This year marks 15 years of the Portable Antiquities Scheme as a national scheme. Throughout the year we’ll be celebrating finds from each county – a find a day for the whole year! Here are the finds we’ve chosen from Buckinghamshire:
Palaeolithic hand-axe (BUC-C48B16): a flint hand-axe, worked on both faces.
Iron Age razor (BUC-58FFF8): a copper alloy Early Iron Age ‘Hallstatt’ razor.
Medieval jetton (BUC-70358C): a copper alloy Tournai jetton inscribed with ‘Ave Maria Gracia’.
Roman buckle (BH-7FCB64): a copper alloy buckle with ring and dot decoration.
Early Medieval item (BERK-9E0A55): a highly decorated silver item, possibly from a horse harness
Iron Age coin hoard (BUC-6877F8): hoard of Iron Age staters and silver units.
Roman figurine (BH-9713CC): copper alloy head fragment of a horse figurine.