Record ID: WMID-345F27
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead or lead alloy steelyard weight, of probable Roman dating (1st to 2nd Century AD). The weight is hemispherical (flat top, domed base) in shape. The remains of an iron suspension loop are running through the length of the weight. It measures 35.2 mm tall, with a maximum diameter of 42.7 mm. It weighs 395.3 g (13.94 oz). The weight is a light grey to off white colour, with an even surface patina. Similar biconical weights have been found associated with Roman steelyards, such as WMID-184456 and WMID-049777 and can be dated from 1st to 2nd Centuries AD. Howe…
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: IOW-376425
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to post-Medieval leg/foot from a cast copper-alloy cooking vessel (1250-1650). The object is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular in cross-section. The front has a prominent vertical rib. At the rear the surface is flat and plain. Viewing the front, the sides taper in width to about mid-way along its height and then expand to the foot. The base of the foot is flat and part of the inner surface of the vessel survives at the top. The lower part is yellowish green and the upper part is drab green and partially covered with consolidated soot. There is also soot on th…
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-3777D7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval or post-medieval copper alloy vessel leg, poorly cast sub D-sectioned with slightly splayed pad foot. Surviving height 39mm. Width 21mm. Thickness at break 13.5mm. Weighs 51.59g. 14th-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-3792D8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval or post-medieval copper alloy vessel leg, poorly cast, flat-sectioned with vertical median rib, splayed three-toed foot. Surviving height 49.5mm. Width 40mm. Thickness at break across rib 9mm. Weighs 84.12g. 84.12g. Heavily sooted. 14th-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-33BDC3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy cast unidentified object, scallop-shaped with possible worn break at 'hinge', radiating grooves on both faces, central perforation. Length 16mm. Width 15mm. 3mm thick. Possibly 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Monday 31st March 2014
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Record ID: LVPL-3749F7
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy whirligig or buzz wheel. The object is sub-circular in plan with 29 V-shaped peripheral notches of varying sizes. The object has two central holes through which the strings would have been passed. Each perforation measures 4mm in diameter and is regular. Each surface of the object is undecorated and has a light brown patina. Whirligigs were used as toys in the 17th/18th century and would have comprised of a looped string threaded through the two central holes and held under tension at each end. Alternate pulling and relaxing of the string caused twisting and rapid ro…
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-350EF2
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 17th century farthing trade token of the Town of Newbury. Obverse: BOROVGH OF NEWBRY, castle with four terrets. Reverse: IN COVNTY OF BERKS, BN 1657 in centre. Dickinson (1986) 52.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: BERK-35B9B6
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 17th century farthing trade token of the Solomon Barnard of Reading. Obverse [S]OLOMON BARNAR[D], rabbit in centre, reverse IN REDING 165[3], B S E in centre. Dickinson (1986) Berkshire no. 65.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: BERK-35F3F4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 17th century farthing trade token of Francis Tassell of Reading, in very good condition. Obverse: FRANCIS TASSELL bust of Charles II, left. Reverse: IN READINE 1663, T F E in centre. This is a nice example of a 17th century trade token and one of only a small number to bear the royal portrait. Dickinson (1986) Berkshire no. 117.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: LON-387348
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper alloy trade token farthing of Richard Hamlyn, from Plymouth, dated AD1659. Williamson (1889, no. 253). Dimensions: diameter: 15.84mm; weight: 0.53g. Reference: Williamson, G. C. 1889. Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century. Elliot Stock: London.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 21st May 2014
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Record ID: PUBLIC-38F9C2
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 17th century trade token issued by Thomas Bond of Maidstone in 1666. Obverse: Grocer's arms, very worn '+THOMAS BOND, [IN]'. Reverse: '+MA[Y]DSTONE.[IN. KENT]'. [T.L.B] and DATE in centre. The T and L are Ligated Measurements: Thickness: 0.55mm Weight: 0.71g Diameter: 15.24mm
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 8th March 2017
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Record ID: LVPL-3791C3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval cast lead object: a palm guard, for use by a leather worker to protect the palm whilst stitching. In plan it is oval in shape, pointed at one end. It is D-shaped in cross-section. The domed surface is marked by one incised line at one edge and the flat underside has several irregular indentations in the centre. Bailey (1995, 64-65) dates such objects to the 17th century onwards.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-390582
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two badly distorted medieval copper alloy domed thimbles, 14th century: - with central hole, groove around base, vertical lines of small round indentations on sides and concentric rings of the same on the dome, diameter c.13mm, height c.10mm. - groove around base, continuous spiral of small round indentations on sides and outer part of dome, diameter c.17mm, height c.16mm.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-347E18
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy mount from strap, pierced domed repoussé centre within four of probably six ovoid inner petals and a scrap of the missing outer part of the probable sexfoil. The reverse is filled with solder around the central perforation. Surviving diameter more than 26mm. 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-38F593
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval strap mount, circular, domed, with two separate rivets and a central round aperture. Part of a rectangular rove remains on one rivet. Diameter 21mm. Height 3.5mm. Cf. a smaller example from London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 899). Late 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-379987
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy tongue-shaped strap end with a full-width spacer and a pointed end or knop. The outer face of both sheet plates is tin-coated. One plate is broken off along the inside edge of the spacer and the other is distorted and broken across a rivet hole which would have been near the missing inside edge. There are two rivets, one near the centre and one near the knop. Length of spacer 18mm. Width 10.5mm. Estimated full length more than 28mm. 14th century,
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: BERK-34A337
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy rectangular openwork stirrup strap mount dating to the late early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) period. The mount is of Williams (1997) Class B Type 3 and dated to the 11th century AD. The mount is convex with openwork elements of several circular apertures arranged around a worn zoomorphic face mask. The mask appears to have ears, eyes, a nose and pointed chin. There are three raised lines extending from the chin area to the edge of the mount but it is unclear what these lines represent but possibly a beard or neck. The top of the mount is triblobed but the other three sides …
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Sunday 27th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-38CF56
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted fragment of a Roman copper alloy spoon, a short length of the sub-circular sectioned stem and a small part of the circular bowl which has been bent badly out of shape. Extant length only 16.5mm. Crummy 1983, 69, Type 1. c.43 - c.200.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: DUR-360020
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead object, possibly a spindle whorl. The object is circular in plan
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2014
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Record ID: DEV-398700
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval shot dating from c.AD 1600- AD 1800. The shot is flattened on one side as a result of impact, but was originally spherical in form. The patina is a dark gray in colour.
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2014
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2014
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