Record ID: PUBLIC-29B878
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete, and possibly base, silver denarius of unclear Severan Empress, probably Julia Mamaea (AD 221-235), possibly dating to the period c.AD 221-235 (Reece period 11). Probably [VEST]A reverse type depicting Vesta standing left holding Palladium and vertical sceptre. Mint of Rome. cf. RIC IV.2, p. 99, no. 360.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 13th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'JHF003D', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-297F65
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn and corroded copper-alloy Roman coin probably a sestertius dating to the period AD 43-260 Thickness: 3.25mm. Weight: 15.11g. Diameter: 30.27mm
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2820B3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy double loop rectangular buckle with drilled frame for separate spindle of 14th-15th century date. The buckle has a notched front with transverse groove. Flanged sides. Cast copper alloy spindle and locking arm terminating in a spherical knop. The buckle has a green patina. Measurements: frame 28.97mm long, 12.01mm wide, 5.77mm thick. 37.14mm overall length, 31.95mm overall width, and 11.05g in weight. Similar buckles are illustrated in Whitehead "Buckles 1250-1800" page 89.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-27BB0E
Object type: FLAGON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, probably pewter, late medieval or post-medieval flagon handle dating possibly to 1400 - 1750AD. Probably from a ceramic flagon The circular ring-like loop handle would have encircled the handle of the flagon and its extension would stand straight above the handle and been attached to the lid of the flagon.. This circular loop was formed attached to an extension 8.5mm long with two arms 9.5mm long with a space 6.9mm wide and a central lug with line decorations on its top surface. The two arms have holes through which a pin has been inserted which has the moving ha…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-270A5C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post Medieval cast copper alloy double-loop buckle frame. The buckle has broken (old breaks) where the second loop would have joined the strap bar. The remaining loop tapers to a blunt point. The inside of the loop is bevelled and the reverse is concave. There is no apparent decoration on the object and it is missing its pin. The object has a brown patina. Length 24.2mm long. Width 26.6mm. Thickness 2.1mm. Weight 2.40g. A similar buckle is illustrated in Whitehead (2003), p.55, no.315 and is dated to circa 1500-1650.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Saturday 22nd December 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-26EDBF
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable iron cannon ball of post-medieval date, (circa 1550-1700AD) The cannonball is sub-spherical with a diameter ranging from 97.93mm to 81.47mm. It weighs 1.80 kilograms . The ball is of a dark-brown or rust red colour.with blackening to one side and lighter greyish areas. The cannon ball is in used condition with multiple pitting and dents. This cannon ball may date to the Dutch raid on the Medway Ports (1667AD), having been recovered lying on the mud at low tide close off Upnor Castle.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 24th October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-268D7E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim fragment of hard fired vessel likely jar produced in Kentish sandy ware fabric of possible late Medieval 1125 - 1250. The fabric is medium hard fired orange externally with a grey centre and has fairly medium spares speck to small white shell temper, mainly visible on the surface with little internally. The rim has a flat top, then turned down with a flat outer edge, angled slightly outwards, the lip overhang measures 12.12mm from the side of the vessel. The overall measurement of the thickness of the top is 19.00mm . Below the rim the neck constricts but after 14.5mm depth…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-264DFE
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim fragment of hard fired vessel likely jar produced in Kentish sandy ware fabric of possible late Medieval 1125 - 1250. The fabric is medium hard fired orange externally with a grey centre and has mediumly sparse angular white shell temper. The rim has a flat top , then turned down with an outer edge angled down at 45 degrees, the lip overhang measures 8.4mm from the side of the vessel. The overall measurement of the thickness of the top is 19.50mm . Below the rim the neck constricts before widening again just before the break. Length 61.65mm, width 30.46mm. . The sherd weigh…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2606CE
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hooked mount from a sword belt dating from c.1500-1600. The object is one of the three hooked mounts that would have been suspended from a larger mount riveted to a belt. The hooked mount has foliate decoration and a single hook which terminates in a spherical knop.. The attachment plate of the hook is leaf shaped with small foliate knops at either side just below the hook and at the other end there are two semi-circular cut outs which lead into two larger knops on either side of a pointed knop creating a trefoil terminal. Two iron rivets are still intact in the plat…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 12th February 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-25B96C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern copper alloy button. It is 16.3mm in diameter, weighs 1.7g, and is shallowly concave, with 4 centrally located 2.4mm diameter attachment holes. It has impressed lettering with ORTON & SON ATHERSTONE around the edge. Thomas Orton is listed in directories as being in business as a tailor, draper & outfitter in Atherstone in 1851 and 1871, and Charles Orton (presumably Thomas's son) is listed in the 1896 directory as still in business in Long St., but is not in the 1912 one. The family appear to have been trading as Orton & Son from at least 1875 to 1884, and this button can …
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 20th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Osbaston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-2580AD
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy belt stud, circular in plan and domed and stepped in profile, with a flattened, recessed edge around the circumference of the mount, about 2 mm thick, surrounding the central dome that is 24 mm in diameter. There are two integral pointed lugs on the back, one that is 11 mm long and curved inwards and the is 5mm long and curves outwards both of which would have originally attached the stud to a leather belt or strap. Read (2001) illustrates similar domed studs with two integral pointed lugs on page 33, fig.18, nos.266-7, which are dated from the 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-258023
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The mouth and part of the neck of a large salt-glazed, stoneware vessel, probably a jug, probably from German or Rhenish and is 113.5mm tall. The fragment comprises the circular mouth and part of the neck and top of the handle. It has broken across the neck, just above the globular shoulder of the body. The mouth has an internal diameter of 51.05mm, an external diameter of 64.78mm, and has circumferential, external moulded lines, one at 13.3mm from the top and the other 72.33mm from the top, at the base of the neck. The handle is sub-oval in section. The outer surface is mottled h…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 31st October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2579C9
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged medieval copper alloy ferrule. The joint has separted, and was cut at an unusual 45degrees. The outside has two ridges, with a central groove. Its use is unclear, but could have been the ferrule of a cane.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-256864
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy locking key of probable late medieval date. The key is in very good complete condition although the wards are filled with hardened soil. It has a lozenge shaped openwork bow with a tripartite knop at each angle, the central knop at the proximal end extends outward by 4.8mm, all the other knops are attenuated. Just below the bow is a raised double collar. The shank is rectangular in cross-section with rounded corners and is hollow, with a 4.8mm round aperture extending through the full length. The key bit consists of a complex plate c.23mm long by 9mm thick which has thr…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Osbaston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-2559D6
Object type: COSMETIC PESTLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Iron Age or Roman copper-alloy cosmetic pestle or mortar fragment. The fragment is looped in a "6" shape with a rounded knop on the back. The apex of the "6" is broken with a circular cross section. There are no marks or decorations on the surface.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2555EA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman radiate, contemporary copy of a coin of Tetricus I (AD 271-274), dating to the period AD 275-285 (Reece Period 14). PA[X AVG] reverse type depicting Pax standing left holding branch and vertical sceptre? Unclear mint. Cf. Normanby no. 1951.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr Codicote', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-253FEC
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval lead alloy dress hook. The object is lozenge-shaped, with the top apex missing. On the side and bottom apexes there are rounded knops. The inner section of the lozenge is deeper than the outer section but is badly corroded, there was possibly a floral design in the centre.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-25340E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rectangular unidentified copper object. possibly post-medieval in date, circa 16th century. It comprises a flat, rectangular plate with an integral flat arm extending from one end. The surface has an incised perimeter enclosing a series of transverse lines forming a ladder motif. The straight lines run across about 3mm apart. The reverse is plain.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-252D5B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a cast copper-alloy double loop buckle frame. The surviving loop is oval internally and has moulded acorn knops, the cups of which have some moulded detail, on the outer edge and at either end of the strap bar, which is narrowed. The second half has broken cleanly, almost without trace, but it was probably identical. The reverse of the buckle is hollowed. A tapering copper-alloy pin with open loop survives on the bar. 30.17mm long and 31.82mm wide. Weighs 6.3g. Whitehead illustrates similar examples (2003, 66, nos. 406 & 410) which he dates to c.1550-1650.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-251C9B
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval cast copper alloy rotary key dating to c. AD 1150-1400. The key has a sub-circular bow with a circular central perforation. The bow measures 12.7 mm in diameter and thickens toward the shank. The shank measures 21.7 mm in length and 4.0 mmin thickness. It has a sub-rectangular section and tapers toward to a hollow recessed end. The bit measures 8 mm in length and 12.6 mmin width. It is very simple with two opposing notches on the upper and lower edge. The key has a dark green patina. The key is similar to Egan (1998:112) no. 294 but with more squared clefts. Ano…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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