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Record ID: WILT-BD4297
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments of a Post-Medieval cloth seal from Wesel in Germany. These are almost certainly two parts of the same four part cloth seal. The double perforations in each are secondary and may indicate an attempt to re-attach the two most important parts of the seal to a cloth of bale after the origiinal seal was broken off. One is of a lead/tin alloy and has a diameter of c.35mm. It is uniface with two squarish perforations 1.5mm and 2.5mm in diameter, diametrically opposed and near to the edge of the disc. On the obverse is an ornate shield with three weasels courant two and o…
Created on: Friday 22nd December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-BD36A7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular oval lead dombed disc of unknown date, measuring 14x12.5mm, 2.8mm thick and weighing 2.61g. Possibly a rough weight of unknown purpose or perhaps from lead casting.
Created on: Friday 22nd December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-BD24A4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular oval lead dombed disc of unknown date, measuring 15x12mm, 3.8mm thick and weighing 3.71g. Possibly a rough weight of unknown purpose or perhaps from lead casting.
Created on: Friday 22nd December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-BA0407
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medal of Frederick the Great of Prussia with a diameter of 43mm. The edge is damaged. It is of copper alloy, probably of pinchbeck, a brass, mainly of copper with some zinc, invented in the 18th century as a cheap imitation of gold and often used for medals. It is an English medal commemorating the victories of Frederick the Great over the French at Rosbach and the Austrians at Lissa in the Severn Years War. Date: 1757 Ref: Medallic Illustrations, plate clxxvii, no. 6
Created on: Friday 22nd December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 3rd March 2016
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Record ID: WILT-96A303
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
19th century sixpence token from Bristol with a diamter of 20.5mm. It is bent and part is missing. Date: c. 1811 Ref: Davis 55
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-968D31
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
English silver half groat of Edward IV. It has a diameter of 15.5mm and weighs 0.66 (10.2gr). It is possibly a base metal forgery. It is clipped to nearly penny size and the outer legends are lost. Mint: Canterbury Date: 1470-1483 Ref: North 1589 (type VI) or 1640 (type XXI)
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-967242
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irish silver penny of Edward IV. It has a diameter of 15x13mm and weighs 0.55g (8.5gr). It is clipped and most of the legend is lost. The reverse is partly double struck. An example of light 'cross and pellets' coinage. Mint: Dublin Date: ?1473-78 Ref: Seaby 6367
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-965AD4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constnatine II with a diameter of 18mm. Mint: London Date: 321 Ref: RIC 216
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-963FE1
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy jetton, probably a Tournai, with a diameter of 25mm. It is slightly dished on the obverse. Date: 2nd or 3rd quarter 15th century Ref: Mitchiner 539
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-960267
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
18th century copper alloy token of the Parys Mines Company from Anglesey. It is too worn to identify the exact type. Around the edge is inscribed ON[DE]MAND IN LOND[ON L]IVERPOOL OR ANGLESE[Y]. It is 33mm in diameter. Date: 1787 Ref: Dalton and Hammer pp 330-341
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2018
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Record ID: WILT-95A9C5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete hinge-headed enamelled brooch of the 1st-2nd century. It weighs 3.22g and measures 24.5x18mm. Part of the pin is missing and the bow is broken, so the leg is absent. It covered in a green patina. Some enamel is present, but it is discoloured. The copper alloy pin, 8mm long, is flat and emerges from a slit in a tubular hinge case 3mm in diameter and 18mm wide. The hinge was also made of copper alloy. The narrower upper part of the bow is 10mm wide and 5mm long. It is decorated with three transverse grooves and two ridges. The enamelled section of the bow is rectangula…
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-9483F8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a fragment of a Roman copper alloy plate-headed T-shaped bow brooch. Only sections of the plate, hinge and bow remain. All breaks are old and very worn. It is covered in a green patina, whilst iron corrosion shows the hinge was of iron. It weighs 13.03g and measures 3o(incomplete)x31mm(incomplete). The plate head is divided into two sections. The lower has a width of 22mm, the upper a width of 12mm. In total it is now 8mm (incomplete) high. However, the chain loop has partially broken off, its presence indicated by a circular indentation with a diameter of 3mm (incomplete…
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-92E291
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular bridle boss with a diameter of 53mm wieghing 41.80g. It is of iron and the obeverse is coated with bronze. The iron is covered in relatively compact black and orange corrosion products. The bronze is covered in a green patina with some yellow corrosion products. The obverse consists of a central conical boss, with a maximum diameter of 26mm and hieght of 16mm, divided into three sections. Around half way between the base and point is a ridge separating the lower half and upper half. Each section is slightly convex, so in profile the the boss is sub-triangular. At the point …
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 20th September 2016
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Record ID: WILT-927023
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two pieces of lead. 1. 35mmx28x10mm weighing 26.31g 2. 25x18x5mm weighing 8.35g
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-922AA5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object with a flat oval 'base' 13x21mm and sides 10mm long (incomplete) standing 15mm (incomplete) high with a maximum diameter of 43mm. It wieghs 10.27g. The edge of the sides are squashed and broken. The base has what may be a rim, but this is also damaged and no intact edges remain, so the identification of the rim and base are not certain. The object is covered in a black patina. The decoration is located on the sides. following the line of the 'base' is a zig-zag raised pattern with more pronounced circles at each point. Along the sides next to the nar…
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2022
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Record ID: WILT-918CC5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Class E Early Medieval copper alloy strap end. It wieghs 3.97g, has a maximum thickness of 3mm and measures 35(incompletel)x11mm. The object is covered in a green patina and the attachment end is missing; no rivet holes remain. This strap end has a robust tongue-shaped form, parallel sides and decorative open work, indicative of class E. The decoration is symmetrical along the long axis of the object. Around the edge of the object is a line of punched circles with diameters of
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Record ID: WILT-90B935
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim fragment of a medieval/post-Medieval copper alloy cooking vessel fragment. It weighs 59.80g, is 3mm thick and measures 108x34mm. It is covered in a green patina, some of which has been scratched recently revealing the shiney metal. The outer surface is blakend from sooting. One area of this outer face, 23x15mm, appears to have partially broken away and been replaced. This area is subsequently raised, and is less patinated than the rest of the fragment. Copper alloy cooking vessels were common between 1200 and c.1600.
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-EE4DD6
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval horse harness pendant suspension mount of copper alloy. It is a horizontal bar mount broken at each end at the rivet hole. The object is partly covered in a green patina and weighs 15.76g and measures 15x72mm (incomplete). Harnesses were decorated with mounts from the 12th-late 14th centuries (Clark 1995). The remnants of the terminals are rectangular in cross section. They are separated from the horizontal element by a single transverse ridge. The horizontal element is triangular in cross section except for a 12mm section at the centre, directly above the hinge, which at 5…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-80FAC1
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Token or coin weight of a lead/tin alloy. It is uniface and sub-hexagonal in shape measuing 13x10mm and weighing 1.13g (17.5gr.). The is obverse is a cast fleur-de-lis in relief fillng most of the avaliable space. This object could be (a) a late medieval tokn, perhaps trimmed to its present shape or, less likely (b) a crude coin weight for hte continental florin (c.50gr) or its half (c.25gr.) again trimmed down.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-80D033
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Troy weight of copper alloy weighing 3.23g (50gr., 0.114oz), 0.27mm thick and 14mm in diameter. It is unifaced with fine file marks on the reverse. On the obverse are two stamps: (a) a crowned W incuse-this probably indicates William IV (1830-1837). (b) a rectangular stampwielding a crowned I P in relief. probably a local verification mark of an unidentified town. This appears to be an early 19th century 50grain wieght of the Troy system which was used for precious stones and metal.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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