Record ID: SWYOR-7D2B24
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy polyhedral pin head dating from the Early Medieval period, about AD 720 to 850. The head is in the shape of a cuboid with the corners cut off, and each cube face is decorated with a ring-and-dot stamp. There are four ring and dots on the two larger faces; all others have one, including the triangular faces. There is a collar below the head and a slightly hipped shaft which is bent sideways. The end of the shaft is square (probably trncated) and patinated. The metal has a light green patina. The pin is 37.5mm long, 9.83mm wide and 5.52mm thick. 3.88g. There are sim…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Sunday 10th August 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-7CF1C9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy, double loop, asymmetrical buckle of post-Medieval date, AD 1575 - 1700. One loop is rectangular and the other is sub-oval. Both loops have moulded decoration. On the outer edge of the rectangular loop are five lobed knops and there are further rounded knops at two symmetrical points on the outer edge of the rounded loop and at each end of the strap bar. The pin is missing. The buckle has a light brown patina. It is 23.55mm long, 18.35mm wide and 2.62mm thick. It weighs 2.83gm. A similar buckle is illustrated in Whitehead, 2003, Buckles 1250 - 1800, page 92, n…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 1st May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Selby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-7CD1E9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman headstud brooch dating from AD 75 - 200. It has cylindrical wings with a slot for the copper alloy pin, and containing a copper alloy axis bar. Only the head of the hinged pin survives. The front of the wings are decorated with transverse bands decorated, from the bow outwards, with beading, a plain ridge, a wavy line, a plain ridge and beading (the other wing matching this pattern too). At the top of the bow is a vertical raised ridge; a pseudo forward hook. The integral headstud is a raised ovoid area with a circle of blue enamel surrounded by a ring of red enam…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 26th April 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-7CABFA
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy figurine of an eagle with outspread wings dating from AD 1725 - 1800. The eagle is portrayed with outstretched wings with its head turned to left; the head and body, including its underside, carry engraved details representing facial features and feathers; at the base of the figurine just above the legs of the eagle is an irregular breakage representing the remains of an attachment feature. An identical figurine can be seen as the handle on the lid of a mid 18th century kettle (Koper & Brons, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1986, cat. no. 262, p188) thus confirming the susp…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Sunday 10th August 2014
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7C7486
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy double loop buckle, with a triangular outside edge and pin notch. The opposite loop is missing. The buckle dates from AD 1500-1650.
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tenterden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-7C6154
Object type: PROCESSIONAL CROSS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy figurine of a Saint, probably John the Evangelist, dating from about AD 1400 - 1530. This three dimensional figurine is a tall slender man. He wears a long robe and is draped in a mantle. He appears to be holding a book in his left hand and holds his right hand up, palm facing forwards, possibly in blessing. A small stub on the top of the head probably indicates a broken-off nimbus. His hair is Romanesque in style. His eyes are lentoid and raised, as is the triangular nose. Much gilding survives on the front and the back. The figurine is sub-rectangular in …
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7B9F92
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large and incomplete, cast copper alloy buckle dating to the Post Medieval period (c.1500-1650 AD). The buckle is a double loop type comprising of a 'D'-shaped loop either side of a central strap bar which is now missing. The frame is D shaped in section with a flat inner side and back and a rouned upper face.The remainder of the strap bar is round in section and terminates at each end in a pointed knop. The pin is missing and the frame has been bent and twisted. Its 36.09 mm in length, 32.64 mm in width, 2.15 mm in thickness and weighs 5.0 g. Whitehead (2003) shows similar double l…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rolvenden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-7B88A2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of Late Bronze Age copper alloy ingots, containing one complete plano-convex or 'bun' shaped ingot, four fragments of plano-convex ingot and two fragments of probable ingot, rectangular in cross-section. All have surfaces pitted, rough and corroding. One fragment has had a recent section cut on one edge. 1) 1338g, plano-convex ingot, measuring c.111mm in diameter and 35.95mm in max.height. 2) 346g, incomplete plano-convex ingot, just less than half surviving. Measures 89.32mm in length, 53.08mm in width and 26.99mm in height. Original diameter c.90mm. 3) 294g, fragmen…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 12th August 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-7A520D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy probable leg from a vessel, perhaps an ewer. It probably dates from the late Medieval or Early Post Medieval periods. The leg is obliquely angled, octagonal in section and terminates in a hoof like moulding. The top end is complete and is slightly rounded. It has a circular hole in the end, presumably where the leg was attache to the rest of the vessel. Parallels of ewers with three legs can be seen in the Finds Research Group Datasheet 7; Bronze Aquamaniles and Ewers (1987) by J M Lewis. They date from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The leg is 36.6mm long, 15.52…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Sunday 10th August 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-7A20CB
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy strap slide of late Iron Age to early Roman date, about 100 BC - AD 100. It is a "boss and petal" design similar to Class 3 button and looop fasteners. The object comprises a prominent dome within a raised pointed ovate border forming a typical Iron Age style "eye" design. Projecting from the reverse is a rectangular attachment loop which runs the full length of the fitting. The metal has a smooth brown patina with green corrosion where chipped. The strap slide is 29.2mm long, 17.74mm wide, 16.61mm thick and weighs 8.65g. Compare YORYM-6634B6.
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Sunday 10th August 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-79F836
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The central forked spacer from a composite or three piece strap end of Medieval date, about AD 1250 -1450. The spacer is a plate at the closed end, the sides extending into two prongs forming a fork at the attachment end, to provide a recess for the strap. It is sub-rectangular in plan, with a pointed closed end terminating in a small knop. There is a surviving copper alloy rivet through the closed end. Both the front and back plates are missing. The spacer is 26.53mm long, 15.5mm wide and 1.1mm thick. 2.1g.
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Sunday 31st January 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-79C0C8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap end of Early Medieval date, about AD 700 - 900. The strap end is of Thomas' Class A, Type 1 with a very devolved zoomorphic terminal and Trewhiddle style decoration. The strap end is a pointed oval in shape with a zoomorphic terminal at the closed end and a slightly convex open split terminal with two rivet holes at the attachment end. The strap end is cast in one piece but the attachment end is split into an upper and lower plate to allow the strap material to be fitted. One copper alloy rivet survives. Between the rivet holes on the upper surface i…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 30th December 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-79830D
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Post-Medieval (AD 1500-1700) openwork cast copper alloy hooked tag of Read's Class E Type 3 (circular/sub-circular), with the rectangular attachment loop missing. The sub-circular openwork plate consists of a central crosshatched object, probably a pinecone or pineapple, with a V-shaped moulded area beneath. On each side is a moulded, engrailed or foliate edge with four small circular perforations to either side. A D-sectioned shank extends below, terminating in a pointed hook. Compare WILT-D523B1 which cites Read, 2008: nos. 402-404. The tag is 28.64mm long, 14…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Sunday 10th August 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-793934
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman brooch, probably a Dolphin type dating from AD 43 - 65. Only the head of the brooch survives. It has long thin wings which hide a spring of 6 turns on each side. this is held by a loop cast in one with the bow. There is also a copper alloy axis bar. There are the stubs surviving of a forwrd pointed hook on top of the bow. This would have held the chord which would have extended from the axis bar. The remaining part of the bow is circular in section. The copper alloy has a brown patina. The brooch is 17mm long, 30mm wide and 10.8mm thick. 6.03g.
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 12th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-78D9E8
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy hollow-cast unidentified object. The object consists of a hollow ovoid terminal knop with an integral narrowed, concave-sided tubular neck. At the centre of the ovoid end there is a 6mm circular hole. The biased nature of the weight suggests the ovoid end is not uniformly hollow and whilst the internal diameter of the hollow neck is cleared through the middle of the knop to the end hole, there is substantial mass between this void and the internal wall of the knop. Investigation with a probe to obtain a sample shows this to be a reddish sand of uniform grain size (see pho…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
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Record ID: SWYOR-78C3DA
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Post Medieval key probably from casket and dating from the late 17th to 18th century. It has an oval-sectioned hollow shank (pipe key) with a triple-collared openwork bow with terminal knop, and a rectangular bit with just a very slight cleft in the leading edge by the shaft, and a similar shallow cleft in the following edeg at the opposite side. It has a smooth green patina. A matching example is NMS-F9C951. The key is 47.5mm long, 21.23mm wide and 5.85mm thick. 8.03g.
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Sunday 10th August 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-789AB5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-Medieval cast copper alloy 'S'-shaped snake belt fastener dating from about AD 1550 to 1625. The fastener is decorated on both faces with animal head terminals and with moulded scale-like decoration. At the centre is a central collar and acanthus style decoration. One terminal is missing. The casting seam is not very well trimmed. The object has a coarse surface with a grey patina. Record IOW-84E19D is a very similar object. The record notes that: "S-shaped 'snake belt' fasteners were probably associated with sword belts in the 17th and 18th centuries and para…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 25th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-75F774
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Post Medieval thimble or sewing ring. Sides taper inwards from an originally circular (now flattened) open base to an open top. The spiral punches are regular and oval in shape and start approximately one third of the way up from the base, There is also a narrow band running around the circumference of the thimble at this point, straddled by what could be a small makers mark. Below this, equally spaced between the band and the base, there are two wider bands with fine parallel vertically offset decoration. There is significant remains of black lacquer mainly around the bo…
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-72CB80
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy mount dating to the Post-Medieval period, c.17th century AD. The object is in the form of an acorn with a pointed tip and a rounded projection at the base. The rear of the object is slightly concave with the remains of integral lugs for attachment at either end. The object has a dark green patina. The mount is 19.47 mm in length, 10.29 mm wide, 2.48 mm thick and weighs 2.1 grams. Similar mounts can be found in Read, 2001, p. 35-37.
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 8th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Udimore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-7292BA
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-Medieval copper-alloy mount. The central portion of the plate-like mount is trapezoidal. At the top is a pointed-oval projection with a protruding collar at its base; at the bottom of the mount, there is an oval projection. There are two integral rivets on the reverse of the mount, both of which have been snapped off. The surface of the mount has been tinned, the mount measures 25.32 mm in length and 8.61 mm in width and is 4.40 mm thick. It weighs 1.6 grams.
Created on: Sunday 10th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stone cum ebony', grid reference and parish protected.