Record ID: IOW-C0DB76
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy and tinned Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) brooch of late fifth to sixth century (c. AD 475 - c. AD 600). Length: 20.0mm; width: 15.8mm and 5.6mm thick. Weight: 2.68g. The fragment is probably part of the foot of a small-long brooch or the foot of a radiate-headed brooch. It has old transverse breaks at either end. The break near the catch-plate appears to be more recent than the other break. The front is flat and in plan the sides are curvilinear in profile: they flare outwards and then inwards so that when the foot was complete it was probably sub-loze…
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C0CCF8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy contemporary copy of a nummus of Constantius II, FEL TEMP REPARATIO (fallen horseman), c. 355-61.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haversham Cum Little Linford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C095C4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constantius II, FEL TEMP REPARATIO (fallen horseman), mint uncertain, c. 355-61. Possibly a contemporary copy. Cf. RIC no. 350 (vol. VIII, p. 167).
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haversham Cum Little Linford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C06F96
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy nummus of Constantius Gallus (AD 351-4), dating to AD 353-4 (Reece Period 18), FEL TEMP REPARATIO, Soldier advancing left spearing fallen horseman. Mint of Arles. RIC VIII, p. 219, no. 217; LRBC no. 456 (1960, p. 55).
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Sunday 17th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haversham Cum Little Linford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C03F43
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver finger ring height 22mm, width 20mm, thickness 2mm. The wing is made from a length of silver wire that has been looped twice round to form a double band. The wire has a square cross-section, its evenness along its length suggests it has been drawn rather than hammered. A bezel comprising of a low triangle flanked by two knots have been formed by looping the terminals of the wire once around the frame of the ring, in between the loops one strand of the frame has been bent forward to form a low triangle. The ring is in excellent condition. This finger ring design has been comm…
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 6th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornbury area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C03D14
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy annular brooch length 22mm, width 18mm, thickness 4mm, weight 2.6g. There are four collets spaced evenly around the frame, these taper outwards along the frame giving a sub-triangular cross-section. Each is filled with a white paste that would have been or held a gem decoration. There is a constriction of the pin, which has a circular cross-sectio; the end has been bent around the constriction. A quarter of the way round the frame from the pin constriction is a second constriction from which a bird shaped pendant is suspended. The bird is displayed, so it faces f…
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOM-C026E7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy contemporary copy (possibly) of a nummus of Constantius II, FEL TEMP REPARATIO (fallen horseman), mint of Lyon, c. 353-61. C.f. RIC vol. VIII, p. 191, no. 189.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haversham Cum Little Linford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C036B4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap end length 33mm, width 9mm, thickness 3mm, weight 2.2g. Sub-oval shape, the sides are slightly convex and a pointed terminal. The terminal probably had an animal facemask, but all of the detail together with all of the detail on the main body has been removed by corrosion. The attachment end is slotted for the strap, with two rivet holes. The underside is plain. The artefact is heavily corroded resulting in the loss of all detail. This is a Thomas class A which dates it to the late 8th early 10th century Thomas G, 2005, Late Anglo-Saxon & Viking Strap-ends 750-…
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aust', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C03411
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap mount length 12mm, width 10mm, thickness 4mm. Iron sexfoil, six lobs with a raised boss in the centre, on the back is a sheet of copper alloy with a hole in the centre where an iron rivet may have protruded. Date mid 13th-15th century
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aust', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C02FA6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Double looped buckle length 31mm, width 26mm, thickness 3mm, weight. Oval frame with a trapezoid cross-section, narrowed cross bar, iron corrosion in the centre of the cross bar and outside edge of one frame is all that remains of the pin, date 1350-1600
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aust', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C02C77
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end, length 39mm, width 31mm, thickness 2mm, weight 8.85g. The object consists of a crescent that has an incised border on its upper edge and what appears to be random incised lines within, the lower side is slightly hollow. The forward edge has a trefoil shaped protrusion which is decorated on its upper side with linear incisions, to indicate a leaf. There are two rivet holes in the centre of the crescent one of which still retains it copper alloy rivet, one arm of the crescent has been snapped. This artefact dates to the 15th century.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dymock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C027F4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy mount, possibly from a harness of length 50mm, width 41mm, thickness 12mm. Quatrefoil shape with a large domed central boss that has a circular knop on the tip and four groves running vertically down the sides. The four arms have a narrowed waist with a circular terminal, there is a rivet hole in the centre of the terminal. Each of the arms are decorated with linear engraved lines; one of the arms is truncated. Read (2001) describes similar mounts as 14th century, especially no. 117, however, the engraving is broadly Ringerike style in its renderin…
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Friday 14th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dymock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C02183
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Samian Ware fragment length 92mm, width 82mm, thickness 8mm, weight +60g. this is the side and rim of a dish, the rim is rounded and much of the slip is missing, there in no decoration on the exterior. 43-300AD
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C01E93
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy folding knife handle length 61mm, width 16mm, thickness 12mm, weight 14.72g. The handle is in the shape of a stretching animal possibly a lion. The handle has a flat, crescent-shaped back terminal, it then curves in to form a long, narrow handle with a moulded waist to represent the lion’s rear haunches. The animal’s head pronounced and has moulded ears, pronounced brows, but most of the detail has been lost due to corrosion. The beast’s forelegs extend from beneath the head, stretching out in front of the animal to grasp the front folding blade of the knife. …
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C01AD3
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy book clasp, length 32mm, width 12mm thickness 4mm, weight 4.08g. This is a clasp of Howsam's type A.2, cast in one piece with a forked spacer plate. The clasp part is thick and rounded with a vertical hole in the centre (3mm diameter), the terminal consists of a tall narrowing animal head that has a horizontal (side to side) hole (2mm diameter). There is a bold transverse ridge separating the clasp part from the forked spacer. The copper alloy sheets which would have been soldered to the spacer are missing. These clasps date, by analogy with similar strap-ends, to th…
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Monday 17th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C01874
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy spindle whorl diameter 25mm, thickness 12mm, weight 49.32g. Sub-cylindrical with an off centre hole 6mm diameter, creamy white patina. Helen Geake writes: “Dating of lead whorls is difficult. The drop spindle with which they were used continued in use until the end of the medieval period in London and Winchester (Egan, 1998, “The Medieval Household: Daily Living c1150 – c1450”; and Biddle, 1990, “Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester”), and for perhaps a century longer in Norfolk (Margeson, 1993, “Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval finds from…
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C01623
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy strip bow brooch length 44mm, width 11mm, thickness 2mm, weight 3.8g. Rolled axis bar which has been straitened, one side is snapped; the bow narrows gradually into the foot; On its reverse is a curving catchplate. The front of the bow is decorated with two vertical smoothly grooved lines; the whole piece has been bent into a 90 degree angle Date 43-75AD
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C01342
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy rowel spur fragment length 55mm, width 67mm. The fragment consists of the rowel box and part of both sides of the spur. The rowel box is short and circular in section, with a moulded collar. The rowel and bar are missing. The sides are D-shaped in section, terminated by breaks. The breaks are worn. The surface of the object is worn, and has a brownish-green patina. This spur dates to the late medieval to post medieval period. Date 1400-1700
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Friday 4th August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: GLO-C01133
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy sword belt fitting, 50mm long, 20mm wide and 13mm, weight 8.05g. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 6.78grams. The object is roughly foliate in form, with incised decoration forming a leaf pattern. It has a trefoil shaped terminal at one end and a hook at the other. The hook has a spherical terminal. There are two circular fixing holes one near the trefoil terminal and one above the hook, both are encrusted in iron corrosion. This would have been one of two or three fittings that together formed a hanging arrangement for a sword, …
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 12th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'coberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C00F17
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete double looped buckle length 23mm, width 26mm, thickness 3mm weight 2.9g. Oval frames, one has been truncated at the base next to the strap bar, flattened D-sectioned pin. Date 1350-1550.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coberley', grid reference and parish protected.