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-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-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-C3BDAB
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval silver cufflink button of Lewis, M. form 1, type A (crown above two love-hearts). This artefact is complete but the edge of both discs have been bent. Two silver discs of sheet metal, almost identical, have been shaped and a loop soldered onto the reverse surface of each. A connecting loop, the link, then attaches the two 'button' components together. The artefact weighs 1.92g and the sheet metal has a thickness of 0.4mm. The central field of each 'button' has a diameter of 11.6mm after which the edge of the metal disc turns down and flar…
Created on: Monday 11th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2024
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Record ID: CAM-93065A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval gold signet (or seal) finger-ring, dating to the late 16th to 17th century AD. The bezel is oval in shape with a sub-rectangular cross-section. The external surface of the bezel measures 15.8mm x a width of 13.4mm. Approximately 0.5mm in from the edge is a beaded border formed of closely set short lines. A thin and shallow incised line runs around the inner side of the beaded border. At the centre of the bezel is a coat of arms on a flat-topped shield. The arms are 'on a bend three lions passant and in the sinister chief a mullet'. All of the details on the uppe…
Created on: Saturday 26th May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District 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-5C6A6F
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy early Post-Medieval Class E, Type 3 circular bodied sharp-hooked dress hook (clasp). See Read, B. 2008, p.101, no.382. The artefact weighs 2.59g and the circular body is formed of a moulded relief and openwork design. The body of the dress hook has a diameter of 19.2mm and thickness of 1.3mm. The moulded relief design is shaped to form a loop or wreath of seven ovals set end-to-end. Between each of these is a triangle on the inner side of the loop (with the apexes fitting into the space between each oval) and a small protruding knop on the outer side of the wreath. A so…
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
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Record ID: CAM-DB9E90
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Post-Medieval rose farthing of Charles I, AD 1625-1649. Obverse shows Sceptres crossed through crown and extending into legend. Obverse legend reads: [C]AROL[V]/[D.G]/[MA BRI]. Reverse shows a crowned rose. Reverse legend reads: [FRA.ET.]HI.REX[..]. Die axis is 12 o'clock.
Created on: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
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Record ID: CAM-DDEF0A
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead cloth seal of Post-Medieval date, AD c.1500-1800. The remains of this seal weigh 3.56g and seem to consist of part of one disc and the flattened integral rivet. The surviving incomplete disc (probably disc one Egan,G. p.2). has a diameter of 21.0mm and thickness of 1.2mm. The external surface is smooth and plain with the exception of thin incised linear markings that appear to be letters, incorporating a capital 'M' with line across the base. Rotated 90 degrees clockwise the capital 'M' might also be described as a flag on a flagpole, rectangular in s…
Created on: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
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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-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-57A678
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A silver early Post-Medieval vervel. This artefact weighs 1.67g. It is formed from a rectangular length of silver that has been curved round to form a circular loop, that has since been squashed slightly into a sub-circular loop. The strip has a sub-rectangular cross-section, having flat interior and external surfaces and slightly convexly curved edges. Use of a flexible dress-makers tape-measure indicates that the white metal strip has a length of c.47.0mm. The strip has a width of 5.8mm and thickness of 0.8mm. The loop has an external diameter of 15.0mm. The ends of the strip are blu…
Created on: Monday 2nd December 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uttlesford District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-827FF4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval gold inscribed posy finger-ring with traces of enamel on the external surface. This finger-ring weighs 2.07g. It has a circular hoop of 20.0mm external diameter, 3.2mm width and D shaped cross-section being convexly curved on the external surface.  The band that forms the hoop has a thickness of 1.2mm. The internal surface is inscribed with incised lettering: To remember thee is io ye to mee - punch stamped rectangular makers mark the background recessed so that the two initials remaining on the surface of the band appear to be in relief 'RW…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: CAM-5E4296
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval gold mourning finger-ring. The finger-ring is a circular loop with 'D' shaped cross-section the inner surface being flat and the external surface convexly curved. The loop has an internal diameter of c.15.7mm and external diameter of c.17.8mm. The band has a width of 3.0mm and thickness of c.2.0mm as evidenced by the variation of internal and external loop diameter. The internal surface is smooth and undecorated with the exception of an incised inscription and maker's mark. The punch-stamped maker's mark consists of a depressed (or sunken) rectangular fi…
Created on: Thursday 1st October 2020
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pinchbeck parish area.', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-7FBA58
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A squashed but complete silver thimble, of later Post-Medieval to Modern date, formed by the deep drawing method of construction. This process started to be used in Birmingham from approximately the end of the 18th century AD (see Holmes, E. 1988, p.2.). This thimble weighs 3.71g (including some dried mud that remains trapped inside the artefact). It has a height of 21.1mm. The base of the thimble has been squashed into a flat line but would probably have once had a circular shape. The top of the thimble still retain's its circular shape. The walls taper inwards from…
Created on: Saturday 12th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Cambridgeshire district area.', grid reference and parish protected.

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-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-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-C99418
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A composite early Post-Medieval gold hat-hook (cap-hook) pin; bent, squashed and slightly incomplete, the end of the hook having broken away. This is a Read Early Post-Medieval Class A, Type 1 circular hat-hook. Compare with Read, B. 2008 p.191, no.708. Weight is 0.76g, maximum diameter is 12.2mm, maximum thickness (depth) is 6.0mm. At the centre of the hat-hook pin there is a collet, now squashed in on one side, that has a diameter of 4.3mm and height of 2.7mm. This collet is filled with the remains of a dark substance. This unidentified substance r…
Created on: Monday 13th July 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uttlesford District Area', grid reference and parish protected.