Record ID: PUBLIC-321D6C
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval copper-alloy 17th-century token farthing issed by John Condley of Yarmouth, Norfolk. Williamson (1967, 879) Norfolk no. 305, dating to 1648-1672. Dimensions: diameter: 16.06 mm; weight: 0.62 g
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 3rd September 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-31CF1E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of an early Anglo-Saxon brooch, possibly the headplate of a small long brooch. In the centre of the reverse is a broken single pin bar lug with the corroded remains of the iron pin. The headplate measures 23mm long and 23mm wide, and appears to have lost all of its edges. It has a small circular hole 2mm in diameter penetrating through from the front to the pin lug area. The object is in poor condition, is 6mm thick and weighs 4.67g.
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Saturday 6th October 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-31BB9E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small square copper alloy buckle, possibly medieval or post medieval. The object is in good condition, is 13mm long, 12mm wide, 2mm thick and weighs 0.83g.
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Sunday 27th August 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-318A9A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver shilling of James I, probably second coinage 1604-1619, Escallop mint mark. The coin is in fair, worn condition with clipping to the perimeter, is 29mm in diameter and weighs 5.14g.
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Sunday 27th August 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-3167E9
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy object with a flared base with an irregular form suggesting casting waste or the sprue remaining from pouring into a mould. The object is in fair condition, is 30mm long, 25mm wide, 22mm thick and weighs 29.25g.
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Sunday 27th August 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-30ED98
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy umbonate disc brooch, 42mm long, 33mm wide, 9mm thick and weighing 13.44g. The brooch is incomplete and in fair condition with a green patina. The brooch has a conical central projecting knob decorated with five radiating panels of light blue enamel resembling the petals of a flower. Around this is a circular depressed groove surrounded by a flat circular band with a further 14 panels containing light blue enamel. Around the outer circumference are six corroded projecting small knobs, a larger lower knob, and opposite this a broken suspension loop 10mm in diameter a…
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 8th May 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-30D187
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of the head plate from an Anglo-Saxon small long brooch. The corroded remains of iron pin remain behind the head. The object is in poor condition, is 16mm long, 24mm wide, 10mm thick and weighs 5.70g.
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Saturday 6th October 2018
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Record ID: BERK-304195
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Copper Alloy incomplete implement, possibly a chisel. The object is rectangular in cross section with a bulge in the middle. One end tapers from this bulge to a dull point. The other end tapers before flaring out into a rounded, flat end.
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th November 2020
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Record ID: BERK-300211
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver cut Long Cross penny, possibly Edward I (AD 1272 to 1307) dating from the period circa AD 1272 to 1278. (See Spink 2009 P148 No 1383, large face and large lettering)
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2021
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Record ID: BERK-2FE3DB
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A beehive shaped copper alloy bent thimble either of Medieval date or possibly dating from the 16th to 17th Century with circular pits in a spiral on the top and in rows around the body of the thimble. There is also a plan band at the rim. (See M.J. Cuddeford "Identifying Small Finds" 1992, P48 Thimbles, No 5)
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Sunday 8th November 2020
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Record ID: BERK-2F953A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Langton Down brooch with a non-reed moulded bow from the 1st century AD. It has the remnants of a spring at the top and a groove down the middle on the front.
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th November 2020
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Record ID: BERK-2F6F69
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An illegible Roman copper alloy nummus, dating to c. AD 330-402. Traces of bust on obverser and possibly figure on reverse.
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Saturday 20th February 2021
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Record ID: BERK-2F3484
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver Long Cross penny, possibly of Edward I (AD 1272 - 1307) dating to the period AD12 72 - 1278. Is similar to Spink 2009, P149 No1381.
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2021
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Record ID: BERK-2EDE2B
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy conical book mount of Howsam type B.1.2, dating from c. AD 1350-1550. The copper-alloy umbonate, quatrefoil mount is domed and tiered and has four integral lugs equi-distant apart which are perforated for missing copper alloy rivets. The reverse of the mount is hollow. Ottaway and Rogers (2002) illustrate a similar mount, No. 12928, which is described as a protective decorative book mount; conical or domed shapes are particularly characteristic of book mounts. The mount probably dates to the late Medieval to early Post Medieval period. Egan (1998) also illus…
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th February 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2DFA34
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possibly Medieval copper alloy strap mount of triangular form. The general shape is similar to zoomorphic representations of bees or other insects. From base to pointed end it appears to be divided centally and just before the point, by an incised line . This gives the impression of a head, thorax and abdomen. Towards the base are four oblique incised lines which, together with the curved corners of the base, give the impression of wings. There is a rounded knob on the base between the "wings".There are two lugs, probably broken off spikes, on the back. The back is concave with a gr…
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2017
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Record ID: SUSS-2CC88A
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval copper-alloy circular button. (AD.1500-1600) It has a globular hollow head. It is has open work decoration in the form of six triangular perforations on the front and back face. In the centre of the front face is a raised circular boss. In the centre of the back face is an integral small perforated lug. This button measures 11.1mm in diameter, 18mm in total length (including lug), and weighs 1.84 grams. There is a similar example from Norwich (Margeson, 1993, p. 21, no. 102) and recorded on the PAS database SF-9A523D and SF9200.
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2017
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Record ID: SUSS-2C730C
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy drawer handle, with a rectangular suspension loop and a trefoil terminal, which would have suspended from a similarly florid escutcheon that was attached to a drawer in a chest or bureau. The pull or handle is decorated with moulded scrolls on the side knops and centrally with an anthropomorphic head, probably a cherub, on an extended neck connecting to a body at the base with wings either side. Read (1988) illustrates a similar cherub, stem and wings on a drawer handle on page 203, No.1423, which is dated from the 18th century. Bailey (1993) illustrates dr…
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2017
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Record ID: SUSS-2BDF93
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy metalworking industrial debris possibly medieval to Post Medieval in date. (AD1200-1800). The fragment is of poured and solidified copper alloy melt, presumably waste from an episode of casting, which has solidified. The fragment measures 30mm long, 28.3mm wide, 5.1mm thick and weighs 12.99 grams.
Created on: Sunday 27th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2017
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