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Record ID: DEV-888BC6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy mount, probably dating to c. AD 1500-1700. The mount consists of a lozengiform plate decorated with a foliate motif in low relief with an integral rivet projecting from the reverse, which is plain.
Dimensions: length 21.4mm; width 16.9mm; thickness 3.2mm; weight 3.91g.
cf. similar mounts recorded on this database, e.g. SOM-1C895A, SOM-376820.
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 31st July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-86F1EE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post-Medieval copper alloy double looped buckle, probably dating to c. AD 1350-1650. The frame comprises of two symmetrical oval loops, separated by a central bar. The bar is sub-rectangular in cross section and both loops are internally bevelled. Traces of a white metal coating survive on the external surface.
Dimensions: length 25.1mm; width 18.5mm; thickness 3.6mm; weight 3.08g.
The lack of any decoration makes it difficult to suggest anything more than a very general date range, a number of double looped buckles are published by Whitehead (2003), whic…
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2018
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Record ID: DEV-868DAC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337), dating to AD 307-313. GENIO POP ROM reverse type, depicting Genius standing left holding patera and cornucopia. London mint.
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 25th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-5F517C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy sestertius of Commodus (AD 175-192), dating to AD 187-188. FOR RED P M TR P XIII IMP VIII COS V PP SC reverse type, depicting fortuna, seated left, holding a rudder on a globe and cornucopiae. RIC III, p. 425, no. 513.
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2018
Last updated: Monday 23rd July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-5DFF12
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval copper-alloy Nuremberg jetton of Hans Krauwinckel II (active 1586-1635) dating to 1586-1635. Rose/orb type inscribed GETRIVW HANDT KOMBT DVRCH ALLE. Minted at Nuremberg. As Mitchiner (1988, 437) no. 1507.
The jetton has suffered a loss at its circumference. It measures 24 mm in diameter and weighs 1.37 g
See also LIN-A31F79 and KENT-00842D on this database
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th August 2019
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This findspot is known as 'East Budleigh', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DEV-0AD456
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a Post-Medieval copper alloy spur, probably dating to c. 1600-1850. The surviving fragment consists of a section of one arm, this is subrectangular in plan, tapering slaightly towards one end and with a squat, lozengiform cross section. It is undecorated, terminating in old breaks at either end.
Dimensions: length 55.1mm; width 15.2mm; thickness 5.5mm; weight 20.36g.
Ellis (1988) notes that spurs became increasingly fashionable in the 17th century, and whilst this example is too fragmentary to be paralleled it is likely that it dates to this period.
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-09CD35
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post-Medieval copper alloy double looped buckle, probably dating to c. AD 1350-1650. The frame comprises of two symmetrical oval loops, separated by a central bar. The bar is sub-rectangular in cross section and both loops are sub-oval. Traces of iron corrosion, probably from a lost iron pin, are present on the bar. The frame appears undecorated.
Dimensions: length 23.4mm; width 16.3mm; thickness 2.7mm; weight 2.67g.
The lack of any decoration makes it difficult to suggest anything more than a very general date range, a number of double looped buckles are p…
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-09A0DE
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy button, probably dating to c. AD 1600-1700. The button is circular in plan with a convex front and concave back. The front of the button is decorated with an incised floral design, consisting of a flower of 5 eliptical petals, around a central boss and overlaying a series of concentric bands. A central integral rectangular shank projects from the reverse, with a circular drilled perforation. Traces of an iron link remain within the shank.
Dimensions: diameter 26.7mm; thickness 10.2mm; weight 8.30g.
Read (2005: 39-45) illustrates a large number of…
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-097301
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Early Medieval to early Medieval copper alloy stirrup terminal, probably dating to c. AD 1000-1100. The object is now highly abraded, but is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular in cross section, tapering into a sub-circular sectioned debased urnes-style crested animal head which curls around to meet the main body of the terminal and form a circular aperture. The interior (sub-triangular) face of the terminal is concave, and retains a significant amount of iron corrosion, although the outer edges (and possible face) have been lost.
Dimensions: height 22.4mm; width 21.5…
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-08C024
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy strap fitting or mount, probably dating to c. AD 1600-1700. The mount is flat, and cast into the form of a moustached bust, facing looking out from within scrolled decoration, with a fleur-de-lis at the apex, and tapering towards the base, which terminates in a lobe between two scrolled volutes. Two incomplete, integral rivets project from the reverse, both on the longitudinal median line. Extensive remains of a white metal coating survive on both faces.
Dimensions: length 31.6mm; width 19.8mm; thickness 5.8mm; weight 4.98g.
The general style and dec…
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-0856FC
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post-Medieval copper alloy coin weight probably dating to c. AD 1400-1600. The weight is uniface, sub-circular in plan and rectangular in cross-section. The front depicts a ship with single mast, with further detail lost to abrasion, the reverse is plain.
Dimensions: diameter 17.2mm; thickness 4.0mm; weight 5.75g.
Withers & Withers (1995: 19) publish a similar example, with mast flanked by a lis and lion, which they suggest was a weight for the gold noble.
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-07F309
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late medieval Copper alloy french Jetton, Tournai (late), dating to c.AD 1373-1437. AVE MARIA GRASIA PLENA obverse type, depicting a stylised Chatel Tournai, reverse depicting a triple stranded straiht cross fleuretty within a four-arched tressure. Mint of Tournai. cf. Mitchiner 1988: 187 no. 505-507.
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-0525C7
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy trader's token farthing, dating to AD 1662. Issued by the City of Bristol. Williamson (1967) Gloucestershire 18.
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-F52327
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age to Roman copper alloy applied hook brooch, probably a variant of Mackreth's type 1.b. or 1.c., probably dating to c. AD 25-100. The brooch now comprises of the bow only, with the head, pin and catchplate lost to old breaks.
At the head of the brooch the bow survives to a width of 19.1mm and a thickness of 15.7mm, sub-rectangular in cross section. The reverse of the head features a short, transversely aligned rectangular projection. The nature of the pin mechanism is thus atypical and unclear. The brooch tapers slightly from the head into an unelaborated sub…
Created on: Wednesday 18th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-DC715D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy buckle with integral forked spacer, probably dating to c. AD 1300-1450. The buckle frame has a single oval loop, with a D-shaped cross section. The outer edge of the loop is expanded into a small point, with two prongs expanding from the opposite edge. A simple wire pin is wrapped around the frame in the space between the prongs.
Dimensions: length 44.6mm; width 22.7mm; thickness 4.0mm; weight 6.14g.
cf. Egan & Pritchard (2002: 78-80) nos. 322-330, excavated in phases dating to AD 1330-1450. Ottoway & Rogers (2002: 2890) nos. 13338, 14705 & 14310, all fr…
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-87E2A2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy strap fitting, probably dating to c. AD 1200-1500. The fittign consists of an undecorated bar, plano convex in cross section and with two integral rivets projecting from the reverse. A rearward facing hook, with unelaborated sub-rectangular terminal projects longitudinally from the base of the bar.
Dimensions: length 35.5mm; width 7.5mm; thickness 7.1mm; weight 6.29g.
Cf. a similar example published by Egan & Pritchard (1991: 155-6, no. 728), excavated in a 13th-14th century context.
Created on: Friday 13th July 2018
Last updated: Friday 13th July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-A7BD38
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval enamelled copper alloy horse harness pendant and associated mount, probably dating to c. AD 1200-1400. The pendant is lozengiform, with a transverse attachment loop projecting from the apex, and decorated with an enamelled depiction of the pelican in her piety, with the birds depicted using white enamel seated within a nest of sub-square red enamel cells. The associated mount is unelaborated, consisting of a simple D-shaped perforated lug with a separate rivet projecting from the reverse. Two transverse perforated lugs project from the base of the mount, forming a box for t…
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-A75734
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy hinged Colchester derivative intial T-shaped brooch, probably dating to c. AD 50-100. The brooch survives largely complete, missing its pin and with its right wing damaged.
The head of the brooch survives to a width of 29.5mm, with the right wing truncated by an old break; these are cylindrical and retain an iron axis bar in situ. A rectangular slot is cut into the reverse of the head to accomodate a hinged pin, largely lost, but with a fragment of the copper alloy perforated lug at the head of the pin also surviving. The front of the wings are decorated with…
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 20th June 2018
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Record ID: DEV-A56EE6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy hinged strip bow brooch, probably dating to AD 25-70. The brooch survives largely complete, missing only its axis bar and pin.
The head of the brooch survives to a width of 10.3mm, it consists of a rectangular sheet of copper alloy with a central slot to accomodate a hinged pin, this is rolled around underneath itself to form a cylindrical casing for an axis bar, now lost. The head tapers into the bow, which thickens into a sub-rectangualr cross section, which continues to taper into an unelaborated foot. The upper bow is delineated from …
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2018
Last updated: Friday 18th October 2019
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Record ID: DEV-28D843
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy Sestertius of an uncertain Antonine or Severan Emperor, probably dating to AD 161-222 (Reece period 7-10). Uncertain reverse type, depicting a male figure seated left. Rome mint.
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Colyton CP', grid reference and parish protected.
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