Record ID: YORYM-CE9817
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy harness pendant in the form of a cross with stubby limbs. At the end of each limb is a large circular knop. The limbs have a flattened triangular section. An intact suspension loop springs from the top knop. This artefact dates to the 14th or 15th century.
Created on: Sunday 25th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lavendon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-DB1962
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver, Medieval, complete, Penny of Edward I (AD 1272 - AD 1307). Long Cross reverse type, Long Cross Class 1c dating to the period May to December AD 1279. Initial Mark: Cross Potent. Mint: London. North, Vol 2, page 28, No 1012. Diameter: 18.3 mm Thickness: 0.7 mm Weight: 1.1 g
Created on: Thursday 21st May 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2015
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Record ID: WMID-834CF3
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete struck / hammered copper alloy jetton (reckoning counter) of Edward I (1272 AD - 1307 AD). It is probably of the 'Sterling bust' type, issued between c. 1302 AD and c.1307 AD. Obverse description: ?Crowned bust facing; all within a border of pellets Obverse inscription: None Reverse description: Short cross moline with pellet in each angle within border, all within a pellet border Reverse inscription: None Diameter: 16.85mm Thickness: 1.12mm Weight: 1.2 grams
Created on: Monday 25th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 27th June 2012
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Record ID: WMID-681431
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete struck / hammered cut farthing of Henry III (AD1216 to AD 1272), dating to the period AD 1250. Moneyer Davi. Mint London. Class IVa. Length: 9.1 mm Width: 9.7 mm Thickness: 0.8 mm Weight: 0.3 g
Created on: Monday 27th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 27th January 2014
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Record ID: WMID-1006A0
Object type: RELIQUARY CROSS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gold hollow cross pendant, perhaps used as a miniature reliquary, of late medieval date (15th century AD). The pendant is in the 'budded' cross or 'cross bottony' style, with each arm terminating in three semi-circular knops. The front of the pendant is decorated with five multi-petalled engraved flowers, one at the end of each arm and one in the centre. Multiple lines of tiny punched dots radiate out from each flower. The flowers separate the words of a black-letter inscription; across the arms is written 'crux florat' (meaning 'may the cross…
Created on: Wednesday 30th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newport Pagnell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-E65597
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver annular brooch which is complete and with the pin intact. Traces of gilding evident on the brooch. The frame is circular in plan and in section. It is decorated with four evenly spaced globular collars, each of which is punched with small circular marks. The pin is cast and is circular in cross section, tapering to a point at the end. The loop round the frame is unusual because it is formed from two arms projecting from the pin, with a central break on the outside of the frame, rather than one arm which is bent round the frame leaving a small gap near the pin which i…
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wharley End', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-F6C105
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A penny of Henry V, Class G.
Created on: Thursday 15th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-F6E2A5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A penny, probably of Edward I, Class 6b-15d. Mint of Durham
Created on: Thursday 15th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-F6F8B3
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Sterling Bust jetton, pierced centrally.
Created on: Thursday 15th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-72B747
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Scottish cut halfpenny, probably of Alexander II.
Created on: Wednesday 21st January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-85D735
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An oval medieval buckle with a narrow offset bar and an ornate outer edge. The frame also has two outwardly projecting knops adjacent to the bar and the sides are upright. Part of the wire pin survives.
Created on: Thursday 22nd January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-85F8E8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An medieval buckle of trapezoidal form. The thickened outer edge has transverse grooves and a groove for the pin seating.
Created on: Thursday 22nd January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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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: SUR-E5D760
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy fragment of a candlestick of late medieval or Tudor date. The cylindrical shaft flares into a narrow collar which would have been inserted into a saucer-like base, and the shaft has two girth grooves. The object appears to have been broken and deliberately crushed as scrap.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2019
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Record ID: SUR-E5F9F5
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A conical facetted seal matrix; the handle is missing. The face bears the initial N.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2013
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Record ID: SUR-E61285
Object type: ROTARY KEY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A poorly cast copper alloy rotary key for a casket. The simple key has an oval-section shaft.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-E633F6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hooked dress fastener; the hook is missing. The fastener, which is now bent, has a circular openwork plate at the centre of which is a heraldic rose. The loop is rectangular.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-C33C53
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy openwork frame for a two-piece harness pendant. The design of the frame is a sexfoil, with deeply moulded cusps on the inside of each lobe. The surface of the frame has traces of gilding. At the top the frame has an elongated rectangular neck, with the rusted remains of an iron suspension spindle from which a central decorative pendant element, now lost, would have hung. The top of this neck has an integrally cast, flattened, rectangular suspension loop set at right angles to the plane of the frame, with a circular aperture. Circa 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 18th November 2020
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Record ID: SUR-08A552
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy knife handle, probably of Dutch origin. The handle is hollow with an octagonal section and is made of sheet metal soldered along one edge. Each side has a panel, four of the panels contain diagonal lines, one contains a herringbone pattern of lines. The two large side panel each have an incsised robed standing figure, probably intented to be saints. A small fragment of a wooden core with iron tang also survives. SUR-085773 is very similar and there is another example excavated at Sutton Park, Surrey (Surrey Arch Coll 96, 2011, SF93).
Created on: Wednesday 11th September 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th September 2013
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Record ID: SUR-CB8009
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and damaged silver penny of an uncertain monarch, 1300-1500. Possibly mint of York.
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Monday 23rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded.