Record ID: BERK-EFC7E5
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
17th century traders token from Great Eastcheap. Williamson London 1260. Obverse: [WILLIAM . TEW . AT] . THE . IN = A unicorn. Reverse: [GREA]T . EA[STCHIP . M]EAL[MAN] = T over W . B arranged as a triad
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 21st October 2020
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Record ID: BERK-5468A8
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper alloy post-medieval half-penny trade token, dating to between AD 1648-1672. The token was issued by Robert Willy Senior of Witney and depicts a woolpack on the reverse. Williamson Oxfordshire 247.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd June 2016
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Record ID: BERK-86B523
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy strap fitting for a sword belt, dating to the Post-Medieval period. The fragment consists of the lower part of a shield-shaped plate with concaved sides and a rounded base with the stub of a hook projecting from the centre. The front face of the plate is decorated with a symmetrical foliage design in moulded relief. The design vaguely resembles leaves of the vine. The reverse is plain and undecorated. This type of fitting would have been attached to a scabbard strap. Read (2008: 219, no. 790) illustrates a similar mount which he dates to the 16th or 1…
Created on: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th March 2014
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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-749F94
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy toy or miniture vase, dating from the post-medieval to modern period. The miniture is incomplete with two-thirds of the upper edge missing; the vase is hexagonal with splayed rim and a pedistal base. 17th-18th century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2011
Last updated: Monday 11th August 2014
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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: 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
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Record ID: BERK-100B05
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy seal, possibly a type of bale or parcel seal. The seal is sub-circular in plan but now distorted and is crudely manufactured. The reverse of the seal has a wedge-shaped projection running longitudinally across the back; this may have been used as a grip for the fingers or as a type of tang for a handle. The design on the front face is partially worn but depicts a double-arched crown above the letters V R, beneath which are the numbers 4 84; the design beneath this is unclear. The seal refers to Victoria Regina and the numbers may represent the date April 1884; this t…
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 16th August 2011
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Record ID: BERK-B1B226
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, dating from the late early-medieval period (11th century). The mount can be described as Williams (1997) Class A, no Type. Sub-pentagonal in form, the mount has an engraved surface, mostly confined to the upper half of the mount and consisting of swirls and diagonal and horizontal lines. The identification of the design is uncertain although it bears similarities to Williams (1997) Figs 20 and 28, and also Type 15. The apex of the mount is finished with a pendant lobe while the flange is set at a right angle on the reverse.
Created on: Wednesday 29th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bicester area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-09F1B6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver short-cross penny of Richard I (AD 1189-1199), struck by the moneyer Henri in London between AD 1194-1200. Class 4a. The coin has been struck slightly off-flan.
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 9th June 2011
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