Record ID: PUBLIC-A83916
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast, copper alloy, eye from a Post Medieval clasp. The eye consists of a lozange-shaped plate with a circular loop on one apex. The plate is decorated in relief with an interwined square and quatrefoil, within engrailed edges.In the centre of the plate is a rivet hole. There are globular knops on the apex opposite the loop and to one side. The fourth apex is broken, but longer and wider than the opposite knopped ones and is decorated in a way that suggests it joined to another eye. The eye has a deep green, smooth patina. In the recesses are patches of black indicating the fitting …
Created on: Saturday 13th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kempley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-A5D90E
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post medieval copper alloy thimble dating AD1520-1620. The thimble has a wide margin between the base and the regularly spaced pits. The pits are drilled in a spiral and they cover the peak. Where the pits terminate, there is a makers stamp in the form of a capital letter 'R'. Holmes (1988:3) writes "Thimbles with hand punched indentations often have a maker's mark which is struck where the spiral of the indentations begins near the base. These would appear to have been imported mostly from Nuremberg where, under the ordinances of the Guild of Thimble-makers, all thimbles a…
Created on: Saturday 13th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-9F4CAE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A worn cast copper-alloy Early Medieval buckle plate, dating to the late 6th-7th centuries. Description: The plate survives as the front plate of a boxe type buckle plate and is sub-triangular in plan with a flat circular lobe at the belt attachment end. The lobe has a raised dome at the centre. At the opposite end there are two more lobes with two two matchign domes. The upper surface is heavily decorated with a sunken panel with a raised border in which a pair of entwined beasts are shown in relief. The the beasts heads have large eyes and beaked mouths pointing to the top corner…
Created on: Saturday 13th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-9F09A3
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy ring-shaped annular bead, possibly of Iron Age or Roman in date. c. 800BC-410AD Description: The bead is in the form of annular ring with a medium central hole. The central perforation is evenly shaped.. The object is a like grey-green colour, possibly high tin copper-alloy Measurements: 20mm in diameter, Width: 20mm, Thickness: 5.5mm and Weight: 8g Discussion: Dating is uncertain as there is little consensus on the PAS database abd the literature despite a realtively large number of examples known and it seems likely that objects of this type were widely us…
Created on: Saturday 13th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th April 2018
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