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Record ID: KENT2311
Object type: WORKED OBJECT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Worked core tool.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT HOTHFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-312DC2
Object type: WITCH BOTTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete ceramic, wheel-thrown glazed earthenware jug or flagon used as a Witch Bottle, dating to the late 16th or 17th century. Description: This complete glazed earthenware jug or flagon has a short, narrow neck and beaded lip, with the remains of a lug or handle part way down the shoulder. The lug appears hemi-spherical in cross-section and a small patch of glaze is missing from the upper surface. The bottle is globular in form with a short, pedestaled base. The base of the vessel has clear striations the result of wheel turned production. The vessel features a dark green o…
Created on: Friday 26th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-3139DC
Object type: WITCH BOTTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, wheel thrown, glazed, ceramic Post-Medieval witch bottle and contents dating to late 16th-17th century. Description: The bottle is incomplete and survives as three pieces, with the base, neck and shoulders represented although much of the body is missing. The sherds are: a large neck and shoulder sherd, a large base sherd filled with a deposit and a small body sherd. The vessel has a short, narrow neck and beaded lip, with the remains of a lug or handle on the shoulders. The lug appears hemi-spherical in cross-section and a small patch of glaze is missing from the up…
Created on: Friday 26th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Record ID: KENT-1B3392
Object type: WIRE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A short curved length of twisted gold wire. 8mm of wire at one end has not been twisted. Probably less than 100 years old. Non-destructive X-ray flourescence analysis of the surface indicated a gold content of 95-97%, silver content of 1-2%, the remainder being copper.
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2006
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-16D347
Object type: WINDOW GLASS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of cast pale green window glass of probably Roman date. roughly triangular in shape, measuring 35.66mm in length and 11.63mm in width and 3.95 in thickness and weighs 2.3 grams. No edges to the pane survive, so impossible to tell what the original shape was when complete. One face is rough to the touch with tiny wavy lines which would indicate the pane was made by pouring molten glass onto a slab of sedimentry rock, the other side is smooth and more translucent. Small air bubbles can be seen within the glass. Cast window glass first appeared around the middle of the 1st …
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stone cum ebony', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-E37973
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver whistle of narrow tapering form cut from silver sheet, applied with drilled and cabled bands around the body. Punched decoration of flowerheads and bands of dots across the body. Torn around the mouthpiece. Other end has a punched opening. Small suspension loop.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upchurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F4AC47
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Ball, biconvex with attachements. Projecting seam, broken off at point of attachment, with 8-petal 'rose' motif of applied bent wire. Edit: 23/12/15: This is the bulb from a style of whistle normally called a 'bosun's' whistle.
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 21st October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingsnorth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-46DA73
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete pewter "Bosun" whistle of post medieval date (1650 - 1900). Description: The whistle is hollow and tubular in cross-section. The fragment consists of rounded/domed end section decorated with a series of cast circumferential ridges. The knop shaped terminal is turned and the hole pierced through the end is 2.68mm in diameter. The whistle is reddish brown in colour with a rough surface. Measurements: Length: 38.54mm; width: 13.90mm; thickness: 2.19mm; weight: 9.82g Discussion: There are several similar examples to this whistle are recorded on the PAS database, su…
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 9th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-EA8988
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The warped pewter bowl from a modern tobacco pipe shaped whistle dating to the late 19th century. Description: The fragment represents the bowl and part of the stem of the pipe. The bowl is decorated with a cast curtain comprising joined arches just below the rim of the bowl. Each arch has a vertical line of four pellets within. The concave base of the bowl has a radial florals design, At the front of the bowl to each side is a sprig sprouting from the floral design on the base. A clear casting seam is visible dividing the two halves of the bowl. The bowl is near-complete and sligh…
Created on: Monday 10th December 2018
Last updated: Monday 21st October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Thanet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-586B8B
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy possible 'hawking' whistle, hollow and cylindrical but waisted in plan and circular in section. At the closed end there is a circular suspension loop 4.91mm diameter surrounded with possible decoration to the body, but this is obscured by indentations obtained whilst in the ground. Below the waisted section the body flares out trumpet shaped to an abrupt indentation, following which the object is dented and damaged with no further possible definition to what was possibly the mouthpiece end. The object has a casting line from the base of the suspension loop all aroun…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 19th March 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-795F57
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A dark grey zoomorphic hawking whistle most likely made from tin alloy. Description: It is cylindrical in shape with a tapering end and broken extension piece, possibly for an attachment loop. The body of the whistle is decorated in cast relief decoration possibly, mammalian, with rounded ears which hang low along the head, round eyes and a blunt muzzle. A the mouthpiece end of the whistle is a semi-circular aperture which allows the sound to escape. The object is mostly intact although here is damage to the end of the mouthpiece and the suspension loop end. The surface is heavily …
Created on: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-BF63F4
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A crushed silver object, probably the body of a late medieval or early post-medieval whistle, now badly crushed. Dating to the period c. AD1375-1600. Description: The object is made of two hemispheres soldered together with the addition of a soldered lip going around circumference. There is a gap in the circumference which, judging by similar examples reported as Treasure and recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme (2014 T155; DOR-6E2574) (BH-29B66E) would have been the location of the blow hole. The ridge along the circumference suggests the whistle was hemispherically join…
Created on: Wednesday 28th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-6091F3
Object type: WHIP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Greyhound shaped riding crop mount
Created on: Monday 31st October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-E84A44
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete whetstone. A pale greenish grey fine grained, hard siltstone with some iron staining. The stone has a rectangular, almost square, cross section and is rectangular in shape. All four longitudinal faces have been worn with use resulting in them becoming slightly concave and in the stone tapering towards the break. The surfaces are also smooth. This object was found in an esturine deposit which the finder has assessed to be Roman in date. Date. Roman Dimensions: 77.44 mm x 40.04 mm x 43.29 mm Weight: 189.96 g
Created on: Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Last updated: Monday 13th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-144BF0
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Whetstone, comprising an elongated and rounded light brown stone, with streaks of rust on one side. Of unknown date.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-568781
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Trapezoid-shaped piece of stone with a flattish cross-section. Probably a whetstone.
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: KENT4397
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Narrow object, tapering to a rounded point at either end. Flat lower and upper sides, with 'hardboard' grooving.
Created on: Monday 15th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-CCE2E7
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval or Medieval Whetstone or hone. The stone is sub rectangular, narrowing slightly towards each end. One end is complete with rounded corners, the other ends in an old break. In section it has straight sides and slighty convex faces. It thickens slightly towards the complete end before thinning to a rounded edge. At the complete end there is a circular perforation for suspension. the hole is hour glass shaped having been drilled from both sides and is 4.1mm in diameter in the centre. The stone is fine grained, grey to slightly grey green in colour and appears to have fi…
Created on: Friday 8th May 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
No spatial data available.

Record ID: KENT-BE0E75
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete sandstone whetstone. Description Fine-grained compacted sandstone whetstone. A short bar hone of originally rectangular section, all four sides of the central section are now slightly concave through heavy wear. The flat ends suggest that the object is complete. Objects of this type have a broad date range from Roman to the post medieval. Dimensions Length: 99mm, width: 47mm, thickness: 23mm, weight: 199g .
Created on: Friday 29th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-FFDBE5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large circular lead weight. The weight is decorated with a board cross, it has not been perforated. The weight is well rounded. A typology of lead weights has not yet been developed, so these weighs are not yet completely understood. Due to a lack of context this weight must remain undated, within the medieval to post-medieval period. The weight appears to be complete. The lead is a dark whitish-grey colour.
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wittersham', grid reference and parish protected.