Record ID: ESS-F83100
Object type: VOTIVE MODEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A silver miniature votive axe of Roman date. Iron corrosion is concentrated on the base of the axe, suggesting that other features were once present. Dimensions: length: 36.7mm, width: 15.5mm, thickness: 7.7mm, weight: 8.62g Discussion: Although no other silver votive axes exist on the database, a silver votive dagger of Roman date (NMS-F2D1B2) was declared treasure (Treasure case tracking number: 2008T515). A number of copper-alloy axe heads have been catalogued; although these usually combine the head with a handle, they are sometimes socketed in a similar manner to this one; for …
Created on: Wednesday 4th September 2019
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: PAS-C3A106
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
This very small object is a fragment from a small silver vessel, of cup or bowl shape. In section there is a clear angle, suggesting a more or less vertical and decorated rim or upper body, and a carination below which the plain body tapers inwards. The decoration is a simply engraved series of pointed ovules, possibly alternating in direction. No trace of inlay can be seen. 22 x 16 x about 1mm; weight: 3.1g. X-ray fluorescence analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content of 98 per cent. The style of the decoration and the quality of the m…
Created on: Wednesday 9th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 9th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-58D197
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver probable vessel mount. Cast plate with, described from the top, a sharply angled hook, now broken and perhaps originally engaging the rim of a vessel; a collar with seven vertically incised notches; an elongated concavo-convex plate with a vegetal scroll enclosing a field of tiny overlapping circular punch marks on the display face, hollowed behind, above a tapered flat-backed leg with a collared moulded and knopped foot or terminal. The object is curved in profile, a probably original feature perhaps exaggerated by subsequent bending.Suggested date: Possibly Roman, 40-400. In …
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
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Record ID: IARCH-61693D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Folded fragment of vessel BM 1974,0601.5.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Water Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-67390D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
"An urn covered with a leather bag." "The leather immediately mouldered away on exposure to the atmosphere; and the silver urn, which glittered at the first disclosure to the air, assumed an earthy hue; or, as the boy himself expressed it 'all eazed [i.e. decayed] away together'. The Urn is said to have been broad like a bason with an ornamented circular edge turned downwards" According to C Johns probably a flanged bowl of a date as early as the 3rd century AD. [could also be pewter??] Leather bag
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whorlton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1220CD
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Redcar and Cleveland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken by plough. No further details.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wilton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-349C15
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver vase or flask found to contain a Theodosian coin hoard (IARCH-E79EBA) Described as follows by Blyth 1836, 95 (quoted in Robertson 2000, 386): "It is a silver Roman ampulla, or bottle-shaped vessel, in good condition...Its weight is 8 oz. and its height 8 inches. It was found behind the plough by a labourer at Fincham, in September, 1801, and taken to Lynn, and sold as old metal to a silversmith, of whom Mr. Hankinson bought it." It is illustrated in this account; Robertson notes that "The fig. shows that the flask was pear-shaped, 8 in. high and 4 in. wide. It passed into t…
Created on: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-30ACA3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
The two silver items are both fragmentary: Fragment 1: a small rectangular piece of hack-silver, cut from a silver vessel. All four edges have been cut, and there is a hesitant transverse cut running inside one of the longer edges. Both faces of the silver are plain, and the fragment is flat. Maximum length 14mm x width 9.1mm x thickness 2.6mm. Weight 2.27g. Fragment 2: small 'pie-slice' fragment from a circular lid or vessel rim, with a plain bevelled edge. The surviving rim diameter can be estimated at about 9-10cm. Maximum length 15.6mm x width 16.45 x maximum thickness…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 30th September 2019
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Record ID: NMS1577
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver fragment of probable Roman vessel rim, beading around upper edge, three adjacent wire strands, two twisted and one plain, small vertical gap containing a tiny pyramidal boss near broken edge and a further plain wire strand immediately below. 15 x 11mm. 1st to 4th centuries AD.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 11th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST WALTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-135C98
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CURATOR'S REPORT Description of find A distorted and fragmentary silver-gilt decorative mount of probable Roman date. The mount, probably a component of a composite object, appears to have been of flared octagonal form and seems to retain original upper and lower edges. There is an irregular W-shaped cut-out in one edge. The outer face has a symmetrical decor comprising a toothed band below each edge and two bands of running chevron with gilded ribbing between the bands. Discussion The damaged nature of the mount prevents a definitive identification or an unequivocal assignme…
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 5th April 2011
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Record ID: LIN-C19022
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver. This object appears to have been cut from a larger silver object, such as a dish or handle. On the upper surface there is a beaded borded and the beginnings of what looks like the neck from a bust, however the object is too large and thick to have been a coin. The reverse is completely blank, and there are very clear grooved linear marks on both faces showing that it has been cut or clipped on every side from a larger object. The style of the object appears to be Roman, however the object was found on a site producing much Anglo-Saxon material, and hence may act…
Created on: Wednesday 9th July 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-12B208
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver, probably from the head of a hair-pin and probably of Roman date. The fragment is rectangular in section and consists of a series of mouldings: at the top is a wedge shaped moulding and below three rectangular block mouldings which narrow to a sub-circular button. Below this there is a break, presumably where the shaft of the pin would have started. There is also a possible further break on the top end of the fragment.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2011
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Godstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-905A66
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A unidentified base silver or pewter object of uncertain date. The object comprises a tongue-shaped plate which is broken at one end. At the other tapered end, there is a rectangular-section lug which is bent back on itself. The upper surface of the plate possesses marginal ribs and possesses moulded decoration. This comprises a panel of stylised vine scroll decoration, extending to a triangle filled with six dots. From the apex of the triangle, there extends a further rib, which separates the remainder of the plate into two panels. In each panel is a further dot. The underside of the…
Created on: Friday 28th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Record ID: BM-CA38B9
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver object of uncertain function, probably a decorative fitting although it is acknowledged that it resembles an early Roman armilla. The object comprises a flat rectangular strip. The margins of the strip are decorated with an outer band of larger globular mouldings and an inner band of small mouldings. The inner band is flanked by grooves. At one end, the object ends in a square terminal in which there are two triangular cut outs. At the other, the object is broken or cut diagonally. The underside of the object is plain, save for centrally-positioned small raised kn…
Created on: Saturday 13th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 18th November 2019
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Record ID: IARCH-15A6DA
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Frag. of sheet silver, possibly part of spoon or other silver vessel. 1857,1109.9. 1.6 cm. x 6 mm
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whorlton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A941DB
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
64 fragments of silver that have been melted down and cut up with a hammer and chisel, 722.29g in total and individually ranging from 1g to 163g. The largest piece is incised with the numerals XII and VIIII. S Minnitt 2009, p.307 The finder described the hacksilver as concentrated together as a discrete component of the assemblage. The two denarii may also have been included as bullion.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Bagborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-114A0A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cut up objects consisting of one short length of wire and 8 small pieces of sheet, combined weight 5.94g. One of the pieces of sheet bears repousse decoration but the others are plain. S Minnitt 2009, p.307.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Bagborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-209C98
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Uncertain fragment Found in 1998.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burgate', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-B7C8DF
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Snake-head terminal Is this 1978,0108.179: Silver object fragment in the shape of a (miniature) spoon bowl or scoop with hooked stem (broken at the stem end). The convex underside has four radiating rows of dotted lines decorating the surface?.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waltham St. Lawrence', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E27AD1
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragments of scrap.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snettisham Jeweller's Hoard', grid reference and parish protected.