Record ID: NLM-3A4600
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stirrup mount, as kindly identified by Rob Webley, who comments: 'This looks rather like it is from an 11th-century stirrup - either as a terminal or a collar mount. Plenty of examples on the database with which to compare'. Cast U-profile concavo-convex anthropomorphic mount, perhaps from the edge of a stirrup. The display face bears the image of a face or mask with prominently arched brows, hollows to either side of a central nasal ridge as eyes, and with a luxuriant horizontal moustache; the forehead and chin, the latter perhaps bearded, are formed by the upper …
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: CAM-357103
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold loop, possibly a bracelet, made from three strands of beaded wire that have been twisted together. Each strand has a diameter of approx. 1.0mm and the three together have a diameter of approx. 2.0mm. It appears that the terminal end of each strand was staggered so that the start and end of each length is spread around the loop. This would help to prevent the loop from unravelling. These joints are spaced approx. 9.9mm and 10.3mm apart. The loop has been squashed out of shape, currently having an irregular oval form. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface, un…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-3CB266
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy possible palstave of middle Bronze Age date (c. 1150-700 BC). Description: The fragment, which appears to have been broken off in antiquity, consists of the extreme top piece of the implement's attachment end and appears to have been slightly twisted upon breakage. The width and thickness extend gradually from the irregular top edge to the point of the break. On both sides of the axe a ridge extends along each vertical edge, increasing in height towards the point of the break.The artefact has a mid green patina. Measurements: The piece measures 2…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 9th September 2021
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Record ID: NLM-3A70BB
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pottery. Oxidised fabric with a reduced core, and with a purple-brown warty or pimply glaze internally and externally; springing of the strap handle from a large vessel, including part of its inner surface. Abraded. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500. Weight: 129.10gms
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th July 2021
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Record ID: NLM-39F247
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy harness pendant. Cast heater shield-shaped plate with an oval suspension loop at right angles to its display plane. The shield is charged with a lion rampant left against an enamelled field of an indeterminate tint, either black [sable] or dark blue [azure]; the tail of the lion may be forked. The colour of the lion, which was presumably a metal [i.e. silver/argent or gold/or] is uncertain. The lion or leopard [in or] was associated with England from the 13th century onwards, and [in argent] later with the Dukes of Norfolk. The loop is now open at its top. Suggested date:…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
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Record ID: KENT-3764EE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Iron Age unit of the North Thames Region / Catuvellauni, attributed to Tasciovanus, dating to the period c.20 BC - AD 10, 'Tasciovanos Bull' type. Obverse: Geometric pattern forming eight pointed star around central pellet and annulet. Pellets in arcs between points and wreath border. Reverse: Bull right annulet above. ABC 2682. Measurements: 13.95mm in diameter, 1.96mm thick and 1.61g in weight.
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 12th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-3861A0
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of an Early Saxon copper alloy wrist clasp with scalloped rear edge, four ring-and-dots, three attachment holes and ribbed front edge. Hines 1993, Form B18d. The central fixing hole is blocked with metal and the front edge is quite smooth. The absence of a scar from a hook or eye shows that miscasting led to this element being attached with solder, some of which fills the hole. The form and decoration is extremely close to one and a half pairs from Grave 52, Westgarth Gardens, Bury St Edmunds (West 1988, fig.77, D1 and D2). Length 13.7mm. Width 33mm. Weight 5.61g. Late 5th - …
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th March 2021
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Record ID: KENT-36A2BC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A worn and abraded copper-alloy Iron Age unit of the Kent Region / Eppillus, dating to the period AD 1-15, 'Epillus Bull and Eagle' type. Obverse: A butting bull right. Legend: "EPPIL / [COF]'. Reverse: A spread eagle standing, head right. As ABC, p. 42, no. 411; BMC nos. 1139-1141. Measurements: 16.07mm in diameter, 2.05mm thick and 1.49g in weight.
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 1st March 2021
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Record ID: BERK-35C72D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Scottish silver groat of David II (AD 1329 - 1371), second coinage, Class B1 (Spink S5095) dating from AD 1357/8-mid 1360s. Edinburgh mint. Obverse has Crowned bust left, sceptre in front, all in a plain tressure of arches and the reverse has Long cross dividing the legend; mullet of six points in each angle; double saltire stops. Ref: Spink 2015, pg 25.
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-38750A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval Scottish silver cut halfpenny of William I (AD 1165-1214) to Alexander III (AD 1249-1286), dating to the period c.AD 1195-1250. Voided short cross with stars in angles reverse type. Possibly Phase B (Spink S5029-30). Moneyer: Walter or Hue Walter. The remains of a W can be seen in the reverse legend. Ref: Spink 2015, pg 14.
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
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Record ID: WMID-36CDFE
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Date: circa AD 1500-1700 Discovery: metal detecting on cultivated land. Description: a compete silver bodkin that has been broken in two. The head of the object has a carved trefoil at its terminus. From here the bodkin has a rounded end and is sub-rectangular in plan tapering to a pointed end at the opposite terminal. The upper terminal has a circular perforation just below the trefoil. There are then two incised horizontal lines between the perforation and the rectangular eye. The eye measures 16.51mm in length and 1.6mm in width at its widest point. Along the long edges of th…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2020
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Record ID: HESH-3A7720
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy harness fitting of Medieval date (1250-1400). The fitting is incomplete and represents only one broken element of a larger composite piece. The extant fragment is broadly rectangular in both plan and cross section. In design it is probably best described as a slotted bar which would originally have held a pivoting central spindle upon which enamelled and gilded harness pendants would have been displayed. Only one arm of this bar survives being broken across a pierced oval tab positioned at one edge. From this broken edge the bar tapers in both thickness and width bef…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 1st July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Birch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3ABBF9
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant, shield-shaped, iron corrosion in suspension loop. Worn and corroded with fragments of blue and red enamel on the face. Possible blazon: [?Or/?Argent] two bends Azure a chief Gules. Height 22.5mm. Width 11mm. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2020
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Record ID: NLM-3A7C0E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy brooch. Cast Colchester derivative or dolphin brooch, of an uncertain sub-type as it is now uncertain how a separate spring [probably of iron, and lost] had been retained. Plain curved concavo-convex wings are stained by rust on the reverse, with a central gap in this deposit which could relate to a lost hook - which could point to a variant upon the Mackreth type CD RH. They are met by a plain humped bow of rounded section, which tapers towards a plain foot with the stub of a catch plate behind it. Suggested date: Early Roman, 75-150. Length: 47.9mm, Width: 29.8mm, Th…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-37EB22
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon white-metal coated copper alloy oval strap slide in rather worn condition with an incomplete and distorted integral loop on the reverse. The flat front plate carries stylised zoomorphic, probably Borre-derived, decoration in counter-relief. At both ends there is a pair of confronted open-mouthed animal heads, and a double-strand saltire, with a low boss at its centre and all four ends projecting slightly from the edge, overlies a double-strand oval. Metallic coating has been lost from the front, but on the reverse areas of survival near the ends with straight edges flush wi…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: BERK-359D1B
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy fragment (tip section) of a socketed spearhead, dating from the mid to late Bronze Age c. 1500 - 800 BC. The socket is roughly sub oval in form and stops at 4 cm from the point. The side blades have been heavily abraded in the ground, loosing much of their shape and cutting edges. Now a dark black/green surface has been 'oiled', disguising the original patina. Probably Davis Group 11 'Generic' - Object Datasheet No.3 A Short Guide to Late Bronze Age Spearheads
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
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Record ID: WILT-358F46
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A sceat (early penny), dating to c. AD 720-740. Secondary phase, Series K (BMC Type 33). Obverse: Mantled and diademed bust right, with ties of diadem looped behind bust (type A-B) and cross in front. Hand raised in benediction between bust and cross. Reverse: Wolf's head left, with main of chevrons and long tongue curling beneath head. Diameter 11.7mm; Weight 0.77g; Die axis 12 o'clock. The coin is worn in places and is badly chipped around the edge removing the beaded outer circle, especially from 10 o'clock to 1 o'clock (obverse) which affects the reverse mor…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chiseldon CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-35E50D
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold penannular ring of late Bronze Age date. This ring weighs 4.76g. The ring has an external diameter of 14.9mm x 14.0mm and thickness of 5.4mm. The gap between the two terminals is 2.2mm and the central area has a diameter of 6.0mm x c.5.7mm. The metal which forms the loop has an oval cross-section. The width of the cross-section is the thickness of the ring and the cross-section's height is 4.1mm. Wavey striations decorate the surface of this penannular ring. These striations are formed of alternating yellow gold and lighter silvery coloured metal bands that run around the …
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 12th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forest Heath District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-3AD64F
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Strap Fitting of Medieval date (AD 1150-1350). The mount has an oval shaped body with an integral sub-ovate knop at either end. Each knop has a rivet hole, within one are the remnants of a copper alloy rivet. The mount is decorated with transverse grooves on the body. There is a circular perforation towards the centre of the central plate. The body and knops are domed in profile and hollow on the reverse. The metal is a dark greenish brown in colour with a slightly pitted patina. Length: 22.12mm, Width: 12.48mm, Thickness: 3.69mm, Weight: 1.9g. Egan…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 1st October 2019
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Record ID: NMS-37DBA4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy as of Antoninus Pius, Rome, reverse Britannia seated left, AD154-5
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th September 2019
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