Record ID: DEV-6FCA71
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy farthing token of Charles I (AD 1625-1649), dating to AD 1634-1636. Type 3b (Maltravers "rounds"), bell/bell initial mark. Minted in London. North (1991: 164) no. 2281.
Created on: Friday 18th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 18th August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-703DBC
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval cast copper alloy pot foot, probably dating to AD 1500-1700. The fragment is highly abraded, sub rectangular in plan and broadly triangular in cross section, with a short, trapezoidal foot below the collar. The foot has a flat back and convex front, and is broken above a transverse collar at an old break. Dimensions: length 38.1mm; width 23.6mm; thickness 15.4mm; weight 44.55g. Crudely made cast copper alloy vessels were widely used from c.1200-1700 for serving and cooking. Butler et al (2009:4) suggest there were four main types of leg used. This is a Type C w…
Created on: Friday 18th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
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Record ID: DEV-7097B2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post-Medieval cast copper alloy pot foot, probably dating to AD 1200-1700. The fragment is highly abraded, triagular in plan and sub-triangular in cross section, tapering from the break into a pointed foot. The front of the foot expands outwards into a pronounced central crest or rib, with the reverse being convex. It terminates at the top in a worn break. Dimensions: length 40.6mm; width 28.4mm; thickness 17.5mm; weight 38.66g. Crudely made cast copper alloy vessels were widely used throughout the Medieval and Post-Medieval periods for serving and cooking (Butle…
Created on: Friday 18th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2017
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Record ID: DEV-70FC98
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval lead alloy cloth seal, probably dating to c. AD 1600-1800. Two lead alloy discs pressed together with one connecting strip surviving, the vestigial remains of a second set of connecting strips as well as the lack of a rivet on either disc suggesting that it was originally a 4-disc seal. One face is stamped in low relief with a depiction of an eagle or other bird of prey standing left with wings outstretched, stood on a trasverse line of pellets. This is within a low largely illegible inscription: [...(IN?)...]WA[...]ON (pellet). On the reverse, again in low relief is t…
Created on: Friday 18th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-AD12F8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy heraldic mount, probably dating to c. AD 1200-1400. The mount is shield-shaped, with a square top tapering to a point below. Traces of gilding survive around much of the mount's edge, as well as partially on the interior. The mount is further decorated with three centrl circles, arranged to fit the plan of the shield, each inlaid with red enamel. Above these, and dividing the upper two circles is a blue label (a transverse bar with longitudinal bars descending from it), again with a blue enamel inlay surviving in situ in places. In heraldic terms this can be de…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2017
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-ADB308
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy purse bar, almost complete, probably dating to c. AD 1450-1500. The bar has a central sub-spherical boss, 14.3mmmm wide, 13.0mm high and 15.2mm thick, with traces of niello inlaid incised decoration surviving on one face, although only a small section is visible, it appears to be a lattice or zig-zag pattern, typical of the type. The boss has a central longitudinal perforation through which passes a copper alloy swivel, below the boss this passes through the perforation of an applied sub-trapezoidal knop, which is circular in cross-section. Above the boss the…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 29th August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-AE815B
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast lead bifacial token of Powell Type 9, probably dating to c. AD 1250-1850. The token is sub-circular in plan and flat in cross section. Both faces are cast in relief with a seperate irregular pattern of lines, with neither being particularly intelligible. One face features a large sub-rectangle border with a random assortment of diverging and converging lines breaking its border. The second face is less clear, it may potentially depict a central, serifed W surrounded by extraneous detail although it could equally be an attempt at a grid or net-like device with a ce…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2017
Last updated: Monday 21st August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-AF2114
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Late-Medieval to Post Medieval candle-holder, dating to c.AD 1475-1600. The surviving section comprises of the stick and socket for the candle, with the seperately made base missing. Both the stick and socket are circular in cross section, with the stick having two raised collars, the less abraded 18.5mm in cross section, dividing it into three roughly equal sections. At the top the stick flares outwards, thickening from 11.9mm to 24.1mm, from where the socket continues to expand at a roughly even diameter before terminating in the circular socket mouth, …
Created on: Monday 21st August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 25th September 2019
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Record ID: DEV-AFA3E7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy heraldic horse harness pendant, dating to c. AD 1200-1400. The pendant is shield shaped in plan, with a square top and tapering to a point at the bottom, and flat in cross section. A transverse attachment loop with a drilled circular perforation projects centrally from the top, this is rectangular in cross section, with its terminal being circular in profile and projecting slightly forward from the pendant itself. The pendant is emblazoned with gules three lions passant guardant, i.e. three lions within a field inlaid with red enamel. The lions were likely orig…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2017
Last updated: Friday 16th April 2021
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Record ID: DEV-B0516A
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A highly abraded Bronze Age copper alloy miniature flat axehead, probably dating to c. 2150-1900 BC. The axehead is broadly sub-rectangular in plan and rectangular in cross-section. The axe expands from a now rounded butt, 19.6mm wide, to the mid-point, 22.8mm wide. Below the mid-point, which is thickened in profile, 9.2mm thick compared to 4.6mm at the butt, there is break in angle, with the blade expanding to 28.2mm, where it terminates in a curved cutting edge. There is the suggestion of flanges running down either edge of the axehead, though they are difficult to discern by eye, a…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2017
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Record ID: DEV-C11AF3
Object type: RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Ring, probably a strap fitting or suspension loop, but potentially also a bead, of probable Iron Age or Early Roman date, c. BC 800- AD 50. The ring is broadly biconical, with circumferencially flatened band around its outside edge, creating a rounded, sub-hexagonal cross section. This band is further decorated by a sieries of individually punched or pecked sub-circular pellets of irregular depth. The series is not continuous, and a section appears to have been worn away. The bead has a slightly off-centre, cast circular aperture with smoothly convex sides. The aperture…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-C19B16
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-medieval silver halfgroat of James I (AD 1603-1625), dating to AD 1612-1613. Second coinage, tower initial mark. Mint of London. North (1991: 146) no. 2105/1.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-C34CF4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T738: Submitted for valuation Description: A Post-Medieval gold posy ring. The ring consists of a hoop with a shallow D-shaped cross section and plain exterior. The interior of the hoop is inscribed in italic script: Not the gift but the Giver, followed by a maker's mark in block roman capitals within a rectangular punch: TS. Dimensions: The finger ring measures 19.2mm across the hoop, is 2.4mm wide and 0.9mm thick; it weighs 1.33g. Discussion: A finger ring in the British Museum features the same inscription, but in an earlier script: 1961,1202.138. P…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 15th January 2019
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Record ID: DEV-C43466
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval white metal inlaid copper alloy strap end of Thomas' Class A, type 1a (iv), probably dating to c. AD 750-950. The strap end is broadly sub-rectangular in plan, tapering from 12.8mm in width at it's widest point into a trapezoidal terminal, 3.9mm wide at its tip. It is broadly flat in cross section, 2.1mm thick, but with its terminal being 3.1mm thick. The attachement end is split transversely and incomplete, with the front half missing and the rear incomplete, but with line of two incomplete rivet holes still visible within the line of the break. The strap…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-C4F5F9
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy nail cleaner with a swollen blade of Eckardt and Crummy 2008, 122, probably dating to c. AD 75-250. The object consists of a flat blade, 0.8mm thick, in the form of a stylised leaf. With a transverse oval plate at its shoulders, 14.1mm thick, from the bottom of which projects a long, narrow sub-rectangular neck which bifurcates and terminates in a split end of two points, 3.9m wide. The split point is further defined by a V-shaped groove on one face. From the top of the blade expands a narrow shank, rectangular in plan and cross-section, 3.9mm wide by 2.1mm thick,…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Friday 7th August 2020
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Record ID: DEV-C5A53C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late medieval to Post-Medieval silver Penny of Henry VII (AD 1485-1509), dating to AD 1494-1501. Facing bust issue, Durham mint under Bishop Richard Fox. North (1991: 103) no. 1731.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-D4ECFD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman probable colchester derivative brooch, probably dating to c. AD 50-150. The surviving fragment comprises of the lower bow and partial catchplate, with the upper bow and pin missing. At its upper end the fragment terminates in a worn break, sub-oval in cross section, measuring 5.4mm wide and 3.6mm thick. This small surviving portion of the bow is cast into three parallel transverse ribs, below which point the foot flares outwards into a triangular plate, reaching 18.2mm wide at its base and flat, 1.5mm thick, in cross-section. The front of the plate is decorated wit…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-D583F1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (AD 1548-1603), dating to AD 1595-1598. Third coinage, key initial mark, mint of London. North (1991: 237) no. 2015. Around 50% of the coin has been lost to an unworn break between 1 and 8 oclock.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-D62053
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval silver sceat of the secondary phase "animal mask" group, dating to c. 730-760. Abramson (2006: 47) AM2. This appears to be only the second sceat of this type recorded on this databse, the other being WILT-F7AA27.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-D853F7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy Radiate of Quintillus, dating to AD 270 (Reece Period 13). FIDES MILIT reverse type, depicting Fides standing left holding two standards. Mint of Milan. Cf. Cunetio no. 2360. Only one coin of this type was found in the Cunetio hoard.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
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