Record ID: CAM-64F318
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy ornamental cross-staff head mount possibly dating to the eleventh or twelfth century AD. The spherical head possesses an openwork design comprising three joined lozenges. Each lozenge is divided into four triangles with a cross. At each apex on the staff head mount, there is a spherical knop. At one end of the object, there extends a circular section collar. The collar is damaged but four circular section perforations are visible. These perforations will have been used for rivets to fix the head onto a staff. The staff measures 46mm in length. The spherical openwork…
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 14th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Wratting', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-50A633
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy balance pan or scale pan, dating to the medieval or post-medieval period. It is concave, circular in shape, and has three small circular perforations spaced at regular intervals around its circumference. It has a diameter of 31mm and a thickness of 3mm. Similar circular pans, with the same or larger dimensions, are known from deposits of c. 1270-c.1400 in London (Egan 1998, nos. 1039-1043) but Margeson suggests that they were still in use in the early post-medieval period (1993, 204-5).
Created on: Friday 29th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 18th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Teversham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-44D354
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An unusually large buckle frame dating to the medieval period. The frame is D-shaped with a narrowed pin bar. The wide outside edge is decorated with an engraved zig-zag forming triangles; those with their apexes towards the external edge are filled with faint rocker-arm engraving. There is iron corrosion adhering to the pin bar. Most unusually, the underside of both loop and bar are hollow, and so the buckle frame has a C-shaped cross-section. Even more strangely, it has three separate small copper-alloy rivet-like pegs which can just be seen polished flat on the upper face. There is…
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Wratting Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-027001
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy strap-slide dating to the mid to late fourteenth century. The frame is rectangular with an angled upper edge. It possesses a single circular rivet hole with a separate internal copper-alloy rivet surviving. It measures 15mm in length and 20mm in width. Strap-slides were used to hold down the free end of a belt or other strap. Similar examples are known from late 13th- to late 14th-century contexts in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 1249-1252).
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 27th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Wickham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-18D537
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Drop shaped flat Medieval lead seal matrix with pointed top and rounded base. On the seal side, the legend is inscribed around the outside of the object. In the middle of this is a fleur-de-lis. On the reverse is a small projecting handle and a large fleur-de-lis. The inscription appears to read S':BASILIA.RAGEDALE (Seal of Basilia Ragdale). Length: 28.24mm; diameter: 24.40mm; thickness: 2.73mm; weight: 9.52g. A Basilia Ragedale appears in the records of the Priory of St Mary and St Radegund in Cambridge (now Jesus College), giving land in West Wratting to her maid and to the for…
Created on: Friday 24th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
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Record ID: CAM-3F1AC5
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix depicting the head of John the Baptist with a personal name around the outside: S' E L ** I S..). The loop of the seal matrix is broken off. Diameter: 16.36mm, height: 11.04mm; weight; 4.95g. Helen Geake writes: From the photograph this appears to be of the type with a conical handle,but that most of the handle is missing. When the image is manipulated slightly the central image becomes clearer, but appears to be that of a profile bust with neck and collar, rather than the head of John the Baptist. It is enclosed within a narrow grooved circle, and…
Created on: Monday 1st December 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
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Record ID: CAMHER-94A8F2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
The bezel of a Medieval finger-ring, soldered to the remains of a flat hoop. The bezel takes the form of a crowned heart sprouting flowers, a popular Medieval symbol for love. The surface is much abraded and lacks definition. The bezel is silver-gilt and dates from the fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Dimensions: length 18 mm, width 21 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemingford Grey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAMHER-961244
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval finger-ring, complete but distorted. The cusped setting holds a blue stone, probably a sapphire. The hoop is decorated along its two sides with a series of quatrefoils. The back of the hoop is left plain. Inside the hoop is an inscription, which reads: en bon foey The last word is likely to be a version of "foi", which would give the meaning "in good faith". A more substantial gold ring with a turquoise held in a similar setting was found among the jewels deposited with the Fishpool Hoard (BM MME 1967, 12-8, 2). The ring is gold, and dates from the fifteenth century…
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 27th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cambridgeshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAMHER-9AC834
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small silver hemispherical element, shank or attachment loop missing. The function of this object is not clear. It has been described as a button fragment, which seems plausible, though the form is unusual for post-medieval buttons of the 16th and early 17th Century reported through the Treasure Act to date. Probably 16th Century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Wratting', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAMHER-9B0D71
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A terminal and fragment of stem from a Medieval spoon. The stem is hexagonal in section and the terminal is a six-facetted diamond type. The spoon fragment is silver and dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Dimensions: length 30 mm, width 2 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 27th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston Colville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAMHER-9BE832
Object type: ANNULAR BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A medieval annular brooch of sheet silver, with convex profile, now distorted. The pin survives, attached through a hole pierced through the frame. Date: 13th-14th century Dimensions: Maximum diameter: 29mm
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 27th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Wratting', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAMHER-9C28E3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver finial in the form of a pine cone, broken off at the base, where it would have joined onto another element. It has been suggested that this may be a knop from a spoon. If this is so, the best comparison known to me is a spoon with enamelled bowl in the British Museum, P&E 1899, 12-9,3, inscribed AVE MARIA, which has been dated to the late 15th Century. The knop on this spoon is more rounded in form and is engraved with rings of regular lines rather than with the much cruder hatching seen on this object. However this object may not be a knop but may have served as some other kin…
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston Colville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-D49EC6
Object type: PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Faceted head and shaft socket from a composite pin, made in one piece from silver. The shaft is circular in cross-section (4-5 mm in diameter) and hollow, with a deep tapering split at the back and a pair of rivet holes (one on either side) for attachment to a separate shaft. There is no evidence for the material of the shaft, and it was probably organic, e.g. wood or ivory. The shaft tapers from a wider attachment end to a pair of ridged collars at the junction between the head and the shaft. The upper collar is larger than the lower. The head is roughly in the shape of a cube, a max…
Created on: Friday 14th May 2010
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-A2CDB7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment from a Medieval brooch, which was originally circular in form and now consists of a flattened band twisted towards one end. It is engraved with the letters ...SVS:NAZA... to signify IESVS NAZARENVS (Jesus of Nazareth) The inscription would have continued with the words REX IUDEORUM (King of the Jews) This may have been abbreviated to fit the space provided by the brooch frame. This Latin phrase, taken from Pilates' words to Jesus in the Gospels, was used as a popular charm in the Middle Ages. The brooch fragment is silver-gilt and dates from the fourteenth centur…
Created on: Thursday 17th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 23rd September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-F0DC51
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval silver terminal of twelfth century date. The terminal has a multi-faceted head best described as being a cube with all of the corners cut off. The cube has a height of 8.12mm and the top of the cube is 8.41mm x 8.21mm. The vertical sides of the cube taper inwards giving base of the cube the dimensions 6.50mm x 6.61mm. The eight flat triangular facets at the corners of the cube are simply decorated by an incised boarder and plain centre. The four vertical and single top lozengiform faces have identical relief decoration of four lozenges set together with the points meeting…
Created on: Monday 20th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Offord Cluny and Offord D'Arcy', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-803D10
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medeival silver groat of Henry VI (1st reign; 1422-61); annulet issue (1422-27); mint: Calais; N1427. Obverse shows crowned bust forward facing with an annulet either side of the neck. Obverse legend reads HENRICxDIxGRAxREXxANGLIExZ FRANC . initial mark: cross II. Reverse legend reads POSVI(annulet stop)/DEVm(double saltire stop)A/DIVTOR/E(saltire and apostrophe stop)mEVm//VIL/LA(double saltire stop)/CALI/SIE((double saltire stop). Reverse shows a solid long cross with three pellets in each angle, two quarters have an extra annulet at the centre of the pellet clusters.
Created on: Wednesday 26th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 22nd April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-194AF2
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead seal matrix, a small thin flat circular disc. The reverse has some damage consisting of a scrape at the top of the inscription which has removed any lug or loop that may originally have been present. The central motif is a five-petalled flower within a neat, but not regular, circle which has clearly been drawn by hand without the use of a compass. Around this is a clear inscription in neat Lombardic capitals, reading S:IO' hIS: PAT' nR': There is no initial mark. Diameter: 21.6mm, maximum thickness;c. 1mm, weight: 6.50g. The first two words of the inscription are clear: Sea…
Created on: Monday 19th May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
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Record ID: CAM-1AD386
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Circular medieval copper alloy seal matrix. The object terminates in a simple circular loop. The seal matrix design consists of two birds, possibly peacocks, with their heads turned to face each other over a plant or small tree. A legend in Lombardic script surrounds the central design. Length: 12.50mm; diameter: 15.65mm; thickness: 2.17mm; length of loop: 9.64mm; weight: 3.47g. Helen Geake adds: The photo appears to show that this matrix has a conical handle. The inscription is set between beaded lines, and reads + CREDE [M]IChI (Believe in Me). 14th century.
Created on: Monday 19th May 2008
Last updated: Friday 25th November 2016
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Record ID: CAM-66A107
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy strap slide, for holding down the free end of a strap. The object consists of a plain trapezoidal frame with an inward-pointing spike at either side of the shortest sides to hold it in place on the strap. Width: 22.55mm, height: 14.68mm, weight: 2.16g.
Created on: Monday 16th June 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2019
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Record ID: CAM-24BA66
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small assemblage of medieval and post medieval ceramic vessel pottery sherds comprising: a) 3 rims of a shell tempered ware, probably dating to the eleventh or twelfth centuries AD. The fabric is grey to orange in colour with numerous shell inclusions. b)5 rims (one with combed decoration), 28 bodies and 4 bases of a coarse grey ware probably dating to the medieval period. The fabric contains numerous rounded quartz and mica inclusions giving the surface of the sherds a mottled and dimpled appearance. c)3 rims, 3 bodies and one base of an oxidised fabric, again probably dating to th…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2021
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