Record ID: WMID-6FB3A2
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy token of later medieval to post-medieval date, circa (AD1400-1800). The token is circular in plan. The obverse depicts a six petalled flower, Powell Type 1 (Symbolic Petalled Flower) The reverse face is flat and un-decorated. The token has a cream to grey coloured patina across all surfaces which also has areas of abrasion. Lead tokens had a wide variety of potential uses such as use as tallies, gaming pieces, tickets, weights, etc. and are believed to have been locally produced; they are therefore difficult to date precisely. Those carrying initials are generally deem…
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2018
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Record ID: BERK-6FAD4E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy radiate probably of Victorinus dating to the period AD 268 - 270. Very worn, figure standing on reverse. No photograph.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6FABF2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete (heavily clipped) silver groat of Henry VIII (AD 1509 - AD 1547), struck as part of the third coinage between AD1544 - AD 1547. Long cross over royal shield reverse (diameter: 18.5mm; thickness: 0.5mm; weight: .84g).
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6FABC8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd of a wheel-thrown ceramic Black Burnished Ware (Type BB2) jar of Roman date, circa AD 120 - 250. The fabric is dark blackish-grey in colour with a hard and gritty texture and black burnished outer surface. There is an incised groove running across the fragment above a wavy combed design of thin parallel lines. Numerous inclusions of mica are present giving a speckled appearance within the fabric. The fragment is 70.67mm long, 61.73mm wide, body 4.52mm thick, and weighs 23.8g. BB2 wares were produced at sites around the Thames estuary (Kent and Essex) and distributed…
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2019
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Record ID: NMS-6FAB58
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy L- or angular C-sectioned pendent frame from a purse, broken at both ends, with two attachment holes. The front face is engraved with a diagonal double-line lattice in which no niello has survived. One end is distorted. On the edges of the reverse near the other end there are two opposed pairs of notches and two single. Extant length c.60mm. c.1450 - c.1500. Finder's no. 422
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2018
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Record ID: SUR-6FA5A6
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hollow-backed copper-alloy zoomorphic pendant or vessel mount of possible Iron Age or later date in the form of a horse's head. The head has large protruding lenticular eyes with raised borders, scrolled nostrils and a blunt snout. At the top of the head is a cylindrical ridged loop.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 1st May 2020
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Record ID: BERK-6F975F
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy rotary casket key dating to the 16th to 17th Century AD.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 5th September 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6F9741
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn Medieval silver penny of Edward I (r. 1272-1307). probably class 10 mint London.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6F969E
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five small circular agricultural lead seals of different diameters, 4 mostly whole and 1 is 2/3rds original size. The partial one weighs 3.9g diameter 25mm, thickness 1.5mm. The other four measure respectively: diameter 25mm x weight 2.5g; diameter 20.8mm x 2.9g; diameter 16mm x 4.6g; diameter 15mm x 3.7g.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6F95A7
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval or modern copper alloy thimble. Pressed metal conical thimble with a foot ring and a narrow plain basal zone, with the rest of the wall occupied by round machine stamped pits. The top bears a rectilinear grid or lattice of larger indentations. The thimble is lightly squashed and fractured. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900. Estimated diameter: 13mm, Height: 14.1mm, Thickness (at foot ring): 0.7mm, Weight: 1.63gms
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6F8F76
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval cast copper alloy hooked tag or dress fastener. The object consists of a flat piece of copper alloy,with a curved rectangular bar placed vertically from the lower edge. The actually hook at the base of the bar is missing. An inverted-trapezoidal frame is placed at the upper edge of the dress fastener. Below this the body of the fastener is broadly circular in plan. The decoration consists of a moulded pellet in the centre surrounded by a moulded flower consisting of six petals. The integral hook would have curved to the rear of the object and would have once attache…
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-6F8DEC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of House of Valentinian, uncertain mint, GLORIA ROMANORVM, mint mark illegible, AD364-75.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2018
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Record ID: SUR-6F841F
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flattned and spherical Early Medieval dark blue bead with a white circumferential zig zag pattern. The bead has a hole 4.59mm in diameter.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Record ID: NMGW-6F7E6B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch fragment of indeterminate type, probably of T-shaped or allied types and of 1st or 2nd century AD date The brooch is represented by the fragmentary head only (with a surviving length of 16.5mm, a surviving depth of 6.7mm and a weight of 4.3g). The incomplete head (with a width of 17.7mm) had a covered copper alloy axis bar, possibly originally in tubular wings but no longer surviving. The head narrows to the top of the bow with a D-shaped section (7.0mm wide and 3.5mm thick). There is the suggestion of a curved moulding above the break, possibly flankin…
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: SUR-6F6F26
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver cuff link button, 13.84mm in diameter, formed of a circular disc with a flared rim. The face has an impressed design comprising two hearts surmounted by a single crown, on a stippled ground, inside a raised border with an internal diameter of around 9.0mm. This type of design is interpreted to signify the marriage of Charles II to Catherine of Braganza in 1662. The reverse is concave, with a single broken attachment loop of silver wire, 1.2mm thick with a circular cross section. This object was originally one of a pair. While examples with such a loop on the bac…
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6F6821
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd of a wheel-thrown ceramic West Stow type vessel of late iron age to Roman date, circa AD 1 - 200. The fabric is dark blackish-brown in colour with a hard and gritty texture and black burnished outer surface. Numerous inclusions of mica are present giving a speckled appearance within the fabric. There is part of a design remaining on the fragment showing four semi circular lines. The fragment is 59.22mm long, 55.54mm wide, Rim 6.3mm thick, body 4.09mm thick, and weighs 19.7g. Overall diameter: 20cm (projected using rim chart); approx.7% of rim remaining.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6F6582
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval single loop buckle with projecting recurved spurs dating to the period c. AD 1300 - 1400. The outer edge is expanded with a central notched pin rest. See: Whitehead, R, 2003, p. 20, no. 65.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-6F650A
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button comprising a solid bi-convex head and an integral non-drilled loop. Diameter 12 - 13mm. Length 16.5mm. 16th century. Finder's no. 419
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-6F63F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of House of Constantine, VRBS ROMA, Lyons, reverse type Wolf and Twins, mint mark [...]//[pellet in crescent]PLG, AD330-5.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6F62AF
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval or modern copper alloy and iron thimble. Pressed metal conical or domed thimble with a basal zone occupying the lower half of its wall, bearing concentric rings, and with the upper wall occupied by round machine stamped pits. The top has a partially surviving ferrous metal cap, whose rusting has spread across part of the wall. Lightly squashed and fractured. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900. Estimated diameter: c.16mm, Height: 20.1mm, Width (as found): 18.9mm, Thickness (wall): 0.6mm, Weight: 3.1g.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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