Record ID: HESH-5ACDF4
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lilly Chitty Collection An Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead (2,500 to 1,500 BC), light grey in colour. This piece is sub-triangular in plan and sub-rectilinear in section. A comparatively coarsely-made piece to the other of these 10 (of which this is the last, with the number "10" written in biro on the ventral face), this piece is probably of the Beaker period, spanning the first few centuries of the Bronze Age. The one edge has been ripple-flaked quite neatly, whereas the other has not been - this could have been a utilised flake. The better-worked edge has a neate…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'The Llan', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-5AAC63
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lilly Chitty Collection A Bronze Age thumbnail scraper (2,500 to 800 BC), black in colour. This piece is sub-circular in plan and sub-triangular in section. The eighth of 10 pieces, this piece has the number "8" written in biro on a label stuck to the ventral face. This small scraper, made of high quality black flint, has been subjected to a substantial amount of weathering, and was probably found within the vicinity of a paleochannel, as it looks and feels water-worn. Despite this wear, some rings of percussion are still visible on the dorsal face where flakes have been removed…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'The Llan', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5A295A
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy rectangular, gently bowed front plate of a medieval or post-medieval box padlock, one corner missing and with about one half of the keyhole extant. There are three rivet holes, one retaining part of a rivet. On the inside two short, straight 5mm-high projections are fixed into slots. They touch and lie in a T-shaped formation. A piece of sheet is ffixed to the rear of one and there is a square aperture in the other. Height 38.2mm. Width estimated on the assumption that the keyhole is central 52mm (extant width 26mm). Thickness 1mm. Height of keyhole 12mm. 13th …
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-592982
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Central element of a medieval copper alloy two-way strap distributor, a rectangular frame with convex long sides and two recessed short sides. Very close parallels from Wiltshire (WILT-D61BF2) and Norfolk (NMS-51ABF8) include two loops or strap ends folded around the recessed sides. 16.5 x 12.5mm. Thickness 3.7mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-5844CB
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon or Middle Saxon gilt copper alloy mount, perhaps from a strap, comprising two square terminals with three slightly concave sides, both decorated with a quatrefoil in counter-relief, each leaf a pointed oval, and a central bar with a broad moulded groove at its centre, to one side of which there is a small patch of applied silver sheet. On the reverse of both terminals a pierced lug is set transversely. A very close parallel has been recorded from Mid Suffolk, but is in much less fresh condition and has round-sectioned projections on the reverse (SF-0D0A46). Length 32mm. Wi…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 8th September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-5739B6
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete very large decorated copper alloy bar from an Early Saxon wrist clasp of Hines 1993 Form B13, B14 or B17. All is missing from one side of a central rectangular (an ancient break). On the other side a D-sectioned length is interrupted by two transverse ribs, both with median groove, and ends in an apparently plain, square, rectangular-sectioned boss. The central boss carries a Style I motif in counter-relief. Most of the surfaces are covered in a dark material, which on the reverse and sides is quite uneven, almost lumpy, and perhaps the result of burning. There is no visibl…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-56B908
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval rectangular buckle plate of gilt, thick copper alloy sheet with most of the round-section bar of the frame within the fold, with a pin slot and frame recesses. There are three convex-headed rivets in a transverse row surrounded by an engraved rectangle which lies within a pair of die-stamped concentric rectangular grooves, the largest of which covers the complete front face, and each of which is entirely filled with densely packed oblique grooves. A single engraved groove runs from the pin slot to the frame recesses. Gilding is restricted to the front. Length and width 19 and…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-552C0D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Post Medieval finger ring. The expanded flat-topped bezel is in the style of a signet ring with the very worn and corroded remnants of a design; possibly a cross pattee within a circle. The 'D' cross section hoop tapers to either side of the bezel before truncating at old breaks. Circa 16th-17th century AD.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 25th December 2014
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Record ID: BM-4CB2AF
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
Two fragments of an copper-alloy finger ring, with melted glass setting in imitation of an intaglio dating to the late second or third century . The fragments comprise most of the hoop, one shoulder and the bezel with its setting. The hoop is lentoidal in section and expands to form an exaggerated shoulder, before narrowing again to meet the bezel. The bezel is oval in plan and cylindrical in section, with a setting for a gem. This setting is filled with a melted glass bead in two shades of red on which is stamped a ?dancing figure advancing left. For similar 'Romano-British imitation…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 3rd June 2019
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Record ID: BM-4C55C3
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy spoon dating to the Roman period. The spoon possesses a mandolin-shaped bowl which is dished. The bowl has a blackened inner surface suggesting it may originally have been tinned. The The bowl in profile is dished and the apex has holes due to damage. The stem extends from the underside of the bowl and turns through 90 degrees creating a reversed 'C' shape in profile. From there the stem extends. At first, it is sub-rectangular in section and then becomes circular in section. It then tapers to a point. The spoon measures 159mm in length. The bowl has a length of 41mm an…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2019
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Record ID: BM-4C2F48
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy buckle frame dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century AD. The frame is oval in plan with an offset bar and ornate outer edge and separate sheet roller. It measures 20.4mm in length, 20mm in width and 6mm in thickness and weighs 4.9g. For parallels see examples from London published in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 72-74), particularly No. 298.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2019
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Record ID: BM-4C0345
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy wrist clasp of Hines form B18c, dating to the sixth century AD. The clasp comprises a flat, rectangular bar, the upper surface of which is decorated with two grooves which run its length. Four openwork, flat circular plates with central indentations extend from the rear side of the bar; these have just broken through to the other side on both end discs. From the other, front edge, two fragmentary trapezoidal lugs are visible, the remains of a projecting catch. The clasp measures 36mm in length, 16mm in width and 2mm in thickness. It weighs 4.6g.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
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