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Record ID: SUSS-B0E257
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A Post Medieval silver dress pin of bodkin type, sub-rectangular in cross section, c. 17th century AD. The bodkin is broken at the upper section at the point where an aperture is beginning to open. On one side below the aperture is a cast design of two transverse grooves, followed by a design made of four lines that cross each other at the centre (made of a '+' and an 'x'). At the base of this are two transverse grooves and perpendicular to this are longitudinal grooves, with a peak of longer grooves to form a triangular shape to point towards the tip of the pin. There is a maker ma…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd October 2012
Last updated: Monday 10th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-A282A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy jetton of the period of Edward I struck from the same dies as M. Mitchiner, Jetons, Medallets and Tokens vol. I, p. 96, no. 87. This has had silver fittings attached to the obverse consisting of a loop and what was presumably a catchplate (now broken). Thus the jetton has been transformed into a disc brooch with the cross motif of the reverse now displayed outermost. Disc brooches made from coins were a popular item of adornment in the thirteenth century and this jetton reflects that practice. The trend for them appears to die out in the early 14th century and it is lik…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2011
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.
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