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Record ID: ESS-462801
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lithic implements. Hazel Martingell notes: There are four artefacts recorded from this location, three of which are undiagnostic.
2 flakes, tertiary.
1 blade, butt part, tertiary.
1 obliquely blunted microlith, Mesolithic.
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Ford Street', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-45B003
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy medieval buckle. The buckle frame is circular in plan and flat in section with a central pin bar. The iron pin remains, but is surrounded and embedded in orangey brown corrosion product to front and rear. Extending from one side of the frame are two rectangular protrusions or prongs. The frame is plain but the two prongs are decorated with three incised vertical lines along, with three transverse lines or strokes at the end. The reverse is plain. The buckle is abraded, but retains most of the original mid green patina. Exposed surfaces are lighter green. The buckle is…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: ESS-457D27
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy suspension mount for a medieval horse-harness pendant. It is flat and roughly square, with a narrower and smaller rectangular extension folded over and behind with a slot cut for the loop of the pendant. The copper-alloy hinge bar survives within the fold. To each corner of the main square part of the mount is a rivet hole, two of which are now damaged; all of the rivets are missing. The front is decorated with a sunken circular recess, within which is a counter-relief design of an equal-armed cross with a sunken centre. Each arm of the cross ends in three long blobs, p…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: ESS-4544E7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Iron Age pottery. The body sherd fragment is dark grey, with clear mica inclusions. There is no visible evidence of wheel throwing. Possibly flint tempered. It is 51.42mm long, 48.42mm wide, 9.6mm thick and weighs 31.2g.
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: ESS-452A97
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Iron Age pottery. The rim fragment is mid grey, tempered and wheel thrown. Irregular in shape, it is 90.2mm long, 43.38mm wide, 10.58mm thick and weighs 55.5g.
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: ESS-450631
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of pudding stone, probably from a Roman quern stone. The fragment is irregular in shape but clearly has one deliberately flat edge, probably the grinding surfcae. It is now 104.5mm long, 57.86mm wide and 62.22mm thick. Pudding stone is a conglomerate of pebbles held together in a natural cement of silica and sand.
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: ESS-44E0E7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver short cross penny of Henry II. Class 1b. North 963.
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: ESS-44A7C8
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bead. The bead is circular in plan and hexagonal in section having bevelled sides to both upper and lower faces of the bead. No casting seam is visible. Most of the original surface survives with a mid brown patina. There are patches of orange corrosion product. The bead has a diameter of 15.04mm, is 6.86mm thick and weighs 6.16g. Beads are difficult to date, but given the patination and condition, this bead is probably Late Iron Age or Roman in date. A similar bead is recorded as ESS-34C394.
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Little Chesterford', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-4470D2
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Worn, Limestone spindlewhorl, probably Anglo-Saxon. The spindlewhorl is plano-convex, having a flat bottom and domed top. It has a central circular perforation through its length. The object is abraded, but appears to have been undecorated. The limestone has a chalky white appearance. The spindlewhorl is 32.74mm in diameter, 14.32mm thick and weighs 17.92g. A similar shaped, though pottery, spindlewhorl can be seen in West, 1998, A corpus of Anglo-Saxon material from Suffolk, Figure 121, number 12. A similar stone example is recorded on the database as NARC-242448.
Though the use o…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wicken Bonhunt', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-434D46
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy late medieval or early post medieval mount. This mount is circular in plan and flat in section. It has a central circular perforation and was possibly attached by means of a rivet, now missing. The front of the mount is decorated with a double border of punched rectangles, 4mm apart that follow the circumference of the object. Within the central circular field created by the inner border, is further decoration in the form of two horizontal incised lines, with incised triangles flanking a semicircle above the upper line and three V shapes and a triangle beneath the…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Arkesdon', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-42D947
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy mount, probably Late Iron Age or Early Roman. The mount is subrectangular in plan and teardrop shaped in section. It is pierced through its width with a circular perforation. Viewed with the pointed end down, the mount is moulded so that each outside edge is raised and slightly flared out. Between the raised edges at the top of the mount is a central raised triangle, recessed to take red glass or enamel, of which some traces survive. The downward point of the triangle extends into a substantial raised bevelled line that continues around the circumference of t…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: ESS-427452
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusual example of an incomplete cast copper alloy Romano-British brooch, possibly a Nauheim derivative. The brooch does not have any wings, as one would expect from a one piece Nauheim derivative. The head of the brooch would normally be the coiled wire forming the spring coils, spring chord and pin, however nothing of these elements remains. Instead the head of the brooch is simply the narrowed top of the bow. Unusually this top portion of the bow is flattened to either side, forming a single lug, with a circular piercing. This implies that the pin chord passed through the piercin…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: ESS-066CE3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
64 Lithic implements: Hazel Martingell notes: These artefacts are not diagnostic of any one period, but allow us to appreciate a continuing human presence in the Colne Valley through succeeding millenia.
1 flaked block, possible roughout for artefact.
2 flakes, one converging tertiary, one secondary, both patinated.
8 flakes, all secondary.
10 flakes, all tertiary.
1 blade fragment, tertiary.
10 chippings and fragments.
1 utilised flake, secondary wear along right edge (a).
1 denticulate and retouched flake, worked all round, secondary (b).
1 notched and retouched …
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Halstead', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-064165
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lithic implement: Hazel Martingell notes: This Palaeolithic handaxe is, so far, the first from Halstead, Essex. It is a very nice patinated and rolled example. They can be dated to the time between 500,000 and 200,000 BP. It is 100.3mm long, 72.5mm wide, 37.1mm thick and weighs 258.10g. The flint is mid brown with lighter brown patches. There is beige- white patination to one side. A cobble flint with some flake removals was also found at this location and is possibly the early stages of production of a hand axe. However it is too undiagnostic to date accurately.
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Halstead', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-05D296
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Complete Neolithic flint axe. Hazel Martingell notes that the axe is flaked on both surfaces except where there are areas of cortex. The flint is rough in quality, probably a large cobble originally. It measures 128mm long, 37mm wide, 36mm thick and weighs 271.26g. The knapping technique consists of the removal of deep flakes at the butt end and flat shallow flake removals at the blade end. The artefact gradually expands from butt to blade. This axe was recovered from the northern part of a ring ditch.
The presence of large diagnostic flint artefacts on a site is always of in…
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Great Tey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-05A266
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Mesolithic flint axe/pick. Hazel Martingell notes: The axe/pick measures 92mm long, 36mm wide, 27mm thick and weighs 88.96g. It is made on light grey flint with inclusions and has an area of brown staining. The knapping technique consists of precise flaking on the curved surface with more random removals across the steeper side. The flat surface is probably a natural break along the cleavage plane. The irregular nature of the artefact suggests that originally the axe was bigger and was substantially modified and reduced in size to form a pick, a fabricator or a punch. This pie…
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Great Tey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-051593
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete flint Mesolithic tranchet axe/adze. Hazel Martingell notes that the axe measures 110mm long, 40mm wide and 25mm thick. It weighs 140.15g. It is made on good quality grey flint. The knapping technique consists of precise flake removals with very little edge trimming. The axe/adze was recovered from just under the top soil, within the area of a bronze Age ring ditch.
Hazel Martingell further comments:
The presence of large diagnostic flint artefacts on a site is always of interest. Usually, it is accepted that they are indicators of people utilising that location during a…
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Great Tey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LON-EE7D47
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy coin: nummus from the House of Constantine dating AD330-335. Mint: Trier. Reece period 17.
Obverse: helmeted and cuirassed bust left, diadem on helmet
Obverse inscription: [CONST]ANTINOPOLIS
Reverse: Victory on prow with sceptre and shield, symbol of New Constantinople, New Rome
Reverse inscription: None
Mint mark: -/-//TRP
Die axis measurement: 12.00
Dimensions: diameter: 15.61mm; weight: 1.35g.
Created on: Thursday 1st December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: ESS-DBC1A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy supporting-arm brooch. This brooch was previously recorded on this database as an "unknown type" late Roman bow brooch. The original discription of the object has been kept below:
The head of the brooch is formed from a semicylindrical spring case, that is essentially a flat, rectangular panel capped at either end with circular plates with a circular perforation to both. The rectangular panel is decorated to the front with two horizontal incised lines. Nothing of the spring or pin survives. The bow of the brooch humps from the spring case with a subci…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
No spatial data available.
Record ID: ESS-DB2D31
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Iron Age unit of Andoco. VA 1868-1.
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
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