Record ID: HAMP-C5BF18
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely bent, early-medieval (mid 5th- to 6th-century Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch. This incomplete brooch is cast in copper alloy, with traces of an iron pin corroded within the lug. This brooch has been severely bent so much so that the arched bow is so flat that it can sit on a flat surface. The head and foot are bent almost at right angles to the flattened bow, their upper surfaces now facing. The brooch has a rectangular head-plate with rounded corners to which has a incised border of double V-shaped stamps, with small broken annulets at the apex of each 'pyramid'. The …
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Twyford CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-C4D451
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly worn fragment from a 4th-century silver Roman siliqua possibly of Gratian, 'VRBS ROMA', uncertain mint (c. AD 367-383; probably Reece issue period 19). Around a third of the original flan survives following an old break. The obverse legend break suggests that this may be a coin of Gratian.
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-C3E0F1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large cast copper-alloy foot fragment from a cooking vessel of later medieval to post-medieval date, possibly a cauldron given its size. The object is trapezoidal in form and narrows from a width of 47.5mm at the point it has broken to 30.15mm at its terminal. It also thins, from 22.8mm thick at the point it has broken to c. 8.0mm at its terminal. A central rib runs up the front of the foot, this also thins with the foot. The break reveals that the leg had a trapezoidal cross-section with a triangular protrusion for the rib; the front is wider. This form of foot is comparable to the…
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-C38DF5
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A squashed and fractured medieval copper-alloy thimble of sheet construction. The thimble is domed with a rounded top; it has been squashed from both sides, and cracked at two main points causing elements to overlap slightly. The small, circular drilled pits begin at the top, the uppermost part of which is bare, and continue in a continuous spiral to the sides in a regular fashion. On the sides the pits are arranged in vertical rows above an incised border at the base. The thinness of this thimble might suggest that it was used for light duty work. The bare circular patch on top of th…
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-C2E516
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A seemingly complete post-medieval lead-alloy cloth seal of mid/late 17th-century date. The disc is a four-disc alnage/subsidy seal from the county of Yorkshire. All four discs are sub-circular, with the outer discs smaller protrusions of the inner ones rather than properly defined and separated circles. Discs 1 and 4 are seemingly plain with the integral stud from Disc 1 being hammered over Disc 4 in a crude L shape. Disc 3 bears a large initial 'K' in an inner circle around which the legend '* COMIT . YORKE' ('county of Yorkshire'). For another Yorkshire seal apparently of the same …
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th July 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-C290F6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame of medieval to early post-medieval date, incomplete in as much as it is missing part of its corroded iron pin. The frame is formed of two conjoined ovals such that the sides incurve; they are slightly asymmetrical. The frame is bevelled both internally and externally on the upper surface; the lower surface is flat. The pin bar thus has a trapezoidal cross-section. Around, as implied, is an iron concretion - the corroded pin. There is further iron corrosion product on one of the outer edges. The buckle frame has a mid-/dark-green patina w…
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-C1C0D3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn and corroded 1st- to 3rd-century copper-alloy Roman as of uncertain ruler, reverse and mint (AD 41-260)
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-B55D04
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded cast copper-alloy post-medieval mount in the form of a Tudor rose. The moulded rose on the upper face in has three layers of five petals around a central pellet. The circumference of the mount has been abraded. Central on the lower surface is a square-sectioned shank, possibly with an abraded tip. The metal has a dark-green colour with patches of off-white corrosion product. A similar mount can be found on this database, ref. HAMP-C018B4. A single shank is held to be a construction of 16th- to 17th-century date . The Tudor rose as a common contemporary device can also be fo…
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-B42E87
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken and distorted, now incomplete gilded copper-alloy signet ring of late medieval to early post-medieval date. It has been broken historically below one of the shoulders, most of the surviving hoop has been bent and twisted outwards. The hoop expands in width to a thickened, flattened bezel. The bezel is sub-circular, with flattened sides at the edges of the bezel. On its upper surface, within a pecked border is an engraved boar's head facing right when looking at the bezel. Protruding from the border, above and below the head, are incised 'V's. Below the angled shoulders the ho…
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 11th July 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-B24165
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A corroded and incomplete cast copper-alloy probable strap union (harness fitting) of Late Iron Age/Romano-British date. It consists of a bar of sub-rectangular cross-section, broken at one end. At the other end is a terminal formed of a pair of conjoined bosses from the tops of which extend rounded tabs between which is a bar of circular cross-section. It is assumed that a strap would have been looped around the gap between the latter bar and the bosses. The main bar has a deep longitudinal groove running along the centre of its lower surface. This is far more shallow as it divides t…
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-B18A07
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded and abraded cast copper-alloy flat axehead of Early Bronze Age date. This small example is from the earliest bronze working traditions, dating from the centuries after c. 2000 BC. The blade terminates in a rounded cutting edge. Bevelling to create the edge is gradual. Beyond the edge the object narrows to a width of 16.65mm and is at its thickest, 7.6mm. The object remains a fairly constant width to the butt. It narrows very gradually, and then more obviously in the quarter at the butt end. The axehead has a rectangular cross-section with no side flanges as such; the surf…
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 27th June 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-AFCCC0
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged cast copper-alloy fragment from the pendent frame of a late medieval or early post-medieval purse. The object is V-shaped in cross section, with one side thickened compared to the other. There is one clear sewing hole on the lower side of this fragment, now broken through. It would have been through such holes that the frame was sewn to the fabric purse (Geake 2001, 43). On the outer side are incised diagonal double grooves decorating the frame in a series of 'X's: these may once have been inlaid with niello. The cross-section of the artefact together with the absence of any…
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th November 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-AF8398
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy spacer plate from a medieval composite strap-end with large acorn knop terminal. The front and back sheet plates are missing. The spacer section (above the collar) has a flat crescentic plate formed of two prongs. Both are rectangular in cross-section and taper slightly from the plate. The inner edge has not been filed down, especially at the centre. Also at the centre is a perforation for attachment, recessed on one side. Below the expanded sub-rectangular collar, which marks the point the plates would have ended, there is a waist and then the terminal expands int…
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 27th June 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-AEE2D2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large cast copper-alloy mount in the form of a bar mount. The mount features two bars of equal length emerging in line from a central openwork circle. The central circular perforation is 9.8mm in diameter. The circle is up to 15.1mm wide and is bevelled externally on the upper surface and internally on the lower (Th.: 5.9mm). Externally it is decorated with fine longitudinally and transversely incised lines to create cross-hatching. The bars are trapezoidal, expanding from 5.5 to 7.5mm (Th.: 3.85mm) and 6.4 to 8.1mm (Th.: 4.45mm) respectively, over 21.0 and 20.5mm. They are bevelled…
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 27th June 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-AE2954
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn and corroded 3rd-century copper-alloy Roman radiate of uncertain ruler, reverse and mint (AD 260-275; Reece issue period 13)
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hurstbourne Priors CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-AD8537
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from the sheet plate of medieval copper-alloy buckle. The plate would have been of folded sheet construction. It is shield shaped, with an abraded terminal that may have been angled but rounded. The frame end is slightly abraded but appears to be straight with small expansions beyond the curved sides. The fold features three holes for absent rivets, arranged in a triangle with two towards the frame end. An incised border extends around the plate. Within this are finely incised zigzags formed by rockerarm that almost abut the pair of rivet holes. The fold has been bent and b…
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hurstbourne Priors CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-AC9163
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded cast copper-alloy medieval bar mount, small and sub-hemispherical in form. The central lobe features four deep transverse lines, within which finer longitudinal incisions, all quiet crude. One of the two smaller, angled perforated side lobes retains their rivet; they are recessed on the lower surface. The object is similar to artefacts illustrated in Read (2001, 23; fig. 12) and Egan and Pritchard (1991, 214; fig. 134) which are dated to the second half of the fourteenth century. This artefact has corroded to a dull, dark-grey colour with patches of lighter corrosion product.
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hurstbourne Priors CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-9F56F5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn and corroded 17th-century copper-alloy post-medieval farthing of Charles I, 'Richmond round' type 1, London mint (AD 1625-1634; probably North 2277/2278). This coin has suffered a small loss to its circumference.
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-9EF718
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy button of post-medieval (17th-century) date. The one-piece button consists of a flat circular disc with an integral loop emerging centrally on its lower surface. The loop extends up to 5.95mm and is 8.2mm wide. It has a circular perforation (Dia.: c. 4.1mm) towards its terminal. The upper surface of the disc is decorated with curved incised lines that emerge from the centre. This creates an engraved curvilenear quatrefoil design, alternate zones of which are decorated with finely incised transverse lines. At the centre of the button and at the cardinal points are …
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-9EAA54
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded and bent cast asymmetrical double-looped buckle frame of post-medieval date. This example is incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin. One loop of the buckle is D-shaped, the other is sub-trapezoidal. The former features a centrally protruding moulded knop on its outer edge. The lower surface of the buckle is flat and undecorated. By contrast, the upper surface features deeply cut decoration which forms moulded ridges, other than the pin bar. The buckle has corroded to a mid-/dark-green colour. The artefact is significantly bent in profile with the trapezoidal loop twi…
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2012
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