Record ID: WILT-837046
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Medieval copper alloy probable Limoges enamelled plaque or possible mount, dating to c AD 1180-1200. Part of a champlevé enamel and gilded copper anthropomorphic representation of a saint, depicting the nimbate head of a clean shaven male figure, looking a little to his left. The face is white with eyes, eyebrows, nose mouth and chin indicated by simple darker marks. Five luxuriant locks of hair are indicated by lines of black and white. A circle of red, a halo, is at the margin of the plate and the field between this and the figure is te…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: WMID-A28E39
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
AN incomplete probable miniature copper alloy socketed axe head, probably dating from the Bronze Age to the Roman period (1000 BC to AD 410).  Less than 25% of the socketed axehgead is present, consisting of the loop and part of the mouth. There is a large loop taking up most of the length od the body one end has a large flange. Rear is concave suggesting that this is one half of the casting blade end appears broken away.  It measures 34 mm in length, 18.8 mm wide and 3.7 mm thick. It weighs 12.7 g. The axeheadh is a mid green to brown colour, with an even surface pat…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: WILT-0FF251
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver sesino of Galeazzo and Bernabo Visconti, Lords of Milan (1354-1378), issue without marks dating after AD1355, mint: Milan (Lombardy, Italy). Ref: Day et al 2016: p.449, pl. 35 nos 614-17. Approximately a quarter of the outer rim of the coin is missing, broken along the lineof the inner circle.  obverse: B G VICECOM[ITES];  'Visconti snake' (biscia) eating 'Saracen'.  reverse: MEDIOLANVM depicting a cross.  The coin appears to have been pierced, once directly through the centre, with a second, smaller hole just below. 
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: WILT-690934
Object type: STUD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval copper alloy enamelled stud, with a possible wildman/wodewose design, dating to c. 1200-1400. It is a  barbed quatrefoil in plan with the barbs extending out of the centre of each of the four lobes, and a large shank attached to the rear. The obverse is inlaid with a central anthropomorphic/zoomorphic figure facing left, positioned on all fours, on a field of red enamel. The figure appears to have a beard and hairy body. The original colour of the figure is unclear, is now mostly black, but there is evidence of gilding on the body- it may have be…
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: WILT-2302FE
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Middle Bronze Age to Early Iron Age cast copper alloy moustache-like object, of uncertain use, dating to c. 1500-100 BC. The find is half of its original crescentic shape. What is extant is a bud shaped feature ribbed with grooves and ridges along its length. At the apex of this a shallow hollow cell and the marks of the early break with the rest of the item. At the opposite end of the bud shaped feature is an oval section shaft tapering to a point.  Dimensions: 29.7mm in length; 10.4mm in width; 8.79g In other examples the hollow cell appears l…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-20DEA5
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flat gilded cast copper alloy fragment, richly decorated with zoomorphic moulded ornament in Salin's Style II. The object was likely originally triangular in form. Both sides of the fragment are decorated with the same motif of opposed beast heads curving out and back towards one end of the plate, with two lenticular panels between, one at the join of the base of the necks and another between the beasts' lower jaws. The heads have lenticular eyes with ridged brows, pairs of curved lines representing cheeks, short curled tendrils running back from the jaw and rows of parallel …
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: OXON-A1ADFB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman silver denarius of Geta as Caesar (198-209) dating to AD 200-202. VOTA PVBLICA reverse type depicting  Geta, veiled, standing left by tripod altar, holding patera and roll. Mint of Rome. cf. RIC IV, Pt I, (p. 317) no. 24.
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: OXON-A15EBA
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval struck copper alloy French jetton struck under Charles VII during the period of diversity 1418-1437. Obverse: Catherine Wheel surrounded by the inscription MARIA rosette MATER rosette GRACIE rosette. Reverse: triple stranded cross botonny with lis in each angle surrounded by the same legend. Mitchiner (1988: 190) No. 519. See also IOW-719443 and WMID-68E357 on the database.
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-8F3FA8
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The tip of a Middle Bronze Age cast copper alloy artefact, probably a spearhead dating from the Taunton phase, 1500 BC to 1150 BC. The blade is double edged, tapering, with a central rib on both faces that produces a strongly lozenge shaped cross-section. The cutting edges are damaged and/or missing.  Each face of the solid midrib is decorated with two uneven and not very straight lines of punched or drilled dots (pointille). The lack of any other distinguishing features makes closer identification difficult. The fra…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
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Record ID: WILT-65A4BE
Object type: TRIPOD VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy zoomorphic tripod leg, dating to c. AD 43 - 410.  The leg is in the form of a lion's leg with a leonine head feature. The top of the leg has a semi-circular vertical fitting, with a narrow band below. The other half of this vertical fitting is now missing, due to an old break. There is evidence of iron corrosion on either side of the band on the back of the vertical fitting. Below the band is a circular disc. This fitting is to enable attachment to a vesel, presumably made of iron. Part way down the …
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: WILT-D248C7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete possibly Roman copper alloy three dimensional zoomorphic item, of uncertain purpose, possibly a mount, possibly dating to c. AD 43-410. What remains is in the form of a dog's head, or similar. The head is represented in a simple way, rising from an oval section neck, initially widening into two triangular pricked ears, with slight forward curl at the top, then narrowing  into a pointed muzzle with a knop for a turned up nose. There appears to have been an effort to suggest nostrils under the nose by including two small pits, with possibly a si…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-68E796
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver-gilt gem-set pendant dating to the 13th-14th century. The pendant has a projecting octagonal setting measuring 11.4mm by 8.3mm which holds an oval cabochon cut purple amethyst stone. This stone is domed and around 5mm thick. It has been shaped around the edges to fit symmetrically into the setting with facets evident on the corners. On the top end of the raised setting for the stone on the long axis is a hole for a separately made suspension loop or attachment element, which has now been lost. The backplate of the pendant is oval and 12.1mm in length; the ce…
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-E88CBE
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and bent cast copper alloy stylus of Roman date, 85.8mm in length, cf. Manning's (1984) Type 4. The terminal has a spatulate eraser, 9.4mm wide and 11.5mm long, with shoulders stepped to the shaft. The rear 30mm portion of the shaft adjacent to this has a square cross section and is decorated with ring and dot motifs on two sides at the lower end; below this are two cuboid lobes, each with a ring-and-dot on each facet and waisted constrictions between. The front portion of the stylus has a circular cross section and ends in a bend and an old break. The original form o…
Created on: Thursday 5th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2023
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Record ID: WILT-9BCA28
Object type: PROCESSIONAL CROSS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval cast copper alloy figurine of the Virgin Mary, from the side arm of a processional cross, dating c. AD 1400 - 1530. The find depicts a female standing figure, looking slightly right, hooded and wearing a long robe. The right elbow bent and right hand clasped to the breast. The left arm is incomplete but is outstretched at the elbow. The reverse of the figure appears plain, but any moulding may be masked by corrosion products.  The figure is standing on a sub-rectangular base with two en…
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
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Record ID: WILT-0E11A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman copper alloy Colchester derivative, developed, hinged, T shape brooch, damaged only in that the pin is bent, dating to c AD 50 - 150. It has cylindrical wings, with a single pronounced ridge and flanking grooves at each end. At the junctions of wing and bow is a ridge at a slightly oblique angle and there two deep longitudinal grooves flanking a central ridge running about halfway the length of the bow, terminating at an empty, slightly raised triangular cell. The bow descends from there, with a marked central  arris, to a forward facing 'claw' f…
Created on: Monday 7th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as ''Near Salisbury'', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-5525AE
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An ensemble of three interlocked but not integral, Medieval or Post Medieval, copper alloy horse harness fittings, a snaffle bridle bit, dating to c AD 1350 - 1550.  1) A suspension mount, linking the other two items, which are a ring and the bit, to the leathers. It is a stout strip of metal, folded in half with a slightly narrowed loop, through which is held the ring. The folded, rectangular plate of the mount is pierced with two rivet holes along its length, and widens into matching sub circular terminals. The two rivet holes show signs of wear and strain and gi…
Created on: Monday 17th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
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Record ID: WILT-534150
Object type: CURSE TABLET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman lead curse tablet, dating to c AD 43 - 410. The find is a sub rectangular sheet of lead, folded once. However, the ends do not meet as they may once have done, because only two sides are cut, the other two apparently with early damage and torn, including the top edge and the outer part of one folded edge. Inscribed capital letters can be seen on the inside section, where the tear has exposed that surface, but also on the outside. Transverse lines have been incised to guide the letters. Once the tablet was gently unfolded, the letters on…
Created on: Monday 17th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-D2861A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval silver penny of Edgar (959-75), pre-reform phase, circumscription cross type with mint (North 749) dating to c. AD 959-72/3, moneyer: Leofweald/Leofwold, mint: Wilton. Ref: North 1994: p.148; cf. Naismith 2017 no. 1727. The coin is damaged with a fragment missing from the outer circle. The flan has cracks running out from this break.  Measurements: diameter:21.41 mm and weight: 1.49g. A short section of the flan is missing to the inner circle. 
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 6th September 2023
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Record ID: WILT-844A84
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age to Roman copper alloy figurine of a stylised, standing horse, probably dating to 100 BC to AD 100. The head of the horse is quite large in comparison to the body.  It now has two stubs for ears, due to old damage. A band between the ears suggests a brow band from a halter is depicted. One of the eyes is just visible but not the other, due to pitting all over most of the surface of the find. The mouth is slightly open. The neck and back are long. There is the suggestion of the band under the chest, between the front legs. There is a band un…
Created on: Sunday 25th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: WILT-5B129D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Bronze Age cast copper alloy object of a type usually referred to as 'moustache-shaped', dating to the Middle Bronze Age to Early Iron Age, c. 1500 - 650 BC. The object is three dimensional and comprises half a 'moustache', with the appearance of a hedgehog with its nose in the air.  This object is one of two separate parts of a composite 'moustached-shaped' fitting.  The body has multiple longitudinal incised lines on the upper part of the 'moustache' which taper to a plain point. The base of the object has an oval…
Created on: Friday 23rd June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 27th June 2023
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