Record ID: SF8679
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Long slim copper-alloy arrowhead. The head is leaf-shaped and hand-forged, with a stepped cross-section; when held with the point to the top, the left-hand side of the blade is depressed. The head measures 12 mm wide and 38 mm long; the rest of the 163 mm long object is taken up with a slim tapering tang. The upper half of the tang has a rectangular cross-section, with diagonally opposite corners having oblique cuts forming decorative barbs. When the object is held with head uppermost the left-hand rear corner and right-hand front corner are decorated in this way. The barbs are to…
Created on: Monday 10th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LAWFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8386
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Russian bale seal, an oval lead disc measuring 20 x 23 mm. Two holes for ties are clearly visible running through the thickness of the seal along its short axis. The seal has been crimped together by the use of obverse and reverse dies which bear lettering. The dies are not oriented; on the obverse, the lettering runs parallel to the holes rather than perpendicular to them, and on the reverse the lettering runs at about 45 degrees to the holes. On the obverse, the lettering is in Cyrillic; a transcription by John Sullivan can be seen on the scan and the Latin equivalent is something…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MISTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8294
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 11th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRADFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8109
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy mount. It has a rectangular panel surrounded by a ridged border, with two transverse rows of pellets dividing it into short end panels and a longer central panel. The central panel is filled with a symmetrical scrolly pattern and the end panels are each filled with a row of six larger pellets. The ends each have a broken-off terminal, perhaps openwork and not necessarily identical. On the reverse is a bent-over attachment spike and the scar from a second.
Created on: Thursday 7th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DEDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8110
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Circular lead disc, 26 mm in diameter and with one face flat and one slightly convex. The convex face is decorated with a beaded border and the relief figure of a person on horseback. When looked at together with sf1027/8111 (from the same parish) they look like part of a set of gaming pieces with a hunting theme. Perhaps late 18th century.
Created on: Thursday 7th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DEDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8111
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Sub-circular lead disc, a maximum of 24 mm in diameter; it looks as if it has been poorly cast with the metal not quite reaching the edges of the mould. It is slightly convex, with a slightly hollowed reverse, and has relief decoration of a fox's head seen from the front. When looked at together with sf1026/8110 (from the same parish) they look a little like part of a set of gaming pieces with a hunting theme. Perhaps late 18th century.
Created on: Thursday 7th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DEDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7380
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Russian bale seal, not quite complete, measuring 23 x 21.5 mm. One face is stamped with Cyrillic lettering in four lines, reading (transliterated) L.D./ IMVI / NNIKS / M 55 (the last two letters of the second line and the second 5 are unclear). The other face has Roman letters reading NP. / - F 12 H / 1809. The second line on this face is very unclear but is read with the help of the parallel in Fife Museum, CUPMS 1999.56.14 (Sullivan 2000, no. 40). There is, however, a definite initial before the F. John Sullivan has seen this seal and confirms that the Quality Control Officer iss…
Created on: Monday 12th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MISTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7381
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Lead bale seal, originally thought to be possibly Russian. A simple lead disc, 22.5 mm in diameter and now incomplete, which reads MD / 1780 in two lines on one face, and has a coat of arms with a coronet above on the other. The charge on the shield appears to be (see sketch) quarterly, 1 and 2 a lion rampant, 3 barry of four with a lozenge on the second bar, 4 missing, with possibly some central device (a rose?) These arms do not seem English. John Sullivan has seen this seal (February 2002) and considers it not to be Russian.
Created on: Monday 12th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MISTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7378
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy figurine, 40 mm tall. It has lost its feet, most of a sword held in its right hand, and part of a possible shield held in the left hand. It is also very worn, with no facial details surviving, and other details hard to see. It has transverse grooves across what appear to be 16th-century padded trunks; this may indicate armour, as there are more grooves over the shoulders. Both arms are slightly bent. The sword has a clearly visible pommel and guard, and was originally held upright, blade uppermost. Length 40 mm, width 29 mm, weight 8.74g. Compare BH-5852A2, …
Created on: Friday 9th November 2001
Last updated: Monday 3rd September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX LITTLE OAKLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7357
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy hooked tag, now rather corroded. The plate is roughly oval in shape, with a rectangular attachment loop at the top. In the centre of the plate is a circular cell with a raised edge which may once have held a setting. Around this are 12 circular indentations, seven of which perforate the metal; they were probably all intended as perforations but were badly cast. They are of differing sizes, and not set in a circular pattern; the edge of the plate follows the lines of the perforations, so is wavy. At the bottom is the hook, which is decorated at the top with two to fo…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2001
Last updated: Monday 10th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GREAT AND LITTLE WIGBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7241
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Russian bale seal. Flat and circular, there are two holes within the thickness to take cords. The obverse has four lines of Cyrillic lettering, reading (transliterated) .LD / MTAR / PCHINO / N II. This will be the name of the quality control officer and perhaps the number of the location at which he worked. The reverse has the Roman initials SP / NP. / F.W / 18 - - in four lines, with the last two digits of the date unfortunately missing. SP is probably missing a B (for St Petersburg); the next two lines are the initials of the producers of the goods. In the fourth line, the thir…
Created on: Friday 26th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RAMSEY AND PARKESTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7053
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Russian bale seal. One face is quite clearly stamped with two lines of Cyrillic lettering and H 32 6 on the lowest line. The reverse is very hard to read; John Sullivan of St Andrews University has transliterated it as the surname (P)alov(o)khin - there is a Polovokhin recorded on two seals in Fife.
Created on: Friday 5th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MISTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6556
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 14th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX GREAT HENNY', grid reference and parish protected.