Record ID: DENO-B129A5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age coin: Gold stater of the Corieltauvi c.AD. 30-60. Joint issue of Volisios and Cartivellaunos.  Coin Reference: Van Ardsell 933. Diameter 20.19mm, weight 4.85g.
Created on: Friday 4th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlton in Lindrick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B35275
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver early medieval penny of Kent, Anonymous issue (AD822-23), moneyer: Oba, mint: Canterbury (Naismith C53). Ref: Naismith 2011: plate 31. Ref.: EMC number 1992.7624; SCBI 42 - Southeastern: 624; Metcalf 1988: 138; BLS An 3)
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bury St Edmund', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-C4F166
Object type: BURIAL URN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bradford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CORONER'S REPORT Circumstances of find The top of one urn was uncovered while digging footings for a garden feature. Reported to Manor House Museum, Ilkley and referred to an archaeological unit (Archaeological Services, West Yorkshire Archaeology Service), The remainder of the material was excavated under controlled conditions. Description of objects Three collared ceramic urns found in a single pit. In addition to cremated human remains, the largest contained a stone battle axe or mace head, a bone pin, a bone "belt fastener" and two pie…
Created on: Friday 10th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-54CDC1
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval (middle Anglo Saxon) copper alloy pin (720-850AD). The pin has a globular head decorated with stamped ring and dot motifs and there is a collar at the junction between the pin head and the shaft. The shaft has a circular cross-section that tapers towards the point. The tip of the pin has been curled over, possibly deliberately or it may be post-depositional damage. Dimensions: diameter of head: 6.87mm; length: 62.09mm; weight: 2.51g.
Created on: Monday 10th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fulham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-E1EBD0
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy strap-fitting, a union or junction with enamel decoration, of probable late early-medieval to medieval date. The central raised area is square in shape (15.7 by 16mm) with a slight step running around it. It is decorated with a lattice forming cells which are filled with enamel. At the centre is a blue enamelled square with a blue enamel petal projecting from each corner, into the corner of the square setting. The areas between are enamelled in white. From two opposing edges two double fronds extend in opposite directions, curving upwards and outwards. A circular secti…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2016
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Record ID: NMGW-C55A71
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age copper flat axe, of Type 2C or 2D (following Needham forthcoming) or probably of Type Ballybeg / Roseisle (following Schmidt and Burgess 1981) of Metalworking Assemblage I-II, corresponding with the earlier part of Needham's (1996) Period 2, dated to c. 2,300 - 1,900BC. The axe-head is near-complete and has an overall length of 126.9mm and has a weight of 422.0g. The relatively broad butt appears slightly damaged and is convex with rounded shoulders and has a width of 34.2mm. The sides are straight across the thickness of the axe, giving the axe a rectangular body …
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Record ID: LON-EC87C4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nine Roman pottery sherds from a bowl, of a Gaulish ware (AD43-410). This large rim sherd is from a bowl with a squared rim and rounded shoulder. The shoulder is decorated with bands of horizontal grooves and the surface is burnished right up to and including the rim. Beneath the shoulder is unburnished. The internal surface is also decorated with a burnished pattern. The upper section has a solid band of burnishing and there is a central radiating linear pattern. This is a sand-tempered fabric has a pale grey core with dark grey surfaces. There are quite large quartz and large…
Created on: Monday 3rd November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BUC-F89F17
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy polyhedral weight of Scandinavian type, in the shape of a cube with the corners cut off. The weight has six stamped annulets on its six square sides, set within an incised frame. Each smaller, triangular surface also has a stamped annulet. Polyhedral weights are relatively common finds at Scandinavian trading sites such as Birka (Sweden) and Kaupang (Norway). A large number have also been recorded from the Viking winter camp of Torksey, Lincolnshire (see PAS 'Find-ID' DENO-92F202; DENO-9338F5 and DENO-934697). Their discovery in England is almost certainly associated…
Created on: Saturday 3rd January 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 17th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-38DEF1
Object type: MOULD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead coin mould of Roman date. Roughly square in shape. Lower half measures 27mm by 36mm and is 6mm thick. On three sides a triangular lip extends upwards to clasp the upper half in place. The upper half is slightly smaller to enable it to be clasped in place by the lugs. It measures 33mm by 27mm and is 5mm thick. The straight back edge appears to have been folded over rather than placed on top, suggesting the the item started out as a one-piece rectangle and was folded over. Cresent shaped grooves on the upper and lower surface of the mould indicate that a tool was used to hold …
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LVPL-D9F581
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap junction of medieval date. It is circular in plan and oval in section. The upper surface is decorated with a complex design representing a cross. Enamel is used to create the darker lines of decoration. The central decoration is in the shape of a square. Four decorative lines radiate out from the corners of the square to the outer border. Four short lines radiate out from each side of the square. These then split to the left and right of the main line and continue to the outer border of the object. The radiating lines and the border are a mid brown bordered by …
Created on: Tuesday 21st April 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oswestry', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-544F06
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestersius of Vespasian (AD 69-79). Issued in 71 AD. Minted in Lyon. Obverse: [IMP CAES VESPAS]IAN AVG P[M TR P P P COS III] laureate bust right Reverse: SALVS AVGVSTA S-C, Salus seated left holding patera & sceptreA copper alloy dupondius of Vespasian (69-79 AD). Reverse is quite worn. RIC reference: RIC 197
Created on: Thursday 18th November 2010
Last updated: Friday 19th November 2010
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Record ID: LON-BC5DC6
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman stone fragment from a rotary quern dating AD43-410. This is part of the lower stone of a hand turned quern made from volcanic lavastone from the Mayen-Niedermendig area of the Eifel Hills region of Germany. The fragment includes part of the outer edge and the inner edge to the spindle. The lower surface is pecked and the upper surface and the outer edge are dressed with lined tooling. On the upper surface the lined tooling comprises sections of diagonal parallel lines, spaced 2-3mm apart, and the sections are off-set against each other. On the outer edge there are vertica…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Last updated: Thursday 25th November 2010
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Record ID: IOW-BDF9A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy gilt button brooch (Avent & Evison class Iii) of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (c. 450-c. 550). Parts of the rim are missing due to old breaks. The pin lug, although complete, is obscured by iron corrosion and the catch-plate is almost complete. The pin is missing. This brooch is circular in plan with an upwards flaring saucer-like rim. At the centre of the brooch there is a moulded anthropomorphic forward facing mask which has prominent and well defined features. The upper half of the mask is in the form of sixteen vertical ridges that represent ha…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-D05E11
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy plate brooch, 37mm in diameter and 15mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition and weighs 9.44grams. The brooch is missing part of its body, spring and pin. It has very ornate and unusual enamelled decoration, mostly consisting of millefiori cells. The brooch consists of a central raised circular knop which appears to be plain? Surrounding this are three circles of enamel, the first being solid red. The second has a white ground with repeating blue 'feathered' motifs and the third has alternate squares of multicoloured millefiori cells. The first type is a 'chequ…
Created on: Wednesday 24th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2016
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Record ID: LVPL-E922F8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy ansate brooch with circular terminals, dating to the early medieval period (c. AD 750-900). Weetch Type II.Aii. The brooch has two flat, rounded terminals joined by an arched bow which is D-shaped in section and appears undecorated. The terminals are decorated with an incised with a punched ring-and-dot motif in each quadrant. The terminals have a decorative edge of small punched dots. One terminal is only partially complete. The reverse of the brooch is undecorated. The broken terminal presents iron staining on the surviving part of the pin p…
Created on: Friday 15th May 2020
Last updated: Thursday 10th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tattenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-E9B664
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver medieval Italian coin of Robert D'Anjou 'the Wise', king of 'Sicily' (Naples) and count of Provence 1309-43. Denomination: gigliato (or carlino) aka robertino; mint: Naples; ref: MEC 14, nos. 698-9.
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 7th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Knotting and Souldrop Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-F93A24
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Iron Age copper alloy spiral finger ring dating 300BC - 100AD. This finger ring has been made so the ends spiral round approximately half way around the band and overlap, forming the rear half of the finger ring. The front section of the finger ring has been decoratively cast to form a pattern comprising three annulets with a pointed oval set on an angle in between the annulets. Dimensions: width: 5.55mm; thickness: 2.42mm; diameter: 21.46mm; weight: 4.07g.
Created on: Friday 26th November 2010
Last updated: Thursday 6th January 2011
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Record ID: NARC-FE4DC6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver hammered penny of Eadred (AD 946-955). Obverse: crowned bust right. draped. [...]DRED REX Reverse: small cross. [MAN.]ACIN MONEA+ Moneyer: Mannecin Mint: Oxford Reference: North 713
Created on: Friday 26th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 29th November 2010
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Record ID: WMID-4D1CE0
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy handle for a knife, razor or other tool. The handle terminates in an zoomorphic, bovine head in the round. The head has curved horns, one of which is broken, and the other may be bent out of shape. The head is well made and faceted, with a groove for the mouth. The snout and top of the head is decorated with groups of punched dots, although corrosion, particularly on the top of the head, obscures this decoration slightly. The animal's neck is decorated with linear incisions and punched ring and dots on both sides. At the attachment end the handle has a layer of fer…
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2012
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Record ID: WMID-4F82A4
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper flat axe dating from the early Bronze Age, from circa 2300 to 2000 BC. The axe is broken before the butt end and has a crescent shaped chunk missing at the break. It is very worn and suffers from corrosion, with a green copper corrosion product visible on both sides of the surface. The axe flares in width from 22.9 mm at the break to 57.14 mm at the widest point of the blade. It is 8.8 mm thick and weighs 122.5 grams. It would originally have been about 85 mm long, but is now 63.2 mm in length. Other than the areas of green corrosion the axe has a purple/brow…
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th April 2014
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