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Record ID: SF-66501D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a base of Roman samian ware vessel. Central or East Gaulish manufacture. Weight: 13.05g  Length: 50.43mm Width: 24.02mm A light orange, fine fabric with a glossy orange slip
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Worlingworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-654A2D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a copper-alloy brooch of Roman date, dating to c. AD 80-200. The fragment consists of just the bow. It is sub-triangular shape with a slightly concave reverse. No decoration is present on either side.  The object is a green / brown in colour and has a worn and abraded surface patina.  Measurements: 26.4mm length, 7.7mm width, thickness 3.5mm, weight 1.1 grams.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: WMID-652DAE
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy tumbler lock slide key fragment of Roman date (c. AD 43 - 410). The fragment consists of only a small portion of the handle and a complete terminal. The key has a thickened, rectangular cross-section handle and is decorated with a series of moulded collars in different sizes, arranged two either side of a waisted centre section. An integral terminal is present on one end of the handle and is trefoil in shape with a circular perforation through the centre. There are two separated raised incurving points on the endmost foil that the wear suggest…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SF-64E464
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two rim-sherds of Roman greyware pottery.  1: Length: 34.36mm Width: 64.88mm Thickness: 9.66mm Weight: 35.94g 2. Length: 30.96mm Width:46.81mm Thickness:15.91mm Weight: 17.10g
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-64BAE9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy finger ring fragment of Roman date (c. AD 43 - 300). The bezel is oval and has tapering shoulders that end at worn breaks. The hoop is incomplete. The bezel has a recessed circular cell to the upper surface and contains two raised circular pellets at either side of the cell. Any enamel in the recessed cell has been lost. The reverse of the bezel is concave.  The metal has a mid-green patina and is worn. It measures: 9.4mm in height, 12.5mm in length (bezel), 18.6mm wide, 5.5mm thick (bezel), and weighs 4.3 grams. Similar finger rings have be…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SF-645BF1
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy Roman open work hound and hare folding knife handle. All that remains is the terminal end, depicting the tail of the hound which touches the solid rectangular part of the handle. It has two parallel pairs of vertical decorative grooves across it and its upper edge is moulded. At its terminal end the vertical slot, which runs through it and the rest of the handle, can be seen. It has an circular perforation, near to its lower edge, which would have held an iron rivet to hold the iron blade in place and allowed it to have been moved freely in and out of …
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bottisham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-63C406
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman continental plate brooch dating to 25-250AD. It is an elongated lozenge, with a circular recess with a extant stud. To the reverse are the remains of a semi-circular catchplate and pin lug, although the pin is missing.  Length: 31.81mm Width: 18.69mm Weight: 1.72g
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dullingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-62FB6E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base sherd from a Roman beaker of colour coated fineware, probably Nene Valley ware and dating to the mid 2nd to 4th century AD. The fabric is hard fired and off-white in colour with a black slip. The base is 33.6mm in diameter. No decoration is evident.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-62E534
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd from a large Roman vessel, probably a storage jar. The fabric is hard fired with abundant coarse sand inclusions. The rim is beaded, everted and would have been around 300mm in diameter. The sherd is heavily iron stained so the original colour is difficult to determine, but it is most likely a reduced greyware.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-62CC72
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base fragment from a Roman vessel, probably a jar, of a sandy reduced greyware. The base ring is 75mm in diameter. The exterior surface has traces of combed lines running around the circumference just above the base. The sherd has been heavily stained by iron during prolonged exposure to the river environment.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-62A836
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base fragment from a Roman vessel, probably a jar, of a sandy reduced greyware. The base ring is 59mm in diameter. The exterior surface has been burnished. The sherd has been heavily stained by iron during prolonged exposure to the river environment.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SF-6293C0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman enamelled plate brooch. It is disc-shaped and its outer face is decorated with a raised ring around the outer edge and two smaller concentric raised rings in the centre. The three fields between these rings contain a white paste, with the middle ring retaining red enamel. To one side of the reverse there is a single-lug pin fitting covered with corroded iron and to the other side the remains of a small catch-plate, its hooked outer edge missing. It survives in fairly good condition. It has a white metal coating, and a light green patina. …
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bottisham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-628F9F
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a pedestal base from a large Roman vessel, possibly a flat-bottomed amphora (cf. Gauloise 4 type). The fabric is buff coloured, hard fired and sandy with abundant mica. The sides are 11mm thick and the vessel would have been fairly robust. The base pedestal has a flat bottom and is 68mm in diameter. Circa 1st-3rd century AD.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-625C49
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a base ring from a Roman bowl or cup of south Gaulish samian ware dating to the 1st to early 2nd century AD. The base ring had an original diameter of around 70mm. The fabric is salmon pink with no significant inclusions. The inner surface of the vessel is heavily abraded and the underside of the vessel has a moulded ridge around the base. There is no other decoration or any maker's stamp evident.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd 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: SUR-236CCD
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A strip of cast copper alloy, probably part of a Roman bracelet, which has been re-purposed into a finger ring with internal diameter of 15.2mm. The strip tapers along its length from 7.4mm to 4.7mm wide and is decorated with a moulded spine which has a line of fine punched dots running along it. Both ends appear to have been deliberately cut.
Created on: Friday 19th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th April 2024
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Record ID: OXON-127B51
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a Roman hair pin. The shaft is truncated by a transverse break. This is circular in cross section and then at its top has moulded decoraton. This begins with four transverse raised collars each sepereated by a gouge, above this is then a pear shaper knop at thet of which is a smaller collar and projecting D-shaped knop. The pin is an orange brown colour. The pin is 27.3mm long, 6.4mm wide, and weighs 3.20 grams. There are several similar pins illustrated by Cool (1990: figs 2.13, 3.9, and 4.5). 
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Haseley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-122286
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The foot and catchplate of a cast copper alloy Roman bow brooch. The pin, head and upper portion of the bow, are missing to an old transverse break in the bow. The bow is thick but rectagnular in cross section. It initially widens from 6.5mm wide at its transverse to 10.9mm wide and then narrows down its remaining length to a squared off foot that is 3.2mm wide.  The front of the bow is decorated by three prominent raised ribs at the initial widened section of the bow.  On the back of the bow is a triangular catchplate whose upper edge curves slightly to meet …
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Haseley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-120DA3
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast copper alloy probable Roman bead-imitative bracelet dating to c.AD 200-410. It is truncated by two transverse breaks.  The fragment is made from a copper-alloy strip that is D-shaped in cross section with a flat interior and domed exterior. It has a repeating pattern of raised plain rectangular zones divided by sunken regions marked by three shallow raised transverse collars. The object has a very dark brown patina. The fragment is 46.4mm long, 3.7mm wide, 3.2mm thick and weighs 2.99 grams. Its original diameter would have been 55mm in …
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Haseley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-11A193
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman key. The key has a oval bow set at right angles to a simple rectangular bit, and with a hollow-ended shank. The bow aperture is mushroom or pelta shaped. Below this there are a pair of low ribs positioned below the bow and where the stem meets the handle, which continue as slight projections on both sides. The bow is a medium green colour. 45.9mm long, 22.7mm wide, 6.9mm thick and weighs 8.77 grams. On the PAS small numbers of similar keys have been reported all of which are given wide roman dates:  KENT-C…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Haseley CP', grid reference and parish protected.