Record ID: SUSS-F6F223
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A seal matrix, with a conical handle – probably dating to the late 13th - 14th century. The seal matrix was cast in copper alloy, and then the face was chip carved. The handle has six subtle facets and terminates with a pentagonal loop. The handle has been mis-cast and is therefore off centre. The facets are therefore varying in size. The loop is pierced by a small circular hole. Below the loop there is a step in the metal, as it increases in thickness to the handle proper. The face depicts an image of a bird (possibly a duck) facing left (when seen in the impression). The bird i…
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Dean & Friston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-F68140
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Germanic jetton, probably of Sigismund (fifteenth century), although no exact parallel was found in Mitchiner (Vol. I p. 332-3).
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Custom House area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-F68FF6
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic or Neolithic secondary flake, retouched and long with parallel flake scars down the dorsal face. The retouch is mainly on the dorsal face but there is one retouched notch on the bulbar face.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ixworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-F66C16
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent and corroded lead cloth seal of probable 16th to 18th century AD date. The object consists of two sub-circular discs joined by a connecting strip. Neither side has any detail visible. It measures 18.2mm in diameter, by 3.3mm thick and weighs 6.9g.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F65B87
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy mount most likely to be Roman or possibly later in date. This mount is circular in plan, measuring 21.5mm in diameter with a hollow back face and a conical front face, it is 13.3mm in height. The front face has a rounded top and circular mouldings below this. There is an incomplete integral copper-alloy shaft within the hollow back face. It could have been a decorative box mount originally.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ixworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-F62BA1
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy rose / orb jetton of Hanns Krauwinckel II (1586-1635)
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Custom House area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-F63D58
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and slightly corroded copper-alloy nail cleaner of probable mid 1st to mid 2nd century AD date. Crummy type 2a (N. Crummy; 1983; pp. 58). The suspension loop is missing, but appears to have been on the same plane as the blade. There is a narrow shoulder section, which expands slightly to form a bulge at the top of the leaf-shaped blade. The blade sides taper gently towards the two forked points. Both sides of the blade are decorated with an incised line around the outer edge and the surface of the object is black, indicating a possible corroded tinning or silvering. …
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F634E3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy openwork disc brooch of late Anglo-Saxon date. Just under half of this brooch is now missing due to old breaks, it measures 26.3mm in diameter and is flat. The brooch is circular and has a circular hole through each quarter creating four expanding arms around a central lozenge, or a cross-shape. The circular holes have marginal grooves around them. On the back face there is an integral catch plate but the pin lug is missing with that part of the brooch. Another very similar brooch has been found in Eye Suffolk, again incomplete see SF-28C726.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ixworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F62493
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British copper alloy umbonate plate brooch, catchplate and associated lobe missing, only stubs of side lobes and of lobe next to double pin lug extant. Decorated with pair of concentric rings of triangular cells filled with enamel. Red and blue enamel remains in some cells in the outer ring, but none survives in the inner one. It is uncertain whether there was a nipple or enamelled dot in the very worn centre. >21 x >23mm. 2nd century.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 20th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gunthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-F623F1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete struck/ hammered bronze sestertius of Marcus Aurelius, minted in Rome between AD 140-144 (diameter: 32mm; thickness: 4mm; weight: 23.71g). The coin is in a slightly worn but good condition. Ref: Mattingly, H & Sydenham, E, A, 1930, ‘The Roman Imperial Coinage Vol III: Antoninus Pius to Commodus’, page 173, ref nos 1232a or 1238.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-F5F957
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a lead alloy pilgrim badge, probably from the cult of St. Bridget at Syon Abbey, Isleworth. The fragment appears to be part of a circular badge with a border of raised pellets. Within this border is a scrolling border with fleur-de-lis. The badge depicts the saint with halo and long robes at her writing desk, holding a quill. Behind her a cross-hatched rectangular area may represent a bench. The reverse is plain with part of a catch for a pin remaining.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Monday 19th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Custom House area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F60942
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon pair of copper alloy tweezers in rather battered condition and bent, lower parts of arms missing, apparently recent break. The top of the loop, the narrowest part of the object, is slightly concave. Decoration on both faces is similar: immediately below the loop a pair of transverse grooves, a pair of edge notches, a triplet of transverse grooves and after a 14mm gap another triplet. Width 4 - 6mm. Extant length 45mm. Sheet up to 0.9mm thick. 5th - 6th century.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 20th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edgefield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-F60E01
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily worn and corroded copper-alloy AE 3 or 4 of 4th century AD date. Measures 14mm diameter by 1.1mm thick and weighs 0.98g.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stondon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-F5A5C6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Iron Age grog tempered ware, c. 75 BC – AD 50. This fragment is from the shoulder of the vessel, and though does not show the rim, clearly shows a cordon. The fabric of the ceramic shows black grog temper and a little sand with traces of mica, typical of Essex clays. The surface of the fragment is orangey brown in colour, whilst the core is black. The fragment weighs 23.21g.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickam bBshops', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F5F800
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pair of Romano-British copper alloy tweezers made from sheet strip of consistent width (5mm). Length 6.5mm. Similar to an example from Colchester (Crummy 1983 no.1879). Possibly medieval but quite unlike tweezers from 13th and 14th-century London (Dress Access. 380-3.)
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 20th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edgefield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-F5F6E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily worn and corroded copper-alloy AE 3, probably of the House of Valentinian. Measures 16.9mm diameter by 1.7mm thick and weighs 2.18g.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stondon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F5AFB4
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
a copper alloy medieval harness pendant. It is a quatrefoil with irregular sized lobes and measures 33.57mm in length and 26.51mm in width. It weighs 8.08g. The attachment loop at the top is incomplete. The mount is decorated with enamels in red, dark blue and pale green.It has a central six-petalled flower (red) with a central dot and narrow surround (pale green) and the background is dark blue. Within all four lobes there is a three-leaf device , suggestive of a fleur-de-lis (pale green). The reverse of the pendant is plain and undecorated.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-F5F068
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead or lead alloy weight of probable medieval date (1200 - 1500). The weight is sub-rectangular in plan and cross section. The front face of the weight is decorated with a series of three irregular cast pellets arranged in a line. This design is contained within a rectangular raised border. The reverse is decorated with a series of three punched concentric ovals. Both faces are relatively flat and the edges are beveled on both faces. The weight measures 25.1mm length, 17.9mm width is 4.7mm thick and weighs 14.19 grams or 0.5005ozs (219 grains). The weight is a mid grey white colo…
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F5E932
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British Colchester type two-piece brooch, spring, pin and lower bow missing. Undecorated wings. Median groove on flattish section bow. Wingspan 24mm. Mid 1st century AD.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Monday 9th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edgefield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F5DA73
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Romano-British protected-loop terret, badly distorted by heat. Part of round-section ring, part of the skirt and one end of attachment loop extant. Estimated width of base along plane of ring c.50mm. Weighing 40.80g. Late 1st century.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Monday 9th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edgefield', grid reference and parish protected.