Record ID: BUC-14CBD6
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy medieval ampulla, dating from 1350-1530 AD. The ampulla has a rounded chamber, which narrows at the neck then widens to the opening, this part is trapezoidal in shape. The centre of the ampulla has been pressed together at the neck and opening.  The two sides at the opening end are pressed together and creased slightly, there is one v shaped crack.  Either side of the neck is a suspension loop or side-lug, these are oval in shape and are thin pieces of lead that are curved round to create the loop. The ampulla is decorated bifacially. on one si…
Created on: Friday 14th July 2023
Last updated: Sunday 27th August 2023
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Record ID: BUC-BC0D68
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete medieval lead seal matrix dating from 1400-1500. The seal is circular in shape, it has been folded over slightly and is distorted. At the top of the matrix is the remains of the attachment projecting outwards, it is sub circular in shape and has a small break. In the centre of the seal matrix is a cross surrounded by a circular border. Running around this is the inscription, this is illegible. The lead of the seal matrix is porous, and has a rough surface. The seal matrix is 28.1mm in length, 23.1mm in width, 3.2mm in thickness and weighs 13.75g.
Created on: Thursday 5th August 2021
Last updated: Friday 13th August 2021
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Record ID: NARC-5CC60A
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead Weight of Medieval date (AD 1200-1550). The object is plano-convex in section and sub-circular in plan. The object has an upper, worn, circular perforation. Below the perforation is an integral decoration composed of raised pellets, two pairs flanking the perforation and one within the lower portion of the object placed centrally below the perforation. The flat side of the object is undecorated and has several deep linear incisions. The metal is a light brown in colour with a pitted patina Length: 27.49mm, Width: 32.65mm, Thickness: 11.31mm, Diameter (inner …
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2019
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Record ID: BUC-7A5509
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval lead circular seal matrix dating between 1200 - 1350. The front of the matrix comprises a central design of an incised 8 pointed star within a circular border dividing it from the legend. Around this is engraved the inscription which is unclear. There is a fold at the bottom of the matrix. The back is flat and plain other than an incomplete suspension lug likely snapping across the pierced suspension loop. The seal matrix measures: 30mm in diameter, 2mm thick, and weighs 13.6 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 12th September 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2017
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Record ID: BUC-382DF9
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy medieval ampulla dating from about AD 1300-1500. The ampulla is flask-shaped and damaged on one side and at the neck.Both loops are present but distorted. One face of the body is obscured. The other side has a crescent filled with a raised lattice pattern. This style of ampulla usually dates from the 14th to early 16thcenturies (Spencer 1990:57-62). Ampullae were designed to contain a draught of relic water, to be taken as cures or worn by suspension through the loops as a talisman (Spencer, 1998: 203). Spencer (ibid: 3) suggests that ampulla were popular in E…
Created on: Thursday 4th February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castlethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-282CE8
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead seal matrix. Circular, with a suspension loop projecting from the edge, the reverse of the matrix is undecorated. The front of the matrix has engraved into it, in reverse: + S': ROBERTI FL'[ ]. Unusually, the inscription begins opposite the suspension loop, not next to it. The central motif is a cross pattee with a pellet in each angle within a circle, and a circular border encloses the whole matrix. Diameter 25mm, length including suspension loop 38mm, thickness 2mm. Weight 14.29g. After corresponding with Laura Cotton, Senior Archivist of the Centre for Buck…
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2013
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2013
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Record ID: BUC-B7B744
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead medieval badge with a design consisting of a stylised face with raised features, surrounded by a border of encircled pellets. The 19.36mm long pin on the reverse was cast flat, in one with the main part of the badge and folded back. There are traces of a possible suspension loop at the top of the badge.
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 18th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hanslope CF Field', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-13F956
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Flat lead pointed-oval seal matrix with pierced lug on the reverse. Fleur de lis device in centre. Inscription set between plain lines reads + S' AGNET' FRANKL' (Seal of Agnes Franklin). There is a small pierced lug on the reverse at the top corner. A franklin is a free man or woman.
Created on: Saturday 28th May 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sherington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-A1D814
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A battered lead uniface disc probably a token with an indestinct design .
Created on: Sunday 27th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 3rd March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hanslope BF Field', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-26B646
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval cast lead circular unifaced token (1250-1650 AD). The token has a design of severn randomly spaced raised pellets on the obverse and a flat, undecorated reverse. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally; they are therefore hard to date precisely.
Created on: Monday 21st February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hanslope CF Field', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-E5CB31
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A biconical lead spindle whorl. The object has cast latticework decoration with a pellet at each intersection. The internal diameter is 10.66mm.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BUC-513B84
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead spindle whorl, bi-conical with central perforation and decorated on both sides with alternate raised V shapes and pelletd crosses.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haversham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-F73906
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and corroded lead papal bulla of Gregory IX, AD 1227-1241. The obverse bears an image in relief of the inward-facing heads of St. Peter and St. Paul. The bearded heads of the two saints are contained within pellet borders; a further pellet border marks the edge of the obverse. At the top of the obverse are the letters: 'SP[A SPE]' - for St. Paul and St. Peter respectively. The reverse also has a beaded outer border and bears the letters: 'GRE/GORIVS./PP:VIII.' ('Pope Gregory the ninth'). A central cord hole passes vertically through the bulla. The object measures 37.2mm in diam…
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milton Keynes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-E53037
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Medieval lead spindlewhorl, biconvex in section. The outer surface is decorated with a pattern of zig-zags with pellets between, within bands running around the circumference. One half has one band containing two pellets in each triangular segment and the other half has two bands of decoration with one pellet in each triangular segement. The whorl was pierced with a circular hole.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Brickhill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-30B556
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cut fragment of a lead seal matrix. The matrix is circular in shape and has lettering in a linear border around a central circle, that appears to read RICHA[...] (probably Richard). The motif within the central circle is not clear from the amount that survives. The matrix appears to have been deliberately cut, with slightly less than half remaining. The reverse of the matrix is flat.
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newport Pagnell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-2441F4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead uniface token, divided into eight by radiating lines, with a pellet in each angle. The token appears once to have been folded. This token may date from the Medieval to the Post-Medieval period.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hanslope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-FE3EC3
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead papal bulla, used as a seal on official documents from the Pope Gregory XI in Avignon (1370 to 1378). The bulla is circular with the inscription on each side within a beaded border. The obverse reads GRE/GORIUS/PP XI and the reverse reads SPASPE above the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul facing each other in oval beaded borders, a cross pattée with long foot between.
Created on: Monday 26th June 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tyringham with Filgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-159AE5
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat lead seal impression from a pointed oval seal matrix. The impressed side has a central rosette with eight lozenge-shaped petals. Around the edge is lettering but this is worn and not clearly legible. The reverse has an X scratched into the surface but is otherwise unmarked.
Created on: Friday 10th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hanslope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-859466
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead or lead-alloy pilgrim's ampulla of probable mid 14th to early 16th century AD date. The object is bag-shaped and has become squashed but is otherwise intact. On each side, at the point where the trapezoidal upper section joins the circular bottom section is a small loop handle. On one side of the object the circular lower half is decorated with the raised design of a (possibly) crowned heart filled with closely-spaced lattice work. The opposite side is decorated with an eight-petalled flower. Very similar designs have been found on ampullae from Salisbury (for example B. Spen…
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cold Brayfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-089F06
Object type: CROSS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A roughly cast, lead, equal armed cross. The arms are squarish in section, with rounded ends and there is no decoration. This may a plague cross though no parallels have been found so far.
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hanslope', grid reference and parish protected.