Record ID: LEIC-8F6622
Object type: MEDAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post medieval Copper alloy token, 16mm in diameter and 1mm thick. It commemorates the raising of the Royal standard at Nottingham on 22nd August 1642. The obverse shows a sword surrounded by the legend VICTORY AND HONOUR. The reverse shows an illustration of a large rock with the inscription FIXT ON A ROCKE. A five pointed star with central mullet breaks up the inscriptions on each side. The object is in good condition with a brownish patina and is apparently very rare. A better condition example is in the British Museum (ref: M.7153). That piece was published in the 1885 M…
Created on: Wednesday 5th May 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-3415E0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age brooch of the La Tene IBb style (400-272 BC). The brooch is cast from a single piece of copper alloy. Half of the spring and all of the pin are missing. Only two loops of the spring remain on one side of the head. The bow has a semicircular arched profile and is oval in plan with a integrally cast valley running along the centre of the front. The foot with the catchplate is flat, level with the head. The catchplate is triangular, to one side of the foot and the outer edge curves up 90 degrees. After the catchplate the brooch returns on its self back towards the bow and ter…
Created on: Wednesday 31st March 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near ditchling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-D20A5A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy farthing token of 17th Century dating, issued by John Dickins in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire in 1657. C.f. Williamson, 1889, p 242, no Gloucestershire 025. Obverse: Possibly the Draper's Arms Obverse inscription: IOHN D[ ]S Reverse: Initials I D Reverse Inscription: [ ]C[ ]EN 1657 Diameter: 16.4 mm Thickness: 0.9 mm Weight: 1.0 g
Created on: Thursday 13th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2021
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Record ID: IOW-3594A1
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval cast copper-alloy and enamelled heraldic harness pendant (c. 1255-c. 1303). The pendant is in the form of a shield with a straight top and curving sides. It has a central suspension loop at the top turned through 90° to the plane of the pendant. The rear face is plain. There is no patina. The device may be described thus: Gules a fess between six martlets or (a gold horizontal band with three martlets above and below) There is a tiny fleck of gilding on the horizontal band and also on one of the martlets. The arms of this pendant were borne by Sir Walter de Beauchamp Knt.,…
Created on: Monday 11th October 2010
Last updated: Saturday 13th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-542D87
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy horse harness pendant with enamel decoration. A shield-shaped pendant. The design is probably gules, a fesse between six martlets (3/3) or (a red enamel field with six birds (martlets) and a horizontal band (fesse) and which was probably originally gilded.) These are the arms of the Beauchamp family. The pendant is quite large. There is a suspension loop at the top with a circular pierced hole. The back is flat and undecorated. Date: Medieval - 14th century Dimensions: 49.09 mm x x 31.07 mm x 7.13 mm Weight: 17.09 g A shield-shaped stud with the same coat of a…
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2008
Last updated: Saturday 13th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Launceston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E7BE48
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy horse harness pendant with enamelled heraldic decoration. The pendant is in the shape of a square topped shield with straight top and convex sides meeting in a point at the bottom. There is only a small section remaining of a transverse suspension lug projecting from the centre of the top of the shield. The shield appears to be decorated with enamel making heraldic decoration, this can be emblazoned: gules three cinquefoils pierced sable (or Or) arranged two and one and in chief an unclear charge Or, possibly a lion passant guardant. The red enamel survives …
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2019
Last updated: Saturday 13th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colyton', grid reference and parish protected.

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: SWYOR-C0D17C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy artefact, probably a coin of Medieval or Post Medieval date, about AD 1200 - 1500, probably of the Crusader Kingdom of Cyprus, maybe of James II dating from the late 15th century. One face bears a cross potent with a cross in each angle (the Jerusulem cross). The peripheral legend is illegible. The other face is possibly a rampant lion. The legend is again illegible, but may end GRAIA which would fit with a sizin such as that of James II (the Bastard), AD 1463 - 1473. The coin is 18.3mm in diameter and 1.4mm thick. It weighs 1.9g. Compare https://en.numista.com/cat…
Created on: Monday 12th July 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th September 2021
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Record ID: SOM-686BD2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman cast copper-alloy Colchester two-piece brooch dating to the first century AD. The brooch consists of the head of the brooch, its wings and a portion of the bow.The head has semi-circular sectioned wings, slightly concave at the back to accommodate the spring (not found with the artefact). The front of the wings are rounded, plain and show chipped ends which have become rounded through abrasion. Between the wings and projecting 6.8mm away from the bow of the brooch is a rounded lug pierced by a single hole (1.6mm in diameter) that is now filled with brown soil. This would …
Created on: Monday 11th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shrewton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-632F74
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An enamelled copper alloy disc or plaque, decorated with a picture of a woman's face and a incomplete border of pale blue enamel with the remains of some gilding. It is probably of Medieval date, about AD 1100 - 1300, based on the similarity of style to Limoges and Mosan champlevé enamel work of that period. The human head is forward facing and is enamelled in white with metal defining the eyes and nose. There is blue enamel in the eyes and red for the mouth and ears/earrings, neither of which are bordered by metal. The hair or headdress is shown as a series of five curved lines…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 15th July 2021
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