Record ID: GLO-6F192D
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy fragment of an openwork medieval scabbard chape that depict zoomorphic imagery. Centrally appears to show a beast with a long thin body and short curving hind legs advancing left to right. The front of the body angles up to form a short neck and a small oval head with two circular indentations in the middle. The rear of the head has an elongated triangular projection, whilst the remainder of this edge is serrated and decorated with a series of latitudinal lines, which could represent heir or a mane of an animal. To the left of the animals head is the torso of a man that i…
Created on: Monday 29th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 3rd October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forest of Dean', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-9C0947
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete medieval copper-alloy (late) Tournai jetton. Shield of France Modern type with unclear inscription, dating to c. 1415-1497. Minted at Tournai. See Mitchiner (1988, 229). The jetton is worn with much of the edge lost to old breaks. It has a diameter of 25.6 mm and weighs 2.4 g
Created on: Friday 19th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 27th November 2018
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Record ID: SF-7488F0
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy unidentified object of uncertain date. It consists of a sub-rectangular main body, from which two oval cro-sectioned arms protrude. The main body has one face marked by a crude stamped cross, while the back face is flat and plain. The longer arm diverges laterally and bears a knob on its inner edge. Both the arms seem broken at the outer end. It might be a metalworking waste from casting process. Possibly a late medieval buckle dating to AD 1400-1450, cf. Egan-Pritchard (2002, p. 103, no. 471). Length: 34.36 mm Width: 32.80 mm Thickness: 3.71 m…
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-7265D6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, worn and bent post-Medieval silver French douzain of an uncertain ruler (c. 1500-c. 1610). Obverse: Illegible. Reverse: Long cross fourchée with illegible marks in the quadrants. The coin has been counter marked with a fleur-de-lis on the reverse to revalue. Diameter: 20.0mm. Weight: 1.89g.
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5DB584
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete late early-medieval (to medieval, possibly) copper-alloy mount probably dating from the 11th century. The mount is sub-oval with rounded ends, each with a hole for a rivet; the long edges are angled outwards at their centres. The object is decorated in an abstract Ringerike style with a centrally engraved lozenge outlined by a border which broadly echoes the angles of the lozenge and angled sides. Each terminal is rendered as a trefoil of fleur-de-lis, with small, outcurving side fleurs delineated by engraved lines an a double transverse fillet connecting the side fleurs ar…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5A7B18
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy medieval single-looped trapezoidal buckle dating to the period c. 1350-1500. The bar is narrowed and the pin is complete. The front of the buckle appears to be folded back over on itself at the outer edge, double thickness, with incurved corners, which is an appearance intended when cast. The front part has a series of six diagonal grooves, between which sits the pin, and a wavy front edge. The sides and bar are thinned by comparison. The object has a green patina. It measures 33.04 mm in length, 28.50 mm in width at the front and 20.3 mm at the strap bar, 4.63 in …
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-DF35E4
Object type: HINGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy hinge, probably from a ruler, as kindly identified by Rob Webley, who comments: 'These look like the hinge from a ruler. Please see SOM-999EA7, for example'. An identical pair of flat machine-stamped plates of length 27.7mm and thickness 0.8mm, each comprising a conjoined ring and rhomboid or square, the former with a central aperture of diameter 4.3mm and the latter with two holes of diameter 1.6mm. Probably from a mechanism. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1900. Combined Weight: 3.85gms
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5FE87C
Object type: DIVIDERS
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy fragment of a Post Medieval pair of dividers dating to AD 1500-1600. It is a sub-rectangular bar in plan with a triangular cross-section at one end and in the middle; on the other end it has a trapezoidal cross-section. The bar is faceted and it is slightly curved in the middle. The trapezoidal end has the remains of probably two lugs; the triangular end has traces of iron corrosion products. Such dividers comprised two hinged arms; the upper section is copper alloy while the lower arms are iron; here only one upper section survives, broken at both ends. Cf PAS-8CD18…
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Birdbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-6C0EBE
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy (late) Tournai jetton. Three circles of Tournai type inscribed VIVE LE ROI DE FRAnCIE dating to c. 1497-1521. Minted at Tournai. See Mitchiner (1988, 244) no. 756 for the obverse. Diameter: 27mm, thickness: 1.35mm, Weight: 5.07g The legends are relatively rare; see PUBLIC-CBFBE1 on this database for a comparable reverse legend
Created on: Sunday 23rd September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-FAFA21
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy mount or stud, possibly from a medieval book. The head is an octagon, the outer edge may have been fashioned to approximate flower petals. The upper surface is domed, flat in the middle and the underside is concave and has a single integral stud, which is wide and tapers in width. The surface of the mount is has a slightly abraded dark green patina. The diameter is 30 mm and the weight 27.36g. Compare SOM-EA31E5, LIN-9E8156, etc. Although they are very large and heavy for book mounts, and have strikingly long attachment spikes which seem incompatible with attachme…
Created on: Monday 17th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
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Record ID: WREX-FA7239
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy medieval book fitting dating to the Medieval period, c. 1350-1450. The object consists a rectangular projecting loop at the back edge of the object (effectively creating a strap-bar) which transitions into a circular body with a circular aperture at its centre (through which a stud attached to the book itself would have fitted). The upper surface is decorated with 5 ring and dot motifs. The back of the object is undecorated. Extending from the outer edge (opposite the rectangular loop) is a terminal the end of which is broken. Through the terminal, at right-angles to th…
Created on: Monday 17th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llantysilio', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-530015
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a decorated Anglo-scandinavian copper alloy stirrup mount, circa 11th century, of Williams Class A, Type 1. The fragment, broadly triangular in shape and 19.3mm wide, comprises the lower left corner of the mount. The decorative elements include a single openwork hole and the lower left border of a second, surrounded by incised decorative lines and a moulded knop at the top left edge. The reverse is undecorated and has a rough surface. There is a portion of a flange present on the lower edge.
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th November 2018
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Record ID: DOR-3FBC8E
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead spoon bowl dating to c.1100-1300. Now completely flat, leaf-shaped bowl with cast geometric decoration. The decoration comprises the remains of a cross containing conjoined cross-hatched lozenges, two sets of concentric semi-circles flanking the central arm of the cross towards the missing stem, and between four sets of concentric semi-circles springing inward from the outside edge. Both flanking arms have twin arches springing from the upper edge (bowl point upwards) below twin horizontal lines. The stem is missing. Similar to: NMS-FBC877 on the PAS database See a close para…
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th October 2019
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Record ID: IOW-19EEBB
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy harness pendant (c. 1150-c. 1300). The pendant has a worn through suspension loop which is 90° to the plane of the plate. The wavy edged plate is leaf-like or insect-like in form with ridges on the front that possibly represent veins. The reverse is plain. This pendant is drab green. Length: 39.0mm; width: 26.2mm; thickness: 7.1mm. Weight: 5.35g. Compare with: NLM-E0BF15 and WILT-E84E30.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-192FFF
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Medieval copper-alloy book mount of Howsam type B.1.2 (c. 1150-c. 1300). This umbonate quatrefoil mount is domed at the front and largely concave on the reverse. It has four evenly spaced lugs situated at the base. Each lug has a circular rivet hole and one rivet, made of copper-alloy, remains in situ. All four lugs are D-shaped, flat at the front and rear; there is a hint of a line dividing them from the sub-circular centre. At the front the dome may have been decorated but none can now be seen. However, some similar mounts are decorated with a cross saltire at the fron…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-5B4967
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval copper-alloy Nuremberg jetton of Hans Krauwinckel II (active 1586-1635) dating to 1586-1635. Rose/orb type inscribed DAS WORT GOTS BLEIT EWICKLICH. Minted at Nuremberg. See Mitchiner (1988, 436) no. 1505 It is worn, bent and creased.
Created on: Saturday 4th August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 27th November 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-70BDBD
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy mount fragment, 51mm long, 12mm wide and 4mm thick with a weight of 6.36g. The object is sub-rectangular in form and cross section and consists of a sub rectangular plate with a bi-lobed upper edge 12mm wide and 1mm thick, which has a circular hole place just below centre. This forms an extension to the flat lower side of the object. On the upper side, this sits above a raised rectangular area which is decorated with an incised chevron and a centrally placed transverse line. Next a raised chevron projects from the edge of the raised rectangle, forming sub tria…
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2018
Last updated: Monday 13th August 2018
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Record ID: DEV-5DFF12
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval copper-alloy Nuremberg jetton of Hans Krauwinckel II (active 1586-1635) dating to 1586-1635. Rose/orb type inscribed GETRIVW HANDT KOMBT DVRCH ALLE. Minted at Nuremberg. As Mitchiner (1988, 437) no. 1507. The jetton has suffered a loss at its circumference. It measures 24 mm in diameter and weighs 1.37 g See also LIN-A31F79 and KENT-00842D on this database
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Budleigh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-49D2D8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver cut halfpenny of Henry III (1216-1272). Long cross Class 5b-c (North 992 or 993) dating to 1250-1256. Minted by Henri at London. The coin measures 18.25 mm in length, 0.34 mm in thickness and weighs 0.5 g
Created on: Sunday 22nd July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
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Record ID: SOM-E3AAD3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a Roman copper-alloy strip-bow brooch dating to c. AD 25 to 70. The head and bow are formed of a continuous strip. The lower bow, foot, pin and part of the head are all missing. The head was formed by rolling the top of the bow forward to hold an axis bar. One side of the head, next to the central pin slot. and the pin are now missing. The complete side still holds part of the copper-alloy axis bar and it is decorated on the front only with multiple raised diagonal and horizontal lines. The bow consists of a thin strip of metal, tapering gradually in width toward…
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2018
Last updated: Friday 3rd August 2018
Spatial data recorded.