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Record ID: NMS-009884
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Post Medieval button. Biconvex openwork head with six evenly spaced sub-triangular voids in each half aligned across an unpierced equatorial band. Flattened oval shaped shaft pierced by a circular hole at the attachment end. Central pimple at the apex. This type of button is illustrated by Read (2005, 30, no.93) and given a late 15th to 16th century date.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
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Record ID: IOW-FF9B41
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-Medieval lead alloy ?uniface token (1500-1850). Powell Type 20. This token has a raised design, similar in style to a merchant's mark or monogram. It consists of ligated letters, possibly 'I S' or 'S I'. The rear face appears to be plain but may have had a design before becoming worn. The token is buff. Diameter: 15.0mm. Weight: 2.87g. Compare with: IOW-BECF5C. Lead tokens had a wide variety of potential uses such as tallies, gaming pieces, tickets, weights, etc. and are believed to have been locally produced; they are therefore difficult to date precis…
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 17th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-FF5488
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307), minted at Canterbury. Class 4b, 1283-1286 (North 1991: 29, ref: 1024). Obverse: EDWR' [ANGL D]NS hYB (long comma-shaped contraction mark); Crowned bust facing with a trifoliate crown and wedged drapery. Reverse: CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR; Long cross dividing the inscription with three pellets in each quadrant. Diameter: 19.0mm. Weight: 1.20g. DA=12:5. North, J.J. 1991. English Hammered Coinage, Volume II, Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662. Spink & Son, London.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-FE0F46
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Norwich Corporation farthing token. Obverse: Arms of Norwich. Reverse; A/NORWICH/FARTHING/1667. Williamson 225.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FC9929
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and clipped medieval silver double patard (also known as the double plack) of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1467-1477). Initial marks: cross pattée. Obverse: +K[AROLVS DEI GRAT DVX] BG BRAB Z LIM (double annulet stops) (Charles by the grace of God, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Flanders); Shield with the arms of Burgundy. Reverse: [SIT] NOMEN DOMINI BE[NEDICTV]M (May the name of the Lord be blessed) (annulet stops); Cross fleuretty. Diameter: 24.74mm. Weight: 2.40g.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coltishall', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-FBD2A0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman bow brooch, lower end of a bow and incomplete solid catchplate only. The bow is very narrow (2mm) and ends in a round and flat-based foot knob, width 5.4mm. Extant length 21.7mm. Late 1st - 2nd century.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 16th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-FB7BEC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Hinged brooch with the pin, the lower end of the bow and all of the catchplate missing. The wings are engraved with a single groove at the outer ends and a long oblique groove. The upper end of the bow is decorated with a saltire and a short median rib above transverse mouldings, below which a median arris runs to the non-recent break. Mackreth 2011 CD H 8b. The highly distinctive short median rib can be seen on ibid. pl. 60, nos. 2652, 2658 and 11552. Wingspan 33mm. Length 23mm. c.65 - c.125 AD.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th August 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FB31F2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete probably Medieval to Post-Medieval lead weight decorated on the obverse with initials set in sunk relief (AD c.1200-1700). The weight is heptagonal with minor irregularities. The sides are irregular with four being straight and three sloping slightly inwards from the reverse side. There is a sunken circular area in the middle of the obverse side containg the letters MB with the right leg of the M and the straight bar of the B being joined. The reverse plain but is marked with a deep groove where the weight has sustained damage in deposition. Measurements: Length 37.52…
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2020
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Record ID: GLO-FAEE04
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy circular plate brooch that has a large raised central cell that would have contained either a black glass conical gemstone as is the case with GLO-D087E2 or enamel. On the top of the surrounding plate is a low raised band that runs around the middle and a second raised band that runs around the edge creating the effect of two concentric recessed panels both of which are decorated with a line of angles lines at the base and retain traces of its original gold gilding. The reverse has the mounting for the pin which are now truncated and the catchplate.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 18th March 2020
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Record ID: IOW-FAC3C4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval or post-Medieval copper alloy mount or stud (c. 1400-c. 1700). The lozenge-shaped mount is moulded at the front and flat at the rear except for the stub of an integral spike. At each corner there is a rounded knop. The object is corroded with specks of iron staining. Length: 25.7mm; width: 17.8mm; thickness: 3.0mm. Weight: 2.50g. A similar mount excavated in London is decorated with pellets and has been dated c. 1350-1400 (Egan & Pritchard 1991: 200, fig. 125, ref: 1078). Read (2001, 27, fig. 17, ref: 352) dates a similar mount with pellets f…
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 17th March 2020
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Record ID: GLO-FAB999
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman initial T-shaped brooch. Tubular wings hold the pin axis bar, there is a slot in the centre of the wings at the rear for the pin, but only the top of the pin remains. The wing and bow are undecorated. The lower part of the bow is missing resulting in the loss of the foot and catchplate.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FAAF4A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy fragment of a Roman brooch, probably of the Colchester Derivative type, dating to AD 43-120. All that remains is the foot of the brooch. The back of the foot has a triangular catch-plate, which is pierced with a triangular hole and has a forward curled rear edge which is partly broken from an old break. To the front of the bow is a central midrib. The patina is light green in colour. Cf. SF-2A762A & SF-A6E9EE Measurments: Length 22.79mm , Width 9.88mm, Thickness of bow 3.14mm, Weight 1.6g
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-FA9964
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two very similar Roman copper alloy Aesica brooches, one incomplete with a Rearhook, the other fragmentary, c.43 - c.65 AD: - the spring, pin, outer end of one wing and part of catchplate are missing. with an oblique groove on the wing, two saltires and two transverse lines engraved at the top of bow above a disc which is decorated with triple concentric rings and a central dot. Below the disc there is a fantail with a pair of median grooves and a single groove down both sides. There is a thick deposit of lead solder on the reverse of the less complete wing. Mackreth 2011, AES 2.…
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th August 2020
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Record ID: GLO-FA2E8D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Gratian dated to AD 367-375 (Reece 19) Obverse: [DN GRATIANVS AVGG AVG], pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right Reverse: [GLORIA NO-VI SAECVLI], Emperor standing facing, head left, holding labarum in right hand and resting left hand on shield,
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 18th March 2020
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Record ID: SUR-FA2D94
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post Medieval lead alloy token, 21.1mm in diameter. One side has a six-spoked star or wheel with pellets between the spokes; the other possibly has numerals / letters which may be 7 and 3. Circa 16th to 18th century.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 17th March 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-FA2092
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Medieval (Saxon) small-long brooch dating from about AD 450 - 550. The remaining portion consists of the head and most of the bow. The edges of the head are heavily chipped and abraded and the original shape, probably rectangular, is now lost, as is any decoration. In the centre of the reverse is a flat, projecting single pin lug. The pin is missing but a lump of ferrous corrosion suggest that it was made of iron. The bow has a triangular facet at top, and a long trapezoidal facet on each side, while the reverse is concave, giving it a U shaped cross section. T…
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 16th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-FA18CD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch with the spring, the pin, most of the bow and all of the catchplate missing. The wings are plain as is the upper part of the bow which is of sharply triangular cross-section. Wingspan 25.6mm. Extant length 17.5mm. c.43 - c.65 AD.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 16th March 2020
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Record ID: IOW-FA1899
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped post-Medieval silver penny of Henry VIII (1509-1447), minted at Durham under Bishop Thomas Wolsey. Initial mark: crescent, 1526-1529 (North 1991: 112, ref: 1811). Obverse: h D G ROSA SIE SPIA (saltire stops); King enthroned holding orb and sceptre. Reverse: CIVI/TAS/DVR/RAm; Royal shield over long cross which divides the legend, T W at side of shield, hat below. Diameter: 15.0mm. Weight: 0.67g. DA=12:6. North, J.J. 1991. English Hammered Coinage, Volume II, Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662. Spink & Son, London.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-FA1879
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman disc brooch from the second century, circa AD 80 - 250. It is a British plate brooch, of enamelled flat disc type. The brooch has a disc of reserved metal at the centre, surrounded by a sunburst or star design of nine arms, each with a rounded end. This is recessed for enamel which is missing. Five of the points between the arms, in the surrounding relief field, have a very small recessed pellet at the tip of the point. The field is surrounded by a recessed border filled with blue enamel and a border in relief beyond that. Originally, the front of the …
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 22nd May 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-FA166F
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint retouched flake of unknown date, Mesolithic to Bronze Age, 10,000 BC - 1000 BC. It is formed on a tertiary flake of patinated yellow flint. It is sub-oval in plan. There is fine, short, abrupt, sub-parallel retouch on the right side, but worked from the ventral face. It is 23.8mm long, 17.4mm wide 4.4mm thick. 1.63g.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 22nd May 2020
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