Record ID: GLO-D51771
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bi-conical steelyard weight with a hole through the central axis
Created on: Friday 14th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 18th May 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alveston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-D53FD4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is a fragment from a copper alloy vessel leg. It has an oval cross-section and is truncated at both ends
Created on: Friday 14th May 2010
Last updated: Friday 14th May 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-6C2FE3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy flat handle from a patera, dating to the 1st century AD (length: 54mm; width: 35mm; thickness: 2mm; weight: 17.64g). The handle is broken at both ends, with a clean break at the narrow neck of the handle (which would have continued to the body of the patera if complete). At the opposing end, only a small part of the circular terminal remains with part of the circular suspension hole also remaining, which is edged by a thick, raised collar. The neck of the handle has a marginal groove with a raised border to either side, as well as another curved raise…
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brewood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-D1CF77
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Frankish Wheel-Thrown Vessel Early Medieval, late 6th-mid 7th century Height 257mm, diameter 132mm A wheel-thrown pottery bottle with ovoid body, narrow neck and everted rim rounded on top. The bottle has a concave base and a maximum girth around the mid part of the body. Height is 257mm, maximum body diameter is 132mm. Diameter at the mouth is 62mm, at the base 79mm. The vessel weights 956g. Grey sand tempered fabric, the sand grains appears to be sub-angular, single sub-angular stone in the wall of the fabric. The quality and hardness of the fabric sugges…
Created on: Tuesday 20th July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: GLO-ADCB3A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two strands of circular cross-section wire that have been twisted together and then bent into a small loop. The ends show that they have been deliberately chiselled, suggesting this was cut from a longer length of twisted wires, or a larger object such as a torc or bracelet. Measurements: Diameter: 20.5-22mm; Thickness (single wire): 2mm; Thickness (wires twisted together): 3.5-4.0mm; Weight: 4.04g Discussion: This fragment could have formed part of a torc or bracelet, made up of several twisted wires, which was broken up in antiquity. At Snettisham, and in particular …
Created on: Tuesday 15th May 2018
Last updated: Monday 24th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deerhurst', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-3A76E3
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sheet tweezers length 57mm, width 8mm, thickness 9mm weight 5.07g. Sheet metal that has been bent double. The fold has been bent into an penannular loop, from this point the gap between each blade gently widens to the tips, which have bent inwards to meet and form the pincer. An incised groove runs parallel to each edge. A very similar artefact was found in excavations in Colchester (see N. Crummy; 1983; pp. 59; no. 1883). .
Created on: Friday 4th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 4th May 2012
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Record ID: GLO-7194F8
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy whirligig or buzz disc, which has been cut from lead sheeting. The buzz disc is circular in plan and has a shape serrated edge. In the centre are two pinched off-centre holes, through which a looped string or cord would have been threaded. The spinning disc would have produced a whirring noise when the tension was relaxed by pulling the hands apart (Forsyth and Egan 2005, p. 387). A number of similar objects have been found in London, which Forsyth and Egan suggest date from the 17th or 18th centuries. G Egan and H Forsyth, 2005. Toys, trifles and trinkets London : Museum…
Created on: Wednesday 5th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 5th September 2012
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Record ID: GLO-28EBC6
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Bristol token Date: 1662 Diameter 20mm, weight 2.83g Obverse: C B / 1662 Obverse inscription: A BRISTOLL FARTHING Reverse: Port broadside partial view of a three-masted ship under sail and a fort Reverse inscription: THE ARMES OF BRISTOLL Condition: poor
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2012
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Record ID: GLO-F1C294
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Open toped ring thimble with three lines of hand punched triangular indentations. the thimble has now been flattened. Date 16th century
Created on: Friday 7th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chew Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C4E753
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble. Circular pits that concentrically expand down covering the whole of the body and crown. These pits are likely to have been applied mechanically which dates the piece to the 16th century (Cuddeford 1992 page 48). Cuddeford, M J, 1992, Identifying Metallic Small Finds, Anglia Publishing
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2013
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Record ID: GLO-F18D35
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a mount from a post-Medieval sword belt with integral loops for hooked pendants. Only one loop and a small amount of the plate remain. The plate is sub-oval in plan with a small nipple on the outer edge. The plate narrows at the point where the integral loop descends. on the opposite edge to the loop is a small knop. The plate is broken just beyond the loop and would have extended to accomodate further loops. There is a single, drilled rivet hole in the plate.
Created on: Friday 7th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 7th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chew Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-F1D051
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval hooked sword belt fitting, two rivet holes. Round loop engaged with hook cf. Norwich Households nos. 257-8. Length 29mm. Width 13mm. Diameter of loop 7mm weight 2.9g. 16th - early 17th century. Margeson, S. M., 1993. Norwich Households: Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78 University of East A : East Anglian Archaeology 58, pp. 257-258
Created on: Friday 7th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 7th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tortworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-7079F2
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two incomplete fragments of a cast copper alloy bi-conical and hollow wheel pommel, dating from the late 13th-15th century AD (diameter of largest fragment: 53.8mm; width/ thickness of largest fragment: 23.8mm; thickness of metal: 2.9mm; weight of both pieces: 56.77g). On the larger fragment, the remains of a rectangular slot (width: 11.6mm) appear at what would have been the top of the pommel where the tang would have passed through to be hammered on the outside to make it secure. On the opposite end of the pommel, there are also remains of a wider rectangular section (approximate w…
Created on: Wednesday 8th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waterhouses', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-ABB903
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Trefoil mount possibly shaped like an animal's paw that consists of three long panels which expand at one end into three rounded terminals. The surface has been tinned. Two curved, pointed lugs on the reverse for attachment.
Created on: Monday 5th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 5th January 2015
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A9BAE4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular strap mount with curvilinear decoration on the face surrounding a fleur-de-lis. On the reverse are two integral lugs for attachment. There are traces of golding on the surface. This artefact dates to the 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 2nd December 2012
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2013
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Record ID: GLO-F19981
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy composite strap end length 19mm, width 13mm, thickness 4mm, weight 2.7g. This is made form two sheets of copper alloy. The overall shape is rectangular with a flat forward edge that has a pointed knop in the middle. The sides have a narrowed waist towards the attachment end, which is flat. Two iron rivet still in place. 1350-1450
Created on: Friday 7th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 7th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chew Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-4EF045
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy flat sub-rectangular strap end, dating to the 10th century AD (length: 30.9mm; width: 19mm; thickness: 3.1mm; weight: 6.62g). This strap end derives from the Winchester style with its openwork ornamentation (there are seven open holes with possibly one filled in) that seem to form a plant/ petal decoration. At the 'fixing' end, it is difficult to identify rivets or rivet holes beyond the decoration and separated by a linear groove. The artefact is in a worn and poor condition with a corroded surface. The strap end in reddish brown in colour, but very littl…
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2005
Last updated: Monday 27th January 2014
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Record ID: GLO-F16487
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy spur. This is mostly complete, the terminals of the arms are bifurcated with a pin passing through the centre and would have acted as hinge for the rest of the arm (now missing). At the back of the spur projects the rowel box which is oval in section and expands to its terminal its split for the rowel, which is now missing. Dimensions: length: 42mm; width: 52mm; thickness: 9mm; weight: 17.4g Date 1600-1800
Created on: Friday 7th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 7th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chew Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-D15AD4
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy circular seal box length 22mm, width 18mm, thickness 4mm, weight 2.84g. This is the lid of a seal box, the rim is angled downwards resulting in a concave underside. There is a raised moulded rim that runs around the circumference on the topside. In the centre is a raised, separately cast bird that has been riveted into place with a single square central rivet that is integral to the bird. The bird is in the pose of displaying, there are a series of U-shaped parallel notches that represents feathers covering the whole of the body of the animal. Remains of a projection…
Created on: Friday 11th November 2011
Last updated: Friday 11th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Highnam', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WMID-85C4D3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A collection of flints including: • two debitage flakes, dating to the Prehistoric period • one Late – Early Neolithic end scraper on a blade • one Late Mesolithic – Neolithic multi-tool, including part of the tool being used as a side scraper and one area used as a borer/ piercer • one Neolithic end scraper on a flake • one possible Late Neolthic – Bronze Age miscellaneous retouched flint
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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