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Record ID: CAM-F49263
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman steelyard weight dating to c. 2nd century AD. The weight is of bi-conical shape with an iron loop at one apex for suspension. Length: 56.7mm, diameter: 57.00mm, weight: 792g. Such weights would sometimes have a loop at either end, one is for suspension and the other holds a hook on which to hang the thing being weighed. The Roman Weight system is as follows: 1 siliqua = 0.19g, 6 siliquae = 1g, 1 scripulum = 1.14g, 3 scripula = 1 drachama = 3.41g, 8 drachma = 1 uncia = 27. 3g, 12 unciae = 1 libra = 327.5g (the Roman pound).
Created on: Friday 25th February 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
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Record ID: CAM-575A85
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman Basel pot sherd of late 2nd - 3rd Century Mortaria, cream to light yellow with small to medium, black trituration grit. Probably a lower Nene Valley product.
Created on: Thursday 7th October 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2021
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Record ID: CAM-5DC393
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A pottery scatter of Iron age - Roman pottery . c. 400 / 300 to 100 BC, to 2nd – mid 4th century AD . 2. pieces - Shell – Gritted ware, Rim Sherd, Domestic Round bottomed bowl c .400 – 100 BC. 1. piece Shell – Gritted ware, Shallow flat bottomed Dish (Dog dish) C 130 AD–220 AD. 1. Piece Black Fine Ware (Tera Nigra) c ,1st century, or 19 th century Royal Worcester . 2. Pieces Fine Colour Coated Grey Ware, (Neane Valley) c. 2nd – 3rd . 4. Sherds - Sandy Mica dusted Ware, Horningsea – Oxf…
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: CAM-3BF9D6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 14th century composite Strap -End, with sheet spacer occupying the whole width, having two copper alloy rivets one close to the attachment edge and the other passing through the finial. A slightly tapered strap end, with back plate, spacer, and front plate. The tapered plate terminates to an irregular rectangle where the finial (knop) has an additional piece of sheet having radiating grooves; 7.86mm, x 7.01mm The top plate has an engraved zig-zagged, lozenged shaped pattern. Length: 51.60 mm, Width: 10.90 mm, Thickness: 3.50 mm, Weight: 6.82g
Created on: Monday 18th October 2004
Last updated: Friday 15th April 2016
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Record ID: CAM-065AB7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a late Bronze Age socketed axehead dated from 1000-800 BC. The lower portion of the axe shows signs of been re-sharpened on one edge, and re-used in antiquity. This may of given rise to the inbalance and curved nature of the cutting edge. Cutting edge very fine and sharp. Width across cutting edge: 47.38 mm. Length from broken edge to cutting edge: 33.72. Thickness across broken edges 13.33 mm, 10.87 mm. Width across fractured edge: 30.73.
Created on: Wednesday 16th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-626A65
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Found in 2003, north part of parish Linton SLEEVE CLASP Hines Form C Hook-piece from a gilded copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines’s Form C. The clasp is basically a rectangular plate with relief decoration of two C-shapes, each of which is a Style I animal seen in profile. Each animal consists of a long curving body made up of a raised border to either side with a lower-relief line, perhaps originally beaded but now worn, in between. The body runs up to a curved headframe at the inner corner of the clasp, with a rounded or curly lappet projecting to the rear and a backwards-c…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2004
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2012
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Record ID: CAM-633FA3
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Found in 1996, north part of parish Linton. SLEEVE CLASP Hines Form B12 Catch-piece from a copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines’s Form B12. It consists of a transversely ribbed bar 6-7 mm wide interrupted by three square panels, one at each end and one in the centre. The bar is low and plano-convex in cross-section, and the square panels are flat and rectangular in cross-section. The end panels each measure 9 mm wide by 8 mm long, and are decorated with four punched annulets, one in each corner; each panel has a D-shaped pierced sewing lug on its rear edge. The central panel mea…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2004
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2012
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Record ID: CAM-653E51
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Found in 2001, south part of parish SLEEVE CLASP Hines Form B12 Hook-piece from a copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines’s Form B12. It consists of a bar, 6 mm wide and 2 mm thick. This is plano-convex in cross-section and decorated with alternating broad and narrow transverse grooves. In the centre is a rectangular lobe which projects forward of the bar and is decorated with a central sunken square panel with a four-petalled flower in counter-relief. Behind this flower is a broader border, and then an undecorated trapezoidal flaring rear lug. There is a crack in this lug v…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2004
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2012
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Record ID: CAM-5BFA14
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead vesica (elliptical) seal matrix dating from late 12th to late 14th century. Elliptical in shape with a suspension loop on the reverse. The seal matrix bears a Fleur de Lys design with a private name: SIGILLUM - ROGURI (seal of Roger).
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2013
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Record ID: CAM-75F595
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Neolithic - early Bronze Age tertiary flake. The end scraper platform removed with flat inverse retouch.
Created on: Friday 28th May 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-76A362
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Neolithic - early Bronze Age horse-shoe scraper. Tertiary Flake with prepared platform.
Created on: Friday 28th May 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: CAM-6440F3
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Found before April 2004, south part of parish PLAQUE Small circular copper-alloy disc, 21 mm in diameter and 2 mm thick. The front is heavily gilded and decorated with chip-carved ornament; in the centre is a rounded boss with a groove and then a ridge around it, and then there are three Style I animals filling most of the circle. The animals are all identical, and consist of a leg with an acutely angled ‘elbow’ and three-toed foot, and a triple-strand body, with a transverse block in front of the body which may be a headframe. In front of each headframe is a triple-strand u…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2004
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2012
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Record ID: CAM-F70385
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman pin, c. AD 150 - 250 AD. The pin has a flattened bi-conical head with only a short fragment of the shaft still remaining. Roman and Anglo-Saxon pins are similar in shape, but one of the main differences in this group of pins is that the Saxon pins normally have a collar just below the head of the pin.
Created on: Friday 25th February 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
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Record ID: CAM-D80831
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy barb-spring padlock case, dating to the 12th to 15th century. The case comprises an incomplete square-section bolt, length 30.98 mm, and an incomplete protruding rectangular hasp. 11.72 mm at the keyhole end, splitting into three square openings at the bolt end of the padlock.
Created on: Friday 1st October 2004
Last updated: Thursday 18th December 2014
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Record ID: CAM-63FEC5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Found in 1995, north part of parish MOUNT. Flat U-shaped mount made from gilded copper alloy. The upper edge is slightly incurved, and the mount is 17 mm wide here. It tapers very slightly down its length, and ends in a smooth rounded curve. It is decorated with a raised border, and a raised central longitudinal ridge; all of these are flat-topped and the central ridge is slightly wider than the border ridges. The two long narrow panels thus created are filled with identical ornament; a single straight length of double-strand simple twist interlace (also sometimes called guil…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2004
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2012
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Record ID: CAM-C2CD60
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible Roman circular mount cast in cast copper alloy Dia- 29. 38mm .which is decorated with four cast circular countersunk impressions which are symmetrically apposing each other, there is a hole through the centre where there is evidence of a iron spike that would of been the means of attachment. There is a raised integral shoulder , depth – 6.35 mm that protrudes from the reverse of the mount and has remains of the iron spike protruding slightly through it.
Created on: Thursday 30th September 2004
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: CAM-039812
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small piece of rounded silver metalworking debris. Possibly Viking in origin. Length: 7.61mm, Width: 4.75mm, Weight 1.10 g. A Viking ingot, declared Treasure Trove was found nearby several months ago.
Created on: Wednesday 16th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2011
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Record ID: CAM-C07E21
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of late Bronze Age plate scrap (ingot). C. 1000 - 800 BC. The fragment has a smooth flat inside surface with a slightly curved inside edge on its horizontal plane. It is also slightly curved across the horizontal inside surface making it very slightly curved in shape. Running vertically on its outside surface from the smallest bottom edge to the widest edge, there is a slightly uneven 5.60 mm raised rib decoration that runs the length of the fragment, with a smaller rib (3.22mm) running horizontally across the thicker rib at 5.22 mm from the fractured lea…
Created on: Monday 19th July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Neots', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-770457
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Neolithic - early Bronze Age secondary Flake. Appears to be a uni-faced working tool possibly a knife.
Created on: Friday 28th May 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: CAM-647DF1
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Found 1999, south part of parish. LACE TAG possibly Triangular piece of copper-alloy sheet which has been rolled into a neat cone. The cone is very long and narrow, 55 mm long and 8 x 7 mm at the wider open end, and is undecorated except for faint grooves around the seam, which may be cutting-out lines. The seam is butted for 34 mm of its length, and is then open. There are no rivet holes or other obvious means of attachment. It weighs 4.1g. It is hard to be certain as to function or date for this object; it may possibly be a large lace-tag of late medieval or early post-medie…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2004
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2012
No spatial data available.