Record ID: SUSS-79A5E1
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of Mesolithic to early Neolithic date c. 9000-3300 BC. The core is conical with a single hard hammered striking platform with a pronounced bulb of percussion and a large area of cortex remaining. There are four unidirectional long blade removals around the core,two with hinged terminations.  The flint is transluscent grey in colour. Dimensions: length: 48.2mm; width: 39.7mm; height: 39.1mm and weight: 50.59g.  This core was found in scattered spread of flint finds; see: SUSS-793E72 and SUSS-66C0E8
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-793E72
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint core of suggested Mesolithic to early Neolithic date c. 9000-3300 BC. The small core is conical with a single striking platform with regular unidirectional short flake removals around the core with some platform preparation; the point of the cone truncated. The flint is black in colour. Dimensions: length: 36.8mm; width: 27.8mm; height: 14.4mm and weight: 11.44g.  This core was found in scattered spread of flint finds; see: SUSS-79A5E1 and SUSS-66C0E8
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-66C0E8
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblage of 7 incomplete struck flint blades (debitage) representing multiple periods of activity from the Mesolithic to early Neolithic periods c. 9000 BC - 3300 BC. The assemblage is composed of tertiary flakes; all of different shades of opaque black, opaque and translucent grey and translucent yellow. None show evidence of retouch. The largest black flake is hard hammer struck with a pronounced bulb of percussion. The rest are soft hammer struck, narrow blades of suggested Mesolithic to early Neolithic date c. 9000-3300BC.  Two cores were f…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-65DE09
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn Medieval silver penny of Edward I (AD 1272-1307) class 10cf dating to AD 1305-1310. Mint of London.  Dimensions: diameter: 16.53mm,  weight: 0.93g
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-65B748
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy nummus of Helena (AD 324-341) PAX PVBLICA reverse type, dating between AD 337-340. (Reece period 17). Unclear mint.  Dimensions: diameter: 13.75mm,  thickness: 1.71mm,  weight: 1.17g. This coin was found within 2m of three other late roman coins: SUSS-659128; SUSS-65834D and SUSS-6560F3.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-659128
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy barbarous radiate copying Tetricus II (AD 271-274) dating between AD 275-285 (Reece period 14).  PIETAS AVGG reverse type depicting sacrificial implements. Unclear mint prototype. Dimensions: diameter: 10.54mm,  thickness: 1.79mm,  weight: 0.68g. D/A: 7.  This coin was found within 2m of three other late roman coins:SUSS-65B748; SUSS-65834D and SUSS-6560F3.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-6560F3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337) dating to AD 320. (Reece period 16). DN CONSTANTINI MAX AVG reverse type depicting VOT XX within wreath. Mint of Ticinum *//[P]T. Cf. RIC VII: p. 378 no: 130.  Diameter: 18.76mm,  thickness: 1.59mm,  weight: 1.74. This coin was found within 2m of three other late roman coins: SUSS-659128; SUSS-65B748 and SUSS-65834D.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-652A23
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead or lead alloy circular flat weight of Medieval to Post Medieval date c. 1280-1700. The flat weight is circular and thick with possible stamped illegible characters on one face with a rough surface. The reverse is smoother with two transverse impressed grooves (probably damage); with a series of incised lines, possibly the shoulders and bust of a helmeted figure facing right. The object has a buff patina. Measurements: diameter: 33.75mm; thickness: 8.41mm and weight: 71.2g.  Lead objects such as this are common metal detector finds but are rare fr…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-126B72
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval biface cast copper-alloy token dating to AD 1672. Obverse: The head and neck of an antelope facing left within beaded circle. Legend: * HONYCHILD•1672 (initial mark of a sexfoiled rosette). Reverse: monogram of S C between single sexfoiled rosettes within beaded circle. Legend: •OF*THE•MANOR. Measurements: diameter: 21.40mm; thickness: 1.04mm and weight: 1.94g. D/A:1.  A token recorded on the database; KENT-04D1E3; also may relate to Honeychild Manor which it notes was frequently home to powerful individuals, many of…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-123265
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval silver farthing of Richard II (AD 1377-1399) Early bust type/Withers type 1g (North no. 1333a) dating to AD 1377-1399. Mint of London.  Diameter: 10.30mm and weight: 0.27g. 
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-1218EB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn Roman copper alloy contemporary copy of an as of Claudius (AD 41-54) dating to period c. 41-54. (Reece Period 2). Reverse type Minerva advancing right brandishing spear and holding shield. Prototype mint of Rome, as RIC vol.I, p.128 no.100. Dimensions: diameter: 20.54mm,  thickness: 1.18mm,  weight: 3.84g Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS as…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-11EA8F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272 - 1307), dating to AD 1300 - 1302. Class 10ab2, mint of Canterbury. North (1991) Volume 2, p 31 no 1038/1. Diameter: 17.25mm and weight: 1.14g. The flan is bent with a slight tear. 
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-117668
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and lightly clipped bent medieval silver halfpenny of Edward III (1327-1377);  Star marked coinage dating c. AD 1335-1343. Withers (2002) type 4(ii) or 5(ii). Mint of London. Cf. North (1991) number 1102/1.   Diameter: 12.81mm and weight: 0.56g. 
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-10B5C2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and lightly clipped bent medieval silver halfpenny of Richard II (1377-1399) dating c. AD 1377-1399. Probably Withers (2002) type 2. Mint of London. Cf. North (1991) number 1331.  
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-105D92
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn post medieval copper alloy rose farthing of Charles I (AD 1625-1649) dating c. 1636-1644. Probably Rose type 1 as North (1991) no.2288-2290.  The coin contains a copper-alloy (brass) wedge which was added to negate counterfeiting Dimensions: diameter: 13.75mm,  thickness: 0.70mm,  weight: 0.63g
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-E8FE43
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy candle-holder of Late Medieval to Post Medieval dating, c.AD 1475-1600. The candle holder is incomplete, the cup and half the shaft surviving with the lower shaft lost to a worn break. The shaft and cup are circular in cross section, the shaft being decorated with a raised collar 18.47mm in diameter 9mm above the break in the shaft. The cup flares out from the top of the shaft with a slight circumferential recess, and a very worn circumferential linear double groove halfway up the cup, with another just before the rim of the cup. The rim of the cup is u…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-E87062
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver medieval cut farthing of Henry III (AD 1216-1272) dating between AD 1248-1256. Long-cross class IIa or Vb. Probably mint of Canterbury. North (1991) no: 985 or 991. Dimensions: length: 8.63mm,  width: 8.11mm,  thickness: 0.72mm,  weight: 0.28g
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-E80DA6
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval copper alloy casket key dating to c. AD 1150-1450. The bow of the key is circular with an oval cross section and internal diameter of 5.18mm. The solid stem is sub-rectangular in cross section, extending from the base of the bow and terminating in a projecting pin beyond the bit. The bit has a rectangular ward with clefts on each side forming an inverted 'T' shape. The key has a dark green patina, and is bent slightly to the left. Dimensions: length: 32.90mm,  width: 9.23mm,  thickness: 2.57mm,  weight: 2.43g Similar keys can…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-E59744
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A retouched flint flake of suggested middle Neolithic to early Bronze Age date c. 3300-1000 BC.  The secondary flake is elongated and sub-triangular in plan and cross-section; a small section of cortex surviving at the distal edge which has a chip at the terminal with fresh breaks suggesting more recent damage. The ventral surface is slightly concave with a pronounced bulb of percussion and raised rippling suggested hard hammer working. The dorsal surface has five removal scars with crude removals at the proximal end, possibly damage, but some finer …
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-E48690
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval copper alloy double loop oval buckle dating between AD 1550-1650 The frame is roughly oval in plan and D-shaped in cross section, with concave long sides with a projecting knop at either end of the pin bar. The outside edges of each loop also expand into a pointed knop, the internal outside edges are also slightly expanded creating a kidney shaped aperture. A loose copper alloy wrap around pin has survived in situ, formed from a copper strip measuring 22.11mm long. One loop has of the buckle has slightly bevelled inside edges, the o…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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