Record ID: SOM-F08B9B
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper-alloy 17th century trade token farthing issued by Jeremiah Berry in Castle Combe, Wiltshire, Williamson Wiltshire 36, dating to 1668. Ref: Williamson (1891, 1233).
Created on: Thursday 10th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 10th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tormarton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AD4BF7
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The knop, figurative terminal, and part of the stem from the end of a copper alloy 'apostle' spoon depicting Mary holding the infant Jesus, of probable late medieval or early post-medieval date (1450-1550). The bowl and lower stem / handle is lost. The circular sectioned remaining stem narrows slightly from the knop to break. It is a later repair, but how much later is unclear. It has a very different patina to the terminal and is probably of a different material, possibly a high tin/lead alloy. The stem is crudely soldered to the knop with rough solder left at the top. The number of …
Created on: Friday 6th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 6th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshfield CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-46A145
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval silver pedestal type seal matrix. The seal face is oval with a design of a heart pierced by two arrows in saltire with a row if short vertical lines above the heart and above them a crown and drops of blood to each side and below, all within a pellet border. The pedestal has six facets and narrows sharply from the face to the top. It ends in a double collar topped by three large suspension loops aranged in a triangle with the lower loops formed of a line that curls out ands projects slightly at the lower end and the upper loop topped by a projecting knop flanked by two s…
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Friday 23rd May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AD98B6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy (probably brass) finger ring with 'posy' inscriptionon the inner face. The ring is D-shaped in cross section with a convex outer side and flat inner. There is a soldered join at one point, visible only as a faint line on the outside but clearer on the inside as a strip of a browner shade. The inscription is worn but reads: VIRTVE PASETH RICHES (Virtue passes riches) with some letters higher and lower than others and no gaps or stops between the words. The ring is 20.3mm in external diameter, 5.9mm wide and 1.7mm thick; it weighs 3.15g. Plain posy/posey…
Created on: Friday 6th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 6th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshfield CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-ADF636
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval gilded copper alloy dress hook of which only the main plate and stibs of the hook and loop remain. The main plate is lozenge shaped with a decorative, moulded border surrounding a now empty central cell with has a hold through the centre where a second or possibly multiple elements were attached. This central cell is un-gilded suggesting it was complete covered by the applied elements. The border has a plain raised line at its inner edge, defining the cell outside which is a flange with an edge shaped into multiple lobes by regularly spaced indents. On this flange and ei…
Created on: Friday 6th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 6th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshfield CP', grid reference and parish protected.