Record ID: PUBLIC-AAD486
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead alloy token of medieval to post-medieval date. The token is flat and circular and is decorated on one side with a raised design of seven spokes radiating from a central pellet. Three concentric circles expand from the pellet. This design may represent a wheel. The reverse of the token is flat and undecorated. The metal is amid greyish-white colour and is worn. The token is 19.88 mm in diameter, 3.49 mm thick and weighs 5.2 g. Tokens with such simple designs are very easy to make and continued in use for a long period. They have a huge range of designs and could ha…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tenterden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-AA5C90
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to Post Medieval cast lead alloy circular unifaced token (1250-1850 AD). The token has been cast with a raised design of a equal arm cross with a star in three of the quarters and a capital T in the fourth and a flat, undecorated reverse it also has a hole at it's center. The token measures 27.99 mm in diameter, 1.52 mm thick and weighs 5.6 grams. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally; they are therefore hard to date precisely and could be Medieval or Post Medieval in date (1250-1850 AD). Until recently cross and pellet designs were thought t…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tenterden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-A76A56
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead-alloy weight, probably a spindle whorl dating from the medieval period, that is c. AD1200-1500. The weight is circular, with a large perforation in the centre that held the spindle. The surface is very worn. Unlike many other spindle whorls of the same date range, this example has a very distinct moulded decoration: There are five moulded flat knops on the outside of the whorl with incised (probably also moulded) lines between each two knops. Lead weights like these are common finds, but only rarely from excavated contexts which is why date and origin are difficult to pin…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-A61CA5
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy spoon fragment that has a sub-oval cross-section stem which is truncated near the base. The bowl is also heavily truncated and only the section at the base of the stem remains, this section has narrow straight sides that gradually expand outwards suggesting that the bowl was originally either a fig shape or narrow oval bowl, dating the object to between the 15th to 18th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockworth', grid reference and parish protected.