Record ID: IHS-0BB4C1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy, circular seal matrix with hexagonal handle topped with pierced pointed suspension loop. Device of a shield couché (at an angle) bearing a coat of arms; on its upper right-hand corner, a helm. On top of the helm is the crest, a (right) hand clutching a palm of victory, which rests in the lettering area of the matrix, the palm fronds pointing to the right. The arms are quarterly a chevron between three birds and a fess between three crescents. A line, broken by the shield and crest, separates the device from the legend; a complete line runs around the outer edge of the …
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2013
No spatial data available.

Record ID: IHS-0BA4C2
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy, vesica-shaped (pointed oval) seal matrix, suspension loop intact on reverse. Device: the angel showing the empty tomb after Christ's resurrection. The angel is on the left, sitting on the edge of a cross-hatched rectangular tomb, whose open lid is propped up vertically inside it. Although the angel is seated facing the viewer, his upper body is turned to his left, such that his right wing is visible running down the left-hand edge of the scene, and his face is in profile. In his right hand he holds what appears to be a scroll, whilst he indicates the empty tomb with his…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SF-069508
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy knob-handle which is most likely to be a Roman furniture fitting. The knob has a circular cross-section and measures 23.9mm in length and 17.6mm in width. It has a rounded terminal which is decorated with a deep circumferencial groove it is then waisted before flaring back into a larger terminal again with circumferencial grooves and mouldings. This larger terminal end has a flat underside and a fragment of corroded iron protrudes from this, this is most likely to be the remains of an iron shaft. This shaft fragment appears to have had a square cross-section original…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charsfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-066C13
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Charles I Royal farthing 1625-49
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hessett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-064825
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The object is possibly a harness fitting, or a strap guide. The heavy surface pitting and style perhaps suggests a late Iron Age or early Roman date. In plan the object is a sub-rectangle with expanded and rounded terminals and abraded edges. This terminals form a flange for the body of the object which is, in profile, a horizontal sub-crescentic shape. The apex of the object is the upper surface, the concave surface the underside. The apex of the object has a small central conical shaped cell. On the reverse one terminal appears to have the remains of an integral lug or stud. T…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 27th December 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-05C243
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy hair pin, 84mm long and 8mm wide. The object is in good condition with a brown patina and weighs 8.57 grams. It consists of a circular shaft, 4mm in diameter, which is centrally decorated with three incised loops, 15mm apart. The pin head is in the form of a bird, either a chicken or a dove? The bird is perched on the end of the pin and has a solid kinked leg. It has a rectangular body and fanned tail. The body has one cup and ring mark at the front of each side and the tail has a central one in its upper surface. It has a curving neck and large round head with a poi…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-057073
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The sherd is a fragment of a vessel rim. The wall of the vessel is quite straight. It is made from abraded Samian ware, which may date to the 1st to 2nd century. The fabric is fine, and a orange red colour, whereas the surfaces are a dark brown/red colour with a developed shine. There is no decoration. The sherd weighs 7.2g and is abraded.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BERK-0538F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver coin: penny of Edward VI Class IV (AD1461-1470). Dimensions: diameter: 14.05mm; weight: 0.54g. Reference: Wren, C. R. 1995. The English Long-Cross Pennies 1279-1489, Edward I to Henry VII. Plantagenet Books. Herne Bay p.125
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blenheim', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-0539A2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver denarius of Severus Alexander, RIC55, 7899 Sear.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-0502E5
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper alloy harness mount 48 mm long and 44mm wide. The object is T shaped and consists of a central human face flanked by two shafts which would have terminated in suspension loops. the lower shaft is triangular in form and emerges from the base of the face and may also have held a fitting.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2016
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Record ID: WAW-04F7C2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The sherd is a fragment of the base and body of a vessel, possibly a jug. The exterior surface of the body, at the base is undulating, with a pinch mark. There is also a trace of a brown/green glaze on the base. The sherd probably dates to the Medieval period. The fabric is quite hard. The surfaces are an orange colour whereas the core is a mid grey colour. The sherd weighs 11.9g and is slightly abraded.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-04EC13
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy coin: sestersius of Antoninus Pius (AD138-161). Dimensions: diameter: 30.96mm; thickness: 4.59mm; weight: 21.25g.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-04BCE8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of Constantine I, RIC232b.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-04C803
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy coin: nummus, a commemerative issue of Constantine I (AD330-335). Dimensions: diameter: 14.96mm; weight: 1.36g. Sear, D. 1988. Roman coins and their values. Seaby, London. p. 327.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Faringdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-04CD20
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy clothes fastener. The object appears to be only part of something. A curved half cylinder of copper alloy plate forms the main part of the artefact; the front surface of this is decorated with a series of parallel criss-cross lines. This design is then frames within a raise line around the edges of the plate. The cylinder shape in wider at one end than the other, it tapers to the thinner end. A small, thin, tapering projection extends from the middle of the thinner end of the half cylinder. The reverse is undecorated. An almost identical object has been described in…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LEIC-04C5A3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle, 64mm long and 21 mm wide. The object has a decorative integral plate which has two rivet holes and traces of iron. The buckle pin is missing but corrosion on the lipped pin rest suggests it was iron. The plate has a triangular terminal and a central indented section of 'twisted rope' decoration flanked by small protrusions on each side.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-04BB55
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments from the same (or two very similar) gilded copper alloy object; probably Roman. Each of the fragments are rectangular and flat sectioned – the original object would have been long and thin. FRAGMENT 1 There are opposing side loops towards one end of the fragment; both are broken. One surface is decorated with a linear design made up of diagonal lines creating a central diagonal cross shape with triangles and/or lozenges in the angles, all within a rectangular border. The other side has three deep longitudinal grooves, the middle of which is decorated with incuse…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-04B494
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead alloy ampulla, 59mm long and 29m wide. The ampulla is bag shaped with a rounded base and rectangular neck. It has scallop shell decoration on one side of its lower half and what appears to be an image of an ampulla on the other.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-04B2B7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of the blade of a cast copper alloy socketed axehead of late Bronze Age date. The crescent-shaped cutting edge is 50.15mm in width from blade tip to blade tip and is slightly corroded.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westbury-sub-Mendip area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-048BB1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman Patera with the following dimensions: Depth of bowl internal 78mm Depth of bowl external 93mm Diameter of bowl external at top 160mm Diameter of bowl at base 102mm Length of handle 144mm Thickness of metal varies considerably. The object is a copper alloy saucepan. The bowl has a thick rim that is turned outwards so that it is at a right angle to the wall of the bowl. There is a pattern of concentric rings on the base of the pan, visible both on the inside but more markedly on the outside, the rings of the inside are not related to those of the outside. The sides of the hand…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2005
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded.