Record ID: WMID-66DEC6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Roman aureus of Nero (AD 54-68), dating to the period c.AD 64-65 (Reece period 3). AVGVSTVS GERMANICVS reverse type depicting Nero radiate and togate left, holding branch and Victory on globe. Mint of Rome. As RIC I (2nd ed.), p. 153, no. 46. Sutherland suggests that the legend refers to the signal success of Corbulo in Armenia in AD 63 (RIC I, p.145). This coin is one of the first issues struck after Nero reduced the weight of gold and silver coins in AD 64. Diameter: 20.0mm. Mass: 6.80g.
Created on: Thursday 16th October 2008
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-615AF1
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval copper alloy bell, perforated rectangular lug (or peg-argent) at apex, cast bell-makers hammer mark in relief at rim of ribbed flaring mouth, internal iron corrosion around remains of crown-staple for (missing) separate clapper. Diameter 48, height 46mm. 17th-18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Margaret Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-60FD15
Object type: STUD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy post medieval stud. The head is globular in shape with a regular surface. There are signs of white metal around the bottom of the head where it joins the shaft, along with some small specks on the shaft itself. The shaft is circular in section and very regular, terminating in a rounded end. The shaft is 19.2mm in length and 4.2mm in thickness.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-614055
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant, corroded, quatrefoil with broken open suspension-loop Azure a griffin passant [?Or/Argent]. Almost identical to an example from Pentney (HER 3924) illustrated in Ashley (2002), fig.21, no.202. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Monday 14th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Margaret Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-611786
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval buckle plate, rectangular, folded widthways with pin-slot and recessed for frame, broken across loops and at attachment-end, back part and attachment-end missing, >30 x 15mm. Plate decorated with a stylised probable wyvern, originally on enamelled field, enamel missing. Cf. illustration and discussion in Dress Accessories (1991) 113-4, fig.73, no.530. 13th-century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-60FF92
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual Medieval strap loop, comprising an oval frame with collared knop on top and perforation for separate (missing) internal rivet in base. 15 x 25mm. Cf. buckle frame of similar form in Dress Accessories (1991) fig.59, no.421, and fig.147 for more usual types of strap-loop. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-60FD27
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three very worn and completely illegible Roman coins of the first or second century AD. The diameters are 20.73mm; 25.93mm; 26.63mm. The corresponding weights are: 3.38g; 4.58g; 6.70g.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-60D955
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy miniature bi-lobed harness pendant, with a long central stem. There is a loop at the top. Attached to it is the suspension mount, which is T-shaped with a rivet on the reverse. Traces of gilding survive on the surface. This object dates to circa 12th to 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Friday 29th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Well', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-60E842
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A plain oval shoe or breech buckle complete with corroded iron bar and attachment. The buckle has a high tin content.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-60D2F2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A plain rectangular post medieval buckle frame with an oval aperture and a pair of holes for the central iron bar. The buckle has a high tin content.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-60B9F1
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy thimble, dating to the 15th - 16th century. The thimble is short with a rounded top. The indentations in the thimble are circular and have been arranged in a spiral. This thimble has been cast as one piece. The thimble does not thicken around the base, the rim is undecorated. The metal is a dark brownish-green colour. The metal has cracked. Parallels can be seen in Egan (2005), p132, fig: 126.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Well', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-60BF51
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilded copper alloy buckle plate, 12th-15th century. Incomplete sub-triangular front plate, widest at the distal (frame) end, coming to a point at the proximal end, although this is now broken off (there may have been a projection from the proximal end, but this is not now clear); there is a projection (arched in plan) from the lower edge of the proximal end, now bent over flat onto the obverse; a corresponding projection appears to have been broken off from the upper edge. The front plate has heavily gilded curvi-linear and foliate decoration with a cable border around. There…
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-60B3B3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Post Medieval copper alloy domed button with drilled integral shank on the reverse. It is 27mm in diameter and weighs 6.9g. The button depicts a crude, grooved image of a crowned head with shoulder length wavy hair. The crown has three peaks above a horizontal band. The face has two punched eyes, a punched circular nose and a small mouth curved on the side to give a wry smile. The shoulders below are sloping downwards. A wavy design with a single punch inside some waves decorated the bottom of the button. Punched circles are visible around the entire edge of the button. The…
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Record ID: NMS-60B024
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large Romano British furniture mount, slightly convex-sided cone with collared terminal knop, projecting from a rectangular base (30 x 26mm, 4mm thick). There is a concentric line of punched dots at the junction between cone and base and twin bordering lines containing short transverse lines around the outer edge of the face of the base. Rectangular-sectioned (6 x 5mm) iron shank inserted into, and broken-off flush with, flat reverse. Diameter 23mm. Length 30mm. Weighs 54.98g. Cf. related and more usual types of furniture mount in South Shields 1984, nos.3.889-910.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-609A66
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval Anglo Saxon cast copper alloy cruciform brooch fragment, head and upper part of bow only; 5th-6th century. This has been heat affected, presumably through inclusion in a cremation. Integrally cast top-knob, semi-circular in section, domed in plan, with moulded collar. Integrally cast side-knobs, the left one missing, the right one distorted through heat. Head plate appears to be trapezoidal and undecorated, with rectangular wings; again this is distorted through heat and there is a fragment of another copper alloy plate (thickness c.2.5mm, perhaps another brooch fragment…
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-609494
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval horse harness pendant, square (31 x 32mm) displaying an enamelled shield within an engraved bordering line and with (probably secondary) perforation through base, red and blue enamel and tiny traces of gilding around the shield survive. Per pale Azure and Gules a lion rampant to sinister [?Or/Argent]. Small triangular projection on upper front edge of suspension-loop. 31 x 47mm. For the family of NORWICH, Per pale Azure and Gules a lion rampant to sinister Argent (Corder 1965, 36 and Chesshyre and Woodcock 1992, 143). They also bore Per pale Gules and Azure a lion rampant Erm…
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Monday 14th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-6060B1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy (contemporary copy) of a House of Constantine nummus, Victory on prow type, AD 330 - 335.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Well', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-602BD4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver denarius of Septimius Severus (193-211), Rome, PACI AETERNAE, AD 197-8. RIC IV, pt 1, no. 118.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Well', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-602554
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy annular brooch, incomplete. The brooch has six evenly spaced, raised, slightly outward leaning knobs, giving the brooch a coronet-like appearence. This is reminiscent of medieval 13th/15th century collet-set annular brooches. There appears to have been a constriction to take the pin between two of the knops; this is now broken off; it's length would have been c.4mm. Powdery light green surface. Diameter 27.5mm, thickness at knops c.5mm, thickness between knops c.1.5mm-2.5mm, weight 4.57g.
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-602EE7
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy seal matrix of Post-Medieval date. Late sixteenth/seventeenth century (c. AD 1575 – c. AD 1700). Length: 12.0mm; width: 15.3mm and 13.8mm thick. Weight: 3.46g. The matrix consists of cast copper alloy oval die which has a soldered sheet copper alloy tube, oval in cross-section. Part of the tube is missing and the surviving part is damaged and misshapen. The die depicts a merchant’s privy mark forming ligated letters: ‘G S’ within a beaded border. The tube probably held a wooden shaft or handle. Geoff Egan, Finds Adviser of the Portable Antiquiti…
Created on: Wednesday 15th October 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.