Record ID: WMID-316C94
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A barbarous radiate of the 3rd century AD (diameter: 15mm; thickness: 2mm; weight: 2.94g). A heavily blundered and crude example, particularly on the reverse. The coin is in a worn and poor condition.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvechurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-32E0F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy nummus of Galeria Valeria [daughter of Diocletian and second wife of Galerius], minted in c. AD 310-311. Reverse: VENERI VICTRICI. Mint of Siscia [Sisak, Croatia]. RIC VI, p. 480, no. 211. Diameter: 24mm; thickness: 2mm; weight: 5.60g). The coin is in a slightly worn but fair condition.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvechurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-332093
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete bronze nummus of the House of Valentinian, minted at an unclear location between AD 364-378 (diameter: 16mm; thickness: 1mm; weight: 2.08g). The coin is in a worn and poor condition. Ref: Sear, D, R, 'Roman Coins and their values', 1981, pages 334-340.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvechurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-335385
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete possible imitation nummus, dating to the 4th century AD (diameter: 17mm; thickness: 1mm; weight: 1.96g). The coin is in a worn and poor condition.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvechurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-3368F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bronze barbarous radiate, dating to the 3rd century AD (diameter: 16mm; thickness: 1mm; weight: 1.76g). The coin is in a worn and poor condition.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvechurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-339822
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bronze nummus of Constans, possibly minted in Treveri [Trier, Germany] between AD 337-350 (diameter: 15mm; thickness: 1mm; weight: 1.41g). The coin is in a worn but fair condition. Ref: Sear, D, R, 'Roman Coins and their values', 1981, pages 322-4, ref no 3870.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvechurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-33F737
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Solihull
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete bronze commemorative nummus of Constantine I, minted at a unknown location between AD 330-346 (probably) (diameter: 13mm; thickness: 1mm; weight: 1.07g). The coin is in a very worn and poor condition. Ref: Sear, D, R, 'Roman Coins and their values', 1981, page 316, similar to ref no 3790.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hockley Heath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-342A81
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Solihull
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bronze nummus of the House of Constantine (probably), minted at an unknown location between AD 307-361 (probably) (diameter: 14mm; thickness: 1mm; weight: 1.22g). The coin is in a very worn and poor condition.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hockley Heath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-344628
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Solihull
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete bronze nummus of the House of Constantine (probably), minted at an unknown location between AD 306-361 (probably) (diameter: 14mm; thickness: 0.5mm; weight: 1.16g). The coin is in a very worn and poor condition.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hockley Heath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-347B46
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Solihull
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete struck/ hammered silver sixpence of William III, dating to AD 1696 or 1697 (diameter: 21mm; thickness: 0.5mm; weight: 3.14g). The coin is in a slightly worn but fair condition. Ref: Mitchell & Reed, 'Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England and the United Kingdom: 30th edition', 1995, pages 238-9.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hockley Heath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-34AAE0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Solihull
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete struck/ hammered copper farthing (1st issue) of William III, minted in AD 1697 (diameter: 22mm; thickness: 1mm; weight: 4.73g). The coin is in a slightly worn but fair condition. Mitchell & Reed, 1995, 'Standard Catalogue of British Coins: Coins of England & the United Kingdom', page 240, ref no 3557.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hockley Heath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-34F691
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly incomplete and clipped struck/ hammered silver halfgroat of Henry VIII, minted by Archbishop Edward Lee in York between AD 1530-1544 (diameter: 19mm; thickness: 0.2mm; weight: 1.24g). The coin is slightly worn and in a good condition. Ref: North, J, J, 'English Hammered Coinage', Volume II, page 112, ref no 1807.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-745850
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A struck/ hammered clipped silver penny of Edward I, minted in York (Royal) between AD1299-1300/1, as classified by North to be Class 9 (diameter: 18mm; thickness: 0.2mm; weight: 1.37g). The coin is slightly worn but in a fair condition. Ref: north, J, J, 'English Hammered Coinage: Volume 2 [Edward I to Charles II 1272-1662], pages 30-1, ref no 1037/1.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-7496C1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A struck/ hammered clipped silver penny of Edward I, minted in London between AD 1282-9, as classified by North to be Class 4 (diameter: 19mm; thickness: 0.2mm; weight: 1.21g). The coin is in a slightly worn but fair condition. Ref: North, J, J, 'English Hammered Coinage: Volume 2 [Edward I to Charles II 1272-1662]', 1991, page 29.
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-74C013
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A struck/ hammered slightly clipped silver penny of Edward I (Class 10) or Edward II (Classes 11a, 14 or 15c), minted in Durham between AD 1301-1333 (diameter: 18mm; thickness: 0.2mm; weight: 1.30g). The coin is in a slightly worn but fair condition. Ref: North, J, J, 'English Hammered Coinage: Volume 2 [Edward I to Charles II: 1272 to 1662].
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-B007C7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly clipped struck/ hammered Irish silver farthing of Edward I, minted in Dublin between AD 1272-1307 (diameter: 10.5mm; thickness: 0.2mm; weight: 0.36g). The coin is in a slightly wonr but fair condition. Ref: Seaby, P & Purvey, P, F, 'Standard Catalogue of British Coins Volume 2: Coins of Scotland, Ireland & the Islands', 1984, page 112, ref no 6267.
Created on: Monday 28th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-B19EE3
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead or lead alloy pilgrim ampulla, dating from the late 12th-15th century AD (length: 51mm; width: 30.5mm; thickness: 9mm; weight: 47.15g). The artefact has a rounded base in plan but in narrow in side section with depressions in the centre down the length where the marked decoration occurs. The artefact becomes narrow at the neck in plan before slightly tapering outwards at the top where the opening to the hollow cavity would have been (the top is now damaged which the edges of the lead curling in one decoration. The top of the ampulla has also become flattened …
Created on: Monday 28th November 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 8th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penkridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-C5BAD4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Trumpet brooch, dating to the 1st/ 2nd century AD (length: 51mm; width at head: 15mm; thickness: 22mm; weight: 18.99g). A highly ornate brooch with some moulded Celtic motif scrollwork decoration, particularly near the head. The oval head has the remains of a projection at the top with an undecorated border running around the outside edge. The moulded symmetrical scrolled decoration to the left and right of the head comprises of a tear drop platform at either side with curved crescent-shaped mouldings extending out from the top. In between this decor…
Created on: Tuesday 29th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-C79618
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast bronze spearhead, probably dating to the late Bronze Age, between c. 1200 - c. 700 BC (length: 56mm; width: 24mm; thickness: 15mm; weight: 25.18g). It is difficult, due to the artefact being incomplete, to identify if it is a riveted or socket-looped spearhead. A leaf-shaped spearhead, but with the cylindrical socket broken and only the blade end remaining. The width of the midrib at the tip measures 6mm, which then expands to approximately 15mm where the blades to either side terminate and the artefact has an uneven break. The blade wings to either side of the midr…
Created on: Tuesday 29th November 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-423A94
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Greek imperial bronze dupondius of Caracalla, minted in Philippopolis, Thrace between AD 198-217 (diameter: 30mm; thickness: 3mm; weight: 15.93g). The coin is in a worn but fair condition with most of the detail and inscription still visible. Ref: Sear, D, R, 1982, 'Greek Imperial Coins and their values: The Local Coinages of the Roman Empire', page 234, ref no 2488.
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvechurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-9B32B5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A slightly incomplete silver denarius of Julia Domna, minted in Rome, AD 196-211, PVDICITIA. RIC IV, 576 diameter: 19mm; thickness: 2mm; weight: 2.40g). The coin is in a slightly worn and fair conditon with corrosion and breakage round the edges. Additionally, there are remains of blue tack on the reverse of the coin
Created on: Friday 9th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Teddesley Hay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-9B82C0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete struck/ hammered silver denarius of Hadrian, minted in Rome between AD 134-138 (diameter: 18mm; thickness: 2mm; weight: 3.23g). The coin is in a good condition. Ref: Mattingly & Sydenham, 'Roman Imperial Coinage', Vol II (Vespasian to Hadrian); page 373, ref no 286.
Created on: Friday 9th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brewood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-D9A1B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman denarius of Lucius Verus (AD 161-169), dating to the period c.AD 162-163 (Reece period 8). PROV DEOR TR P III COS II reverse type depicting Providentia standing left holding globe and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. As RIC III, p. 253, no. 491. Diameter: 17.5mm; thickness: 2mm; weight: 2.32g. The coin is in a slightly worn but good condition.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Teddesley Hay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-DA00B5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A slightly incomplete struck/ hammered silver denarius of Faustina I, minted in Rome after her death in AD 141, PIETAS AVG. (diameter: 17mm; thickness: 2mm; weight: 2.18g). The coin is in a slightly worn but fair condition. Ref: Mattingly & Sydenham, Roman Imperial Coinage Vol III [Antoninus Pius to Commodus]; page 74, ref no 394.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Teddesley Hay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-DA29A6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and purposefully cut (probably) struck/ hammered silver denarius of Trajan, dating from and minted at an unknown location (diameter: 18mm; thickness: 1mm; weight: 1.47g). The coin is in a worn but fair condition. Ref: Mattingly & Sydenham, 'Roman Imperial Coinage Vol II [Vespasian to Hadrian]; pages 245-313.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Teddesley Hay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-DA5AA2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete struck/ hammered silver denarius of Hadrian, minted in Rome between AD 134-138 (diameter: 19mm; thickness: 2mm; weight: 1.75g). The coin is in a worn but fair condition. Ref: Mattingly & Sydenham, page 371, ref no 266 & page 439, ref no 776.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Featherstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-EBA4E2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete struck/ hammered bronze sestertius of Hadrian, minted in Rome between AD 119-121/2 (diameter: 32mm; thickness: 3.5mm; weight: 20.72g). The coin is in a worn but fair condition with corrosion around the edges. Ref: Mattingly & Sydenham, 'Roman Imperial Coinage Vol II', page 414, ref no 582.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brewood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-EC0234
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly incomplete struck/ hammered silver denarius of Vespasian, minted at an unknown location between AD 69-79 (diameter: 18mm; thickness: 1.5mm; weight: 2.28g). The coin is in a worn but fair condition. Ref: Mattingly & Sydenham, 'Roman Imperial Coinage Vol II'.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brewood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-0091B2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete struck/ hammered silver denarius of Nero, minted in Rome between AD 64-5 (diameter: 16mm; thickness: 2mm; weight: 2.35g). The coin is in a worn but fair condition. Ref: Sutherland, C H V, 'The Roman Imperial Coinage Vol I Revised Edition', 1984, page 153, ref no 48.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brewood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-04E6E4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy trumpet brooch with probable silvering, dating to the 1st/ 2nd century AD (length: 55mm; width at head: 16mm; thickness/ depth: 25mm; weight: 18.16g). At the top of the head of the brooch (which is turned very sharply back), where the artefact is badly corroded and broken, there is a flat platform before the moulded decoration begins. Down the central length of the head, there are three grooves, in turn creating four ridges, the outer two (one on either side) of which scroll outwards and curl back in on themselves and form another curved ridge at a rig…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tong', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-0501A1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy enamelled flat bird brooch, dating from the 2nd/ 3rd century AD (length: 34mm; width: 20mm; thickness: 6mm; weight: 4.39g). The bird faces to the right with a pointed beak and a large but shallow indentation for the eye, which rises upwards slightly to probably represent the pupil in the eye. There appears to be small traces of red enamel in the eye indentation. The neck of the bird curls and expands in width to form a wider body where there are eight cells present (these lead down to the bottom of the brooch), five of which has small amounts of white…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Rauceby', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WMID-050AF4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy three-dimensional enamelled duck (swimming) brooch, dating to the 2nd/ 3rd century AD (length: 30mm; width: 17mm; thickness/ depth: 18mm; weight: 5.00g). The main hollow body of the duck is sub-oval or tear-shaped in form with the neck and head of the duck rising upwards from the main body and at the top of the slanted edge of the brooch. The neck and head (length: 8mm; width: 4mm; thickness: 4mm) taper to a thin and pointed head that is angled sharply downwards. The eyes do not seem to be depicted on the face, apart from one possible indentation on o…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WMID-051330
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy bracelet with snake head terminals, dating from the 1st-4th century AD (length: 43mm; width at terminal: 11mm; thickness at terminal: 1.5mm; weight: 3.52g). The flat curved bracelet fragment, representing less than half of the original artefact is still curved in shape and is decorated on the outer side only. The decoration at the broken end (not a recent break) consists of a single line of crude and irregular crescent indentations in the centre of the bracelet (most probably indicating the scales of the snake), but the indentations then develop int…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2005
Last updated: Monday 6th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-19A2F7
Object type: LOCK
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy lock pin. The perforated long rectangular shaft with iron corrosion still present inside and around the outside of the hole. The hollow and domed head has a protruding lip around the outside edge and has a sunken pellet in the centre, surrounded by a single concentric circle with small regular incisions at approximately 9mm from the centre. Inside of this circle, there appears to be remains of white metal coating around the edges. Behind the domed head, there is no decoration. Overall, the artefact has a dark green patina and is in a worn but fair conditio…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Rauceby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-19F0D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester derivative Polden Hill (The Dolphin, flat wing ends type), Mackreth 2011, 4.a-4.b. Plate 46. It dates to the 1st/ 2nd century AD (length: 51mm; width at wings: 22mm; thickness at head: 16mm; weight: 15.10g). The brooch has a highly arched head with oval/ crescent-shaped appendages to either side (a characteristic feature of the Polden Hill brooches). The short wings are semi-cylindrical with the remains of caps at either end holding the copper alloy axis bar in place. There is only a slight arch to the bow of the brooch and there is no deco…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2005
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tong', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-1A0633
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly incomplete blown plain annular glass bead, dating from the 1st-4th century AD (outer diameter: 20mm; thickness: 8mm; inner diameter of perforated hole: 7.5mm; weight: 4.13g). The bead has a natural translucent green/ blue glass with numerous impurities in the material, as well as six holes in the surface which may have been/ are impurities also. A circular and straight-sided hole has been drilled into the centre of the artefact, indicating that this bead may have originally come from a necklace or bracelet. The artefact is in a slightly worn but good condition. Similar …
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2005
Last updated: Monday 6th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Albrighton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-1A1F11
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap fitting or ‘strap-slide’ with enamelled decoration, dating from the 1st-3rd century AD (length: 20.5mm; width: 18.5mm; thickness/ depth: 13mm; weight: 5.85g). The ‘strap-slide’ has a square-headed and thin platform/ head with slightly irregular and uneven edges. The decoration on the front face of this platform consists of a central and circular pellet of yellow enamel (diameter: 2.5mm), surrounded by a circle of red enamel (outer diameter of circle: 8mm; width of enamel: 2mm), and another concentric circle of enamel (possibly green) just in…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-1A41C6
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy button and loop fastener, dating from the late 1st-2nd century AD (length: 39mm; diameter of disc head: 21mm; width of triangular loop: 14mm; overall thickness: 9mm; thickness of disc head: 3mm; weight: 14.89g). The fastener can be classified as according to Wild (1970) to be a Class Va [disc-headed with cast ornament] and consists of a thick circular/ disc-headed platform with engraved concentric circle decoration on the front face. There is an indented circular recess in the centre of the head (diameter: 2.5mm), which may have held enamel originally (po…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2005
Last updated: Saturday 6th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-1A5322
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy silvered lozenge-shaped plate brooch, dating to the 2nd/ 3rd century AD (length: 53mm; width: 29mm; thickness at catch plate: 14mm; weight: 16.99g). On each of the four corners of this brooch, there are solid rounded lugs (average diameter: 5mm). The lug at the top of the brooch, however, is slightly larger than the other three (diameter: 6.5mm) and has an additional flat but circular suspension loop (probably) extending out from the top (inner diameter of suspension hole: 2mm). Around the four edges of the front face of the brooch, there is a raised …
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 28th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-9B8D95
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly incomplete and broken hollow-based arrowhead (length: 22.3mm; width: 19.4mm; thickness: 3.4mm; weight: 1.28g), probably dating between 2500-1400 BC. The arrowhead has been extensively knapped with areas of re-touch along the egdes. One of the barbs is slightly incomplete, but it is difficult to identify whether this is a recent break.Many of these arrowheads appear in Ireland and the distributional evidence suggests that some of those found in Britain were either imports from Ireland or local copies. Only one certain hollow-based arrowhead in an associated context occurs …
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.