Record ID: SWYOR-E9CF14
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap end of medieval date, AD1250-1400. It consists of a pair of joined, flat sheets of copper alloy, tapering slightly to a rounded end with a central, pointed terminal. The attachment ends of the sheets are in the shape of a shallow crescent. There are two ferrous fastening rivets, one at each end of the attachment edge; both rivets remain in place. There is no decoration. The strap end displays a light green patina. It is 35.6mm long, 22.8mm wide and 3.1mm thick. It weighs 7.56gm. Similar strap ends, attributed to the late thirteenth and fourteenth century, are…
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2022
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Record ID: IOW-E9C841
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy or gun metal post-Medieval to Modern bell (c. AD 1700-c. 1900). The upper part of a bell has a circumferential break around the lower edge. The suspension loop has a circular aperture. Inside, it is largely covered with bubbly copper-alloy corrosion deposits. Height: 34.55mm; diameter: 49.77mm. Weight: 50.34g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Monday 27th May 2013
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Record ID: LEIC-E9B7E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy trumpet brooch dated between AD 75-175.The spring cover terminates in a hook which would have served to hold the spring and The bow is fragmentary and only the spring cover and bow remain. The foot, catch-plate and pin are absent. The bow is faceted in section, decorated as with moulded linear grooves. The bow bulges at the top of the bow curve, tapering towards the foot. It is 28.19 mm long, 14.84 mm wide, 12.60 mm thick and weighing 6.74 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bosworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E9A9F5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy lozenge shaped mount with a zoomorphic letter design. The mount is flat with an indented design of an S-shaped animal on the front. The animal has a arrow shaped tail, broad body, probably an open mouth and forked tongue. There are traces of gilding on the front. The mount has a plain flat back and seperate circular sectioned copper alloy rivets through the corners to each side. There is some damage to the bottom left corner where the edge is irregular. It is 18.9mm by 20.3mm wide and 1.7mm thick excluding the rivets 4.0mm including them; it weighs 2.01 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Petherton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-E9A812
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn copper-alloy Roman coin, probably a radiate or nummus of uncertain type, c.260-402 AD
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Steeple Bumpstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-E9A2A3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver sixpence of Elizabeth I's third coinage, minted in 1592.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2012
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Record ID: BH-E985E2
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy button-and-loop fastener of Early Roman date. The head is inverted-drop-shaped, its upper surface decorated with an oval boss surrounded by a groove. A rim extends around the perimeter, widening and becoming higher at the point, where there is a vertical ridge. On the reverse is a remnant of the loop, located at the centre of the top edge and forming a right-angled projection which bifurcates at its upper end. Dimensions: 25.3mm long, 15.7mm wide, 9.5mm deep. Weight: 5.81g. This is an example of Wild's Class III fasteners (1970: 138-140), which, at the …
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Bedfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-E965D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A tinned copper alloy Roman trumpet Brooch measuring, 38.26 mm long, 15.16 mm wide, 3.36 and weighing 5.58 grams. The brooch is mostly complete and includes a spring cover, spring, bow, foot and catch-plate. The pin and spring are absent. There is an oval hollow head with pin lug. The bow is circular in section and is decorated with three raised mouldings at the centre. It terminates in a rounded foot terminus. The catch-plate is unperforated. Trumpet Brooches are dated between AD 75 to AD 175.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bosworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-E94CD1
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy socketed spearhead or arrowhead*, dating from the Middle to Late Bronze Age. The leaf-shaped blade is damaged and incomplete. The conical central socket tapers towards the top, where the point is missing. Patches of a dark grey surface survive between the areas of corrosion. Dimensions: 42.2mm long, up to 19.6mm wide and 9.6mm thick. Weight: 14.73g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Bedfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-E94358
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast, copper alloy, double loop, annular buckle, dating from the late medieval or early post medieval period, AD1400-1600. The frame is flat on the underside; both inner and outer edges of the upper side are bevelled. The strap bar is narrowed and there is a folded sheet metal buckle plate with straight sides and rounded ends. The plate is notched to take a copper alloy pin, part of which remains in place. The buckle displays a patchy, light green patina. It is 22mm in diameter and 7.9mm thick. It weighs 4.08gm. Similar buckles are illustrated in Whitehead, 2003, Buckles1250-1800,…
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Monday 6th August 2012
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Record ID: BH-E93B81
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Middle to Late Bronze Age copper-alloy axehead or palstave. The surviving piece-the patination of the break indicates that the remainder was lost in antiquity-represents the lower part of the blade and the cutting edge. The blade is of sub-rectangular section, a broad ridge extending vertically down the centre of both of its wider faces. The sides gradually flare towards the bottom, the angle widening at the cutting edge, the thickness of which gradually declines towards the bottom. The narrower two faces of the blade exhibit no traces of a casting seam, although the…
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Bedfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E92354
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver penny of King John (1199-1216), Short cross, probably Class 5b2, probably minted by Iohan M at Canterbury, AD 1204-1209, North (1993:164) no.970. The coin is broken with about a quarter missing with a further 5% separated from the main coin and a crack across the remaining coin.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Petherton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-E91776
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy cruciform/small-long brooch of Early Anglo-Saxon date. The headplate is rectangular, its upper surface incised with a double-grooved saltire. There are three projecting knobs, located at nine, twelve and three o'clock respectively. The short bow is of triangular section, its flattened top and bottom ends decorated with transverse grooves and semicircular cut-outs.Three transversely grooved panels also decorate the foot, which is parallel-sided along most of its length, tapering to a point at the bottom, where there is the suggestion of an outward-facing zoomorphic hea…
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Bedfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-E91371
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy weight or token, probably Medieval in date. The object is flat, sub-square in plan, almost featureless with a deep scratch on one face. It is 28mm long, 27mm wide, 4mm thick and weighs 19.44g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Record ID: LEIC-E90EF4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A possible copper alloy Roman trumpet brooch measuring 15.13 mm long, 14.38 mm wide, 9.34 mm thick and weighing 4.20 grams. The brooch is extremely fragmentary and only a small portion of the spring and the upper bow head remain. The lower bow, foot, catch-plate and pin are absent. The fragment is extremely corroded. Trumpet Brooches are dated between AD 75 and AD 175.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bosworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-E8F4B3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy coin: token farthing "Lennox round" of James I dating 1613-1625. North no 2135. Dimensions: diameter: 16.05mm; weight: 0.42g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2013
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Record ID: BH-E8ECD6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a Medieval copper-alloy swivel. The object consists of a roughly D-shaped frame, the diameter of which gradually increases towards the base, where two moulded zoomorphic heads flank a central block. This block is oval in plan and has a circular-sectioned projection at the centre of its flat underside. Dimensions: 20.9mm high, 21.1mm wide, up to 8.6mm thick (block). Weight: 4.98g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Bedfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-E8E1E5
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-Medieval to Modern cast lead or lead alloy circular double-sided token (c. AD 1500-c. 1850). The token has raised initial letters on both faces: T C on one side and R J on the other side. Diameter: 24.47mm. Weight: 9.85g. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally, they are therefore hard to date precisely but those with initials are thought to date c. 1500-1850.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Saturday 4th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-E8DDB1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy mount of probable early post-Medieval date. The incomplete attachment plate has deeply scalloped vertical sides, a cast foliate pattern and a single rivet hole. A damaged circular frame projects from the base of the attachment plate; a smaller circular loop adjoins the right hand side of this frame. Dimensions: 33.3mm long, 20mm wide, 3mm thick. Weight: 3.31g. A similar mount is described and illustrated in Read's Metal Artefacts of Antiquity (2001: 39/fig. 26, no. 372). Read suggests a possible 16th century date for this mount, which was probably desi…
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Bedfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-E8CDB6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy double-loop buckle, probably dating from the Late Medieval to early post-Medieval periods. The bent frame is sub-oval in plan, the outer edges wavy to give the impression of a flower head. The central axis bar is of semicircular secition. Dimensions: 26.5mm long, 26.1mm wide, 2.1mm thick. Weight: 4.66g. Similar buckles are illustrated by Whitehead (1996: 47), who suggests a mid 15th to mid 16th century date.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Bedfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.