Record ID: WMID-68D214
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy unifaced token, of Medieval to Post Medieval dating (AD 1300 to AD 1600). The token is circular in shape. The obverse depicts a seated figure on horseback, riding left, with a creature beneath, within a border. This probably represents St George fighting the dragon. The reverse is plain apart from a vertical ridge. A small circular perforation is present at 12 o'clock on the obverse. It has an internal diameter of 2.4 mm. The token has a diameter of 28.8 mm and is 2.6 mm thick. It weighs 8.5 g. The token is a mid grey colour, with an even surface pati…
Created on: Monday 27th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 27th January 2014
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Record ID: SUR-8A0B21
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A miniature cast lead alloy handle from a toy barrel tap, probably of 19th century date.
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2013
Last updated: Friday 17th January 2014
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Record ID: SUR-62B1CC
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a post medieval rectangular, lead cloth seal. The front is stamped with lettering and Roman numerals reading [...]HAX[...] / [...]XX[...]. The reverse has a cylindrical integrally cast lug, 5.2mm thick, which has been bent to one side.
Created on: Wednesday 24th February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Record ID: SUR-CE9833
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy circular post Medieval bridle rosette of Plain Centre Type, 57.7mm in diameter. The face is decorated with alternating triangular leaf and T-shaped vinescroll motifs arrayed around a central boss which has a beaded border. The mount has a convex cross section and flat reverse, with two stumps from a now lost iron strap bar.
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 25th May 2021
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Record ID: SUR-EE6524
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pierced conical lead alloy object, possibly a spindle whorl or weight of Medieval or post Medieval date. The object is 28mm in diameter with a central aperture of around 12.5mm diameter. The surface is undecorated and the base is flat.
Created on: Wednesday 13th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 13th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-59BBE4
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy whistle, tapering from a broad mouthpiece to a damaged D-shaped sound-hole beyond which it is of consistent diameter as far as the distal end. This is now open but would have been blocked by a stopper of some sort. Decoration around the mouthpiece consists of a band of fine tendril ornament. This is separated from a field of fine pellets by a low rib. The pellets extend to the distal edge of the sound hole. A casting seam extends the full length along both sides. Length 26mm. Mouthpiece 8mm x 7mm externally. Other end diam. 4mm. Perhaps 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Monday 9th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2013
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Record ID: NARC-DB714E
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead or lead alloy Papal Bulla (seal) of Pope Innocent IIII (IV) dating from the medieval period 25th June 1243 – 7th December 1254. The bulla is broadly circular in plan and rectangular in cross section. The front (recta) side of the bulla depicts the faces of Saint Paul and Saint Peter with a cross between them. Above the Saints’ heads appears the abbreviation of St Paul and St Peter 'SPA SPE'. St. Paul is depicted with a long beard and a balding scalp with little hair, and St Peter has a curly beard and curly hair formed from small sub oval pellets. Both heads are en…
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 8th October 2021
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Record ID: NARC-DB9BBA
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Lead Seal Matrix of Medieval date (AD 1200-1300). The object is flat and circular in plan, there is an abraded area at the apex of the inscription, which suggests there would have been an integral suspension loop projecting from this point. The front of the object has a central incised design consisting of a curvilinear motif consisting of a central expanded stem with six curvilinear arms. This is surrounded by an inscription, in retrograde, within an inner and outer circular border. The inscription starts at twelve o'clock and runs retrograde (anti-clockwise…
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 8th October 2021
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Record ID: NARC-DCA1E7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy weight, possibly a spindle whorl of Medieval date (AD 1200-1550). The object has a flat lower face and domed upper face. The object has a central, sub-circular perforation. There is no decoration on obverse and reverse and all surfaces appear very worn. Lead weights like these are common finds, but only rarely from excavated contexts which is why date and origin are difficult to pinpoint. Decorated lead-alloy weights are very rare finds in excavations, but are often found by metal detectorists. They are usually biconical or cylindrical in shape and are decor…
Created on: Friday 10th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th February 2017
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Record ID: BUC-A5C814
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval or post medieval cast lead alloy circular uniface token, c. AD 1250-1800, Powell Class 14. The obverse is decorated with with a raised equal armed cross, with three or four pellets in each quarter all enclosed in a raised line border. The reverse is undecorated. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally; they are therefore hard to date precisely and could be medieval or post medieval in date. Until recently cross and pellet designs were thought to be contemporary with the similar medieval coin designs; however publication of moulds and double …
Created on: Thursday 21st June 2007
Last updated: Sunday 23rd March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Brickhill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-3F2161
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper-alloy spoon with silver-grey coloured surface. The round bowl, with neat lip-moulding, is dented; the thin, circular-sectioned handle is broken close to the bowl. Date: 1st - 2nd century AD. Dimensions: Bowl diameter 23.4 mm. Weight: 3.2 g. Non-destructive surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated that the surface is tinned. No precious metal was detected.
Created on: Monday 1st December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gayhurst area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-4F57E0
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval to post medieval double faced cast lead alloy circular token of Powell Class 1 and 7. The token is decorated on one face with a design of nine spokes radiating out from a central point to the plain line border, some spokes are curved and meet, there are pellets between the ends of some spokes, near the border (Powell class 3). On the other is a grid design within a raised plain line border (Powell Class 7). Lead tokens were easy to produce and widely circulated; they appear in the Medieval period and ones with simple decoration continued in use throughout both t…
Created on: Wednesday 7th January 2009
Last updated: Sunday 23rd March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lathbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-AAA9E7
Object type: TOY
Broad period: MODERN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a hollow cast lead alloy toy gun, designs remain on it but are to difficult to make out with any certainty. A flash pan for putting in and igniting gunpowder remains so presumably this was a working model. The barrel appears incomplete
Created on: Sunday 27th February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hanslope XR Field', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-971B98
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete Medieval to Post Medieval double faced cast lead alloy circular token of Powell Class 1 and 7. The token is decorated on one face with a flower with seven or eight overlapping pointed oval petals meeting in the centre and within a plain line border with pellets by the border between the points of the petals (Powell Class 1). The other face has a grid design with four parallel horizontal lines crossed by four parallel angled lines (Powell Class 7). Lead tokens were easy to produce and widely circulated; they appear in the Medieval period and ones with simple decoration c…
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2008
Last updated: Sunday 23rd March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lathbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-9DD423
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval or post medieval lead alloy circular uniface token, c. AD 1250-1800, Powell Class 14. The token has been cast with a raised design of a equal arm cross with a large pellet in each quarter 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 and could be medieval or post medieval in date. Until recently cross and pellet designs were thought to be contemporary with the similar medieval coin designs; however publication of moulds and double faced tokens which combine …
Created on: Wednesday 6th August 2008
Last updated: Sunday 23rd March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Brickhill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-BB7401
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pewter or lead alloy head, that has been broken off a larger object. The face is depicted in relief with a heavy lips, crescent shaped bags beneath pellet eyes, a thin nose and a single line for the brows. The hair is shown in straight ridges going back from the forehead. The surviving portion may be a decorative 'collet' from an annular brooch.
Created on: Monday 19th July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hanslope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-B8DA93
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast bifaced circular lead-alloy token of Powell Classes 2 and 18 . It is decorated on one side with the raised initials WF with a pellet below and star above. The other side has a raised design of a swan going right. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally. They are therefore hard to date precisely although those with initials are usual thought to be Post Medieval in date, c. AD 1500-1800.
Created on: Friday 1st February 2013
Last updated: Monday 24th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Brickhill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-5FCA89
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval lead-alloy personal seal matrix. The matrix is pointed-oval in plan and of flat section. The engraved central device is that of a latin cross. A line border separates this cross from the legend which, when printed, extends clockwise from 12 o'clock and reads: +SIGILL'PHILIPI:WALRT (probably 'Seal of Philip Walter'). a vertical ridge extends down the centre of the reverse, interrupted only by the perforated lug handle, located one third of the way up from the base.
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hanslope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-2689D7
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval biface lead token. On one side there is a bust facing right, with the inscription [...] E R A.On the reverse is a cross design with one line made up of two raised parallel lines, and one solid line. In each quarter there is a pattern or a letter - these are worn and illegible.
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 5th October 2016
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Record ID: BUC-FB60A1
Object type: DRINKING VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy post medieval tankard handle, dating from c.1650 - 1750 AD. The handle consists of the rounded thumb mechanism for lifting the lid, which is attached to the hinge by a narrow neck. This would have attached to the tankard, and has a worn and broken point where it has detached. The hinge is rectangular in shape, and has a rounded attachment, the handle attachment fits round this. The handle narrows after the hinge, and is rectangular in cross section. It has been mishapen, and has a bend about half way down. At the narrowed end the handle curves upwards where it…
Created on: Monday 18th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2017
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