PAS 15 – Finds from Cambridgeshire

Posted on by Lauren Speed

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 Cambridgeshire:

 

Images of finds found in Cambridgeshire. Top row from left to right: a bronze axehead, a circular gold mount, a circular Roman brooch with red and blue enamel triangles on it. Bottom row from left to right: front and back views of a silver coin, a purse bar, a round lead weight decorated with a garnet stone, a cosmetic mortar with a bull's head.
A selection of finds from the county of Cambridgeshire. Copyright: Portable Antiquities Scheme, Licence: CC-BY.

 

Iron Age/Roman cosmetic mortar (WAW-64685C): a copper alloy cosmetic mortar with a bull’s head, dating to 100BC-AD200.

Roman plate brooch (BH-3EB8BB): a copper alloy umbonate brooch with red and blue enamel inserts.

Early Medieval mount (CAM-758D07): a gilded copper alloy mount, possibly from a horse harness.

Early Medieval weight (DUR-8BA064): a lead weight with a copper alloy disc inset in the top, with a small red stone in the centre.

Early Medieval penny (CAM-EA5AD5): a silver penny of Aethelred II minted in Huntingdon.

Bronze Age axehead (BERK-16C720): a late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead.

Medieval purse bar (CAM-E408D4): a copper alloy purse bar.