Record ID: SUSS-971F10
Object type: WEAPON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron object, possibly a medieval spearhead, arrowhead or harpoon. The object is 365 mm in length. It is therefore very long and thin with a lozenge shaped section. The tang tapers to a point. The main shaft is swollen, but then tapers again towards the head of the object. The head is a long, thin and is a flat leaf shape- missing its point. The head does have a slight lozenge shaped section.
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-905FD0
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broadly hemispherical corroded cast iron object: probably an incomplete post-medieval cannon ball. There is one area of loss on the inner surface, but the object appears to otherwise be an exact hemisphere allowing us to calculate its original weight. Although an inexact science, comparisons can be made with historic inventories of cannon shot, their dimensions and weights (see Blackmore 1976, 392ff.). These suggest that this ball might have been fired from a post-medieval 'falconet' cannon. As this type endured from the later 16th century through the following century, with slig…
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-80BCB5
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron blade, possibly from a sickle which could be Roman or later in date. The blade is curving and rectangular in shape, the thinner blade edge in on the inside of the curve. One face appears to have a worn longitudinal ridge along its centre and the over all cross-section is triangular. It measures 144.47mm in length and 19.09mm in width and 7.73mm in thickness.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-69EAC7
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron sword hilt and part of blade.
Created on: Monday 18th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-68D276
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Contemporary copy of a legionary denarius of Mark Antony. Iron core plated with silver. Unusual coin, however some examples are known from the Hayling Island Temple.
Created on: Monday 18th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BUC-15CAB4
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron arrowhead with a wide circular socket (now broken) and barbed head. The tip is missing. This type of arrowhead is likely to have been used for hunting.
Created on: Thursday 14th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ivinghoe Aston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-FF53D1
Object type: LANCE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval - Modern iron incomplete lance head (16th - 17th century). The lance head is broken through the square-sectioned socket and the butt is missing. The blade of the lance head has a square cross-section that narrows to a point. The cross-section changes to circular just before the socket. The walls of the socket have two opposing circular perforations probably for securing the lance head to the wooden haft. The shape of the socket is slightly distorted due to damage. There is no visible marker's mark. The iron is in good condition with no corrosion. Dimensions…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2006
Last updated: Monday 4th August 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-FF4D35
Object type: CAULKING TOOL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A post medieval - Modern iron caulking iron (17th - 20th century). The tool has a handle with a circular cross-section (diameter: 11.5mm) that then flattens and expands to form the blade (width: 48mm). The blade has a slight curve in the lower half. The opposite end of the handle also expands to form the rounded, flattened terminal (diameter: 29.5mm). There are no makers marks visible on the chisel. The iron is in good condition with no corrosion. Dimensions: length: 197mm; width: 48mm; thickness: 29.5mm. Dr Kevin Leahy writes: very similar tools are shown a caulking tools in…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-FF4673
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Modern iron adze with maker's mark (18th century). The adze has a curved profile with a central rectangular, expanded socket for the haft. The blade expands from 34.5mm at the hafting socket to 54.5mm at the bevelled cutting edge. At the opposite end the adze thickens and the cross-section changes from rectangular to square at the butt. On the underside of the blade just before the hafting socket is a stamped maker's mark of the capital letter S beneath a pheon (arrowhead-shape). The iron is in good condition with no corrosion. Dimensions: length: 271mm; width: 5405mm;…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2006
Last updated: Monday 4th August 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-FF09B1
Object type: AXE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval iron axe head (17th century). The blade of the axe head expands towards the bevelled cutting edge (length: 125mm) forming a truncated triangle in plan. The hafting loop has a triangular cross-section (thickness: 37mm), the back of the socket (thickness: 9mm) is thicker than the sides (thickness: approximate 1mm) and it is cracked along one corner, where the back meets one of the sides. The lower edge of the hafting loop has two sub-triangular projections to provide a better grip on the wooden haft. On one surface of the blade there appears to be two initials stampe…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2006
Last updated: Monday 4th August 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-E91E68
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A highly corroded iron spearhead dating to the early medieval period. The spear is of Swanton Type E3. It measures 193mm in length and a maximum of 26mm in width. It is similar to several of the spears from Ipswich illustrated in West, S. (1998) 'A corpus of Anglo-Saxon material from Suffolk'.
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2006
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-D45534
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete 9th century steel-bladed Viking sword of Petersen type K (or Wheeler type IV). Examples can be seen in Peirce, 2002, Swords of the Viking Age, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. The sword is incomplete and heavily corroded, but enough survives to make it an interesting example. It weighs 442g. The upper hilt consists of an upper guard which is sub rectangular in plan, having slightly curved corners, and rectangular in section. It is 62.94mm long, 26mm wide and 11.74mm thick. It is pierced to either end with a circular perforation, approximately 6mm in diameter, where the pommel…
Created on: Monday 11th December 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-83C865
Object type: AXE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large iron axe head, weighing 2.3kg. The axe appears to be a felling axe, for chopping down trees. It is probably a 5lb axe head, so is therefore likely to be post-medieval in date, circa 16th – 19th century.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bexhill', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM-80D9A7
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Socketed Arrowhead.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wragby Rally', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM-7EBD62
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Spur roundel.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wragby Rally', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM-7EB0C1
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Spur roundel.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wragby Rally', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-6FEEE4
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily corroded fragment of an iron spearhead of probable Roman date. The suggested dating of this piece is based on the form of the socket (see below), several examples of which can be seen in the "Catalogue of the Romano-British Iron tools, fittings and weapons in the British Museum" (W.H. Manning; 1985; plates 76-81). The closest parallels to this piece are categorised as Group IV and dated to the mid 1st century AD (Manning; pp. 168). The socket has been formed by bending the metal into an open-backed cylinder which is of roughly equal diameter throughout its length. The edge…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clothall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-695D62
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Medieval iron barrel padlock case of Goodall (in Biddle 1990) Type D. Both ends and about half the circumference missing. Two longitudinal straps and signs of brazing. Length >118mm. Diameter c.45mm. Not closely datable.
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-17CA35
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron unidentified object. The object is formed from a short cylinder, with a circular sectioned projection coming out of one end. The object has no other decoratively features. It could be a terminal or a component from a much larger object.
Created on: Saturday 2nd December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-0496A4
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large iron rotary key probably for an exterior door or gate. Though corroded, it is complete. It has an oval bow (L.: 51.3mm, W.: 33.3mm, Th.: c. 5mm) with a slight internal projection at the far end. The shank is circular in cross-section (Dia.: c. 11mm) with barrel moulded collars below the bow and above the bit. The bit is seemingly symmetrical (L.: 27.4mm, W.: 25mm, Th.: 9.5mm). There are two main wards perpendicular to the stem, S-shaped below the stem, with internal clefts below. The stem projects beyond the bit for 10.5mm. This large key is post-medieval, probably dating to t…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.