Record ID: WAW-9CF8AD
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval trade token of William Swift of Worcester. Williamson No. 165, Dickenson No. 165-7. Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1672 at a time when there was little low denomination coinage being issued by the crown. As a result traders and business proprietors began issuing tokens as an alternate coinage with equivalent denominations of a farthing, half penny or penny. Such trade tokens rarely travel far from their place of issue and provide an insight to the trade of the time. In 1672 regal copper coinage was introduced and the trade tokens were then banned (Besly 199…
Created on: Friday 18th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2019
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Record ID: WAW-9CCA1B
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (late 16th to early 17th centuries) strap fitting, in the form of a hook. The copper alloy fitting has an inverted triangular body, with rounded edges and a wide 'V' along the upper edge. The body has a circular rivet hole. In the rivet hole there is the traces of an iron rivet. The lower tip of the triangular body is narrowed before forming an integral hook by being curled towards the reverse. The surface of the fitting has a mottled brown-green patina. The strap fitting measures 30.72mm long and 12.45mm wide. It weighs 2.13g. Margeson (1993) illustrates simila…
Created on: Friday 18th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2019
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Record ID: WAW-B3F043
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) minted in London between 1602 and 1603. Third Issue: North No. 2015.
Created on: Monday 7th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 7th October 2019
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Record ID: WAW-475C83
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: shilling of Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) minted in London between 1595 and 1598. Third Issue: North No. 2014.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Last updated: Sunday 6th October 2019
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Record ID: WAW-7FB909
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: shilling of James I (1603-1625) minted in London between 1607 and 1609. North No. 2100-2101.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2019
Last updated: Thursday 8th August 2019
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Record ID: WAW-7695C8
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post medieval (14th to 18th century) lead alloy cloth seal: This is an incomplete two or four part cloth seal comprising two circular discs over laying each other. lThere are no visible linking ribbons or studs. One disc is decorated with a possible heraldic shield split into quarters, with the upper left quarter having horizintal bars, otherwise it is unclear. The surface of the seal has a cream matte patina. It measures 19.62mm long, 19.79mm wide, 5.45mm thick and weighs 5.53g. Cloth seals were in use between the 14th and 18th centuries (Egan, 1989) as a form of …
Created on: Friday 5th April 2019
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
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Record ID: WAW-763D15
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Post-Medieval (c. 1400 - c. 1700) copper alloy book-clasp: The body of the book clasp is a long, slender rectangle, which flares at one temrinal. At the opposite terminal there is an off-set rectangular protrusion at one edge, whose edge is curled downwards forming the clasp element. There is an incomplete rivet hole at the flared terminsl. The clasp is decorated with a three transverse ridges with a detailed motif inbetween. T The surface of the clasp has a mottled matte brown patina. The clasp measures 31.21mm long, 10.42mm wide and weighs 1.06g. Numerous similar clasp…
Created on: Friday 5th April 2019
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
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Record ID: WAW-76237C
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Post-Medieval (c. 1400 - c. 1700) copper alloy book-clasp: The body of the book clasp is a long, slender rectangle, which tapers slightly, with a off-set rectangular protrusion at one edge, whose edge is curled downwards forming the clasp element. There is an incomplete rivet hole at the narrowest edge. The clasp is undecorated. The clasp has been broken, but not recently and it is bent at c. 90° but not intentionally, and it does not appear to be too recent. The surface of the clasp has a mottled dark-mid green patina. The clasp measures 23.92mm long, 19.15mm wide and weigh…
Created on: Friday 5th April 2019
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
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Record ID: WAW-EE41F2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: halfgroat of Charles I (1625-1649) probably minted between AD 1635 and 1636. North No. 2257. The coin has been pierced.
Created on: Monday 28th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 28th January 2019
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Record ID: WAW-199EA7
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval jetton: Rose and orb jetton of Hans Krauwinckel II and dates from 1586 and 1635. The jetton is a variation of Mitchiner Nos. 1512-1517 as the obverse legend is different, the N is missing from 'KRAVWINCKEL', Obverse: Illegible legend. Three Crowns, alternately with three lis, arranged centrifrugally around a central rose. Reverse: Illegible legend. Imperial orb surmounted by a cross patty, within a tressure with three main arches. Mitchiner, M. 1988 Jettons, Medalets and Tokens: The Medieval Period and Nuremberg Seaby,
Created on: Friday 18th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 18th January 2019
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Record ID: WAW-C62C65
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A silver cuff link composed of two ‘buttons’ which are joined together via a chain loop which has been twisted in the centre. Each button is formed from a circular, flat disc with a slightly flared rim. The design on each disc features a flaming heart pierced by two arrows forming a saltire all within a solid border. The background to the design is stippled. The buttons are both slightly damaged as their edge are slightly crumpled. The underside of the buttons are almost hollow, there being a pronounced rim on the underside. In the centre of the underside of each…
Created on: Monday 14th January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th October 2021
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Record ID: WAW-1827EE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: penny of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) minted in London between 1567 and 1570. North No. 2001.
Created on: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 1st August 2018
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Record ID: WAW-84408B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: halfgroat of Charles I (1625-1649) minted between AD1625 and 1649. North No. 2254-58. Group D.
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 1st August 2018
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Record ID: WAW-4BF4BC
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval (late 15th to early 16th centuries) possible purse bar fragment; what remains of the possible purse bar is an incomplete arm which has a curved broken terminal and the opposite terminal is large bulbous knop which has a linear groove towards the base. The purse bar is heavily abraded and corroded and has small traces of a dark green patina with red copper corrosion. It measures 39.61mm long and 8.12mm wide. It weighs 6.83g. Other similar examples are illustrated in the London Museum Catalogue (Ward-Perkins,1940), Figure 52 dating to the late 15th to…
Created on: Wednesday 4th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2018
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Record ID: WAW-4BCB7A
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (later 17th century) incomplete cast lead four part cloth seal. Two discs of a four-part seal remain, discs two and three, but the connecting ribbon is missing. Disc two has 'OF ENGLAND with a bust facing right. Disc three has a fleur-de-lis with 1 to left and ½ to the right. The seal is in fair condition and the surface has a buff patina. The largest disc measures 19.39mm long, 13.42mm wide, 1.57mm thick and weighs 1.23g. Cloth seals were in use between the 14th and 18th centuries (Egan, 1994) as a form of quality control. This may be a 17th century example. T…
Created on: Wednesday 4th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2018
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Record ID: WAW-9189E9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: threepence of Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) minted in London between 1578 and 1580. North No. 1998.
Created on: Monday 25th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2017
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Record ID: WAW-2A0248
Object type: POWDER MEASURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (mid 17th century) powder measure cap: The lead cap is cylindrical with a sealed terminal. In plan the upper cap is sub-oval and on opposite edges the cap, there are two integral loops. The lower edge of the rim has a bordering thickened ridge on the outer face and the rim has been squashed together. The cap has a stone ball stuck inside. The surface of the cap is a matte off-white colour. It measures 19.26mm thick across the narrow upper face, 27.32mm long across the rim and 19.38mm from the lower rim to upper edge. It weighs 27.31g. The powder measure cap is a…
Created on: Friday 8th September 2017
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2017
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Record ID: WAW-9E8A93
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A gold posy finger ring; a heavy broad band with a D-shaped section, plain exterior and inscribed interior with a lower case inscription reading 'Keepe faith till death'. There is no sign of a maker's mark. Dimensions: External diameter: 23.05mm Internal diameter: 18.24mm Thickness: 4.85mm Weight: 9.9g. Discussion: The absence of a maker's mark makes precise dating difficult. The style of the lettering is 17th Century although it continued to be used into the 18th century. Compare for instance the inscription on a hawking vervel found in Angmering, West …
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2017
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
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Record ID: WAW-26DE3A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: threepence of Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) minted in London between 1561 and 1582. North No. 1998.
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2016
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2017
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Record ID: WAW-26CA75
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) minted in London between 1582 and 1602. Third Issue: North No. 2015.
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2016
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2017
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