Record ID: NCL-73E19D
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy socketed axehead of probable Late Bronze Age date, c. 1300-700 BC. The artefact is the blade of the axe and consists of a broadly curved cutting edge with sides that flare out to reveal a hollow interior cavity. The artefact is sub-trapezoidal in plan. The broken edges are transverse to the cutting edge and are uneven, but all edges are abraded and chipped. The artefact has a powdery green patina. Height: 29.28 mm Width: 45.56 mm Thickness: 15.34 mm Weight: 37.49 g
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
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Record ID: NCL-73A86B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Elizabeth I Axis 2 Weight: 1.29 g Diameter: 21.33 mm
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
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Record ID: NCL-B8D238
Object type: POLISHER
Broad period: MODERN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern ceramic object, probably ceramic media for smoothing manufactured goods in a tumbler. The object is tetrahedral, with four triangular sides and rounded edges and corners. Three sides are slightly taller than they are wide. Each of these isoceles sides has an inscribed arc, slightly of-centre and running from just below the corner shared with the other two of similar sides to about half-way down the face. The remaining triangle is closer to equilateral in form and is un-marked, with scratches on one of its edges. 
Created on: Tuesday 17th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
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Record ID: NCL-A1C882
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast iron cannonball of Post-Medieval date, probably from a Civil War battle in the area dating to 1644. The ball weighs approximately 5 lbs with a diameter of 86.03mm. The ball was cast in a mould consisting of two hemispherical halves, as a flashmark is visible around much of the ball's centre. There are no further distinguishing features. The surface has suffered from corrosion.
Created on: Monday 20th May 2013
Last updated: Monday 20th May 2013
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Record ID: NCL-583C93
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy zoomorphic buckle of late Saxon date, c. 900-1100. The buckle is incomplete, missing its pin, and otherwise very worn and somewhat corroded, obscuring the detail of the frame. The frame is D-shaped in plan and section, with beasts heads at the end of the arms, with the crossbar emerging from the mouth/snout of the beasts.
Created on: Sunday 27th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2013
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Record ID: NCL-57FDE2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Edward IV, probably his first reign, minted at York, though wear obscures complete identification, dating 1461-1470.
Created on: Sunday 27th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2013
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Record ID: NCL-63FB55
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead spindle whorl of Medieval date, c. 1200-1500. The spindle whorl is biconical with a hole through its centre. The faces of the object are decorated with crude chevrons in relief. The object has been considerably worn. Please note that this object has been recorded from a photograph sent by the finder.
Created on: Friday 16th November 2012
Last updated: Friday 16th November 2012
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Record ID: NCL-26FE55
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver denarius of Vespasian dating to AD 75 (Reece period 4), PON MAX TR P COS VI reverse type depicting Pax seated left. RIC II, no. 90.
Created on: Wednesday 8th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 21st August 2012
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Record ID: NCL-D7B741
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast white metal alloy (probably pewter) mount of the Post-Medieval period, probably 17th century. The mount is lozenge shaped and flat, though it has suffered some minor bending damage. The surface bears cast decoration of two crossed muskets, separating the face into four panels. The bottom panel has a down-turned flower. The right panel has a letter O, the top panel has a crown, and the left panel has a trefoil and some other symbol not recognisable. The reverse is undecorated.
Created on: Tuesday 19th October 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 19th October 2010
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Record ID: NCL-3300B0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: BYZANTINE
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
An imitation of a tetarteron of Alexios I (1081-1118), post-reform (1092) of the mint of Constantinople. Reference for the real issue (and not this imitation) can be found in Dumbarton Oaks Coins vol 4, no 33. Julian Baker of the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) indicated that it was a good imitation, though the style was not quite right, and the coin itself is too round and not irregular enough to be an official issue of the era. That said, it is probably contemporary as these have very little collector's value, unless made as a tourist trinket in more recent centuries.
Created on: Thursday 25th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 24th September 2012
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Record ID: NCL-AB80B7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy probable vessel mount of the late Medieval period. The mount is sub-triangular in plan, with one edge contained moulded decoration the creates a softly serated edge of 3 lobes. A shank emerges from the narrow ed at an angle, but was broken. When complete, this shank may have looped around to form a suspension loop for a handle, such that the mount acted as a handle escutcheon. A circular perforation with a diameter of 7.77mm (drilled from both sides) is in the centre of the mount, and this was probably how it was originally attached to a vessel.
Created on: Thursday 5th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-67E0D6
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy jetton dated to 1552. Three fleur-de-lis and crowns are on the obverse and an orb on the reverse, with IORG SCHULTES credited in the legend on both faces. Mitchiner 1309 variant
Created on: Thursday 30th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-AE9AE1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Billon Tetradrachm of Diocletian (284-305) Mint of Alexandria, AD 285-6 Obverse: AKOVAΔIOKHTIANOCCEB; laureate bust r. Reverse: Eirene (Pax) standing left, holding olive-branch in r. hand and transverse sceptre in left. L - B (= date: 285/6) Reference: BMC Greek, Alexandria, p. 2493var Curtis The Tetradrachms of Roman Egypt p. 164, no. 1976 Milne, Catalogue of Alexandridan Coins, p. 114, no. 4774 The outer edge is unevenly worn. This object was found on the coast at South Shields in the 1890s, where Eastern coins are known from a hoard, possible shipwreck, and as individual finds.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th June 2019
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Record ID: NCL-660314
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cu alloy nummus of Constantine I, RIC VII (p106, cf156).
Created on: Monday 18th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-D46051
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cu alloy nummus of Valens, RIC 7a (Vol IX; 95).
Created on: Monday 11th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-2A0468
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint scraper of Mesolithic date. The scraper is sub-rectangular in shape. The scraping edge has been formed by pressure flaking and is generally strait. A second edge also indicates some working, though not to the degree of the scraping edge. The flint is red-brown in colour.
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-EA1680
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Silver sixpence of Elizabeth I, dating to 1578.
Created on: Wednesday 21st January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-E9E9A6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
Silver sixpence of Elizabeth I, dating to 1580.
Created on: Wednesday 21st January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-A50302
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy hook fastener. There is a central circular plate with a triangular fastener extending at one end and the hook from the other. The central plate is decorated with a Tudor rose motif. The fastener is likely to be sixteenth century in date.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-A477F2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: South Tyneside
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a leaf shaped copper alloy strapend with zoomorphic decoration on one face. The attachment end is complete and consists of a sheet of copper alloy which splits in two. The corners of the attachment end of the plate are rounded and there are two circular perforations, one in each corner. There is possible incised decoration at the attachment end of the plate. However, the strap end is very corroded making it impossible to discern with any certainty. The upper surface of the plate is decorated with a zoomorphic design. However, again the piece is too corroded to pick out t…
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2003
Last updated: Saturday 1st March 2014
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