Record ID: PUBLIC-B57EEA
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Post Medieval circular trade weight of the reign of George III, or possibly the earlier part of the reign of George IV. This weight is circular in plan, sub-rectangular in cross-section and has a raised rim. The front has a single central incised circle around the centre. Overlying this circle are four stamped motifs: A letter 'A' for avoirdupois, the royal cypher 'G' surmounted by a crown, the sword of St Paul and an ewer denoting that the weight was approved by the Founders Company in London. The back has a central indentation and file adjustment marks. At 55…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarring Neville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-B0A018
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval, about AD 1400 - 1800. Description: The weight is a shallow dome with a convex upper side and a roughly flat base. The upper domed surface is in the form of a male lion with clearly defined muzzle, nose eyes and a main picked out with downward diagonal lines. It is patinated an off white typical of aged lead. Measurements: 24.88mm in diameter, 10.23mm thick and 30.3g in weight. Discussion: Although probably a relatively late, if a weight, as seen by relatively standard 30g weight an earlier date cannot be discounted. Nor can we be certain this is a weight and not a m…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B63206
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Post Medieval circular trade weight probably dating to The weight is circular in plan, sub-rectangular in cross-section and has a raised rim. There are three stamped marks on the face: an ewer (mark of the Founders Company of London), a quartered shield of the City of London with a sword in the topleft quadrant, the sword of St Paul and an ewer denoting that the weight was approved by the Founders Company in London. The back has file adjustment marks.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Greenwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-B3DC8D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three sherds of Roman wheel thrown mica speckled greyware ceramic vessel dating c.AD 125-300. Description: The sherds are all irregular body sherds with clear striations indicating they were part of a wheel thrown vessel. The fabric is very hard with some common mica speckling and fine black grit. There is little mica intrusion into the inner fabric. The sherds has very jagged edges and are a dark grey colour indicating a heavily reducing kiln atmosphere. Sherd 2 is slightly darker and has some geometric decoration Measurements: Sherd 1 : 30.37mm long, 25.6mm high, 7.02mm th…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: BUC-AE7704
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a medieval cast copper alloy vessel leg, dating to 1400-1450. The leg of the vessel is in the shape of a foot or paw, with a worn break where it would have attached to the vessel, followed by a raised collar. The leg then decends with three raised ridges, the basal end is paw-shaped with three worn toes. The leg is D shaped in cross section. The reverse or inside of the leg is flat. The leg is a dark green colour, with patches of black and light green spotted across the surface. It measures 43.3mm in length, 24.7mm in width, and 15.3mm at maximum thickness. It weighs 61.…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2018
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Record ID: NLM-B070BD
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. A coarse fabric, externally oxidised and internally reduced, with abundant calcareous and flint inclusions to length 3mm, probably a hand made vessel. This sherd was kindly examined by Sandra Firth of the North Lincolnshire Pottery Research Group. The inclusions may have been intended to improve the resistance of a vessel to the thermal shock of heating and cooling. Fiercely abraded. Suggested date: Late Iron Age, 100BC - AD 43. Weight: 9.31gms
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'New Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-B13C33
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy zoomorphic vessel foot with integral zoomorphic spout of uncertain age, (see discussion). Description: The object has a circular base, flat on the base and slightly convex on the upper surface. Evenly placed on the base is a pair of long thin legs, which are roughly semi-circular in cross-section. The legs re-join at the body which is represented only as the very front of the chest, from the chest projects a long thin hollow neck, U-Shaped in cross section. The neck projects at roughly 105-110 degree angle from the legs. The upper edges of the neck has incised k…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th March 2020
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Record ID: KENT-B34EE8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of wheel thrown ceramic vessel of Roman date c. AD 43 - 410, likely a mica dusted greyware cooking vessel dating to the period c. AD 125 - 300. Description: The vessel survives only as a body sherd with some rim at the top lip. The sherd has mixed variably spaced inclusions of small grit and quartz. and sparse specks of mica dusting. The sherd is unoxidised being ad dark grey throughout. The sherd likely relates to a cooking pot. Measurements: 34.05mm wide. 35.18mm high, 9.03mm thick and 12.20g in weight.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: KENT-B3893A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd probably from a Roman ceramic drinking vessel of Patchgrove Grog-tempered ware. Description: The sherd represents part of the rim of a ceramic vessel with the rim surviving in full in one small place and not enough remains to suggest original diameter. The fabric has a light white brown outer colour and a light grey-blue inner with some brown mottling. The inclusions are profuse, poorly sorted, mixed rounded to sub-angular and up to 3.13mm in length grog (crushed pot) temper. Some other sparse heavily mixed small intermediate white clay and possible quartz inclusions al…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: KENT-B3BB85
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small sherd of probable Roman wheel thrown ceramic vessel dating. Description: The sherd is a medium sized rregular body sherd with clear striations indicating a wheel thrown vessel. The fabric is very hard with substantial mica speckling and with some mica intrusion into the inner fabric. The sherd has very jagged edges and is a dark grey colour indicating a heavily reducing kiln atmosphere, although the outside edge is browner particularly towards the base of the sherd while the upper edge is greyer. Measurements: 26.63mm wide, 41.96mm high, 4.85mm thick and 8.26g in weight.…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: NLM-B01325
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. A solid round section rod fragment with a thickened and deeply grooved and lightly billeted lug at one end, which appears as if rolled around the rod. The finder notes the similarity in appearance to the bit of a small key, though the offset configuration here would appear unsuited to a rotary function. Suggested date: Unknown, Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1200-1700. Length: 18.5mm, Diameter (rod): 4.7mm, Width/Height: 13.0mm, Thickness (lug): 2.9mm, Weight: 2.34gms
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 30th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'New Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B2C065
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possibly incomplete or broken and complete copper alloy object of uncertain date, the metal and patina suggesting a late Iron Age or Roman date (100 BC - AD 410). The object consists of an oval section (20.7x16.7x8.2mm), its shorter ends truncated. In cross-section it is pentagonal/ triangular, with a flat underside and short vertical sides (c.2mm high) and a central ridge to the front, the sides sloping to either edge from this point. Beyond the truncated edges a flat 4.6x1.1mm tab extends, c.23mm to one side and c.30mm to the other, both curving behind the central oval and termina…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hampstead Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-AE9B64
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete and worn post-Medieval copper-alloy token farthing of Richard Dore of Newport, Isle of Wight, 1654. Williamson 1889: Hampshire (265, ref: 99). Obverse: RICHARD DORE; R D in field. Reverse: OF NEWPORT; 1654 in field. Diameter: 14.5mm. Weight: 0.54g. DA=12:6. Richard Dore was a member of the Corporation, but in 1662 he and other members of that body were dismissed for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy and Allegiance. (see: 'The Antiquary' Vol. XLVIII, 1912, where there is an article on the Ledger Book of Newport, Isle of Wight, 1567-1799 by architect and anti…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT-B1D569
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn crudely cast lead-alloy biface token possibly of the Late Medieval to Early Modern period, dating to AD1400 - AD 1900. Description: The token is roughly circular, quite thin and biface (with decoration on both sides). The decoration is cast in very shallow relief and consists on one side of a small outline bird facing right on one side, it has a large oval eye and stylised beak. The other side also has the outline of a bird from the neck up on it, albeit much larger and with a more detail both are executed rather crudely however. The token is mottled dark grey with substanti…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: NMGW-AE3574
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Possible Late Iron Age to early Roman copper alloy looped toggle of 1st century BC to 1st century AD date The cast toggle is of biconical form and is incomplete, missing the loop (with a length of 25.4mm and a weight of 18.7g). The terminal are sub-circular (17.8mm x 16.3mm and 16.2mm x 15.0mm). The smaller terminal has a very crudely incised cross and the other terminal has a prominent raised rib, probably a casting seam and corresponds to the seam along the midsection of the toggle. There is a single crude incised line perpendicular to the casting seam, possibly to define a cross.…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th February 2019
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Record ID: DEV-B106A7
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval to Post-Medieval copper alloy thimble, probably dating to c. AD 1400-1600. The thimble is cast, domed and with sloping sides. Circular hand drilled pits are arranged in a concentric spiral extending from the base, although leving a narrow plain rim, to the apex, leaving a small bald tonsure. Dimensions: Height 21.7mm; diameter 23.5mm; thickness of walls c. 1.8mm; weight 14.19g. Holmes (1988) notes that bald tonsures are a more characteristically early feature and cease to be seen on thimbles after c. 1650, whilst the spiral arrangement of pits was increasingly ub…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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Record ID: KENT-B26C36
Object type: TEGULA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments of Roman ceramic tegula roof tile dating to 43-402 AD. Description: The fragments are from the same part of the tile and fit together. They include the flange. The outer face of the flange is very irregular and poorly finished. The surface is orangey red and the core is also orangey red indicating an oxidised core. Measurements: 90.08mm long, 90.21mm wide, 56.3mm thick (including flange and 475g in weight. Discussion: Tegulae along with imbrices are roof tiles which together produce an overlapping affect used commonly in ancient Greek and Roman architecture as a…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: NLM-B065C2
Object type: TALLY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy tally. Milled disc with a stamped legend in a rectangular panel on one side. The legend reads: I.FOSTON, with the first initial in particular heavily seriffed. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1650-1800. Diameter: 28.8mm, Thickness: 1.4mm, Weight: 6.08gms
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 30th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'New Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-ACF21D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-Medieval cast copper-alloy eye-section for a belt or strap clasp (c. 1800-c. 1850). The object is composed of three integral parts, a domed plate with a circular attachment loop at one end and a rectangular attachment loop at the other end. Most of this rectangular attachment loop is missing due to breaks and only stubs survive. The circular loop is orientated 90° to the plane of the plate. The domed plate is moulded at the front and is in the form of a well defined forward facing male lion's head with a heavy mane. The plate is concave and plain at the re…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-AE05EB
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sheet plate from a medieval buckle or strap clasp, rectangular, broken along the folded end which has slightly recessed sides, attachment end with two rivet-holes. Width 16mm. Length 31mm. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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