Record ID: LON-E69633
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy incomplete buckle (1600-1650). This is a double-looped buckle with moulded rosettes on the outer edges and lobes at the junctions between the frame and the cross bar. The pin is missing. A very similar buckle is illustrated by Margeson (1993:30 no.174) and dated to 1600-1650. Dimensions: length: 44.31mm; width: 26.06mm; thickness: 2.04mm; weight: 6.44g. Reference: Margeson, S.1993. Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-1978. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 58.
Created on: Monday 12th June 2017
Last updated: Saturday 17th June 2017
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Record ID: LON-915B21
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval cast gilded silver keystone garnet disc brooch, comprising one half of the original disc, broken off across the central line. The pin is missing, but the broken remains of the pierced integral pin lug and catch-plate survive on the back of the brooch, perpendicular to the edge. The surviving decoration on the front of the brooch comprises two (of potentially three) keystone cloisonné settings (one partially broken) containing red stones, presumably garnets, backed by hatched gold foils. These alternate with trapezoidal fields containing small, highly…
Created on: Monday 27th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2019
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Record ID: LON-8FBF4C
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Lower Palaeolithic small, bifacially worked, flint handaxe of cordate type dating c. 400,000-150,000BC. The handaxe was found on the foreshore and consequently is rolled and abraded with a small amount of edge damage. There is invasive soft hammer flaking covering both faces. The butt and mid portion of the axe is thick and it then tapers to a rounded point. The cross section is lentoid (pointed oval). The flint has an orange patina. There is some damage to the butt with two large flakes missing. The patina has reformed over one of these suggesting the damage occured in …
Created on: Monday 27th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
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Record ID: LON-5279B8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman silver finger ring dating 3rd - 4th century AD. The finger ring has an oval raised bezel with decorative angular shoulders. The gem stone or glass setting is missing from the bezel but there are the remains of a white cement surviving. The angular shoulders are decorated with three stamped chevrons. The band has a rounded triangular cross-section and the profile of the finger ring shows the band forming an oval. There is a crack through the band opposite the centre of the bezel. Vindolanda Type XV, Henig type Xb. Dimensions: Length of band: 19.67; length of bezel:…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2023
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Record ID: LON-671726
Object type: BOX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver box dating to the mid - late 18th century. This box was probably a snuff box or a patch box but Hazel Forsyth believes a snuff box is more likely. The box is oval in plan with curved walls. The lid is hinged and there are two oval facets; one on each side wall. These oval facets are plain without the engraved decoration that covers the rest of the surface. The lid is decorated with an engraved scene which depicts a church and other buildings in the background; there is a large sunflower in the foreground and a ornate sun with ornate rays in the sky. The walls of…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
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Record ID: LON-C79603
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A composite gold button consisting of a flat disc with applied septfoil decoration on one face and a drawn wire loop attachment on the other. The decoration takes the form of a flower and is made up of a central knop where the seven ‘petals’, made of thin sheets of gold, join. A double row of braided wire forms the border around the circumference. Dimensions: Thickness: 3.24mm Diameter: 10.51mm Weigh: 0.66g Discussion: Discoidal flat and convex buttons made of lead/tin-alloy and copper-alloy, with various designs on their faces, are listed in Read (2008: 76-93) an…
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
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Record ID: LON-6582C4
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
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. The pin shaft tapers to join the head and bulges outwards as it moves away and then tapers again towards a point. Dimensions: length: 76.0mm 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 may be dated to the mid and later second centuries. The date range should therefore be exte…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2017
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