Comments on records
The coin is a Wiltshire Wings silver unit (ABC 2119).
About: Coin CCI-41957
Iron age Oxfordshire
The high zoom view of this find is sufficient to make out a very worn zoomorphic head at either end of the bow so this is likely to be a dolphin buckle.
About: Buckle SUR-AB2C71
Roman Surrey
I think this is a Leeds cloth seal of the late 18th/early 19th centuries. The main inscription probably reads C&R above LEEDS. The scratched numerals on the other face would indentify the particular consignment to which the cloth belonged.
About: Seal YORYM-E41B22
Post medieval North Yorkshire
This looks very much like the frame of a Georgian fob seal. The two halves attached on either side of the seal and the looped end secured it to a fob chain. The date would be 18th to early 19th C.
About: Strap fitting YORYM-CC2577
Post medieval East Riding Of Yorkshire
A legible image of the face with RS and unreadable inscription is included in Geoff Egan's catalogue. In this it clearly reads +SVFFOLKE. Another seal on the PAS database has the same cockerel within a lozenge shaped border see ESS-5C1112. The other face of this seal reads COM / SVFF / OLK. Clearly both seals are closely related and connected to the cloth industry of the county of Suffolk. See Geoff Egan "Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum" (1994) item no. 100 p52 & fig 23.
About: Cloth seal NARC-B31093
Post medieval Northamptonshire
The links to examples have changed and are now http://www.bagseals.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=759 and http://www.bagseals.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3319
About: Seal LVPL-A7EE96
Post medieval Cheshire
This is part of an 11th-cent. ("Norman") sword scabbard chape, cf. SUSS-77F477
About: Strap fitting YORYM-C0D198
Early medieval East Riding Of Yorkshire
This is an official alnage seal of Queen Anne. The surviving inscription matches that of Egan (1994) item no. 145. The other face with the fleur-de-lis and '1' records the one penny paid. The fleur-de-lis is not recorded so far associated with Anne's bust. See "Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum" by Geoff Egan (1994) item no:145, p65 and fig. 27.
About: Cloth seal SF-F1D944
Post medieval Suffolk
The coin is a Corio quarter stater. The faint letters COR can be seen down the right hand side of the coin. A coin with the COR legend & the same reverse die recently appeared on the Silbury Coins website.
About: Coin WAW-F64714
Iron age Warwickshire
This appears to be on the database twice - it also appears as NMS-2B5F63. Is it from Norfolk or Suffolk? Thanks, Jane
About: Ingot SF-347272
Early medieval Suffolk
As mentioned on record LIN-059693 this si more likely to be a crayfish or lobster. There are a number of similar records of this device in the county.
About: Stud NLM4682
Medieval Lincolnshire
This is a rowel spur terminal, very similar to an example from Exeter of the second half of the 17th cent. (Allan 1984, 341, fig. 192 no. 145).
Hello, just wanted to make a comment on this artefact record. The image is not very clear, however, this bead may be Iron Age in date rather than early medieval. It is very similar to a bead type described by Haevernick (1993) in 'Glasperlen der vorrömischen Eisenzeit III'. Her 4.3.5 'Concentric thread blue beads' (my translation) have a concentric yellow band that spirals around the circumference of the bead, and she dates them to the La Tene C2/D1 transition. Using the scale bar in the image I have been able to estimate that the diameter of this bead was probably about 20.3 mm, which is in keeping with Haevernick's description. I realise that the image of SWYOR-709171 is not very clear as to the colour of the decorative glass, but it looks as though it could be yellow rather than white. Without personally viewing this bead, or seeing a better photograph, there is a good possibility that it is at least as old as the Iron Age. I hope that this helps. Many thanks, -Elizabeth
About: Bead SWYOR-709171
Iron age North Yorkshire
Mark is correct in his comments. At the time of his comment, the record had been promoted as a 'Possible Vitellius', awaiting further ID and comment from Dr. Philippa Walton, Roman Coins Finds Advisor at the British Museum. Dr. Walton has now updated this record with a correct ID.
About: Coin NARC-22C6E2
Roman Northamptonshire
Thank you so much for spotting this and taking the time to comment. Much appreciated and I've added your comments to the record.
About: Cloth seal WAW-5F8532
Post medieval Staffordshire
I believe this is a 19th/early 20th century lead sealing relating to the bacon curer etc C & T Harris of Calne in Wiltshire. It is therefore not a cloth seal. For a well preserved example see http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=8084&cat=all
About: Cloth seal KENT-4DC0E6
Medieval Kent
I believe this is one half of an official alnage seal for 1 penny. For a complete example of this type see BH-88CF06. The head is thought to be William III.
About: Cloth seal WAW-5F8532
Post medieval Staffordshire
This is a copper duit of Zeeland, Netherlands.
About: Token ESS-57ECD5
Post medieval Essex
Thank you so much for your interesting comment, the information will prove to be very useful.
About: Gunflint WAW-1B6E67
Post medieval Warwickshire
Cloth seal from ARRAS (France) 1460 to 1477. Ref : L. Dancoisne, "Les plombs des draps d'Arras" 1885.
About: Cloth seal BERK-7ED0E4
Post medieval Oxfordshire
I think this is yet another Rotterdam cloth seal bearing the arms of the city. Part of the name survives around the shield [.....]TERDA[.]. The other face is unusual in that part of an inscription survives. Many Rotterdam seals appear to to have a blank second face, some with just a single R in the centre. Other Rotterdam seals on the PAS database are NMS-6DA944; NLM-324E36 and NMS-9FA1F7. A further example is SF9554.
About: Cloth seal SF-E14CD1
Post medieval Suffolk
I believe this to be a Rotterdam cloth seal. The arms are those of the city with part of the name surviving [............] RDAM. The D is possibly reversed. There are so far 3 other recorded Rotterdam seals on the PAS database NMS-9FA1F7; NLM-324E36 & NMS-6DA944. There is also a fourth so far unidentified as relating to Rotterdam but clearly is SF-E14CD1.
About: Cloth seal SF9554
Medieval Suffolk
The legend fot this type is : "SERGE DE BOYS" or "SERGE DV BOYS" Or in french "SERGE DV BOIS". (Serge de Boys 17th century English worsted). Image is a undergrowth.
About: Cloth seal BH-BC2E65
Post medieval Hertfordshire
I recognise this as a cloth seal from the Dutch city of Amersfoort. The arms are those of this city and the inscription can be seen to read AMERSFOORT. For a group of earlier Amersfoort seals see http://wf4.nl/Engels/paginaJan/janlakenloden4engels.htm Amersfoort was famous for a type of cloth known as Bombazine. As to the meaning of the other face I am grateful to Francien Snieder, Archaeologist for the City of Amersfoort, for much of the rest of this comment. The second and third lines of visible text read 'NED EL' (not NEL EL as suggested in the record). This stands for 'Dutch ell'. This term came into use in 1820 when the provinces of the Netherlands were forced by Napolean to accept the metric system. Prior to this date there was no standard length of the ell. Most Dutch cities had their own standards. For instance an ell in Delft measured 68cm but a Middleburg ell was 70cm. The new standard unit 'Dutch ell' continued in use until 1869 when it was replaced by the term metre. With the meaning of 'NED EL' now being understood the first line makes more sense if it represents a numeral. A close examination of this line seems to me to suggest that it reads '14'. Francien Snieder informs me that the Amersfoort textile industry continued to be important till about 1860. The earliest date this seal could have is 1820. However the numbers 2 and 1 either side of the arms would seem to date it to precisely 1821. Compare the way the dates of the earlier seals are represented in the above website. I am grateful to Francien Snieder whose information has led to the proper identification of this seal. She has also commented that it is not recorded in the Netherlands and is previously unknown.
About: Cloth seal SWYOR-26BD08
Modern Lincolnshire
There is no numismatic data for this coin: reverse: TR POT XIIII COS IIII DES IIII. Salus-Fortuna Standing Left, feeding snake arising from altar and holding rudder set on globe, RIC 752, Minted in Rome AD144
About: Coin NARC-CE2112
Roman Buckinghamshire
This is a post-med sword belt fitting, see Margeson, S. Norwich Households, East Anglia Archaeology 58 (1993), 38, fig.22 nos. 257-8
About: Mount LEIC-0008E1
Post medieval Leicestershire
Looking at the potrait, I think an attribution of Trajan is far more likely than Vitellius
About: Coin NARC-22C6E2
Roman Northamptonshire
The portraiture looks more akin to Allectus than Gallienus
About: Coin NARC-7123C7
Roman Northamptonshire
The obverse looks more like Marcus Aurelius than Antoninus Pius to me.
About: Coin NARC-EDC815
Roman Bedfordshire
The obverse looks more like Septimius Severus than an antonine emperor
About: Coin NARC-080C12
Roman Northamptonshire
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