Record ID: ESS-A981B4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Roman glass bath flask. This fragment represents the rim and the fragmentary remains of the neck of the flask with one complete handle. The rim is flat and circular in plan with a diameter of 37.34mm. The circular opening to the flask, which has a diameter of 14.32mm, is set off centre. Approximately one quarter of the circumference of the neck survives. Attached at one broken edge is the handle. The handle is formed from a separate trail of glass applied to the shoulder of the flask and trailed up the neck to the underside of the rim. It is then looped back to the shoulder…
Created on: Thursday 23rd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-A91E61
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2nd to 3rd century copper alloy Roman brooch. Hattatt describes this brooch as an oval brooch with intaglio, though the intaglio is missing from this example. The brooch is flat, oval in plan, with a length of 27.46mm and a width of 21.78mm. It has a moulded, raised outer rim and a slightly higher moulded raised inner oval rim, within which the missing intaglio would have been fixed. The inner oval rim is 4mm from the outer edge and has an internal length of 15.1mm and an internal width of 10.2mm. It creates a recess that is 2mm deep. The brooch weighs 6.91g. Around the edge of the inn…
Created on: Thursday 23rd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-99F7E1
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy circular Roman mount sometimes known as a ‘bell shaped stud’. The object is circular in plan with a flared trapezoidal section that extends from a short neck that is circular in section. The ‘underside’ of the bell or flared area is countersunk with a flat bottom. Protruding from the centre of the countersunk area is a conical boss, approximately 1mm high that has a concave circular depression in its tip, making it flat across its top. To the reverse of the ‘neck’ portion of the object is a significant patch of orangey brown copper alloy corrosion th…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-99D7A5
Object type: STUD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy circular Roman mount sometimes known as a ‘bell shaped stud’. The object is circular in plan with a flared trapezoidal section that extends from a short neck that is also slightly flared in the opposite way with a trapezoidal section. The ‘underside’ of the bell or flared area is countersunk with a flat bottom. Protruding from the centre of the countersunk area is a conical boss, approximately 1mm high that has a concave circular depression in its tip, making it flat across its top. Extending from the reverse of the ‘neck’ portion of the object are …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-99BD26
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy circular Roman mount sometimes known as a ‘bell shaped stud’. The object is circular in plan with a flared trapezoidal section that extends from a short, broad circular ‘neck’. The ‘underside’ of the bell or flared area is countersunk with a flat bottom. Protruding from the centre of the countersunk area is a conical boss, approximately 4mm high which has a concave circular depression in its tip, making it flat across its top. Extending from the reverse of the ‘neck’ portion of the object is an integral narrow circular shaft, 6mm wide, that has …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-9957A4
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Bronze Age palstave axe. This fragment represents the back end of a palstave axe and appears to have broken from the axe at the point of the backstop. The fragment is subtriangular in plan and section with a wedge shaped profile in that it narrows towards its back edge. To either side are clear flanges set at 90 degrees to the main body of the object. The original surface of the axe is missing and it is now abraded and pocked. It has a mid green patina with spots of brighter green corrosion. The break edge, though worn, is very regular, suggesting the axe had been deliberat…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-992C63
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete, but unfinished prehistoric lithic implement. This implement is subtriangular in plan. The bulb of percussion is not visible, but striking ‘waves’ are clear. The implement is bevelled on the dorsal face and flat on the ventrical. Both misal edges are retouched. At the broad end of the object, on the ventral face, are signs of pressure flaking, which suggests the flint was being worked into another object, such as an arrowhead, but was ultimately abandoned. The flint is light brown in colour with white and dark brown patches. It is 45.28mm long, 19.58mm wide, 8.04mm thick a…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-988E61
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Silver voided long cross penny of Henry III. Class 3b, North 987.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-985DF5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver voided long cross penny of Henry III or Edward I.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-9842C5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cut silver half penny of John or Henry III.Wren Class 5b-7b.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2016
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-982481
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny probably of John, minted by Walter at London, Probably class 5c (1207-ca.1210)
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-9805E7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Elizabeth I. North 1988.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

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Record ID: ESS-97AEB7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fifteen worn and illegible Roman coins, 4th-5th century.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-979F82
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy Roman coin of Diocletian, dating to c. AD 300-303. Mint of London.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2015
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-9780D3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman coin of Victorinus, possibly a mule with the standard obverse inscription of IMP C VICTORINVS PF AVG but with the posthumous issue CONSECRATIO reverse. A similar example occurred in the Nomanby Hoard (1988) no 1454/4 (although not identified as such by the authors).
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-976EC3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Silver Roman denarius of Julia Soaemias, AD 218-222 (Reece Period 10), VENVS CAELESTIS, Venus standing left, holding apple and sceptre; to right, star. Mint of Rome. RIC IV, pt 2, p. 48, no. 241.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 17th November 2020
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-975C53
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Damaged copper alloy Roman coin, probably of Constantine II and possibly over struck.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-974EA3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman coin, 'Constantinopolis' issue.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-9742F3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman Barbarous radiate coin.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-973806
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy Roman coin of Carausius (AD 286-93) (Reece Period 14), PAX AVG, Pax standing left holding branch and vertical sceptre. Mint of London, B E//[MLXXI]. This coin is noted for Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd December 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 7th October 2015
No spatial data available.