Record ID: BERK-7FDAAA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold and black enamel moruniing ring of Post Medieval date. The ring is complete save for a slight break in the stone. The hoop is of even width, interrupted by a large bezel which consists of a square gold strip collar and a pyramidal base. The gold strip collar is vertical and decorated on the outside with a raised rim. The base of the bezel projects into the centre of the hoop, and is made with ribs alternating with cells which also retain black enamel. The centre of the bezel was set with a material that does not survive well. The hoop itself is trapezoidal in sect…
Created on: Sunday 25th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 31st July 2023
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Record ID: BERK-16BD92
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy, enamel and gilt harness pendant of Medieval date. The pendant is quatrefoil in plan with a triangular pointed leaf between each petal. The front is decorated with an almost full length figure of St. Paul, facing 1/4 left, holding a sword in his right hand. The field around is filled with red enamel. The raised border of the pendant is gilded. The loop is complete and perpendicular to the plate.
Created on: Monday 26th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
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Record ID: BERK-9D44CB
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold and enamel memento mori (mourning) ring. The ring is a plain band apart from the image of a skull denoted by two eyes, nose and mouth with a circumferential line. The eyes still have traces of black enamel. The mouth is denoted by a series of raised dots representing teeth. The line around the face is misshapen, leaving more blank space inside the line to the left of the face. The inscription inside the ring reads C : Tooker : ob : 23 : July : 1716 : cet : 38 There is also a makers mark of a W before the name. The internal diameter is 19.56mm which equates to a modern U…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 22nd September 2022
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Record ID: BERK-4A44AB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy and enamel Hod Hill brooch. The brooch is the bottom half of the bow with moulded horizontal ribs, one of which has traces of blue enamel. At the top of the bottom half of the bow, where the brooch is broken, is a moulded semicircular collar. The catchplate runs from the foot of the bow to this collar. 
Created on: Friday 18th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th July 2022
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Record ID: BERK-12B5F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman plate brooch of Mackreth Type 6.e, British Plate Domed Boss. The brooch has a shallow domed boss centre on surface of which is a set of 16 radiating enamelled cells of alternating green and yellow enamel. In the centre of the boss is a small knop. The base of the boss is straigh sided and almost perpendicular with the surrounding circular plate. At the edge of the plate with the hinge is a broken loop. On the opposite edge is a large cell in which is a single ring. Between these on either side is a series of three similar, smaller cells, five of which are fully/pa…
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 9th March 2022
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Record ID: BERK-1215C1
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Medieval harness pendant. The pendant is square in plan and flat with a wankel (round bottomed) shield in a circular field. The circular field touches the top edge of the plate where there is small break. The circular field is c.2.7mm away from the side edges and 4.2mm from the bottom edge. Along this bottom edge and extending slightly up the sides of the circular field is a pattern of incised diagonal cross hatching. Within the shield is a similar pattern of raised cross hatching. There is traces of red enamel (guiles) in the shield. The back is plain. See SUR-CCD…
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd February 2022
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Record ID: BERK-877CE3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy and enamel Roman finger ring of Daubney 2008, The bezel is ovate in plan and has four indented circles. Two of the circles show the remains of red enamel. One of the circles has a hole worn through. The ring is broken at one shoulder and part way around the loop.
Created on: Saturday 2nd October 2021
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
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Record ID: BERK-53659A
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy seal box dating to c.AD 100 - 300. Only three quarters of the lid survives which is elongated leaf-shaped (Crummy Type 4). There is an incomplete attachment knob on the upper edge of the seal box which is sub-triangular in shape. The lower section of the seal is missing and has an irregular diagonal break. The box lid is decorated. The inner design is of a heart which encloses a roundel. The upper section of the heart is inlaid with red enamel and the roundel is inlaid with green enamel. Above the heart is a small circular pellet. The field surroundin…
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2020
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Record ID: BERK-01119B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy and enamelled Roman plate brooch dating to c. AD 100 – 200. The brooch is pelta-shaped in form. It is heavily edge abraded and missing its various lobed terminals on the arms of the pelta-shaped plate. The brooch is decoration is of Champlevé style with enamel infilled cells. It has a central ‘ladder’ effect of cells with alternate yellow and red infill. To each side, there is a curvy linear, or floral design infilled with blue and red enamel. The back of the brooch is plain, the pin fulcrum and a fragment of the catch plate remain but the pin is m…
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 21st October 2021
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Record ID: BERK-DE3CF9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman plate brooch, equal-ended Side channel type, c. 2nd century AD. The brooch has a raised rectangular form between moulded projections to the top and bottom. The top projection has a double lug, holding the remnant of the hinged pin. The lower projection is missing the catch plate section. The centre of the plate has a further raised rectangle which would have contained an enamelled field, there is a residue of a white infill. It is flanked by equal side panels, each with a vertical rib and remnants of a lug to each outer corner. The back pf the pla…
Created on: Friday 27th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Record ID: BERK-B686B9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy finger ring possibly of Henig Type 1, dating to c. 43 - 300 AD. The fragment consists of the bezel and a little less than half of the hoop, with one side of the hoop, being slightly longer than the other. The bezel has a raised oval platform with a central dot, filled with a white material. That central dot is surrounded by three teardrop-shape swirls, each filled with a red substance, possibly enamel. The surface is heavily abraded with a light green patina. Diameter = 19.26mm, bezel = 13.42mm x 10.03mm, thickness = 5.03. weight = 4.7gm.
Created on: Wednesday 25th September 2019
Last updated: Thursday 10th October 2019
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Record ID: BERK-EB828B
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Iron Age enamelled copper alloy harness fitting (toggle or cheek-piece), probably dating to 1st century AD. The fitting is sub-rectangular in shape with flat circular disc terminals which are 13.3mm in diameter at both ends. The arms are circular in cross section and concave across their length then taper outwards to join the central oval section which is convex across its length and width. It is 39mm in length, and 18mm in width. There is a central oval opening above and below this section measuring 33.7mm in length, 9.5mm in width narrowing to 3.4mm. One side of the toggl…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Record ID: BERK-888488
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant dating to c. AD 1300-1400. The pendant is shield-shaped with a circular suspension loop attached to a rectangular suspension mount which is 14.5mm in length. The surface of the pendant is decorated with a relief diagonal cross hatching forming lozenge shaped cells which originally contained with enamel, discoloured traces of which remain. The lower end of the suspension mount is attached to the suspension loop via a rivet through the centre. There is a rectangular projection attached to the upper end of the suspension mount on the…
Created on: Wednesday 24th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2020
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Record ID: BERK-B8B8E3
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval copper alloy mount possibly dating to AD c. 1200 - 1400. The plate of the mount is trefoil in plan. The foils are slightly bent. The upper left foil is slightly damaged and bent back. Each foil has incised decoration in the form of three joined triangular leaves. Each leaf has three pointed terminals. There is a central motif inside a circle which comprises an incised shield with three lions passant guardant, the coat of arms of England from c.1198. There are small traces of red enamel in the field of the shield, in-between the lions. An oval attachment shank sits …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 13th April 2021
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Record ID: BERK-51DFE3
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy and enamelled Medieval harness pendant c. 1270 - 1400 AD. The pendant is in the form of a quatrefoil with an intact suspension loop at the top. The front heraldic symbols consist of a central Norman pointed shield with the sword in bend proper hilt and pommel enfiling two Keys in bend sinister, the combined symbols of St. Peter and St. Paul. The shield in red enamel and the sword and key have the remnants of what might be gilding. The shield is then surrounded to each side with a dragonesque creature, again, with what look to be the remnants of gilding, combined wi…
Created on: Friday 10th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-89ED85
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy Roman finger ring dating from the second to third century AD. It is a finger ring of Henig Type II (1974, fig.1); Daubney 2008, Type 2, which is sub-circular in plan with a hoop of D-shaped cross-section. The shoulders are lentoidal in section and broaden to form a flat, oval bezel. The bezel is 13.9mm in length and 11.4mm in width. It is decorated with two circular pellets made of reserved metal. One pellet is inlaid with blue enamel and the other is inlaid with white enamel. On either side of the pellets there are pelta-shaped cells which are inlaid with red e…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
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Record ID: BERK-09637C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete copper alloy Roman flat enamelled disc brooch dating to the 2nd century AD. The brooch is flat and plain edged, and circular in shape. The front flat surface of the brooch is decorated with a central triskele pattern. The border of the triskele is in high-relief. At the centre of the triskele there is a high-relief circular platform, 3 mm in diameter. Each arm of the triskele terminates with a similar platform to the one at the centre of the brooch. Two of these are covered in a white residue. The field of the triskele is inlaid with red enamel. The exterior field a…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th February 2019
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Record ID: BERK-D2B06E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman Headstud brooch dating to the period circa AD 43- 180. It is bent and the spring, pin and clasp are missing. The stud retains some enamelling. Photograph?
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2018
Last updated: Sunday 8th November 2020
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Record ID: BERK-EF62C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy umbonate disc brooch of Roman date, c.AD 100 - 250. The brooch is circular with a worn brake to one edge and two projections extending at opposite points. One projection houses a double lugged hinge for the pin to the reverse, the other, the catchplate. A short length of circular sectioned pin survives, the rest having been lost to a worn break. The main body of the brooch is domed and is decorated with two concentric rings of triangular cells pointing towards a central ring and dot motif. Traces of red and blue glass enamel survives within some of the ce…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2018
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Record ID: BERK-41A408
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman trumpet derivitive brooch dating to circa AD 75-175, missing its spring and pin. The brooch has a semi-circular head complete with an infilled circular lug. The reverse head is missing the spring but retains the fill in the pin holes. The head then narrows to form the bow which is decorated with two incised retangular boxes which may have been filled with orange and black enamel followed by a raised point. Below this the bow flattens into a large intact roughly triangular catchplate. The brooch terminates with a thin flared foot with a indented collar …
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 20th June 2018
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