Record ID: YORYM-9218BA
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy halfpenny trade token of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1648 - 1673. The token was issued by William Dickenson in Bridlington Quay. Obverse: WILLIAM DICKESON around HIS//HALF//PENY. Reverse: IN BRIDLINGTON KEY around three tuns. The token is 17.5mm in diameter and weighs 1.1g. A similar example is illustrated in Thompson and Dickinson, pl.18, no.5825. Trade tokens were issued between 1648 and 1673 at a time when there was little low denomination coinage being issued by the crown. As a result traders and business proprietors began issuing tokens as an a…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2018
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Record ID: NMS-91E1F3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver halfgroat of Elizabeth I, Tower, initial mark A, North 2016, extremely worn, 1583-5
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: YORYM-91C904
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy royal rose farthing token of Charles I dating to the period AD 1636 - 1644. Type 2. Crowned rose reverse. Uncertain initial mark. Mint of London. North Vol 2, p.165, no.2291.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2018
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Record ID: YORYM-918168
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Edward VI dating to the period AD 1552 - 1553. Long cross fourchee over royal shield reverse. Mullet initial mark. Mint of York. North Vol 2, p.124, no.1946.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2018
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Record ID: NMS-90DE6A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver sixpence of James I, Tower, uncertain initial mark, extremely worn and further details illegible, 1603-24
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-90D5C6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver sixpence of Elizabeth I, Tower, pheon initial mark, North 1997, some wear, 1564
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-90CE5F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver three halfpence of Elizabeth I, Tower, eglantine initial mark, North 1999, well worn, 1575
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-90B48B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy rose farthing of Charles I, 1636-44. (North 2292-2293)
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 16th July 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-906A9C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle of probable Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1690 - 1750. The frame of the chape is described as "cooking pot shaped" (broadly trapezoidal in shape, curving corners. Two internal spikes project from the inner edge of the loop. The chape is a dark brown in colour, with an uneven patina. A buckle with a similar chape is illustrated in Whitehead (1996, p.103, no. 662). This type of chape is also illustrated as type V on page 96 (Whitehead, 1996). Whitehead suggests a date c. 1690-1720 for this type of chape. Other similar buckles and chapes have been recorded on…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Campsell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-906590
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy shoe or knee buckle dating to the Post-Medieval period (c. AD 1660-1720). The buckle consists of a slightly convex sub-trapezoidal symmetrical frame with flat expanded outer edges. The top and bottom edges of the frame taper inwards and consist of a moulded spherical spindle housing. Each end has a indent for the pin to rest on. The underside of the buckle frame is plain and flat except for the spherical spindle housing which extends slightly beyond the frame. The spindle remains and also has a cast stud chape mostly intact minus its' stud end. The buck…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-905FE3
Object type: FLINTLOCK MUSKET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron hammer of a large flintlock pistol, possibly a Brown Bess lock (Noel Hulme, 1969, fig. 214, fig. 69, no. 5). The jaws would have connected together and to the hammer by a vertical bar running down one side. The screw would have run vertically through the jaws adjacent to the side fixed by the vertical bar and would have tightened to hold the flint in place. The flint is missing but would have projected beyond the open side of the baws - opposite the vertical bar and screw. The mechanism is showing signs of active corrosion. The length is 125mm, the width is 78mm and the weight…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-903431
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy button of William Duke of Cumberland 1741 - 1757AD. The diameter is 26mm and the weight 5.89g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rishworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-902CF6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval cast copper alloy double loop stock buckle dating to c. 1690 -1720, with separate copper alloy spindle, pin and chape. The frame is sub-rectangular in plan, with rounded sides and corners. It is D-shaped in cross-section: convex at the front and flat at the rear. Viewed in profile, the buckle curves backwards (towards the strap) symmetrically on either side of the central spindle. It is thickest in the centre, where the spindle passes through a drilled hole. From here it tapers in on both sides. On the front, these thickened central parts of the frame are decorated …
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 12th July 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-901E04
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern copper-alloy trade weight dating c.1780 - 1825. The weight is circular with a raised rim on the top. The bottom surface is flat. The top surface of the weight has been stamped with two concentric circles, a crowned GR. Biggs (1992:54-56) suggests that the crowned GR' stamp was used widely on weights that were made outside major centres in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The diameter is 31mm.and the weight 25.06g. Biggs, N. , 1992 English Weights: An illustrated survey White House Publications
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-900F10
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Blackburn with Darwen
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy two piece button, sometimes known as tombac or dandy buttons. It is flat and circular in plan with a soldered shank on the back. The outer face is decorated with a machined pattern consisting of an outer stylised flower around a central stylised star, sunburst or flower. The back has a central loop for thread. The button has a remnant white metal coating, possibly a silver wash. It probably dates from between c1675 and c1800 AD. The diameter is 25mm and the weight 4.13g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
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Record ID: OXON-900BF3
Object type: JEWS HARP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval iron 'Jew's harp', missing only the tongue. The harp consists of a rounded C-shaped end which extends to two prongs, which would have rested in the mouth. There is a groove on the centre of the rounded end where the tongue would have attached. It is sub-lozenge shaped in cross section. The iron of the harp is corroded with fragments flaking. This object probably dates to the post-medieval period c.1600-1800, but could be slightly earlier.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8FBF3D
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Decorated copper alloy (tombac) solid discoidal flat button, which measures 24.9mm in diameter and is 1.0mm thick. It has engraved decoration consisting of a central 14mm diameter 8 pointed star formed of 5 engraved lines; each arm of the star has three points - a long terminal flanked by 2 shorter points. On the reverse is a shallow central domed boss where the attachment loop was formerly affixed - this has broken away but was clearly of copper wire as there is a small stub remaining. There are several similar buttons illustrated in Bailey (9.39, 9.47, 9.52 etc.) which are g…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ibstock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-8FBDD1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy Scottish twopence or turner/bodle of Charles II, dating to the period 1663 - 1677 AD. Obverse of crown above CR.II; CAR . D . G SC[OT AN]G FR[A ET HIB R]. Reverse of thistle, NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET. The coin is 19.65mm in diameter, 1.03mm in thickness and weighs 1.4g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th March 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-8F6FD6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy belt mount, Length: 23 mm, width: 12 mm, thickness: 6 mm, weight: 1.71 g. The mount is triangular in form and rectangular in cross section. It has a central openwork rectangle set with its corners pointing out to the sides. The other corners are flanked by two trefoil motifs at either end, one forming a pointed terminal. On its reverse it has two circular cross sectioned, bent attachment lugs, pointing towards each end.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 5th July 2018
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Record ID: OXON-8F3C14
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy purse bar of the early Post Medieval period, dating from circa AD 1450 - AD 1550, Williams Class D. The purse bar comprises a central heart-shaped block with a vertical circular aperture through which is the remains of the suspension loop bar. At either side of the heart-shaped box are integrally cast, short, circular cross-sectioned, funnel shaped arms which then constricts into a circular-sectioned bar with expanded rounded terminal. Two loops of copper alloy wire have each been wrapped around the arms, and these would have formed part of the frame fo…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2020
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