Record ID: CAM-FE0DAC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy farthing of Charles I, AD1625-1649. Obverse legend reads: CAR[OLV]/ D. [G.]/ MA. BR[...], depicting an unclear crown (possibly single arched) with crossed septres through the crown and extending into the legend. Initial mark is illegible. Reverse legend reads: [F]RA. ET.[H]I[.]REX, depicting rose surmounted by crown. Mint mark is a crescent. Die axis is 12 o'clock. Weight is 0.52g, diameter is 13.7mm, thickness is 0.8mm.
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cambridgeshire County Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-FE0C12
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy farthing of Charles I, AD1625-1649. Obverse legend reads: [CA]ROLV/ D. G./ MA[G BR...], depicting an unclear crown (possibly single arched) with crossed septres through the crown and extending into the legend. Initial mark is illegible. Reverse legend reads: [FRA.. E]T.HI[.]REX, depicting rose surmounted by crown. Mint mark uncertain, possibly crescent. Die axis is 12 o'clock. Weight is 0.61g, diameter is 13.6mm, thickness is 0.9mm.
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cambridgeshire County Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-FB6BB9
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Medieval to early Post-Medieval incomplete sword belt hook, dating to the 16th century AD. This asymmetrical hook has foliate moulded relief decoration, defined by curvilinear grooves, and two rivet holes, both circular. One rivet hole has a diameter of 2.0mm and the other, that by the break, has a diameter of 1.5mm. The hook has broken off before the recurve. Weight is 6.03g, incomplete length 37.1mm, Maximum width 21.5mm, thickness 2.0mm. Compare with Read, B. 2008, pp.212-233, decorated as no.793 but the shape better illustrated by no.794 and Read, B. 2001,&nb…
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cambridgeshire County Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-E07BA5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base silver (billon) Douzain of Henry IV of France (1589-1610; King of Navarre from 1572), dated 1595 (Duplessy 1247), mint: uncertain. Obverse: + HENRICVS.IIII.DG.FRAN.ET.NAVA.REX; crowned shield (arms of France) flanked by H either side. Reverse: SIT NOMEN.DNI.BENEDICT 1[5]95 depicting large cross with fluer de lis and crown in opposite angles. Die axis is almost 12 o'clock. Weight is 1.93g, diameter is 23.7mm, thickness is 0.8mm.
Created on: Monday 5th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
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Record ID: CAM-755047
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead, or lead alloy, button of 18th century AD date, of a type often made in silver or cut steel (see Bailey, G. 2004 p.65). Compare with PAS record CAM-7EE27C, which has almost identical decoration. This complete object weighs 21.03g. It has a circular shape with diameter of 26.5mm. In profile the button's head has a semi-circular form, convexly domed to the front with a flat reverse. The current maximum thickness over the button is 7.5mm. However, this was originally slightly greater due to damage to the central decorative boss.&n…
Created on: Friday 19th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: CAM-74C9F8
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and almost completely illegible copper-alloy Post-Medieval Nuremberg rose and orb jetton struck by an uncertain master. Obverse possibly shows an extremely unclear design of crowns and lis alternating around a central rose. Obverse legend is illegible. Reverse shows an unclear Imperial orb surmounted by a cross patty within a tressure with three main arches. Reverse legend is illegible. The flan is bent and has an aperture at its centre. This aperture now has an irregular shape, due to the bent flan and crack extending out from the edge of the aperture. It seems …
Created on: Friday 19th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 19th June 2023
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Record ID: CAM-47C59A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval silver half-groat of Elizabeth I, AD 1558-1603, dating to AD 1584-1586. Obverse legend reads: E.D.G. ROSA. SINE. SPIN[A]. Initial mark is illegible. Depicting a worn and unclear crowned bust left with two very visible pellets behind bust. Reverse legend reads: CI[VI/]TA[S/]LON/DON. Initial mark is an escallop. Depicting a long cross fourchee over shield bearing royal arms. Die axis is 7 or 8 o'clock. Weight is 0.96g, diameter is 16.8mm, thickness is 0.7mm.
Created on: Friday 17th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2023
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Record ID: CAM-4769A7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval silver penny of the Commonwealth dating to AD1649-1660. The obverse depicts a sheild, bearing the St George cross, within wreath. Reverse depicts two shields, one bearing the St George cross the other an Irish harp, surmounted by: .I.  No legend on either side of the flan. Die axis is between 5 & 6 o'clock. Weight is 0.45g, diameter is 13.9mm, thickness 0.5mm.
Created on: Friday 17th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2023
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Record ID: CAM-E20F93
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead pencil of Post-Medieval date c. AD 1500-1900. Weight is 15.08g, use of a flexible dress-maker’s tape-measure shows the length to be c.63mm. However, in its bent condition it occupies a bent length of 60.4mm. The approximately transverse blunt end has a circular cross-section of 5.8mm diameter and this continues along the length until c.6.2mm from the opposite end at which point the artefact tapers to a, now, blunt point. The flat end of the pencil has a depression, though it is uncertain whether this is intentional or due to later modification or unintentional damage. htt…
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-E1C765
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post-medieval cast copper-alloy crotal (rumbler) bell, dating to AD c.1500-1700. Weight is 26.8g. This spherical bell (diameter 28.2mm x height 27.5mm) is formed of two hemispheres with a circumferential moulding around the mid point (3.6mm on the height axis). Two circular sound hole apertures (diameter 4.2mm) are present in the upper hemisphere, one now damaged and miss-shapen (sub-oval 9.3mm x 4.8mm). Two circular sound holes (diameter 5.3mm) joined by a sound-slot (width 2.4mm) are present in the lower hemisphere. An integral suspension loop increases the total h…
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-65C94E
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete knife end-cap of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. Only one half of the cap survives and the remains of the iron blade's tang, the other half of the cap now missing. What does remain weighs 3.96g, has an incomplete length of 15.3mm, incomplete thickness of 5.9mm and width of 15.1mm. The cap accounts for 11.6mm of the total length, with some of the tang protruding out beyond the proximal end of the cap. The cap has an elongated semi-circular cross-section, the external surface convexly curved and the inner surface flat. When the other half was present, together the…
Created on: Friday 10th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2023
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Record ID: CAM-00B220
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sub-rectangular buckle of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1660-1720. Only one corner survives, with part of the leading edge and part of one side arm of the frame. No evidence for a surface coating is present. The two side arms would have expanded, from a flattened 'D' shaped cross-section at the frame's corners, in width (maximum 4.6mm) and thickness (maximum 3.6mm) to accommodate a drilled frame for a, now missing, separate spindle. The frame has an oval cross-section over the drilled aperture. The drilled frame has a circular aperture of c.…
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-0007E5
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A seventeenth centuary AD trade token of Joseph Heath of Cambridge dated 1666. This token is almost complete with just a small amount of the edge missing, c.5.0mm of the circumference by a maximum 1.5mm in from the edge of the flan. Obverse legend reads: IOSEPH.HE[ATH.]OF, depicting a shield bearing arms (Williamson, G.C. 1967, "The arms are per chevron, in chief two mullets, in base a heathcock"). Reverse legend reads: CAMBRIDGE.1666, depicting I.H.H. in the field. Mullet mint mark on both sides of the flan. Die axis is 12 o'clock. Weight is 0.59, diameter is 16:0mm, t…
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-CAF597
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold posy finger-ring with black enamel inlay decoration. The finger-ring weighs 4.25g. The band that forms the circular hoop has a 'D' shaped cross-section being convexly curved on the outer surfaces. The width of the hoop is 4.2mm and the thickness of the band is 1.5mm. The hoop has an external diameter of 20.1mm. The internal surface of the hoop is inscribe by incised lettering that reads: Doucas Scott ob 16 Sep 1717 ae(ligated) 160(unclear punch-stamped mark). The 'ob 16 Sep 1717' is the date that someone passed away and 'Scott' is…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2023
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Record ID: CAM-FDD5F3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy discoidal trade weight, weighing 6.69g (0.24oz). This artefact is circular in shape with a diameter of 20.5mm at the base. The walls flare out slightly giving a diameter of 21.3mm at the top. Viewed in profile the artefact's cross-section appears initially to be rectangular rather than the actual subtle inverted isosceles trapezium. The walls give the object a maximum height or thickness of 3.7mm. The centre of the upper surface is recessed by 1.9mm, the edge of the artefact forming a 1.8mm wide undecorated rim. The inner edge of the rim slants diagonally from t…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 22nd December 2022
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Record ID: CAM-2AECCB
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and pierced Post-Medieval Nuremburg jetton, most probably of one of the Hans Schultes family (Hans Schultes I, master from c.AD 1553-1584, Hans Schultes II, master from 1586-1603, Hans Schultes III, master from c.AD 1608-1612). The unclear obverse possibly shows a design of crown and lis motifs arranged alternately around a central rose or possibly an unclear Lion of St Mark. Obverse initial mark is a rosette. Obverse legend is HNS.S[C]HVL[T]ES.[...] (possibly ending in an 'O' maybe even 'GO'). The stops might be lozenges or triangles the apexes of which pointin…
Created on: Friday 21st October 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: CAM-2AD85D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval copper-alloy farthing of Charles I, AD 1625-1649. Obverse shows two sceptres crossed through crown. Obverse legend reads: CAROLVS D. G. MAG. BRI[..]. Reverse shows a rose surmounted by a crown. Reverse legend reads: FRAN [ET]HIB REX crescent. Die axis is 12 o'clock. Weight is 0.82g, diameter is 13.6mm, thickness is 1.4mm.
Created on: Friday 21st October 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: CAM-3F7D97
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver halfgroat of Elizabeth I, AD 1558-1603. Initial mark on both sides of the flan seems to be an unclear key, only the bow of the handle visible, dating to c.AD1595-1598. Obverse shows a crowned bust left, two pellets behind. Obverse legend reads: E.D.G.ROSA.SINE.SPINA . Reverse shows Long cross fourchee over royal shield. Reverse legend reads: CIVI/TAS/LON/DON . Die axis is 10 or 11 o'clock. Weight is 0.71g, diameter is 16.7mm, thickness is 0.4mm.
Created on: Friday 29th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: CAM-C10023
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval buckle frame, pin missing, dating to c.AD 1620-1680. This is a form of buckle described by Whitehead, R. as a double loop trapezoidal buckle with moulded decoration on the loops. See Whitehead, R. 2003, p.84. This buckle frame weighs 6.28g, has a length of 26.9mm, maximum width of 38.7mm and thickness of 2.5mm. The frame's cross-section is trapezoidal being slightly greater in measurement on the reverse surface than the front. The central integral pin-bar measures 2.4mm on the length axis. The narrower end of the frame has four lobes on the external edge. Thes…
Created on: Saturday 23rd July 2022
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2023
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Record ID: CAM-C0CE89
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sub-oval veering to sub-rectangular shaped lead palm guard, probably of Post-Medieval date. This artefact weighs 131.10g. It has a length of 54.7mm and width of 46.0mm. It has a smoother convex surface and more irregular concave surface. The edge of the object varies in thickness from 2.4mm to 12.8mm. Over all, over the dished shape this guard occupies a depth, across the centre, of 11.4mm. See https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecordingguides/textile-equipment/ .  Also see Bailey, G. 1993, pp.64-65.
Created on: Saturday 23rd July 2022
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2023
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