Record ID: PAS-4C05B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper-alloy sestertius of uncertain Antonine empress, probably Faustina II (147-175) or Lucilla (164-169), dating to c. AD 147-175 (Reece period 8). Unclear reverse type probably depicting a standing figure. Mint unclear. Highly corroded, the coin measures 30.4mm in diameter and weighs 23.48g
Created on: Friday 5th February 2016
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CE82B
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible copper-alloy candle holder of medieval date with two cups. The object is of one piece, consisting of a stem hammered flat and bent round to form an elongated socket at one end, while the other end expands and bifurcates, developing into two arms which terminate in either cups or holders for rushlights. The arms have rectangular cross-section, and change into a twisted bar towards the cup ends. The cups are formed of flattened tabs with rounded ends curled right round on themselves, both squashed. One of the arms has been twisted round and down and now sits over the sock…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CE462
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly clipped post-medieval silver penny of Charles I (1625-1649). Probably Group D, fourth bust (probably North 2267). Initial mark: unclear, possibly one pellet, dating to c. 1634-1640. Mint of London (Tower). North (1991, 163). It measures 13.3mm in diameter, 0.4mm in thickness and weighs 0.46g. It has suffered some small circumferential abrasions, in addition to probable clipping.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CDFD5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy radiate or nummus of uncertain ruler dating to c. AD 260-402 (Reece period 13-21). Unclear reverse type with unclear depiction. Mint unclear. The coin has suffered some losses around its circumference, giving it an irregular shape, and is highly corroded. It has been pierced towards the circumference, possibly for re-use as jewellery. It measures 14.4mm in diameter and weighs 1.30g
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CDB9D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete or fragmentary copper-alloy mount of probable medieval to post-medieval date. The mount is flat and has stepped long edges formed of conjoined trapezoids that decrease in size: three such trapezoids survive to form the present object. The smallest trapezoid forms the terminal of the object and is bifurcated at its own terminal. It is also covered in an applied thin white metal sheet, which extends, abraded, into the adjacent trapezoid. On the reverse, at the terminal, is an integral rivet. The object has been curved in profile, and has been bent downwards in particu…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Sunday 7th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CD8BD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy double-looped buckle of post-medieval date, complete with pin. It measures 28.8mm by 23.4mm by 3.3mm and weighs 6.63g. The loops are oval and are bevelled externally on the upper surface; the lower surface is flat with some steep internal bevelling. At both ends of the pin bar is a thin moulded knop. The pin bar is recessed. Around it a pin of thick sheet folded construction survives in place. The buckle is of a dull red-brown colour. The loops have been angled upwards, possibly through use rather than damage. For comparable buckles see Whitehead (1996, 54); they are co…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CD5E6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy plate, presumably from a strap, of probable medieval date. The plate is broadly rectangular, rounded at the surviving corners, having been abraded, and broken at the other short end where it has been bent upwards slightly as a result of old damage. The front is quite heavily scratched but appears to be undecorated. At the extant corners two integral rivets are present on the reverse. These have hammering marks between them. The object generally has a brown patina. It measures 27.7mm long by 13.5mm wide by 2.1mm thick; it weighs 4.53g
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CD185
Object type: DIVIDERS
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a post-medieval copper-alloy and iron precision instrument - pair of dividers dating to the 16th-17th century. Such dividers comprised two hinged arms; the upper section is copper alloy while the lower arms are iron; here only one upper section survives, broken at both ends. At one angled end of the fragment was where the piece hinged with the other upper section. The arms are decoratively cast so that they have a varied, faceted appearance. On the middle section of the arms this faceting has created an oval depression on the internal surface. Externally the equivalent…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CCBE2
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy plate almost certainly from a medieval clasp. Half of the plate survives here, following a transverse break at the fold. The plate is sub-rectangular, with no frame recesses at the fold. There is a decoratively shaped attachment end, now slightly damaged but originally with four triangular cut-outs which would have created five knops, including those at the corners. Two knops have been broken off towards one of the corners (old damage). Engraved angled lines at the base of each knop emphasise each protrusion on the front. The front is decorated within a v…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2019
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Record ID: PAS-8CC7FA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Roman plate brooch of c. 2nd century AD date. The brooch is broadly circular, though slightly angular, with sides that tend towards being straight between four lobed knops located one at each cardinal point. The brooch is decorated with three concentric circular grooves, divided by circles of the same height as the circumference. Probable traces of enamel are apparent within the grooves, as with the lobed knops which are each recessed, but not enough survives to be able to reconstruct a colour scheme. Two of the knops have been abraded through externally. …
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CC3DD
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy post-medieval dress hooked of Read's Early Post-Medieval Class E, Type 3, with a sub-circular openwork plate with a central fleur-de-lis. It has a flat plate, integral rectangular attachment loop, and integral rear-curving hook. The plate has openwork decoration consisting of a central fleur-de-lis moulded on the front within an inner circle. The border surrounding the inner circle has moulded decoration on the front surface with openwork between the inner circle and the border. Above the inner circle is a wide trefoil whose upper side forms the base of the …
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CBF8B
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy object of medieval date: probably a mount from a bridle bit of 13th- to 14th-century date. The original form of the artefact would probably have resembled the letter 'B'. What survives is a central sub-trapezoidal plate, from which emerge two truncated arms. The plate is thick and has a circular outward facing knop at each corner of its longest side. This and the two sides perpendicular to it are slightly incurved. The short side is wavy, and consists of the point of a triangle located centrally with small recesses at each side. The triangle is formed of the…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2021
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Record ID: PAS-8CBA7D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy mount of medieval to post-medieval date; its wider function is uncertain, though it is possibly part of a buckle with integral plate. It consists of a flat bar with a trefoilate terminal at one end, distinguished from the bar by a low transverse, flanged ridge. One of the side elements of the trefoil has been broken off. The terminal is pierced to take a rivet; no rivet survives. At the other end of the bar the object expands in a curve to attain a consistent width, at which point the object has been broken in a fairly ragged transverse, old break. The expan…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CB5E6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy post-medieval double-looped buckle frame of asymmetrical form. One loop is trapezoidal while the other is D-shaped. The former has a central pin rest and rebated outer edge. The D-shaped loop is similarly rebated on its outer edge and features a central rounded protrusion internally. Overall the front of the frame is bevelled shallowly from the internal edge to the external. The pin is missing; traces of ferrous corrosion product towards the centre of the pin bar suggest that it would have been made of iron. The buckle is angled in profile, probably from use rather than…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CB0CB
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval unusual dress hook of composite construction (c. 16th century). The front plate would have comprised three hollow-domed bosses, only two of which survive following old breaks. The bosses are apparently undecorated; both are becoming detached from the plate at places. That set uppermost is missing its counterpart. When complete, these upper bosses would have had a central perforation. In the perforation of the extant boss is located one end of a separate copper-alloy angular wire loop, retained in place by a lead fill in the hollow reverse. The lower boss, s…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CAD4F
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rectangular pierced copper-alloy plate, probably a medieval book clasp of Howsam type A.7. It would have been riveted to an equivalent plate by four rivets, located one towards each corner. The rivets have a circular cross-section, and all four survive in situ, their head flush to the surface of the plate. The plate is cusped to emphasise the corners, by an engraved V shape central at each short end, and smaller V-shaped lines towards the corner on the long edge. There are further, finer engraved lines between these latter, at each corner. There are also suggestions of incised diago…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2019
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Record ID: PAS-8CA942
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy book clasp (hook piece) of late medieval or early post-medieval date. The artefact is generally flat a sheet-like, but has been bent slightly as a result of old damage. The main body takes the form of a lozenge truncated at each end. At the attachment end there is a basic, rectangular transverse protrusion on each side with an abraded terminal beyond. The rectangular arrangement is echoed at the other end of the lozenge. Beyond this, is a flared terminal with two notches that create a low central triangle. A separate iron rivet is retained within the flared terminal at …
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2019
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Record ID: PAS-8C8180
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper-alloy 17th-century token halfpenny issued by Thomas Norris of Aynho, Northamptonshire. Williamson (1891, 885) Northamptonshire no. 2, dating to 1648-1672. It measures 17.7mm in diameter, 0.8mm in thickness and weighs 0.77g
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2015
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Record ID: PAS-8C7D34
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy nummus of the House of Constantine dating to AD 347-348 (Reece period 17). VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN reverse type depicting two Victories facing and holding wreaths. Mint unclear. The coin has suffered some losses around its circumference. It measures 15.5mm in diameter and weighs 1.31g
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 8th December 2015
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Record ID: PAS-8C7A9B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper-alloy nummus of the House of Constantine dating to the period AD 330 to 335 (Reece Period 17). VRBS ROMA type with a reverse depicting a wolf suckling twins with two stars above. Possibly Mint of Lyon. This coin measures 17.3mm in diameter, 1.5mm in thickness and weighs 1.56g
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2015
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