Record ID: SUR-495C47
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A gold posy ring, now slightly distorted. Externally the band is plain.Inscribed on the interior band: A frenes' gift The inscription is followed by a maker's mark: WG in an oval. This mark has not been identified, the maker is unidentifiable from those listed by Grimwade and Jackson and there are no examples of this mark in the British Museum collections. There are examples of this inscription, or variants of, in the British Museum collections, see for example AF.1190 with the inscription A true Friends gift, with the makers mark of black letter WG in a rectangular mark (differ…
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th June 2014
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Record ID: SUR-CEA967
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A Gallo-Belgic gold uniface stater dating to the period 60 to 50 BC. Reverse type depicts horse right. ABC p. 28, no. 16
Created on: Wednesday 21st November 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2012
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Record ID: SUR-237E82
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age gold stater of Continental Gallo-Belgic Type E (Sills Class 2b). ABC16.
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 14th November 2012
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Record ID: SUR-1B64F5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A folded gold strip comprising eleven gold wires joined side by side by soldering. Max. length 15.93mm; max. width 8.14mm; max. thickness 4.4mm; thickness of wire approx.. 0.62mm; weight 2.26 grams. Both manufacturing technique and composition are consistent with a Bronze Age date, although precise analogues for the type are presently lacking. Gold ribbon ornaments are known from the Middle Bronze Age, c. 1300-1100 BC, but the ribbed effect is achieved here by grooving (cf the piece from Ilam, Staffs. (Treasure Annual Report 2005/6, 20, no.14). Solder is used at this date in the…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
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Record ID: SUR-1B3954
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Post-Medieval gold posy ring, plain exterior, now much scratched and slightly mis-shapen. Inscribed inside: *CONTINEW CONStant with remains of black enamel in inscription. It is very unusual for an inscription to change from upper to lower caser in one word, especially as in this example there is space enough to continue the inscription with capitals.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 27th May 2014
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Record ID: SUR-C00767
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A gold posy ring. The ring is plain externally and bears the internal engraved inscription HOPE*IS* ME* HELPE
Created on: Tuesday 10th July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th April 2020
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Record ID: SUR-B0BB56
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An uninscribed Kentish Southeastern LZ quarter stater (attributed to the Cantii), c. 50-20 BC. BMC Hobbs 2469-71; Rudd ABC 198
Created on: Monday 9th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd June 2015
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Record ID: SUR-5A61E8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large fragment of a quarter noble of Henry VI, Annulet coinage, 1422-1427. Mint of London. North 1420
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2012
Last updated: Friday 6th July 2012
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Record ID: SUR-B24207
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A french gold Ecu d'or of Francis I, 1530-47. The coin is rather bent, but it is little worn.
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 27th June 2012
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Record ID: SUR-F90864
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold-plated contemporary copy of a 'E type' stater of Commius. cf ABC 1025
Created on: Thursday 1st March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2012
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Record ID: SUR-7A1338
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold, or gold-plated copper alloy pennanular ring of near-circular cross section decorated with clearly visible bands of two different colours or alloys of gold.
Created on: Friday 24th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
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Record ID: SUR-A704D2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval brooch, consisting of a hoop, triangular in section, set with a collett at the top accommodating a coloured stone and terminating in a pair of clasped hands. The hands were designed to hold a stone, probably a pearl, which has now perished. The two registers formed by the triangular sections are engraved with letters that read + PAR CEST PRESENT M VERWSRENTENS (By/with this present.....) The meaning of this (rhyming?) French inscription is unclear but it almost certainly signifies a gift between two lovers. The brooch is gold and dates from the thirteenth century. …
Created on: Tuesday 14th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'chiddingstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-54DB38
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A half noble of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and Count and Lord of Flanders, a.d. 1384-1404. This type of coin copies English nobles and half nobles very closely so based on the reverse legend this is a half noble. Obv: PhS DEI G DVX BVRG COM Z DNS FLAND Duke in a ship, holding a sword and shield with the arms of Burgundy (note stripes rather than lions alternating with lis in quarters). Rev: DOMInE nE In fVRORE TVO ARGVAS ME Cross, etc., as on the English nobles, but with p in the centre. This coin could not have been issued until after a decree dated 1 Oct. 1388. I…
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Record ID: SUR-D89EB3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age gold early uninscribed quarter stater from the Southern region (Belgae) dating to the period 60 to 20 BC. ABC 767.
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 13th January 2012
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Record ID: SUR-5946F6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An 18th century gold finger ring, now distorted. The rounded external face is plain and there is no bezel. Internally are the words 'Contents a treasure'. The maker's mark appears to be WW or WV and is not listed in Jackson 1964.
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 6th January 2012
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