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Record ID: SOM-60F39B
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A domed, gilded, cast copper alloy object, possibly a dagger or knife pommel of probable medieval or early post-medieval date, about AD1300 - 1700. The piece is circular in outline and highly domed with angled sides and rounded top. The sides have extensive remains of gilding. The concave back is entirely filled with iron corrosion apart from a small rectangular slot that runs through the corrosion and appears to hold remains of a grained iron substance, either wrought iron or organic material filled with iron corrosion. The copper alloy dome is 19.1mm in diameter, 11.0mm tall and 2…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-62C104
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper Post Medieval Royal farthing token of James I of England. Lennox type 3. Annulet initial mark. The coin is very thin on one half of the flan and only part of the pressed image survives. It may be an irregular copy. Circa AD1616-1623
Length; 15mm, width; 13.0mm. thickness; 0.4mm. Weight: 0.36g.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th November 2018
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Record ID: NMS-635581
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Medieval sub-rectangular single loop buckle frame. Lateral grooves on expanded outside loop, Extended and narrowed strap bar. Missing pin. Similar to Whitehead, R. Buckles 1250-1800. No.135. Circa AD1350-1400
Length; 17mm, width; 16mm. thickness; 3.9mm. Weight: 2.34g.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th November 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-64689C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy double looped buckle c.1350-1650. With just over half of the buckle remaining (29.2mm length and 27.5mm wide) the frame is shallow D-shaped in cross section being rounded on the top and flat on the reverse and waisted adjacent to the narrowed strap bar that has rust traces, indicating an iron pin. The remaining loop is also D-shaped and has a pin notch on the front edge probably more due to wear than design. Thickness 2.3mm and weight 4.2g.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Sunday 18th November 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Worth', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: PUBLIC-647D74
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy thimble of early post-medieval date.
Description: The thimble has a tapered body, pointed crown and manually-punched, rectangular pits. The pits on both the body and the crown of the thimble are in a right-hand spiral pattern. The pits on the body begin about one quarter of the way up from the base. Between the pits and the base there is a circumferential groove above a decorated band. The decoration on the band is a pattern of repeated, facing half-annulets.
Measurements: Height 18.16mm: Diameter 15.94mm: Weight 2.24g.
Discussion: This style of thimble is dat…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 29th May 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-64BC92
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete whetstone of probable early-medieval date (c. AD 800 - 1100).
Description: The whetstone is formed from a very fine-grained, sedimentary, mica-rich stone. It is sub-trapezoidal in plan with tapering sides and is trapezoidal in cross section although there is significant post-depositional damage that has changed its profile. Both ends are broken, probably in antiquity. Two sides are flat and smooth. The other sides are damaged.
Measurements: Length 86.72mm: Width 25.09mm: Thickness 16.29mm: Weight 63.33g
Discussion: Dating of whetstones is difficult as they were …
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
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Record ID: OXON-5DF77C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE 2018 T755. Description: Four cast copper alloy palstave axe heads, found within c. 1m of each other and dating to the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1500-1300 BC). As description of each axe head follows:
Axe head 1: Damage to butt, large stop ridge, three ribs down blade. Casting seams filed. Tip of blade bevelled both sides, small amount of damage (use?) to blade edge. Dimensions: 143.2mm long, 65.7mm wide (blade), 21.2mm wide (across thickest bit), 27.6mm high, 19.7mm thick at butt. 366.9 grams.
Axe head 2: As above, but butt is complete. Damage to blade, not obviously bevell…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Bletchingdon', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LON-5AE345
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy barbarous radiate of an uncertain Emperor dating to the period AD 275-285 Reece period 14. The reverse type depicts a standing figure.
Dimensions: diameter: 11.44mm; weight: 0.98g
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th June 2023
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