Record ID: IOW-778F78
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post-Medieval cast lead or lead alloy circular double-sided token (c. 1500-c. 1850). Powell Type 2. The token has raised initial letters: T C on one side. The other side has a raised design consisting of two back-to-back arcs with a horizontal line joining them and a vertical line through the centre which is arranged almost as a fleur-de-lis motif. This token is grey overall. Diameter: 15.9mm. Weight: 3.26g. Lead tokens had a wide variety of potential uses such as tallies, gaming pieces, tickets, weights, etc. and are believed to have been locally produced; they…
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-773424
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal with privy mark (1550-1700). A two disc seal with a joining strip. Disc 1 (incomplete): Raised letters P R at side of central staff Disc 2: Raised radiating lines emanating from letter N Height: 19.84mm; width: 17.96mm. Weight: 3.38g.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-76D6A1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped and worn Medieval silver groat of Edward III (1327-1377), minted at York. Series E, 1354-1355. (North 1991: 51, ref: 1164). Obverse: [ ]; Crowned bust facing within a tressure of arches Reverse: Outer: [POSVI/DEVM A/DIVTOR/EM MEV] (I have made God my Helper); Inner: CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI (nick in right limb of V); Long cross dividing the inscriptions with three pellets in each quadrant Diameter: 23.0mm. Weight: 2.75g. North, J. J. 1991. English Hammered Coinage, Volume II, Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662. Spink & Son, London.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-7674A7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-Medieval Augsburg cast lead cloth seal (1500-1650). A two disc seal. This seal is of the type used on bales of fustian originating from the Bavarian city of Augsburg. Disc 1. Capital A with a chevron bar and an annulet at each side and one below. Disc 2. Missing. The seal has a buff patina overall. Diameter: 17.95mm; thickness: 4.22mm. Weight: 3.97g. A very similar seal recorded in 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items at the British Museum' by Geoff Egan, (Egan 1994: 106, fig. 41, refs: 308-310) has been attributed to Augsburg in Germany. They ar…
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-763AB4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A clipped medieval silver halfgroat of Edward III (1327-1377). Fourth coinage, pre-Treaty period, Series C (North 1148) dating to 1351-1352. Mint of London. North (1975, 38). The coin measures 21.34mm in diameter, 0.76mm thick and weighs 1.994g. It has a ghosting mark of a reverse cross on the obverse.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Friday 10th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr Wimborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-761AF6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Roman contemporary copy of a nummus of the House of Constantine - CONSTANTINOPOLIS, dating to the period c. AD 330-340 (Reece period 17). Mint prototype: Trier. Mintmark: - // (TRS) Obverse: [ ]NOPOLIS (blundered); Helmeted bust left Reverse: Victory standing on prow left Diameter: 12.7mm. Weight: 0.74g. DA=12:6.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-75EA85
Object type: CHAFING DISH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (16th century ) chafing dish handle: The copper alloy chafing dish handle is incomplete and may have been sub-triangular frame in plan originally, but is now distorted. The attachment fitting to the chafing dish is still in place. This is a thick oval framed lug with a short circular platform protruding from the base. The handle has a mottled dark green patina. It measures 59.27mm long from the attachment fitting to the terminal of the handle, 58.25mm wide across the two handle terminals and the attachment is 14.49mm thick. It weighs 29.5g. Chafing dishes were domestic u…
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: WAW-75D544
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two Post Medieval (c. 1500 to 1850) lead uniface tokens: 1. The design consists of a cross with a pellet in each quarter - possibly Powell Type 31. The reverse is undecorated. The surface is a matte oxidised cream colour. The tokens measure 19.12mm diameter, 3.18mm thick, weighs 5g. 2. The design consists of a possible cross-crosslet - possibly Powell Type 31. The reverse is undecorated. The surface is a matte oxidised cream colour. The tokens measure 14.57mm diameter, 3.4mm thick, weighs 2.8g. Lead tokens had a wide variety of potential uses such as use as tallies, gaming pi…
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th March 2014
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Record ID: WAW-75BE61
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval (c. AD 1200 - c. AD 1400) barb-spring barrel padlock: The copper alloy barrel case is octagonal in cross-section throughout its length. The surface is decorated with double-strands of small triangular cells forming wavy lines along the length of the case, on the upper face. At each terminal there is two parallel transverse grooves as decoration as well. The lower face has file marks across it. One terminal is slightly abraded, and off-set within the casing there is a 'H' shaped bar forming two perforations. The opposite terminal of the case is incomplete, and the damage is re…
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th March 2014
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Record ID: WAW-758963
Object type: TOBACCO HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (c. 1600 - 1800) tobacco jar handle: The lead alloy lid handle, in plan is a lozenge shape, and the handle is in the form of an eight-petalled flower with a central, circular knop projecting from a flat collar. On the reverse there is an integral sub-conical whose underside has a integral stud. The upperside has patches of a black shiny coating. It is 19.67mm long, 14.31mm wide and 16.75mm tall. It weighs 8.8gm. Similar examples are illustrated in G Bailey's 'Finds identified', 2000, page 62, which he dates to the middle of the 17th century and states that the lead bo…
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-736D25
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constantius II. Reverse; FEL TEMP REPARATIO, Soldier spearing fallen horseman. Reece period 18. Circa 355-361 AD.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
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Record ID: BH-734870
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy harness link, dating from the Early-Medieval to Medieval periods. At one end of the piece is a damaged boss with a recessed pellet at its centre and a right-angled lobe projecting from its top and bottom sides. A D-sectioned bar extends from one side of this boss, terminating in a lozengiform loop with moulded lobe on each point. The inner edges of this loop are heavily worn, particularly at the distal end. The underside of the boss is concave and the underside of the loop is angled. Length: 37.1mm; width: 18.4mm; thickness: 5.5mm; weight: 6.5g. Thi…
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 24th March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-732955
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular copper alloy Roman coin, copying a House of Constantine nummus. Reverse; FEL TEMP REPARATIO, fallen horseman type. Reece period 18. Circa 353-364 AD.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
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Record ID: BH-7325D4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle, dating from the post-Medieval period. The surviving side of the frame is roughly trapezoidal, the vertical outer side extending to a pointed pin rest, a rounded projection on each corner and at the ends of the axis bar. The frame is of flat section and is decorated on its upper surface by a series of moulded pellets and scrolls. Length: 30.4mm; width: 45.2mm; thickness: 3.3mm; weight: 10.9g. Similar buckles are illustrated by Ross Whitehead, who suggests a 17th century date (1996: 83, cf. nos. 520 and 521).
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 24th March 2014
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Record ID: BH-7318E1
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy seal-top spoon, dating from the early post-Medieval period. The bowl is missing, but much of the stem remains, surmounted by the knop. The stem is of sub-rectangular section and of roughly equal width and thickness throughout. The baluster-moulded knop has a flat circular top, into which have been stamped the initials 'C' (above) 'W D'. Length: 77.7mm; width: 13.2m; weight: 13g.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 24th March 2014
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Record ID: BH-730D97
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver shilling of James I, struck 1603 - 1625. Most of the legend has been clipped from this coin, reducing it to the diameter of a sixpence. Diameter: 24.9mm; thickness: 0.6mm; weight: 3.6g.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
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Record ID: BH-730761
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sixpence of Charles I. Tower mint under the king, struck 1625 - 1642. Diameter: 25.1mm; thickness: 0.5mm; weight: 2.8g.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-72FA04
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn copper alloy farthing of Charles II. Further details illegible.Circa 1672-1679 AD.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
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Record ID: ESS-72C684
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Complete gold finger ring of Post Medieval date. The band is 'D' shaped in section with a flat inner face and curved outer face. The inner face bears the lower-case italic inscription True to thee yle ever be followed by a marker's mark. The maker's mark is either MB or AW and is in a rectangular cartouche. The exterior of the finger-ring is undecorated. There is a similar finger-ring with the inscription 'True to thee Ile ever be' in the British Museum's collection (1961,1202. 378) dated to the 17th to 18th century. Another finger-ring with the inscription 'True to thee I[ll] …
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Colchester Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-72BE12
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A circular bezel from a late medieval or early post-medieval silver-gilt finger-ring. The bezel is decorated with a bust of a female figure in high relief, wearing a headdress or hood. The figure is set against a hatched background. The face of the figure is worn and the gilding does not survive. The back is plain, and the hoop has broken off on either side of the bezel. The bezel dates to the 15th - early 16th century. Dimensions: diameter 9.5 mm; depth 4 mm.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Friday 4th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Colchester Area', grid reference and parish protected.