Record ID: DUR-3A62E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver openwork brooch of uncertain date. Description: The brooch has a cruciform arrangement, the four arms each formed of a stem and bud framed by slender leaves extending from a central hollow circular setting. Between each of the arms in each quarter is a pelta, also projecting from the centre. The reverse is flat, plain and undecorated, with a single rivet at the centre of the circular setting. The pierced lug housing the hinged pin is well-preserved, as is the hooked catch-plate; the pin itself is missing.   Dimensions: Length: 33.03 mm; Width: 31.53 mm; Thickness…
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ravensworth area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-D55B32
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete machine drawn silver thimble, with inner steel core, of Post Medieval to Modern date (19th to 20th Centuries AD). The exterior thimble consists of a tall conical shape, with a rounded top. The top two thirds of the thimble has been decorated with a stamped design featuring small hexagonal 'pits' with radiating groves or lines, to create an interlocking floral type pattern. Below the pattern is a horizontal incised, separating the decorated section of the thimble from the lower undecorated section. This lower section is stamped with the hallmark 'DURA 8'. The interi…
Created on: Monday 6th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2017
Spatial data recorded.