Finds within constituency of Poplar and Limehouse
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Crucible | LON-1E0ED4 |
Medieval | Greater London |
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| A base fragment of a Roman to medieval ceramic crucible. The fabric is red-orange with a high quantity of small to medium inclusions. The crucible is U shaped in section, with a flat base and almost vertical sides. The fragment measures 25.2mm (height) x 33.6mm (length) x 28.9mm (width) x 4.2mm (... | |||||
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Vessel | LON-1DD268 |
Roman | Greater London |
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| A rim fragment from a Roman ceramic vessel. The fabric is uncertain, but is dark grey and even throughout with dark grey medium to large inclusions. The rim is upright but has a projecting rounded collar. The fragment measures 66.2mm (length) x 43.4mm (width) x 21.7mm (thickness) and weighs 40.8g... | |||||
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Vessel | LON-1C1955 |
Roman | Greater London |
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| A rim fragment of a Roman black burnished ware bowl. The rim is smoothly curved, and both the internal and external faces of the bowl are undecorated. The three breaks are almost straight. The fabric is brown (in the breaks) with a black burnished surface. It measures 77.4mm (length) x 46.2mm (wi... | |||||
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Vessel | LON-A2D3E7 |
Medieval | Greater London |
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| A bunghole fragment from a medieval coarse Surrey/Hampshire borderware cistern. The bunghole is ring-shaped; it contains part of the wall of the cistern and an additional attached fluted disc of the same fabric, which has then had a circular removal taken from the centre. The fabric is light grey... | |||||
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Pipkin | LON-A27685 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A handle fragment of a post medieval Surrey/Hampshire border whiteware with green glaze pipkin. The fragment has a slanted break, which is very worn but shows an approximate angle for the handle in relation to the body of the pipkin; the handle has been stretched and thinned at the joint to incre... | |||||
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Vessel | LON-9E93D3 |
Medieval | Greater London |
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| A rim fragment of a medieval ceramic south Hertfordshire-type greyware vessel. The fragment contain the widened rim and the separately applied thumbprint border. The breaks have created a rectangular fragment; each break is worn and old. The fabric is completely grey but there is some later corro... | |||||
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Waste | LON-CFCBA5 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A piece of lead alloy waste disc with post medieval maker mark stamps on both sides. There are at least six stamps on boths faces; all the visible stamps contain the letters 'IM' within a beaded border. The marks are not identical, suggesting that this piece was used to perfect a stamp in product... | |||||
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Awl | LON-CF18D1 |
Medieval | Greater London |
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| A medieval to post medieval bone awl, made from a sheep's metacarpal. One side of the bone has been removed, allowing the awl to lie flat on the removed face and revealing the inner chamber. It has been filed and polished; one end retains the distal condyle but the other has been narrowed (from 3... | |||||
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Knife | LON-CE5DB2 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| An incomplete post medieval knife, missing the blade and parts of the handle. The core of the knife is an iron tang with a intergal end plate and finial knop. The other end of the surviving tang is broken. On the tang sit six ovoid bone sections which widen as they near the finial end. There is a... | |||||
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Token | LON-BDB202 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| An early post medieval bi-face token. On one face is a shield containing a four petaled flower with a pellet between each petal with an obscured legend surrounding. This side is misstruck. The other face has a four petaled flower with a pellet between each petal, again with an obscured legend ar... | |||||
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Toy | LON-90DA78 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A post medieval cast lead alloy shie cock toy. The cockerel is decorated in moulded relief on one face; the other face is plain and rough. It sits vertically on a flat square base; the upper surface of the base is covered in raised cross hatching. On the lower surface of the base is an imprinted ... | |||||
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Axe | LON-90A937 |
Neolithic | Greater London |
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| A Neolithic cutting edge ground/polished axe. The axe is elliptical in section and has a thin butt. Both faces have small neat and precise removals. The cutting edge has been polished on both faces. The flint is brown-grey, and there are two more recent breaks (one on the cutting edge and one on ... | |||||
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Axe | LON-90A937 |
Neolithic | Greater London |
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| A Neolithic cutting edge ground/polished axe. The axe is elliptical in section and has a thin butt. Both faces have small neat and precise removals. The cutting edge has been polished on both faces. The flint is brown-grey, and there are two more recent breaks (one on the cutting edge and one on ... | |||||
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Token | LON-AAB798 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A post medieval 17th-century copper alloy trader's token farthing issued by Thomas Roberts in East Smithfield, London (Williamson 945). Obverse: *THOMAS . ROBERTS = five candles hanging over a crescent Reverse: *IN. EASTSMITHFEILD = 3 birds facing left This token is slightly crumpled but otherwi... | |||||
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Button | LON-6F8475 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A post medieval copper alloy composite button. The front and reverse are flat; the front is decorated with a fifteen petalled flower inside a triple border decorated with alternating trios of smalls pellets and singular larger pellets. The reverse is covered in compacted corrosion but the attachm... | |||||
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Coin | LON-6F42E2 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A post medieval copper alloy four maravedis of Phillip III of Spain dating to 1578 to 1621 AD. Probably Segovia mint (aquaduct mintmark). The reverse has been counterstruck. It measures 20.3mm (diameter) x 1.8mm (thickness) and weighs 3.05g. | |||||
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Token | LON-6EFAD1 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A medieval to post medieval bi-face token with a double flan. The two lead discs are fixed together and each have a similar border and layout; one face has the initials 'B. B' with a border decorated with triangulars, the other a crescent with two pellet in it's curve, also in a border of triangl... | |||||
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Token | LON-6ED173 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A post medieval uni-face token. The decorated face contains an anchor . It measures 13.7mm (diameter) x 2.1mm (thickness) and weighs 2.09g. Lead tokens were in use throughout the medieval and post medieval periods, however the style of the anchor indicates that this token was probably from the 17... | |||||
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Token | LON-6EAD64 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A medieval to post medieval bi-face token. One face contains the initials 'A R' and the other a fleur-de-lis (Powell type 4). It measures 22.0mm (diameter) x 2.3mm (thickness) and weighs 5.38g. Lead tokens were in use throughout the medieval and post medieval periods, however the style of the let... | |||||
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Token | LON-6E9452 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A medieval to post medieval uni-face token. The decorated face contains a triple-stranded cross. It measures 21.4mm (diameter) x 2.5mm (thickness) and weighs 6.04g. Lead tokens were common throughout the medieval and post medieval period, therefore a broad c.1250-1800 AD date is suggested. | |||||
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Token | LON-6E70F4 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A post medieval bi-face token. On one face are the initials "R A" with "170" below; on the other is a fleur-de-lis with three pellets above and three crosses below (Powell type 4) . It measures 25.7mm (diameter) x 3.3mm (thickness) and weighs 10.08g. Lead tokens were in use throughout the medieva... | |||||
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Finger ring | LON-C48970 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A post medieval copper alloy finger ring in the form of a belt. The ring's circumference is made from the belt strap. On the strap is a miniature belt buckle, which the end of the belt strap run through; the bare end of the strap then overlaps the round at a slight angle. The buckle is a single l... | |||||
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Pin | LON-B16C65 |
Medieval | Greater London |
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| Two medieval pins of similar design, with round heads, flattened on top, engraved crudely around their circumference with criss-crosses. The pins are silver-gilt and date from the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Dimensions: pin A height 58 mm, pin B height 50 mm. Consequently, in terms of age an... | |||||
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Toy | LON-34AAB1 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A slightly corroded and bent post-medieval openwork lead-alloy toy watch. The object is flat, circular and unifacially moulded in low relief. Within a beaded border is an openwork design of a lozenges within a circle with a scroll on either side; this design is repeated equally four times. The in... | |||||
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Toy | LON-348B90 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A slightly corroded and bent post-medieval openwork lead-alloy toy watch. The object is flat, circular and unifacially moulded in low relief. Within a beaded border is an openwork design of a lozenges within a circle with a scroll on either side; this design is repeated equally four times. The in... | |||||
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Hooked tag | LON-31C826 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A Post Medieval copper alloy hooked tag. It is composite with a sheet metal hook and loop soldered onto the reverse of a die-stamped front plate. The trefoil front plate is composed of three hollow-domed bosses with central recessed dots and incised frill edges. These three bosses are separated b... | |||||
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Coin | LON-0BE975 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A post medieval silver penny of Elizabeth I dating to 1567 AD (North 2001). It measures 14.2mm (diameter) x 0.5mm (thickness) and weighs 0.51g. | |||||
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Jetton | LON-0B8C36 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| A post medieval Nuremburg 'rose and orb' jetton of an uncertain master. Neither the face has a legend and the flan has been mis-struck on one face. It measures 20.1mm (diameter) x 0.5mm (thickness) and weighs 1.13g. Mitchiner dates similar anonymous rose and orb jettons to the late sixteenth to e... | |||||
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Coin | LON-0B34D7 |
Medieval | Greater London |
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| An incomplete medieval copper alloy double mite coin of Phillip the Fair of Burgundy, dating to c. 1489 AD (Levison 2007, 221). This coin was minted in Ghent during a revolt against the Emperor Maximillian; the coins are struck in the name of his son and heir, Phillip (ibid). The flan is uneven, ... | |||||
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Knife | LON-072E11 |
Post medieval | Greater London |
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| An incomplete post medieval iron knife with a copper alloy sheet handle. The sheet handle is a heptagon in section and tapers towards the handle. Each facet of the heptagon contains four panels; there are 28 panels in total. Each panel is stamp decorated in relief and is within a linear border. T... | |||||
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