Record ID: LEIC-67A5D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy annular brooch, dating to c.AD 1200 - 1400. The brooch is circular in form and rectangular in cross section. It has a narrow rectangular recess with a small pin bar sraddling the void. One face appears plain with the exception of possible ridges? running its circumference. The other side is worn but appears to be inscribed with several words.  Diameter: 36 mm Width: 8 mm Thickness: 2 mm Weight: 8.65 g Malcolm Jones comments that the remaining visible letters 'renus' are from a longer inscription of "i(h)esus nazarenus"
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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Record ID: DOR-659247
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete polished stone axehead, probably of Langdale Tuff. The axehead has an asymmetrical break at the butt end. The surface of the axe is granular but smooth with a distinct grey-green hue. The surfaces are finely polished with striations visible and very little visible of any flaking scars from the rough-out stage of manufacture. The object is sub-rectangular and tapers toward the butt and has a pointed oval section. The blade end tapers out to the side and in along the blade edge. The cutting edge is asymmetrical and has a large flake missing, probably post dep…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Record ID: DOR-651E5E
Object type: FABRICATOR
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large fabricator or axehead roughout. It is elongate in shape with a rounded distal end and rectilinear proximal end. The cross section is plano convex. The flint is covered in a thin, smooth layer of off-white cortification. Patches of thick nodular cortex remain along the right side and distal end of the dorsal face with a thinner orangey sub-layer of cortification in between patches and covering the whole of the ventral face. Low angle flaking to the upper face is crude with many scars terminating in hinge fractures. The ventral face is flat. Date: Late Neolithic to early Bronz…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 19th July 2021
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Record ID: DOR-64313D
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2018 T8 I have examined a group of 22 coins reported found in Dorset. All of the coins are official silver issues of the English monarchs Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I and will therefore be of over 90% fine silver. A detailed catalogue accompanies this report. There are two denominations present: the halfcrown and shilling. The face value of the coins in the 17th century was £1 6s 6d, easily a month's pay for a labourer at the time and several week's wages for a soldier in the Civil War. The coins represent what we know about the currency of the mid-17th century,…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Blandford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-691084
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
incomplete Roman copper alloy developed crossbow brooch of Mackreth's (2011) Type CR 3 dating to the period c. AD 320 - 400. A large onion-shaped collared knob sits at the centre of the head, just above the central pin slot. One wing is missing. The remaining wing is cylindrical with a moulded flange projecting from the front edge and terminates in a collared onion-shaped knop. Just below the collar there are traces of solder or inlaid silver wire. The wing contains the corroded remaisn of the iron axis bar. The faceted bow arches steeply back from the head. It bends at a right-angle …
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-683D45
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn gilt copper alloy plate brooch of Mackreth's Type 3b dating to the period c. AD 200 - 350. The round plate exhibits a central circular recess surrounded by a ridged border which would have probably housed a glass, paste or enamel setting, now lost. This is in turn surrounded by a series of concentric alternating flutes and ridges with a final ridged border running around the edge of the plate. Traces of gilding survive on the front face. There are traces of stamp marks where the gilding survives, however, there is insufficient to discern the motifs used. The reverse exhibits a…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd June 2020
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Record ID: WILT-642D72
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
2018 T629; Disclaimed, returned to finder Description: A Post-Medieval silver gilt dress hook. The object consists of a trefoilate back plate with cusped outer edge and central perforation, a point projects from the interstice of each lobe. A hollow hemispherical boss is affixed to each lobe, decorated with applied filigree wire forming three roundels each containing an applied pellet. There are further pellets at the apex of each boss and in the spandrels between the roundels and the edges. A dome headed rivet holds a central rosette in situ, its shank bifurcating and being bent…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shrewton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-6568CD
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bifacially flaked laurel leaf-shaped knife. The flint is dark and mid-grey in colour with a low gloss patina. There are areas of thick, off-white nodule cortex reatined on the dorsal face towards the tip and at the butt. The ventral face has several large transverse thinning flake removals from the side edges. The dorsal face is more crudely worked with fewer flakes, also from the side edges. The tip of the knife has also been bifacially worked. The knife has an asymmetrical lentoid profile, deeper on the dorsal face. Date: Neolithic - c. 4000 - 250 BC Dimensions: 81 mm x 42.6 mm …
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th November 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-689226
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy dress hook, Post Medieval (1600-1700), leaf shaped, cast in low relief with a central plant/flower motif, rectangular eye to accomodate the hook, three attachment loops. cf. Read 2008, 175-177. Length 35.6mm, Width 18.8mm, Thickness 1.8mm, Mass 3.81g.
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-686855
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval gold crown of the double rose of Henry VIII (1509-47), Third Coinage (1544-7), mint: Bristol (North 1836), initial mark: WS (1546-7). Ref: North 1991:114. The coin is in good condition, although a set of parallel lines across the coin (obverse) suggests that the coin was at some point bent.
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-640B25
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three cast lead musket balls, of Post-Medieval date, about AD 1600 - 1800. 1. The casting seam and sprue are visible. The sprue has been trimmed with nippers leaving two facets. The ball is impacted and one face is distorted to a smooth convex facet, suggesting the ball hit something hard, smooth and curved or concave. There is also another area of damage, where the ball has suffered a glancing blow. It is 16.2mm diameter, and 18.6g. It has a reflective dark grey patina. Its weight suggests that it was fired from a Carbine, a short firearm used by cavalry (Harding D F, 2012, Lead S…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2019
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Record ID: SOM-66F06B
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval clay tobacco pipe with the heel and a small portion of the bowl and stem remaining. The bowl is curved away from the heel and the stem but breaks almost immediatey so the full form is unclear. The heel is incised with the makers mark WH. There is 17.1mm of stem remaining and the walls of which are 4.3mm thick with a diameter of 9.56mm with a 2.9mm hole in the centre. The entire piece is 32.9mm long, 21.9mm wide and weighs (with soil inside stem) 4.86gms. Similar to SOM-669B19. The WH refers to the maker William Hunt of Taunton dating the item to c. AD 1700 (Leach…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2019
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Record ID: SOM-669B19
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval clay tobacco pipe bowl with no stem remaining. The bowl is swollen and convex curved from the heel to about two thirds up the bowl where it becomes straight where it meets the lip. The side of the bowl that meets the stem is slightly convex and goes straight near the lip of the bowl which is broken on this side. The heel has the indented letters W.H. There is 2mm of stem remaining and the walls of which are 3.9mm thick with a diameter of 10mm with a 2.8mm hole in the centre. The entire piece is 41.2mm long, 20.8mm wide and weighs (with soil inside) 10.86gms. The …
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2019
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Record ID: WILT-674823
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy buckle plate, with buckle missing, dating to c AD 1250 - 1400. The plate is rectangular, with five perforations arranged with one in each corner and a fifth centrally; one, at the buckle end, retains a separate copper alloy rivet with domed head, and a V-shaped groove (the latter possibly due to post-depositional damage). Traces of gilding survive, however the plate is too abraded for any further detail to be discerned. A the buckle end the plate is folded over, with a rectangular slot to accomodate a pin, with a short rectangular back plate. It is 39.60mm in length,…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th January 2019
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Record ID: SUSS-66DA74
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post Medieval cast copper-alloy double-looped oval buckle. (c.AD1350-1650). The buckle is very corroded and consists of two sub-oval loops. The loops are bevelled on the front and flat on the reverse. There is a narrow central strap bar with the remains of the pin corroded around he bar. There are traces of a black lacquer. It measures 23.6mm long, 19.1mm wide, 2.1mm thick and weighs 2.26 grams. Similar type buckles can be seen in Whitehead (2003) pp53.
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 15th January 2019
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Record ID: HESH-67EAE1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy probable 'Winchester style' strap end (Thomas Class E) of later Early Medieval (10th - 11th century) date. The strap end is incomplete and the upper part (which would have fitted to the strap) is lost. The damage appears to be old as the breaks are either corroded or patinated. Originally the strap end would have been rectangular (tongue shaped) with a rounded base and riveted attachment plate; what remains is the decorated body of the plate. The body is pierced with a high relief chip carved debased vine or vegetal scroll formed by a S shaped central f…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rodington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-6538FD
Object type: FLAKED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flaked flint axehead. The flint is mottled mid grey and grey brown with a low-gloss patina. A small area of off-white nodule cortex remains on one face. There is some iron staining along the flake ridges. Sub-trapezoidal in shape with a rounded, tapered but and a shallow convex cutting edge. It has been crudely bifacially flaked, producing an asymmetrical cutting edge. One face is more crudely worked than the other, with a large, irregular hinge fracture and several flake removal scars from the side edges.. The other face has numerous, smaller flake removal scars from all directions…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
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Record ID: WAW-65B1D4
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (11th century) stirrup strap mount: The copper alloy mount is sub-triangular in plan, the sides are slightly convex. The tip has a sub-trefoil knop with a circular perforation on the upper surface. The mount is decorated by a lion, facing right, and looking upwards, with one front paw raised. The tail is curled between the legs and in front of the body, curling towards the back of the head. The lower edge of the mount has two rivet holes, both have the traces of iron rivets. The reverse of the mount is undecorated and has, along the lower edge a shallow stepped flange. …
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th November 2018
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Record ID: WILT-65C16E
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small decorated strip of copper alloy, probably of Roman date, and possibly part of a small bracelet or similar. The fragment plano-convex in cross section, and is truncated by old breaks at both ends. It is slightly curved in profile, although it is unlcear whether or not this was original. The concave face is decorated by a series of four transverse collars. It is 29.49mm in length, 5.13mm in width but tapering to 4.12mm along its extant length. It is 2.13mm thick. It weighs 2.03g.
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th November 2018
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Record ID: WILT-65E8B0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy La Tene I brooch dating to c. 400-200 BC. The bow and foot survive intact, with the coil and pin lost to an old break. The bow of the brooch is highly arched, sub-oval in cross section and tapering into the foot and coil. The bow was decorated with a series of incised transverse lines, the foot curves back upwards, terminating in an enemal inlaid roundel, with traces of three red pellets arranged equidistantly and a central reserved annulet. The pin rest is to the right of the foot. The brooch measures 35.30mm in length, 12.85mm in width and weighs 2…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th November 2018
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