Record ID: SF-236920
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy medieval oval buckle with integral plate. The frame is oval in shape and a short, rectangular integral plate projects from its inner end. The inner end of this plate is pierced with two small, circular holes, the innermost of which still holds an in situ copper-alloy pin. The outer end of the plate is expanded slightly forming a sub-square terminal. This has a circular hole through its centre which still holds an in situ copper alloy rivet with wide, flat, circular head. The surface of the metal has a corroded reddish-brown patina.  See Egan and Pr…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dedham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-662613
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Roman radiate of Tetricus I, dating to the period AD 271-4 (Reece period 13). SPES PVBLICA reverse type, depicting Spes advancing left, holding flower and lifting skirt. Gaul mint I.
Created on: Monday 24th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimbish', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-661F3B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Roman radiate or nummus of uncertain ruler dating to the period c.AD 260-402. Uncertain reverse type and mint.
Created on: Monday 24th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimbish', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-6545C3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Roman radiate or nummus of uncertain ruler dating to the period c.AD 260-402. Uncertain reverse type and mint.
Created on: Monday 24th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimbish', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-6541FE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Roman radiate or nummus of uncertain ruler dating to the period c.AD 260-402. Uncertain reverse type and mint.
Created on: Monday 24th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimbish', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-653CF9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Roman radiate or nummus of uncertain ruler dating to the period c.AD 260-402. Uncertain reverse type and mint.
Created on: Monday 24th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimbish', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-6533F1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Roman radiate or nummus of uncertain ruler dating to the period c.AD 260-402. Uncertain reverse type and mint.
Created on: Monday 24th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimbish', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-651B33
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constantine I, dating to the period AD 323-4 (Reece period 16). SARMATIA DEVICTA reverse type, depicting Victory, holding trophy and palm branch, walking right stepping on bound captive. Mint of Lyon. RIC vol.VII, no.219/222
Created on: Monday 24th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimbish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-33BA74
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gold Merovingian tremissis, dating to the period c.AD 500-c.700. A previously unrecorded type possibly minted in Isarnodero, Maurienna, Gaciaco and Lovinco or Sidunis. Arent Pol (pers. comm. 23/02/2023) of Universiteit Leiden has kindly offered the following comments: 'The type is not to be found in my database, so again: a new variety to the corpus. The reverse shows the letters IS or IG (that could be inversions of SI or GI) alongside the cross. For the options IG or GI no parallels exist, for IS and SI there are the mints of Isarnodero, Maurienna, G…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 24th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Frinton and Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7B3489
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:  A fragment of a Roman silver finger ring dating to circa AD 100-300. The extant elements consists of the circa half of the bezel and a small portion of one shoulder and part of the hoop. The bezel is flat with a front face bearing a rectangular border made of stamped circular dots. The surviving shoulder is prominently projected, tapering inwards gently into the hoop which terminates in an ancient break. Length: 16.5mm; Width: 13.7mm; Thickness: 2.2mm; Weight: 2.08g. Discussion: The ring is fragmentary and therefore difficult to attribute to a classification with …
Created on: Friday 18th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bures Hamlet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4D7434
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy and red glass inlaid Iron Age to early Roman strap fitting. The object is a flattened semi-circular shape. Its outer face is decorated with two recessed crescents below the curved edge, an unclear design consisting of an irregular sub-oval with a horizontal line through the centre and a line of four smaller recessed crescents above the straight edge. Traces of red inlay can be seen within this design in places. A strip-like section is partially detached from the left side and a small section is missing from the right side. There is no…
Created on: Thursday 11th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castle Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4D6B79
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd from the body of a Roman greyware vessel. Coarse, soft fabric with mid-grey surfaces and core. It is tempered with occasional rounded quartz and chalky fragments. Length: 43.98mm, width: 38.67mm, thickness: 8.77mm, weight: 46.41g
Created on: Thursday 11th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Maplestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4D4E3D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd from the rim of a Roman greyware vessel. An everted rim, oval in cross-section. Coarse, soft fabric with mid-grey surfaces and core. It is tempered with occasional rounded quartz and chalky fragments. Length: 50.51mm, width: 25.02mm, thickness: 13.57mm, weight: 15.19g
Created on: Thursday 11th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Maplestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AB66F5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete copper-alloy early medieval (late Anglo-Saxon) strap end with inlaid niello and silver wire decoration. Only the lower half of the object survives. This is a flattened, elongated tongue-shape terminating in a break across its upper end and a zoomorphic terminal at its lower end. The outer face of the zoomorphic terminal is moulded with double oval 'ears' to either side of its inner end, below this the raised outline of a lozenge on the head, which may have contained inlay originally, to either side of this raised pellet 'eyes' and a blunt, rou…
Created on: Friday 22nd July 2022
Last updated: Friday 27th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Toppesfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7740FE
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead medieval seal matrix. It is a circular shape with a small un-pierced attachment lug projecting from one end of the undecorated reverse. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded. The outer face/die has a central engraved decorative motif consisting of a fleur-de-lis with a bird perched on the left arm. Surrounding this is a solid line inner circle and then around the outside the inscription '+ S: EMME : CARTERE' (seal of Emma Carter). The simple motif and personalised legend suggests a 13th century date (Harvey & McGuiness 1996, 87-8). Diameter: 25.07…
Created on: Friday 19th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 22nd April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stistead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-661E65
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy and iron Roman anthropomorphic vessel mount. The object is in the shape of a male bust, bearded and wearing a Phrygian cap. The bust's features are outlined with crude engraved grooves. Curls of hair emerge from around the edges of the cap and the beard is formed from six parallel rounded ridges, each decorated with incised transverse grooves. Only part of the outer copper-alloy shell survives and a heavily corroded iron rivet remains in situ through the shoulders. The majority of the reverse is missing, leaving rough breaks around the edges. Typically …
Created on: Thursday 18th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coggeshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-223B48
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete gold post-medieval mourning finger ring. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section. The outer surface is decorated at the bezel with an engraved skull motif, which is depicted slightly in profile. This is flanked on either side by three curved lines forming an outwards pointing triangle, each filled with cross-hatched diagonal lines and with a dot with a curved line on either side positioned at its outer end. The inner surface bears the inscription ‘A.: H. ob: 29. Jan: 97’ in an Italic script (obt an abbreviation of the latin obit or ‘died’),…
Created on: Friday 3rd September 2021
Last updated: Friday 24th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Osyth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0E7516
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete, but damaged, silver post-medieval bodkin. It is rectangular in cross-section, tapering gradually to a sharp point at its lower end. A flattened, rounded, sub-triangular terminal projects from the upper end with three small knops projecting from each of its corners and a small circular hole through its centre and. A rectangular hole is positioned c.9mm below the terminal and is surrounded by an engraved border on both faces. There are numerous small transverse grooves along the sides above and below this hole creating a slight wavy effect. Both faces are also de…
Created on: Friday 28th May 2021
Last updated: Friday 19th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-074C0E
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete post-medieval silver seal matrix. The base is oval and its outer face is engraved with a heart pierced by two arrows with a single arched crown above surrounded by a border of small, parallel, diagonal lines. The handle is hexagonally faceted, terminating in a hexagonally faceted knop above which there is the lower end of a missing suspension loop. Date: AD 1650-1750 Dimensions: Length: 11.04mm, width: 10.28mm, thickness: 10.65mm, weight: 1.80g Discussion: Numerous similar seal matrices have now been reported as treasure, including: LVPL-B42673 (2015 T571)…
Created on: Friday 9th October 2020
Last updated: Friday 24th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Osyth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DE1B16
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver Roman Republican denarius of Man Acilius Glabrio Denarius, dating to 49 BC (Reece period 1). MN ACILIVS III VIR VALETV reverse, depicting Salus standing left, holding serpent and resting left elbow on a column. Syd. no.922, Cr. no.442/1a.
Created on: Friday 25th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Maplestead', grid reference and parish protected.