Record ID: SOM-7A8B53
Object type: DOOR FITTING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy door knob of probable nineteenth century date.
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C03F43
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver finger ring height 22mm, width 20mm, thickness 2mm. The wing is made from a length of silver wire that has been looped twice round to form a double band. The wire has a square cross-section, its evenness along its length suggests it has been drawn rather than hammered. A bezel comprising of a low triangle flanked by two knots have been formed by looping the terminals of the wire once around the frame of the ring, in between the loops one strand of the frame has been bent forward to form a low triangle. The ring is in excellent condition. This finger ring design has been comm…
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 6th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornbury area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-A81A01
Object type: STAMP
Broad period: MODERN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy stamp or printing block from the post medieval period. The stamp is a sub-cuboid shape with rounded shoulders before a short and squared tang which is rectangular in section. It seems likely that the tang would have fitted into a handle of organic material. The object is 23.4mm long, 13.5mm wide and 8.6mm thick. The face bears a design in relief of a large tulip shaped flower with two leaves at the base of the stem. The design is too fine for the object to be a seal matrix, as it cannot leave a clear impression in wax. This suggests that it was used with ink instead. The s…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-A46676
Object type: SHOE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 19th century leather boot, incomplete and now partly covered in lichen. The boot was found unburied in woodland. June Swann comments from photographs: This is a hob-nailed ankle boot for work, or possibly army, use. It has two rows of brass rivets at the waist, and 10/11 pairs of lace holes. Most of the iron seems to be missing and the photographs are not clear enough to say if the forepart sole was iron rivetted, though that is likely. The forepart sole edge has broken away at the line of rivets and hobnails, which would have gone around the edge, with three rows of hobs in the…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-80F6E8
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Russian lead seal, from a bundle of flax. Measuring 20.9mm x 20.1mm x 4.4mm. The seal is stamped on both sides. One side reads SPN // N.P.O.//N.P. The other reads [---]A // [--EI--] // XИHA // H.[-]
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wigginton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-80F1C5
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead bag seal. The seal comprises two discs. The seal is decorated on one disc with an uncertain design, inside a belt, surmounted by a crown. The other side features a quatrefoil and thr word [-]ANUR[-]. The rest of the surface has been removed. The metal surface is light whitish-grey in colour. The object is very worn. It is modern in date.
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wigginton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-152CD5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with a black and white cameo. The hoop if the ring is narrow and D-shaped in section. The shoulders are decorated with three incised rings on each side. The bezel is oval, with a hollow back. It has a black backplate sat on top of the gold bezel setting. On top of the black there is a white carved image featuring a female bust. She is facing left and wears a draped head dress. Both the black and the white elements are slightly damaged with scratches and marks. This ring dates to the first half of the 19th Century. Bezel = 11.8mm x 8.7mm x 5.1mm
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skipton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-12A4B5
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver thimble dating from the nineteenth century. The thimble is 24mm long and has an 18mm diameter at the base. It is typical of thimbles made by Charles Horner of Yorkshire. It has a domed top which, along with the upper half of the walls, is decorated with flower motifs. The lower part of the walls have a waffle pattern and then a plain band on which are the hall marks and makers marks. This object was recorded from a photograph and details kindly provided by the finders. The marks are not clear in the photograph. There is an almost identical thimble on page 60 of “The Collecto…
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-FFCDD6
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: MODERN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chert(?) arrowhead, the tip missing (possibly recent break). Flat based form with low side notches of American Indian type. All-over bifacially worked a mottled pale/medium browns and greys in colour. This arrowhead was presumably imported in 19th-20th centuries possibly as a necklace and subsquently lost on the heath at Dunwich.
Created on: Wednesday 12th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D736F7
Object type: BULLET
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Modern lead bullet. The cylindrical shaped bullet has a hollow base and five grooves around the body. The diameter of the bullet s 15.1mm which is 0.594 inches, suggesting that the bullet was made for the 0.577 Enfield rifle which was introduced in 1853. Some expansion may have occurred on firing. The length of the bullet is 25.7mm and the weight is 31.02g.
Created on: Monday 10th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton Upon Humber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-72FD04
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy brooch, circular in plan and flat in section. The edge of the brooch is defined by a ropework border, made up of groups of four raised oblique lines, alternating with plain sections. The interior of the decorated face holds a central bifid arch of foliage, ending in three points, and bordered above by nine circular beads and below by seven. This pattern, with internal foliage and external beading, resembles a 'paisley' print, brought to Scotland from India in the early 19th century. There are more patterns of foliage above the arch, but most of these are obscured by t…
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-1A3576
Object type: COFFIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small cast cu-alloy coffin which is composed of three different parts: casket, lid and (possibly) headplate. All three parts are held together by a small cast cu-alloy rivet at the head end of the coffin and can swivel around it on U-shaped perforations at their edges. The 'head plate' is thinner than the body and lid of the coffin and may have protected a message or similar that was wedged between the plate and the lid. If there was one, it is missing today - probably rotted away. The shape and lay-out of the coffin is late post-medieval/modern and due to its size it is more likely th…
Created on: Saturday 1st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fylde', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-023720
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval or modern two piece copper alloy thimble. The thimble is tall with a low rounded top. It is 19.4mm tall, 15.3mm in diameter at the base and weighs 2.1 grams. The base is unthickened, above the base is a band of circluar indentations, a 3.0mm wide undecorated band, another band of circular indentations then a regular series of rows of circular indentations. The top has concentric circles of round indentations. The joints between the top and sides and where the sheet has been overlapped to create the sides are visible inside the thimble. Such two piece thimbles are mass pro…
Created on: Friday 30th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-EA6777
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hemispherical, slightly off-circular, bowl, 26.87mm deep externally, with three small splayed legs arranged in a triangle at the centre of the underside (33.6mm deep including the legs). The internal depth of the bowl is 22.5mm.The rim of the bowl is thin and flat and his badly worn projections, possibly pierced for suspension. The bowl displays much iron staining and has a green powdery corrosion.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-DA6804
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy modern copy of a late 10th to early 11th century AD gold Solidus of the Byzantine emperors Constntine VII-VIII, Romanus II or Basil II.
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chalvington with Ripe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-D7A962
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Queen Victoria memorial token of 1849.
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kendal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-6E81A8
Object type: SHOVEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Wirral
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper alloy goldsmiths shovel/spade. It was used to sweep up the shavings of gold so that they could be melted back down again and nothing would be wasted. The handle has a circular cross section and has broken before the end. Due to the metal condition it is likely to date to the 19th century.
Created on: Friday 23rd November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bebington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-555B72
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead owl standing 52mm high, probably dating to the 18/19th centuries. It is solid and has detail on both faces. The owl is depicted with large eyes, a hooked beak, pointed ears and detail on the wing, breast and tail being picked out. It appears to have been attached to something as there is a broken base, measuring 12mm in diameter, at the end of the feet. Geoff Egan has said 'It is possible that it is part of the series of 'shy' toys, like a shy cock, set up to be knocked down by having sticks thrown at it'. If this is so the owl would have been on a larger base to enable it…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-41BD03
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half ounce trade weight, made in London during the reign of Wiliam IV (1830-1837). The weight is marked with: At 2 o'clock: the quartered shield with the sword of St Paul in the upper left quarter, for London Guildhall At 6 o'clock: the Ewer of the Founders Company At 10 o'clock: a crowned W, the royal cipher
Created on: Wednesday 21st November 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 16th November 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-178C15
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably modern copper alloy military button of 3 piece construction. Coat of arms on front. On back FIRMINSON BIRMINGHAM.
Created on: Monday 19th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.