Record ID: WILT-FA9074
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of two silver pennies of Stephen, 'Watford' type, found 2 metres apart. 1. Diameter c.20mm, weighs 1.31g, die axis 9, worn. Obverse: Crowned bust right, vertical sceptre in right hand +STIEFENE REX: Reverse: Cross moline with fleur in each angle +EREBALD ON CARD Moneyer: Erebald Mint: Carlisle, c.1136-1145 Reference: North 873 2. Diameter c.19mm, weighs 1.22g, die axis 9, worn. Obverse: Crowned bust right, vertical sceptre in right hand, no inner circle +STIEFNE [ Reverse: Cross moline with fleur in each angle +WVLF[ ] ON SVT Moneyer: Wulfwold Mint: Southwark,…
Created on: Monday 6th August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 17th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wroughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-38DB61
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval silver double-ended toilet instrument known as a spoon-probe, the shaft of which has barley-sugar twisting and is a little bent. The spoon end is tear-drop shaped, c.18mm long and widening and thickening from 3.02x2.17mm beyond the twisted shaft to 4.62x2.07mm at the rounded opposite end. Internally it measures 15.87mm in length and widens from 1.88mm to 3.37mm, with a max.depth of c.2mm. The shaft is square in cross-section (2.54x2.47mm) and tightly twisted (about ten twists are apparent). Towards the opposite end is a slight bend, and extending from this end is a long…
Created on: Wednesday 16th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mere', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-279245
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval penny of Henry VI, annulet coinage, which has been gilded and pierced to be worn perhaps as an amulet. The piercing has been made so that one arm of the reverse cross is near vertical. The object measures 18mm in diameter and weighs 0.91g (14.0grains). The coin has a die axis of 10 and is of worn condition. It is pierced from the obverse, by X of REX COIN INFORMATION: Obverse: Crowned bust facing i.m. cross II HENRICVS:REX[ ]ANGLIE double crosslet stop Reverse: Long cross with three pellets in each quarter, annulet in two quarters CIVI TAS LON DON Date: 1422-27 R…
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 18th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-44FDF0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A squashed, but complete, Late Medieval gold iconographic finger ring with an inscription on the hoop. The bezel is rectangular and measures 12.04 x 6.48 x 1.29mm. It depicts a seated figure holding a sword to the right with a shield or wheel to the left. The figure wears oblong head-gear, perhaps a crown or top of veil. To either side of the head are keying marks, deeper and cruder than the neat engraving, possibly for an enamel inset. The presence of the possible wheel and the sword suggest the figure may represent St Catherine. The hoop extends from the bezel 6.3mm wide, narrowi…
Created on: Thursday 29th September 2011
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-A11932
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval (1200-1400) silver annular brooch, now a little squashed, and measuring 25.06x17.60mm. The diameter is 25.06mm (internal 15.42mm) and the brooch weighs 2.8g. The frame is plain, wide and flat, though slightly rounded on the upper face. It has a constriction for the pin, which is 20.73mm long, D-shaped in cross-section and turns upwards a little at the end. Probably 13th/ 14th century in date.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 1st May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-FA76D3
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete medieval copper alloy seal matrix, probably dating to the 13th century. It is missing its handle (old break) and the die is missing a small part of the edge. The object measures 17.77mm in diameter and stands 6.86mm high. It weighs 5.03g. The seal has a circular die and the stump of the handle is hexagonal in cross-section. The die depicts a quatrefoil with vein detail in each foil, above a U- or V-shaped pot (compare the central motif of IHS-7B9D32). Around, set between beaded lines, is an inscription which reads: S'AMIC[ ... ].ROPLERS* (suggested by Laura Burnett,…
Created on: Thursday 1st September 2011
Last updated: Monday 27th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-CFEC24
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Medieval (1200-1400) silver annular brooch in the form of an eight-pointed star, complete with pin. The tips of five points are missing (recent damage). Within each point, and on both faces of the brooch, is a single letter. Reading from the right of the pin clockwise, one face reads AMORVINC and the other IESVCIEN. The frame is circular within. It is constricted for the pin between the A of AMOR and the C of VINC (the pin rests on this face) and between the last and first letters on the other face. The constriction is apparently not circular in cross-section as the pi…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 17th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Paul Malmesbury Without', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-CFDBC2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Medieval or Early Post-Medieval (1400-1600) silver-gilt finger-ring. The hoop is slightly faceted to the outside surface with a cross saltire at the centre of each facet (8 in total). In between each cross is a double transverse groove. Surmounting the hoop is a roughly circular bezel decorated with raised pellets (eight around a central single pellet). The gilding is patchy, especially to the back of the hoop. The finger-ring measures 24.34x23.03mm (internal diameter 20.87mm) and weighs 2.85g.
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 18th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melksham', grid reference and parish protected.

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-50C567
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A base silver finger-ring, a rather crude and simple type with rectangular bezel bordered by two pairs of engraved vertical lines. It could be Medieval (Beverley Nenk pers.comm.). Judy Rudoe does not recognise it as an obvious Post-Medieval type. The finger-ring is slightly squashed and measures 22.09x21.70mm (internal 19.95x20.44mm). It weighs 2.8g. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section while the bezel is flat. The shoulders have V-shaped cut-outs to either side.
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melksham Without', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-EBD251
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval (1100-1200) silver finger ring, now slightly squashed. It measures 23.83x18.83mm in (squashed) diameter (internal 22.25x16.59mm) and weighs 1.85g. The ring is flat in cross section (5.43mm at its widest, 2.78mm at its narrowest and 0.75mm thick) and has engraved decoration to the outside surface on one half (the wider half) only. The decoration comprises four rectangular panels interspersed with three square panels. The centre-most square panel depicts a cross-crosslet of X form (as opposed to +), the area around carrying traces of possible red enamel. The other two squ…
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Minety', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-60DE31
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval (1100-1200) copper alloy zoomorphic buckle frame of extraordinary form, missing its pin and plate. It measures 27.98x23.88x18.40mm and weighs 13.1g. The bar is straight and 11.86mm long, and circular in cross-section (2.40mm diameter). The sides, which are solid, expand into an outside edge consisting of a huge, hollow animal head. It has a D-shaped aperture from the bar to the top of the head (12.92x(max)13.41mm), and on the underside a double aperture - D-shaped 7.46x(max)9.99mm between the bar and neck, and a mouth with crenellated edge12.36x12.86mm between neck and no…
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-7CD595
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of Late Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (1400-1600) zoomorphic silver gilt buckle frame, consisting of one half of the outside edge only. The fragment measures c.24.32x(max)10.96x(max)4.86mm and weighs 5.40g. The underside is flat and slightly bending while the upperside (which has traces of gilding) has moulded decoration in the form of a possible bird, with a bifurcating tail, one part of which curls back on itself, curling around behind the two-clawed foot. The creature has a long neck and lozenge-shaped head with apparent open beak at the (oldish) break. This would have…
Created on: Friday 25th February 2011
Last updated: Monday 28th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydiard Tregoze', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-378885
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval (probably 1200-1300) silver annular brooch of zoomorphic form, complete with its sheet silver pin. It measures 19.55mm in diameter, is max.3.96mm thick (at the top of the pin) and weighs 1.74g. The frame is D-shaped in cross-section, being flat to the underside with moulded decoration to the top. This is in the form of two confronted double-headed animals, with a narrowed bar between two (for the pin) and a strip with a notch between the other two (for the pin to rest). The bodies are decorated with oblique grooves, and alternately on the resulting ribs moulded strips o…
Created on: Friday 17th September 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 29th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F50A61
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A late medieval or early post-medieval (c.1400-1550) cast copper-alloy integral vessel mount (handle lug) in the form of three-dimensional female head from a hanging laver (bowl to hold water). Part of the vessel wall survives to one side. The object measures 36.52x41.07x18.42mm and weighs 72.03g. The face is D-shaped in section, being flat to the reverse (which faces the inside of the vessel). It is moulded in low relief and is now very worn. The hair comprises a moulded strip max.10.08mm wide, extending to cheek level (also the level of the vessel to the side). The nose is squar…
Created on: Friday 9th April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 1st July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rockbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-090CD8
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval copper alloy pointed-oval seal matrix set within a silver mount, and with a Roman carnelian intaglio at the centre within a silver surround. It measures 27.37mm in length, 23.21mm in max.width and 10.69mm in max.thickness. It weighs 10.23g. The legend reads + AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENA between two lines of circular punches. The intaglio, which is oval in shape and slightly damaged to one end, lies at 90degrees to the + at the start of the legend. The intaglio depicts a horned animal (a stag?) and another animal walking left, towards the + of the legend. It measures 11.56x10.1…
Created on: Monday 29th March 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 29th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-469F46
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (15th or Early 16th century) silver-gilt finger-ring of iconographic type, measuring 23.72x24.04mm (internal 18.29x18.66mm) and weighing 7.26g. It has a crack in the hoop across one shoulder. The bezel is triangular in section (c.4mm thick). The ring follows a form usually employed, though not exclusively, on iconographic finger rings.Here, however, the bezel of the ring does not carry engraved images of saints but, instead, is decorated with two facets either side of a high ridge. Decoration within these facets is grooved, and depicts a pair of …
Created on: Monday 18th January 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-2B8AA5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy gilded and enamelled mount of Medieval date (c. AD 1150 – c. AD 1300). Length: 53.97mm; max. width: 21.29mm; max. thickness: 10.62mm; weight: 16.88g. The mount is in the form of a human figure with a solid fully-round head and concave, hollow-backed body. It is worn and corroded but facial features (brow ridge, circular-punched eyes, prominent nose, mouth) are visible on the head, as well as traces of gilding. Below the head a short neck extends into the cloaked body. The folds of the robes form cells for enamel, with fragments of blue enamel survi…
Created on: Wednesday 12th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-BCB4C4
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of nine Medieval coins, consisting of two Groats, three Halfgroats and four Pennies. All are official issues of the kings of England and range from Edward I to Richard II. They will thus conform to the sterling silver standard of 92.5% fine metal. There are three denominations present: groat (four-pence), half-groat and penny - lacking are the high-value gold coins and the lowest silver denominations, halfpenny and farthing. The face value of the group was 1s.6d. The range and condition of the coins suggests they form a group of material deposited on one occasion, probably r…
Created on: Tuesday 26th May 2009
Last updated: Friday 15th July 2011
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Record ID: WILT-296CB3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Medieval brooch, consisting of a wire frame, part twisted, and a floral mount soldered between the twisted and the blank sections. For a similar complete example found in the Watton area of Norfolk, see the Treasure Annual Report 2004, No 156. The brooch fragment is silver-gilt and dates from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century.
Created on: Monday 23rd February 2009
Last updated: Monday 12th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chippenham', grid reference and parish protected.