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Record ID: NLM-673AFB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Nummus, of possibly of Constantine 1 (306-337), Gloria Exercitus issue of 330-331, Trier mint, Reece period 17, possibly RIC vol. 7 page 215 no. 525
Obverse description: head ?rosette diademed right, stiff upright hair, large eye, seen from front
Obverse inscription: probably [CONSTANTI] NVS MAX AVG
Reverse description: two soldiers with two standards between them, long conical tops to standards.
Reverse inscription: GLOR IA EXERC ITVS
In exergue: probably TRS.
Diameter: 16.6mm, Weight: 1.37gms, die axis: 6
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-652A23
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead or lead alloy circular flat weight of Medieval to Post Medieval date c. 1280-1700.
The flat weight is circular and thick with possible stamped illegible characters on one face with a rough surface. The reverse is smoother with two transverse impressed grooves (probably damage); with a series of incised lines, possibly the shoulders and bust of a helmeted figure facing right. The object has a buff patina.
Measurements: diameter: 33.75mm; thickness: 8.41mm and weight: 71.2g.
Lead objects such as this are common metal detector finds but are rare fr…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: WMID-241D78
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy colchester derivative Polden Hill brooch (possibly CD PH 4.k type) of Roman date, circa AD 75-160.
The brooch is missing its, foot, catchplate, spring and pin.
The brooch is T-shaped in plan and the bow head is hump-like, and slightly angular (comma shaped) in profile. The bow is oval in cross section and tapers to a worn transverse break. The sides of the head are decorated with curved mouldings, characteristic of Polden Hill brooches. At the top of the head is a broken rearward facing hook.&…
Created on: Friday 19th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th April 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-112A96
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy trade weight, one of a set that would have stacked. It is circular with a raised rim, and the weight would suggest that it is 1/2 ounce. Inside are the stamps of a laver or coffee pot, the inspection mark of the Worshipful Company of Founders, who controlled the lawful making of weights in London and for three miles around (Withers and Withers 2011, page 78). Also a sword, which is the mark of St Pauls London, and possibly a crowned C, which would date the weight to the reign of Charles 1-11. Similar example on the database are NARC-C1DECA and DEV…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Near Caton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-FC8503
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Penny of Stephen (1135-1154), possibly Stafford mint (Spink 2017 page 147: Anglo-Saxon and Norman mints) or London [see reverse reading], profile right, assertively cleaned by the finder.
Obverse description: crowned bust right with lis-topped sceptre before face, star of seven points with central pit in lower right flan.
Obverse inscription: [--]TIFEN[--]
Reverse description: cross within eight arched tressure, a lis pointing inwards in each angle, plain line inner and outer circles.
Reverse inscription: [--]ON/DVN/I.[--]
Diameter: 19.0mm, Weight: 1.11gms, die …
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Amcotts', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-F9CA2E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight, made from offcut. A fragment of cast lead of trapezoid section, with cut and chatter marks on all sides; patinated. The mass might approach that of one lighter Viking-Age Ora/Ore comprising six sub-units of 4.07gms to enable use as a weight at that time, though the correspondence with that value is less exact than would normally be deemed significant by this reporter. Other finds from the vicinity are of mainly Roman date, though with later material present. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Early Medieval, 43-950
Length: 24.0mm, Width: 15.3mm, Thickness: 9.3mm, Weight: 23.22gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-F91567
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. Nummus of the House of Constantine (306-361), probably commemorative issue honouring Constantine I (306-337), issue of 337-340, Reece period 17, Trier mint, RIC vol. 8 page 143 no. 68
Obverse description: veiled head right.
Obverse inscription: [--]INVS PT AVGG
Reverse description: quadriga travelling right
In exergue: probably TRP
Diameter: 14.7mm, Weight: 1.27gms, die axis: probably 12
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-F85F74
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin. Denarius of Faustina II (147-175), possibly mint of Rome, RIC vol. 3 page 95 no. 515, struck under Antoninus Pius so issue of 147-161
Obverse description: bust coiffed and draped right
Obverse inscription: FAVSTINA F AVG PII AVG F
Reverse description: figure draped below waist standing left with right arm raised ?releasing dove, the top of a transverse ball-ended object held by left hand
Reverse inscription: V E [NVS]
Diameter: 17.6mm, Weight: 2.71gms, die axis: 6
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-F7FB07
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast pentagonal double looped buckle frame, in the form of a ‘Tudor’ rose with inward-pointing stubs marking the former site of a constricted strap bar. Fiercely abraded; Whitehead (1996 page 47 nos 272- 274) illustrates examples of the type in better condition. Suggested date: Late Medieval to Early Post-Medieval, 1450-1550
Length: 40mm, Height: 37.5mm, Thickness: 2mm, Weight: 7.83gms
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-F7D84A
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy toy tankard. Cast cylindrical model of a tankard, hollow, with an integrally cast moulded handle projecting from the mould line along one side. It is possible that other features were set opposite, where two surface irregularities may be either stubs from another handle or casting flaws. At least four rows of tiny moulded dots ascend the vessel wall, and it has a slightly expanded foot ring. Forsyth and Egan (2005, page 293 no. 8.128) illustrate a toy lidded tankard of 17th or 18th-century date from London. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1675-1775
Height: 23.7mm, Diameter (…
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-D31159
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy shot / ball of probable Post-Medieval or Early Modern date (1600-1800 AD). Likely from a pistol. The shot is spherical and of a grey white colour. Musket balls are discussed in Courtney's "Small Arms Accessories of the Mid-Seventeenth Century" (1988) and on page 202 of "Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition" by Geoff Egan (2005).
Measurements: Diameter: 12.77mm, Weight: 13.82g.
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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This findspot is known as 'North Curry', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-D30CFE
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy shot / ball of probable Post-Medieval or Early Modern date (1600-1800 AD). Likely from a pistol. The shot is spherical and of a grey white colour. Musket balls are discussed in Courtney's "Small Arms Accessories of the Mid-Seventeenth Century" (1988) and on page 202 of "Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition" by Geoff Egan (2005).
Measurements: Diameter: 18.8mm, Weight: 35.14g.
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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This findspot is known as 'North Curry', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-D30933
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy shot / ball of probable Post-Medieval or Early Modern date (1600-1800 AD). Likely from a pistol. The shot is spherical and of a grey white colour. Musket balls are discussed in Courtney's "Small Arms Accessories of the Mid-Seventeenth Century" (1988) and on page 202 of "Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition" by Geoff Egan (2005).
Measurements: Diameter: 17.08mm, Weight: 32.87g.
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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This findspot is known as 'North Curry', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-D303A7
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy shot / ball of probable Post-Medieval or Early Modern date (1600-1800 AD). Likely from a pistol. The shot is spherical and of a grey white colour. Musket balls are discussed in Courtney's "Small Arms Accessories of the Mid-Seventeenth Century" (1988) and on page 202 of "Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition" by Geoff Egan (2005).
Measurements: Diameter: 19.16mm, Weight: 37.42g.
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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This findspot is known as 'North Curry', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-D2D067
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete barbed and tanged arrowhead of Green. H, S, (1980) type Sutton b, closest in outline to examples i and j (page 122, fig. 45), of off-white patinated flint with the numerous small inclusions within the flint a mid-grey colour, one face has three small spots of rusty iron, probably from contact with agricultural machinery. One barb is nearly complete; possibly the tiny tip is missing, the other barb is chipped at the tip, this is an ancient break as one of the iron stains is on the surface of the break, the tang is broken obliquely but would have been little longer than t…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: OXON-CF0674
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy spherical animal bell (crotal) of Post-medieval date (AD 1500-1650). It is missing one half of its lower hemisphere.
The bell comprises two hemispherical domes with a raised circumferential join. The upper hemisphere has two circular sound holes (c.5.3mm diameter) with a cast integral rectangular loop projecting from the top between them. The upper edges of this loop are bevelled while the hole is rectangular (c.7.2mm by 6.8mm). The lower hemisphere has a long, wide sound slit with circular holes at the ends. This is set almost at right …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Wotton Underwood', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NARC-52E76D
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Hooked Tag of late Medieval to Post-Medieval date (AD 1500-1650). Read class E, type 3. The object is composed of a rectangular upper loop, below which is a sub-triangular plate with a central pineapple moulding, raised chevron below and openwork outer edges. The left- and right-hand sides have openwork motif composed of four circular voids flanking the central motif. A single circular void on each side is filled with corrosion biproduct. The lower outer edges have projecting spurs. From the lower edge projects a narrow, D sectioned, tapering recurving hook…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: OXON-51FC15
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy spherical animal bell (crotal) of Post-medieval date (AD 1500-1650). it is missing one half of its lower hemisphere.
The bell comprises two hemispherical domes with a raised circumferential join. The upper hemisphere has two circular sound holes (c.4.3mm diameter) with a cast integral rectangular loop projecting from the top between them. The upper edges of this loop are bevelled while the hole is circular (c.3.1mm diameter). The lower hemisphere has a long, wide sound slit with circular holes at the ends. This is set almost at right ang…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Sundon CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SWYOR-3BCE41
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Medieval to Post Medieval copper alloy button dating from AD 1450 - 1600. It has a domed solid head with a central pimple, and an integrally cast attachment loop.
Measurements are; length 15.8mm, diameter 11.8mm and weight 5.37g. The shank of the button is 8.6mm long.
Compare examples in Bailey (2004) page 28, fig.7.25.
Created on: Monday 8th April 2024
Last updated: Saturday 13th April 2024
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Record ID: WMID-EA61F4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy colchester derivative Polden Hill brooch (possibly CD PH 6.a2-6.a3 type) of Roman date, circa AD 100-175.
The brooch is missing its, foot, catchplate, spring and pin.
The brooch is T-shaped in plan and the bow head is hump-like, and slightly angular (comma shaped) in profile. The bow is D-shaped in cross section and tapers to a worn transverse break. The sides of the head are decorated with curved mouldings, characteristic of Polden Hill brooches. At the top of the head is an intact rearward facing…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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