Record ID: SUR-2398CE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely corroded copper alloy Sestertius possibly of Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius and dating to circa AD 138-180 (Reece period 7 or 8). Uncertain reverse type depicting figure standing left. Mint of Rome.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Basingstoke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-239678
Object type: COIN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy unidentified object of unknown date.  Description: The object is circular, although worn around the edges. It is slightly domed on one side and concave on the other. Both faces have several deep circular pits. The object has a medium and dark green patina.  Measurements: diameter: 12.2mm; thickness: 5.5mm; weight: 2.59g
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-2378B0
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy fragment which may be part of a figurine, small bust or decorative figurative fitting, 46.3mm in length. There is a distinct fringe of five projecting leaf forms around the curved lower(?) edge, each with three to five pointed denticulate tips around the margins and with incised details of veins and stalks evident on the surface. These leaves frame a smooth convex area which tapers into a broken projection, which appear to be shoulders and neck from a female(?) portrait bust. On the left shoulder is a distinct curved form with incised lines along it, …
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: ESS-234CF0
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy pin (Cool Group 1) of probable Roman date (c.43-410). Description: The pin remains as the flattened spherical head and base of the shank, now very worn. The pin has dark green patina.  Measurements: diameter: 7.3mm; height: 7.5mm; weight: 1.34g
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-2348EF
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily corroded copper-alloy French jetton. Possibly AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENA legend with the reverse depicting a triple stranded cross fleuretty within a four arched tressure. Probably dating to c.1380-1500. Not further defined. Diameter 24.4mm, thickness 1.5mm, weight 3.9g. Broadly similar examples at: SUR-F14E62, SUR-3CB821 and SUR-923BCF.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-233564
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small Mesolithic flint blade struck from a mottled pale grey to white flint, 35.3mm in length. On long edge appears to have been refined with low angle, short, scaled retouch.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: ESS-2327DC
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy sword belt fitting of post-medieval date (c.1500-1700) Description: The object is sub-triangular in plan, comprising a flat curvilinear plate, now slightly bent, with splayed bifid terminals to either end, wider at the bottom than the top. The centre point of the top terminal extends into a circular-sectioned hook which is now broken at its base.  Two small perforations are pierced along the centre of the object, one at the top and one at the bottom. The plate is decorated on the front surface with a moulded foliate design in relief. T…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-23140C
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A secondary core trimming or rejuvenation flake of Mesolithic or later date, struck from a dark grey flint and 42.5mm in length. The flake is curved, with a small striking platform at the proximal end with a low bulbar scar suggesting soft-hammer removal. There are a number of parallel removal scars on the proximal half of the dorsal surface, including one which has resulted in a hinge fracture. A large patch of brown coloured cortex remains on the curved distal end.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-2301CB
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic or early Bronze Age scraper struck from a secondary flake of grey flint, 43.6mm in length. The distal end and adjacent parts of the long sides have short abrupt retouch to define a working edge. A small area of buff coloured cortex is retained on one side of the distal end of the dorsal surface. The proximal end tapers to a small striking platform.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-22C4FB
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval copper alloy composite dandy button dating c. 1700-1800. The object is very worn and corroded  and consists of a flat circular plate with concentric decoration comprising an inner circular recess and ann outer annular recess which has a separate metal annular plate in the base. The reverse face of the plate is flat and undecorated, with the sub-circular scar of an attachment loop at the centre. On the upper edge, a small section of the flan is bent at a right angle. The object is dark green/brown in colour  Dimensions: diameter: 29.39mm,&nbs…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 31st January 2024
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Record ID: LANCUM-223D66
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Diocletian. Obverse, bust right laurel wreath(?) IMP DIOCLETIANVS PA__. Reverse type GENIO POPVLI ROMANI with S F//[]ITR mintmark in exergue for Trier (AD 302-303). The coin has a dark brown patina in the background, mid copper green on the highlights. Die axis 6 o'clock Dimensions:  Diameter 27mm, weight 6.65g. Thanks to Andrew Brown and Eleanor Ghey for help with identification                             
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Colby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-223CAD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of House of Constantine - Constantine II, Constantius II, or Constans. c. AD 335-341. Both sides of the coin have an even dark brown patina Obverse, bust right, laurel wreath DN FL CON __________ Reverse, two soldiers standing either side of a standard.  Dimensions: Diameter 16mm, weight 1.27g.             Die axis 5 o'clock
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Colby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-223B2B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy as, probably 2nd century Antonine period. The obverse has a raised area where the bust would have been cast, and the reverse a possible column or figure standing in the centre, but no evidential details are discernible. The coin has an uneven brown/orange patina, with some copper green 'spots' Dimensions: 22mm diameter, 4.38g Thanks to Andrew Brown and Eleanor Ghey for their help with identification
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Colby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2239D4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze coin of Hadrian. No script discernible, chipped on edge in places. The coin has an even dark patina, green where the edges have been chipped. Dimensions: Diameter 32mm, weight 19.40g.              
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Colby', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-141AED
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy asymmetrical flat mount with two round-sectioned integral attachment spikes on the reverse. Similar in form to many examples, e.g. SUR-2822FC, LIN-81712E and BH-B115A9, the latter with a list of others, but differing in one small detail: there are two small notches, rather than one, in the centre of the heart-shaped end. Both spikes, complete and not bent, taper along their length to a point and would not have been attached to leather with any confidence. Weight 1.52g. Length 19mm. Width 11.7mm. Thickness without spikes 1.2mm. Length of spikes 7.2mm. 16t…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-13AB08
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval copper alloy book fitting, a hooked clasp with sides which diverge gently from the hook before expanding to a fishtail terminal, Howsam 2016 Type A.3.1. Two small holes are aligned transversely between the terminal and a parallel row of three others. In the same area there are numerous, probably punched, longitudinal lines. Towards the centre a punched ring-and-dot has penetrated the metal at the dot. Nearer the hook a slightly larger hole, for a rivet, lies close to another set of longitudinal lines. Immediately before the hook there …
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-1391B7
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Published
Circumstances of discovery and reporting A hoard of 37 Roman silver coins was discovered by David Henry Moss and Tom Taylor on 20th-21st December 2018 and 19th January 2019 in Caerhun Community, Conwy. The coins were found while metal detecting on cultivated land that was under pasture at the time. The findspot (a National Grid Reference) of the coins and addresses of interested parties are given on the Treasure Receipt Form. The coins were discovered scattered in shallow rocky ploughsoil at depths of approximately 3-4 inches. Mr Moss and Mr Taylor discovered another coin hoard of Ro…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caerhun Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-135AA8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper alloy contemporary copy of a radiate (barbarous radiate) copying a coin of Tetricus II (271-4) dating c. 275-285. (Reece period 14). Unclear reverse type depicting linear standing figure and unclear prototype mint.  Diameter: 15.03mm and weight: 1.41g. 
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-134E0A
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval ceramic peg tile, pale reduced with yellowish surfaces with pink patches, thickness 11mm, weight 53g. Mid 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: ESS-131F31
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy double-looped buckle of post-medieval date (c.1570-1700). Description: The frame is flat on both faces. It is symmetrical and each loop is pentagonal in plan. At the centre of each outside edge there is a flat pointed swelling forming a triangle. There are lobed protrusions at the ends of the bar which is sub-rectangular in cross-section. Both faces are plain. It does not have a pin. It is white metal coated and has some iron corrosion. Measurements: length: 23.6mm, width: 40.9mm, thickness: 2.1mm, weight: 6.50g. Discussion: A…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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