Record ID: LANCUM-817313
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy tanged and collared chisel dating from the Late Bronze Age, that is c. 1000-800BC. The chisel is in good condition, but very worn. It has a long tange with square cross-section, that tapers to a point. It would have held the wooden or antler/bone handle. There is a stop-ridge with three additional collar mouldings between the tang and the blade. The blade is triangular with softly-rounded edges. It appears to have started off much wider/larger but it looks to have been used extensively and it was repeatedly resharpened, resulting in a small triangular blade with roun…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 6th November 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walkington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-891DCB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy annular buckle, with a broken pin surviving in situ. The frame is circular and undecorated; it is probably of circular cross-section, or broadly so. There is a cast copper-alloy pin looped around the frame with a small rectangular ridge on the front where the loop develops into the shaft. It has lost its tip and has been bent to one side as a result of old damage. The frame is 42.86mm in diameter, 4.63mm in thickness, and weighs 16.65 g
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quainton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-892CDA
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval copper-alloy Nuremberg jetton of anonymous issuer dating to c. 1500-1550. Rose/orb type with fictitious inscription. Minted at Nuremberg. See Mitchiner (1988, 386) e.g. no. 1286b It measures 22.86 mm in diameter and weighs 0.85 g.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 8th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quainton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-8AF796
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age Kentish silver unit c. 50-20 BC. Torc Head Pegasus type. ABC number 219.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th November 2014
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Record ID: LON-8B523A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval gold annular brooch dating to the 13th or 14th century. This brooch is circular in shape with two clasped hands projecting from the frame. There is a double band of chevron ridges at the junction between the projecting hands and the frame. The hands have an oval gap between them and there is a white coating, possibly an adhesive, between them. There is a constriction to accommodate the pin 90 degrees apart from the clasped hands; if the hands project at 6 o'clock, the constriction is at 3 o'clock. The gold pin is present and is decorated with a double band of ridges at t…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Record ID: BH-8B53B9
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper-alloy toggle. The artefact is complete and in good condition, its greenish-grey patination only broken by a few small patches of corrosion. The body is baluster-shaped, the distal ends of the two moulded sides flaring to discoidal terminals. A circular moulding with circumferential groove decorates the outer face of each of these terminals; an angular 'step' also extends around the inner edge of each terminal. The loop extends vertically upwards from the top of the artefact, straddling the two central mouldings. This loop is of circular section…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 21st April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Royston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-8C67D6
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Post Medieval (of probable c. AD 1600-1680 date) moulded clay tobacco pipe. The clay tobacco pipe has been moulded from a white pipeclay, the fragment consists of a complete bowl with a spurred foot at the start of the stem. The bowl is undecorated and there appears to be no makers mark. The rim of the bowl is plain. The stem has been broken away by an old break. The style of the bowl is similar to that of an Oswald Type 7, which is consistent with a date of AD 1660 to AD 1680. Stem diameter 110.4mm, surviving length 80.2mm, internal diameter of bore through stem 0…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 1st October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blackwall and Cubitt Town', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-8C8719
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Medieval stone cannon ball dating between 1200-1400 AD. About two thirds of the cannon ball remain which is likely a caused when shaping rather than as a result of impact. The fact that it was found by the Tower of London would suggest that it was not used and thus discarded as a failed product. Dimensions: diameter: 132.65 mm; weight: 2121g.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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Record ID: WILT-8CBFA4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of two incomplete Middle Bronze Age rapiers dating to the period c. 1400 - 1100 BC. Both blades best described as rapiers and best placed in Burgess & Gerloff's 'Group III' (Burgess, C.B., and Gerloff, S. 1981. The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland. Prähistorische Bronzefunde IV, 7 Beck: Munich). The rapiers will be discussed as rapier A and rapier B. Rapier A consists of six fragments of the blade along with six rivets from the handle. One of the breaks between two of the fragments may be deliberate, the other breaks appear to have occured during dep…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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Record ID: HESH-8CDEDF
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lilly Chitty Collection A Mesolithic microlith / blade / bladelet (7,000 to 4,000 BC), grey in colour. This piece is sub-rectilinear in plan and sub-rectilinear in section, tapering to a point at the distal end. The dorsal face comprises 3 main facets, whilst the ventral face is virtually featureless, save a faint bulb of percussion detectable when felt. One edge displays possible irregular hardhammer retouch, however this could also be due to plough damage. Both the proximal and distal ends show signs of being deliberately snapped, however it must be noted that these features c…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 13th October 2017
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Record ID: WMID-8D3485
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver stirrup finger ring, of Medieval dating (AD 1200 to AD 1400). The finger ring has a D shaped hoop. The hoop rises to a flat topped pointed bezel. A gem is set into the bezel with a plain setting. The gem is oval. Under magnification, it is possible to see pitting and a conchoidal fracture in the surface of the gem, suggesting that it is probably glass as opposed to a gemstone. A pink paste is present around the edges of the gem and inside the setting. The hoop thins in width towards the back of the ring. The finger ring has a internal diameter of 17.0 mm, and a…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tamworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-8D3A1D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman sestertius of Lucius Verus (AD 161-169), dating to the period c.AD 167-168 (Reece period: Period 8). Obverse: [L VERVS] AVG ARM [PARTH MAX]. Reverse: TR POT VIII [IMP IIII COS III], S C, Victory walking left holding wreath and palm. Mint of Rome. As RIC III, p. 329, no. 1466. The diameter is 30mm and the weight is 19.06g.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 4th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RUFFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-8D945B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 4.a-b., flat wing ends type), and of 1st century AD date. The brooch is fragmentary and represented by the head and upper bow only and would have been comparatively substantial (with a surviving length of 37.8mm, a surviving depth of 17.5mm and a weight of 14.0g). The missing spring was likely to have been secured between lateral lugs now lost. There is the stub of a corroded lug on the head, suggesting that the brooch employed a Polden Hill, lug Type arrangement. The wings are heavily tru…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
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Record ID: NMS-8DB9A8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman finger ring in grey copper alloy. The flat, round bezel is set between two very wide shoulders, both with three oblique grooves and both incomplete. Henig Type VIII. External diameter 21mm. Internal diameter 18mm. Bezel diameter 11.5mm. Width of shoulders c.14mm. Width of hoop 5.5mm. 2nd - 3rd century.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Monday 7th December 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-8E1549
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 4, flat wing cap type), c.f. Mackreth 2011, 4.l, Plate 48. and of 1st to 2nd century AD date. The brooch is fragmentary missing the leg and wings (with a surviving length of 29.0mm, a surviving depth of 10.9mm and a weight of 3.8g). The brooch employed a spring mechanism, now missing, probably behind wings with perforated terminals, now lost (with a surviving width of 11.9mm). Above the head is the remnant of a hook to tension the chord. The head has curved mouldings on the sides (givi…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2017
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Record ID: WILT-8E19F7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman nummus of uncertain Tetrarchic ruler dating to the period AD 307 - 310 (Reece period 15). GENIO POP ROM reverse type depicting Genius standing left with corn measure and cornucopiae. Mint of London.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-8E567B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gilded silver stirrup finger ring, of Medieval dating (AD 1200 to AD 1400). The finger ring has a flat hoop. The finger ring was originally adjustable, with the hoop split in two. One side of the hoop is complete with an rounded end, the other exhibits an old square break. The shoulders have been decorated with a two strand twisted rope or guilloche design, with a Z twist to it. with The hoop rises to a pointed bezel. The finger ring is set with a false stone, which was cast in one with the hoop. The false stone has a diameter of 3.5 mm and rises 2.6 mm above the beze…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 6th September 2017
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Record ID: SUR-8F221C
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A gold penannular ring of near-circular cross section. Bands of yellow and paler, silver-rich gold are clearly visible on the inside of the band, less so on the outer circumference where this decorative effect is very worn. Examination suggests that the ring is solid. An addition to a well known series of decorative rings. This example is the third from Surrey to be recorded under the Treasure Act.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
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Record ID: WILT-8F308A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
Circumstances of discovery: Metal detecting Description: A complete gold post-medieval finger ring. The band is circular and slightly squashed, the band is 7.85mm wide, 1.55mm thick and broadly U shaped in cross section. The centre of the band is 1.85mm wide and flat, it is flanked by three circumferential stepped ridges and two circumferential grooves. The central band is inscribed with lettering 2.2mm in height * EYD . VS , O . GOD . OVER . BOND . TO . KEPE Internally the band is flat and is inscribed with lettering c. 5mm high * I . E . B . Dimensions: Diameter 22.1mm, …
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2016
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Record ID: SF-8F3C56
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete silver gilt dress-hook of early post medieval date. The back plate is cast and circular in shape with deep U-shaped notches cut into its edges. The front face is decorated with an applied silver gilt border, which is shaped to resemble a chain, and within this is a separate six petalled flower, probably a rose, each petal is moulded with a raised triangular centre, the centre of the flower is a raised circular boss with traces of incised cross-hatching on it. The central flower appears to be held in place from the reverse via a silver rivet. The hook curves …
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Newmarket', grid reference and parish protected.