Record ID: SUR-31F0E5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy annular brooch with a surviving wire pin which sits on a constriction in the frame. The brooch has a pair of upwardly-pointing projections in the form of devolved animal heads. Both heads have projecting ears and deep pits for the eyes, which may have been separate glass inlays. Both 'foreheads' are decorated with many tiny punched pits. It is difficult to give a more precise date for this brooch. The animal heads are very devolved which could suggest a date in the 12th century - however a much later date cannot be ruled out. Ashley (2006, 106-107; n…
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 13th April 2015
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Record ID: SUR-3199B6
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval lead ampulla, a pilgrim's holy water container. The ampulla is of bag form with two sidewards-projecting lugs. One side bears a cast quatrefoil design with leave designs in the angles. The other side is plain, or maybe very worn. The upper part of the object appears to be missing.
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 7th January 2014
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Record ID: SUR-318154
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn medieval cast copper alloy harness pendant, formerly gilded. The original edges are very eroded and ragged. The pendant displays a pair of upwardly-pointing chevrons with slight traces of red enamel.
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 30th January 2014
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Record ID: SUR-310A71
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy object of uncertain, but probably post-medieval, date. The lobate fragment is broken along a straight line and bears a cast incuse circle with a central pit. The reverse is plain.
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 19th December 2013
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Record ID: SUR-30DAD1
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy shield-shaped stud. The worn stud bears a lion rampant facing left, infilled with red enamel. Attribution based on the find of such a stud with a stirrup from Whapton, Oxfordshire (Griffiths 1989, 1; Griffiths in Clark 1995, 70).
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: SUR-069EC2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver-gilt bezel and mounted gem from a finger ring, the narrow band itself is missing. The rounded gem appears to be a ruby (E.Corke, pers. comm.) and has been cut with octagonal sides to fit into the setting.
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: SUR-9DBB42
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Nuremberg jetton issued by Hanns Krauwinckel II, AD1586-1635.
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 12th December 2013
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Record ID: SUR-9DA033
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Rose farthing of Charles I, AD1625-49. Mintmark; Crescent.
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 12th December 2013
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Record ID: SUR-9D1890
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A nummus of the House of Constantine, AD354-361, Reece period 17. Reverse type GLORIA EXERCITVS Two soldiers and two standards.
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
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Record ID: SUR-9CC487
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A contemporary copy of a nummus of the House of Constantine, AD354-361, Reece period 18. Reverse type probably FEL TEMP REPARATIO Soldier spearing a fallen horseman.
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 12th December 2013
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Record ID: SUR-73E6B1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Saxon cast copper alloy strap end with one surviving iron rivet. The slender strap end has a debased zoomorphic head behind which is a pair of transverse grooves. The remainder of the body is left plain.
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 18th March 2014
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Record ID: SUR-73AF14
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an early Roman rosette or thistle brooch dating to cAD25-60. What survives is part of the lower part of the curving bow and the head plate. The tapering foot and the wings and spring are all missing. The remnant is very worn and no additional decoration is now visible. On the back is a remnant of the catchplate.
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Record ID: SUR-735DD3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy and enamelled Roman zoomorphic brooch in the form of a duck. The pin is missing. On the back of the duck are four elongated cells for missing enamel. The brooch has a slender rounded neck and a long sweeping curved bill. Projecting from the tail is a loop, presumably for attachment to a chain. The brooch is probably of 2nd century date.
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 21st January 2014
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Record ID: SUR-730C71
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy spoon of late 17th or early 18th century date. The bowl is of fig-shaped form and the missing handle was probably of trifid form. What survives is about half the bowl and a section of the handle. There is a large hole in the surviving part of the bowl. Within the bowl is a maker's stamp which comprises three spoons. The initial B is stamped on the lower side of the bowl. Much of a tin surface coating survives.
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Record ID: SUR-727566
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A mount, button or stud of composite construction and probably of early-medieval date. The circular body of the button is of copper alloy and has been gilded. Around the edge is a tiered pair of ropework frames from which projects a plain circular setting. Within the setting is a dark blue glass stone, in the centre of which is an inlaid circle of grey or white glass, which contains a similarly inlaid cross with expanding arms. On the back is the remains of an iron fitting of uncertain form which suggests the object may be a stud or mount from a composite item. Both the gilded copp…
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2015
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Record ID: SUR-723E52
Object type: BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman cast copper alloy spherical mount with an iron shaft of square section. The mount may have been used on a box or on furniture.
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Record ID: SUR-721957
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman cast copper alloy spoon bowl of the 2nd or 3rd century AD, apparently with a high tin content. What survives is about a half of a pear-shaped bowl together with the stub of a swan-neck handle.
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Record ID: SUR-71E0D3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A radiate of Victorinus, AD269-271. Reece Period 13.
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Record ID: SUR-71D1C3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A radiate of Tetricus II, AD272-4. Reece Period 13.
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Record ID: SUR-71C378
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A nummus of the House of Constantine, AD330-5, Reece Period 17. Reverse Type GLORIA EXERCITVS Two soldiers and two standards.,
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
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