Record ID: NCL-795828
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead gaming piece of Early Medieval date, c. 800-1100. The gaming piece is sub-hemispherical, with the circular of a shank just off-centre of the peak of the piece. The base of the piece is slightly concave, and when resting flat on a surface, the piece leans slightly. Further, the base is oval in shape rather than circular.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th May 2014
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Record ID: NCL-7922F8
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead-alloy stylus of the Medieval to Post-Medieval period, c. 1100-1800. The stylus is cast in an uneven cylinder with a soft, tapered point. At the opposite end is an irregular terminal on a small neck; this may have served for tying a cord/string around the terminal.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th May 2014
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Record ID: NCL-7901F2
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy toy gun of the petronel type, dating to the 16th-17th centuries. The circular barrel is hollow with an integral stock supporting the barrel and extending behind the barrel at an angle.It is possible that wear at the back of the metal stock indicates a separate wooden stock has now been lost from the tow. There is a circular opening on the right side of the barrel where it joins the stock, presumably to actually fire the toy. A second hole can also be found on the right side of the gun below that of the barrel, near the bottom edge. This may have been used for th…
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th May 2014
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Record ID: NCL-78C425
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy sestertius of Antoninus Pius (Reece period 7), dating 138-161. The reverse is too worn for further identification.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th May 2014
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Record ID: NCL-789E65
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy Colchester-derivative brooch, dating c. 50-100. The brooch is incomplete, missing the spring pin and the headloop. The head of the brooch has two arms, D-shaped in section, to either side of the upper bow. The base of the headloop can be seen on the top of each arm. The reverse of the head has a cast integral loop for holding the missing spring pin. The bow is also D-shaped in section and tapers to the foot, which terminates with a small disc. The lower bow retains the base of the catchplate, thought the hooked pin-rest is missing.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: NCL-785E88
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Scottish copper twopence, also known as a turner or bodle, of Charles I, dating 1642-1650.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th May 2014
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Record ID: NCL-783288
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver shilling of James I, dating 1606-1607. North no 2100.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th May 2014
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Record ID: NCL-781B67
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy strap end of Thomas type A1, dating c. 800-1100. The strap end is largely complete, though has suffered from surface wear and corrosion. The object has a split end, with two circular holes to take rivets, now missing; the outer frame of the upper tap of the split end has been lost, though this is the only missing part of the strap end, along with the rivets. The main panel is decorated with a stylized beast in low relief, and what appears to be enamel in the field around the beast. The enamel is a grey-white colour, but wear and corrosion have obscured the details of…
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th May 2014
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Record ID: NCL-777F04
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy stud of Viking date, c. 800-1050. The stud is robust and in excellent condition, bearing a thick cylindrical shank (height = 28.16mm; shank thickness = 8.34), with flashmarks from the casting running vertically up opposed faces, and a 'ship-shaped' head consisting of a domed pointed oval. The head (length = 22.63mm; width = 11.02mm) bears moulded decoration, consisting of an outer border along the lower outside edge and through the centre running point-to-point that can be viewed as a double-collar/band. This banding across the top runs over chevrons of very shallow angle.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th May 2014
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Record ID: NCL-775231
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Edward I, class 9b2, dating 1299-1301. North no 1037/1.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th May 2014
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Record ID: NCL-771EA1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn as of Claudius I (AD 41-54), dating to the period 41-50 (Reece period 2), reverse depicting Minerva advancing right with javeling and shield on the reverse.Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints which operated at Lyons (Gaul) and in Spain. This example is a contemporary copy of those minted at the Lyon II, à la Petite Tête.…
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
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Record ID: BERK-76F7D4
Object type: CLIP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy decorative clip or tongs; probably dating to the Georgian period.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Saturday 7th November 2020
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Record ID: NCL-76D351
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead spindle whorl of Medieval date, c. 1200-1500. The spindle whorl is biconical with a hole through the centre. Both faces are decorated, but differently. One face bears five raised lines radiating from the central hole to the outer edge, creating five equal-sized panels, each bearing three raised dots in a triangular arrangement. The outer edge of the spindle whorl is also raised. The opposite face bears four raised squares, each circumscribed outside the others in progressively larger sizes, and framing the central hole. Overlaying these squares are four raised lines rad…
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th May 2014
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Record ID: BERK-76C535
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver short cross penny of John (1199-1216), short cross class 5b2. Mint: Canterbury, moneyer unknown (name is not on the flan). Obv: hENRICVS R/EX. Rev: [ ].ON.CAN. The diameter is 17.5mm and the weight is 1.4g.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 27th May 2014
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Record ID: BERK-767915
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver half groat of Edward III (1327-77), Treaty Period (1361-9). Mint: London. Obv: EDWARDS:REX:AnGL:DnS:hYB. Rev: +POSV/I DEVM/ ADIVTO/RE MEV // CIVI/TAS/LON/DON. The diameter is 23mm and the coin weighs 2.2g.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2016
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Record ID: BERK-762DA6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver denarius of Julia Maesa dating to the period AD 218 to 222 (Reece period 10). SAECVLI FELICITAS reverse type depicting Felicitas standing left holding long caduceus and sacrificing over lighted altar; in field, left, a star. Probably Mint of Rome. RIC IV, p.50, no. 272. The coin is 18mm in diameter and weighs 2.0g. The obverse style is probably Rome, but could be Antioch.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 16th November 2020
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Record ID: BERK-75BED7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Republican denarius of Q. Caecilius Metellus dating to 130 BC (Reece period 1). Obv: Helmeted head of Roma right; behind Q METE downwards; before *. Rev: ROMA reverse type depicting Jupiter in quadriga right, holding reins and thunderbolt in left hand and branch in right hand, in exergue, ROMA. Diameter is 17.5 and the weight is 3.1g. Mint of Rome. RRC p.283, no. 256/1.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 24th August 2015
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Record ID: IOW-751032
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of Roman copper-alloy bracelet (c. AD 320-450). This bracelet, of which there is about 45%, is broadly 'D'-shaped in cross-section. The outer face has eight transverse grooves creating nine sub-rectangular knobs or lobes of similar size and appearance. The inner face is slightly convex. It has patches of a variable drab olive and darker green patina. Both breaks are old. Length: 41.6mm; c. 57.0mm; width: 4.3mm; thickness: 3.4mm. Weight: 4.07g. Compare with similar bracelets: BERK-6778C0 and HAMP-C106A1.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Saturday 16th August 2014
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Record ID: PUBLIC-747FE3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Roman bow brooch fragment consisting of the catchplate and lower part of the bow. The remaining bow tapers to a pointed foot. The catchplate is unperforated and has a rolled outer side. The style and shape suggest a T-shape brooch of c.AD 50-125. It is of cast construction and has a matt green patina. Reference: Richard Hattatt. ANCIENT AND ROMANO-BRITISH BROOCHES. Page 66 Dolphin brooches. Length of brooch: 30.33mm. Width: 11.67 mm. Thickness 4.23 mm. Weight: 2.348 grams.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 10th January 2023
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Record ID: IOW-747CB0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman cast copper-alloy bow brooch (c. AD 43-c. 250). Not further defined. This fragment is the lower part of the bow with an incomplete catch-plate. The bow is convex at the front and flat at the rear. At the top the width is 5.3mm, at the bottom it as a width of 2.1mm and its maximum thickness is 1.6mm. On the front of the bow, at the centre, there is a vertical groove which is possibly decoration. This brooch fragment has a brown patina with small corrosion pitting in places. The break is old. Height: 33.5mm; width: 5.3mm; thickness including catch-plate: 7…
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th May 2014
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