Record ID: SUSS-126B72
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval biface cast copper-alloy token dating to AD 1672. Obverse: The head and neck of an antelope facing left within beaded circle. Legend: * HONYCHILD•1672 (initial mark of a sexfoiled rosette). Reverse: monogram of S C between single sexfoiled rosettes within beaded circle. Legend: •OF*THE•MANOR. Measurements: diameter: 21.40mm; thickness: 1.04mm and weight: 1.94g. D/A:1.  A token recorded on the database; KENT-04D1E3; also may relate to Honeychild Manor which it notes was frequently home to powerful individuals, many of…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-EBA0FD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn silver fourpence of Charles II (1660-1685) dating c AD 1670-1684. Milled coinage. Four interlinked C's with quartered emblems reverse with unclear date. London. Spink: 3384.  Diameter: 19.34mm and weight: 1.76g. 
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-E99D3D
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Post Medieval copper alloy double loop buckle/sword belt hanger dating to AD 1500 to 1630.  Only the circular suspension loop, a short section of the strap bar and the stubs of each loop survive. The suspension loop is set at 90°s to the frame. The object has a dark green patina and worn breaks.  Measurements: total length: 26.63mm; width: 9.91mm; thickness including loop: 12.07mm and weight: 3.35g.  Compare:BUC-E1EF78; PUBLIC-295732 and SOM-5AA907 which notes; buckles with integrally cast suspension loops are a s…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-B1057A
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval cast lead alloy dress or curtain weight dating c 1700-1800. The weight is circular and flat with a central circular recess on one face measuring 7.1mm in diameter with two adjacent circular perforations. The object has a dark grey patina. Measurements: diameter: 19.3mm; thickness: 3.90mm and weight: 10.08g.  Similar objects are published in Bailey (2004) p. 83 as lead weights to hold down ladies skirts or curtains and dating to the 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-F1414F
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy zoomorphic S-shaped fastener dating. c. AD 1550-1700. The object is S-shaped in the form of two styalised snakes or swans which meet in the middle. The snakes have worn moulded features on both sides and around the mid-point is a moulded transverse collar flanked by leaves or feathers. The object has a dark green patina.  Measurements: length: 30.01mm; width: 17.60mm; thickness: 4.32mm and weight: 5.81g.  A similar example is illustrated in Read (2008, 230; No. 822), which possibly derives from a sword belt and for which a d…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-EDB20D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast leaded copper alloy late post-medieval to modern bridle rosette of Maslin (2020) composite centre type, dating c. 1750-1880.  The mount is decorated in high relief with a central raised circular dome with moulded ribs radiating around the sides. The decoration at the top of the boss is unclear due to damage and corrosion. The dome appears to be composite, comprising a separate element to the circular base plate which has six evenly spaced projecting knobs around the edge, possibly representing anthropomorphic figurative heads; with unclear trefoil projecting…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-7079FC
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete early Post Medieval cast tinned and leaded copper alloy crotal bell dating between c. AD 1550-1650. The bell is cast in one peice and composed of a hollow sphere of two hemispheres divided by a raised circumferential band. The upper hemisphere is decorated with a cast sunburst pattern consisting of nine petals radiating outward from the attachment loop and meeting the circumferential band, with two irregular circular sound holes set parallel to one another on either side of the upper hemisphere. Projecting from the top is an integral …
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-5E60B9
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead object, possibly a miscast uniface token or bag seal of suggested late medieval to post-medieval date.  The object is semi-circular in plan with a D-shaped cross-section and a narrow projecting knop/tab (3.42mm x 3.92mm) at the apex which terminates in a worn break. It is unlikely to be a casting sprue as it is decorated with a transverse groove at the base; and is more likely a connecting tab to a missing element. The upper surface is decorated in cast relief; but the details are unclear. Possibly representing a cartouche with the initials J. S. w…
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-077F08
Object type: KEYHOLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-medieval to modern copper alloy object, probably a keyhole cover dating c. 1650-1800. The object comprises an elongated, flat, trapezoidal plate with a circular knop at the apex. The lower edge of the plate is slightly convex and the upper surface is decorated with a stamped pair of vertically aligned ring and dot motifs, each formed of three concentric annulets. The reverse is plain and thicker at the circular projection or attachment end, where there is a circular scar from rotation. The metal surface is dark brown. Measusurements: total length: 56.09mm; width: 23.06mm; thic…
Created on: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-CB615F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn post medieval silver threepence of Elizabeth I (AD 1558 -1603), second issue dating from AD 1561 - 1565. Initial mark: pheon. Unclear date above shield. Tower mint.  Reference: North, 1991: 135, number 1998. Diameter: 18.64mm and weight: 1.14g. 
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-CB3C0B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver milled sixpence of William III (1694-1702) dated 1697. Third bust; small crowns. London mint. As Spink: no: 3542. Diameter: 21.42mm and weight: 2.84g. 
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-CAA143
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval leaded, copper alloy, possibly pewter two-part strap fitting probably for a sword-belt or baldrick dating c. AD 1550-1700. The object comprises two linked elements, a hook and eye section. The hook section has a trefoil shaped plate with a pierced rounded knop at the apex for a rivet. Below the trefoil the plate is waisted with a D-shaped cross-section, terminating with a pair of outward curving tendrils with a second rivet hole between. A rectangular sectioned blunt hook recurves from between the tendrils the tip almost meeting the base of the plat…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-C8BE87
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast leaded copper alloy late post-medieval to modern bridle boss of Maslin (2020) composite centre type, dating c. 1750-1880.  The object is solid and circular and decorated in cast moulded relief. It has a stepped upper surface created by three circular plates of decreasing diameter and a central dome. The dome is composite with a central flush circular rivet surrounded by an octofoiled flower with pellets between each triangular petal. There is a plain undecorated circular plate below; then a wider circular plate below, the annular surface filled with a w…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-DE3E3E
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a post Medieval cast copper alloy spur, comprising one arm with a figure-of-eight double looped terminal dating c. 1600-1700. The surviving arm is gently curved with a broadly triangular cross-section and slightly convex reverse face. One end terminates in a worn break and the other with a double looped, figure-of-eight terminal set at 45°. Measurements: length: 72.83mm; max width of arm: 9.8mm; thickness of arm: 4.26mm and weight: 10.48g.   Read (2016) illustrates a similar spur on page 70, no.501. Also see: BH-62C484. 
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-DDF92D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast post-medieval to modern copper alloy pot-leg from a cooking vessel, probably a skillet dating c. AD 1700 - 1900. The leg is triangular in cross-section, with a bevelled outer surface and slightly concave reverse. The leg tapers to a rounded base with no foot. It has an oblique, concave, upper attachment surface where it joined the body of the vessel. It has a green patina. Measurements: length: 62.28mm; width: 40.40mm; thickness; 25.39mm and weight: 201g. This example of leg is of Butler, Green & Payne, (2009) Type D; a design which came into universal…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-B5C38A
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of five Post-Medieval cast lead tokens found together within the same hole, probably comprising a purse spill dating c. 1650-1800. Token 1: a uniface cast lead token decorated on one face with four petalled flower within circular raised border (Powell type 1). The flan has a raised rim on the obverse. Diameter: 20.11mm and weight: 4.25g. Token 2: a uniface cast lead token decorated on one face with a central four spoked wheel within a concentric border of a wreath of leaves within a circular raised border (Powell type 28). The flan has a raised rim on the obverse. D…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-4E654C
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval gilded copper alloy scabbard chape, probably dating c.1675-1720. The object is sub-triangular in plan with vertical sides on the slightly convex long edges only. The upper surface of the plate is decorated in moulded relief with foliate scrolls each side of a central stem which extends from a projecting circular element at the base on the short edge. At the apex of the triangle is a projecting knop, possibly an acorn. The object is hinged with two perforations set at the end of each vertical side; one is truncated with a worn break. All external surfaces are …
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-4A2932
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval copper alloy bridle boss  of Openwork Multifoil Type (Maslin, 2020), surviving attached to the remains of the iron curb bit dating c. 1620-1680.    The boss is circular in shape, with a raised hollow, circular, central dome surrounded by a flat decorative multi-foiled border. The boss has an overall diameter of 77.2mm. On the raised dome (43.6mm diameter) there is a six-petalled flower with incurving petals at the ends. Surrounding the flower are six openwork hearts with grooved borders. The flat section of the boss originally&…
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-6AC30F
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cmplete copper alloy (tombac) button of probable Post Medieval date, about AD 1700 - 1800. The button comprises a circular disc with a plain flat front. On the reverse is a truncated cone from which projects the wire attachment loop. The button is grey and slightly reflective, with some copper corrosion on the loop.  Diameter: 19.40mm; thickness: 8.67g and weight: 3.52g.  The form is suggestive of an 18th century date (Bailey, Buttons and Fasteners, page 40).
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-C0CDB8
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete very large Post Medieval cast copper-alloy animal rumbler bell, also known as a 'crotal' bell, dating between c.AD 1760 and 1825. It has an integrally cast rectangular suspension loop at the top, with a central hemispherical shaped aperture. The upper half of the bell has opposing circular sound holes but is otherwise undecorated. At the centre of the bell is a prominent circumferential casting ridge. The lower hemisphere has two opposing sound holes connected by a long rectangular sound slot and is decorated.  At the centre of both sides of the …
Created on: Monday 8th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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