Record ID: KENT-963E86
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of trapezoidal sheet copper-alloy object of uncertain date and use. The object is plain and has no decoration and is broken at both ends. It is trapezoidal in shape with probable rivet holes at the wider end. It is highly worn and little detail is remaining. Measurements: 23.29mm in length, 21.32mm wide, 2.25mm thick and 4.78g in weight.
Created on: Thursday 10th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 10th December 2015
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Record ID: KENT-998C0D
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy key and keyring of late early-medieval or early-medieval date (c. 900-1000 AD). The key consists of a very small suspension loop attached to a large flat solid oval bow, an apparently common late early-medieval type from the 10th-11th centuries. The bow is decorated on both sides with an irregular punched ring and dot design. The hollow stem is undecorated save for three closely spaced thin transverse incised lines. The bit is L shaped with three wards. Attatched to the suspension loop is a keyring made from a slip-knot ring more usually associated with sets of…
Created on: Thursday 10th December 2015
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2019
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Record ID: KENT-9A76FA
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy key dating to the medieval period (probably 12th-14th century). The key is made up of a hollow rolled stem with a massive bit with two large wards. The bow is roughly circular, but its shape is disrupted by two zoomorphic animal-head terminals butting each other. The wards are very solid, with a full-depth cleft between them. The rear ward is rectangular and the front ward has a vertical and horizontal cleft; both have channels on both faces, four on one face and one larger on the other. The bow is decorated with two butting zoomorphic heads one of which is lickin…
Created on: Thursday 10th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 18th June 2019
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Record ID: KENT-433707
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy repair patch or folded 'paperclip' rivet probably from a post-medieval vessel. It has an uneven rectangular outline, folded down from a lozenge-shaped copper sheet which leaving a raised lozenge shape on the folded side. This type of repair was used to fill small splits in copper alloy vessels, secured by the two triangular tabs. Egan (2005, 101) mentions a broad date range for this type of pot mend, dating from the Early Medieval to Post Medieval periods but also suggests that a central period for the use of this type of rivet as dating from about the late 15th to late…
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: KENT-43C2F9
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy ring likely a bead of Iron Age to early-medieval date. (c.800BC-700AD). The ring is not evenly shaped being thicker in one hemisphere than the other. The band is roughly D-shaped in profile although the inner side of the ring appears to have been bevelled to some degree. The surface is dark brown with some very sparse patches of dark green surface patination. Colour is slightly silvery which may suggest a high tin alloy. The ring is in relatively good condition which may suggest it comes from the latter end of the suggested date range. Measurements: 15.8mm diameter, …
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: KENT-50F329
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bronze-alloy heavily worn sestertius of Antoninus Pius (AD 138 - AD 161), dating to AD 140-144. (Reece Period 7). RIC III, p. 107, no. 598, Obverse type: ANTONINVS PIVS P P TR P COS III, although now illegible. Reverse possibly: Apollo standing front, head left, holding patera and lyre, legend though now illegible would be APOLLINI AVGVSTO. Measurements: 31.95mm in diameter, 3.30mm thick and 18.01g in weight.
Created on: Thursday 31st December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: KENT-525EC5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A highly worn copper-alloy contemporary copy of a nummus likely that of Constantius II (AD 323 - AD 361) c. AD 355-61 (Recce period 18). Reverse type illegible but likely fallen horseman with FEL TEMP REPARATIO legend. This is a very tentative identification by the National Finds Adviser. Measurments: 12.66mm in diameter, 3.39mm thick and 2.65g in weight
Created on: Thursday 31st December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: KENT-54490F
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gilded copper-alloy mount shaped like an acorn with pointed integral lugs, likely from the 17th century. The front is slightly convex and the back is slightly concave with the integrally pointed attatchment lugs one near either end. Both lugs are mostly complete and curled downards towards the body of the acorn.. The acorn is an elongated oval shape with a thinner 'nut' finishing in a projecting knop at the bottom, and a broader cup at the top covered in a raised decoration of pellets arranged in a chequerboard pattern with a plain line at the top of the cup. At the centre of the to…
Created on: Thursday 31st December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: KENT-E451C5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Medieval strap end dating from the second half of the 14th century (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 143). It is made from two sheets of copper alloy, held together by two rivets, one at the attachment end and one at the knop end prior to the knop. The sheets sandwich a third piece of copper-alloy which maybe a third sheet or a spacer to assist with its attachment to its strap. The plates are sub rectangular in plan, tapering slightly towards the closed end which is pointed and terminates in a small knop. A circular notch is cut off centre of the attachment end. There is no dec…
Created on: Thursday 7th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: KENT-E54857
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval gilt copper-alloy mount of uncertain date. The mount is a flat rectangle and decorated on one face with a six armed cross resembling the Union flag, although the object likely predates the union flag. The cross was incised onto the plate, prior to the gilding and each arm has a central incised line the entire length of the arm. Not all of the arms are even however. The centre of the mount has a circular central hole and the reverse is devoid of decoration. The plate is roughly flat but slightly warped due to post depositonal damage, one long edge has suffered more damaged p…
Created on: Thursday 7th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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