Record ID: SUR-ACA051
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy button. The button is circular and domed. The cast design consists of a central annular shape. Between this and a border of indented holes are the apparent letters H I A(?) M O, few of which are clear. On the back is a transverse bar at the centre of which is the remains of a projecting loop. It is not clear if the latter has been cast as one with the disc or is a later addition.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-BBEE41
Object type: PLATE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy toy octagonal plate, dating to the post medieval period (1800 AD) (Forsyth & Egan 2005: 268). The plate is roughtly octangal in shape, it has a narrow flange and curving wall ad flat base. The rim is slightly ridged and thickned. The flange is decorated with flowers on teh corners with two leaves and four berries, with crosses (three) inbetween each one. The centre is decorated with a stylised plant with has three blooms and lancedate shaped leaves. There is a pierced hole though to the edge of one centre, possily this plate has been reused at a later date as a whirligig (Ib…
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Trig Lane', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-BC6636
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy possible part of a spoon? handle dating to the post medieval period. Rectugular in section broken at both ends. One side is flat and undecorated. The other is has a raised design on of a figure (Only the head and arms remain), possibly in jackabian dress. The edges of this front side are slightly rounded.
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Queenhithe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-BCC4B0
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead Early Tudor token (c.1490-1545). These tokens were usually a lead, tin, pewter alloy (Mitchiner and Skinner 1984:102). The token probably belongs to the Tau Cross type, although the reverse is plain. The obverse has a plain cross in a circle with an oblique anti-clockwise ray border. It is similar to no. 13 plate 6 pg. 147 in Mitchiner and Skinner "Early Tudor Tokens c.1425-1672" British Numismatic Journal vol. 54 1984, although there are wider spaces between the rays in the border. All the tokens featured in this article have a London provenance. It is likely this token a…
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-C02B63
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three lead-alloy rings, all 21-22 mm in diameter. All have roughly circular or oval cross-sections; two are more chunky, about 3.5 mm in cross-section, and one is slimmer, 2-2.5 mm in cross-section. Lead-alloy rings of the chunky shape, but only 15 mm in diameter, are identified by Egan and Pritchard, Dress accessories, as early 15th-century shoe-buckles (1991, 62-4). Lead alloy is not strong, and so may not be suitable for other heavier uses. Probably 1400-1450AD.
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Canvey Island', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-C093B6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast and wrought lead or lead alloy container, probably a bird feeder, of later medieval or post medieval date (1400-1600). The container has been crushed. It is an irregular shape in plan and sub rectangular (square with a flared neck) in profile. The container was probably D shaped in plan before being damaged. It is formed from one sheet of metal with a seam at the rear; it consists of a front and rear face, as well as a base. It measures 37.6mm in length, 62.mm width and is 15.8mm thick. It weighs 68.12 grams. The rear of the container is flat and undecorated; however it does ha…
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 1st May 2019
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DENO-C114A4
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular lead disc with inscription on both sides, possibly a head on one side, and a pierced hole. Possibly a Roman seal? Diameter 20.48mm, width 2-3mm, weight 4.40g.
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dalbury Lees', grid reference and parish protected.

• 

  Image not taken

Record ID: LON-D38A34
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy toy bowl dating to the post medieval period (Circa 1700 AD). The bowl has a lipped rim and a flat base with also is lipped. Around the top of the inside edge there is a cheveroned line. Slight damage around the rim of bowl.
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-E75417
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is a fragment of a larger pilgrim badge depicting the beheading of St. Alban, Britain's first Martyr. This find shows only the standing executioner, from the neck down, dressed in military garb. The soldier wears a coat of plates with laminated skirt, vambraces on the arms with small coulters at the shoulders. Leg harnesses with large side wings at the knees are also represented. A similarly dressed executioner was found in 1983 in the Thames Foreshore, Angel Passage, Upper Thames Street. (Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges. Spencer. B. 1998. Pg 375.Fig 196b.) The soldier (…
Created on: Friday 7th January 2005
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brooks Wharf', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-E9C2A8
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval Miniature toy bowl. Miniature bowls such as this one are thought to represent a pudding or flour basin as opposed to a tea bowl or punch bowl due to the plainness of design (Forsyth and Egan. 2005.110). This artefact although relatively plain incorporates a chevron design on the inside rim and two linear grooves running around the middle of the outside. Miniature kitchen wear such as toy bowls were thought to have been aimed at girls, with miniature knights for the boys (Forsyth and Egan. 2005.60).
Created on: Friday 7th January 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blackfriars Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-25AF91
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead-alloy post-medieval hooked tag. The trefoil shaped plate consists of three knobs in trefoil formation with a smaller knob in the centre. The plate terminates in a copper-alloy hook. The length of the hooked tag is 27.9mm, the width is 21.1mm and the weight is 7.96g.
Created on: Monday 10th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-28A0D3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead-alloy circular mount. The domed mount has a central circular boss with eight lines radiating from it. Between each of the lines is a smaller knob. The back of the mount has a single integral tapering rivet. The diameter of the mount is 23.7mm, the length of the mount is 11.4mm and the weight is 12.44g.
Created on: Monday 10th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-28A911
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead-alloy circular mount. The very worn domed mount has a central circular boss with smaller knobs around the edge. The back of the mount has a squashed integral attachment loop. The diameter of the mount is 17.5mm and the weight is 7.25g.
Created on: Monday 10th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LON-3BCC25
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two lead alloy coin weights dating to the post medieval period. The coins weights are cast both are decorated. 1. Decorated on both sides with 3M and a flower beneath. W. 7.6g/ L. 16mm. 2. Square weight, decorated on one side with kings crown in insciption around LEIVGE DRO[...].
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cannon Street', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-3C1B63
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy secular badge/ pendent dating to the medieval period. The badge is in the form of a pair of shoes, which are in late 14th century style. The shoes are hollow inside and are both cast together. At the heal of the pointed shoes there is a circular suspension loop which is slightly damaged. These type of items were often regarded as lover gifts (Spencer 1998: 327), reflecting arristocratic fashions of the period, and thought to be by produces of the badge trade.
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bankside', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-3CC341
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy panel fragment with field of circles-and-pellet motifs defined by a double-line border. Probably from an item of furniture.
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'London Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-3FB873
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy disc shaped token dating to the post medieval period. The token has design on one side which is a raised cross design. The other side is undecorated. There is damage to one side and part of the token is missing.
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Richmond Upon Thames', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5095A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and damaged lead alloy late Anglo-Saxon nummular brooch, two adjoining parts of which survive. Both of these are bent and distorted and will be discussed together. The brooch would have originally have been circular in shape and now measures circa 36mm in diameter. The original diameter is likely to have been larger as the surviving edges of the brooch are now bent backwards, reducing its present diameter. The front face is decorated with five concentric rings of pellets around an unclear central motif which is circular in outline and may have had a cross within it …
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hessett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-529D92
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The cloth seal is possibly dated to the 16th to early 17th century. Egan illustrates similar seals with a pine cone, which are from Augsburg, Germany (Nos. 308-309), however the recorded example does not have an 'A' on the reverse which Egan's examples do have. The cloth seal is made from lead or lead alloy. The seal is formed by two circular discs, one with a hole in the centre and the other with a stud protruding. These discs are joined by an integral connecting strip which is folded in half so the discs over-lay each other, and the stud protrudes through the hole. The seal is the…
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-5448B6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead goods seal (?possibly for customs duties?) in the form of two circular valves each 1mm thick and 15mm in diameter with a very short linking strip. The outer faces of the two discs are embossed by hammering, as if in the production of a hammered coin. One side shows the portrait of Queen Anne (1702-1714) within a beaded ring, with the circumscribed legend MAG BRI REGINA. The other shows a central shield,with three lions (for England) in the dexter half and one lion rampant (for Scotland) in the sinister. There is a crown above the shield: to the left is the number 1 and to the righ…
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cransford', grid reference and parish protected.