Record ID: SUSS-3872A8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval cast copper-alloy bar mount with separate rivets, dating to c. 1350-1400 AD. The bar mount is flat with a larger hemispherical segment flanked on either end by smaller hemispherical-sectioned terminal lobes. The central lobe is decorated with six transverse grooves and is not pierced; the flanking lobes are both pierced centrally with circular rivet holes, both of which still hold the circular copper-alloy rivets. Cf. Read 2001, p23, nos. 149-151.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-676473
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver halfpenny of Charles I. Both obverse and reverse show a facing rose. No initial mark or legend. North; English Hammered coinage vol 2 (1975) p138; No. 2274. AD 1625-1649. There is a very small amount of damage to the periphery of the coin.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-674537
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval or Post Medieval copper-alloy jetton of uncertain issuer and date. Obverse is illegible as well as reverse, save for square-topped shield.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hassocks', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-672BD5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy Roman radiate or nummus, possibly a contemporary copy or 'barbarous' radiate, c. AD 260-402. Very little detail remains on the coin, only a portion of the obverse bust and some unclear detail on the reverse.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hassocks', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-671D65
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy nummus of the House of Constantine (Reece Period 17), issued between AD 335-341. Mint unknown. GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting two soldiers, one standard.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-670E55
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy nummus of the House of Constantine. Reverse type possibly a variation on VICTORIA AVG(GG?) which seems to depict two Victories standing, facing each other, while holding wreaths in between. This type seems to be common between AD 383-387. Both legends and mint mark are missing due to circumferential and surface losses.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hassocks', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-670173
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and corroded copper alloy nummus of unknown emperor. Further details illegible. Circa 294-402 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hassocks', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-66F4C8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy nummus of the House of Constantine, issued between AD 335-341 (Reece Period 17). Reverse type GLORIA EXERCITVS depicting two soldiers holding a single standard. Mint mark illegible.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hassocks', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-66DE21
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy nummus of Crispus as Caesar, issued between AD 322-323 (Reece Period 16). Mint of Lyon. BEATA TRAN-QVILITAS reverse type depicting a globe set on an altar inscribed with VO/TIS/XX in three lines; above, three stars. Cf. RIC VII, p. 133, no. 166.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-66B1E1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Iron Age La Tene I style brooch, dating to c. 4th-3rd century BC. The remains of the brooch consist of a four-coiled spring head with thick axial pin holding it in place; the spring chord passes over the coils. The remainder of the brooch is missing, including the pin and one turn of the spring coil, as well as the foot-end. The body has an overall oval shaped cross-section and unusually, has been twisted during the shaping process. The pin measures 32.8mm long, 10.8mm maximum width at head and weighs 4.36 grams. A parallel for this style of deco…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-6636F3
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval cast copper-alloy sharp-hooked tag, c. 1550-c. 1625 AD. The outer face of the tag is decorated with moulded foliate openwork. The hooked tag has suffered damage at the perimeter edges of the decorations and the end of the hook is broken. Above the open work is an attachment loop which is rectangular in shape. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The object measures 37.35mm long, 19.28mm wide, 1.7mm thick and weighs 2.28 grams. Egan (2005, p. 42) suggests that single hooked tags were thought to have been used in pairs on the ends of short chains or straps.…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-533A93
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead-alloy Medieval or Post Medieval uniface lead token, c. 1250-1800 AD. The token is decorated on one side with uncertain decoration, perhaps depicting a mill wheel or simple intersecting lines. Uniface tokens had a wide variety of uses and were easy to manufacture locally; they are therefore difficult to date precisely but those with simple designs are given a general Medieval to Post Medieval date.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-531C91
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Roman nummus of the House of Constantine dating to the period AD 330-335 (Reece period 17), VRBS ROMA she-wolf with suckling twins reverse type. Uncertain mint.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-530442
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn Medieval silver halfpenny of Edward I. Irish issue; mint of Waterford, c. 1279-1302 AD. Cf. Spink (2003), 'Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands', p. 127, no. 6268.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-50FCF8
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy traders token farthing issued by Ambrose Galloway of Lewes, East Sussex in 1667. Cf. Williamson (1828), Vol 2, p1175, No. 112. Obverse: [A]MBROSE . GALLOWAY /(at centre) *//1667//* Reverse: IN . LEWIS : IN . SVSEX / (at centre) *G*//AE
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 23rd May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-50E804
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy sestertius dating to the first or second centuries AD. The reverse type is illegible. Probably Mint of Rome. Due to the remains of the obverse bust, it is likely that this coin could be attributed to either Julio-Claudian dynasty or that of Trajan/Hadrian; however, due to severe surface abrasion, a full identification is impossible.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 23rd May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-D5F8E3
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped flint end scraper, probably dating to the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age, c. 2500-1500 BC. The scraper is fashioned from a piriform shaped flake. The dorsal face has regular full-length longitudinal facets and arises associated with previous flake removal from the core. The distal end shows evidence of abrupt retouch, common to this period. The ventral face maintains the remains of a small portion of the platform, light bulb of percussion and ripples. The scraper measures 40.2mm long, 32.1mm wide, 7.69mm thick and weighs 11.81 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-D5C820
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn silver short cross cut halfpenny of Scottish 'Short Cross and Stars' issue, probably of William I, c. AD 1199- 1230. It is possible to detect traces of the obverse bust with pelleted hair and linear nose suggesting William I, but the legend is illegible. Likewise, the remaining portion of the reverse shows a voided short cross with a five-pointed star in two quadrants, and the letter E in the legend. Cf. Spink (2003) 'Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands', pp. 13-14, nos. 5027-5033.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lancing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-D36C93
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy nummus issued by the House of Constantine, probably between AD 335-341 AD (Reece Period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type, depicting two soldiers with a single standard at centre, both holding spears in outer hands and inner hand resting on shield. Mint unknown. The coin is damaged at the 4 o'clock position on the obverse and the obverse legend is completely illegible. Mint mark missing.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-D36041
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: WEST SUSSEX
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy nummus of uncertain issue, probably dating to between the second to fourth centuries AD. Mint and reverse type unknown. Due to severe surface wear, only traces of the obverse and reverse decoration are visible; both legends are illegible.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
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