Record ID: LIN-725497
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an annular brooch. The brooch is circular in cross-section and has bead-and-reel decoration all the way round. Brooches such as this type have a mainly Anglian distribution and are common in Lincolnshire. This type of brooch belongs to Leeds' Type F, and were in use throughout the early Anglo-Saxon period, surviving the change in dress that occured towards the end of the 6th century, continuing into the 7th century AD. Alternatively, this fragment could be part of a suspension ring from a chatelaine; a similar example from Icklingham in Suffolk is shown in MacGregor and…
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AFB227
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A lead unidentified object. This object is a cast lead ring, oval in shape measuring 13mm in length and 7mm in width externally and 8mm in length and 5mm in width internally. One edge of this ring has a circular lead disc protuding from it, the plane of which is at 90 degrees to the hoop. This disc is rounded on its front face and flat on its back face it is incomplete and c15mm in diameter. It is decorated with a central heart shaped inset of a darker grey lead, which is surrounded with a white chalky material. No parallel could be found for this object but it is most likely to be Me…
Created on: Thursday 26th June 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-955CA3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Handle lug from a chafing dish of early Post-Medieval date. The lug has the integral rivet for attachment to the body of the dish and a perforation to hold the handle. The lug has flat faces with rounded sides and is rather irregular, with an uneven perforation. File marks are evident on both faces.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2003
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-A664C4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Seal matrix on the bezel, heater shield, the shield in divided in to six fields with a circle in the centre, the central line elongates to form a cross above the shield, rope work border around the outside of the bezel. Star above the bezel. 
Created on: Monday 13th October 2003
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FBBBB3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age button, very similar to examples from the Reach Fen hoard and the Kensington hoard, but with an additional (broken) projection (possible casting sprue/jet). Button is circular with a crudely cast loop on the slightly sunken reverse. Edges are worn and there is a small hole (casting error) on the face. The decoration is in the form of a moulded ring-and-dot within a sunken field surrounded by a raised and domed outer edge. diam 20mm, length with broken projection, 23mm. Weighs 5.49g. Examples above datable to Ewart Park and Carps Tongue complexes, 10th/9th century BC.
Created on: Thursday 24th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10543
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A heraldic shield-shaped pendant, 36mm in length and 27mm in width, there is a rivet hole through the top of the shield for suspension. Bears vairy (metal nothing surviving) and gules (red enamel) overall a bendlet azure (blue enamel). Bears a version of the Ferrers coat-of-arms, similar to that of the Ferrers of Walton, Derbyshire which have a vairy or/and gules and a bend azure, Sir Thomas de Ferrers used this design and it is recorded on the roll of c 1308-14. White deposit over part of pendant looks like paint but could be some other deposit.
Created on: Monday 10th February 2003
Last updated: Sunday 25th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CLARE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-0FAF62
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval finger-ring, much damaged and distorted. It belongs to a category of ring known as iconographic because of the incorporation of images of saints into their design, often combined with an inscription. In this instance, the bezel carries the engraved image of Saint Christopher bearing the Christ-child on his shoulder. Christ holds an orb mounted with a cross. In the later Middle Ages, St Christopher was believed to protect against sudden death. Inside the hoop of the ring is inscribed the motto: de bon coer (of good heart). The ring is highly ornamental. The back of the hoop i…
Created on: Wednesday 6th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-2FC205
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Carefully constructed cast copper alloy decorative vessel escutcheon or mount in the form of a boar. The boar has its front legs extending forward beneath its mouth forming a V-shape, the mouth is open and contains a small circular hole. The snout end has signs of wear and is perforated through the side before a moulded tusk, possibly to house a ring attached to a handle. The hole in the mouth and the perforation through the snout do not meet. The eyes are incised and lentoid in form. The crest is erect and carries incised and possibly punched decoration to depict the hair. The crest a…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd July 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: HAMP2918
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Venetian soldino of Leonardo Loredan.
Created on: Wednesday 29th January 2003
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PAS-8E04C7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger-ring set with an irregular blue stone (possibly a sapphire). The shoulders are decorated with an incised, cross-hatched triangle.
Created on: Thursday 31st July 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horncastle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-6B2745
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
The hoop is triangular in section and is crudely engraved with letters. An iron stone is set into a fluted bezel which is supported by two animal heads. A small cross has been punched into the hoop at its narrowest point, opposite the bezel. The inscription occupies the two registers of the ring formed by its triangular section. It is not decipherable but may be amuletic in character. The setting of iron is very unusual and may also indicate that the ring was believed to have special, curative powers. A similar, 14th century, ring set with an opal and carrying a known amuletic inscript…
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waltham on the Wolds', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-69B064
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A damaged gold finger-ring of 'stirrup' shaped design, with a flattened strip-like hoop and a simple bezel originally set with a stone that is now missing. The hoop is broken and the ring is in generally poor condition.
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-699031
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a finger-ring, the band grooved and punched with beaded decoration arranged in columns of three and rows of six and placed between two circular bosses of 3mm in diameter. The bosses contain decorative motifs consisting of a five and seven armed device respectively. This decoration was originally heightened by the use of a black inlay (niello) to create a colour contrast. Some of the niello survives in the seven-armed device. This fragment, which would have formed part of a highly decorative ring with a sophisticated colour combination of gold, silver and black, may once h…
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanningfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-697F83
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A severely distorted silver ringer ring, the hoop formed of a tapering band of metal which is twisted three times to form a bezel. At the turn of each twist is a small, spherical knop.
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickmere', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-8E2047
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval gold finger-ring with a triangular bezel. The stone is missing. Two transverse lines decorate the base (very worn) with cast decoration of pairs of leaves on each side, running around the band to stop at the shoulders.
Created on: Thursday 31st July 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-8E3E61
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver finger-ring, crushed and distorted.
Created on: Thursday 31st July 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tadcaster', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-8E5E72
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
A silver finger-ring formed of a flat, inscribed band which is split. The inscription is placed within a lightly incised border and is indecipherable but may once have served as a magical, protective charm. The size of the ring would suggest that it could have belonged to a child.
Created on: Thursday 31st July 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-8E7696
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An iconographic finger-ring with a bezel which has two facets each bearing the crudely engraved figure of a saint. Neither saint can be identified. The shoulders of the ring are cabled and incised with two bands of chevrons and rectangles which are alternately plain or grooved.
Created on: Thursday 31st July 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PAS-0F19D7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver-gilt finger ring, the bezel formed of two joined hands and the hoop undulating to simulate sleeves decorated with sprigs of foliage. Incisions on the wrists may indicate that the hands are gloved. At the back of the ring is the popular motif of a heart sprouting flowers. There is a hair-line crack across the width of the left wrist. The gilding is partially preserved, particularly in the recesses of the engraved decoration.
Created on: Wednesday 6th August 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: PAS-103491
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver-gilt finger-ring with a domed profile. The band is worn and is divided on the outer side by incised diagonal lines. Alternate panels have a border made up of small, punched circles.
Created on: Wednesday 6th August 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Orford', grid reference and parish protected.