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Record ID: PAS-755C62
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval finger ring, of stirrup shape. The hoop is slightly distorted and abraded along its edges. The ring is set with a roughly rectangular stone, which is held in place by two claws. The ring is gold, and dates from the 13th century. The stone is blue, and is a sapphire. Surface analysis indicated gold and silver contents of approximately 73–76% and 16–18% respectively, and confirmed the gemstone Dimensions: length 25 mm, width 20 mm It has been published in the Treasure Annual Report 2005/6 (p. 115, no. 403)
Created on: Saturday 10th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 10th February 2024
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Record ID: PAS-7555B5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval finger ring of iconographic type.  The bezel is hexagonal and contains a depiction of God the Father holding the figure of Christ on the Cross.  This was the conventional way to portray the Trinity in the late medieval period, though the dove representing the Holy Spirit seems to be absent. The hoop of the ring is twisted.  The twists closest to the bezel are engraved with seven five-petalled flowers and a lupin (?).  The five-petalled flower is a recognised reference to the five wounds of Christ and the number seven may be an allusion to the seven sorro…
Created on: Saturday 10th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 10th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North of Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-751353
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval finger-ring in three fragments, formed of a flat hoop terminating in two clasped hands with scalloped cuffs. The ring carried a rudimentary engraving, which consists of an inscription punctuated by simple stars, circles and foliate motifs. The inscription reads: 'de don co . . '. The inscription is either a corruption of the popular medieval sentiment 'de bon coer' ('of/from good heart') or it signifies the gift of/from a heart (using the noun 'don' meaning 'gift'). The finger-ring is silver-gilt, and dates from the la…
Created on: Saturday 10th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 10th February 2024
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Record ID: DEV-55BD90
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete medieval copper-alloy French jetton of the 'shield of France modern' type, dating to c. 1385-1488. The quatrefoil border around the obverse shield is difficult to parallel; the jetton has thus been marked as noteworthy. Measurements: 25.5 mm diameter, weight 2.46 g This jetton has suffered some minor losses to its circumference.
Created on: Thursday 30th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2023
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Record ID: DEV-08685B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307). Class 10cf3a (North 1042) dating to 1307-1309. Mint of London. North (1991, 32). Measurements: 1.4 g in weight
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th March 2023
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Record ID: DEV-5D250A
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly squashed, but complete late medieval copper-alloy thimble (c. 15th century). The thimble is of cast, one-piece construction, with sides that taper slightly to a domed top. From a central tonsure on the dome, circular pits spiral out, covering the dome's perimeter and all of the sides above a basal plain band, itself delineated by an engraved circumferential groove. Measurements: 22 mm (max.) diameter, 21 mm height, 0.5 mm thick, weight 11.39 g For similar thimbles see Read (2018, 25-28) attributed to the 15th century.
Created on: Monday 6th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2023
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Record ID: DEV-7AD80A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped medieval silver penny of Edward IV (AD 1461-1470; 1471-1483). First reign, light coinage, type VI, VII or VIII, dating to 1465-1468. Mint uncertain, either London or Durham. North (1991, 88-89) Measurements: diameter 13 mm, weight 0.49 g The clipping extends to the inner circle in places, and almost entirely on the reverse.
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: DEV-CFDA38
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late early-medieval to medieval copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount best classified as being of Williams Class A, Type 11A, and dating to c. AD 1050-1125. It would have consisted of a sub-triangular plate, but the upper part of the plate is now missing following an old break, as is the apex loop. From the base of of the plate a rectangular angled flange projects backwards, at an oblique angle. The flange is also recessed on each side, that is, it does not attain the full width of the base of the plate. The flange is perforated twice; the corroded remains …
Created on: Wednesday 15th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2023
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Record ID: DEV-4D0E0D
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval late Tournai copper-alloy jetton of Shield of France modern type. Ave Maria reverse legend, dating to c. AD 1415-1497. See Mitchiner (1988, 226-228), no. 683 in particular (p. 227). Measurements: diameter 26.5 mm, weight 4.75 g  This jetton has received some losses to its circumference, particularly on one side off its flan.
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: DEV-7B263D
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead standing weight of octagonal pyramidal form with corroded iron apex loop, probably medieval to post medieval in date. The sides taper from a flat base; there are longer sides connected by shorter ones at the corners. It possibly would have functioned as a three-quarters of a pound weight. Measurements: height 68 mm, base c. 34 mm by 34 mm; weight 337 g For octagonal pyramidal standing weights see Biggs and Withers (2000, 32) nos 72, 74. Read (2021, 283, 285) illustrates and example (no. 1624) with an octagonal cross-section which he dates to the 12th to 16th century; this…
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Saturday 4th February 2023
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Record ID: DEV-7A76C3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval silver penny of Edward I (AD 1272-1307). Class 3, probably Class 3e, dating to 1280-1282. Mint of York. North (1991, 28) no. 1020 (probably) Measurements: diameter 20.5 mm, weight 1.49 g This coin has suffered a loss at its circumference equating to around 10% of the flan.
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2023
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Record ID: DEV-7A162A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped medieval silver penny of Edward IV (AD 1461-1470; 1471-1483). Light coinage or second reign type with unclear initial mark struck under Archbishop George Neville, dating to 1465-1472. Mint of York. North (1991, 88, 94) Measurements: diameter 15 mm, weight 0.66 g
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2023
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Record ID: DEV-794A6A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver penny of Edward I (AD 1272-1307). Class 10ab5 (North 1039/3) dating to 1303-1305. Mint of London. North (1991, 31)
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th February 2023
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Record ID: DEV-EA3865
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy strap-end probably of medieval date (c. 13th-15th century). It is formed of a copper-alloy sheet folded widthways; it has been slightly compressed and angled at the fold. The corners are also angled off at the fold. At the attachment end is a separate rivet, set centrally, to connect the two halves. Plain on the reverse, the front of the strap-end is decorated with a pair of transverse lines towards the attachment end, these overlain by an engraved cross in saltire. Such decoration appears to have been produced before perforation for riveting as the rivet interrupts it. …
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2023
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Record ID: DEV-6DE2C4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval to early post-medieval sheet copper-alloy strap-fitting of uncertain function (c. 15th-early 16th century). It comprises two, thin shield-shaped plates held together by two rivets, central on either side of a keyhole-shaped openwork on the back-plate; the front plate is solid. There is cusping at the top of the shield and also at the terminal, around the central point. The surfaces of the strap-fitting are apparently plain, though corroded. Measurements: weight 14.3 g The aperture, although keyhole-shaped, would not have taken a key as there is no corresponding a…
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 13th January 2023
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Record ID: DEV-477339
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver medieval penny of Henry VI, first reign (1422-1461) dating to 1422-1427. Annulet issue, unclear initial mark. Minted at Calais. North (1975, 60) no. 1432. Measurements: Diameter 16 mm; weight 0.88 g
Created on: Thursday 22nd December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 22nd December 2022
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Record ID: DEV-4688C2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A slightly bent medieval silver cut halfpenny of William I of Scotland (AD 1165-1214) third coinage (Short cross and stars), Phase B, probably bust VI, (Spink S 5029) dating to 1205-1230. Moneyer: probably Hue Walter. Mint: Edinburgh, Perth or Roxburgh. Ref: Spink 2015, pg 14. Measurements: 18.5 mm in length, 9.5 mm in width; and 0.74 g in weight
Created on: Thursday 22nd December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Axmouth CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-465B6B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly bent medieval silver cut halfpenny of William I of Scotland (AD 1165-1214). Short cross, Phase B, dating to 1205-1230. Minted by Hue/Walter at Edinburgh, Perth or Roxburgh. Spink (2002, 14) no. 5029 Measurements: 17 mm in length, 7.5 mm in width; and 0.56 g in weight
Created on: Thursday 22nd December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Axmouth CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-460151
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly bent medieval silver penny of Edward I (AD 1272-1307). Class 10ab5 (North 1039/3) dating to 1303-1305. Mint of Canterbury. North (1991, 31). Measurements: 17.5 mm in diameter and 1.22 g in weight
Created on: Thursday 22nd December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 4th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Axmouth CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-04A009
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two joining sherds from the rim of a large open bowl in a North Devon gravel-tempered fabric of late medieval to early post-medieval date. The sherd has oxidised orange surfaces and margins, and a reduced mid-grey/brown core. The rim is flared and slightly dished, with a flat, angled top and a slightly wavy outer edge. About 40 mm below the rim there is an internal ridge and at this point the wall angle changes, becoming steeper. There is a small splash of glaze beside the ridge. Measurements: 47 mm maximum height, 68 mm maximum width, weight 42.36 g overall Complete bowls of similar…
Created on: Monday 19th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 15th February 2023
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Record ID: DEV-BE66BC
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete hollow cast copper-alloy pommel probably from a dagger of later medieval to post-medieval date (c. AD 1400 – c. AD 1600). The pommel is circular in plan with a slightly cusped circumference resulting from the decoration on the upper surface which takes the form of six sub-triangular segments created by grooves radiating from a central slot at the apex. The upper part of the object is carinated in profile and the lower part has facets which are aligned with each of the upper segments. As a result the aperture on the lower surface is externally hexago…
Created on: Wednesday 9th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 3rd February 2023
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Record ID: DEV-AA0E25
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy casing from a medieval drop-shaped weight, formerly containing a lead core. The body was once piriform, expanding to a rounded base from a point at the top. A broken loop projects from a flattened summit, above a collar of two circular concentric ridges formed by a pair of grooves. The loop only exists to one side. Around 50% of the copper-alloy casing survives, with losses at two main point one the sides, leaving a small remnant between them at the base; the lead core has been lost entirely. Measurements: 63 mm in maximum height and has a maximum …
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 31st October 2022
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Record ID: DEV-A7335D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete, clipped medieval silver groat of James I of Scotland (AD 1406-1437), fleur-de-lis coinage, first issue, dating to AD 1424-1437. Minted in Edinburgh. Lis on neck, saltire on right breast and I to the right of bust.  Spink (2002, 30) no. 5195. Measurements: diameter 21.5 mm, weight 1.58 g This coin has been bent slightly and elsewhere suffered some losses to its circumference: at 24.4 grains, it is 32% light compared to the original mass as quoted in Spink (2002, 30). This record has been marked as a Find of Note as it is apparently the…
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 21st March 2023
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Record ID: DEV-8F7681
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete later medieval or early post-medieval copper-alloy Portuguese ceitil (one-sixth of a real) of Alfonso V (1438-1481), John II (1481-1495) or Manuel I (1495-1521).
Created on: Wednesday 26th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2023
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Record ID: DEV-14178E
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded copper-alloy medieval seal matrix, probably official in nature, incomplete only insofar as its loop has broken through, dating from c. AD 1200-1350. It is of pointed oval form and has a flat central ridge on the reverse; a pieced loop at one end is now broken through. The central design is composed of a canopied niche with angled top containing the upper half of a Virgin and child statue - possibly representing a shrine. Set below, under another angled canopy, is a kneeling monk in prayer. The inscription at the edge is both abraded and corroded; unfortunatel…
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 24th October 2022
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Record ID: DEV-F17269
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy medieval strap-fitting: probably the frame from a strap-clasp (possibly a buckle). The frame is trapezoidal, with its edges projecting slightly at the outer edge, the outer edge within recessed between to take a folding plate (now missing). The bar at the other end is narrowed. The artefact has corroded to an even mid-grey colour. The frame has been very slightly bent in profile. Measurements: length 14.5 mm, width 16 mm, thickness 2.5 mm (maximum), weight 1.17 g It can be compared with an example illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 118; no. 552), found in Lo…
Created on: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2022
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Record ID: DEV-0138AD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent and incomplete medieval silver penny of Edward III (AD 1327-1377), dating to 1351-1352. Pre-Treaty series C, minted at London. North (1991, 50) no. 1149. Measurements: 17.5 mm diameter, 1.00 g weight
Created on: Friday 7th October 2022
Last updated: Friday 7th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashburton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-C25FAD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval copper-alloy annular buckle with pin bar, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin (Cassels type 1.2B). The strap bar is narrowed and trapezoidal in cross-section. The frame is D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat lower surface. In plan it is flattened slightly at each end of the pin bar. The outside edges of the buckle are bevelled and decorated with alternating raised and sunken panels around the inner and outer edge of the frame giving a crenellated effect. The reverse is flat and undecorated. This buckle has a slightly rough finish around the edges. It …
Created on: Tuesday 4th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2022
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Record ID: DEV-460964
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped silver medieval 1-real of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain (AD 1474-1504), minted at Toledo (Clemente and Cayon nos 2615-2750). Measurements: diameter 23 mm, weight 2.87 g.
Created on: Wednesday 28th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 26th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ogwell CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-477721
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy rectilinear fragment decorated with Limoges enamelling, a strap-fitting, probably a broken buckle plate (c. 12th-13th century). The object is effectively square, with two seemingly original sides, parallel the one to the other; one of the sides connecting these is apparently intact but curves shallowly outwards. The opposite end to this last is ragged, with probable rivet holes at each corner, both broken through. At the centre of this end is a larger perforation which may represent a repair or modification. There is one further circular perforation - …
Created on: Friday 16th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 24th November 2022
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Record ID: DEV-B656BA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A highly clipped medieval silver penny of Edward IV, second reign (1471-1483). Type XVI.3 or 4 (North 1648 or 1649) dating to 1473-1475. Mint of York (episcopal), sede vacante or under Archbishop George Neville. North (1975, 76). Measurements: 12.5 mm in diameter and 0.43 g in weight (after the clipping) The clipping virtually reaches the inner circle
Created on: Friday 9th September 2022
Last updated: Friday 9th September 2022
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Record ID: DEV-B4465F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307). Class 10cf3b2 (North 1042) dating to 1307-1309. Mint of Canterbury. North (1975, 24). Measurements: 17 mm in diameter and 1.21 g in weight This coin has been bent slightly and has received a slight loss at the inner circle
Created on: Friday 9th September 2022
Last updated: Friday 9th September 2022
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Record ID: DEV-B3B78D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver penny of Edward II (1307-1327). Class 10cf5a2 (North 1043/1) dating to 1309-1310. Mint of Bury St Edmunds. North (1975, 24). Measurements: 18 mm in diameter and 1.13 g in weight This coin has been bent slightly and has received some minor circumferential losses.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2022
Last updated: Friday 9th September 2022
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Record ID: DEV-0D90F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy annular brooch of medieval date (c. 13th-14th century), now missing its pin, but otherwise complete. Its piriform (drop-shaped) frame is flat at the front and the outer edge has a small rebate (step down) around the periphery. Each side of the frame, on the front face, are three equally spaced collets; the tops of some are abraded. Two of the collets contain settings of a soft white paste, probably calcium carbonate. The setting in the central collet to one side, just below the pin hole, is composed of a harder and slightly shiny material that has a blue t…
Created on: Monday 8th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: DEV-C365E8
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper-alloy medieval casket key, dating to c. AD 1150-1400.  The key has a broadly circular bow with an off-centre circular perforation. The bit is a simple rectangle with clefts on either side. The key has a hollow shank end. The object has a green coloured worn patina.  Similar examples were recovered from excavations in London which dated from between 1150 and 1400 (Egan 1998, 111-112, nos 294-298).
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 4th August 2022
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Record ID: DEV-6CB214
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver halfpenny of Richard II (AD 1377-1390) dating to 1377-1399. Withers Type 1h. Mint of London. As North (1991, 63) no. 1331b. Measurements: 14 mm diameter, weight 0.55 g
Created on: Tuesday 19th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2022
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Record ID: DEV-6AE00B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly clipped medieval silver penny of Henry III (AD 1216-1272) dating to 1222-1236. Voided short cross Class 7b1. Minted by Raulf at London. As North (1991, 118) no. 979; compare Mass (2001, pl. 76) no. 2037 Measurements: 16.5 mm diameter, weight 0.99 g
Created on: Tuesday 19th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2022
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Record ID: DEV-6A3212
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent medieval silver penny of Richard I (AD 1189-1199) dating to 1189-1190. Voided short cross Class 2. Minted by Raul at London. As North (1991, 220) no. 965; compare Mass (2001, pl. 25) no. 681 (also with pommée X). Measurements: 17.5 mm diameter, weight 1.22 g The coin has been bent giving it a wavy appearance from the side.
Created on: Tuesday 19th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 19th July 2022
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Record ID: DEV-6D8EBD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver groat of Edward IV, first reign (AD 1461-1470), dating to AD 1467-1468. Light Coinage, crown/sun initial mark. Minted in London. North (1991, 87) no. 1571. Measurements: 25 mm in diameter, 2.87 g in weight The coin has been bent slightly towards the circumference.
Created on: Thursday 7th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 22nd July 2022
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Record ID: DEV-6D529B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver groat of Edward III (AD 1327-1377), dating to AD 1353-1356. Fourth Coinage, pre-treaty series E, Cross 3 initial mark. Minted in London. North (1991, 53) no. 1163. Measurements: 27 mm in diameter, 4.42 g in weight
Created on: Thursday 7th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd August 2022
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Record ID: DEV-6C0904
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy French jetton of the 'shield of France modern' type, rosette series, probably struck under Charles VII (1422-1461). Unparalleled in the major resources as a combination, though the obverse is as Mitchiner (1988, 192) no. 525, dated to c. 1418-1437. Measurements: 26 mm diameter, weight 5.51 g
Created on: Saturday 25th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2022
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Record ID: SOM-0E7DC4
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete harness pendant set of medieval date, about AD 1100-1300. The pendant is broadly circular, with a convex front with traces of gilding. The reverse is hollow. A long integral attachment loop projects upwards at the apex; it is at right angles to the pendant. There is a transverse ridge on the front at the junction of loop and plate. The pendant suspension mount is circular, convex at the front and was also gilded. A sub-rectangular tab projecting downwards has a slot in it and is bent back on itself to form a double hinge lug supporting the iron axis bar. The tab appears to…
Created on: Tuesday 17th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-0D42E7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A small copper-alloy single-looped buckle of medieval date, missing its pin, but otherwise complete with cast frame and folded sheet plate. The oval frame is notably small, with a prominent protruding outer edge (14.0 mm long, 16.0 mm wide, 2.9 mm thick). The bar is narrowed and offset. The protruding outer edge forms the pin rest and features a central double pin groove along its width. The outer edge is rounded at its centre, flanked to each side by a more pointed lobe that curves outwards. The front is decorated with engraved rocker arm in a curved line between the pin grooves and…
Created on: Tuesday 17th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 26th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-B995F8
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper-alloy strap-slide, c.1150-1400 AD. The slide consists of a single, sub-rectangular loop with a pair of opposed internal sub-triangular projections about a third of the way up the sides of the frame. The frame is rectangular in cross-section. The frame is slightly asymmetrical and measures 12.2 mm long, 14.2 mm wide and 1.6 mm thick. It weighs 0.80 g. Egan and Pritchard (1991, 234) illustrate a number of similar examples, including ref. 1256 and ref. 1259 which they assign to a late 12th to late 14th century date. They note that these strap loops are th…
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-C43BBB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A twisted, but complete medieval copper-alloy probable buckle plate (c. 13th century). The plate is sub-rectangular, and terminates in a protruding zoomorphic head. It is folded at the frame end; the frame is missing. There is a central cut out for the pin. The fold is short to the reverse, truncated at the first of two rivet holes; it also tapers to its end on that face, giving it a trapezoidal shape. The second central rivet hole on the plate is located towards the terminal. While the rivet connecting the folds survives in situ, the second is missing. At the terminal the plate narro…
Created on: Friday 1st November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 23rd November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2F9CAB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and damaged cast copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame of medieval date. The artefact is an irregular D-shape with prominent protruding outer edge such that it tends towards the sub-trapezoidal. The sides of the frame have been bent; one is truncated, a loss that extends to the bar. The surviving bar, consisting of the majority of the original bar, has been bent back on itself; the pin is missing. The bar is narrowed and offset. The protrusion forms the pin rest and features a shallow central pin groove along its width. It terminates with truncated, straightened cur…
Created on: Friday 25th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sixpenny Handley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2F7696
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy swivel strap fitting of medieval date c. 1200-1400. The fitting comprises a pair of D-shaped loops which are connected in such a way that they can each swivel. Each loop has with zoomorphic heads biting a central internal boss. The heads have prominent brows and expanded jaws. One of the bosses has an integral bolt that emerges from the centre of its base, the bolt narrower than the base of the boss. The bolt fits into a large circular perforation which almost fills the boss on the other loop. The metal has a variable mid-green patina and is worn. Similar…
Created on: Friday 25th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sixpenny Handley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2F5E63
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A broken and incomplete copper-alloy scabbard chape of medieval date, missing its side arms which would have been connected to each other via a perforated terminal loop. The fitting is zoomorphic, representing a winged animal in profile, probably a bird, whose head is at the arm end of the base plate. It was formed from a single plate that has been folded in half. The animal's tail is at the bend. The ends of the plate have been riveted together and are in the shape of the animal's head; the rivet survives and appears to have been made of a different alloy. There is a sub-triangular…
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-86BFBD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy sub-oval buckle frame dating from the 11th or 12th century. The outer edge and sides sub-triangular in cross-section; the latter develop into moulded devolved animal heads at each end of the bar (beast biting bar type). The bevelled front of the outer edge is decorated with engraved lines, transverse towards the centre, tending towards oblique on the sides. The bar is narrower than the frame and is recessed. The pin is missing but there is a groove to act as a pin rest. Iron corrosion product on both surfaces at the end of one of the sides, around the animal head, is …
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Berwick St. John CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-75D66D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A worn and corroded copper-alloy strap-fitting of medieval date. The artefact has a sub D-shaped frame with central internal projection from its outer edge. The incurved outer edge effectively consists of a pair of semicircles which converge in this projection which terminates in a slightly expanded knob. The front of the object is bevelled slightly both externally and internally on the front; the reverse is flat. Around the bar part of a sheet plate has been retained; since it is partial the artefact can be considered incomplete, although the frame is an intact component. The plate i…
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-72DFB6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy buckle of the 'gaping-mouth beast' type, complete with its pin (c. 12th century). This buckle is moulded in three dimensions and takes the form of a hollow, open-mouthed animal head which is integrally cast with a frame and bar. The head is sub-circular when viewed from above and a three quarters circle in cross-section. The top of the head is decorated with a central nasal ridge which bifurcates about halfway along the head to turn into ears which continue down the sides of the head to the base. Set in front of the ears are moulded elongated oval eyes which st…
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-A21B61
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy buckle, probably late 12th to 13th century (c. AD 1150 - c. AD 1300). All elements are present and complete; the frame and pin in articulation with the plate. The frame, of Meols type 4, is oval with an offset and recessed bar with slight knops at either end of the bar. Its outer edge is bevelled externally on the front, which is echoed internally on the reverse. At the centre on the front the angled side is interrupted by a rectangular pin rest with central groove. The pin is formed of a thick strip of copper-alloy sheet, and survives in situ wrapped around…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-361A64
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy pin detached from a medieval buckle described as a 'disc-on-pin' type, and classifiable as Redmayne's Type B. The pin is formed of a large central circular plate with protrusions emerging from opposing points. The first of the protrusions is the pin tip, which gradually tapers to a blunted point. The loop, opposite, is slightly recessed on the front and curves back behind the plate, but does not form a closed loop. The front of the plate is highly decorated. It is moulded, with two main wide borders, that at the circumference lower than that within it. They both surroun…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 20th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimborne St. Giles CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-8CE82B
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible copper-alloy candle holder of medieval date with two cups. The object is of one piece, consisting of a stem hammered flat and bent round to form an elongated socket at one end, while the other end expands and bifurcates, developing into two arms which terminate in either cups or holders for rushlights. The arms have rectangular cross-section, and change into a twisted bar towards the cup ends. The cups are formed of flattened tabs with rounded ends curled right round on themselves, both squashed. One of the arms has been twisted round and down and now sits over the sock…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CDB9D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete or fragmentary copper-alloy mount of probable medieval to post-medieval date. The mount is flat and has stepped long edges formed of conjoined trapezoids that decrease in size: three such trapezoids survive to form the present object. The smallest trapezoid forms the terminal of the object and is bifurcated at its own terminal. It is also covered in an applied thin white metal sheet, which extends, abraded, into the adjacent trapezoid. On the reverse, at the terminal, is an integral rivet. The object has been curved in profile, and has been bent downwards in particu…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Sunday 7th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CD5E6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy plate, presumably from a strap, of probable medieval date. The plate is broadly rectangular, rounded at the surviving corners, having been abraded, and broken at the other short end where it has been bent upwards slightly as a result of old damage. The front is quite heavily scratched but appears to be undecorated. At the extant corners two integral rivets are present on the reverse. These have hammering marks between them. The object generally has a brown patina. It measures 27.7mm long by 13.5mm wide by 2.1mm thick; it weighs 4.53g
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CCBE2
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy plate almost certainly from a medieval clasp. Half of the plate survives here, following a transverse break at the fold. The plate is sub-rectangular, with no frame recesses at the fold. There is a decoratively shaped attachment end, now slightly damaged but originally with four triangular cut-outs which would have created five knops, including those at the corners. Two knops have been broken off towards one of the corners (old damage). Engraved angled lines at the base of each knop emphasise each protrusion on the front. The front is decorated within a v…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2019
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Record ID: PAS-8CBF8B
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy object of medieval date: probably a mount from a bridle bit of 13th- to 14th-century date. The original form of the artefact would probably have resembled the letter 'B'. What survives is a central sub-trapezoidal plate, from which emerge two truncated arms. The plate is thick and has a circular outward facing knop at each corner of its longest side. This and the two sides perpendicular to it are slightly incurved. The short side is wavy, and consists of the point of a triangle located centrally with small recesses at each side. The triangle is formed of the…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2021
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Record ID: PAS-8CBA7D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy mount of medieval to post-medieval date; its wider function is uncertain, though it is possibly part of a buckle with integral plate. It consists of a flat bar with a trefoilate terminal at one end, distinguished from the bar by a low transverse, flanged ridge. One of the side elements of the trefoil has been broken off. The terminal is pierced to take a rivet; no rivet survives. At the other end of the bar the object expands in a curve to attain a consistent width, at which point the object has been broken in a fairly ragged transverse, old break. The expan…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CAD4F
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rectangular pierced copper-alloy plate, probably a medieval book clasp of Howsam type A.7. It would have been riveted to an equivalent plate by four rivets, located one towards each corner. The rivets have a circular cross-section, and all four survive in situ, their head flush to the surface of the plate. The plate is cusped to emphasise the corners, by an engraved V shape central at each short end, and smaller V-shaped lines towards the corner on the long edge. There are further, finer engraved lines between these latter, at each corner. There are also suggestions of incised diago…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2019
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Record ID: PAS-8CA942
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy book clasp (hook piece) of late medieval or early post-medieval date. The artefact is generally flat a sheet-like, but has been bent slightly as a result of old damage. The main body takes the form of a lozenge truncated at each end. At the attachment end there is a basic, rectangular transverse protrusion on each side with an abraded terminal beyond. The rectangular arrangement is echoed at the other end of the lozenge. Beyond this, is a flared terminal with two notches that create a low central triangle. A separate iron rivet is retained within the flared terminal at …
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2019
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Record ID: PAS-8C3F7A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame of trapezoidal shape. The sides have a thin rectangular cross-section. The outer edge is expanded, and flat; it is bevelled externally, bevelling echoed internally. A pin rest occupies the centre of this outer edge, formed of a central transverse groove, flanked by two narrow grooves. At each end of the outer edge there is a further narrow groove, in continuation of the frame's sides. The pin bar is recessed on the front, and features a small central rectangular depression into the outside side, within which appears to be some iron co…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8C3046
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval silver cut halfpenny of Henry II (1154-1189). Probably Short cross Class 1b-c (North 963-964) dating to c. 1180-1189. Minted by uncertain moneyer at uncertain mint. The length of the coin is 19.2mm; it has a width of 9.0mm, a thickness of 0.6mm and weighs 0.52g. The coin has suffered a small loss at one end and, as such, is no longer complete.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Sunday 7th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8BCFF7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy annular brooch of medieval date (c. 13th century AD). It has a circular, cable decorated (twisted) frame seemingly formed of one single rotation, and thus falls into Deevy's Class 3a for which a 12th- to 14th-century date has been suggested (Deevy 1998, 17). It has a broadly circular cross-section. Around a pin constriction a cast pin with collar below the loop, surviving in situ. It is circular in cross-section and tapers to a point. It has been bent to one side as a result of old damage. Both brooch and pin have corroded to the same light-green colour. It measures …
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8BC8A4
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete copper-alloy harness pendant suspension mount of medieval date (c. 14th century). This bar mount has a D-shaped cross-section; the reverse is flat. Each end is rounded with a perforation; a long, pointed knop is present on one end but has been broken from the other. The head of a separate copper-alloy rivet is retained within each perforation. The knopped terminals are divided from the longitudinal element by a double cusp. Central on the lower edge of the mount is a double-looped integral attachment. Remnants of the separate iron axis bar are retained in the perfor…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2017
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Record ID: PAS-8B932B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307). Class 9b2 (North 1037/1) dating to 1300. Mint of Durham. North (1991, 30). The coin measures 18.4mm in diameter, is 1.0mm thick and weighs 1.27g. It has suffered some signficant losses at different points of its circumference. The letter S on the reverse is distinctive and not easily associated with Class 9b; it may be that this is a mule with a Class 10ab reverse. However, the reverse is too worn to be certain about this.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
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Record ID: PAS-8B6C69
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy oval buckle frame with ornate outer edge. The pin bar is narrowed and offset; the pin is missing. The outer edge is widened into a rectangular bar with knops at either end that face outwards. There narrow raised collars around a central pin groove, and further ridges and grooves on the internal edge of the outward facing knops. This decoration is the same on both front and reverse of the outer edge. The sides are rectangular in cross- section. The frame is 16.5mm long, 18.9mm wide and 3.3mm thick; it weighs 1.25g in total. This is a Meols type 8 frame, simil…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8B6008
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy fragment from a probable strap-fitting of medieval date. It consists of a sub-rectangular flat plate that has been broken through a rivet hole towards one of its original terminals. Beyond the hole the object narrows slightly to a waist before a transverse flange of similar width to the plate before it narrows. After the flange the terminal develops into a narrowed hook that is recurving, and broken in about the same plane as the base on the plate, having travelled above it as it curves. This may have been a hook, or it may have turned into a loop. The remnant has been …
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Sunday 7th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8B4C45
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete large copper-alloy harness pendant suspension mount of medieval date (c. 14th century). This bar mount has a convex front and hollowed reverse. Towards each narrow end is a waist, delineated at each side by a low transverse ridge, on the front. At one end of the mount there is an old break at the waist, and the terminal is missing. At the other end the expanded terminal is oval in shape with a semicircular cut-out at its tip. It is perforated for a rivet which is now missing. Central on the lower edge of the mount is a double-looped integral attachment. This has been …
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8B4229
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy domed thimble of medieval to early post-medieval date with thick, angled sides and a domed top (15th to 16th century). The thimble has small circular indentations arranged in fairly regular lines around the sides, starting at the open end and continuing in a regular spiral up to the crown. At the centre of the crown there is a tonsure, or bare patch free of indentations. The side is squashed in at one point of the open end. The open end is very slightly thickened. The object is corroded, with a dark-green patina where it survives and small patches of corrosion product…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8B2E5E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A zoomorphic copper-alloy spout probably from a ewer of later medieval or early post-medieval date. The spout is tubular and terminates in a particularly well rendered dog's head with open mouth; the tube spout protrudes from the open mouth. At the other end it curves through ninety degrees downwards, and expands into a long, pointed neck where it would have joined the vessel (it is tear shaped in cross-section). The surface that would have joined is bevelled and covered in file marks; within the neck the metal has been left as cast. The dog's head has a moulded nose, prominent, sq…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-156838
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy single-looped medieval oval buckle frame (c. 14th century), which has now lost its pin. This buckle is trapezoidal in cross section, wider on its upper surface compared to the reverse. It has an enlarged outside edge, at the centre of which is a central pin rest, decorated to each side. The abstract decoration is composed of linear incised lines, probably letter Vs, one to either side of the pin rest, with a recurving floral motif beyond, at each side. The field around is filled with small annulet punch marks. There is further trio of annulet punch marks arranged in a t…
Created on: Wednesday 17th June 2015
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2015
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Record ID: PAS-152DEA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a copper-alloy single looped oval buckle frame (c. 14th century). This buckle is flat at the front and convex on the reverse. It has an enlarged outside edge, the centre of which being what survives as this fragment. At the centre of the outside edge it has a central pin rest, decorated either side. The abstract decoration is composed of linear incised lines, an abstraction of the confronted birds motif seen on similar buckles, and annulet punch marks in the field around. There is also a row of three punched annulets along the base of the each bird. The buckle has been…
Created on: Wednesday 17th June 2015
Last updated: Thursday 16th August 2018
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Record ID: PAS-095AD8
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper-alloy L-shaped scabbard chape. The chape is folded double to grip the leather scabbard which was held in place with two rivets. The object has broken just beyond the return of the fold following old damage. The chape has an external trefoil corner protection, in from which a rivet hole is located; the rivet is missing. The arm of the chape is set at a slightly oblique angle from the base. The extant arm's terminal is expanded and has a collar; it too has a rivet hole but no rivet. The outer surface of the chape is seemingly plain. It measures 34mm by 3…
Created on: Tuesday 16th June 2015
Last updated: Monday 17th June 2019
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Record ID: PAS-76BB7F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy buckle with an oval loop and integral plate, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin. The frame is bevelled on its front and flat on its reverse. The outer edge is slightly expanded. The plate is square where it connects to the frame. It then narrows in a step before tapering to a pointed, yet rounded, end. Towards the end there is an integral rivet of circular cross-section, now bent to one side. At the frame end there is a perforation filled with iron corrosion product from the missing pin. The front of the tapering end of the plate is decorated with t…
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-762D78
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small medieval copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin. The frame is oval in shape and rectangular in cross-section. The pin bar is offset on both surfaces and narrowed. The thickened outer edge possesses two knops which are angled outwards between which transverse grooves and ridges, narrow ridges abutting the knops, between which a wider ridge. The central ridge is decorated with a longitudinally incised line towards the inner side on both surfaces. The frame measures 13.3mm in length, 15.8mm in width and 3.6mm in maximum thickness…
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
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Record ID: PAS-75BC84
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin, but otherwise intact. The frame is oval and with an expanded outer edge. The pin bar is narrowed and offset. The sides are slightly thickened at the ends of the pin bar. The frame is bevelled from the internal edge to the external on the front; the reverse is flat. One of the sides of the buckle has been bent upwards as a result of old damage. The frame measures 17.9mm by 24.7mm by 2.8mm (maximum thickness). It weighs 2.60g. It is can be classified as Meols type 2 and compared with a …
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-74C7EC
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy strap-loop/slide with a perforation for a separate internal rivet, now missing. The frame is rectangular. The outer edge is externally bevelled. The object is generally rectangular in cross-section. It appears to bear traces of tinning, over a generally mid-grey surface metal. Rectangular strap loops with separate internal rivets can be found illustrated in Egan (2007, 131; no. 1452ff.). They are generally dated to the 14th century based on excavated examples from London. This example measures 12.3mm by 15.6mm by 1.2mm by 3.2mm and weighs 1.20g. Internally i…
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-728DA7
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A terminal fragment from a medieval to post-medieval lead-alloy spoon. The fragment includes a crude knopped terminal, possibly intended to be an acorn, at the end of a stem of hexagonal cross-section. The stem has been bent through ninety degrees just before the point at which it has been broken. The fragment measures 31.8mm by 20.9mm across the bent element. It is c. 4.0mm thick at the stem and up to c. 8.5mm thick at the knop. It weighs 6.61g.
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Sunday 22nd February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-728626
Object type: CANDLESTICK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a late medieval to post-medieval copper-alloy candlestick (c.1475 - c. 1650). The fragment is broken at one end to an old ragged fracture. The piece is hollow cast, of circular cross-section with an internal diameter of c. 6.4mm at the broken end. At the intact end is a flared collar up to 20.7mm in diameter, below which is a socket c. 14.0mm in diameter with central hole 5.4mm in diameter. Set above the collar is a low decorative ridge. It is 48.0mmlong, up to 20.4mm in diameter and weighs 32.97g. It has been bent to one side as a result of old damage. See WMID-C2F…
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-72741A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy composite strap-end with stylised collared acorn knop terminal. The forked spacer survives at a maximum length of 26.8mm including the knop. The acorn knop is small and faceted on both faces in the longitudinal plane. Both sheets survive in situ. One is complete, the other has been squashed downwards at its attachment end and abraded away beyond the rivet hole. The complete sheet has a squared off attachment end and tapers very gradually towards the terminal before angling inwards to the collar. As implied a separate copper-alloy rivet survives in place at the …
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Sunday 22nd February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-65D4E5
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy casket key. The key has a solid stem of rectangular cross-section rounded corners. The circular bow is the same thickness as the stem. Its circular perforation is 5.4mm in diameter. There is a 'collar', or moulding, between bow and stem. At the other end the bit is rectangular in shape with a pair of clefts low down creating small wards at the base; one has been abraded. The bit has been twisted to one side following old damage. It measures 33.8mm in length by 10.8mm wide at the bow by 2.7mm thick. It weighs 2.87g.
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Thursday 19th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-611B78
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A stone spindle whorl of possible medieval date. It is of flattened biconvexform, higher in one half than the other. The circumference is also flattened. The fabric is fine grained and of light-grey colour. It features incised concentric decoration in the form neat concentric rings (turning lines) on both surfaces. The central hole measures c. 8.1mm in diameter. On the higher half the object has suffered a loss adjacent to the hole. The stone is calcareous and probably a siltstone/mudstone. Geoff Egan (1998, 255ff.) suggests that the cheaper, possibly home-made, ceramic and bone spind…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 23rd February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-6040AC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper-alloy composite buckle frame with damaged forked spacer, and also missing its sheet plates. The oval frame has a central, pointed lip; it lacks a pin rest. The frame is bevelled externally on the upper surface; the lower surface is largely flat, with some slight internal and external bevelling. The frame has been narrowed at the spacer for the pin. This latter is a simple piece of wire of circular cross-section, bent into form with a loop and, now blunt, tip. The pin has been bent to one side following old damage. The spacer has an expanding aperture n…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Sunday 22nd February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-60296E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later medieval copper-alloy circular buckle frame with central bar. The frame is continuous; the two loops are created due to the pin bar. The edges of the buckle are rounded while the surfaces are flat. The pin is missing. It is an even mid-grey/green colour. A similar buckle can be found illustrated in Egan (2007, 87; no. 436) attributed to the early 15th century based on excavated examples from London. This example measures 22.3mm in diameter by 3.1mm thick and weighs 3.39g.
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 13th August 2018
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Record ID: PAS-5F3504
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy plate from a hinged plate-and-loop type book clasp dating from the late 14th or early 15th century. Only vestiges of the loop survive in situ around the copper-alloy axis bar at the narrow end of the plate (width 6.9mm). The plate was formed of one piece folded over on itself at the narrow end, this latter recessed to the sides to accommodate the loop. Each sheet is trapezoidal, expanding from the loop end to the attachment end which is straight. At the attachment end there is a rivet hole in each corner; both rivets survive in place. This example measures 2…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-5EA5F2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped and incomplete medieval silver halfpenny of Henry VI, first reign (1422-1461) dating to the period 1422-1461. Uncertain issue. Mint of London. This coin has suffered some losses at its circumference. It measures 11.1mm in diameter and weighs 0.21g.
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Sunday 22nd February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-5CAF65
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged and incomplete medieval copper-alloy harness pendant of 12th-/13th-century date. The pendant comprises an oval plate with a possible central boss and a projecting lobe surviving, to varying degrees, on three of its four corners. Damage has occurred in the form of a loss at one corner extending into the body of the pendant, and also twisting such that it is difficult to determine whether the boss is 'true' or illusory. This lobes are shallowly convex.The upper side of the pendant protrudes as a triangle and tapers into in integral loop set at a right-angle to the plate. The l…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Thursday 19th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-4FD896
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy bar mount (strap fitting), small and sub-hemispherical in form. A convex, central lobe is crossed by five neatly incised transverse lines that create ridges. These ridges have also been finely incised longitudinally across the whole object to create a neat grid pattern. The two smaller perforated side lobes both retain their copper-alloy rivets. The object is similar to artefacts illustrated in Read (2001, 23; fig. 12) and Egan and Pritchard (1991, 214; fig. 134) which are dated to the second half of the fourteenth century. The object is 17.6mm long, 9.1mm w…
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 18th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-4EE667
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver cut halfpenny of Henry III (1216-1272) dating to the period 1250-1256. Long cross Class 5b2-c. Mint of Canterbury. Moneyer: (possibly) Willem. It has been bent upwards at one end. It measures 17.3mm by 8.3mm by 0.6mm and weighs 0.53g.
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 18th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-4A6D6A
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy strap-fitting, now bent round at both ends. The object is formed of a rectangular sheet perforated in each corner for rivets, none of which survive. It is uncertain to what sort of composite strap-fitting this might have been applied, or whether it might have been applied directly to a strap. In its folded state it measures 23.0mm long by 14.9mm wide by 0.8mm thick. It weighs 3.10g.
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2015
Last updated: Thursday 19th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-46EFDF
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy bar mount (strap fitting), small and sub-hemispherical in form. A convex, central lobe is crossed by six neatly incised transverse lines that create ridges. These ridges have also been incised longitudinally across the whole object to create a neat grid pattern. The two smaller perforated side lobes both retain their copper-alloy rivets. The object is similar to artefacts illustrated in Read (2001, 23; fig. 12) and Egan and Pritchard (1991, 214; fig. 134) which are dated to the second half of the fourteenth century. The object is 16.5mm long, 8.0mm wide, 3.2…
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 18th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-3504D2
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy Tournai (late) jetton dating to the period c. 1415-1497. Shield of France Modern type inscribed AVE mARIA GRCIA [...]m. Minted at Tournai. See Mitchiner (1988, 227) no. 685. This jetton has been bent. It measures 29.3mm diameter and weighs 1.84g.
Created on: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-25F44D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded cast copper-alloy foot from a later medieval to early post-medieval cooking vessel. The object is splayed at the base in a simple, out-turned, pad-like foot of trapezoidal cross-section, significantly worn at one front corner. Any decoration on the front of the foot is obscured by corrosion product and losses. The break is irregular and old. The flat back and base make an obtuse angle of about 110 degrees. The base is slightly concave. As noted, the object has become corroded post-deposition, and is largely a variable green colour. The object is 30.0mm long, 39.1mm wide,…
Created on: Monday 16th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-11AF1A
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy rectangular strap-fitting formed of two plates connected by rivets. One plate is larger, measuring 29.8mm by 16.1mm, and is c. 1.3mm thick. The other measures 26.8mm by 13.0mm, and is c. 1.0mm thick. Both plate have a central perforation 4.1mm in diameter. Towards each of the short ends of each plate is a further perforation c. 2.5mm in diameter; these four are rivet holes. A rivet of circular cross-section travels through two of the holes that correspond, their ends both hammered down. The other hole on the smaller plate retains a rivet with a hammered down en…
Created on: Sunday 15th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-0C1477
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin, but otherwise intact. The frame is oval and with a notably angled outer edge. The pin bar is narrowed and offset. The front of the outer edge is decorated with a seemingly symmetrical moulded design, much obscured due to corrosion. It appears to feature a central V shape with curled lateral projections in the lower half of the field. The frame has a mid-green patina over a red metal. This latter is consistent with gilding; traces of gilt survive on the outer edge. The frame measures 1…
Created on: Sunday 15th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2018
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Record ID: PAS-0BA013
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver cut farthing of Henry III (1216-1272) dating to the period 1250-1265. Long cross Class 5 (5a-d, f, g). Mint of London. Moneyer: Henri. It has been bent upwards at its corner. It measures 9.7mm by 8.5mm by 0.7mm and weighs 0.27g.
Created on: Sunday 15th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-53F9B8
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy suspension mount for a harness pendant incomplete only in so far as it is missing its axis bar. It has a T-shaped plate with undecorated lateral arms that are flattened triangular in cross section. Emerging centrally, perpendicular from the vertical arm is an integral double, pierced oval lug. Traces of orange/brown corrosion product suggest that the axis bar was made of iron. On the reverse of the top of the mount is an integrally cast rivet in each corner. The rivets are square in cross-section with rounded heads. Traces of gilding are visible on the front fa…
Created on: Friday 6th February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2021
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Record ID: PAS-CCB2B9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy composite buckle frame with forked spacer, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin and sheet plates. The oval frame has a central, pointed lip; it lacks a pin rest. The frame is bevelled externally on the upper surface; the lower surface is largely flat, with some slight internal and external bevelling. In cross-section it is broadly triangular. The frame has been narrowed at the spacer for the pin, which, as noted, is absent. The spacer has an expanding aperture next to the frame (initial W.: 2.6) for the pin. Two prongs travel outwards from the sides…
Created on: Saturday 31st January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 4th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-2F2ECB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver penny of uncertain ruler dating to the period c. AD 1350-1500. Mint uncertain. This coin is clipped and bent.
Created on: Sunday 11th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 4th February 2015
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