Record ID: BERK-1D8A6E
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure case 2018 T796. Description: Two fragments of a cast copper alloy chape or scabbard end, dating to late bronze age or, early Iron age c. 1150 - 800 BC. The two remnants are of a short bronze sheath/chape with an approximate total remaining length of 14cm, complete examples are usually 20 to 30 cm long. It is probable that they belonged to swords and not, as their size may suggest, to daggers. This example has a simple mid-ridge with no further decoration nor edge ribbing. The edges are of simple semi-rounded form, and the pieces have a lozenge shaped cross-section. The shorte…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pusey CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-1C863B
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two lead styli of probable Medieval or Post-Medieval date. Both are circular in section and cylindrical in form with a tapering point at one end with the other ends worn and blunt which may have originally expanded into a wedge-shape, used to erase what had been written with the point. The first stylus is 4.3 mm in length, 7.5 mm in diameter and 19.85 g in weight; the second is 62.5 mm in length, 10.5 mm in diameter and 22.6 g in weight. The long, tapered end of the longer stylus is deeply pitted and the surfaces of both styli are coated with an off-white layer of lead oxide. Egan (19…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-1C8413
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken lead toy of post-medieval date (c. 1600 - 1800 AD), probably a cannon or whistle. The object is cylindrical and hollow and has broken into two pieces of approximately equal length, in a diagonal, abraded break. The mouth of the cylinder at one end is ridged and at the other, instepped. The surface of the object is very worn but a decorative, moulded pattern of interlinking diamonds can be made out. A prominent casting seam is visible along the top and bottom of the object, with fragmentary triangular and rectangular decorative mouldings extending from the casting seam on one si…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Saturday 16th January 2021
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Record ID: CORN-1C7086
Object type: DIE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast asymmetric lead die dating from the Medieval to the Post-medieval period. The die is slightly irregular in shape but with well-squared corners and smooth, flat faces with drilled dots to indicate their values. It measures 9.5 mm by 8.6 mm by 7.6 mm and weighs 7.25 g. The opposing longer, wider faces are 4 and 3; the longer, narrower faces are 6 and 2; the short ends are 5 and 1. This pattern does not conform to any of the 16 variants of the 'regular' format illustrated by Potter (1992) and reproduced by Egan in Finds Research Group Datasheet 23 (1997) on p.3, fig.2, in which th…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2018
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Record ID: CORN-1C5444
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper-alloy coin weight for the gold angel of James I (1603-1625), Third coinage (1619-1625). Almost square in plan, the sides are 12.8 by 13.5 mm, 3.5 mm in thickness and weighing 3.7 g or 57.1 grains. The weight is bifacially stamped, the obverse depicting St. Michael, with right leg bent and left leg straight, spearing a dragon to the right, within a circle of pellets. The reverse is inscribed X.s (for 10 shillings), surmounted by a crown with a central cross and two fleurs on each side, also within a circle of pellets. Withers & Withers (1995) remark that there are many va…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-1AEE9D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy sub-rectangular single-loop buckle, complete with pin, of medieval to post-medieval date (c. 1350 - 1600 AD). The buckle frame is long and thin, with concave long sides and convex short sides. The frame is unevenly square in section. One of the longer sides, which is slightly thicker than the others, has a copper-alloy pin coiled at one end around it. The pin is rectangular in section around the coil and D-shaped in section otherwise, narrowing and tapering to a point. The object has a matt, brown surface. It is 31.50mm in length, 19.47mm in width and 3.27mm in thickness.…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 14th August 2018
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Record ID: WAW-1AE6A4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: Charles I (1625-1649), penny, minted in London, between 1625 and 1649. North No. 2267, 2268, or 22670 Group D.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2018
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Record ID: WAW-1A8E8B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval coin: penny of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) minted in London between 1583 and 1585. North No. 2017.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 13th August 2018
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Record ID: SF-1A6E47
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and broken gilded copper-alloy cast saucer brooch of probable Anglo-Saxon attribution, dating to the Early Medieval period (c. AD 450-550). Only the centre of the brooch survives, its flanged obliquely-angled edges missing in old damage. The remaining portion of the object is broken in two by means of a somewhat neat old truncation. On its upper surface, the moulded design of a central ring-pellet motif is surrounded by six running spirals, all of the latter within two concentric outer circular borders. Copious traces of gilding survive on the edges of the piece, though t…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tostock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-1A58C0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307), minted at Canterbury. Possibly class 10cf, 1305-1310 (North 1991: 32, refs: 1040-1043). Obverse: EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB; Crowned bust facing with a bifoliate crown and wedged drapery. Reverse: CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR; Long cross dividing the inscription with three pellets in each quadrant. Diameter: 18.0mm. Weight: 1.30g. DA=12:8. North, J. J. 1991. English Hammered Coinage, Volume II, Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662. Spink & Son, London.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 13th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-19FE74
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper-alloy contemporary copy of an as of Claudius (AD 41-54) dating to c. AD 41-54 (Reece period 2). Reverse: S-C, Minerva advancing right holding javelin and shield.. For prototype see RIC vol. I, pp. 128 & 130, nos. 100 & 116; cf. an example in the British Museum collection (1934, 0905.129); G, Boon, Counterfeit Coins in Roman Britain, plate IV, cf. nos. 49-54. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A Besombes and M Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thurston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-19EEBB
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy harness pendant (c. 1150-c. 1300). The pendant has a worn through suspension loop which is 90° to the plane of the plate. The wavy edged plate is leaf-like or insect-like in form with ridges on the front that possibly represent veins. The reverse is plain. This pendant is drab green. Length: 39.0mm; width: 26.2mm; thickness: 7.1mm. Weight: 5.35g. Compare with: NLM-E0BF15 and WILT-E84E30.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-199744
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo Saxon) disc brooch, dating to AD 700-900. The front has a raised backward-looking animal with the full four legs visible, a raised and upward curled tail and a neck with outer notches (mane looking). The head has a pellet eye, open mouth and a pointed ear. The central motif is surrounded by a border of incised transverse strokes. The back face is plain and bears a semicircular pierced lug, which is now blocked by the remains of the iron pin; the lug is set parallel to the edge of the disc. On the opposite edge of the back-disc there is …
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 5th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tuddenham St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-1994EC
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Neolithic flint Plano-convex oblique arrowhead, probably dating to c. 2700 - 2400 BC. Worked from a tertiary flake of opaque white/cream flint. The arrowhead is broadly triangular in plan with straight edges and a concave basal edge that has been thinned to accommodate hafting of the item. There is clear edge retouch to the dorsal side with some evidence of further modest retouch to the ventral surface, although damage due to erosion in situ is also a likely cause. The arrowhead has a pale cream/grey appearance with numerous natural inclusions.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
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Record ID: BERK-196E56
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval, or possibly Post-Medieval cast copper alloy pot leg of simple form, possibly c. AD 1200-1700. The leg is rectangular in plan with a sub-triangular in cross-section. The leg has oxide corrosion and has some remnants of blackened fire soot.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 14th August 2018
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Record ID: KENT-19465E
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment polished flint polished flint axehead of Neolithic date, c.4000-2200BC. Description: The fragment represents a middle section of the axehead. possibly forwards the wider blade end, but it is difficult to be certain. All original sides and faces are heavily polished though a number of original (pre-polishing?) or subsequent reworking flake scars are present along both edges. These flake scars may indicate a period of re-edging or similar reworking and further polishing after its initial production. Longitudinal striations caused by the polishing of the surfaces are visibl…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 13th August 2018
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Record ID: IOW-192FFF
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Medieval copper-alloy book mount of Howsam type B.1.2 (c. 1150-c. 1300). This umbonate quatrefoil mount is domed at the front and largely concave on the reverse. It has four evenly spaced lugs situated at the base. Each lug has a circular rivet hole and one rivet, made of copper-alloy, remains in situ. All four lugs are D-shaped, flat at the front and rear; there is a hint of a line dividing them from the sub-circular centre. At the front the dome may have been decorated but none can now be seen. However, some similar mounts are decorated with a cross saltire at the fron…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-192AC3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper-alloy nummus of Crispus as Caesar, dating to c. AD 321-324 (Reece period 16). Reverse: CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, laurel wreath enclosing VOT X. Probably mint of London.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 13th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thurston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-1916D0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman nummus dating to the period c. AD 300 - 402. Uncertain reverse type, possibly depicting a figure standing. Uncertain mint. The coin is worn and illegible
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-1910F8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post- Medieval silver hammered sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), second issue (dated 1572 on coin), initial mark; ermine. North 1991, p. 134, no. 1997. Obverse ELIZABETH [D]G ANG FR ET HI REGINA, crowned bust left with rose behind head. Reverse: [P]OSVI DEV.AD IVTORE M.MEV. A shield on a long cross fourchee dividing the inscription, date above shield. Weight, 2.9g. Diameter 24.65mm.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 13th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRESSINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.