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: SUR-487B9B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A crude square lead alloy pan weight, plano-convex in profile and heavily abraded. The weight measures 64.3mm in length and weighs 477.92 g or 16.86oz. As Saunders et al (2001), number p131, number 50 and probably medieval.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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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: SUR-482C30
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper alloy stirrup strap mount, 53.6mm in length, of Williams' Class A, Type 12 (closed form). The mount is diamond or lozenge shaped and has moulded decoration comprising a saltire cross with four recesses, a central moulded boss and peripheral knops to the ends of the arms. Two further knops are present on the lateral points of the diamond shaped frame. An integral loop is located at the top containing the remains of an iron rivet. A flange extends rearwards from the base of the mount, containing the remains of two more iron rivets. The mount…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Saturday 19th October 2019
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Record ID: SUR-474EA9
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an enameled copper alloy flat-ringed terret, 51.1mm in length, of later Iron Age date. The fragment comprises a portion of a rounded to sub-rectangular sectioned bar flanked by a 16.4mm wide and partly concave, oval expansion or collar at the end. A portion of a crescentic loop expands in width from the terminal but is broken at a point 30.6mm around the circumference. There is a surviving portion of red champlevé enamel decoration on either side of the portion of the loop, which would originally have covered the whole loop in an axially symmetrical curvilinear design f…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
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Record ID: SUR-489666
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a post medieval copper-alloy circular pan weight, 40.4mm in diameter and 6.5mm thick. The front is flat and divided into quarters by a thin moulded cross; each quarter has a number 1 in the centre, in line with the radius. The reverse is undecorated but has rounded edges. When complete it would have weighed around 90g / 3oz.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2018
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