Record ID: SUR-0E156C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval two part strap end with a narrowed terminal (from the upper plate) which has two flanking pairs of small projections. The front is decorated with intertwined lines of rocker-arm zig-zag decoration which encompass small stars. The rear plate is shorter and undecorated. The rear end is concave with forked sides and a cusped inner edge. There is a single copper alloy rivet at the centre.
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0DCCB2
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small and incomplete copper-alloy awl 34.1mm in length with a sub rectangular cross section. One end tapers to a point, which has broken off; the other to a rounded and incomplete chisel tip. The surface has a deep-green patina with considerable loss, but there is no evident decoration.
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0D75CB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval cast copper alloy double looped buckle. Only part of the frame remains; this has a straight edge with moulded decoration in the form of a lobe flanked by ridges. The strap bar has a lobe at the remaining end and the sides of the loops are curved and convex. 
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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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
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Record ID: BH-C39F4E
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead-alloy pilgrim's ampulla of Medieval date (c. AD 1300-1500). The body of the ampulla is circular with a short rectangular neck that flares at the mouth. The rim is rounded, thickened and mis-shapen. Part of the upper neck and rim have compression damage on one side which has closed the mouth but the rest of it is otherwise open.  A sub-rectangular attachment loop projects from one side of the neck, slightly bet out of shape. The attachment loop on the other side is intact but has collapsed onto the neck. Both faces of the neck are plain exce…
Created on: Wednesday 30th June 2021
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
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Record ID: NARC-7EF328
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver Sceat of Early-Medieval date (AD 710-765). Series U, type 23c, style 1. Obverse depicts Bird left in foliage pecking berries Reverse depicts Cowled figure, facing forward, holding cross pommée in both hands. Crescent boat almost encircling As Abramson P 101. No U200 The coin is missing approximately 50% of its original form. Length: 12.16mm, Width: 6.77mm, Thickness: 1.49mm, Weight: 0.4g
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: NARC-7EE409
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Pin of Roman date (AD 43-410). The object is composed of a simple knob-shaped head. The shaft circular in section with a swelling in the centre, which then tapers down toward the pointed tip. The shaft is recurved into a U-shape. Length: 56.10mm, Diameter (head): 9.79mm, Diameter (shaft): 3.82mm, Weight: 6.5g The metal is dark green with small areas of light green corrosion. Cool (1990, fig.1, no.5) illustrates a similar example, which also has a swollen shaft and belongs to her Group 1C (knob heads with spherical heads). Although she lists no pre…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: NARC-7EDA85
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Stylus or Stylus-like object of Roman date (AD 43-410). The main shaft of the object is rectangular in section. The lower end tapers in towards a curved point, the upper end terminates in a flattened and expanded terminal. This object may have been mounted into a handle or fitted into another, larger holding device for mark making in wax. The metal is a dark green in colour with a predominantly smooth patina. Length: 47.79mm, Width (max): 3.50mm, Width (min); 1.40mm, Thickness (max): 2.95mm, Thickness (min): 1.18mm, Weight: 2.0g
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: NARC-7ED05E
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint Arrowhead of Bronze Age date (2500-1200 BC). The object is a barbed and tanged form and is sub-triangular in plan and concavo-convex in section. The object has two semi-circular notches removed by pressure flaking, on the proximal edge. The notches create a sub-rectangular tang, projecting between them. The left-hand barb is missing. The dorsal surface retains a large amount of cortex and has short, scaled flaking along all edges. The ventral surface has short, scaled flaking along all edges. The flint is dark grey in colour, the cortex is light brown in col…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: NARC-7EC202
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint probable Core Rejuvenation Flake of Mesolithic date (9000-3450 BC). The object is conical in shape and exhibits a single striking platform. There are multiple negative flake removals from blade production. The ventral surface is flat with two negative scars. All edges with the exception of the striking platform have rough semi-abrupt retouch and suggests the object is a utilised flake. The lithic retains no cortex and is therefore a tertiary flake. The flint is dark grey in colour. Length: 32.30mm, Width: 28.53mm, Thickness: 9.66mm, Weight: 10.8g.
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: OXON-C60E48
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval (mid 12th to mid 14th centuries) strap fitting; mount. The copper alloy mount, in plan, has an oval shaped body with an integral sub-oval knop at either end. Each knop has a rivet hole, one of which has the remains of a copper alloy rivet. The mount is decorated with transverse grooves on the body. The body and knops are domed in profile and hollow on the reverse. The surface of the mount has an abraded dark grey abraded surface. The mount measures 18.25mm long, 6.74mm wide and 3.97mm thick. It weighs 0.81g. Egan and Pritchard (2002) illustrate similar mounts, for example, No…
Created on: Monday 8th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: OXON-C61DA6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly Medieval to Post Medieval (late 14th to 17th century) buckle pin: In plan, the copper alloy pin is a long slender rectangle with a rounded blunt tip. The opposite terminal has a a rounded penannular loop which would be fixed around the bar of the frame. On the exterior surface of this loop a casting seam remains, but not on the stem of the pin. The stem is an asymmetrical hexagonal in section with obliquely angled file marks on each face. The surface of the pin is in fair condition and has a dark green shiny patina. The buckle pin measures 27.13mm long, 10.72mm wide at th…
Created on: Monday 8th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-685496
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic or early Bronze Age discoidal scraper, 41.4mm in length, struck from a grey-brown coloured flint. The distal edge has short abrupt scaled retouch around half of the circumference. The striking platform and bulbar scar are well defined.
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-D919B0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily clipped Medieval silver long cross penny, probably of Henry V (1413-1422). Obverse has a broken annulet to the right of the crown. Reverse has annulet in one quarter and quatrelobe with annulet at the centre of the long cross. Mint of York. As North (1991) number 1400.
Created on: Wednesday 8th April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-2736AB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily worn silver halfgroat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Undated and unclear initial mark, but third issue dating from 1583-1603. As North (1991) p137, number 2016.
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: BUC-7DFA11
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age gold quarter stater attributed to the Catuvellauni tribe, struck under Tasciovanos, dating to c. 25 BC - AD 10. Tasciovanos Pegasus type. The obverse depicts TASC in panel on vertical wreath. The reverse depicts Pegasus left, tail raised, pellet in ring on front. ABC 2601, BMC 1647-50. 
Created on: Friday 5th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-689307
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Seal Matrix of Medieval date (AD 1300-1400).  The matrix has a hexagonally faceted conical handle which tapers before expanding to form a perforated trefoil loop, 7.5mm wide, with a ridged collar. The die face is circular, 14.8mm in diameter and depicts a quatrefoil with an unclear legend, most likely (I)E SV S(EL D AO), to be read as a contraction of "je su sel d'amour" (I am a seal of love). The close spacing of the letters also suggests a reading of IESVS (Jesus) which may have been deliberate, helping to create an."amuletic ambi…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-69053C
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy sewing ring or open thimble of Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval date, circa AD 1450 to c. AD 1550. The ring is now crushed flat but would originally have been circular with tapering sides. There are four rows of circular pits. The walls are 1.1mm thick suggesting use for heavy duty work.
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-6A0BED
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded Post-Medieval copper-alloy Nuremberg Rose and Orb jetton of Hans Krauwinckel II dating to 1586-1635. Reverse motto reads *GOTTES GABEN SOL MAN LOB (One should praise God's gifts). As Mitchiner (1988), p441, number 1538.
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-69EB36
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent double loop asymmetrical copper alloy post Medieval buckle, with an expanded pin rest on the rounded front edge. The strap bar has broken. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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