Record ID: PUBLIC-44C43A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual incomplete early Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch made from Copper alloy. The bow and part of the foot survive but the head is missing. The bow is decorated with two opposing, sub-triangular notches at the top and bottom of the arched bow. The remaining part, the foot has two projecting circular lobes, one either side, both are pierced and surrounded by incised ring and dot motifs. The lower part of the footplate has a jagged edge from an old break. On the reverse of the foot below the bow, are the remains of a catch plate set vertically. The brooch is corroded and has a dark gre…
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Friday 3rd May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-4078FE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307). Minted at London, between 1280-1281. This is a Class 3d coin, dating AD 1280-1281 (North 1991: 28, ref: 1019). Wedged drapery, crescent contraction marks and barred letter "A". Measurements: 19.12 in diameter, 0.86mm thick and 1.23g in weight. References: North, J. J. 1991. English Hammered Coinage, Volume 2. Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662. Spink: London.
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 28th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chelmsford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-3F58DB
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy strap fitting, probably dating to c. AD1500-1700. The strap fitting consists of a sub-rectangular plate of copper alloy, with an indented attachment end creating two lobes on this edge. The plate tapers slightly down its length to the other end, from which projects a rearward facing hook. This is deliniated by a slightly flanged transverse collar, with an incised groove dividing the collar from the plate. The fitting is undecorated, and has two rivet holes on the longitudinal median line, the upper retaining an iron rivet. The hook retains a separate circu…
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Tisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-3F06E6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stud chape from a post-medieval copper alloy shoe buckle with part of an iron spindle. The stud is missing. Length 28.3mm. Width 18mm. c.1660 - c.1720. Finders' number AE067
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2019
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Record ID: NMS-3EF1F8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stud chape from a post-medieval copper alloy shoe buckle, with most of the stud missing. A shallowly engraved V on one face lies close to where the pin would have swivelled. Length 32.9mm. Width 16.8mm. c.1660 - c.1720. Finders' number AE047
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2019
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Record ID: NMS-3ECFF7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy shoe buckle frame with an embedded iron spindle. Similar in form and moulded decoration to Whitehead 2003, no. 614. Length 32.7mm. Width 24.7mm. c.1660 - c.1720. Finders' number AE041
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2019
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Record ID: NMS-3EB6A5
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button with an integral drilled loop: a biconical, hollow openwork head with a small central nipple and engraved lines between six sub-triangular perforations on the front face, and with six perforations on the rear face. Comparable with Baart et al. 1977, 185, no. 235, Margeson 1993, 20-2, fig. 11 no. 102 and Read 2005, 30, no. 93. Diameter 11.4mm. Length 17.5mm. 16th century. Finders' number AD978
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2019
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Record ID: NMS-3EA649
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy double-looped buckle frame, both loops oval with a slight lobe at the ends of the bar and a notch on both edges (one off-centre). Length 25mm. Width 19.3mm. Mid 14th - 15th century. Finders' number AD970
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2019
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Record ID: NMS-3E82DC
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy hooked tag with rather poorly fettled openwork. Read 2008, early post-medieval single sharp-hooked clasp Class E, Type 3, and very similar no. 375. Length 33.7mm. Width 16.2mm. 16th century. Finders' number AD960
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2019
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Record ID: NMS-3E5A25
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy tongue-shaped composite strap end with a full-width spacer, three rivets (two through the spacer) and an elaborate cross fleury knop below lateral cut-outs. In the same general category as Margeson 1993, no. 232 and very similar to a Suffolk example which survives only as the length of the spacer (SF-C52634). Length 53.5mm. Width 12.6mm. Length of spacer 39mm. 14th century. Finders' number AD945
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
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Record ID: WILT-3DF2DE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Roman dupondius of unclear ruler dating to the period AD 43-260. Unclear reverse type and mint.
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Sunday 12th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Tisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3DE2C1
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a post-medieval copper alloy hooked book clasp, the hook end broken across a rivet hole. Engraved decoration comprises a transverse zig-zag next to the hook, a transverse line three pairs of oblique lines, a transverse line and a mass of longitudinal lines truncated by the break. This decoration is almost identical to that found on a complete example from Cawston, Norfolk (NMS-69C652). Perhaps both were made by the same craftsperson. The description of another book clasp (NMS-0C4316) suggests it was also similar. Width 12.2mm. Extant length 17.5mm. 16th century. Finders…
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
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Record ID: WILT-3DCE20
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper-alloy as of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar, dating to the period c.AD 154-155 (Reece Period 7). TR POT VIIII COS II, S C reverse type depicting Mars advancing right holding spear and trophy. Mint of Rome. As RIC III, p. 184, no. 1322. This is probably a 'Coin of British Association' as listed by D. Walker in his report on the Sacred Springs at Bath (Walker, 1988: pp. 295, 299, nos. 382-435, pl. XXXVIII).
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Saturday 5th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Tisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3D981E
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy dress hook of Read 2008, early post-medieval sharp-hooked Class C, Type 1, formed from a single length of round-sectioned wire, diameter 2.5mm. The non-hooked end has been has been chopped or cut, but it seems unlikely that it once continued to become a second hook. A separate piece of wire (diameter 1mm) has been carefully wound around the whole. Cf. LON-0CF405, LON-B86CE5 and SUR-04F848. Length 30mm. Width 17mm. 16th century. Finders' number AD927
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-3D5780
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy tongue-shaped composite strap end with a full-width sheet spacer. Both outer sheet plates have been lost except at the acorn-type knop which consists of four layers of metal, two outer plates, spacer and a cast piece above the front plate. The full length of the spacer is extant, 41mm. Width 7.8mm. 14th century. Finders' number AD926
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-3B9218
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy double loop buckle, complete with pin, of medieval or early post-medieval date. The frame is convex in cross section, with a flat reverse, and is composed of two D-shaped loops with a central bar. The bar is narrowed and the pin is flat and tapers to a point at its terminal. The buckle is corroded and is a mid-green in colour, with some surface loss. It appears to be undecorated. The frame is 22.0mm at its widest point, narrowing to 18.5mm at the bar, and is 33.8mm in length, while the pin is 18.2mm in length, and 5.5mm wide at the bar, tapering gradually to its poi…
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nailstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-3B9112
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval buckle. A cast copper alloy trapezoidal shoe or knee buckle with moulded pin rests flanked by scrolled knops in the outer edge of each loop, and bifid sides with scrolled knops around the spindle holes. The iron spindle and the pin are both missing, and the frame has green corrosion. It is 37.7mm long by 25.0mm wide and is 2.6mm thick generally, swelling to 3.6mm at the spindle holes, and it weighs 5.2g. Similar to no's 614 and 619 in Whitehead, which are dated to c1660 - 1720.
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 24th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nailstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-3B423A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast copper alloy double loop asymmetrical buckle. The buckle frame comprises an oval loop and a D-shaped loop with decorative knops either end of the pin bar and further decorative knops on the rounded corners of the D-shaped loop. The bottom face of the buckle is flat, while the edges of the top face are bevelled. The rectangular loop has two rounded knops at the corners on the outer edge. Fleur-de-lys shaped moulded lobes project from either end of the strap bar and at the outer end of the oval loop, and all three incorporate two (now empty) round jewel mounts to eith…
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nailstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-384B04
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval silver penny of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) dating to AD 1560-61. First coinage, cross crosslet initial mark. Tower of London mint. North (1991: 133) No. 1988. The flan is slightly ovoid and now 'rippled' in antiquity.
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
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Record ID: OXON-383005
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver penny of John (AD 1199-1216) dating to 1204-1209. Voided short cross Class 5b.Minted by John at Canterbury. North (1994: 221) No. 970
Created on: Saturday 9th March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
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