Record ID: KENT-9875AD
Object type: BORER
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint borer of uncertain date, probably Mesolithic to early Bronze Age. Description: The borer is thin in cross section but irregfular in plan, One end of the borer is flaked into a point, off centre. The borer point is formed from invasive scaled semi-abrupt retouch. Each of the long side of the borer has retouch alogn their edges defined as short scaled semi-abrupt. This may indicate the tool was multi use with a scraper edge in addition to the boring point The flint is very grey to black in colour. The flaking is very pronounced and likely indicates a hard hammer technique was…
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 20th June 2018
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Record ID: KENT-983BD5
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single flint probable waste flake (debitage) of uncertain possible prehistoric date. Description: The flake is irregularly shaped with a wide base (striking platform end) with extensive conchoidal rippling and pronounced bulb of percussion indicating production via hard hammer technology. Measurements: 29.69mm long, 14.52mm wide, 4.98mm thick and 1.5g in weight.
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th October 2019
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Record ID: KENT-980972
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An irregular scraper of uncertain date, possibly Neolithic to Bronze Age Description: The scraper is irregularly shape, but trapezoidal in cross-section. The two edges aligned perpedicular to the striking platform edges. The scraping edges are irregular and formed by short scaled semi-abrupt retouch, the flint itslef is light grey with some offwhite mottling and orangey brown iron stianing. Measurements: 40.75mm long, 36.48mm wide, 13.32mm thick and 19.92g in weight.
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 20th June 2018
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Record ID: KENT-97B6FB
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint double ended scraper probably of late Mesolithic to Neolithic date, c.8000BC - 3300BC, an early date as early as the upper later Palaeothic cannot be discounted. Description: The scraper has two rounded ends and two flat perpendicular edges, leaving it irregular in shape. The dorsal face has uneven flaking. The scraping edges are formed from short scaled semi-abrupt retouch and are along each rounded endge and one of the flat eedge opposite the bulb of percussion. The bulb of percussion is very subtle but the bulbar scar is very clear. The flint is a mottled mid-grey with s…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 20th June 2018
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Record ID: IOW-979921
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Modern copper-alloy three-piece button from a prison warders tunic/uniform (c. 1837-c. 1902) This button is domed at the front and flat at the back. The pressed design at the front consists of a central royal crown with CONVICT DEPARTMENT around. The back has an outfitter's stamp: E MILNS & Co LONDON Diameter: 23.0mm; thickness: 9.0mm; thickness including loop: 14.8mm. Weight: 4.05g. During the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century prisons were formed of two departments, the Prison Department and the Convict Department. A prison, formerly known as P…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 20th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-975BF6
Object type: BACKED BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable flint backed blade of late paleolithic date. Description: The blade is is D-Shaped, with a wide crushed back straight backed edge with formed by covering covering scaled abrupt retouch. The edge is partially worked with some short scaled low angle retouch. The bulb of percussion is low and somewhat obscured by the backing of the blade. The flint is heavily mottled dark grey with a number of patches of light grey brown inclusions. Measurements: 62.77mm long, 32.91mm wide, 13.05mm thick and 29.51g in weight.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 20th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-92E4D2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon to Middle Saxon copper alloy oval buckle frame with a narrowed bar recessed on the inner face. Marzinzik 2003, Typegroup 1.9. Length 10.5mm. Width 22mm. Weight 2.07g. 6th - 7th century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-928E96
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the shank of an Early Saxon copper alloy girdle hanger broken at one end more recently than at the other and slightly bent longitudinally. Decoration comprises a row of double half-annular punched impressions running close to both edges. Extant length 35mm. Width 7.7mm. Thickness 1.3mm. Weight 2.69g. Late 5th - early 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-9260F6
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon copper alloy girdle hanger with the terminal and the lower end of the shank missing (a recent break). The broad loop, with a central moulded groove, is only a litttle narrower than the shank, at the top of which a rectangular-sectioned panel is decorated with a large punched ring-and-dot. Below this, a D-sectioned length, slightly hollowed on the reverse and swelling towards the centre into a pair of scarcely discernible eye knobs, carries two sets of transverse ribs above and below a pair of chevrons, one facing upwards and the other downwards, and both compose…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 14th January 2021
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Record ID: IOW-923FB8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy disc brooch (c. 400-c. 600). Some of the plate and most of the pin are missing. The plate was originally circular in plan. At the front there is a large ring-and-dot motif at the centre and at least three ring-and-dot motifs around. The dot at the centre is pierced through the plate. Close to the edge is a pair of circumferential grooves. The remains of an iron pin is heavily corroded and attached to the plate. The curled-over part of the catch-plate that secured the pin-tip is missing. This brooch is dull green and corr…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-923F59
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped lithic barbed and tanged arrowhead of Bronze Age date, c.1600 - 800 BC. The arrowhead is formed from a tertiary flake of dark brown flint which is bi-facially worked with covering, low angled removals on all surfaces. It is triangular in plan with two shallow notches in the base between the central tang and a barb to either side. Sutton Type B. The arrowhead is 23.8mm long, 16.9mm wide, 4.4mm thick and weighs 1.5g. Despite a seeming regression lithic technology during the Bronze Age a wide range of tools continued to be produced including a variety of arro…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Friday 17th July 2020
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Record ID: GLO-921D64
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper alloy Roman T-shaped brooch of Hull T104. Tubular wings hold the pin axis bar, there is a slot in the centre of the wings at the rear for the pin, the pin is missing. A double recessed line decorated the front tip of each wing. The head of the bow has a tapering triangular pannel with expanded shoulders. In the centre of the head are two raised lines that converge at the apex of the bow forming a V-shaped crest with a third raised line in the centre. The lower part of the bow is truncated resulting in the loss of the catchplate.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 11th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tickenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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: SUR-920F4E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval cast gold cloisonné buckle tongue. The tongue comprises a mushroom-shaped base with an integral tongue, which extends outwards from the base and flares as it curves downwards towards the blunt tip. The lower edges of the tongue are decorated with a row of punched crescent motifs surrounded by a border of lightly punched dots. A double row of dots, much worn, is also visible along top of the tongue. On the back of the buckle is a gold loop, rectangular in cross-section, for attaching to the missing buckle loop. The upper surface of the base is decorated with ge…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: GLO-91EE9A
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy heraldic horse harness pendant of the vertical banner type dating to the late 13th or early 14th century AD. The banner is shaped like a flag, with a hollow cylindrical shaft running down one edge. The interior of the cylinder the still retains some of the wooded banner pole which is visible in the lower aperture. Both faces of the banner are decorated with the device of a transverse chevron in the centre with six crosses above and four below (the crosses are all cross pattee style), the field is recessed and filled with red enamel, which is the coat of ar…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th April 2021
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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-91A90E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver farthing of Edward I dating to the period AD 1300 - 1310. Long cross reverse. Mint of London. Type 28. Withers, p.31, no.28.
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: YORYM-916548
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Edward I dating to the period AD 1280 - 1281. Long cross reverse. Mint of London. Class 3. North Vol 2, p.28, no.1016-1022.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2018
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Record ID: SF-914937
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Medieval annular brooch, dating to AD 1250-1400. The frame is semi-circular in cross-section with a narrowed bar for the copper-alloy pin. The front face has a transverse notch for the pin. The pin is closed and its shaft has a circular cross-section, which tapers towards a pointed tip. Where the shaft meets the loop there is a transverse collar. The surfaces have traces of gilding, now very worn. The front face has a sort of ring-and-dot pattern slightly visible but it is hard to say if the surfaces had a plain gilding or engraved inscription. Diameter: 15.82 mm …
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barkway', grid reference and parish protected.