Record ID: IOW-F80E58
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast and probably wrought copper alloy misshapen object of Unknown date. Length (if straightened) 102.0mm, maximum width 2.6mm and maximum thickness 1.8mm. Weight 2.89g. The object is slender and may originally have been straight. Throughout most of its length it is rectangular in cross-section but has rounded corners. From about mid-way along its length it tapers slightly towards each end. One end is curled over slightly to form a hook-like terminal. About 13.0mm from the opposite end the shape changes from being rectangular to square in cross-section. It tapers over th…
Created on: Monday 7th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-044CB6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy brooch of Colchester derivative Polden Hill (flat wing ends type), cf. Mackreth 2011, 4.l. pg. 74, Plate 48. It is 51mm long, 18mm wide and 11mm deep. The object is in fair condition with a brown patina and weighs 8.83grams. The brooch has short hollow wings with a semi-circular hole to hold a spring bar. Part of the spring mechanism sits above the centre of the wings. It has a long sub-rectangular sectioned bow. Half of its surface is taken up with a raised line which terminates in a raised chevron so it resembles an arrow. Where the decoration on the front ends, t…
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2016
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Record ID: LEIC-046093
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy plain hinged bow brooch, 26mm long, 22mm wide and 7mm deep. The object is in fair condition with a brown patina and weighs 2.98grams. The brooch has circular sectioned solid wings which sit above the bow at an angle and form a central rectangualr void, presumambly where the hinge fitted. The bow is triangular in section and is slightly curved. There is no sign of decoration on the brooch and no catchplate or pin present.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Friday 1st May 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-048467
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy disc brooch, 22mm in diameter and 2mm thick (6mm at catchplate). The object is in fair condition with a green/brown patina and weighs 3.64grams. The brooch is decorated with an outer raised border with a further inner border, 2mm in from the edge. This is filled with what is now red enamel. Inside this are four raised semi-circles which are arranged so they form a cross motif, two are filled with red enamel and one with blue, the last is empty but presumably was originally blue as well. There is a raised circle inside the 'cross' 2mm in diameter. Its reverse has tra…
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BH-049122
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A heavily worn and corroded copper-alloy Radiate, probably of Allectus (AD 293-6) (Reece Period 14), reverse and mint unclear. The coin has been pierced once close to the edge of the flan. It measures 17.7mm in diameter, 1.3mm thick and weighs 0.94g. This coin has been considered for Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Hertfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-049050
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval? copper alloy object, 17mm long, 14mm wide and 4mm thick. The object is in poor condition with a green patina and weighs 3.27grams. It has a semi-circular form and has a rounded upper surface with a flat underside. It has stamped circles over most of its surface and its underside has two large circular depressions and one small one. The small one corresponds to one on its upper surface and there is also one large depression which may correspond to one of those on the underside? The object may be part of a strap end or buckle??
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-050256
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval, Anglo-Scandinavian copper alloy stirrup strap mount fragment, 27mm long, 12mm wide and 8mm thick. The object is in poor condition with a brown patina and weighs 6.50grams. The object represents the base of a mount and consists of a rounded flange protruding at right angles from the base. There are two circular fixing holes, 3mm in diameter, in the main rectangular surface. There is no sign of any decoration.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2016
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Record ID: LEIC-0515E7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval, copper alloy handle? 28mm long, 23mm wide and 7mm thick. the object is in fair condition with a dark green patina and weighs 22.89grams. The object has a sub rectangular section with curved edges and is curved slightly in form. It has broken at both ends and is decorated with one incised ring and dot, c.12mm in diameter. The object is probably a handle from a ewer or something similar?
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-052555
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval, lead alloy spindle whorl, 26mm in diameter and 13mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a grey patina and weighs 53.76grams. the whorl is rectangular in section and has a central hole, 9mm in diameter. It is decorated on one surface with a raised six pointed star motif.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-053290
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval, copper alloy key handle, 33mm long, 23mm wide and 7mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a brown patina and weighs 2.72grams. The key is sub circular in section and begins with a small section of shaft, 4mm long, decorated with two horizontal incised lines. The key then forms a hollow lozenge shape with protuding knops, C.2mm wide, at each side. There is a sub spherical collar below this with an incised lower border before the key continues as a single shaft. It has snapped off here and at its furthest end.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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