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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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.