Record ID: IOW-B17605
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman Republican denarius of 88 BC. Diameter 17mm. Weight 3.30g. RRC 345/1.
Created on: Friday 19th March 2004
Last updated: Saturday 29th September 2012
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Record ID: IOW-227533
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a copper alloy circular gilded mount with interlace work of Early Early-Medieval date (AD 600 - AD 700). The mount would have been about 68mm in diameter, when complete. It is about 2.5mm thick and weighs 10.41g. Two small portions of the central part survive and these are decorated with three-stranded Style II animal interlace (part of a foot or paw appears to be present). This representation of an animal was enclosed by a circle of closely spaced repetitive punch marks which are lozenge-shaped and each has a central pellet. The circumferential beaded rim is slightly th…
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wootton Bassett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-CEFC92
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy flat axehead of Early Bronze Age date c. 2150 BC – c. 1500 BC). Length 45.1mm, width 37.1mm and 7.8mm thick. Weight 42.17g. The butt and one of the blade tips are missing and the breaks are old. The blade of the axe was probably symmetrical in plan. The blade expands from the break at the top (the butt end) and originally the wing tips flared outwards abruptly and evenly. However on this example, one of the blade tips appears to have broken and then been re-modelled or re-sharpened in antiquity to form a gently curving edge rather than a flaring tip…
Created on: Wednesday 11th April 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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