Record ID: WILT-9EE643
Object type: INCENSE BURNER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy Medieval to Post-Medieval (1200-1800) possible incense burner lip, consisting of a triangular fragment of circular plate with one drilled hole and the remains of two others (c.3mm in diameter and all countersunk). The plate has one intact curved edge, while the other two edges are rough and the breaks are reasonably fresh. A notch in one distinctly jagged edge and directly below the curved edge, appears cut. The other edge is broken in a straight line through the centre of the two incomplete drilled holes. One face has the remains of three concentric gr…
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Allington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-8728A4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1350-1450) copper alloy composite strap-end complete with forked spacer and two sheet plates. It measures 81.51x20.23x6.21mm and weighs 22.9g. The strap end is held together with two c.2mm diameter rivets, one at either corner of the open end. Between is a circular aperture. It tapers over its length (c.64mm) to 17.74mm wide before curving steeply inwards on both sides to 6.52mm. It is here the plates terminate and the collared acorn knop on forked spacer projects. The plate on the underside is plain, the upper plate is decorated with rocker-arm or zig-zag decoration,…
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Idmiston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-74E4E5
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy open type thimble or 'sewing ring', slightly damaged, of Late Medieval to Early Post-Medieval date (1400-1600). The thimble measures 20.34mm diameter at the widest end (internal 17.09mm), narrowing to 18.40mm (internal 14.93mm) over a height of 10.45mm. It weighs 6.59g. The walls are slightly splayed and angled. This is to allow an easier fit on the finger and is also chronologically diagnostic to the Late Medieval or Early Post-Medieval periods (Holmes 1988, 3). The ring is decorated with functional circular punched depressions, arranged fairly regularly in five rows.
Created on: Monday 19th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Idmiston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-0CFC44
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusual and incomplete Medieval (1100-1500) copper alloy tinned buckle frame with rotating plate instead of a pin, missing part of the open end. The frame and plate are cast as one, with a separate bar for the pin (c.2mm diameter) inserted behind the frame section. Measures 32.32x10.81x5.45mm and weighs 2.8g. The frame is circular in shape, 1.39mm wide but standing 3.54mm in height. To one side the top and bottom plates extend, narrowing from 6.25mm wide behind the frame to 5.73mm at other end, which is broken. A rivet is visible towards the open end, and the open side of the pla…
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2012
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cricklade', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F90544
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1250-1450) copper alloy buckle frame, measuring 13.72x10.60mm (internal 9.82x8.71mm) and weighing 0.7g. The buckle is rectangular in shape with curving arms and a single transverse rib towards either end. One end has two lobed knops flanking a recess for a sheet metal roller (now missing), the other holds a narrowed and recessed bar.
Created on: Thursday 1st March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 7th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cricklade', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F8C446
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1250-1450) copper alloy oval, lipped buckle frame with pin corroded in place, measuring 13.23x11.82mm (internal 6.13x7.28mm) and weighing 0.9g. The pin is triangular in cross-section and has corroded on the underside of the buckle frame. There is a notch in the lip for the pin. There is very little space to either side of the pin on the bar suggesting that is originally had no plate or is perhaps a fragment of buckle frame with integral plate, the integral plate being broken and missing.
Created on: Thursday 1st March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 7th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cricklade', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-CFAB82
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (1300-1600) copper-alloy beehive thimble of cast construction, squashed and standing 13.59mm tall and weighing 3.55g. The thimble is domed with slightly flared sides and a rounded 'tonsure' top (although the metal is rather worn and pitted around here so it is difficult to be certain). Above the base are two decorative grooves, above which begin the drilled pits, apparently running in vertical lines from the top (although the worn surface of the thimble mentioned above is also to be taken into consideration here). It measures 21.60mm in diameter at …
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Standlake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-CF5EC6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy bar mount from a belt with central and terminal lobes, measuring 16.51x9.71x4.54mm and weighing 1.23g. The two terminal lobes are solid (c.2mm thick), each with a separate copper alloy rivet (in situ). The central lobe is hollow to the reverse and domed to the front, with a band of decoration c.6.6mm wide. The decoration comprises four horizontal grooves with numerous vertical incised lines crossing, to give a pattern of tiny squares. Similarly decorated bar mounts with central and terminal lobes from London date to the 13th and 14th century (E…
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Standlake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-CF3D10
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1500) copper alloy single-loop (or D-shaped) buckle frame, missing its pin. The bar is narrowed and offset, the outside edge is plain and flat. Measures 16.63x20.57mm (internal 11.67x14.72mm) and weighs 1.24g.
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Standlake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-CF08E7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body fragment of a Medieval/ Post-Medieval (1200-1800) copper alloy vessel, measuring 20.49x20.18x1.88mm and weighing 3.87g. All edges are (old) breaks. Crudely made cast copper alloy vessels were widely used from c.1200-1800 for serving and cooking. Butler and Green (2003; 15) state 'there is evidence that (cast copper alloy) metal cooking vessels became increasingly common during the 13th and 14th centuries'. While certain specialist cast copper alloy vessels such as skillets remained in use later 'bronze cauldrons in general seem to have been superseded in the early years of …
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Standlake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-CB3EA3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1350-1400) copper alloy rectangular buckle frame of Meols type C, with incomplete pin and plate. Measures 43.73x22.78mm and weighs 6.98g. The frame has a rectangular outside edge with three transverse grooves at the centre and another flanking each end. In addition there is a tiny transverse rib on the arms of the frame, towards the outside edge. The pin is sheet copper alloy c.1mm thick, with a transverse rib where it curls around the axis bar. The tip is missing. The plate is a thinner sheet copper alloy and 0.48mm thick. It measures 30.72mm in length and curls aro…
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-22F736
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (1300-1600) copper-alloy beehive thimble of cast construction, standing 22.95mm tall and weighing 11.94g. The thimble is domed with slightly flared sides and a rounded 'tonsure' top. The drilled pits begin outside this and continue in a continuous spiral to the base in a regular fashion. Above the base is a plain rim. It measures 20.46mm in diameter at the open end (internal 16.23mm) and 17.02mm in diameter at the top of the walls. The thickness of this cast thimble might suggest that it was used for heavy duty work.
Created on: Monday 20th February 2012
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Berwick St James', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-D2D533
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy unidentified object, probably a strap distributor of Medieval date (1100-1500). It measures 42.39x9.15x(max)5.79mm and weighs 4.65g. The object comprises a single piece of parallel-sided sheet copper alloy, 1.09mm thick at one end and expanding to 3.32mm thick at the other, before the edges are 'pinched' together to give the maximum thickness (which is 2.54mm wide). At this point the object appears broken. There is an iron rivet at either end, corroded in situ. To one face the object is decorated all along its length with a line of conjoined X grooves, t…
Created on: Saturday 4th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-BF1027
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval (1400-1500) sheet copper-alloy end-cap from a scale or whittle-tang knife. It measures 38.99x12.49x1.02mm and weighs 2.1g. In profile the object has a slight curve. The object is sub-oval in shape with a protrusion at both narrow ends. At the centre is a rectangular slot (6.19x1.59mm) for the missing tang. Such end-caps tend to be given a 15th-century date.
Created on: Friday 3rd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-BEF433
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1230-1400) copper alloy trapezoidal strap loop with internal projections, measuring 23.32x17.35mm (internal 17.11mm) - per Egan & Pritchard 1991, p.233 fig.147. It weighs 2.5g. The longest (outside) edge is decorated with a rounded knop at the centre and smaller knops at either end. This type of strap loop seems to be the earliest form (Egan & Pritchard 1991 p.231) and has been found in contexts datable to 1230-1400.
Created on: Friday 3rd February 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-AF41F2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy Medieval (1250-1450) composite strap-end, consisting of the incomplete forked spacer only. It is of the collared acorn-type knop type and both arms of the spacer are incomplete. The knop is flattish in cross-section. The incomplete spacer measures 32.31mm in incomplete length and 17.49mm in width. The arms are very slightly expanding. The knop is c.11mm long, max 7.31mm wide and max 5.40mm thick. It weighs 3.5g. Composite strap-ends with forked spacers from London date to between the late 13th century and middle of the 15th century (Egan 1991).
Created on: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-99CF37
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval or Post-Medieval (1300-1600) narrow-pointed dagger or sword chape, made from a single sheet of tinned copper alloy rolled over, cut and folded at the base. The open end, which is slightly squashed, is triangular in shape. The chape measures 32.84x13.47x8.69mm and weighs 3.3g. The sheet metal is 0.64mm thick and joins at the back. Much of the original patina is missing, and there is a trace of tinning close to the join. There is some damage at the open end. Cf. Read 2001, no.671 and 673. Read comments that styles and shapes being so similar, it is difficult to tell wheth…
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-99B1A3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy bar mount from a belt with central and terminal lobes, measuring 18.12x9.01x4.53mm and weighing 1.6g. The two terminal lobes are solid and one retains its copper alloy rivet. The central lobe is hollow to the reverse but appears to have a rivet squashed within it. It is domed to the front, with a band of decoration 4.5mm wide. The decoration comprises four horizontal grooves. Similarly decorated bar mounts with central and terminal lobes from London date to the 13th and 14th century (Egan & Pritchard 1991 nos.1154-1162).
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-9957A6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1230-1450) copper alloy oval buckle frame with ornate outside edge, missing the bar and part of the frame. It measures 10.24x20.05x2.18mm and weighs 0.9g. The outside edge, which is very flat, is decorated with grooves to depict a knop at either end and an X at the centre. At the middle, on the outside edge is a tiny notch - it should be noted the pin would rest on the inside of this edge at this point.
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-993DC5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post-Medieval (1350-1600) copper alloy double oval buckle frame, missing its (iron) pin. It measures 28.34x21.72mm (internal surviving loops c.9x17mm) and weighs 3.1g. There is a patch of rust-coloured staining on the bar. Examples of this type of buckle frame from London (Egan and Pritchard 1991 nos.331 to 342) date from the second half of the fourteenth to the second half of the fifteenth century, but as the form persists a later date cannot be ruled out.
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.