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| Image | Object Type | Find number | Broadperiod | County | Actions |
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Clothing fastening | HAMP1024 |
Post medieval | Hampshire |
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| Copper-alloy clothing fastener. Rectangular loop, slightly distorted. Oval boss with moulded three-dimensional decoration consisting of a lion's head within an outer border with diagonal lines. Circular attachment loop perpendicular to boss. Upper surface gilded, much of which survives. | |||||
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Book fitting | HAMP1377 |
Medieval | Hampshire |
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| Cast copper-alloy one-piece book-clasp. The end which would have been attached to the strap is pierced. There is a horizontal moulding on the end, followed by a slightly tapering D-sectioned shaft which has further horizontal mouldings enclosing a circular conical recess (which may once have held... | |||||
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Coin | HAMP1384 |
Roman | Hampshire |
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| Roman Republican denarius, 45 BC. | |||||
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Mount | HAMP1421 |
Early medieval | Hampshire |
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| Cast copper-alloy Jellinge-style openwork mount. Roughly circular with a convex profile and a shank in the form of an animal's head and neck. The limbs are coiled and interlaced on the circular element. Circular hole at centre. Very worn; little detail visible. Dull red/brown patina. | |||||
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Knife | HAMP1432 |
Post medieval | Hampshire |
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| Cast lead/pewter knife pommel in the form of boy's head. The eyes, ears, nose and upper lip are depicted, but the mouth and lower lip are missing to hold pommel guard. Mouldings on the reverse depict a school cap. There is a rectangular slot through the top. | |||||
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Buckle | HAMP1600 |
Medieval | Hampshire |
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| Cast copper-alloy double-loop oval buckle with bevelled inner edge, recessed strap bar. Moulded animal's head extending from one loop, depicting small ears, forehead and square snout. Pin missing, traces of iron corrosion on strap bar from pin. | |||||
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Furniture fitting | HAMP225 |
Roman | Somerset |
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| Terminal or furniture fitting in the form of a lion's head and body. Details of mane and eyes crudely incised. 'Pug-faced'. Lion is in a reclining position, its front legs stretched in front and traces of hind legs survive. The under surface is flat. The core is filled with lead and part of a lea... | |||||
| Coin | HAMP234 |
Post medieval | Hampshire |
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| Vessel | HAMP336 |
Roman | Hampshire |
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| Copper-alloy vessel handle in the form of a swan's head with eyes and faintly defined diagonal grooving on the head to simulate plumage. | |||||
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Candle snuffer | HAMP434 |
Post medieval | Hampshire |
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| Fragment, candle-snuffer and handle. Ornate baluster-moulded shaft, terminating in rectangular plate. The plate is decorated with a cast lion's head motif in high relief, with stamped trefoil plant motifs in each corner, and 'rocker-arm' border. Filing marks on reverse surfaces, and five elliptic... | |||||
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Fixtures and fittings | HAMP787 |
Roman | Hampshire |
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| Circular hollow stud in the form of a crude lion's head. The main features are incised. Trace of iron shank surviving. Edges of rim chipped. Upper surface heavily worn. | |||||
| Food serving container | KENT1042 |
Medieval | Kent |
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| trough as shallow ovular ?salt cellar, consisting of an ovular dished body with feet at the lower end, short 'arms' approx. one-third from top, and protruding depiction of a horned devil's head at the top of the piece | |||||
| Arm band | KENT2654 |
Early medieval | Kent |
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| Terminal of one-half of silver gilt Frankish hinged arm-ring fragment inlaid with garnets. The terminal is cast in the form of a lion or horse's head with the muzzle truncated by a solid rectangular plate set with two square cut garnets. The remains of a corroded iron catch pin remain on the inne... | |||||
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Brooch | LVPL1893 |
Roman | Cheshire |
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| Roman Polden Hill type bow brooch. Short semi-cylindrical arms denuded by corrosion, fragment of iron spring remains. Slightly tapering bow decorated half its length with a triple median rib. Near the top of the head the rib is interrupted by a pair of horizontal grooves before continuing a short... | |||||
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Bow brooch | LVPL1935 |
Roman | Merseyside |
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| Curving bow, D-shaped in section with flat front decorated with three strips infilled with enamel. Each strip appears to have originally been of three sections of alternating coloured enamel, of which only the some of orange enamel remains. Circular boss at the junction of the bow and the leg. Th... | |||||
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Buckle | LVPL696 |
Roman | East Riding Of Yorkshire |
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| Late Roman D-shaped buckle with symmetrical moulded decoration of abstract beasts facing each other on hind legs either side of the bar. Between the beasts heads at the apex of the buckle is a human figure with arms outstretched. The head of the figure forms a knop. The groove for the pin formed ... | |||||
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Vessel | LVPL949 |
Roman | Cumbria |
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| Decorative handle from bronze bowl or dish. Sharply curving, oval in section, flattened point of attachment at bottom. The top terminates in a high relief moulded head of a cherub with hair surrounding the face. Behind the head is a thumb-stop which is quite low but may have originally been highe... | |||||
| Spatula | NARC1200 |
Roman | Northamptonshire |
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| An incomplete small spatula broken off approximately 1cm down the thin handle which is circular in section; the head of the spatula is a narrow lozenge shape very slightly concave, the end of the lozenge is broken and missing; there is a central ridge running the length of the head and onto the h... | |||||
| Coin | NARC813 |
Iron age | Northamptonshire |
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| An early uninscribed bed 'LX' silver unit of Whaddon Chase type, with a head in profile facing left on the obverse and a 'Celticised' stag on the reverse | |||||
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Seal | NLM1050 |
Post medieval | North Lincolnshire |
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| Impersonal, 4 fold seal , arranged like a wheel. 1: Fleur-de-lys.2: Horse's head.3: Filly.4: Seven stars. All motifs surrounded by incised double dotted line. | |||||
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Buckle | NLM262 |
Post medieval | North Lincolnshire |
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| 1dog's head, 1 bird's head. Leaves look like tobacco leaves. | |||||
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Mount | NLM424 |
Post medieval | North Lincolnshire |
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| Cast copper-alloy mount in the shape of a bear's head. There is one attachment on the reverse. | |||||
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Sleeve clasp | NLM4253 |
Early medieval | Lincolnshire |
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| Fragment of a Style I florid cruciform brooch, traces of gilding. Anglo-Saxon. Helen Geake writes: The image attached to this record appears to be that of a fragment of Hines Form C1 wrist-clasp, with relief decoration. What survives to be illustrated is part of a 'Mildenhall type'; the pro... | |||||
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Brooch | NLM4655 |
Roman | Lincolnshire |
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| Half of the head of a cross bow brooch. | |||||
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Unassigned | NLM5359 |
Roman | Lincolnshire |
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| Possibly the handle of a knife in the shape of an ass's head and neck. Splendid. | |||||
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Strap fitting | NLM689 |
Early medieval | North Yorkshire |
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| Suspending loop, Viking, Urnes-style. Head of an animal, mouth wide open for strap to slot through. | |||||
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Brooch | NLM985 |
Early medieval | Lincolnshire |
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| A fragment of a cruciform brooch. This section comes from a part of the central section and represents part of an animal's head. | |||||
| Brooch | NMGW3225 |
Roman | Pembrokeshire |
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| Derivative trumpet-headed brooch of the disc and trumpet type. The bilateral, six coil, spring is accommodated in a recessed hollow set in the rear of the head while the axis bar is held in place by two perforated lugs on either side of the head (type N cf. Hattatt 1982, 49). The bow is straight,... | |||||
| Brooch | NMGW3263 |
Roman | North Yorkshire |
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| Cast copper alloy hinged T-shaped brooch of uncertain sub-type. The head of the brooch, which in profile is sharply turned down from the bow, accommodates a hinged pin and two projecting cylindrical wings. The end of one wing is missing; however, the end of the complete wing is notched. Part of a... | |||||
| Unidentified object | NMGW329 |
Post medieval |
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| Possible ornamental plant holder or piece of garden furniture made from some form of copper alloy (probably either brass or bronze). It consists of a three-finned spike which tapers to a point at one end, while at the other is connected, through a narrowing shoulder, into a decorative terminal. T... | |||||
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