Record ID: IOW-249BA8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy mount in the form of a female figure of probable late Medieval date (c. 1400-c. 1500). The standing figure is cloaked and appears to be female. She is holding what may be a palm branch in her left hand and apparently an open book in her right. She may be St Barbara. However, there is no indication of a tower that is associated with St Barbara. The figure has an oval base with the remains of a central tang, circular in cross-section. The rear face of the figure is flat. It is possible that the figure is a representation of the Madonna and Child. The object …
Created on: Thursday 17th September 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-6D14A1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy dupondius of Antoninus Pius, 138-61, [?SALVS AVG, S C]; Salus stg l, sacrificing at altar, holding sceptre; Rome. BMC IV, p. 216, c.f. 1348; pl. 32, c.f. 9.
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-67AA47
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval silver coin brooch. Treasure case no. 2009 T475. This brooch is made from a silver penny of William I, type VII, Profile/Cross and trefoils, issued by the moneyer Ælfwig of London, towards the end of William's reign. The coin has been transformed into a brooch by riveting a pin-fitting to the coin with two large silver rivets. The rivets remain, but the fitting itself has largely disappeared, although traces of corrosion products indicate that this had a single base plate spanning both rivets. The pin was attached to the obverse of the coin, meaning that the reverse, which…
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2009
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2011
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Record ID: IOW-647953
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy cloisonné-enamelled brooch of probable 10th or 11th century AD date (H.Geake; 2001; pp. 24). The object is a flat disc and the decorative enamel is symmetrical in plan. The design is in the form of a cross pommée. Each rounded terminal is recessed and filled with green enamel. Close to the centre of the cross, in each angle, there is a small cell filled with white enamel. The remaining part of each angle, extending to the rim, is decorated with blue enamel. The different parts of the design may have originally been set within copper alloy wire. However, th…
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 29th June 2017
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Record ID: IOW-52E777
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate (c. 1250-c. 1450). In plan, the plate is sub-square and is folded widthways. The front leaf is larger than the rear leaf. The sides and the attachment end are slightly concave. It is recessed to accommodate a buckle and has a sub-rectangular pin-slot. There are three round-headed rivets. One is situated at each corner of the attachment end and penetrates the front leaf. The third rivet is close to the buckle end and is slightly off-centre of the longitudinal centre-line. This rivet penetrates both leaves. The gilded front leaf has a zigzagged …
Created on: Monday 7th September 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-513136
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy and enamelled Disc brooch of Roman date (80-250). The pin and spring mechanism is missing and the edges of the brooch are ragged and abraded in places. The plate is circular and has a raised border and a hexactinal pattern (a star shape with circular lobes at each point. At the centre there is raised copper alloy pellet. The field surrounding the central pellet and the outer field formed by the arms of the star contained enamel but only two small flecks of enamel have survived in the inner field. These flecks are now coloured red. On the rear face…
Created on: Monday 7th September 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-50E412
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy nummus of Constantine I, 306-37; VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP; Two Victories holding wreath, inscribed VOT / PR, over column/altar. Mint unclear, AD 319-20.
Created on: Monday 7th September 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-4FE918
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete (clipped) silver halfgroat of Edward III. Pre-Treaty period, Series C, 1351-1352 (North 1975, 37, ref: 1148
Created on: Monday 7th September 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-4FCB31
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy Q-Radiate of Allectus (AD 293-6) (Reece Period 14), (VIRTVS AVG), Galley left with mast and cabin, no waves. C Mint, QC. RIC V, pt 2, p. 569, no. 128. This coin is included in Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Created on: Monday 7th September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 1st September 2016
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Record ID: IOW-4F20D3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver penny of Henry III. Class 3a, 1248-1250 (North 1980, 182, ref: 986).
Created on: Monday 7th September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
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Record ID: IOW-4E9CC2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a penny of Harold. Fleur-de-lis type, 1038-1040 (North 1980, 131, ref: 803).
Created on: Monday 7th September 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-E597D0
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete polished stone axehead of Neolithic date (3500 BC – 2100 BC). Length: 102.9mm; width: 40.8mm and 17.0mm thick. Weight: 103.32g. This slender axehead is sub-triangular in plan and throughout its length it is sub-oval in cross-section. In plan, the butt is pointed but rounded. From the butt the sides flare outwards and downwards to the cutting edge. The cutting edge is evenly curved. There is no evidence that the cutting edge has been re-sharpened. In side view the implement is pointed oval in shape. The implement is not polished overall. Therefore, the rough-o…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd September 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rickmansworth', grid reference and parish protected.