Record ID: KENT-CEBD6B
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An early Post-Medieval gilt-silver pin dating to the 16th century. Description: The pinhead is spherical with a circumferential rib separating the upper and lower hemispheres. Each hemisphere is decorated with three filigree circles each of which contains a small pellet with a filigree border at the centre of each. Additional small filigree bordered pellets are placed between each of the large circles. Additionally, at the apex of the upper hemisphere is an additional bordered pellet. At the centre of the lower hemisphere emanates the silver pin shaft which survives well with th…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
Last updated: Friday 29th March 2019
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Record ID: KENT-CF69CE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A worn cast gilt-silver finger ring of iconographic type dating to the 15th - early 16th century. Description: The ring has a segmented band made up facetted lozenges each of which has a slight concave upper surface. At its apex is a flat rectangular bezel is engraved with a representation of the Trinity - the seated, haloed figure of God the father, supporting a haloed Christ on the cross, and with a dove in the top right corner perching on the shoulder of god, representing the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The top left corner has some texturing possibly intended to be a sun beam of Go…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shepherdswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-D0739F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A partially worn medieval silver short cross cut halfpenny of John (1189-1216) minted at Canterbury between c.1204-1209 by uncertain moneyer. Class 5b2, North 970. Measurements: 18.35mm long (orignaly diameter), 9.37mm wide, 0.75mm thick and 0.65g
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2018
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Record ID: KENT-D0CD37
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily worn and slightly clipped silver medieval penny of Edward I (1272-1307), Class 3g, North no. 1072, minted at Canterbury between 1280-1281. Measurements:18.63mm in diameter, 0.77mm thick and 1.28g in weight.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2018
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Record ID: KENT-D10D25
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A partially worn Medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307) or Edward II (1307-1327). Minted at Durham, between 1307 - 1309, Class 10cf3b, North 1042/2. Measurements:18.49mm in diameter, 0.79mm thick and 1.41g in weight.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2018
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Record ID: KENT-D15E1E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A partially worn Medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307) or Edward II (1307-1327). Minted at Canterbury, between 1307 - 1309, Class 10cf3b, North 1042/2. Measurements:18.15mm in diameter, 0.87mm thick and 1.27g in weight.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2018
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Record ID: KENT-E4EC2C
Object type: STATUE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A disarticulated cast solid copper-alloy probable statue finger of Roman date c.43-410. Description: The fragment represents the tip and part of the length of a finger roughly the complete distal phalanx with cuticle and clearly defined nail and most of the middle phalanx. Both sides of the finger are clearly defined. The break is quite worn and the entire object is heavily patinated. Measurements:49.11mm long, 20.51mm wide, 16.95mm thick and 77.43g in weight. Discussion: Dr. Ben Croxford author of 'Chapter 3. Metal sculpture from Roman Britain: scraps but not always scrap' i…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 21st May 2018
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Record ID: KENT-39DA56
Object type: CHAFING DISH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast part of a Post-Medieval cast copper-alloy chafing dish support. Description: The fragment survives as a crescent shaped section of the lower part of a folding chafing dish support/leg. The fragment has broken across its length perhaps at its thinnest point. The terminal is zoomorphic; with an upwards facing beaked bird head. There is heavily faded decoration, consisting of a longitudal line with lines off it paired down its length possibly meant to represent feathering and this ends just behind the head. The leg is a very dark patinated green colour. Measureme…
Created on: Monday 8th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2018
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Record ID: KENT-4D620B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast gilt copper-alloy probable mount of uncertain date, likely Medieval to late Post-Medieval in date 1250-1800. Description: The object is hemispherical and hollow with the outer convex surface being gilded although much of it has been worn off. There is a bilobate tab at one side of the object which is pierced with the remains of two iron rivets remaining. The object is mottled mid brown and mid-light green, except where gilding or the iron rivets survives. Measurements: 39.48mm long (including rivet tab), 32.22mm wide (in diameter), 14.79mm thick and 25.96g in weight. D…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2018
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Record ID: KENT-4E22FC
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of cast copper-alloy tankard or other vessel handle likely dating to the 16th century. Description: The object has a triangular body with the beginning of a handle projecting from the upper flat edge curving outwards. There are drilled rivet hole in each corner and one under where the handle projects from the upper edge of the handle plate designed to attach the handle to a sheet metal or wooden body. The handle has bevelled edges leaving it ovoid in cross-section. It is heavily worn, warped/misshapen and has cut or hack marks across it which indicate attempts to likely …
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2018
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Record ID: KENT-4E80A3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A ceramic wheel thrown sherd possibly from a Roman colour coated fineware vessel likely dating c. AD100-400. Description: Sherd is irregularly shaped has an orange fabric with fine sparse inclusions of quartzite. The surface have a highly abraded dark brown slip. The inner and outer faces are slipped suggesting the fragment comes from an open vessel such as a bowl, plate or wide necked jug. The sher is broken in two down its central length, broken front/back. Measurements: 26.84mm high , 27.34mm wide, 4.7mm thick and 4.3g in weight.
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2018
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Record ID: KENT-63C737
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap-end dating to the late medieval period, c. 1400-1500, of crescentic type. Description: The strap end would originally have consisted of two separate plates riveted together, a cast front plate and a sheet backplate, though only the cast front plate was recovered to record here. It consists of a crescent-shaped main body, incomplete, with one arm mostly missing. One rivet hole with a corroded iron rivet remains clear on the other arm, but the end of this is also missing. Another rivet hole with copper-alloy rivet is present at the centre of the …
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2018
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Record ID: KENT-64145F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn Post-Medieval copper-alloy Rose Farthing (probably Type 1) of Charles I (r.1625-1649) dating to the period 1636-1644. illegible mintmark. North type 2289. Measurements: 12.35mm in diameter, 0.89mm thick and 0.45g in weight
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Record ID: KENT-643585
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and worn Post-Medieval copper-alloy Rose Farthing (Type 1) of Charles I (r.1625-1649) dating to the period 1636-1644. Star initial mark. North type 2289 or 2290. Measurements: 12.35mm in diameter, 1.08mm thick and 0.59g in weight
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Record ID: KENT-64469F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremly worn Post-Medieval copper-alloy probable Rose Farthing of Charles I (1625-1649) dating to the period 1636-1644. illegible mintmark and type Measurements: 12.63mm in diameter, 0.66mm thick and 0.28g in weight
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 18th September 2018
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Record ID: KENT-8A8219
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Middle Bronze Age cast gold spiral-twisted torc dating to the to the Taunton (c.1400-1250 BC), or more probably the Penard (c. 1300-1150 BC), metalwork phases of the Middle Bronze Age (dates following Roberts et al. 2013). Description: Possibly less than half of the object survives due to two transverse breaks in the bar. The object is made of a rod that has bent into a U-shape in plane. This rod is square in section with accentuated corners created by slightly concave edges. This has been twisted tightly across surviving its length, having 22 twists. Scienti…
Created on: Friday 12th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littlebourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-8BB2A9
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a gold filigree artefact, probably an early medieval disc pendant dating to the 7th century. Description: The fragment is crushed and distorted, and represents about a third of the original circular plate including a circular central cell and the remains of two smaller circular cells spaced around the edge (further cells are probably lost to the break). Each cell is formed from an upright strip of gold surrounded by a beaded wire collar. A further strand of beaded wire runs around the outer edge of the sheet. The rest of the upper surface is filled with filigree ornam…
Created on: Friday 12th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 30th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leaveland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-CD8E88
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, fine-grained sandstone whetstone of unknown date. Description: The whetstone is incomplete roughly surviving at 50% of original length, it is ovoid in section and was likely a long thin pointed oval in plan although one pointed end is missing. The remaining point is round and blunt and the broken edge is fairly worn. each wide flat surface has been heavily worn with use leaving the whetstone much thinner towards the middle of the whetstone. The Whetstone is a cream colour with some iron staining. Measurements: 95.97mm long, 25.97mm wide, 14.53mm thick and 40.2g in…
Created on: Monday 15th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Record ID: KENT-CE4C4C
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval stirrup-strap mount, dating to the 11th century, of Williams (1997) Class A, Type 4, Description: The mount has an oval frame, trilobate apex and expanded base. The frame is decorated with a highly devolved hirsute human mask cast in relief within a raised border which runs the circumference of the oval frame. The raised frame may in fact be a pair of framing ribbon-form beasts whose tails curl into spirals which flank the apex lobe. The head ends of the two beasts would curl around the lower two rivet holes at the outside corners of the wide base. s although are …
Created on: Monday 15th January 2018
Last updated: Sunday 15th December 2019
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Record ID: KENT-CE9BCC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and worn silver Roman denarius of Hadrian (AD 117-138), dating to the period AD 119-122 (Reece period 6). [P M TR] P COS III reverse type depicting Fortuna standing left leaning on column and holding rudder and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. As RIC III, p. 351, no. 86b. Measurements: 19.04mm in diameter, 2.41mm thick and 1.79g in weight.
Created on: Monday 15th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2018
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