Record ID: IOW-328907
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy trumpet derivative fan-tailed bow brooch (c. AD 75-c. 200). Part of the chain-loop, part of the pin and part of the catch-plate are missing due to breaks. The head is flat, semi-circular in form and has an integrally cast but incomplete chain loop at the top centre. On the rear face of the head is a cylindrical casing that accommodates a separate pin bar of uncertain metal type. The casing has a slot to enable the pin to hinge. The copper-alloy pin loop is flat between the slot and the shaft is circular in cross-section. The front face of the hea…
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-314559
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age or Early Roman figurine depicting a standing razor-backed boar. It is a fairly realistic rendering cast in solid copper alloy. It is largely complete, has a prominent snout and features a ridge along its back, terminating in a truncated tail. There are small pointed triangular protrusions representing ears while other features are no longer clearly defined due to wear and corrosion. Length 39.20mm, width 9.83mm, height 18.02mm, weight 15.07g. Other boar figurines have been recorded on the database, See: ESS-C5CB81, LIN-2CFD83.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Sunday 12th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-2EAFF7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver twopence of Charles II, 1660-1685. North 2772.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: SUR-2EA2B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A nummus of the House of Valentinian dating to the period AD 364-378 (Reece Period 19). GLORIA ROMANORVM reverse type depicts an Emperor dragging a captive.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: SUR-2E9593
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver halfgroat of Henry VI, 1422-1430, annulet issue, Calais mint.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: SUR-2E89A7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped silver penny of Edward II, 1310-1314, Canterbury mint. Class 11b.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: SUR-2E7CAF
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped silver shilling of Charles I, 1641-1643.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: SUR-2E7341
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A plain copper-alloy Roman finger ring with a flattish oval or circular bezel, slightly rounded on the top. The sides of the ring have double nicks below the bezel which accentuate the shoulders and make them look triangular. Most of the rest of the hoop is missing. Compare NLM-9AAEB7, and the more elaborate SF-8A41DA, SWYOR-4B9B77, LVPL-3EDB47, etc. 3rd century AD.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Friday 29th October 2021
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Record ID: SUR-2E6674
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rather unusual Medieval to Post Medieval copper-alloy D-shaped buckle. The frame has a raised rim on its inner edge and a petalled outer edge. The buckle retains its wire pin.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Saturday 18th August 2018
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Record ID: SUR-2E5C20
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper-alloy dress fastener with a loop terminal on its upper end and with a broken hook. The worn decoration is possibly a facing head within a frame of symmetrical scrolls. Read's Early Post Medieval Class H, pp 119-121.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: SUR-2E4ECD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A distorted voided longcross silver penny of Henry III, 1247-1279, London mint. Class Vb.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: SUR-2E42DC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sixpence of Elizabeth I, 1560.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: SUR-2E3365
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn and corroded Roman gilded copper-alloy oval plate brooch with punched decoration around the frame. The brooch is missing its large glass setting.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: SUR-2E2702
Object type: LAMP HANGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper-alloy lamp hanger with two arms missing. The hanger has a suspension loop on the end of the vertical arm with a loop (of uncertain purpose) on the lower side. Lamp hanger is the customary interpretation for this class of object.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: YORYM-2DC666
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy toggle of late Iron Age to Roman date, c. 100 BC - AD 100. The toggle is of the dumbell type comprising two globular hemispherical terminals joined by a waisted central circular shaft. Integral raised collars are present where the shaft and terminals meet. The metal has a dark brown patina and is worn. The toggle is 20.6mm long, 9.9mm in diameter at the terminals, 6.2mm in diameter at the shaft and weighs 8.6g. Numerous similar examples have been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, see: YORYM-44D65D, YORYM-1A6833, SWYOR-72CC15A, SWYOR-71…
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 4th January 2017
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Record ID: YORYM-2DB7F4
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy rotary key of Roman date, c. AD 150 - 410. Only part of the handle of the key survives which comprises a now incomplete openwork tri-lobate terminal and square sectioned shaft. Only one loop of the terminal survives, the others lost to old breaks. The terminal tapers to the integral shaft, the junction of which is decorated with four parallel transverse grooves. The shaft ends in a bulbous swelling and worn break. The metal has a dark brown/green patina and is in good condition. The key is 61.1mm long, 28.1mm wide, 11.4mm thick and weighs 22.8g. A simi…
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 29th September 2016
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Record ID: SWYOR-2DA54B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman coin; a contemporary copy of an as of Claudius, dating from the period AD 41-54 (Reece period 2). Minerva reverse type, depicting Minerva advancing right with shield and javelin. This coin was probably struck in Britain. It is 25.7mm diameter, 3mm thick and 7.42g. 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 …
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2019
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Record ID: BERK-2DA296
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver medieval cut halfpenny of Henry III, dating to the period AD 1247-1248. North Class 1, probably North no. 984.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 22nd September 2016
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Record ID: WILT-2D9CA8
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint rounded scraper of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date (c. 2700-1600 BC). The scraper has been struck from a tertiary flake and retains no traces of the original cortex. The dorsal face exhibits flake scars. The striking platform is lenticular shape and on the ventral face is a prominent bulb of percussion, indicative of hard hammer work. On the mesal and the distal end is short, scaled and stepped semi-abrupt retouch. Near the proximal end is a concave recess, probably created during the striking process. The flint is a dark grey colour and measures 35.48mm in length,…
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-2D8840
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete silver denarius of Trajan dating to the period AD 103-111 (Reece Period 5). COS V PP SPQR OPTIMO PRINC reverse type depicting Aequitas seated left, holding scales and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. RIC Vol. II, p.252, no.119.
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Monday 3rd October 2016
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