Record ID: IOW-081D67
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete cast lead unidentified object of Unknown date. Diameter: 25.0mm; thickness: 12.3mm. Weight: 30.03g. The object is almost circular in plan. The front is moulded to form a naively executed human face looking forward. The protruding eyes are almond shaped and the nose is sub-triangular in plan. The mouth consists of a single curved moulding to portray a smile. The front, excluding the aforementioned features, is convex. The rear face is plain and also convex. This object is in good condition except the lower part of the nose which has a recent break. Except for th…
Created on: Saturday 25th August 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-0793E1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast and wrought copper alloy hooked strap fitting of Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1500 – c. AD 1650). Length: 44.8mm; width: 19.7mm and 7.9mm thick. Weight 6.91g. The artefact is symmetrical in plan. It is trapezoidal in plan and narrows to a suspension hook. In plan, the end opposite the hook is cusped to form a wave which has a central crest. Close to the other end, each side has two cusps to form wavy edges. Beyond these features there is a central hook which projects forwards and then curves back so that the tip of the hook makes contact with the main part of the fitt…
Created on: Saturday 25th August 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-FF2A33
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy French jetton. Minted at Tournai. Obverse shows three circles of Tournai, reverse shows a cross.
Created on: Saturday 25th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-FED410
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy sestertius of Marcus Aurelius. The reverse shows the figure of Salus standing left with sceptre in her left hand and feeding a snake twined round an altar with her right.
Created on: Saturday 25th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-FE7E86
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy double oval looped buckle frame. The front of the frame is convex with chamfered edges on the insides of the loops. The frame is decorated with four rounded knops, one set at each of the two "corners" of the outer edges. The back is flat and has file marks. The centre bar is D-sectioned, slightly narrowed from the frame and has a rounded knop at each end (extending beyond the frame edge). There are traces of iron corrosion on the bar, probably from the missing pin. Post Medieval - late 16th to 17th century Dimensions: 38.09 mm x 23.11 mm x 2.82 mm Weight: 5.77 g.
Created on: Saturday 25th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-FE1ED2
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet copper alloy spirally rolled rivet. The rivet is made from a lozenge-shaped piece of copper alloy sheet rolled to form a cone. The remaining point is folded into the wide end and the head formed by a slight splaying at this end. Such rivets were used to repair copper alloy vessels. This example is similar to a number found in London and dated to the late 15th to late (or mid?) 16th centuries (Egan 2005: 101, although such rivets are observed to have continued in use into the 18th century (ibid). Late Medieval to Post Medieval - late 15th to 18th century Dimensions: 60.93 mm…
Created on: Saturday 25th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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