Record ID: BERK-4391CE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn silver wshed copper alloy Roman radiate, probably a barbarous radiate partly copying a posthumous issue of Claudius II (d. AD 270). The reverse depicting the eagle with blundered legend above is probably intended to be the CONSECRATIO or CONSERVATORI reverse of Claudius II, however the legend does not appear to read this (it is too worn to decipher). The obverse bust doesn't appear to be Claudius II either - it is too young a man and he does not appear to be bearded. A simlar coin has been recorded from Hertfordshire (BH-1AD3A7). Suggested date AD 275-285.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2016
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Record ID: BERK-75E202
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn silver (possibly silver washed) denarius of Elagabalus, dating to c. AD 219 (Reece period 10). Reverse type appears to be Providentia standing left, legs crossed, leaning on column, pointing baton at globe at foot and holding cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. RSC 144; RIC 23.
Created on: Monday 31st October 2016
Last updated: Monday 31st October 2016
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Record ID: BERK-FAC7F8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver denarius of Septimius Severus (AD 193-222) dating to c. AD 199. Reece period 10. AEQVITATI AVGG reverse type, mint of Rome. RIC 122c; Sear (1988) 1744.
Created on: Tuesday 28th October 2014
Last updated: Friday 7th November 2014
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Record ID: BERK-265224
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy Dolphin style brooch, dating from the first century AD. The brooch is incomplete, missing the foot of the bow and catchplate. The arms of the brooch are moulded with linear ribs and corded-patterns, while the sides of the bow are decorated in long flowing spirals of Iron Age design. The coiled spring and pin are intact but are loose in their housing. The decoration on the brooch suggests a local (i.e. Celtic) influence, and therefore may date to the early first century, rather than post-conquest (AD 43).
Created on: Wednesday 8th August 2012
Last updated: Friday 7th November 2014
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Record ID: BERK-1DF112
Object type: RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy ring dating to the Roman period from a stratified context. The ring is solid and well made and has an ovoid cross section with a shallow raised rib running circumferentially around the outside. One area of the inside of the ring appears slightly worn, suggesting that a strap may have been tied or suspended around this area and has worn down the copper ring through use. It is not possible to attribute a function to this object as it may have several uses such as a horse harness connector or rein guide, or possibly as a belt fitting although its quality does suggest …
Created on: Monday 4th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 8th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fenny Compton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-1DBAE1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small unconnecting loop of iron, a possible tie loop recovered from a sealed context on a trackway and dating to the Roman period. The loop is a crudely made iron ring and has a rectangular cross section. The ends of the loop overlap each other's terminals, suggesting that something was threaded onto the loop, much as in the way a modern keyring would function. There are a number of functions that this loop may have performed such as a horse harness fitting or strap connector. Iron loops were the main component of a type of armour known as lorica hamata while its more well known rel…
Created on: Monday 4th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 8th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fenny Compton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-FA7038
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A blue glass bead, dating from the Roman period. The bead is roughly circular and has the remains of thin copper wire through the bead's central perforation. Although often hard to date closely as beads of this type were used into the Saxon period, this bead comes from a known Roman site and was a stratified find.
Created on: Friday 27th May 2011
Last updated: Friday 27th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fenny Compton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-FA4C17
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman toilet implement, most likely a ligula. The ligula is a long tapering cylinder with a circular cross section, pointed at one end while the other end has a flattened and angled disc, the 'scoop' of the ligula. The ligula has been made in one piece with the end disc hammered flat. Many ligulas have moulded bands around the disc ended-terminal but this example is plain. It has a nice deep green patina and was found on a known Roman site. This type of object was a multi-purpose implement principally with toilet and cosmetic applications, which included the removal o…
Created on: Friday 27th May 2011
Last updated: Friday 27th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fenny Compton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-B89DD7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth Group 4, flat wing ends), Mackreth 2011, 4.e. Plate 47. The brooch has rounded end caps on the arm terminals; a small ring a dot motif has been punched on to the brooch behind each arm while another is located above the spring wire loop on the head of the brooch. Going down the bow this has an elongated, tapering triangle shape recessed into the brooch stretching from the head of the brooch to just beneath halfway down. This may have held enamel although no trace of it survives. There is a pronounced knop…
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2017
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Record ID: BERK-3D5901
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A large cast copper alloy brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth Group 4, flat wing ends type), Mackreth 2011, 4.l.a. Plate 48, dating to the 1st century AD. The brooch is worn but decoration can still be made out: The brooch has two lines of seven or eight rectangular enamelled panels arranged vertically down the bow - some enamel remains although this has suffered corrosion and damage. The enamelling appears to be yellow, red (now orange) and black. The spring of the brooch is so corroded it is hard to discern from the rest of the brooch although is appears that the …
Created on: Friday 6th May 2011
Last updated: Thursday 16th February 2017
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Record ID: BERK-3D1203
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 8, flat wing ends, appears over the greater part of southern England), Mackreth 20101, 8. Plate 53 dating to the 1st - 2nd Century AD. The pin, catchplate and knoped foot terminal of the brooch are broken and missing. This brooch belongs to the 'sawfish' family of T-shaped brooches, so named becuase of the serrated edges of the bow. The teeth only extend a short way down the middle of the bow, consisting of nine teeth on each side. A small panel of lozenge-shaped enamelling (now missing) lays between the serrat…
Created on: Friday 6th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
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Record ID: BERK-70FF03
Object type: BELL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy clapper bell of Roman date. The bell is hollow and conical in shape, and as this is an open bell there are no sounding holes. There is an integral suspension loop and a hole at the peak of the bell although there is no sign of the internal clapper. The bell is decorated with a double concentric ring around its waist, above n-shaped indented panels that form the very base of the bell. This artefact appears to be suffering from bronze disease.
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2016
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Record ID: BERK-70B2A2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Roman zoomorphic brooch in the form of a hare, dating from the second century AD. The brooch is missing the pin on the reverse but is otherwise complete and in very good condition. The brooch retains the blue enamel that fills the body of the hare, but the enamel that would have filled the eye section is missing. Although an exact comparison for this brooch cannot be found, it is very similar to Hattatt's No's 162 and 612. The brooch measures 30.76mm long, 15.20mm wide and is 2.45mm thick. It weighs 4.3gms.
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 6th September 2010
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Record ID: BERK-8F2C75
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy Colchester derivative Polden Hill (flat wing ends type, West Midlands) brooch cf. Mackreth 2011, 4.i2.Plate 48) dating to the first century AD. The pin is missing otherwise the brooch is complete and in good condition - an exact comparison could not be foud in Hattatt. The brooch is decorated with an incised line down the spine of the brooch, a set of six small raised panels (slightly angled) and a central incised line running approximately half way down the spine where all decoration stops. There is a knop on the foot of the catchplate. The brooch measures 43.86mm…
Created on: Thursday 11th March 2010
Last updated: Friday 28th October 2016
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Record ID: BERK-9A2FF4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-al Roman Colchester derivative Polden Hill brooch (flat wing ends type, West Midlands), cf. Mackreth 2011, 4. a.-b. Plate 46. Late 1st to early second century AD (80-120). The brooch is is almost complete retaining the spring and half of the catchplate but the pin is missing. The retaining arms of the spring mount is finished with end caps through which can be seen the spring bar. This brooch carries no decoration. It is 45.51mm long, 17.66mm wide and is 2.63mm thick. It weighs 7.1gms.
Created on: Thursday 29th October 2009
Last updated: Saturday 22nd July 2017
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Record ID: BERK-8D8610
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A carved bone sword pommel, domed in plan and with a sub-square central perforation, large at the base and tapering towards the top, where it is rounder. The base has been sawn level and appears to have been intended to abutt something. The domed top is slightly damaged, probably post-deposition. The whole object appears polished suggesting that it was handled often, and it is likely to have been the pommel for a sword or dagger; simialr artefacts dating to later period have been recorded on this database. Alternatively the object may have been a handle for a furniture item or a door.…
Created on: Thursday 10th September 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2012
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Record ID: BERK-B058F0
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A roughly circular lead spindle whorl from a stratified Roman site. The object was originally identified as a loom weight but its size and the shape and size of the central perforation suggests a heavy spindle whorl rather than a loom weight. The weight measures 37.52mm diameter with the perforation measuring 9.46mm in diameter, 14.41mm thick and weighs 104.3gms.
Created on: Thursday 6th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BERK-B041A7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A conical lead weight from a stratified Roman site. The weight has a hole from the top going through to the base that varies in width and is off-centre. Originally this object was identified as a plumb-bob but the perforation is not central and the object would have swing unevenly, so it is suggested that this is not a plumb-bob but a weight possibly used in the weighing of goods.
Created on: Thursday 6th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BERK-AF9EA4
Object type: ARMLET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman armlet or child's necklace, now in two pieces but originally made from one piece of copper alloy. The armlet has a thicker diameter in the centre (furthest from the connection clasp) and thins towards each end. The ends are bent over to form hooks that would have looped together to secure the armlet. There are two loops of coiled copper alloy (of 3 to 4 turns) which adorn the main wire as decoration. It is unclear whether there were more of these originally. The thickness of the wire varies from 4.19mm max to 1.55mm at the hook ends. This armlet is from a Roman …
Created on: Thursday 6th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BERK-AF6F54
Object type: STEELYARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Roman steelyard balance complete with three suspension loops and two suspension balance arms. The loops remain attached to the balance, with two on top and one beneath, enabling different balance arms or weights to be suspended from them. The balance arms are also cast with interal hoops at the top for attachment to the loops, and the ends of the arms are hooked to enable the suspension of goods or weights or a tray. There are several small scores along one side of the balance which may have been for the suspension of cords or trays at different points depending on …
Created on: Thursday 6th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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