Record ID: PUBLIC-2AB5D7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete later medieval or post-medieval copper-alloy annular buckle. The artefact consists of the buckle frame which is an annular double loop. The frame is slightly elongated, being an oval rather than a true circle. The fame is sub-rectangular in profile, having a flat back, straight inner edge, and a front face that slopes down to the rounded outer edge. The bar is thinner and of circular section, with shallow knops in the frame at either end. The buckle is slightly convex and the bar is set towards the front face. The metal is mottled green/brown with a patchy dark green pat…
Created on: Saturday 19th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr Ayot St Lawrence', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-25FB36
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy domed / beehive thimble of Late Medieval dating (c. AD 1400 to c. AD 1550) The thimble is of the beehive or domed shape, and is sub circular in shape. A series of circular holes or indentations have been punched around the sides in horizontal and vertical lines. The indentations are in a circular pattern on the domed top. Two horizontal grooves are present as decoration just above the base of the thimble. The thimble measures 15.92 mm tall, 17.67 mm wide ay the bottom and 15.54 mm wide at the top. The walls of the thimble are 1.10 mm thick. It weighs 3.3 g. The…
Created on: Saturday 19th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tenterden', grid reference and parish protected.