Record ID: WAW-B81963
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd of a wheel thrown ceramic vessels of a Romano-British miscellaneous (unsourced) local grey ware. The sherd weighs 21.5 grams. The sherds have a mid grey reduced fabric. The surface also has a mottled black area in the interior and exterior, perhaps due to smoke damage. This type of Romano-British pottery was in production through the Roman occupation of Britain, from 1st to 4th Centuries (1 - 400 AD). Vessel forms present consist of utilitarian type vessels such as storage jars and bowls, as the main base forms are small flat bases and rims are rounded everted forms. S…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
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Record ID: WAW-B802C1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One rimsherd of a wheel thrown ceramic vessel. The rim sherd consists of a fabric similar to that known as Severn Valley ware, dating from the 2nd to 4th Centuries AD. The sherd probably originally came from a jar type vessel. The sherd wall measures 5.32mm thick and weighs 11.8 grams. Sherd specific details: Fabric type: Severn Valley Ware Sherd type: Rim sherd Rim diameter: 17cm Sherd thickness: 5.32mm Firing condition: oxidised exterior, unoxidised core, oxidised interior Hardness: Medium Surface texture: Powdery Surface treatment: none. Condition of sherds: Slightly…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
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Record ID: WAW-B7ED36
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One rim sherd of a wheel thrown ceramic vessel. The rim sherd consists of a fabric similar to that known as Severn Valley ware, dating from the 1st to 3rd Centuries AD. The sherd probably originally came from a tankard type vessel. The sherd wall measures 6.86mm at its thickest and 5.13mm at the least thick area. It weighs 19.5 grams. Sherd specific details: Fabric type: Severn Valley Ware Sherd type: Rim sherd Rim diameter: 13cm Sherd thickness: 5.13mm Firing condition: oxidised exterior, unoxidised core, oxidised interior Hardness: Medium Surface texture: Powdery Surfa…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
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Record ID: WAW-B7D354
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd of a wheel thrown ceramic vessel. The sherd is 8.03mm thick and weighs 35.2 grams. The diameter of the rim is 14cm. The sherd consists of a rim sherd with an oxidised fabric with a red slip. This fabric type is consistent with an imported fine ware from Gaul, known as Samian ware. This pottery type typically dates from the 1st to 3rd Century AD. The rim sherd is suggestive of a plate type form, like Form 46 (Curle 15), a wide shallow dish. The rim is wide and slightly convex on the upper surface and concave on the underside. The edge of the rim on the upper surface i…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
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Record ID: WAW-B7B364
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd of a wheel thrown ceramic vessels of a Romano-British miscellaneous (unsourced) local grey ware. The sherd weighs 14.6 grams. The sherds have a mid grey reduced fabric. This type of Romano-British pottery was in production through the Roman occupation of Britain, from 1st to 4th Centuries (1 - 400 AD). Vessel forms present consist of utilitarian type vessels such as storage jars and bowls, as the main base forms are small flat bases and rims are rounded everted forms. Sherd specific details: Fabric type: Miscellaneous (unsourced) local grey wares Firing condition: un…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
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Record ID: WAW-B78C91
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base sherd of a local wheelmade Roman or Medieval coarse ware. An oxidised fabric with a reduced dark grey core, large temper inclusions with rounded white quartz and grey/cream coloured stone/grit. It weighs 5.9g and is heavily abraded.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
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Record ID: WAW-B768D4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd of a local wheel made Roman or Medieval coarse ware. An oxidised fabric with a reduced dark grey core, large temper inclusions with rounded white quartz and possibly grog. It weighs 8.1g and is heavily abraded.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
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Record ID: WAW-B73896
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Mesolithic or Neolithic flint blade or flake: In section the blade is trapezoidal and in plan is sub-square. The dorsal surface has two main scars. The ventral surface has ripples, bulb of percussion and bulbar scars. The proximal end is broken and missing, but this is not a recent break. It measures 15.16mm long, 16.43mm wide, and weighs 1.6g. The flint is mottled pale blue/grey which is the patina. The blade dates to the late Mesolithic to Neolithic periods (-6500 - -2100).
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
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Record ID: WAW-B70A38
Object type: POWDER FLASK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead or lead alloy cap from a powder flask: It is cylindrical with a sealed terminal. The upper and lower edge of the cylinder is decorated with a fine line around the circumference. There is also a vertical casting seam visible. In plan the upper cap is sub-oval, and the lower edge of the walls is a pointed oval, all due to the cap being squashed. The walls of the object taper slightly towards the cap. On the upper face of the cap there is a short, oval sectioned shank. The surface of the cap is an oxidised off-white colour. It measures 30.55mm tall, 27.07mm wide at the lower …
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
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Record ID: WAW-B6ABC2
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy sword belt fitting; in plan the fitting is a sub-rectangular plate from which there are two integral circular loops positioned on the lower edge towards each corner. The edges of the plate are also slightly moulded with wide 'W' designs. The plate is decorated on the outer face with a cast foliate and scroll design. The reverse is undecorated. There are three rivet holes in a row along the length of the plate, and these holes are filled with the remains of iron rivets. On the outer face there is large patches of corroded iron which is adhered to the surface. The p…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-B55EC6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch depicting a backward-turning beast, in very worn condition and with more than half of the edge missing. Set within a circle of pellets, the quadruped turns to regard its upturned tail, through which a small hole has been worn. Very little detail is visible on the surface of the animal. On the reverse the single pin lug lies parallel with the edge as does the stump of the catchplate. Diameter 26mm. The type is characteristic of East Anglia (Wilson 1964, 36-7, 177-8, cat. no. 84; Smedley and Owles 1965; Hinton 1974, 19-20, cat. no. 12; West…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd October 2013
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Record ID: IOW-B4C535
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307), minted at York. Class 3d, 1280 (North 1991: 28, ref: 1019). Obverse: EDWR'ANGL'DNS hYB; Crowned bust facing with a trifoliate crown and wedged drapery Reverse: CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI; Long cross dividing the inscription with three pellets in each quadrant Diameter: 19.7mm. Weight: 1.37g. DA=12:6.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-B4BAE3
Object type: CROTAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy crotal bell with non-drilled loop, iron pea, abraded engraved probable gadroon decoration on the lower half and the maker's initials H I next to the cleft. Diameter 27mm. Height 35mm. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-B47273
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy hooked tag, ovoid plate with two perforated lugs for attachment, cracked across central perforation, face partly obscured by iron corrosion, straightened hook with four transverse grooves. Read 2008 early medieval Class D Type 1. Length 26mm. Width 13mm. 9th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Monday 29th February 2016
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Record ID: NMS-B46668
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy tongue-shaped two-part strap-end with a cusped trefoil knop, three rivets and, on the front face, three pairs of very faintly engraved transverse lines, next to the attachment edge, at mid-point and next to the base of the knop. Between the latter two an edge-to-edge saltire of rocker-arm engraving is just visible. The whole is distorted. Length 52mm. Width at the attachment edge 14.5mm, width before the knop 12mm. The gap between the plates for the strap is c.20mm in length. 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-B456C0
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat with possible stumps of miscast and missing lug at one end of a broad tapering median rib on reverse. Pointed oval, 34 x 26.5mm. Face blank. Unfinished. 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-B42640
Object type: CROTAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy crotal bell with a non-drilled loop. Apart from radial engraved lines around the base of the loop and lines along the edges of the cleft, there is no extant decoration. The pea has been lost through an enlarged sound hole at one end of the cleft. Diameter 33.5mm. Height 39mm. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-B423F5
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy casket key, hollow-ended shank, opposed lobes at springing of circular bow, rectangular bit with opposed semi-circular clefts in sides. Length 34mm. Bow diam. 12mm. Second half 12th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-B40827
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy oval shoe buckle frame, almost all of the iron spindle missing. A small V-sectioned notch indicates the centre of the outside edge. The form is as Whitehead 2003, no. 600. 31.5 x 24.5mm. c.1660 - c.1720.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
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Record ID: SUR-B402B0
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a probable cast copper alloy strap-end of 11th-century date. The attachment end is missing. The object has a flat back and a slightly rounded face and is decorated with a double strand saltire with lobes in the angles, fillets in the saltire and extensive punched annulets. Compare NMS-784304 on this database
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2018
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