Record ID: CPAT-2E9437
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver shilling of James I. From the Third Coinage of 1619-25, the mint mark of a lis or trefoil (it is a little unclear) indicates that it was minted in 1623-4.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 7th April 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-33AE27
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval mill-token. Fairly crude. Lead with a stylistic image of waterwheels, windmill sails and/or a millstone on the obverse, the reverse is plain.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-348075
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pierced thin disk of slate, a spindlewhorl with drilled, slightly off-centre, hole.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-FF57D8
Object type: STAFF WEAPON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of an iron staff weapon, or badge of rank, probably a cornet staff head. Similar to a large spearhead, with a rough, pitted surface. The socket is formed of two tongues of metal between which the wooden handle would have been held in place and secured with 2 rivets. The tip and cutting edges are blunt, or have been blunted in the past. The blade widens along its length from 15mm at the tip to 69mm at the base. The blade wings are bevelled to form a single mid-rib on either side of the blade. The blade shoulders (where they sweep from the maximum width to form the socket) are asymm…
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-12C835
Object type: WHIP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable terminal mount from a riding crop, in the shape of a horse's head with ears laid back against the head and mane swept to one side. Traces of tinning or paint survive in places on the surface. At the base of the neck is a hole for fixing to the crop, with traces of lead remaining around it.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 7th April 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-13DCD4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver shilling of Charles I. Triangular mintmark on both sides (Tower Mint under Charles). Clipped
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-14E242
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken and bent silver halfgroat of Charles I. Possibly used as a love token. Mintmark is a Cross Calvary on both sides indicating the Tower mint under the king 1625-6.
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-922557
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lozenge-shaped silver-gilt 16th century dress hook. Fine foliate decoration around the edges, with the decoration on the main body comprising 13 very fine twisted wire circles surrounding 8 tiny spheres (five of which are missing) and 5 larger raised points (four of which have broken off). (Filigree and granulated ornament). The broken sections have exposed the hollow core of the artefact. A back-plate (pierced by a single central hole), raised transverse bar and re-curved hook are soldered onto the rear. The hook has two cracks in it and has been soldered at least once.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 7th April 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-A408E0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver, penny, Henry III (1216-72), Short Cross Class 7b or c (1216-47), Canterbury, Seaby/Spink p.146.
Created on: Wednesday 26th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-D25B04
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small (110mm long), unlooped palstave with a narrow blade which has only a slight splay towards the cutting edge (min. width of blade-face= 21mm, max.= 28mm). There is a single mid-rib on either face of length c.45mm which fades out c.30mm before the curved cutting edge. The blade-tips have rounded corners with no recurve. The septum is quite small (length=36mm, min. width=13mm, max.=22mm) with very slight flanges (max. height=2mm). The stop ridge is straight and one side is slightly higher than the other (width at stop-ridge=22mm). There are also traces of a casting-scar on one sid…
Created on: Friday 28th September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-22E597
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Bow-and-Fantail brooch (the spring cover, axis-bar, suspension loop, spring and pin are missing). The remaining part of the narrow bow is 13mm long and has been twisted and flattened. The fantail foot (18mm long and max. 18mm wide) is decorated with a lozenge or star above a swirl pattern. The foot is slightly bent on one side. On the reverse is an incomplete catchplate. There are several areas of bronze disease visible overall. A very similar, complete example is illustrated as No.76 in Fig.42 of Hattat's 'Ancient and Romano-British Brooches', pp103 and is categorised a…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-3A15F5
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper alloy knife-dagger 103mm in length, 38mm in width (max.), with ogival form and single mid-rib. The edges are bevelled (bevels up to 4mm in width) and some of the surface scratches may be evidence of sharpening, only parts of the blade-edge survive. Two incomplete rivet holes can be discerned at the damaged butt, but insufficient of either survive to allow the diameters to be established. The thickness ranges from 4mm towards the tip to 2mm at the base. There is much pitting and other areas of corrosion on the surface. While it is similar to two daggers illustrated in the N…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-5F0B55
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
A small, narrow-butted copper-alloy flat axe from the Early Bronze Age. The rounded cutting edge (37mm wide) shows signs of having been slightly flared, though one side is partly missing. The body of the axe has a bevel, approximately 55mm from the cutting edge, but this is not very pronounced. The axe tapers back to a thin, semi-circular butt (19mm wide). The axe is heavily corroded with no sign of decoration. Note - Peter Reavill - 18/5/21. Thanks are extended to Dr Brendan O'Connor who has suggested that this axe form is now better understood after the recent publication …
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 18th May 2021
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Record ID: CPAT-6092C2
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy, rhomboid shaped Roman seal box. The box is of hinged, two piece construction and is largely intact. The rhomboid shaped box lid has a raised outer edge with two circles in the centre of the field. The centre circles are filled with blue enamel and there are traces of red enamel in the field surrounding them. There is a lug on the underside of the lid that fits into a socket in the box section. Intriguingly, the wax seal is in situ but there is no discernable seal impression. The bottom section of the box is pierced by three fixing holes, and a small section of one …
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-62B342
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A double-loop, circular copper alloy buckle complete with pin. The buckle is late medieval to Post Medieval and bears a strong resemblance to C. Marshall's Medieval Type IIIB and Post-Medieval Type IIIB in 'Buckles Through The Ages'. There is a knop to each side of the buckle, characteristic of a zoomorphic head and tail.
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-633D63
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A narrow-bladed, copper-alloy dagger, 127mm in length, 31mm in width and 4mm in section (max) with an ogival form and a single midrib running the length of the weapon. There is evidence of a bevel and sharpening at the butt end but most of the edge is eroded. The butt has two clear rivet holes both damaged and incomplete but with sufficient to indicate a rivet diameter of 5mm. The tip and butt are both damaged and while much of the original surface survives with a dark brown patina, patches have been lost to corrosion. The dagger is similar in form to a dirk or rapier but its length (…
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-636233
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hammered silver short cross penny, probably of King John. The obverse side is struck in the name of Henry II and has a very crude bust. The reverse has a voided short cross with quatrefoils in each quadrant with the moneyer as Ilger of London. The coin is struck off centre. It is similar to the class 6a coinage of King John (1199 - 1216) in Seaby (pp145-7).
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 7th April 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-CB4323
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Conwy
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman coin with extensive wear and degradation of the identifiable marks. The obverse has a portrait head not dissimilar to Severus Alexander (AD222 – AD235) and the size would indicate that it is a Sestertius. The reverse has a standing figure, possibly Ceres with the initials SC to either side. The coin has the appearance and style of a counterfeit of the period.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-CB6BE6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy ring, in the form of a two turn spiral that has the appearance of a late Bronze Age/Iron age artefact. It may have been a finger ring or perhaps a hair ring. Similar examples, classed as finger rings have been found in context at the Iron Age Hill Fort at Hod Hill. This type of ring is also known in the early Roman period. (See Catherine Johns – Jewellery of Roman Britain.)
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-DA8E32
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman cast copper-alloy figurine of Salus feeding a snake. Very similar to item WILT-D40CD5 published in the PAS Annual Report 2011, pp23. The figurine has lost its lower legs and feet (if it ever had any) and the surface is quite abraded with little fine detail visible.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2013
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