Record ID: SUR-7CB627
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle with its plate. The frame probably would have had a thickened and decorated front edge, however it has broken across both sides close to the bar which is recessed and offset and retains the plate which is wrapped around it. The plate is undecorated and tapers towards the rear end. A portion of the copper alloy pin is retained on the bar.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-7C9E78
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval copper alloy composite strap end. Both plates and the spacer are retained; the plates are rectangular, tapering slightly to a rounded terminal with a small projection. Rivets are retained at the centre of the front and rear ends. There is no decoration. Circa 14th-15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-7C87B3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pin from a medieval cast copper alloy disc-on-pin buckle pin of Redmayne's (2014) Type B. The disc is 11.4mm in diameter with a central recess which likely once held an inlay (see LIN-685A46). There is no decoration.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FB24BB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn silver medieval short cross penny of Henry III, class 7c dating to 1236-1242. Moneyer is LEDVLF at London mint.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FAF75C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle plate of later Roman date (Hawkes and Dunning (1961) type IIB), dating to, c. AD 250 - 400. The plate is rectangular with three rectangular perforations and a rivet hole at each corner. The sides and rear edge have decorative cusped borders. There is a ridge across the front end behind a pierced pin articulation and small bar which retains a copper alloy pin. The integrally cast frame has broken away and been lost.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FAD33B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper strap-end (cf. Thomas Class E, Type 4) made from a single plate of cast copper alloy. The rear end has broken off. The body of the object is tongue-shaped and decorated with a complex double-stranded insular Borre style ‘vertebral ring-chain’ interlace motif. The reverse is undecorated. 
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FAAFD6
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy casket key, 39.9mm in length. The bow is oval with a pierced centre. The shank has a sub-rounded cross-section with a pointed end and there is a simple bit which is incomplete but which appears to have had two clefts. Circa 12th-15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FA9A8A
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy casket key, 37.9mm in length. The bow is lozengiform with a pierced centre, a rounded terminal knop, flanking corner knops on either side and a small ridged collar. The shank has a sub-rectangular cross-section with a hollow end and there is a simple bit which is incomplete but which appears to have had a single cleft. Circa 12th-15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-E9368A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver Halfgroat of Elizabeth I (AD 1558-1603). Third coinage. Long cross fourchée over squared shield reverse. One initial mark. London mint. AD 1601-1602. Diameter: 15.59mm, Thickness: 0.52mm, Weight: 0.5g. The coin is missing a section between 12-5 O’clock. North Vol II, P 137, No 2016.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-E929C1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver Penny of Edward III (AD 1327-1377). Pre-Treaty series D-G to Post-Treaty series. Long cross reverse with three pellets in each quadrant. York archiepiscopal mint. AD 1352-1377.  Diameter: 18.02mm, Thickness: 0.54mm, Weight: 0.9g The coin is missing a portion of its outer flan between 1-4 O’clock.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-E8EF85
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver Penny of Edward I (AD 1272-1307). Class 10ab-cf. Long cross reverse with three pellets in each quadrant and quatrefoil with pellet in centre. York mint. AD 1301-1310. Diameter: 17.69mm, Thickness: 0.68mm, Weight: 1.0g The coin is double struck on the obverse and is missing minor portions of its outer flan.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-E8DC6F
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Jetton probably of Hans Krauwinckel II, dating to the period AD 1586-1635. Rose orb type. Struck in Nuremburg.  Diameter: 20.90mm, Thickness: 0.39mm, Weight: 0.6g The jetton is missing minor portions of its outer flan.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-E8CB49
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unclear copper alloy Token of probable Post-Medieval date (AD 1650-1800). Unclear type. The object has a central sub-circular perforation measuring in diameter 3.90mm. Both faces are heavily abraded, one side reads I D [???], the opposing face is entirely illegible but appears to depict a lis in the inner field. Diameter: 26.65mm, Thickness: 0.56mm, Weight: 1.9g
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-E8AD1C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver Sixpence of Elizabeth I (AD 1558-1603). Second coinage. Long cross fourchée reverse over squared shield with date above. Ermine initial mark. London mint. AD 1571. Diameter: 25.45mm, Thickness: 0.80mm, Weight: 2.9g North Vol II, P 134, No 1997
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-E6ECA6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd of a ceramic Vessel of late Medieval to Post-Medieval date (AD 1500-1700). Glazed red earthen ware. The object is a partial rim sherd. The fabric is hard with sparse dark mica inclusions. The fabric is buff/orange in colour. The upper and lower surfaces retain orange slip and the inner surface retains a minor amount of thick brown glaze. Height: 29.70mm, Width: 65.44mm, Thickness: 18.09mm, Weight: 44.1g
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-E6CDBD
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint Axehead of Early Neolithic date (3500-2500 BC). The lithic is sub-rectangular in plan, long and narrow with a slightly wider blade end. The lithic is bi-convex in section creating an ovate cross. Both surfaces have covering scaled flaking with the exception of the blade end which has a long-polished section running approximately 1/3 of the length of the object.  The butt end has been blunted and is slightly rounded with a long smooth negative scar extending on one side approximately 1/4 of the length of the object. There is a shallow negative scar on the blad…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-D32B93
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver Roman Republican denarius serratus of Q. Antoninus Balbus, dating to the period 83 - 82 BC (Reece Period 1). D/Q∙ANTO∙BALB/PR reverse type depicting Victory in quadriga, right, holding reins and palm-branch in left hand and wreath in right hand. Mint of Rome.  Diameter: 18.74mm, Weight: 3.5g RRC p. 389, no. 364/1c.
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-D31571
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy contemporary native copy of an As of Claudius I (AD 41-54). (Reece Period 2). Reverse type depicts Minerva advancing right, /S//C in left and right fields. Diameter: 23.72mm, Weight: 4.2g The coin is missing portions of its outer flan. Many copies of Claudian period asses were struck in Britain in the decades following the invasion of AD 43. This was because there was a serious shortage of small change for the up to 50,000 or so Roman soldiers in the Province to use. It is now reckoned that many of these coins were in fact semi-official, be…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-D2F7E0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy sestertius of Commodus dating to AD 190. Reece period 9. LIBERAL AVG VII P M TR P XV IMP VIII COS VI S C reverse type depicting Liberalitas, draped, standing left, holding abacus in extended right hand and cornucopiae in left hand. Mint of Rome. Diameter: 29.86mm, Weight: 16.9g RIC Vol III, No 563.
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-D2E9A3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy pot leg, from a cauldron, posnet or skillet of Medieval to Post Medieval date (AD 1200-1600). The object consists of the leg and foot and is broadly rectangular in cross section and L-shaped in profile.  The upper edge is recurved with both sides on the outer edges of which are circular apertures. The upper surface is decorated with a double central moulded rib that runs the length of the recurved portion, the lower projecting foot is decorated with two raised transverse lines. Cast copper alloy vessels were widely used…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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