Record ID: WMID-46E6C5
Object type: KILN FURNITURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A roughly hand made circular ceramic piece of kiln furniture or 'spacer' (diameter: 60.9mm; thickness: 15.2mm; weight: 53.85g). This 'spacer' would have been used to fill or plug any gaps in the kiln during the firing process. There are some areas of light brown glaze that have run down the sides of the piece, presumably from the glazed vessels above or to the side. There are two clear finger marks on the smoother surface of the piece. This piece of kiln furniture or 'spacer' probably dates to the late 16th - early 18th century. This find was found with record…
Created on: Wednesday 24th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
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Record ID: WMID-495752
Object type: KILN FURNITURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small piece of kiln furniture or 'spacer', sub circular in shape (40.8mm x 39.2mm; thickness: 12.1mm; weight:23.76g). This piece would have been used to fill or plug any spaces in the kiln, and would have had glazed material on top and around it, hence the glazing down the sides of the 'spacer'. There is more than one definite edge, with one broken edge, as well as the probable remains of a fingerprint on one of the surfaces. This 'spacer' dates between the late 16th - early 18th century. This find was found with records WMID-458D27, WMID-467B61, WMID-46E6C5…
Created on: Wednesday 24th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
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Record ID: WMID-482097
Object type: KILN FURNITURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small possible wheel thrown piece of coarseware kiln furniture or waste (35.1mm x 36.9mm; thickness: 10.2mm; weight: 14.54g). There is only one finished smooth edge to on this piece with some glaze on that edge. The piece is very abraded and badly made with large voids in the fill. It is difficult to identify a type or form of vessel. This piece probably dates to the late 16th - early 18th century. This find was found with records WMID-458D27, WMID-467B61, WMID-46E6C5, WMID-4748D7, WMID-47DA27, WMID-495752, WMID-49BD47, WMID-4A18A8, WMID-4A77C8 & WMID-5EC7C6.
Created on: Wednesday 24th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
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Record ID: WMID4673
Object type: JEWELLERY FITTING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Wednesday 1st May 2002
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
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Record ID: WAW-D443C4
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete rounded, ovate quartzite pebble of probable Mesolithic date (c . 9000 - 4000 BC). One end has considerable surface damage due to the stone being utilised as a hard hammer stone. Found in an area of intense Mesolithic activity that has produced a large quantity of debitage and blade cores along with typical Mesolithic tool types. The overall dimensions are as follows: 56mm in length, 54mm in width, 41mm in thickness and 198g in weight.
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2022
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Record ID: WMID-E07814
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A prehistoric flint object, possibly a hammerstone for working other flint artefacts. There is an area of cortex on the top of the object, and many negative flake removal scars and evidence for percussion blows all over the rest of the flint. As many of the flake removals are very small, it is possible that this piece was used to knap and/or apply pressure to other flint tools during retouch of them. Other worked tools and a Neolithic ground axe have been recovered from the same area.
Created on: Tuesday 8th June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Record ID: WMID-55C654
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval to modern gunflint from a flint lock rifle dating to the 16th - 19th centuries. The gunflint is sub-square in plan and appears complete. The flint has been knapped around the edges in order to get the correct shape. The distal edge is thinner (2.6 mm) thickening to 10.21 mm before tapering off again. All of the edges are relatively straight. The flint used is a dark grey in colour.
Created on: Monday 25th October 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 1st August 2012
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Record ID: WMID-C605C6
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gunflint. Post-medieval (c.17th C). Sub-rectangular with angled sides and a flat top and base. Mass: 1.7g, length: 19mm, width: 9mm, thickness: 4mm.
Created on: Saturday 2nd May 2009
Last updated: Monday 17th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dudley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-C46580
Object type: GLASS WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One fragment of turquoise glass, possibly used in the glass bead making process, possibly dating to the Roman period (diameter: 8.7mm; thickness: 2.3mm; weight: 0.37g). It was found with some glass beads of the same make and colour, and has two small pierced holes at the edges.
Created on: Monday 7th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-8503C1
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete glass counter or gaming piece of probable Roman to Early Medieval date (c. AD 200-800) The counter is an oval shape in plan, and domed in profile. The body of the counter is made from a dark blue to black glass, which has an applied border of white glass. Within the border, at intervals, there are small blobs of applied white glass as decoration. The base of the counter has an irregular spiral, as if formed during manufacture of the counter. Comparable examples recorded on the PAS database include LON-68A2A9 and WILT-713199. A more ornate example can also be seen in…
Created on: Friday 5th September 2003
Last updated: Thursday 6th January 2022
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Record ID: WMID-54FCD7
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint waste flake of prehistoric date, probably Neolithic or Bronze Age, and dating from circa 4500 BC - 1000 BC. The flake is cortical in small areas at the butt and the tip of the distal end, and it has no obvious shape for a tool. However, what appears to be deliberately fine retouch at the distal end may have enabled the flake to be used as a knife and this is a distinct possibility. It measures 50.06 mm long, 20.62 mm wide, 5.15 mm thick and weighs 6 grams. The flint is pale to dark grey in colour with small areas of cream cortex.
Created on: Monday 25th October 2010
Last updated: Monday 25th October 2010
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Record ID: WMID-C4A778
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nineteen knapped flint flakes/blades with retouch or probable retouch. Length: 15mm-57mm, width: 13mm-32mm, thickness: 5mm-14mm. Total mass: 88g. Prehistoric (Mesolithic – Bronze Age). Following Bond’s methodology (2004), an analysis of the length/breadth ratio of the assemblage supports a Mesolithic to Bronze Age date.
Created on: Saturday 2nd May 2009
Last updated: Monday 17th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dudley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-C3F587
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fifty-seven knapped flint flakes. Length: 8mm-42mm, width: 8mm-35mm, thickness: 2mm-15mm. Total mass: 145 g. Following Bond’s methodology (2004), an analysis of the length/breadth ratio of the assemblage supports a mesolithic or neolithic date.
Created on: Saturday 2nd May 2009
Last updated: Monday 17th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dudley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-D1E553
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy dress hook (hooked tag or clasp), of Post Medieval dating (16th to 17th Centuries AD). The tag is broadly oval in plan view and D-shaped in section. The egg-shaped body of the mount is convex in shape with a hollow reverse. The mount is flanked with a round attachment loop on either side, and a third round attachment loop from the bottom centre. The internal diameter of the attachment perforations is approximately 2.7mm. There is a sub rectangular loop (fastener) with a sub rectangular perforation, this would have held the hook in place. There is no surface …
Created on: Wednesday 7th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 30th October 2019
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Record ID: WMID-DEFEB4
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large irregular piece of flint waste. It does not appear to have been worked, but worked flints and a ground Neolithic axe have been recovered from the immediate area in which it was found.
Created on: Tuesday 8th June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Record ID: WMID-E03865
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two worked out flint cores of prehistoric date. The cores are the remains of the raw pieces of flint from which flakes and blades were struck. Both cores retain some cortex. One core is a blue/grey colour, the other a pale cream to grey. The former measures 29.52 mm long, 20.65 mm wide and 20.5 mm thick, weighing 18 grams. The latter measures 34.88 mm long, 28.57 mm wide, 25.51 mm thick and weighs 30.1 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 8th June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Record ID: WMID-C4DEC4
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three flint cores. Probably mesolithic: 1. Mass: 13.0g; length: 20.0mm; width: 29.0mm, thickness: 26.0mm; off-white/grey flint; sub-conical with a slightly convex, patinated striking platform; inverse blade scars on the tapering surfaces of the core, 5% cortex. 2. Mass: 13.4g; length: 29mm; width: 24mm, thickness: 15mm; grey flint; prepared striking platform and inverse blade scars on the other surfaces of the core. 3. Mass: 8.2g; length: 25mm; width: 20mm, thickness: 14mm; off-white/grey flint; concave striking platform and inverse blade scars on the other surfaces of the core.
Created on: Saturday 2nd May 2009
Last updated: Monday 17th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dudley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-BCDF95
Object type: COMBINATION TOOL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic (c. 4000 B.C. – c. 2350 B.C.) combination tool, comprising a backed knife, scraper and a worked point. Manufactured on a secondary flake of un-patinated dark grey flint. The thicker, lateral edge on the dorsal face has the remains of the cortex and has been invasively retouched to blunt it to facilitate handling the tool. The opposing edge, used for cutting, has utilisation wear along its length. The proximal end has the bulb of percussion and has been modified to produce a worked point. Abrupt retouch around the distal end has resulted in a small end scraper. Overal…
Created on: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
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Record ID: WAW-FC2B46
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy uniface sub-circular coin weight. The design on the upper surface is possibly that of Archangel Michael spearing a dragon. The weight has an abraded surface and the details of the design is not clear. It measures 16.85mm diameter, 4.19mm thick and weighs 7g. The coin weight is possibly that of an angel which were produced between 1495 and 1588 AD (Biggs, N. 1990 'Coin-Weights in England' British Numismatics Journal Volume 60, pp. 65-79.).
Created on: Friday 26th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2017
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Record ID: WMID-A08EC8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver penny of James I (AD 1603 to AD 1625), probably of either the 2nd or 3rd issue between AD 1604 and AD 1625. Minted in the Tower. Initial mark unclear. Either North type 2106 or 2128. Diameter: 13.0 mm Thickness: 0.6 mm Weight: 0.5 g
Created on: Tuesday 10th February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 10th February 2015
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