Record ID: ESS-FE8E56
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger ring, dating to the Roman period. The hoop has a hollow construction and is complete and undistorted. The outside of the hoop is convex and undecorated. The inside of the hoop feels rough and the edges of the hoop are jagged. The hoop forms a lozenge-shaped backplate for the bezel. The bezel is circular and has been soldered onto the hoop. The bezel and its associated decoration is damaged and the setting is missing. The damage is not new. A ribbon of very small gold beading is present on the outer collar of the bezel. The beading is damaged but originally, it probably s…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 9th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chelmsford District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-FC1425
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold half noble of Edward III (1327-1377), treaty series (1363-1369), North no. 1239. Obverse depicts King standing facing in ship with sword and shield. Obverse inscription: EDWARD DEI G REX ANGL D HYB Z AQT. Annulet before 'EDWARD'. IM mark 'X'. Reverse depicts a cross in quatrefoil surrounded by crowns and fleur de lis, with an 'E' in the centre. Reverse inscription: DOMINE NE IN FURORE TUO ARGUAS ME. Minted in London.
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scrayingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-F9ECF6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: City of Bristol
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gold finger ring of post-medieval date. The finger ring is D shaped in cross section with a flattened external face. Located on the external edge are six silver raised rectangular projections, each has a central circular recess. Each projection would have held an uncertain, probably semi-precious stone, one survives, one appears to be incomplete and four are missing. The band is decorated with two diagonal incisions forming a V on the reverse of each of the silver rectangular projections. The external band has a raised inscription 'MON COEUR EST A TOI' (My heart is you…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bristol', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: BERK-AA90D0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age gold coin with large nick on right side facing.
Created on: Friday 26th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-A9CD75
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged gold quarter noble of Henry IV. Light Coinage, 1412-1413. North no. 1357. Dimensions: 19.2mm diameter, 0.5mm thick; weight: 1.75g.
Created on: Friday 26th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Three Rivers', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A8EFD2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold Iron Age stater of Norfolk Wolf (British J) type, c.1st century BC. It is struck slightly off-centre with dished reverse. As Hobbs no. 217; VA610-2.
Created on: Friday 26th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 31st October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hessett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-8F2EA1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold stater of Tasciovanus. An Iron Age stater (gold) of Tasciovanus. Tribe: Trinovantes. Geographic provenance: British Eastern Obverse description: Crossed wreaths and hidden faces in angles. Reverse description: Horse right bucranium, solar motif, hook-like motif below horse
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 30th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke Mandeville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DYFED-8F00B5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A possible Iron Age gold quarter stater. Diameter 12mm. This coin was recovered from a beach and damage caused by 'wave action' is clearly visible. No pattern survives on one face. On the other there may possibly have been a horse.
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 11th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tenby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-80B838
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold aureus of Trajan, dating to the period AD 114-117 (Reece period 5). P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R PARTHIA CAPTA reverse depicting a trophy between two seated Partian captives. Mint of Rome. RIC II, p. 267, no. 324. Dimensions: 18.4mm diameter, 2.6mm thick. Weight: 7.13g.
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheshunt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-6689A8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age Gallo-Belgic DC uninscribed gold quarter stater, c 100/80-60 BC. Type ABC (Cottam et al 2010) 40 = VA (Van Arsdell 1989) 69-1.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2012
Last updated: Friday 15th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hern bay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-663F35
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Iron Age gold stater of Early Uninscribed 'Q' Gold, 'Remi' type. British Museum nos. 445-458/Van Arsdell nos. 210, 212, 214. Minted c. 60 BC- c. 50 BC. Dimensions: 18.7mm diameter, 2.2mm thick. Weight: 5.85g.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitchurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-656D81
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold quarter noble of Edward III. A coin of the Treaty Series from the Calais mint. Date: Medieval - 1363 - 1369 Reference: North Volume II, p 56, no. 1245 Diameter: 19.37 mm Weight:1.90 g Die axis: 8
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-FFCC17
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A large unidentified gold finger-ring, with external decoration of two horizontal rows of punched decoration. Discussion: This ring has been assessed by multiple British Museum curators who have not been able to assign a period to this ring. The ring may well be non-British. Compare ESS-F173D0.
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Danbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-E96DA5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold quarter stater of the Southern region (Regini) dating to the period 80 BC to 50 BC. Obverse depicts boat with two objects. Reverse depicts tree-like object. ABC p. 50, no. 530.
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-C13B97
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A gold fragment of parallel sided strip or ribbon. The ribbon is rectangular in plan and made from a sheet of gold. One side of the ribbon is decorated with four regular, longitudinal, incised grooves. The other side of the ribbon is plain with some light scratches. The ribbon is slightly contorted indicating that the ribbon may have been folded and then un-folded. The damage is not new. One end has a neat, flat-ended terminal with sharp 90 degree corners implying the original finish. There is a circular perforation located 1.54mm from this end of the ribbon which is slightly off-cent…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 29th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tendring District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BE5AB1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
G Description: Gold touch-piece of James II Obverse: IACO II D G M B FR[..] ET HI REX, three-masted ship Reverse: SOLI DEO GLORIA, St. Michael and the dragon Pierced at 12 o'clock (reverse) Dies: Woolf O1/R2 [See Noel Woolf, The Sovereign Remedy: touch-pieces and the King's Evil (1990)] Date: 1685-8 This is a touch-piece, a gold medal purpose-made for use in the ceremony of Touching for the King's Evil, the ritual though which English monarchs exercised their thaumaturgic gift of healing the disease scrofula. In the 16th century the habit evolved of hanging a g…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cantley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-6E1652
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An early Anglo-Saxon openwork circular gold pendant with a four-spiral swastika-type or tetraskele pattern in the center. The swastika appears to have been stamped from a single piece of gold sheet. It is an equilateral cross with four arms all bent round on themselves anti-clockwise to create spirals. This central design is surrounded by three concentric circles formed by a single beaded wire, now quite worn, spiralling round; this is in turn surrounded by a separate wire, similarly beaded but now extremely worn, creating the outer ring. A corrugated loop with three grooves and four …
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-6DD573
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
The find consists of a small gold ingot of rounded, sub-rectangular shape and roughly plan-convex section; length, 17mm; width, 11mm (max); weight, 8.76 grams. There is a slight, diagonal nick across the narrow end of a hammered, ovoid depression on top, but this appears to have been accidentally caused during working rather than deliberately cut to test the metal.
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bredgar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-6CC178
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval gold finger ring with an oval bezel, setting for (missing) stone held by ten claws, damaged. Band of ring is distorted into a D shape. The band of the ring is engraved with tears or drops of blood starting at the bezel (on both sides) and terminating midway down the band, leaving the lower portion of the bezel plain. The band tapers in width, thickest at the bezel. Dimensions: Diameter at widest:19.38mm Bezel width: 7.56mm Bezel height: 3.57mm Band thickness (max):6.05mm Band thickness (min): 2.74mm Weight: 3.3g …
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-57B5E1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragmentary gold half guinea of James II, Tower, 1688
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.