Record ID: PUBLIC-7FE838
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead standing weight. In the form of a cone with roughly faceted sides and a flattened, domed top, standing 37.7mm high and with minimum and maximum dimensions of 22.8 - 25.5mm at the base and 9.6 - 12.1mm at the top. There is a c.4mm diameter lateral perforation at the apex, and it weighs 113.2g, which is almost exactly 4 ounces in the averdepois system. Norman Biggs, in 'English weights' [1992] illustrates a group of similar standing weights on p. 41 and says they are 'probably 12th - 13th century'.
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heather', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-7F6AC2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle with plate. A cast single loop frame 25.9mm wide by 19.4mm long with an elliptical aperture. It is in poor condition with green corrosion causing surface loss to most surfaces, but it does not appear to have had any moulded decoration. The frame is D shaped in cross-section, the reverse being flat. The pin is missing. The strap bar is narrowed and has a plate, formed from 1.7mm thick folded copper alloy sheet, attached. The plate is 16.8mm wide by 14.3mm long and terminates in an old break, so would originally have been longer. The plate has 2 ri…
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 18th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heather', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-7F52F4
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete blunted scraper/blade of probable Mesolithic to Neolithic date (9000 - 2000 BC). The object is formed from a secondary flake and is sub-rectangular in plan and concavo-convex in section. There is a small striking platform apparent at the proximal end of the ventral face with very shallow ripples of percussion. There is retouch on the ventral face only, which is long and scaled at the right side proximal end, becoming semi-abrupt in the medial section. The dorsal face has one prominent ridge. The cortex is retained along one edge and the distal end on both faces. The proxima…
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 1st December 2020
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Record ID: BUC-7F5186
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy Iron Age plate, belonging to the Late Hallstatt Group L type (British Late Hallstatt Derivative) and dating to c.800-500 BC. The brooch has a convex and undecorated leech-shaped bow, with a rectangular hollow on the underside. At both ends of the bow there are two connected circular plates, each decorated with two engraved concentric circles around a central dot. On the reverse, two pierced and integral D-shaped lugs project from the centre of one plate; around axis bar is fixed between them and holds the pin in place. The pin is circular in c…
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Monday 8th March 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7F280A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. A cast single loop frame 29.6mm wide by 21.8mm long with an elliptical aperture. It has a barrel moulding with 6 evenly spaced transverse raised ribs on the outer face, the central 2 forming a pin rest. The frame is D shaped in cross-section, the reverse being flat and undecorated. The strap bar is narrowed and offset and has a looped pin, formed from 4.2mm wide and 1.7mm thick copper alloy plate, attached. It may originally have had a plate. This type of buckle was commonly used from the 13th - 15th centuries. See Whitehead 'Buckles 1250-1800' …
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 3rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heather', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-7F1F13
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of Hertfordshire Puddingstone quern, of probably first century AD, Roman date. "...Puddingstone is a conglomerate of flint pebbles in a siliceous matrix..." (Major, H. Lucerna 27, p.2.). The fragment recovered is the lower stone of a beehive quern, weighing 4.4kg. Radius of the widest surviving piece is 13cm, overall height 10cm. Lower spindle hole survives 3.36cm deep, ~4cm wide at the top and ~1.6cm at the base of the hole.
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Monday 28th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mash Field', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-7EE10B
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete knapped lithic implement of probable Neolithic date (c. 4000 - 2000 BC). The implement is a scraper formed from a tertiary flake. The flake is grey in colour, sub-oval in plan and lozenge-shaped in section. There is a clear striking platform at the proximal end on the ventral face, with the bulb of percussion and ripples of percussion seen above the striking platform. There appears to be some semi-abrupt, scaled retouch on the ventral face at the proximal end on the left hand side. The dorsal face has several prominent ridges. There is retouch along the left hand side to fo…
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 1st December 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-7EC04A
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead shot of Post-Medieval date, c.1600 - 1900. The object is sub-spherical with a dished flattened portion. Diameter: 12.2mm; Weight: 9.6g. It is difficult to precisely assign projectiles to specific calibres of gun because most excavated shot will have lost weight, there was a huge variety of firearms, balls were imperfectly manufactured, and because lead varies in weight. The weight of the shot suggests it may have been meant for firing from a weapon such as a pistol. The dished flat spot may also suggest this formed part of cannon hail-shot with the dished sur…
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-7EB86A
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead shot of Post-Medieval date, c.1600 - 1900. The object is spherical with a slight partial casting seam. Diameter: 14.6mm; Weight: 17.9g. It is difficult to precisely assign projectiles to specific calibres of gun because most excavated shot will have lost weight, there was a huge variety of firearms, balls were imperfectly manufactured, and because lead varies in weight. The weight of the shot suggests it may have been meant for firing from a weapon such as a carbine.
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-7EB25E
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead shot of Post-Medieval date, c.1600 - 1900. The object is spherical with a casting sprue to one side. Diameter: 13.2mm; Weight: 11.9g. It is difficult to precisely assign projectiles to specific calibres of gun because most excavated shot will have lost weight, there was a huge variety of firearms, balls were imperfectly manufactured, and because lead varies in weight. The weight of the shot suggests it may have been meant for firing from a weapon such as a pistol.
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-7EAB30
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead shot of Post-Medieval date, c.1600 - 1900. The object is spherical with a slight raised knop to one side. Diameter: 18mm; Weight: 33.3g. It is difficult to precisely assign projectiles to specific calibres of gun because most excavated shot will have lost weight, there was a huge variety of firearms, balls were imperfectly manufactured, and because lead varies in weight. The weight of the shot suggests it may have been meant for firing from a weapon such as a musket.
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-7EA41E
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead shot of Post-Medieval date, c.1600 - 1900. The object is spherical with a flat spot to one side and a partial casting seam. Diameter: 20.1mm; Weight: 27.2g. It is difficult to precisely assign projectiles to specific calibres of gun because most excavated shot will have lost weight, there was a huge variety of firearms, balls were imperfectly manufactured, and because lead varies in weight. The weight of the shot suggests it may have been meant for firing from a weapon such as a caliver or arquebus. Casting seams on many balls in an assemblage suggest a C 17t…
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-7E98BD
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead shot of Post-Medieval date, c.1600 - 1900. The object is spherical with an irregular pitting to one side resulting in a conical appearance. This is possibly due to gas erosion caused by gas escaping past the ball in the muzzle. Diameter: 12.4mm; Weight: 10.8g. It is difficult to precisely assign projectiles to specific calibres of gun because most excavated shot will have lost weight, there was a huge variety of firearms, balls were imperfectly manufactured, and because lead varies in weight. The weight of the shot suggests it may have been meant for firing f…
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-7E8ACD
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead shot of Post-Medieval date, c.1600 - 1900. The object is sub-spherical with an irregular dished flattened portion. Diameter: 13.1mm; Weight: 12.7g. It is difficult to precisely assign projectiles to specific calibres of gun because most excavated shot will have lost weight, there was a huge variety of firearms, balls were imperfectly manufactured, and because lead varies in weight. The weight of the shot suggests it may have been meant for firing from a weapon such as a pistol. The dished flat spot may also suggest this formed part of cannon hail-shot with t…
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2020
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Record ID: NARC-7E459E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Nummus of Valentinian I dating to the period AD 364–367. Reece Period 19. SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE reverse type depicting Victory advancing left with wreath. Mint of Arles. Diameter: 17.37mm, Thickness: 1.70mm, Weight: 2.1g The coin is missing small portions of its outer flan
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-7E39BC
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy button and loop fastener of Roman date, c.AD 50 - 200. Wild Class IV. The head of the fastener is circular and domed, with a slightly concave reverse. An ovate sectioned shank extends down from the reverse of the head, at a slight angle, approximately 45°, before bending curving up again and splitting in to two arms, forming an open triangular loop. The orientation of the shank results in the head and loop being on different planes. The object is undecorated. The metal has a light green patina and is worn. The object is 33.2mm long, the head is 16.1m…
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Thursday 29th April 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7E38C8
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of Hertfordshire Puddingstone quern, of probably first century AD, Roman date. "...Puddingstone is a conglomerate of flint pebbles in a siliceous matrix..." (Major, H. Lucerna 27, p.2.). Recovered "eyes-only" during metal detecting on a known Medieval site, and found surrounded by other field stones, perhaps suggesting possibly that the quern fragment was collected from a nearby Roman settlement (where 1st century coins have been recorded by the finder of the quern fragment), and used as part of a possible cobbled surface within the Medieval site. The fragment displays evidence …
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Monday 28th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Childerley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-7E3627
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Nummus of the House of Constantine dating to the period AD 330-335. (Reece Period 17). Victory left on prow reverse. Mint of Trier. Diameter: 17.66mm, Thickness: 1.74mm, Weight: 2.4g
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2020
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Record ID: NARC-7E2655
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper Nummus of Constantius II dating to the period AD 343-348. Reece Period 17. VICTORIAE DD AVGG QNN reverse type, depicting two Victories facing holding wreaths, alter between. Mint of Siscia. Diameter: 16.77mm, Thickness: 1.03mm, Weight: 1.1g
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2020
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Record ID: NARC-7E0D7E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Nummus of the House of Constantine dating to the period AD 330-335. (Reece Period 17). Victory left on prow reverse. Unclear mint. Diameter: 16.63mm, Thickness: 1.64mm, Weight: 2.1g
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2020
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