Record ID: CORN-564643
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Heraldic horse harness mount made from pressed copper alloy sheet to form a sub-triangular plate or plaque which depicts a lion passant within a rectangular border and above a castle within a trapezoidal border. Above the lion and below the castle are two rectangular projections with circular rivet holes, but there is no evidence for any broken-off hinge loops typical of examples from Norfolk in Ashley's corpus in East Anglian Archaeology 101 (2002) (see reference below). The lion and the castle might represent the arms of Leon and Castile in Spain, although the arms today depict a li…
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 20th April 2021
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Record ID: SF-54D585
Object type: BRASS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
This is a small fragment from the inscription plate of a fifteenth-century memorial brass with gothic lettering. It has been cut, very deeply and well, on both sides, suggesting that this was a palimpsest, i.e. a brass re-used in the workshop during the middle ages by turning over a discarded or reclaimed sheet of metal which had been used on one side, and making use of the back as a new surface. It is difficult to make much of the letters since they consist entirely of vertical strokes with small angles above, sharply and deeply cut. The letter on one side might be a gothic W, and on …
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isleham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-543D28
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
Single-looped, narrow-bladed and slender palstave of cast bronze. Part of the butt-end of the palstave is missing, whilst the loop has broken off in antiquity. This narrow palstave form exhibits waisting below the stop, the upper sides above the stop being very slightly convex. The sides below the stop are slightly concave and curve outwards into a moderately expanding, but narrow cutting edge. The cutting edge is now blunted, but moderately crescentic in plan. A prominent midrib or mid-ridge descends from the stop on each face, whilst the face edges are rounded. This gives the palsta…
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2017
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Record ID: SOMDOR-5418D1
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint scraper. Sub-oval thumbnail scraper. Mottled grey flint with a glossy patina. There is a small bulb of percussion with fracture lines. The striking platform retains a white, chalky cortex. The ventral surface has numerous large flaking scars. There are areas of small retouch around the curved distal end and at one side of the proximal end to allow for holding the tool in use.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-53F626
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age Transitional palstave of Type Shelf, (midribbed variant), dating to the end of the Middle Bronze Age. The palstave is of the Penard metalworking tradition, falling into the later part of Needham's (1996) Period 5 (c. 1500 - 1150BC). Characteristically for the type, the palstave is slender with a narrow blade, low-flanges and was looped (now broken). The butt is slightly angled and is irregular, possibly through damage. The septum is concave and the stop is straight with right angles to the flanges. The sides are straight and parallel above the stop and the flanges ar…
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2017
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Record ID: SOMDOR-53F221
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
1 x piece of flint. Triangular waste flake with a point at the distal end. Mottled grey and white flint with a mid gloss patina. There is a slight bulb of percussion. The platform has broken off. There are two flaking scars on the dorsal surface. There are many chips and damage.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: GLO-53A165
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Debitage Mesolithic-Neolithic three fragments of flint working waste ranging form 45mmlong, 22mm wide, 6mm thick, to 10mm long, 6mm wide, 2mm thick. Two fragments have the cortex still attached. There are no signs of any working edges on any of the fragments. All of the artefacts are very poorly struck. All show signs of the bulb of percussion and emanating ripples. Very dark grey patina with mid grey mottling.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-536101
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy As of Germanicus,struck under Claudius (AD41-54) at Rome, c. 50-4: GERMANICVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N; Bare head r.; TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP PPP around S C. 29mm in diameter. RIC I no. 106 Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints which operated at Lyons (Gaul) and in Spain. This example is Min…
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-535DC3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy single-loop rectangular buckle with a lipped frame and a pointed pin rest with an incised line running from the inner to the outer edge of the pin rest and a slight indent where the the hinge for the pin was; the pin is missing.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-532055
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A small disc of lead. One face has a crowned fleur-de-lys with the date 1612 across it. There is a framing band around the edge. The other side has a scratched design of a saltire in a square. This was probably added later making this originally a uniface token. The disc was probably used for small change.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SUSS-52FC87
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A fragmentary Roman silver finger-ring of Henig's Type II/III dating to the 2nd-3rd century. Rather less than half the ring survives, broken across the bezel and the hoop. The broad oval bezel, with deep empty setting, has a simple incised and dot-punched border, and the lightly-channelled margins of the tapered hoop are similarly ornamented with a line of punched dots. The object has been polished, effectively removing any traces of wear that might have existed.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Eastbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-5305B7
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy gaming counter or possible counterfeit coin, copying a spade guinea type. It has a thick flan with very little detail surviving.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SUSS-52C0B2
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The knop from a silver pin. The pin head is hollow-cast and spherical. The head has applied filigree and granulated ornament. The pin has broken off of the head just at the point where the knop would have joined the pin. The break looks worn. The surface is heavily tarnished.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Unprovenanced', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-525C66
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
End and side scrapper 32mm long, 28mm wide, 7mm thick. Only one arrise running down the centre on the dorsal. The end is rounded with a steep bevel, large amount of retouch on the left blade with a rather shallow bevel, small amount of damage has been has occurred to the left side. Signal flake has been removed from the ventral, the bulb of percussion is missing but the radiation rings are clearly visible, running down to the worked end scrapper. Patina is light grey, with lighter grey mottling, slightly brown around the end scraper.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-52C2A3
Object type: GOUGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed gouge, probably of Ewart Park (c. 950 - 750 BC) metalworking tradition. The gouge is of circular mouth section and has a low-raised collar, which is very slightly concave and is 10mm deep from the mouth. The casting seams are prominent on both sides and are likely to have been finished by hammering. The sides are straight and diverge slightly at the blade. Sharpening striations are visible on both of the blade faces. The striations are angled across the blade, towards the sides on the front (gouged) face, and are positioned along the blade circumference on the…
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2017
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NCL-527754
Object type: STUD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy decorative stud, probably dating to the post medieval period. The stud is triangular in shape and has a D shaped section. At one end is a small rectangular extension. On the underside are two circular section tapering shanks. One measures approximately 4mm in length whilst the other, which is nearer the apex of the triangle is longer and is bent over. These shanks are characteristic of post medieval studs and fittings. The stud measures 28mm in length and 11mm in width.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-520856
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy coin-like object used as a gambling counter or gaming piece. It was used as a stock counter copying the spade Guinea of George III
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: GLO-51DBB1
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Microlith 15mm long, 8mm wide, 1mm thick. Transverse shape, two arrises with a blade either side on the Dorsal, on signs of retouch, single flake removed from the ventral. Point missing. Light brown patina.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: GLO-50F735
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Arrowhead 21mm long, 14.5mm wide, 2.3mm thick. Slightly pointed attachment end, on the dorsal the flake scars extend to the centre of the arrowhead from both directions, flat on the ventral which was removed by one flake, the blades have been finished buy using opposing pressure flaking. The tip is missing. Light grey to mid-grey patina.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: GLO-4FA630
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Furniture fitting, Length 41.3, width 29.5, thickness 1mm Rectangular plate, portrait orientation. Heraldic bird in the centre facing/walking left (28mm tall, 15mm wide), detail of the right wing is still visible which is flat against the body and has recessed linear detail depicting feathers. There is a rectangle that is coming up from the right side of the body that narrows towards the top that is probably the right wing raised up to head height, some remains of the detail of the head remain with the eye and mouth represented by raised lines. The bird is within a raised liner bor…
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Taynton', grid reference and parish protected.