Record ID: CORN-602527
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Sheet copper alloy pear-shaped, pendant bell with flat suspension loop. The bell has four pointed terminals which have been folded inward at its base giving four tear-shaped holes. The back has two edges of the sheet folded together and overlapping to complete the body of the bell. The shape of the suspension loop suggests that it would have been hung against a flat surface. Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 58, Fig.37, No.464, which is dated to the 14th century. Bailey (DF1) illustrates a similar example on page 36, No.1, which is dated to the 15th to 16th century.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-5EAD23
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 sherd of organic tempered pottery. Dark grey reduced core with brownish surfaces. Large voids left by the organic temper (plant material).Body sherd. Identified as Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age by Lorraine Mepham. There is also a slim possibility that this is Saxon in date, although on balance this is thought less likely.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-5E9C84
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 sherd of fine flint (pieces up to 2 mm) and sand tempered pottery. Mid grey reduced core. The surfaces are oxidised to a reddish brown. Body sherd from a jar or closed bowl. this piece is from the rim and has a girth groove decoration at the top. Identified as Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age fineware by Lorraine Mepham.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-5E7C42
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Awl made from a large secondary flake. Mid brownish grey flint with a mid-gloss milky patina and a large area of off-white nodule cortex. At the proximal end is a small striking platform below which the dorsal surface has flaked. There is a scarred bulb of percussion on the ventral face. The distal end of the flake has been trimmed on both edges to produce a small point. The edges incurve slightly and have numerous small flaking scars.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-5E5E11
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bi-facially worked, irregular flint core. Greyish white flint with a low gloss patina. There is a small area of greyish nodule cortex on one side. Most of the flaking is elongate and one one face only. There are one or two flaking scars on the opposite face. The main working on the core suggests bladelet production.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-5E2303
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large, crudely flaked flint scraper. Made on a thick, secondary flake of mottled grey-brown and white flint. It has a mid-gloss patina two patches of yellowish nodule cortex on the dorsal surface. On the ventral surface is a large, scarred bulb of percussion. The striking platform has been flaked away. The dorsal surface has one main flaking scar with concoidal void at one end and several smaller scars. Around half of the circumference(on the thickest part of the scraper) has been coarsely and steeply flaked to produce working edge. Slightly worn and tumbled by ploughing.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-5B65D6
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn circular cast lead-alloy artefact, probably a spindle whorl. The whorl has a shallow biconical section, with each cone truncated by the bordered central perforation for attachment. The whorl is 31.3mm in diameter at its centre, 11.5mm thick, and the circular perforation for attaching to the spindle is 10.1mm in diameter and tapers slightly towards the reverse face. The upper face is decorated with a pentagon whose corners meet the circumference of the whorl. Between the pentagon's edges and the circumference are raised pellets. Within the pentagon are incised lines, althou…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF-5AE940
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy oval buckle frame with integral plate which has a hole for pin (pin missing) and a rivet hole behind this. There is corroded iron in this area. Plate incomplete, with broken piercings, possibly part of decorative openwork. There are traces of a possible white metal coating on both faces. It is 22.4mm wide and 16mm long, and weighs 2.35g.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Henstead with Hulver Street', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-5AF171
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A short cross type penny of Class 7b4; 1234-36.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swefling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5A93F7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap fitting, with raised central disc, decorated with three grooved lines intersecting at the centre, to form a pattern of 6 triangles. A rectangular projection from the arc of one triangle is pierced with a rivet hole, and is matched on the opposite side, where the projection is recessed and continues as a tapering strip, thickening in cross-section, and incomplete at the tip. It is probable that this was a hooked end originally. There are traces of gilding in the grooved lines and other parts of the front face of the fitting. It is 61.5mm wide and 12.5mm lon…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Henstead with Hulver Street', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-5ACD17
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn circular cast lead pan weight dating to the medieval period. The obverse face is worn, but appears to be decorated with a raised cross and crosslets. The reverse is plain but features a central circular piercing.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF-5AC321
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman lead steelyard weight. This weight is biconical and there are traces of corroded iron projecting from one terminal which was probably originally an iron loop which would have allowed the weight to have been suspended. It measures 44.6mm in diameter, 43mm in height and weighs 295.2g.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swefling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5AA8D6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy loop which is the securing loop from a medieval vessel handle. This loop is oval in shape and measures 20.6mm in length and 12.8mm in width, it has a circular hole through its centre, 7.04mm in diameter. One terminal is waisted and then flares out to a rectangular base and projecting from the underside of this there is a flat circular knop, 6.2mm in diameter. The protruding knop or stud of the loop would have secured the handle to the vessel, which is not likely to have been wood but of a thin copper-alloy vessel (Bailey 1995, 10-11, no 4).
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hessett', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-5A9B17
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete chalk weight, date unknown. This weight is circular in plan and measures 20.9mm in diameter and 10mm in thickness. It has a central circular perforation which measures 6.2mm in diameter. The function of this weight is unknown, it could have been a spindle whorl possibly although it does not have the characteristic biconical shape.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hessett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-5A7997
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval copper-alloy buckle. Just over one half of a double-looped buckle which probably dates from the mid 16th to mid 17th century AD. The surviving half of the buckle is roughly D-shaped and has a single leaf-style projection on both of the two horizontal arms. There is a central axis bar with a fleur-de-lys projection at either end and, at the mid point of the vertical outer edge, a moulded rosette and single lobe. The underside is flat. It measures 27.8mm wide by 32.3mm high and 2.8mm thick. It weighs 4.38g.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billington', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-5A7DA3
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy French jetton probably struck at the Paris mint during the reign of Charles VII, c. 1422-1461. Crown type.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Saturday 7th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hessett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5A6461
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy vessel fragment, which could date 1300-1600 AD, from body of skillet, with raised shoulder ridge, and broken off below rim. It weighs 38.4g and is 64mm wide and 36.6mm in length.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Henstead with Hulver street', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-5A6624
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead cloth seal of probable early seventeenth century date. The surviving portion comprises the two inner discs from a four-disc London seal. On one disc is a plain shield with the arms of London surrounded by the legend CIVATATIS LONDON. On the other disc is an ornate shield with the arms of London, surrounded by a wreath with the letter 'F' to one side. A more complete parallel can be seen in volume 3 of the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Medieval Catalogue (2001, pp. 52, 79, fig. 20, no. 20). Other closely similar examples are dated 1627.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BH-5A4F73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged and incomplete Roman copper-alloy brooch. Colchester type two-piece brooch of 1st century AD date. The head is incomplete and, in its current state, measures 7.5mm wide. There is a projecting lug with central hole which would have held the now-missing axis bar. A small remnant of the spring survives and there is significant iron staining, probably from the axis bar. On top of the head is a damaged rearward lug. The bow is circular in setion and tapers in diameter, from 4.6mm to a point at the foot. The catchplate is missing. The object measures 56.5mm long and weighs 8.26g. I…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lacey Green', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-5A09F0
Object type: HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete socketed copper-alloy hammer of late Bronze Age date. The object is hollow, rectangular in section, and widens out from 20.3mm wide by 16.7mm deep at the attachment end, to 24mm wide by 17.4mm deep at the bottom. The object has been cast in a two-piece mould and has a casting scar along its two narrower sides. On the two wider sides there is a small step upwards towards the damaged socket end. The hammer face is sub-rectangular and is heavily worn on one side. The object is slightly corroded. It measures 41.3mm long and weighs 81.67g. A similar but longer example was foun…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hardwick', grid reference and parish protected.