Record ID: DENO-46C113
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy pilgrim's ampulla, of medieval date AD 1350 - 1550. The body of the hollow ampulla is semi - circular, with short, straight, sides which would have extended up to a neck, now missing. Here the damaged edge shows the construction of the piece by revealing the hollow interior. The obverse is slightly rounded, with a reversed S centrally placed. Other decorative elements are indiscernible. The reverse is flatter and slightly hollow, with its surface covered in a series of fine lines radiating out from the broken edge, to the rounded edge, in imitation of a scallo…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd December 2018
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Record ID: SUR-47CB55
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead-alloy pilgrim's ampulla of medieval date, c.AD 1150 - 1350. The body of the ampulla is circular with an elongated rectangular neck extending from one edge. The remains of two attachment loops project to either side of the neck where it meets the body. The opening at the top of the neck has been pinched shut. On one side of the rounded body of the ampulla there is moulded decoration in the form of a scallop shell. This design is often asssociated with St James of Compostela or more generally as a symbol of pilgrimage. The reverse of the object is undecorated aside from traces of…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Record ID: NLM-4A7E48
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy ampulla. Hollow cast pilgrim badge in the form of a bulbous handled flask with side handles flanking a slightly contracted neck. One side bears a moulded motif apparently including a compass drawn crescent within a round field, possibly with a broad letter M or W above it, and framed by closely-spaced diagonal hatching around the adjacent edge. The other side bears a compass drawn flower of seven or more petals within a circular field, with a frame around the adjacent edge in this case comprising juxtaposed triangles, each filled with diagonal hatching, and with the hatchin…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4A8D3C
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy ampulla. Hollow cast pilgrim badge in the form of a bulbous flask with side handles [lost, leaving a scar on one side] flanking a slightly contracted neck. One side bears a moulded compass-drawn flower of four petals with a fine reticulate or net-like field between the petals and around them up to the meeting of the two sides of the object. The other side bears an even finer reticulate field. The object has been neatly and obliquely cut across both its bulbous body and its neck, probably as a single operation. Ampullae would retain liquids with supposedly curative propertie…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4AAADD
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead alloy badge. Cast circular badge bearing the naturalistically rendered leftward-facing profile of a man wearing a soft hat, perhaps with badge or cockade; a collar ruff; and a fur-fringed garment with puffed, slashed or thick corduroy sleeves. The figure is set within a border of alternating pellets and bisected ovals perhaps pendent from an outer order of triangles, either as shorthand for the leaves of a wreath or perhaps standing for the vegetal garlands which sometimes frame images in earlier Renaissance art. An integrally cast loop is set centrally on the back. The impressio…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-45BB99
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large cast copper alloy Colchester derivative Polden Hill brooch, incomplete and now in two refitting pieces. The brooch has wide arms with a C-shaped section, end caps and a double lug on the head / within the spring casing. The spring and pin are missing. The head of the brooch is comma-shaped in profile and has a faint, short mid-rib near the top. There are two semi-circular mouldings at the juntion of the wings and bow and a diagonal line on each of the wings. The bow is broken approximately a third of the way down but the lower two-thirds of the brooch is present and refits per…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: OXON-460654
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman T-shaped brooch with developed hinge, dating to the period AD 50-150. The brooch has tubular wings which encases the pin axis bar, with the head of the hinged pin remaining. The bow is rectangular in plan and tapers towards the foot of the brooch which is now missing. The bow is decorated with a raised, seraated central vertical rib to about a third down the bow's length. On the reverse this section is recessed. Below the rib are four horizontal raised ribs or collars with recesses in between. Below the ribbing is a field of diagonal lines in two …
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: OXON-462207
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman Colchester derivative brooch of the sprung (Dolphin) type dating to the period AD 43-65. The brooch is a small example of the type measuring only 17mm in length in its current form. The brooch has short wings slightly curved in section and a corroded head lug. The spring and pin is missing. The bow is plain and undecorated and broken half way down its length.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: DENO-493EBB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, medieval copper-alloy buckle dating to AD1350-1450. The buckle consists of an oval lipped frame with a notch for the pin to rest on. The buckle would have had a copper-alloy pin, now missing. Off set pin bar. Ref. Egan 1991: 74,nos.308,309. See similar examples at, NMS-09F043, IOW-432DD44 and ESS-F050441. Length,15.2mm,width 19.8mm, thickness 1.9mm, weight 1.22g.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd December 2018
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Record ID: NLM-4A9772
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. An unusually large cast double looped buckle frame of concavo-convex sub-rectangular form with a central strap bar set back from the rest of the frame. The frame itself is expanded and pointed at either end, and with three rounded lobes along its upper and lower edges. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1550-1650. Length: 95.3mm, Height: 72.3mm, Thickness (of casting, not its protrusion]: 1.7mm, Weight: 57.48gms
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshchapel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-4B015B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle of medieval date, c.AD 1350 - 1450. The buckle has a single looped oval frame with a projecting lip to the outer edge. From the opposite side of the loop an integral forked spacer extends, each arm flanking a narrowed pin bar. One arm tapers to a blunted point while the other terminates in a worn break. The metal has a dark brown/green patina and is worn. The buckle is 64mm long, 14.9mm wide, 3.4mm thick and weighs 4.6g. Similar examples are illustrated in Whitehead, p.36-37 and are dated to circa AD 1350 - 1450. Ref: Whitehead, R. (1996). Bu…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-4CBE69
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken copper-alloy double-oval loop buckle. The frame is decorated on the front face with a leaf-like moulded pattern over which there are substantial remains of gilding. The cross section is sub-rectangular. The strap bar is slightly narrowed with end stubs projecting just beyond the sides of the frame. The pin survives intact. The buckle was found complete but badly bent and cracked, it has since fractured and is now in two segments. A similar but complete buckle is shown in Whitehead, R. Buckles 1250-1850 No.421. Circa AD1550-1650 Length; 42mm (estimated), width; 26mm. Weight…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th November 2018
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Record ID: NMS-4D74C5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy fragment probably one half of a laterally folded Medieval composite buckle plate. The fragment consists of a thin trapezoidal sheet broken laterally across the narrow end. The corners of the unbroken end are rounded with a large rivet hole in each, One hole has the rivet and rove extant and suggests the original thickness, including strap and second side of the plate, was approximately 6mm. The front face is engraved with six equally spaced wavy transverse lines that go across the full width.There are substantial remains of gilding on the front face also. There is a simil…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th November 2018
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Record ID: SUR-484EC8
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Royal Artillery Button dating to 1790 to 1840. The button is convex and shows signs of having been heavily polished during its use. The moulded design depicts three vertically stacked cannons with three bezants separated by stacks of cannon balls in a band above, all within a recessed shield-shaped field. The back is concave and has a stub of a now lost fixing lug.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-43C151
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Roman nummus of the House of Constantine, possibly a contemporary copy, dating to the period c.AD 330-340 (Reece period 17). CONSTANTINOPOLIS reverse type depicting Victory left on a prow holding shield and sceptre. Prototype of the mint of Trier: Mint mark []//T[R]P. Approximately 15% of small flan missing due to break.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
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Record ID: NMS-460F62
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus, House of Constantine VRBS ROMA Wolf and twins type, Lyons, mintmark [pellet-in-crescent]PLG, AD330-5
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-461D79
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constantius II or Constans, reverse GLORIA EXERCITVS 1 standard type, mintmark and further details illegible, AD335-7
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-4629B6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular copper alloy nummus of Constantius II, reverse FEL TEMP REPARATIO falling horseman type, mintmark and further details illegible, diameter 11.5mm, c.AD353-64
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-466BB1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine I, London, reverse SOLI INVICTO COMITI type, mintmark T/F//PLN, Cloke, Toone and Marsden 6.02.010, AD309-11
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: GLO-469696
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
~~Silver half groat of Philip and Mary Dated 1554-1558, Obverse: crowned bust left PHILIP ET MARIA D G REX ET REGINA Reverse: long cross fourchee over royal shield POSUIM DEUM ADIVTO NOS
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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