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Record ID: DEV-A5C851
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval silver groat of Phillip and Mary, dating to AD 1554-1558. Lis initial mark, mint of London. North (1991: 129) no. 1973.
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Record ID: DEV-A60EA6
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy trifid spoon handle terminal, probably dating to c. AD 1650-1720. The spoon handle is flat and plain, terminating in a worn break at the worn end and flaring outwards into a tri-lobed trifid terminal at the other.
Dimensions: length 65.4mm; width 26.9mm; thickness 2.2mm; weight 10.93g.
Egan (2005: 118, no. 578) publishes an unstratified trifid spoon featuring counterfeit hallmarks dating the spoon to the mid-17th century at the earliest. Homer (1975: 43) suggests that this style of spoon first appeared soon after 1660 and went out of fashion by c. 17…
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Record ID: DEV-A6D898
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval Rowell spur, probably dating to c. AD 1600-1800. The surviving fragment of the spur consists of an arm,. half of the other, the neck and part of the rowel box, with the terminals of the arms and rowel box, with the rowel itself missing. The arms are D-shaped in cross section, with a sub-oval boss reinforcing the junction between the arms and the rear, from which the neck expands. This is lozenge-shaoed in cross section, bifurcating into two arms to form the box but with one arm missing. Both arms appear incomplete, however the longer of the two has an off…
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Record ID: DEV-A7108A
Object type: CHAFING DISH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval to Post-Medieval copper alloy chafing dish handle, proabably dating to c. AD 1400 - 1600. The handle is heart-shaped with truncated point, and a hexagonal cross section. The resulting bar passes through the perforation of a sub-rectangular lug. The lug has one rounded and one flattened end from which extends a circular protrusion for attachment to the vessel.
Dimensions: 56.3mm; 57.9mm; 15.8mm; 36.45g.
Comparible handles are published by Margeson (1993: 80, nos. 489-491), dated to the 15th-16th century. Allan (1984: 342, no. 165) publishes another comparable exam…
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2019
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Record ID: DEV-B6F580
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T840: Acquired by Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon
Description: An incomplete Post-Medieval probable hair or bodkin pin. The surviving fragment comprises of the shaft of the pin, missing its head. The shaft is rectangular in cross-section, with rounded ends and tapers from an old break into a rounded point. One face of the pin features incised decoration, with a line following either edge of the face and converging at the point. A further transverse line defines a rectangular field below the break, this contains a series of short, longitudinal incised scores,…
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Heanton Punchardon', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DEV-2076D0
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval lead 2-part cloth seal, probably dating to c. AD 1500-1700. Only disc 1 survives, along with a section of the connecting strip. The disc depicts a serifed A with a chevroned bar within a beaded border. Although the second disc is lost, part of the heraldic symbol of Ausberg, a pinecone, survives on the ingregral rivet.
Dimensions: length 22.6mm; width 19.6mm; thickness 4.2mm; weight 6.51g.
Seals from Augsburg date to the 16th and 17th centuries and are by far the most commonly continental seals found within Britain (Egan 1994: 106), cf. ibid fig. 41…
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2017
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-212AE6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval lead loth seal, probably dating to AD 1500-1800. Disc 1 of a 2-, 3- or 4-part seal, with an unclear design. An unclear inscription reads: [...]LE[...]. The impression of a plain-weave cloth can be seen on the reverse of the disc, as well as a partial and similarly unclear design on the integral rivet. The impression of the weave is too ill-defined to allow for a reliable estimate of threads per inch.
Dimensions: length 25.5mm; width 26.1mm; thickness 3.1mm; weight 6.98g.
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2017
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-21E190
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval ceramic sherd of North Devon sgraffito-decorated ware, dating to c. AD 1650-1800+. A base sherd from a plate or bowl with internal decoration, consisting of triple-stranded curvilinear bands incised into a white slip within a triple-tranded circumferencial border, subsequently glazed, appearing brown against a yellow field. A hard-fired orange-red to red-brown fabric, with a dark core, containing a sparce angular quartz temper <1.5mm, as well as more frequent black grit and sparce rounded grey stone inclusions, <1mm.
Weight: 14.94g.
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-224714
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete clay tobacco pipe, probably dating to c. AD 1660-1740. The fragment consists of the stem and heel, with the bowl missing. The stem is sub-circular in cross section, c. 11.1mm in diameter at the break, with a narrow, off-centre circular perforation, 2.2mm in diameter. A trimmed, sub-oval bowl survives at the bowl-end of the stem, 14.0mm long by 11.3mm wide, stamped with an incuse maker's mark: [B]A/RVM.
Dimensions: length 67.5mm; width 13.0mm; thickness 21.1mm; weight 12.31g.
Similar stamps can be seen on tobacco pipes from Barnstable, identified as Barum die II, wh…
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2017
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-264F62
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas' Class E, Type 1, decorated in the Winchester Style, probably dating to c. 900-1100.
The strap-end is tongue shaped, with a slightly pointed terminal. At the attachment end the strap-end bifurcates (splits) transversely, with two parallel cast projections to retain the strap, undecorated, but with a slightly recessed rectangular transverse band on the front, and three roughly equally spaced circular rivet holes; none of the rivets survive.
Below the attachment end the strap-end is cast into a symmetrical openwork design depictin…
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
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Record ID: DEV-343398
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T869: disclaimed; returned to finder.
Description: A silver-gilt dress-pin head. The head is spherical and probably hollow and contains the end of the pin shaft. It is decorated with silver wire filigree. Two horizontal filigree bands divide the head into two hemispheres. Each hemisphere is decorated with four sets of filigree circles, each containing three further circles around a central pellet. In each spandrel, between the large circles and the central band, is a small circle containing a pellet. At the top there is a pellet within a smaller filigree circle, …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2018
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This findspot is known as 'North Curry CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DEV-37AEE5
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy French Jetton, probably dating to c. AD 1385-1422. Crown type, with the obverse depicting a crown with three pierced trefoils on the band, with a pellet above the central one and pellets between the central and side fleurs. The reverse a triple-stranded cross flory with a quatrefoil at the centre, within a double-stranded four arched tressure. cf. Mernick & Algar (2001: 227) nos. 66-69.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-38A09C
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy bell of probable Medieval date, c. AD 1250-1400. The bell consists of four sub-triangular petals of sheet metal which have been folded around to meet in the centre, forming a closed, sub-oval chamber with a circular aperture at the interstice between each petal. From the top of the bell projects an integrally cast shaft, terminating in an incomplete transverse attachment loop.
Dimensions: length 31.5mm; width 14.6mm; thickness 15.0mm; weight 3.61g.
Bells of very similar for have been found with traces of gilding (e.g. BERK-BDC75C), and as parts of hors…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2017
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Record ID: DEV-38E53B
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval lead cloth seal, consisting of disc 1 of a seal of uncertain form, probably dating to c. AD 1500-1800. Disc 1 depicts the intials W G in serifed Roman capitals, the partial disc 2 design which survives on the reverse of the integral rivet consists of a capital I flanked by pellets and surmounted by a pair of slatires.
Dimensions: diameter 23.4mm; thickness 3.0mm; weight 4.04g.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-3910A5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver penny of Edward II (AD 1307-1327), dating to c. AD 1310-1314. Class 11b1, Canterbury mint. North (1991: 36) no. 1061/1.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-3930B2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-medieval Silver threepence of Elizabeth I (AD 1558-1603), dating to AD 1569 or 1579. Second Coinage, uncertain initial mark, London mint. North (1991: 135) no.1998.
The coin has been deformed and is now slightly dished, with between 12 and 2 o'clock of the edge lost to a break at the inner circle.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-39DE82
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval Silver groat of Henry VI (first reign, AD 1422-1461), dating to AD 1454-1470. Cross-pellet issue, Class B or C, uncertain initial mark. London mint. North (1991: 81) no. 1517 or 1518.
The coin has been clipped almost to its original edge around most of its circumference.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-3A47E9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver penny of Edward I (AD 1272-1307), dating to AD 1303. Class 10ab4, London mint. North (1991: 31) no. 1039/2.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-3B1474
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Bronze Age socketed axehead, probably dating to c. 1150-750 BC. The fragment is extremely abraded, leaving no surface detail and at one point wearing completely through the wall, leaving an irregular perforation. The socket mouth and cutting edge have both been lost to wear, leaving the axe with a narrow sub-rectangular in plan, with a rounded blade-end and the wall of the socket lost entirely on one face. In profile the axehead tapers towards the cutting edge. the socket is sub-rectangular in cross-section and survives to a depth of c. 54.7mm.
Dimensions: length…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2017
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Record ID: DEV-4C78D9
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy trader's token halfpenny dating to AD 1670. Issued by John Browning in Chulmleigh. Williamson (1967) Devon 38.
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2017
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