Record ID: IOW-714383
Object type: PHALLIC OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete probable Roman cast copper-alloy probable phallic object (AD 43-409). The object is sub-oval in cross-section and has the characteristics of a phallus. It is possibly a votive object. This phallus is green and dark buff/orange with traces of a dark green patina. Length: 19.91mm; width: 9.26mm; thickness: 6.25mm. Weight: 3.08g.
Created on: Sunday 22nd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 24th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-308D55
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy trefoil plate brooch of Late Early Medieval (Scandiniavian / Viking) dating (AD 850 to AD 1050). Around two thirds (66%) of the brooch is present, consisting of two of the three arms. The third arm is missing, presumed lost in antiquity. The surviving arms are sub triangular in shape, with a rounded tip. The front is slightly convex and the reverse is flat and undecorated. The front has been decorated with a a triple strand interlace design wrapped around six animals. The animal heads are all positioned in the centre, with three pointing inwards and three…
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Record ID: SUR-727566
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A mount, button or stud of composite construction and probably of early-medieval date. The circular body of the button is of copper alloy and has been gilded. Around the edge is a tiered pair of ropework frames from which projects a plain circular setting. Within the setting is a dark blue glass stone, in the centre of which is an inlaid circle of grey or white glass, which contains a similarly inlaid cross with expanding arms. On the back is the remains of an iron fitting of uncertain form which suggests the object may be a stud or mount from a composite item. Both the gilded copp…
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2015
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Record ID: HAMP-636366
Object type: PESTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible cast copper-alloy pestle probably Post Medieval in date (c. AD 1600-1800 AD), now bent, with one half turned through about forty-five degrees. The object is a bar of broadly circular cross section, though with some faceting to its sides. There is a bulge at a point just off centre which acts as a collar. This is echoed by an expanded flat terminal at one end (Dia.: c. 11.3mm). At the other end is a shallowly biconvex terminal knob; the bar expands gradually towards it. This end has a wider diameter (c. 15.7mm) and was presumably the end that was utilised primarily. It bears…
Created on: Monday 9th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Record ID: YORYM-0A4518
Object type: PIN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy pin, stylus or needle of probable medieval date. The object is oval in section tapering from a perforated loop to a narrow point. The object is undecorated and may have functioned as either a needle of writing stylus. The metal has a light brownish-green patina and is worn. The object is 35.9mm long, 4mm wide, 3.3mm thick and weighs 1.2g.
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-06CEC1
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Late Neolithic (2500-2100 BC) flint polished axehead (or perhaps adze), with damage to the cutting edge and broken some distance before the butt end. It is rectangular in shape although with a pronounced curve, visible in both edges (one concave, one convex). It is pointed oval in cross-section and at the break measures 35.27x15.30mm. At the cutting edge it measures 39.62x9.07mm. The axehead is 67.81mm in length and weighs 66g. The axehead has been polished behind the cutting edge on both faces, although the cutting edge itself is missing due to damage. Behind, flake r…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buriton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DC3370
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Probably a cast copper strap mount also called a 'pressure tectonic' dating from the late Iron Age or early Roman period, that is c. 100BC-AD200. The artefact is nearly complete and in very good condition. It is of roughly triangular shape with a flat top and three large spikes on the underside. One of the points of the triangle terminates in a break, but there is no further damage or breakages on the other side. Opposite the break, the other two points of the triangle terminate in two ornamental knops with carved or incised crosses on the circular tops. Below, the copper alloy is qui…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd December 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Over Kellet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-C97342
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-Medieval to Medieval copper-alloy mount. The mount is sub-oval in plan, narrowing towards one end. The underside is concave and the domed upper surface is decorated in high-relief moulding. This decoration takes the form of a pair of birds, aligned back-to-back on the longest axis of the mount, the heads at the wider end. Each bird has a slender, curved body, pointed-oval wing and exaggerated tail with squared end. The legs are heavily stylised, each pair separated by an inverted-V-shaped notch and terminating in an overly large, upturned foot. The birds are depicted as if…
Created on: Monday 2nd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heydon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-4C0382
Object type: MICROLITH
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Mesolithic flint microlith. The piece is sub-triangular, with a horizontal break (possibly deliberate) at the wider end. A longitudinal ridge extends down the centre of the dorsal surface, creating a triangular profile. Blunting appears to be confined to the longer side, where it has occurred along the entire length. The point has been cut off, removing the bulb-of-percussion, the original position of which is indicated by the direction of the ripples on the ventral surface. The flint is patinated and bluish-grey. Length: 25.4mm; width: 12.8mm; thickness: 2.1mm; weight: 0.62g.
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flitwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-372891
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron early-medieval bridle fitting: a cheekpiece. Curving plate with a rectangular loop at the top and a possibly openwork arrangement of ten apertures, mostly sub-circular. Extensive ferrous corrosion suggests this was attached to an iron object. Degraded moulded decoration comprises possibly zoomorphic terminals at the ends of the plate, apparently with long tongues projecting from the gaping jaws of beasts; vertical groups of ribs, and a possibly devolved beast head or mask ornament below the loop. David Williams here kindly identifies a projecting animal head (a l…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-358F94
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Toffee coloured clouded and opaque flint. Knife. Narrow rod shaped blade. Four very long parallel flake removal scars on the dorsal aspect confer an angular plano-convex profile; very faint rippling on the ventral side shows where the flake was detached from a core. Some slight abrasions along the edge have been smoothed. Though the object has a glossy surface overall, possibly a result of curation in antiquity, the context could equally suggest this appealing finish to be the result of wave action. Kevin Leahy kindly comments as follows: 'An interesting object. Without retouch t…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grimsby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1F5CE5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy brooch with enamel and gilding. Circular, with an enamel design resembling a seven pointed star - or a six pointed star with a thick stalk - on its raised pedestal, which is of thickness 2.9mm, and detached from a separate back plate of thickness 1.2mm, which retains gilding, and which may have had a series of projecting lugs. Though the enamel was confined in cells, there is little visible of their walls. A central square cell contains brick red enamel. The star motif is of light blue enamel, and the field between the points of the star is dark blue. The rim of the back …
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-CFC481
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn cast copper alloy fragment of the bow of an Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooch. The bow fragment is has an arched upper section with three raised ribs; beneath this is a worn triangular section that depicts the face of a fantastical creature with pronounced eyebrows, eyes and cheek bones and a curled snout; either side of this beast lines radiate out to the edge. The reverse is worn and pitted with corrosion; there appears to be the remains of two ridges, possibly part of a catchplate or the attachment for the rest of the brooch. This fragment is too small to be able to asc…
Created on: Friday 8th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: YORYM-A31D61
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete flint side scraper of Neolithic date (4000-2350 BC).The lithic is sub-spatulate in profile and concavo-convex in section. The dorsal surface contains two predominant negative scars with a central corresponding arrise. The proximal edge has been abruptly blunted and there is a minor amount of scaled flaking at the distal end. The dorsal surface has voids situated along the length of the mesial section which are naturally occurring within the calcite cortex. The left hand proximal edge has a tapering or notched aspect. All edges with the exception of the proximal contain fine…
Created on: Wednesday 6th November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2015
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Record ID: SUR-679901
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a probable cast copper alloy horse harness boss of early medieval date. The decorative style appears to be Salin's Style II. The circular collared setting appears to be filled with a separate rivet which projects from the back; this can be paralleled on some of the disc brooches illustrated by George Speake (Kevin Leahy, pers.comm.). The complete object appears to have been circular with art of the circumference surviving. The central design may have been in the form of a cross. Late sixth/seventh century. It is not clear that the object is gilded.
Created on: Sunday 3rd November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2014
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Record ID: WMID-E56B67
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy, probable miniature terret ring of probable Late Iron Age to Early Roman dating (100 BC to 100 AD). The terret ring is of an unusual shape, being of a pointed oval shape. The sides have a circular cross section. A narrowed and recessed bar is present at the bottom of the terret ring. Circular collars are present at either side of the strap bar. The sides of the terret initially curve away from the strap bar, but then curve back together, where they join in a point. The top of this point exhibits an old, predepositional break. It measures 27.2 mm tall, …
Created on: Monday 28th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2013
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Record ID: WILT-D407A6
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy probable sword pommel probably dating to the medieval period. The object has a mainly mottled green patina but with smooth brown patches on the raised areas of one side. It is in the shape of a zoomorphic beast. The beast has raised ridges at its 'shoulders' and 'pelvis' with curving indentations between these. There is a sub-rectangular recess which pierces the centre of the top of the pommel and widens to a larger sub-rectangle on the flat bottom of the pommel. At the opposite end from the head, there is a circular recess c 4mm deep and 6.41mm in diameter …
Created on: Tuesday 15th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2013
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Record ID: YORYM-D10457
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate of 9th-century date. It is made from a single thin sheet of copper alloy, which tapers from a wider to a narrower end. Both ends are incomplete. At the wider end there are two sub-rectangular projections with a rectilinear slot in between; this may be the remains of two hinge loops to attach the plate to a frame. At the other end are two incomplete circular rivet holes. Between the rivet holes is an engraved sub-triangular shape, two sides concave and the other convex, which may be related to the 'fan-shaped' motifs found on 9th-century strap-en…
Created on: Tuesday 15th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2017
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Record ID: LANCUM-5C5EE5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A decorative copper alloy plate from a buckle the form of the frame, the short rear part of the plate and the shape of the apertures seem to point to a med date 12th - 13th century AD. The buckle is largely flat, 'D' shaped and plain with bevelling to the upper surface on the outer edge of the frame. There is also a protruding knop that may well be zoomorphic in style. The pin is copper alloy and broken but the loop and part of the pin is still intact. The plate is open work moulded, rectangular with three equal-sized rectangular apertures, each extending into a sub-oval perforation a…
Created on: Wednesday 9th October 2013
Last updated: Saturday 12th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-578FC3
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron balance fragment. Central beam and one hinged arm from a tiny balance. The arm has a bulbous end, perhaps to permit tied attachment of a pan. A separate pin of diameter 1.5mm and length 3.8mm joins arm and beam. Ferrous corrosion at the centre of the beam suggests provision for the suspension of the set of scales. Dr Kevin Leahy kindly suggests this may be of Roman date, though no other material of that date was reported with it. Suggested date: Possibly Roman, 43-410. Length: 27.9mm, Width: 6.7mm, Thickness: 4.9mm, Weight: 2.12gms.
Created on: Wednesday 9th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.