A wide variety of personal items have been recovered from excavations in Fishergate. These include hooks and pins for fastening garments, silver and copper alloy strap ends, and buckles, often decorated with animal motifs. Keys and personal implements, held together as chatelaines, would have adorned the belts of women of high status. We have also excavated rings, earrings and colourful glass beads and pendants, and our discovery of an emerald bead and fragments of garnets suggests that a few people in York were wearing some very fine jewellery indeed.

An animal-headed copper alloy strap or belt terminal

Part of a gilded copper alloy brooch terminal with a geometric pattern