Record ID: NARC-05C507
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper-alloy sestertius of Faustina I or II. Roman, 2nd century.
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-068077
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy brooch. The brooch is made from coiled wires which create a sub-circular shape in plan. The wires have central, drop-shaped terminals which renders the appearance of the brooch as one constructed by two interlocking serpents. The obverse of the brooch also features irregular incised patterning. Evidence remains of a pin lug and catchplate on the reverse of the brooch, although any pin is now missing. The artefact is probably post-medieval in date.
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-0798E4
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy pendant comprising a circular plate with six projecting lobes. The circular area is 10.8mm in diameter. Three lines, each joining two opposing lobes, bisect at a central boss dividing the plate into six cells. Three alternate cells contain traces of red enamel. On the flat reverse there are also traces of gilding. A suspension loop projects from one of the lobes and is riveted to a perpendicular attachment (also extant). Similar examples have been dated to the fourteenth century (Saunders ed. 1991, 23; ref. 19).
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
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Record ID: NARC-088FA8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A long, narrow cast copper-alloy medieval composite strap-end. Rectangular, terminating in a trefoil knop. Each foil of the knop is, in turn, a trefoil. On the plate, at the end opposite the knop, there is an incised transverse rectangle containing an angular quatrefoil design of the obverse. There are further incised diagonal lines between the quatrefoil and the rectangular border. The reverse plate is plain. In addition there is a central spacer-plate, mirroring the two outer plates until it approximately reaches the incised design. The plates are held together by three rivets…
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-19ABA0
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast looped palstave of Late Middle Bronze Age with a relatively flat blade. Length 128.1mm, maximum width (at blade end) 42.4mm, maximum thickness (at stop ridge) 31.0mm, weight 323g. The palstave has a square butt with deep pocket. The edges of the flanges are abraded. Decoration on both sides of the blade beneath the curving stop ridge appears to be in the form of a shield combined with a central rib to form a “trident” pattern. Small areas of a patina survive overall. However, the implement is suffering from the effects of bronze disease and is in poor condition.
Created on: Friday 11th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-19D0B4
Object type: SURGICAL INSTRUMENT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An iron implement, probably a surgical or dental tool. The object is 95 mm long and has a curved hook at each end, one at a right angle and one curving back into the shaft at an angle of 300 degrees. The shaft of the implement is circular in section and tapers from 4 mm to 0.7 mm. The object is currently of an uncertain date.
Created on: Friday 11th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-1B2F92
Object type: AWL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron implement, probably an awl. The object is 114.9 mm long. It has a diamond shaped head (rectangular in section) which tapers into the shaft, which is circular in section. The shaft expands from 6.5 to 9.7 mm in diameter. The shaft comprises 60 mm of the object's length. The object is likely to have been used for leather working. A similar object is illustrated in Stead and Rigby (1986, page 148; fig 498) which is Roman and dates from the 3rd century AD. However, this object bears a certain similarity to another object illustrated in Stead and Rigby (1986, page 148; fig 496) whic…
Created on: Friday 11th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-1BA0F4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval cast copper-alloy strap-end. Thomas (2003, 2) classifies it as a Class A, Type ?1. This would date the artefact to around the ninth century. The strap-end is leaf-shaped, with one end split to take the strap. Its face is decorated while the reverse plate is plain. The face has a triangular animal-head terminal narrowing to a snout. The ears are in the form of a '9' and an reversed '9', and are joined by a bar. Behind the head there is a single field, once inlaid with silver of which fragments remain. The field contains curvilinear grooves which were also inlaid with …
Created on: Friday 11th March 2005
Last updated: Saturday 1st March 2014
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Record ID: NARC-1C52E7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Medieval, probably of Edward II. The coin was minted in London.
Created on: Friday 11th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-6BE538
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy element of a now incomplete artefact of uncertain nature. The terminal end of the bar is elaborate, featuring an acorn-shaped terminal itself terminating in a knop. Towards the base of the acorn-shaped terminal are a further four knops. Measuring across these gives the object a maximum width of 12.2mm. There is a ringed collar below the acorn-terminal, and a long pyramidal element below the collar. Whilst quite corroded traces of gilding remain, particularly on the terminal elements.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-6D8DF3
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged iron rowel spur, missing its rowel and strap attachments. The neck of the spur terminal is fairly short at 27.6 mm long. It terminates with a slit, within which the rowel would have been placed. The arms of the spur, which would grip the ankle, are quite close together, although this appears to have been largely a result of the right hand arm having been bent inwards. The spur is ridged on the obverse and the reverse, and flat on the inside, making it triangular in section. The angle of the spur terminal leans back, suggesting that the spur arms would curve underneath the rid…
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-6D8F97
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An artefact that probably formed part of the handle of a knife or sword. This object is in good condition; it appears to have been cast in copper alloy then tooled to add the decoration. It is essentially an oval hoop, at its narrowest point 15.7mm in width. Four prongs taper from the hoop; those on the obverse and reverse are twice the length of the side prongs. The decoration around the edge of the hoop forms a regular pattern of square/triangle, repeated four times, with the squares placed above the prongs (or below, depending on which way up the object is). The triangles carry ova…
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2005
Last updated: Friday 31st May 2013
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Record ID: NARC-6EF621
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an arm and attachment from an iron spur. The fragment is 65 mm long and 6.7 mm wide at the break in the arm. The arm flattens as it reaches the attachment end. The arm is quite curved, suggesting a high medieval date. Examples are illustrated in Ellis (1991 pages 73-77; figs 1-44).
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-7025D7
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 spherical lead musket balls. One of the musket balls is 13.3 mm in diameter. It has a casting flash and a knop left over from the casting. It weighs 13.6 grams. The other musket ball is 12.3 mm in diameter it also has a casting flash and weighs 10 grams. Neither musket ball has any impact damage. Both musket balls are post-medieval in date.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-709B85
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle frame from the early-medieval period. When complete this ornate frame would have been sub-rectangular in plan; it has since been broken and the remnant distorted. We have now been left with one of the original shorter sides decorated with a zoomorphic head at each end (10.5mm in length, 7.7mm in width). Each head is located at the point at which the side meets the inside and outside edges; the heads extend beyond the frame. Ears are formed by two drilled holes. There are incised longitudinal lines from the ears to the snout. Lozengiform eyes with…
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2005
Last updated: Sunday 4th September 2016
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Record ID: NARC-70E046
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy buckle frame fragment. This frame would have been D-shaped in plan. The remnant consists of part of the outer edge and an attached, openwork lion walking right in relief. The pin rest (absent, together with the pin and most of the frame including a second lion) would have been adjacent to the lion's head. Traces of gilding survive. Parallels can be found in Murawski (2003, page 455; fig. M12-0205) and Mills (1999, page 13; fig. NM.3.). These suggest a twelfth century date for this artefact.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-718CE5
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later Anglo-Saxon cast copper-alloy stirrup terminal. The hollow back would have enclosed one of the arms of the lower part of the stirrup (Williams 1997, 1). This hollow may contain traces of the lead solder by which the terminal appears to have been attached to the stirrup. The terminal appears zoomorphic, with crude incised and punched decoration, although much of the finer detail has been lost due to corrosion, including on the collar.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2005
Last updated: Saturday 4th February 2012
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Record ID: NARC-815D87
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 4th century Roman nummus of House of Constantine. The coin is very worn.
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NARC-817D94
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A narrow, early-medieval cast copper-alloy strap-end. The attachment end has two rivet holes - weak points at which loss has occurred leaving the artefact incomplete. The attachment end (maximum width of 7.6mm) tapers to a width of 3.5mm after 14.6mm. The strap-end is therefore very narrow, tapering again (to 2.2mm) just before it terminates. The strap-end has been bent at the point just after the initial tapering (described above), at an angle of approximately forty-five degrees. Considerable corrosion renders former decoration difficult to discern although the terminal does appear t…
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 19th March 2014
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Record ID: NARC-827E05
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four joing lower body and base sherds of wheel-thrown reduced greyware Roman pottery. The vessel has a pedastel base, probably a jar. The fabric is slightly sandy to the touch with small pores for missing organic inclusions. There are also infrequent small white inclusions, possibly calcite grit.One sherd is a large portion of the body and base of the vessel, two fragments are base sherds and the remaining sherd is a body fragment. It is similar to examples from Skeleton Green, Herts (Partridge 1981, 58 fig 23). The diameter of the base is 62 mm.
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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