Record ID: GLO-857206
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet copper-alloy hilt plate for a knife. The object is a rectangular plate with an off centre rectangular slot for the tang.
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-484CA4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy double looped buckle with asymmetrical frame, one rectangular loop and one semi-circular. the strap bar is narrowed. Sheet copper alloy plate with hooked terminal is wrapped around the strap bar, iron strap pin opposite.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-482FF5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy hooked strap fitting/sword belt fitting. The plate is triangular in plan with a concave underside. The top edge has a V-shape notch in the centre, the side taped down to the penannular rolled hook.  Two close parallels for this object are noted in Margeson 1993 'Norwich Households: Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78'. 38, refs: 257-258. These objects are dated to the 16th or 17th centuries and Margeson notes that they were probably associated with sword belts or similar hooked mounts. Margeson, S. 1993. Norwich Household…
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-067C0D
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and corroded post-Medieval copper-alloy Nuremberg Jetton of 'ship-penny' type 16th century. Obverse: Profile view of a stylised sailing ship. Reverse: Four fleurs-de-lis in a lozenge. Legends are unclear due to wear and corrosion. Similar to Mitchiner, 1988, no. 1171. this item has been pierced at 11 o'clock when viewed from the reverse.
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-B047B1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, clipped, worn and heavily debased silver shilling of Edward VI (1547-1553) Obverse: crowned bust facing right EDW[ARD VI D G AGL F]R[A Z HIB REX] Reverse: Royal coat of arms on an oval shield [TIMOR DOMINI FONS VITE M D XLIX] Much of the extremities and lower half of the coin is covered in a reddish copper colour. There is a central square hole (3mm by 2mm) pinch through the obverse.
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-AFA666
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy double looped buckle. Sub-oval frames with expanded forward edges decorated with a moulded flower in the centre. The strap bar is narrowed with a knop moulding at either end. Date 1550-1650
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-AF836B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy double looped buckle with oval frames that have slightly convex moulded sides (one frame is missing). The strap bar is narrowed. This artefact dates to the 1500-1650
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-9F5508
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Farthing of James I Lennox type 2 1616-1625 Obverse description: crown with crossed sceptres IACO D G MAG BRIT Reverse description: Crowned harp FRA ET HIB REX
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-74AB12
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy probable dress pin. Only the head remains which is oval in form with nine vertical spiral grooves. At the top is a small globular knop. At the base is a collar above the remains of the thick pin shaft (3mm in diameter).   Date: Post Medieval - c. 1500 - 1700 
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-72BD76
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy hooked tag, this is lozenge shaped plated that is decorated with two crossed lines forming a cross saltire, this is surrounded by a linear boarder. On the reverse is the remains of a reverse is a rearwards projecting rectangular wire loop, below which would have been soldered a downward projecting hook form the bottom corner (now missing). Date 16th century
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-A23805
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy circular trade weight. This has a central recessed pellet with grooved line running near the outside edge. A Lombardic 'h' surmounted by a weakly struck crown in positioned towards the lower side. This mark was instituted by Henry VII in 1495 and lasted into the reign of his son, Henry VIII (Biggs 1992, 48).
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
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Record ID: GLO-A7932A
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy, post-medieval Nuremberg 'rose/orb' jetton, issued by Hanns Krauwinckel II, dating to the period AD 1586-1635 Obverse: Three crowns, alternately with three lis, arranged around a central rose HANNS KRAVWINCKEL IN NV Reverse: Imperial orb within a tressure of three arches and three angles […]
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 31st January 2024
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Record ID: GLO-286C18
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Folded sheet copper alloy rivet. The object comprises a lozenge shaped plate, which has been folded to form a repair rivet. Similar repairs can be seen in Egan,2005, p101, Fig: 87. Egan, G., 2005. Material culture in London in an age of transition. Tudor and Stuart period finds c 1450-c 1700 from excavations at riverside sites in Southwark London : Museum of London Archaeology Service
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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Record ID: GLO-27BD27
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy sword belt fitting that consists of a long rectangular mounting plate that has undulating sides with trefoil terminals, one terminal is now truncated. On the bottom edge would be three projecting loops, although one is now missing.  Attached to each of the remaining loops is a sword belt hanger which are roughly foliate in form with a trefoil shaped terminal and a hook on the forward edge that attaches to the mounting plates loop. One of the hangers is missing most of the plate.  Both the hangers and mounting plate are decorated with two rows of angled curvilin…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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Record ID: GLO-24A3F6
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy dress hook that consists of a rectangular openwork plate surmounted by a rectangular loop. The plate is decorated with an inward facing curled design on either side which is defined by a curving recessed line, the centre of the plate is open. At the base is a rearwards facing hook.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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Record ID: GLO-7E6C03
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin weight, possibly for a Spanish coin.  The face is decorated with an oval shield that is quartered with a small square shield in the centre.  This decoration consists of lion rampant facing left in the second and third quarter; crosshatched lines filling the first and fourth quarters and finally the small square shield the contains a large pellet in the lower half with three pellets arranged in a line above. The oval is flanked by curvilinear bans either side and an arched crown above. There would have been decoration on the reverse by ware does not allow…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: GLO-FD7C31
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy double looped buckle with oval frames. The a narrowed and recessed strap bar has an expanded knop at both ends.
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: GLO-FD5152
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy double looped buckle. Sub-oval frames with an expanded forward edge (one frame is missing). The strap bar is narrowed with a knop moulding at either end. Date 1550-1650
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: GLO-FD3C89
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy double looped buckle with rectangular frames that have a slightly pointed forward edge. The strap bar is narrowed. This artefact dates to the 1620-1680
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: GLO-D13F3B
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy key with an oval cross-section shank that has a pointed tip and a rectangular tab at the end. The opposite end has the oval loop, this has two internal projections near the shank. A moulded collar of three bands separate the loop from the shank. This artefact dates to the 16th century.
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forest of Dean', grid reference and parish protected.