Record ID: PUBLIC-9CBD86
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast, copper alloy spur from c1600-c1700. The artefact consists of the heel band only. The band is plain and badly mishapen due to a crush and both its terminals are missing. The neck has snapped off leaving just its oval stump on the heel band. The heel band tapers down in both thickness and cross sectional width towards its terminals. It is an half oval in cross section with the flat face on the inside. Length 43mm, width 35mm. Weight 13.4g.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Monday 31st July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton Abbotts', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-9B3473
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy buckle with a missing pin: trapezoidal frame with a narrowed bar, ridge near each external corner on the slightly convex sides and, on the thick outside edge four filed grooves and a moulded pin groove; trapezoidal sheet plate with a pin slot, frame recesses, one rivet near the straight and slightly narrower inside edge, and "two concentric compass-engraved circles and five drilled holes", cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 439. Overall length 49.6mm. Frame 19 x 19.5 - 22mm. Plate 34.6 x 17.7 - 18.8mm (the rear part is of the same length but narrower 15 …
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2017
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Record ID: NMS-9AF7B5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six incomplete medieval sheet copper alloy buckle plates, with pin slots and frame recesses aprt from the sixth, rectangular apart from the fifth, and incomplete apart from the sixth, 13th - 14th century: - front part, broken at the fold, tin-coated front face, engraved line along sides and inside edge, four rivet holes, length and width 45 and 13mm. - front part, broken at the fold, gilt front face with engraved contour line, five rivet holes, length and width 35 and 13.9mm. - chopped in half longitudinally through the pin slot and the central one of probably five rivet hole…
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Saturday 4th March 2017
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Record ID: BERK-9AE17D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman sestertius, a contemporary copy of a coin of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), probably dating to the period AD 152-161 (Reece period 7) or later. Obverse: (M?) ANTONINVS AVG PI-VS P P TR P XVI, laureate head right with drapery on left shoulder. Reverse: [C]OS II[I?], Salus standing left feeding snake rising from an altar, holding a rudder on a globe in left hand, S-C in the field. Uncertain mint. For the obverse with TR P XVI legend cf. RIC III, p. 139, no. 906; for the reverse type cf. RIC III, p. 108, no. 602. The obverse legend suggests the coin shouldn't date earl…
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Monday 26th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9AA762
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sheet copper alloy annular framed brooch. The thin and flat frame is constricted on both edges for a missing pin. The reverse is tin-coated and the front is decorated with an engraved line around the inner edge and a ring of small punched impressions, round and ovoid. Internal and external diameters 12.7 and 14.6mm. Thickness 0.6mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2017
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Record ID: BERK-9A6B9D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver penny of Charles I, AD 1625 - 49
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-9A49C7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Colchester 'one-piece' brooch of late Iron Age or early Roman date, likely c.15 BC - AD63. The head is 13.5 mm wide and is formed by two side extensions that are semi circular in form being concave at the rear. There is an integral forward facing chord hook on the top of the head where the spring assembly would have once fitted. The body, which is 34.6 mm in height and semi-circular in cross section, tapers evenly to the foot which is now bent at 45 degrees half way down. The catchplate is oval in form and is missing the pin retaining lip. There is a…
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-9A289B
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete 17th-century copper alloy oval clasp-half, probably a hook-piece but the blunt hook is now missing. The oval plate is decorated with an engraved fleur-de-lis. The top of the plate is pierced through, suggesting a modification after an original end loop broke away. On each side is a projection, also pierced. Surrounding and decorating the inner edge are small circular and semi-circular circles. Similar to Read 2008, 171, nos. 643-644.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-99FC09
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd of Late Saxon Thetford-type pottery, oxidised with reduced outer surface and reddish brown inner, decorated with a rectangular rouletted band, weight 4g. Mid 9th - 11th century.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2017
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Record ID: NMS-99E42A
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two incomplete Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy hooked tags, early 8th - 11th century: - sheet, sub-triangular, two attachment holes, tinned on both surfaces, hook missing and all edges damaged. Extant length and width 10.4 and 11mm. Thickness 0.5mm. - cast, triangular, point of hook and all of the upper edge (i.e. base of triangle) missing, along with the attachment holes. Decoration comprises an engraved line down both sides and punched ring-and-dots (nine are extant). Extant length and width 25 and 13.5mm. Thickness 1mm.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2017
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Record ID: BERK-99D885
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Roman Colchester derivative, double-lugged, Harlow type brooch. The pin and part of the lower bar/ catchplate is missing.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Saturday 24th March 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-99CF1D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily worn Post-Medieval copper-alloy farthing token of James I(1603 -1625), dating from 1613-1614. of 'Harrington' issue type 2. Uncertain initial mark. North (1991) 2132.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-99B266
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval copper alloy flower shaped mount with six petals. The attachment spike is missing. Dates to the period of the 16th to 17th Century AD.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2017
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Record ID: BERK-99A5B2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very small copper alloy Roman radiate, a 'minim' dating to the period AD 260-296. A radiate bust can be seen on the obverse the the reverse design is unclear. The design of the radiate bust is crude so this could be a barbarous radiate minim.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2017
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Record ID: BERK-998AD2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy oval brooch with 6 raised X-shaped collets, or projections, with traces of an iron pin. Has a flat back and the copper alloy contains a high tin content. Dates to the period c 13th to 14th Century AD.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2017
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Record ID: BERK-997FC2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An irregular copper alloy Roman radiate, probably a barbarous radiate of Claudius II (DIVO CLAVDIO), dating to the period AD 275-285. Reece Period 14. The flan is irrgular in shape and the designs are off-struck and of crude execution; the reverse design is poor and mostly off-flan but may be imitating the CONSECRATIO (alter) reverse type.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2017
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Record ID: BERK-99659B
Object type: TAG
Broad period: MODERN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An aluminium dog tag of a serviceman of the United States Army, dating from c AD 1943 onwards. It is oblong with rounded ends and is bent back for about one third of the length. It has been stamped with 'HENRY P COALSON'; on the second line '32146108 T42 43 O'; on a third line 'P'. Possibly one half of two. The numbers refer to Coalson's military ID, his training dates (T42 = 1942), and his blood group ('O'). Henry Coalson was born in 1909 in Virginia and enlisted with the United States Army as a private on 21st April 1941. Unfortunately the tag was not donated to the museum as requested.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-995108
Object type: STAPLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bent and distorted probably post-medieval copper alloy staple, an elongated lozengiform sheet bent near mid-point and before one pointed end. The other end is missing. It has been suggested that an object of this type "may have served as a light havette or 'shearman's clip', to hold cloth in the later stages of its processing." (NLM-7449613). Length (unbent) c.44mm. Width 15mm. Thickness 0.4mm. c.1500 - c.1750.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th March 2017
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Record ID: BERK-994D8D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but worn copper alloy Roman radiate, probably a barbarous radiate of Tetricus I (AD 271-274), dating to the period AD 275-285. Reece Period 14. Possibly a SALVS AVG reverse type depicting Salus standing feeding snake rising from altar and holding rudder.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-994532
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval, 18th century silver thimble. The thimble is a conical shaped dome. The upper half is machine stamped with a regular stamped pitted pattern and shows damage in the middle of the pattern in the form of a 3mm diameter hole. The lower half of the wall is occupied by three plain grooves forming two finely billeted bands both of which bear a machine stamped pattern of closely spaced circular pits. The thimble is lightly dented.. Measurements: Diameter: 13mm, Height: 18.5mm, Thickness (wall): 0.2mm, weight: 1g.
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2017
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