Record ID: SUSS-137EF4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-Medieval 17th century cast copper alloy mount with two integral lugs on the reverse. The mount is sub-triangular in plan. There is floriate and curvilinear decoration and possibly a front facing head at the top. It is dark black-green in colour, with traces of a black lacquer. It is 24mm long, 8.5mm wide, 2.2mm thick and weighs 1.72g. It could be a belt mount or horse furniture. Mounts with similar shape and decoration can be seen in Read. 2001. Fig. 20, Pg.35. A similar object can be found on the database: ESS-56C795.
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 18th September 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-136BE5
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete cast copper-alloy medieval one piece hooked tag. The tag is convex with moulded relief. It has a solid-domed boss bearing a classical-style human facing-mask within two concentric circles , the inner linear and the outer pellets, and a cabled border. The hook is missing. The loop is trapazoidal in shape. Cf. Read. 2008. Class E, Type 3, No. 323. This style of hooked tag has been found in contexts dating from 1500 to 1625 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th June 2014
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Record ID: SUSS-12D676
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver cut halfpenny of Henry II, Richard I, John or Henry III, dating to the period 1180 - 1247. Voided short-cross coinage, uncertain class. No further details recorded.
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Last updated: Monday 12th August 2019
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Record ID: SUSS-12D646
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval cut half voided short-cross penny of Henry II, dating from AD 1180 to 1189. Winchester mint. Moneyer RODBERT. Class 1a. North, English Hammered Coinage Vol. 1 (1994) p220, No.962.
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 18th September 2013
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Record ID: BERK-11CC63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy lozenge-shaped plate brooch, dating to the Roman period. The brooch is incomplete, having suffered damage around the upper edges of the plate; the brooch has several circular cells arranged around two larger central cells; the lower cells retain some of their blue and red / orange enamelling. The reverse retains the small copper loop for the pin hinge; there is iron corrosion around this area possibly suggesting an iron pin; the catch plate is mostly missing. No direct comparison could be found for this brooch. At first it was thought that it may actually be part o…
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Adderbury area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-0FD2A6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very small copper alloy medieval belt or strap fitting with hanging decoration. The copper strap is formed of a single rectangular sheet bent over on itself and secure to the strap by two copper alloy rivets, both extant. The loop of the strap bar holds a small trefoil openwork mount. Although a very small example, this mount is probably of a similar date and function, being a strap mount or fitting dating from the 13th - 15th Century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 20th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bicester area', grid reference and parish protected.