Record ID: SOM-43C137
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two sherds of Samian ware pottery of probable early Roman date. One sherd is the central part of a base from a bowl and the other is a body sherd from a bowl with a slight carination. Both sherds are micaceous with pinkish-orange fabrics suggesting that they are Lezoux (Central Gaulish) products. Total weight: 49.3g
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 25th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Horethorne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-436AC4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy nummus of Fausta, dating to AD 324-5 (Reece Period 16), SALVS REI PVBLICAE, Empress standing, facing, holding two children. Mint of Trier. RIC VII, p. 205, no. 459.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Sunday 9th May 2021
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Record ID: LVPL-4214D5
Object type: STUD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman lock pin. The shaft is square in section and has broken just below the head. The head is formed of an upside down hollow dome above a disc. The upper dome has a central circular shaft set in it which protrudes above the top. A similar example can be seen in the Colchester report, p.124/5, no.4143.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-3FAA73
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver finger ring dating from the Roman period. The ring has a diameter of 25.4mm and is 4.3mm thick. The hoop is D shaped in section and the outer edge is decorated with transverse grooves. The ring was found in a secure context which could be dated from the pottery finds to the second century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 14th January 2021
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Record ID: LVPL-4275F3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy headstud bow brooch from the 2nd century. The pin is hinged, with a cylindrical axis, it has broken at the very top. The bow has broken before the foot, some of the catchplate remains. The bow is square in section with very definite edges. The head is stepped before the loop, although it has broken so only the base of the loop remains. There is a beaded raised line below the loop. On the top of the bow is a cylindrical stud which passes through the bow to form a stud on the front. Surrounding this are short radiating lines. The back of the bow at this part is hollow,…
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 21st May 2020
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Record ID: LVPL-428501
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Headstud variant brooch dating to the 2nd century AD. The bow has broken just below the boss. The boss is cast integrally with the brooch. It is circular with a quatrefoil pattern. The pin is hinged and has broken just after the top. The wings have squared ends which then are stepped down towards the bow. There is the remains of what may have been a lug, although this would have been purely decorative, not having a spring to hold in place.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 21st May 2020
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Record ID: WAW-3DC324
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
9 clay pipe bowl fragments. The bowl fragments are from a variety of different pipes, all of which are undecorated except for a line of rouletting near the bowl rim. The fragments are made from moulded fine white clay. The stems weigh 147g. Clay pipes were made in England from the mid 17th to the early 20th century. To date more precisely clay pipes the pipe bowl or any decoration is need. As there are no diagnostic features on these stems, they are given this broad dating range, but they are probably not dated to the 19th to 20th century due to the lack of ornate decoration.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
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Record ID: WAW-3DFE31
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
7 clay pipe bowls made from moulded fine white clay. The bowls in profile lean forwards, and has a slightly swollen profile. The bowls are quite small. The only decoration is rouletting just below the rim. Three bowls have heels remaining, but these are large undecorated oval platforms. The bowls together weigh 49.9g. According to Oswald (1975) the shape of the bowl suggests it was made in the late 17th century, c.1680- c.1710.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
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Record ID: WAW-3E7183
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
3 clay pipe bowl/stem junction fragments. The fragments do not have a full bowl profile and therefore cannot be dated precisely. Two fragments do have the pipe heels and these are large oval platforms which are undecorated. The fragments are made from moulded fine white clay. The fragments together weigh 84g. Clay pipes were made in England from the mid 17th to the early 20th century. To date more precisely clay pipes the pipe bowl or any decoration is need. As there are no diagnostic features on these fragments, they are given this broad dating range, but they are probably not dated …
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
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Record ID: WAW-437CA3
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A moulded clay pipe incomplete bowl with the heel is missing. The bowl is incomplete, and is made from a white clay. In profile the bowl appears to lean forward at c. 45 º. It is a a long slender bowl with convex sides, particularly the lower edge. The only decoration, which is a maker's mark, is on the heel consisting of a high-relief asterix/star, which may be a wheel with 8 spokes. The bowl weighs 6.9g. The bowl dates to the late 17th century to early 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
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Record ID: LIN-415F24
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular lead seal matrix. The matrix has a small incomplete loop on the reverse. The face of the seal is decorated with an eight pointed star with a pellet in each angle. The inscription surrounding reads: S'CRISTINE BOTERCAhE (Seal of Christine Buttercake?) It is difficult to suggest any modern surname that this may have developed into.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 21st January 2020
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Record ID: LVPL-4049B4
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bowl and stem of a Post-medieval clay pipe. The stem has broken just after the foot so not much of the stem remains. The foot is just a flat stand. The rim of the bowl is broken but appears to be plain. The bowl is filled with mud.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-3FFCE5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A ceramic vessel; a jug dating from the late seventeenth or eighteenth century. The jug is 243mm high and has a diameter of 155mm. It is made from Cistertian Ware which has a red coloured fabric and a lustrous very dark brown glaze. It was made in the Wrenthorpe Potteries in Wakefield. The jug is complete. There is a small recent break which has been repaired. The jug was found by chance in a Bell Pit in the 1920s.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Sunday 31st March 2019
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Record ID: WILT-4267F5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy two-piece book-clasp with hinged plate and loop. The open end of the sheet plate has two piercings for rivets, one with a copper-alloy rivet in situ. This end and the two long edges have a groove flanking them on one face, with rocker-arm decoration inside. The rivets would have held a strap attached to one cover of the book. The cast 'loop' or hinged end is D-shaped, with a raised rib with circular punch decoration along the straight edge of the D, parallel to the separate copper-alloy hinge bar. In the centre of the D is a perforation 2.2mm in diameter. T…
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-3E1880
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead alloy brooch of Weetch's type 4.A, which dates to the late Anglo-Saxon period (10th century). The brooch is a flat circular disc with a diameter of 39.1mm, and is a maximum of 11mm thick including the pin fittings. There is an area missing from one edge. The front of the brooch is decorated in relief with three concentric circles round the edge, then a band decorated with raised circles, then two concentric circles, a band decorated with depressed ovals and the centre is divided into quadrants by a raised straight-armed cross with a projecting boss in the very centre. The rever…
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fillingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-408AE4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Medieval swivel Romanesque in style, dating to the 11/12th century. This would have been a D-shaped loop. The loop is not complete, it has broken at the top where it was thinnest. The loop thickens towards the central domed element. There are engraved details highlighting the cast features on the animal-head terminals and finely incised and pecked decoration on the central domed element. On each side of the loop there are 2 eyes. Around the bottom of the dome are small incised dots. This artefact is one half of a swivel fitting which would originally have consisted of two…
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-3DFC91
Object type: CUTLERY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy pastry jigger dating from the post medieval period. Only the forked attachment and the wheel survive, with the handle missing. The surviving part is 49.2mm long, 34.5mm wide and 9.2mm thick. The wheel is openwork with four radiating struts. The teeth are arranged in groups of three which is a slightly unusual feature. There is a patchy black coating which can often suggest a seventeenth century date. Similar examples can be seen in Bailey's "Detector Finds", page 96 dated from the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 11th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-3DB1F7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap end dating from the late medieval period. The strap end is the sort with a hollow socket and ornate decoration, sometimes knows as lyre shaped. In this example, the lyre shaped decoration has broken off, leaving just the hollow socket. This is 23.9mm long, 21.5mm wide and 7.1mm thick. It is an integrally cast box with the corroded remains of two rivets at the attachment end which would have held the strap in place. The front of the box is decorated with a blackletter lower case A on a background of wavy lines. There are three raised moulded bars above, before the …
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wragby', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: DEV-43CD38
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a Late Medieval Venetian silver soldino probably of Doge Agostin Barbarigo (1486-1501). Late type (LAVS TIBI SOLI reverse type). The soldino was known as the galyhalpens (galley-halfpence) as it was brought by the annual Venetian trading fleets. The soldino was about the size of English halfpennies and was popular because of a contemporary lack of small change: soldini in fact occur as English finds more often than proper halfpennies of the period.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-3DE5B8
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy harness mount with a hinge fitting at one end which is probably medieval in date. The plate is lozenge shaped in plan, with a trilobed projection from the centre of each edge. The front of the plate is decorated with a quatrefoil shape cast as a recess. There are also two circular rivet holes, one at each end of the plate. At one end of the plate projects a double lug, one of which is broken, with a transverse circular hole through the surviving lug. This is part of a hinge fitting. A late medieval date is the most likely.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wragby', grid reference and parish protected.