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| Image | Object Type | Find number | Broadperiod | County | Actions |
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Jetton | SWYOR-29D006 |
Medieval | North Yorkshire |
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| Copper alloy, French Jetton dating to the mid-15th century. Refered to as France 'Ancient' as the number of Fleur-de-lis exceeds three. A very similar parallel can be seen in the Salisbury Medieval Catalogue , Part 3, page 256, Fig.84: NO.161. | |||||
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Coin | WMID-5351E5 |
Medieval | Staffordshire |
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| A struck/ hammered silver penny of 14th/ 15th century date, minted in York (diameter: 15.8mm, thickness: 0.4mm; weight: 0.77g). The coin is badly clipped and broken and is particularly worn on the obverse making it difficult to identify further detail. | |||||
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Coin | CORN-AEF742 |
Medieval | Cornwall |
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| Silver short cross penny of John (1199-1216), Class 4b, issued early in the reign of John c.1199-1205. York mint. Moneyer Nicole of York. Grotesque face with large annulets for eyes, irregularly placed pellets for beard and one curl on either side of the face. The pearls in the crown also ru... | |||||
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Coin | WMID-BD7955 |
Early medieval | Derbyshire |
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| A struck/ hammered silver penny of Edgar (diameter: 19.9mm; thickness: 0.7mm; weight: 1.64g). Of the reform small cross type, this coin was minted by Wulfric in York between AD 973-5, and was struck from the York A style dies. This style was used at York starting a few years before the reform a... | |||||
| Bell | LIN-E37D15 |
Early medieval | Lincolnshire |
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| Copper alloy bell. The bell is hexagonal in plan with a scalloped or fluted lower edge. The apex is missing its integral suspension loop. Each face of the bell is decorated with three punched ring-and-dot motifs arranged in a pyramid fashion. Traces of iron corrosion are present inside the bell, ... | |||||
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Thimble | BERK-F76400 |
Medieval | Berkshire |
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| A copper alloy domed thimble, probably 15th - 17th Century. The thimble has an unthickened rim. There is a triangular section in the rim that may be a mend. This triangular section is level with the external surface but is stepped back from the internal surface. There is a curved notch missin... | |||||
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Finger ring | LIN-E42F77 |
Early medieval | Lincolnshire |
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| Copper alloy finger ring. The ring is complete and is formed by a flat band tapering to ends which have been knotted together. The outer face of the band is decorated with a row of punched ring and dot motifs, however the surface is too worn to determine how many ring and dots there originally ... | |||||
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Axe | BERK-23A863 |
Early medieval | Northamptonshire |
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| A Medieval iron axe head (10th - 13th century). The width of the axe head expands from the butt (width: 50.19mm) to the curved cutting edge (width: 88.57mm). The upper edge is straight but the lower edge curves downwards. In the centre on one side a makers mark has been stamped. The mark is a ... | |||||
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Coin | WMID-39ED92 |
Medieval | Staffordshire |
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| A slightly clipped struck/ hammered silver penny of 14th/ 15th century date, minted in York (diameter: 17mm; thickness: 0.3mm; weight: 0.85g). The coin is worn but in a fair condition, with the inscription on the obverse is particularly worn. | |||||
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Stirrup | IOW-9CE355 |
Early medieval | Isle Of Wight |
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| Complete cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of probable eleventh century date (AD 1000 - AD 1100). Williams Class Class B, Type 2, Group 1. Length 41mm, maximum width 33mm and maximum thickness 4.5mm. Weight 27.92g.In plan, the mount is squat and has broad shoulders. The apex loop is plain wit... | |||||
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Strap fitting | WMID-331EB8 |
Medieval | Warwickshire |
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| A complete cast copper alloy (with possible tinning or silvering?) strap guide/ distributor or belt slide (length: 11.9mm; width: 17.9mm; thickness: 7.8mm; weight: 5.92g) of a roughly rectangular shape with the centre sloping inwards into a dished shape. The ends of the artefact form a teardrop ... | |||||
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Coin | WMID-9DA985 |
Medieval | Norfolk |
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| A complete struck/ hammered silver short cross penny of John (probably), minted by Everard In York between c. AD 1194-1204/5 (diameter: 18mm; thickness: 0.8mm; weight: 1.28g) and classified as a Class 4a. The coin is worn but in a fair condition. | |||||
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Key (locking) | WILT-CB3B81 |
Medieval | Wiltshire |
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| Copper alloy medieval casket key, 37mm in length and weighing 5.81g.The bow is circular and 13.5mm in diameter (internal 6.5mm), the hole being slightly off-centre.The stem is oval in section and rather 'flat' at the bow-end (5x3mm). It widens to the bit-end which is circular in section and 5mm i... | |||||
| Tools and equipment | SUSS-CB9FE3 |
Roman | West Sussex |
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| A sharpening stone. | |||||
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Microlith | WMID-304D85 |
Mesolithic | Staffordshire |
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| A knapped microlith, possibly dating to the Mesolithic period (length: 3.1mm; width: 17.8mm; thickness: 5.1mm; weight: 2.05g). This off-white piece is 100% re-corticated with an obliquely blunted point and ‘ancillary re-touch’. The bulb of percussion is visible on the ventral side, with three m... | |||||
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Bell | NLM-872FA3 |
Early medieval | North Lincolnshire |
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| An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Scandinavian bell. The hexagonal body has a fluted lower edge, though one side of the body is incomplete. The top of the bell has a central perforation with iron rusting on either side. This suggests that the bell may have had an iron suspension loop, which f... | |||||
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Coin | SOMDOR-D73440 |
Medieval | Somerset |
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| Short cross cut halfpenny of Henry II. Moneyer Hugo (possible mints - Lincoln, Northampton, York). Class 1b(1180-ca.1185) | |||||
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Balance | BERK-EDDC65 |
Medieval | Oxfordshire |
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| A Medieval copper alloy balance, incomplete (12th-13th century). This is the stirrup for suspension, probably from a non-folding balance. There is a perforated hexagonal terminal at the top, which then divides to form the two arms of the stirrup. Just after the divide is a rivet/bar that bridg... | |||||
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Coin | DENO-AC3EA7 |
Medieval | Lincolnshire |
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| Hammered silver penny of Edward IV first reign, York mint, G & key by bust, Archbishop Neville, local dies, 1465-1470. Diameter 15.10mm, weight 0.72g. | |||||
| Coin | NCL-D60B03 |
Post medieval | North Yorkshire |
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| A Scottish 'bawbee' of Charles II | |||||
| Coin | NCL-D62720 |
Roman | North Yorkshire |
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| Nummus of the house of Constantine. | |||||
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Awl | HESH-399E94 |
Roman | Herefordshire |
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| An incomplete cast copper alloy awl of possible Roman or Medieval date (100 - 450 or 1300 - 1500 AD). The awl is sub-rectangular in plan and profile with an irregular oval cross section. Both ends of the awl taper to points. One end tapers to a rounded point while the other tapers to a broken edg... | |||||
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Coin | DENO-B55947 |
Medieval | Derbyshire |
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| Hammered silver groat of Edward III, fourth coinage, pre-Treaty period, Series E, 1354-5, York mint. Diameter 25.65mm, weight 3.66g. | |||||
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Linen smoother | ESS-F61DD5 |
Early medieval | Essex |
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| Complete, glass linen smoother. This linen smoother is made from black glass and is circular in plan and a flattened kidney shape in section, being clearly domed on one face and slightly flattened and countersunk on the opposite. Within this countersunk, circular depression are the clear remains ... | |||||
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Mount | BERK-07A2A4 |
Early medieval | Berkshire |
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| An Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic terminal made of silver and partly gilded The terminal is hollow-cast, with a pyramidal socket of rectangular section which would perhaps originally have held a wooden rod. On the narrower sides are two 4mm-long tapering extensions, which could have accommodated ridges o... | |||||
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Hasp | SWYOR-32D2C5 |
Medieval | South Yorkshire |
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| Copper alloy stapled hasp used to secure the lid of a casket or chest. At the head the hasp was attached to the lid and near the base a staple was used which fitted into a slot in the face of the container; it was then secured by a sliding lock bolt. On this example the arm of the hasp has a fl... | |||||
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Pendant | SWYOR-3304B6 |
Medieval | South Yorkshire |
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| Carved jet cross made from Whitby Jet. The cross is equal-armed, each arm flares slightly at the end. At the centre and at the end of each are, the cross has a small ring and dot and these are joined together with four single lines radiating from the centre. The cross has a polished surface an... | |||||
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Bead | WMID-4BAD77 |
Early medieval | West Midlands |
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| A complete sub-cylindrical decorated polychrome glass bead, with flattened ends (diameter: 9.1mm; thickness: 7.7mm; weight: 0.87g), dating to the Early Medieval period, probably 6th-8th century AD. The dark blue/black bead seems to have been splashed with a range of colours after the initial mo... | |||||
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Book mount | SWYOR-CB5A14 |
Medieval | South Yorkshire |
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| Copper alloy medieval book clasp. The book clasp is cast from sheet metal and has ornate decoration on the front surface. The decoration comprises a large circular sun/flower shape near the centre of the clasp, above this on either side of a copper alloy rivet at the top of the clasp is a small... | |||||
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Strap end | WMID-46CB33 |
Medieval | Staffordshire |
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| An incomplete cast copper alloy tongue-shaped spacer, dating from the 14th/ 15th century AD (length: 42.3mm; width: 11.9mm; thickness at collared knob: 6.2mm; weight: 3.84g). One of the spacer’s forks is broken while the remaining fork has a pointed tip. The terminal has three protruding ridges... | |||||
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