Record ID: BH-72B0C7
Object type: TOBACCO HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy or pewter finial from a Post Medieval tobacco jar lid dating c. AD 1650-1800. The finial is octofoil with convex petals around a central boss with a beaded border. This is mounted on a circular-sectioned waisted stalk with riveted base. The object measures 20.2mm long, 23.8mm diameter and weighs 19.40 grams. See SUR-DEEDF4 and NLM-AD8532 for similar on the PAS database.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: BH-4B99EE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman cast lead alloy form or model for the manufacture of a two-part Colchester derivative Polden Hill brooch dating AD 80-120. The object is broadly 'T' shape with one short wing. The opposite wing is broken. The top edge of the wings is integral and folded down over the reverse, where it is compressed. The bow extends from the front centre of the wings and tapers to a broken point. There is no clear decoration and the surfaces of the bow, nor on any surface of the brooch. The surfaces are very worn and abraded. The reverse of the bow is slightly hollowed. …
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: BH-DE22F9
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy weight of the Roman period. It has been formed by rolling a sub circular flat piece of lead alloy into a cylindrical shape before being compressed. The surfaces have an even light grey patina. Such weights were used over a long period of time, possibly as fishing weights, amongst other applications. Dimensions: It is 31.1mm long, 11.6mm wide, 4.4mm thick and weighs 10.3 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: BH-22E209
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near complete lead-alloy steelyard weight of the Roman period (AD. 43-410). Description: The weight is bi-conical in form and comprised of an upper and lower hemisphere and a prominent circumference.  At the apex of the upper section is a rectangular iron prong, forming the remains of an iron suspension loop.  This extends through to the lower apex. The surfaces of the weight are undecorated and, overall, the weight is worn with areas of pitting and gouging.  It is brown-buff in colour. Dimensions (mm): length 45.05,&…
Created on: Sunday 20th August 2023
Last updated: Saturday 14th October 2023
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Record ID: BUC-3A82F7
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval to post medieval uniface token, dating to c. AD 1400 to 1700. On one side is decorated with a hatching design, in the centre is a raised pellet (Powell type 7). The other side is undecorated. There are two rivet holes with lead rivets contained within them in the centre of the token, on the reverse there is a groove running inbetween them. It's possible that this token has been made into a button. 
Created on: Wednesday 9th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 18th August 2023
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Record ID: BUC-3A186E
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead Russian bag seal, dating to c. AD 1890s. The seal is oval in shape, and missing part of one edge with a worn break. On one side the inscription reads NE/ PF12/ 189[...] . The opposite side reads AA/EMAP/THHO/61. Running through the seal from one edge to another is a void for attachment. The seal is a brown white colour, and measures 22.7mm in length, 20.3mm in width and weighs 10.70g.
Created on: Wednesday 9th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 18th August 2023
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Record ID: BUC-2338E1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy medieval seal matrix dating to AD 1200-1400. The seal would have originally been pointed oval in shape, only half now remains with a worn break. The face of the seal is completely worn and none of the original design remains. On the reverse is an unpierced lug at the pointed oval. There is raised moulded foliate decoration. The seal is a grey colour, and measures 22.9mm in length, 21.4mm in width, 8.7mm in maximum thickness and weighs 7.50g. 
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 18th August 2023
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Record ID: BH-58FE96
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval cast lead-alloy uniface token, of Powell Type 16 token (shield), dating AD 1500-1800. The token is D-sectioned with a rounded obverse depicting a squared shield with a rounded base and a cross witin. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The patina is light grey in colour. The token meaures 28.9mm diameter, 2.3mm thickness and weighs 17.7 grams.
Created on: Friday 23rd June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 29th June 2023
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Record ID: BH-A0D2FA
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fused Medieval to Post Medieval tokens dating c. AD 1400-1700. Both tokens are disc-shape and sub-rectangular in cross-section. The first token is a Powell type 14 (cross) with a cast raised cross design with four circular pellets - one in each angle - within a slightly raised, very worn, boarder on one surface. The partially visible reverse is plain and flat. The second token has a shirt projecting tab. Both faces are plain. The patina across both the fused tokens is light grey in colour. The object measures 23.3mm in length, 19.6mm in width and 4.4mm in thic…
Created on: Tuesday 9th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 20th June 2023
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Record ID: BH-48E7A5
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete lead-alloy steelyard weight, probably dating to the Roman period (AD. 43-410). Description: The weight is bi-conical in form and comprised of an upper and lower section.  The apex of the upper section of the weight is truncated where the suspension loop would have been fixed and remains of iron reside can be seen.  The apex on the lower section is slightly rounded.  The surfaces of the weight are undecorated and, overall, the weight is very worn with areas of pitting and gouging.  It is grey-buff in colour. Measur…
Created on: Friday 17th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
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Record ID: BH-20944C
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy token dating to the Medieval to Post Medieval period (c.AD. 1425-1700). Description: the token has a circular flan with a multifoiled edge, part of which is missing.  It has a biface design of a chequred field, which creates six boxes.  Powell Type 7. Similar designs in Mitchener & Skinner (1983): p.143, plate 2, no.76; p.144, plate 3, nos. 84 and 88; p.151, plate 10, no.99.  These designs date from the Late Plantagenet (c.AD. 1425-1490) to Elizabethen (AD.1558-1603) period.
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
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Record ID: OXON-A56019
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
 A complete cast lead-alloy bi-faced token of Medieval to Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1400-1800). The token is a combination of Powell Type 14 (Crosses) and Powell Type 30,31 (Unaccompanied simple designs). The token is broadly circular in plan and slightly distorted in cross-section.  The obverse is decorated with a cast raised cross reaching to the flan edges.  A single pellet is featured within each quadrant.  The reverse has a design of six raised pellets; five contained within a raised central circle, with one pellet sitting outside. The token is an …
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2023
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Record ID: BH-ED7439
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy (pewter) buckle dating to the Post Medieval period (c. AD 1660-1720). The buckle frame is oval in plan, convex at the front and bevelled on the reverse. There is a drilled hole each side of the frame to accommodate the circular-sectioned iron spindle, short portions of which remain in the holes. The upper surface of the frame is decorated with multiple moulded transverse grooves. The underside of the frame is plain. The frame is 27.8mm in length, a maximum of 22.6mm in width, 3.5mm thick and weighs 4.86 grams. See Whitehead 1996, p. 9…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 13th January 2023
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Record ID: BH-E24934
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval lead-alloy cloth seal dating to the 17th or 18th century. The seal comprises two discs joined by a broken compressed rectangular tab. One of the discs has an irregularly shaped brodley lozenge shaped rivet through the centre, across the face of which are the moulded initials ‘L D' above the numbers '790'. The motif sits within an incomplete pelleted boarder. The face of the other disc features the circular end of the rivet and various scratches. The surface patina is light grey in colour. The cloth seal measures 26.7mm in length, 24.3mm…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 8th December 2022
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Record ID: BH-E22287
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval lead-alloy cloth seal dating to the 17th or 18th century. The seal comprises two discs joined by a rectangular tab. One of the discs has an irregularly shaped rivet through the centre, across the face of which are the moulded initials ‘S F’ surmounting a chest. The motif sits within a single lined boarder. The face of the other disc features three lines of indistinctive markings. The surface patina is light grey in colour. The cloth seal measures 44.1mm in length, 28.9mm in width, 3.4mm in thickness and weighs 18.66 grams.   
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 8th December 2022
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Record ID: BH-DF6635
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval lead-alloy seal matrix dating c. AD 1200-1300.The seal is pointed oval (vessica) shaped with an uneven break between 9 and 3 o'clock. Inside an oval-shaped incised border is an incised fleur-de-lis. Surrounding this is a retrograde inscription: '+ S'X[...]IN'. The squashed remains of a suspension loop survive on the reverse. The seal matrix measures 22.8mm in length, 24.5mm in width, 4.9mm in thickness and weighs 9.14 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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Record ID: BH-CEC4CA
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to Post Medieval spindle whorl or weight. The object is sub-plano-convex with a circular perforation (11mm diameter) through the centre and rounded outer and inner edges that are uneven and worn. On the upper surface are eight hemispherical and sub-hemispherical knops, all of which are also worn and abraded to varying degrees. There is no decoration on the flat underside. The surface patina is mid grey in colour. The object measures 32.8mm maximum diameter, 6.7mm in thickness and weighs 28.65 grams.
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 15th November 2022
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Record ID: BH-28C29B
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post Medieval uniface lead-alloy token of Powell type 14 (cross) dating c. AD 1400-1700. The token is disc-shape and sub-rectangular in cross-section. One surface has a cast raised cross design with four circular pellets - one in each angle. Portions of a raised border are visible but are extremely worn and not visible in several places. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The patina is light grey in colour. The token has a maximum diameter of 9.5mm, is 1.3mm thick and weighs 4.63 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th November 2022
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Record ID: BH-131645
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy Medieval to Post Medieval pencil dating c. AD 1200-1800. The pencil is circular in cross-section with a rounded faceted point at one end and a flattened face at the other. The shaft tapers gradually from the flattened end to the point. The pencil is undecorated and has a powdery yellowish-white patina. The pencil measures 47.9mm in length, 6.4mm in diameter and weighs 11.04 grams. See LVPL-2505B7 for a similar object recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database.
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
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Record ID: BH-4DE7B2
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead-alloy palm guard of the Post-Medieval period dating c. AD 1500-1800. The palm guard is tear drop and plano-convex in shape, and broadly D-shape in cross-section, with one convex face and one flat face. The object increases in thickness to the wider end. A small knop projects from the narrower apex. Two parallel grooves, or scratches, extend into the body from the base of the knop. The convex face is heavily worn and abraded. The flatter face is level except for a shallow elongated recession roughly in the centre. There are also several use marks and damage, includi…
Created on: Thursday 11th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 16th August 2022
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