Record ID: SUSS-A76ED1
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small rotary key, cast in copper alloy. The bow is circular and fairly small; it is somewhat mis-cast and lumpy. There are two collars; a larger one adjacent to the bow and a smaller one, which becomes the rest of the stubby solid stem. The bit is simple, with two badly-cast clefts, one on each side. There is a short projecting tip. The casting is poor, with surviving flash. The key appears to have been used, though, as the bit has horizontal scratches on both sides. The surface is a dull green colour, with little wear. The key is probably medieval in date.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-A92BB6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unidentified object made of copper alloy and iron. The artefact consists of a flat oval copper alloy plate (38mm x 23.7mm x 1.3mm, 5.95g) with a sub-circular 4mm perforation at each end. These holes apparently received iron rivets or pins, the corroded ends of which remain in the other object; this second piece is formed of a flat copper alloy strip, with small rectangular block ‘feet’ at each end, in the bases of which are the stubs of the rivets (32.5mm x 12.32 x 7.4mm, 9.46g). The upper surface of both the plate and fitting are decorated with stamped and punched designs, whic…
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-AB3115
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late early-medieval copper-alloy strap-distributor, with one surviving copper alloy-strap attachment loop. The distributor is circular with three sub-circular perforations. All edges are rounded. The obverse is slightly convex and the reverse is likewise concave. The obverse is decorated with raised lines between the perforations. The surviving attachment is crudely made from a cast strip of copper alloy that was bent around through one of the holes; at the ends, the strip is joined by a small copper alloy rivet; the reverse of the attachment seems to have a raised line and punched …
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Friday 16th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-AB4FD4
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large cast copper alloy harness boss. The artefact consists of a dome, with a radiating surround at the base. The dome has a small central lobe, around which are 'spoked' perforations. The dome and radiating base are intricately decorated with scrolls and pellets. The base has a small perforation on each side, for attachment to the harness (these holes are situated either side of the dome). The surface is dull greyish-green and slightly corroded. This boss probably dates to the 17th or 18th centuries.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 5th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ardingly', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-ABBAA0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy single-loop buckle with an ornate outer edge, and a wrought copper alloy pin. The frame is oval, with an offset slightly recessed pin bar. The outer edge has three knops with narrow collars between them. The pin is formed of copper alloy wire, with the end bent in a circle around the pin bar. There is no trace of a buckle-plate. The surface is dark green. This buckle probably dates to between 1200 and 1400.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-AC6543
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy ring. The ring has been cast as one piece and has an asymmetrical section. One side of the ring is swollen with a circular section. It then tapers in both directions down to two pointed terminals. The terminals meet but are not joined. The metal is a mid greyish-green colour and is pitted, little wear can be seen. This object has few datable features. The recorder (Liz Andrews-Wilson) saw a very similar object on display in the Nuremberg Museum (Germany). The object formed part of the Bronze Age to Iron Age collection and they had been interpreted as a hair ring, u…
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Monday 28th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-AC7AA5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy mount in the shape of a floral cone. Leaves are depicted in high relief, arranged in scrolls around each other, in what seems to be a bouquet. On the reverse are two integral bent over hooks, presumably for attachment to leather. The surface is dark green and fairly smooth. This is probably a decorative brass from a harness, and most likely dates to the 17th-18th centuries.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Pyecombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-AC87E7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Naval button, made of copper alloy, with gilt. The cast, gilded obverse depicts a crowned anchor with the legend ‘NAVAL PRISON.LEWES.’, and wire inner/ outer borders, the whole having a ropework border. The backplate is stamped with ‘FIRMIN & SONS + LONDON +’, within beaded borders. The backplate has a separatering, which has collapsed through the broken plate. Nineteenth-twentieth century.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-AC9395
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast copper alloy mount in the form of a flower. The obverse is convex, with decoration in high relief; there are four petals, arranged radially, with four sepals, and a central boss. The reverse is hollow with two bent-over hooks. The surface is dark brownish-green and smooth; the reverse is light buff/ green and pitted. This mount is likely to have been made for a leather strap.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Pyecombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-ACBD80
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An elaborate copper alloy crotal bell. The bell is made of two beaten hemispheres, soldered together around the middle. The bell is spherical, with a rectangular pierced lug at the top. This hemisphere has two small circular sound hole perforations; the base of the other has two perforations, joined by a slit (also known as the sound hole). The whole bell is decorated with radiating segments, which end in curved ends at the waist. The base has the initials FL on either side of the slit. The surface is smooth and dark green. This bell is post-medieval in date.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Pyecombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-ACE272
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy annular ring with a cast copper alloy pin. The ring has a diamond section, and a recess for the pin-loop. The pin (17.8mm long) has a disc-shaped collar and a tapering point. The surface is smooth and dark green. The brooch dates to the medieval period.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-ACED13
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper alloy button: the head was cast, and is decorated with eight ‘petals’ around a pellet. The loop seems to have been cast as part of the head, and then perforated. Possibly 16th to 18th century in date.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-AD0350
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy button, with an integral loop. The obverse is decorated with concentric circles and a shallow central boss.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-E88FD2
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Roman terret ring, dating to circa 1st – 2nd century AD. Terret rings were attached to chariots, carts or wagons and served as rein-guides. They helped guide in reins from the horses harness to the rider/charioteers hands. This particular type of terret ring dates to the Roman period (more specifically 1st – 2nd century AD). This terret can be specifically dated because of the ‘skirt’ which covers the second loop. The large loop would have been used to guide the reins, whilst the smaller loop below was the means of attachment to the harness. The terret…
Created on: Friday 7th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Hastings', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-EB32E1
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy dress-hook. The object consists of a circular plate with latticework decoration; from this protrudes a narrow hook, which appears to have been originally bent right over but which now is nearly straight. On the other side of the plate is a rectangular loop, with in interior width of 9.4mm. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The decoration on the plate resembles a wheel with four spokes, between which are perforated floral designs. Around the outside of the wheel there is a knopped border. The surface is light greyish-green. This artefact is late medieval to early…
Created on: Friday 7th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-EB8504
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Disc brooch. The brooch is circular, with basic decoration on the obverse, consisting of a double line etched just inside the edge, and a perforation in the centre. On the reverse, the catchplate has broken off at the base, but the pierced lug for the (missing) spring survives. The dark green surface is worn and corroded. This brooch dates to the Early Medieval period (6th century AD).
Created on: Friday 7th January 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Dean', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-ECAAB7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus.
Created on: Friday 7th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-7C9B14
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy double-looped buckle. No pin survives. The strap-bar is fairly thin, but the buckle frame is wide and decorated on the obverse. The sides of this symmetrical buckle are straight, and the ends-the middle of the loops- are slightly pointed, with a thickening at the middle of the loops. The decoration includes pellets and incised lines, and possible crude flowers on the middle of the loops. The reverse is undecorated, and most of the edges are rounded, except for the reverse of the strap bar. The surface is greyish-green, worn, and slightly corroded. This buckle probab…
Created on: Friday 14th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Patching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-8B8250
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken terminal from a piece of 11th century horse furniture. The terminal has been cast in copper alloy. It is likely that this terminal was the decorative terminal from an 11th century cheek piece, but it could equally be from another piece of horse furniture of the same date. The object has a looped circular 'terminal' (with a D-shaped section). At 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock, around the loop there are three well-rounded circular knops. In the 9 o'clock position there is a thick bar of copper alloy (with a D-shaped section). This projection is broken at the end where it woul…
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2005
Last updated: Sunday 16th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-8BAC31
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken terminal from a piece of 11th century horse furniture. The terminal has been cast in copper alloy. It is likely that this terminal was the decorative terminal of an 11th century cheek piece, but it could equally be from another piece of horse furniture of the same date. The object has an openwork lozenge shaped ‘terminal’. Each corner of the lozenge has then been decorated with a rounded knop. This description is true of both sides of the terminal, as neither have any other decorative features. Extending from one of the knops is a bar of copper alloy, which would have atta…
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.