Record ID: SOMDOR152
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval cast copper alloy pedestal type seal matrix with a circular face. The matrix has a central design of a cockerel standing facing right (left on the impression) within a plain line border. The legend starts at 3 o'clock (9 o'clock on the impression) with a star and reads CROV M[E] DAI (CROW ME DAY, I crow at daybreak). The edges are chipped in places which has removed the upper edges of some the letters. The central conical handle rises evenly from the face with no facets on the lower part, narrowing as it rises to a waist from which it expands out slightly before ending i…
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 1999
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Cleeve CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT3262
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy seal matrix with faceted handle rising to a lozengiform terminal with central circular perforation. On the oval die, the central design shows a pair of clasped hands, behind which rise three sheaves of corn with a flower (?) filling both of the arms between the corn. Beneath the hands there appears to be the stems of the corn and a small crescent. Around this design there is a border of fine dots, around which is written the legend * IE SV SEL DE FID QVER LEAL This is a stock anonymous motto which probably means 'I am the seal of a faithful and loyal heart'. There are …
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 8th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT SOUTHFLEET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-017726
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307), Class 2a, London mint, AD 1279, North (1997:28) no.1014.
Created on: Sunday 3rd October 2004
Last updated: Thursday 28th August 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-228BA6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy composite Medieval strap end. The strap end consists of two outer plates separated by a forked inner plate. There is a copper alloy circular rivet at the strap attachment end and a further circular rivet just above the protruding acorn-shaped terminal. The acorn end is very simple with the protruding knop and a small sub-rectangular collar. No further decoration is visible. There is a mid whitish-grey corrosion product in-between the two sheets of copper alloy which make up the strap end. In London strap ends of this form were found in contexts dating from 1270-1450 (…
Created on: Friday 29th October 2004
Last updated: Saturday 22nd February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shoreham-by-Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-BDB5A3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy annular disc-on-pin buckle, with a pin constriction. The buckle has a diameter measurement of 25.8mm and it is 4mm thick. There is a pin in situ and intact, through the constriction. The pin has a large oval disc in the centre of its length. The plate has a serrated milled edge, with a raised oval on the centre. The pin then extends over the other side of the buckle frame; it is 27.9mm in length. Two notches have been drilled into the frame at the 3 and 9 o'clock positions, visible on the reverse, predumably to hold a central strap bar. This buckle is medieval i…
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2005
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-CFB2A4
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy object, probably the upper portion of a stirrup. From the front, the object is rectangular with a rounded end, decorated with four radiating linear grooves forming a scallop-shell design. The sides have an oblique step as decoration. The lower edge of the step on each side appears to be the broken edge of an arm which would have protruded downwards at 45° to the sides. On the reverse the upper edge of the sides are joined by an integral cross bar. This bar is angular on the lower portion and rounded on the upper edge. The roundedness is due to wear, perhaps due to…
Created on: Monday 25th April 2005
Last updated: Friday 28th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-4B51E3
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval coin weight of Philip IV dating from the early 14th century. Either for an agnel d'or of Philip IV or Mouton d'or of Jean le bon Obv: POIS: DE L'AGNEL... Ref: Lion, Ships & Angels, p. 44
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 15th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kendal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-E252A8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Long cross penny of Edward II, minted in London. It is too worn to attribute further with confidence. The coin has been clipped.
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2006
Last updated: Monday 28th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milverton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-2C09D3
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy hooked tag of Read's Early Post-Medieval Type 7. It is composed by six globular bodies with transverse crest ribs marked on, and it has two rivet holes with traces of iron rivets in. It widens to the end where probably was a suspension loop. Dimensions: Length 33 mm, width 10 mm, thickness 6 mm. Weight 4.38g. Cf. Read 2008 no.765.
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 21st April 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-762156
Object type: CASKET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
"Zoomorphic moulded terminal".
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2006
Last updated: Saturday 22nd March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snape', grid reference and parish protected.