Record ID: BERK-EED422
Object type: BOX
Broad period: MODERN
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy box, leather pouch, beads and paper of 20th century date. The box contained two pages from the Quran? as well as 4 beads (3 teal, 1 yellow). The yellow bead has since dried out and broken. There is also a small piece of fabric still inside the box. The box is rectancular in plan with a hinged lid. The outside of the box is decorated with a stippled, snakeskin pattern. The lid of the box has a single, red, oval stone in the centre. In each corner there is an empty circular field where there might have been similar stones. The box was found inserted inside a leather pouch.…
Created on: Sunday 18th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
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Record ID: BERK-861F2E
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but bent copper alloy commemorative mount dating to the 19th century. The mount has two rectangular fields, slightly curved, one above the other, with the upper most field smaller than the lower one. The upper field bears the word WATERLOO, the lower field PENINSULA. Therefore this mount appears commemorate the British success of the Peninsula War (AD 1808-1814) culminating with the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The mount may have been attached to a military company's plaque. Suggested date AD 1815-1900.
Created on: Thursday 1st September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2016
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Record ID: SUR-357AE2
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A machine-made copper alloy thimble, probably of late 18th to mid-19th century date, now squashed and fragmentary. The thimble contains a fragment of printed textile, probably cotton. The fabric is white and has a repeating pattern of crosses and other motifs in red, purple, green and brown.
Created on: Thursday 22nd December 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2013
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Record ID: SUR-792AC8
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large oval bifacial lithic object of uncertain function, made from a flake of good quality black flint. On opposing sides two large semi-circular 'bites' have been removed.
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2011
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2018
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