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Record ID: FAHG-BD8643
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small solid circular biconvex button, apparently made from white metal (perhaps a tin alloy) but possibly made from copper alloy with a thick white-metal coating. On the reverse are two stubs from a separate copper-alloy wire loop. The button is heavy and globular, and dates from the medieval or perhaps early post-medieval period. A good parallel can be seen in Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1388, which was found in a context dating to approximately 1270-1350.
Created on: Thursday 1st April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF9118
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy Late Tournai jetton dating to the period c. 1497-1521. V monogram type inscribed SIT NOMEN BOMINI. Minted at Tournai. See Mitchiner (1988, 240) nos. 732-734.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 22nd January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BURROUGH GREEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8717
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle frame, a distorted oval shape and apparently made, rather than later bent into, this odd shape. The bar is narrowed and offset; at one end the loop then has a high, narrow curve and at the other end a shallower, wider curve. The outer edge then swells to the pin rest, where the cross-section is oval, 7 mm wide and 6 mm thick. There is a wide groove at the pin rest which runs all of the way around both front and reverse. All of the front of the buckle frame except for the bar is decorated with transverse grooves; the reverse is undecorated. It seems strange to p…
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STETCHWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8718
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle frame, oval with an offset (but not narrowed) bar. The outer edge is flattish and angled but is not decorated. Width 20 mm, length 13 mm. Medieval, probably 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STETCHWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8719
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy tubular spout in the form of a dog's head. It was cast separately from the rest of the vessel and soldered on via a long sloping seam. The spout quickly tapers to become tubular; the end has a pair of upright rectangular slightly fluted ears, a moulded brow and muzzle with no extra decoration in the way of eyes, and open jaws between which a short cylinder projects to finish the spout. This is a simple example of a well-known 15th century type; it would originally have been attached to a pedestal-base ewer (see Lewis 1987, fig. 8A).
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8720
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Part of the spacer plate from a composite strap-end. The fragment is a crescent of copper-alloy and there is an acorn-shaped knop at the centre. The knop is fairly flat, but has cross-hatched decoration on both sides of the acorn's cup. The fragment is now bent a little out of shape; there is no obvious solder surviving.
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8721
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8355
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Oval buckle frame made from copper alloy. 24 mm wide, it has an offset bar and a 17 mm long oval-section moulding on the outer edge. This moulding tapers at either end and has a constriction in the centre for a separate sheet 'roller' which has some grooved decoration. 12th to 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8356
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Oval buckle frame made from copper alloy. 20 mm wide, it has an offset bar and a pointed outer edge decorated with a pair of transverse ridges to either side of the point. Now rather corroded. 12th to 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8357
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular buckle frame with pin. The bar is slightly narrowed and is a little worn in the centre, probably due to wear from the pin. The sides and outer edge are bevelled on the exterior and have filemarks on the upper surface; the outer edge is bevelled on the interior on the reverse, giving an angled effect. The pin is made from circular-section copper-alloy wire. The frame measures 31 x 20.5 mm and the pin is 23 mm long.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8358
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular frame, possibly from a buckle but more probably from a strap clasp. The sides are curved in the centre; both the bar and outer edge are narrowed. If this is a buckle, the bar would have held a plate and pin and the outer edge would have held a separate roller; if it is a clasp, the bar would have held a plate and the outer edge would have held a rotating end. In general, however, buckles of this shape have a thickened and grooved outer edge which may be imitating a separate roller, so it is more likely that the object is a clasp. 13th to 15th century.17
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8359
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded large copper-alloy buckle frame, with missing offset bar. The frame is basically oval, with the centre of the outer edge extended into a broad point with a low rounded lobe to either side. There are traces of a grooved pin rest but no other details survive. Probably 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8360
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle frame, plate and pin. The frame is oval and 28 mm wide; it is worn, but two pairs of oblique grooves can be seen decorating the outer edge. The bar is offset and narrowed, and holds the pin and the two hinge loops of the plate. The plate is basically rectilinear; it flares from 17 mm at the attachment end to 20 mm at the opposite end, where frame recesses and a pin slot have been cut and the rest of the sheet has been folded under to form a short underplate. There are two copper-alloy rivets with large circular heads at the hinge end which join the upper plate t…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8361
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle plate, now very corroded. The plate is basically D-shaped, and made from a piece of thin oval copper-alloy sheet folded in half with frame recesses and a pin slot cut. Three copper-alloy rivets join the plates together, and also secure a cast copper-alloy openwork mount to the upper plate. This mount is B-shaped internally, and at the junction of the two lobes of the B there is a projecting stylised animal head. One of the rivets passes through the animal head and the other two pass through thickened areas in the corners. Another buckle made from thin sheet wit…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8353
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
About half of a lead seal matrix. Originally circular and about 30 mm in diameter, the lead appears brittle and has been broken, not cut. It is 3 mm thick and no handle or lug survives; the reverse is flat and undecorated. The central motif is probably an elaborate fleur-de-lis. The inscription around the edge reads [S]IGI[L]L PHILIP D - - (Seal of Philip (of?) - - -). Both are well engraved. 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8364
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of Ely ware, with grooved decoration and greenish glaze both inside and out.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8365
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Rim fragment from a copper-alloy vessel. There is no thickening or tapering to distinguish the rim from the rest of the vessel; it is 1.4 mm thick at the rim, and tapers to 0.7 mm thick at the innermost break. There is very little curve to the fragment. The broken edges incorporate three incomplete circular holes, all 5 mm in diameter; these were presumably drilled as part of a repair. Both faces are worn or polished smooth. This is an unusual vessel fragment due to its thinness, flatness, lack of curve, lack of distinction between the rim and the rest of the vessel and lack of d…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8367
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded fragment of openwork horse-harness pendant, made from copper alloy. It appears to have been circular, with a large circular perforation in the centre and a ring of smaller roughly circular perforations around, each of the smaller perforations being separated by a pair of radiating grooves. Two of the smaller perforations survive intact and the pendant's edge appears to have been decoratively shaped around them. At the top, the base of a suspension loop turned at right angles to the rest of the pendant survives.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8369
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy key with circular bow, moulding between bow and stem, oval-section stem continuing in a point beyond the bit, and simple bit with single cleft to front and to rear. Simple keys such as these may date from the medieval or early post-medieval periods.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8370
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy key with circular bow, oval-section stem ending in a short hollow, and simple bit with single cleft to front and to rear. Simple keys such as these may date from the medieval or early post-medieval periods.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.