Record ID: BUC-1693A1
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete 11th-century copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of late early-medieval date, Williams Class B, no Type. The artefact represents around half of what was originally a rectangular mount with angled flange. In openwork, the mount bears the hind leg and curled tail of a left facing beast. The top of the tail, the rear paw and an element that emerges from the rear of the beast connect with the thin frame. The upper and side strips of the frame are decorated with a median groove. These strips are also finely notched at their outer edges. The beast is decorated with grooves which …
Created on: Monday 2nd July 2012
Last updated: Monday 28th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-168687
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Apparently base (?copper alloy) denarius of Septimius Severus, reverse VO[...], emperor standing left sacrificing, further details illegible, 193-c.270 (CWP 157)
Created on: Monday 2nd July 2012
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2012
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Record ID: BUC-167C40
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval or post medieval copper alloy circular seal matrix. The central motif depicts a simplified version of the lamb of God looking back at a staff topped with a cross. Behind the staff is a curving shape which may be a stylised flag. The margin where an inscription is usually appears is roughly decorated with irregular wavy lines and curliques. A thin rectangular perforated tab protrudes at right angles from the reverse of the matrix.
Created on: Monday 2nd July 2012
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-0AE0C4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman cast copper alloy mount, possibly a harness fitting or furniture mount. The mount is in the form of an eagle with the eagles slightly folded outwards with the tips of the wings touching the feet. The head is protruding and facing outwards. Between the feet the eagle has a small spherical ball between which has two lentoid notches which may be intentional or accidental damage. The body and upper legs are covered with linear notches forming columns '\/' which slightly overlap. The wings have columns of linear notches arranged as '=' with longer linear grooves depicting the folds…
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Saturday 13th June 2020
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Record ID: WAW-0AD812
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval cast copper alloy flask: The flask has a drop shaped body in profile and is circular plan. The base of the flask is rounded, therefore it cannot be stood on a surface. The neck of the flask tapers slightly and the rim is decorated with a collar. The rim is slightly damaged and therefore incomplete. Just below the collar, on one face, there are two very small holes which may be due to corrosion rather than intention. Integral to the flask there is a lug either side of the neck which are angular in section, and also corroded. The surface of the flask has a well developed shin…
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
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Record ID: WAW-0AC023
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A uni-faced cast lead token of later medieval or post-medieval date (1450-1800). The token is broadly circular in plan but has been abraded and damaged through movement in the soil. The upper face is decorated with a raised pattern consisting of a '+'. The reverse is plain and undecorated. The token is a grey colour with an abraded surface. The token measures 29.07mm in diameter, 3.45mm in thickness and weighs 5.4g.
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
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Record ID: WAW-0AB0B1
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Front plate of a cast copper alloy composite chape (metal fitting from the base of a scabbard) of probable late medieval or early post-medieval date (1400 -1600). The chape is sub-triangular in plan and sub-rectangular in profile. At the base of the chape is a small sub-cylindrical knop. The rear plate of this chape is lost. The front face of the chape is decorated with an obliquely angled ridge with five circular conical shaped indentations above and a crescent shaped openwork below. The chape is a dark grey colour with a shiny patina across most surfaces. The chape measures 45.79mm …
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
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Record ID: WAW-0A9A67
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single looped cast copper alloy buckle. The buckle frame is a 'D' shape in plan. It has an off-set and narrowed strap bar which is oval in section and is slightly crumpled due to damage. The frame tapers in width towards the strap bar, and is at its widest at the apex of the frame. The reverse of the frame is obliquely angled. The upper face is decorated with a lower row of small circular indentations. The frame has a mid green coloured shiny patina. The pin is missing. It measures 27.35mm wide and 16.29mm long from the apex of the frame to the strap bar. It weighs 4g. Egan and P…
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Friday 17th August 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0A8B47
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval copper alloy hooked strap fitting possibly from a sword belt. This fitting has a flat body that is triangular (kite shaped) in plan, with a lobe at the top. The tapered hook is oval in cross section and is bent in the same plain as the body (turned to the observers left, in the same plane as the body). There are the stumps of two square section iron rivots, one above the other along the central axis of the body. These would have held the fitting to the leather belt. The fitting is undecorated, and red brown in colour with patches of light green corrosion. Ther…
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton Abbotts', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-0A7353
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy trumpet brooch. The head has no wings and in plan is a horizontal oval; it is undecorated. The upper edge has a trace of a decorated integral perforated lug (headloop). The decoration is in the form of horizontal ridges. On the reverse of the bow head there are two vertical sub-oval integral lugs with a central perforation. The lugs support an axis bar around which the spring is coiled. Five coils of the spring remain, one forming the pin, which is missing. The spring chord is tucked below the lug and spring and is incomplete. The bow leads from the centre of the h…
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th December 2013
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Record ID: WAW-0A5266
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval jetton: Rose and orb jetton, appear to be most popular jettons of Hans Schultes I and Hans Krauwinckel II and probably date from the 1550's and (Mitchiner, M. 1988 Jettons, Medalets and Tokens: The Medieval Period and Nuremberg Seaby, p. 400 and 435) and continues to 1635. Obverse: Illegible legend. Three Crowns, alternately with three lis, arranged centrifrugally around a central rose. Reverse: Illegible legend. Imperial orb surmounted by a cross patty, within a tressure with three main arches.
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th December 2013
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Record ID: PUBLIC-086614
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval cast copper alloy asymmetrical buckle with a tinned surface and one rectangular and one D shaped loop. The outer edge of the D shaped loop is slightly narrower and the strap bar is narrowed and the pin is missing. It measures 34.85 mm in length, 23.47 mm wide and 2.73 mm thick. It weighs 4.5 grams. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar, simple buckle (p90, no.561) which he dates to c.1575-1700 AD
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'stone cum ebony', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-02C017
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver hammered penny of possibly Edward III 1351 - 1377. Uncertain mint.
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Record ID: IOW-016D76
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped and double struck Medieval silver penny of Edward IV (AD 1471-1483), minted at Durham under Bishop Lawrence Booth. Initial mark: illegible (North 1991: 95, refs: 1661-1664). Obverse: [ ]; Crowned bust facing with a bifoliate crown Reverse: [ ]/TAS[ ]/[ ]; Long cross dividing the inscription with three pellets in each quadrant, D at centre of cross
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-013B22
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clipped Medieval silver penny (not further defined). This coin may be Irish! Obverse: E[ ]DV; Crowned bust facing with a bifoliate crown Reverse: Long cross dividing the inscription with three pellets in each quadrant, quatrefoil at centre of cross Diameter: 14.47mm. Weight: 0.58g.
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-010FB1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval cast copper-alloy bar mount (c. AD 1150-c. 1450). The central part of this mount is oval in plan, domed at the front and concave at the rear. At each end there is an integral sub-oval terminal, convex at the front and flat at the rear. Each terminal is pierced for a separate rivet. One rivet is missing and the surviving rivet, made of copper-alloy, is flush with the front and projects at the rear. The front of the central part is decorated with five transverse incised grooves. The ridges between the grooves have been vertically cross-hatched. Height: 18.22mm; wi…
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-008324
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-Medieval silver threepence of Elizabeth I (AD 1558-1603), minted at London. Initial mark: coronet, dated 1567 on coin (North 1991: 135, ref: 1998). Obverse: ELIZABETH.D.G.ANG.FR.ET.HI.REGINA; Crowned bust left with a rose behind the head Reverse: POSVI/DEV.AD/IVTORE/M.MEV (I have made God my Helper); Square shield on long cross fourchée dividing the inscription with date of 1567 above shield Diameter: 19.55mm. Weight: 1.33g. DA=12:5.
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-0025B4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete and corroded post-Medieval cast copper-alloy hooked mount (c. AD 1550-c. 1650). The mount is convex at the front and partially concave at the rear. It is sub-trapezoidal in plan with a small 'U'-shaped incurve at the centre of the upper edge. The sides taper towards the rearwards projecting hook which is 'D'-shaped in cross-section, flat at the rear. Two rivet holes, one close to the upper edge and the other just below the centre of the plate, are both filled with the remains of an iron rivet. There is a transverse incised line just above the hook. The tip of the hook make…
Created on: Sunday 1st July 2012
Last updated: Friday 10th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-F34057
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-Medieval cast lead cloth seal from the city of Augsburg, Germany (c. AD 1500-c. 1625). A two part seal: Disc 1: A pine cone, the heraldic badge of the city of Augsburg. A trefoil is situated at each side of the pine cone. Disc 2: Largely missing. The stub of the rivet has an ornate initial letter A representing the place name. The joining strip is missing. The seal has a buff patina. Diameter: 17.54mm, thickness: 3.40mm. Weight: 3.16g. Seals from the fustians (mixed linen-warp and cotton weft fabrics) of Augsburg, known to contemporaries in this country as "…
Created on: Saturday 30th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-F2C8C3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy Anglo Saxon strap end of Thomas Class B, type 1 style. The strap end is 36.5mm long and is square-ended and parallel sided (4.6mm wide, 3.6mm thick) for 24mm from the terminal end, at which point itflares to a wedge shape 8.6mm wide. It has fractured at the attachment end across the mid-point of the two circular rivet holes that would have held the strap in place. The last 5mm of the attachment end is split into two, parallel to the face of the strap end in order to accommodate the strap. The last 9mm of the terminal end shows remains of trans…
Created on: Saturday 30th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 24th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.