Record ID: SUSS-C57AC6
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy French (Tournai) stock jetton imitation of Royal type, dating to the Medieval date c. 1400-1500 AD. The obverse depicts a dolphin embowed, within a granulated inner circle similar to that illustrated in Barnard (1981, p120, also Plate VII, No. 61). Unlike more common types depicting a cross fleuretty within a double-stranded quatrefoil, the reverse depicts a cross feuilly within an embowed 'arcuate' cross in the centre. This particular example is rather crude and a close parallel for the reverse has not been found (However, cf. Mitchiner, p194). Both legends are near…
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2013
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Record ID: SUSS-0B47F4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late early-medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame (c. 10th century). Approximately 2/3 of the frame survives, with three remaining protruding conical zoomorphic heads as decoration and a pronounced sub-triangular pin rest with central groove. The zoomorphic heads seem to consist of an elongated snout with two simple eye holes. The two heads that comprise an outer edge of the buckle frame flank the pin rest, with a simple frame in between the elements. However, the third head is connected to one of the outer decorative heads by means of a thicker bevelled frame segment w…
Created on: Saturday 24th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Amberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-4A9824
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded Post Medieval copper alloy coin weight of James I (1603-1625 AD) dating from around the second coinage of 1604-19. This weight is for an eighth of a Unite (Halfcrown). The weight has M BRIT IR as a legend to the bust side and a crown with IIS:IX.D below to the reverse.
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-D37508
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy strap-end, dating from the 9th century. This is an example of a Thomas Class A strap-end, with a split end, outward bowing sides, and probably a zoomorphic terminal, which has subsequently been lost, along with some of the tapering strap-end body (cf. Thomas 2003, Datasheet 32). The split end has a central notch which creates a bi-lobed edge. Two silvered circular rivets fit at the split end, one in each lobe. On the front surface there is a series of six panels, and possibly a portion of a seventh at the base of the brok…
Created on: Sunday 13th March 2011
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-DEEDF4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 4th century copper alloy Roman nummus of Constantine I (306-337 AD). Reverse type VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP. Probably London mint; RIC VII, p. 106, c.f. 154. Reece Period 16.
Created on: Friday 31st December 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 18th September 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-A9D105
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon saucer brooch, dating from the mid 5th to mid 6th centuries AD. The brooch is incomplete, missing some of the rim, the pin and part of the catch plate. The brooch has traces of gilding on the front with a raised design of a central circle surrounded by five running spirals or scrolled tendrils. All of this is bounded by an outer circular border which has regularly spaced transverse indents. The reverse has the remains of the single lug to hold the hinge with traces of iron corrosion. It is 28.4mm in diameter, 4.6mm thick and weighs 6.68 grams. Similar b…
Created on: Friday 29th October 2010
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Storrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-98CA41
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy plate brooch. Lozenge-shaped central panel with a flat circular knop at three of the corners. The knop from the fourth corner is missing. The top knop is broken, but has been drilled to form a chain loop. The other two knops have a central indent. The central panel is recessed for enamel with five raised annulets arranged in a cross. There are traces of blue enamel in the central annulet, with yellow traces in the other four. In the field around the annulets are traces of blue and red enamel. The back is flat, the pin is missing but part of the double lug to hold …
Created on: Thursday 28th October 2010
Last updated: Sunday 31st October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Arundel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-48B4B6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast copper alloy sword belt fitting. It is roughly foliate in form, with incised decoration forming a leaf pattern. It has a trefoil shaped terminal at one end below which it narrows before widening to rounded shoulders about a third of the way down from which it tapers to the other end where there are two lugs flanking a forward projecting hook. The hook is oval in cross section and the terminal is lost to an old break. There are two circular fixing holes containing iron corrosion, one near the trefoil terminal and one above the hook. It is 52.6mm long, 22.6mm w…
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warningcamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-477142
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame. The frame has two oval loops which are triangular in section with a flat back and steeply angled inner side and more bevelled outer side. The pin is missing. The buckle has a red brown surface with areas of green corrosion. The frame is 21.6mm long, 17.3mm wide and 2.2mm thick. It weighs 1.81 grams. Such a simple buckle is hard to date precisely, Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle (page 53, No.294) which he dates to c.1350-1650 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warningcamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-474556
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame. The frame has two oval loops with slightly widened outer edges. The front and back are bevelled and the front is decorated with a raised rim around the inner side of the loops and raised foliate patterns (the pattern is discribed by Whitehead (see below) as vine scroll). There are traces of a black lacquer around the patten. The strap bar is narrowed and recessed. It is very bent and now 45.9mm long, 31.3mm wide, 2.8mm thick and weighs 6.34 grams. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle (page 68, No.423) whi…
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Patching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C53883
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy sestertius of Commodus as Augustus (179-192), [...]TR P VIIII IMP VO COS IIII P P S C reverse (Fides standing right holding corn-ears and basket of fruit)), minted at Rome, AD 183-184, RIC III p.413 no.403 or p.414 no.413
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 6th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lavant', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SUSS-9F9103
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three cast copper alloy spherical rumbler bells (crotals) of Post Medieval date (1600-1800 AD). The bells are all similar although one is damaged. They are spherical and compris two hemispherical domes with raised circumferential joins. The upper hemispheres are plain with two circular sound holes and a sub-square suspension loop projecting from the top. The curve of the bell continues under the loop apertures suggesting they were made using a detachable 'sprue-piece', this method was introduced in the 17th century. The lower hemispheres have a long sound slit with circular hol…
Created on: Monday 4th October 2010
Last updated: Monday 4th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Etchingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-A254C7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy double loop buckle with the remains of an iron plate attached. The loops are oval, with widened outer edges which are bevelled on the front and back. The strap bar is completely obscured by the iron plate which has traces of a pin slot on the back and seems to have been the strap plate. It is 29.6mm long, 24.1mm wide and 3.5mm thick; it weighs 8.25 grams. Whitehead (2003: 53) illustrates a similar buckle, no.293, which he dates to c,1350-1650 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Last updated: Saturday 25th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brightling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-38B474
Object type: STUD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy stud attached to a broadly rectangular copper alloy sheet rove. The stud has a flattened sub-circular head and a blunted, twisted shaft of square cross-section. The rove is closely fitted to the head of the stud and the centre is convex. The metal is dark red-brown in colour with patches of off-white and light-green corrosion product. The date is uncertain although it is probably Roman or Post Medieval in date; this is supported by finds made in the vicinity. The rove is 13.5mm long, 11.0mm wide and 1.1mm thick excluding the stud shaft, 11.7mm including. It weighs 2…
Created on: Friday 17th September 2010
Last updated: Saturday 18th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-3630E5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hook piece from a copper alloy Post Medieval (c.1550-1750) book clasp. It is a sub-rectangular piece of copper alloy sheet, with a slightly flared attachment end. At the opposite end is a curved hook (3.6mm wide) the end of which is missing. Below this the main body of the clasp is 9.0mm in width, 9.1mm at the attachment end. At the centre of the attachment end is a perforation through the upper surface for a rivet, now missing. Towards the hook end there is stamped decoration within two fields delineated by transverse zigzag lines. Each field is filled with an 'eye' shaped object: …
Created on: Friday 17th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-360447
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two copper alloy rings, formed of a double loop of square sectioned wire the ends and middle of which are attached to each other and to the top of a knop. The knop has a circular top to which the wire is attached below which is a constriction then a oval terminal. Both the loops and terminal are complete with no breaks suggesting it was suspended from another obect through the loops. It is 20.1mm long, 16.6mm wide and the wire is 1.2mm thick; it weighs 1.06 grams. It is unclear what this is from. The finder has suggested a parallel with a wire looped terminal on a Medieval …
Created on: Friday 17th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-220A36
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy single looped buckle frame with pin. The buckle is rectangular with rounded corners. It is highly corroded and any surface decoration has been lost. The loop of the iron pin has corroded in place at one end of the pin bar. A similar buckle can be found illustrated in Whitehead (1996, 26; ref. 126) which he dates to c1300-1500 AD.
Created on: Thursday 16th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-21C678
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy strip; it is rectangular in cross-section and bent into a U shape with old, straight, cuts at either end. The outer side is divided into three main zones by longitudinal grooves. The central zone is plain but corroded. The border zones are decorated with rows of rouletted lozenges beyond which are plain edges. The inner side is plain. It is 10.9mm wide and 2.3mm thick; it weighs 7.13 grams. In style it is similar to early Roman strip like bracelets (e.g. Crummy 1983: 38, no.1586) and may have been converted into a finger ring, a phenomenon curren…
Created on: Thursday 16th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-1FD1F7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy Roman harness pendant of a type generally dated to the 3rd century. It is flat with a broken transverse suspension loop at the top. Below the loop it has a kite-shaped upper body with a very elongated lower point. The upper part is decorated on the front with two incised lines marking out a lozenge shape with the loop at the top point. The lower point tapers gradually to a rounded knop at the terminal which projects above the front of the pendant. About half way down this extended point it widens into an oval shape with two incised lines in a chevron on the fr…
Created on: Thursday 16th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SUSS-1FC9D7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy radiate or nummus of unclear emperor, reverse type and mint, AD 260-378. About 20% of the flan is missing form one side due to an old, irregular, break.
Created on: Thursday 16th September 2010
Last updated: Thursday 16th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.