Record ID: KENT-CFBA10
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Commonwealth Period (1649-1660), pierced, cast, copper alloy, silver plated contemporary counterfeit halfcrown. Obverse: Shield of St. George within wreath formed of a palm and laurel branch. Inscription: THE COMMONWEALTH. OF ENGLAN[D] Reverse: Conjoined shields of St. George and Ireland with mark II.VI. of value above. Inscription: .G(O)D.W(I)TH.VS(.1)[65](4) Mint mark: Sun (1649-1657). Mint name: Proporting to be London but mint by provenance. Die axis: 10 o'clock. Worn or fine condition with some 'clipping', and a silver/grey tarnished toned patina. However, the sun mint mark app…
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 10th June 2019
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Record ID: IOW-CF89D3
Object type: STUD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-Medieval or Modern copper-alloy stud or mount (c. 1600-c. 1900). The tip of the spike is missing. The stud is pointed-oval in plan, convex at the front and concave at the rear. At the rear, a central spike is roughly square in cross-section. This stud is corroded and drab green. Length: 19.0mm; width: 10.4mm; thickness: 5.1mm; thickness including spike: 7.3mm. Weight: 1.82g. Compare with similar objects: ESS-E3B7B8; IOW-602D14; IOW-A02DC7; LON-FED2E7; LVPL-7521B7; SOM-B623F2; SUR-39F0B0; SUSS-7C8F62; SWYOR-16893A; SWYOR-9C6B54; WAW-1A4E72; WILT-072654…
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Record ID: KENT-CF4CE2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Age uncertain, lead alloy, crudely cast, roughly flat and rectangular but relatively thick probable unofficial weight. This weight could have been used in conjunction with other weights. The weight has an irregular flat base and slightly concave upper surface with bevelled long sides and rounded short sides. There is a slash shaped cleft along one of the long sides, surface damage caused by agricultural activity, otherwise a pale matt grey/white patina. This weight is of unknown date. Ref. Detector Finds, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 1992, page 52-57, History Beneath Our Feet,…
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 10th June 2019
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Record ID: KENT-CF0F1D
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric, knapped or flaked, fair size flint waste flake or debitage. Irregular pentagonal shape, convex dorsal and concave ventral surfaces. Mottled pale grey/ white with speckled light brown coloured patches and ridges on the dorsal surface. Bulb of percussion with small scar, fair size striking platform with feint ripples. There is one main flake bed and three smaller ones on the dorsal surface and a small patch of cortex on the distal end. The flint appears to show signs of wear/ abrasion from being in the agricultural plough soil and there are a few small edge chips. This lith…
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 10th June 2019
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Record ID: SUR-CEDAFF
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy medieval to post medieval spur rowel with five diamond-shaped points, with incised grooves between. The points radiate from a central axial hole.
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 18th November 2020
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Record ID: KENT-CEA5E8
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric, knapped or flaked, medium size, flint, waste flake or debitage. Sub-rectangular/oval irregular oval shaped, slightly plano-concave mottled pale grey/brown flint with a few white patches on the ventral surface. Bulb of percussion with small bulbar scar, there is a medium sized striking platform with feint ripples. There is one flake bed and a section of cortex on the distal end and one side of the dorsal surface. The flint appears to show some wear or abrasion from being in the agricultural or plough top soil and has a patinated surface. This lithic is likely to date to th…
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 10th June 2019
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Record ID: SUR-CE8A0D
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams Class B, Type 2, Group 3, with openwork zoomorphic decoration. The mount is sub rectangular to trapezoidal in form and is missing the uppermost portion of the pointed apex. The moulded decoration comprises facing animal masks which are framed by flanking animal forms which may be devolved variants of the mouse/bat head design typical of Class B mounts. The moulding has raised groove decoration delineating features; however the details are now almost illegible due to corrosion which has removed the original surface of the object. The …
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CD18B8
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy farthing trade token c. 17th century AD. Obverse with EDMOND:STONE , around twisted wire inner circle, Mercer's Arms within. Reverse with OF.MAYDENHEAD: , around twisted wire inner circle, ES with a mullet above and below. The token is heavily worn with a dark brown/green patina. Diameter is 15.32mm and 0.41 thick, weighing 1.0gm. M. Dickinson 49. Dies as Norweb 101
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CCF408
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy token c. 1425 - 1672 AD. The obverse has a field quartered triple armed cross with possible annulets within the angles. The reverse appears to be blank, bar an annulet at the centre. The surface is oxidised. Diameter is 18.37mm, 1.58mm thick and weighs 5.6gm. See ENGLISH TOKENS, c. 1425 TO 1672 MICHAEL MITCHINER AND ANNE SKINNER, plate 14-87.
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CCD9FE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Post Medieval doit (or Duit) c. 1729 - 1792 AD. The obverse has the Coat of Arms of Zeeland, Netherlands a Dutch lion in sea on shield with crown. The reverse has the monogram VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) for the Dutch East India Company but no discernible date. The coin is pierced near the rim, heavily worn, with and eroded dark green patina. It is 21.13mm in diameter, 1.1mm thick and weighs 3.0gm.
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CCCD94
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Georgian trade weight for 1 oz c. 1714 - 1820 AD. Cast as a flat discoid with bevelled edge and upstanding rim, the central section has four identifying marks - 1). A crowned G for one of the King Georges 2). Sword for the City of London, (Guildhall mark, the sword of St Paul) 3). 'A' for avoirdupois and 4). Ewer or coffee pot, the mark of the London Founder's Company, which verified weights. The base has a central depression surrounded by a concave section as if turned on a lathe to finish and set the weight, numerous file marks are also present, probably used in …
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CCB942
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy pair of cinquefoil Post Medieval mounts c. 1600 - 1700 AD. The mounts each have five lobes separated by five narrower lobes, to form a cinquefoil. They are slightly doomed and have the remnants of two fixing lugs on the back surface. The mounts were co-located and one of them is incomplete with a small section of the rim now missing. Their surface has a dark-green patina. The complete one is 26.68mm diameter, 2.15mm thick and weighs 7.6gm. The incomplete one has a diameter of 26.0mm and is 1.59mm thick, weighing 5.4g
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CCA5F8
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy spur rowel c. 1300 - 1700 AD. The rowel is in the form of a five-pointed star with the central hole for the pin. The arms are lentoid in cross section and at each central junction, there are crude file makes that further delineate the arms of the star. The surface has a dark green patina and one of the star arms gas been bent at the tip. Diameter 26.68mm and 2.15mm thick weighing 11.55gm. Similar spur rowel have been published (Read 2001: 60, fig. 42, refs: 508, 509). See also IOW-AD15
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CC99ED
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy figure of eight Medieval or post Medieval buckle c. 1485 - 1600 AD. A simple cast double loop buckle with an angular 'D' cross section. The buckle is undecorated, with an eroded mid-green patina and extensive file marks over the surface. It is 23.15mm long, 19.27 wide, 1.54mm thick and weighs 2.6gm. See Marshall's Buckles Through the Ages Fig 7, Type IIIC 52.
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CC8D0C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy figure of eight Medieval buckle c. 1350 - 1500 AD. This example is is a very common type of the 15th century with an often crudely made angular body and flat back. There is a pin rest indentation and the remnants of a probable ferrous pin on the central cross bar. The surface has a rough mid-green patina with ferrous staining on the pin bar. It is 23.48mm long, 19.39mm wide 1.98mm thick and weighs 3.8gm. See Marshall's Buckles Through the Ages Fig 6, Type IIIC 114.
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CC7BBB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy figure of eight Medieval to Post Medieval buckle c. 1485 - 1600 AD. The buckle has a simple flattened 'D' cross section and the arms taper into the central cross bar. There are no knops. The upper surface has a vertical indentation either side of the pin rest and several other, random indentations that do not of themselves, form a discernible pattern. The surface has a roughened mid-green/black patina. It is 30.27mm long, 19.51mm wide, 2.56mm thick and weighs 4.6gm. See Marshall's Buckles Through the Ages - Fig 7, type IVE, 68.
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CC6AC9
Object type: STUD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a composite cast copper alloy and iron Roman lock pin c. 43 - 250 AD. A central boss sits within a concave top that has a moulded inner and outer circle. In profile, the pin flares out from the stem in trumpet form, to the top. There is a further cast decorative circle beneath the rim. The copper alloy top holds a solid ferrous core that would have been the pin section. The surface has a mid-green patina with fritting to the edge of the top section. The top is 23.52mm by 19.42mm and it is 18.66mm tall weighing 19.1gm. Similar example can be seen in Crummy, 1995, p.125, n…
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd February 2021
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Record ID: BERK-CC5A89
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy looped pin vine guide c. 1800 - 1900 AD. A simple circular head for the guide wire and a tapering stem that has been incised with a series of chevron cuts to aid retention in the wood/wall.
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CC4861
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Medieval buckle frame c. 1350 - 1500 AD. The frame has a semi-circular or 'D' shaped single loop, missing the pin. There is a notched pin rest to one side of the frame and the surface is undecorated. The front face has a single sliced indentation near the rest section. The surface has a slightly roughed light green patina. It measures 31.44mm by 24.31mm and is 2.5mm thick weighing 5.3gm. See Marshall's Buckles Through The Ages Fig 5 type 1F-48.
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CC34CE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy fragment of a probable single loop Medieval buckle frame c. 1250 - 1350 AD. The fragment consists of the pin rest forward section of a buckle, with the central pin rest section extending into a cast dumbbell form with the buckle frame then tapering back towards the now missing hinge section. There is evidence of the protruded ends of the dumbbell having been hand filed at the junction with the frame to accentuate the form. The surface has a dull green and eroded patina. The fragment measures 33.07mm wide, 15.0mm in depth and 3.42mm thick, it weighs 3.3gm. See Marsh…
Created on: Sunday 9th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2019
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