Record ID: ESS-823516
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of gold post-medieval finger ring. The fragment is the bezel of the ring. It is rectangular in plan and trapezoidal in section. It appears to be hollow. The bezel is set with a rectangular cut red stone (or possibly red glass). The stone in the second setting is damaged. The sides of the bezel are decorated with raised lines, which form scallops. Beneath these, on all sides is a border of tiny dotted or dashed indents. Around the bottom of the bezel is a slight flanged rim. This is decorated with a running motif of raised hollow squares and solid dashes. The underneath of …
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Hanningfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6E38A7
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy early medieval mount, probably from a sword scabbard. The mount is formed from a T bar shape, with the downward vertical, central bar being shorter than the arms of the cross bar. The centre of the mount, where the three arms integrally conjoin, is slightly expanded, with a slight arching to the middle of the cross bar.It is semicircular in section having a flat reverse with domed front. The main body of the mount is decorated with a double strand interlace design that expands along the cross bar and down the central vertical bar. At either end of the interlace design…
Created on: Monday 19th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chappel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6C4717
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An important and unusual find of an 8th century, silver Anglo Saxon sceat of 'monitascorum' type. Normally this type has 'MONITA SCORVM' on the obverse, but in this case has the 'DE LVNDONIA' inscription of series L instead. Michael Metcalf, Thrymsas and Sceattas' (Oxford, 1993), p. 435 noted one other specimen of this variant at the time of publication, which he described as a 'unique and highly interesting coin'. If the inscriptions are taken at face value this is an ecclesiastical issue ('Moneta Sanctorum') from London, presumably issued for a bishop of London. The coin recorded…
Created on: Monday 19th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tiptree', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6A6E94
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Roman glass prismatic bottle. The clearly defined 90-degree angle on the fragment shows that it is a body sherd from one corner of a square shaped bottle. Apart from the one clear edge, the fragment is irregular to both sides. It is made from a thick, light blue-green glass with a high number of bubbles. The fragment is 34.48mm long, 4.2mm thick and weighs 4.02g. Bottles with square bodies were in use in the 1st and 2nd centuries. They were used for the transport and storage rather than as tablewares. See Cool and Price, 1995, Roman vessel glass from excavations in Colchest…
Created on: Monday 19th December 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-6A1525
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Roman glass, probably from a conical beaker used for drinking. The glass fragment is colourless, small and irregular. The profile of the fragment suggests it is from the concave bottom of the vessel, perhaps the very centre as there is a central dimple and nipple. The fragment is 1.62mm thick and weighs 0.33g. Conical beakers of greenish glass dominate 4th century assemblages, however there may be evidence that colourless beakers were produced from the late 3rd century (see Cool and Price, 1995, Roman vessel glass from excavations in Colchester, 1971-1985, page 90).
Created on: Monday 19th December 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-69D233
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy mount. The mount is circular in plan and flat in section. One side is decorated with a moulded, slightly raised letter I entwined and passing through the centre bar of a letter S. Around the letters are irregular incised short dashes and lines, not quite cross-hatched, but used to fill the empty field around the central design. The reverse of the mount is plain. There are no signs of attachment to the reverse. The edges of the mount are irregular in places, but the object does appear to be mostly complete. The surface of the mount survives with an even mid green patin…
Created on: Monday 19th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Maplestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-699F63
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy mount, probably late medieval. The mount is subcircular in plan and domed in section with a recessed reverse. It shows a human face of indeterminable gender. The face is moulded with a hairstyle that frames each side of the face. It has a grooved centre parting with two transverse grooves that breaks the top of the hairstyle into three rows. There are incised diagonal lines along the rows of hair which give it a textured detail. The face is moulded with a prominent triangular nose, now slightly damaged. The eyes are formed from incised lentoids with central dots. The …
Created on: Monday 19th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Melford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-695E00
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy late medieval or post medieval knife stop. The stop is an elongated hexagonal in plan and rectangular in section and possibly represents a sledgehammer head. When viewed in profile it has one straight edge and one set on a slight diagonal (presumably the bottom edge?). To both top and bottom faces of the stop are the remains of the iron tang. The object survives in good condition with an even dark green patina. Slight areas of pitting show as lighter green. The object is 14.84mm long, 9.98mm wide, and 9.1mm thick and weighs 7.02g.
Created on: Monday 19th December 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-6928F0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Heavily clipped, reduced weight silver Roman siliqua, probably House of Theodosius, probably VIRTVS ROMANORVM, probably Trier or Milan, c. 388-402.
Created on: Monday 19th December 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-68EA58
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Clipped silver siliqua, probably of Gratian (367-83), VRBS ROMA, probably Trier or Aquileia, AD 375-8. RIC IX, c.f. Trier 46b/64a and Aquileia 15b. It is possible that this is a barbarous imitation. The original record states it is base metal, but this might not be the case as the coin is clipped.
Created on: Monday 19th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: ESS-17E485
Object type: ANIMAL REMAINS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The following notes were kindly produced by Jorge Ferreira, graduate of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. The bones were recovered by the landowner whilst investigating a trench dug for a watermain. The bone report accompanies a pottery report recorded as ESS-17A9D0. Species/Body Parts/Age: Sheep (Ovis) Right Mandible (Fragment) Young Adult (M3 erupted/no wear) Sheep (Ovis) Left Mandible (Fragment) (Dp2 - Dp3 - P1) Juvenile (Decidous teeth present P1 erupting) Sheep (Ovis) Right Mandible (Fragment) (Dp3 - Dp4 - M1 erupting) Juvenile (No permanent dentition pr…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2005
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fingringhoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-17A9D0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This record compromises a large number of pottery vessel sherds from a discrete area, namely an area of domestic dumping from a house of unknown origins that was demolished in 1817. The house is visible as a cropmark under the right conditions. The material was recovered by the landowner during the digging of a water main which prompted further investigation. Helen Walker of Essex County Council kindly scanned the material and provided short notes. A selection of animal bone was also recovered at the same time and is recorded as ESS-17E485. Tray 1 Slip-painted, unglazed sherds o…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2005
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fingringhoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-1579B3
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman mount, probably a furniture fitting or similar. The mount is circular in plan and domed in section. The bottom of the mount is formed from a circular disc, with a deep circumfral-grooved line. Rising up from the centre of the disk is the main domed body of the mount, slightly smaller in diameter. This is plain. Extending from the top of the dome is a circular sectioned projection or ‘neck’, which flares slightly. The neck then becomes wasted and then terminates in a globular knop. To the flat underside of the mount are the remains of an iron shaft, now obscu…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 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-153B31
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman mount, probably a furniture fitting or similar. The mount is circular in plan and domed in section. The main domed portion of the mount is decorated around the bottom edge with two deep grooved lines, but is otherwise plain. Extending from the top of the dome is a circular sectioned projection that terminates in an integral globular knop, delineated from the shaft by a circumfral-grooved line. To the flat underside of the mount are the remains of an iron shaft, now obscured by iron corrosion product. The mount is worn and abraded. Tiny traces of the original sur…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 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-14DDD3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Roman ‘T’ shaped brooch of ‘sawfish’ type, now in two parts. This brooch has complete side wings that are cylindrical in shape, with a slot to accommodate the pin shaft. They are now slightly flattened. The wings would have held a hinged pin. The pin is missing, though the wings may hold the remains of the axis bar, which might be evidenced, by a small spot of brown corrosion at one end of the wings. The wings are decorated with two raised vertical lines to either end, these lines being further decorated along their length with a row of incised V shapes.…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 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-13E142
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’. It consists of a disc that is 18.8mm in diameter and 2.64mm high from which extends a circular shafted ‘neck’ for 2.44mm. The ‘neck’ is slightly stepped having a diameter of 13.44mm. The ‘neck flares out into a wide, shallow bell shape, 6.48mm long and 23.82mm in diameter. This makes the object circular in plan with a flared trapezoidal section. The rim of the ‘bell’ is curved. The ‘underside’ of the bell or flared area is countersunk with a flat bottom. Protruding from the centre of the counte…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 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-02EB13
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy handle from a Roman ‘mandolin’ spoon. The incomplete shaft of the handle is rectangular in section, 2.28mm thick and tapers dramatically from 3mm to 1.64mm at the break point. The break point is worn, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. At the broad end is an integral projection, narrower than the shaft at 2.74mm. In profile it is curved in a half C-shape. There is a small projecting knop on the same plain and thickness at the top of the curve, and at the bottom of the curve is an integral transverse, flange. The projection is where the separate ma…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 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-00DDE2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Commonwealth penny. North 2729.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Yeldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-009B27
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold Iron Age stater. Gallo-Belgic E. VA 50-1.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 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-EEF183
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Two fragments of Roman ceramic vessels. The two fragments are body sherds and are mid grey in colour. One fragment has decoration in the form of a grooved line with short, diagonal strokes above and impressed triangles below (or vice versa). Dr Paul Sealey has kindly identified them as being from Roman storage jars of the 1st or 2nd century. They have a combined weight of 113.88g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 17th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EE4354
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper alloy 11th century stirrup mount of Williams' Class B, type 3. The complete stirrup mount would most likely have been trapezoidal in plan and open work in form. The fragment recorded here represents the upper portion and central decorative motif, with an irregular outline due to break edges being through open work perforations. the central motif is formed from a slightly domed, zoomorphic head. The sub-rectangular head is decorated with two circular recesses for eyes with incised lines above for eyebrows. There is an incised triangular nose, broad edge down, g…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EDE880
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper alloy 11th century stirrup mount of Williams's class A, type 5. The complete stirrup mount would have consisted of a pentagonal, flat frame or body, set within a pair of tendril like shapes, down each diagonal side, which terminate in scrolls. Extending from the apex would have been a long, handle like extension, which would have probably terminated in a zoomorphic head that supported the apex loop. The lower portion of the stirrup mount would have had the two rivet holes and flange for attachment. The fragment recorded here represents the tendrils and upper po…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bildeston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EC1755
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead Roman steelyard weight. The weight is circular in plan and roughly biconical in section. The iron suspension loop is now missing, but there are the remains of iron or iron corrosion at the apex of one side where the loop was positioned. The lead is now beige or light brown in colour and the surface heavily pitted and abraded. The weight is 21.38mm long, 25.92mm in diameter and weighs 2.04 ounces or 57.90g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 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-EBBAC6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy ‘Aucissa’ Roman brooch. The head of the brooch is flat and wide. It is formed from the end of the brooch being curled up and over to create a tube of curled metal, which held the axis bar of the hinged pin, and is set with a slot to accommodate the pin shaft. The pin is entirely missing. To the back of the tube portion of the head is an integral flat, rectangular section of head. This is decorated with two transverse grooved lines, between which are two raised dots or ‘eyes’. The bow arches from the head with a distinctive, highly arched bow, C sha…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 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-EB2EE5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast copper-alloy Roman 'propeller-shaped' mount or belt stiffener.The fragment represents one of the flat triangular ends of the mount. One point of the triangle shows the straight break where it has become detached from the rest of the object; the break is worn, suggesting it occurred in antiquity. The front is decorated with a central raised longitudinal rib. A ring-and-dot motif is punched into each of the complete corners. There are two rivet holes, one to either side of the rib, complete with their copper-alloy rivets. The reverse of the fragment is undecorated. The …
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EA2FB1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Uninscribed Iron Age unit. BM 404.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hacheston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-859B92
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Contemporary forgery of a medieval short cross cut half penny, double struck to both sides. Possibly a copy of a Class 7a coin (originals date 1217-1222)
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'White Roothing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-857683
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
15th century copper alloy 'half ryal' coin weight. This coin weight is circular in plan, is 2.64mm thick and has a diameter of 14.02mm. It weighs 3.52 g or 54.3 grains. It is uniface, having a design to only one side. The design shows the king standing with sword and shield in a ship See Withers and Withers, 1993, British Coin Weights, page 18, number 200. This is a representational weight in that it bears a design similar to the coin that it was intended to weigh. Withers and Withers note that weights of this type were introduced in 1464 during the reign of Edward IV, when the ryal c…
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 14th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'White Roothing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-853EC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy one piece Roman Colchester brooch. The wings of the brooch are short, flat and complete. At the head of the brooch is a scar, which is where a forward facing hook would have been positioned to hold the chord of the spring. The spring head and pin shaft are entirely missing. The bow of the brooch is sub-circular in section, with a slight flattening to the back, which is more obvious towards the head. It tapers to a pointed foot. The very tip of the foot is now bent backwards. The catchplate is entirely missing. The brooch has a dark brown patina. Worn break edges…
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abbess Roding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-8512D3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy ‘Wessex type La Tène I’, one piece Iron Age brooch. The head of the brooch is now missing, but would once have comprised of an integral four-coil springhead that would have then extended into the pin shaft. All that remains is the bow of the brooch, which is distinctively arched with a squared C shape profile. It is domed in section, having a slightly flatter reverse, and tapers to either end. A downward turned knop at one end is all that remains of the foot, now heavily worn, but with a tiny fragment of the upper catchplate attached. Hattatt, 1985, Iron Ag…
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abbess Roding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-849592
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy brooch 13th century brooch. The brooch is sub-shield shaped in plan and domed in section, in that it is a moulded design with a slightly flatter reverse. The frame is formed from two opposing figures each with both arms upraised, joined together by a trapezoidal section to complete the frame at the upper edge. The lower portion of frame is formed from the lower bodies of the figures curving down and inwards into a single leg, which are similarly joined as the hands, with a rectangular portion of frame. Beneath this rectangular portion, at the lower centre of …
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Melford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-716CD1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward III.Post treaty period. North 1295.
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rochford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-713922
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver half penny of Edward III.North 1131.
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rochford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-70E8F6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward III. Fourth coinage, pre-treaty series A. North 1136.
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rochford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-70A190
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy medieval horse harness pendant and hanger. The pendant hanger is slightly domed in section, and is formed from a rectangular cross bar, with an integral rectangular arm reaching up from the centre. Opposite this upper arm, on the other side of the cross bar are the two pin bar lugs, now both damaged and incomplete. Each 'arm' of the hanger is bevelled and is undecorated. There are tiny traces of gilt to the front surface. The reverse of the hanger is flat and plain. At either end of the reverse of the cross bar and at the reverse top end of the central arm, …
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2005
Last updated: Monday 23rd November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rochford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-7004E6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver denarius of Augustus dating to the period 2 BC to AD 9 (Reece Period 1). C L CAESARES AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT reverse type depicting Gaius and Lucius standing front, on left and right, each togate and resting hand on shield; behind each shield, a spear; above, on l., a simpulum to r. and on r., a lituus to l. Mint of Lugdunum. RIC I (rev.ed.), p.55, no.207.
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Meesden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6F9AB4
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy Late Iron Age or Early Roman toggle. The object takes the form of a cylindrical body, capped at either end by circular roves. The main body of the toggle is decorated with a central groove that runs around the central circumference of the body. This in effect ‘pinches’ the toggle in, making it a figure of 8 in plan. At each end of the body is a slightly wasted neck, to which the plain roves are integrally attached. The toggle has a rectangular loop, which spans the main body, between the ‘necks’. Between the loop, in the body of the toggle, is a sub…
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dedham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6F5DE7
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper alloy late Bronze Age socketed axe head. The fragment represents a small part of the lower blade and cutting edge. It is semicircular in plan and wedge-shaped in profile. When viewed in plan, the sides of the body flare out at an angle of approximately 45 degrees. The cutting edge and blade tips are worn. There is evidence of the casting seam to one side of the axe. There is a rectangular aperture in the thicker end of the fragment, which represents the very end of the socket. The surface of the axe is damaged, but it survives mostly intact with a dark green patina. …
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dedham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6AC2B3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lithic implement. Teardrop shaped in plan and sublozenge shaped in section. Hazel Martingell notes that this piece of light brown flint with cream coloured inclusions is a natural flint with pot lid fractures. However there are knapped areas. These pieces are called ‘tools of convenience’ as they are a mixture of natural and worked removals. These pieces are typical of the later prehistoric period, 1,500BC and onwards, but do continue to be used into the historic period. The piece recorded here was probably used as a pick or scraper. It is 137.78mm long, 85.06mm wide, 30.76mm wide …
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castle Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-5B48E3
Object type: BUILDING MATERIAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of flint used as building material. The flint is subrectangular in plan and wedgeshaped in profile. It has been clearly retouched along two sodes to create a squared corner.It was probbaly used in a building of medieval or postmedieval date.
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.