Record ID: LANCUM-A45E02
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Probable enamelled copper alloy mount or stud, possibly late Iron Age. The artefact has been affected by corrosion and on the undecorated face this corrosion may have removed all trace of any mounting that may originally have been there. The decorated face consists of a raised eight rayed cross, star, or flower, within a raised circular border. The rays are grouped crudely into pairs and the resultant cells were originally flooded with enamel, the residue of which is present in the form of a dull orange deposit. Hard to date with any certainty but likely to have been produced between …
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 23rd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A458D5
Object type: WATCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy with gilding watch winder. Cast key comprising an oval bow with an external knop, a moulded and collared articulated stem with a central ball joint and a further ball joint over a cylindrical hollow-ended bit engaging with the mechanism of a fob or pocket watch. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900. Length (as found): 39.2mm, Width: 15.5mm, Thickness (at ball joint sites): 4.1mm, Weight: 2.55gms.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-A45663
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval complete copper-alloy thimble, dating from c. AD 1450 to 1550. The thimble is a 'beehive' type with a tonsured top. The lower rim is slightly raised on the outside. The circular Indentations on the body of the thimble have been hand punched in a left-handed spiral from the tonsured top to bottom rim. The method of manufacture of the body is uncertain (although the indentations are hand punched). The surface patina is a mid green colour. When found, the inside was filled with hard-packed soil which had prevented the shape from being deformed.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-A44D32
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead bag seal. Cast disc with a bifurcated slot in one edge opposite a single slot, to function with a drawstring closure. One side bears a central motif of a cornucopiae with a circumferential legend in two orders: [outer] PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT [-] SOLVED [inner]: ANALYSIS GUARANTEED. The other side bears the legend: OHLENDORF / & CO / LONDON / MANUFACTURERS. Ohlendorf imported and supplied guano fertiliser from the 1880s to 1920. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1880-1920. Diameter: 23.3mm, Thickness: 3.7mm, Weight: 11.00gms.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-A442C3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Published
Large and heavy Roman silver finger-ring set with an intaglio. Most of the lower part of the hoop is missing, but is of rectangular profile which expands and swells to triangular shoulders and flat ovoid bezel. Around the top of the ring is a collar of gilding. The intaglio is a pale orange carnelian engraved with a figure of Victory crowning a standing figure of Mars with his head turned the right, unusually away from Victory. The surface of the ring is very tarnished, suggesting that it has been out of the ground for some time. Discussion: no good parallels can be found for th…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2016
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-A440C1
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible shot. Cast shot, flattened by impact on one side and with a crazed and fractured surface, probably the result of extensive post-depositional damage and possibly of heating. The size might suggest this to bewhat remains of a musket ball, while its remaining mass would be apt for use in a pistol. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1600-1800. Diameter: 18mm, Weight: 16.42gms.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A43AF1
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn and incomplete copper-alloy jetton of Post-Medieval date. It is possibly a rose and orb jetton of of anonymous Nuremberg maker, c.1490-1585 AD. However, only the orb is clear on the reverse. It has a pierced circular hole towards the outer edge. Obverse: *[]CFE[] (fictitious), Illegible. Reverse: *[]O[] (fictitious), An Imperial Orb surmounted by a cross pattee, within a double stranded trefoil, all within an inner circle.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barking', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-A432E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman (AD c. 69-96) T-shaped brooch: The cylindrical crossbar is formed by being curled around the iron axis bar forming a horizontal seam on the reverse of the crossbar. There is some damage on the reverse of he cross bar. The crossbar has a central slot on the reverse to allow the pin to be hinged which is now missing. The outer face of the wings is decorated with triple-stranded transverse ridges in the centre of each wing. The bow protrudes from the centre of the cross bar and is slightly hump-like and is oval in section. The bow and bow head are decorated with a wide vertical rid…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Sunday 27th April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A41F43
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval lead figurine probably depicting the crucified Christ, the lower part missing. The reverse is flat and the front face almost so. Both arms are raised in a position suggestive of crucifixion rather than of prayer, though the hands, with fingers indicated by fine engraving, are not pierced. The nimbed head is ovoid and the eyes, nose and mouth are engraved in a somewhat rudimentary manner. Further lines on the torso suggest a garment. A small attachment hole is placed centrally just above the break. Height 39.7mm. Width 35.4mm. Thickness 3.7mm. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-A41278
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval hammered silver coin of Henry VII, a half groat class IIIb, king and archbishop joint issue (North 1712). Rosette stops on the reverse, initial mark is a tun, and the mint is Canterbury. Dates from c1490 to c1500 AD. Obverse legend has been almost entirely removed by clipping. Reverse inner legend reads as CIVI TAS CAN TOR and the outer has been almost entirely removed by clipping. The diameter is 19mm and the weight 1.39g. The coin has been clipped.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burton in Kendal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-A40154
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) minted in London between 1561 and 1565. Second Issue: North No. 1997.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Sunday 27th April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-A3F837
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A gold finger ring in the form of a D-sectioned band. The outer surface of this band bears a moulded herringbone pattern, with traces of niello or dark enamel remaining in some of the cells, and a single plain area, which may represent evidence of an enlargement. The inscription, 'SEDVN DA ME', extends around the inner surface of the band. The meaning of the inscription is unclear although it is possible that it is meant to be the Latin words SECUNDA ME meaning follow me. This inscription is executed in upper-case letters and contains traces of a dark infill. Date: 1…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 27th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A3C7D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy button brooch of early-medieval date (5th - 6th century AD), of Class C. This example is incomplete in so far as its iron pin been lost to corrosion; a trace of corrosion product is present adjacent to one of the lugs (now so abraded that one cannot distinguish the pin lug from catch-plate). The rim is upturned (H.: 3.2mm) and very slightly flared. The upper surface is decorated with a central moulded anthropomorphic face-mask viewed straight on within a line border. The helmet is formed a pair of nested peltaic outlines. The eyebrows and nose are formed of a single T-s…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 9th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pawlett CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A3BDA5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver denarius of Marcus Furius Philus, Rome, obverse [...], Janiform head, reverse [...], Roma standing left crowning trophy, Crawford 281/1, weight 3.66g, 119BC
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 28th April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-A3AD23
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval coin: penny of Edward I (1272-1307) minted in Canterbury between 1293 and 1294. Class 6b probably : North No. 1031.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Sunday 27th April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-A38F46
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warrington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy book clasp dating to the Medieval period. The object comprises of an upper plate and a narrower and shorter lower plate which are attached with four circular rivets. One end of the object flares outwards and is decorated with three inverted triangles inside of which is a herring-bone pattern. The pattern on the outer two is interrupted by a circular rivet hole. Below the rivet holes at the point of each triangle is a large circular depression with an internal diameter of 2.65mm.The central depression also functioned as a rivet hole, which can be seen from the rear …
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 14th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-A37F16
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warrington
Workflow stage: Published
A carved bone or antler gaming piece for the game 'dominos' or 'dominoes', probably dating from the 18th century. The domino is rectangular in plan and set within a lead surround leaving only the upper face visible. It is a domino of the value 3, (1 and 2). One of the ring-and-dot settings has been drilled or carved with the hole remaining empty while the other is in filled with a black inset (possibly black ivory). The single ring-and-dot fills the majority of one half of the object with a diameter of 13.14mm. single setting is in filled with a black inset, the top of which is worn…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Saturday 19th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-A36B21
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warrington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy hooked mount. The mount has two plates, each with four lobes with pointed projections between (quatrefoil overlain by a square). One end of the plate is broken at the perforation and would have had a projecting knop when complete. The plate at the other end has a thick sub-triangular projection which tapers into a circular sectioned shaft and curves forward before terminating in a break. The projection would have formed a forwards facing hook when complete. Each plate is decorated in a low relief design of a quatrefoil interlaced with a square. Each …
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 14th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-A368C3
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval cast copper alloy spoon bowl with an oval perforation. The bowl is a pointed oval shape in plan and the stem was attached in a form of 'rat tail'. The perforation (length 7mm, width 5.5mm) appears to be deliberate but the purpose is unknown. Probably dates to between c1650 and c1750 AD. The length is 55mm, width 28mm, and the weight 10.40g. Spoon is similar, but not identical to SWYOR-4A2623, DUR-B9BAC6, SUSS-B3F337, and HAMP-268CF3 on the database.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lytham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-A35D95
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warrington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a cast copper alloy double looped oval buckle. The object has moulded foliate decoration on the outer face of the frame. The end of the frame and either end of the strap bar are decorated with a projecting quatrefoil moulding. The pin is missing. The rear of the object is flat and undecorated. The object terminates with a break which occurred during antiquity. It has a dark brown patina. A similar example which can be found in Whitehead, (2003), is on p65, no. 397.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 14th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winwick', grid reference and parish protected.