches. At the top of the stem is a circular hole. The object may be a fragment of an Urnes style strap end or strap mount.",,"unidentified object",,"urnes",1050.00,1099.00,"LSx",7.00,"North East Lincolnshire","RIBY","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4403,"LIN-B8FA61","Gilt copper alloy fragment. The object is flat, circa 1.5mm thick and plain on the reverse. The obverse has an unclear chip carved decoration, however there is too little of it remaining to say for certain what the decoration was or what object the fragment is from. There is a circular hole in the object with a circle below with two spear-like objects crossing it. Every side of the fragment has been cut. This might be part of a brooch or mount.",,"unidentified object",,,700.00,799.00,"MSx",7.00,"North East Lincolnshire","RIBY","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4405,"BERK-CEBC67","An Early Medieval (800-1100) copper alloy bird brooch. There are two lugs arranged in line with each other; one at either end of the length of the brooch. No remains of the pin are present. The head of the bird is broken off and missing and there is some damage to the fan-shaped tail. The feet are joined together leaving a hole at the bottom. There are three raised ribs running horizontally along the length of the body towards the tail, possibly a form of stylised wing. The decoration could be of Ringerike style.","personal-related","Bird brooch","LSX/Viking","Ringerike-related",800.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Chievely","CHIEVELEY","WEST BERKSHIRE","BERKSHIRE"
4406,"CAM-D241B8","Rectangular buckle frame made from copper alloy. The top and bottom edges are wide, a low triangle in cross-section and decorated with slight transverse ribbing. At either end of the top and bottom edges is an outward-facing animal head seen from above, with individually rounded ears each with a blind-drilled dot. There does not appear to be any other decoration on the animal heads, but the buckle is in general quite worn and details may now be missing. The bar and the outer edge of the buckle frame are both much narrower than the top and bottom edges, and are both inset so that they run between the ears of the animals. The bar is circular in cross-section, 3 mm in diameter; the outer edge is similar, but in the centre is a pointed and grooved pin rest. When the buckle frame is held with the pin rest to the right, the top edge is bent; this bend does not appear to have caused any stress to the metal and so probably occurred during antiquity. The buckle measures 36 mm long by 31 mm wide, and is a maximum of 5.5 mm thick. It weighs 13.9g.
This buckle is similar to a series of D-shaped buckles decorated with animal heads, one of which is published by David Hinton (1974, no. 32). A rectangular example has recently been found in Hampshire (PA database no. HAMP-BA9FC0) but they are far less common than the D-shaped variety. From the style of the animal heads they can be dated to the 9th or 10th century. ADDITIONAL: no image,but I think it's a Class A2","personal-related","Buckle","Class C1","zoomorphic decoration",800.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,,"LINTON","SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE","CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4408,"CAM-D36C85","Circular copper-alloy brooch, 24 mm in diameter, with a raised border decorated with closely spaced transverse nicks. Neatly filling most of the sunken centre is a backward-looking animal in counter-relief, with four legs, a long neck and a large tail curled over the back. No details appear to have been added to the animal there is no eye or mane but the brooch is quite worn, and so these may have once been present. All legs apart from the front one have clearly defined feet, and the two central feet have two or three toes. On the reverse are the remains of a broken transverse pin lug, and the rather taller stub of a longitudinal catchplate. The metal has corroded to a matt brown with patches of a pale green surface surviving, particularly in the sunken parts of the front. Maximum thickness (including catchplate) 6 mm. It weighs 6.2g.
These brooches appear to be an East Anglian type and date to the middle Anglo-Saxon period (8th or 9th century). ADDITIONAL: no image. I'm slightly unclear regarding date as these are generally thought to be 9th-10th century types (Mainman and Rogers 2000, 2571). They are not exclusively East Anglian. Dates amended.","personal-related","Disc brooch","backward looking animal decoration",,900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,,"LINTON","SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE","CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4409,"BH-E7C0D4","Incomplete copper-alloy pin of middle Anglo-Saxon (Early medieval) date. The remaining portion consists of the head and upper 10.5mm of the shaft. The pin head is globular and measures 7.9mm wide by 8.2mm high. It is decorated with a repeating ring and dot pattern. There are three horizontal bands of closely-spaced ring and dot around the outside of the head and a single one on the slightly flattened top. A narrow collar separates the head from the shaft. The shaft is circular in section, with a diameter of 2mm. The object has a green patina and is slightly corroded. The overall length of the piece is 19.4mm and the weight is 2.71g. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Ac2. Date range changed from 720-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ac2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Stondon","STONDON","SOUTH BEDFORDSHIRE","BEDFORDSHIRE"
4411,"SOMDOR-F76C20","Copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams class A type 5. It has a pentagonal frame with a tapering, elongate point uppermost. There are two 'tendril' round ended projections running along the sides of the point. This joins to form a bar which would have terminated in the apex loop which is missing. The bar is D-sectioned. There was probably line decoration inside the frame but this has been obscured by corrosion. The back is undecorated. There is the stub of the iron spike at the base, in the middle above the flange. There are no rivet holes. ","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A5","unknown",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Tarrnant Monkton","TARRANT MONKTON",,"DORSET"
4412,"SF-F8E263","A complete cast copper-alloy unidentified object. Circular in shape measuring 22mm in external diameter and 17mm in internal diameter. This object has internal open work decoration consisting of a central open work lozenge shape formed of two pairs of opposing curving rectangular cross-sectioned copper-alloy bars. The outer circular hoop is decorated on both faces where these bars meet it with small horse-shoe shaped indentations, now worn. Along the outer edge of the hoop there is a central circumferent row of more small horse-shoe shaped indentations.
No parallel could be found for this object. Its function is therefore unknown as is its date. It is likely however, to date from the early medieval period onwards. ",,"unidentified object",,,700.00,1540.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Great Finborough","GREAT FINBOROUGH",,"SUFFOLK"
4414,"SWYOR-FB2881","Copper alloy, early medieval strap-end of Thomas's type A. The strap end is formed of two flat pieces of copper alloy joined together. It measures 11mm in width and tapers from the middle to a zoomorphic terminal with visible eyes and nostrils at the closed end. The central front surface of the strap end (above the terminal) is decorated with a central rectangular cell containing incised crosses. On either side of this cell is a single incised line running along the outside edge of the object. The open attachment end of the strap end has broken off but this is where the object would have been riveted to the strap or belt. The strap end measures 37mm in length and weighs 2.91g. ","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Gringley on the hill","GRINGLEY ON THE HILL",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4416,"IOW-2726B1","Incomplete copper alloy harness link of Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century date. Length 54mm, maximum width 23.5mm and 9mm thick at the central boss. Weight 17.09g.
When complete the piece consisted of a central boss connected to a loop each side by a short arm. The loop is tri-lobed. However one of the loops is broken and missing. The breaks appear to be old. Viewing the strap link in plan, with the surviving loop to one side, the central boss is hemispherical-shaped and is flanked either side by a closely related vertical moulded rib. The boss is hollow on the underside. Both arms are D-shaped in cross-section, flat on the underside. One arm is shorter than the other. The arm connecting the boss to the loop, which is now missing, is 8mm in length and the other arm is 10mm in length. The surviving loop is roughly lozenge-shaped with a sub-circular opening which has a maximum diameter of 13mm. Two of the corners of the lozenge are furnished with a distinct rounded knop. However, a third corner is plain and does not have knop. The underside of the loop is chamfered (it slopes outwards from the top of the opening towards the bottom edge of the loop). Assuming that the broken loop was of the same dimensions as the surviving loop, the overall length of the link would have been about 72mm. The harness link is in a stable condition and below a thin pale green surface residue the metal is a mid-brown colour.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","Harness link","Class 1av",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Arreton Parish","ARRETON",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
4417,"NLM-4B4AF7","A cast copper alloy Zoomorphic stirrup terminal in the form of an animal head. The high relief animal head has prominent ears, large oval eyes and a projecting snout with a lobe at each side. The back of the stirrup terminal is hollow and may contain traces of lead solder. The length of the stirrup terminal is 36.1mm and the width is 11.6mm.","horse-related","stirrup terminal","Williams Fig. 2a","Ringerike/Urnes style",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BINBROOK","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4419,"SF-4FF935","A complete copper-alloy early medieval hooked tag. The plate is roughly triangular in shape, measuring 27mm in length and 17mm in width at its widest point. The hook is integral and complete but has been rolled up upon itself behind the plate. The plate has two parallel rounded lobes in either corner of its upper edge with circular sewing holes measuring c1.5mm in diameter through them. The front face of the plate is decorated with parallel longitudinal boarder rows and a central row of tiny circular indentations. Either side of the central row there is a longitudinal row of five parallel ring and dot motifs. The hook is complete and tapers to a sharp point.
This hooked tag is similar from examples from Worlington (see SF-3D3C81) and Freckenham (see SF- SF-4DDBB1). ADDITIONAL: plate shape somewhat difficult to described simply- the main plate is rectangular before tapering to the hook. Dates changed 600-1100","personal-related","hooked tag","Class B1a","ring-and-dot decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Laxfield","LAXFIELD",,"SUFFOLK"
4420,"SF-508BB4","A complete copper-alloy early medieval hooked tag. The plate is roughly oval in shape, measuring 12mm in width and 11mm in length. There are two parallel circular attachment holes near to the upper edge of the plate, each measuring c1mm in diameter. The plate tapers into the integral hook, which measures 7mm in length and 2.8mm in width. It tapers towards its point, which is now twisted at right angles to the shaft of the hook due to damage, presumably sustained before or whilst this object was in the archaeological record or plough soil.
This hooked tag is similar to examples from Freckenham (see SF-4E0B61) and Gedding (see SF-D74326).","personal-related","hooked tag","Class D6b","undecorated",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Laxfield","LAXFIELD",,"SUFFOLK"
4421,"SF-50A8A8","A copper-alloy middle Anglo-Saxon pin. The pinhead is globular, measuring c18mm in diameter. The top of the head is slightly flattened. The head is decorated with now worn ring-and-dot motifs, there is one in the centre of the top of the head and others decorate the rest of the head. Due to wear it is difficult to tell if these motifs are arranged at randomn or in several circumferencial rows. There is a distinct circumferencial collar where the head joins the shaft. The shaft has a circular cross-section and is slightly bent it measures 36mm in surviving length (the tip of the shaft is missing due to an old break) and 2mm in width. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Ac2i. Date changed from 720-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ac2i","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Laxfield","LAXFIELD",,"SUFFOLK"
4422,"SF-512F20","A complete early medieval copper-alloy hooked tag. The plate is roughly triangular in shape, measuring 18mm in length and 15mm in width. There are two parallel drilled circular sewing holes through the upper corners of the plate, measuring c1.3mm in diameter. The plate does not appear to be decorated. There are two parallel transverse grooves inbetween the plate and hook. The hook is small and turns backwards sbruptly forming a U-shape. It measures c5mm in length and 2mm in width and tapers to a sharp point.
This hooked tag is similar in its size and triangular shape to examples discovered at Worlington (see SF-3D3C81) and Battisford (see SF-414FC1).","personal-related","hooked tag","Class B3b","undecorated",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Laxfield","LAXFIELD",,"SUFFOLK"
4423,"SUSS-533066","Two rim sherds of pottery dating from the 10th 13th century. One sherd weighs 8.88g, the other much smaller sherds weighs 3.75g. Both sherds have a square section with a flat, slightly lipped rim. The sherds both have a high flint tempering content and some mica inclusions. The sherds are relatively un-diagnostic as they are both small sherds. ","work/domestic-related","pot","CONTAINER",,900.00,1250.00,"LSx",5.00,"Middleton-on-Sea","MIDDLETON ON SEA","ARUN","WEST SUSSEX"
4432,"NMS-77BF92","Late Saxon Cloisonné enamel gilt copper alloy disc brooch with seven lobes, each originally containing a glass sphere. Apart from these tiny missing pieces of glass, the brooch is in remarkable condition with gilding present over most of the metal surfaces, even on the edges of the cells, & the enamel cells are brightly coloured.
Soldered onto the reverse are a pin lug consisting of two lugs with a wire pin looped around an copper alloy spindle held by the lugs, & a short, low catchplate.
The cloisonné enamel decoration consists of four semicircular cells, two blue & two yellow, producing a central equal-armed cross pattée-shaped cell of black enamel, in the middle of which there is a small lozengiform cell of white enamel.
The glass spheres in the lobes are coloured as follows (starting at the uppermost in the drawing & going clockwise): translucent green, uncertain (fragment only), missing, opaque white, missing, missing, translucent blue.
The design is the same as that of an unprovenanced & lost example described by Buckton (1986) 10, fig.2 no.5.
Late 10th 11th cent.","personal-related","Disc brooch","lobed, enamelled, gilt cloisonne decoration",,900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Quidenham","QUIDENHAM","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4433,"KENT-782071","Copper alloy strap end with zoomorphic terminal. There is a zone of incised linear decoration on the front of upper part of the strap end, this being inlaid with silver. This is an example of Thomas' Class B, which date from the late 8th century to the end of the 11th. ","personal-related","STRAP END","Thomas Class B1","transverse grooves",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"BISHOPSBOURNE","BISHOPSBOURNE","CANTERBURY","KENT"
4434,"KENT-785856","Copper alloy pin head, decorated with ring-and-dot designs. Identified as Anglo-Saxon on the basis of this decoration. No other details recorded. ADDITIONAL: no image.","personal-related","PIN","unknown","ring-and-dot",450.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"BISHOPSBOURNE","BISHOPSBOURNE","CANTERBURY","KENT"
4435,"WAW-470694","The Early Medieval brooch is made from cast copper alloy and iron. In length it is 40.1mm and 7.8mm wide across the spring. It weighs 6.12g.
The spring component of the brooch appears to be made of iron, which is fitted through a copper alloy cylinder. The iron is visible, and fills this cyliner. No details of the spring is otherwise visible and the pin is missing. The cylinder is intgral to the bow. There does not appear to be a missing head plate for example, as there are no broken edges on the upper portion of the bow.
The bow tapers towards a blunt point at the foot. It is decorated with high-relief horizontal ridges which are 'V' shaped in profile. There are five of these ridges, and they terminate at the mid point and apex of the bow. On the lower portion of the bow are two pairs of three feint horizontal grooves.
The catchplate is solid and complete.
The surface of the brooch has a well developed shiny light green patina, and the iron is stable.
ADDITIONAL: is this not a Roman bow brooch?","personal-related","Unidentified brooch","possibly Roman?",,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Upton Snodsbury area","UPTON SNODSBURY","Worcester","HEREFORD AND WORCESTER"
4436,"SF-8FD422","An incomplete copper-alloy early-medieval hooked tag. The plate of this tag is flat and circular in shape measuring 11mm in diameter. There are two parallel circular sewing holes near to the upper edge of the plate, measuring 1.5mm in diameter. The front face of the plate is decorated with two central parallel longitudinal grooves and two opposing curving diagonal grooves across the lower three quarters of both sides of the front face of the plate. The hook is incomplete due to an old break, it measures 5.3mm in surviving length and 2.6mm in width.
This hooked tag is similar to other examples discovered in Suffolk from Freckenham (see SF-4E0B61), Gedding (see SF-D74376) and Laxfield (see SF-508BB4).","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A2ib","incised decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Ixworth","IXWORTH",,"SUFFOLK"
4437,"SF-8FFB72","An incomplete copper-alloy early-medieval hooked tag. The plate is triangular in shape, measuring 21.8mm in length and 15mm in width at its widest point. The plate has two parallel upper rounded lobes, one is now incomplete due to an old break. Through the centre of each lobe there is a circular sewing hole, c2mm in diameter. The front face of the plate is decorated with five ring and dot motifs arranged 2-2-1. The hook is faceted and measures 9.6mm in surviving length and 3mm in width, it tapers towards its now missing point.
This hooked tag is similar to another with a triangular shaped plate from Worlington, Suffolk (see SF-3D3C81).","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C1a","ring-and-dot decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Ixworth","IXWORTH",,"SUFFOLK"
4438,"SF-9013F7","An incomplete copper-alloy early-medieval hooked tag, only about two thirds of the plate of this hooked tag survives the rest of the plate and the hook are missing due to old breaks. The plate is triangular in shape, measuring 13.8mm in length and 9.5mm in surviving width, the upper corner of the plate is missing, which would have originally have been its widest point. One complete and one parallel incomplete sewing hole can be seen near to the upper edge of the plate, c1.3mm in diameter. The front face is decorated with three longitudinal rows of ring-and-dot motifs the arranged 3(?)-3-2. ","personal-related","hooked tag","Class B1b","ring-and-dot decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Ixworth","IXWORTH",,"SUFFOLK"
4440,"LIN-9040A4","Unidentified composite object. The object consists of a small circular-sectioned solid iron shaft with a domed terminal. A copper alloy ring surrounds the terminal. This ring is decorated with a row of punched dots. The object is similar in appearence to, although being somewhat smaller than an copper alloy ringed iron hasp from York (Ottaway, p2844, fig. 1422).",,"unidentified object",,,410.00,1499.00,"ASx only",8.00,,"KEELBY","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4441,"NMS-A06A95","Late Saxon stirrup terminal, hollow-cast with engraved details around ears, eyes and slightly hooked snout, much solder survives in hollow reverse where once attached to stirrup, length 34mm. Williams unclassified zoomorphic type, 11th century.","horse-related","stirrup terminal","Williams Fig. 4","zoomorphic, simplified",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Shouldham","SHOULDHAM","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4443,"LIN-A0D5B1","Copper alloy strap end. The terminal of the strap end is in the form of an animals head, with crudely incised lines depicting the ears, eyes and snout. The face of the strap end is divided into two semi-circulr panels and two triangular panels by a linear rope pattern. In each panel is an uncertain motif. Thomas type A. ADDITIONAL: although central decoration may be poorly executed Trewhiddle style, this is by no means certain. The geometric design probably fits better with type 2 strap-ends. Numdate1 changed to 750","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Sleaford Area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4446,"SUSS-A7C147","D-shaped buckle frame and integral plate, made from copper alloy. The frame is a maximum of 18 mm wide, and its edges are a quarter-circle in cross-section, hollow on the inside. At the pin rest is a stylised animal head, best viewed from the side. This has a groove on the back of the head between the ears to take the tip of the pin, and long oval relief eyes. The muzzle is angled upwards, and there is a blob right at the end of the buckle, perhaps representing something like a ball held in the mouth. The animal head is quite large and heavy, and on the underside it is hollowed out to lighten it a little. On the other side of the buckle frame, there is an off-centre circular pin hole, and to either side of this a slightly projecting moulding recalling a pin bar. The integral plate is deeply split into two, but the front half has now broken away. The surviving rear half flares slightly and irregularly, to a maximum surviving width of 17 mm at the open end; the original width might have been slightly wider, but one corner has broken away. The overall length of the buckle is 44 mm, and it weighs 10.11g. This style of buckle dates to the later part of the Anglo-Saxon period or the very early part of the post-Conquest period, 11th or 12th century. ADDITIONAL: very similar style to NLM4249. NB this one identified by HG and no mention of Ringerike style.","personal-related","BUCKLE","Class A3 with integral plate","zoomorphic decoration",1000.00,1150.00,"LSx",7.00,"Firle","FIRLE","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
4448,"IOW-D1F072","Incomplete copper alloy Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, type 11A. Length 45mm, width 30mm and 12mm thick. Weight 25.02g.
The mount is sub-triangular in plan and when complete, would have had a tri-lobed apex loop. This part of the mount is broken and missing, so that only part of the loop survives. The breaks are old. Just below the loop is a replacement hole with the corroded remains of an iron rivet. As viewed in plan, the sides are convex and flare outwards to rounded corners and a horizontal base. The base has a rearward projecting right angled flange. Immediately above the flange are two fixing holes which are filled with iron corrosion. The corrosion extends along the lower edge at the rear and appears to be the remains of the rivets and also the iron fitting that would have been positioned at the rear. The front of the mount has moulded decoration in the form of a lion facing left and looking upwards with its left paw raised and tail curled between the legs and over the back. The tri-lobed apex of this class of mount often show a pair of joined spirals from between which a pendent lobe penetrates the frame above the lion’s head. On this piece, however, the joined spiral decoration, if present, is obscured by the corrosion of the iron rivet. The rear side of the mount is plain and undecorated.
The metal is largely a purple/brown colour and appears to be in a stable conditon.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11a (L)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"neaar Plaish (from get-a-map)","Carisbrooke",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
4453,"NMS-E609B5","Middle Saxon Pin, collared, facetted globular head (6 x 6mm) with 13 ring-and-dots, bent shaft, length (un-bent, including head) 68mm. ADDITIONAL: spherical-headed pin with pronounced ring collar and swelling shaft. Hinton 1996 type Ac2ii. Date range changed from 720-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ac2ii","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Merton","MERTON","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4455,"SOMDOR-F48F97","Copper alloy ring terminal with zoomorphic head decoration. The zoomorphic head projects from the ring and is hollowed at the back possibly to take the point of the shaft. It could have been mounted on a wooden, bone or metal shaft and may be a pointer or stylus. Dimensions: 20.25mm x 14.30mm (ring diameter)",,"RING","terminal",,900.00,1099.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown SOUTH SOMERSET","SOUTH SOMERSET","SOMERSET"
4456,"SOMDOR-F51315","Copper alloy inscribed strip which is broken and incomplete. The strip is a tapering, thin bar rectangular in section. It tapers to a point. It is inscribed on both sides in an early style of lettering, possibly Roman or Lombardic. There are inscribed lateral lines along each of the sides. The inscription is framed by parallel lines. After each inscription continuing to the point of the strip is a curvilinear inscribed line with a dash in each curve.It is possibly an ownership or dedicatory inscription from a shrine, reliquery or book cover. Dimensions: 129.12mm x 10.13mm x 3.44mm. Weight 21.01g",,"INSCRIBED OBJECT","strip",,1050.00,1099.00,"LSx",7.00,,"COMBE ST NICHOLAS",,"SOMERSET"
4458,"NMS-F58777","Middle Saxon Pin, nicely finished, crisp condition, cuboid head (5 x 6mm) with corners cut off and square-sectioned collar and groove below, shaft has slight expansion just over 1/3 up from point, length 65mm. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Ba2ii. Date range changed from 720-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ba2ii","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Merton","MERTON","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4463,"NMS-F8BEB1","Middle Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch, slightly hollow-backed D-sectioned bow with flattened median band decorated with double pecked line, elaborate cruciform terminals with incised cast decoration of segmented cross-shape, double pierced lug with corroded fragment of iron pin and broken catch-plate on reverse, 23 x 62mm. ","personal-related","ansate brooch","cruciform terminals","cast decoration",720.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Little Barningham","LITTLE BARNINGHAM","NORTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4466,"NMS-F9A865","Middle Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch, shallow bow and three-lobed end with three engraved longitudinal grooves, worn transverse grooves on centre of bow, scar of lug with iron corrosion and bent catch-plate on reverse, 6 x 41mm. ","personal-related","ansate brooch","rectangular terminal, Caterpillar type","grooved decoration",720.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Little Barningham","LITTLE BARNINGHAM","NORTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4472,"GLO-0DB520","Strap end
9th century, Anglo-Saxon
Length 41mm, width 9mm, thickness 1.5mm.
Rectangular shape with convex edges, the widest point is 9mm wide ⅓ of the way along its length from the attachment end (which is 7mm wide), the terminal narrows to 5mm. The terminal has an animal face mask comprising of a semicircular groove either side of the flat ended terminal which would represent the eyes, above this is a triangle (5.5mm long) with a convex base and concave sides that points towards the attachment end. The triangle is split into to with a line running down the centre, there are also two diagonal lines in either side. Above this on either side is a second set of semicircles, one on either side. These semicircles have a chipped crescent towards the end and would represent ears, these have been truncated by the main decoration.
The main decoration comprises of an animal facing towards the attachment end with its head looking over its shoulder, this is placed within a linear border with concave ends. At the attachment end there is another triangle with a convex base and concave sides, that maybe reminiscent of foliage decoration.
There are two rivet holes in the attachment end, which is split so that the strap will fit into the slot. The reverse is plain.
All of the decoration is chip carved and in the trewhiddle style.
Mid green patina with almost its entire original surface remaining, evidence for iron corrosion around one of the rivet holes.
This type of strap end dates to the 9th century and this type is more commonly found in the North Easton part of the country, with examples being found on sites such as Whitby Abbey that have been dated to the early 9th century (Wilson, 1964, 195-200). ADDITIONAL: Belongs to Thomas' Class A1, dated c.750-1000. Date range changed accordingly.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"ALMONDSBURY","CITY OF BRISTOL","AVON"
4477,"IOW-214AD4","Incomplete copper alloy Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century, stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, type 9. Length 31.5mm, width 27mm and 3.5mm thick. Weight 16.29g.
Viewed in plan, the mount has a rounded top with an integral apex loop part of which is broken and missing. The circular hole which formed the loop would have been about 3.5mm in diameter when complete. Although each side is badly abraded, it is apparent that the sides sloped gently inwards from the top towards the horizontal base which is in the form of an angled flange. The flange, which extends about 4mm rearwards, has two fixing holes, both filled with the remains of iron rivets. These rivets secured the mount to an iron fitting or strap. Viewed from the side, the back of the mount is mildly concave, whilst the front is generally convex. The flange is at an angle of about 120 degrees from vertical. Decoration at the front of this mount and other mounts of this class depict a human mask with a projecting chin, prominent cheeks and pointed oval eyes. Mouths on these masks are usually straight or down-turned. However, due to corrosion, it is unclear which type of mouth this mount was decorated with. The breaks at the apex and the abraded surfaces along each side appear to be old.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A9","anthropomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Arreton Parish","ARRETON",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
4479,"LIN-389E16","Copper alloy ansate brooch. The brooch is symmetrical, semi-circular in section and has an arched central portion. At either end of the arch is a small raised collar followed by a square panel with a knopped terminal. There is a catchplate on the reverse, and two pin lugs containing an iron pin and iron corrosion.","personal-related","ansate brooch","rectangular terminal, Caterpillar type","ribbed decoration",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sleaford Area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4480,"LIN-38B7D6","Copper alloy pin with a globular head and small collar below. The shaft is circular in section and is broken 34mm from the head. It is middle Anglo-Saxon in date, 8th or 9th century. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Aa2.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sleaford Area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4482,"IOW-8969F2","Incomplete copper alloy Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, type 10A. Length 50mm, width 31mm and 12mm thick. Weight 31.09g.
The mount is sub-triangular in plan and part of the apex loop is broken and missing. The break is old. The front is convex and the rear is concave. As viewed in plan, the sides are convex and flare outwards towards the corners of the horizontal base. In each of the lower corners is a rivet hole, each of which is about 2.5mm in diameter. The rivets are missing. A small fracture extends from the right hand hole to the right hand edge of the mount. At the base is a right angled flange which extends rearward about 5mm. The mount is in a stable condition and the metal is generally a purple brown colour. Decoration at the front reflects the Urnes style influence and depicts a coiled animal. Wilson’s description of a similarly decorated mount can conveniently be quoted here for this mount (Wilson 1964, 143):
”...an interlaced animal, seen from above, with its head at the apex, its two ears are comma-shaped and the snout is faceted. One front leg curves away gracefully from a spiral hip just behind the head and thence bends at right-angles to form a curled paw above the right hand ear of the animal. The other front leg extends straight down into the right hand corner. The body turns so that the hindquarters are within a loop formed by the body of the animal, while the tail, with its curled terminal, emerges to balance the front leg on the opposite side of the head”.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A10a","urnes",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Newchurch Parish","NEWCHURCH",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
4483,"SF-8D7332","Leaden spindle whorl, bi-convex in shape with sharply carinated edge. The object is 29mm in diameter and 12mm thick, with a central hole of 9mm gauge. It is quite unornamented.","work/domestic-related","SPINDLE WHORL",,,800.00,1200.00,"M/LSx",9.00,"Oakley","BROME AND OAKLEY",,"SUFFOLK"
4484,"SF-8F90A4","A weight or whorl of globular form with a central hole, apparently made of a ceramic material which now has the appearance of soft, whitish stone. The diameter is 23mm, the thickness 13mm, and the gauge of the hole 8mm. The object overall is subspherical and slightly irregular in form. It may be a spindle-whorl, but if so it is a very small one. If it had some other use as a pendant weight, it shows no sign of wear through motion against a string or thrum passing through the hole. the walls of the perforation are quite straight-sided. ADDITIONAL: no image",,"weight","ceramic, globular, perforated",,800.00,1400.00,"LSx",5.00,"Thrandeston","THRANDESTON",,"SUFFOLK"
4485,"SUSS-A03923","A copper alloy harness pendant. The pendant appears to be an early example, as a quick look through the literature has not revealed a parallel. The pendant has been cast from a single plate of copper alloy. The plate is very thin, measuring at the maximum only 2.1mm. The pendent itself is roughly oval in shape, with the attachment loop extending from the top of the oval. The loop is integral to the main part of the pendant. The loop is almost triangular in shape, which a circular hole, so that the pendant can be suspended. The front of the pendant appears to depict two shields, either side of a geometric design. The shield on the left has a cross on it. The shield on the right has mostly worn away, so very little detail survives. The reverse is undecorated. Tiny traces of gilding survive of the front surface of the pendant. Much of the original surface has been removed from the pendant. The surface is badly corroded and pitted. The metal has a mid brownish-green patina. The loop is now bent out of position. The harness pendant probably dates from the 11th 12th century, if not earlier. Weight: 4.1g. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","pendant","geometric",1000.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,"Itchingfield","ITCHINGFIELD","HORSHAM","WEST SUSSEX"
4486,"IOW-A0A621","Cast copper alloy unidentified object of possible Early-Medieval date. Length 61mm, width 11.5mm and 5mm thick. Weight 10.92g.
The object consists of two sections which are divided by an ?engraved chevron-shaped motif. One section is bevelled at the front and flat at the back.there is an old break at the end. The other section is sub-circular in cross-section and has a rounded blunt end. Where the patina has survived it is a dark green colour.
",,"Unidentified object",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"just south of Marvel Farm (from get-a-map)","Blackwater",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
4487,"GLO-A1E1B3","Harness Mount, Bridle cheek-piece
Anglo-Saxon
11th century
Length 60mm, width 26mm, thickness 7mm
Central roundel, sub oval in plan (12mm long 10mm wide, 7mm thick) with a flat top. The roundel is flanked by a bar on either side and a knop on the top and bottom (the knops are 4mm long, 4mm wide, 5mm high). The bars that protrude from either side of the roundel are (11mm long, 7-5mm wide, 5mm high), with a trapezoid cross section. At the end of one of the bars is an oval loop. This loop has a knop on the top and bottom side (3m long, 4mm wide, 2mm high), these are situated on the short side of the oval. There is a further knop at the terminal (6mm high, 5mm wide, 3mm thick). There would have been a symmetrical loop on the end of the other bar. However, this side has been extensively damaged resulting in only a fragment of that loop remaining consisting of about a half of one side.
Half of the artefact had a light green pitted patina whilst the test has a reddish brown colour pitted surface, furthermore, on some of the corners the corrosion products have been worn to revel the original metal surface. Therefore, none of the original surface remains.
Examples are know from sites such as Middle Harling and are generally thought to date to the 11th century.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","Class 2aii",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Harasfield","HARESFIELD",,"GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
4490,"BUC-B6F9D2","An irregular copper alloy object, which appears to have been heat damaged. It is difficult to be sure of what the object may have been but it is possible that it was a shield shaped mount. There are no signs of loops, holes or rivets for attaching the object. Traces of the purple corrosion products imply the presence of some silver. ADDITIONAL: very degraded, but probably a mount. The top appears to be incomplete, and the terminal *may* be zoomorphic.The central field definitely has some form of raised linear decoration but it is too difficult to describe further.",,"Mount","unclear","unclear",400.00,1500.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Brackley","BRACKLEY","SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE"
4491,"SWYOR-B804D7","Early medieval brooch made from copper alloy. The brooch is similar to those described by Hattatt as Violin Brooches although these are (incorrectly) dated to the Iron Age/Bronze Age (in Hattatts visual catalogue, Fig.140, Nos. 1442 & 1385). The brooch is constructed from a single piece of copper alloy. The front of the brooch is a flattened lozenge shape and is decorated with an incised dot decoration around the edge although it is broken about halfway across. The front of the brooch narrows to form a strip of copper alloy which is bent over on itself to create a spring with one loop (looking very much like a safety pin mechanism). The pin narrows even more as it curves around to form the pin and has a square shaped section. The brooch weighs 5.82g and measures 38mm in length, 17mm in width (across the face of the brooch) and 16mm in thickness.",,"Violin brooch","punched decoration",,400.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Gringley on the hill","GRINGLEY ON THE HILL",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4492,"SWYOR-B867A5","Copper alloy equal armed brooch dating from 6th-8th century. The brooch has sub-rectangular terminals on each arm and a raised bow between the arms (which is semi-circular in profile). In the centre of the bow there is a single raised rib (running across the width of the bow) but there appears to be no other decoration on the brooch. On the back of the brooch, at one end there is a double pin ?bar? Lug with corroded material between the lugs. At the other terminal there is a hooked catchplate. The brooch weighs 8.21g and measures 42mm in length, 8mm in width and 15mm in thickness (across the profile of the bow). ADDITIONAL: this is a MSx Caterpillar brooch, adting c.700-900.","personal-related","ansate brooch","rectangular terminal, Caterpillar type","ribbed decoration",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Gringley on the hill","GRINGLEY ON THE HILL",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4493,"SWYOR-B89D43","Late Anglo-Saxon strap-end, of Thomas’s type A. The strap-end is made from copper alloy but has the remains of silver plating on the front of the object and six silver rivets (probably to attach the plating to the copper alloy). This type is typical of the 9th century and has convex sides tapering to an en-face zoomorphic terminal. At the other end, the strap-end is split and has two small copper alloy rivets for attachment to a strap or belt. Some incised decoration remains on the front of the object but much of the detailed decoration was probably on the silver plating most of which has fallen off (it is possible that the style of decoration was Trewhiddle). At the attachment end, a semi circular incised line encompasses the area around the two rivets, creating a human face shape, within this area (between the rivets) there are three more, slightly curved, lines in a triangular formation. On the central section of the strap-end, where it is widest, there are five of the silver rivets, one in each corner of the central area and one in the centre. Around this central silver rivet there is a small amount of silver plating with some incised linear markings. The zoomorphic terminal end of the strap-end has two sub-circular ears, both containing an upside down semi-circle. The strap-end tapers to a rounded terminal on the tip of which another small section of silver plating and the sixth rivet survives. The animal eyes, which are normally on either side of the strap-end below the ears, cannot be seen and were most likely depicted on the plating. The back of the strap-end is smooth and undecorated but the two copper alloy rivets at the attachment end and the six silver rivets can all be seen. A similar parallel for this strap-end can be seen in Gabor Thomas’s Finds Research Group Datasheet number 32 (entitled Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age strap-ends 750-1100: part 1), Figure 1, number 4. The object weighs 7.32g and measures 44mm in length, 15mm in width and 4mm in thickness (at the split end). ADDITIONAL: date ranged changed to 750-1000","personal-related","STRAP END","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Gringley on the hill","GRINGLEY ON THE HILL",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4494,"IOW-B9C883","Complete copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Early-Medieval, eleventh century date. Williams Class A, type 8. Length 44mm, width 25mm and 4mm thick. Weight
The mount, which has a moulded zoomorphic design at the front, is sub-triangular in plan. It has a rearward flange at the base which projects at an angle of about 110 degrees from vertical. Just above the flange are two fixing holes, the centres of which are about 5mm distant apart. Viewing the mount from the front, the right-hand hole is larger than the left-hand hole. Both of the holes are counter-sunk at the front. A third fixing hole, about 3.5mm in diameter, is situated near the centre of the mount. Either side of this hole is a horizontal fracture in the form of a fine crack. The rear side of the mount is flat and plain and there are traces of iron around each of the lower fixing holes. The features of the decoration are indistinct, possibly through wear. Alternatively, the surface features within of the mould may not have been distinct.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A8","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Arreton Parish","ARRETON",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
4496,"IOW-067CC6","Incomplete copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century date. Williams Class A, type 1. Length 52mm, width 32mm and 3mm thick. Weight 26.36g.
The mount is pentagonal-shaped in plan and has two sinuous shoulders that flare outwards from the apex loop. The lower portion has parallel sides and a horizontal base with the remains of a rearward projecting flange. The rear edge of the flange is broken and missing. The break appears to be old and is eroded. Just above the flange are two circular fixing holes. These holes and the hole at the apex are 3mm in diameter. Viewed from the side the mount has a slightly curved profile, convex at the front and concave at the rear. The front was probably decorated. However, no decoration can now be seen.
Found at a metal detecting rally near Newbury about 2000.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","unknown",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown BERKSHIRE",,"BERKSHIRE"
4497,"IOW-0726C8","Incomplete copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century date. Williams Class B, type 3, group 4 (probably). The breaks are old and eroded. Length 35mm, width 32mm and 8mm thick. Weight 15.92g.
The mount, when complete, was probably trapezoidal-shaped in plan. It is generally convex at the front and concave at the rear and has a rearward projecting flange at the horizontal base. At the lower corners, just above the flange, are two fixing holes that have the remains of iron rivets. At the rear side, just above the flange, a fragment of corroded iron is present. This is possibly the remains of an iron fitting or strap. The decoration at the front is in the form of a single prominent forward facing head of a beast with circular open work to represent the eyes and mouth. Two circles of open work below the mouth are filled with iron corrosion.
The rear side has a white painted label.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B3, group 4","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Brading Parish","BRADING",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
4499,"SF-090F45","A small cast copper-alloy latch or hook-clasp for fastening a box. 26.1mm in length and 6.1mm in width at its widest point. At one end is a flat circular loop of 6.5mm in external diameter with a central perforation of 2.3mm in diameter. The other end is similarly flattened, but the ring is incomplete and probably originally had a pointed hook tip. Running centrally and longitudinally at right angles to the centre of the back face of the clasp there is a flat central ridge, triangular in shape, its centre projecting 2.9mm out from the back face.
This clasp would have been attached to the box by a single pin or stud through the flattened ring on which it would swivel, and the hook would be brought down into an eye or around a headed stud to fasten the lid or other attachment. This example is similar to one from Coddenham, Suffolk (see SF-74FF25). They are both middle Anglo-Saxon in date.","personal-related","box","fitting","ESX??",650.00,750.00,"MSx",7.00,"Easton","EASTON",,"SUFFOLK"
4500,"SF-0B3D62","An incomplete copper-alloy clapper bell. Conical in shape measuring 13.5mm in height and with a rim diameter of 13.6mm. The integral suspension loop is incomplete due to wear on its upper edge. It has a small circular perforation, measuring 2.3mm in diameter, and projects from the centre of the flat top of the bell. The rim of the bell is slightly distorted and damaged, again due to old breaks now worn. Inside the bell traces of corroded iron can be seen, presumably the remains of an iron clapper.
No exact parallel could be found for this clapper bell, it is however of a similar conical shape and has an integral suspension loop as do late early-medieval norse bells. This bell could therefore concievably be late early-medieval or medieval in date. ADDITIONAL: similar to NMS262 although flatter on top. Possibly a 'norse' bell and will be classified as 'norse?'.","horse-related","bell","norse?, flattened conical, undecorated","norse",900.00,1500.00,"LSx",7.00,"Ingham","INGHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4501,"SF-0B9066","An incomplete cast copper-alloy possible strap fitting. Roughly half of this object survives the rest is missing due to old breaks, now worn. The object appears to have been heart-shaped when complete, it now measures 34.8mm in length and 31.2mm in surviving width.
The complete half consists of a central vertical shaft, 23.2mm in length and 8.9mm in width (at its widest point). The terminal of this shaft is flat and rounded and appears to have had small projections, now missing due to old breaks. The top of this shaft flares into a wider rounded moulded zoomorphic facing head or heads, this is now unclear due to wear. This head(s) is mouse or bat like and has two small vertical oval shaped ears and a broad snout(s). Projecting from the centre of the back face of the head there is a rectangular projection, measuring 5.5mm in length and 4.8mm in width. This may have originally have been an attachment device of some kind but is now worn.
This central head has two curvilinear shafts projecting upwards and outwards at 45 degree angles from its upper edge, before curving back round and towards the tip of the central vertical shaft. One of these shafts is now only 9mm in length due to old breaks, the other is complete and measures 34mm in length and c6mm in width. It is rectangular in shape with a flat back face and rounded and moulded front face. Through the curve of the shaft there is small circular perforation, 2.9mm in diameter, beyond this there is a longitudinal moulding, which does seem to be zoomorphic, with the perforation possibly seen as a hole inbetween the neck and foreleg of the creature. The creature is in side profile with laid back ears, a bulbous eye and a long snout, which appears to be open with vertical mouldings which may represent teeth. The rest of the shaft therefore appears to be grasped in this creatures open jaws, or to be some sort of extension to its possible leg. Projectiong from the inside edge of the shaft there are two evenly spaced thorn-like protrusions. The shaft terminates with a slightly rounded knop.
Although no parallel could be found for this object the reddish brown copper-alloy and its relatively poor quality is consistent with late early-medieval objects, such as stirrup terminals. Furthermore, the zoomorphic mouldings, though worn, are reminiscent of the zoomorphic decorative designs seen on late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap mounts. It therefore seems most likely that this unusual possible strap fitting is late early-medieval or Viking Age in date. ",,"strap fitting/mount","unclassified, zoomorphic",,1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Little Waldingfield","LITTLE WALDINGFIELD",,"SUFFOLK"
4502,"NCL-212242","A fragment of a late Saxon zoomorphic buckle plate. The buckle plate is made from cast copper alloy; it is oval in section and is corroded and worn; the zoomorphic terminals are very simply rendered and worn; the bar which the zoomorphic terminals would have bitten is missing. The buckle plate measures 17mm in length, 27mm in width and the buckle plate has a maximum thickness of 5mm. ADDITIONAL: although very corroded this appears to belong to Class A1ib, which may be Northumbrian.","personal-related","Buckle","Class A1ib","zoomorphic, moulded",850.00,1050.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown",,"NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4503,"SF-334CE5","A complete unusual late early-medieval barrel-shaped weight. Measuring 23.3mm diameter and 18.5mm in height with a weight of 40.29g. This weight is made of iron with a copper-alloy casing, patches of corroded iron can now be seen through this casing. The flat ends of the weight appear to have stamped decoration on them consisting of two concentric circles of small circular motifs. There is a trace of someting else within these boarders but what it was is no longer visible due to wear and corroded iron.
A very similar weight is illustrated in Biggs (1993, 14). He states that at some time in the 11th century a light ounce of c24g, derived from the Viking weight known as ora, was used for weighing gold. Weights related to this standard are, as this example, barrel-shaped, and made or iron with a copper-alloy casting. ADDIITONAL: paralled by two iron weights from Coppergate (Mainman and Rogers 2000, 2562), nos. 10356 and 10357, although these weigh 21.6g and 26.5g respectively). Mainman and Rogers (2000, 2564) date these to the 10th-12th c., and dates here changed to reflect this.",,"weight","iron/copper-alloy, flattened spherical,","decorative insert, stamped dot and ?teiskele decoration",900.00,1200.00,"LSx",8.00,"Laxfield","LAXFIELD",,"SUFFOLK"
4504,"SF-338634","A complete copper-alloy probably middle Anglo-Saxon pin. This pin has a relatively small globular head, measuring 6.9mm in width and 6.6mm in height. The shaft is circular in cross-section and measures 4.7mm at its widest point, it tapers to a point measuring 2.3mm in diameter. The shaft is bent at right angles in its centre and would measure 114mm in length if straight, it also has a swollen centre. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Aa2ii. Date range changed from 650-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa2ii","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Laxfield","LAXFIELD",,"SUFFOLK"
4505,"SF-342A02","A copper-alloy middle Anglo-Saxon pin. The head of this pin is biconical measuring 10.1mm in height and 8.5mm in width. There is a circumferencail collar where the head joins the shaft. The shaft is incomplete as its tip is missing due to an old break. It is bent roughly half way down at a c45 degree angle. It has a circular cross-section and measures 1.8mm in width and would be c37mm in length if unbent. ADDITIONAL: shaft appears to be slightly swollen although a little unclear. Hinton type Ca2 (possibly Ca2ii). Date range changed from 650-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Freckenham","FRECKENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4506,"IOW-3796E5","Complete and corroded copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century date. Williams Class A type 12 (open-work version). Length 49mm, width 30mm and 6mm thick. Weight 19.31g.
The mount is lozenge-shaped with an apex loop and a horizontal base. Within the lozenge-shaped frame is a central diagonal cross that encloses four lozenge-shaped apertures. It has seven symmetrically positioned circular projecting bosses. One boss is located at the centre of the cross. Other bosses are situated on the junctions of the frame and also along the arms of the frame, just below the apex loop and just above the base. A boss, more elongated in form, is positioned just below the lower lozenge-shaped aperture. A fixing hole, filled with the remains of a corroded iron rivet, perforates the flange. The hole is off-centre. Part of a corroded iron strap survives along the inner face of the flange. At the front there appears to be stamped linear work radiating from the hole at the apex. On the lower part of the apex loop there is incised work containing a brownish coloured material, possibly the remains of decayed enamel. All these elements of decoration are, however, barely discernable.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A12","geometric lattice",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Carisbrooke Castle, very near (from get-map)","Carisbrooke",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
4508,"WAW-4804C4","The Early Medieval brooch is made from cast copper alloy and iron. In length it is 41mm and 13.6mm wide across the spring. It weighs 7.56g.
The spring component of the brooch is made of iron, which is fitted through a copper alloy lug. An iron axis bar is visible with an iron spring coiled around it. The definition of the spring is lost, therefore the number of coils cannot be counted. The pin is missing.
The lug is integral to the reverse of the bow head. The bow head is a small rectangular vertical plate, but seems to be too small to be considered as a formal head plate. However there are no broken edges visible. The bow protrudes at almost right-angles from the bow head. The bow is triangular in section and forms a curvaeous 'C' in profile. The upper portion of the bow is wider than the lower portio as the bow has a step. The foot of the bow is a integral vertical trapezoidal shaped plate, which is slightly triangular in section.
The catchplate is solid, but slightly incomplete, the lower corner of the curl is missing, but this damage was not recent.
The surface of the brooch has a well developed shiny light grey/green patina, and the iron is stable.
ADDITIONAL: images could not be downloaded. Looks akin to an equal-armed bow brooch but it is unclear whether the terminals were identical or not. Dates have been narrowed to M-LSx.","personal-related","ansate brooch","unknown terminal shape","unknown decoration",650.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Upton Snodsbury area","UPTON SNODSBURY","Worcester","HEREFORD AND WORCESTER"
4513,"SF-5C43E0","A worn cast copper-alloy unidentified object. Consisting of a projecting suspension loop and a roughly rectangular shaped plate. The central loop is oval in shape and measures 14.7mm in length and 12.8mm in width. It has a circular hole through it, the inner upper edge of which is worn. The plate measures 31.1mm in width and 18mm in length. It has a central circular perforation, 6.2mm in diameter, with an in situ iron rivet to either side of this. The front face has boarder decoration along its short edges consisting of a longitudinal groove with diagonal V-shaped notches beyond this along the edges of the plate. The lower edge of the plate has two central V-shaped notches with a semi-circular hole to either side of these. This object appears to be complete, although it is hard to be sure due to wear along its lower edge. It is similar to an object discovered at Coddenham (see SF-3D7CC1) which is believed to have been possibly related to late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap mounts. This object is therefore likely to be late early medieval in date, although its precise function is not known.",,"unidentified object",,,1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Covehithe","COVEHITHE",,"SUFFOLK"
4514,"SF-5DD3C3","A sheet copper-alloy early-medieval hooked tag. This tag measures 37.3mm in total surviving length, the tip of the hook is missing due to an old break. The plate is triangular in shape, measuring 19.7mm in width at its widest point. It has a two parallel circular sewing holes, measuring 2.9mm and 3.4mm in diameter. The front face of the plate is decorated with four transverse rows of ring and dot motifs arranged 1-3-3-1.
This hooked tag is similar to others found at Freckenham (see SF-4DDBB1) and Laxfield (see SF-512F20), Suffolk, these examples are also triangular in shape and of a similar size.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C1b","ring-and-dot decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Covehithe","COVEHITHE",,"SUFFOLK"
4515,"NLM-5DFD84","A cast copper alloy early medieval strap end of Thomass Class A type (2003, Fig.1). The long narrow strap end is slightly convex-sided and tapers to a highly stylised zoomorphic terminal. The top attachment end of the strap end splits into two plates. Both plates have two rivet holes at the top, though one of the front holes and both the back ones are incomplete. The decoration on the front plate is heavily worn, though some engraved pattern is still visible. The length of the strap end is 60.8mm, the width is 12.4mm and the weight is 7.87g. ","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A","unknown",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"SCAWBY","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4516,"NLM-5F1932","A cast copper alloy middle Anglo-Saxon pin. The front and back faces of the polyhedral pinhead are pentagon in shape and contain a central raised ring. The side faces are hexagon shaped and have the same ring decoration. Below the head is a small collar. The shaft is circular is bent to one side in the centre. The length of the pin is 58.8mm, the width is 6.7mm and the weight is 1.54g. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Bb2i. Date range changed from 750-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb2i","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"SCAWBY","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4517,"NLM-5F3D53","A cast copper alloy early medieval strap end fragment of Thomass Class A type 1, trewhiddle style (2003, Fig.1). The fragment consists of the bottom end section of the tapering plate and the highly stylised zoomorphic terminal. The decoration is quite worn though some chunky animal bodies and borders of dots are visible. The length of the strap end fragment is 25.7mm, the width is 10.9mm and the weight is 1.96mm. ","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"HIBALDSTOW","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4520,"SWYOR-9CF423","Monochrome glass bead probably dating to between 8th-9th centuries. The bead is blue coloured and multi-lobed, or gadrooned. The gadroons are found all around the bead, there are 12 altogether. These are fairly regular in size and shape apart from one which is slightly flattened. The bead is annular with a large central perforation. Similar beads have been found in Anglo-Scandinavian contexts at both Pavement and Fishergate in York and a parallel for this object can be seen in Anglian and other finds from Fishergate by Nicola Rogers, Figure 674. Nos. 4814 and 4817. The bead weighs 0.91g and measures 13mm in diameter and 6mm in thickness. ",,"Bead",,,700.00,900.00,"MSx",18.00,,"THORPE WILLOUGHBY","SELBY","NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4522,"HESH-B49325","Incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount of later early medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) date (950 - 1200 AD).
The Stirrup strap mount is sub-triangular in plan with a convex (domed) front and a concave rear face. In profile the mount is sub-rectangular (D Shaped) and in cross section the mount is arched (C shaped). The mount measures 44.5mm in length, 27.7mm width, and is 9.5mm thick. It weighs 19.94 grams.
The front face of the mount is decorated with a series of cast raised curvi-linear ribs or lines. This decoration consists of a single zoomorphic beast, probably a dragon, depicted in plan. The mount has been badly abraded in the plough soil and so much of the decoration is indistinct. The animal has a long head with snout and possibly long ears. The head is joined to a wide neck, which extends into a sub-rectangular (rectangular with rounded corners) body. This body is formed from an interlocking woven pattern of curvi-linear ribs. These interlocking ribs extend into the five external elements of the design; four legs and a tail. The four legs are situated one at each corner of the design, the front two are extended and run parallel with the neck, and the two rear ones are tucked under the body. The tail is looped back upon itself and interwoven into the body of the beast; it terminates in a short point or arrow tip. There are small traces on the front face of a gilt finish. This gilt surface treatment has been abraded in the plough soil.
On the lower bottom edge of the body are two pierced holes. These are situated below, and respect, the main decorative motifs. These two holes are circular with a diameter of 3.8mm. The upper edges of both of these are slightly counter sunk, suggesting the rivets (not present) would be flush with the surface of the mount. At the top of the mount (at the apex of the triangle) is a broken projection. This would probably have been part of a cast loop. The break has an even patina which suggests it being broken in antiquity.
The reverse of the stirrup mount is concave and undecorated. On the lower edge below the two pierced holes is a prominent integral cast sub-triangular flange which projects at right angles from the surface of the mount. This flange forms a projecting lip. Above this and around the two pierced holes is a large amount of orange iron corrosion. This suggests that the original rivets or the stirrup were probably made of iron. There is no other orange iron corrosion present on the mount, which suggests that this is not a result of conditions in the burial environment.
The stirrup strap mount is a mid - dark brown colour with an even worn patina on all surfaces. Small amounts of gilt surface treatment adhere to the front face of the mount. There are small areas on both the front and rear surfaces of active light green powdery copper corrosion. This is most extensive on the concave rear face and in the interwoven design on the front face. The mount has been abraded in the plough soil and has a slightly unsymmetrical appearance because of this.
Similar stirrup strap mounts can be seen in David Williams' 1995 Finds Research Group datasheet, which proposes a preliminary typology for these mounts. This example clearly fits into Williams' Group A.
ADDITIONAL: Numdate1 changed to 1000.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,,"PONTESBURY",,"SHROPSHIRE"
4524,"ESS-C90167","Badly worn 9th century Anglo-Saxon, copper alloy strap end of Thomas class A. This strap end is subrectangular in plan and tapers to a blunt, flattened end. It is subrectangular in section. It is 36.42mm long, 10.02mm wide, 3.7mm thick and weighs 3.32g. The strap end is cast as a solid object, except for at the attachment end where the upper part of the object divides into two plates with a ‘v’ shape profile. One of these plates survives intact, the other is damaged in corner. The copper alloy rivet remains are fragmentary. One rivet is clearly visible on the front and rear of the complete plate. It has broken before bridging the gap to the rear plate. No remains of it are visible on the rear plate, as this is the damaged corner that is now missing. Looking between the plates it is possible to see the remains of what might be another rivet shaft. However there is no evidence on the outer faces of each plate of a rivet or rivet hole.
The object has been heavily abraded and only tiny patches of the original surface survive with a dark green patina. Otherwise the object is mid to light green in colour with patches of bright green corrosion. Because of this, very little evidence of decoration survives. There does seem to be grooved lines on the object, but the amount of corrosion product makes them impossible to decipher. The end of the strap end would have been zoomorphic, but it is impossible to tell what style of decoration was employed.
Examples of class A strap ends are illustrated in the Finds Research Group Data sheet 32. ","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A","unknown",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Canvey Island","CANVEY ISLAND","CASTLE POINT","ESSEX"
4525,"KENT-C90BE3","Finger ring formed from a single length of round-sectioned silver wire. The two ends of the wire are brought together to form a spiral bezel, the terminals being wrapped around the body of the ring either side of the bezel. Rings of this type occur in Anglo-Saxon burials of the 6th century AD, with most belonging to the latter half of the century. When found the ring was flattened into an oval shape, 24.69mm by 12.42mm. The wire is 1.25mm thick, and the spiral bezel measures 10.18mm by 6.70mm. The ring weighs 1.08g. ","personal-related","FINGER RING","ESx",,500.00,600.00,"E/MSx",22.00,"THURNHAM","THURNHAM","MAIDSTONE","KENT"
4526,"ESS-C94867","Copper alloy strap end of Thomas class B1. This strap end is subrectangular in plan, flaring at the attachment end, and tapering to a blunted point at the terminal. It is subrectangular in section. The object is cast as a solid piece, except for at the attachment end, when it divides into two plates with a ‘V’ shaped profile. Clearly visible are four rivet holes, two to each plate. The tops of the plates are damaged, which has resulted in one of the front rivet holes being incomplete. The rivets are missing. The front of the strap end is decorated with four, parallel transverse grooved lines at the top of the object, and three parallel transverse grooved lines at the bottom. The terminal would have been discernible as a stylised animal head, but any detail has been worn away. The strap end is abraded and the original surface is missing. It now has a bronzey brown patina to front and rear (the object has likely to have been treated since discovery). It is 43.02mm long, 5.7mm wide, 2.24mm thick ad weighs 3.21g. Strap ends of this style date from the eighth century and remained popular into the 11th century. An example is illustrated in The Finds Research Group data sheet 32, number 13.","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class B1","transverse moulding",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Canvey Island","CANVEY ISLAND","CASTLE POINT","ESSEX"
4528,"SOMDOR-DE1857","Copper alloy zoomorphic strap end. The proximal end tapers to a rectangular distal terminal. The distal end has a cast zoomorphic head with a muzzle, eyes and ears on the front. The proximal end has a raised lateral rib across the top and another at the base. It also has a single, circular attachment hole. At the back, behind the proximal end there is iron corrosion and a possible rectilinear channel terminating in the attachment hole. The rest of the back is flat and undecorated. Dimensions: 22.14mm x 10.19mm x 3.06mm. Weight 1.82g ADDTITIONAL: date range changed from 1000-1099 toi 750-1100. No image zand description does not adequately allow for classification of object.","personal-related","STRAP END","unknown","transverse moulding",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Redlynch (from get-a-map)","Redlynch","SOUTH SOMERSET","SOMERSET"
4529,"BH-DEA8D4","Incomplete copper-alloy pin of middle early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date. The head of the pin is a flattened bi-conical shape and measures 8.7mm diameter by 7.6mm high. A simple raised collar exists between the base of the head and the shaft. The remaining portion of the shaft measures 25.4mm long by 1.9mm diameter and has no swelled portion. The overall dimensions are 33.3mm long by 8.7mm wide. The weight is 3.38g. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Ca2. Date range changed from 720-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Hinxworth","HINXWORTH","NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE","HERTFORDSHIRE"
4532,"IOW-F4D221","Incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Early Medieval, eleventh century date. Probably a variation of a Williams Class A, type 1. The breaks are old and eroded. Length 44mm, width 42mm and 3mm thick. Weight 30.94g.
The majority of these type of mounts are pentagonal in plan. However, this mount is roughly square in plan. Viewing the mount in plan, the upper corners either side of the small apex loop are distinctly rounded and the lower corners are also rounded, but less so than the upper corners. The apex loop has a rounded top and the fixing hole is 4mm in diameter. Each side has two protruding lugs. Only part of the right angled flange survives and this has the remains of two fixing holes to accommodate rivets that would have been vertical when in position. It can be estimated that each of these holes would have been about 3mm in diameter. The front has linear and curvilinear engraved lines of Ringerike style decoration in the form of two addorsed beasts. Viewing the mount from the side, the front is slightly convex and the rear is slightly concave. The rear surface is coarse and undecorated. Overall the piece is in a stable condition and the metal is a reddish colour with a superficial deposit of copper carbonate. Dark areas, just below the apex loop and just above the flange, are stains caused by blu-tack. ADDITIONAL: I don't think it really fits into A1 very readily but is probably an unclassified part of Class A.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A (unclassified)","Ringerike",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Calbourne Parish","CALBOURNE",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
4533,"KENT-329290","10/11th Century Copper Alloy Mount in form of human face. ADDITIONAL: from image, it appears the face has moustache, and triangle of beard under mouth.",,"Mount","anthopomorphic mount","anthropomorphic",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"NEW ROMNEY","SHEPWAY","KENT"
4534,"SF-44AF71","An incomplete worn copper-alloy pin, only the head and a fragment of the shaft of this pin survives. The head is biconical in shape and measures 10.4mm in length and 9.5mm in width and 8.2mm in thickness. The shaft is 10mm in surviving length with a circular cross-section. There is a faint trace of a collar inbetween the base of the head and the shaft. This pin is most likely to be early medieval or middle Anglo-Saxon in date. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Ca2. Date range changed from 700-820 to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Covehithe","COVEHITHE",,"SUFFOLK"
4535,"ESS-497052","Cast copper alloy buckle frame. This buckle frame is D shaped in plan and subtriangular in section, i.e. the frame is bevelled, with the pin bar being subcircular in section. It is decorated with three zoomorphic knops, one at the front and one at each end of the pin bar. The front knop is subtriangular in plan and section. It is 12.46mm long, 11.92mm wide and 5.66mm thick. The knop is moulded so that the animal has a double lobed crown, separated by a punched lozenge shaped hole at the back of the head, and a broad semicircular snout. Two drilled holes form the eyes. An incised horizontal line forms the mouth. Two parallel incised lines run horizontally from the beast’s snout along both sides of its head, much in the form of whiskers. The knops at either end of the pin bar look in the opposite direction to the front knop. They are smaller, being 11mm long, 8mm wide and 6mm thick. They are also subtriangular in plan and section. They are moulded in a similar way with a double lobed crown separated by a lozenge shaped indent at the back of the head. The snouts are semicircular, but more narrow and long. The eyes are formed from drilled holes and the mouths are again a simple incised horizontal line. The snouts are incised with a pair of horizontal lines to each side along the head, again reminiscent of whiskers. The pin bar has been bent along its length, so that it now has a slightly arched profile and the buckle frame is also slightly bent out of true to one side. The pin is entirely missing. The original surface of the buckle is missing and it is now rough and abraded. It has browny green patina with tiny flashes of shiny bronze (it has been polished since discovery). It has an overall length of 41.64mm, is 36.88mm wide, is 6.5mm wide and 1.8mm thick on the frame and 2.8mm thick at the pin bar. It weighs 13.31g.
The animal head design suggests this buckle may date to the 9th or 10th centuries, though elements of this design carry on through to the 12th century. ADDITIONAL: Paralleled by SF7560, dated by HG to 9th-11th.","personal-related","Buckle","Class A2ii","zoomorphic decoration",800.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Saffron Walden","SAFFRON WALDEN","UTTLESFORD","ESSEX"
4536,"SF-5FA2A5","Small and unusual rotary locking key of probably Middle to Late Saxon date, in the form of a heavy flat unpierced ring 19mm in diameter and 3.5mm thick, with a small pierced lug for suspension on the outer side in a 90 degree axis. The shaft is quite short, 20mm, with banded baluster-like ornament, tapering from 7mm gauge near the ring to 5mm by the tooth, and with a short pointed process beyond the tooth, perhaps for engagement within the lock mechanism. In proportion to the rest of the key the tooth is very long, 16mm, in the form of a long flat band 4mm wide tapering to 3, and 2.5mm thick, but with a short turned-over stub at the tip. The function as a key is not in doubt, and a large casket or chest would be an object of the right size and proportions to be locked by an instrument of this weight. ",,"key (locking)","casket",,750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Eye","EYE",,"SUFFOLK"
4537,"SF-729BE5","The head a a fragment of the shaft of a copper-alloy pin. The head is biconical in shape, measuring 10.9mm in height and 9.5mm in width. There is a circumferencail collar where the head joins the shaft. The fragment of shaft has a circular cross-section and measures 4mm in surviving length and 2.4mm in width. This pin is most likely to be middle Anglo-Saxon in date. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Ca2. Numdate2 changed to 900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Covehithe","COVEHITHE",,"SUFFOLK"
4538,"NCL-84D315","A fragment of an early medieval copper alloy strap end of Thomas' Type A. The fragment is flat and tongue shaped; it splits at one end into two plates which would have acted as a means of attachment. These plates are corroded and damaged and there are no rivets visible. The upper surface of the plate possesses two panels of decoration, comprising incised lines and dots. The panel furthest from the attachment plates appears to depict a stylised running animal (quadreped). The fragment measures 26mm in length and has a maximum width of 12mm. ADDITIONAL: classification sohlud read 'Class A' anmd description suggests it's probably type 1, although there is no image to verify this. Date range changed from 410-1066 to 750-1000.","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas class A1","Trewhiddle",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"ARKENDALE",,"NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4539,"SUSS-85A481","Anglo-Saxon strap-end (Thomas Class B, Type 2), made of copper-alloy, with two copper-alloy rivets in the split end in situ. The strap end has been hammered into shape by a bronze-smith, then the details of the head (eyes, ears and snout) have been finely craved or impressed with small chisels and punches. It is long, narrow and rectangular in shape with a decorative terminal and a wedge-shaped split end. The decorative terminal is a zoomorphic head, vaguely resembling a dog with laid-back ears. The main body and reverse are undecorated. The piece is complete with little wear. There is light corrosion and some pitting of the original surface, which is dark greyish-green in colour. The piece dates from between AD750 and 1100. A similar strap-end can be seen in Thomas 2003 (see reference below).","personal-related","STRAP END","Thomas Class B2","Trewhiddle",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Shoreham By Sea","SHOREHAM BY SEA","ADUR","WEST SUSSEX"
4545,"SUSS-881815","Anglo-Saxon strap-end (Thomas' Class B, Type 2), made of copper-alloy, with two iron rivets in the split end in situ. The strap end has been hammered into shape by a bronze-smith, then the details of the head (eyes, ears and snout) have been finely craved or impressed with small chisels and punches. It is long, narrow and rectangular in shape with a decorative terminal and a wedge-shaped split end. The decorative terminal is a zoomorphic head, vaguely resembling a rabbit with laid-back ears. The main body and reverse are undecorated, save for two two lines around the the body, one at the base of the head and one at the base of the split end. The piece is complete with little wear. There is light corrosion and some pitting of the original surface, which is greyish-green in colour. This piece would have formed the end of a slim and delicate strap, as might be found as a decorative element on fine clothing. The piece dates from between AD750 and 1100. A similar strap-end can be seen in Thomas 2003 (see reference below).","personal-related","STRAP END","Thomas Class B2","Trewhiddle",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Shoreham By Sea","SHOREHAM BY SEA","ADUR","WEST SUSSEX"
4546,"SUSS-88A2F5","A mount, made of copper alloy, with the stumps of two copper alloy rivets set into the concave reverse. The surface was once gilded, but only a few tiny flecks remain. The piece was cast, and then initial details were added by chip-carving or punching. The mount is long, oval and convex with a hollow reverse. One end is a blunt point, and the other has a zoomorphic terminal in the shape of an animals head and neck, with eyes and a snout. The neck and main body are decorated with impressed lines made by a stamp-roller. Two lines run along the back from head to tail, and another line cuts across the body near the tail end. The piece shows some wear, and the reverse has some corrosion, possibly due to contact with the decaying leather belt or strap to which it may once have been attached. The exterior of the mount has a dark greenish-brown colour and a slightly rough patina. This mount may date from c. 700-1500.",,"Mount","leaf-shaped, concave, zoomorphic terminal","zoomorphic, gilt",700.00,1500.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Shoreham By Sea","SHOREHAM BY SEA","ADUR","WEST SUSSEX"
4550,"ESS-C4EB33","Incomplete copper alloy zoomorphic brooch. This brooch takes the form of a fish. It is long, narrow and tear shaped in plan with a flared triangular terminal that forms the flat tail (like a whale not a fish). The brooch has a subtriangular section, in that the front of the brooch is slightly bevelled (more curved than sharply), though the tail is flat. It is decorated with two punched dots that form the eyes, and the triangular tail is decorated with three ring and dots, one in each corner, otherwise the body of the fish is plain. The reverse of the brooch is slightly concave, though the tail is solid. There is no pin bar lug, though a circular shaped ‘scar’ at the tail end may indicate its former position. The catchplate is at the head end and is formed from a simple, narrow, curl. No traces of the pin survive. The brooch has an even light green patina. It is 68.78mm long and 19.84mm at the widest point. A parallel for this brooch could not be found, though an extremely similar fish shaped object recorded as a ‘mount’ of 6th-9th century date can be seen in West, 1998, number 6.62. It has the same bevelled section with a slightly hollow reverse, but with no traces of fittings and with different decoration. The brooch recorded here is unlike zoomorphic plate brooches of the Roman period, which tend to be flat, suggesting that it is probably of early medieval date.
","personal-related","Fish-shaped brooch","ring-and-dot decoration",,500.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"North West Essex","unknown UTTLESFORD","UTTLESFORD","ESSEX"
4551,"WMID-DC2B70","A cast iron possible toilet set pick (length: 124.7mm; width at hooked/ curled end: 13.6mm; thickness of shank [sub-circular sectioned]: 5mm; weight: 13.07g). A long pick with a sub-circular sectioned curled head forming a loop or attachment head which then scrolls back out on itself. The other end tapers off slightly to form a pointed end. There is a large amount of general encrusted corrosion over the whole of the artefact, therefore possible indicating that the original artefact may have been smaller in section. The artefact is in a worn, corroded but fair condition with a rough, pitted orange/ brown patina.
A similar example is illustrated in MacGregor & Bolick's 'A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections', 1993, page 217, Ref no 37.3. The longest artefact on this toilet set is identical in size and length to this iron example with the only differences being made of copper alloy and having a flattened section. The copper alloy example has been identified by MacGregor & Bolick as a 'pick, with a flattened, recurved head forming a wide loop; rectangular-section shank, rounded towards the tip'. The tolietry pick was found in Cambridgeshire and dates to the early Medieval period.
Additionally, a less similar example can be illustrated in Bushe-Fox's 'Third Report on the Excavations of the Roman Fort at Richborough, Kent', 1932, page 80 & plate XI, Ref no 23. This example is described as a bronze pin with the head 'fashioned to represent a human hand holding a small ball between the thumb and forefinger'. Another example was also found at Wroxeter. The Richborough example does have a thick shank and the decorated end can form an attachment or loop. It has been dated to the 1st century AD.",,"TOILET ARTICLE",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",8.00,,"ILAM",,"STAFFORDSHIRE"
4552,"SWYOR-EC98F1","Copper alloy, Anglo-Scandinavian strap-end dating to the 9th century. The strap-end, which measures 56.47mm in length, has a plain sub-rectangular shaped split end which tapers slightly to the decorated part of the object. The split end has a single circular central perforation for attachment with a rivet. The lower two thirds of the strap-end incorporate stylised zoomorphic features in the form of animal heads. The animal head motif actually occurs three times on the strap-end, the upper two depictions mirror each other; the top head is snout pointing downwards and the lower is snout pointing upwards. The third head forms the terminal, and ends in a squarish snout with nostrils. The animal heads have drilled eyes and nostrils and incised ‘lunate’ ears, which are slightly pronounced and raised.
The object weighs 14.09g and measures 12.61mm in width and 6.02mm in thickness. The back of the strap-end is plain and undecorated but has a worn incised line around it’s edge, possibly as a result of casting.
","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class B4","zoomorphic",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",0.00,"Allerthorpe","ALLERTHORPE","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4555,"WAW-ED6643","The buckle is probably dated to the Early Medeival period. This is indicated by the iron pin.
The buckle frame has been made from cast copper alloy. It is a sub 'D' shape, almost an oval, in plan. The strap bar is slightly narrowed. The loop has a worn notch. The loop and strap bar are oval in section. The frame has a very dark brown patina, which is particularly shiny.
The pin is made of iron, and is incomplete. It is also corroded and has now a distorted shape. It measures 17.7mm long and 12.3mm wide. It weighs 1.47g.
Magregor and Bolick have similar examples of the frames. ADDITIONAL: image very small on website (problems in obtaining full size jpeg), but looks very much like a frame of Geake's (1997, 79) 'small, simple buckle' type. Likely to be of 6-e8th c. date.","personal-related","Buckle","small simple buckle","undecorated",550.00,750.00,"E/MSx",7.00,"Biford on Avon area","BIDFORD ON AVON",,"WARWICKSHIRE"
4557,"SWYOR-EDF4C6","Copper alloy early Medieval pin. The pin-head is faceted and is formed from a cube with the corners removed leaving diamond and triangular shaped facets. Each of the four diamond shaped side facets has four dots decorating it and dot decoration is present on most of the other facets. Part of the shaft is intact and tapers slightly to the end where it may have broken off. The pin is quite worn and does not have a well defined collar between the head and shank (characteristic of Anglo-Saxon pins) but the decoration does suggest an Anglo-Saxon date. The pin weighs 2.96g and measures 25.87mm in length and 7.13mm in width (across the head). ADDITIONAL: Very much an Anglo-Saxon type although lacking defined collar. If attribution correct, probably of 8th or 9th c. date. Ref: Hinton 1996, type Bb2ii (altho' lacking collar of these examples)","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb1","ring-and-dot",650.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,,"BARMBY MOOR","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4559,"LIN-EE76D6","Copper alloy stirrup strap mount. The mount is sub-triangular and depicts a lion, or what is intended to be a lion, looking upwards with its front paw raised and tail curled between the legs and over the back. The apex is missing. The mount has a broken right angled flange.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11A (L)","zoomorphic",1025.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Burton Pedwardine","BURTON PEDWARDINE","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4560,"LIN-EF73A8","Copper alloy stirrup strap mount. The mount would have been pentagonal in shape although the upper quarter is now missing. The face of the mount is decorated with a portcullis or chevron design. There are two holes along the bottom edge for attachment. ADDITIONAL: numdate1 changed to 1000.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","geometric, incised",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Burton Pedwardine","BURTON PEDWARDINE","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4561,"LIN-EF9212","Copper alloy borres style flat disc brooch. The face has a central circular hollow. Around this is a lozenge shape with double-ribbon ends that extend and curl round in a Borre knot motif. This type of Anglo-Scandinavian brooch was mass produced and is more common in East Anglia. The pin lug and catchplate are present on the reverse. The pin is missing.","personal-related","Disc brooch","Borre-style decoration","Borre",850.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Burton Pedwardine","BURTON PEDWARDINE","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4562,"HAMP-F23424","Early medieval cast copper alloy brooch, possibly of Ansate type, with one surviving trefoil terminal. The lobes of the terminal are sub-rectangular with rounded ends. The upper surface of the central lobe has a wide incised lateral groove, and the lobes may have originally been decorated further. Between the lobes is a sub-square plate, slightly recessed. One the reverse of this element a single pin bar lug projects together with the remains of the iron bar. The bow extends from the fourth side of the square plate. The bow is highly angled bow (Length 21.2mm. Width 9.1mm) with a convex upper surface and generally hollow reverse. There are three incised parallel lateral lines at the junction of the bow and terminal. At the other end there are two parallel incised lateral lines, more widely spaced, before the bow is broken off. It is likely that the second terminal of the brooch would have joined the bow at the break. Patchy light and mid-green patina.
","personal-related","ansate brooch","Trefoil terminal","incised linear decoration",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Soberton CP.","SOBERTON","WINCHESTER","HAMPSHIRE"
4563,"WMID-019567","A cast copper alloy scabbard chape of rounded 'V' shape (length: 31.1mm; width: 31mm; thickness/ depth of overall chape: 16mm; thickness of metal: 2.7mm; weight: 14.11g). Of an openworked design, the chape has four identical cavities copied on both sides that have been cut out. The top two are in an upside and back-to-front 'L' shape; the bottom two of a comma type shape. There is sporadic and uneven ring and dot decoration distributed all over the artefact, but there is an organised line of this decoration particularly on the outer edges of the rounded 'V' shape of the chape as well as along the top on both sides. Additionally, again on both sides, there is a small drilled hole (diameter: 2.1mm) in the centre across the top of the artefact. This may have been for attachment to the scabbard by rivets or fasteners? On one side, there has been two breaks in the openwork design, which seems to be old damage. Overall, the chape is in a slightly worn but fair condition with a dark green patina.
A similar example is illustrated in Nigel Mills 'Saxon & Viking Artefacts', 2001, page 101, Ref no V281. This illustrated example was found around South Humberside and has been dated to the 10th century. Even though this other chape is larger, has a more pointed bottom, larger amount of openwork design and has a human figure depicted in the centre, the style is still similar.",,"scabbard",,,800.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,,"ILAM",,"STAFFORDSHIRE"
4565,"KENT-032814","Gold globular pin head. The head, which has been squashed flat, is hollow, and has ornate decoration comprising a beaded filigree band around its circumferance, with four filgree spirals in either hemisphere. The looped ends of the upper spirals come together on top of the pin head, each loop containing two pellets. None of the pin shaft survives. The use of filigree spirals, as opposed to circles, dates this pin to the middle Anglo-Saxon period, circa 720-850 AD. ADDITIONAL: Obviously of high quality, the pin belongs to Hinton 1996 type A. Date range changed to 700-900.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type A","filigree spiral",700.00,900.00,"MSx",23.00,"DARENTH","DARENTH","DARTFORD","KENT"
4566,"SUSS-03FD90","Openwork strap-end, cast in copper-alloy. The strap end has been cast as a single piece, then folded in half and attached with two rivets made of copper alloy, which are still in situ, presumably these would have held the strap. The strap end appears to have been decorated with the Winchester style interlacing zoomorphic patterns, all surrounded by foliage. The object is fairly corroded, and so it is hard to be certain of detail. The other end of the piece is missing, and the breaks appear very worn. The surface is covered with greyish-green corrosion, with some orangey-brown patches. This object, based on its style, probably dates to around the 9th century - 11th century. ADDITIONAL: this is NOT a strap-end, but a stirrup-strap mount of Williams 1997 Class B, probably type 3 but this is uncertain. Date range changed from 800-1100 to 1000-1100","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B","Winchester",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Shoreham-by Sea","SHOREHAM BY SEA","ADUR","WEST SUSSEX"
4567,"SUSS-07ADD1","A small cast spindle whorl, made from lead. The whorl is roughly circular in shape, with a hole through the middle. One surface is flat the other is domed. The edges are rounded. The piece is undecorated. The piece is complete, with little wear other than a small dent. The surface is smooth and shiny with a speckled dark whitish-grey colour. Such spindle whorls were used from the Anglo-Saxon period through to the medieval period, but a later date cannot be ruled out.","work/domestic-related","SPINDLE WHORL",,,700.00,1800.00,"ASx only",9.00,"Kingston near Lewes","KINGSTON NEAR LEWES","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
4568,"WILT-1A60D7","Copper alloy Early Medieval/ medieval belt- casket- or book-hasp, complete. It is 33mm in length with the reverse mostly flat (although the surface is uneven in places). It is D-shaped in section.
On end is forked while the other is rounded and pierced (slightly off centre). The rounded end (6.5mm wide) is about half the thickness of the rest of the object (1.5mm) and flat in section. Between this and a rivet hole at the centre of the object (3mm diameter and retaining traces of iron) are four curving moulded bands (7mm wide). After the rivet hole is another - the edges also begin to flare outwards (9mm wide here) to the forked end (12mm wide). The fork begins below this last moulding, and there are three more mouldings on each prong. On the reverse, the very end of each prong is thickened, about 2mm wide and 1.5mm thick. Some original patina survives, otherwise the metal is purple in colour.
Cf WILT-7B9874, an incomplete example from Upton Scudamore. A parallel from Winchester (Biddle 1990 7.ii, fig.143 no.1348) comes from a mid 11th century context, and is described there as 'a very curious piece... there is nothing by which anything inserted into the fork could be secured. The Pitton example does not shed any more light on this, although it does show the pierced end which the Upton Scudamore example is missing.
Weighs 5.22g.",,"strap fitting/hasp","unclassified",,1001.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"PITTON AND FARLEY",,"WILTSHIRE"
4571,"ESS-5B5D07","Fragment of copper alloy early medieval strap end. This fragment represents the terminal of a Winchester style strap end. It is tongue shaped in plan, 31.82mm long, 27.36mm wide, 4.14mm thick and weighs 14.78g. It is solid and cast with a moulded relief design that is mirrored on both faces. It consists of a split stalk at the point of the terminal that branches out to left and right into stems that intertwine, eventually coming back on themselves so that a foliate end flanks each side of the stalk. There is a subcircular perforation positioned within an ‘intertwine’ that is positioned about two-thirds up the length of the object. This is presumed to be decorative There is an irregular perforation towards the bottom of the object, between the foliate end and stalk that is presumed to be as a result of wear, and not deliberate as it is not mirrored on the opposite side of the design. The rest of the strap end, along with its fitting plate, is missing. The break edge is worn smooth, suggesting that damage occurred in antiquity. The object has an even dark brown patina with patches of dark red corrosion product. One side of the strap end appears to have been filed so that there is as series of five grooves placed closely together. This has not occurred on the other side. This may be a deliberate act, but the purpose or intent remains unknown. This type of strap end dates to the 10th or 11th century. Examples of relief decorated strap ends, though with different decoration, can be seen in Biddle, 1990, volume 2, figure 125. ADDITIONAL: I'm unconvinced that this is a strap end- the images provided (rear and front) do not show any means for attaching a strap! Otherwise unidentified although does look like Winchester style.",,"Unidentified",,"Winchester",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Brantham","BRANTHAM","IPSWICH","SUFFOLK"
4572,"DENO-6FF2F8","Small copper alloy gilded mount decorated with a male face with drooping moustache. The face appears to be slightly triangular (wider at the bottom). The features of the face are small, the forehead is high, and the ears (or possibly a high collar) are pointed. The hair appears to be curly and brushed back. Something is depicted as tucked behind the left ear (or collar). The base of the mount is splayed out to each side (like shoulders) and there is a rounded groove on the underside, as if the mount was designed to sit on something else. There is a single central, circular sectioned rivet on reverse. The obverse and all the edges show traces of gilding. Cast in one. Length 19.18mm, width (across base) 22.94mm, thickness (including stud) c.6.1mm, thickness (not including stud) c.4.1mm max - across base & min (across top of head) 2.1mm, weight 4.49g. ADDITIONAL: assume this must be later Sx or post-Conquest",,"mount","anthropomorphic mount","anthropomorphic",900.00,1500.00,"LSx",7.00,"Scarrington (from get-a-map)","Scarrington",,"Nottinghamshire"
4573,"NMS-804B78","Middle Saxon pin with most of round section shank missing. The polyhedral head, of rectangular section (8mm x 4.5mm, height 11mm) is decorated with one or more ring-&-dots on every facet except the topmost. There is a rather roughly finished collar. Of Hinton’s Hamwic (1996) Type Bb2ii, very close to fig/9 32/457. 8th – 9th century.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb2ii","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Carleton Rode","CARLETON RODE","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4574,"NLM-8163D4","An incomplete Early-Medieval copper-alloy hooked tag. The oval plate has two large attachment holes at the top, whihc have broken through the edge. On the bottom of the plate is an incomplete hook. The length of the hooked tag is 16.38mm, the width is 10.45mm and the weight is 0.24g. Hooked tags date from the seventh to eleventh centuries.","personal-related","Hooked Tag","Class B3b","undecorated",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"ROXBY CUM RISBY","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4575,"NMS-840EB5","Late Saxon incomplete bridle mount or cheek piece decorated with engraved Ringerike style ornament. A terminal loop joins a D-section shank on which there is a small boss before an expansion with moulded sides. An arm projecting at right angles from the junction is also moulded and has engraved decoration. It is pierced near the end by a rectangular hole that is round and countersunk on the reverse, and is surrounded by a small amount of iron staining. The junction is pierced by a similar rectangular hole slightly off-centre. The reverse of the junction is very roughly finished and there are only slight indication of roundness and no countersinking. The far side of the junction is broken, but it is very likely that a matching short length of D-section shank and loop is missing, broken off just before a small boss. If so then the length can be estimated at 78mm. Height, from base of junction to end of arm 50mm. 11th century. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","Ringerike",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Quidenham","QUIDENHAM","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4576,"NMS-847193","Mid - Late Saxon gilt copper alloy ball-headed pin, with hollow spherical head. All of the separately made shank is missing below the collar. The head is decorated with thirteen round bosses encircled with double rings of filigree. All have hollow centres, now all partly filled with white material, calcium carbonate fixative for missing settings. Most of the spaces between bosses are occupied by filigree spirals. The top of the collar or sleeve is marked with a double filigree ring, below which are further filigree spirals, now mostly missing. Below a small ribbed moulding, about half surviving, the collar narrows to its base. Length of collar 9.5mm, diameter of collar <4mm, diameter of head 15.5mm, diameter inclusive of bosses 17.5mm.
A close parallel is a much less well preserved pin head from Southery, on which six of the thirteen bosses retain glass pellets. A recently reported five-bossed silver pin from Whissonsett is set with red glass or garnets. There are many broadly similar examples of spirally decorated pins that are most likely to been made between the 8th to 10th centuries (Margeson, S. Ball-Headed Pins: A Typological Puzzle in Longcroft, A. and Joby, R. (eds.) 1996, 161-5). However, there remains some slight uncertainty in distinguishing between ball-headed filigree decorated pins of the Middle to Late Saxon period on the one hand and those of the 16th century. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Ac. Numdate2 changed to 900.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ac","CHECK THIS ONE",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Quidenham","QUIDENHAM","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4578,"LIN-85ED37","Copper alloy zoomorphic strap end. The strap end is roughly triangular in plan and has an extremely worn moulded surface decoration. The snout terminal is vaguely visible. Gabor Thomas's Class A.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A","unknown",800.00,999.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"WILLOUGHBY WITH SLOOTHBY","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4581,"SF-AB1245","An incomplete Anglo-Saxon hooked tag. The triangular shaped plate and fragment of the hook of this tag survives. The plate measures 12.3mm in length and 12mm in width. It has two parallel circular sewing holes in either corner of the upper edge. The front face of the plate is decorated with two pairs of diagonal lines of decoration formed of tiny crescent indentations, these lines form a V-shape with the point of the V at the base of the plate where it joins the hook. The fragment of hook is rectangular in shape and measures 3.6mm in surviving length and 3.6mm in width. This hooked tag could date from 600-1100.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C2ib","stamped decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Ramsholt","RAMSHOLT",,"SUFFOLK"
4582,"KENT-AB7CA4","Silver Anglo-Saxon hooked tag, comprising a circular plate with a projecting hook. The plate has a pair of empty rivet holes towards its upper edge, and is decorated with an inlaid cruciform design.","personal-related","HOOKED TAG","Class A4iib","cruciform decoration",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",22.00,"Brabourne","BRABOURNE","ASHFORD","KENT"
4584,"WAW-AD4967"," The object is a cross staff head, made from cast copper alloy. In plan it is an elongated three-dimentional sub-lozenge. However the lower point is expanded forming an integral cylindrical collar. This collar has a portion missing. On the opposite edge there is a circular rivet hole.
The body of the cross staff forms a frame with openwork sides. Along each edge there are three moulded decorative knops. The lower two knops are trefoil in plan and domed in profile. The upper knops are just circular and domes. The upper terminal of the cross-staff head terminates with a quatrefoil shaped knop which has a domed tip. This tip does not show any particular signs of wear.
The surface of the cross staff head is corroded, but there are traces of a heavy dark green patina.
Bailey tentativley dates other cross-heads to the 11th to 12th centuries, perhaps this is likewise with this example. The object is a cross staff head, made from cast copper alloy. In plan it is an elongated three-dimentional sub-lozenge. However the lower point is expanded forming an integral cylindrical collar. This collar has a portion missing. On the opposite edge there is a circular rivet hole.
The body of the cross staff forms a frame with openwork sides. Along each edge there are three moulded decorative knops. The lower two knops are trefoil in plan and domed in profile. The upper knops are just circular and domes. The upper terminal of the cross-staff head terminates with a quatrefoil shaped knop which has a domed tip. This tip does not show any particular signs of wear.
The surface of the cross staff head is corroded, but there are traces of a heavy dark green patina.
Bailey tentativley dates other cross-heads to the 11th to 12th centuries, perhaps this is likewise with this example.
It measures 65.2mm long, 25.2mm wide and weighs 23.99g. ",,"Cross Staff","Head",,1000.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,,"DEERHURST",,"GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
4587,"SOMDOR-C0B984","Copper alloy stud. 3 dimensionally cast animal head. It has a long muzzel with a central longitudinal ridge and an up-turned nose above an open mouth. The nose has two lines delineating the nostrils. Behind the muzzel are two raised, oval eyes with the central ridge continuing between them, at the back of the head are two projecting, rounded ears. Overs surface of the head and framing the eyes curving double lines which retain traces of gilding. The base of the head is flat and undecorated with a single, integral rivet projecting from it. The rivet is circilar sectioned, tapering, and projects downwards.",,"Stud",,,600.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"MILBORNE PORT",,"SOMERSET"
4588,"BUC-DBA492","A copper alloy pin with a facetted head decorated with rings and dots. A small moulded collar sits where the shaft joins the head. The point is missing. ADDITIONAL: Spherical headed pin not facetted. Hinton 1996 type Ac2. Date range changed from 650-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ac2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"no record","no record","no record","BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
4590,"SF-E9E254","A complete copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end of Gabor Thomas's type A in very good condition. Measuring 37.9mm in length and 13.6mm in width it is roughly rectangular in shape with tapering terminals. The attachment end is split and worn one of the original two parallel in situ iron rivets survive.
The front face of this strap end is decorated with incised decoration consisting of a small semi-circular panel directly below the attachment end, a rectangular panel below this and a zoomorphic terminal. Within the rectangular panel there is a complex interlaced design, which may depict an animal or possibly a standing bird of some kind. The animal head terminal is mouse or bat like in character. With small rounded ears, a brow with decorative triangular grooves across it, circular indented eyes and a square snout, now worn.
Type A strap ends are dated from the late 8th century to 1000, this example is extremely similar in its decorative design to another type A strap end from Ixworth, Suffolk (SF-BC8C67).","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",800.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Chillesford","CHILLESFORD",,"SUFFOLK"
4591,"SF-E9FF66","An unusual complete cast copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon stirrup terminal. Measuring 26.2mm in length, 19.2mm in width and 9.9mm in thickness.
This stirrup terminal is five sided in shape, with a hollow back. The front face has a narrow open end, which is worn and flares into a trefoil terminal end, consisting of a larger central lobe flanked by two smaller lobes with V-shaped grooves to either side of the central lobe.
The hollow back, within which the diagonal arms of the lower part of an iron stirrup would have been enclosed, has sides and a lower flange.
This stirrup terminal is obviously not zoomorphic or as ornate as those illustrated an discussed in D. Williams' article (FRG Datasheet 24), however, it is still most likely to be a stirrup terminal due to its hollow back and its size.","horse-related","stirrup terminal","trefoil","undecorated",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Chillesford","CHILLESFORD",,"SUFFOLK"
4595,"WMID-04DFE7","A cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount, classified by David Williams as a Class A, Type 1 (length: 46.1mm; width: 29.2mm; thickness at centre: 4.1mm; thickness at base: 9.1mm; weight: 26.87g). A very corroded but complete (except the rivets) example of what is a common type of mount. The pointed tip at the top of the mount still has the apex loop (diameter: 3.2mm) beneath as well as two slight triangular pointed projections to either side. Half way down the mount, there are two more larger pointed projections opposite even other. Additonally, another two smaller pointed tips protrude out from the sides opposite each other near the base and just above the two rivet holes (diameter: 2.9mm) near the base. Neither of the rivets (which were originally probably made of iron) remain. The flange is Type A: the common right angle flange, as classified by Williams, 1997, 25. There is no visible decoration on the front or back of the mount. It may not have been decorated, and if it was, it may have only been engraved. The front surface is also too worn to identify any markings. Generally, the mount is in a poor and corroded condition with a patchy dark green-red patina. Only traces of the original patina survive on the front.
The Class A mounts are mainly pentagonal in form and each usually have an individual design by either engraving or punching into the surface. Sixty-two Type 1 mounts are illustrated in Williams, 1997 and most of the best examples come from southern England. A general distribution sweeps from the south west of England up to North Lincolnshire. There is also a large concentration in Norfolk and Suffolk.
This example dates to the 11th century AD.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","unknown",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"ROWINGTON",,"WARWICKSHIRE"
4596,"DENO-18CF44","Stirrup strap mount, openwork trapezoidal mount with four fixing points and apparently just one, large central, zoo-morphic head (sometimes these mounts also have two smaller heads). The head is rectangular with small rounded ears on the top corners, round? Eyes and an open mouth. There are two large piercings to either side of the head. The flange is bent at c.45 degrees to the body. Brown metal, worn. Probably 11th century. Williams Group B. Length 26.78mm, width 24.5mm, thickness (overall) 8.8mm, weight 12.05g. ADDITIONAL: no web records available- assumed that classification should read 'class' rather than 'group'. Amended as such.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Asgarby","ASGARBY AND HOWELL",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
4599,"SUSS-3F58F8","Four small and abraded sherds of handmade early medieval pottery. These sherds date from the late Saxon period the Early Norman period, circa 9th 11th century. The sherds are all body sherds. The sherds all have flint tempering <2mm and >4mm, within the clay. There also appears to be some grog tempering <2mm in the clay. The sherds are otherwise all fairly undiagnostic. They probably represent part of a manuring scatter. Collective weight: 44g.","work/domestic-related","pot",,,800.00,1100.00,"LSx",5.00,"Middleton-on-Sea area","MIDDLETON ON SEA","ARUN","WEST SUSSEX"
4601,"BUC-41BE95","A complex shaped copper alloy strap end. The attachment end is trapezoidal and still has its copper alloy rivet in place. This expands into a diamond shaped terminal, which is decorated with a plaited knot design, outlined in a white deposit that may have been niello. A design continues up the attachment end of the object but the corrosion has made it difficult to decipher. A similar strapend, but with a disciodal terminal, is illustrated in the Ashmolean catalogue (Bolick & Macgregor 1993)This has been suggested to date from the late Saxon period.
ADDITIONAL: does not fit with either Thomas' or Hinton's typologies.","personal-related","strap end","unclassified","CHECK THIS ONE LOOK IT UP IN Macg and Boll, p210 no35.13",850.00,1066.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Lt Brickhill","LITTLE BRICKHILL","AYLESBURY VALE","BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
4602,"SUSS-4259A2","Four small and abraded sherds of handmade early medieval pottery. These sherds date from the late Saxon period the Early Norman period, circa 9th 11th century. The sherds are all body sherds. The sherds all have flint tempering <3mm, within the clay. The sherds are otherwise all fairly undiagnostic. They probably represent part of a manuring scatter. Collective weight: 21g.","work/domestic-related","pot",,,800.00,1100.00,"LSx",5.00,"Middleton on Sea area","MIDDLETON ON SEA","ARUN","WEST SUSSEX"
4603,"SUSS-42C167","One small and abraded sherds of handmade early medieval pottery. These sherds date from the mid Saxon period, circa 6th 9th century. The sherd is a body sherd. The sherd is otherwise fairly undiagnostic. It probably represents part of a manuring scatter. ","work/domestic-related","pot",,,500.00,1000.00,"ASx only",5.00,"Middleton on Sea area","MIDDLETON ON SEA","ARUN","WEST SUSSEX"
4604,"IOW-4332B2","Complete decorated cast copper alloy mount of possible Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century date. Length 56mm, width 17mm and 17mm thick. Weight 28.48g.
The upper half of the mount is flat and about 2mm thick and the top is trefoil-shaped. The front of the upper half is decorated with curving lines. The lower half of the mount is bulbous and is hollow at the rear. The bulbous part at the front is in the form of a stylised animal head in the Anglo-Scandinavian version of the eleventh century Ringerike style of Viking art. The eyes, nose and mouth are very prominent. Each eye is represented by a raised annulet within a circular depression. The annulet may have been filled with a decorative material. However, there is no evidence for this. The hair or fur of the animal is formed by curvilinear lines. All the curving lines on the front of the object may be moulded. Alternatively, they may be incised or engraved.
Viewing the rear of the mount, the upper half has two integral rivets, each of which is about 4mm in diameter, protrudes about 3mm and is burred at the ends. At the base, an integral bar connects the two inner sides. This is sub-circular in cross-section and has a maximum diameter of 3.5mm. However, the centre of this bar has a slight swelling and this may indicate that the bar has been subject to wear either side of the swollen part.
The metal is reddish brown and small patches of a mid-green patina survive. The object appears to be in a stable condition.
",,"Mount",,"Ringerike",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"neaar Plaish (from get-a-map)","Carisbrooke",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
4607,"WILT-827774","Copper alloy and slightly bent middle/ late Early Medieval strap end. It is 45mm long, 10mm wide at the open end and weighs 6.31g.
From the open end (4mm wide) in which there are two rivet remains in each corner, the strap end narrows to 7mm, where it becomes solid and thicker (the strap end has been split up till here) - 3.5mm compared to 2.5mm. There are three grooves before the strap end continues, now straight-sided, for c.12.5mm where it thins to 2.5mm into an animal head terminal. ADDITIONAL: No image but description suggests that this belongs to Thomas' Class B1.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class B1","transverse moulding",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"BROAD TOWN",,"WILTSHIRE"
4608,"SF-91D9F4","A copper-alloy disc brooch with Borre-style decoration, measuring 28.14mm in diameter this brooch is decorated with a relief pattern with a raised central lozenge with a sunken circle in the middle. The corners of the lozenge are expanded to form double stranded interlace in the form of loose knots, each double strand ending with a rounded terminal. On the reverse there is a transverse pin bar lug with the corroded iron remains of a pin within it and an incomplete catchplate. This is most likely to be a 10th century English variant of a Scandinavian brooch type. Similar examples are known from elsewhere in Suffolk from Freckenham (see SF-5708), Glemsford (see SF-9203) and Hemmingstone (see SF-66D362).","personal-related","Disc brooch","Borre-style decoration","Borre",850.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Isleham","ISLEHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4610,"HAMP-92CE07","Copper alloy object, most likely a buckle possibly of Late Saxon date. The frame appears to be broken off at each side. At each break the frame bears moulded decoration, possibly zoomorphic in the form of an animal head. Behind each head the frame continues with three moulded roundrels tapering slightly. In the centre of the outside edge there is a moulded pin rest. The moulding may form a further zoomorphic element in the form of an animal head, with the snout extending beyond the edge of the frame, and the ears forming raised elements on the outer edge creating a recess between serving as a pin rest. The zoomorphic elemets of the object bears incised linear decoration, perhaps intended to denote facial features. The frame is generally oval in section. Mid-green patina. ADDITIONAL: parallels include Hinton (1974, no. 32) and SF7560, dated by HG to 9th -11th c.","personal-related","Buckle","Class A1iii","zoomorphic decoration",800.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Bishops Waltham CP","BISHOPS WALTHAM","WINCHESTER","HAMPSHIRE"
4611,"KENT-92DDF2","Cast copper alloy buckle loop. 11th century Anglo-Scandinavian type. ADDITIONAL: zoomorphic decoration, two beasts meeting at 'outer edge'.","personal-related","BUCKLE","Class A5i","zoomorphic decoration",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Old Romney","OLD ROMNEY","SHEPWAY","KENT"
4614,"LIN-939104","Fragment of a copper alloy object, possibly a trefoil brooch. The object is symmetrical, flat and has two of the three lobes surviving. The face of the object has an uncertain decoration formed by lines and curves. The reverse of the object is plain and shows no evidence of their being any mechanisms such as a pin lug or catchplate that would assign the object as a brooch. The reverse of both of the lobes have a worn circular feature, which might be the remains of two studs that would indicate its use as a mount.",,"unidentified object",,,800.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,"North East Lincolnshire","RIBY","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4615,"DENO-93DBE4","Silver Anglo-Saxon hooked tag in two joining fragments. The larger fragment consists of the sub-circular plate with two holes for attachment. There are incised lines decorating the obverse side of the plate. The smaller fragment is the bottom of the plate and the hook. The may be a crude zoomorphic head where the hook joins the plate. Much of the hook is missing. Larger fragment: length 12.04mm, width 12.72mm, thickness 0.84mm, weight 0.45g. Smaller fragment: length 8.48mm, width 6.76mm, thickness 2.06mm, weight 0.22g. Overall original length c.19.7mm. ADDITIONAL: the decorative style is not easy to discern, but it does seem to be a slightly devolved Ringerike style, and related to those seen on Class A1 stirrup-strap mounts.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class D4b","zoomorphic decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",22.00,"Cotgrave","COTGRAVE",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4616,"SF-940713","A probable copper-alloy mount now worn. Roughly rectangular in shape with rounded terminal, one of which tapers. This probable mount measures 37.6mm in length and 25.4mm in width.
The front face is decorated with a cast relief design. This consists of a central longitudinal stem with tree-like branches projecting from either side of it. Standing on the branches at the tapering terminal end of this mount are what may be birds or lizards, They have long tails and necks, which curve backwards so that their heads are facing each other and their opposing open jaws touching the central longitudinal stem. At the base of the stem there are two more opposing possibly zoomorphic designs, these are U-shaped with rounded terminals but what they are meant to represent is not clear.
The back face of this probable mount is no decorated but has a slight rectangular depression at its wider end, which could possibly be the remains of an attachment method.
This probable mount is most likely to be late early medieval or medieval in date. ADDITIONAL: Winchester style, probably an incomplete Class E strap-end. Dates changed.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class E","zoomorphic. Uncertain",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Worlington","WORLINGTON",,"SUFFOLK"
4617,"HESH-96F9A6","Cast copper alloy bell of probable later early medieval (late Saxon) or medieval date (950-1500).
The bell is sub-circular in plan and domed or arched (bell shaped) in profile with an integral cast sub-circular suspension loop attached to the top. The bell measures 44.8mm high and the base of the bell has a maximum diameter of 36.7mm. The metal is 3.7mm thick. The suspension loop measures 10.8mm in height, 16.3mm width, 6.6mm thick, and has an internal loop diameter of 6.4mm. At the top of the inner face of the bell is a small broken copper alloy lug. This may be all that remains of a suspension loop for a clapper. This clapper may well have been made or iron as the inner face is a mid orange colour. The bell weighs 66.54 grams.
The lower part of the bell is decorated with a series of crude pierced and cast motifs. These are arranged in a series of three concentric bands. On the lowest band are fourteen evenly (approximately) spaced sub rectangular diamond shaped indentations and perforations. At the widest part of each diamond (ie at the horizontal corners) is a cast lug or boss. The second row of perforations are also diamond shaped, however, these are off-set from the first so that they tessellate. Again there are fourteen perforations and fourteen knobs. The fourteen knobs are arranged at the widest part of the second row of diamonds and at the apex of the diamond in the first row. The third and final row of perforations are similarly offset and the knobs are located at the apex of the second row. Again there are fourteen perforations and fourteen knobs. This pattern forms a lattice work. However, not all the diamond shapes are perforated and those that are pierced are not regular or even. One section of this design is not pierced at all. This maybe due to the wall of the bell being much thicker at this point (4.1mm rather than 3.4mm). The knobs or bosses are also uneven varying in both diameter and thickness (maximum 4.3mm diameter minimum 2.8mm).
The bell is a dark green brown colour with a highly polished even patina which covers all surfaces. This patina has been slightly abraded in the plough soil and some of the decoration has been worn. There is also a large amount of mid orange brown corrosion present. This is mostly on the inside of the bell but is also evident on the decoration and other areas. This corrosion deposit might be due to the original presence of an iron clapper; however, it could also be a result of the depositional environment.
No close parallels have been found for this bell, hence the large medieval date range of 950 - 1500 AD.
","horse-related","Bell","domed, perforated and cast decoration",,950.00,1500.00,"LSx",7.00,,"COCKSHUTT","NORTH SHROPSHIRE","SHROPSHIRE"
4618,"KENT-9CA9D7","Early Medieval? Wrought Iron axe. Typical Saxon type with narrow blade with oval shaped hole for the wooden haft. ADDITIONAL: image available, unclear if this can be dated more closely. Aim 2 only.",,"Axe",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",8.00,,"HORTON KIRBY AND SOUTH DARENTH","DARTFORD","KENT"
4619,"SOMDOR-A84B73","Copper alloy, pointed oval strap-end. At the proximal end the plate is split in two (one side has broken off) and there are remnants of a circular attachment hole on the remaining piece. The strap-end tapers to a point distally. It is decorated with a zoomorphic design. The point forms the snout with cast decoration of eyes and rounded ears. Behind this, on the wider part of the plate, os a rectaggular recessed panel with traces of linear niello inlay decoration. The panel ends where the plate splits at the proximal end. The back is flat and undecorated. There is a circular recess at the proximal end. The surface is worn and the detail rounded and slightly smoothed. ADDITIONAL: no image but likely that object belongs to Thomas' Class A, type 1 strap-ends.","personal-related","Strap End","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"CHARLTON MARSHALL",,"DORSET"
4620,"HAMP-AAAA40","Copper alloy stirrup terminal of Late Saxon date. The reverse of the object is hollow to accommodate the diagonal arm of the stirrup. The top of this hollow section is open, while the bottom is closed to support the foot of the stirrup. The upper surface of this section is generally convex. At the top the upper surface is decorated with two raised parallel lateral lines, with a wide raised lateral ridge between them. At the bottom the object becomes solid and curves away from the reverse, up and finally in again meeting with the upper surface of the hollow section just below the decorated element at the top. There is a circular aperture between the hollow element and the curving element. There is a sub-triangular depression on the lower/inner section of the curving element at the end which rejoins the hollow element. Attached to the lower edge of the curve is a moulded projection with two small sub-rectangular projections. The surfaces of this element may have originally been moulded, but are now heavily worn, and it is suggested that this element is a crest on top of an animal head, curled round to face up the stirrup mount. Patchy reddish-brown patina.","horse-related","stirrup terminal","Williams Fig. 3","crested animal",1000.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,"Owslebury CP","OWSLEBURY","WINCHESTER","HAMPSHIRE"
4623,"LIN-ABAC36","Copper alloy stirrup terminal. The terminal is in the form of a crested animal head curled round to face up the stirrup, thereby forming an aperture. There are two openwork holes in the crested head. There are remains of solder inside the terminal.
This terminal forms part of a highly distinctive group found East Anglia and Lincolnshire. Another similar example was found in the Sleaford area, and is recorded on the database as LIN-3AF7D7.","horse-related","Stirrup terminal","Williams Fig. 3","crested animal",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BURTON PEDWARDINE","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4624,"HAMP-ACC396","Cast copper alloy sub-triangular stirrup mount of Williams Class A, Type 11A. The top of the mount comprises a trefoil terminal, now heavily corroded, with a single rivet hole through the apex loop located in the central element of the trefoil containing the remains of the original iron rivet. There are two further rivet holes located on either side at the base of the mount, both retaining the remains of their original iron rivets. The main body of the mount has moulded decoration in the form of a lion facing to the left with head and one front foot raised. There is also a plain moulded border. The reverse is flat and undecorated and has a right-angled flange across the width of the base. Patchy, dull dark, green and reddish-brown patina. ADDITIONAL: date range changed from 901-1100 to 1000-1100.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11a (L)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Micheldever CP","MICHELDEVER","WINCHESTER","HAMPSHIRE"
4625,"HAMP-ACF407","Cast copper alloy sub-pentagonal unclassified stirrup mount, probably of Williams Class B. The lower portion of the mount is sub-rectangular in shape (32.5 x 13mm), and has heavily debased moulded decoration. There are two surviving iron rivets, surrounded by iron corrosion. The edges of the mount in this section are generally straight. Above this the mount becomes slightly wider then narrows to form a sub-triangular section (37.1 x 30.8mm). Here the edges are formed by projections linked by concave elements, giving the edge a wavy appearance, with one projection forming the uppermost tip of the mount. This section has openwork and moulded decoration. Three moulded motifs are arranged in a 'V'-Shape, with further moulded and incised decoration beneath, now heavily abraded. The motifs appear to be five-petalled floral designs but may be abstract animal heads. A series of five small apertures are arrange in an inverted V-shape. There are two sub-circular apertures either side of the lowermost floral motif, with a further two apertures, one sub-circular and one sub-oval, between the two uppermost floral motifs, and a final circular aperture above and between these. The remains of a right angled flange can be found on the reverse of the mount at the base. The flange is narrower than the width of the base of the mount (24.5mm). Dull, patchy mid-green and dark patina.
(David Williams. Pers Comm. 19/10/2004. The mount is ""a Williams Class B, Type 1, Group 3 stirrup-strap mount. The flowers are heads, 2 ears, 2 eyes and a nose, five in all"".)","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B1, Group 3","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Itchen Valley CP","ITCHEN VALLEY","WINCHESTER","HAMPSHIRE"
4626,"DENO-BD4865","Copper alloy late Saxon stirrup strap mount. Sub-triangular, and slightly convex, with a flange at the base, a (broken) loop at the top. There are two attachments holes at the base, which appear to be filled with traces of the (apparently) copper alloy rivets. The obverse is decorated with an ?interlace design, possibly depicting two opposed seated human figures. The reverse is undecorated. Length 38.63mm, width 28.87mm, thickness (base) 8.16mm, thickness (top) 3.06mm, weight 21.32g. Williams Group A mount.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"North Leicestershire","WILLOUGHBY ON THE WOLDS",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4627,"HAMP-BD9E75","Incomplete copper alloy pin with only the shank surviving. The shank is circular in section and tapers to a sharp point (D. 2.99-0.68). The object appears to have been bent in two places deliberately, to form a U with rounded angles. It is difficult to date this more precisely than mid-Saxon to post-Medieval.","personal-related","Pin","shaft only","unknown",720.00,1700.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Kings Somborne","KINGS SOMBORNE","TEST VALLEY","HAMPSHIRE"
4632,"YORYM-D8C594","A fragment of a cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end. The terminal end is a moulded zoomorphic head with long narrow snout and moulded eyes. The central panel is decorated with an interwoven design but is too worn to decipher. The attachment end has broken off. the underside is plain. Overall the piece is very thin (the main panel is only 0.8mm thick although the moudled head at the terminal is thicker). ADDITIONAL: no image but probably belongs to Thomas' Class A2. Date range changed to 750-1100.","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"BURNISTON","SCARBOROUGH","NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4634,"SF-297D45","Small bronze hooked tag of Middle Saxon type with disc plate and narrow pin. The plate is slightly ovate, 11mm wide but 10mm high, and 0.5mm thick. It has two small holes slightly over 1mm gauge, 3mm apart, on the side of the plate away from the pin. The pin is 8mm long and 1.5mm broad, tapering to a sharp point. The disc is possibly silvered or tinned, but otherwise this is a characteristic plain small example typical of the many found nearby in Middle Saxon contexts. ADDITIONAL: typical hooked tag, so dates broadened","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A9b","undecorated",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4635,"SF-29AA63","Small bronze hooked tag of Middle Saxon type with disc plate and narrow pin. The plate is slightly ovate, 11mm wide but 10mm high, and 0.5mm thick. It has two small holes slightly over 1mm gauge, 3mm apart, on the side of the plate away from the pin. The pin is 8mm long and 1.5mm broad, tapering to a sharp point. The face of the disc bears engraved or punched a voided cross (formed of double lines) with concave arching members between. This is a characteristic plain small example of the many found nearby in Middle Saxon contexts. ADDITIONAL: dates have been broadened to general middle Saxon.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A2iib","cruciform decoration",650.00,850.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4636,"SF-29BC64","Small bronze hooked tag of Middle Saxon type with disc plate and narrow pin. The plate is 11mm high,(damaged by being folded over on one side) and 0.5mm thick. It has two small holes slightly over 1mm gauge, 3mm apart, on the side of the plate away from the pin. The pin is 8mm long and 2.5mm broad, tapering to a sharp point. The face of the disc bears a cross, nearly worn away . This is a characteristic small example of the many found nearby in Middle Saxon contexts.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A2iib","cruciform decoration (incised)",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4637,"SF-2A3D97","Small bronze hooked tag of Middle Saxon type with oval plate and narrow pin. The plate is 10mm high, 12mm broad and 0.5mm thick. It has two small holes slightly over 1mm gauge, 3mm apart, on the side of the plate away from the pin, which is attached to the centre of one of the long sides of the oval. The pin is 8mm long, curved towards the tip, and 2.5mm broad, tapering to a sharp point. The face of the oval has engraved an outline, a vertical central line and two rising out-arching bars. This is a characteristic small example of the many found nearby in Middle Saxon contexts. ADDITIONAL: dates broadened","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A2ib","incised linear decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4638,"SF-2A6282","Small bronze hooked tag of Middle Saxon type with circular plate and narrow pin. The plate is 11mm high and broad and 0.5mm thick. It has two small holes slightly over 1mm gauge, 3mm apart, on the side of the plate away from the pin, and another smaller hole at the centre of the plate. Nearer to the pin arranged round this central hole are two ring-and dot features on either side. The pin is 5mm long, curved towards the tip, and 3mm broad, tapering to a sharp point. This is a characteristic small example of the many found nearby in Middle Saxon contexts. ADDITIONAL: dates broadened.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A1b","ring-and-dot decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4639,"SF-2AA468","Oval bronze buckle-frame of presumed middle Anglo-Saxon date, very similar to those found in coin-associated deposits elsewhere in the same parish. It is formed of a plain ovoid loop 20mm long, of gauge 2.5mm, with a straight section 12mm long as pin-bar of gauge 1.5mm. ADDITIONAL: Probably belongs to Geake's (1997,79) 'small, simple buckle'/Marzinizik's (2003) type II.24.","personal-related","buckle","small simple buckle","undecorated",600.00,800.00,"E/MSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4640,"SF-2AD5E5","Oval bronze buckle-frame of presumed middle Anglo-Saxon date, very similar to those found in coin-associated deposits elsewhere in the same parish. It is formed of a plain ovoid loop 15mm long, of gauge 2mm, with a straight section 10mm long as pin-bar of gauge 1.5mm. ADDITIONAL: one of Geake's (1997, 79) small, simple buckles","personal-related","buckle","small,simple buckle","undecorated",600.00,800.00,"E/MSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4641,"SF-2AE537","Bronze buckle, probably Early Mediaeval, complete with folded-over plate and cast pin. The buckle frame is an elongated oval 21mm long and 11.5mm wide, formed of a rounded bar of 2.5mm gauge, and with one side thinner within the folded plate to a length of 11.5mm. The plate is 14mm broad and 15mm from trailing edge to the central foldover, where it is indented at either side to accommodate the frame, and has a central cut 2.5mm broad to allow the pin to emerge. The pin is 13mm long and 2mm wide, and is thickened near the base to prevent it being opened over-fully, and down-curved at the tip to rest on the loop of the frame. The upper surface of the plate is decorated with two diagonal bars engraved, which reach from the outer corners to the point where the buckle-pin emerges, forming a V sideways. Each bar is formed of two parallel lines, which are decorated between with chevrons infilling. At the trailing edge were three neat rivets. ADDITIONAL: most probably belongs to Marzinzik's Type II.24 which equates broadly to Geake's (1997, 79) 'small, simple buckle' although the latter were undecorated types only. It's dating as late as 900 is very uncertain although this type waas found at Fishergate,York in a later 8thc. Deposit.","personal-related","buckle","small simple buckle","Marzinzik Type II.24, incised chevron decoration",600.00,800.00,"E/MSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4642,"SF-2B1B22","Small bell with pendant lug similar to those termed 'Norse' bells, probably of the late Early-Mediaeval period. This bell is 24mm in diameter at the mouth and 14mm high, with a lozenge-shaped lug 10mm tall and 11mm high, 4mm thick, with a piercing 4mm in diameter, mounted on the apex of the bell.","horse-related","bell","Norse, domed conical, undecorated","norse",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Barham","BARHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4643,"SF-2C0ED6","Circular lead weight, flat beneath and domed above, with central hole. The outer diameter is 30mm, the central hole 8mm, and the height at centre is 8.5mm. It may be a spindle-whorl, in which case it might be early mediaeval, but it might also be a weight (e.g. fishing or similar) and if so it could be a good deal later.","work/domestic-related","spindle whorl",,,0.00,0.00,"ASx only",9.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4644,"SF-2C3A92","Large buckle with iron oval frame and copper alloy sleeve or plate doubled over pin bar. The frame is or was approximately semicircular or D-shaped, with a straight pin-bar, about 26.5mm from top to bottom and 20mm across the loop. The pin is missing, and the frame is folded back against the side of the plate and held there by its encrustation of oxides.The bronze plate is 28.5mm long and 17mm wide, and the two leaves, which gape owing to the corrosion between them, are fastened at the trailing edge by a single large rivet, apparently of iron. The bronze sheet is cut fairly crudely, though neatly enough, into the necessary shape, and has a slot 3.5mm wide cut quite deeply to admit the pin to the pin-bar.","personal-related","buckle","unknown","unknown, rectangular plate",650.00,850.00,"MSx",8.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4649,"SF-3D3311","A strap fitting or strap end cut from plain sheet metal 0.5mm thick, 35mm long and 12mm broad at the square (trailing) end. The tag tapers towards the front or leading end, which is simply rounded from a breadth of c8mm. There is a single rivet-hole placed centrally behind the trailing edge, gauge 2mm. ADDITIONAL: broadly fits into Thomas' Class E on morphological grounds.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class E?","geometric, incised",650.00,1600.00,"LSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4650,"SF-3E2AE3","A small strip of bronze 31mm long and 3mm wide, 1mm thick, plain on the back and edges but carrying a raised pattern of V-shaped motifs successively along the upper side, almost but not quite like a chevron pattern. If these are merely decorative, the fragment may be part of a mediaeval or post-mediaeval finger ring of simple kind. Nonetheless the pattern is sufficiently well raised to suggest other possibilities, such as for instance a die for stamping or hammering upon sheet metal?",,"Unidentified object",,,410.00,1750.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4651,"SF-3EBF37","A strip of bronze about 75mm long, curved, 8mm in breadth and 2mm in thickness, but domed in section, hollowed beneath, and tapering to sharp edges without vertical thickness at the sides. One end is modelled, by casting or carving and filing, into the form of an animal's head seen from above, something in the manner of the Middle Anglo-Saxon strapends. However this head is slightly different. It has a pair of ears, then (below) a lozenge shape, which points down to a zone of 6mm defined by two raised transverse bands. Beyond the lower band, the metal is filed back to a thinness of 1mm. At the opposite end of the strip the metal is also filed or cut flat, so that the domed profile is completely flattened away. This may be part of a bracelet, as the curve of the strip suggests, possibly Early-Mediaeval or Early Mediaeval. Its real function is however uncertain.","personal-related","bracelet","penannular","zoomorphic",1000.00,1300.00,"LSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4652,"SF-3F2753","A very worn or corroded bronze item, apparently incomplete, 40mm long. At one end it has the form of a rod of 2.5mm gauge, and at the other it is flattened like a chisel, the flattening beginning midway along the object. It might possibly be the blade of a small chisel or similar implement, or perhaps the scraping-head of a simple stylus.It is probably middle/late Saxon or Mediaeval.",,"Unidentified object",,,600.00,1400.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Coddenham","CODDENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4653,"SUSS-3F54A8","A large stud, made probably from copper alloy. This piece seems to have been cast in one piece, consisting of a round, flat head, with a slightly curved central spike on the reverse. The face of the artefact is decorated with an apparently vegetal or zoomorphic pattern; however, it is not possible to make out the nature or meaning of this design; this face is slightly concave, and worn smooth. This artefact is complete, with a smooth, dark brown surface. Its use it unknown; it was clearly meant to be attached to something, with the spike as the attachment; however, it cannot have been hammered into something hard, as this would have ruined the design; it may then have been mounted onto a soft material, such as wax or felt, or even maybe used as a sort of giant drawing-pin. The worn face suggests that it has been used many times, as also evidenced by the slight splits on its edges. This artefact was clearly ornamental, and may have perhaps a ceremonial use, such as the ornamental nails on an Easter candle. The design suggests perhaps an Early Medieval date.",,"STUD",,,700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Nr. Eastbourne","EAST DEAN AND FRISTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
4655,"SUSS-401AB4","Possibly part of a small buckle, cast in copper alloy, with a single D-shaped loop, and a pin bar, joined to offset knop-terminals. The bar and one of the terminals are missing. The loop widens around the centre, and in convex and hollow. It is decorated here with carved lines, which themselves resemble zoomorphic Saxon art. The terminal has incised lines causing it to resemble a fist. There are tiny traces of gilding in these lines. The loop has been somewhat squashed. The surface is dark greenish-brown. This object is likely to be Saxon in date.",,"UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT",,,600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Nr. Eastbourne","EAST DEAN AND FRISTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
4656,"LIN-400113","Decorated copper alloy fragment from an unidentified object. The fragment is thin, flat and slightly curved. The outer and inner edges appear to be original, however the object is broken to its left and right. The face of the artefact is decorated with what looks like a running
frieze that was repeating. Two three-or-four toed feet are visible; one in the middle at the bottom, and one at the top left. This sort of animal foot occurs in both the early and middle Saxon periods. The reverse of the object shows no obvious signs of attachment, and no traces of solder. The fact that the lower edge appears to be original would argue against it being a vessel or bowel rim, however ir could have been applied to such an object, or used as a casket mount or similar.",,"unidentified object",,,500.00,799.00,"E/MSx",7.00,,"KEELBY","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4658,"NCL-4092D8","A fragment of a copper alloy strapend, late Saxon or early medieval in date. The fragment comprises the terminal and part of the attachment plate. The terminal is approximately rectangular in shape [and in section] and appears to be loosely zoomorphic, resembling most closely a wolf's head in profile. A circular iron rivet pierces the terminal. The terminal tapers to rectangular plate with two small rectangular lugs, extending near to the point where the plate meets the terminal. The strapend plate splits into three, possibly four plates of sheet metal but is broken. The strapend measures 23mm in length, 9mm in width and has a thickness of 3mm. ADDITIONAL: no image, and very difficult to assign classification given availalbe information.","personal-related","STRAP END","zoomorphic terminal","unknown",850.00,1050.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"THORNHAM",,"NORFOLK"
4661,"BERK-40BFB5","A copper alloy fragment possibly from a bracelet, cat ring or the frame of a buckle. The object has an oval section; the internal surface is concave with a rough groove run along the centre. It is decorated on the front and reverse surfaces with incised diagonal lines that are irregularly spaced. It has been cast out of copper alloy and has a patchy pale green patina. The breaks have the same patina as the surface, suggesting that the object was broken some time ago. The object has possibly been distorted with each end ?twisted in opposite directions. It is possibly Anglo-Saxon as it was found in the same area as Anglo-Saxon brooches and a strapend. Dimensions: weight: 9.75g; length: 32.42mm; width: 7.91mm; thickness: 6.77mm.","personal-related","Bracelet","unknown","diagonal moulding",410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"South Oxfordshire","WHEATLEY","SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE","OXFORDSHIRE"
4662,"BERK-40C545","Possibly an incomplete copper alloy Mid-Late Early Medieval (late 8th-early 11th Centuries) strap end. It has a very patchy pale green patina that also covers the breaks, suggesting that the breaks occured some time ago. The object has a shaft (with semi-circular section) that tapers from 6.99mm to 3.40mm. The shaft is decorated with two parallel transverse raised mouldings. At the broader end (?open end) there is a flat section that is stepped down from the main shaft. Possibly this is where the other half of the open end has broken and then worn smooth. A small section of the broad edge (?on the open end) is broken away and missing ?broken across a perforation. Any terminal is broken and missing. It is similar to the no.13 strap end illustrated in Gabor Thomas' Finds Datasheet 32 that is dated to the late 8th to early 11th Centuries. Dimensions: weight: 1.69g; length: 30.54mm; width: 6.99mm; thickness: 2.75mm.","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class B1","transverse moulding",775.00,1025.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"South Oxfordshire","WHEATLEY","SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE","OXFORDSHIRE"
4664,"SOMDOR-4FED90","A copper alloy circular looped strap attachment with a side projecting open-work plate. The plate is an irregular pentagon. There are several side projections and it has nine circular pierced holes arranged symmetrically. The surface is worn but was originally decorated in the Ringrike stye with entwined animals. It's dimensions are 37.44mm x 23.01mm x 3.18mm. ADDITIONAL: no image.",,"strap fitting","unclassified, Ringrike style","Ringerike",950.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"near school on B3070 from Get-a-map","Wareham",,"DORSET"
4670,"LIN-516825","Copper alloy buckle. The buckle is D-shaped with an expanded, thick lip and narrowed and recessed bar. There are two moulded beasts heads that bite onto the bar. They are very worn, however they have open mouths, very worn eyes, and moulded ears. A similar example was found during excavations at Goltho, Lincolnshire.","personal-related","buckle","Class A1ia","zoomorphic decoration",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"WILLOUGHBY WITH SLOOTHBY","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4671,"WAW-52D216","The object is a stirrup terminal, made of cast copper alloy. The stirrup terminals are probably of the latter Early Medieval period, similar dating to the Stirrup Mounts as published by Williams (1997).
The terminal has an obliquely angled semi-cylindrical casing within which the iron stirrup would have been placed. The interior surface of the casing does not show any signs of iron or solder. The lower edge of the casing has a projecting ledge.
The exterior of the casing has moulded decoration. The upper portion has a swollen horizontal rib. Below this there is a moulded crested animal head, which is curled forming a circular openwork.
The surface of the terminal is corroded and has red copper corrosion. Therefore some detail of the decoration has been lost. It weighs 20.97g, and measures 46.8mm long, 10.4mm thick and 23.4mm wide.
","horse-related","stirrup terminal","Williams Fig. 3","Urnes style",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"DODDERHILL","worcestershire","HEREFORD AND WORCESTER"
4678,"NLM-553422","An incomplete cast copper alloy Anglo Saxon pin. The head is biconical in form with a median band and is 8.94mm in length and 9.06mm in width. The pin has a small collar. The shaft is circular and is broken about one third down. The surviving length of the pin is 28.07mm, the width is 9.06mm and the weight is 3.28g. ADDITIONAL: Not enough of shaft remains to give more detailed class than Hinton 1996 type Ca2. Date range changed from 720-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Kirton In Lindsey","KIRTON IN LINDSEY","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4683,"LEIC-5610B3","Early medieval copper alloy strap end? 25mm long, 14mm wide and 0.5mm thick. The object is in good condition with a green patina and weighs 1.09 grams. The object consists of two fine metal sheets joined together. It has a rounded end and one side is decorated with a design of concentric diamonds in a circular border. The other end shows the two sheets, the lower of which has a rounded end. The upper one is also rounded and has a semi-circular cut out in its centre creating the effect of two triangular protrusions. The reverse is plain but has a small patch of silvering at one end. ADDITIONAL: object certainly appears to be a strap-end but of unclassified type.","personal-related","strap end","unknown type","geometric",0.00,0.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"SILEBY","CHARNWOOD","LEICESTERSHIRE"
4685,"SF-66B956","An unidentified copper-alloy knob. This knob is solid and oval in shape measuring 8.1mm in width and 7.1mm in thickness/height. It is set onto an integral incomplete rectangular shaft, 19.5mm in surviving length and 6.8mm in width, with transverse moulded decoration beneath the knob. The shaft begins solid with a thickness of 4.4mm about half way down it has a small slot in its underside and then continues from one face with a thickness of 1.2mm.
This knob is very unusual and does bear some similarities to early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch detachable side knobs. However, it does not have the normal attachment method seen on cruciform side knobs, they normally have a slot in the underside of a much shorter shaft and also have a hole running through them to take the pin bar, which is not present in this example. Therefore the function of this unusual knob is unknown, it could concievably date from the early medieval to medieval periods.",,"unidentified object",,,500.00,1500.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Covehithe","COVEHITHE",,"SUFFOLK"
4691,"GLO-AA9D86","Bell
Early Medieval 900-1000
31mm tall, 26mm diameter, 1mm thick
Six sided cone. Comprises of six sides that taper inwards from the base upward to a point at the top. At the base each angle is extended slightly to produce a serrated effect. Towards the top of the cone there are four holes (1.5mm diameter) arranged around the circumference. At the top there are the remains of a base for a collared loop.
Copper alloy, mid green colour, unfortunately none of the original surface remains. The bell has been slightly flattened, most of the loop at the top is missing, slight damage on one section of the rim and there is a crack in the middle of the body.
An example that is almost exactly that same as this find was found in York, find number 10528 (Mainman and Rogers, 2000, 2599). Batley (1988, 215) has been suggested that these bells possibly has a Norse origin and generally date to the 10th century (Mainman and Rogers, 2000, 2599). ","horse-related","Bell","Norse, conical hexagonal base , perforated at top","norse",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Barnsley","BARNSLEY","COTSWOLD","GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
4692,"SF-BABE11","A copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon brooch. This brooch is in the shape of an equal armed cross. It measures 30.5mm by 27mm in size as two opposing arms have been bent downwards slightly making their overall length shorter. The front face of the cross has a central circular boss and there are boarder grooves around each arm which end with three grooves in each of the expanded terminals of the cross. On the flat back face the remains of the pin hole and the opposing pin catch can be seen. One terminal also has a small circular hole through its tip. It is unclear what this hole was for, perhaps it allowed a chain to be attached to this brooch and another or perhaps it is evidence of later reuse of some kind. This brooch is similar to another example from Great Blakenham (West 1998, 126, fig 10, no 12).","personal-related","Cross brooch","boss and grooved decoration",,800.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Wyverstone","WYVERSTONE",,"SUFFOLK"
4694,"SF-BFDC26","An unusual cast copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon possible strap fitting, the function of this object is not known with certainty.
It is shaped like a cross measuring 53mm by 51mm in size. Its front face is convex and has a central lozenge shaped part decorated with two opposing pairs of parallel holes, two of which are open, the other two do not go all the way through. Inbetween these holes there are four smaller circular indentations and the traces of a similar circular indentation in the centre of the lozenge shape can also be seen.
The four arms of the cross-shape project at regular intervals from the central lozenge, each arm measures c16.4mm in length and c9.6mm in width, except for one which is slightly longer and wider and measures 19mm in length and 10.9mm in width. Through the centre of each arm there is a roughly oval shaped perforation, measuring c5.6mm in length and 2.4mm in width. The perforation through the larger arm has traces of corroded iron within it; the others are clean and empty.
Each arm has a zoomorphic terminal which appears to represent an animals head resembling a bat or mouse and is similar to the heads portrayed on some 10th century strap ends. Each head has a prominent brow ridge and a square ended snout, any other features, such as ears or eyes are no longer visible due to wear.
In the centre of the back face of each zoomorphic terminal there are the remains of corroded iron, which presumably originally went through a horizontal perforation on the reverse each terminal. These iron fragments could have originally perhaps been part of small iron rings hanging from each terminal. The back face is also worn and concave.
No exact parallel could be found for this object, however, it is similar in some respects to a probable strap mount from Stoke Ash (see SF-BB4D92). This parallel is also cross-shaped with a convex front face and concave back face, it has a central circular part rather than a lozenge shaped part but its arms also terminate in mouse or bat like heads. However, there are no traces of iron on this example, in fact each terminal has a copper-alloy rivet through it. Due to the similarities between these two objects it is possible that this object is also a strap fitting of some kind, perhaps acting as a strap junction. Alternatively, due to is concave front face and concave back face Dr T Plunkett has suggested that it could possibly be some sort of vessel fitting perhaps from an Anglo-Saxon hanging bowl. Whatever the original function of this object its style and reddish metal indicate that it is most likely to be late Anglo-Saxon c900-1066 in date.
ADDITIONAL: unsure if this is a strap fitting omr ount.",,"Strap fitting","unclassified, cruciform","cruciform",900.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,"Bacton","BACTON",,"SUFFOLK"
4696,"LVPL-BEDF02","Late Anglo-Saxon stirrup-strap mount. Triangular with slightly bowed sides. Depicting a lion looking upwards with its fron paw raised and tail curled between its legs and over its back. Pierced tri-lobed apex from which a pendant lobe penetrates the frame above the liaons head. The base is pierced by two lower fixing holes and a right-angle flange projects rearwards.
This example fits into William's Class 11A (Williams 1997) ","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11a (L)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"ABBERLEY","WORCESTER","HEREFORD AND WORCESTER"
4703,"WILT-E7B785","Complete Early Medieval iron spearhead. It is 250mm long, the socket 21mm in diameter. The maximum width of the very corroded slim blade is 20mm, which it maintains along its length until c.25mm before the tip, where it narrows. The socket is perhaps a little damaged, though the corrosion largely obscures the surface. At the open end it is C-shaped in section, the section closing around over 55mm but leaving a V-shaped opening for the haft. Weighs 131.74g.",,"SPEAR",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",8.00,,"LONGBRIDGE DEVERILL",,"WILTSHIRE"
4707,"DENO-E9A0F5","Copper alloy Viking trefoil brooch. Length (if regard lobe with catchplate as top) 37.66mm, width 42.06mm, thickness (including catchplate/hinge) 4.78g, weight 8.84g.","personal-related","trefoil brooch","incised plant motif decoration",,900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,,"ASGARBY AND HOWELL",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
4709,"YORYM-EA7116","A fragment of a copper alloy Anglo-Saxon pin, consisting of the head and a small part of the shaft. The head is a flattened disc, slightly sub-circular and ca 24mm in diameter. It is 1.7mm thick. One face is plain, the other is decorated with an apparently random arrangement of 10 ring and dot stamps. The dots are ca 2mm in diameter, the rings ca 3.5mm. The top of the shaft is flattened but the main body is circular in section and 2.3mm in diameter. There is approximately 18mm of the shaft surviving. The break probably occurred in antiquity as the end is now rounded and has green corrosion on it, and there are patches of corrosion elsewhere. ADDITIONAL: no image, but description appears to relate to a racquet-headed pin type. Check dates for these","personal-related","Pin","ESx","Racquet-headed, ring-and-dot",500.00,700.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"KILHAM","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4710,"YORYM-EAA3B3","A fragment of a copper alloy Anglo-Saxon pin, consisting of the head and a small part of the shaft. The head is a flattened disc, slightly sub-circular and ca 14-15mm in diameter. It is 3mm thick, but is uneven, one side being 3mm and the other 2mm. One face is plain, the other decorated with an apparently random arrangement of 10 ring and dot stamps. The dots are ca 1.5mm in diameter, the rings ca 3mm. The top of the shaft is slightly flattened, but the main body if the shaft is circular in section and 2.3mm in diameter. There is approximately 14mm of the shaft remaining. The break is stepped and probably old as there is corrosion on it. There are patches of corrosion elsewhere. ADDITIONAL: no image, but description sounds very similar to example found at South Newbald (Leahy 2000, fig 6.8.18) of middle Saxon date. Probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Eb1. Numdate2 changed from 700 to 900.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Eb1","ring-and-dot",500.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"KILHAM","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4711,"YORYM-EAC5B5","A fragment of a copper alloy Anglo-Saxon pin, consisting of the head and a small part of the shaft. The head is biconical. Each cone is approximately 3.5mm high, and there is a flat section ca 3mm high between the bases of the 2 cones. The cones are approximately 9mm in diameter at their bases and through the straight section. The head appears plain with a rich green patina, but this has flaked away in places and these may have had some decoration. The pin shaft emerges from the point of the bottom cone, and has a collar. Around the collar the diameter is 2.7mm. The shaft itself is 2mm in diameter and circular in section. There is approximately 14mm length of the shaft remaining. The break is stepped and does not appear fresh. ADDITIONAL: no image, but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Ca2.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"KILHAM","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4712,"SUR-FA31E1","A stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 11, which shows a lion looking upwards, facing left in this case. The mount is very worn and thin, the apex loop is broken and there are two rivet holes in the lower frame. The flange is right-angled.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11 (L)","zoomorphic",1050.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"CHELSHAM AND FARLEIGH","TANDRIDGE","SURREY"
4716,"IOW-1417C6","Incomplete opaque glass bead of probable Early Medieval date. Length 12mm, diameter 14mm. Weight 2.36g.
Slightly more than half of bead which is spheroidal in shape and each apex is mildly flattened. The central perforation is about 4mm at one end and about 3mm at the other end. The matrix of the bead is red (Munsell Color 10R 4/6). Viewing the bead with the perforation in the vertical position, the side is decorated with a series of vertical zones which are about 3mm in width and these do not extend over the flattened areas of the bead. Each zone is divided into three vertical stripes, the outer stripes are white and the inner stripe is dark blue. The break appears to be old.
",,"Bead",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",18.00,"Carisbrooke Castle, very near (from get-map)","Carisbrooke",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
4720,"NLM-3A5831","A sheet copper alloy Early Medieval hooked tag. The pointed oval plate has two attachment holes at one end. An incomplete copper alloy hook extends from the apex of the plate. The hooked tag is covered in iron corrosion. The length is 20.22mm, the width is 13.31mm and the weight is 0.65g. ADDITIONAL: dates broadened.","personal-related","Hooked Tag","Class Db","unknown",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Kirton In Lindsey","KIRTON IN LINDSEY","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4721,"SF-3AE395","A complete copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap mount of Williams type A 12 (Williams 1997, 69-74, fig 46-47).
This strap mount is lozenge shaped measuring 46.5mm in height and 32.7mm in width at its central widest point. It has a flat circular apex loop with a circular hole through its centre. The lozenge shape has a central diagonal cross, which is open work with four apertures. There are rounded protruding bosses in the centre of the cross, at the junctions of the cross and the frame and at either middle tip of the lozenge shape itself. There are therefore seven bosses in total.
The mount has no lower fixing hole, and a rectangular flange set at c45 degree angle to the mount, the flange has a circular hole through its centre. This implies that this strap mount was fixed through its flange.
Similar type A 12 open work strap mounts are known from Peasenhall (see SF-9703) and Ashbocking (see SF-A123B0), Suffolk. ADDITINOAL: classification should read 'Class A, type 12","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A12","geometric lattice",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Little Wilbraham","LITTLE WILBRAHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4722,"SF-3CBCB2","A copper-alloy arm from a set of tweezers, now broken in half, due to a fairly recent break, probably occuring whilst in the plough soil. The arm is bent and distorted it measures c56mm in length and 13.8mm in width at its flaring terminal end. The other end tapers and measures 4.1mm in width it is incomplete due to an old break. The end of the flaring terminal turns in at c90 degrees.
This tweezer arm could be middle Anglo-Saxon in date, due to its flaring terminal.
","personal-related","tweezers",,,700.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,"Freckenham","FRECKENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4723,"SUSS-3D6324","A small, silver Anglo-Saxon strap end with a zoomorphic head. Two silver rivets remain in situ. Description: unfinished. Weight: 3.68g. ADDITIONAL: Probably belongs to Thomas' Class B. Numdate1 changed to 800.","personal-related","STRAP END","Thomas Class B","geometric, incised",800.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",22.00,"Firle","FIRLE","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
4724,"SF-3DE111","A copper-alloy unusual middle Anglo-Saxon ansate (caterpillar) brooch. This brooch is worn and bent, it is roughly rectangular in shape measuring 31mm in length and 11.8mm in width. The front face has upturned sides projecting at right angles. One terminal is complete and has two rounded lobes with a small circular hole in its centre. On the back face of this terminal are two parallel pin lugs with a seperate copper-alloy bar inbetween them around which the now missing pin could have originally have been attached. The other terminal end is incomplete, it again has a small circular hole in its centre. On it back face is an incomplete catch plate. No parallel could be found for this brooch from Suffolk and its upturned sides are unusual.","personal-related","ansate brooch","sub-circular termainals","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Isleham","ISLEHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4725,"SF-3E0013","A worn copper-alloy possible hooked tag. It has an oval shaped plate with an integral hook projecting from one end and an integral tapering spike from the other. The plate measures 17.2mm in length and 16mm in width. On the front face it has two opposing pairs of semi-circular recesses. Traces of gilding can also be seen on this face. The hook measures 5mm in length and 2mm in width. The opposing spike is 6mm in length and 2mm in width. No parallel could be found for this possible tag, its style and the reddish colour of the copper-alloy suggest a late early medieval or medieval date.","personal-related","buckle","ESX?- disc-on-tongue","gilded?",850.00,1500.00,"LSx",7.00,"Isleham","ISLEHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4727,"SF-4DE4E1","Small gilt bronze plaque with enamel or niello inlay, mostly lost, and with light castings of metal 'walls' visible for the containment of champleve enamel fields. The object is approximately square, 15mm by 14mm, and encloses the figure of a crouching animal, quadruped, in profile with hind and foreleg shown. The head is turned back, with gaping jaws and rising ear, and with a prominent eye. The tail passes below and behind the rear thigh to emerge between the legs, and rises upwards across the body and ends above it in a feathered terminal. The field around this image is deep-cut as if chip-carved, and is gilded. The whole surface of the animal, including the tail and the legs with their shaped feet, were formerly enameled, but this survives now only in a blackened section around the snout. The style of the object seems likely to be from the late eighth to tenth centuries, but with a possible extension into the post-conquest period. The function is uncertain, but this is probably a single element from a composite decorative object with many empanelled details. The upper part of the plaque is slightly curved, bellying outwards, indicating that it was attached to a larger rounded form such as a vessel or ornamental rod. ",,"plaque",,,750.00,1200.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Yaxley","YAXLEY",,"SUFFOLK"
4728,"SF-4E3442","Unusual small ansate brooch 35mm long and 9mm wide with equal terminals of 11.5mm length and central bow of approx 14mm lenth and 4mm width. The terminals are pitched longitudinally in profile, with a raised bar 2mm in width at the end, and with two ring and dot motifs on either side of the pitch fully occupying the surface area. The pin attachment consists of two large straight-sided lugs 7mm high and 5mm wide placed side by side, combined width 5.5mm, with a rivet of 1.5mm gauge passing between them, and the pin rolled around it in the space between. The pin itself is lacking. The catchplate is partly broken, but was formed of a solid casting rising from the underside of the opposite end of the brooch at the inner end of the terminal (near the bow)and was hooked in a crescentic form. The ring-and dot ornament, and the large pin attachment lugs and catchplate features, give to this ansate brooch an early appearance possibly of the fifth or sixth centuries. ADDITIONAL: kept as similar to many other ansate brooches of later date. Dates amended up to 900.","personal-related","ansate brooch","rectangular terminal (expanded)","ring-and-dot decoration",410.00,900.00,"E/MSx",7.00,"Eye","EYE",,"SUFFOLK"
4729,"LEIC-51E6F2","Anglo-Scandinavian Copper alloy mount, 39mm long, 24mm wide and 3mm thick. The object weighs 8.04 grams and has a green patina. The object is roughly triangular and curves slightly from the centre. There is a rivet hole in each corner, two still have rivets attached. The surface is decorated with what appear to be random drilled holes about 2mm in diameter. The reverse is plain and there is no sign of a flange. The object appears to be a perfect, although very worn match for a french example in Williams' Late saxon Stirrup mounts (Class B, type 2, group 2 Fig C23). ",,"mount",,,850.00,1050.00,"LSx",7.00,,"FRISBY","MELTON","LEICESTERSHIRE"
4730,"LEIC-526CD1","Early Medieval copper alloy pin head? 25mm in diameter and 2mm thick. The object weighs 6.38 grams and has a brown/red patina with traces of gilt. The object is incised with a face like pattern formed from triangles and circles, with a possible upturned moustache? This is surrounded by an incised border 1mm from the edge. The base has the trace of a shaft 3mm in diameter protruding from it. ADDITIONAL: Leahy (2000, 62) suggests disc-headed pins 8th c., altho his Newbald examples are not decorated in this manner.","personal-related","pin","unknown","anthropomorphic",700.00,800.00,"MSx",7.00,,"WADDINGTON",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
4731,"HESH-53B977","Incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount of later early medieval date (950 - 1200 AD).
The Stirrup strap mount is sub-rectangular (rectangular with rounded corners) in plan with a convex (domed) front and a slight concave (dished) rear face. In profile the mount is sub-rectangular (D Shaped) and in cross section the mount is arched (C shaped). The mount measures 38.7mm in length, 29.2mm width, and is 6.8mm thick. It weighs 14.6 grams.
The front face of the mount is decorated with a series of pierced and cast designs. The central decoration consists of a single sub-triangular raised boss. On this boss are a series of cast designs in the shape of a crude head, with sub-oval eyes, a triangular nose and mouth. On either side of this and attached to the face / boss are two semi-circular ribs, presumably ears, which have both been pierced by circular holes (left diameter 4.7mm, right diameter 4.9mm). The rest of the design is made up of pierced circular holes of varying sizes. These are positioned thus (described vertically from the top to bottom of the mount): One large central hole at the top (diameter 5.1mm)with two smaller holes either side of it (left diameter 3.6mm, right diameter 3.3mm), below this is a row of four holes (maximum diameter 4.4mm minimum 3.9mm), under this row are the two pierced ears. Below the ears are two very small holes on the very edge of the mount (diameter 2.9mm). Under these are two more pierced holes either side of the mouth (diameter 4.3mm); finally at the base of the mount are two small holes (both 2.7mm diameter). The upper edges of both of these holes are slightly counter sunk, suggesting the rivets (not present) would be flush with the surface of the mount. These small holes were likely to have attached the mount to the stirrup. The reverse of the stirrup mount is concave and undecorated.
The stirrup strap mount is a mid - dark green brown colour with an even worn patina on all surfaces. The mount has been abraded in the plough soil and has a slightly unsymmetrical appearance because of this. The central 'face' decoration has been badly worn and most of the design is lost. Similar stirrup strap mounts can be seen in David Williams' 1995 Finds Research Group datasheet, which proposes a preliminary typology for these mounts. This example fits into Williams' Group B type 3. ADDITIONAL: date range changed from 850-1200 to 1000-1100","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B3","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown",,"SHROPSHIRE"
4733,"NLM-62EFB4","An incomplete copper alloy sheet metal Anglo-Scandinavian finger ring. The front flat band of the ring is decorated with a ring-and-dot motif. The tapering ends of the flat band bend behind and are now incomplete. Originally they may have knotted together or overlapped (Mainman & Rogers, 2000, 2585). The ring is quite corroded and brittle. The length of the ring is 25.51mm, the width at the widest part is 6.70mm and the weight is 0.86g. A similar example can be found in Mainman & Rodgers (2000, 2586, No.10515) which has been dated C. 930-1050. ","personal-related","Finger ring",,,850.00,1050.00,"LSx",7.00,"Kirton In Lindsey","KIRTON IN LINDSEY","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4734,"ESS-644852","Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch. This brooch is circular in plan. Around its circumference would have been six circular lobes, recessed to take enamel setting. Only four survive, all missing their enamel. There are three concurrent lobes and one in isolation, with the gap of a missing lobe to either side. The brooch has an upright flange set at 90 degrees to the base of the brooch, which forms the recess for the central enamel decoration. This central decoration survives intact and in remarkable condition. The enamel is cloisonné set, in that each piece sits within a cell formed from copper alloy ‘walls’. The design consists of four semicircular cells, that alternate with a setting of bright mid blue enamel and light sky blue enamel (though this may originally have been white), which form a central cell in the design of a cross. This cross is set with dark blue enamel. At the centre of the cross is a sub square cell set with red enamel. Gilding survives on the flange wall and to the reverse of the brooch. The reverse of the brooch is otherwise plain. A pair of pin bar lugs survive, but are worn. The catchplate is intact but blocked with corrosion product. The pin is entirely missing. The exposed copper alloy surfaces of the brooch are abraded. Where the original surface survives, it is an even dark green patina, otherwise it is mostly brighter green where the original surface has worn away. All break edges are worn smooth, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The brooch has a diameter of 21.7mm, is 3.76mm thick and weighs 3.28g. A similar example can be seen in West 1998, number 117.6, though this example has eight lobes and six semicircular cells. Following that example, this brooch is dated to the late 10th or 11th century. ADDITIONAL: exact parallel of NMS-77BF92","personal-related","Disc brooch","lobed, enamelled, gilt cloisonne decoration",,900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Marks Tey","MARKS TEY","COLCHESTER","ESSEX"
4735,"BERK-673055","A copper alloy stirrup strap mount (11th Century). It is Williams Class A Type 11. It is a sub-triangular mount depicting a lion looking upwards with its front paw raised and tail curled over its back; the lion faces left. The mount is broken across the suspension loop and the edges of the break are worn. There is a perforation through the body of the mount, just below the lion's head, possibly a new suspension hole. There are two rivet holes drilled through the base with iron corrosion within the rivet holes and a rectangular area of iron corrosion on the reverse of the mount just above the angled flange. The flange is very worn and there appear to be no rivet holes in the flange itself. ADDITIONAL: numdate2 changed from 1200 to 1100","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11a (R)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown OXFORDSHIRE",,"OXFORDSHIRE"
4737,"NLM-DEA357b","Pins, both have golbular bi-conical heads, one is complete the other the pin is missing. ADDITIONAL: original record contained two finds- split into single records","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Lenton","LENTON KEISBY AND OSGODBY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
4738,"LIN-3060A0a","One of five pins, originally grouped under single record (LIN-3060A0a). All descritpive details from image. Spherical-headed pin decorated with ring-and-dot, collared, incomplete shaft. Head c.6mm in diameter. Hinton 1996 type Ac2.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ac2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sleaford area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4739,"LIN-3060A0b","One of five pins, originally grouped under single record (LIN-3060A0a). All descriptive details from image. Polyhedral-headed pin, decorated with ring-and-dot, seemingly on all faces, of which there are four on the visible main face, and one on each of the smaller triangular faces. It has a square collar and incomplete shaft. Head c.5mm in diameter. Hinton 1996 type Bb2.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sleaford area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4740,"LIN-3060A0c","One of five pins, originally grouped under single record (LIN-3060A0a). All descritpive details from image. Spherical-headed pin decorated with ring-and-dot. It has a small collar and an incomplete shaft. Hinton 1996 type Ac2. Head c.7mm in diameter.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ac2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sleaford area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4741,"LIN-3060A0d","One of five pins, originally grouped under single record (LIN-3060A0a). All descritpive details from image. Polyhedral-headed pin, decorated with ring-and-dot, seemingly on all faces, of which there are three on the visible main face, and one on the smaller triangular faces at the top of the pinhead. It has a collar and incomplete shaft. Head c.6mm in diameter. Hinton 1996 type Bb2.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sleaford area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4742,"LIN-3060A0e","One of five pins, originally grouped under single record (LIN-3060A0a). All descritpive details from image. Polyhedral-headed pin, decorated with a single ring-and-dot, seemingly only on the main visible face. It has a collar and incomplete shaft. Head c.5mm in diameter. Hinton 1996 type Bb2.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sleaford area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4743,"NMS715a","Biconical head (6mm high, 8.5mm diam.), well-defined collar, complete but bent shaft, total length c.83mm. ADDITIONAL: no image but description suggests that pin belongs to Hinton1996 type Ca2. Date range changed to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4744,"NMS715b","Globular head (8mm high, 7.5mm), lower part of shank missing. ADDITIONAL: no image but brief description suggests that pin belongs to Hinton1996 type A. Date range changed to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type A","unknown",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4745,"NMS715c","Facetted head, a 7mmł cube with each corner cut off, no collar. The corner-cutting has been dome clumsily so that the object is irregular & off-true, ring-&-dot on each large face (except top), lower part of shank missing. ADDITIONAL: no image but description suggests that pin belongs to Hinton 1996 type Bb1. Date range changed to 700-900.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb1","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4746,"NMS715d","Facetted head, a 5.5mmł cube with each corner cut off, pronounced collar, short stub of shank only. ADDITIONAL: no image but description suggests that pin belongs to Hinton1996 type Ba2 or Bb2. Probably former as decoration should be described. Date range changed to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ba2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4747,"NMS862a","Pin with round sectioned shank, complete, tiny, almost flat-topped, spherical (or cylindrical) head with horizontal groove, no collar, shank without swelling. Total length 51mm. Length of head 3.5mm, width 4mm. ADDITIONAL: Originially part of multiple entry NMS862 of 8 pins. No image but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Aa1i.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa1i","incised linear, undecorated head",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4748,"NMS862b","Incomplete pin with round sectioned shank, spherical head, length & width 9mm, collar. ADDITIONAL: Originially part of multiple entry NMS862 of 8 pins. No image but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Aa2.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa2","unknown",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4749,"NMS862c","Incomplete pin with round sectioned shank, spherical head, length 8mm, width 7.5mm, slight collar, hammer marks visible over all of head giving an almost facetted appearance. ADDITIONAL: Originially part of multiple entry NMS862 of 8 pins. No image but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Aa2.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa2","unknown",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4750,"NMS862d","Incomplete pin with round sectioned shank, spherical head, length 6.5mm, width 7mm, ring-&-dots over all of surface apart from centre of slightly flattened top, collar. ADDITIONAL: Originially part of multiple entry NMS862 of 8 pins. No image but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Ac2.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ac2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4751,"NMS862e","Incomplete pin with round sectioned shank, biconical head with flattened top, length 5mm, width 7mm, double collar. ADDITIONAL: Originially part of multiple entry NMS862 of 8 pins. No image but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Ca2.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4752,"NMS862f","Incomplete pin with round sectioned shank, biconical head with median band, length & width 8.5mm, very slight collar. ADDITIONAL: Originially part of multiple entry NMS862 of 8 pins. No image but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Ca2.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4753,"NMS862g","Incomplete pin with round sectioned shank, biconical head with median band, length & width 8mm, no collar. ADDITIONAL: Originially part of multiple entry NMS862 of 8 pins. No image but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Ca1.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca1","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4754,"NMS862h","Incomplete pin with round sectioned shank, polyhedral head, i.e. rectangular with chamfered corners, length 6.5mm, in section 7 x 3.5mm, collar. ADDITIONAL: Originially part of multiple entry NMS862 of 8 pins. No image but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Ba1.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ba2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"NORFOLK WORMEGAY","WORMEGAY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4756,"SUR-84CA90a"," A badly eroded spherical pin head (10mm high and 7mm in diameter)
with four ring-and-dot stamps placed equally around the circumference. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Ac1.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ac1","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"NORMANDY","GUILDFORD","SURREY"
4757,"SUR-84CA90b","Cuboid pin head (8.5 x 6mm, by 13.5mm long) with the corners removed to give thirteen facets. The shaft has a slight collar. There are sixteen rings-and-dots, one on each facet except one facet which has four and the uppermost which has none. ADDITIONAL: Hinton 1996 type Bb2.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"NORMANDY","GUILDFORD","SURREY"
4758,"NMS480a","Ae pin, corroded, bi-conical with flattened top, short length of shank ADDITIONAL: no image, but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Ca1. Date range changed from 650-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca1","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"WEST WALTON","WEST WALTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4759,"NMS480b"," Ae pin, corroded, bi-conical, short length of shank. ADDITIONAL: no image, but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Ca1. Date range changed from 650-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca1","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"WEST WALTON","WEST WALTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4760,"NMS480c","Ae pin, corroded, bi-conical with median band, slight collar and short length of shank. ADDITIONAL: no image, but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type Ca2. Date range changed from 650-850 to 700-900.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"WEST WALTON","WEST WALTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4761,"LIN-307CB5a","Spherical headed pin, with collar, virtually no surviving shaft. Hinton 1996 type Aa2. Furthest left on web image.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sleaford area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4762,"LIN-307CB5b","Spherical headed pin, with collar, virtually no surviving shaft. Hinton 1996 type Aa2. Second left on web image.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sleaford area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4763,"LIN-307CB5c","Spherical headed pin, with collar, virtually no surviving shaft. Hinton 1996 type Aa2. Second right on web image.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sleaford area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4764,"LIN-307CB5d","Spherical headed pin, without collar, virtually no surviving shaft. Hinton 1996 type Aa1. Furthest right on web image.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa1","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Sleaford area","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4766,"PAS-D81747a","see PAS-D81747","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",,"York","York","YORK","NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4767,"PAS-D81747b","see PAS-D81747","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",,"York","York","YORK","NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4768,"KENT-464C92a","no details. It is unclear what date these may be.","personal-related","strap end","unknown","unknown",,,"ASx only",,,"OLD ROMNEY","SHEPWAY","KENT"
4769,"KENT-464C92b","no details. It is unclear what date these may be.","personal-related","strap end","unknown","unknown",,,"ASx only",,,"OLD ROMNEY","SHEPWAY","KENT"
4770,"NMS1745a","MS/LS Ae strap-end, corroded, broken and curled into loop, attachment end missing, animal-head terminal, elaborate intersecting ribs forming twin lozenges, boss at each intersection, 16 x (at least) 57mm (unfolded).","personal-related","strap end","unknown","unknown",650.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"WEST RUDHAM","WEST RUDHAM","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4771,"NMS1745b","MS/LS Ae strap-end, corroded with broken split attachment end, animal head terminal with elongated snout and eyes and large bat or mouse-like ears, twin vertical rectangular panels above with traces of ?interlace, 11 x (at least) 39mm ADDITIONAL: no image","personal-related","strap end","unknown","interlace?",650.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"WEST RUDHAM","WEST RUDHAM","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4772,"NLM2899a","Pair of hooked tags, triangular in shape, damaged. Stamped crescents as decoration. Measurements of second tag: 16.4/11.5/0.6/0.56g. Tags divided into a & b","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C2ib","stamped decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",,"NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","ELSHAM","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE"
4773,"NLM2899b","Pair of hooked tags, triangular in shape, damaged. Stamped crescents as decoration. Measurements of second tag: 16.4/11.5/0.6/0.56g. Tags divided into a & b","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C2ib","stamped decoration",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",,"NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","ELSHAM","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE"
4774,"NLM-B25CB0","A cast copper alloy pinhead fragment from an Anglo-Saxon pin. The globular head tapers to a collar at the base. The circular shaft is missing. The length of the pinhead is 8.83mm, the width is 6.61mm and the weight is 1.07g. ","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Aa2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"MIDDLE RASEN","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4775,"NLM-F3CFD5","An incomplete cast copper alloy Middle Anglo-Saxon pin. The globular head has a flattened top with an incised cross. The head is decorated with deep radiating grooves. Below the head is a collar. The circular shaft is incomplete. The diameter of the head is 8.48mm, the length of the head is 7.54mm. The surviving length of the pin is 16.09mm and the weight is 2.53g. ADDITIONAL: unfortuantely image does not include top of head showing cross.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ab2","Wrythen decoration",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Roxby Cum Risby","ROXBY CUM RISBY","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4776,"SUSS-EDA3E2","A cast copper alloy pin, probably dating to the middle Anglo-Saxon period (AD 720 â 850). The pin has a flattened biconical head (globular) with a long tapering conical lower part, tapering underneath to a narrow pin shaft. The shaft measures 2.4mm in thickness. The diameter of the head is 8.9mm. The shaft is broken and only survives to a length of 14.4mm. There is a small narrow collar around the shaft, at the junction between the shaft and the head. The pin head and the shaft are both undecorated. The metal is a mid greyish-green colour and the original patina survives as a smooth, glossy surface â but it is also quite pitted. ADDITIONAL: in many ways the head is somewhere between biconical and spherical/globular, and is best paralleled by Hinton 1996 fig 7.24/822, described as 'spherical', although without the collar seen in this example.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Aa2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"East Dean and Friston","EAST DEAN AND FRISTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
4777,"HAMP-BFBCD5","ADDITIONAL: No information given at all","personal-related","Pin","unknown","unknown",0.00,0.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"CRONDALL","HART","HAMPSHIRE"
4778,"SUSS-EDDD63","A cast copper alloy pin, probably dating to the middle Anglo-Saxon period (AD 720 â 850). The pin has a
flattened biconical head with median band, tapering underneath to a narrow pin shaft. The shaft measures 1.74mm in thickness. The head measures 9.8mm in diameter. The shaft is broken and bent. The pin head and the shaft are both undecorated. The metal is a mid greenish-brown colour. The surface is heavily pitted, so very little of the original patina survives.
ADDITIONAL: there's something about this one that doesn't seem MSx but can't my finger on it- possibly the shape of the head is thinner than usual.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Ca1","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"East Dean and Friston","EAST DEAN AND FRISTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
4779,"HAMP-BED275","ADDITIONAL: No information given at all","personal-related","Pin","unknown","unknown",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"CRONDALL","HART","HAMPSHIRE"
4780,"CAM-0F79F5","An Anglo Saxon dress pin( Hair Pin ) , 8th - 9th Century in date , with biaconical and medion band type head with a coller bellow Head . The shaft is circular in shape and the lower portion of the of the pin is missing. ADDITIONAL: no image","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"LITTLE WILBRAHAM","SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE","CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4781,"CAM-0EF8B3","An Anglo Saxon dress pin (Hair Pin), 8th â 9th Century in date, with a biaconical and medion band type head with coller bellow Head. The shaft is circular in shape and the lower portion of the pin is missing. ADDITIONAL: no image","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"LITTLE WILBRAHAM","SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE","CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4782,"BERK-02D5B4","A ?Saxon copper alloy pin. ADDITIONAL: No image, poor description","personal-related","Pin","unknown","unknown",0.00,0.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Souldern","SOULDERN","CHERWELL","OXFORDSHIRE"
4783,"SF-A87B33","A copper-alloy pin head and a fragment of the shaft most likely to be middle Anglo-Saxon in date. The head of this pin is biconincal in shape with a median band, it measures 8mm in diameter. The upper face, median band and lower half of the head each have four circular indentations evenly spaced around them, these are worn and may have been ring and dot motifs originally. Where the head meets the shaft there is a circumferencial collar. The shaft is worn and has a circular cross-section it measures 5mm in surviving length and 1mm in width. The copper-alloy that this pin is made of is reddish brown in colour and very similar to the metal found in other mid to late Anglo-Saxon artefacts.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Bures St Mary","BURES ST MARY",,"SUFFOLK"
4784,"LIN-8B82C1","Gilt copper alloy head from a linked pin set. The head is flat and circular and has a groove around the perimeter. The face of the pinhead has a central cross that divides the face into four segments. Each segment contains a triskele design. The design looks somewhat floral, and consists of three elongated triangles leading onto a central stem that wraps over the triskele and terminates down into the bottom right hand corner of the segment. There is a perforation on the perimeter which would have been used to link the pinhead to a partner. Around this hole on the reverse is a soldered plate, presumably a repair piece or a reinforcing strip. Adjacent to this there would have been another similar strip spanning the entire diameter of the head. All that is visible of this feature is the soldered pattern of where the strip was once in place. It is not certain what the soldered plates were created for, however reworking of metal artefacts is not uncommon in the 8th century. A similar example from Ruskington, recorded on the database as LIN-24A337 also shows evidence of reworking.
Other examples in the collection of the City and County Museum, Lincoln, come from Torsksey and Low Toynton. The most complete set known from Lincolnshire was found in the River Witham, Lincolnshire, and is now in the British Museum.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type E, pierced for linking","chip-carved interlace within quadrants of cross",700.00,799.00,"MSx",7.00,"South Lincolnshire","HECKINGTON","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4785,"NCL-D39591","A copper alloy pin, possibly of Saxon date. The pin comprises an onion shaped head. The head is decorated with a series of notches arranged in a cross shape. Where the head meets the stem, there is a circumferential groove. The stem is circular in section and tapers to a point. It is bent slightly half way down the stem. The pin has a length of 86mm. The head has a diameter of 7mm. The stem has a diameter of 3mm. ADDITIONAL: no image, but appears to be a form of spherical headed pin","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ad1","incised cruciform",600.00,1000.00,"MSx",7.00,"Near Backworth","Backworth, near","NORTH TYNESIDE","TYNE AND WEAR"
4786,"NCL-D44ED2","A fragment of a copper alloy pin, dating to the Anglo-Saxon period. The head is flat and inverse triangular in shape. It is decorated with three ring and dot motifs. The dots possess circular perforations. The head extends to a circular section stem and swells slightly before the break in the stem. The length of the pin is 43mm, the width of the head is 12mm and the width of the stem is 3mm. ADDITIONAL: no image, but description good enough. Sounds like its most probably a form of spherical headed pin","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ac","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Near Earsdon","EARSDON, near","NORTH TYNESIDE","TYNE AND WEAR"
4787,"SUSS-EDF6B2","A cast copper alloy pin, probably dating to the middle Anglo-Saxon period (AD 720 â 850). The pin has a flattened biconical head (globular) with a long tapering conical lower part, tapering underneath to a narrow pin shaft. The shaft measures 2.24mm in thickness. The diameter of the head is 8.9mm. The shaft is broken and only survives to a length of 10.1mm. The pin head and the shaft are both undecorated. The metal is a dark greyish-brown colour. The surface is quite pitted, but much of the original patina still survives. ","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Aa1","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"East Dean and Friston","EAST DEAN AND FRISTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
4788,"NMS-E0A2C2","Globular, almost biconical, head (diameter 7.5mm), most of round section shank missing. Top of shank with two grooves rather than a collar, the lower one in a spiral of just over one revolution. 8th - 9th century. ADDITIONAL: I would argue this was more biconical. It has a collar.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Norton Subcourse","NORTON SUBCOURSE","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4789,"SF-B32D86","An incomplete copper-alloy pin, probably of Anglo-Saxon date. The head is flat and roughly square with its corners cut off, it measures 10mm in length and 9.2mm in width. Both faces are decorated with four evenly spaced ring and dot motifs. The shaft is circular in cross-section and incomplete, it measures 15mm in surviving length and 2.1mm in width. No parallel could be found for this pin but there was a large variety of copper-alloy pins made in the middle Anglo-Saxon period it is therefore most likely to be this date. ADDITIONAL: relatively good paralells from South Newbald (Leahy 2000, figs 6.8.7 & 6.8.8).","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Fb","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Little Wilbraham","LITTLE WILBRAHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4790,"HESH-A2AEF1","Incomplete cast and incised copper alloy pin of probable Middle Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (720-850 AD). The pin measures 30.9mm length, 11.7mm wide and 10.6mm thick. It weighs 6.7 grams.
The pin can be divided into three parts; the head, the collar, and the shank. The head of the pin is sub-spherical in shape and measures 11.7mm x 10.6mm. It is decorated with sixteen incised sub-circular dots, which may have been created through drilling. These dots are arranged in an irregular offset pattern of three bands. At the top of the pin head is a sub spherical projection or knop. This projection is the same diameter as the shank below; which might suggest that the pin is constructed in two parts and that the pin head is separate from the shank and joined through a hole in the head. Beneath the head of the pin is a small cylindrical collar. Around the centre of the collar is an incised horizontal groove, which gives the impression of there being two (double) collars. The collar measures 5.5mm diameter and is 2.7mm wide. The shaft of the pin tapers from the collar to a rounded but broken point at the tip. The broken point is probably approximately 2/3 along the length of the shank. The shank is oval in cross section and measures 17.1mm length and has a maximum diameter of 4.8mm maximum and 4mm minimum. The shaft is slightly bent along its length.
The pin is a mid-dark green brown colour with an even polished but abraded patina that covers all surfaces. The damage through abrasion has affected all three parts of the pin, but especially the shaft where a large proportion of the patina and underlying metal has been removed. Dating this type of pin is particularly difficult as there is some uncertainty in distinguishing the difference between those made in the middle to late Early Medieval (Saxon) period (720-850 AD) and those made in the post-medieval period (1500 - 1650 AD). However, the presence of the collar beneath the head is typically âSaxonâ.
Thanks are extended to Kevin Leahy for his advice in dating this example.
","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ac2","ring-and-dot",720.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,,"unknown SHROPSHIRE",,"SHROPSHIRE"
4791,"NMS-8432E3","Mid Saxon Pin with roughly triangular flat head, the form of which is reminiscent of many hooked tags. The top edge is rounded between two lobes and there is a triangular cut-out on the upper part of the sides. Of six ring-and-dots, one has been roughly broken through. Two transverse incised grooves immediately below the junction of head and shank take the place of a collar. The shank, the lower two –thirds of the shank are bent through c.130Âș, is of circular or sub-circular section except for the final 20mm where it is square, the change being quite abrupt. A seam running the full length of the shank is evidence that it was made by the folding process (Morton and Oddy in Hinton Hamwic 1996, 79). The head was almost certainly formed out of the same piece of metal by hammering out, as is evidenced by the seam that can seen to reach the left-hand side of the front face just above the level of the top of the lowest ring-and-dot. An elongated rectangular impression above this is probably a hammer-mark. Head width 11mm, height / length 16mm. Total length c.70mm. 8th – 9th century. ADDITIONAL: Cannot place within Hinton's scheme","personal-related","pin","sub-triangular flat head","ring-and-dot; lobed",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Billingford","BILLINGFORD","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4792,"NMS-842298","Mid Saxon Pin, most of round section shank missing. Globular head (diam. 8.5mm, length / height 9mm) above collar. In quite fresh condition, surviving length 25mm. 8th – 9th century.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Aa2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Billingford","BILLINGFORD","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4793,"BUC-37BCF5","A copper alloy pin with a spherical head (diameter 9mm) decorated with a spiral of grooves radiating from the top of the pinhead. The base of the head has a small moulded collar.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ab2","wrythen",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Hardwick","HARDWICK","AYLESBURY VALE","BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
4794,"LIN-6811B7","A copper-alloy pin. The incomplete shaft, which is circular in cross-section, has been bent at a right angle beneath the head, and is broken shortly thereafter. The length of the shaft is 14mm. The head of the pin is flattened biconical in shape with a length of 8mm and a width of 8mm, it has been decorated with a series of curving radiating lines which meet in the centre of the top of the head, below these lines there is a collar. ADDITIONAL: head shape difficult. Could equally be poorly executed spherical as uneven shape. Assigned to Hinton group on basis of decoration.","personal-related","pin","Hinton Type Ab2","Wrythen decoration",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"FOLKINGHAM","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4795,"DENO-BF15B8","Saxon disc headed pin head, 8th or 9th century. The disc is decorated with an equal-armed cross, with a simple double-bordered tri-lobed interlace knot in each quarter. The top of the shaft is rectangular sectioned and has two simple steps before the relatively thin circular sectioned pin shaft. The top left edge of the disc is damaged. There is no evidence for a piercing to link this to another pin, although the piercing could have been at the damaged edge. No trace of gilding present. Length 42.62mm, width 28.32mm, thickness (across disc) c.1mm, thickness (across top of pin shaft) 2.22mm, weight 4.11g.","personal-related","pin","Hinton Type Ed2","interace with central cross",750.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"near Newark","NEWARK","NEWARK AND SHERWOOD","NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4796,"NLM-78C696","An incomplete silver-gilt pin-head in the form of a bird. The gilding on the pin-head is now quite worn. The ends of the ears and the top of the wings are both damaged. Originally they may have joined together to form a loop. The wings are engraved with cross-hatching, to give the effect of feathers. The cylindrical shaft of the pin is broken and slightly bent. There are two grooves running horizontally around the top of the shaft. The date is uncertain; possibly c.8th century due to the collar on the shaft. However, a c.12th century date has also been suggested. No certain parallels have been found. The maximum length of the pin is 30.0mm, the diameter of shaft is 2mm and the weight is 5.77g. ","personal-related","Pin","bird-shaped head","zoomorphic",700.00,800.00,"MSx",22.00,"Swinhope","SWINHOPE","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4797,"SUSS-48B1F1","A copper alloy mid-late Anglo-Saxon pin. The pinhead is complete but the shaft is broken. The entire length of the pin is 20.5mm. The pinhead is polyhedral in shape, with 13 facets each with a chip-carved/engraved ring and dot motif. The pinhead looks more elaborate than a normal polyhedral head, which are cube or cuboid shaped with the corners cut off. The shaft has a circular section. The shaft is slightly bent, but the break has occurred on the main part of the bend, so it is impossible to say how long the shaft was or whether is was a straight shaft, but an L-shaped shaft. The pin is otherwise in a good condition and much of the original surface survives. The metal is a mid brownish-green colour. ","personal-related","PIN","Hinton Type Bb2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Firle","FIRLE","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
4798,"NCL-35F2D2","A fragment of an early Medieval copper alloy pin. The fragment comprises a small portion of the shaft and the head. The shaft is circular in section and there is a slight collar where the it meets the head. The head is bi-conical. The fragment measures 28mm in length and the head has a diameter of 10mm.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton Type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"DRIFFIELD",,"HUMBERSIDE"
4799,"LIN-679D56","Copper alloy pin head. The head is biconical with a flattened head. There is a small collar below the head. The shank is circular in section and is broken shortly after it stems from the head.","personal-related","pin","Hinton Type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"FOLKINGHAM","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4800,"NCL-905710","A copper alloy pin, probably early medieval in date. The pin has a dark brown to black patina. The pin has a short, circular section stem which tapers to a point at one end; at the other end the head is onion shaped with spiralling grooves. The pin has a length of 43mm; the head has a diameter of 11mm; the stem has a diameter of 4mm. ADDITIONAL: no image, but description consistent with one of Hinton's 'wrythen-headed' pins","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ab","wrythen decoration",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"DISHFORTH",,"NORTH YORKSHIRE"
4801,"SF-779C20","A highly-corroded copper alloy pin head of small spherical form. The diameter of the head was c.8mm, and the gauge of the pin, which is broken off just below the head, is c.3.5mm. This dress pin was possibly Anglo-Saxon or mediaeval in date. ADDITIONAL: although highly corroded this pin head look to be a standard MSx type with likely presence of a small collar.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Elmsett","ELMSETT",,"SUFFOLK"
4802,"NARC-8E3B83","A copper-alloy pin. The pin has a biconical head with a median band. It measures 7.7 mm in diameter. There is a collar immediately below the head. The shaft of the pin is broken and now measures 12.5 mm in length. It is circular in section and measures 1.8 mm in diameter. Wear on the break suggests that this occurred in antiquity. The total length of the artefact is 20.7 mm long. It is possible that this pin is Anglo-Saxon in date. ","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"NORTON","DAVENTRY","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE"
4803,"SWYOR-7CCAB2","Copper alloy Early Medieval pin. The pin is complete but the shank is bent back on itself. The pin has a polyherdal head with a single ring and dot design on each main side facet (numbering four) and a ring and dot on the top of the pin head which is also flat. In the small triangular facets created by the corners being cut away at both the top and bottom of the main side facets there is a single dot. There is a circumferential collar below the pin head and the shaft. The shaft swells slightly before terminating in a point. The pin weighs 3.07g and measures about 28.7mm in length and 7.17mm in width (across the pinhead).","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb2ii","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Gringley on the hill","GRINGLEY ON THE HILL",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4804,"HESH-E6B471","Cast and incised copper alloy ball headed pin of probable middle Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (720-850 AD). The pin measures 46.2mm length, 18.4mm wide and 15.4mm thick. It weighs 10.73 grams.
The pin can be divided into three parts; the head, the collar, and the shank. The head of the pin is sub-spherical in shape and hollow with five small irregular (sub-rounded) projections; one on each side and one on the top of the pin. The head of the pin measures 12.2mm x 10.1mm, inclusive of projections it measures 18.9mm x 15.6mm. The head is decorated with a number of incised curvilinear lines which might represent wrapped wire decoration. Within these incised lines there seem to be six overlapping sworls or possibly loose spirals with each of the projections and the collar at the base of the head being focal points. Beneath the ball head of the pin is a small cylindrical collar. Around the centre of the collar is an incised horizontal groove, which gives the impression of there being two (double) collars. The collar measures 5.8mm x 4.9mm and is 2.8mm wide. The shaft of the pin tapers from the collar to a rounded point at the tip. It is sub-oval in cross section. The shaft measures 32.4mm length and has a maximum diameter of 3.3mm. The shaft is bent approximately halfway along its length.
The pin is a mid-dark green brown colour with an even but abraded patina that cover all surfaces. The damage through abrasion has affected all three parts of the pin, but especially the projections and incised pattern on the head. The point of the pin may also have been lost but this damage is likely to have occurred in antiquity as the patina covers this area.
Dating this type of ball headed pin is particularly difficult as there is some uncertainty in distinguishing the difference between those made in the middle to late Early Medieval (Saxon) period (720-900 AD) and those made in the post-medieval period (1500 - 1650 AD). Silver pins of the later (post-medieval) date usually have applied filigree (twisted) wire decoration on their heads formed in scroll, trefoil and quatrefoil patterns. Often the base metal versions copy these decorations with incised lines. However, this is not the case with the pin in question. The middle Saxon pins are decorated with spirals and often have collars beneath the head. However, the protrusions on the head are usually formed from small cylinders not sub-spherical blobs or knobs.
In conclusion I think that this pin probably dates from the Middle Early-Medieval period rather than the Post Medieval period because of the design of the ball head and the presence of the 'double' collar. No close parallels were found. Thanks are extended to Kevin Leahy and Helen Geake for their advice.
","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ad2","lobed with incised decoration on head",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"CRESSAGE","SHREWSBURY AND ATCHAM","SHROPSHIRE"
4805,"BH-C89E63","A copper-alloy pin of middle early medieval date (Anglo-Saxon). The pin is intact but the shaft is bent. The head is sub-circular and has a flattened top. It measures 9.6mm diameter by 9.3mm high. It is decorated by three horizontal bands of closely-spaced ring and dot, with a single ring and dot on top. The head is separated from the shaft by a collar. The shaft is circular in section and tapers to a sharp point. It measures approximately 72.5mm long. The object as a whole (in its current condition) measures 55.4mm long and weighs 5.84g.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton Type Ac2i","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Therfield","THERFIELD","NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE","HERTFORDSHIRE"
4806,"YORYM-214FB0","A cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon pin. The head is globular with flattened top at the pole opposite the shaft. The head is plain. There is a pronounced collar (3mm diameter) where the head joins the shaft. The shaft itself is circular in section (1.7mm diameter), swollen with a pronounced step at the swelling, where the section becomes square (2.1mm by 2.1mm). The original line of the shaft is now lost as the pin has been bent in a number of directions in the ground. ADDITIONAL: no image","personal-related","Pin","Hinton Type Aa2iii","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"KILHAM","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4807,"YORYM-217025","The head of a cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon pin. The head is flattened biconical (flattened opposite the shaft), 6.8mm in circumference at the widest point and 6mm long. There is a very pronounced collar (4.9mm diameter) where the head joined the shaft. The shaft is missing but for the first 4mm. It was circular in section and 2.5mm in diameter, the break is old.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton Type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"KILHAM","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4808,"SF-50A872","An incomplete copper-alloy pin, the head and a fragment of the shaft survive, the rest of the shaft is missing due to an old break. This pin is most likely to be middle to late Anglo-Saxon in date.
The head is a cuboid with its corners cut off and measures 8mm in height and 6mm in width and thickness. Where the head joins the shaft there is a collar. The shaft has a circular cross-section and measures 7mm in surviving length and 2mm in thickness. The copper-alloy reddish brown in colour as is common with other middle to late Anglo-Saxon metal work finds.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ba2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Westley","WESTLEY",,"SUFFOLK"
4809,"BH-2F6144","A lead pin head of probable middle Anglo Saxon (early medieval) date. The object is polyhedral (ie. has had its corners cut off), with four indented circles on one side and no decoration on the other. The underside of the pin head consists of an oval face which is slightly convex. It is not clear where the pin shaft was attached. It measures 8.8mm high by 8.6mm wide and 7.1mm deep. It weighs 3.57. ADDITIONAL: is this actually a weight? Not like anything I've seen previously and there is no sign of any attachment to a shaft. Left without Hinton type as I am uconvinced it is a pin fragment.","personal-related","Pin","unknown","inlaid?",720.00,850.00,"MSx",9.00,"Pirton","PIRTON","NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE","HERTFORDSHIRE"
4810,"YORYM-2185D1","The head of a cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon pin. The head is biconical in shape, ca 5mm long and with a circumference of 7.1mm at the widest. The upper face is decorated with stamped dots arranged in a random pattern. Where the head joins the shaft is a very pronounced collar (6.1mm in diameter). Only 2.5mm of the shaft remains. It was circular in section witha diameter of 2.8mm. The break is old. ADDITIONAL: no image","personal-related","Pin","Hinton Type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"KILHAM","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4811,"BUC-DB1226","A copper alloy pin with a faceted head. Each facet has a deeply hollow dot decoration. At the point where the head joins the 3mm thick shaft there is a small moulded collar. The depth of the dots suggests that they may have been filled with enamel at one time but no trace of colour was visible. ADDITIONAL: head is more spherical than polyhedral although each ring-and-dot is within its own face.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ac2i","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Hardwick","HARDWICK","AYLESBURY VALE","BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
4812,"ESS-8B3427","Copper alloy pinhead from a middle Saxon pin. This pinhead is globular with a diameter of 5.98mm. It has an over all length of 11.46mm and weighs 1.29g. It is decorated with a ring and dot motif. Beneath the pinhead is a collar and beneath that only 3.6mm survives of the circular shaft. The object is very abraded and only a tiny patch of the original surface survives, otherwise the pinhead is mostly light green in colour. The break edge on the shaft is worn, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. A close parallel can be found in West 1998, A Corpus of Anglo Saxon material from Suffolk, page 221, figure 103, number 3.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton Type Ac2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"unknown ESSEX",,"ESSEX"
4813,"DENO-78BC67","Copper alloy pin head, Anglo Saxon, ring & dot. Sub-circular sectioned pin. 4 on each large face, 1 on each side & on top, 2 on each of the corner facets. Length 22.48mm, width 8.87mm, thickness 3.90mm, weight 2.06g. ADDITIONAL: no image, but appears that this is a polyhedral headed pin, although the description is not clear. No description of shaft or presence/absence of collar","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Rampton","RAMPTON","BASSETLAW","NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4814,"SWYOR-DDDDF6","Early medieval copper alloy pin with decorative head. The pin has a polyhedral head with lozenge-shaped facets and chamfered corners. Each of the four lozenge shaped facets bears a ring and dot motif and the pin has a flat top. Immediately below the head is a collar and the shank extends below this. The shank tapers towards the tip and bends slightly about two thirds of the way down and is broken before the tip. The pin measures 32mm in length and 7mm in width across the head, and weighs 2.9g.
A very similar parallel can be seen in âAnglian and other finds from Fishergateâ Rogers, 1993, page 1362, Fig. 662, No. 5352.
ADDITIONAL: although incomplete shaft it would appear this has a bent but non-expanded or hipped shaft. However this remains uncertain.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton Type Bb2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"MARKET WEIGHTON","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
4815,"DENO-022C35","Middle Early Medieval gilded copper alloy disc headed pin fragment, part of head and part of shaft only, 8th or 9th century. The pin head has chip carved scroll decoration, apparently based around C-scrolls. Gilding survives in the incised lines. The border of the head is decorated with a border of very fine, unevenly spaced dots. There is a stepped collar before the shaft, which starts off rectangular sectioned but very quickly (after c.5mm) becomes circular sectioned. This pin is bent upwards and to the left, and broken after c.15mm. The reverse of the object is undecorated with no traces of gilding. Length 26.7mm, width 25.4mm, thickness (including bent pin) 11.0mm, thickness (not including bent pin, across disc) 1.39mm, diameter of pin 2.2mm, weight 2.54g.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ed2","incised C-scroll",750.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Carlton in Lindrick","CARLTON IN LINDRICK","BASSETLAW","NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
4816,"NMGW-5BDC15","Copper alloy pin of uncertain date, possibly a pin from a ring pin of Early Medieval date. The pin is of circular section of 3.5mm diameter. The terminal is flat and is likely to have been wrapped around a circular fitting and possibly the ring of a ring pin. The pin weighs 8.3g and is approximately 15cm long when straight. ADDITIONAL: very unclear image","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ga1","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"STANTON ST QUINTIN",,"WILTSHIRE"
4817,"NMS-325761","Mid Saxon Pin, lower shank missing. Facetted or polyhedral head is not rectangular but of lozengiform section, with chamfered corners. Collar at top of shank. Head 7mm x 4mm, 8mm high. 8th – 9th century. ADDITIONAL: poor condition, but appears to be undecorated","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ba2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"East Walton","EAST WALTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4818,"SUR-34D906","A large fragment from the head of a gilded and decorated disc-headed pin. The back is plain. Much of the edge is missing, together with the shaft, and the fragment is bent. The original diameter was about 31mm. The quadrants are decorated with an interlace pattern which contain some devolved zoomorphic elements. The encircling band and the central cross are decorated with punched dots which are particularly distinctive.
","personal-related","Pin","Hinton Type Ed","CHECK THIS ONE FOR DEC STYLE gilt, devolved zoomorphic with central cross",720.00,800.00,"MSx",7.00,,"BLETCHINGLEY","TANDRIDGE","SURREY"
4819,"BUC-FAAEC7","Mid-Saxon bronze pin, faceted head with ring and dot decoration. The main pin is lost with only the head and a very short stub section of the pin remaining. Identified by the British Museums Department of Prehistory and Early Europe with a reference to The Saxon Monastery of Whitby, Archaeologia 89 (pp.27-88). ADDITIONAL: appears that pin has no collar","personal-related","Pin","Hinton Type Ac1","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Cublington","CUBLINGTON","AYLESBURY VALE","BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
4820,"BERK-01D3A6","A Saxon copper alloy pin. ADDITIONAL: Biconical headed pin, no median band, collared, shaft bent at about a quarter of its length away from collar. Shaft does not swell, and is not hipped but there are two grooves in final quarter of shaft.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca2i","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Ewelme","EWELME","SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE","OXFORDSHIRE"
4821,"LEIC-212055","Saxon copper alloy pin head, 20mm long and 7mm thick. The pin head is multi-faceted. The top end is pointed. The bottem end where the pin is attached is flat. The pin shaft is incomplete. ADDITIONAL: only a sketched image available but appears to be an undecorated polyhedral head, albeit slightly thin. There is no collar. Dating wrong- pin is middle Saxon","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ba1","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"HUNCOTE","BLABY","LEICESTERSHIRE"
4822,"NMS-470720","Mid Saxon fragment of pin, worn and pitted, biconical head with broad flattened median band (dia.9mm, height 12mm), collar and tiny stump of missing shank, total length surviving 16mm. ","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca1","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Heckingham","HECKINGHAM","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4823,"NMS-C4F173","Mid Saxon copper alloy pin, rounded conical head (diameter 7mm), collared, bent and broken shank, length (at least) 25mm. ADDITIONAL: head is globular with pronounced flattened top, and so althuogh within the Hinton's scheme of spherical types it is a little irregular.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Aa2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Whissonsett","WHISSONSETT","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4824,"NMS-1E2708","Mid Saxon fragment of pin, very worn and corroded with bi-conical head (diameter 8mm) and slight trace of collar, short length of broken shank, length (at least) 17mm. ","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Mattishall","MATTISHALL","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4825,"LIN-2B1374","Incomplete copper alloy pin head. The head is bulbous and slightly flattened. There is a small collar below the head. The shaft is circular in section and broken a short way below.","personal-related","pin","Hinton Type Aa2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"FOLKINGHAM","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4826,"BUC-024A41","A copper alloy pin with a head decorated with slightly curved vertical grooves. The top of the pinhead is flattened and has an incised groove cut in it. at the join between the head and the shaft there is a small collar. The round sectioned shaft 2mm in diameter and 5mm long","personal-related","Pin","Hinton Type Ab2","Wrythen decoration",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Hardwick","HARDWICK","AYLESBURY VALE","BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
4827,"NMS-1E4032","Mid Saxon fragment of pin, bi-conical head only (diameter 8mm), no trace of collar or shank, length (at least) 8mm. ADDITIONAL: poor image.","personal-related","pin","Hinton type Ca","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Mattishall","MATTISHALL","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4828,"NMS-C50223","
Mid Saxon copper alloy pin, damaged globular head with hint of median band, no collar, bent shank with damaged (possibly broken) tip, length (unbent) 46mm.
","personal-related","pin","Hinton Type Ca1i","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Whissonsett","WHISSONSETT","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4829,"BH-D22192","A polyhedral lead pin head of probable 7th or 8th century AD date (Anglo-Saxon). The object has a flat underside and six or seven, irregularly arranged, flattened faces above. It measures 7.5mm in diameter by 5.5mm high and weighs 2.13g. ADDITIONAL: this is a very poor quality piece and looks nothing like most pins seen. It's hard to tell from the image whether there is any kind of attachment for a shaft or break. It's just about polyhedral but I am not entirely convinced. However, will keep as image not conclusive.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ba","undecorated",600.00,800.00,"MSx",9.00,"Ashwell","ASHWELL","NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE","HERTFORDSHIRE"
4830,"SF-FD1A65","A complete copper-alloy middle Anglo-Saxon pin in good condition. Measuring c55mm in total length.
The pin head is a solid cuboid with its corners faceted/cut off, measuring 5.5mm by 5mm in width and thickenss and 6.4mm in height. Each of the four upper faceted faces and the four side faces of the head are decorated with a single central ring and dot motif. There is a circumferencial moulded collar where the head meets the shaft.
The shaft has a worn faceted cross-section, which is now roughly circular in cross-section. It measures 2mm in width and is swollen just over half way down its lenght, the tip of the shaft tapers to a point.
Pins with faceted heads, such as this example are believed to be 8th or 9th century in date. It is similar to an incomplete silver pin from Stoke by Clare (see SF-F82072).","personal-related","PIN","Hinton type Bb2ii","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Laxfield","LAXFIELD",,"SUFFOLK"
4831,"NMS-471CB5","Mid Saxon Pin, globular-headed (diam.6-7mm) with engraved spiral decoration ‘wrythen-headed’ (Hinton 1996, 16-17), shank bent at oblique angle at approximately one-third up from point. Cf. three finds made in 2004, from Barton Bendish (17212), Beachamwell (4530) and Oxborough (2634). 8th-9th century. ","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ab2i","wrythen decoration",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Heckingham","HECKINGHAM","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4832,"ESS-974111","Incomplete bone pin. The shaft of the pin is circular in section and truncated before the point. The pinhead is a circular disc, set on the same plane (i.e. on end, not set transverse to the top of the shaft). Beneath the circular head are there integrally carved bands. The head is decorated to either side with eight incised rings and dots set around a central ring and dot. The object is abraded. The original surface survives with a brown patina, whilst exposed surfaces are creamier. The break edge is worn smooth suggesting damage occurred in antiquity.
Helen Geake kindly pointed out that there were similar (though not identical) parallels from Buckland Dover. In particular the pin in Grave 44 has ring-and-dot on the head, which is pierced in the centre. Those in 132 and 10 are undecorated. All have ribbing under the head and down the shaft. That in grave 158 has ribbing beneath the head but not on the shaft. Grave 44 dates to 625-50, grave 10 dates to 650-675, grave 132 dates to 650-675 and grave 158 dates to 675-700. This would give the pin recorded here a similar 7th century date, though Helen suggests that their use may have extended into the eighth century.
","personal-related","Pin","ESx","ring-and-dot, ESX probably disc-headed, bone",625.00,750.00,"E/MSx",15.00,"Canvey Island","CANVEY ISLAND","CASTLE POINT","ESSEX" 4833,"NMS-85DFF1","Mid Saxon Pin, double-collared rectangular head (3 x 5mm) with corners cut off, circular-sectioned tapering shaft with slight bulge at one third of length above point, length 73mm. ADDITIONAL: complete pin, swelling shaft.","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ba2ii","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Norton Subcourse","unknown SOUTH NORFOLK","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK" 4834,"NMS-8665A1","Mid Saxon fragment (8 x 12mm) of pin, very corroded and broken head and hint of collar on stump of shank, rectangular head with corners cut-off, four ring and dot on four main faces, single ring-and-dot on each triangular face and incised cross on top. ","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Fb2","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"North Tuddenham","NORTH TUDDENHAM","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK" 4835,"NLM-8A52E3","An incomplete Anglo-Saxon pin. The biconical head has a median band. The incomplete shaft is circular in section and has a collar below the head. The surviving length of the pin is 30.3mm, the width is 9.8mm and the weight is 3.70g. ","personal-related","Pin","Hinton type Ca2","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"STURTON LE STEEPLE","NEWARK AND SHERWOOD","NOTTINGHAMSHIRE" 4836,"GLO-6F0C75","Disc pinhead, gilt copper alloy, 24 mm diameter, with a >1mm thick, flat cross-section . The face was divided into four sectors by a plain cross. In each field there is a chip carved interlace motif. Extending from the base of the cross is an integrally cast pin, truncated in antiquity. Through the left arm of the cross is a drilled hole. The interlace and gilding is typical 8th century. On the reverse of the disc are two concentric incised rings double set 2mm apart. These would have been attached in a set of two or three such as the Witham pins example (Wilson, 1964, 133-134).Originally this strap end would have tapered to a stylised zoomorphic terminal. This type of strap end dates from the 8th or 9th centuries and was popular up to and throughout the 11th century. See the Finds Research group Datasheet 32, figure 2, number 13 for other examples.
","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class B1","Geometric",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Canvey Island","CANVEY ISLAND","CASTLE POINT","ESSEX" 4879,"ESS-D29E25","Incomplete Early medieval copper alloy strap end of Thomas Class E1. What remains is the terminal end of the fitting, representing approximately one half of the original object. The upper portion of the strap fitting and flat side end with the fixing holes are missing. The remaining portion is tongue shaped in plan and semicircular in section, in that the reverse side is flat. The fitting has an integrally moulded raised and crenellated border, within which is the open work design. The design is derived from an ‘inhabited plant scroll’. It shows a central ‘stem’ which is decorated at the lower end with five lozenge shaped indentations in a formation akin to an upside down head of wheat. Extending from the stem are four remaining main ‘tendrils’, notably above and below a pair of opposing birds (or possibly dragons) with their neck and heads bent backwards towards their bodies. The birds’ (or dragons’ bodies) are decorated with three grooved lines. A further possible zoomorphic figures(s) has been truncated at the point of the break. The reverse of the strap fitting is plain. The object has been treated since discovery and now has a bronzey patina. There are patches of darker brown, presumably where corrosion was halted. The break edge is worn smooth suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The strap end has a surviving length of 39.58mm, is 30.18mm wide, 3.56mm thick and weighs 16.96g. See Finds Research Group Datasheet 33, figure 4, number 26 for a close parallel.Thomas notes that strap ends of this type were popular on the Carolingian continent and in Scandinavia during the 9th and 10th centuries and that popularity continued in southern and south east England into the 11th century.
","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class E1","Winchester style",750.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Canvey Island","CANVEY ISLAND","CASTLE POINT","ESSEX" 4880,"SUSS-7B6862","Anglo-saxon ADDITIONAL: Strap-end with undecorated sub-triangular plate containing two rivet holes. The thin shaft is decorated with two grooves where it meets the plate, and steps out to the zoomorphic terminal which has devolved to the extent that a groove represents the back of the head/ears and a nick on either side the eyes.","personal-related","STRAP END","Thomas Class B1","transverse groove",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Firle","FIRLE","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX" 4881,"NLM-CFDC08","An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end. The spilt end strap end has convex sides and tapers to a zoomorphic terminal. The front plate is incomplete but has trewhiddle style herringbone pattern at the bottom of the central panel. The stylised zoomorphic terminal has pointed ears, rounded eyes and a rounded snout. The back plate has two attachment holes at the top of the strap end. The length of the strap end is 33.58mm, the width is 11.0mm and the weight is 3.35g. ","personal-related","Strap End","Thomas Class A2","Geometric",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"OWERSBY","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE" 4882,"LIN-6EF4E6","Complete copper alloy strap end, probably Thomas type B. The strap end has a tapering hollow rectangular sectioned shaft, with two copper alloy rivets at the attachment end. The method of attachment is unusual, since the sides enclose the strap rather than leaving it open as normally seen on strap ends where the plates sandwich the strap. The underside of the strap end has a detachable rectangular plate which fits over the strap and neatly joins onto the sides. This plate has two copper alloy rivets which are also visible on the upper surface of the shaft. The terminal of the strap end is in the form of a animal head. The head is three-dimensional and has raised triangular ears, with two facets between marking the forehead. In front of this there are two incised lines, slightly V-shaped with two further lozenge shaped panels infront marking the eyes. The snout is half rounded and flared, with a small shank projecting from it and terminating with a triangular point. ADDITIONAL: the method of attachment and general morphological features would suggest this is more akin to Thomas's Class I, broadly dated to the 11th-12th centuries.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class I","undecorated, with zoomorphic terminal",1000.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,"North Kesteven","OSBOURNBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE" 4883,"WMID-4EF045","A complete cast copper alloy flat sub-rectangular strap end, dating to the 10th century AD (length: 30.9mm; width: 19mm; thickness: 3.1mm; weight: 6.62g). This strap end derives from the Winchester style with its openwork ornamentation (there are seven open holes with possibly one filled in) that seem to form a plant/ petal decoration. At the âfixingâ end, it is difficult to identify rivets or rivet holes beyond the decoration and separated by a linear groove. The artefact is in a worn and poor condition with a corroded surface. The strap end in reddish brown in colour, but very little of the original patina remains.
The strap end belongs to a distinctive group found widely across the Danelaw. These are discussed in detail in Mainman, A.J., 2000, p2568-2569.
","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class B4","zoomorphic",850.00,950.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"SWINHOPE","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4972,"SF-221F20","An unusual incomplete lead object, which if it was made of copper-alloy would be identified as an Anglo-Saxon Gabor Thomas type A strap end, 900-1100 AD in date. Only the terminal end of the strap end survives and it measures 24mm in surviving length and 18mm in width.
The back face is flat and the front face moulded representing the head of a mouse or bat like animal. It has small rounded ears, brow ridges, circular eyes and a square ended snout with the nostrils depicted by moulded recesses. Above the animal head the strap end flares and has more moulding consisting of border longitudinal ridges and two central parallel longitudinal ridges.
This object could therefore be a lead strap end of the more normally found copper-alloy Thomas type A strap ends, another possiblity is that it was created as a protype for such strap ends or was a practice piece. ADDITIONAL: only the terminal is present, but will be Class A.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A","unknown",700.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",9.00,"Icklingham","ICKLINGHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
4974,"SUR-14EDC3","A late Saxon strap end of Gabor's Class A2 and Haldenby's Group 16 'cross-hatched' types. The strap end has a slender zoomorphic terminal behind which is a central groove with four crescents on either side. The central rectangular panel is cross-hatched and behind that is a pair of crescents. The attachment end has broken away but the edges of the two rivet holes survive. ","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"WEST CLANDON","GUILDFORD","SURREY"
4975,"HAMP-818781","Copper alloy strap end. The upper and lower plates are broadly triangular, although badly worn, tapering towards the terminal, and been cast in one with the terminal. The terminal is generally trapezoidal in plan and thickens just after the two plates join, then tapers to the squared off end with a slight transverse ridge at approximately the mid-way point. The reverse of the terminal is flat. The terminal may represent an animalâs head, now heavily worn. There is a circular aperture at the attachment end of each plate. The aperture is centrally located on the upper plate, and larger and off-centre on the lower plate. Dull dark patina.
L. 32mm. W. 9.66-4.3mm. Th. 3.5mm.","personal-related","Strap End","Thomas Class J","undecorated",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Ibsley","ELLINGHAM HARBRIDGE AND IBSLEY","NEW FOREST","HAMPSHIRE"
4976,"WILT-242276","Copper alloy middle/ late Early Medieval strap end, 33.5mm in length with a max width of 9mm (min 3.5mm - at the nose). It weighs 2.71g.
The open end is 7mm wide and 8mm deep. A single in situ rivet 1mm in diameter pierces the centre. The patina is smooth, shiny and brown, and undecorated, except for 9mm on the end opposite the open end. This is zoomorphic in style, two horizontal grooves at the narrowest point of the strap end (5mm wide) before the rounded terminal extends, with two triangular grooves to either side, representing eyes.
The strap end is most like Thomas's Type A strap end (late 8th century to 1000 AD), except the open end narrows and is not the widest point, and there is a 'waist' -the narrowest point- before the rounded terminal 'head'. ADDITIONAL: a little hard to tell, but looks likely that it is heavily worn, hence no decoration.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A","unknown, ?undecorated",770.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"NETTLETON",,"WILTSHIRE"
4977,"KENT-088B54","Copper alloy strap-end fragment. The terminal is decorated with an animal head with long ears. The object is very worn. ADDITIONAL: no image, and unfortunately the shape is not described, and it cannot be placed within Thomas's typology","personal-related","STRAP END","zoomorphic","zoomorphic",700.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"WORTH","WORTH","DOVER","KENT"
4978,"LIN-665AB4","Copper alloy strap end. The strap end is roughly oval in plan and has a broken attachment end and a broken tip. The attachment end divides into two plates to hold the strap. Any rivet holes once present are now missing. The upper surface of the strap end is completely covered with an incised hashed decoration. The lower surface is undecorated. Probably Thomas Type A","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A2","Geometric",800.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"LENTON KEISBY AND OSGODBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4980,"WAW-369E38","The strap end is dated to the Early Medieval period, 8th to 9th century. Thomas classifies it as a Type A2.
The strap end is made from cast copper alloy, which divides into two sheets. In plan, the strap end is an elongated sub-oval. In profile the strap end is solid at the zoomorphic terminal, but then divides into two plates, forming a slim â<â profile. The strap end is also bent at c.45°. The strap end has decoration on the upper plate consisting on an incised Trewhiddle style, intertwining limbs or serpents. There is no evidence of inlay or enamel. The narrowest terminal appears to have a vague animal head with a moulded âVâ shape possibly represent eyes or the brow. The opposite terminal, which divides into two plates, has broken rivet holes, one in each corner of both plates. These rivet holes are surrounded by iron staining, suggesting the original rivets were made of iron. As a repair, another rivet is in place, which is positioned at he edge of the main panel of decoration. This rivet is copper alloy and has a domed head. The reverse of the strap end is undecorated.
The strap end has a dark green patina, which is missing, in areas, particularly on the reverse. In length, it is 42.13mm and 15.19mm wide. It weighs 5.9g.
ADDITIONAL: Trewhiddle style Class A strap-end are type 1","personal-related","Strap End","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"BIDFORD ON AVON",,"WARWICKSHIRE"
4981,"LIN-DA0133","Incomplete copper alloy strap end. The strap end has a broken attachment end, which tapers to a narrowed collar. The collar is circular in cross-section and has a reel with a band above and below. The main body of the strap end is blade-shaped and a pointed oval in cross-section, and tapers to a break. ","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class D","transverse moulding",800.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,,"LENTON KEISBY AND OSGODBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4982,"LIN-8B60C4","Near complete copper alloy zoomorphic strap end; Thomas type A. The attachment end is slightly undulated, with a rivet hole in each corner. The surface of the strap end is very worn, however two sets of interace resembling a figure of 8 are visible at the attachment end, and perhaps repeat again near the terminal. The terminal has two recessed dots representing the eyes. ADDITIONAL: checked image and artefact is too corroded to assign closer type.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A","unknown",800.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"WELLINGORE","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
4983,"SUSS-D9F230","A cast lead object, which appears to be a strap-end. The strap end has been cast as a single piece. It is almost rectangular in shape but tapers slightly towards the un-riveted terminal. Two rivet holes survive at the wider terminal end. Both are now largely filled in with a mixture of soil and lead corrosion product. There is some sort of design on the front of the strap end, but the design is indeterminate. The design resembles the Winchester style of interlacing zoomorphic patterns surrounded by foliage. The reverse of the object is undecorated. The object is fairly corroded and the lead has gone a light whitish-grey colour. This artefact could therefore date from the 9th century through to the later medieval period. ADDITIONAL: difficult to assess- too fragmented to get clear idea of shape and too corroded to assess decorative style which is probably foliate.","personal-related","STRAP END","unclassified","foliate?",800.00,1500.00,"M/LSx",9.00,"Near Lewes","LAUGHTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
4984,"NMS-C51350","Mid Saxon incomplete strap-end, remains of convex-sided split attachment end, broken across rivet-hole, upper part missing. The narrow oval-sectioned tapering shaft is decorated with three groups of three transverse engraved lines producing segmented effect. At least 7 x 33mm. Variation on Hinton’s Type D (1996) 43, fig.17. ","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class B1","transverse grooved",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Whissonsett","WHISSONSETT","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
4985,"BUC-F8B4D5","A copper alloy strapend, in unusually good condition, with silver and niello decoration. The strapend has gently curving sides with notches cut along them. Two domed headed silver rivets fix the end to the strap. Below these is a crescent shaped groove and a panel with a curious creature on a niello background. The terminal is in the form of an animals head with rounded ears, a 'V' shaped brow, niello eyes and a broad snout. The back of the object is undecorated.","personal-related","Strap end","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Stokenchurch","STOKENCHURCH","WYCOMBE","BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
4986,"SF-4E3956","A copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon strap end of Thomas's type E, which dates from 900-1100. This strap end is rectangular in shape with a tapering and rounded terminal end or tongue-shaped, it measures 42mm in length and 26mm in width.
The attachment end is incomplete due to old breaks now worn but the remains of two parallel rivet holes and a larger central hole can still be seen. The front face is decorated with a tongue-shaped border within which there is a relief design which appears to be roughly symmetrical. What is being depicted is unclear it could represent entwined animals or a foliage design. There are three circular indentations at the top in the centre of the attachment end arranged in a triangle, to either side of these are diagonal slightly curving grooves, below these at the terminal end is a oval shaped groove with small radiating grooves projecting from a solid central oval shaped part within it.
. ADDITIONAL: the decorative panel appears to be related to the Borre style examples described by Thomas (2003), although this would be considered a somewhat devolved example.","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class E4","Borre?",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown CAMBRIDGESHIRE",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
4987,"NMS-4949D5","Mid Saxon incomplete strap-end, most of (convex-sided) split attachment end missing, narrow flattened D-sectioned tapering shaft is divided into four transverse oval segments above a simple stylised animal-head terminal. At least 8 x 36mm. Variation on Hinton’s Type D (1996) 43, fig.17. ","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class B1","transverse grovved mouldings",800.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Heckingham","HECKINGHAM","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4988,"NMS-614752","Mid Saxon/Late Saxon Strap-end, convex-sided plate with split attachment end front part appears to be missing, obscured back-part pierced by two rivet-holes and now rolled over onto face, corroded remains of engraved knot-like device above damaged animal-head terminal, large engraved ears, pointed-oval eye(s), one missing, vertical break at snout, 15 x 31mm (43mm unrolled). Thomas’s (2003) Type A. 9th century AD. ","personal-related","strap end","Thomas Class A2","geometric",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Pentney","PENTNEY","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
4989,"KENT-4AFB02","Cast copper alloy strap end. The strap end has a zoomorphic terminal in the form of an open-mouthed beast which has a sphere in its mouth. ADDITIONAL: a variant in Class B, not truly belonging to any of his types.","personal-related","STRAP END","Thomas Class B","undecorated",900.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"CLIFFE","CLIFFE AND CLIFF WOODS","MEDWAY","KENT"
4990,"DENO-472904","
Cast copper alloy strap end, early-mid Early Medieval. The proximal end is bifurcated to take the strap, and rounded with a small projection at either side (damaged on one side), and one attachment hole. The strap end tapers towards the middle where there are five narrow moulded ridges running around the object. The strap end then expands and becomes flattened until the rounded distal terminal, which is bent upwards.
There are two punched dots on either side of the obverse of this terminal, which may represent the eyes of an animal - this may be a debased zoo-morphic head. Fine dark green patina. Length 46.55mm, width of bifurcated end 7.78mm, width at central moulding 3.95mm, width across distal terminal 6.64mm, thickness of bifucated end 2.86mm, thickness of central moulding 3.25mm, thickness of distal terminal 1.14mm, maximum thickness of strap 2.0mm, weight 2.82g.
A very similar strap end is published in MacGregor and Bollick (1993) ""Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections"", Oxford, BAR 230, page 209, no.35.9, from an excavation at Shakeoak in Oxfordshire (Roman and early Saxon deposits, up to early 8th century).
ADDITIONAL: dating given here (800-900) must be expanded given dating from excavation (Esx), but also similar examples from Hinton (1996) from Hamwic excavtions suggesting possibly a long-lived type (Hinton type B, this example being similar to Fig 15.24/5 and 169/189). Doesn't not appear within Thomas's classification scheme, possibly indicating he sees these as earlier Saxon exmaples. .","personal-related","strap end","ESx","transverse moulding",600.00,900.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Kirkby in Ashfield","KIRKBY IN ASHFIELD",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE" 4991,"KENT-4B9913","Copper alloy strap end.","personal-related","STRAP END","Thomas Class A1","Trewhiddle",800.00,1066.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"CLIFFE","CLIFFE AND CLIFF WOODS","MEDWAY","KENT" 4992,"HESH-3D8DD6","An incomplete cast copper alloy zoomorphic strap end of later early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date, 800 - 1000 AD. The strap-end is sub-rectangular in plan with two parallel sides which taper to a blunt point. The profile is sub-rectangular and also slightly bowed. The cross section is sub-rectangular. The edges of the strap-end are also slightly beveled. It measures 38.6 mm in length, 9.8mm width, and it is 2.7mm thick. The strap-end weighs 3.34 grams. There are no parallels for this mount and it does not fit easily within William's classification (1997, Late Saxon Stirrup-strap mounts, CBA Research Report 111).Williams comments (pers.comm) that type 3 and type 10 mounts are the primary open work types of Class A. Some type 3 mounts (72-3)also demonstrate the additional plates to disguise the fixing point.However the mount recorded here does not fall happily within either category and must remain as a Class A of previously unknown design. ADDITIONAL: obviously related to Class A12 but not belonging to it.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A (unclassified)","openwork lattice",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Great Tey","GREAT TEY","COLCHESTER","ESSEX"
5057,"NMS-96D4C3","Late Saxon incomplete stirrup-strap mount, very corroded, sub-rectangular, upper edge missing, openwork with central animal-head with slight hollow on reverse, two iron rivets through slightly-angled flange retain fragment of iron plate on reverse, 30 x (at least) 39mm. Williams’ (1997) Class B, type 3, closest to no.438. 11th century. ","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B3","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Foulsham","FOULSHAM","BROADLAND","NORFOLK"
5058,"SF-3BFEB6","An incomplete cast copper-alloy late early medieval stirrup strap mount. Part of the upper half of this mount is now missing due to old breaks.
This strap mount is roughly lozenge shaped measuring 32mm in surviving length and 28.4mm in width, at its widest central point. Its apex loop is now missing due to old breaks. It has a roughly right angle lower flange, it as Williams' Class A (Williams 1997, 2 fig 1). It can be further classified as an open work version of Williams type 12. Being lozenge shaped with a central diagonal cross giving four apertures. It has worn circular bosses positioned centrally, at the junctions of the cross and the frame and at the two central corners of the lozenge, so there would have been seven bosses in total on this example, one of which is now missing. There is also a central circular hole through the flange and a mass of corroded iron on the back face of the flange.
Very similar strap mounts have been discovered Barham, Suffolk, Coddenham, Suffolk and Ixworth, Suffolk (Williams 1997 69-74). These stirrup strap mounts are all c11th century in date. ","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A12","geometric lattice",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Monewden","MONEWDEN",,"SUFFOLK"
5059,"NMS-5BB6B3","Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, sub-triangular, rivet-hole at broken apex, cast central tree-like device, knop on both sides and elongated knops projecting beyond base, two iron rivet-holes above right-angled flange at base, 29 x 43mm. Form similar to Williams’ (1997) Class A, Type 7, nos.116-8. 11th century. ","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A7","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Bracon Ash","BRACON ASH","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5060,"SUSS-427907"," A copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount from the Early Medieval period (c. 1000-1200). This example is a Class B, Type 3, Group 6 Williams classification. A roughly trapezoidal mount with zigzag edges. Part of the top and the apex hole are missing. The central head has pierced ears. The reminder of the facial features are formed by grooves and punched groove decoration which extends across the face of the mount but not onto the flange. The head is hollow. Two iron rivets survive in the flange.
The metal is a dark brownish-grey and is very smooth, much of the original surface still survives.
","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B3, Group 6","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nr. Eastbourne","WILLINGDON AND JEVINGTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
5061,"WMID-630472","A worn but complete cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount (length: 41.1mm; width: 28.1mm; thickness: 4.4mm; weight: 12.04g), of the Class A Type 1, as classified by David Williams in âLate Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts: A Classification and Catalogueâ, 1997. The mount is of a sub-triangular shape with various worn and protruding points along the edge and to opposing sides. These occur just below the apex loop, nearly half way down the artefact, and just above the base. There is one rivet hole at the apex loop (which ends in a rounded point) as well as two rivet holes at the base. The rivets do not survive. There is a worn and lightly engraved design on the front of the mount, and is mostly similar to ref no 67 illustrated in Williamâs publication (page 9), which consists of a mixture of union knots, pendant lobes and other motifs. On the reverse of the mount, only a small worn area of the protruding flange survives, and is most similar to Type A or D (page 25). The reverse is flat with no decoration. Overall, the artefact is in a worn but fair condition with a reddish-brown patina.
Amongst other examples of Class A Type 1 mounts illustrated in Williamâs publication, this artefact is most similar to Ref nos 19 and 27. Williams suggests that the date of these type of mounts is mostly the 11th century, due to influences drawn from the Late Viking Ringerike & Urnes art styles of the period (page 8). The distribution of the Class A Type 1 mounts is wide, but most finer examples come from southern England, notably from Sussex, Berkshire, Hampshire and Northamptonshire.
Stirrup strap mounts are placed at the junction of the stirrup and stirrup leathers.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,,"PENKRIDGE",,"STAFFORDSHIRE"
5062,"BERK-EF3474","Early Medieval (11th Century) copper alloy stirrup strap mount. It is part of a Class A Type 8 subtriangular mount; the top half is broken and missing. The mount has a right-angled flange that projects like a tab rather than extending across the full width of the base. It is decorated with two beasts. One up each side of the mount, the bodies partly project thus shaping the edge of the mount. The heads of the beasts project beyond each corner of the base. Between the beasts' heads there are the two perforations for attachment. The heads have rounded snouts with flaring nostrils, long pointed eyes and large pointed ears; the outline of these features are just visible as the mount is worn (Williams (1997:47). From each body a prominent wing extends upwards and inwards to terminate in a lobe; this appears to be inlaid with niello. Above each of the wings that are the curved remains of openwork decoration. It is similar to no. 145 fig. 33 in Williams 1997. ","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A8","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"South Oxfordshire","WHEATLEY","SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE","OXFORDSHIRE"
5063,"WMID-021BE4","An incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount, dating to the 11th century AD and classified as a Class A, Type 1 example (length: 46.1mm; width: 29.8mm; thickness at flange: 7mm; weight: 16.82g). The mount has a sub-triangular and pentagonal form with a Type A common right angled flange (width: 24.9mm) at the base, with two complete rivet holes (diameter: 2.9mm) present at the base immediately above the flange. Above the rivet holes (where none of the rivets survive), there are two triangular pointed and integral protrusions at either side of the mountâs width. After the decoration, the mount tapers to an incomplete rounded tip at the top where a single incomplete rivet hole appears (with no rivet surviving). From the side vies, the mount has a curved appearance, and there is no other decoration present or remaining on the front as the artefact is worn and in a poor condition with a light green patina.
Similar examples are illustrated in Williams, 1997, pages 27-34. Williams states that these mounts largely date to the 11th century AD, particularly due to the decorative similarities of the Class A Type 1 mounts to Late Viking Ringerike and Urnes styles (page 8). The mounts have a wide distribution within England with some also appearing on the Continent, and the majority found in southern and eastern England.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","unknown",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"FILLONGLEY",,"WARWICKSHIRE"
5064,"NMS-6FB118","Late Saxon Stirrup-strap mount, diamond-shaped with flat flange at base, openwork central saltire with projecting central circular boss and at intersections at ends of arms and outside angles of diamond, single rivet-hole through loop at apex and also through flange, corrosion on reverse, 29 x 29mm. Williams (1997) Class A, Type 12. 11th Century. ","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A12","geometric lattice",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Trowse with Newton","TROWSE WITH NEWTON","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5065,"SUSS-8B83C6","Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 11A, depicting a lion in high relief, in profile facing right. The lion is looking upwards and its front paw is raised. The tail curls between the legs and up over the back. The mount is basically triangular; the apex is broken below the apex loop, the break is worn. The lion is enclosed in an undecorated border to either side and across the base; the flange is incomplete. The mount is 30.67 mm wide at the base, and 37.23mm long. The flange makes it a maximum of 8.59 mm thick, and it weighs 24.58 grams. The object is of a dark reddish-brown colour, with areas of dark brownish-green which may be corrosion product or possibly paint. It dates to the 11th century.
","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11A (R)","zoomorphic",1050.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Graffham","GRAFFHAM","CHICHESTER","WEST SUSSEX"
5066,"LEIC-15FCF0","Anglo Scandinavian copper alloy Stirrip Mount 34 mm long and 25mm wide. On the face it is decorated with a tree and the rear has evidence of iron corrosion, from two rivets once at the base.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown LEICESTERSHIRE",,"LEICESTERSHIRE"
5067,"LEIC-187BF7","Anglo-Saxon Copper Alloy Stirrup Mount, 55mm long and 29mm wide. The mount has a lower flange on the rear side, pierced by two rivet holes. The object is decorated with an upward looking quadraped, perhaps a mythological creature.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11a (R)","zoomorphic",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"COSSINGTON","CHARNWOOD","LEICESTERSHIRE"
5068,"HESH-5E3A13","Fragment of a cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount of later early medieval date (950 - 1200 AD). The stirrup strap mount is sub-triangular in plan with a slight convex (domed) front and a concave rear face. The upper part of the fitting is missing. The left side of the mount is also damaged, however, the metal here is much thinner tan on the opposite side. The edges of the mount are slightly beveled. In profile the mount is sub-rectangular (D Shaped) and in cross section the mount is arched (C shaped). The entire mount has been designed with a series of four perforated panels each diamond shaped. These form an overall regular diamond shape design. On the lower bottom edge of the body are two pierced holes. These are situated below, and respect, the main decorative motifs. These two holes are filled with rolled copper alloy rivets. The mount measures 34.4mm in length, 26.3mm width, and is 7.1mm thick. It weighs 8.98 grams.
The front face of the mount is decorated with a series of raised cast circular bosses. These are positioned at the junctions between the cast lattice design. The central boss is much larger than those around the outsides. The reverse of the stirrup mount is concave and undecorated. On the lower edge below the two pierced holes is a prominent integral cast sub-triangular flange which projects at right angles from the surface of the mount. This flange forms a projecting lip.
The stirrup strap mount is a mid - dark brown colour with an even worn patina on all surfaces. There are small areas on both the front and rear surfaces of active light green powdery copper corrosion. This is most extensive on the concave rear face. The mount has been abraded in the plough soil. This has resulted in the damage to the upper part of the mount. This damage is relatively recent as the breaks are unworn and do not have a patina on them. The abrasion has also resulted in an asymmetrical appearance in plan. Similar stirrup strap mounts have been recorded by David Williams' 1997: Late Saxon Stirrup Mounts, which proposes a typology. This example clearly fits into Williams' Group A Type 12 (openwork). pp 71-74.
","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A12","geometric lattice",950.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown HEREFORDSHIRE","HEREFORDSHIRE","HEREFORD AND WORCESTER"
5069,"ESS-492A06","Incomplete cast copper alloy early medieval stirrup mount. This stirrup mount is Williams Class A, type 6. The mount is subrectangular in plan and flat in section with a backward facing flange set at 90 degrees. It is moulded with an intricate zoomorphic design described by William’s as consisting of two snake-like beasts joined by a single collar or knot, which forms the margin to the design. Each beast has a bifurcated tail, which terminates in lobes. The head of each beast has a pointed oval eye, a gaping mouth and a crest that points downward to the bottom of the frame, and an exaggerated lip lappet. The lappet curls up and over to grasp a central, multi-branched, symmetrical tree-like shape which grows from the base of the frame up the centre of the mount. The ‘tree’ has two pairs of branches. The upper, circular, fixing hole is placed between the beast’s two heads. Above this fixing hole would have been an apex with a further hole, but this has broken off. As the break edge is worn smooth this damage is presumed to have occurred in antiquity. At the bottom of the mount are two further circular fixing holes. The reverse of the mount is plain. No surface decoration or inlay survives on the mount. The object has a mid brown patina with patches of lighter green. There are patches of iron corrosion to the reverse of the mount on the flange and close to one fixing hole. The mount has a surviving length of 32.28mm, is 28.68mm wide, 5.02mm thick and weighs 17.66g. Stirrup mounts date to the 11th century. Examples of type 6 can be seen in Williams, 1997 figure 29.
","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A6","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1025.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Great Maplestead","GREAT MAPLESTEAD","BRAINTREE","ESSEX"
5070,"NMS-0A05D7","Late Saxon fragment of stirrup-strap mount, very worn and corroded, only the slightest hint of decoration remains, most of upper part missing, lobe on both sides below oblique break, double perforation above base with slight flange on reverse, 23 x 19mm. Cf. Williams 1997, Class A, type 1, no.42. 11th century. ","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","unknown",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Horning","HORNING","NORTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5071,"KENT-12A774","Cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount. The mount is an example of Williams Class B, Type 2, Group 1; this group comprises mounts with two central animal heads arranged in tiers, flanked by inward-looking, open mouthed animals sitting on their haunches. This example, which is incomplete, missing part of the flange, appears to be from the same mould as no. 411 in Williams 1997, an example from Tangmere in West Sussex.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B2, group 1","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Guildford area","unknown GUILDFORD","GUILDFORD","SURREY"
5072,"LEIC-0A2543","Early Medieval copper alloy stirrup mount, 47mm long and 29mm wide. The mount is in the form of a rounded triangle and has flange protruding from the back of the object which is 9mm wide. This contains two rivet holes. The decoration consists of a Lion Rampant facing to the left which is held in a raised border. Above this is a trefoil terminal which contains a third rivet hole. The mount is in good condition with a brown patina. It fits Williams class A type II.
ADDITIONAL: Originally described as a strap end. Class difficult- is it A2 (ie. AII) or A11?","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11a (L)","zoomorphic",850.00,1050.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown LEICESTERSHIRE",,"LEICESTERSHIRE"
5074,"SWYOR-EF3036","Copper alloy cast late Anglo-Saxon stirrup mount of Williams Type 11A dating from the mid 9th - 11th century. The mount is sub-triangular and depicts what is supposed to represent a lion facing right and looking upwards with its front paw raised and tail curled between the legs and over the back.
The mount has slightly bowed edges and a trilobe apex formed of two joined spirals and a central lobe. The top of the lobe has a central rivet still in place where the mount would have been attached to the strap. At the bottom of the stirrup mount there is a right angled flange with the remains of two iron rivets where the mount would have been attached to the leather stirrup strap. The reverse of the mount is plain and undecorated; the front surface has been heavily cleaned.
The stirrup mount weighs 18.8g and measures 48.17mm in length, 26.49mm in width and 8.57mm in thickness. There are several direct parallels for this type in David Williams âLate Saxon Stirrup mountsâ pages 58-69, where he records 86 type 11 mounts, some with the lion facing left and some right.
","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11a (R)","zoomorphic",850.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BRADFIELD","SHEFFIELD","SOUTH YORKSHIRE"
5075,"SUSS-4175D2","A copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount from the Early Medieval period (c. 1000-1200). This example is a Class A, type 1, 2 Williams classification. The mount depicts an incised zoomorphic design which has been crudely executed. The design is meant to represent a beast in profile. The mount has an angled flange.
This example is almost complete, apart from where some of the decorative mouldings have been slightly worn down. The apex loop has been cast integrally within the mount, and is simply a hole through the top of the mount. The corrosion product from two iron rivets remain in situ in the rivet holes and there is considerable iron corrosion on the reverse of the mount. The reverse is incidentally undecorated.
The metal is a dark brownish-green and is very smooth, much of the original surface still survives.
","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Berwick","BERWICK","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
5076,"SUSS-616B21","A cast copper alloy late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap mount. It is a Class B mount but cannot be narrowed down to a particular type. The mount is rectangular with an angled flange with two iron rivets and two iron rivets at the apex. The openwork is debased and symmetrical, consisting of a central aperture in the upper frame with six smaller apertures surrounding it. There is possibly a zoomorphic head in lower frame: a large central aperture with a smaller teardrop shaped aperture to either side. It would, however, be possible to interpret the design as a backward-looking quadraped. This find is mid-late 11th century in date and of a mid greyish green colour.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B (unclassified)","openwork",1050.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Firle","FIRLE","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
5077,"SUSS-BD6718","ADDITIONAL: no details given","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A8","Ringerike/Urnes-related, openwork",1000.00,1150.00,"LSx",7.00,"Rodmell","RODMELL","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
5078,"SUR-2997D2","A stirrup-strap mount of Williams' Class 10a, now heavily iron-stained. The upper attachment loop is missing and there are two holes for rivets in the flange. The mount is pear-shaped and depicts a coiled and entwined beast whose head is at the apex of the mount. The back of the mount is concave.","horse-related","Stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A10a","urnes",1040.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"WOKING","GUILDFORD","SURREY"
5079,"BERK-F6E976","A copper alloy stirrup strap mount (1000-1050). According to Williams typology this stirrup strap mount is Class A (sub-triangular) and Type 1 where the decoration consists of a pair of addorsed (back to back) beasts. The decoration is raised as opposed to engraved or punched. Williams notes only one example within Type 1 where the decoration is raised (1997:27 no.1). The decoration consists of a pair of addorsed beasts and the outline of the two heads creates the distinctive knobbed profile. The beasts bodies are presented by an interlocking pattern (Williams 1997:26). Due to the abraded surface, this pattern is quite hard to discern. The object has a patchy mid green patina with the red base metal showing through. This stirrup strap mount is sub-triangular with a pendant lobe and two circular perforations just above the lower edge, there is no flange. The shape of the mount is slightly distorted - the top half is slightly bent backwards ?damage caused whilst in the ground. Dimensions: length: 42.21mm; width: 32.52mm; thickness: 3.46mm; weight: 15.64g.
Williams, D. 1997. Late Saxon Stirrup Strap Mounts. CBA Research Report 111.
","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"HADDENHAM",,"BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
5080,"NMS-1E0BA3","Late Saxon Incomplete stirrup-strap mount of Williams’ Class A. Roughly triangular with two iron rivets, one at the apex below a broken projection and another centrally placed in the lower part. One of two basal corner projections is missing. The other is quite flat, although it is in a position normally occupied by a stylised animal head. The moulded decoration and two openwork apertures below the apex probably denote to animals, as in Williams’ type 8. There is no flange. The reverse is concave. Height >30mm, width 22mm. 11th century. ADDITIONAL: I'm not entirely sure about it being type 8, but can find nothing closer. Recorded here as unclassified)","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A (unclassified)","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"East Walton","EAST WALTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5081,"IOW-3AD997","Incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of probable eleventh century date (AD 1000 – AD 1100). Williams Class A, type 5. Length 30mm, width 28mm and 3.2mm thick. Weight 15.99g.
The mount has a pentagonal frame set within a pair of tendril-like shapes which terminate in scrolls. The apex loop is missing and the break is fresh. Within the frame, the design consists of a gaping mouthed beast, with a lobed snout, enmeshed with tendrils. At the base of the mount, just within the frame, is a single centrally situated fixing hole. The hole is about 5mm in diameter and is filled with the remains of a corroded iron rivet. The rear face has a stepped flange at the base which is 13mm in length. There are three poorly defined ring-and-dot impressions, one above the other along the longitudinal centre-line on the rear face.
","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A5","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Gatcombe Parish","GATCOMBE",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
5082,"GLO-B03373","Stirrup strap mount
Early Medieval 11th century
Length width thickness
The artefact is an openwork design with a lozenge shaped body that has an X-shape in the centre, which in turn divide the body into for separate lozenges. The area where the arms of the X cross over are thickened as are the areas where the X joins with the lozenge and the corners of the lozenge itself. There is an attachment loop at the top protruding from the corner. At the bottom corner there is a rectangular expansion with two revert holes this than turns back on itself to form a almost right angle on the reverse side of the object.
The artefact is copper alloy, it has suffered considerably from corrosion removing it original surface and leaving a pitted dark green layer.
","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A12","geometric lattice",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown COTSWOLD","COTSWOLD","GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
5083,"WILT-DC25A0","Incomplete copper alloy late Early-Medieval stirrup strap mount, missing its apex loop and part of its open work frame directly beneath. It is of Williams' Class A Type 12 and openwork.
Its incomplete height is 27mm and its width 30mm. It has six surviving bosses at each junction of cross and frame, and at the centre. At the arms of the cross nearest the flange, the bosses are set slightly below their meeting with the frame. As the top of the frame is missing above the cross, presuambly it would have had another two bosses set slightly upwards and nearer to the apex loop.
The mount is rather worn but pairs of punched dots in a line appear to decorate at least one of the arms of the cross inside the diamond-shaped frame. At the reverse is a hollow behind the central boss. The flange extends 10.5mm at a right angle and has a central piercing with remains of an iron rivet in situ.
The strap mount weighs 11.64g and is comparable with Williams 1997 p.72 nos.306 & 307.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A12","geometric lattice",850.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,"Kingston Deverill","KINGSTON DEVERILL",,"WILTSHIRE"
5084,"SF-9E8A35","A complete cast copper-alloy late early medieval or Viking Age stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A type 1 (1997, 26-34, fig 19-23).
This mount is pentagonal in shape with an engraved design on its front face, type 1 mounts have many designs which seem likely to be individual to each object. It has a an apex loop surrounded and filled with corroded iron and a right angle flange and two parallel lower fixing holes above this both with corroded iron within and around them. It measures c45mm in height and 28mm in width.
The engraved design on the front face appears to consist of a pair of addorsed beasts beneath the apex loop. The outline of the heads creates a knobbed profile and from the heads issues a connecting sequence of loops, intended to form the animals bodies. The heads have upwardly turned snouts, which seem to be multi-lobed. They have a projecting ear and a crest. All three elements appear as lobes on the mounts profile.
Similar mounts are known from Oliver's Battery, Winchester (Williams, 1997, 27-28, fig 19, no 8) and Plumpton E Sussex (Williams 1997 28-29, fig 20 no 10).","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nacton","NACTON",,"SUFFOLK"
5085,"SF-9E5912","A complete cast copper-alloy late early medieval or Viking Age stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A, type 13 (Williams 1997, 75-76, fig 48, nos 338-347).
It is Lozenge shaped with an apex loop with corroded iron within it and a roughly right angle flange. It measures 45mm in length and 27mm in width at its widest point. It has two projecting parallel arms forming the central corners of the lozenge shape. Each of these has a central projecting boss as does the lower tip of the lozenge shape in the centre of the flange. There is a central lozenge shaped hole. The flange has a central fixing hole through it and within this is corroded iron.
Type 13 mounts are related to type 12 mounts, which are also lozenge shaped but have a diagonal cross creating four apertures or recesses rather than the one central one seen on this example. Other similar type 13 mounts from Suffolk are known from Bury St Emunds, South Elmham St Mary and Otley (Williams 1997, 76, fig 48, no 338, 340, 344).","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A13","geometric lattice",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nacton","NACTON",,"SUFFOLK"
5086,"IOW-C70546","Incomplete and abraded cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Late-Early Medieval/Medieval date (AD 1000 - AD 1100). Williams Class A, type 1. Length 34mm, maximum width 25.4mm and 2.4mm thick. Weight 8.59g.
The mount is of pentagonal shape in plan and has a horizontal base. Above the base, the mount has two straight sides and each side tapers inwards slightly. The sloping shoulders of the mount are formed by two addorsed beasts beneath a pendant lobe that contained an apex loop. The loop is incomplete and has an old abraded break. The shape of the addorsed beasts is defined by symmetrical open-work consisting of two small circular openings to distinguish the head from the forelegs and two large elongated openings to delineate the underside and hind parts of the beasts.
Below the open-work is moulded decoration in low relief which forms what is possibly the looping bodies of two snake-like beasts. However, this interpretation is not certain due to the indistinct morphology and abstract nature of the design. At each lower corner is a fixing hole which is about 3mm in diameter. On the flat and plain reverse is the scant remains of a flange which has an old abraded break.
The decoration of Class A, type 1 stirrup-strap mounts is usually engraved or punched. However, the decoration on this mount appears to be moulded although it is very abraded.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","Ringerike/Urnes-related, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Isle of Wight","NEWCHURCH",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
5087,"NMS-23F661","Late Saxon Stirrup-strap mount of Williams’ Class A Type 1. The engraved decoration is quite similar to Williams 1997 fig.20 no.21, but there is no evidence for inlay. Broken across the two lower fixing holes, so that the flange does not survive. length >47mm, width 34mm. 11th century. ","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A1","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",0.00,"Grimston","GRIMSTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5088,"WAW-E8E247","The object is a late Early Medieval stirrup mount. These mounts tend to date to the mid 9th to 11th century. It has been made from cast copper alloy. Williams (1997, Late Saxon Stirrup Mounts; A Classification and Catalogue) classifies similar mounts as being Type 11a.
The mount is sub-triangular in plan, the sides are slightly convex. The upper tip has a sub-trefoil shape with an off-centre rivet hole. The mount is decorated by a lion, who faces right, and is looking upwards. Only one front paw is visible, compared to other mounts they depict the second paw being raised. The tail is curled between the legs and is then vertical over the back. The lower edge of the mount has a right-angled flange on the reverse. This flange has a single central rivet hole. The reverse is undecorated and is slightly concave.
The mount has large areas of a mid brown/green coloured patina. The decoration appears to be quite worn, otherwise the mount is in a fair condition. It measures 50.98mm long, 28.55mm wide across the widest portion, and the flange is 7.86mm thick. It weighs 29.4g.
","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11a (R)","zoomorphic",850.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BRAILES",,"WARWICKSHIRE"
5089,"KENT-79FF71","Cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount. The front of the mount depicts a human mask with lozengiform eyes. Half of the apex loop survives. The reverse of the mount has an angled flange, with traces of iron corrosion adhering. This mount is an example of Williams' Class A, Group 9 (Williams 1997).","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A9","anthropomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"LEYBOURNE","TONBRIDGE AND MALLING","KENT"
5090,"NARC-745254","A copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount (11th Century). It is Williams Class A Type 11A. It is a sub-triangular mount depicting a lion looking upwards with its front paw raised and tail curled over its back; the lion faces right. There is a single rivet hole in the trefoil-shaped terminal. At its neck it is 8.3mm wide. There are two rivet holes drilled through the base with iron corrosion within the rivet holes and an area of iron corrosion on the reverse of the mount just above the perpendicular flange. The flange is very worn. The mount shows remnants of a green corrosion product as a result of the material used to secure the decoration (since gone). The mount is similar to a number of examples illustrated in Williams of which fig. 231 provides a close analogy (1997, 63).","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11A (R)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1099.00,"LSx",7.00,,"ABTHORPE","SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE"
5091,"SF-4A5EE6","A complete copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon 11th century stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A type 4 (Williams 1997, 39-40, fig 27).
This mount is sub-triangular in shape and measures 52.5mm in length and 30mm in width, at its widest point, across its base. It has a trilobate apex loop with a circular hole through the central lobe. It has an oval frame with an oval border groove containing the decoration on the front face. This decoration depicts a roughly central projecting possible head and snout of a small mouse/bat like creature with oval shaped ears. Either side of the snout there is a circular hole and two smaller adjacent circular holes below the snout. There are worn grooves around these holes, what they are depicting is unclear. The base of the mount is expanded and the flange is angled. The flange has a corroded iron rivet through one side and a circular hole through its centre.
Other examples of Class A type 4 stirrup strap mounts are similar in form and style to this example they do not however have circular holes through them, except at their bases as fixing holes. Other examples fixed through the flange as is this example are known. Parallels include examples from Hindringham, Tatterset and Walsingham, Norfolk (Williams 1997, 40).","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A4","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Thetford","THETFORD",,"NORFOLK"
5092,"KENT-7B4FB7","Cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class B Type 1, Group 1. This openwork mount has an arrangement of three heads, one at each upper corner and in the lower centre. There is an arrangement of four apertures arranged symetrically in the space between the heads.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B1, group 1","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"TILMANSTONE","TILMANSTONE","DOVER","KENT"
5093,"ESS-449146","Complete cast copper alloy early Anglo-Saxon stirrup mount of Williams Class B, type 2, group 3. The mount is trapezoidal. It has an openwork design that consists of three pairs of perforations, i.e. six perforations in total. Between the lower pair of perforations is a raised, moulded zoomorphic head, now worn, and flanking these lower perforations are two smaller moulded, inward facing zoomorphic heads, also badly worn. Between the central pair of perforations (which happen to be the largest) there is also an outward facing moulded but worn, zoomorphic head. Finally, two moulded but worn, inward facing zoomorphic heads also flank the upper pair of perforations. Extending from these upper heads, pointing down to either side of the mount, are two beast’s head in profile with curling snouts and crests. These are also very worn.
The mount has a flange angled at approximately 45 degrees. Two rivet holes are visible in the flange, both blocked by the remains of the copper alloy rivets. At the apex of the mount is a further fixing hole that is missing its rivet. The rear of the mount is plain. The mount has lost much of its original surface and has been treated since discovery. It now has a bright, mid green patina. It is 44.96mm long, 31mm wide, 6.02mm thick and weighs 22.70g.See Williams, 1997, Late Anglo Saxon Stirrup Mounts, page 105, number 504.
","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B2, group 3","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown ESSEX",,"ESSEX" 5094,"KENT-512116","Cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 11A.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11A (L)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"WAREHORNE","ASHFORD","KENT" 5095,"KENT-BD9D33","10th/11th Century Stirrup Mount","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B2, group 1","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1099.00,"LSx",7.00,,"OLD ROMNEY","SHEPWAY","KENT" 5096,"NARC-EC60F8","A copper-alloy strirrup-strap mount of Williams type 11A. The mount is unfortunately broken in half and is missing it's apex. It would originally have been sub-triangular in form with a trilobed apex. The bottom half of a well defined lion facing left with its front paw raised and tail curled between its legs can still be made out. At the bottom the strap mount has a flange which projects at a right angle, in from the decorated edge. This flange is punched with two attachment holes, 4 mm in diameter, through one of which a single AE rivet passes. This example has one dissimilarity from most of Williams Type 11A strap mounts in that these attachment holes pass vertically through the base of the flange, as opposed to having been punched horizontally through the frame above it. However, one of Williams' illustrated examples has four holes, and both frame and flange are punched (1997, page 61; fig 223). These mounts are thought to date from the early 11th to 12th century. ","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A11A (L)","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"HARTWELL","SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE" 5097,"SUR-325EA5","A stirrup-strap mount belonging to Williams Class A, Type 12. At each intersection and on the central cross is a projecting knob. On the face are traces of lines of decoration formed by opposed punched triangles.Two iron rivets survive, one in the apex loop and one in the flange. The mount is curved in side view. On the reverse are hollow lines behind each arm and pits behind each knob projection.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class A12","geometric lattice",1050.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"WISLEY","GUILDFORD","SURREY" 5098,"SF-8E0144","An incomplete cast copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A Type 3 (Williams 1997, 36-39, fig 25). Only the lower third of this stirrup strap mount survives the rest is missing due to an old break.
Similar examples can be found in an article by D.Williams in Medieval Archaeology XLVI, p115-118 and have come from a 11th-12th century context.
","horse-related","stirrup terminal","Williams Fig. 4","zoomorphic",1000.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,"Winterton","WINTERTON","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
5119,"SUR-ACC2A0","A terminal, one of a pair from either side of the footplate of a stirrup. This example has a trefoil at the lower end and a rounded knop at the upper end. Centrally is a pair of side extensions. On the lower face the sides of the terminal curve around to clasp the missing iron stirrup frame. There are no traces of engraved decoration.","horse-related","Stirrup terminal","trefoil","undecorated",1050.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"OCKHAM","GUILDFORD","SURREY"
5120,"NARC-5D4961","A later Anglo-Saxon cast copper-alloy stirrup terminal. The hollow back would have enclosed one of the arms and the lower part of the stirrup (Williams 1997, 1). There are traces of iron corrosion product within this hollow; such stirrups were made of iron. The terminal appears zoomorphic, with crude incised decoration. The terminal point overhangs the base of the artefact. The upper edge is abraded, though regular; such terminals are often taller and this might represent an old break. ","horse-related","stirrup terminal","Williams Fig. 4","zoomorphic",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"NORTON","DAVENTRY","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE"
5121,"SF-8C8191","An incomplete cast copper-alloy stirrup terminal, rectangular in plan measuring 40mm in length, 13mm in width and 14mm in thickness. The front face is rounded and zoomorphic. It has a long neck, rectangular in plan with a transverse moulding along its upper edge. The snout is square ended and tapering, the tip of which is missing due to an old break, now worn. There are diagonal grooves running down either side of the snout. The brow is rounded and protruding and above this there are two small vertical pointed oval protruding ears. The eyes are on the side of the head and represented by protruding circular knops. This style indicates a Scandinavian inspiration, reflecting the late Viking and Urnes styles.
This stirrup terminal is open backed, hollow and the cross-section is U-shaped. Inside the terminal there are traces of a white lead solder, which would have been used to attach this terminal to the diagonal iron arms of the lower part stirrup.
This terminal is a snub-nosed type terminal, as identified by D. Williams (1997, 1-3, fig 2), and dates to the late early medieval period, late 10th and 11th centuries. It is similar to an example from Mellis, Suffolk (see SF-455B03) and Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire (see SF-044EB0).","horse-related","stirrup terminal","Williams Fig. 2","Urnes style?",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Ubbeston","UBBESTON",,"SUFFOLK"
5122,"SUR-068982","A possible stirrup terminal. An L-shaped fitting with a hollow back containing iron. There are no traces of decoration.","horse-related","Stirrup terminal","corroded","uncertain",1050.00,1150.00,"LSx",7.00,,"CRANLEIGH","GUILDFORD","SURREY"
5123,"SUSS-CDCDA7","An almost complete cast copper-alloy stirrup terminal, almost rectangular in plan measuring 34.1mm in length x 14.3mm in width (maximum measurements). The front surface of the stirrup terminal is zoomorphic. The animal also looks like a small rodent or hare. The main surviving part of the terminal depicts the animalâs head and body. Large projecting ears can be seen; the snout is long and projects outwards from the main body of the terminal. The eyes are wide and tear-dropped shaped. Below the creatures head slight moulding marks appear to indicate where the creatures legs should be, the hind legs are well defined. Tendrils appear to flank the animal.
This style indicates a Scandinavian inspiration, reflecting the late Viking and Urnes styles. It is open backed and hollow, with a supporting ledge. Inside the hollow back there is a white lead solder, which would have been used to attach this terminal to the diagonal iron arms of the lower part stirrup. There is also some iron staining (near the ledge), indicating where the iron stirrup once sat. The break at the top of the terminal is a very worn, clean break.
This terminal is a snub-nosed type terminal, as identified by D. Williams (1997, p1-3, fig 2), and dates to the late early medieval period, late 10th and 11th centuries.","horse-related","stirrup terminal","Williams Fig. 2a","Urnes style?",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nr. Eastbourne","WILLINGDON AND JEVINGTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
5124,"LIN-E4D022","Near complete whole side of an Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup. The stirrup side now consists of a corroded iron core which is encased in a copper-alloy sheath. The sheath is U-shaped in cross-section, and is slightly curivilinear, measuring 96mm in total length and 14mm in width at its widest point, although some 2mm of the width is caused by iron corrosion. The actual width of the copper alloy sheath tapers from one end to the other, with one end at 12mm and the other at 9mm in width. The edge of the thinnest end appears to be neat and unbroken, however the thicker end edge is more abraded and although partially coated with iron corrosion, it appears to be broken. Roughly two thirds along the sheath towards the thicker end is a decorative moulded collar. Parts of the collar are covered with iron corrosion, however the visible decoration consists of three raised oval ribs, each seperated by a thinner, lower-raised oval rib.
At the time of writing (19/1/05), this example would apepar to be the fourth known in the country. One of the parallels was discovered in Norfolk and published in Treasure Hunting (January 2005, 52 fig 13a and b) and is in the form of serpent. No exact parallel has so far been discovered for this example. Another, more complete example is recorded on the PAS database as SF-97D5B1.","horse-related","stirrup","side","tranverse mounld, grooved",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BILSBY","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5125,"NMS-48B594","Late Saxon corroded fragment of integral plate from stirrup, rectangular with two original short edges, one long edge with slight recess at both ends of break, other long edge with concave corners and broken across remains of two perforations. Engraved decoration comprises scrolled and bifurcated stem with trefoil terminals, set within bordering line around perforations and surviving edge, 22 (at least) x 39mm, 2mm thick. Cf. Pederson (1996-7), figs.11-12 and Williams (1997), fig.2. If this identification proves to be correct, this would be only the second example of a Scandinavian stirrup with integral plate found in Britain (Williams 1997, 3-5), the related types of separate stirrup-strap mount being more commonly found. 11th century. ADDITIONAL: unclear what the argument is for its attribution as an integral plate from a stirrup, but accepted here with caution, as it is probably stirrup-related.","horse-related","stirrup","plate","scroll and foliate, engraved",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Ormesby St Margaret","ORMESBY ST MARGARET WITH SCRATBY","GREAT YARMOUTH","NORFOLK"
5126,"SF-97D5B1","The whole side of an unusual late Anglo-Saxon, that is Viking Age, stirrup. The stirrup side now consists of a corroded iron core, one of half of which is encased in a copper-alloy sheath. The sheath has a very debased terminal and a decorative knob on the shoulder. It has a U-shaped cross-section, and is slightly curivilinear, measuring 80mm in total length and 12mm in width at its widest point. The debased terminal end projects at about a 45 degree angle from the main body of the sheath and there is a transverse ridge at this point, it then tapers to a point. The incomplete shoulder end has a projecting faceted boss or knob, 12mm in width and and 10mm in length.
Although some stirrups are known with the side being encased in a sheath David Williams confirms that only two, with this being the third example country wide, comprise most of the side. One of the parallels was discovered in Norfolk and published in Treasure Hunting (January 2005, 52 fig 13a and b) it is in the form of serpent. No exact parallel has so far been discovered for this example.","horse-related","stirrup","side","tranverse mounld, otherwise undecorated",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Little Wilbraham","LITTLE WILBRAHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
5127,"ESS-182017","Incomplete cast copper alloy early medieval ‘ansate’ brooch. The bow of the brooch is semicircular in section, having a domed front and flattened reverse. It has a gently arched profile. The terminals at either end of the bow are not expanded and are of equal width with the rest of the brooch. The ends are flattened off. The brooch is very worn, but it is possible to see one integrally moulded transverse line at the centre of the bow. The reverse of the brooch is plain. To the rear of one terminal is a double pin bar lug, which still holds the very corroded pin bar. The other terminal is stained with orangey brown corrosion, whilst the catchplate is entirely missing. The pin is also missing. None of the original surface of the object survives and it has a browny green patina. The brooch is 46.46mm long, 7.66mm wide, 3.34mm thick and weighs 6.7g. A similar brooch can be seen in West, 1998, A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Material from Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology report 84, Suffolk County Council, figure 134.6. Brooches of this type date from the 8th or 9th century.","personal-related","Ansate brooch","rectangular terminal, 'Caterpillar type'","transverse moulding",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Hatfield Broad Oak","HATFIELD BROAD OAK","UTTLESFORD","ESSEX"
5128,"YORYM-8645E6","Copper-alloy ansate brooch. Two flat circular terminals with a raised bow in the centre. Each terminal is engraved with a cross, and with an oblique line nearly joining the ends of the arms in each quarter of the cross. The bow is engraved with a smaller cross. The reverse has a double pin bar lug (one half broken) and a broken catchplate. The pin is missing. Middle Anglo-Saxon, eighth to tenth century.","personal-related","Ansate brooch","sub-circular terminals","incised cruciform",720.00,1000.00,"MSx",7.00,"Pocklington","POCKLINGTON","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
5129,"NLM-738826","An incomplete cast copper-alloy ansate brooch. The wide arched hollow bow has three transverse ribs in the centre and a smaller one at either end. The length of the bow is 27.4mm and the width is 13.5mm. The flat sub-discoid terminals are plain and one is incomplete. On the back of the broken terminal is an integral catchplate. The other terminal has a single pierced lug covered in iron corrosion, which suggests the brooch had an iron pin. The diameter of the terminals is 18.7mm, the surviving length of the brooch is 54.2mm and the weight is 15.7g. ","personal-related","Ansate brooch","sub-circular terminals","transverse moulding",720.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,,"CAISTOR","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5130,"LIN-87D785","Fragment of a copper alloy ansate brooch. The brooch is rectangular in plan and has an arched bow with one incomplete flat arm remaining. The other arm is missing. The face of the brooch is decorated with three rows of punched ring and dot motifs, and the edge of the arm is decorated with a series of semi-circular projections, giving the arms an undulating effect. The reverse of the brooch is plain, and shows no signs of a hinge or catchplate, although this might have been contained on the reverse of the two missing pieces.","personal-related","Ansate brooch","expanded rectangular terminals with semi-circular projections","ring-and-dot decoration",700.00,800.00,"MSx",7.00,"South Lincolnshire","HECKINGTON","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5131,"NMS-85B942","Mid Saxon copper alloy Ansate brooch, bow with three transverse ribs in centre, splayed flattened trefoil terminals, foils defined by incised lines, transverse lug, traces of iron corrosion and broken catch-plate on reverse, 6 x 37mm. 8th century. ","personal-related","Ansate brooch","trefoil terminals (flattened)","transverse moulding",700.00,800.00,"MSx",7.00,"Norton Subcourse","NORTON SUBCOURSE","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5132,"HAMP-7E4768","Fragment of a copper alloy Ansate brooch. Only one terminal survives and is sub-rectangular with rounded corners (L. 14.25mm. W. 11.5mm. Th. 2.2mm). The upper surface of the terminal is flat and decorated with four incised ring and dot motifs, one in each corner and one in the centre. There are remains on the reverse of the terminal, probably of the pin bar lug, however these are currently still encrusted with earth so that this is not clear. The highly angled arched bow is very short and is tapered from the apex towards the terminals. It is broken off before the junction with the second terminal. The bow is also thicker at its apex than it is at the junction with the terminal (L. 10.9mm. W. 6.6-7.8-6.5mm. Th. 2.3-4.8-3.4mm). The upper surface of the bow is convex and there is a slightly flattened area at the apex and a flattened triangular section at the junction of the terminal and the bow. The reverse of the bow is flat and undecorated, so that the bow is generally D-shaped in section. Mid-green patina.","personal-related","Ansate brooch","square terminals","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Headbourne Worthy","HEADBOURNE WORTHY","WINCHESTER","HAMPSHIRE"
5133,"SF-EB5546","A complete copper-alloy ansate (caterpillar) middle Anglo-Saxon brooch in good condition. It measures 56mm in total length and 15mm in width.
The bow is rectangular in shape with a flat top and sloping sides. The flat top is roughly lozenge shaped and decorated with an incised cross with a small circular boss in its centre and one small circular boss in each angle. The sloping sides of the bow are decorated with parallel longitudinal border grooves.
The terminals are also roughly lozenge shaped and flat, again with an incised cross with a central boss and a boss in each angle. On the back face of the terminals both the catch plate and double pin bar lug can be seen. There is corroded iron around and within the double pin bar lug this is likely to be the remains of the bar and the iron pin.
","personal-related","Ansate brooch","hexagonal terminals","incised cruciform with bosses at cente and in each angle",720.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,"Middleton","MIDDLETON",,"SUFFOLK"
5134,"SF-FCE997","A copper-alloy ansate (caterpillar) middle Anglo-Saxon brooch, measuring 46mm in total length and 13mm in width. The bow is roughly rectangular in plan with slightly flaring terminals, the centre of the bow is arched and narrower than the terminals being 10mm in width as opposed to c13mm in width. The front face of this brooch is decorated with pairs of transverse grooves occurring across either terminal, at the point where the sides arch upwards and across the arched centre of the bow.
On the back face of the terminals there are traces of corroded iron and interestingly a silvery grey solder. This is all that survives of the original iron pin and its attachment devices. ","personal-related","Ansate brooch","rectangular terminal, slightly flared terminals","transverse moulding",720.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,"Laxfield","LAXFIELD",,"SUFFOLK"
5135,"NMS-135062","Mid Saxon Fragment of Ansate brooch (8 x 20mm), broken end of bow with transverse rib, splayed trefoil terminal with elongated pointed central foil, transverse lug on reverse containing corroded fragment of iron pin. 8th century. ","personal-related","Ansate brooch","trefoil terminals","undecorated",700.00,800.00,"MSx",7.00,"Hevingham","HEVINGHAM","BROADLAND","NORFOLK"
5136,"NLM-D26081","A fragment of a copper alloy âAnsateâ brooch. Flattened âDâ shaped cross section across which run transverse ribs. On the back of the brooch are a pair of perforated lugs by which the pin was attached. The surviving length is 24.7mm, the width is 8.5mm, the thickness is 2.8mm and the weight is 3.37g. ","personal-related","Ansate brooch","rectangular terminal, 'Caterpillar type'","transverse moulding",700.00,800.00,"MSx",7.00,,"ROPSLEY AND HUMBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5137,"NMS-E05684","Ansate, about half surviving. Ovoid terminal (width 11.5mm) decorated with four punched dots, D-section bow (width 5mm). Incomplete catchplate (6mm long and 6mm deep). 8th - 9th century","personal-related","Ansate brooch","oval terminals","punched dot",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Norton Subcourse","NORTON SUBCOURSE","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5138,"LIN-EA95E2","Copper alloy Norse type clapper bell. The bell is conical in shape, terminating with a worn and damaged suspension loop. The sides of the bell are divided into six evenly spaced faceted faces. The angles between each of the faces extends down to give the bell a cusped lower edge. Each face is decorated with three incised dot-in-ring motifs arranged in a triangle. Traces of iron corrosion are present inside the bell, presumably from the iron clapper.","horse-related","Bell","Norse, hexagonal, undecorated","Norse",900.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,,"LENTON KEISBY AND OSGODBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5139,"SF-90B401","An incomplete copper-alloy clapper bell, the clapper and a fragment of the rim is now missing due to old breaks. This bell is conical in shape with an integral suspension loop, it measures 32.5mm in height and has a rim diameter of c30mm. The integral suspension loop is oval in shape with a central circular hole. The bell has a raised circumference moulding above its rim. Within the bell no trace of the missing clapper remains, the inside face is rough to the touch and corrosive products can be seen. Traces of a white metal coating can be seen on the outer and inner faces of the bell, indeed the copper-alloy itself is a silvery grey in colour.
A very similar clapper bell has been found at Monks Eleigh (see SF-2071B7), but no exact published parallels could be found. However, as this clapper bell is conical in shape with an integral suspension loop it is most likely to be a 'norse bell,' which dates it to the late early-medieval period, c900-1066. ","horse-related","bell","Norse, conical, undecorated, possibly coated","Norse",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Ousden","OUSDEN",,"SUFFOLK"
5140,"NLM-872FA3","An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Scandinavian bell. The hexagonal body has a fluted lower edge, though one side of the body is incomplete. The top of the bell has a central perforation with iron rusting on either side. This suggests that the bell may have had an iron suspension loop, which fixed the missing iron clapper. The length of the bell is 25.5mm, the width is 22.6mm and the weight is 10.02g.
Similar examples have been found at York, Cottam and Caithness and have been dated to the 10th century (Mainman, A.J, 2000, p2599).
","horse-related","Bell","Norse, hexagonal, undecorated","Norse",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Hibaldstow","HIBALDSTOW","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
5141,"HESH-54C557","Cast copper alloy bell of probable later early medieval (late Saxon) or medieval date (950-1500). The bell is sub-circular in plan and domed or arched (bell shaped) in profile with an integral cast sub-circular suspension loop attached to the top. The bell measures 34.4mm high and the base of the bell has a maximum diameter of 18mm. The metal is 3.8mm thick. The suspension loop measures 10.3mm in height, 11.2mm width, 6.3mm thick, and has an internal loop diameter of 4.4mm. At the top of the inner face of the bell is a small perforation. This may be all that remains of a suspension hole for a clapper. The bell weighs 15.6 grams.
The lower part of the bell is decorated with three small cast suspension loops arranged in a horizontal band. All three are now broken. They are all broken in the same place and this may be a result of movement in the plough soil. These loops have an external diameter of 5.7mm and an internal diameter of 2.9mm. The loops are 1.6mm thick. The bell is a mid green brown colour with an even but abraded patina which covers all surfaces. The lower part of the bell is cracked and broken. However, this area has a similar patina on it suggesting that the damage occurred in antiquity. No close parallels have been found for this bell, hence the large medieval date range of 950 - 1500 AD.
","horse-related","Bell","Domed, with suspension loops as decoration",,950.00,1500.00,"LSx",7.00,,"FOY","HEREFORDSHIRE","HEREFORD AND WORCESTER"
5142,"LIN-E37D15","Copper alloy bell. The bell is hexagonal in plan with a scalloped or fluted lower edge. The apex is missing its integral suspension loop. Each face of the bell is decorated with three punched ring-and-dot motifs arranged in a pyramid fashion. Traces of iron corrosion are present inside the bell, presumably from the iron clapper. A virtually identical example was found near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and is recorded on the PAS database as LIN-4DB330. An undecorated parallel ws found in a context dating to circa 975AD at 16-22 Coppergate, York (Mainman, 2000, p2599, fig.1294, small find number 10528. Other examples are also discussed on the same page.","horse-related","bell","Norse, hexagonal, decorated with ring-and-dot","Norse, ring-and-dot",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BILSBY","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5143,"NMS-B43BC4","Late Saxon/Early Medieval Clapper from bell, circular-sectioned shank with transverse perforation near upper end, expands to square section and decorated on each face with oblique line between dots and two transverse lines (oblique lines join at angles to zig-zag around the shank), the shank narrows but remains square-sectioned below decoration (for length of 13mm), 6 x 78mm, weight 17g. ","horse-related","Bell","clapper",,1000.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,"Horning","HORNING","NORTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5144,"NMS-D79B05","Late Saxon copper alloy bell, conical, corroded, slightly crushed and broken, suspension-loop, vertical seam and remains of at least two triangular projections on bottom edge. Cf. Mainman and Rogers (2000), fig.1294. Possibly of Norse origin, 10th century. ","horse-related","bell","Norse, conical, probably undecorated","Norse",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Whissonsett","WHISSONSETT","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
5145,"SUSS-9A83B4","A rather nice cheek piece with an odd asymmetric aperture to
contain the terminal for the iron bit - one would expect it to be central.
The beast is Ringerike-inspired, nose at the apex as drawn.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","Ringerike style, Class 1a",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nr. Eastbourne","WILLINGDON AND JEVINGTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
5146,"NMS-20FE71","Late saxon fragment of bridle cheek-piece, facetted knopped lozengiform terminal with large oval perforation, short surviving length of D-sectioned bar, 24 (at least) x 23mm. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 2b",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Wicklewood","WICKLEWOOD","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5147,"BERK-278584","A copper alloy Early Medieval - Medieval harness fitting (11th century). It is a link or strap-adjuster from a horse harness, probably the bridle. The link has a D-shaped section (the reverse is flat, the front domed). The end of the link expands to form a large loop with circular perforation. The loop has three rounded lugs equally spaced around the external edge. It is broken 9.84mm along the length of the bar. The break has the same rough dark brown surface as the link, suggesting that it was broken in antiquity. The object has a rough dark brown surface. Dimensions: length: 24.29mm; width: 19.77mm; thickness: 4.89mm; weight: 5.02g.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 1a",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Haddenham","HADDENHAM",,"BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
5148,"LEIC-F7C893","Early Medieval copper alloy strap junction fragment, 28mm long 21mm wide and 4mm thick. The object weighs 4.85 grams and has a green patina. It represents one arm of a 'cross' shaped junction designed to hold together harness straps. It consists of a circular opening 9mm in diameter, set into a diamond shape which has three triangular protrusions on three corners, the fourth extends into a shaft with a triangular section. The object is broken here, where it would have joined three identical parts.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","Harness link/cheekpiece","Class 1a",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"GRIMSTON","MELTON","LEICESTERSHIRE"
5149,"LEIC-0B27E2","Medieval copper alloy incomplete Irish harness fitting in the shape of a Celtic cross, with each arm joined by a curved bar. It measures 48mm long, 54mm wide and 8mm deep. ADDITIONAL: is this definitely a harness fitting? See no reason why it isn't just classified as a mount.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","Celtic cross, Irish","uncertain, inlaid",400.00,850.00,"E/MSx",7.00,,"NEWTOWN LINFORD","CHARNWOOD","LEICESTERSHIRE"
5150,"NLM-91F7D3","An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap distributor. The double bar terminal has a central raised circular boss with a bar projecting from the top and bottom. The bars are D-shaped in section and both terminate with an incomplete loop. The underside of the strap distributor is flat. The condition of the distributor is quite worn and only has traces of the original surface. The surviving length is 60.9mm, the widths of the bars are 5.8mm, the diameter of the central boss is 11.9mm and the weight is 15.87g. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","uncertain",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"HOLTON LE MOOR","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5151,"KENT-134CE6","Early 11th Century Anglo-Scandinavian copper alloy, cast, tubular, open-work, 'socketed hook' (Length 44mm). Once with a hook terminal that connected it into a disc shaped element with at least two other similar fittings forming a three way strap junction. Very worn surface but the faint remnant of a possible concentric square moulded decoration on the 'head' and with a scalloped upper surface. The central section is slightly curved as a result of being crudely cast or possibly distorted under strain during use. The curved tip of the hook broken away in antiquity. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","socketed hook","Ringerike style?",1001.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,,"SOUTHFLEET","DARTFORD","KENT"
5152,"SF-7E9A05","An incomplete copper-alloy late early medieval or Viking Age cheekpiece. It measures 52.4mm in total length and one complete lozenge shaped terminal, the central arm and part of an oval shaped terminal survives. The lozenge shaped terminal is oval internally and has a projecting knop on each of its three corners, it measures 25mm in width. The fourth corner tapers into an arn with a D-shaped cross-section. The arm flares to 11.6mm in width and 10mm in thickness and has three raised transverse ribs across this wider end which has an incomplete oval shaped terminal with a oval shaped perforation. The breaks are old and worn. Similar cheekpieces with one oval terminal instead of two lozenge shaped ones are known from elsewhere in Suffolk, for example from Claydon, see SF-8730A2, and Yaxley, see SF-B1F1A7. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","bit link","moulded boss",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Wattisham","WATTISHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
5153,"SUR-CD01C3","The terminal of a harness link. The terminal is oval and has three projecting knobs. Part of the central boss survives.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 2a",1050.00,1150.00,"LSx",7.00,,"LEWES",,"EAST SUSSEX"
5154,"ESS-156101","An incomplete copper-alloy early medieval bridle fitting. It has a shank with a loop at either end. The shank is semicircular in section, having a curved face and flat reverse. Extending from one end of the shank is a complete, integral oval loop, on which are three rounded knops. The other end of the shank has a raised moulded band, beyond which would have extended the opposing loop. This is now missing, and all that remains are two truncated divergent projections. The break edges are worn smooth, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The object has a brown patina with patches of green corrosion product. The fitting is 48.4mm long, 27.04mm wide across the surviving loop, 7.76mm wide across the shank, 4.4mm thick and weighs 16.2g. This fitting is probably a cheek piece and is Anglo-Scandinavian in style. It dates to the 11th century. Similar examples have been found in Suffolk. See SF8730A2 and SF-E7BA78. More examples can be seen in Read, 2001, Metal Artefacts of Antiquity, Somerset, Portcullis Publishing, page 62.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","moulded",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Hatfield Broad Oak","HATFIELD BROAD OAK","UTTLESFORD","ESSEX"
5155,"GLO-C54E71","Harness Mount, Bridle cheek-piece
Anglo-Saxon
11th century
Length 24mm, width 26mm, thickness 6mm
Oval loop with sloped sides that narrow inwards (internal dimensions 9mm by 7mm) there is a semicircular knop on the top and bottom side (3m long, 4mm wide, 3mm high), these are situated on the short side of the oval. There is a further knop at the terminal (4mm high, 6mm wide, 4mm thick). opposite is a semicircular broken projection (3mm long, 7mm wide, 6mm high) that would have been an arm that held a similar loop on the other end, the break is old and worn.
Copper alloy, the surface of the object is pitted where corrosion has removed the original layer, Dark brown colour with lighter green patches on the less exposed areas.
Examples are know from sites such as Middle Harling and are generally thought to date to the 11th century.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 2a",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown",,
5156,"IOW-8A29E1","Incomplete copper alloy harness link of Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century date. Length 35mm, maximum width 19.5mm and 7mm thick at the central boss. Weight 9.66g. One of the loops is broken and missing, the break is old.
When complete, the piece consisted of a central boss connected to a loop each side by a very short arm. The surviving loop is sub-circular in plan with a maximum diameter of 19mm and a minimum diameter of 17.5mm. The maximum internal diameter is 11.5mm and the minimum internal diameter is 10mm. Viewing the strap link in plan, the central boss is hemispherical-shaped and is flat on the underside. Both arms are D-shaped in cross-section and flat on the underside. One arm is shorter than the other. The arm connecting the boss to the surviving loop is about 5mm in length and the other arm is only about 2mm in length. The underside of the loop is chamfered (it slopes outwards from the top of the opening towards the bottom edge of the loop). Assuming that the broken loop was of the same dimensions as the surviving loop, the overall length of the link would have been about 50mm. The harness link is in a stable condition and the metal is a mid-brown colour. Small patches of a dark green patina are evident.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","Harness link/bit link","Class 2bii",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Puck House, between Havensfleet and Fishbourne (from get-map)","Fishbourne",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
5157,"NMS-C37D51","Late Saxon copper alloy fragment of harness cheek-piece, broken plate (2mm thick), worn and corroded, pair of small perforations at terminal, irregular-shaped surviving edge, fresh break at other end, engraved Ringerike-style decoration of intersecting oblique lines, zoomorphic with possible pointed oval eye, at least 25 x 16mm . Late 10th-early 11th century. Cf. Pederson 1996-7 ‘Riding gear from Late Viking-age Denmark’ JDA (Denmark), fig.6. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","Ringerike style",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Cringleford","CRINGLEFORD","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5158,"NMGW-07D4D7","Cast copper alloy fitting, possibly from a stirrup strap and of Early Medieval or Medieval date. The fitting is broken at one end and has a surviving length of 29.4mm. The broken section is likely to have had a loop mirroring the present loop. The loop is oval (internal measurement 10.1 x 8.9mm) with a maximum external width of 23.3mm. The top and sides of the loop have rounded knops. The rear of the loop is dished, possibly to help accommodate the strap. The connecting bar is of D shaped section with a thickness of 5.6mm and the fitting weighs 8.4g. ADDITIONAL: very similar to SUSS-8B8250 amingst others which appear to cheekpieces of 11th century date. Reclassified as such.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness fitting/cheekpiece","Class 1a",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"ALDERTON",,"GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
5159,"GLO-C56342","493 Harness Mount, Bridle cheek-piece
Anglo-Saxon
11th century
Length 20mm, width 25mm, thickness 5mm
Oval loop with sloped sides that narrow inwards (internal dimensions 11mm by 7mm) there is a semicircular knop on the top and bottom side (1.5m long, 6mm wide, 4mm high), these are situated on the short side of the oval. There is a further knop at the terminal (2mm long, 6mm wide, 4mm thick). Opposite is a semicircular broken projection (6mm wide, 5mm high) that would have been an arm that held a similar loop on the other end, the break is old and worn.
Copper alloy, the surface of the object is pitted where corrosion has removed the original layer, Dark brown colour with slight remains of lighter green patches on the less exposed areas.
Examples are know from sites such as Middle Harling and are generally thought to date to the 11th century.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 2a",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown",,
5160,"GLO-9628F0","Cast copper alloy Harness mount, length 50mm, height 40mm, thickness 9mm. The centre has a D-shaped attachment hole with the flat side at the base. Either side is a moulded animal head facing forward with a semicircular cross-section, each has a gaping circular mouth, wide flat nose and large sub circular eyes in the centre and circular recessed ears on the top with linear groves in between representing fur. On the side of the head opposite the central hole is second animal facemask, this time facing away from the centre. This has a circular eye and with two ridges directly above on the top edge for the eyebrows and ears, the terminal is expanded with a notch in the centre representing lips that are snarling. This theme is repeated on both sides of the hole.
Above the hole is a fifth animal facemask with a flat triangular nose, large round eyes and long thin triangular ears with deep recesses in the centre. The attachment hole maybe forming the mouth of this animal, there is a linear border that runs down either side of this hole and linear groves representing fur or feathers on the sides towards the top. Above the centre animal is a rectangular projection 18mm long 8mm wide and 4mm thick, this expands by 1mm to the terminal, there are two rivet holes in projection approximately 2mm in diameter, both have the remains of iron corrosion.
The overall condition of the artefact is good with little wear on the surface, which has a dark brown colour.
The central animal may represent an owl whilst the animal on either side may be a bear. These three animals are all in the Borre style (830-970) and are seen on artefacts such as the ************, whilst the two animal heads on the terminal of either side are more reminiscent of the Ringerike art style (980-1050) and is seen in artefacts such as the **********.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness mount","Borre and Ringerike styles",950.00,1000.00,"LSx",0.00,,"MINCHINHAMPTON","COTSWOLD","GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
5161,"SF-21B364","The cast copper-alloy terminal fragment from a late early medieval or Viking age cheekpiece. Three quarters of a lozenge shaped terminal survives the rest is missing due to an old break. The terminal measures 23mm in surviving external length and 21mm in width externally. It has an oval shaped perforation which measures 11mm by 8mm in size. The three surviving tips of the terminal each have a small projecting rounded knop. This cheekpiece fragment is similar to others discovered in Suffolk and is c11th century in date.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 1a",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Preston St Mary","PRESTON ST MARY",,"SUFFOLK"
5162,"GLO-C58D77","Harness Mount, Bridle cheek-piece
Anglo-Saxon
11th century
Length 20mm, width 22mm, thickness 4mm
Semicircular loop with sloped sides that narrow inwards (internal dimensions 10mm by 9mm) there is a semicircular knop on the top and bottom side (1.5m long, 4mm wide, 3mm high), these are situated on the short side of the loop. There is a further knop at the terminal (2mm long, 4mm wide, 2mm thick). Opposite on the flat side is a semicircular broke (8mm wide, 4mm high) that would have been an arm that held a similar loop on the other end, the break is old and worn.
Copper alloy, the surface of the object is pitted where corrosion has removed the original layer, Dark brown colour with slight remains of lighter green powdery patches on the less exposed areas.
Examples are know from sites such as Middle Harling and are generally thought to date to the 11th century.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 4a",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown",,
5163,"IOW-67CFF4","Complete copper alloy harness link of Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century date (AD 1000 – AD 1100). Length 57.5mm, maximum width 18mm and 7mm thick at the central boss. Weight 14.63g.
The link consists of a central boss connected to an arm at each side which terminates with a circular loop. Each loop has an external diameter of about 18mm and an internal diameter of about 12mm. One of the loops is slightly down-turned. Viewing the strap link in plan, the central boss is sub-rectangular and is flat on the underside. Both arms are D-shaped in cross-section and flat on the underside. The underside of each loop is mainly flat. However, there is slight concavity where the arms join the loops. A patina has not survived and the reddish coloured metal is corroded.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","Class 2aiii",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Brighstone Parish","BRIGHSTONE",,"ISLE OF WIGHT"
5164,"BUC-6661B8","A complete copper alloy harness link consisting of a central boss connected to an arm at each side which terminates in a circular loop. Each loop (internal diameter 12mm) has three oval knops evenly set on the outer edge. The loops are joined to the central boss by 12mm long arms which are D shaped in section. The central boss is oval and has a has a domed protrusion which corresponds with a hollow on the reverse. The surface of the object is pitted and has a light green patina with slightly orange patches and one of the loops is distorted. A sinilar strap distributor was as found as part of a group of harness fittings in Kvalsta in Sweden (Williams 1997)","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","Class 1aii",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Tingewick","TINGEWICK","AYLESBURY VALE","BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
5165,"GLO-C58306","Harness Mount, Bridle cheek-piece
Anglo-Saxon
11th century
Length 29mm, width 26mm, thickness 7mm
Oval loop with sloped sides that narrow inwards (internal dimensions 9mm by 7mm) there is a semicircular knop on the top and bottom side (3.5m long, 5mm wide, 5.5mm high), these are situated on the short side of the oval. There is a further knop at the terminal (2mm long, 5mm wide, 6mm thick) all are worn. Opposite is a semicircular arm 12mm long. The arm terminates in a broken crescent (5mm wide), which is all the remains of a central roundel, there would have been a parallel arm on the other side, this is a very old break.
The artefact is copper alloy, heavily pitted with a dark brown colour and a light over some of the surface.
Examples are know from sites such as Middle Harling and are generally thought to date to the 11th century.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 1a",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown",,
5166,"NMS-79FD66","Late Saxon copper alloy fragment of harness cheek-piece, broken sheet (3mm thick), worn and corroded, surviving edge concave between two oblique angles, remains of engraved Ringerike-style decoration. Late 10th-early 11 century. Cf. Broadly similar examples in Pederson 1997-8 ‘Bidselbesag fra BĂžgeskov Strand’ KUML (Denmark), figs.2 and 3, nos.1 and 2. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","Ringerike style",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Bawburgh","BAWBURGH","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5167,"SF-EA8206","A copper-alloy fragment of a late early medieval/Viking Age decorative bridle cheekpiece. This cheekpiece is unusual as it has open work perforations and does not seem to depict the more typically found Ringerike horses head; see SF-DC65C8 a cheekpiece from Ixworth, Suffolk for an example of this.
The fragment is flat and roughly oval in overall shape, measuring 56mm in lenght and 32.1mm in width. There is one roughly central oval shaped hole and a smaller triangular shaped on behind this. One longitudinal edge is curvilinear and shaped with slightly irregular V-shaped notches and the other is more angular in form. There are also traces of grooved decoration on slightly rounded front face, the back face is flat and undecorated.
This cheekpiece fragment is similar to one found at Ixworth, see SF41b986, with two perforatios, a roughly oval shape and shaped longitudinal edges. Both examples are of reddish coloured copper-alloy typical of Viking Age stirrup mounts and terminals. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Brockley","BROCKLEY",,"SUFFOLK"
5168,"SF-B740B3","The lozenge shaped copper-alloy terminal of an incomplete late early medieval/Viking Age bridle cheekpiece. This terminal measures 28mm in length, 27mm in width and 6mm in thickness, it has a protruding knop at each corner, it has an oval shaped perforation through its centre. A small fragment of a rectangular shaft projects from the incomplete end of the terminal, originally there would have been a rectangular shaft, possibly with a shaped centre seperating two identical lozenge-shaped terminals. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","Harness link/cheekpiece","Class 1a",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Ixworth","IXWORTH",,"SUFFOLK"
5169,"SUSS-533E27","double looped strap fitting. ADDITIONAL: fragmentary, broken loops at each termnial with a central loop (this is incomplete, assume broken, hence loop) which possibly has a zoomorphic decoration at the top. This is probably either a cheeckpiece or a strap distributor","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","zoomorphic?",1000.00,1150.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nr. Lewes","LAUGHTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
5170,"SF-76A3A5","An incomplete copper-alloy probable late early medieval or Viking Age cheekpiece from a bridle. Part of the centre and the beginning of one arm of this probable cheekpiece now survives, the rest of the centre and the other arm are missing due to old breaks, now worn. It measures 32mm in surviving length and 27.4mm in width at its widest point, across its centre. The centre is flat and roughly rectangular in shape with trefoil terminals, one of which is incomplete, the complete one has the remains of a corroded iron rivet through its centre. The surviving arm fragment projects from the centre of one long edge of the centre of the cheekpiece. The arm is rectangular in shape and has a flat back face, there is a rounded boss in the centre of its front face and the beginning of the perforated terminal also survives. It measures 17m in length and 11mm in width.
Late early medieval cheekpieces are increasingly becomming increasingly common finds in Suffolk as more of them are recognised, they all have two opposing arms with perforated terminals, often lozenge or oval shaped, as well as a central part which can be very variable in size and shape, ranging from a simple rectangular boss to a flat shaped plate. Another feature of these cheekpieces is the distinctive reddish brown copper-alloy that they are invariable made from. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece/harness link","trefoil",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Hartest","HARTEST",,"SUFFOLK"
5171,"KENT-E636B2","Cast copper alloy Anglo-Scandinavian harness fitting, a double looped strap junction. The fitting comprises a shank with a half-rounded section, terminating at each end with an oval loop. The knops project from the outer edges of each loop. The middle of the shank is thickened with an ovoid section. Fittings of this type date to the 11th century AD.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","Class 1aii",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"SOUTHFLEET","DARTFORD","KENT"
5172,"NMS-74FC33","Late Saxon Bridle cheek-piece, flattened D-sectioned bar, lozengiform terminals (one bent forward), both with knops at angles and oval perforation, lozengiform central boss with transverse groove on one outer angle, 66 (unbent) x 22mm.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/bit link","Class 1a/2biv",800.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Mettingham","METTINGHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
5173,"WMID-061CE4","A complete cast copper alloy strap distributor or harness fitting, dating to the Early Medieval period or the 10th/ 11th century AD (length: 66.1mm; width: 26.7mm; thickness: 8.9mm; weight: 27.20g). This artefact has a D-shaped cross-section with lozenge-shaped terminals at the centre of which are sub-rectangular apertures/ holes. At the terminals, there are rounded protruding knobs on each angle. In the centre, there is a raised convex roundel with a circular indentation as well as rounded knobs to either side. The underside of the artefact is flat with no decoration. The strap distributor is in a slightly worn but fair condition, with concentrated areas of corrosion on the rounded knobs at either end.
A similar but incomplete example is illustrated in Brian Readâs âMetal Artefacts of Antiquityâ, Volume I, 2001, page 62, ref no 474, found in South-East Lincolnshire.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","Class 1aii",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Ilam","ILAM",,"STAFFORDSHIRE"
5174,"SUR-CD1665","A large fragment of a harness link. One oval terminal with three projecting knobs survives. The central flat plate has five complete attachment holes and the edge of one other. At least two of these holes appear to be secondary.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link,","Class 1aviii",1050.00,1150.00,"LSx",7.00,,"LEWES",,"EAST SUSSEX"
5175,"GLO-C56DC5","Harness Mount, Bridle cheek-piece
Anglo-Saxon
11th century
Length 42mm, width 22mm, thickness 7mm
Oval loop with sloped sides that narrow inwards (internal dimensions 11mm by 9mm) there is a semicircular knop on the top and bottom side (2m long, 5mm wide, 4mm high), these are situated on the short side of the oval. There is a further knop at the terminal (1mm long, 5mm wide, 4mm thick) all are extremely worn. Opposite is a semicircular arm 22mm long and split into two sections, the first section is narrow 7mm wide 6mm tall and steps up to a bulbous roundel section. The roundel in concave 14mm diameter with a knop 2mm long and 4mm wide on the top and bottom, both are heavily worn. The opposite side of the roundle to the arm has a break where a similar arm would have been attached, this is a very old break.
The artefact is copper alloy, heavily pitted with a dark brown colour and a light green colour in the less exposed areas.
Examples are know from sites such as Middle Harling and are generally thought to date to the 11th century.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 1av",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown",,
5176,"LEIC-879372","Saxo-Norman copper alloy incomplete horse cheek piece from a horse bridle measuring 23mm wide and 5mm thick. This consists of a diamond shaped terminal with swollen corners and a central round hole. This would have attached to a rectangular bar. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 1a",850.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"LUBBESTHORPE","BLABY","LEICESTERSHIRE"
5177,"GLO-6F0177","Elliptical loop with sloped sides (internal dimensions 13mm by 8mm). A semi-circular projection (6mm long, 6.5mm wide, 4mm thick), springs from a flatten area of the loop. This was trucated in antiquity but probably extended to meet a second loop.
Copper alloy, the surface of the object is pitted where corrosion has removed the original layer, dark brown colour with slight remains of dark green on the less exposed areas.
Examples are known from sites such as Middle Harling and are generally thought to date to the 11th century.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 2b",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Thornbury","THORNBURY","SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE","AVON"
5178,"SUSS-17A900"," A cast copper alloy Ringerike style harness fitting. The fitting consists of a central aperture 10.96mm in diameter, surrounded by decorative moulded work engraved with a curvilinear design. The object is mid reddish brown in colour. This style of artefact dates to the 11th century. Similar to PAS Database number SUSS-C989B3","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","Ringerike style",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Patching","PATCHING","ARUN","WEST SUSSEX"
5179,"SF-7B0718","A fragment of a cast copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon or Viking age cheekpiece of circa 11th century date. Only a fragment of the centre and of one arm of this cheekpiece now survives, both terminals the other arm and the rest of the centre of the object are now missing due to old breaks.
The fragment measures 25mm in surviving length. The arm fragment is rectangular in plan measuring c11mm in width with a flat back face and facted front face, it appears to have flared into a probably lozenge shaped terminal with an oval perforation through it. Where this arm joins the centre there is a raised circular boss, the central area then flares outwards and is 24mm in width, it is flat and appears to be decorated on its front face with a border groove with other angular grooves inside this. It is most likely that this central part would have originally tapered back into another arm and lozenge-shaped terminal.
Other more complete 11th century cheekpieces are known from elsewhere in Suffolk and although they do vary in form they usually do have two pierced lozenge shaped terminals and a central boss of more elaborate decorative element as appears to be the case in this fragmentary example. The reddish brown copper-alloy of this fragment is also consistant with other metalwork of a similar date. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","Cheekpiece","unknown",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Alderton","ALDERTON",,"SUFFOLK"
5180,"NLM-CBA861","A complete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Scandinavian bridle cheek piece. The double-terminal bar has a central lozenge-shaped boss with a rounded knob on either side. At opposite ends of the boss is a rectangular-section bar. The end of one bar has a lozenge-shaped terminal with a circular perforation and rounded knobs on each angle. One of the knobs is quite worn and is not as prominent as the other two. The other terminal is oval with a circular perforation and a knob on each side. The length is 72.6mm, the width is 20.3mm and the weight is 22.85g. The cheek piece is quite worn. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","Class 1avii",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"HARDWICK","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5181,"WAW-8794B1","The object is a bridle fitting, a component of the cheekpiece. These tend to date to the 11th century (Geake 2001). It is made from cast copper alloy.
The central portion of the cheekpiece is a rectangular block. The reverse is flat, the upper surface slightly moulded, and sinks in the centre becoming slightly concave. On this surface, at either end, there is a vertical groove. At either terminal of this block there is an integral lozenge shaped loop. The hole in the centre of these loops is circular. There are no signs of wear on the loops which you would expect to see on a well used cheekpiece. The reverse of the object is flat and undecorated. On one loop there is a slight trace of gilding, otherwise the surface has a mottled mid green patina.
In length the cheekpiece is 58.9mm, 20.9mm wide and weighs 16.84g.
","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","Class 1bvi",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BARCHESTON",,"WARWICKSHIRE"
5182,"WMID-2C50A2","An incomplete cast copper alloy four-armed bridle fitting/ strap distributor, dating to the 11th century (39.7mm x 36.3mm; thickness at central boss: 15.7mm; weight: 23.62g). Only two of the four arms remain, with the other two broken off from the main central boss. One of the arms is slightly longer than the other, but both have inner circular attachment looped terminals (average inner diameter: 9mm) with protruding outer knobs to the left, right and tip of the arm, illustrating the outside of these loops with a lozenge-shaped appearance. The central boss is a highly pronounced extension that seems to have been separately attached on to the central of what would have been the armed cross. The central boss is mostly hollow at the back. Overall, the distributor is in a worn but fair condition with a dark green patina.
A similar example, illustrated in Williams, 1997, pages 3-5, plate 1, was found at the burial site of Kvalsta, Bergs parish in VĂ€stermanland, central Sweden, dating to the 11th century AD. The strap distributor was discovered amongst other finds such as a flanged mount, three stirrups and copper alloy horse bit pieces. An illustration of the strap distributor from Sweden can be seen in Plate 1.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","Class 1aii, 4-way link",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Wall","WALL",,"STAFFORDSHIRE"
5183,"NLM-3346C0","An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Scandinavian strap distributor. The surviving arm is hemispherical in section and has a lozenge shaped terminal with an oval aperture. On each angle of the terminal is a rounded knob. The arm has a rounded knob on the incomplete end. The surviving length is 37.0mm, the width is 24.9mm and the weight 8.32g. ADDITIONAL: could equally be half of a cheekpiece","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 2a",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Sturton Le Steeple","STURTON LE STEEPLE",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
5184,"SUSS-CC1EE7","An cast copper alloy cheekpiece, these cheekpieces tend to date from the 11th century, but recent finds on archaeological sites have suggested that these cheekpieces could be 11th â 13th century in date. The cheekpiece comprises three main sections, from left to right, there is a circular hoop, which has three large rounded knop terminals, which almost give the loop a lozenge shape. There is a hole in the cast, which could be a casting bubble, on the lower half of the hoop. Attached to this loop is a small strip of copper alloy, with a D-shaped section, which attaches the loop to the decorative moulding. The D-shaped strip is undecorated. The decorative moulding is in the shape of a cats heads and depicts a cats ears, fur, eyes, nose and mouth. All of the catâs features are well defined. There does appear to be a mark on the opposite side of the cat heads to were the copper alloy strip has been cast. This could indicate that something else was attached to the cheekpiece. The reverse is undecorated but two more holes (possible casting bubbles) are evident on the reverse of the loop (on the upper half). These bubbles indicate that at this point the casting is hollow. The reverse of the catâs head is concave. The cheekpiece is 15.02mm in length. The cats head is approximately 16.7mm x 19.7mm x 8.6mm. The attachment strip is about 9.2mm long. The lozenge shaped loop is 21.6mm x 21.8mm x 4.1mm. The metal is a mid greenish-brown colour. Most of the original surface appears to have been lost, as the surface is quite patchy and flaky. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","Cheekpiece","Class 2aiv",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nr. Eastbourne","EAST DEAN AND FRISTON","WEALDEN","EAST SUSSEX"
5185,"LEIC-877AC2","Saxo-Norman copper alloy incompete horse cheek piece from a horse bridle measuring 55mm long and 10mm wide. This consists of a rectangular bar with a dome mid way along. Either side of the dome are small curved protrusions. The bar opens up into a diamond shaped terminal with swollen corners and a central round hole. The other end is missing.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","Class 1aii",850.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"LUBBESTHORPE","BLABY","LEICESTERSHIRE"
5186,"KENT-343191","Cast copper alloy strap junction. Lozenge-shaped coupling (only one of a pair extant) with lobed knops on angles and animal head on central bar. Not seen by FLO.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link/cheekpiece","Class 1aiv",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"SHEPHERDSWELL","SHEPHERDSWELL WITH COLDRED","DOVER","KENT"
5187,"KENT-2101F2","Copper alloy fragment, probably part of an Anglo-Scandinavian horse harness. The object may be a cheek-piece; it has two large holes, which could be considered openwork, and appears to have Ringerike style decoration on its front. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","cheekpiece","Ringerike/Urnes-related",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"HOUGHAM","HOUGHAM WITHOUT","DOVER","KENT"
5188,"ESS-216478","An incomplete copper-alloy early medieval bridle cheek piece. This object represents one arm of the cheek piece. The arm is semicircular in section, being slightly domed on the front with a flat reverse. It is formed from a decorative boss, subcircular in plan, with a suboval knop to either side from which extends the shank of the arm. At the end of the shank is the terminal strap loop. The terminal strap loop is subtriangular in plan with an oval perforation. It is likely that a mirror image arm would have extended from the other side of the boss. However, there is a clear break edge and the rest of the object is missing. The break edge is worn, suggesting that this damage occurred in antiquity. The object is abraded. Patches of original surface survive with an even dark green patina, otherwise the object is light green.
The object has a total length of 45.34mm. The boss is 13.34mm long and 24.84mm wide across, including the knops. The shank is 16.5mm long, 7.4mm wide, and 5.8mm thick. The terminal strap loop is 15.5mm long, 26.16mm wide, including the knops, and the perforation has an internal diameter of 12.46mm. The object weighs 20.91g
This cheek piece is Anglo-Scandinavian in style and dates to the 11th century. Though no exact parallel could be found, similar examples have been found in Suffolk. See SF8730A2 and SF-E7BA78. ","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","harness link","Class 1aii",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown ESSEX",,"ESSEX" 5189,"SF-B793C2","An incomplete copper-alloy bridle cheekpiece. Only one arm, its terminal and the decorative central element of this cheekpiece survives; the other arm is missing due to an old break, now worn. The surviving length is 47mm and the width across the widest point - the central decorative element - is 44mm. The complete arm measures 32mm in length and 7.4mm in width; it has a rounded front face and a flat back face. The arm ends in a lozenge-shaped terminal, 23mm by 25mm in size, with a large oval perforation through it (11mm by 12mm). There are projecting integral knobs on three corners of the lozenge.
It is likely that the decoration is carried out in the late Viking Urnes Style which arrived in England in the mid 11th century and continued into the 12th. IT represents the last of the pagan art forms in Scandinavia and through Christian influence developes into the medieval Romanesque style. The design is normally cast in openwork form, giving a greater depth to the figures. It incorporates curving lines enclosing ribbon-shaped quadrupeds, sometimes entwined. ADDITIONSL: images on website labelled 'belt loop' and I would agree with this attribution. It has a D-shaped frame with devolved zoomorphic outer edge as in the typical 10th/11th century types but also has an integral plate.","personal-related","Buckle","Class A6 with integral curving plate","Urnes style, deveolved zoomorphic and foliate.",1000.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,,"KINETON","NORTH WARWICKSHIRE","WARWICKSHIRE"
5215,"SWYOR-E29015","Copper alloy late Saxon or Anglo-Scandinavian buckle probably dating to around the 9th century. The buckle is triangular. The strap bar is narrowed and circular in section, opposite the strap bar where the point of the triangle is located, there is a zoomorphic terminal; this part of the buckle frame is thickened. The animal head terminal has two pronounced raised ears each with a dot, and a squarish snout. A similar example dated to the 9th century can be seen in âAnglian and other finds from Fishergateâ by N Rogers, Fig.650, No.5314. The animal head terminal on the cited example is almost identical although the pin bar is split. The buckle weighs 5.4g and measures 27.92mm in length, 27.56mm in width and 4.56mm in thickness. ADDITIONAL: an example of simliar frame shape is SF7560 which also has a simplified beast on its outer edge. This example also includes beasts biting the bar not seen here. 9th-11th c.","personal-related","Buckle","Class A3","zoomorphic outer edge",800.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown",,
5218,"YORYM-CC0BF7","A cast copper alloy buckle plate from a small Anglo-Saxon buckle. The frame and the pin are missing but the 2 hinge loops are still present, although one is broken. The complete one projects 5mm and has a 2.5mm perforation for the buckle frame. The main panel of the plate is 23.5mm long, and 10.2mm wide at either end although it narrows to 7.5mm in the centre. It is half round in section, meaning it is 5.0mm thick. This panel is divided by transverse grooves into bands, the central 2 with 2 stamped dots in them, and the end 2 with stamped dots and chevrons. Beyond this panel the piece has a final attachment panel which is flat and flaring out to a final width of 11.5mm. It is split into upper and lower plates to fit over a leather strap with a central perforation 3mm in diameter for an attaching rivet. The piece as whole has a fine light green patina. ADDITIONAL: no image, no ehancement made. It's likely to be Esx but cannot be certain.","personal-related","Buckle","plate","incised",410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"KILHAM","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
5219,"NMS-0CCDA6","Late Saxon buckle frame, heart-shaped loop with trefoil knop and integrally-cast rectangular plate with perforation for (missing) pin, small rivet-hole near outer edge, 36 x 21mm. Cf. Biddle (1990), fig.129, no.1106. 10th-11th century. ","personal-related","Buckle","Class G?","trefoil outer edge",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Wereham","WEREHAM","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5220,"GLO-7DDCF3","Buckle D-shaped frame 2mm thick, the buckle has an integral triangular shaped plate, halfway down each side is a rectangular knop, there are a series of engraved lines that separate that back plate into three separate fields, this is all surrounded by an engraved. Three is a single rivet hole in the centre of the plate which still retains iron corrosion. There is no hole for the buckle pin. The artefact is heavily corroded with all of its original patina corroded away, leaving a dark brown slightly pitted surface. ADDITIONAL: according to HG (SF8281), the integral traingular plated buckles of this size are most likely of later 7th or early 8th century date.","personal-related","buckle","LOOK UP: D-shape frame with integral triangular plate, knops on both sides cf. F'GTE FINDS","incised decoration",650.00,750.00,"MSx",7.00,"Thornbury","THORNBURY","SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE","AVON"
5221,"GLO-EEF227","Probable buckle plate fragment, this is a long rectangle 22mm long 10mm wide and >1mm thick. There is a single rectangular rivet hole towards the attachment end 2mm by 2mm. There is a rectangular slot on the opposite end where the plate would have been folded with a slot in the centre for the buckle pin, the plate is broken at the fold. mid green patina, corrosion at the edges.
Buckle plates such as this are known throughout the Early Medieval and Medieval Periods. ADDITIONAL: similar to example found in Trewhiddle hoard (Wilson 1964, no 103) dated to the 9th c. This may be of a similar date although the lack of the buckle frame makes certain atriburion more difficult","personal-related","buckle","rectangular buckle plate","undecorated",700.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Thornbury","THORNBURY","SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE","AVON"
5222,"SUR-03E027","A gently tapering buckle, probably of zoomorphic form but very abraded. The present terminal seems to be original but most of one side is missing along with a transverse bar. In side view the buckle is curved","personal-related","Buckle","Class A3","zoomorphic outer edge",1000.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,,"CANTERBURY","CANTERBURY","KENT"
5224,"ESS-C06202","Tiny early Anglo-Saxon buckle, made from copper alloy. The frame is oval, and measures just 12 mm long and 15.5 mm wide. It is circular in cross-section, now rather corroded but perhaps originally 2 mm in diameter. The copper-alloy pin survives, with the loop wrapped around the frame and the tip of the pin curving neatly around the outer edge. Two hinge loops made from copper-alloy sheet are corroded around the frame, and this is all that survives of an original plate. Th eobject weighs 0.25g. This type of buckle is most common in the seventh and early eighth centuries c.600-720AD.
DDITIONAL: one of Geake's 'small, simple buckles' which Marzinzik (2003) dartes 550-800.","personal-related","Buckle","small simple buckle","undecorated",550.00,800.00,"E/MSx",7.00,"Canvey Island","CANVEY ISLAND","CASTLE POINT","ESSEX"
5225,"NMS-861B80","Early Saxon Buckle frame, D-shaped with two pairs of oblique transverse lines on oval-sectioned outside edge, narrowed rectangular-sectioned bar butted against side at one end, pin missing, 15 x 19mm. ADDITIONAL: its shape is also reminiscent of LSx D-shaped buckles which often have zoomorphic elements. Are the transverse lines highly devolved zoomorphic decoration? Doesn't comfortably fit into Marzinzik's categories, so may well be a later type. Dates extended.","personal-related","buckle","ESx type? D-shaped","transverse grooves",410.00,1100.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"HECKINGHAM","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5226,"NCL-5E7A16","A copper alloy buckle plate, dating to the eleventh or twelfth centuries AD. The buckle plate is D shaped and oval in section. Devolved zoomorphic heads 'bite' the offset bar. The offset bar is circular in section. There are several similar buckle plates from North and East Yorkshire recorded on the PAS database.","personal-related","Buckle","Class A1i","zoomorphic (biting beasts)",1000.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,,"THWING","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
5227,"NMS-808106","Late Saxon incomplete D-shaped Ringerike style buckle frame, elongated rectangular lobe with tiny notches along outer edge, the inner edge defined by an engraved rocker-arm line, projects from centre of outside edge, one curving side survives with lobes providing ear and snout for animal-head terminal with tiny fragment of vertical narrowed bar. There is further engraved decoration around the side and outlining the eye. Similar buckle frames are known from Norfolk and there is one buckle with plate from North Norfolk. A further example from Norwich (156) has been published (Norwich Households no.128), and larger buckle frames of similar type have been found in Barton Bendish (18852) and West Walton (18947). Two similar buckle frames can be seen in a female burial from Nomeland, Valle parish, Aust-Agder in Norway. The find is recorded as no. 30539 (Pers. comm. and photograph of grave group via Anne Pedersen, National Museum of Denmark). 11th century. ","personal-related","buckle","Class A5ii","Ringerike-style bests biting bar",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Outwell","OUTWELL","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5228,"LIN-4D2C91","Incomplete copper alloy asymmetrical buckle. The buckle is D-shaped and the frame is rectangular in cross-section. The bar is narrowed. The frame is expanded and has three moulded peaks on either side. There are eight ring-and-dot motifs evenly spaced along the surface of the frame. The object has a brownish-red patina. Two of the peaks are missing on the right hand side.","personal-related","buckle","Class F1","ring-and-dot",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"WALCOT NEAR FOLKINGHAM","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5229,"DENO-50FE76","Cast copper alloy buckle, slightly worn, details indistinct. The terminal of the integral plate is in the form of a slender head of a snake-like animal and behind this is a raised swelling pierced by a hole which originally held a rivet. From this swelling the body loops around in a figure-eight shape from which proceed tendrils. The body forms the frame of the buckle, then crosses the body and curves around again to pass across the neck. On the outer edge of the frame is a raised projection which appears to represent the nose of a large zoomorphic head, the upper part of which is missing. The projections on either side are presumably ears. The missing pin would have rested in the central hole at the junction of plate and frame. Indications of the former presence of the pin can be seen on the underside of the projecting nose, in the form of a slight transverse groove. This intriguing object is especially unusual in view of the head mounted prominently on the buckle frame. It dates to the mid-11th century or a little later and is a fine example of the English Urnes style. At present there are no clear parallels. (D Williams). Length 59.74mm, width 19.91mm, thickness 10.26mm, weight 15.10g.","personal-related","buckle","Class C2","Urnes, openwork style",1020.00,1080.00,"LSx",7.00,,"CLIPSTONE","MANSFIELD","NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
5230,"GLO-EF08D4","Buckle plate, rectangular sheet copper alloy 29mm long, 23mm wide >1mm thick. There are two rivet holes towards the folded end 2.5mm diameter. There is a slot at the folder end for the buckle pin, the sides are recessed for the arms of the buckle, the reverse of the plate is missing the attachment end has a semicircular recess towards one side and is angled inwards slightly, as a result of it being poorly cut rather than corrosion. There are cracks either side of the rivet holes, dark brown surface with light green patches, the artefact was originally gilt.
Buckle plates such as this are known throughout the Early Medieval and Medieval Periods.
","personal-related","buckle","subrectangularbuckle plate","undecorated",410.00,1200.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Thornbury","THORNBURY","SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE","AVON"
5231,"SF-5F66E6","An Anglo-Saxon D-shaped copper-alloy buckle frame measuring 17mm by 9mm in size. The bar is slightly thinner than the rest of the frame but is not offset at all. ","personal-related","buckle","small simple buckle","undecorated",600.00,800.00,"E/MSx",7.00,"Ixworth","IXWORTH",,"SUFFOLK"
5232,"GLO-EFDEC2","Buckle plate, rectangular sheet copper alloy 19mm long, 15mm wide >1mm thick. There are two rivet holes at the attachment end. There is a slot at the folder end for the buckle pin, the sides are recessed for the arms of the buckle, the reverse of the plate is missing. Dark brown surface with light green patches, the artefact was originally gilt.
Buckle plates such as this are known throughout the Early Medieval and Medieval Periods.
ADDITIONAL: vaguely similar to Wilson (1964, no 103). Nothing in Marzinizik exactly similar but may well be Esx or later.","personal-related","buckle","subrectangularbuckle plate","undecorated",410.00,1200.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Thornbury","THORNBURY","SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE","AVON"
5233,"SF-79DAF8","Part of a buckle-frame of Viking Age (probably), with a zoomorphic detail of an animal head in the middle of the arc of the fore-edge of the frame. The metal of the frame is 5mm wide by 2mm thick, and is set in a plane angled to the flat. The ears of the snimal head project back across this D-frame's width, and the tapering snout projects by 8mm, tapering from 11 to 4mm. The pin-bar, which probably had two additional animal-head terminals facing back, away from the front edge, is broken off and the surviving part of the D-frame is bent out of shape. The recess between the ears of the surviving animal head represents the slot for the 'fall' of the buckle's pin. The ears themselves are dimpled. A closely similar but more complete example found in the north-east of this county (Suffolk), at Mendham, shows that the buckle was probably attached to the belt by means of an additional plate wrapped around the pin-bar and cut in at the outer edges to accommodate the frame, see SF-76F478. A similar frame from Old Sarum is illustrated by Cuddeford, p.16 no 15. ADDITIONAL: cf. SF7560 which is complete. Cannot classify more closely than A2 or A3 because fragmentary.","personal-related","Buckle","Class A2/A3","zoomorphic decoration",800.00,1150.00,"LSx",7.00,"Claydon","CLAYDON",,"SUFFOLK"
5234,"NLM-75C340","A cast copper alloy early medieval single loop buckle. The D-shaped frame has been decorated with a scallop pattern of transverse grooves. The grooves fan out at the strap bar of the buckle to create two loped knops. In the centre of the frame is a rectangular pin rest. The narrowed and offset strap bar has the remains of an iron pin on it. This type of buckle has been classified by Marshall as Type IIB and is dated between c. 800-1000 (1986, 8). The length of the buckle is 28.07mm, the width is 24.31mm and the weight is 9.31mm. ADDITIONAL: the decorative style where the farme meets the bar seems to be a devolved zoomorphic element","personal-related","Buckle","Class A4","zoomorphic (biting the bar), with transverse grooves",800.00,1050.00,"LSx",7.00,"Epworth","EPWORTH","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
5235,"WMID-03A697","An incomplete possible cast copper alloy buckle, dating from the early Medieval - Medieval period (length: 22.2mm; width: 20.9mm; thickness: 4.9mm; weight: 3.74g). This possible buckle has an incomplete integral plate with two irregular holes in the centre down its length. At the transition between the plate and sub-oval loop, there is a protruding lug at either side. Overall, the artefact is in a worn but fair condition, with a possible pin missing. ADDITIONAL: I'd imagine this is later medeival as I can find no parallels and it doesn't 'look ' Asx. It is unclear quite where the buckle tongue would fit. BUT cf. NMS-0CCDA6","personal-related","buckle","D-shaped frame with protruding knops LATE MED?","undecorated",900.00,1400.00,"LSx",7.00,"Moreton Morrell","MORETON MORRELL",,"WARWICKSHIRE"
5236,"YORYM-2090D2","A cast copper alloy Anglo-Scandinavian buckle. The buckle frame is single looped and D-shaped, with a fat loop and narrowed pin bar. The ends of the loop where it meets the pin bar are moulded into animal heads with ring and dot eyes and a pronounced upward curving snout. The pin is missing. ADDITIONAL: no image. Belongs to Class A1i and seems to be the typical Northumbrian type.","personal-related","Buckle","Class A1ib","zoomorphic (biting beasts)",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"KILHAM","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
5237,"NLM-A47915","A cast copper-alloy Early Medieval buckle. The D-shaped buckle frame has a thickened outer edge and on either end of the strap bar is a rounded knob. The narrowed and offset strap bar has iron corrosion in the centre. This suggests that the buckle once had an iron pin, which is now missing. The original surface of the buckle has worn away and what is left is quite corroded. The length is 27.5mm, the width is 21.0mm and the weight is 7.90g. ADDITIONAL: Not sure about this one. Might well be later medieval, as it doesn't really follow the known E-LSx exmaples very well, Kept but will keep eye out for parallels","personal-related","Buckle","unsure","undecorated",800.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,,"HIBALDSTOW","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
5238,"SUR-59D552","A late Saxon buckle with an integral stepped plate and with a narrow waist decorated with a knot motif. Most of the frame is missing. There are two surviving iron rivets for attaching the leather strap. Engraved decoration consists of a pair of opposed crescents joined by a fillet of two lines. There is a circular hole for the pin which contains the stub of flat sheet iron (?). The iron corrosion on the reverse is of uncertain origin. ","personal-related","Buckle","stepped (bow shaped) plate","engraved cresents and lines",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"WEST HORSLEY","GUILDFORD","SURREY"
5239,"KENT-79B6A3","Saxon ""D"" buckle pin, probably associated with find KENT-797C92. ADDITIONAL: no image, or other details. Unclassified","personal-related","Buckle pin","unclassified",,0.00,0.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Highbourgh Hill","EASTRY","DOVER","KENT"
5240,"BH-247B61","A copper-alloy probable buckle plate of late Saxon date. The object is very similar in style to Williams Class A, Type 12 stirrup mount (Williams, p. 70-75) and probably also dates from the 11th century AD. The object consists of a roughly lozenge-shaped plate with openwork decoration. The plate is flat and a sub-circular hole just above the flat bottom edge probably served as a means of pin attachment. The plate above has four openwork lozenges with incised lines in between. There are nine bosses around the outer edge of the buckle. Both sides of the piece retain probable traces of gilding. The metal is dark brown in colour and is slightly pitted. The object measures 46.5mm long by 36mm wide and 3.1mm thick. It weighs 14.01g. ADDITIONAL: not convinced with the attribution (admittedly uncertain) as a buckle plate as there seems to be no method of attachment for a buckle frame. Possibly a mount? Unclear","personal-related","Buckle/mount?","lozenge-shaped (as Williams 1997 Class A12)","openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Buntingford","BUNTINGFORD","EAST HERTFORDSHIRE","HERTFORDSHIRE"
5241,"DENO-184477","Gilded copper alloy object, probably a buckle. Carolingian, 8th/9th century. Length 34.20mm, width 32.14mm, thickness (including loops on reverse) 14.22mm, thickness (not including loops) c.9.0mm, weight 29.59g. ADDITIONAL: possibly a buckle plate but it is uncertain. The web record now records it's description as 'probably a brooch' although all other details remain the same. Findspot now given (added here).l","personal-related","buckle?","rectangular buckle plate","zoomorphic?, gilded",750.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"sleaford",,"Lincolnshire"
5242,"NMS-9F1CD4","Two joining fragments of a Mid Saxon/Late Saxon 9th-century openwork circular brooch found in 1997. On the reverse the transverse pin lug with remains of iron pin loop. More than one half has now been recovered. The join can be seen to be at a quite recent break. The stub on the reverse of the first fragment is now identified as the remains of a catchplate set transversely.
Sometimes called âcogwheelâ brooches, Norfolk examples include pieces from Colkirk (HER 37128), Fincham (33011), Gillingham (31343), Morton-on-the-Hill (25247), Mundham (29312), Norwich (845), Quidenham (24051), Redenhall with Harleston (31946), Saxlingham Nethergate (13174), West Acre (30821) and Tattersett (31825). A typical brooch, perhaps from Icklingham (Suffolk), has been published (Hinton Ashmolean 1974, 21 cat. no.14. The type is also known in Lincolnshire.
","personal-related","cogwheel brooch",,"openwork, central cruciform motif",800.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Tibenham","TIBENHAM","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5243,"SF-0DDCE5","An unusual copper-alloy possibly late Anglo-Saxon brooch for which no parallel could be found. It is cross-shaped and open work measuring 21.5mm by 22mm in size externally and 13.5mm by c12mm internally.
The inner edges of the cross are straight and the outer ones curvilinear, each terminal of each arm of the cross has transverse projections on either side of it. The back face is flat with file marks visible. The front face has a square recess in the centre of each terminal of each arm of the cross. One of these recesses has a mass of corroded iron adhering to and around it. There is also a slight trace of iron on the recess opposing this one. This suggests that the corroded iron may be the remains of an iron pin, the loop of which was attached to one recess and the tip of which rested in another.
It is therefore most likely that this object was originally a brooch and is most likely to be of late Anglo-Saxon date although no parallel can be found as many brooch forms appear in that period, not all of which have been published. ADDITIONAL: no explanation why this should be LSx, unless its the expanded arms of the cross. It might well be ASx, probably MSx or LSx but may well be of any date.","personal-related","cross brooch","expanded arms","undecorated openwork",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Worlington","WORLINGTON",,"SUFFOLK"
5244,"SOMDOR-D9DEE2","A possible Anglo-Saxon 'Plessblech' die, used for making foil mounts. The die has been cast from copper alloy and the style of the decoration is 8th century. The crude shape of the metal, which closely follows the shape of the design, suggests that the impressed decoration was the most important aspect of the object, and that it was not for show itself. The reverse is rough, flat and undecorated. The die is sub-trapezoidal in shape, with a triangular knotwork design in the centre of the upper side. The design is in very shallow relief indicating that it could only have been impressed onto a fairly thin foil. The 'Pressblech' method involves placing a thin sheet of gold, silver or copper alloy onto the die, covering it with a leather pad and striking the top of the pad to produce an impression. The thin decorative plaques produced have been found on Anglo-Saxon sleeve clasps, brooches and helmets (Leahy 2003: 157). ","work/domestic-related","Die","Plessblech","knotwork",700.00,799.00,"MSx",7.00,,"ILMINSTER","SOUTH SOMERSET","SOMERSET"
5245,"ESS-13BC75","ADDITIONAL: no image, or other details","work/domestic-related","Die","Pressblech","unknown",450.00,1100.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"unknown ESSEX",,"ESSEX"
5246,"SF-8D3536","Copper-alloy disc brooch of middle early medieval date with relief decoration depicting a backwards looking animal, it measures 28mm in diameter. Arouond the edge of the front face there is a border of small rectangular and triangular shapes. Inside this border is a quadruped with all four legs shown, with the head facing backwards over the back and the tail bent forward to meet it. Each foot has three toes and the neck has zigzag edge representing a mane. The head has open jaws and a circular eye.
On the reverse are two transverse lugs. One D-shaped one is perforated and has a slot cut to form the catchplate, it is incomplete. The other lug is D-shaped and formed the pin lug. There is some iron corrosion from the pin within the pin lug.
This brooch is similar to others discovered in Suffolk such as one example with a beaded border found at Dunwich (see SF-5810).
","personal-related","Disc brooch","backwards looking animal","zoomorphic",750.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Ramsholt","RAMSHOLT",,"SUFFOLK"
5247,"NARC-C83BE5","Copper-alloy disc brooch, probably of late Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Scandinavian origin. The brooch measures 31mm in diameter and the obverse is decorated with a curvilinear design, possibly depicting a stylised bird with large feet and wings outstretched. This is set within a thin border (1.9 mm thick). It is likely that the obverse of the brooch would have once been enamelled or gilded. The reverse has two pierced lugs on which the pin would have hinged and a third lug opposite which would have served as a catch plate for the pin. There is a third element to the reverse, which is a third lug, situated at a right angle to hinge mechanism and catchplate. This lug is also pierced, giving it the appearance of a suspension loop. Helen Geake has noted the presence of these lugs on late Early-Medieval brooches (Geake 2001, 24) and has acknowledged that the use of this feature is currently unclear, and that it may be a safety mechanism, or that it may enable the brooch to be worn as a pendant. The presence of this feature on this example is a further indicator that it is of a late Early-Medieval date. ","personal-related","Disc brooch","Disc","?zoomorphic- LOOK UP.",850.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BRACKLEY","SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE"
5248,"SF-B596F5","A copper-alloy Viking age disc brooch with Borre-style decoration, identified from a colour photograph. This brooch is decorated with a relief pattern with a raised central lozenge with a sunken circle in the middle. Although worn it is likely that the corners of the lozenge are expanded to form double stranded interlace in the form of loose knots, each double strand ending with a rounded terminal. On the reverse there is a probable catchplate. This is most likely to be a 10th century English variant of a Scandinavian brooch type, it is a fusion of interlace style ultimately derived from Scandinavia combined with the Anglo-Saxon flat disc brooch shape. Similar examples are known from elsewhere in Suffolk from Freckenham (see SF-5708), Glemsford (see SF-9203) and Hemmingstone (see SF-66D362).","personal-related","Disc brooch","flat","Borre-style",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Long Melford","LONG MELFORD",,"SUFFOLK"
5249,"NMS-07F833","Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch, damaged outside edge, very worn Borre style decoration comprising concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double contoured knots, circular sunken field in centre, stumps of missing lug and catch-plate on reverse, diam.28mm. 10th century. Cf. West, 1998, 134.8. ADDITIONAL: can see no real details from the image","personal-related","Disc brooch","very corroded","Borre-style interlace",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Mautby","MAUTBY","GREAT YARMOUTH","NORFOLK"
5250,"SF-B07BB0","Part of one quadrant of a large gilt copper alloy disc, almost certainly a brooch, with high-quality chip-carved ornament of zoomorphic and foliate type. It was originally about 86mm in diameter, and was subdivided into four equal quadrants by crossing bars 4.5mm wide.
The ornament of each quadrant was probably separate rather than continuous with the others, though the same motifs may have recurred in opposed quadrants, or may even have been repeated similarly in all four. The scroll stems issue from a central root and bud, shaped like a crescent lying on its back with a tall lobe issuing from the centre of the upper side. This has an engraved outline or contour, and the inner panel is further subdivided so that the horns of the crescent appear as side-buds to a lower, slightly waisted stem. The base line is provided by the outer margin of the disc, so that organically the uppermost part of the scroll (which is missing) was that nearest the centre of the disc. The narrow, thread-like fronds of the scroll arch outwards from either side of the central bud, and then spiral inwards below, describing one and a half circular turns before they develop into the large beast-heads enclosed within the volutes. The heads are upside-down relative to the plant, so that the jaws gape upwards and the snouts are turned in towards the central root/bud. From the back of each head appear, quite widely separated, two lappets or ears, shaped like a paisley device tapering to an enrolled ball finial. These ears cross over the lower arch of the voluted stem and fall into the outer spaces against the disc panel-edge. The tongues cross over the fronds and terminate at the centre in enrolled ball finials. The stem of the right-hand volute has a branching-point, and from this single process the whole of the upper parts of the foliage (lost) was presumably derived, since the larger (left) volute is not branched. The upper part was probably an interlocked or interlace, quasi-symmetrical continuation of the fronds, possibly with other integral zoomorphic detail. Part of the upper or inner strands appear above the left volute, and there is also an enrolled ball terminal at the extreme left.
The detailing of the animal heads is distinctive. There is a strong engraved line defining the position of the lips ('jaw-contour' line), and this is left open at the top end between eye and snout, but is closed at the tip of the lower jaw. The lappets or ears are deeply inset into the outline of the cranium. The eye is shown by a single punched dot. The tongue of the larger beast, in the left volute, is thickened within the mouth, and has been scooped or chanelled within the breadth of the strand at that point.
Animal ornament in this style is especially associated with chip-carved metalwork developments during the later eighth and early ninth century. Head-volutes occur on the English objects described by Egil Bakka, found in Norwegian graves, for instance from More og Romsdal and from Kaupang, and also on the famous diamond-shaped plaque from Birka. More generally objects of the present kind need to be studied in connection with the Fiskerton (Witham) pins, the Flixborough material, the Pentney brooches, the Campsea Ash pin, the Chelmondiston pommel, the Brandon pins and ornaments, the Ixworth discs, and the silver binding strips of the English Casket kept at Brunwick Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (Gandersheim Casket). The filigree or wirework details of the outer basal disc of the lost River Witham hanging bowl (Lincs) are also relevant. Some account of the development of this art will be found in 'Examples of Anglian Art' by Reginald Smith (Archaeologia, c1926), in various articles by Lesley Webster in the 'Making of England' Catalogue, in Egil Bakka's two articles on English metal artefacts from Norwegian graves (Arbok for Universitet I Bergen), in the Brunswick Casket monograph (especially by R N Bailey), and by S J Plunkett on The Mercian Perspective in Sally Foster (ed) The St Andrew Sarcophagus (Historic Scotland - Four Courts Press, Dublin). From these, and especially from the latter, it appears that this type of metalwork can with increasing confidence be ascribed to production centres of high status in Eastern England, and espeically in monastic centres of East Anglia, Lincolnshire and the eastern midlands, during the period before the emergence of the later 'Trewhiddle' style.
While the identification as a brooch is the most likely, and the rivet-hole at the end of the surviving fragment of one of the internal dividing arms of the cruciform disc frame is probably for the attachment of a pin or pin-catch similar to those from Pentney or Elmsett, it is possible that the object was a decorative or applied plaque rather than a brooch. In either case, it is a fragment of a very fine high-status piece of work, and its art-historical interest suggests that it ought to find a home in a public Museum.","personal-related","Disc brooch","Disc, Chip-carved zoomorphic","Witham-style zoomoprphic and foliate",775.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,"Lackford","LACKFORD",,"SUFFOLK"
5251,"NMS-FE5133","Late Saxon disc brooch, now roughly hexagonal in shape as all original edge missing, old breaks. Concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double contoured knots, circular sunken field in centre, quite worn. Remains of broken pierced lug and broken catch-plate on reverse. At least 28mm in diameter. Borre Style. 10th century. ADDITIONAL: no image","personal-related","Disc brooch","disc brooch","Borre-style",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Thornham","THORNHAM","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5252,"BH-9B6AB7","A small copper-alloy circular disc brooch probably dating from the mid to late early medieval period. No exact parallel for this brooch could be found but its size, style, and method of pin attachment suggest that it probably dates from the 8th to 9th century AD and may be of Rhenish origin (see ref.).
It measures 19.8mm diameter by 1.8mm thick and weighs 2.49g. The upper surface has a raised design of a bird standing facing right with its wings spread. This image is fairly crudely depicted, with a very large hollow eye. It sits within a thin raised circular border.
The pin attachment is fairly rudimentary and consists of an upstanding perforated lug opposite a similar lug (damaged) which has had the root at one side cut away to produce a hook like catchplate. The reverse of the plate shows signs of having been filed. The pin is missing.
The brooch has a small irregular hole pierced into the plate. This may be deliberate (ie. to make it into a pendant) or, more likely, is a result of wear.","personal-related","Disc brooch","flat","bird motif",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"Colmworth","COLMWORTH","BEDFORD","BEDFORDSHIRE"
5253,"LIN-57B041","Copper alloy Borre style flat disc brooch. The face has a central circular hollow. Around this is a lozenge shape with double-ribbon ends that extend and curl round in a Borre knot motif. This type of Anglo-Scandinavian brooch was mass produced and is more common in East Anglia. The pin lug and catchplate are present on the reverse. The pin is missing.","personal-related","Disc brooch","flat","Borre-style knotwork",865.00,900.00,"LSx",7.00,,"SIBSEY","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5254,"NLM-D33EF6","A cast copper-alloy disc brooch inlaid with enamel. The decoration consists of a cross but it now difficult to determine how the enamel has been used. The elements of the design are separated by recessed lines and it appears that red enamel was applied in the fields between the arms of the cross. However it not possible to see if the cross its self or the central circular area was inlaid. On the back of the brooch is a single perforated lug by which the pin was attached and a hook, both cast integrally with the brooch. The pin is now missing. The diameter is 21.0mm, the thickness is 3.6mm and the weight is 4.14g.
The date of the brooch is 8th century and a continental (Rhenish) origin for this brooch is probable.","personal-related","Disc Brooch","Rhenish?, expanding arm cross","cruciform, engraved; enamalled",700.00,800.00,"MSx",7.00,,"BRACEBY AND SAPPERTON","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5255,"DENO-79F861","Possible Viking lead alloy disc brooch fragment. No evidence for attachment. Diameter 34.54mm, width (as broken) 27mm, thickness (maximum, around rim) 1.6mm, width (minimum towards centre) 0.52mm, weight 3.56g. ADDITIONAL: no image. Kevin Leahy unsure","personal-related","Disc brooch","unknown","unknown",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",25.00,"Rampton","RAMPTON","BASSETLAW","NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
5256,"SF-4BD9B2","A complete lead late Anglo-Saxon disc brooch in good condition, with only slight damage, now worn around its edges. This brooch measures 25.2mm in diameter and has a slightly domed centre on its front face.
Its front face is decorated with a circle around the domed centre with two concentric circles in the centre of this. There is a cross overlying the domed centre, the outline of which is formed of two parallel lines with small transverse mouldings in between them. The four rounded corners of the cross shape terminate outside the central circle. In between the four corners outside the circle there are curvilinear roughly semi-circular motifs again formed of two lines with small transverse mouldings in between them.
On the back face the integral pin loop and catch plate survive, opposite each other. There are traces of the corroded iron pin within and around the pin loop.
No parallel could be found for the decorative design on this lead disc brooch. There is a possiblity that this is a nummular brooch and the design ultimately derived from a coin but now abstract. ","personal-related","Disc brooch","domed","moulded cruciform design?",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",25.00,"Thetford","THETFORD",,"NORFOLK"
5257,"SF-E11DD4","A complete copper-alloy probably mid to late Anglo-Saxon openwork disc brooch of unusual type for which no exact published parallel could be found.
This brooch is flat and circular in plan, measuring 28mm in diameter. It has four evenly spaced roughly triangular open work holes, which form a cross shape within the circular border. There are traces of a groove running along the centre of the front face of the circular border, no other incised decoration can be seen.
On the back face there is a complete integral pin loop and opposite this a complete integral catch plate. There are slight traces of iron corrosion between the pin loop and catch plate which are likely to be the remains of an iron pin.
This brooch is in good condition with a dark /olive green patina, this is missing in places revealing a reddish brown copper-alloy beneath it. This is very similar in colour to the copper-alloy used in other late Anglo-Saxon artefacts, including other brooches, stirrup mounts and terminals. ","personal-related","Disc brooch","flat, openwork producing cruciforn shape","openwork",750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Freckenham","FRECKENHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
5258,"NLM-CF5DC7","An incomplete cast pewter Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. The flat circular brooch is slightly creased and folded at the edges. It also suffered some damaged in the centre with drill hole. The brooch has a beaded border with two inner plain bands. In the centre is a plain cross, which extended to the border. On each arm of the cross is a pointed oval with a pellet in the centre. The area behind the cross has incised cross-hatching. The back of the brooch has the remains of a squashed hook catchplate and hinge. The pin is missing. The surviving diameter of the brooch is 34.1mm and the weight is 10.60g.
Similar 10th century examples with the beaded border are in Hattatt, 1989, P.200-2, No's 1696-1699.","personal-related","Disc brooch","flat","moulded cruciform design?, beaded border",850.00,1000.00,"LSx",26.00,,"BINBROOK","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE" 5259,"ESS-B36912","Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch of the late 10th or 11th century. This brooch is circular in plan. Around its circumference is a flange, set at 90 degrees to the main body of the brooch, with six circular recessed lobes. Four of the six lobes hold a globular blue glass setting. The main body of the brooch has high sides, recessing it for the central decoration. This central decoration survives intact and takes the form of an equal five-armed star set at the centre of the circular field. Within the hollow of at least two arms of the star and the surrounding background is set dark blue enamel. One arm of the star is missing its setting and the other two seem to hold partial remains of enamel, white in colour. The decoration is termed cloisonnĂ©, in that each piece of enamel sits within a cell formed from copper alloy âwallsâ. Gilding partially survives on the flange wall and to the reverse of the brooch. The reverse of the brooch is otherwise plain. The pin bar lugs are missing but the catchplate seems to be intact though it is obscured with corrosion product. The pin is entirely missing. The exposed copper alloy surfaces of the brooch are abraded and the original surface no longer survives. The areas are now light green in colour. The brooch has a diameter of 26.16mm, is 5.1mm thick and weighs 4.86g. David Bucktonâs 1986 article âLate 10th and 11th century cloisonnĂ© enamel broochesâ (in Medieval Archaeology volume 30, pages 8-18), discusses the various designs of this type of brooch. Though an exact parallel is not mentioned, it is clear that the brooch recorded here belongs to an established tradition of cloisonnĂ© brooch decoration that has a predominantly south-eastern distribution.","personal-related","Disc brooch","lobed, cloisonne enamel with inalid glass",,950.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,"Roydon","ROYDON","EPPING FOREST","ESSEX" 5260,"BERK-EE9085","Medieval circular brooch with inlaid glass. ADDITIONAL: no image, and virtually no description. It appears that this is possibly an 11th c cloisonne enamel brooch although it must remain uncertain.","personal-related","Disc brooch","inlaid glass/enamel","inlaid glass/enamel",400.00,1500.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Woodstock","WOODSTOCK","WEST OXFORDSHIRE","OXFORDSHIRE" 5261,"NMS-54A6E7","Late Saxon Cast disc brooch. Although the brooch is extremely worn and damaged, traces of Borre style knotwork around a central sunken circle are visible. On the reverse are the remains of a transverse pin-lug and catchplate. There is a small patch of iron corrosion beside the pin-lug, indicating that the brooch was fastened with an iron pin. This type of brooch is characteristic of East Anglia, and the distribution of these artefacts appears to be concentrated in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Many of the known examples of these brooches are extremely worn and damaged, perhaps indicating that they were in use for long periods of time (Margeson, S. (1997), The Vikings in Norfolk: 23). Edges damaged, maximum diameter 26mm. Weight 3.02g. ADDITIONAL: can't see much on the image","personal-related","Disc brooch","flat, corroded","Borre style knotwork",800.00,1066.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Elm","ELM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE" 5262,"NMS-942630","Late Saxon Cast disc brooch with backward looking beast within border of 28 pellets (the most frequently recorded number of pellets on a brooch of this type). The beast has a forked, upturned tail, open jaws and a spiky mane. Ring-and-dot eye, single ring-and-dots on beastâs breast and haunches. The beast has four legs, with three toes on each, although the foot furthest to the left is indistinguishable from the spikes of the mane. On the reverse are the remains of a pin lug positioned directly behind the beastâs head. A small raised rectangular area indicates the position of the catchplate. This example is in very good condition, with well-defined decoration. Diameter 27mm. Weight 5.9g. Backward turning animal brooches are thought to date to the late Saxon period, probably from the early tenth century onwards. The type is characteristic of East Anglia but are also found in Lincolnshire. This example is the eighth in a series of mould-identical backward turning animal brooches found in Norfolk, with other examples known from Hillington (HER 20176), Forncett (HER 24658), Mundham (HER 24894), Elsing (HER 28643), Hevingham (HER 29292), Salle (HER 30429) and Thompson (HER 39736). ","personal-related","Disc brooch","backwards looking beast within pelletted border","zoomorphic",900.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,"Martham","MARTHAM","GREAT YARMOUTH","NORFOLK" 5263,"NLM-743AB7","An incomplete cast lead disc brooch. The flat brooch is decorated in Borre Style. The centre of the brooch has a raised pellet within a circle. Around the circle is lozenge made up of double band ribbon. The ends of the lozenge are elongated and have a ribbon in a Borre knot motif around them. The back of the brooch has a catchplate and the remains of a pierced lug. Over a quarter of the disc is missing and the remaining disc is slightly convex. The surviving diameter is 28.2mm and the weight is 5.26g. ","personal-related","Disc brooch","flat","Borre-style interlace",850.00,975.00,"LSx",9.00,,"NORTH ORMSBY","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE" 5264,"BERK-079210","A 10th-11th Century cloisonne enamel copper-alloy disc brooch. The brooch has seven equidistant rounded projections (lobes). On each of these lobes a collar of copper-alloy strip has been soldered. Inset into four of the collars is a sphere of transluscent glass; 2 are dark blue, 1 is pale blue and 1 is white. The spheres are missing from the other 3 lobes. On the main body of the brooch a collar (again copper-alloy strip) has been soldered and inset into this is the cloisonne enamel disc. The pattern consists of five sub-triangular green/blue glass 'petals' (set within copper-alloy cells) arranged around a central blue glass inlay, the gaps between the 'petals' are also infilled with blue glass. The glass is chipped and cracked. On the reverse of the brooch there are twin lugs for the attahment of the pin. The pin and the catchplate are missing. Traces of gilding still remaining. The brooch is very similar to one found at Saunderton, Buckinghamshire (Buckton 1986:9 fig.1) in form but the enamel design differs.","personal-related","Disc brooch","lobed, cloisonne enamel with inalid glass",,900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"St Helen Without","ST HELEN WITHOUT","VALE OF WHITE HORSE","OXFORDSHIRE" 5265,"NMS-B5A4F7","Late Saxon Disc brooch, damaged outside edge, worn deeply-cast Borre style decoration comprising concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double contoured knots, circular sunken field in centre, broken pierced lug with fragment of iron pin and broken catch-plate on reverse, diam.30mm. 10th century. Cf. West, 1998, 134.8. ","personal-related","Disc brooch","flat","Borre-style knotwork",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Martham","MARTHAM","GREAT YARMOUTH","NORFOLK" 5266,"NARC-F2BE75","A flat, circular cast copper-alloy disc brooch. The obverse has a border within which only irregularly punched dots are discernable due to corrosion. Integral, on the reverse, are fragments of the catchplate and pin lug. Around the lug are traces of iron corrosion, betraying evidence of the pin (now missing). ","personal-related","Disc brooch","corroded","punched dots",800.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown KETTERING","KETTERING","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE" 5267,"HAMP-C658B3","Copper alloy disc brooch with seven lobes, one of which is now missing, and cloisonnĂ© enamel centrepiece. The brooch comprises a base-plate of copper sheet in the shape of a circular disc with seven roughly equidistant rounded projections or lobes. There is a small copper alloy collar extending from the front of each lobe forming a central recess which would most likely have originally contained a glass setting, but none survive. Projecting from the front of base-plate is a thin collar of copper alloy. Set within the collar is a copper cloisonnĂ© enamel disc. The design on the centrepiece comprises a central triangular element with concave sides. Each tip of the triangle is slightly extended with a square terminal. There are six circular elements, one either side of each terminal and three drop-shaped elements, one in between each pair of circular elements at the end of the terminal. The central triangular section is yellow, four of the circular elements are off-white, one has no surviving enamel and one appears to be dark-blue, but may also be missing it off-white enamel, the drop-shaped elements are green, and the background is dark blue. The cellwork is of copper strip. On the reverse of the base-plate are the remains of the copper alloy hinge and catch, the pin is missing. Considerable remains of gilding survive on the reverse and upper surface of the base-plate and on the collar on the front of the base plate.","personal-related","Disc brooch","lobed, cloisonne enamel with inalid glass",,901.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Froxfield CP","FROXFIELD","EAST HAMPSHIRE","HAMPSHIRE" 5268,"NLM-A6CCD1","An incomplete cast lead medieval badge. The circular badge has a beaded border around the edge. The brooch was originally slightly convex, but one side is completely flat. After the beaded edge the badge raises up to a circular centre with openwork decoration. The decoration is similar to a wheel design made up of two concentric circular bands. Through the circles are four evenly spaced triangular plates in a cross formation. The plates meet in the centre of the badge. On each triangle are three pellets. In between each triangle is a vertical band. The bands do not meet in the centre but stop at the inner circular band. The back of the badge is plain. The badge is slightly squashed and flattened and some of the outer edge is missing. There are no signs of any attachment fittings on the badge. However, there is an exact parallel of the badge from a Saxon-Norman context in York (Bayley, J. 1992. Vol17/7, p780, Fig.340, No. 4278). The parallel has an attachment loop on one side, which may have been the case for this badge from Whitton. The diameter of the badge is 38.0mm and the weight is 12.57g. ADDITIONAL: cannot quite understand why this is a badge rather than a brooch. Reclassified as disc brooch","personal-related","disc brooch","beaded border, openwork","central openwork lattice",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",9.00,,"WHITTON","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE" 5269,"BERK-EEA1A4","Medieval circular brooch with inlaid glass and traces of silvering. ADDITIONAL: no image, and virtually no description. It appears that this is possibly an 11th c cloisonne enamel brooch although it must remain uncertain.","personal-related","Disc brooch","inlaid glass/enamel","inlaid glass/enamel",400.00,1500.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Woodstock","WOODSTOCK","WEST OXFORDSHIRE","OXFORDSHIRE" 5270,"SF-B20403","A copper-alloy Viking age disc brooch with Borre-style decoration, measuring 29.4mm in diameter this brooch is decorated with a relief pattern with a raised central lozenge with a sunken circle in the middle. The corners of the lozenge are expanded to form double stranded interlace in the form of loose knots, each double strand ending with a rounded terminal. On the reverse there is a transverse pin bar lug with the corroded iron remains of a pin and a complete catchplate. This is most likely to be a 10th century English variant of a Scandinavian brooch type, it is a fusion of interlace style ultimately derived from Scandinavia combined with the Anglo-Saxon flat disc brooch shape. Similar examples are known from elsewhere in Suffolk from Freckenham (see SF-5708), Glemsford (see SF-9203) and Hemmingstone (see SF-66D362).","personal-related","Disc brooch","flat","Borre-style (CHECK)",900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Little Wilbraham","LITTLE WILBRAHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE" 5271,"BERK-F67591","A 10th-11th Century cloisonnĂ© enamel copper-alloy disc brooch. The brooch has six equidistant rounded projections (lobes). On each of these lobes a collar of copper-alloy strip has been soldered. Inset into these collars is a sphere of translucent glass; 5 are white, 1 is green (possibly affected by copper corrosion). On the main body of the brooch a collar (again copper-alloy strip) has been soldered and inset into this is the cloisonnĂ© enamel disc. The pattern consists of 4 rectangular cells (expanding slightly towards the outside edge) arranged in the shape of an equal-armed cross, inlaid with dark blue glass. In between each of the arms of the cross is a triangular cell. Two opposing triangular cells are inlaid with turquoise glass and the other two are inlaid with white glass (on one of the white sections the glass is cracked and a large section is missing). In the centre of the pattern is a diamond-shaped cell inlaid with ?yellow glass. The cell work is copper alloy and may originally have been gilded, but there is no trace of the gilding now. Large areas of gilding are still present; even on the twin lugs either side of the spring and the catchplate. On the reverse of the brooch the iron pin is still present, corroded flat against the back of the brooch. The brooch is very similar to one found at Feltwell, Norfolk (Buckton 1986:9 fig.1 no. 6) in form but the enamel design slightly differs. Diameter: 21.19mm including the lobes: 27.94mm; thickness: 8.99mm; weight: 7.25g.A 10th-11th Century cloisonnĂ© enamel copper-alloy disc brooch. The brooch has six equidistant rounded projections (lobes). On each of these lobes a collar of copper-alloy strip has been soldered. Inset into these collars is a sphere of translucent glass; 5 are white, 1 is green (possibly affected by copper corrosion). On the main body of the brooch a collar (again copper-alloy strip) has been soldered and inset into this is the cloisonnĂ© enamel disc. The pattern consists of 4 rectangular cells (expanding slightly towards the outside edge) arranged in the shape of an equal-armed cross, inlaid with dark blue glass. In between each of the arms of the cross is a triangular cell. Two opposing triangular cells are inlaid with turquoise glass and the other two are inlaid with white glass (on one of the white sections the glass is cracked and a large section is missing). In the centre of the pattern is a diamond-shaped cell inlaid with ?yellow glass. The cell work is copper alloy and may originally have been gilded, but there is no trace of the gilding now. Large areas of gilding are still present; even on the twin lugs either side of the spring and the catchplate. On the reverse of the brooch the iron pin is still present, corroded flat against the back of the brooch. The brooch is very similar to one found at Feltwell, Norfolk (Buckton 1986:9 fig.1 no. 6) in form but the enamel design slightly differs. Diameter: 21.19mm including the lobes: 27.94mm; thickness: 8.99mm; weight: 7.25g.","personal-related","Disc brooch","lobed, glass filled cells, cloisonne enamalled","cloisonne enamel type",900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Ellesborough","ELLESBOROUGH",,"BUCKINGHAMSHIRE" 5272,"KENT-8CAE86","Small, subcircular openwork brooch. The edge is defined by a series of indents. In the approximate centre there is set a small black gemstone (or glass bead?) which has a central hole. Above and below this central setting there is a semi-circle of three round holes. The catchplate and hinge on the reverse are set on opposing edges at right angles to the diameter. The hinge retains traces of iron. This brooch, which is possibly of Continental origin, probably dates to the Middle or Late Anglo-Saxon period. ","personal-related","Disc Brooch (Continental)","openwork with raised centre for setting","openwork",720.00,1066.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"unknown KENT",,"KENT" 5273,"NLM-A57114","A late Anglo-Saxon fragment possibly of a silver-gilt disc brooch. The fragment can be read as part of an animal with only the front leg, shoulder and curve at the junction of the neck and back remaining. A strand of interlace can be seen running behind the possible raised front leg which ends against a simple frame. The animal is rendered freely in a style reminiscent of the chip carving of the early Anglo Saxon period. All edges apart from the one delineating the lower part of the neck and back are torn. The width of the fragment is 15mm.
Although the fragment is too small to ascribe to any particular object, it may have once been part of a late Anglo-Saxon silver-gilt openwork disc or disc brooch. In style it can be compared to a late 8th century disc from Mavourne Farm, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire. This fine disc is divided into four fields, two of which are filled with intertwined chip-carved animal pairs (Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse, Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900 (London, 1991), cat. no. 185.).
Description from Curators report written by Angela Care Evans, Curator, Department of Prehistory and Europe ","personal-related","Disc brooch?","very fragmentary","chip-carved zoomorphic and interlace",750.00,1066.00,"M/LSx",22.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE" 5274,"KENT-D650E6","Part of a copper alloy disc or nummular brooch. The front of the brooch is rather worn, but a central circular zone of silver plating is visible, with an unsilvered border around the edge. Part of the catchplate is extant on the reverse.","personal-related","Disc/nummular brooch","Disc or nummular","silvered, unclear (corrosion)",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,,"COBHAM","GRAVESHAM","KENT" 5275,"LON-F2F201","Two cast copper alloy 'domed' oval brooches (tortoise) brooches dating to the Early Medieval (Viking) period, early 10th century (Circa 900 - 925 AD). These are double shelled oval brooches. They have highly stylised zoomorphic design on them, and are identical in style, type P51 (Jansson). They are gilded with silver and gold coloured metal (possibly gold and tin). The underneath is hollow, in one the corroded produce of the pin survives. Both have the remains of mineraised textiles, and worm casts (Erica Patterson YAT). The front shows damage to the raised bosses, and the possible shell raised boss decoration which would have been present at four distinct points on the front of both the brooches is missing, this is possibly due to the soil conditions. ADDITIONAL: divided into separate records, a and b","personal-related","Domed oval brooch","'tortoise'","Borre-style",900.00,925.00,"LSx",7.00,"Cumwhitton","CUMWHITTON",,"CUMBRIA" 5276,"SOMDOR-045444","A fragment of sheet copper alloy with an incomplete circular attachment hole. The object appears to have been lozenge shaped with the hole at one of the points. It is decorated on one face with incised curving lines. The back is flat and undecorated. It is possible that this is part of a Medieval belt mount or an Early Medieval dress hook. If it was the latter, the incised lines may have held niello inlay.","personal-related","Dress hook/mount?","unclear id.","incised linear",700.00,1500.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"WINTERBORNE KINGSTON",,"DORSET" 5277,"NMS-DFA445","Mid Saxon/Late Saxon Hooked tag, circular plate with two attachment holes. Diameter 10.5mm, length 18mm. Grey alloy. 8th – 11th century. ","personal-related","Hooked tag","Class C3b","undecorated",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"East Walton","EAST WALTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK" 5278,"SF-A05E01","The worn and corroded copper-alloy triangular shaped plate of an Anglo-Saxon hooked tag. The hook is missing due to an old break and the plate measures 20mm in length and 9mm in width. There is a worn circular sewing hole through the centre of the upper edge of the plate. Both faces have traces of gilding vsisible on them, although more can be seen on one face than the other. This hooked tag is could be 600-1100 in date and similar to an example from Westley, Suffolk see SF-7311F3.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C","gilded",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Isleham","ISLEHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE" 5279,"NMS-2ED325","Mid-Late Saxon Hooked tag, pear-shaped with twin perforations at damaged broad end and short hook springing from stepped narrowed end, 12 x 19mm. ","personal-related","hooked tag","Class Db","undecorated",800.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Cawston","CAWSTON","BROADLAND","NORFOLK" 5280,"KENT-0144D4","Silver hooked tag. ADDITIONAL: no image, and that's the only description.","personal-related","HOOKED TAG","Class X","unknown decoration",750.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",22.00,"NORTHBOURNE","NORTHBOURNE","DOVER","KENT" 5281,"NMS-2EC1A5","Mid-Late Saxon Hooked tag, pear-shaped with twin perforations at broad end (one broken), worn traces of a stamped or engraved cross within border, hook missing, 12 x (at least) 15mm. ","personal-related","hooked tag","Class D1iib","cruciform decoration (incised)",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Cawston","CAWSTON","BROADLAND","NORFOLK" 5282,"LEIC-82D676","A circular tag with two rounded protrusions on the upper edge each with a rivet/stitching hole. The lower edge has a slender and short hook bending towards the reverse of the object. The obverse face is subdivided into three sub triangluar panels of incised decoration. The reverse face is plain.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A2ia","incised decoration, ?floriate",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Near the church","STANFORD ON SOAR","RUSHCLIFFE","NOTTINGHAMSHIRE" 5283,"NMS-0806B6","Mid Saxon/Late Saxon Hooked tag of sheet, triangular, one top corner and point of hook missing, two attachment holes. Faintly engraved lines follow the sides and the top edge. A further line runs below the holes, and another traverses the centre. Width across top c.14mm, length (excluding shank of hook) 15mm. 8th – 11th century. ","personal-related","Hooked tag","Class C2ib","punched linear decoration",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"East Walton","EAST WALTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK" 5284,"NMS-082C02","Mid Saxon/Late Saxon Hooked tag of sheet, circular, point of hook missing. Two attachment holes, four ring-and-dots, central perforation within larger ring. Diameter 11mm. 8th – 11th century. ","personal-related","Hooked tag","Class A1b","ring-and-dot",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"East Walton","EAST WALTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK" 5285,"NMS-8F0722","Mid - Late Saxon hooked tag. Circular, flat-sectioned, with two projecting perforated lugs for attachment at upper edge (one broken), and shouldered hook at foot, 18 x 30mm. 8th-11th century.","personal-related","Hooked tag","Class A3a","undecorated",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Cantley","CANTLEY","BROADLAND","NORFOLK" 5286,"NMS-E059B1","Mid Saxon-Late Saxon Hooked tag, circular with rounded pierced lobes at top (one missing). The point of the hook is missing. Width across the top, diameter and length (excluding shank of hook) 18mm. 8th – 11th century. ","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A3a","undecorated",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"East Walton","EAST WALTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK" 5287,"NARC-82E223","A circular cast copper-alloy object with a hooked projection. Possibly a hooked tag of probable early-medieval date. The plate is convex and is bordered by a circumference with incised decoration on the obverse. Within the raised boss is an anthropomorphic face with clearly discernible features including straight hair. The hook protruding from the object is directly aligned with this face. There are two drilled holes on the hollow hemisphere on its face, opposite the hook. The obverse has retained around half of its original gilding, while the reverse is undecorated, not gilded and quite corroded. Given that the attachment holes are set within the plate and given the style of the decoration, it is probable that this artefact is Anglo-Saxon although the raised profile is unusual. ADDITIONAL: I'm not totally convinced this is anthropomorphic rather than zoomorphic (lion?- mane of hair?) but kept here.","personal-related","Hooked tag","Class A7b","anthropomorphic?",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"POTTERSPURY","SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE" 5288,"DENO-46B4E3","Sheet copper alloy hooked tag, probably Early Medieval, c.8th or 9th century. Simple triangular sheet tag, with a hook formed by re-curving the apex. There is a single attachment hole at the opposite end to the hook. The obverse is decorated with four punched ring and dot motifs running longitudinally down the tag. The hook is slightly thicker metal (c.1.3mm) than the rest of the tag (c.0.8mm). This is unusual in having just one attachment hole, rather than two. Length 21.78mm, width 9.40mm, thickness (including hook) 4.70mm, thickness (not including hook) c.0.8mm, weight 0.80g.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class B1b","ring-and-dot",700.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Kirkby in Ashfield","KIRKBY IN ASHFIELD",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE" 5289,"LIN-A6B647","Incomplete copper alloy hooked tag. The object has a very worn oval body with two rivet holes at one end. The hook is complete. ADDITIONAL: dates narrowed, images not downloadable but plate best described as shield-shaped","personal-related","hooked tag","Class Db","corroded, unknown decoration",800.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"WELLINGORE","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE" 5290,"ESS-2C8575","Complete silver Anglo-Saxon hooked tag. The tag has a flat, circular plate from which extends the complete integral hook, which tapers and curves back to the rear of the object. The circular plate is decorated with a raised motif of eight solid, sub oval segments radiating from a central, raised, solid circle, surrounded by a narrow border at the edge of the plate. This gives the pattern a flower-like appearance. Surrounding the raised motif, and filling the recessed background are the remains of what is presumed to be black niello, now dull and abraded. The reverse of the circular plate is plain. The plate has two circular perforations for attachment, which appear carefully positioned so that each one passes neatly through a single segment to the top of the plate. The plate has a diameter of 10.84mm and is 0.94mm thick. The tag has an overall length of 18.98mm, of which 9.2mm is the hook (not including the backward curve). The object weighs 0.67g.
A similar hooked tag was reported as Treasure in 2003 and recorded as record PAS-E87CB3. For this record Susan Youngs of the British Museum commented that “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 border of the great `Fuller Brooch’ where three other versions of the pattern are also employed (L Webster and J Backhouse, The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art (London, 1994), no.11). Such hooks could be used for leggings, veils and purse fastenings and are not uncommon finds, with two main types having either circular or triangular plates. It is noteworthy that this piece is linked by style and quality of execution to a major piece of the period”. The vegetable pattern on the object recorded here is different in that the segments are not hollow, but it would be fair to similarly compare it with the ‘Fuller brooch’ as an example of the general motif.
","personal-related","Hooked tag","Class A6b","floriate decocation (flower)",800.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",22.00,"Black Notley","BLACK NOTLEY","BRAINTREE","ESSEX" 5291,"SOMDOR-A471F3","Probable copper alloy hooked tag. A broken, circular (or almost complete circular), now pelta-shaped disc with the remnants of two attachment holes at one edge. Between the holes, the object is broken, but it possibly had a hook attached at that point. Both faces are decorated with chased lines of loops. ADDITIONAL: no image","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A2b","'chased lines of loops' ??",800.00,1400.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"DONYATT",,"SOMERSET" 5292,"ESS-B2ABB3","Complete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon hooked tag. The tag has a flat, subcircular plate from which extends the complete integral hook, which tapers and curves back to the rear of the object. The circular plate is decorated with an incised motif of eight hollow sub oval segments radiating from a central, incised hollow circle. This gives the pattern a flower-like appearance. It is surrounded by a border of a single incised line at the edge of the plate. The incised lines may once have held black niello, but are now filled with soil. There are faint traces of silvering to the front face. The rear of the object is plain and the silvering is much more even and noticeable. The plate has two circular perforations for attachment at the top of the plate. The object is 26.56mm long, of which 8.8mm is the hook (not including the backward curve). It is 0.92mm thick and weighs 1.40g.An Early Medieval hooked tag, though in silver, was reported as Treasure in 2003 and recorded as record PAS-E87CB3. For this record Susan Youngs of the British Museum commented that âThe 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 border of the great `Fuller Broochâ where three other versions of the pattern are also employed (L Webster and J Backhouse, The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art (London, 1994), no.11). Such hooks could be used for leggings, veils and purse fastenings and are not uncommon finds, with two main types having either circular or triangular plates. It is noteworthy that this piece is linked by style and quality of execution to a major piece of the periodâ.
Another Treasure case of a hooked tag with a similar decoration is recorded under record ESS-2C8575.The vegetable pattern on the object recorded here, though clearly of a cruder quality and in copper alloy, clearly follows the same tradition. Following those examples, this hooked tag probably dates from the late 9th century.
","personal-related","Hooked tag","Class B5b","niello, floriate decoration (flower)",850.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Roydon","ROYDON","EPPING FOREST","ESSEX" 5293,"CAM-0DC387","An Anglo Saxon copper alloy Dress hook or â hook ( Tag ) â fastener â, 8th â 9th century in date. In the form of a circular plate with two perforated attachment holes near the outer edge .The hook is slightly elongated and slightly tapered towards the end, with an over turned hook having part of the tip missing. Having no decoration on either the face or the reverse. ADDITIONAL: no image","personal-related","Hooked Tag","Class A3b","undecorated",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"LITTLE WILBRAHAM","SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE","CAMBRIDGESHIRE" 5294,"LIN-EBA7A6","Incomplete copper alloy hooked tag or dress hook. The object has a flat triangular body with a broken hook at the apex. There are two circular rivet holes in the corners at the attachment end. The face of the body is decorated around its perimeter, around the two rivet holes, and also across the centre of the object with a double row of puched dots","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C2ib","incised linear (faint)",700.00,1066.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"LENTON KEISBY AND OSGODBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE" 5295,"NMS-E4FF47","Mid / Late Saxon hooked tag, circular plate (diameter 16.5mm) with two pierced lobes for attachment at top, end of hook missing. Front of the plate is decorated with Y-shaped arrangement of deeply engraved grooves with billets in counter relief, and around the edge, except where interrupted by the lobes, a groove running within a border of billets. Both line and billets continue down the sides of the hook for a short distance before terminating in two transverse lines. Height >25mm. 8th – 11th century ","personal-related","Hooked tag","Class A2ia","incised",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Ryston","RYSTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK" 5296,"LIN-F72B77","Incomplete copper alloy hooked tag. The tag is flat, triangular in plan and is missing its hook. There is a broken oval opening at the attachment end. The perimeter of the object is decorated with a row of punched dots. ADDITIONAL: no image.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C2a","punched dots",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"GRAYINGHAM","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE" 5297,"SF-C9FE87","The incomplete copper-alloy head of an early medieval hooked tag. Roughly three quarters of the head of this tag now survives the rest of the head and the hook is missing due to old breaks now worn. The head is circular in shape and measures c12mm in diameter. It has two parallel circular sewing holes near to its upper edge. One face has traces of possibly small circular knops but the original surface of this tag is so worn that it is impossible to tell what kind of decoration is depicted or whether the marks are not due to corrosion instead. This hooked tag is likely to date from 600-1100 and is similar to other Suffolk examples from Freckenham. ADDITIONAL: very worn decoration, although I think it could probably be decribed a pelleted","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A8b","pelleted",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Isleham","ISLEHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE" 5298,"GLO-1E1BF7","Dress hook, length 31mm, width 14mm, thickness 1mm. Triangular tag recessed line running down the centre and a recessed border running around the outside these would have been chip carved. There are two attachment holes at the top, the bottom narrows to a hook, most of which is missing. This artefact dates to 800-1000. ","personal-related","hooked tag","Class C2b","linear",800.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Thornbury","THORNBURY","SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE","AVON" 5299,"NLM-363911","An incomplete copper-alloy sheet Anglo-Saxon hooked tag. The tear-drop shaped plate has an integral but incomplete hook at the tapered end. The plate has two large incomplete attachment holes and is decorated with five incised ring-and-dots in a circular formation. The back of the plate is plain. The surviving length is 23.1mm, the width is 15.3mm and the weight is 0.86g. ","personal-related","Hooked Tag","Class B1b","ring-and-dot decoration",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"BARTON UPON HUMBER","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE" 5300,"LEIC-37A9F4","Late Saxon copper alloy hooked tag, which is snapped along the stiching holes. It measures 16mm long, 19mm wide and 1mm thick.ADDITIONAL: reclassified as 'hooked tag'.","personal-related","Hooked tag","Class A3b","undecorated",700.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"BARKBY THORPE","BLABY","LEICESTERSHIRE" 5301,"SF-5DCC91","A complete Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy hooked tag, 600-1100 in date, measuring 19mm in total length. The plate is circular in shape and measures 12mm in diameter. It has two parallel circular sewing holes near to its top edge and one central one. The front face is also decorated with a circular border and five evenly spaced circular ring and dot motifs, two of which are pierced to form sewing holes. There are traces of a border groove and central circular groove around the central sewing hole on the back face too. There is a slight moulding with another central ring and dot motif where the plate joins the shaft. The hook is complete and tapers to a sharp point. ADDITIONAL: no image","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A1b","ring-and-dot",600.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Ixworth","IXWORTH",,"SUFFOLK" 5302,"NLM-99F413","A sheet copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon hooked tag. The hooked tag has a triangular plate with a protruding hook at the tapered end. The plate has two attachment holes, one of which is incomplete. The plate is decorated with two lines of punched dots, which go around the edge of the plate, around the attachment holes and a single line vertically across the centre of the plate. The length of the hooked tag is 21.54mm, the width is 11.43mm, the diameter of the attachment holes is 2.1mm and the weight is 0.55g. ","personal-related","Hooked Tag","Class C2ib","punched decoration",800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Haxey","HAXEY","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE" 5303,"NMS-F32086","Mid Saxon/ Late Saxon Hooked tag of sheet, circular, point of hook missing. Two attachment holes, four ring-and-dots, central perforation within larger ring. Diameter 11mm. 8th – 11th century. ","personal-related","hooked tag","Class A1b","ring-and-dot",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"East Walton","EAST WALTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK" 5304,"DENO-A22677","Sub-square copper alloy strip, with short hook projecting from one edge and two roughly pierced circular holes close to the opposite edge. There is one transverse line running across the top of the underside of the hook. The end of the hook may be broken off - if not, it is short, and is unlikely to have been able to function as a hook. The two piercings appeared to have been drilled very crudely from the reverse (the side the hook bends towards). Could this be a very crude Early Medieval hooked tag? Length 18.56mm, width 15.46mm, thickness (not including hook) 2.16mm, weight 2.34g. ADDITIONAL: very nasty.","personal-related","hooked tag","Class E2","undecorated",700.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"SCARRINGTON","NEWARK AND SHERWOOD","NOTTINGHAMSHIRE" 5305,"SF-7311F3","A copper-alloy incomplete probable Anglo-Saxon hooked tag. The triangular plate and fragment of the hook shaft now survive the rest of the hook is missing due to an old break. The triangular plate measures 14mm in length and 12mm in width, it has an off centre copper-alloy rivet though one side of its wider end. Traces of gilding can be seen around this rivet. The small shaft fragment measures 3mm in length and c3mm in width, it is tapering slightly.The mass of the weight is 137.7g. It is thought that the Vikings used a system based on multiples of a unit of 12.5g so this weight would be approximately 11 units. It measures 33.77mm in diameter and 20.2mm in thickness. A number of similar examples can be seen in Nigel Mills âSaxon and Viking Artefactsâ page 85, Fig. V238 & V239.
",,"Weight","lead, cylindrical, decorated copper-alloy mount placed in top","decorative insert, interlace? Decoration",850.00,950.00,"LSx",25.00,,"SELBY","SELBY","NORTH YORKSHIRE"
5447,"DENO-C08AA8","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight possibly with one dot on one of the square surfaces, but no dots or other decoration on any of the other faces. 9th-10th century. Slightly corroded. Length 5.38mm, width 4.98mm, thickness 4.90mm, weight 0.75g. (measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dot (single), corroded",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5448,"DENO-92F202","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with six dots on each of the six larger square faces and three dots on the triangular smaller faces. Beaded line around each of the square faces. Very good condition. 9th-10th century. Length 8.42mm, width 8.40mm, thickness 8.68mm, weight 3.70g (length, width, thickness measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged), beaded border",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5449,"DENO-9338F5","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with six dots, randomly arranged, on four of the six larger square faces and undecorated triangular smaller faces and the remaining two square faces. Unusually, this is irregularly shaped. Good condition. 9th-10th century. Length 10.12mm, width 8.58mm, thickness 9.26mm, weight 4.58g (length, width, thickness measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (randomly arranged)",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5450,"DENO-934697","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with six dots on each of the six larger square faces and three dots on the triangular smaller faces. Beaded line around each of the square faces. Limited corrosion. 9th-10th century. Length 8.94mm, width 8.62mm, thickness 8.08mm, weight 3.80g (length, width, thickness measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged), beaded border",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5451,"DENO-C065B4","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with three dots on each of the six larger square faces and undecorated smaller triangular faces. Plain border around each of the square faces. 9th-10th century. Slightly corroded. Length 7.00mm, width 7.04mm, thickness 6.80mm, weight 1.66g (measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged), no border",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5452,"DENO-993987","Flat sectioned sub-rectangular lead weight with domed top perforated for suspension. Each face is decorated with a single impressed V-shape. Probably early medieval or medieval. Length 39.56mm, width 28.26mm, thickness 9.48mm (max), weight 55.47g. ADDITIONAL: not too sure of the dating.",,"weight","lead, subrectangular,","rectangular, incised V-shape",410.00,1500.00,"ASx only",25.00,,"THRUMPTON","BASSETLAW","NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
5453,"NLM-A824D0","A complete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon weight. The circular weight has a border of eleven incised dots on one face. The other face is plain. The diameter is 12.0mm, the thickness is 4.4mm and the weight is 3.66g.
",,"Weight","copper-alloy, circular","circular, punched dots (precisely arranged)",400.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"HIBALDSTOW","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
5454,"DENO-64EDB4","Lead alloy conical object, probably a weight. Solid cast with sub-circular base and rounded top. There is a wide shallow depression in roughly the centre of the base. Probably Early Medieval. Length 16.84mm, width (at base) 16.82mm, thickness (at base) 13.38mm, weight 15.28g.","trade-related","weight","lead, conical","conical, undecorated",800.00,900.00,"LSx",25.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5455,"DENO-C09D37","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight apparently with no dots or other decoration on any of the faces. There are six large octagonal faces and eight very small triangular faces, i.e. the corners just appear to have been flattened. 9th-10th century. Good condition. Length mm, width mm, thickness mm, weight 1.98g (measurements taken across octagonal faces). ADDITIONAL:useful to note that it is different to the other weights from Torksey with the small triangular faces much smaller than on the other examples.","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","undecorated",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5456,"SF-042327","A complete unusual late early-medieval barrel-shaped weight. Measuring 22mm diameter and 17.4mm in height with a weight of 39.21g. This weight is made of iron with a copper-alloy casing, patches of corroded iron can now be seen through this casing. Both of the flat ends of the weight have traces of stamped decoration on them consisting of a border of small circles, within which there is a motif which is now unclear but may be a swastika with pellet terminals.
A very similar weight is illustrated in Biggs (1993, 14). He states that at some time in the 11th century a light ounce of c24g, derived from the Viking weight known as ora, was used for weighing gold. Weights related to this standard are, as this example, barrel-shaped, and made or iron with a copper-alloy casting. Two other examples are known from Laxfield (see SF-334CE5), and Little Wilbraham (see SF-B137C2). ",,"weight","copper-alloy/iron, flattened spherical (barrel)","barrel, undecorated",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Lackford","LACKFORD",,"SUFFOLK"
5457,"DENO-942613","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with four dots on each of the six larger square faces and undecorated smaller triangular faces. Plain border around each of the square faces. Good condition. 9th-10th century. Length 7.32mm, width 6.98mm, thickness 7.16mm, weight 2.06g (measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged)",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5458,"DENO-944EA3","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with two dots on each of the six larger square faces and undecorated smaller triangular faces. Plain border around each of the square faces. Reasonable condition. 9th-10th century. Length 6.16mm, width 6.20mm, thickness 6.24mm, weight 1.29g (measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged), plain linear borders",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5459,"DENO-941C56","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with four dots on each of the six larger square faces and undecorated smaller triangular faces. Beaded border around all the surfaces. Reasonable condition. 9th-10th century. Length 7.84mm, width 7.78mm, thickness 7.39mm, weight 2.60g (measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged), beaded border",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5460,"DENO-9442F8","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with two dots on each of the six larger square faces and undecorated smaller triangular faces. Beaded border around each of the square faces. Good condition. 9th-10th century. Length 6.42mm, width 6.00mm, thickness 5.99mm, weight 1.44g.(measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged), beaded border",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5461,"DENO-C075A3","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with two dots on each of the six larger square faces and undecorated smaller triangular faces. Beaded border around each of the square faces. Slightly corroded. 9th-10th century. Length 6.37mm, width 6.33mm, thickness 6.12mm, weight 1.32g. (measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged), beaded border",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5462,"DENO-943A82","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with three dots on each of the six larger square faces and undecorated smaller triangular faces. Beaded border around each of the square faces. Reasonable condition. 9th-10th century. Length 6.54 mm, width 6.55mm, thickness 6.51mm, weight 1.67g.(measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged), beaded border",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5463,"NMS-43B116","Late Saxon copper alloy (with high lead content) weight, cylindrical (very slightly conical, dia.15mm, 13mm thick) with three irregular depressions (?sub-triangular stamps) in surface of raised triangle on upper surface, within angular tooling marks. Slightly angled base with marks where cut or chopped and filed, horizontal cuts in sides (one just above base) with other traces of tooling including flattened vertical area. Weight 19.58g, 0.69oz.
The weight of this example, 19.58g, is close to19.95g (a weight loss of less than 2%), this is Ÿ of the ‘significant’ weight of 26.6g identified from 200 examples from Dublin (Mainman and Rogers 2000, Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York, 2563)",,"Weight","copper-alloy with lead, cylindrical","cylindrical, raised triangle on top",800.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Keswick","KESWICK","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5464,"SF-B137C2","A complete unusual late early-medieval barrel-shaped weight. Measuring 21.3mm diameter and 16mm in height with a weight of 32.39g. This weight is made of iron with a copper-alloy casing, patches of corroded iron can now be seen through this casing at one end. One of the flat ends of the weight has stamped decoration on it consisting of a border of small circles, within which there is a swastika motif with pellet terminals. The other flat terminal is obscured by corroded iron but traces of the border and central motif can be seen.
A very similar weight is illustrated in Biggs (1993, 14). He states that at some time in the 11th century a light ounce of c24g, derived from the Viking weight known as ora, was used for weighing gold. Weights related to this standard are, as this example, barrel-shaped, and made or iron with a copper-alloy casting. One other example is known from Laxfield, Suffolk (see SF-334CE5). ",,"weight","copper-alloy/iron, flattened spherical (barrel)","barrel, stamped swastika within pelleted border",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",8.00,"Little Wilbraham","LITTLE WILBRAHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
5465,"DENO-943053","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with three dots on each of the six larger square faces and undecorated smaller triangular faces. Beaded border around each of the square faces. Good condition. 9th-10th century. Length 7.06mm, width 7.18mm, thickness 7.04mm, weight 2.13g.(measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged), beaded border",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5466,"NMS-493027","Late Saxon Polyhedral weight of Scandinavian form, slightly pitted and corroded cube with the corners cut-off (fourteen-sided), each of six large faces has six stamped annulets within border of tiny stamped rectangles, 9 x 9mm, weighing 3.92g. At least four examples of similar polyhedral weights found near Sheffield have dots, each dot appearing to reflect a unit of around 0.68g. Using this formula the weight described here should weigh 4.08g and therefore is 0.16g (or 4%) underweight (Kruse in Med. Arch. 1992, 80-1). ADDITIONAL: metal type is not discussed here, but should be copper-alloy for this type of weight.",,"weight","copper-alloy?, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged) within annulets",850.00,1000.00,"LSx",0.00,"Heckingham","HECKINGHAM","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5467,"DENO-9458A3","Fourteen sided (polyhedral) weight with two dots on each of the six larger square faces and one dot on each of the smaller triangular faces. Beaded border around each of the square faces. Good condition. 9th-10th century. Length 6.82mm, width 6.70mm, thickness 6.05mm, weight 1.50g (measurements taken across square faces).","trade-related","weight","copper-alloy, polyhedral (14 sides)","punched dots (precisely arranged), beaded border",850.00,950.00,"LSx",7.00,"Torksey","TORKSEY",,"LINCOLNSHIRE"
5468,"NLM-D3E3E4","Complete Anglo-Scandinavian schist hone. The dark grey coloured hone is sub-rectangular in plan, though the one end is quite rounded. In cross section the hone is sub-triangular and becomes flatter near the rounded end. The thicker end has a circular perforation. The surface of the hone is uneven with scratches and flaking edges. The length is 41.8mm, the width is 9.5mm, the maximum thickness is 7.0mm and the weight is 4.27g. ",,"Whetstone","schist","undecorated",900.00,1066.00,"LSx",2.00,,"BOTTESFORD","NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
5469,"KENT2296a","No description given.
Helen Geake writes: The reference attached to this record is enigmatic. Page 75 of Williams 1997 gives text descriptions of his Class A, type 13, nos. 338-347, and Class A, type 14, nos. 348-352. There is no page 399 or 443. Stirrup-strap mount no. 399 is, however, a Class B type 1, illustrated on p. 86 and described on p. 87. No. 443 is a Class B type 3, illustrated on p. 93 and described on p. 94. ADDITIONAL: given info there must be 3 objects in this record. These divided up into new records, a-c, original record kept for completeness. Ref to 'page' 75- if the other refs are to object numbers, this would make no. 75 a Class A3.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","unknown","unknown",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BARHAM","CANTERBURY","KENT"
5470,"KENT2296b","No description given.
Helen Geake writes: The reference attached to this record is enigmatic. Page 75 of Williams 1997 gives text descriptions of his Class A, type 13, nos. 338-347, and Class A, type 14, nos. 348-352. There is no page 399 or 443. Stirrup-strap mount no. 399 is, however, a Class B type 1, illustrated on p. 86 and described on p. 87. No. 443 is a Class B type 3, illustrated on p. 93 and described on p. 94. ADDITIONAL: quantity given as 3 objects. These divided up into new records, a-c, original record kept for completeness.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B1, group 1","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BARHAM","CANTERBURY","KENT"
5471,"KENT2296c","No description given.
Helen Geake writes: The reference attached to this record is enigmatic. Page 75 of Williams 1997 gives text descriptions of his Class A, type 13, nos. 338-347, and Class A, type 14, nos. 348-352. There is no page 399 or 443. Stirrup-strap mount no. 399 is, however, a Class B type 1, illustrated on p. 86 and described on p. 87. No. 443 is a Class B type 3, illustrated on p. 93 and described on p. 94. ADDITIONAL: given info there must be 3 objects in this record. These divided up into new records, a-c, original record kept for completeness.","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B1, type 3","zoomorphic, openwork",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BARHAM","CANTERBURY","KENT"
5472,"NLM7238a","Two bulbous bi-conical headed pins circular section, circular pin much of which is missing. ADDITIONAL: no image, but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type C. Date range changed from 700-800 to 700-900. Two pins separated into a and b.","personal-related","PIN","Hinton Type C","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"LACEBY","LACEBY","NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE","NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE"
5473,"NLM7238b","Two bulbous bi-conical headed pins circular section, circular pin much of which is missing. ADDITIONAL: no image, but probably belongs to Hinton 1996 type C. Date range changed from 700-800 to 700-900. Two pins separated into a and b.","personal-related","pin","Hinton Type C","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"LACEBY","LACEBY","NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE","NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE"
5474,"NMS1744a","MS Ae ansate brooch, facetted bow with transverse rib above and below and at both facetted ends, twin lugs and catch-plate with fragments of iron pin in both, 8 x 36mm. ADDITIONAL: no image, one of two finds divided into new records, a and b","personal-related","ansate brooch","facetted","undecorated",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"WEST RUDHAM","WEST RUDHAM","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5475,"NMS1744b","MS Ae ansate brooch, series of short vertical lines on slightly broader head, twin lugs with fragment of iron pin and broken catch-plate on reverse, 6 x 34mm. ADDITIONAL: two finds divided into new records, a and b","personal-related","ansate brooch","unknown terminal shape","linear decoration",700.00,900.00,"MSx",7.00,"WEST RUDHAM","WEST RUDHAM","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5476,"KENT604a","?bridle fitting fragments, 2 diamond shaped openwork objects, one plain with extension at one of the points, the other with a similar projection but with an incised line running around the centre of the frame ADDITIONAL: no image(s) and it is difficult to know if these are two separate finds or if they form a single artefact, although it would seem likely. Divided into KENT604a and b.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","uncertain","diamond-shaped, linear, incised",900.00,1400.00,"LSx",7.00,"KENT WINGHAM","WINGHAM","DOVER","KENT"
5477,"KENT604b","?bridle fitting fragments, 2 diamond shaped openwork objects, one plain with extension at one of the points, the other with a similar projection but with an incised line running around the centre of the frame ADDITIONAL: no image(s) and it is difficult to know if these are two separate finds or if they form a single artefact, although it would seem likely. Divided into KENT604a and b.","horse-related","Bridle/harness fitting","uncertain","diamond-shaped, linear, incised",900.00,1400.00,"LSx",7.00,"KENT WINGHAM","WINGHAM","DOVER","KENT"
5478,"NMS1692a","LS 2 Ae incomplete stirrup mounts (probably from same harness), the better surviving example has heavily cast animal head with snub-nosed terminal, prominent bulging brow, eyes and ears, lobe-ended tendrils and flaring nostrils and is open-backed with ledge at base, the upper edge is broken. The smaller fragment comprises only the brow and ears. Cf. Williams fig.2b 2nd half of 11th century. ADDITIONAL: date range changed from 850-1066 to 1000-1100. It is assumed here that the two mounts are of the same type. Divided into two separate records","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B","unknown",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"HECKINGHAM","HECKINGHAM","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5479,"NMS1692b","LS 2 Ae incomplete stirrup mounts (probably from same harness), the better surviving example has heavily cast animal head with snub-nosed terminal, prominent bulging brow, eyes and ears, lobe-ended tendrils and flaring nostrils and is open-backed with ledge at base, the upper edge is broken. The smaller fragment comprises only the brow and ears. Cf. Williams fig.2b 2nd half of 11th century. ADDITIONAL: date range changed from 850-1066 to 1000-1100. It is assumed here that the two mounts are of the same type. Divided into two separate records","horse-related","stirrup-strap mount","Williams Class B","unknown",1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"HECKINGHAM","HECKINGHAM","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5480,"NMS796a","One LS silver ingot (1) and one short fragment of silver ingot(2): 1) Silver ingot, rounded at one end, oval section (max.thickness 5mm) with groups of transverse striations (tooling marks) on sides and hammered slope to where bent and cut at other end, length 28x10mm, weight 8.07g. 2) Short fragment of silver ingot, rounded at one end with two irregular indentations resulting from casting, fine nicks and scratches on surface, other end almost straight where hacked through, sub-triangular sectioned (17x9mm), slightly curving base, sloping sides and flattened (?hammered) upper median ridge, length 14mm, weight 12.80g. ADDITIONAL: divided into two records for analysis, NMS796a and b",,"ingot",,,850.00,1066.00,"LSx",22.00,"HINDRINGHAM","HINDRINGHAM","NORTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5481,"NMS796b","One LS silver ingot (1) and one short fragment of silver ingot(2): 1) Silver ingot, rounded at one end, oval section (max.thickness 5mm) with groups of transverse striations (tooling marks) on sides and hammered slope to where bent and cut at other end, length 28x10mm, weight 8.07g. 2) Short fragment of silver ingot, rounded at one end with two irregular indentations resulting from casting, fine nicks and scratches on surface, other end almost straight where hacked through, sub-triangular sectioned (17x9mm), slightly curving base, sloping sides and flattened (?hammered) upper median ridge, length 14mm, weight 12.80g. ADDITIONAL: divided into two records for analysis, NMS796a and b",,"ingot",,,850.00,1066.00,"LSx",22.00,"HINDRINGHAM","HINDRINGHAM","NORTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5482,"LON-F2F201a","Two cast copper alloy 'domed' oval brooches (tortoise) brooches dating to the Early Medieval (Viking) period, early 10th century (Circa 900 - 925 AD). These are double shelled oval brooches. They have highly stylised zoomorphic design on them, and are identical in style, type P51 (Jansson). They are gilded with silver and gold coloured metal (possibly gold and tin). The underneath is hollow, in one the corroded produce of the pin survives. Both have the remains of mineraised textiles, and worm casts (Erica Patterson YAT). The front shows damage to the raised bosses, and the possible shell raised boss decoration which would have been present at four distinct points on the front of both the brooches is missing, this is possibly due to the soil conditions. ADDITIONAL: divided into separate records, a and b","personal-related","Domed oval brooch","'tortoise'","Borre-style",900.00,925.00,"LSx",,"Cumwhitton","Cumwhitton",,"CUMBRIA"
5483,"LON-F2F201b","Two cast copper alloy 'domed' oval brooches (tortoise) brooches dating to the Early Medieval (Viking) period, early 10th century (Circa 900 - 925 AD). These are double shelled oval brooches. They have highly stylised zoomorphic design on them, and are identical in style, type P51 (Jansson). They are gilded with silver and gold coloured metal (possibly gold and tin). The underneath is hollow, in one the corroded produce of the pin survives. Both have the remains of mineraised textiles, and worm casts (Erica Patterson YAT). The front shows damage to the raised bosses, and the possible shell raised boss decoration which would have been present at four distinct points on the front of both the brooches is missing, this is possibly due to the soil conditions. ADDITIONAL: divided into separate records, a and b","personal-related","Domed oval brooch","'tortoise'","Borre-style",900.00,925.00,"LSx",,"Cumwhitton","Cumwhitton",,"CUMBRIA"
5484,"LEIC-4A9E07","Early Medieval silver 'Thor's Hammer' amulet, 59mm long, 42mm wide across the hammer head and 5mm thick. The suspension loop has broken off. The hammer head is decorated with roughly shaped diamonds.","personal-related","thor's hammer","Thor's hammer pendant",,400.00,1100.00,"ASx only",22.00,,"SWITHLAND","CHARNWOOD","LEICESTERSHIRE"
5485,"SF-313804","A complete but partly straightened copper-alloy probably late Anglo Saxon finger ring. The terminals taper to a point and would have originally have overlapped, the hoop is circular in cross-section, it measures 3mm in diameter at its widest point. Similar late Anglo-Saxon finger rings have been found elsewhere in Suffolk in Fressingfield, see SF-10850 and SF-2B1A88 and Freckenham, see SF-2AFE75.","personal-related","finger ring",,,800.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Westhorpe","WESTHORPE",,"SUFFOLK"
5486,"NMS-111476","About half a Late Saxon finger-ring or earring, once with overlapping ends, one spiked end surviving. Round section hoop, maximum diameter 2mm. External diameter c.27mm. Cf. Norwich Households no. 1. 11th century.","personal-related","finger ring",,,1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Langham","LANGHAM","NORTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5487,"DENO-188490","Twisted silver wire finger ring. The hoop is made from two parallel strands of wire, while the bezel is a flat spiral formed by twisting the ends of the wire and wrapping the extremities around the shoulders. One of the strands forming the spiral is twisted to form a rope pattern. Square sectioned wire although with rounded corners. Bent out of shape. Diameter c.19-22mm, width of bezel (i.e. top to bottom) 6.10mm, thickness of wire 0.94mm, weight 1.19g. Two similar copper alloy rings are published in the Ashmolean Museum's catalogue of the Anglo Saxon collections - one from a 6th century femal inhumation burial in Chatham, Lincs ; the other from St Albans, Herts. The hoop of both these rings is made from one strand of wire / flattened band only.","personal-related","finger ring","ESx",,500.00,600.00,"E/MSx",22.00,,"LICHFIELD",,"STAFFORDSHIRE"
5488,"LANCUM-6129B2","Squashed cu-alloy Viking ring with hoop ends coiled around themselves acting as a knot. The bezel is wide and decorated with ring-and-dot punches/stamps. ","personal-related","Finger Ring",,,800.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,,"WALSINGHAM","NORTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5489,"NMS-0A82C4","Late Saxon finger ring or ear ring, oval-sectioned (4 x 5mm), tapering to butted-together obliquely-cut ends, internal diameter 18mm. Cf. Goodall in Rogerson and Dallas (1984) fig.110, no.21.","personal-related","finger ring",,,850.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Beetley","BEETLEY","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
5490,"DENO-A15253","Copper alloy wire finger ring, probably Anglo-Saxon 6th-7th century. Circular sectioned wire. Hoop made of three strands of wire, with a double looped knot as the bezel, and the extremities twisted three times around the hoop on either side of the bezel. External diameter c.17-8mm, internal diameter c.13mm, width of ""bezel"" 7.04mm, width of back of hoop 4.2mm, thickness of single wire strand c.1.1mm, weight 1.34g.","personal-related","finger ring","ESx",,500.00,700.00,"E/MSx",7.00,,"SCARRINGTON","NEWARK AND SHERWOOD","NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
5491,"LIN-E42F77","Copper alloy finger ring. The ring is complete and is formed by a flat band tapering to ends which have been knotted together. The outer face of the band is decorated with a row of punched ring and dot motifs, however the surface is too worn to determine how many ring and dots there originally were. This finger ring design has been commonly found in Viking graves and hoards of the later 9th and earlier 10th centuries (Graham-Campbell 1980). A nearly identical example was found at Coppergate, York, dating to between circa 930 - circa 1050 (Mainman, p2585, fig. 1279, no. 10517).","personal-related","finger ring",,,875.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,,"ASWARBY AND SWARBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5492,"GLO-CE90F6","Finger ring
Early Medieval 850-1066
External Diameter 22mm, internal diameter 17mm, thickness 2.5mm
The hoop is made from six pieces of copper alloy wire, the wire is flat (approximately 0.8mm by <0.4mm) suggesting that it was by hammered rather than drawn into shape. The six strands have been platted together into a rather complicated but slightly loose plat, this plat has the result of giving the hoop a triangular cross section. The ends are broken but enough remains to say that they are not platted but simply twisted into shape. There is a strand of wire twisted around one end, possibly indicating that the ends were twisted around each other but are now incomplete.
Brown colour with frequent patches of light green corrosion, unfortunately the original patina has corroded away.
A similar example but made of gold was found near Waterford, Ireland and was dated to the 11th century (Tait, 1976, 264). There are other slightly similar examples found at York, which are made from only two strands of twisted wire, which have been dated to the early 9th to the 11th century (Mainman and Rogers, 2000, 2584-2586). These artefacts are thought to be Anglo-Scandinavian in origin.
","personal-related","finger ring",,,850.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,,"LONGFORD","GLOUCESTER","GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
5493,"NMS-9E4CC3","Medieval copper alloy unidentified object perhaps a furniture fitting or key, very slightly longitudinally bowed oval-sectioned shank, transverse rib and triangular step down to flat-sectioned openwork asymmetrical cross with narrow mushroom-shaped projection at one end, other end steps down to flat-sectioned perforated terminal with four projecting knops, 18 x 54mm. An identical example on the Portable Antiquities Database (from Owlesbury, Hampshire) is described as an Early Medieval key, the reference cited for this identification is G. Bailey (2002) Detector Finds 5, p.48. ",,"furniture fitting",,,0.00,0.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Norton Subcourse","NORTON SUBCOURSE","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5494,"GLO-B02FC5","Box mount
Early Medieval 9th-11th century
Length 39mm, width 19mm, thickness 5mm
Animal head terminal with an elongated snout, a slot for the mouth, the detail for the eyes is worn. Behind the head is steeped down to two flat rectangular sections that represent ears. This in turn is steeped down again to the main body, which is oval in plan and only 1mm thick. Around the outside are a series of regular notches cut into the sides of the body, there are two rivet holes in the middle of the plate slightly off centre, these were drilled in after the strap end was cast. The attachment end is bent upwards and would have extended to form an attachment end that would have been mounted on a piece of furniture.
The artefact is copper alloy with a dark green patina, the edges are worn and have suffered from corrosion resulting in a bright green colour.
This type of artefact would have hung down/projected from the centre of the leading edge of a casket lid. The loop would have inserted into a hole in the wall of the chest that housing the locking mechanism.
",,"FURNITURE FITTING",,,800.00,900.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"unknown COTSWOLD","COTSWOLD","GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
5495,"GLO-EEF675","Mount
Early Medieval to Medieval, 11th-mid 12th century
Diameter 25mm, thickness 8mm
Circular in plan and doomed in cross-section and a flat reverse. Decoration is cast and raise above the surface, it comprises of a thin curvilinear animal that is circled around the object. The animal is intertwined with thinner vines that cover the remaining surface. All detail has either corroded or worn away. There is no evidence for mounting, rivet holes or soldering.
The artefact is copper alloy with a dark brown colour. The surface is very pitted where corrosion has removed the original surface and all detail. The reverse has patches of light green powdery corrosion.
The art style is probably Urnes.
",,"Furniture fitting",,,1050.00,1125.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown COTSWOLD","COTSWOLD","GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
5496,"NMS-2F1687","Middle Sazon furniture fitting: incomplete gilt mount in the form of a quatrefoil with convex edges between the foils. One foil is almost entirely missing, having been buckled backwards, probably in antiquity. Five silver studs, one in the centre of each foil and one in the centre, were originally riveted to the plate. Two survive in the foils and two others are evidenced by rivet holes. The fifth pierced the missing foil. The gilded front surface is covered with elaborate chip-carved foliar interlace, except for plain circles around the rivet holes, a plain band around the outer border and four plain bands which leave the outer border at the ends of each foil to run towards the centre before curving round to meet the springing of the next foil. These four emphasise the cruciform nature of the complete design and divide the interlace into eight fields, all of which originate in the centre. There is no means of attachment, but the object may have been set within the leather of a box or casket. Width 84.5mm, thickness 1.25mm. Weight 35.87g.
The interlace, which in detail is not symmetrical, is noteworthy for its lack of animal heads, consisting only of leaves, tendrils and stalks. Broadly similar decoration, but incorporating zoomorphic elements, can bee seen on an unprovenanced mount in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn (Wilson 1964, pl. I, b)and a brooch or mount from Little Snoring. Late 8th or early 9th cent.",,"furniture fitting",,,700.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,"Breckland","MERTON","BRECKLAND","NORFOLK"
5497,"NMS-A064F0","Late Saxon copper alloy hollow terminal from ?furniture, cast in the form of an animal head with open mouth, moulded nose, eyes and eyebrows, slight rib around neck, engraved longitudinal lines, flange projects back from base with remains of two rivet-holes, length at least 22mm. Cf. POL of similar terminal from Burlingham, described as possible stirrup terminal (HER 37309). ",,"Furniture fitting","terminal",,850.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Corton","CORTON","SUFFOLK COASTAL","SUFFOLK"
5498,"BERK-BD0168","A lead counter ?Saxon .",,"Gaming Counter",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",9.00,,"unknown OXFORDSHIRE",,"OXFORDSHIRE"
5499,"NLM-0D6D38","A cast lead Viking gaming piece. The solid dome-shaped gaming piece has three projections on the top. The diameter of the base is 12.0mm, the height is 13.1mm and the weight is 9.53g. ",,"Gaming Piece","dome shaped","undecorated",850.00,1066.00,"LSx",9.00,,"TORKSEY","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5500,"WAW-47D637","The object is made from cast lead or lead alloy. It appears to be a type of lead token. The common lead tokens are usually of a late Medieval or Post Medieval date, they are usually executed poorly with a simplistic design. This token, counter or gaming piece is unlike these, instead it is well made, and the geometric design perhaps suggests an Early Medieval date. This is to be confirmed however.
The object is circular in section. The upper face is decorated with a moulded design consisting of a central large pellet within a sub-lozenge shaped frame. This lozenge shaped frame is within a larger circular low-relief border. The field on the exterior of the lozenge is divided into four fields that are high-relief sub pointed oval shapes. The edges of the objects are rounded, therefore the section across the centre is a sub-rectangle with rounded corners. The base is flat, slightly smooth and undecorated. The surface of the object is a matte light grey colour.
The object measures 23.23mm in diameter and 5.32mm thick. It weighs 16.3g.
",,"GAMING PIECE",,,410.00,1100.00,"ASx only",25.00,,"TEWKESBURY",,"GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
5501,"KENT-B3C821","Anglo Scandinavian gaming piece",,"Gaming piece",,,850.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"OLD ROMNEY","SHEPWAY","KENT"
5502,"LVPL-5D64F3","Irish bronze vessel mount. Robust bronze casting dominated by a stylised human face mask. The top of the mount is flat with a slight lip around the front edge. The eyes are simple raised mouldings. The nose is a narrow vertical ridge which goes on to divide a 'mouth' which is represented by an oval moulding forming a pair of sub-triangular cells. The moulding may represent the mouth or even nostrils. The mount has been drilled once between the 'mouth' and the long chin suggesting mechanical re-attachment or re-use. The long chin projects in side profile. Below the mask is part of a rectangular panel of champleve enamel. The panel is incomplete but the weathered and worn enamel would have originally been a bright colour. The remnant of the design that remains suggests that it may have been a swastika design. When complete the mount would have had a matching mask facing up in mirror image from the bottom of the decorative panel. The mount would have been one of a set of three rim-mounts for a bowl of thin copper alloy sheet. The back of the panel are recessed probably to hold rings from which the bowl could hang.
This example compares closely with another found at Arnside, Cumbria (LVPL-1646, S Youngs & N Herepath, 'Cumbria: Arnside', 237-8 in H Geake (ed.), 'Medieval Britain and Ireland 2000: Portable Antiquities Scheme' Medieval Archaeol., (2001), 235-51.)",,"Hanging bowl","Mount",,700.00,800.00,"MSx",7.00,,"THORMANBY",,"NORTH YORKSHIRE"
5503,"NMS-09BC77","Late Saxon fragment of a Scandinavian strike-a-light handle, worn and broken openwork, originally cast in the form of two horses and riders seen in profile, of which part of one side of the handle and the body and legs of one horse and lower torso of its rider survive. The remaining c. half of the base is split and retains a corroded fragment of the iron blade of the strike-a-light. There are traces of ring-and-dot decoration on both faces of the openwork bodies of horse and rider and the base, which is also obscured by much iron corrosion. 32 x 16mm.
This is only the second recorded example from this country (the other is also from Norfolk, Postwick HER 31194) of what is an ‘exceptionally rare’ object-type. Part of the Viking tradition in north-eastern Europe, most examples have been found in Russia and Finland. Cf. Geake in Med. Arch. (2000) 223-4. Late 9th-10th century.
","work/domestic-related","IGNITING ACCESSORY","Strike-a-light",,850.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Horning","HORNING","NORTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5504,"NMS-6F64B5","Late Saxon incomplete copper alloy ingot, slightly curved trapezoidal bar (tapering from 11mm to 8mm, length 40mm) with flattened rectangular section (max.6mm thick). There are traces of transverse hammering on both sides and faces. The broad end of the ingot is rounded, the narrow end damaged (possibly chopped or broken). The original surface of the ingot (which appears smooth and shiny) survives in patches, the rest is corroded and has a dull granular appearance. Weight 14.50g, 0.51oz.
Similar copper alloy ingots have been found in recent years in Norfolk at Congham, Costessey and Saham Toney (Geake Med. Archaeol. 2001, 242-3) and at Blythburgh in Suffolk.
The weight of 14.50g for this example does not appear to relate to the 25g/26g unit suggested from other Viking-Age examples (Blackburn and Rogerson Med. Archaeol. 1993, 222-4) although it is corroded and possibly incomplete.
",,"ingot",,,800.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Yelverton","YELVERTON","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5505,"LVPL-16F352","End fragment of a cast silver ingot which has been cut from a longer ingot. Sub-rectangular in section tapering to blunt point. Knife cuts visible on the upper and lower surfaces.
Likely to be of Viking date and commonly referred to as hack silver. ",,"Ingot",,,900.00,1000.00,"LSx",22.00,"Barmby Moor","BARMBY MOOR","EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE","HUMBERSIDE"
5506,"NMS-4377C2","Late Saxon incomplete copper alloy ingot, bar with flattened, rounded, triangular section (max.6mm thick). There are traces of hammering on the median ridge and both upper faces are pitted, the underside is smooth. One end of the ingot is burnt and broken with the tip missing. The bar tapers to the surviving rounded end (from 11 to 8mm wide, length at least 59mm), which is slightly curved outwards from base with closely grouped vertical notches, two on one side and four on the other side. Weight 21.09g, 0.74oz.
Similar copper alloy ingots have been found in recent years in Norfolk at Congham, Costessey and Saham Toney (Geake Med. Archaeol. 2001, 242-3) and at Blythburgh in Suffolk. The weight of 21.09g (taking into account loss at one end) may originally have been close to the 25g/26g unit suggested from other Viking-Age examples (Blackburn and Rogerson Med. Archaeol. 1993, 222-4).
",,"ingot",,,800.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Keswick","KESWICK","SOUTH NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5508,"HAMP-BBFF45","Viking Key.",,"Key (Locking)",,,850.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,,"CRAWLEY","WINCHESTER","HAMPSHIRE"
5509,"SF-B40247","An incomplete copper-alloy rotary key, possibly early medieval in date. The bow is incomplete due to an old break it appears to have been circular and set at right angles to the stem. The stem is flat and solid, it is oval in shape and tapers towards the bit, its tip projects beyond the bit. The bit is worn and possibly uncut it is rectangular in shape. This key measures 46mm in total length and 17mm in width at its widest point, across the centre of the stem. No parallel could be found for this key. ",,"key (locking)","rotary",,700.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Charsfield","CHARSFIELD",,"SUFFOLK"
5510,"KENT-4ADCB5","Copper alloy key, possibly of Anglo-Saxon date.",,"KEY (LOCKING)",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"CLIFFE","CLIFFE AND CLIFF WOODS","MEDWAY","KENT"
5511,"SUSS-F0DE51",,,"KNIFE",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",8.00,,"LEWES","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
5512,"LIN-6BCDB6","Incomplete knife fragment. The knife has a broken whittle tang with curved shoulders and a broad blade. ",,"knife",,,500.00,1699.00,"ASX only",8.00,,"LISSINGTON","WEST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5513,"GLO-DCE0F6","Whittle tanged iron knife, length 88mm, width 19mm, thickness 5mm. Remains of the rectangular cross section tang survive, 11mm long, 14mm wide, thickness 6mm. The back of the knife is stepped by 5mm, the back is approximately 3mm wide, the tip is missing. Most of the blade has corroded away, leaving an uneven edge. The reason the blade may have been affected by corrosion so much more so than the rest of the knife is probably because the knife is made of iron whilst the blade may have had a higher carbon content (ie steel), the carbon in the iron helps to facilitate corrosion.
Because the knife is so corroded it is difficult to give an exact date but this style of knife has be found in excavations in Jorvic and London and a 9th-14th century date is possible.
",,"knife",,,800.00,1400.00,"M/LSx",8.00,"Thornbury","THORNBURY","SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE","AVON"
5514,"SUSS-F10E18",,,"KNIFE",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",8.00,,"LEWES","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
5515,"GLO-DCF166","Whittle tanged iron knife, surviving length 78mm, width 25mm thickness 5mm. Remains of the rectangular sectioned tang at one end, 26mm long, 12mm wide, thickness 5mm. From the tang the blade expands, the lower edge more steeply angled than the upper. The back is almost straight but angles slightly downwards, the cutting edge rises upwards at an angle to meet at the point. The end of the blade is missing and is only 50mm long, but judging by the angle of the blade, it may have been approximately 110mm long.
Because the knife is so corroded it is difficult to give an exact date but this style of knife has be found in excavations in Jorvic and London and a 9th-14th century date is possible.
",,"knife",,,800.00,1400.00,"LSx",8.00,"Thornbury","THORNBURY","SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE","AVON"
5516,"NARC-6D8F97","An artefact that probably formed part of the handle of a knife. This object appears to have been cast in copper alloy then tooled to add the decoration. There is a central hole in the fitting for the handle to pass through; this hole is oval. At its narrowest point the oval is 15.7mm in width. Above the initial ring at the base of the object four prongs taper; those on the obverse and reverse are twice the length of the side prongs. The decoration forms a regular pattern of square/triangle, repeated four times, with the squares situated below the prongs. The triangular forms have the appearance of 'eyes'. Above each square is a swirl above which are two fronds facing left. The artefact is in good condition. This artefact is likely to be early-medieval given its decoration. ",,"Knife","ESx",,500.00,700.00,"E/MSx",7.00,,"HARTWELL","SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE","NORTHAMPTONSHIRE"
5517,"ESS-CE8616","Fragment of early medieval bone handle. This fragment is subrectangular in plan, tapering slightly to one end, and C shaped in section (not quite a full semicircle). The upper, convex surface is decorated with a carved design. This design takes the form of an elongated, double X shaped cross (two arms being twice as long as the others), banded across the centre with a double stranded, rectangular bar. Set back behind the cross, so that the double band is spanning its diameter, is a double-bordered circle. Between the longer arms of the cross are nine incised dots, in a roughly triangular design. Stephen Plunkett explains that the circle being ‘sent back’ by the crossing lines without a proper woven under and over effect is a sign of Viking age design. There are remains of further decoration that would have spanned the circumference of the handle, but these are slight, being on the break edges. The surface with the design is smooth, with a slight shine. The concave reverse of the handle is plain. It is rough and the texture of the bone is very visible.
The object is 42.44mm long, 18.44mm wide at the broad end, 11.92mm at the tapered end, 3.2mm thick and weighs 4.23g. The break edges, whilst showing the texture of the bone, are worn smooth, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The object has a light brown colour. The art style suggests that this object was probably made between c870-1000AD.",,"Knife","Handle",,870.00,1000.00,"LSx",15.00,"Canvey Island","CANVEY ISLAND","CASTLE POINT","ESSEX" 5518,"LEIC-64F3E7","Medieval copper alloy knife handle, 17mm long, 12mm wide, 8mm thick and with a weight of 6.77grams. It has a brown patina with dark green corrosion product in places. The object is Ovoid in section and represents a horses hoof complete with shoe. The underside is decorated with two rows of three circular depressions, seperated by an incised line, indicating the shoe. When viewed from the side the object curves 45o and is decorated with two incised bands, one just above the base and one about half way along its length which indicates the hoof. The upper surface has the remains of an iron tang which is 11mm wide and 1.5mm thick. this is broken off after 4mm. This handle is very similar to 3101 in Crummy, Colchester report 5.",,"knife","handle",,0.00,0.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"THURCASTON AND CROPSTON",,"LEICESTERSHIRE" 5519,"ESS-F61DD5","Complete, glass linen smoother. This linen smoother is made from black glass and is circular in plan and a flattened kidney shape in section, being clearly domed on one face and slightly flattened and countersunk on the opposite. Within this countersunk, circular depression are the clear remains of the âstalkâ of glass where the smoother was separated by twisting from the makerâs glass rod. The surface has a patchy iridescent quality. It is heavily abraded, with a significant flake of glass chipped from one side on the domed underside. The abrasion and chipped area are worn, suggesting this damage occurred in antiquity. The smoother is 78.5mm in diameter and 30.54mm thick. The circular countersunk âdepression is 27.04mm in diameter and the stalkâ is approximately 8mm high. The linen smoother weighs 286.85g.
Linen smoothers, such as the one recorded here, are known from 10th â13th century contexts in London (Pritchardin Vince 1991, Aspects of Saxo-Norman London), York (Walton-Rogers 1997) and Winchester (Biddle, 1990, Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester, page 240), where the countersunk âstalkâ is noted as a defining feature. Fragments of similar black glass smoothers are known from 10-12th century Thetford (Rogerson and Dallas, 1984, Excavations in Thetford 1948-59 and 1973-80, page 116), 10-11th century Norwich (Margeson, 1993, Norwich Households, page 138), 11th-12th century Great Yarmouth (East Anglian Archaeology Report number 2, 1976, page 238) and at Northampton from 11th-late 15th centuries (Williams, 1979, St Peterâs Street, Northampton, page 298).
. Williams (1979) comments that linen smoothers are fairly common finds in Viking period graves in Scandinavia and that early examples are also known from Britain (see references above). He also notes that the smaller smoothers are more comparable with early medieval and medieval examples. After the 16th century the smoothers became larger and were also manufactured with an integral, vertical glass handle. It is impossible to say whether, or how long, the simpler, handle-less smoother continued alongside the newer versions into the 16th century, as no evidence could be found to clarify this. However, given the similar black coloured glass and the relative small size of the linen smoother recorded here, it would be fair to suggest that it is probably of 10th-13th century in date. Local knowledge suggests that it was found on the site of an (unrecorded) medieval house.",,"Linen Smoother",,,950.00,1300.00,"LSx",18.00,"Great Bromley","GREAT BROMLEY","TENDRING","ESSEX"
5520,"LVPL-810C44","Possible Late Anglo-Saxon iron padlock key. Lanceoloate handle with terminal loop missing, the bit is missing apart from a fragment which bifurcates.
For possible parallels see Biddle 'Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester', 1990, Nos. 3693-3723. These are dated to the 10th and 11th centuries A.D. ",,"padlock key",,,950.00,1100.00,"LSx",8.00,,"CONISTONE WITH KILNSEY","CRAVEN","NORTH YORKSHIRE"
5523,"GLO-B3A981","Pendant
Early Medieval 975-1075
Length 43mm, width 24mm, thickness 4mm
The main section of the pendant is a rough hexagonal with a diameter of approximately 24mm. Protruding from the centre of one of the sides is arm 20mm long that has an attachment loop at its terminal. The art style of the object is Ringerike and comprises of an animal head on the arm with its body incorporated with in the main hexagonal section of the pendant. This is surrounded by a number of smaller curving lines, probably the body or bodies of one or more snakes which curve in, out around the main animal. There is also a spiral on the shoulder of the main beast. Unfortunately most of the other detail is too worn and unidentifiable.
The artefact is copper alloy and is very worn, the original surface has corroded away leaving a dark brown pitted surface.
As this artefact is displays the Ringerike art style it dates it to 975-1075AD and is Anglo-Scandinavian. There is a similar example in the British Museum collection (Wilson, 1964, 203, plate 141).
","personal-related","pendant",,,945.00,1075.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown COTSWOLD","COTSWOLD","GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
5524,"LIN-157131","Incomplete copper alloy pendant. The pendant is oval in plan, flat and has a broken circular hole at one side, presumably for suspension. The face of the object is decorated around its perimeter with a row of punched circles. Next to the suspension hole is a larger pellet-in-ring motif. ","personal-related","pendant",,,450.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"NEWTON AND HACEBY","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5525,"DENO-128555","Silver pendant. Sub-circular disc with integral sheet loop at the top on reverse, and also a broken piece of wire soldered onto the reverse, just below the loop. Appears to be hollow cast, perhaps originally spherical then squashed as part of the manufacturing process, to make it flat. Both sides are decorated with raised swirling lines. Length 11.98mm, width 13.41mm, thickness (including loop) 3.52mm, thickness (not including loop) 1.00mm, weight 0.94g.","personal-related","pendant",,,0.00,0.00,"ASx only",22.00,,"KING STERNDALE",,"DERBYSHIRE"
5528,"NMS-2E6E42","Late Saxon Pendant, circular openwork, corroded and slightly bent, decoration comprises Jelling-style backward-looking beast, with tail in mouth, similar to those found on contemporary disc brooches (Cf. Margeson 1997, fig.29). Engraved detail on beak-like mouth of beast with circular eye and oblique lines on body, bordering line and curving lines at springing of, and vertical lines on, suspension-unit. Convex sides of unit project backwards and are perforated to form twin loops for suspension, both now broken. 24 x 29mm. 10th century. ","personal-related","Pendant",,,900.00,1000.00,"LSx",7.00,"Cawston","CAWSTON","BROADLAND","NORFOLK"
5529,"WILT-781EB5","Incomplete copper alloy pendant, probably Mid- to Late-Early-Medieval in date.
The pendant is 3.5mm thick below the loop (which is turned through 90°) and narrows to 2mm at the opposite end. It is roughly rectangular in shape, the short end below the loop being wider (14mm) than its opposite (8.5mm). Without loop it is 21mm long. Inclusive of loop, it is at least 31mm long (part of the loop is missing - it would have been a few millimetres longer).
The short end of the pendant appears slightly damaged, with a trinagular nick at its centre. However this could be decorative.
The pendant is decorated on both sides with a ring-and-dot in each corner (those beneath the loop-end have an incised and pointed line above each). In the area between the ring-and-dots a pair of three pointed grooves point to each other and the centre in arrow formation.
Weighs 5.24g.","personal-related","pendant",,,720.00,1066.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Salisbury","SALISBURY",,"WILTSHIRE"
5531,"DENO-BEEFB0","Thick circular sectioned copper alloy ring with a lump of melted blue glass adhering, probably originally a blue glass bead, possibly Saxon. Some of the fine dark green original surface of the ring remains. Diameter of ring (external) 30.64mm, (internal) c.19mm, width of ring 6.72mm, thickness of ring 5.6mm, length of what appears to have been one of the perforated faces of the bead 11.96mm, total thickness (bead & ring) 14.3mm, weight 17.67g. Possibly from a cremation.",,"ring",,,0.00,0.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Rainworth","RAINWORTH",,"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE"
5532,"NMS-F4CC05","Late Saxon Finger-ring or earring, once with overlapping ends, now distorted. Round section hoop, maximum diameter 3mm. Internal diameter 16mm, external diameter 20mm. Cf. Norwich Households no. 1. 11th century.",,"Ring",,,1000.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"East Walton","EAST WALTON","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5535,"BERK-616AB5","The upper half of a stone rotary quern. Sally Worrell has discounted it being either Iron Age or Roman. Ottaway & Rogers (2002:2799) state that rotary querns were used widely during the middle and later Saxon periods but that prohibition during the 12th century resulted in the decline of their use. No exact parallel was found for this quernstone to assist with dating it further. It is circular with angular/squared off edges; in the centre is an elongated circular perforation(the perforation has been worn at opposite points creating two worn semi-circular projections from the main circular perforation (diameter of perforation: 45.38mm, length: 77.47mm). On the upper surface there is a wedge-shaped rectangular section cut away (length: 122.28mm; width: 22.22mm widening to: 65.64mm; depth: 21.68mm), running from the perforation to the edge of the quern - Sally suggests it may be a handle slot. The surface of the stone slopes from the edge down to the central perforation ?wear. The grinding surface is very worn and is now concave. There are lumps of stone missing from the outer edge ?damage caused whilst in the ground. Andy Whincup (Geoarchaeologist) identified the stone as a sandstone or gritstone, probably not of local origin. Diameter at peak: 290mm; diameter at base: 345mm; thickness: 93.06mm; weight:15kg. ADDITIONAL: will need to check up on, but my gut feeling is that it's Roman, albeit with worn grinding surface. Is the slot for a handle found on Emed types?","work/domestic-related","Rotary quern","unclear- think its Roman but cf. Sally's comments",,720.00,1200.00,"M/LSx",2.00,"Thatcham","THATCHAM","WEST BERKSHIRE","BERKSHIRE"
5536,"IOW-0D5540","
Sheet copper alloy skillet of Early Medieval date, late seventh to ninth century (c. AD 675 â c. AD 900). Length 342mm, diameter of bowl 188mm, depth of bowl 67mm. Weight 380g.
The vessel consists of a hemispherical bowl with a slightly flattened base and a flat integral handle.
The bowl has a horizontal flat rim, 10mm in width. Beneath the rim the body is slightly âwaistedâ to form a modest shoulder. At the centre of the base of the bowl is a small rivet hole, about 0.8mm in diameter. Inside the bowl there are three compass scribed circles which originate at the centre. The diameters of these circles are 50mm, 70mm and 94mm.
The outside of the bowl has two similar compass scribed circles which also originate at the centre and are 44mm in daimeter and 54mm in diameter. About 40mm from each side of the handle is a copper alloy loop secured to the rim by two small rivets. One of these rivets, however, is missing. The loops have been made with short pieces of copper alloy wire, the ends of which have been flattened and expanded to accommodate the rivet holes. Within each loop is a free-running copper alloy wire ring which has a maximum diameter of 16mm. Each ring is very worn, due to being in contact with the loop.
The flat handle is 154mm in length. In plan, it tapers in width from 42mm at the bowl end to 30mm before expanding to form a circular terminal which is 58mm in diameter. At the centre of the circular terminal is a small circular rivet hole, about 0.8mm in diameter. On the front face of this circular terminal are three compass scribed concentric circles which originate at the centre. The diameters of these circles are 42mm, 50mm and 54mm. However, the largest circle became partially obscured during its manufacture when the edge of the handle and the circular terminal were slightly up-turned to form a small flange. There is a single compass scribed circle, 42mm in diameter, on the underside of the terminal which is. The up-turned flange of the terminal also extends along the edge of the rim of the bowl as far as each riveted loop.
On the front face of the handle, close to the bowl, is a separate copper alloy cross-shaped mount secured by two rivets. The cross is in the form of an elongated cross pattee, condensed to fit within the width of the handle. Around the border of the cross is an engraved line. On the rear face of the handle, close to the circular terminal, are twenty four linear and curvilinear lightly scribed lines. Some of these lines form a grid pattern.
The vessel is in a remarkably good condition and has a smooth and shiny dark-green patina. However, there are small areas of superficial corrosion deposits. The cross-shaped mount on the handle has a contrasting coloured patina of a lighter green. A small dent in the side of the bowl was created by the finder during its discovery.
It has not proved possible to find parallels for this object but it is clearly Early Anglo-Saxon and can, on stylistic grounds, be dated to the sixth or seventh century.",,"Toggle","ESx",,500.00,700.00,"E/MSx",7.00,,"HOLTON LE MOOR","EAST LINDSEY","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5549,"NCL-7A0163","An iron tool of uncertain date. The haft is circular in section and heavily corroded with large scales of iron corrosion. Originally this would have slotted onto a wooden handle. From the haft extends a rectangular section shaft which flattens to form a triangular plate with rounded corners. The object is ??mm in length. The haft has a diameter of ??mm. The triangular plate is ??mm long and ??mm wide at it widest point. Although not found in direct association with the hoard of Northumbrian stycas, the object was found within the same field and it is possible that it is Saxon in date.",,"TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT",,,0.00,0.00,"ASx only",8.00,,"BAMBURGH","BERWICK UPON TWEED","NORTHUMBERLAND"
5550,"KENT-6AE3A5","A pair of silver tweezers with black enamel or niello inlay. ","personal-related","TWEEZERS",,,500.00,1800.00,"ASx only",22.00,,"MONKTON","THANET","KENT"
5551,"SUSS-117C11","A copper alloy arm from a pair of Anglo-Saxon tweezers. The second arm and the loop of the tweezers are missing. The end of the arm (opposite end to the loop) is bent inwards. The angle that the end turns in at is about 90°. The arm has been made from a sheet of copper alloy. The arm is flared, which means that it tapers outwards towards the bent end. The arm is basically rectangular but flares out to form a wide triangle shape at the terminal. The arm has been engraved on the visible surface. There is an engraved line running around the edge of the arm and there is also a ring and dot motif in the centre of the triangle part of the flaring terminal. The ring and dot consists of two rings with a large dot in the centre.
The reverse of the arm is undecorated. The artefact is in very good condition but some of the original surface has been lost. The surface is however largely smooth and finished to a high quality. This surface is a dark brownish-green colour. The break at the looped end of the arm is very worn. Due to the wideness of the flaring terminal it is likely that these tweezers date to the middle Anglo-Saxon date circa 720-850. Similar tweezers can be seen in MacGregor and Bolick, 1993, pp222-6, ref: 38.13-38.18.","personal-related","TWEEZERS",,,720.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,"Findon","FINDON","ARUN","WEST SUSSEX"
5552,"SF-5E3C68","Roughly two thirds of a copper-alloy tweezer arm, the rest of this arm and all of the other are missing due to old breaks. It measures 35mm in length and 14.5mm in width at its terminal and 5mm in width at its incomplete end. The terminal end therefore flares outwards quite substantially, its tip is folded over at right angles. The front face of this incomplete arm is decorated with a central longitudinal row of ring and dot motifs, there are also two opposing ring and dot motifs either side of this longitudinal row at the terminal end. These tweezers are most likely to be middle Anglo-Saxon, 700-850AD.","personal-related","Tweezers",,,700.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,"Ixworth","IXWORTH",,"SUFFOLK"
5554,"BUC-03FBF2","A pair of copper alloy tweezers with groups of transverse lines punched on and just below the loop and about half way down the blades. Both sides appear to have been decorated although one side is less well preserved. The tweezers have an even dark green patina and are slightly bent. A similar, but more worn pair, were found as stray finds, derived from the Saxon cremations excavated at Spong Hill, Norfolk ( Hills, Penn & Rickett 1994) ","personal-related","Tweezers",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Remenham","REMENHAM",,"BERKSHIRE"
5555,"NMS-A7EEC5","Mid Saxon Fragment of tweezers, broken across narrow arm above splayed end with damaged in-turned end, decorated with at least nine ring-and-dots, 16 x (at least) 18mm. Cf. Hinton (1996) no.38/40. ","personal-related","Tweezers",,,600.00,800.00,"MSx",7.00,"West Rudham","WEST RUDHAM","KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK","NORFOLK"
5556,"ESS-C00590","Fragment of one arm from a pair of tweezers. The fragment represents part of the tip of the arm, and although one corner is missing it can be seen that the tip was turned inwards, roughly at right angles, to provide a better grip. The fragment flares from a minimum of 14 mm wide at the broken top to 18 mm wide at the tip; it is 17 mm long and weighs 1.11g. The surface is very corroded, but a neat longitudinal row of seven small ring-and-dot motifs is visible down the centre, and a row of dots can just be seen down either edge. This decoration suggests a middle or late Anglo-Saxon date c.720-1100AD.
","personal-related","Tweezers",,,750.00,1100.00,"M/LSx",7.00,"Canvey Island","CANVEY ISLAND","CASTLE POINT","ESSEX"
5558,"BH-FB9FE3","A complete but bent pair of copper-alloy tweezers, probably dating from the middle Early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) period (Geake 2001, p.75). The upper three quarters of the arms are narrow and are decorated with a repeating pattern of closely-spaced transverse ribs. The arms flare outwards at the triangular bottom section where on both sides there is a pattern comprised of lines of punched ring and dots (the rings being very faint). The bottom edge of both sides of the tweezers has been folded back towards the centre so that it forms an angle of ninety degrees with the rest of the arm. At the top, the hoop has moulded line decoration and still contains a loop of copper-alloy wire. This wire has been tied together in a simple fashion. The object has a dark green patina and is slightly corroded. The implement itself measures 37.4mm long in its current condition. The maximum width of the arms (at the bottom) is 17.3mm. The ring is 18.5mm wide by 13mm high and is made of copper-alloy wire measuring 0.9mm in diameter. The weight is 5.13g.","personal-related","Tweezers",,,720.00,850.00,"MSx",7.00,"Brill","BRILL",,"BUCKINGHAMSHIRE"
5559,"KENT-E14887","Saxon Tweezers","personal-related","Tweezers",,,0.00,0.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"BONNINGTON","SHEPWAY","KENT"
5560,"SF-592E71","A complete set of sheet copper-alloy tweezers, with both arms distorted and bent due to damage. These tweezers measures 57mm in length. The arms flare slightly towards their terminals and increase in width from 6mm in width below the loop to 8mm in width across the terminal end. The ends of the arms are bent inwards at roughly a 90 degree angle.
Sheet copper-alloy tweezers of this type are present from the Roman to the medieval period and are very difficult to date more accurately without an excavated context. However, as this example was discovered in an area which has yielded predominantly Anglo-Saxon finds they are perhaps most likely to be Anglo-Saxon in date.","personal-related","tweezers",,,500.00,900.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Yaxley","YAXLEY",,"SUFFOLK"
5561,"BERK-01B6D7","A Saxon copper alloy fragment of a pair of tweezers.","personal-related","Tweezers",,,0.00,0.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Ewelme","EWELME","SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE","OXFORDSHIRE"
5562,"BH-2C9521","A copper-alloy object of uncertain date and function. The form and style of decoration suggest that the object may be early Anglo-Saxon in date. The piece consists of a plate, which has two sub-rectangular sections, set one above the other, and separated by a narrower strip. Each of the two rectangular sections is decorated around its outer edge by a single line of closely-spaced punched ring and dot marks. At one end of the plate, and at right angles to it, is a damaged attachment. The reverse is plain. Overall, the object measures 41.1mm high by 13.7mm wide and 0.7mm thick (plate). It weighs 2.95g.
",,"Unidentified object","ESx",,450.00,600.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Totternhoe","TOTTERNHOE","SOUTH BEDFORDSHIRE","BEDFORDSHIRE"
5564,"DENO-177172","Rectangular folded gold sheet with two rivet holes and a raised central rib, and another scrap of folded gold sheet held inside. The outer sheet is possibly an Anglo Saxon pendant suspension loop, intended for re-use/melting down. Length 13.08mm, width 10.34mm, thickness 4.20mm, weight 1.80g.
British Museum Curator Report:
Date: ?Seventh century
Description: Folded strip of gold sheet enclosing a crumpled gold fragment. The strip has a central rib and is pierced by two holes of a suitable diameter to hold rivets and a third pin hole. Neither rivet hole has been widened by the insertion of a rivet. Both ends of the strip are damaged as though broken across a fold
Discussion: It is possible that the strip is the remains of a pendant loop, although generally these are soldered to the parent object, not riveted. However, the presence of a crumpled gold fragment folded into the strip and the fact that both rivet holes are unused and the ends of the strip are damaged could suggest that this is workshop scrap for reuse.
Dimensions: Length; 13.08mm; width; 10.34 mm; weight: 1.80g:
Disposition: Undiagnostic, recommend disclaiming
Angela Care Evans
Curator, Anglo-Saxon Collections
",,"unidentified object",,,410.00,1066.00,"ASx only",23.00,,"DERBY","DERBY","DERBYSHIRE"
5565,"LIN-64E5E4","Copper alloy unidentified object. The object consists of two heavily abraded thin sheets of copper alloy riveted together in two places by copper alloy rivets. The object appears to be too large and thin to be a strap end, and it might be possible that the the smaller sheet is a repair piece or join for the larger piece. The sides of the larger sheet are all very torn and patinated. One of the sides is reasonably straight and could be an original edge.",,"unidentified object",,,450.00,1499.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"FOLKINGHAM","NORTH KESTEVEN","LINCOLNSHIRE"
5566,"SF-85DDF0","A copper-alloy fragment of an unidentified object. It is roughly rectangular in shape and measures 13mm by c12mm in size and is 1mm in thickness. The fragment appears to be incomplete on three edges due to old breaks, one edge is thinner and may be original. The back face is undecorated and smooth and the front face has six transverse mouldings across half of it with traces of gilding within these. The date of this fragment is unknown as so little of it survives but it is perhaps most likely to be early medieval or medieval in date. ",,"unidentified object",,,500.00,1500.00,"ASx only",7.00,"Parham","PARHAM",,"SUFFOLK"
5568,"KENT-32A781","Gold hollow dome-shaped boss. Possibly a rivet cover from an Anglo-Saxon triangular buckle plate. If this is the case then the object would date to the 7th century AD.",,"UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT","ESx",,600.00,700.00,"MSx",23.00,"WOODNESBOROUGH","WOODNESBOROUGH","DOVER","KENT"
5570,"SUR-E4F906","This object consists of a curving bar of D-section which expands from 5-7mm wide. And one end is an ancient break. At the other end the bar expands into a spatulate terminal, 13mm wide. At the junction of the bar and terminal is a zoomorphic head with bulging eyes and prominent ears and nose.",,"Unidentified object",,,950.00,1150.00,"LSx",7.00,,"TARRING NEVILLE","LEWES","EAST SUSSEX"
5572,"LEIC-3EDB92","Undated copper alloy object, 46mm long and 15mm wide. The object has a brown/dark green patina and is in fair condition, being incomplete. It is roughly rectangular and begins with one rounded end, 10mm wide and 17mm long, which holds a suspension loop, 4.5 mm in diameter. At this point the object has a rectangular protrusion on each side, 6mm wide and 4mm long. Below this the object has a slight collar before forming a raised area with a central ridge and a triangular section which is 11mm long. Below this the object flattens and widens to 13mm. It continues for 7mm at which point the object has snapped.",,"unidentified object",,,0.00,0.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"unknown HARBOROUGH","HARBOROUGH","LEICESTERSHIRE"
5573,"HESH-B89D55","Cast copper alloy unidentified zoomorphic object of probable medieval â post medieval date (1100 â 1600). The artefact is sub-rectangular in plan and irregular (made up of two sub-rectangular elements that meet at a right-angle) in profile. The horizontal element measures 38.4mm length, 9.2mm width and 8mm thick. The vertical element measures 39mm length, 9.5mm width and 11.4mm thick. The artefact weighs 21.76 grams.
The horizontal element is formed in two halves / arms (each half is a mirror image of the other) with a central longitude split. This split is 2.7mm wide and 31.8mm long. At the end of the two arms, located in the centre, is a single cast hole, presumably to take a rivet. Each of the two arms has a number of cast decorative elements. The most elaborate of these is positioned at the opposite end to the pierced terminals. Here a series of cast raised pellets and ribs form a possible serpent head with mouth and eyes. The surface of this part of the artefact has had a gilded, unfortunately most of this has been lost through abrasion and corrosion.
The vertical element is solid and has a sub rectangular (square with rounded corners) shaped cross section. This element meets the horizontal one at right angles (90°) and joins just below the zoomorphic heads mouth (possibly forming an enlarged tongue). This element has been decorated by a number of cast and incised motifs. The most prominent of these are ring and dot (an annulet with central pellet) decorations on each of the four faces. The surface of this vertical element has been either tinned or silvered rather than gilt. Again most of this surface has been lost through abrasion and corrosion.
The artefact is a mid â light green colour with a much abraded patina that covers all surfaces. There are areas of light green powdery active corrosion present, and this distorts much of the decoration. No parallels have been found for this item thus far.
",,"Unidentified Object","Zoomorphic",,410.00,1500.00,"ASx only",7.00,"MId Herefordshire","SUTTON","HEREFORDSHIRE","HEREFORD AND WORCESTER"
5574,"GLO-963026","Cast copper alloy unidentified artefact, length 30mm, width 17mm, thickness 8mm. the artefact has a human face on the surface with a long and pointed beard resulting is an ovoid shape. Slender nose in the centre with oval eyes at it top, above is a series of vertical striations that represent hair. Below the nose are two lines in the shape of an inverted V that would be a moustache, a horizontal line towards the top represents the mouth. Below the mouth the bead gently narrows to a point, with a recessed border on either side and a knot at the bottom. There are openwork circles either side of the beard and on the top of the head, probably exaggerating the hair. Small knop on the top. The reverse has a semicircular horizontal loop one third of the way down. The loop has a rectangular hole (4mm wide by 3mm), running from the hole in the loop of the top of the artefact is a rectangular recess the same width as the recess. Running along the top of the loop is a line of beaded decoration. The artefact is slightly worn and the openwork along the edges have been effected by corrosion resulting in the loss of some of the edge.
Similar artefacts are known from Viking contexts and are thought to be images of either Oden or Thor, as Oden is usually pictured with only one eye it is reasonable to assume that this would be Thor.
Artefacts such as that are dated from the 9th to the 10th century.
",,"unidentified object",,,800.00,1000.00,"M/LSx",5.00,,"MINCHINHAMPTON","COTSWOLD","GLOUCESTERSHIRE"
5575,"SF-967783","An incomplete copper-alloy unidentified object possibly of late Anglo-Saxon/Viking Age date. This object consists of a flat circular part with three evenly spaced triangular protrusions along its edges, from the reverse of these incomplete intergral shafts project. It measures in total 16mm by 19mm and 18mm in length. The flat circular disc measures c11mm in diameter and has a central circular hole. The triangular prorusions with their tips pointing down towards the shafts, which project from their undersides, may be stylised animal heads. The shafts have a roughly triangular cross-section and their missing terminals are curving towards each other. The copper-alloy is very reddish brown in colour and similar to that of Viking Age stirrup strap mount and terminals. No parallel could be found for this object and its function is also uncertain.",,"unidentified object",,,900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Isleham","ISLEHAM",,"CAMBRIDGESHIRE"
5576,"SF-C67801","Small flat ornamental openwork fragment made of lead. The surviving portion is approximately semicircular, of diameter 22mm and thickness 3mm. The centre of the semicircle is cut away to a diameter of 5mm. There is a channel of ornament on each of the two faces, formed of a series of vertical bars within a closed zone of 2mm height, and there is also a similar barred or impressed ornament on the tapering inner edges surrounding the inner cutaway semicircle. At one end the arching bar is bifurcated, pssibly to represent the gaping mouth or jaws of a beast. There is also a small process just above this 'head' suggestive of an ear. If this resemblance to an animal-head is deliberate (not quite sure), then the style of the animal is possibly Viking-Age, probably 10th century. However this could be an ornament of a very diffewrent period, perhaps post-mediaeval. ",,"unidentified object",,,900.00,1800.00,"LSx",9.00,"Nettlestead","NETTLESTEAD",,"SUFFOLK"
5577,"WMID-0215A2","An unidentified copper alloy artefact, possibly dating to the early Medieval/ Medieval period (length: 22.2mm; diameter of the hexagonal âskirtâ: 12.4mm; weight: 7.28g). This artefact has a small irregular but circular pierced loop at the top (diameter: 6.3mm; thickness: 3mm) with a large sub-rectangular sectioned collar below, which then becomes narrow before spanning out into a hexagonal âskirtâ (length: 9.1mm) with a ring and dot at the bottom of each of the eight sections. Below the flat base of this âskirtâ, a roughly circular platform (length: 4.2mm) protrudes out also with a flat bottom. The artefact is slightly worn but in a fair condition with a small area of bronze disease at the collar and a dark green patina.",,"unidentified object",,,800.00,1540.00,"M/LSx",7.00,,"ILAM",,"STAFFORDSHIRE"
5579,"SF-451AF8","An incomplete cast copper-alloy unidentified object, possibly of early medieval date. This object has a swollen oval shaped centre and is then waisted to either side of this, one end is then incomplete due to an old break and the other flares outwards again into a rounded terminal. It measures 53mm in survivng length and 15mm in width at its widest point. The front face of this object is convex and the back face hollow. The metal is a reddish brown and reminiscent of that used for late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap mounts, terminals and bridle fittings. Indeed there is a possiblilty that this object is an incomplete cheek piece of unusual form. ",,"Unidentified object",,,850.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,"Ixworth","IXWORTH",,"SUFFOLK"
5580,"WAW-6EFC61","The function of the object is unidentifiable. It is decorated with a stamped design and a portion of the shape is reminiscent of an Early Medieval brooch illustrates in MacGregor and Bolick, No. 22.1.
The object is an asymmetrical shape in plan, but is a sub inverted âYâ shape which has an integral protrusion extending from the side of the vertical stem. The object is flat in profile and only one face is decorated. The decoration is formed by stamped annular rings, two of which are large and dispersed, and three which are small and overlap each other slightly. The smaller rings are bordered by three linear grooves. The reverse is flat and undecorated. It is difficult to tell if any of the edges of the object are broken.
The surface of the object has a well developed shiny green coloured patina with occasional red copper corrosion on some of the edges. It weighs 1.3g and measures 25.2mm long, 16.6mm wide and 1.3mm thick.
",,"Unidentified Object",,,850.00,1066.00,"LSx",7.00,,"BRAILES",,"WARWICKSHIRE"
5581,"BH-717745","An unidentified copper-alloy object of probably late early medieval date. The style of the piece suggests a date of 10th to 11th century and is of possible Urnes or Ringerike style. The piece consists of part of an openwork plate, possibly from a mount or buckle. It measures 40.5mm long by 27mm wide and 3.7mm thick. There are three decorative sub-oval to circular holes of decreasing size. The largest of these measures 10.2mm long by 8.5mm wide and the smallest (filled with encrusted soil) 4.8mm in diameter. Above these holes is an indented line pattern of possible zoomorphic form. The edges are irregular, with several decorative protrusions, flat sections and indentations. The object weighs 13.50g.",,"Unidentified object",,,900.00,1100.00,"LSx",7.00,"Southill","SOUTHILL","MID BEDFORDSHIRE","BEDFORDSHIRE"
5582,"HESH-DF11B1","
Cast copper alloy zoomorphic object of unknown use probably dating from the early medieval (Saxon) or Medieval periods (800 - 1200). It is likely that the object is a form of ornamental strap fitting or possible handle. The object in plan is broadly sub-rectangular with one end being curved at an angle of almost 45Âș. In cross section the artefact is D shaped. The object measures 44.2mm in length, 10.3mm width; it is 9.3mm thick and weighs 11.36 grams.
The artefact is highly decorated with both cast and incised designs. These designs are positioned on three of the four sides. The under side is undecorated and plain. The style of these designs can be broken into three distinct zones. The first is at the un-curving terminal. Here the design is mostly cast and is of a stylised animal head â probably a dogâs. It consists of two cast raised ears, a hollow band depicting the eyes, hollow cheeks and an enlarged open stylised mouth. This design is very similar to those used on ewer spouts (for example Lewis, J M: Bronze Aquamaniles and Ewers, Finds Research Group Datasheet 7) and on early purse bars (The London Museum Medieval Catalogue pages: 162-164 ref: A1). From the mouth of the stylised dog projects a narrower bar. This is decorated with a series of incised chevrons. This bar widens into the final design element. This is mostly cast and the design is of a stylised bird (possibly a hawk) head, with a pointed bill / beak bent at 45Âș. Most of the features on this bird headed terminal are incised however the main design is cast. This includes the beak, eyes and back of the head. There are again incised chevrons along both sides of the beak and the eyes are made up of a combination of a cast raised annulet with incised detail.
The artefact is a mid green colour with a polished but slightly abraded patina. There is no evidence of an applied finish such as a silvering or gilt. Where the patina has been chipped small areas of copper corrosion have eroded the surface. The majority of this damage is probably a result of abrasion in the plough soil. This has affected the overall design and rounded some of the cast features. There is no evidence that any of the surfaces have recieved major trauma and therefore this must represent the entire artefact. It may have been joined (?) to another part by an area at the non curved end; this however shows no signs of a junction. The style of the item and the use of stylised animal motifs suggest a date at the end of the early medieval period or one at the beginning of the medieval (broadly known as the late Saxon period 800-1200 AD). The closest parallels for this style of design can be seen on strap ends, ewers and purse bars of this and later periods.
",,"Unidentified Object",,,800.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,,"unknown SHROPSHIRE",,"SHROPSHIRE" 5583,"SUSS-8372F3","Late Saxon bucket mount?",,"UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT",,,800.00,1200.00,"LSx",7.00,"Nr. Westfield","WESTFIELD","ROTHER","EAST SUSSEX" 5584,"LEIC-0B48C3","Saxon copper alloy enamelled cross that is incomplete as one arm is missing. It measures 60mm long, 7mm wide, 5mm thick.",,"Cross",,,400.00,1100.00,"ASx only",7.00,,"THURCASTON AND CROPSTON","CHARNWOOD","LEICESTERSHIRE"