Record ID: CAM-BF29BB
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Post-Medieval to Modern lead alloy/pewter button. Weight is 5.83g. The body of the button is circular in shape with a diameter of 24.1mm. The body is primarily flat with just a hint of a convex curve to the front and concave curve to the reverse. The edge of the body has a thickness of 1.8mm. The moulded button's front has a beaded border of closely set pellets and inner concentric linear circular border all of which occupy the outer 2.9mm. At the centre of the front face are the capital letters, in relief, 'CAM'. These letters each have a …
Created on: Saturday 23rd July 2022
Last updated: Monday 24th October 2022
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Record ID: CAM-7EE27C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead or lead alloy artefact of uncertain function and date. Probably an incomplete button of 18th century AD date, of a type often made in silver or cut steel (see Bailey, G. 2004 p.65), or possibly an incomplete late Early-Medieval brooch, such as those recorded in records CAM-BDAF53, KENT-651D7A, LIN-640C24, LVPL-DE8EF6 & CAM-4E4C44 etc. See further discussion below. This incomplete object weighs 7.13g. It seems to have had a circular or sub-circular shape, though extensive areas of the edge have broken away. In its current condition it has a maximum diameter …
Created on: Saturday 12th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: CAM-A37CF2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a finger-ring of Post-Medieval to Modern date. If the artefact is not a finger-ring it is probably a ferrule. The object is made from a lead-alloy, probably pewter. It weighs 4.10g and is made from a rectangular length of metal that has a width of 8.2mm and thickness of 1.2mm. Use of a flexible dress-maker's tape-measure shows that the metal has a length of c.62.0mm. The strip has a rectangular cross-section. The strip has been curved round to form a loop. The loop was probably originally circular but is now squashed into a sub-circular shape. No obvious sign of a join is vis…
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 20th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-424624
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a lead alloy toy dating to the Post-Medieval period, probably within the AD1600-1700 range. This fragment is the butt end and stock of a toy riffle gun and it weighs 6.98g. It has an incomplete maximum length of 31.4mm and maximum thickness of 4.7mm. The fragment has a pointed-oval cross-section and a sub-triangular shape. One edge, the top edge of the stock, is straight for a length of c.27.3mm before sloping in at an approximate 45 degree angle for c.2.0mm to form the pistol grip. The edge of the artefact then changes angle again creating a right-angled base to the ste…
Created on: Wednesday 13th February 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2019
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Record ID: CAM-66528C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast pewter button, badge or mount of Post-Medieval to Modern date. The remains of this artefact weighs 4.55g and has a diameter of 22.9mm. The upper surface of the circular body part of the object is decorated in relief. At the centre is a six petaled flower which has a diameter of 3.5mm. The central flower is surrounded by a six pointed star formed of two over lapping triangles. This star has a maximum width of 12.5mm. The external edge of the upper artefact surface appears to have a beaded border of closely set pellets, however slight damage of the edge makes this…
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 4th February 2019
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Record ID: CAM-8B83A4
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete pewter button, badge or mount probably of 15th to 16th century AD. The remains of this artefact weighs 2.14g. The body of the object is circular with a diameter of 15.9mm and rectangular cross-section. The edges have slight damage and this results in a rough uneven rim. The body has a thickness of 2.3mm at the rim. This artefact was cast, the evidence of which is seen as a casting seam across the centre of the reverse surface of the object's body. At the centre of the reverse surface the worn remains of a button loop-shank, pin or integral rivet are present. Thi…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 4th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-B04EE8
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sub-oval shaped pierced lead object of unknown date, which was probably used as a weight. This artefact weighs 19.59g (0.69oz). The external oval dimensions are 31.7mm x 25.9mm. Both sides are uneven but slightly convex giving the artefact a maximum thickness of 5.0mm. An irregular shaped sub-oval aperture is present at the approximate centre of the object. This measures 8.3mm x 5.4mm. The lead around the edge of this aperture is recessed creating a narrow ledge of c.1.6mm width. If this object was not used to weigh other items and instead was held in place, to something else, with …
Created on: Monday 19th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
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Record ID: CAM-F0A07E
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post-Medieval pewter button weighing 3.30g. The body of the button is circular in shape with a domed front and flat reverse. The body has a diameter of 12.0mm and depth of 4.9mm. The front of the body has a raised pellet at the centre, 1.7mm in diameter surrounded by a spoked wheel design in relief. Across the centre of the reverse surface of the body is a casting line. An integral shank and loop emerge from the centre of the reverse body surface. The total length of the piece is 15.3mm and the shank and loop account for 12.0mm of the total length with the shank being…
Created on: Friday 17th November 2017
Last updated: Friday 27th July 2018
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Record ID: CAM-EEA936
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead-alloy disc, of uncertain date, probably used as a token or possibly a gaming piece. One side has a motif in relief, of a head right wearing a hat, ear-length bushy hair poking out below. The head is probably of a male. The reverse side is probably blank making this a uniface artefact. Weight is 2.14g, diameter is 17.5mm, thickness is 2.1mm. This disc has a very fine crack running across the approximate centre and may indicate that the object has been slightly bent.
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: CAM-CFDDED
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A disc of lead, or lead-alloy, the function and date of which is uncertain. The disc is sub-circular, weighs 4.84g (c. 0.17oz), thickness varying between 2.6mm to 1.5mm and diameter varying between 19.7mm and 18.1mm. A circular perforation of 3.0mm diameter is persent, set off centre and at a closest measurement of 6.5mm from the edge of the disc. This item may have possibly been used as a measuring weight or as a weight to help weigh something down.
Created on: Thursday 30th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2018
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Record ID: CAM-4E8174
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy artefact, possibly a deformed musket ball, weight or gaming piece of uncertain date. This item weighs 24.11g (0.85oz). It has the appearance of a deformed sphere from one angle, panettone bread shape from another angle (relatively vertical sides, flaring out slightly towards the top with a top that seems to spill over the sides just at the top), and deformed cylinder with chamfered corners leading to a slightly concave end from yet another angle. The maximum diameter is 18.7mm with a length of 13.0mm.
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2017
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2017
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Record ID: CAM-EEF468
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A uniface lead token believed to date from c. AD 1250-1800. This token weighs 4.5g, has a diameter of 21.9mm and thickness of 2.8mm. The obverse is decorated with a moulded cross, whose arms extend across the whole diameter of the artefact, and a single pellet per quarter all of which are in relief. The pellets have a diameter of c.2.6mm and the arms of the cross a width of c.1.0mm. The token has been slightly bent and as such no longer sits completely flat on a level surface. See PAS records: SUSS-E57ED4, PUBLIC-6F0664, GLO-9795E1, SUSS-E58193.
Created on: Friday 20th May 2016
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Kesteven District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-7F5CC6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to early Post-Medieval lead-alloy or pewter buckle. The frame is broken and twisted and the pin is also missing. This would have been a double looped buckle of the type also refered to as a spectacle buckle dating to c. AD 1350-1720. See Whitehead, R., 2003 Buckles 1250-1800 Chelmsford : Greenlight Publishing, pp.52-72, compare with nos.314-316. Weight is 2.71g, incomplete length is 13.7mm, original width would have been in excess of 21.4mm, thickness is 2.6mm. The outer edge of the frame expands to form a rounded point that is likely to have given the buck…
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Soham Parish Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-5FE3B9
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead-alloy token of uncertain date, probably Medieval to Post-Medieval, likely to be of 18th century AD date. This token weighs 34.61g, is sub-circular in shape with a maximum diameter of 33.9mm and thickness of 5.0mm. The reverse surface is flat, smooth and inscribed across the centre: PG/IWRME/IWFW/MAOWBO/IWGMS/M[...]W[...]. The first missing letter might be a H with shortened upper arms or lower case angular 'n'. The last missing letter is probably an 'O' unless it is just a couple of curved scratches in this area. The obverse of the token is slightly convex, and shows a what see…
Created on: Thursday 21st August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th September 2014
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Record ID: CAM-5FD67A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead-alloy token of uncertain date, probably Medieval to Post-Medieval, likely to be of 18th century AD date. This token weighs 18.29g, is circular in shape with a maximum diameter of 32.9mm and thickness of 3.5mm. One surface is decorated with a cresent moon, formed by a single relief line. Above the moon seven stars, in relief, mostly of six points and one of eight points is formed by lines crossing at the centre point. Some relief marks are just visible around the egde of the disc, particularly visible below the moon. These marks might be part of a legend or just marks representi…
Created on: Thursday 21st August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th September 2014
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Record ID: CAM-5C5836
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead weight of uncertain date. This weight is sub-circular in plan with a maximum base diameter of 23.90mm tapering upwards to a maximum diameter at the top of 17.41mm. The weight has a height of 16.67mm. This item weighs 42.11g (1.49oz). Through the centre is a vertical circular perforation of 10.77mm diameter at the base and 8.98mm diameter at the top. Assigning a date and function to simple weights such as this one is not easy, but lead weights do seem to have been most common in the medieval and post-medieval periods.
Created on: Monday 10th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 25th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-DE33E4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast Post-Medieval, c.AD1620-1680, trapezoidal double loop buckle. Probably made of a lead alloy, a dark greyish white metal in colour. Little more than half of the buckle's length survives, the frame having broken off just past the central bar. A small knop protrudes from the external edge of the frame above and below the central bar. The horizontal bars (actually set slightly diagonal to help form the trapezoidal shape) of the frame continue past the end of the frame (past the vertical ends of the frame) to form externally projecting ovoid lobes. These lobes are in lin…
Created on: Thursday 23rd May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 24th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-539C81
Object type: DISC
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead-alloy or (white stone) disc of uncertain date or function. The disc is flat and sub-circular with a maximum diameter of 21.39mm and thickness of 3.51mm. It weighs 7.40g. A sub-triangular perforation is present set 2.30mm in from the edge of the disc. The perforation measures 4.01mm from the apex of the triangle to the centre of the base. No obvious decoration is present on either side of the disc. The presence of the perforation suggests that this disc might have been used as a pendant although it could also have had a different function and been nailed to something thro…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 7th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Soham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-D3BC91
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Anglo-Saxon lead disc brooch of Weetch type 5. The brooch has a raised pellet at the centre that stands 2.20mm proud of the brooch surface and has a diameter of 4.42mm. Surrounding this raised pellet is a series of concentric circles. All of the fields between these circles with the exception of the first, that which surrounds the pellet, are segmented creating an effect of slightly raised circles and transverse lines with small trapezoidal depressed fields between. The plate has a thickness of 1.97mm increasing to 3.55mm over the central pellet. The reverse has a loop that ben…
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-3F2492
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An irregular or sub-rectangular blob of lead-alloy. This formless fragment has been shown to staff at the Fitzwilliam Museum who agreed that the metal is a lead alloy and is not an ingot saying that it's date and original function, if any, is not possible to assertain. Weight 12.72g, height 23.40mm, width 14.01mm, thickness 8.60mm tapering to 5.23mm.
Created on: Thursday 11th August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 25th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uttlesford District', grid reference and parish protected.