Record ID: WAW-0A35CF
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (16th century) knife cap terminal: copper alloy terminal in plan is an asymmetrical cross with one terminal being an incomplete circular loop. Each face is decorated with a saltire. The opposite terminal has a slot which is filled with traces of an iron tag. The surface of the knife cap is abraded. In length the knife cap is 16.57mm, 12.51mm wide and 6.24mm thick. It weighs 4g. End-caps such as this example are dated to the 16th century (Geake, H. 2001 Finds Recording Guide 1.1 unpublished).
Created on: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 4th December 2014
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Record ID: WAW-0A1E64
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval (16th to 17th centuries) copper-alloy coin weight: It is flat and square in plan with abraded surfaces. The obverse depicts possibly St Michael with a halo spearing a dragon to the right. The reverse is too abraded to see if there was a depiction or not. This coin weight measures 11.74mm in length, 11.34mm in width, 1.58mm in thickness, 1.2g in weight. Withers comments that square brass weights are from Germany or the Low Countries, with those without a reverse are probably German and date to the 16th to 17th centuries. Withers P. & B.R. Lions, Ships and Angels …
Created on: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 4th December 2014
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Record ID: WAW-095E1A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unidentified 17th century trade token. Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1672 at a time when there was little low denomination coinage being issued by the crown. As a result traders and business proprietors began issuing tokens as an alternate coinage with equivalent denominations of a farthing, half penny or penny. Such trade tokens rarely travel far from their place of issue and provide an insight to the trade of the time. In 1672 regal copper coinage was introduced and the trade tokens were then banned ( Besly, E. 1997 Loose Change: A Guide to Common Coins and Medals Nat…
Created on: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 8th May 2017
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Record ID: WAW-093DCC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman Polden Hill type brooch (AD c. 80-120): The incomplete copper alloy semi-cylindrical wings, terminating with incomplete perforated wing caps. The wings are undecorated. At the junction of the wings and bow head has the remains of an integral lug which would have held the chord in place. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is undecorated. The bow is oval in section, and broken just below the wings. The surface of the brooch has dark green patina. It measures 17mm long, 36.73mm wide across the wings and weighs 10.7g. The brooc…
Created on: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 8th May 2017
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Record ID: WAW-091A4A
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval probable balance arm: The copper alloy arm has a twisted stem with one terminal being broken, a recent break, and the other having a collar and a roughly D-shaped, terminal which is concave on one face and has radiating grooves on the other face. The surface has tracing if a white metal alloy and is slightly pitted with a red copper corrosion. It measures 38.34mm long, 9.93mm wide, 0.33mm thick and weighs 1.5g. Cf. other Norfolk examples, from Burgh Castle (HER 22344), East Walton (HER 40572), Felthorpe (HER 33502), Rocklands (HER 8966, NMS-09E313) and Swardeston (HER…
Created on: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 8th May 2017
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