Record ID: OXON-19ABBC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval (late 13th to 15th centuries) composite strap end: The strap end is a sub-rectangle in plan with one end being rounded and the other having a scalloped edge. The strap end is made up of two copper alloy sheets both of each are decorated with an inscised design. One face has a standing figure, holding a vertical staff or long sword. The figure is wear a short garment. The second plate has an inscription which is difficult to read. The surface has small patches of red copper corrosion, and an incomplete mid grey-green patina. The plates are rivet together by a single copper all…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 26th October 2021
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Record ID: PAS-8B932B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307). Class 9b2 (North 1037/1) dating to 1300. Mint of Durham. North (1991, 30). The coin measures 18.4mm in diameter, is 1.0mm thick and weighs 1.27g. It has suffered some signficant losses at different points of its circumference. The letter S on the reverse is distinctive and not easily associated with Class 9b; it may be that this is a mule with a Class 10ab reverse. However, the reverse is too worn to be certain about this.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
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Record ID: PAS-75BC84
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin, but otherwise intact. The frame is oval and with an expanded outer edge. The pin bar is narrowed and offset. The sides are slightly thickened at the ends of the pin bar. The frame is bevelled from the internal edge to the external on the front; the reverse is flat. One of the sides of the buckle has been bent upwards as a result of old damage. The frame measures 17.9mm by 24.7mm by 2.8mm (maximum thickness). It weighs 2.60g. It is can be classified as Meols type 2 and compared with a …
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: PAS-611B78
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A stone spindle whorl of possible medieval date. It is of flattened biconvexform, higher in one half than the other. The circumference is also flattened. The fabric is fine grained and of light-grey colour. It features incised concentric decoration in the form neat concentric rings (turning lines) on both surfaces. The central hole measures c. 8.1mm in diameter. On the higher half the object has suffered a loss adjacent to the hole. The stone is calcareous and probably a siltstone/mudstone. Geoff Egan (1998, 255ff.) suggests that the cheaper, possibly home-made, ceramic and bone spind…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 23rd February 2015
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Record ID: SUR-5A61E8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large fragment of a quarter noble of Henry VI, Annulet coinage, 1422-1427. Mint of London. North 1420
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2012
Last updated: Friday 6th July 2012
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Record ID: SUR-5A4363
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Scottish penny of William I of Scotland, Short Cross and Stars coinage Phase B, AD1205-1230, Mint of Roxburgh. Burns 5 var.; S5023 var.
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2012
Last updated: Friday 6th July 2012
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Record ID: BERK-5C8792
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver long cross penny of Edward III (AD 1327 - 1377), forth issue (AD 1351-1377) minted in York.
Created on: Friday 30th March 2012
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2012
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Record ID: BERK-0E7D74
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy object probably used as a dress fastener. The object has a circular body (20.42mm diameter), decorated with annulets both around the outer edge and in a cross in the centre; there are three rivet or attachment holes drilled from the plain reverse through to the front. From the circular body projects a palno-convex stem or shank which terminates in larger circular rivet or attachment loop. It would appear that this object is one half of a hook and eye catch dress fastener; the circular body being sewn to the garment while the loop would have been hooked by a hooked tag/c…
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2011
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-A93BB5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded and slightly damaged copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame of medieval date. The frame is an elongated D shape oval with a narrow and offset bar; the pin is missing. The sides are rounded. There is a small triangular nick that acts as a pin rest at the centre of the outer edge on both surfaces. There is a small rectangular tab on the internal surface of the pin bar, possibly unfinished. This buckle has been distorted to one side in plan. The object has corroded to a variable mid-green colour. The form is unusual; most buckles of elongated D shape tend to have a knop on …
Created on: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 15th November 2011
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Record ID: BERK-6B34C7
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy document seal, roughly circular in plan with two ovoid projections at top and bottom that form suspension or attachment loops, only one of which survives intact. The seal has a plain reverse but the front bears a shield, three lions passant on the sinister. The shield sits on a circular field of cross-hatching, bound within a circular, double lined border containing saltires, which is itself bordered by a ring of pellets. The seal probably dates from the 14th century. The shield bears the Arms of England, and although the lions are on the sinister rather than guardant thi…
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2011
Last updated: Monday 31st October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bicester area', grid reference and parish protected.