Record ID: ESS-3CB64B
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of pressed silver from an unidentified object, possibly a shoe horn or rattle of modern date (c.1908). Description: The fragment depicts the image of the character Punch from the Punch and Judy show. just his head remains, which faces front right and the bottom of his hat can be seen.  There is a maker's mark reading 'S&Co' on the left hand side of the head. Measurements: width: 24.3mm, length: 12.9mm, weight: 0.30g Discussion: A similar image has been found on a silver shoe horn made by S&Co from Birmingham in 1908 (Simon Maslin, pers. …
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shoeburyness', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FASAM-925412
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy radiate of Allectus (AD 293-6) (Reece Period 14), PAX AVG, Pax standing left holding branch and vertical sceptre. Mint of London, S A // ML. RIC V, pt 2, p. 561, no. 28.
Created on: Monday 10th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-44CBE2
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead alloy circular papal bulla of Pope Lucius III dating from the medieval period - 1st September 1181- 25th November 1185. T The front (recta) side of the bulla depicts the faces of Saints Peter and Paul with a cross between them. Over the images appears the abbreviation of St Paul and St Peter 'SPA SPE'. St. Paul is depicted with a long beard and a balding scalp with little hair, and St Peter has a crimped beard with curly hair formed from small sub oval pellets. Both heads are enclosed within a border of pellets (or pearls). The reverse (verso) side of the bul…
Created on: Saturday 28th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 13th January 2020
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Record ID: ESS-457969
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lithic implement, likely a scraper, of light grey flint. The item is roughly square shaped and trapezoidal in section. The ventral face features a prominent bulb of percussion, whilst the dorsal face shows flake removals across much of the surface. A removal along the distal edge (viewed dorsally) allow it to slop downward, ending in a sharp edge. There also appears to be a similar removal on the right edge, whilst the left side also slopes to a sharp edge. There appears to be some iron staining along parts of the arrises of the dorsal face. Dimensions: weight: 4.30g, length: 24…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-AC7474
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Published
Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface of a white metal finger ring carried out by the British Museum's Scientific Research sectionidentified the metal as pewter - an alloy of tin, lead and antimony. The alloy indicates the ring is modern. The ring weighs 5.03 grams.
Created on: Friday 12th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Beach', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-D2D6BC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval-Post Medieval copper alloy mount, dating to the 15th-17th century. The object is in the form of a stretched oval with traces of a raised rim on the reverse, which would have housed the end of the strap. The front is decorated with two crossed lines, which would have been mirrored on the other side to form a central lozenge. Within the central lozenge is a quatrefoil with eight lines radiating from it. There are pellets in the middle of four of the lines (at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o'clock). There appears to be traces of decoration in the triangles formed at the end of…
Created on: Friday 26th June 2015
Last updated: Thursday 27th August 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-18D8EC
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is described as "a wide-mouthed, shouldered bowl" (Haselgrove 1989, 12), handmade, of a type "current before the mid first century BC" (Cowell et al. 1987, 2). Report by V Rigby in BM file. BM 1986,0915.34.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 11th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southend-On-Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-C28AD7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy farthing of Charles I (1625 - 1649 AD), type 3 or "Maltravers Round", woolpack initial mark, AD 1634-36. North (1991; pg. 164), probably no. 2280.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 9th December 2014
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Record ID: LON-1E06F5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold fanam of Dutch India, from Cochin (on the west coast in South India), dating to c. 1740-80. The Standard Guide to South Asian Coins and Paper Money since 1556, p. 248, no. 1249. These coins have been recorded with the PAS before (LEIC-276BB2). Dimensions: diameter: 7.76mm; weight: 0.37g.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 27th October 2014
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Record ID: LON-245602
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy coin: Spanish reale.
Created on: Friday 15th June 2007
Last updated: Sunday 20th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southend-on-Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-8A1A83
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy drop handle. The handle is cast with a hexagonal section. When viewed in plan it is essentially rectangular, but with the upper long side having the corners inverted, so that the frame extends into a short ‘neck’ section. The frame has been finished with a file and the marks are clearly visible. The front face of the handle is decorated with a running series of incised stars, the reverse is plain. The handle is suspended from a moulded knob. The knob has a short flared neck, from which (at the narrow end) extends the drop shaped main body. The knob is bev…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Church', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-D1F78E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey writes: "The hoard was found on 2 February 1985 - initially one coin and then another thirty-two about 15 cm deeper, with the remains of a pottery vessel. This is described as "a wide-mouthed, shouldered bowl" (Haselgrove 1989, 12), handmade, of a type "current before the mid first century BC" (Cowell et al. 1987, 2). It is presumed to have been the container. Investigations by Southend Museum and the South-East Essex Archaeological Society revealed evidence for Iron Age and later occupation of the area (BMHF; Essex Arch. And Hist. 19 (1988), 249-51). The nine class 3 state…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southend-On-Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-961217
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 229, no. 934: "Hoard "'found early in the sixties at Leigh Church in Essex, comprising only about 30 or so pieces, mainly of Allectus, all in fairly good condition.' David Miller, then with Meridien Coins, claimed that a Carausian RIC 174 in very fine condition was also from this hoard. The hoard has now been dispersed." -N. Shiel, The Episode of Carausius and Allectus, BAR 40 (1977), 59, no. 6 - he calls the hoard 'Leigh Church' -Information from I.G.P. Murray, Esq., then of Spink and Son."
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leigh-On-Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-B24242
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 418: "At Leigh, by the fall of a cliff after rains, a quantity of Roman coins came to light, 176." Gough's Camden (1789), II, 52 Undated"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leigh-On-Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-EE9265
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Southend-on-Sea
Workflow stage: Published
A late Roman coin hoard of 23 coins from Southchurch in Southend Museums (information from Pastscape 418966). HER describes the contents as "Victorinus, Tetricus I and II and sherd" but also gives AD 340 as date of the hoard.
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southchurch', grid reference and parish protected.