Record ID: SWYOR-3250C8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy double lopoed buckle dating from the Medieval to Post medieval period, about AD 1350 - 1650. It has sub oval shaped loops and is bevelled on the front face. There is a scalloped design of four lobes on the outer edge of one loop. The other loop is plain, maing the buckle asymmetrical. There is a narrow transverse ridge or knop at each end of the integral bar, with traces of gilding surviving on both edges. The bar holds a rectangular attachment plate which is 25.6mm long. and 3.1mm wide. It is made of sheet, folded across the width round the bar, with a slot for the pin…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-30BA1B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An uninscribed Iron Age gold quarter stater (12.8mm, 1.29g) of the Cantiaci, “Corded Triangle” type, dating to c.50–20 BC. Obverse: Blank. Reverse: A horse running left with 'Net' below, triangle above and rings and pellets in the field. As ABC 198, BMC 2469-2471.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-3079E9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy rose farthing of Charles I (1625-1649), Type 2 with single-arched crown, dating to 1636-1644. Unclear initial mark. As North (1991), p165, no.2291. Diameter: 13.7mm. Thickness: 0.9mm. Weight: 0.81g.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2F9720
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a post-medieval strap fitting, the end of the male or female part of a Read 2008 early post-medieval unclassified toggle clasp Type 1, as ibid. nos. 753-5, broken across a rivet hole so that the toggle or eye is missing. Extant length 24mm. Width 17.8mm. Mid 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2F78C7
Object type: JEWS HARP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy jew's harp with a rabbet within which there are traces of an iron tongue. There are profuse file marks on much of the surface. Length 63.5mm, width 27.7mm, thickness 8.8mm. Not closely datable, but 16th century or later.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2F5C24
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted, incomplete post-medieval copper alloy thimble with a small loose fragment. Above a plain band around the base the sides and the gently convex top are covered in a continuous spiral of round indentations, some of which have penentrated the thickness of the metal. Diameter c.17mm. Height c.18mm. 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2F3B27
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval oval copper alloy shoe buckle frame with the embedded ends of an iron spindle. Cf. Whitehead 2003, nos. 600-1. Length 22.5mm. Width 18.8mm. c.1660 - c.1720.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2F2B34
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval tin-coated copper alloy double-looped buckle frame, both loops trapezoidal with a lobe at both ends of the bar and at all four corners, and with a longitudinal groove in the centre of both edges. Cf. Whitehead 2003, no. 522. Length 35mm. Width 23.5mm. c.1620 - c.1680.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2EFFF8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just over half of a post-medieval double-looped buckle frame with a bar recessed between the front and rear faces. The extant loop is oval or D-shaped.The form of the largely missing loop may have been the same or perhaps trapezoidal. Its edge and the sides slope inwards to the front, and their exterior is covered in closely spaced oblique grooves which change angle at the junction with the bar. Estimated length (on the basis of the loops being oval) 26mm. Width 15.2mm. Late 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2EB5F0
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large secondary hard hammer struck flake with bifacial semi-invasive retouch to both lateral edges, distal end broken obliquely recently. Of slightly orange patinated mottled grey flint with thin whiteish cortex extant to one side and the proximal end of the dorsal face. Possibly Palaeolithic, maybe a handaxe struck from a large flake, but the damage makes a confident identification difficult.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: BERK-2EB5AC
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn post Medieval copper alloy trade token dated to the 17th century. Both sides are illegible. The token is 20.4mm in diameter, 0.7mm in thickness, and weighs 1.09g.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2E758F
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Transverse / chisel arrowhead, of unpatinated black flint, with steeply retouched sides forming a trapezoidal plan with the longest edge forming the leading edge of the arrowhead. A good, complete example. Late Neolithic, 3,000 to 2,350 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 2nd March 2020
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Record ID: BERK-2E4FE7
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval lead alloy vesica shaped seal matrix dating to c. AD 1150-1400. The seal is a pointed oval (vesica) shaped in profile. The obverse and reverse of the seal is crudely decorated with a central design and an inscription surrounding the circumference followed by an incised border. Due to the severity of ware of this object it is unclear what this is. The obverse central design could possibly be an eight pointed star or stylised flower, and there are two very small circular indentations adjacent to one another at the upper point of the seal. There is no indicatio…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 17th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2E486C
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
General surface collection of thirty four Late Prehistoric flakes and simple flake tools, all are hard hammer struck and some are steeply retouched, including one conventional scraper (41.5 x 40 x 11 mm, 21 g). Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-2E38CB
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A dispersed Iron Age coin hoard consisting of six gold staters found close together. The coins are all of Rudd's Verica Warrior Rex type (ABC 1190, VA 500-1, BMC 1146-58) issued under Verica (AD c.10-40) of the Southern British Iron Age and associated with the tribes known as the Regini and Atrebates. Five of the coins were discovered within 6 to 14 foot of each other, the sixth being an outlier slightly further away. All coins were 2" - 4" deep in a previously cultivated field. The finder cannot remember which coin was from which findspot. COM.F or COMFI in tablet // Wa…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 14th June 2021
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Record ID: WAW-2E2F22
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy clipped nummus of Theodora dating to the period AD 337-341 (Reece period 17). PIETAS ROMANA reverse type, depicting Pietas holding an infant. Uncertain mint. The coin has a diameter of 14.37mm, a thickness of 1.22mm, and weighs 0.8g.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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Record ID: SUSS-2E21C7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constantine II, dating to the period c.AD 335-37. (Reece period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting two soldiers standing either side of a standard. Minted at Trier. LRBC: p:5, no: 94.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 11th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Shalbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-2DF3F8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman sestertius of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180) as Caesar under Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), dating to the period AD 140-144 (Reece period 7). PIETAS AVG SC reverse type depicting priestly emblems: a knife, sprinkler, jug, lituus, and simpulum. Mint of Rome. RIC III, p.174, no. 1234. The coin is 31.07mm in diameter, 3.10mm thick and weighs 10.2g.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: SUSS-2DF255
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but worn, copper alloy English Jetton, Mernick Series 2d (Fox class 11 to 15). The obverse has the king's head, made with coinage punches dating to the reign of Edward II (1307-1327), but not clear enough to further identify. The jetton has a pierced centre. Reverse: cross fleurey with pellet border and rosettes of pellets to the quarters. No legends.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 9th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2DD423
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval rectangular or slightly trapezoidal buckle frame with a pin groove on the angled outside edge. Length 20.5mm. Width 18.6 - 19.6mm (wider at the outside edge). Rather flimsy, thickness only 1.5mm. No good parallel noted. Perhaps 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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