Record ID: FAKL-C060DC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman nummus of Diocletian (AD 284-305), dating to the period c.AD 295-296 (Reece Period 15). GENIO POPVLI ROMANI reverse type depicting Genius standing, left, chlamys over left shoulder with a modius on head holding a patera and cornucopia. Mint of Ticinum. RIC VI, p. 284, no. 29a. Diameter 27.5mm, Mass 6.81g.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2019
Last updated: Monday 21st June 2021
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Record ID: FAKL-BEB3EB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Polden Hill type, c. 80-120AD. The foot and spring mechanism is missing and there has been some loss of surface. A broad groove runs down the length of the bow, the lateral wings are set on raised panels, their undersides are hollowed to accommodate the coiled spring which would have been secured by a bar through the end-plates. Length 22.3mm, Width 18.2mm, Height 9.4mm, Mass 5.05g
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th May 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-DED34A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object, c. AD 50-1950, this object may have been a bracelet but no parallels have been found and it could be a recent machine part. The object consists of a ring, now distorted by but with an original diameter of about 53mm. For most of its circumference the ring has a 3.2mm diameter, circular section but at two opposed points it is expanded to form 6.7 x 4.2mm plates, the wider face being in the plane of the ring. Through each of these plates is a centrally placed, 1.5mm diameter hole, drilled at 90 degrees to the plane of the ring. Length (crushed) 67.3mm, Width (crushe…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-DE7417
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Romano-Celtic votive mount, perhaps the top from a priest's sceptre, cast copper alloy with blue glass eyes. The object is in the form of a bull's head with a bird on the tip of its nose and a human face behind the head. The bull's head is naively, but carefully, modelled, it is wedge-shaped, expanding slightly towards the nose, the horns are splayed and both are encircled by four incised lines. Below them are traces of the poorly preserved ears. The mouth is represented by an incised line and the nostrils by inverted, V shaped, incisions. The eyes are almond-shaped and inlaid with mi…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-CB6D08
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman, c.AD 50-200, copper alloy brooch of Colchester derivative, hinged form: McKreth's Colchester Derivative, Hinged, Type 5k, (2011, 88, Plate 58). Plain D sectioned bow with a hollowed underside. Wings folded around to form a tube holding the bar on which a hinged pin was articulated. Length 47.0mm Width 26.6mm, Height 18.7mm, Mass 11.25g. .
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2022
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Record ID: FAKL-CB0082
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman coin, copper alloy, severely corroded, all detail lost; a radiate or a nummus, c. AD 260-400. Some damage to one edge. Diameter 17.9mm, Mass 1.29g.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-9FFBF8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Published
,Roman, copper alloy, brooch of Polden Hill type, 1st century AD. The surface of the brooch bears traces of white metal plating. It is complete but lacks a pin, spring, and catch-plate. The terminal of the foot is damaged but appears to have consisted of button separated from the bow by a transverse groove. A rib runs down the length of the bow and is flanked by two rows of paired, angled, leaf-like mouldings. There is a flat, D shaped pad either side of the head from which the two lateral wings emerge. The underside of the these is hollow to accommodate the spring and, at one end, is…
Created on: Sunday 7th April 2019
Last updated: Sunday 7th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-4B9D51
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman ceramic vessel rim, everted, pointed edge. Pinkish buff throughout. Filler quartz, rounded, Medium density. Thickness 5.1mm, Mass 17.57g
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-4B8420
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman ceramic, basal sherd from a grey ware vessel. Filler, quartz, rounded, medium density. Thickness 11.1mm, Mass 34.49g.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-4ADB37
Object type: MORTARIUM
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman mortarium rim sherd, 2nd century AD, 'hammerhead' type, white fabric containing dispersed brown and black filler (slag and hematite?). Thickness 10.2mm, Mass 17.39g
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-4AC068
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval sherd with incised linear decoration, pale green glaze on one side, white clay body containing dispersed, fine, black grits, medium density. Thickness 4.8mm, Mass 3.45g
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-4A9CDD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman, copper alloy brooch of trumpetl type, 1st -2nd century AD. The brooch is in poor condition and lacks its foot, details are obscured by corrosion. The bow bore multiple mouldings set either side of a double calyx link moulding. The head has the eponymous 'trumpet' shape and bears mouldings, the details of which are unclear, on its underside is a ring-like lug by which the pin mechanism was attached. Length 31.4mm, Width 10.5mm, Height 16.2mm, Mass 5.88g.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-4A83B0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman, copper alloy brooch of trumpetl type, 1st -2nd century AD. The brooch is complete but for its pin and sping, the bow bears multiple transverse mouldings set either side of a double calyx link moulding. The foot terminates in a small moulding and a button. The head has the eponymous 'trumpet' shape and, on its underside is a ring-like lug by which the pin mechanism was attached. The catch-plate is in the form of a large web. Length 46.7mm, Width 13.2mm, Height 24.0mm, Mass 12.58g.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-4A5D67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman, copper alloy brooch of Polden Hill type, 1st to 2nd century AD. The brooch is complete but for its pin, the bow is broad and decorated with two longitudinal ribs with two notched ribs down each side. The foot terminates in a simple button. The underside of the two wings is hollowed to accomodate the coiled spring. This is held in place by a bar which passes through holes through two plates at the ends of the wings. There is a small projection on the end of the head. Length 43mm, Width 21.7mm, Height 15.2mm, Mass 13.47g.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th May 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-9C4D31
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy Roman brooch of Polden Hill type, first century AD, bow decorated with four longitudinal ribs, each marked with finely incised, oblique lines.These are flanked by narrow webs which run down each side of the brooch. The underside of the wings on the brooch's head is hollow to accomodate the coiled spring, now missing. At each end of the wings is a circular plate with a central hole to accomodate the axial pin that secured the sping. The edges of these plates extend beyond the ends of the wings and are decorated with transverse incised lines. On the end of the head of the b…
Created on: Friday 19th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th October 2018
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Record ID: FAKL-9C0501
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy Roman coin, a sestertius of Marcus Aurelius (AD161-180), worn and corroded with little surviving detail. Obverse: bust, facing right. Reverse: Victory standing right inscribing [vic par] on a shield suspended from a palm tree. The inscription would have read [tr pot xx imp III cos III s c. Reece period 8, RIC 934, issue of AD 165. Diameter 29.0mm, Mass 16.15g.
Created on: Friday 19th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th October 2018
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Record ID: FAKL-898CDB
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy figurine of a fish of probable Roman date. The fish is carefully executed with clearly marked features: the eyes are large, represented by a 3.2mm diameter x 1.4mm deep hole in which there is a smaller central cavity. Around the eyes are annular recesses which appear to the been divided by radial ribs. It is possible that the eyes were decorated with enamel inlay. Behind the eye are curved double grooves defining a rib marking the gill cover. Further lines in front of the eyes sweep around to converge on the top of the head. The mouth is respresented by a transverse …
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 4th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Perton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-88ED7B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Birmingham
Workflow stage: Published
Roman, copper alloy brooch of 'Polden Hill' type, first century AD. Traces of silvering on surfaces, bow truncated but bore two longitudianal grooves. The underside of the wings is hollow to accomodate a coiled spring secured by an axial pin held in perforated plates at the ends of the wings. Each of the wings bears two transverse mouldings flanked by narrow grooves and a deeper, wide groove. The mouldings bear incised, transverse lines. Length 16.0mm, Width 23.8mm, Height 8.0mm, Mass 3.79g.
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th October 2018
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Record ID: FAKL-88BF93
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Birmingham
Workflow stage: Published
Roman, copper alloy brooch of 'Polden Hill' type, first century AD. Plain, tapering bow with a pronounced 'hump' at the head, The wings are undecorated with a hollowed underside to accomodate a coiled spring which is secured by an iron axial pin held in perforated plates at the ends of the wings. The catch plate is missing, much loss of the original surface. Length 71.5mm, Width 27.0mm, Height 22.2mm, Mass 27.55g.
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th October 2018
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Record ID: FAKL-889024
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Birmingham
Workflow stage: Published
Roman, copper alloy brooch of 'head stud' type, second century AD. Corrosion makes description of the bow difficult but it appears to consist of a longitudinal rib flanked by two rows of pellets. The head stud itself is missing as is most of a terminal lug. On each side of its headstud location are fin-shaped panels of red enamel and small, circular enamelled spots. Further enamelled areas are present on each of the lateral wings, each consisting of two lentoid panels of white enamel set between cusped areas of red. On the underside of the brooch area the remains of a self-tensioned c…
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th October 2018
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