PAS 15 – Finds from Buckinghamshire

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:

Images of finds found in Buckinghamshire. Top row from left to right: a Palaeolithic flint handaxe, a Roman buckle, a pile of Iron Age gold coins. Bottom row from left to right: a copper alloy Iron Age razor blade, front and back views of a post-medieval token, an unidentified dagger-shaped object, a Roman horse head figurine.
A selection of finds from the county of Buckinghamshire. Copyright: Portable Antiquities Scheme, Licence: CC-BY.

 

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.