Record ID: WILT-5F2706
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Medieval to Early Post-Medieval (1450-1550) copper alloy candle holder, measuring 68.84mm in length and weighing 52.12g. The cup is octagonal in cross-section, flaring from a 17.26x15.54mm base to 24.87x23.63mm at the open end (which is circular in cross-section on the inside surface, 19.01mm diameter). This flaring is to accommodate the candle. The cup stands on a short downward sloping rim, also octagonal in shape, which extends on two opposing sides into an oval ring 31.27mm wide (internal 24.63x14.62mm). This is fractured to one side of a hexagonal-shaped mounting (13.45x…
Created on: Monday 13th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Idmiston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-23A641
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1150-1400) copper alloy casket key with a circular bow (broken), measuring 39.34mm in length and weighing 6.64g. The stem is flat and oval in section, measuring 5.57x4.22mm. It is open at the end with traces of a white substance inside. The bow is 14.81mm in diameter (internal 9.86mm) and only two thirds remain. The bit is I-shaped (with one corner missing) and projects max.13.30mm. Egan dates this type of key from the late 12th century through to the late 14th century.
Created on: Friday 10th June 2011
Last updated: Friday 10th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Idmiston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-22CA90
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Medieval/ Post-Medieval (1200-1800) vessel leg from a ewer or skillet. The top of the leg is missing and the entire object has suffered for partial melting. The surviving leg measures 75.44mm in length, 30.73mm in max.width and 20.41mm in max.thickness. It weighs 114.53g. The leg is triangular in section at the base of foot, although the melting obscures this further up the leg. A fragment of the vessel itself may also survive at the top of the leg. The foot (which is the widest part) has five vertical toe-ribs to create a claw/ paw, above which is a …
Created on: Friday 10th June 2011
Last updated: Friday 10th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilshead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-226BA5
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval (1415-97) copper alloy jetton struck at Tournai, exceedingly worn and with the obverse dished. It measures c.29mm in diameter and weighs 4.71g. Its crudeness suggests that it was a stock jetton rather than a royal one. Obverse: Field of ?three fleur-de-lis Reverse: Triple-stranded cross fleurdelisée, quatrefoil in centre, fleur-de-lis in angles Reference: cf. Mitchiner 641-3
Created on: Friday 10th June 2011
Last updated: Friday 10th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilshead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F91C84
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1100-1300) copper alloy casket mount, measuring 42.36x6.67x5.75mm and weighing 2.3g. The mount consists of a D-sectioned shaft (3.95x2.25mm) with twisted decoration to the upper suface (it is flat to the reverse) and a flattened, splayed terminal at either end (0.99mm thick). To the reverse the metal appears to be folded back on itself. The twisted decoration is formed by diagonal ribs and grooves. Alternate grooves are further decorated with raised dots. The splayed terminals are triangular with rounded ends and decorated with three grooves, to create four 'fingers', …
Created on: Wednesday 8th June 2011
Last updated: Friday 10th June 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-CA5397
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and probably Medieval (1066-1500) copper alloy D-shaped buckle frame with integral plate, missing the pin and an indeterminate amount of plate. It measures 18.99x21.17x5.04mm (internal 8.37x12.45mm) and weighs 4.06g. The outside edge is oval in cross-section and measures 3.12x1.99mm. The inside edge is 7.66x5.04mm in cross-section, with a old break just behind a 2.5mm diameter piercing for the pin. The edge here may also be split, suggesting a possible integral lower plate only. The buckle is extremely worn and pitted.
Created on: Monday 6th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-903452
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy annular brooch frame with a notch to the outside edge for the missing pin. It measures 24.40mm in diameter (internal 20.25mm) and weighs 1.05g. To one side of the notch the frame is flat (c.2.6mm wide and 0.82mm thick), to the other it is circular in cross-section ( 1.65mm diameter). Read (2001, p.102) dates annular brooches with a narrowed frame for restricting the pin to the 13th and 14th century.
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2011
Last updated: Friday 3rd June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-902546
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy annular brooch frame with constriction for the missing (iron) pin. It measures 26.53mm in diameter (internal 20.55mm) and weighs 2.45g. The frame is slightly angled outwards on the underside. To the upper side it is decorated with five equi-distant transverse ridges. Where the sixth should be the frame is constricted with a patch of iron corrosion. Read (2001, p.102) dates annular brooches with a narrowed frame for restricting the pin to the 13th and 14th century.
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2011
Last updated: Friday 3rd June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-8FE244
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 its pin. It measures 15.17x20.07mm (internal 8.34x16.10mm) and weighs 1.70g. The outside edge, which is flat to the underside, has four moulded knops on the upper edge. Similar buckle frames from London (Egan & Pritchard, 1991; p.73) date between 1230 and 1450.
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2011
Last updated: Friday 3rd June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-8FC6C7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (1350-1650) copper alloy double-oval buckle frame, missing one loop and its pin. It measures 24.02x41.07mm (internal loop 11.10x31.67mm) and weighs 11.48g. The outside edge is decorated with a band of diagonal grooves on both its inside and outside edges. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a comparable buckle (p.52, no.288) which he dates as mainly circa 1350-1650.
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2011
Last updated: Friday 3rd June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-FBCD96
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval (1260-1500) copper alloy heraldic shield shaped Harness Mount 'Chequy', missing one corner, all of its enamel and gilded or silvering decoration, and most of the integral attachment spike. It measures 37.50x28.71x3.85mm and weighs 11.02g. The mount is 2.13mm thick and decorated with 6 rows of alternating squares in a checkerboard patter. The raised squares would have been gilded or silvered (Or or Argent) and the slightly recessed areas would have been filled with a coloured enamel. To the reverse only a worn stump of the original projection survives, …
Created on: Friday 27th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-FB8A63
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval (c. 1350-1500) copper-alloy book clasp of Howsam type A.8.4, measuring 37.57 x 12.31 x 6.82mm and weighing 5.5g. The book clasp is made of a single folded sheet of copper alloy, max.1.4mm thick. The folded end creates a loop 3.23mm wide and 7.62mm long. Directly behind the loop the strap-end is circular and to the upper face has a domed boss 6.82mm thick and 10.97mm in diameter. Directly behind this is a narrowed neck 7.28mm wide, with a c.2mm rivet hole at the centre. Beyond, the attachment end is rectangular with parallel sides (12.31mm wide), with another rivet ho…
Created on: Friday 27th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-FAECE2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200 - 1400) copper alloy oval buckle frame with ornate outside edge, missing its pin. It measures 18.31x25.13x4.49mm (internal 10.95x20.61mm) and weighs 3.6g. The bar is narrowed and offset with a rounded moulding at either end. The outside edge has a pair of raised ribs either side of the triangular notched lip at the centre. This is the thickest part of the frame. Egan & Pritchard (1991; p.73, fig.44) date oval buckle frames with ornate outside edges between 1200 and 1400.
Created on: Friday 27th May 2011
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-FA9725
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1350-1450) composite buckle, consisting of the frame, sheet pin and incomplete forked spacer only, and missing the separate front and back plates. It measures 28.02mm in length and 20.16mm in max.width (at the frame). It weighs 3.3g. The object comprises an oval frame with a notched lip on the outside edge, and a bar narrowed for the pin. Its internal measurements are 9.17x15.14mm. The integral forked spacer is 14.07mm wide behind the frame and parallel-sided. The pin is faceted to the upper surface (three faces) below a transverse rib. Egan & Pritchard co…
Created on: Friday 27th May 2011
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-E67FF2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1250-1450) copper alloy sheet metal strap-end, folded widthways. It measures 36.15x35.74x4.90mm and weighs 11.7g. The backplate is plain with a rivet hole (c.1.6mm diameter) in each corner at the open end. The front plate has a crenellated edge, with a cut-out crescent at the centre and a cut-out V to either side. The rivet hole is below the centre of the V. one rivet survives intact. Comparative examples in Egan and Pritchard (1991) date from the late 13th to the middle of the fifteenth century. Cf nos.578 to 587.
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2011
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-BD0B33
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and squashed Medieval (1350-1450) copper alloy double oval buckle frame, missing its pin and almost one loop of the frame. It measures 28.16x24.30mm (internal surviving loop c.10.67x18.31mm) and weighs 2.8g. 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: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wroughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-B91DF1
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Early Post-Medieval (1150-1700) copper alloy casket key with an open trefoil-shaped bow, measuring 36.29mm in length and weighing 2.1g. The stem is flat and oval in cross-section, measuring 3.33x2.69mm below the double-rib collared bow. The bow measures 15.49x14.53mm (internal 12.03x12.50mm) and has a small square notch at its base, between the lower two lobes. The bit is rectangular, measuring 4.47x4.03x1.91mm. The stem is hollow above the bit. Although no close parallel can be found, the key has similarities with many of the Medieval and Early Post-Medieval rota…
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-B8D800
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval and probably Anglo-Gallic Jetton of Edward II, measuring 18-19mm in diameter, 0.8mm in thickness and weighing 1.40g. The jetton has a die axis of 6 and some wear. Obverse: Heater shield of three lions passant (England) within three concentric arcs of small pellets Reverse: Dimidiated fleur-de-lis and castle on field of pellets Date: 2nd half 13th century Reference: Salisbury Museum has another example of this jetton see SMMC 3, 217 no.4 . The fleur de lis and castle device is thought to be a badge of Poitou, see Mitchiner p.153 and Barnard pl. IV, no.5.
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-BC14E5
Object type: MIRROR CASE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1270-1350) robust cast copper alloy mirror case, complete with the (loose) broken glass mirror inside. It measures 42.87mm in length, 31.40mm in diameter/ width and 8.39mm thick. Weighs 15.06g. Both halves of the mirror case are slightly domed to the outside surface, which beneath the concretion on one of the sides, has a smooth and shiny dark patina. Each half of the mirror has two lugs projecting from one edge and a single lug from the opposite edge - arranged on top of each other the single lug fits between the pair for the hinge and catch. The convex surface of eac…
Created on: Thursday 12th May 2011
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broad Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-3E5254
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and badly corroding Medieval (1270-1450) copper-alloy composite strap-end with forked spacer and acorn knop terminal. It is 34.04mm long, 29.71mm wide and up to 6.07mm thick; it weighs 8.12g. The front and back sheet plates are in extremely fragile condition and are held together with two rivets (c.2mm diameter) at the strap-end's 'open' end, corroded in place and 4.48mm apart. They are oval in shape with a D-shaped aperture at the 'open' end of the strap-end. Only a trace of decoration remains on one of the plates, perhaps foliate. The spacer is a flat C-shaped or crescen…
Created on: Friday 6th May 2011
Last updated: Friday 6th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Malmesbury', grid reference and parish protected.