Record ID: LON-16D91B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn silver half penny of Edward VI (1547-53), posthumously in the name of Henry VIII (North 1883), minted at London.  Obverse: facing bust of Henry VIII Obverse inscription: [H D G].ROSA[SINE.SPINE] Reverse: royal shield; CIVI/TAS/LON/DON. Dimensions: diameter: 12.34mm; weight: 0.37
Created on: Wednesday 13th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2023
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Record ID: LON-F1A732
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman pipe clay Venus figurine, dating from AD 100-250. The remaining figurine consists of torso, upper legs and garment with the upper body, head and base broken and missing. This is Fittock Type 1, Garment B figurine. Dimensions: length: 86.73mm; width: 54.96mm; thickness: 26.12mm; weight: 96.52g Other Venus figure from the same area are LON-B7E305, LON-5536D6 and LON-CDF7B1. Flittock (2013:30) writes " The Type 1 figurine depicts the goddess stood completely nude while holding a garment that drapes down bes…
Created on: Monday 11th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: LON-9AC4F5
Object type: PARCHMENT PRICKER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post Medieval bone parchment-pricker dating to the 13th-16th century. The shaft has a circular cross-section and tapers towards the tip, which is socketed to accommodate the iron tip. At the opposite end the stylus would have been carved terminal this is broken and missing. There is a series of five incised lines around the shaft of the stylus at the terminal end. The parchment pricker is a mid-dark brown in colour. Dimensions: length: 59.46mm; width: 5.74mm; weight: 2.32g. These objects were in use throughout the medieval period though most p…
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
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Record ID: LON-9AAFCC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper-alloy half penny of George I (AD 1714-1727) dating from AD 1723. Obverse: George I head right Obverse inscription: GEORGIVS . REX  Reverse: Britannia left. Harp on right Reverse inscription: BRITAN NIA . 1723 . Dimensions: diameter: 28.30mm; weight: 10.12g. 
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
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Record ID: LON-9AA0F9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver half groat of Elizabeth I (AD 1558-1603). Initial mark uncertain, First coinage AD 1560-1561. London Tower mint. North (1975:110 No.1987) Obverse description: Crowned bust left Obverse inscription: E[] Reverse description: Long cross fourchee on shield of Arms of England and France. Reverse inscription: [POSVI/]DEV.'AD/IVTOR[E/M:MEV:] Dimensions: diameter: 18.29mm; weight: 1.03g. Reference: North, J. J. 1975. English Hammered Coinage, Volume 2. Edward I to Charles II, 1272-1662. Spink: London
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
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Record ID: LON-9A9713
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver penny of Elizabeth I (AD 1558-1603), dating AD 1589-1592. Third coinage, North (1975:113 no. 2017).  Mint of London.  Obverse description: Bust of the Queen in profile facing left. Obverse inscription: E D G ROSA SINE SPINA Reverse description: Shield on a long cross fourchee dividing legend Reverse inscription: CIVI TAS LON DON Dimensions: diameter: 12.92 mm; weight: 0.40g.
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
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Record ID: LON-72E166
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete horn knife handle of uncertain date. The handle is from a tang knife and is probably made of horn. The handle would have had two metal band just in from either end. At one end it flares out to 21.22mm. The handle has an off centre rectangular aperture for the tang of the blade.  Dimensions: length: 66.59mm; diameter: 14.60mm; weight: 15.54mm
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2023
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Record ID: LON-703582
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd fragment from a Roman Gaulish samian ware hemispherical bowl. Form Dragendorff 37 dating from AD 160-220. The sherd has moulded decoration, consisting of three bands of repeated decorative elements. The first band is of ovolo, under which is a band of leaves. The decoration on the lower band is uncertain, possible a table. The fragment has a pink fabric and is coated in a red slip on both the inside and outside. The slip is  abraded with slip worn away from the high points of the moulded decoration. Dimensions: length: 111.72mm; width:86.47m…
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2023
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Record ID: LON-7030E4
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Roman faience melon bead dating to the period c. AD 50 - 200. The bead is light blue in colour and has seventeen vertical grooves on the outer surface. The bead has a perforation with a diameter of 6.29mm. The interior surface exhibits a series of concentric grooves. Dimensions: diameter: 16.45mm; height: 14.82mm; weight: 3.82g Crummy (1995:30) writes "These beads are found in 1st- and 2nd-century contexts (Guido 1978, 100) and seem, on the evidence from our catalogue, to have been introduced into this country at the conquest. There is some slight indic…
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: LON-702CA6
Object type: NEEDLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman bone needle, AD 50-410. The needle has a pointed head and tapers to a point. The eye is formed by two drilled holes forming a figure of eight aperture. The bone itself has taken on a dark brown patina due to the deposition environment. This is a Crummy type 1 needle. Other Roman needles on the database are LON-62C774, BM-A20720 and BM-A1EE8B. Crummy (1995:65) writes "type 1 is only found in bone, and is the counterpart of bone hairpin Types 1 and 2, being a simple tapering shaft with a pointed head. The length of the head varie…
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2023
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Record ID: LON-702816
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman bone hair pin dating to AD 150 - 400. The hair pin is a Greep type B1.1 and Crummy type 3. The head is spherical and crudely formed. The pin shaft tapers to join the head and bulges outwards as it moves away and then tapers again towards a point. Dimensions: length: 107.25mm; max diameter of shaft: 5.03mm; diameter of head: 7.52mm; weight: 3.19g Greep (1983:350) writes "Whilst the overwhelming majority of these forms belong to the third and fourth centuries, Crummy's (1979, 161) date of c.AD 200 for the arrival of these types is challenged by …
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2023
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Record ID: LON-6EAD03
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An  incomplete Roman bone hair pin dating to AD 150 - 400. The head is flame shaped. The pin shaft tapers to join the head and bulges outwards as it moves away and then tapers again towards a point, the tip of which is broken and missing. Crummy lists this form as miscellaneous type. Crummy (1995:26 fig.437) shows a similar hair pin. Dimensions: length: 91.28mm; max diameter of shaft: 2.87mm; diameter of head: 4.29mm; weight: 0.83g The associated pottery assemblage form this site point to a second-early third century date. References: Crummy, N. 1995. The Ro…
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2023
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Record ID: LON-7C0EA3
Object type: INTAGLIO
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman intaglio blue nicolo glass bearing the motif of Mercury’s cockerel, dating from AD 43-410. The intaglio is oval in plan with a bevelled edge on the obverse side. The central section is light blue in colour and has a left facing standing cockerel incised into it. The reverse is flat. The cockerel was one of Mercury’s totemic animals often depicted with the god. The cockeral was concidered the herald of the new day. Dimensions: length: 8.29mm; width: 6.51mm; thickness: 1.85mm; weight: 0.51g. Reference: Henig, M. 1978. A Corp…
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
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Record ID: LON-79045D
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman pipe clay figurine probably a Risus type. The remaining figurine fragment depicts the front half of a forward facing head of a man or child without arms covered in drapery. This type of figurine is known from the continent but is rare in Britain.. A similar figurine is illustrated in Rouvier-Jeanlin (1972:264 No.687). Fittock (2013:45) writes "...the bust of a young smiling child traditionally known as Risus. The figurine is mostly hollow and depicts the boy with a bare torso. The general form of the statuette tapers inwards…
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: LON-E6EEBE
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval clay tobacco pipe dating from AD 1640-1680. This is a Oswald type 13. The tobacco pipe has a flat heal with no maker's stamp on the base of the heal. The pipe bowl is barrel-shaped and decorated with a raised fluer-de-lis on eachn side.  The pipe has a milled bowl rim which is inclined at an obtuse angle to the stem. The pipe has a bore hole running within the length of the stem. This is probably a pipe from the Netherlands. Dimensions: length: 71.73mm; height: 19.25mm; inside diameter of bowl: 10.05mm; weight: 14.66g.​ …
Created on: Wednesday 12th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: LON-E6E7AA
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval clay tobacco pipe dating from AD 1669-1692. This is a Oswald type 20. The tobacco pipe has a squat heal with an incuse maker's stamp KCVO impressed on the base of the heal. The pipe bowll has a milled bowl rim which is inclined at an obtuse angle to the stem. The pipe has a bore hole running within the length of the stem. The maker is Claes or Klaas Cornelisz van Os AD 1669-1692, a maker from the Netherlands. Dimensions: length: 76.18mm; height: 34.38mm; inside diameter of bowl: 11.64mm Higgins​ writes "The tobacco plant is native…
Created on: Wednesday 12th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: LON-E6E1D1
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval clay tobacco pipe dating from AD 1690-1729. This is a Oswald type 11-12. The tobacco pipe has a flat teardrop shaped heal with an incuse maker's stamp SaM HUGH impressed on the base of the heal. The pipe bowl is barrel-shaped, with a milled bowl rim which is inclined at an obtuse angle to the stem. The pipe has a bore hole running within the length of the stem. The maker is Samuel Hughes of Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Dimensions: length: 101.66mm; height: 34.26mm; inside diameter of bowl: 9.66mm; weight: 18.61g.​ Higgins​ wri…
Created on: Wednesday 12th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: LON-E6676C
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Mesolithic to early Neolithic, flint blade flake probably dating 10000-3001BC. This is a tertiary flake with some cortex remaining at one end. There is a pronounced bulb of percussion. There are three blade flake removal scars on the dorsal surface. There is evidence of retouch along the edges and at the striking end where four flakes have been removed. Dimensions: length: 73.21mm; width: 16.51mm; thickness: 4.54mm; weight: 5.34g
Created on: Wednesday 12th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: LON-BDD782
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman bone gaming counter dating from AD 50-410. The counter is decorated with four shallow concentric rings on the upper surface, the reverse has scratched VV and other lines. This decoration was possibly produced through turning on a lathe. The edges straight. Similar counter can be found in Crummy (1995: Nos. 2271), and in MacGregor (1985: pg132-133). Kenyon type B.1, they seem to have been produced throughout the Roman period with little variation. Dimensions: diameter: 21.41mm; thickness: 2.51mm; weight: 1.57g Other gaming counters on the databa…
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
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Record ID: LON-81EE36
Object type: INTAGLIO
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman intaglio in dark blue nicolo glass bearing the motif of a seated figure possibly Roma holding a septre in left hand and palladium in her right dating from AD 50-410. The raised central section is blue-grey in colour and has the figure incised into it. The rest of the intaglio is a blue/black in colour. The reverse is flat. A similar seated figure representing Roma is illustrated in Henig (1978 plate XXXIX nos. 250) Dimensions: length: 13.18mm; width: 10.36mm; thickness: 4.17mm; weight: 0.94g. Reference: Henig, M. 1978. A Corpus of Roman Engraved …
Created on: Friday 7th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 7th July 2023
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