Record ID: DENO-63D354
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy half ounce weight. Flat rectangular with bevelled edges, and slightly hollowed underside. Incised cut cross on one side with one arm double-stranded (the upper edge), and a more faint incised cross on the other (hollowed) side. Thick cream patina. Length 22.6mm, width 16.1mm, thickness c.4.5mm, weight 13.67g (0.48oz).
Created on: Wednesday 2nd June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bottesford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-63B761
Object type: POWDER MEASURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval cast lead alloy powder flask cap. Small cup with one damaged loop at the base - no trace of another loop on the opposite side.. The cap is split and distorted. Length 16.9mm, diameter of base c.18.7mm, thickness of metal 1.3mm, weight 10.50g.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bottesford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-638543
Object type: MUSKET BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three post-Medieval cast lead alloy musket balls. None impacted. 1. No casting line/sprue; two cut marks; thick cream patina. Diameter 17.7mm, weight 30.6g. 2. Slight casting line and sprue; light grey patina. Diameter 15.5mm, weight 19.8g. 3. No casting line or sprue. Diameter 12.9mm, weight 10.8g.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bottesford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-6EB9D6
Object type: FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tinned/silvered cast copper alloy fitting with small length of silvered copper alloy chain attached. Trapezoidal object with four circular perforations along the longest edge and three along the shortest (opposite) edge - these are unevenly spaced. Three transverse ridges running between the angled sides, with wider sections between, one concave and with scalloped ends, the other convex and with pointed ends. Length of chain (five links) attached to one of the end perforations on the short edge. Length 19.3mm, width 20.3mm, thickness 3.0mm, diameter of perforations 2.2mm, length of cha…
Created on: Monday 3rd August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Whatton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-083C15
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early-Medieval copper-alloy strap-end, now incomplete. Sub-rectangular with pointed upper edge; central openwork lozenge with two perforations within each quarter (those on the left are not pierced through); inwards pointing free-standing projection from each corner; lozenge surrounded by eight circular perforations; a forwards-projecting knop at each of the upper corners; transverse ridge towards the bottom of the mount with a, now damaged, plate below (this was probably originally perforated); no trace of flange. Original surface gone; red-brown exposed surface with some light green…
Created on: Friday 17th July 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Whatton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-19C375
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval coin; silver penny of Edward I, London mint, Classes 2-9, not further identified, 1280-1300/1. Damaged – small chunk missing from edge. Diameter 18.5mm, weight 0.92g.
Created on: Friday 24th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coalville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-098D35
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval coin; silver penny of Elizabeth I, unclear initial mark, 1558-1603. Pierced from the reverse to the left of the crown on the obverse. Diameter 15.2mm, weight 0.48g.
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-097B41
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval coin; broken silver penny, York mint, not further identifiable. The obverse is very worn. Roughly half of the coin present. Length (not diameter) 14.5mm, width 9.9mm, weight 0.48g.
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-091535
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval coin; silver penny of Edward I, Durham mint, Class 9a2, North 1036/2, 1299-1300/1. Diameter 17.1mm, weight 1.14g.
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-090D55
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval cast copper alloy small double loop oval ‘spectacle’ buckle with a small moulded knop at either end of the narrowed strap bar, groove to take the (missing) pin on one outer edge, c.1500-1650. Green-brown patina with some exposed light green surface. Length 22.5mm, width 17.8mm, thickness variable 1.1mm-2.9mm, weight 1.66g. See Whitehead 1996 (‘Buckles 1250-1800’, Greenlight) p54 for similar buckles.
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-0907A4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval cast copper alloy rectangular double loop buckle with all over moulded decoration, incomplete, roughly a third survives; 1620-1680. Trefoil knops on the corners and a rounded knop at the centre of each of the two surviving edges; moulded scrolled decoration on the obverse. Traces of tinning on obverse and reverse. Length (incomplete) 20mm, width (complete) 30.6mm, thickness 2.1mm, weight 2.76g. See Whitehead 1996 (‘Buckles 1250-1800’, Greenlight) p79 for similar (although not identical) buckles, dated to 1620-1680.
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-0901E4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast copper alloy spectacle buckle, incomplete, just over half survives, probably c.1500-1650. Double loop oval ‘spectacle’ buckle with a moulded knop at either end of the narrowed and recessed strap bar. Unclear decoration on the frame - multiple oblique and transverse engraved lines? Most of one of the loops is missing. Sheet pin. Mid green patina. Length (incomplete) 25.1mm, width 27.8mm, thickness across outer edge 2.8mm, weight 4.78g.
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-08FB18
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast copper alloy tripartite asymmetrical bar strap mount with integral spikes, 17th (or early 18th?) century. Unclear design, possibly foliate. One spike broken off the other incomplete. Length 27.5mm, width 9.6mm, thickness including incomplete spike 6.2mm, thickness across centre 2.7mm, weight 2.34g.
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-08F262
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval dagger scabbard chape fragment, just the lower end present, 14th-16th century. Tongue shaped chape; openwork as broken across a rounded aperture; rounded knop, semi-circular in section, projecting from base. Length (incomplete) 22mm, width (incomplete) 25mm, thickness 4.8mm, weight 3.37g.
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-08E775
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early-Medieval or early Medieval gilded cast copper alloy single loop D-shaped buckle with two animal heads forming the sides of the loop, Marshall Type IIC, probably 12th century. The animal heads originate at a rounded projection at either end of the narrowed strap bar; they extend up the sides of the frame and bite the outer edge of the frame; the decoration immediately after the heads is unclear but at the apex of the outer edge is a barrel moulding with a groove and ridge to either side. Traces of gilding on the obverse (and possibly a small area on the reverse). Pin missing. One …
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-08B328
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified object, probably late Early Medieval or early Medieval . Cast copper alloy object with zoomorphic terminal. Incomplete linear object. One end has an animal head terminal - rounded head with brow gently sloping to the snout with incised line indicating the mouth; no other detail on the head. This is at the end of a sub-circular sectioned bar which is straight along one edge but expands gradually along the opposite edge until a concave cut out then a broken projection on the other side of which is a concave cut-out and another break. No original surface, powdery mid and lig…
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Monday 10th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-08A960
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman coin; copper alloy dupondius or as, probably of Hadrian (AD117-138) (from the portrait); faint standing figure with ?cornucopia on the reverse. Diameter 25.5mm, thickness 2.8mm, weight 6.98g.
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-089F97
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman coin; copper alloy dupondius or as, not further identifiable. Seated semi-reclining figure reverse. Diameter 30.1mm, thickness 4.0mm, weight 12.12g.
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swepstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-667E35
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two early post medieval brown-glazed red earthenware pottery vessel sherds, probably 16th-17th century. 1. Body sherd, coarse orange fabric, quartz sands inclusions, and streaks & inclusions of cream clay (one streak of cream length 22mm, width 3.5mm) ( these streaks/inclusions indicative of coal measures clay). Thick brown internal glaze, outer surface ?burnished with slightly metallic looking red-brown surface (reminiscent of a thin Midlands Purple glaze). Weight 40.7g. 2. Base sherd, coarse orange fabric with grey core, quartz sand inclusions up to 1.5mm, sparse red ?clay inclus…
Created on: Thursday 26th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hathern', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-666108
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval or early post medieval Midlands Purple earthenware pottery vessel sherd, probably 15th-16th century. Rim sherd from a cistern or large jar. Simple everted rim, two horizontal grooves (6mm apart) running around the jar, the upper at 15mm below the rim; internal red-purple glaze; buff fabric. Quartz sand inclusions with sparse black ?iron-rich round pellets (0.6mm-0.9mm). Rim diameter uncertain as it is uneven - between 210mm-250mm. Weight 62.4g.
Created on: Thursday 26th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hathern', grid reference and parish protected.