Record ID: ESS-AEBCB5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim fragment of a Roman grey ware flanged bowl. This fragment is dark grey in colour and has at least one flint inclusion. This suggests that it may possibly be Rettendon ware, c. AD 280-350. Rettendon ware was being produced in Essex at Inworth. The fragment is 46.3mm long, 17.92mm wide and weighs 13.77g.
Created on: Monday 28th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Inworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-AE7731
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy object, probably a vessel escutcheon. The main body of the object is subtriangular in plan and concave in section. The bottom of the triangle expands into a curved, bulbous end, with the same section, with this portion set at an angle of 45 degrees to the main body. Extending from the opposite end of the subtriangular body is an irregular neck, perhaps once rectangular in plan, which is flat in section, set at an angle of approximately 10 degrees to the main body. Extending transverse from this neck is a subcircular loop with a pointed decorative knop to its …
Created on: Monday 28th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abberton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-AE11D5
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy medieval end cap from a knife. The object is rectangular in plan and flat in section. It has a split 'V' at the top end to allow for attachment to the leather strap. Two rivet holes survive complete with their copper alloy rivets. The strap end is decorated with an openwork design of a suboval piercing within which is an integral cross (devolved eagle). The upper and lower arms of the cross terminate in a flared end and are then connected to the main body of the object by a short stem, whilst the side arms are rounded and do not meet the sides of the object.…
Created on: Monday 28th November 2005
Last updated: Friday 13th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Mersea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-AD69C2
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a cast copper-alloy Post-Medieval spoon handle. The main body of this object is an elongated leaf-shape in plan and flat in section. At the top end the object curves slightly backwards and on the curve is a decorative terminal. The terminal is formed from a biconical knop, 6.82mm in diameter and 4.48mm high, which sits upon a short neck. At the very top of the knop is a further smaller knop, also biconical. This is 2.8mm high and 3.5mm in diameter. At the pointed end of the body, the object extends into a thin, twisted shaft, circular in section, that extends for 16.62mm. …
Created on: Monday 28th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Hallingbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-734E44
Object type: HARNESS HOOK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy medieval hook. The hook is a 'question mark' in shape, formed from a circular sectioned shaft that is bent over to form the hook and terminates in a blunt, horizontal end. The straight shaft section of the hook is finished at the opposite end with a 'thimble shaped' terminal, being circular in plan, trapezoidal in section and with a domed head. The original surface of the object survives with an even mid green patina.It is 51.58mm long, of which 15mm is the 'thimble shaped' terminal and 11.4mm is the straight shaft. It is 13.34mm in diameter at the terminal …
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wethersfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-731FA5
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead spindle whorl. The whorl is biconical in shape (though irregularly so) with a central circular perforation. It measures 28.98mm in diameter and 11.3mm in thickness, the central hole is 9.06mm in diameter. It weighs 35.46g. One face of the whorl is decorated with six vertical raised lines, with a raised dot between each.The opposite side is decorated in a similar way, but is less clear. It may be a zig zag pattern with raised dots between. The object has a light grey patina. This spindle whorl could be Roman to medieval in date as decorated spindle whorls have been disc…
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Mapelstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-72F916
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy post medieval knife stop. This stop is in the form of an animal’s head, probably a dog, with its mouth open. It is crudely rendered with a subrectangular head on a subrectangular neck. The slightly pointed muzzle of the dog is moulded with a slightly upturned nose and upturned lower lip. Between nose and lower lip are two horizontal grooved lines that define a central protrusion, which may be a tongue. Two indented circles represent the eyes, otherwise there are no other features. The neck is plain. All that remains of the iron tang of the knife, is some iron corros…
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-72CBA3
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman mount sometimes known as a ‘bell shaped stud’. The object is circular in plan with a flared trapezoidal section that extends from a short neck that is circular in section. The ‘underside’ of the bell or flared area is countersunk with a flat bottom. Protruding from the centre of the countersunk area is a conical boss, approximately 6mm high that has a concave circular depression in its tip, making it flat across its top. To the reverse of the ‘neck’ portion are the remains of an integral shank, rectangular in section which extends for 4.02mm.This sha…
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-72A1B3
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age copper plano-convex ingot edge fragment. This fragment of ingot is subtriangular in plan, with one slightly curved edge, and is plano-convex in section. When complete the ingot would have been ‘bun-shaped’, having a domed upper surface and a flat lower surface. The ingot now measures 77.44mm long, 71.18mm wide, 29.04mm thick and weighs in excess of 235g. The surface of the ingot is abraded and pitted. Original surface survives in patches of dark green, but exposed surfaces are also mid and light green. Copper ingot fragments are common in hoards of the Ewart Park …
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wethersfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-71B880
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy Roman radiate coin of Carausius (AD 286-93) (Reece Period 14), PAX AVG, Pax standing left holding branch and vertical sceptre. Appears unmarked at first, but said to be F O//ML. RIC V, pt 2, p. 472, no. 101 & p. 535, no. 880. This coin has been considered for Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 7th October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-7196A8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman nummus, 'Urbs Romas' issue.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-7178A2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman 'barbarous radiate' coin.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-714D62
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman nummus coin of Arcadius. RIC 26c.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-712332
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Illegible copper alloy Roman nummus coin
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-703C74
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman nummus coin. 'Constantinopolis' issue.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-702287
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman nummus coin. 'Urbs Roma' issue.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6FC8A5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman 'barbarous radiate'coin.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6F8943
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mostly illegible copper alloy Roman nummus coin. 'Urbs Roma' issue.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6F6D32
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Illegible copper alloy Roman nummus coin
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6F3815
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Illegible copper alloy Roman nummus coin
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.