Record ID: YORYM-46BFB9
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy weight of uncertain date. The object is cylindrical with a circular plan and a rectangular cross-section. The circular faces are both concave. All surfaces appear undecorated. The metal is white/brown in colour and is worn. The weight is 22.2mm in diameter, 14.7mm thick and weighs 49.0g. The term 'weight' is used here in its broadest sense to include uses that do not involve weighing (e.g. holding-down, tensioning, etc.). They were commonly used from the Iron Age through to the Post-Medieval period and are difficult to date with any certainty without suppo…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
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Record ID: YORYM-469E56
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy strap end of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 750-950. The strap end is of Thomas' Class A, probably Type 1, although the decoration has been highly abraded, obscuring many of the details. The strap end is sub-rectangular in shape with the longer edges tapering towards one another. It is made from a single sheet of metal folded widthways. The edges are joined for the majority of its length before splitting into a front and back plate at the attachment end. One rivet remains in each corner of the attachment end and a broken hole is present in the centre at the very …
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-45B93D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy strap end of Early-Medieval date (c.AD 750-1100). The strap end seems to be a simplified derivative of Thomas' Class E, Type 3. It is tongue-shaped, and made from a single folded sheet of metal which is joined together at the edges for most of the base but splits at the attachment end into two plates. There are traces of a rib running lengthways down the centre of the front plate, although this is almost flat either through wear or manufacture, and is marked out by faintly incised lines on either side of it. The attachment end terminates in a worn irregular …
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th April 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-450418
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete copper-alloy dress hook of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1500 - 1650. The dress hook is of Reads Class E, Type 5 being trefoil in plan. The main plate is an openwork trefoil knot design with a D-shaped section. An integral D-shape sectioned hook extends from the lower curved edge of the bottom loop of the knot, terminating in a worn break. Two small circular details, possibly representing roses, mark the join between the main plate and the sub-rectangular attachment loop. The reverse of the object is flat and undecorated. The upper left corner of the dress hook, as viewe…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th October 2019
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Record ID: YORYM-44DC1E
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy dress hook of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1500 - 1650. The dress hook is of Reads Class E, Type 8 being figurative in plan. The main plate is a convex, hollow domed boss bearing a human facing mask with a projecting ridged collar beneath the chin. An integral hook descends from the collar and curves backwards. The hook is bend slightly to the left as viewed from the front. Two short, fragmentary uprights from an attachment loop project from the top of the head and terminate in worn breaks. The metal is green in colour. The dress hook is 25.7mm in length, 1…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 1st October 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-44292A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy double looped asymmetrical buckle frame of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1575-1700. The buckle frame has moulded decoration on the loops. The outer edge of the rectangular loop bears six lobed knops and two further knops are also present at symmetrical points on the outer edge. Lobed protrusions also project from either end of the strap bar. The pin no longer remains. The metal is dark grey in colour. The buckle frame is 23.7mm in length, 19.9mm in width, 2.2mm thick, and weighs 2.9g. A similar example is illustrated in Whitehead, p.92, no.577 and is date…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
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Record ID: YORYM-43E17B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy decorative double looped rectangular buckle frame of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1600-1700. The buckle frame has straight edges at top and bottom and inside the two loops. There is an ovoid knop on each external corner of the frame. At the left and right sides are sub-triangular projections with inwardly curving edges beginning at the oval corner knops and meeting in a central point. A faintly incised straight line runs vertically down the left and right sides at the base of these projections. A second faintly incised line runs horizontally from the inner edge …
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
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Record ID: YORYM-42D1C4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post-Medieval silver Norwegian two Skilling Danske of Charles V of Denmark and Norway (AD 1646-1699), issued in 1685. Mintmaster Peter Gruner. Krause. C.L. and Mishler C. 'Catalogue of World Coins: 17th Century 1601-1700', 2nd ed, 1999, p.1053, number 151. The coin has an irregular piercing through the centre of the crowned C5 on the obverse and the lion on the reverse.
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
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Record ID: YORYM-420305
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval silver penny of Edward I (AD 1272-1307) dating to the period AD 1301 - 1310. Long cross reverse. Mint of Canterbury. Class 10ab5. North, Vol 2. p.31, no.1039/3.
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-408F08
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Roman denarius of Faustina II, dating to 145 - 161 AD. Obverse of right-facing coiffed and draped bust; FAVSTINA AVGVSTA. Reverse of Spes holding flower and raising skirt; AVGVSTI PII FIL. The coin is 17.08mm in diameter, 2.51mm in thickness and weighs 2.75g. RIC III, no. 495a.
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
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