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Record ID: WILT-A8E835
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Medieval (1400-1500) cast copper alloy double-loop buckle frame with two oblique projections to one side, missing its pin. It measures 40.17x28.94x2.91mm and weighs 8.51g.
The frame is circular with a central bar dividing it into two loops, measuring internally c.9 x c.20mm. It is trapezoidal in cross-section. The projections are also trapezoidal in cross-section and are each decorated with two or three wide transverse grooves.
Whitehead (2003) page 46, No.267, illustrates a similar buckle which he dates to c.1400-1500 AD.
Created on: Friday 26th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Broad Town', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-7F85E6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Medieval (1250-1450) composite strap-end, consisting of the incomplete forked spacer only. It has an acorn-type knop terminal and one arm of the spacer is incomplete. The knop is flattish in cross-section.
The spacer measures 50.62mm in length and max. 16.88mm in width at the end of the broken arm. Both faces of the arms carry traces of silvery solder. The knop (oval 'nut' in a tapering oval-sectioned 'cup') measures 13.19x6.68x4.36mm. The object weighs 3.5g.
Composite strap-ends with forked spacers from London date to between the late 13th century and mi…
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 24th October 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Urchfont', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-7F1460
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (1400-1600) copper-alloy thimble of cast construction, standing 16.03mm tall and weighing 4.85g. Almost all original patina has been lost.
The top is slightly domed, the walls of the thimble flaring. The drilled square and rectangular pits begin in the centre of the top and continue in a spiral to the edge, where it meets and is slightly offset from a spiral beginning at the top of the walls and ending at the bottom, above a circumferential groove close to the open end. The thimble measures 16.42x16.55mm at the open end (internal 13.88x13.97mm) an…
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 24th October 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Coulston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-173414
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (1400-1600) copper-alloy beehive thimble of cast construction, now a little squashed, standing 22.37mm tall and weighing 7.44g. There is a small crack in the wall, with a small aprt of the wall missing.
The thimble is domed with slightly flared sides and a rounded top. The drilled oval and circular pits begin in the centre and continue in a continuous spiral to the base in a regular fashion. Above the base is a plain rim flanked by a circumferential groove. It measures 22.07x17.62mm at the open end (internal 18.95x14.23mm) and c.15mm in dia…
Created on: Friday 19th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 19th October 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Easterton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-15D547
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval Burgundian jetton, probably struck at Tournai for the Burgundian market. Measures 25.5mm, weighs 3.44g, die axis 10, slight wear with green patina.
Obverse: Emblems of Burgundy, steel with three flints above sparks and kindled sticks
+VIVE spiral star BOVRGOVNE spiral star VIVIE spray of leaves
Reverse: Cross patée, leafy terminals, sprigged trefoils into angles
+GETTES annulet in annulet BIEN a in a PAIES a in a BIEN spray of leaves
Mint: Probably Tournai for the Burgundian market, second half 15th century
Reference: Mitchiner, obverse is as 796, reverse al…
Created on: Friday 19th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 19th October 2012
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This findspot is known as 'West Knoyle', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-001E61
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper alloy buckle frame with integral plate, missing most of the frame and the pin. It measures 35.59x13.45x2.85mm and weighs 2.93g.
At the point the frame meets the plate is a pin hole 2.2mm in diameter. The inside edge above it is convex in shape.
Behind the frame is a collar, below which is a rounded circular moulding with another hole 1.78mm in diameter and probably for a rivet. The strap plate beyond is parallel-sided and terminates in another collar before a lozengiform terminal and knop. The terminal is pierced at the centre with a 1.73mm diameter h…
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Broad Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-FFAA00
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval enamelled (and probably originally gilded or silvered) copper alloy shield-shaped heraldic horse harness pendant of the vertical banner type which would have rotated on a swivelling base. It measures 24.93x22.54x6.87mm and weighs 6.35g. The shield alone measures 24.93x17.09x2.99mm.
The pendant is blazoned on both sides, gules a fess between (possibly) three mullets. Traces of red enamel survive on both faces, although much less beneath the horizontal band. Consequently it is not certain whether the two stars (mullets) above the band are complemented by a third below.
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Created on: Thursday 18th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Great Cheverell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-C066E8
Object type: CANDLESTICK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Medieval to Early Post-Medieval (c. 1475 - 1600) cast and turned copper alloy candlestick, consisting of the damaged and rather squashed socket and top of the stick only. It measures 43.10x31.07mm and weighs 27.61g.
The open end of the socket is rather squashed, now measuring 31.07x19.49mm (internal 26.47x16.14mm),while at its base it measures 25.09mm in diameter. It is c.32mm deep but does not have a closed base, instead the stick is hollow and extends from the base 13.65mm in diameter (internal 10.26mm).
The socket is decorated to the outside with a pair of co…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
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Record ID: WILT-C01F73
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Early Post-Medieval (1100-1700) strap fitting, comprised of a piece of folded sheet copper alloy roughly triangular in shape with one folded edge, one open crenellated edge with two rivet holes, and one damaged open edge. It measures 24.99x19.74x2.36mm and weighs 1.76g.
The crenellated edge is cut as two curves with a wide V between. The two rivet holes are c.2mm in diameter.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
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Record ID: WILT-C32CD1
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy English jetton (of Edward III / Richard II), measuring 23mm in diameter and 1.4mm in thickness. Weighs 3.78g. The jetton is partly pierced in the centre from the obverse and is worn.
Obverse: Crude king standing under canopy
Reverse: Plain shield, five pellets in chief above a label of three points
Date: 2nd half of the 14th century
Reference: For obverse see Barnard, pl.II, no.49, no parallel for the reverse found, it is somewhat similar to the obverse of Mitchiner 259.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-0A6960
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy probably Medieval (1100-1500) unidentified object, measuring 23.95x15.07x2.89mm and weighs 2.22g.
It has a circular body 15.07mm diameter and 1.97mm thick and is pierced by two opposing rivets, 1.5mm in diameter and 2.89mm high. Between them, at the centre, is a c.2mm wide hole now filled with corrosion. Flanking the edge (and passing 'through' the two rivets) is a very corroded ring of copper alloy. The plate, without rivets, is c.1.7mm thick.
To one edge is a zoomorphic projection with bulbous brow ridge and square snout, D-shaped in section. To the op…
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 12th October 2012
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Record ID: WILT-08C1A7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval or Post-Medieval (1200-1600) copper alloy strap fitting, consisting of a rectangular piece with three equidistant in situ rivets and still in place around one of these (situated at an end), a smaller piece of sheet copper alloy with a hook extending past the piece underneath. The longer piece is bent at an almost right angle. Bent, the object measures 41.71mm, unbent c.63mm. It weighs 6.7g.
The longer piece is parallel-sided and measures (unbent) c.50mm x 10.55x1.08mm (with rivets, 4-6mm thick). At the end beneath the second piece is a short 4mm wide projectio…
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 13th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Cricklade', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-07A752
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1100-1250) copper alloy gilt possible horse harness pendant, missing its suspension loop. The object is flat (1.27mm thick) and oval in shape (21.02x17.79mm), with one edge rather flatter and showing signs of something having broken off.
The object is undecorated on one side while on the other has a central six-pointed star surrounded by multiple stamped annulets. Cf. NMS-C30FB7, also missing its loop.
Weighs 2.02g.
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 13th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Cricklade', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-068DB5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1250-1350) cast copper alloy rectangular buckle frame of Meols type D and plate, missing its pin and sheet roller (from the frame). It measures 37.64x20.47x3.99mm and weighs 4.2g.
The rectangular frame (16.76x20.47mm, internal 11.24x16.92mm) has a narrowed bar and oval-sectioned outside edge (2.5x2.3mm). The adjoining arms have swollen rounded ends at the this point, to the outside only.
The buckle plate is sheet copper alloy with narrowing sides, angling inwards and narrowing to 14.08mm wide where it curves around the bar and below narrowing from 16.85 to …
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 13th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Cricklade', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-062C27
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post-Medieval (1350-1700) copper alloy double oval buckle frame, missing its (iron) pin. It measures 30.72x19.57mm (internal surviving loops c.9x14mm) and weighs 3.6g. There is a patch of rust-coloured staining on the bar.
The loops are slightly angled on their outside edges to the underside, and are decorated to the top with apparently transverse grooves, although much of the decoration is lost due to wear and loss of patination.
Examples of this type of buckle frame from London (Egan and Pritchard 1991 nos.331 to 342) date from the second half of the fo…
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 14th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Cricklade', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-8C0BA7
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy cruciform hanger for a horse harness pendant, missing one projecting suspension lug and measuring 41.57x34.36x4.40mm. Weighs 5.01g.
Three of the arms are of equal length. They are triangular in cross-section with flat back and ridge down the centre of the front. Each ends in a circular domed terminal with long projecting knop, divided from the main arm by a transverse collar, waist and cusped moulding either side of the central ridge. Each domed terminal has a central piercing c.2.3mm in diameter.
The fourth arm is much shorter…
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-8BC6D4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1150 - 1400) copper alloy oval buckle frame with ornate outside edge, missing its pin and plate. It measures 15.37x13.80x4.03mm (internal 8.69x10.43mm) and weighs 1.42g.
The bar is narrowed and offset with a worn area either side of the centre, probably from the missing plate. The outside edge is thickened with a moulded knop either side of the triangular notched lip at the centre.
Egan & Pritchard (1991; p.77, fig.46) date oval buckle frames with ornate outside edges and plates between 1150 and 1400.
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 6th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-8B7255
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy bar-mount from a belt with central and terminal lobes, missing one rivet. Measures 15.63x7.97x4.19mm and weighs 0.80g.
The two terminal lobes are solid (c.4x1.8mm), one with a 1.5mm diameter countersunk rivet hole to reverse (0.75mm diameter to front), the other with a separate copper alloy rivet in situ. The central lobe is hollow to the reverse and domed to the front, decorated with six transverse grooves and overlain with diagonal grooves to give a patterns of lozenges.
Similarly decorated bar mounts with central and terminal …
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 6th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-8B4EF7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy bar-mount from a belt with central and terminal lobes, missing one rivet. Measures 19.70x9.64x5.55mm and weighs 1.49g.
The two terminal lobes are solid (c.5x2mm), one with a 1.8mm diameter countersunk rivet hole to reverse (c.1mm diameter to front), the other with a separate copper alloy rivet in situ. The central lobe is hollow to the reverse and domed to the front, decorated with diagonal grooves overlying each other to give a patterns of lozenges.
Similarly decorated bar mounts with central and terminal lobes from London date…
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 6th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-5FB942
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1250-1350) copper alloy single-loop oval buckle frame of Meols Type 11 or 12, with outside 'roller' edge on the frame, and plate. It is missing its pin. It measures 46.69x26.62x5.80mm and weighs 12.88g.
The frame itself measures 21.82x26.62x5.80mm (internal 10.81x22.90mm). The outside edge is offset with a roller composed of a sheet of copper alloy metal wrapped around it. The rounded sides have expanded oval terminals flanking the roller. The axis bar is offset and narrowed.
The roller is 12.14mm long and 8.10x5.87mm in cross-section, although its ends do…
Created on: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-4D1768
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1270-1350) copper alloy openwork strap-end, broken at one end. It measures 35.43x17.08x2.17mm and weighs 4.11g.
The surviving end is trefoil with a tiny (0.8mm diameter) rivet hole at the centre, countersunk to the reverse (1.4mm diameter). Below is a neck with an incurved edge, and beyond this the incomplete openwork plate. This comprises a rectangular area with two rivet holes c.1.7mm diameter and countersunk to the decorated front side (1.5mm diameter to the reverse). From here project three arms, one of which is now just a stump, to the oldish break. This …
Created on: Monday 3rd September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-4CD8B1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1150-1200) copper alloy single-loop buckle frame of Meols type 11, missing its pin. It measures 18.01x25.31x6.93mm (internal 8.23x16.96mm) and weighs 6.41g.
The frame is D-shaped with a thickened outside edge (D-shaped in cross-section) max.5.8x4.5mm. At the centre is a sheet roller plate with central groove. The frame tapers towards with bar, which is very thin and spindle (max. 1.3mm diameter). At either end of the bar is a rounded knop, 4.5mm in diameter.
The buckle is very similar to an incomplete example from a context of c.1150 - c.1200 in London (Egan, G and Pri…
Created on: Monday 3rd September 2012
Last updated: Monday 3rd September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-47F5E2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy strap fitting, consisting of the eye part only, into which a similar hook would have fitted. It measures 28.35x9.99x7.02mm and weighs 4.96g.
The object is rectangular in shape with a rectangular loop at one end (parallelogram in cross-section, internal measurements 8.84x4.02mm) and a triangular-sectioned body at the other. The body is flat to the reverse with a circular-section integral rivet at one end, retaining its circular rove.
Compare Read (2008) p.225 nos.807 and 808, which he suggests are possibly from a sword-belt and c.16th - 17th century in…
Created on: Monday 3rd September 2012
Last updated: Monday 10th February 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-1CC784
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (c.1350-1400) copper alloy single loop buckle frame, missing the tip of the pin (and probably a plate). It measures 17.62x12.75x3.92mm (internal 8.66x9.63mm) and weighs 2.42g.
The frame is square with a thickened and three transverse grooves, the central one of which acts as a rest for the pin. The sides are slightly convex with a tiny transverse ridge close to the bar, which is narrowed and offset. The pin has a transverse ridge just beyond the axis bar and is triangular in cross-section at the break (1.85x1.23mm).
A similar buckle from London has been foun…
Created on: Saturday 1st September 2012
Last updated: Friday 7th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-1C2F01
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy bar-mount from a belt with central and terminal lobes, missing one rivet. Measures 16.22x7.22x4.50mm and weighs 0.85g.
The two terminal lobes are solid (c.5x2mm), one with a 1.79mm diameter countersunk rivet hole to reverse (1.14mm diameter to front), the other 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.4mm wide. The decoration comprises four horizontal grooves with numerous vertical incised lines crossing, to give a pattern of tiny squares. …
Created on: Saturday 1st September 2012
Last updated: Friday 7th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Durnford', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-1C0136
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (1400-1600) copper-alloy beehive thimble of cast construction and a little squashed, standing 18.57mm tall and weighing 5.39g.
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 23.43x12.84mm at the open end (internal 20.23x10.59mm) and c.16mm in diameter at the top of the walls.
The bare circular patch on top of the thimble, or 'tonsure', indicates a relatively early date; sim…
Created on: Saturday 1st September 2012
Last updated: Friday 7th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Durnford', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-1BCEF1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Late Post-Medieval (1200-1800) copper alloy foot from a cooking vessel, broken across the leg. It stands 37.47mm high and weighs 139.32g.
The underside of the foot is D-shaped in cross-section and measures 54.27x25.25mm. The leg rises above and is D-shaped in cross-section at the (old) break. A prominent midrib runs along the centre of the leg to the front. The break measures 38.47x15.92mm.
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 copp…
Created on: Saturday 1st September 2012
Last updated: Friday 7th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Vernhams Dean', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-0D6340
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy and enamelled lozenge-shaped horse harness pendant, bent a little at one point. It would probably have been gilded originally.
The harness pendant depicts a central creature within a raised rim. The creature is probably a wyvern with paws at 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock and a wing beneath the body. The tail extends upwards at 3 o'clock and the head is turned backwards to face the tail. A spot of blue enamel survives for the eye and further blue enamel survives in areas around the creature.
Measures 43.30x33.00x5.54mm (without loop 2.8mm thick) and wei…
Created on: Friday 31st August 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 5th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-0C9B16
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Medieval or Early Post-Medieval (1450 -1550) copper alloy purse bar of Ward Perkins type B1 with suspension loop, retaining a loop from the (now missing) frame at one end and missing its rove at the other end. It measures 57.80x53.18x8.54mm and weighs 33.04g.
The bar has a central 'shield-shaped' block through which the suspension loop passes. It is decorated with two inwardly-pointing diagonal grooves, on one face appearing rather more like a V. On this face there is a deep triangular hole projecting inwards at the top of one diagonal. There is similar on the othe…
Created on: Friday 31st August 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 5th September 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Tisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-636277
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Medieval (1200-1400) 'D' shaped single-looped buckle frame with pin and incomplete buckle plate. Measures 39.82x31.11mm and weighs 7.64g.
The frame is 'D' shaped in plan, with an expanded outer edge, which is concave on the underside and slopes downwards and outwards. At the centre of the outside edge is a triangular projection inwards. It is decorated with a groove flanking inner and outer edges, and inside this a wavy line with curlicue at either end. The axis bar is offset and narrowed with a moulding at either end. The pin is D-shaped in cross-section …
Created on: Thursday 23rd August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 23rd August 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-D4D2C5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
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 angled. Measures 13.58x16.52mm (internal 9.47x12.22mm) and weighs 0.97g.
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2012
Last updated: Friday 15th November 2013
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Record ID: WILT-D4BD38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy annular brooch complete with (slightly bent) pin, measuring 19.37mm in diameter (internal 11.94mm), 2.04mm in thickness and weighing 1.91g.
One face only is decorated, with punched rings. The inside edges are slightly angled inwards and there is a constriction for the pin, which is D-shaped in cross-section.
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2012
Last updated: Friday 15th November 2013
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Record ID: WILT-7DE825
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (c.1450-1500) copper alloy pendent frame from a purse (possibly Ward-Perkins Type A1 to A3; 1940, p.164), U-shaped in cross-section. It measures 52.04mm in curving length and weighs 10.81g.
The fragment is worn and pitted, but traces of niello survive inside a pair of diagonal grooves along one side. Pitting obscures further decoration. The other side has a single sewing hole, pierced from inside to out, 1.76mm in diameter. It would have been through such holes that the frame was sewn to the fabric purse (Geake 2001, p.43).
The bre…
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2012
Last updated: Monday 5th January 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Bourton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-44FD48
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval Tournai jetton, measuring 27-28mm in diameter and 1.5mm thick and weighing 5.56g. It has some wear.
Obverse: Quatrefoil with trefoils in the spandrels, around a lozenge of four lis
Pelletted quatrefoil SIT IIOIIIEII DOIII I II I
Reverse: Cross patty, alternate sprigged rosette and outward pointing lis in quarters
Rosette SIT IIOIIIEII DOIII I II I
Date: last quarter 15th century
Reference: Mitchiner 726
Created on: Monday 16th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'West Knoyle', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-43F562
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver plated copper alloy contemporary copy of a penny of Edward I (1272-1307), measuring 18mm and weighing 1.18g. Die axis 12, very worn and battered.
Obverse: Crowned bust facing
+EDWR ANGL DNS HyB
Reverse: Long cross with three pellets in each quarter
CIVI TAS LON DON
Mint: Prototype of London, 1279-1300
Created on: Monday 16th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'West Knoyle', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-ED5724
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy gilt Medieval (1150-1500) single-loop buckle frame and plate, missing the pin and folded backwards-together. Measures 15.04x20.01x6.72mm and weighs 3.75g. Unfolded the length would be c.25mm.
The buckle frame is D-shaped with thickened and rounded outside edge and central notch for the pin. The notch carries gilding still. The axis bar is narrowed and offset, with a moulding at either end where it joins the frame.
The plate is also D-shaped with two projecting tabs to curl around the axis bar. These and the slot between carry a large amount of iron corro…
Created on: Thursday 12th July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 13th December 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Hullavington', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-D74E53
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Late Early-Medieval or Early Medieval (1000-1200) zoomorphic book clasp in the form of dog's head with rectangular loop at the wider end, measuring 29.18x12.38x8.47mm and weighing 11.6g.
The rectangular loop measures 12.38x7.14mm (internal 8.45x4.39mm) and is c.2mm thick. It extends from the base of the head at the back. Above, it rises to the top of the head and brow ridge (widest and thickest part, 12.38x8.47mm) where two pairs of inverted U shapes probably represent the ears and the single triangular mouldings below the eyes. The long snout in front of these is nar…
Created on: Wednesday 11th July 2012
Last updated: Friday 7th December 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Breamore', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-AEE596
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1250-1500) copper alloy enamelled quatrefoil-shaped horse harness pendant, missing its original metal surface which would have been gilded or silvered (probably).
The pendant depicts a wyvern facing right on a blue enamel background, his long tail to the left of the pendant, his body to the bottom right and neck above, with the wings at the centre. The pendant has a small triangular projection in each angle of the quatrefoil.
It measures 42.73x31.74x7.93mm and weighs 13.03g. Excluding the loop it measures 32.07mm long and 3.01mm thick. The piercing in the loop has almos…
Created on: Monday 9th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Breamore', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-AE5C02
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval (1250-1500) copper alloy enamelled lozenge-shaped heraldic horse harness pendant, with a broken loop and missing probable gilding (or silvering). It is blazoned bend azure on engrailed cross gules impaling three bends gules, and is probably the arms for a marriage (Laura Burnett pers.comm. 2012) .
The original surface has been lost (with gilding or silvering), leaving the enamel decoration standing proud of the present surface. It measures 43.44x30.05x6.67mm and weighs 11.81g. Excluding the loop it measures 33.39mm long and 2.94mm thick.
There is a pos…
Created on: Monday 9th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Breamore', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-AD32B6
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1200-1500) copper alloy seal matrix with a circular die and hexagonally-faceted handle, terminating in a pierced lozenge above a triple-ridged moulded collar. The object stands 26.56mm in height and weighs 10.87g. The die measures 18.99mm in diameter.
The die bears a legend, perhaps + I.NhI:ILDIN , around the letter h with two + signs vertically arranged just in front of it.
The I.Nh may be a form of 'John'. The 'I:' may be an 'A' and the 'IL' (before DIN) may also read 'II.' or 'LI'
Created on: Monday 9th July 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Breamore', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-577293
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1200-1500) copper alloy circular seal matrix, depicting a central bust facing left (right in the impression) with a star above and to either side. Around is the inscription S'RADVLFI:TVRAVDV
To the reverse, behind the start of the legend, is a pierced D-shaped lug (the piercing is circular and 2.49mm in diameter). Extending below this to the opposite edge is a raised, narrowing ridge.
The seal matrix measures 23.77mm in diameter, is 8.96mm thick (with loop; without loop the matrix is 3.11mm thick) and weighs 9.86g.
Although earlier in date than this seal matrix, the …
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Breamore', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-B098F4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1400) cast copper-alloy buckle frame with integral plate, part of which is missing. It measures 19.87x13.43mm and weighs 1.78g.
The frame is oval in shape and the internal measurements are 7.55x9.88mm. To one side the D-shaped integral plate extends with a diagonally arranged rib to either side in the angle between frame and plate. At the centre is a circular hole for the pin, which is a piece of copper alloy bent around the axis and narrowing to a point, where it curves upwards slightly.
The plate narrows from 7.51x2.17mm to 6.47x1.91mm at the worn bre…
Created on: Friday 15th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 15th June 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-9EFED6
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1200-1500) copper alloy seal matrix with an oval-shaped die and hexagonally-faceted handle, terminating in a pierced lozenge above a moulded ridge. The object stands 19.54mm in height and weighs 6.03g. The die measures 19.20x14.26mm.
The die bears the legend * AVE DOMINA' within a beaded border and set around a central head facing right.
On the other side of the die are two linear grooves to help site the matrix (either side of the '*').
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th July 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-9E82C6
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1200-1400) sheet copper alloy (with traces of gilding) cruciform hanger or suspension mount for a horse harness pendant, measuring 27.10x36.20x4.70mm and weighing 5.41g.
Three of the arms of the cross are of equal length. They are semi-circular in cross-section and hollow to the reverse (with closed ends). The central arm has a rivet hole 2.89mm in diameter for attaching to the horse gear. The fourth arm is longer with a rivet hole 2.63mm in diameter, and extending into two loops beyond the length of the other arms formed of a rectangular cut-out and bending around to…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-9D9B44
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Late Post-Medieval (1200-1800) copper alloy foot from a cooking vessel, standing 18.62mm in height and weighing 104.30g. It is max.47.85mm wide and max.27.05mm deep.
The base is trapezoidal in shape, with the longest edge forming the end of the toes (c.11mm tall) as the foot rises above. From the end of the toes, they rise at an angle with a prominent central midrib. The (old) break above is also trapezoidal in shape and measures 40.94x15.42mm, the shorter edge in line with the back of the foot.
Crudely made cast copper alloy vessels were widely used fro…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th July 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Quarley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-9C9367
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy English jetton struck during the reign of Edward II (1307 - 1327), measuring 20mm, weighing 2.04g, attempted piercing from centre of reverse, worn, some surface flaking.
Obverse: Sterling head
Border: Alternate T (or A) and B
Reverse: Key flanked by two clusters of six pellets
Border: Pellets
Date: 1307-27
Reference: cf. Mitchiner 111
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 14th June 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-1E1B12
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1250-1400) copper alloy bar-mount with pendent loop. Together both measure 19.42mm in length and weigh 1.26g.
The pendent loop is a simple circle in shape and 11.65mm in diameter (internal 7.55mm). The bar-mount is 11.39mm in length and 6.12mm wide, with a constriction at the point of suspension 2.68mm wide. The reverse is shortened and 7.87mm long. It is mostly the width of the constriction, widening to 5.83mm at the end. This has a central piercing 1.52mm in diameter, in line with one to the front of the bar-mount, 1.3mm in diameter and off-centre. The front is decorate…
Created on: Friday 8th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th July 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Quarley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-1DD346
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1350-1450) composite buckle, missing its two sheet plates. It measures 32.44mm in length and 14.45mm in max.width (at the frame). It weighs 2.38g.
The object comprises an oval lipped frame with a knop on the outside edge and an intergral forked spacer plate. The internal measurements of the frame are 8.53x9.81mm. The forked spacer is 9.18mm wide behind the frame and flares to 10.02mm. The pin is of circular-section wire and a different copper alloy to the frame and integral spacer.
Egan & Pritchard comment, 'These buckles with their distinctive composite pl…
Created on: Friday 8th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th July 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Quarley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-380FA1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Late Post-Medieval (1200-1800) copper alloy foot from a cooking vessel, standing 87.57mm in height and weighing 244.74g. It is max.51.33mm wide and max.31.64mm thick.
The foot has a rounded base, flaring sides and a prominent central midrib. The base is solid for 37.76mm in height, where it is trapezoidal in cross-section, and the incomplete front extends upwards to the full height, consisting of the midrib and jagged edges to either side. To the reverse of this face the midrib is C-shaped in cross-section and concave. All breaks are old and worn and there …
Created on: Monday 28th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2012
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Record ID: WILT-A63494
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (1400-1600) copper alloy finger-ring with a seal matrix on the flat sub-rectangular/ oval bezel. It measures 24.48x25.47x8.73mm (internal 18.43x19.58mm) and weighs 6.37g.
The oval bezel measures 13.13x8.73x3.01mm and the matrix displays a letter R with a leafy spray above and behind the upright of the R. The shoulders are c.7.5mm wide below, narrowing to c.4.8mm below and further to 3.38m wide at the back of the hoop, which is D-shaped in cross section and faceted.
The bezel may have represented the initial of the Christian name of the owner, b…
Created on: Monday 21st May 2012
Last updated: Monday 21st May 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Lechlade', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-3CC830
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval Anglo-Gallic or French uniface hexagonal coin weight, probably for a half rose noble or ryal and minted 1464-70. Measures 15mm in diameter and 1.5mm thickness, weighs 3.01g, very worn.
Obverse: Ship to left, rose above sterncastle
Reference: See Dieudonné, A., 1925, Manuel des Poids Monetaires, pl.VI, nos 40 and 42 for hexagonal weights.
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 18th May 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Lechlade', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-0E7163
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1100-1500) copper alloy book fitting in the form of a parallel-sided strap-end with a hinged plate and loop. The 'open end' is worn and damaged. The book fitting consists of two parts - a cast, squarish terminal, and a folded sheet copper alloy plate (also square) for attachment to the strap. It measures 34.74mm in length, is 13.54mm in width and 3.96mm thick (at the loop). It weighs 5.2g.
The terminal measures 21.23x13.54mm and is 2.76mm thick. At the centre is a piercing 2.12mm in diameter. The loop has a 2.14mm diameter piercing, set at 90 degrees to the t…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Tilshead', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-BE4F27
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim fragment of Medieval/ Post-Medieval (1200-1800) copper alloy cooking vessel, measuring 40.04x31.97x3.81mm and weighing 17.1g.
The rim is D-shaped in cross-section, being flat to the outside surface (which is blackened from being used over an open fire) and curved on the smooth inside surface. The vessel is otherwise 2.80mm thick. All breaks are worn. There are also traces of black on the inside surface.
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)…
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th May 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Tilshead', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-3DB803
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1250-1500) copper alloy gilt horse harness pendant, missing its enamel decoration. It measures 31.94x26.18x7.06mm and weighs 4.46g.
The pendant itself is c.1mm thick and sub triangular in shape, the bottom edge being concave while the other two edges are convex. It depicts a dragon walking right within a 1.5mm wide rim, along the edges of the pendant. The dragon's head is turned left and upwards, into the apex of the pendant, just below the loop (which is turned through 90 degrees). Running parallel to the chin is the wing. The tail bends upwards behind the haunches and r…
Created on: Friday 4th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-EB0936
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete worn copper-alloy gilt Medieval (probably 1200-1500) buckle plate from a single-loop buckle, consisting of one plate only (probably the upper plate) and measuring 24.82x9.71x3.46mm, weighing 1.02g. It retains three dome-headed rivets, vertically arranged along the centre of the plate.
The plate is 0.82mm thick and broken where the projecting tabs would have bent around the axis bar of the missing buckle frame. Between is a rectangular notch for the pin. Behind the plate is 9.71mm wide, narrowing to 7.55mm. The rivets are 3.46mm in height. The plate retains gilding espe…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
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Record ID: WILT-E9AAA4
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 with a horizontal band at the ankle and broken just above. It measures 37.13mm in length and weighs 56.42g.
At the break, which is triangular in cross-section, it measures 23.11x11.33mm. Below the ankle, the foot widens into three toes, 25.34mm wide and 16.45mm thick. Much of the patina is lost and a thick black coating is apparent on both front and back of the leg. This is probably the result of the vessel's usage in cooking over an open fire.
Crudely made cast copper alloy vess…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: WILT-E8F834
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Late Post-Medieval (1200-1800) copper alloy foot from a cooking vessel, standing 30.32mm in height and weighing 83.71g. It measures 39.66x13.40mm at the break and 32.53x15.21mm at the base, which is broadly rectangular.
The face has a prominent central midrib and shallower ribs flanking either edge. The metal is rather corroded and almost no original patina remains.
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 ves…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: WILT-AC0CC6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy harness pendant suspension mount, complete with harness pendant corroded in place (at an angle). The harness pendant retains much of its enamel decoration but has lost all traces of gilding. The object measures 38.80mm in length, and if the pendant were to hang straight would be c.43mm long. The object weighs 9.45g.
The suspension mount (14.40mm in depth) consists of a squarish globular stud 6.27mm wide with an integral square-sectioned projection behind (3.62x4.85mm, narrowing to 2.87x3.13mm and expending again at the end to 3.19x4.49mm). Below are two D-…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2012
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-96AD00
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval contemporary copy of a groat of Edward or Henry, in two mutilated fragments. Both are silver plated on a copper alloy core. Diameter 26mm.
Obverse: [Crowned bust facing], in polylobe
...]I GR[A RE]XxANG[...
Reverse: Long cross with three pellets in each quarter
[POSVI] DEV[...]MEV
CIVI TAS [LON D]ON
Date: 1351-1485
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-4241C6
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval (1400-1500) sheet copper-alloy end-cap from a scale or whittle-tang knife. It measures 20.71x10.97x0.60mm and weighs 0.49g.
The object is triangular in shape with a truncated apex (4.55mm, min. width). At the centre is a rectangular slot 3.50x0.82mm for the missing tang.
Such end-caps tend to be given a 15th-century date.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Marden', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-4227B1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1250-1450) copper alloy buckle plate, consisting of one of two plates only. Measures 21.45x12.73x1.10mm and weighs 1.40g.
The plate is parallel-sided with a triangular cut out next to each corner of one of the short ends. Between is a rivet hole 1.54mm in diameter. One face has numerous long diagonal tooling marks and traces of a silvery substance, probably solder. There is also a shadow of a possible forked spacer plate.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Marden', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-41E283
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1250-1450) copper alloy buckle, consisting of the axis bar and the plate bent around it. Measures 23.37x12.44x2.99mm and weighs 2.41g.
The plate tapers from 11.43mm to 9.35mm on the upper edge, which is decorated with two lines of linear punches along the long edges, and on the reverse from 9.56mm to 6.44mm (the reverse is undecorated). The surviving length of axis bar, which is rectangular in cross-section (2.57x1.56mm), is 12.44mm. Behind the bar is a central piercing 2.17mm in diameter for a missing rivet. At the opposite end is another in situ rivet, appa…
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Marden', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-41AA91
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1250 - 1450) double-sheet copper alloy strap-end consisting of two plates fixed together with a rivet at one end. It measures 26.08x13.02x3.87mm and weighs 2.25g.
Both sheets are an elongated U-shape, being widest at the straight end (max.width) and narrowing to 10.82mm at the curved end. The rivet is at the centre of the straight end. The upper plate is decorated with a double row of tiny rectangular punches facing outwards flanking all the edges.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Marden', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-D6C358
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1500) copper-alloy (and possibly gilt or silvered) harness pendant suspension mount or hanger, with incomplete loops and missing its rivets. It is also badly bent out of shape.
The suspension mount consists of a long bar, c.8.7mm wide and originally c.70mm in length, with two broken loops projecting from the centre to one side only (14.53mm wide here). The ends of the bar have been bent backwards, one almost at 90 degrees. The bar is D-shaped in cross-section, the rounded front being rather more faceted (three faces), with three equidistant square bos…
Created on: Thursday 5th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chirton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-D656F5
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1250-1500) copper alloy gilded and enamelled shield-shaped heraldic horse harness pendant, blazoned: gules a fess between six cross crosslets or.
The pendant has a red enamel background divided in two with a horizontal band. Above are three cross crosslets horizontally arranged, below are a further three arranged two over one. Gilding is missing on the cross crosslets but a small speck survives on the band. The red enamel background is almost intact above the band, but is mostly missing below.
It measures 40.20x25.55x6.50mm and weighs 10.10g. Excluding the loop it meas…
Created on: Thursday 5th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 5th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chirton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-9BAF04
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy annular brooch, with a worn pin-constriction and missing its pin. It measures 22.34mm in diameter (internal 16.45mm) and weighs 2.42g.
The brooch has worn decoration to one face only, in the form of perhaps pairs of grooved V shapes or chevrons. The pin-constriction has worn through.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Rockbourne', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-9B1BD4
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (c.1450-1500) copper alloy pendent frame from a purse (possibly Type A1 to A3), V-shaped in cross-section. It measures 58.60mm in curving length and weighs 7.34g.
The patina is mostly lost, but traces of niello survive inside three diagonal grooves. Beyond are one and a half X shapes of double-grooves. The other side has a single damaged sewing hole, c.2mm in diameter.
The break is old and measures 5.52x5.01. The other end tapers and becomes to the broken attachment loop.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Rockbourne', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-9B0280
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (c.1450-1500) copper alloy pendent frame from a purse (possibly Type A1 to A3), consisting of roughly half of the V-sectioned frame (6.65x4.76mm at break). It measures 93.25mm in curving length and weighs 12.91g.
The patina is smooth, shiny and green in colour. To one side, beyond three transverse grooves, are five X shapes of double-grooves. These would have been filled with niello.The other side has two sewing holes, spaced apart, and c.1.5mm in diameter.
The break is old. The other end tapers and becomes to the broken attachment loop.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Rockbourne', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-9963C6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Medieval (1066-1500) two-piece swivel, consisting of an incomplete one of originally two oval frames each with a loop ending in zoomorphic terminals attached to a hollowed flattened hemispherical centre. The loop is now largely missing due to a worn, old break. The hollow area would have connected with a corresponding rivet on the other half. It measures 28.45mm long, 18.53mm wide and 11.14mm thick. It weighs 8.04g.
The animal moulding is stylized with prominent brow ridge and snout. The mouth clasps the flattened-hemispherical centrepiece (16.91x11.1…
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Fordingbridge', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-98C1F3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Late Post-Medieval (1200-1800) copper alloy foot from a cooking vessel, broken just above the ankle. It measures 46.62x19.93mm on the underside and stands 34.46mm high. It weighs 114.47g.
The underside is D-shaped and the flat outside face has three prominent midribs. The patina is dark green and mostly intact. At the break above the ankle (which is D-shaped in cross-section with the addition of the three rounded ribs along the straight edge), it measures 33.79x11.07mm.
Crudely made cast copper alloy vessels were widely used from c.1200-1800 for serving and cooking. …
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Fordingbridge', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-989ED7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim fragment of a Medieval/ Post-Medieval (1200-1800) copper alloy cooking vessel with traces of sooting on both surfaces. It measures 63.23x46.04x4.02mm and weighs 60.80g.
The rim turns sharply (about 135 degrees) after c.35mm, where there is a worn and jagged break.
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…
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Fordingbridge', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-96C753
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy annular brooch, missing its pin. It measures 17.40x18.53mm , has an internal diameter c.12mm and weighs 0.94g.
The frame has a restriction for the pin with a rectangular moulding either side. Directly opposite two more rectangular moulding with angled short edges join with a central groove, for the pin rest. The outside edges of the frame in between these mouldings project triangle-like, giving the frame a lozengiform or perhaps even octagonal shape. The central hole is circular.
The raised mouldings carry traces of very worn punched letters, or perhaps dec…
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2012
Last updated: Monday 2nd April 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-473AC1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Medieval (1250-1450) copper alloy large buckle frame, consisting of the ornate outside edge only. It measures 37.22x11.12x6.54mm and weighs 5.85g.
The outside edge has two c.9mm diameter D-sectioned bosses separated from the 5.4x4.9mm triangular-sectioned frame by a single transverse rib. Between the two bosses are two raised ribs with a space between, presumably for the pin. The surface of the metal is pitted.
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 3rd October 2013
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Record ID: WILT-3308A4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1500) copper alloy single-loop rectangular buckle frame, complete with plate but missing the pin. The frame is bent backwards onto the plate. The object measures 20.04x27.28x7.14mm, but individually the frame measures 17.50x27.28mm and the plate 20.24x21.43mm. The object weighs 6.8g.
The inside of the frame is largely obscured by the plate and active copper alloy corrosion. It inside measurements however are c.10mm x 21.50mm. The frame is faceted on the outside edge, apparently pentagonal in cross-section. Filing marks are also visible.
The plate is pos…
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 29th March 2012
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: WILT-330386
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1200-1500) copper alloy single-loop (or D-shaped) buckle frame, complete with pin and plate, and bent backwards onto the plate. The object measures 23.69x33.06x5.56mm, but individually the frame and pin measure 20.16x33.06mm and the plate 22.73x25.93mm. The object weighs 7.4g.
The bar is narrowed and offset with a moulding extending beyond the frame at either end. The outside edge is plain widened (max.4.85mm). The pin is faceted at the sides, apparently bent from a piece of sheet copper alloy and c.20mm long.
The plate is rectangular and c.1mm thick. It bends around th…
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 29th March 2012
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: WILT-317716
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1250-1450) copper alloy strap-end bent a little at the centre, measuring 31.52x15.87x2.69mm and weighing 3.9g.
The strap-end comprises two plates, set slightly at odds with each other, both measuring 14.7mm wide at the open end. Both narrow a little and are c.14mm wide at the opposite end, where they lie exactly on top of one another. The ends have been cut in a rounded angle to give a triangular shape to the end. Both also have a rounded crescent-shaped knop protruding at the centre.
The plates are fixed with a rivet hole at the centre of either end.
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Warminster', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-3152E2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1250-1450) copper alloy composite strap-end with forked spacer plate, measuring 25.20x15.45x2.37mm and weighing 3.02g. It has a small amount of damage at the open end.
The plates appear narrower than the forked spacer although this is probably due to edge damage. The strap end is fixed with a single off-centre rivet (now missing) from a c.2mm diameter hole at the open end, and another centrally placed at the apex of the opposite end.
Both top and bottom plate (c.0.5mm thick) are cut at an angle to form a triangle or inverted V-shape at the opposite end. The forked spac…
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Warminster', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-30B707
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1250-1400) copper-alloy harness pendant with traces of gilding, in the form of a lion statant facing left (max.3.18mm thick). It measures 18.45x24.92x5.41mm and weighs 3.6g.
Almost all the original patina is missing, apart from a small speck of worn gilding (or perhaps silvering) on the neck. The animal has defined paws (with three toes each), an open mouth and upturned snout. A triangular ear is apparent beyond the prominent brow. The tail curves upwards in an S-shape on top of the body and behind the head. It has two circular apertures between the curves. From the top …
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 29th March 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Pewsey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-CA8AD3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Medieval (1066-1500) two-piece swivel, consisting of one of probably originally two oval frames each with an oval cross-sectioned D-shaped loop ending in zoomorphic terminals attached to a solid flattened hemispherical centre from which extends the integral bolt. It measures 25.64mm long, 24.97mm wide and 12.02mm thick. It weighs 12.05g.
The animal moulding is stylized with prominent brow ridge (decorated with vertical groove) and long snout stepped below. The mouth clasps the flattened-hemispherical centrepiece (max.thickness). The integral bolt is c…
Created on: Friday 23rd March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Cheverell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-9FFDA7
Object type: DRINKING HORN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval (Romanesque) to 14th century (1100-1400) copper-alloy possible terminal from a drinking horn. It is curving in profile, both upwards and slightly to one side, measuring 62.04mm in length and weighing 21.95g.
The terminal comprises a hollow conical socket terminating in a zoomorphic head, most likely a dragon or other mythical creature. At the open end of the socket (13.09x12.46mm 'in diameter', internal 10.49x10.19mm) are four rivet holes for attachment purposes, c.1.4mm in diameter. The socket is plain until the area just before the curve and running up to the hea…
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2012
Last updated: Monday 17th June 2013
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This findspot is known as 'Allington', grid reference and parish protected.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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