Record ID: KENT-AA9026
Object type: BORER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint borer likely of Neolithic-Early Bronze age date (c. 4000 BC - 1000 BC). Description: The borer is roughly pear shaped but with a very narrow neck and wider bulbous butt end. There is extensive short scaled semi-abrupt to abrupt retouch along the mesal (sides), from the wide rounded butt, which comes in from both the ventral and dorsal facings to create and accentuate a working point. The flaking and retouch has created a blunt edge on the outer edge of the butt. The striking platform is not very clear but has obscured by flaking to shape the butt. There is a bulbar…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Record ID: KENT-A68BA0
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint knife made from a utilised flake, probably dating to the late Neolithic - (c.4000 BC - c.2200 BC). Description: The fragment represents the butt end of a knife formed from a tertiary flake. The fragment is sub-rectangular in shape and triangular in cross-section. The heavy conchoidal fractures (rippling) are substantial and clear indicating the use of hard hammer technique in its production. The retouch used to create the blade is along both edges consists of invasive scaled, low-angle to semi-abrupt. The right side of the dorsal face near the butt is a slight c…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Record ID: DOR-A65E08
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy dress hook fastener. The dress hook has circular central plate decorated with a moulded five petalled rose. There is a central circular hole through the rose and another circular hole below it, above the rearward hook. There is a rectangular attachment loop at the top. At the bottom is a D-sectioned rearward hook which tapers to a sharp point. Read Class E Type 3 Date: Post medieval - c. 1500 - 1600 Dimensions: 32.57 mm x 14.45 mm x 5.10 mm Weight: 1.75 g Similar examples are recorded in Read, B 2008 Hooked Clasps & Eyes, Nos 342 - 347
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th November 2018
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Record ID: DOR-A63BE5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An copper alloy strap end of Thomas Class A, type 2. An oval plate with the remnant of the split attachment at one and and a stylised zoomorphic terminal at the other. The plate is decorated on the front with a long rectangular panel above a smaller rectangular panel. The longer, longitudinal, panel is decorated with a lozengiform lattice of grooves, some containing possible degraded niello. The shorter, transverse panel contains two pairs of crescents formed from lines of pellets. The rear is flat and undecorated. The zoomorphic terminal is tapering and elongated with a slight tdepre…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th November 2018
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Record ID: DOR-A60674
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Royal farthing token of Charles I (1625 - 1649) dating to 1636 - 1644. A Rose farthing type 2 (transitional type). Reference: North Volume 2, NO. 2291 Date: Post Medieval Diameter: 13.55 mm Weight: 0.98 g Die axis: 12
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th November 2018
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Record ID: KENT-A602FA
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible flint hollow or coarse scraper of likely of Neolithic to late prehistoric date c 3300-1 BC. Description: The scraper is made from a highly patinated secondary flake significantly older than the retouch creating the two hollow scraping edges. The flake is irregularly shaped with pronounced flaking, bulb of percussion and conchoidal rippling, it is also quite curved in profile. The two hollow scraping edges start from distal end of the flint and extend roughly half way down the length of tool. The flint has been heavily battered, the scraping edges are formed by irregularl…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2018
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Record ID: DOR-A5DC25
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A nummus of the House of Constantine dating to AD 335 - 341 (Reece period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS (two soldiers and one standard) reverse. Mint of Trier. Mint mark: //TR Date: Roman Diameter: 15.72 mm Weight: 1.54 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th November 2018
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Record ID: WILT-A5C708
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy bracelet, probably dating to c. AD 350-410. The bracelet is incomplete, temrinating in old breaks at both ends and comprises of a rectangular-sectioned strip of copper alloy. this is decorated by a series of opposed pairs of V-shaped transverse grooves along its length, with two incised transverse lines forming a collar which delineates a separate field containing an off centre ring-and-dot punch. The interior face is plain. Dimensions: length 42.7mm; width 6.5mm; thickness 2.7mm; weight 4.18g. cf. similar bracelets excavated at Uley, Glouceste…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A5AB12
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy harness mount, heart-shaped with a single aperture of the same form and, on the reverse, two integral round-sectioned attachment spikes. A simple but uncommon form. One similar example has been noted, DUR-D24F03. Length 27mm. Width 20mm. Aperture 15 x 12.5mm. Thickness excluding spikes 2mm. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th March 2021
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Record ID: SOM-A5A990
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval copper alloy finger ring dating to c.AD 1700-1950. The finger ring consists of a decorated sheet of copper alloy D-shaped in cross-section. The decoration is a relief repeated design of a four-petalled flower within a lozenge; the triangles that remain on the sides of the central lozenges are also filled with flowers, of which only the lower or upper margins are visible. A maker's mark is stamped on the inner side of the ring, where the two ends of the sheet were welded to close the ring. The mark consists of three stamps in a row: a capital L within a rectangle, unclear…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
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Record ID: WILT-A588C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman enamelled copper alloy umbonate plate brooch, probably dating to c. AD 100-250. The brooch consists of a circular plate, with damage to the lower left edge. Knops project from opposing sides of the plate, with an attachment loop and foot projecting along the opposite axis. A damaged catchplate projects from the reverse of the plate, corresponding with the foot, whilst two perforated lugs project from behind the loop, retaining a copper alloy axis bar and pin in situ. The brooch was probably originally decorated with enamel, although none now survives, with a deeply…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2019
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Record ID: NMS-A56CA5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted post-medieval white-metal coated copper alloy double-looped buckle frame, both loops trapezoidal, with a lobe at the ends of the bar. Cf. Whitehead 2003, no. 506. Length c.25mm. Width 21mm. c.1570 - 1700.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A5548F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman coin, probably as as or dupondius, 23mm diameter, all details corroded and utterly illegible, c.AD50-260
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Saturday 28th September 2019
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Record ID: GLO-A54372
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
~~Copper alloy AS of Claudius dated to AD 41-54 (Period 2) Obverse: bare head left [...] Reverse: Minerva standing right, brandishing spear and holding shield on left arm, S-C across field. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints which operated at Lyons (Gaul) and in Spain. This example is a contemporary copy of those minted at …
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 4th December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-A53D7F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver sixpence of Elizabeth I, Tower, eglantine initial mark, North 1997, some wear, 1575
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A52CEA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver shilling of Elizabeth I, Tower, cross crosslet initial mark, North 1985, worn, 1560-1
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A51B0D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward I, class 3g, London, North 1022, little wear, 1280-1
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Record ID: WILT-A51408
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman enamelled copper alloy symmetrical plate brooch, now in two parts, probably dating to c. AD 100-250. The brooch appears to have originally been lozengiform in plan, with a stepped profile of three tiers, the uppermost holding a recessed cell retaining traces of a white enamel inlay in situ, along with traces of a degraded white cement. There is no further surviving decoration. The reverse of the plate was concave, with vestigial remains of two perforated lugs to hold a pin and axis bar, now lost. Fragment 1: length 17.7mm; width 11.6mm; thickness 6.5mm; weight 1…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2019
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Record ID: NMS-A5118A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny in the name of Edward I, probably a sterling imitation with English style legends, cf Mayhew p.136ff, weight 0.91g, c.1280-1300
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 4th October 2018
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Record ID: SOM-A50924
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval silver shilling of Philip and Mary (1554-1558) dating to 1554. Minted in London. North (1991:128) no 1967.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A4E0AD
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy book clasp comprising a trapezoidal sheet plate folded around a spindle and linked to a cast animal-head terminal (in a darker surfaced alloy). The front of the plate is engraved with oblique dashes along the sides and with two longitudinal lines joined by a line near the attachment edge. The brow of the animal head is decorated with punched annulets. Its eyes are drilled, with one piercing through to a central round blind hole on the underside. The snout consists of a transverse loop. Length 38.5mm. Width 8.5mm. A more elabaorate version of a well-known type fou…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-A4CB57
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Henry II, short cross class 1b, fragmentary, moneyer and mint uncertain [OS....C], c.1185-9
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-A4B8AC
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic flint burin. 19mm long, 10mm wide and 3mm thick with a weight of 0.6g. The burin is sub rectangular in form with a light speckled cream opaque patina.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2019
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Record ID: NARC-A4B71F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy buckle of Medieval date (AD 1250-1500). The object is a single loop D-shaped buckle with a narrowed and offset strap bar. The copper alloy wire pin is retained. The metal is a dark green-brown in colour with a slightly pitted patina. Length: 20.61mm, Width: 18.08mm, Thickness: 2.4mm, Weight: 2.3g. Whitehead (1996), p18, No. 40.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A4AC4B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver threepence of Elizabeth I, Tower, initial mark uncertain, North clipped and worn almost smooth, 1570-9
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: WILT-A4A991
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy brooch, probably dating to c. AD 70-150. Only the lower bow of the brooch survives. A central cross moulding survives, comprising of three flanged transverse ridges with the upper two divided into three by grooves to form a simple 'acanthus'-like moulding, with a concave reverse. The bow terminates above this in an old break. Below the cross moulding the bow is sub-rectangular in form, with a shallow plano-convex cross section, tapering into the foot, now lost. The vestigial remains of a catchplate project from the reverse of the bow. Overall …
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A4A898
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman lead steelyard weight, biconical with an embedded iron suspension loop at one end, and damaged side. Height 30.5mm (24mm excluding loop). Diameter 25mm. Weight 65g. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A49F3D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver halfgroat of Elizabeth I, Tower, initial mark escallop, North 2016, very worn, 1584-7
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-A49E4A
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic flint burnt bladelet. 21mm long, 8mm wide and 5mm thick with a weight of 1.1g. The bladelet is sub rectangular in form. It has been burnt-heat affected, and is broken distally with a step fracture, the right lateral side is all cortical.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2019
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Record ID: NARC-A49A3C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy buckle of Medieval date (AD 1250-1500). The object is a single loop D-shaped buckle with narrowed and offset strap bar. The lip of the frame is decorated with repeating transverse grooves. A small amount of the iron pin is retained. The metal is a mid-brown in colour with a pitted patina. Length: 28.65mm, Width: 17.79mm, Thickness: 4.19mm, Weight: 3.4g. Whitehead (1996), p19, No. 51 and 52.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th October 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-A49732
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy seal matrix of Medieval date about AD 1200 - 1400. It has a circular face and a short, hexagonal tapering handle. The handle is broken at the top and has a circular perforation for suspension. The motif on the face is a spread eagle, surrounded by an inscription reading PRIVE SV (meaning 'I am private'). The matrix is 16.7mm in diameter and 13.3mm high. It weighs 5.33g. Similar seal matrices are recorded on the database: compare for example ESS-68F68B.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
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Record ID: GLO-A48CF9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
~~Copper alloy annular buckle that has an undecorated frame with a chamfered outer edge. Copper alloy wire pin is still in place.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A48918
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy farthing token of uncertain issuer T. S. at the Fleece Tavern, Holborne, Williamson 1457 (London), weight 0.70g, die axis 6 o'clock, 1651
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A47D5D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval white-metal coated copper alloy buckle with almost all of the lyre-shaped frame missing. An integral plate consists of a trapezoidal socket, a waist and a transverse ribbed expansion with a pin hole. There are two rivet holes near the mouth of the socket and it front is engraved with a black-letter M within a frame. The letter was probably reserved on a ground filled with rocker-arm, but this is no longer visible. Cf. Fingerlin 1971, Abb. 291. Extant length 33.5mm. Width 24mm. Internal width of socket 21.5mm. c.1375 - c.1400.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th March 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-A47242
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Roman brooch of the dragonesque type, dating from AD 75 - 175. The remaining portion consists of the narrow, oval body and a short section of one of the curved necks. The front of the oval body has a decoration of three enamel filled cells; a central square flanked by two triangles. Red enamel remains in one of the triangles; the other two are now empty. Both ends of the brooch and the pin are now missing. The remaining portion of the brooch is 24.9mm long, 8.5mm wide and 2.9mm thick. It weighs 1.86g. Dragonesque brooches are illustrated in Mackreth, D.…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
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Record ID: GLO-A46FBF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy Colchester derivative, double pierced lug, Harlow type brooch. This has a double pieced lug on the rear of the head for the spring and external cord, both of which are missing. The wings have a convex face with a latitudinal line at the tip, the brooch is otherwise undecorated. The foot is pointed and the catch plate on the reverse is closed.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Saturday 6th October 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-A46E4C
Object type: COMBINATION TOOL
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic flint combination tool. 37mm long, 15mm wide and 8mm thick with a weight of 4.3g. The tool has a light cream opaque patina. It is made on a blade, and consists of a side-scraper on the left lateral edge and a notch on the right edge.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2019
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Record ID: NMS-A46E1E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut halfpenny of Henry III, voided long cross class 3, moneyer Nicole of Winchester, some wear, 1248-50
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Record ID: SOM-A46A63
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distal end of a econdary flint blade, probably of Mesolithic to Early Neolithic date. The blade is elongated and curved with a high arched dorsal face. Traces of cortex on left medial and proximal end covered c. 20% of dorsal face. The dorsal surface has three parallel vertical scars created by uni-directional flaking. The proximal end and bulb of percussion have been removed by snapping. A few long scalar removals at this point may indicate the snapping was deliberate. The flint is dark brown. The blade measures 67.5 mm in length, 17.4 mm in width, 6.0 mm in thickness and weighs 8…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-A44EFF
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy spoon of Crummy 1983, Type 2 of Roman date, AD 50 - 150. The remaining portion consists of a handle of circular section and the C shaped offset or dogleg linking it to the spoon bowl which is now missing. The handle tapers from a point at the outer end towards the offset, which is of flat, rectangular section. There is no decoration. The spoon has a rough, light green patina. It is 68.6mm long, 10.6mm wide and 2.4mm thick. It weighs 3.68g. A similar spoon is illustrated in Crummy, N., 1983, Colchester Archaeological report 2: The Roman Small Finds from E…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 29th November 2018
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