Record ID: LON-E04B53
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 eighteen vertical grooves on the outer surface. The bead has a perforation with a diameter of 9.13mm. The interior surface exhibits a series of concentric grooves. Dimensions: diameter: 21.09mm; height: 13.77mm; weight: 4.47g 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 indica…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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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-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-F12CD8
Object type: MORTARIUM
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A rim sherd fragment from a Roman probably East Gaulish (Trier) samian ware mortarium Form Dragendorff 45 dating to the first half or middle of the 3rd century. This is a fragment of a Drag. 45 mortarium with a nearly upright wall. A spout is located within the collar; it is a very stylised open-mouthed lion with large ears. The spout is an applied oval boss with the pouring hole forming the open mouth. The fragment has a pink/orange fabric and is coated in a red slip on both the inside and outside which is heavily abraded with most of the slip worn away from the high points …
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: LON-7DA6C6
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy penannular, armilla bracelet or armlet of early Roman date, AD 43 - 100. The remaining fragment consists of part of the band, decorated with a central parallel band of cable decoration running the length of the remaining fragment. Dimensions: length: 17.48mm; width: 11.14mm; thickness: 1.39mm; weight: 2.00 g. Reference: Crummy, N, 2005. From bracelets to battle-honours: military armillae from the Roman conquest of Britain. 93-105 Crummy, N. 1983. The Roman small finds from excava- tions in Colchester 1971-9, Colchester Archaeological Repor…
Created on: Tuesday 25th April 2023
Last updated: Saturday 24th June 2023
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Record ID: LON-633C10
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy coiled or 'spiral' finger ring dating AD 50-410. This finger ring is made from a strip of copper alloy with a D-shaped cross section, that is coiled with three turns. The ends of the strip are cut to form points. Dimensions: diameter: 25.98mm; width: 10.36mm; thickness: 2.65mm; weight: 10.60g Reference: Crummy, N. 2015. Finger-rings. In M. Atkinson and S. J. Preston. Heybridge: A Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement, Excavations at Elms Farm 1993-5. Internet Archaeology 40. http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/1/3-7-2.html#rings
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: LON-03A984
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman bone hair pin dating AD 50 - 250. The hair pin is a Greep type A2.2 and Crummy type 2. The hair pin has a small pointed head with two incised grooves cut just below forming a collar. The shaft is a straight taper towards its point; the shaft is broken. The tip which is now missing. Similar hairpins on the database are LON-CDD33A, LON-68D0FE and LON-5225DD. Dimensions: length: 59.46mm; width: 2.90mm; weight: 0.67g. Crummy suggests that they were present in the first century AD an end date of 200-250 AD, but lack of closely dated third…
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2023
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Record ID: LON-CDFB89
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
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: 80.16mm; diameter of shaft: 4.00mm; diameter of head: 6.18mm; weight: 1.36g 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 a small number which…
Created on: Thursday 12th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th July 2022
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Record ID: LON-CDFA4D
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete 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, which is broken and now missing. Dimensions: length: 47.52mm; diameter of shaft: 3.74mm; diameter of head: 5.23mm; weight: 0.91g 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 i…
Created on: Thursday 12th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th July 2022
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Record ID: LON-8BCB39
Object type: FLAGON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of Roman ceramic Verulamium Region Coarse White-slipped ware (VCWS) ring-neck flagon with neck remaining, Hadrianic to Antonine date AD120-190. The fragment consists of the flagon neck with a handle of two ribs and a six rilled rim. The fabric is oxidised red with numerous sand inclusions throughout. Similar flagons can be seen in Davies, Richardson and Tomber (1994:56 fig.46 No.251-253). Dimensions: height: 82.00mm; width of handle: 21.78mm; thickness of handle: 10.22mm; weight: 98.27g; diameter of aperture: 28.70mm; diameter of rim: 42.48mm. Similar flago…
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: LON-8BBB97
Object type: FLAGON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of Roman ceramic Verulamium Region Coarse White-slipped ware (VCWS) ring-neck flagon with neck remaining, Hadrianic to Antonine date AD120-190. The fragment consists of the flagon neck with a five rilled rim. The exterior surface has a thin white slip and the interior is an oxidised red. The fabric is oxidised red with numerous sand inclusions throughout. Similar flagons can be seen in Davies, Richardson and Tomber (1994:56 fig.46 No.251-253). Dimensions: height: 84.63mm; weight: 131.24g; diameter of aperture: 42.86mm; diameter of rim: 60.82mm. Similar flagons o…
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: LON-CB3F84
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete, slightly misshapen and worn Medieval to post-Medieval copper-alloy purse bar (AD1450-1550). The remaining bar has a flat sided bar with a lozenge shaped cross section which terminates in a spherical globular head with incised spiralling grooves. Length: 38.16mm; width: 6.49mm; thickness: 5.37mm. Weight: 3.04g. A similar purse bar can be found illustrated in Ward Perkins: 1940: 167, fig. 52, ref: B3. David Williams has expanded Perkins' classification into Classes A to L. This purse is an example of Class J which equates to Perkins' Type B3. A simple class dist…
Created on: Monday 28th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2022
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Record ID: LON-8F32C9
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman faiance melon bead dating to the period c. AD 43 - 200. Bright blue with buff/grey core. The bead has eighteen vertical grooves. The bead has a perforation with a diameter of 7.83mm. The interior surface exhibits a series of concentric grooves. Worrell (2015) states that faience melon beads "...are common finds on most Roman sites, although normally their occurrence is restricted to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. They are unknown in the Late Iron Age period. A description is provided in Guido (1978, 100, types 21 and 22) and also in Crummy (1983, fig. 32.520-1)." See:…
Created on: Monday 8th November 2021
Last updated: Sunday 3rd July 2022
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Record ID: LON-17E604
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper-alloy radiate of Aurelian (AD 270-275), dating to the perioc c.AD 270 (Reece period 13). Probably CONCORDIA MILI reverse type depicting two Concordiae standing facing each other, standard in outer hand, each holding another standard between them. Mint of Siscia. cf. RIC V.1, p. 287, no. 199 corr. Dimensions: 17.97mm; weight: 2.54g
Created on: Thursday 21st October 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th October 2021
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Record ID: LON-9B6D66
Object type: INTAGLIO
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Roman carved red jasper intaglio of a left facing bust of a young man probably Apollo. The stone has been cut into an oval shape and is bevelled the obverse side being wider than the reverse.  Dimensions: length: 13.27mm; width: 11.22mm: thickness: 2.94mm; weight: 0.65g Martin Henig per comm writes "This is a lovely gem, a red jasper which I would date from its style to around the very end of the 2nd century AD.  It is a full, nude bust of a youth with his hair bound with a fillet and  long  locks down the name of his neck. These locks suggest…
Created on: Tuesday 21st September 2021
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
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Record ID: LON-8495D6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A heavily clipped silver Roman siliqua of the House of Theodosius, probably dating to the period c.AD 395-402 (Reece period 21). VIRTVS ROMANORVM reverse type depicting Roma seated left on cuirass holding sceptre and Victory on globe. Probably mint of Milan. cf. RIC X nos. 1227-1228. Dimensions: diameter: 11.85mm; weight: 0.68g, die axis: 6
Created on: Monday 20th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 28th September 2021
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Record ID: LON-848DCD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A heavily clipped silver Roman siliqua of Arcadius (AD 383-402), probably dating to the period c.AD 395-402 (Reece period 21). VIRTVS ROMANORVM reverse type depicting Roma seated left on cuirass holding sceptre and Victory on globe. Possibly mint of Milan. cf. RIC X nos. 1227-1228
Created on: Monday 20th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 28th September 2021
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Record ID: LON-141BE3
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Medieval copper alloy sexfoil horse harness pendant, dating to the period AD 1200-1400. The pendant has a sexfoil frame, with six small knops projecting from the interstices, and an integrally cast suspension loop, now missing due to a worn break. Within the frame is a separate swinging pendant hung by a pin across a vertical slotted projection at the uppermost of the six-foil's lobes. At the centre or the pendant is a left facing lion passant. Griffiths 1986 dates these artefacts predominantly to the 14th century, but…
Created on: Wednesday 27th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 17th November 2022
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Record ID: LON-5EE3AB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A worn and corroded copper-alloy Roman as or dupondius, probably of Trajan Decius (AD 249-251), dating to the period c.AD 249-251 (Reece period 12). Unclear reverse type depicting a standing female figure left, possibly Liberaltias holding abacus and cornucopiae? Probably mint of Rome. cf. RIC IV.3, p.136, no. 120.
Created on: Monday 7th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 15th September 2020
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Record ID: LON-221A37
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper-alloy radiate of Gallienus (AD 253-268), sole reign, dating to the period AD 260-268 (Reece period 13). INDVLGENTIA AVG reverse type depicting Indulgentia standing left holding baton and cornucopiae, leaning on column. Mint of Rome. Mint mark: - XI, Cunetio no. 1284. Obverse: GALLIENVS AVG, Radiate head right. Reverse: IND[VLGENTIA] AVG, Indulgentia standing left holding baton and cornucopiae, leaning on column. Dimensions: 19.65mm; weight: 2.73g
Created on: Friday 4th September 2020
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2020
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