Record ID: LON-08F6A2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper-alloy nummus, probably a contemporary copy of the House of Constantine, dating to the period AD 355-361 (Reece Period 18), FEL TEMP REPARATIO reverse type depicting a Soldier spearing a fallen horseman. Uncertain mint. Obverse: []; Diademed, draped and cuirassed right Reverse: [FEL.TEMP.REPARATIO]; Helmeted soldier advancing left, spearing falling horseman to left, wearing pointed cap and looking upward with extended arm. Dimensions: diameter: 11.69mm; weight: 0.57g.
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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Record ID: LON-F33D1B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy Radiate of Claudius II (AD 270 - 271), period AD 268-270 Reece period 13. CONSECRATIO reverse type depicting an alter with flame above Obverse description: Right facing radiate bust  Obverse inscription: DIVO [CLAVDIO] Reverse description: Altar and flames  Reverse inscription: [CONSECRATIO]  Dimensions: 14.32mm; weight: 0.66g
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 30th March 2023
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Record ID: LON-66B2A6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman blue glass 'sports cup' dating from AD 50-200. The remaining fragment has the torso of a muscular male figure possibly a gladiator. Similar blue glass vessels are known from London depicting gladiators. Dimensions: length: 17.85mm; width: 20.16mm; thickness: 6.09mm; weight: 1.83g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
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Record ID: LON-6181C7
Object type: DIE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman stone die dating from AD 50-410. The die is cuboid and each value is marked by a ring and dot design, which range from 1 to 6. Opposite sides add up to 7. The die has a polished surface with faint vertical groves on each face. This die is Potter variant 14 (Finds Research Group 700-1700, Datasheet 23, Dice by Geoff Egan). Dimensions: length: 8.33mm; width: 8.11mm; thickness: 7.04mm; weight: 1.19g Similar dice are illustrated in Crummy (1983, 96-97) which date to the Roman period.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: LON-20B98A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman ceramic jar dating from AD 150-410. The vessel has a red colour coat with a red fabric and is otherwise undecorated. The vessel is an everted-rimmed jar with cavetto rim. The exterior and interior surface is heavily abraded.  Dimensions: diameter: 162mm; thickness of vessel wall: 5.79mm; height: 120.52mm; base diameter: 81.33mm; weight: g. Reference: Davies, B., Richardson, B. & Tomber, R. 1994. A Dated Corpus of Early Roman Pottery from the City of London. The Archaeology of Roman London Volume 5. CBA Resea…
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: LON-2098B8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base sherd fragment from a Roman coarse ware jar or flagon dating from AD 50-410. The sherd consists of the base with lower section of the wall probably from a jar. The sherd is a reduced ware with a grey fabric. The exterior and interior surface is heavily abraded.  Dimensions: length: 99.81mm; width: 83.27mm; thickness of vessel wall: 5.29mm; height: 43.69mm; base diameter: 49.87mm; weight: 111.79g. Reference: Davies, B., Richardson, B. & Tomber, R. 1994. A Dated Corpus of Early Roman Pottery from the City of London. The Archaeology of Roman Lond…
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: LON-206CC7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman to Post Medieval black glass globular bead dating from AD 50-1800. The bead is circular in plan with a perforation 4.19mm in diameter.  Dimensions: diameter: 10.64mm; weight: 0.78g
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: LON-229BFC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of Constantius II dating from AD 348-351. Uncertain Mint. Obverse description: Right facing laureate diadem bust Obverse inscription: [D N CONST]AN] TIVS P[F AVG]  Reverse description: Helmeted soldier advancing left, spearing falling horseman to left. Reverse inscription: [FEL.TEMP.REP]ARATIO Reverse mint mark: // []P Dimensions: diameter: 14.47mm; weight: 1.28g.
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
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Record ID: LON-E95093
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman bone hair pin dating AD 50 - 250. The hair pin is a Greep type A2.2 and Crummy type 2. The hair pin has a small pointed head with two incised grooves cut just below forming a collar. The shaft is a straight, the pin looks to have been shortented to a rounded end.  Similar hairpins on the database are LON-CDD33A, LON-68D0FE and LON-5225DD. Dimensions: length: 62.70mm; width: 3.38mm; weight: 1.05g. Crummy suggests that they were present in the first century AD an end date of 200-250 AD, but lack of closely dated third century depo…
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 13th June 2023
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Record ID: LON-73610E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy nummus of House of Constantine, commemorative VRBS ROMA issue dating to AD 330-335. Reverse Wolf and twins. Reece period 17. Uncertain mint Obverse description: Helmeted and cuirassed bust of Roma facing left. Obverse inscription: VRBS/ROMA Reverse description: Wolf and twins. Dimensions: diameter: 15.30mm; weight: 0.79g.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Record ID: LON-6FF4D8
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman bone gaming counter dating from AD 200-410. The counter is a plano-convex with a slightly sunk hole in the centre. Similar counters can be found in Crummy (1995: Nos. 2281), and in Kenyon (1948:226-227). Kenyon type D, they seem to have been produced throughout the Roman period but Keynon writes that use of type D counters "increased in popularity in the later periods." Dimensions: diameter: 26.29mm; thickness: 6.46mm; weight: 5.29g Other gaming counters on the database are LON-CD5569 and LON-5A9DBC. References: Crummy, N. 1995. The Roman small f…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
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Record ID: LON-75D9CA
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman glass gaming counter dating from AD 200-410. The counter is a convex 'blob' of opaque white glass. The counter is sub-circular in plan, with a slightly dished flat-bottom. The gaming counter features a number of air holes from the manufacture process on both the upper and lower surface.. Other glass gaming counters are recorded in Crummy (19995:92) and Rees, Crummy, Ottaway, and Dunn (2008:116). A set of glass counters was found on a 4th century lead coffin at Lullingstone. The set consisted of fifteen white and fifteen brown decorated…
Created on: Friday 18th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
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Record ID: LON-633C10
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy coiled or 'spiral' finger ring dating AD 50-410. This finger ring is made from a strip of copper alloy with a D-shaped cross section, that is coiled with three turns. The ends of the strip are cut to form points. Dimensions: diameter: 25.98mm; width: 10.36mm; thickness: 2.65mm; weight: 10.60g Reference: Crummy, N. 2015. Finger-rings. In M. Atkinson and S. J. Preston. Heybridge: A Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement, Excavations at Elms Farm 1993-5. Internet Archaeology 40. http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/1/3-7-2.html#rings
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: LON-379C6A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd fragment from a Roman Gaulish samian ware hemispherical bowl dating from AD 100-200. Form Dragendorff 37. The sherd has moulded decoration, consisting of a gladiator right, bird above left and foliate motif all under a band ovolo with pelleted border. The fragment has a pink fabric and is coated in a red slip on both the inside and outside which is heavily abraded with most of the slip worn away from the high points of the moulded decoration. Dimensions: length: 55.66mm; width: 47.79mm; thickness: 8.30mm; weight: 19.44g. References: Oswald, F. and Pry…
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th November 2022
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Record ID: LON-3792F9
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body base fragment from a Roman Gaulish samian ware dish or bowl dating from AD 100-200. The sherd consists a section of the vessel lower wall and the foot-ring. The sherd has a chamfered foot ring base. In the centre of the upper surface of the base is a maker's stamp of a rosette with 12 petals. de la Bedoyere (1988:12 fig 5) shows a similar stamp. Dimensions: length: 96.71mm; width: 102.66mm; height: 29.96mm; weight: 144.48g. References: Oswald, F. and Pryce, T. Davies 1920. An introduction to the study of terra sigillat…
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 18th November 2022
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Record ID: LON-BAA86A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of House of Constantine (AD 324-337) dating to the period AD 335-337 Reverse shows two soldiers and one standard. Reece period 17. Uncertain Mint. Dimensions: diameter: 13.91mm; weight: 1.03g. Obverse description:Right facing laureate bust Obverse inscription [] Reverse description: two solders one standard. Reverse inscription: GLORIAEXERC [ITVS]
Created on: Wednesday 9th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th May 2023
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Record ID: LON-BA8BE3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of Constantine I, dating to AD 332-333. Reverse shows two soldiers and two standards. Reece period 17. Uncertain Mint. Dimensions: diameter: 15.60mm; weight: 1.66g. Obverse description: head right diademed Obverse inscription: [CON]STANTI NVS MAX AVG Reverse description: two solders two standards Reverse inscription: [GL]OR IAEXERC ITVS
Created on: Wednesday 9th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th May 2023
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Record ID: LON-A2F370
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman bone gaming counter dating from AD 50-410. The counter is undecorated except for a small central hole on one side, possibly from a lathe. Similar counter can be found in Crummy (1995), and in MacGregor (1985: pg132-133). Dimensions: diameter: 15.97mm; thickness: 2.08mm; weight: 0.79g References: Crummy, N. 1995. The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-1979. Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd, Colchester. MacGregor, A. 1985. Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn. The Technology of Skeletal Materials since the Roman Period. Croom Helm, London …
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: LON-A24619
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman faiance melon bead dating to the period c. AD 43 - 200. The bead is buff/grey core but retains some blue on the interior wall of the perforation. The bead has twenty one vertical grooves. The bead has a perforation with a diameter of 10.08mm. The interior surface exhibits a series of concentric grooves. Dimensions: diameter: 24.47mm; height: 16.23mm; weight: 8.73g Worrell (2015) states that faience melon beads "...are common finds on most Roman sites, although normally their occurrence is restricted to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. They are unknown in…
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: LON-A9C9F7
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman bone gaming counter dating from AD 50-410. The counter is decorated with four shallow concentric rings on the upper surface, the reverse has a scratched star. This decoration was possibly produced through turning on a lathe. The edges are bevelled outwards. Similar counter can be found in Crummy (1995: Nos. 2271), and in MacGregor (1985: pg132-133). Kenyon type B.1, they seem to have been produced throughout the Roman period with little variation. Dimensions: diameter: 21.58mm; thickness: 3.88mm; weight: 2.57g Other gaming counters on the database are LON-C…
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
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