Record ID: ESS-5EE896
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete Post Medieval silver cufflink. It is one element of a set of silver cufflinks, and would have been attached to a similar item by a wire link. The object is circular, with a downward turned rim. The raised design on the upper surface comprises a pair of clasped hands, the wrists emerging from cuffs, and a crown located above the hands and two hearts below. The hearts have leaf-like projections within their clefts, possibly a flame (Lewis form 1, type C). The background to this raised decoration has been decorated with a stippled effect and the whole is surroun…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brentwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-DED29E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Stockton-on-Tees
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy and enamel finger ring, of which only the bezel survives, of Roman date, probably (c.AD200-300).  A pellet or circle at the centre of the ring is infilled with white enamel and is surrounded by further concentric circles, one of which has fragmentary (possible) upstanding copper alloy decoration. Traces of gilding survive on the outermost circle. The concentric circles sit within a quatrefoil design, of which three lobes survive. The recesses within each of the four lobes is partially infilled with what appears to be light coloured enamel and close insp…
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAJN-4FFC2C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A gilded early-medieval silver penny of Eadred (946-55), Flower type (floral type 'b'; North 720), moneyer: Edweard, mint: 'north-west England' (North Midlands/NW England). Ref: North 1994: 143. The coin is chipped at three points around the edge and these coincide with breaks in the flan. The reverse of the coin has been gilded.
Created on: Friday 7th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-05F799
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold finger ring with a single set red cabochon gemstone of Roman date (c. AD 43-200). Description: The band of the finger ring has a plano-convex profile which has been slightly squashed and forms a sub-rectangular hoop. The interior of the band is plain, and the exterior is plain and widens from the shoulders to the bezel which is set with the plain red stone. This ring conforms to the Guiraud Type 2c ring. Dimensions: Length: 28.44mm; Width: 22.88mm; Thickness: 2.15mm; Weight: 3.78g. Discussion: Finger rings conforming to the Guiraud Type 2c category are well-attes…
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Revesby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B0FF45
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Unusual partly gilded silver and niello-inlaid mount of early-medieval date, perhaps broken and repaired. It is rectangular, thick and hollowed on the reverse, and decorated in Carolingian-style relief with openwork elements. The decoration is based around a bold raised flat-topped diagonal cross or saltire dividing the square into quarters, with  a worn boss in the centre and at the end of each arm. At the end of each arm of the saltire is a low-relief leaf motif, with a sunken, lobed centre and an outcurved leaf to either side which is inlaid with a niell…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NCL-5683C3
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a copper alloy and enamel terret ring from the Late Iron Age/early Roman period, c. BC 100-AD 100. The artefact consists of a fragment of the copper alloy terret ring, broken at both ends and tapering from the base to the sides of the ring. The thinnest end is broken and the exposed face is highly abraded. A circular boss with red and white enamel inlay projects from the terret ring. At its widest end is an integral curved collar with a projecting fragment with a rectangular profile extending from it.  Terret rings were used to guide reins on horse harnesses and…
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: ESS-469B4A
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy bracelet of Roman to early medieval date (c. 200-450). Description: The bracelet remains as a section with transverse breaks at each end. The cross-section is rectangular. The fragment is decorated with a pair of oblique grooves flanking a punched ring-and-dot. and pair of transverse grooves then divide this from a fiurther ring and dot. The width of the bracelet varies in accordance with the decoration, being wide and straight where there are ring-and-dots, and becoming narrower and oblique to frame the oblique grooves. …
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: ESS-C4B808
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch (Harlow) of Roman date (AD 50-80). Description: The brooch has a half-cylindrical head with double-pierced lug in which the external cord of the spring and axis bar are held, now missing. The wings are worn. The top lug is rounded and the crest emerges at a low angle from this, flattening  as it travels down the length of the bow. Two further crests flank this and and two more travel down the edges of the bow, starting on the head. The bow narrows along its length, ending in a worn, rounded break.…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-2794A2
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Partly distorted lower part of a medieval lead ampulla. On one face a Spencer (1971) Type II scallop shell. On the other within a hatched circular frame the letter H on a cross-hatched ground. Height and width 28mm. Mid 14th - early 16th century. Similar ampullae have been found in Norfolk, Great Dunham (HER 49128, NMS-005522), Heacham (HER 51073, NMS-19F692) and Welney (HER 4437, NMS585). A greater number have been recorded from Lincolnshire (LIN-5064D2, LIN-797325, LIN-67DEC6, LIN-625C14, NLM4698, NLM-6BA294, NLM-F3CCB2). The significance of the letter H is uncertain. Would it be t…
Created on: Thursday 31st October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: ESS-28CCB4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A complete gold post-medieval mourning finger ring dating to c.AD1690.  The hoop is circular but bent, making it slightly elongated in shape.  The outer surface is decorated at the bezel with an incised design of what is likely a stylised skull motif.  The decoration is damaged, but semi-circular lines representing the right and left edges of the skull are visible.  Incised lines at the bottom of the skull represent the mouth and teeth.  There is some damage to the exterior of the hoop consisting of chips and scratches.  The interior of …
Created on: Monday 15th November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Black Notley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-DA5F6D
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete silver button from a cufflink of ‘crown and heart’ type. It is circular with a downward-turned rim. The raised design on the upper surface comprises a crown above two hearts which has been stamped out from the reverse (Lewis (2013) Form 1, Type A). The reverse has a silver wire loop soldered to its surface which would have been attached to a matching button forming the other end of the link. Dimensions: Diameter: 19 mm; Thickness: 10 mm; Weight: 0.92g. Discussion: The style of the iconography provides a broad dating to the reign of Charles II (1…
Created on: Monday 20th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wethersfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-ACCE62
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch Harlow CD Ha 1.b of Roman date (AD 50-80). Description: The brooch has a half-cylindrical head with double-pierced lug in which the external cord of the spring and axis bar are held. The axis bar has broken in half and has come out of the lug, although it is still intact inside the spring. The spring is complete coiling around the axis bar four times on the right before passing over the head, through the lug, coiling around the left hand side of the axis bar three times and extending into the now missing pin.&nb…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: ESS-AD1A5A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch (Harlow) of Roman date (AD 50-80). Description: The brooch has a half-cylindrical head with double-pierced lug in which the external cord of the spring and axis bar are held, now missing.  The wings are decorated with grooved ridges at the ends and beside the bow. The top lug is rounded and the crest emerges at a low angle from this, flattening  as it travels down the length of the bow. Two further crests flank this, merging with the central one, and two further ridges travel down the edges of the bow. The …
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4F2537
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Broken copper-alloy Roman devolved trumpet brooch of Bayley and Butcher 2004, Group C; Mackreth type TR. 1a.1a. The spring mechanism, pin, lower bow, foot, and catchplate are all missing. The trumpet-shaped head from which the brooch gets its name is plain; with a projecting nib uppermost. On the reverse of the head is a perpendicular loop that would have retained the spring. There is a three-disc knob on the upper bow. The outer tiers are fluted into four-petalled mouldings that run entirely around the bow. Both reverse petals are less prominent…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: KENT-33C787
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An imported Roman copper-alloy bowl and two forged iron bars dating to the 1st century AD. Bowl initially discovered and reported to the FLO in situ 0.4m below the surface, in a pit. Subsequently recovered by Canterbury Archaeological Trust, along with the iron bars and some scattered Gallo-Belgic ceramics of 1st century BC-1st century AD the latter found in the fill of all features excavated on site. Project number PHW-EX-1. Description: The bowl had been placed inverted in pit and did not lay flat, but rather at an angle of about 45°. No trace of any contents w…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North East kent', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C79033
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch with the spring, the pin, almost all of both wings, the lower part of the bow and all of the catchplate missing. The three beaks are not recent. Two probably beaded ribs run down the centre of the bow and some white-metal coating remains within the space between them. Weight 5.06g. Extant length 24.7mm. AD c.43 - c.65.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-368882
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval seal matrix, flat with median rib ending in pierced lug on reverse. Pointed oval, 41 x 25mm. Arm in sleeve holding crozier with crescent moon to left and star to right. + CONTRAS' ABATI DE PONTE ROB'I· (Counterseal of the Abbot of Robertsbridge). The Ns are retrograde. A counterseal (contrasigillum, Latham 1965, 112) was impressed on the reverse of the wax as a corroboration of the owner's principal seal (Harvey and McGuinness 1996, 9). The Cistercian Abbey of Robertsbridge in Sussex was founded in 1176. A known early 13th-century counterseal is not impresse…
Created on: Tuesday 6th January 2009
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-82876F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative rearhook brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD RH 1, perhaps 1g. The spring, pin, foot, catchplate and tiny fragments of the tips of the wings are missing. The rest is in a fairly worn and abraded condition, including the breaks. The wings are C-shaped in cross-section, convex on the front and concave on the reverse. They are each decorated with a pair of moulded transverse ridges near the tips. The short distance from these ridges to the head of the bow is longitudinally concave, suggestive of a bead and reel motif. The bow is…
Created on: Friday 7th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-0A599F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative rearhook brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD RH 4b or 5b. The spring, pin, all but a stub of the chord-hook and catchplate are missing. The wings are convex on the front, concave on the reverse (a very shallow C-shape in cross-section). They taper in width from the head of the bow to their rounded tips. One is more heavily abraded on the underside and has lost a greater depth of surface on the front due to corrosion. Neither wing preserves any evidence of decoration. The reverse of the better preserve wing retai…
Created on: Friday 24th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F1B4B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch with the spring, the pin, part of the rearhook, the lower part of the bow and all of the catchplate missing (the breaks are not recent). The wings are decorated with bead and reel and the low and wide triangular-sectioned bow with pairs of beaded ribs flanking a wider median rib. Mackreth 2011 CD RH 1.e. The proportion of the bow and wings is close to that of ibid. pl. 39 no. 865. Weight 4.47 g. Extant length 18.8mm. Wingspan 20.5mm (width of bow at top 10mm). AD c.43 - c.65.
Created on: Sunday 17th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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