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-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-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.

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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-E63AB1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval cast copper alloy single looped buckle frame. The strap bar and one end of the loop are lost to old breaks. The remaining end has an oval knop by the joint with the strap bar. The loop is widened and thickened towards the centre, oval in section with three, regularly spaced, oval expansions, a fourth is probably lost to the old break. These expansions may have been moulded decoration but details are lost to corrosion. The length is 45.8mm, the width 19.2mm, the width 4.2mm. It weighs 5.76 grams. This type of buckle frame is relatively common on Medieval sites (see,…
Created on: Wednesday 1st September 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fletching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-AE77C5
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval square copper alloy double sided coin weight. It is very worn but on the obverse appears to be a crown above ER enclosed within a circle. On the reverse side, which is also very worn, is an angel spearing a dragon lying at their feet. This image is enclosed within a pellet circle. This is a British made weight issued early in the reign of James I for an Angel of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). (Withers and Withers 1995: 22-3, 37 ). It is 14.2mm square by 2.9mm thick; it weighs 3.79 grams (58.5 grains). This is lighter than the weight of an Angel coin given in Withers and W…
Created on: Monday 12th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 19th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashburnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-865322
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy front of a composite hollow button. The front is hemispherical with a central pellet at the top surrounded by an incised design of a star or sun with a cenral circle with eight rays or points projecting from it and multiple parallel lines of hatching between each ray. It is 13.7mm in diameter; 6.1mm tall and weighs 2.17 grams. An identical example is illustrated in Read (2005:73, no.294) from south Somerset which he dates to the 17th to 18th century AD.
Created on: Monday 28th June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 6th July 2010
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Record ID: SUSS-A699D6
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy weight for a Ryal (Rose Noble). The weight is circular and flat with a raised design on one side only. The design is of the king with sword and square topped shield standing in a ship with rectangular bow and stern and an E on a banner above the stern; there is a rose on the side of the ship. It is 16.6mm in diameter, 4.2mm thick and weighs 6.78 grams, 104.5 grains. A full weight ryal would have weighed 120 grains but weights were normally made to the legal minimum weight which was slightly less and can lose weight through corrosion processes. Ryals were…
Created on: Saturday 5th June 2010
Last updated: Sunday 6th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fletching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-A4D454
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Upper Part of a late Medieval Stirrup; the strap bar, strap bar cover and small stubs of the sides survive; the rest is lost to old breaks. It is solidly cast with a rectangular slot running top to bottom from the strap, which would have looped backwards and back up over the strap bar which is worn and rounded on the lower edge. The horizontal strap bar, at the back, is 11.5mm tall and level with the centre of the 30.1mm tall strap cover. The front (strap cover) is trapezoid, narrowed at the top than bottom. It is decorated with a double pair of raised transverse lines by the bottom e…
Created on: Saturday 5th June 2010
Last updated: Saturday 5th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burwash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-A43FB3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy dupondius of unclear, probably 2nd century, emperor, unclear reverse type and mint, 100-250 AD
Created on: Saturday 5th June 2010
Last updated: Saturday 5th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ticehurst', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-A42136
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy sestertius of unclear emperor, reverse type and mint, 1-250 AD
Created on: Saturday 5th June 2010
Last updated: Saturday 5th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ticehurst', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-D20B62
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval square copper alloy double sided coin weight. On the obverse is a three quarter lengh portrait of James I with the legend: I R BRI all encircled by a pellet border. On the reverse is XIs (for 11 shillings) under a crown within a plain line circular border, over stamped with a crowned I to upper left. This is a British made weight for revalued Double Crown (half unite) of James I, 2nd coinage (Withers and Withers 1995:13). It is 14.52mm square by 3.35mm thick; it weighs 4.5 grams, 70 grains. A full weight double crown of the period 1604-1619 weighed 77.5 grains…
Created on: Wednesday 26th May 2010
Last updated: Thursday 5th August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chalvington with Ripe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C54CB3
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval cast copper alloy suspension bar for a harness pendant of probable 13th to 14th century date. The mount is T-shaped with a horizontal top bar ending in a rounded lobe at one end with a separate copper-alloy rivet through it; the other end is lost to an old break. The sides of the bar curve inwards slightly between the ends and the centre. From the centre two bars project down which would have formed the loops to hold the axis bar on which the pendant hung. Most of the loops are missing to old breaks but there are traces of iron corrosion and part of the back of the loops stil…
Created on: Wednesday 26th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 12th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chalvington with Ripe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C48080
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy coin weight for a half ryal or rose noble. The weight is circular and flat with a raised design on one side only, the other side is plain. The design is of the king with sword and square topped shield standing in a ship with rectangular bow and stern and an E on a banner above the stern; there is a rose on the side of the ship. It is 16.1mm in diameter, 2.7mm thick and weighs 2.0 grams, c.31 grains. The edges are badly corrosed and chipped suggesting it originall weighed considerably more. A full weight half ryal would have weighed 60 grai…
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2010
Last updated: Thursday 5th August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chalvington with Ripe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C159B2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval, cast, copper alloy mount. The mount has a flat plate and is slightly heart shaped with one end tapering and folding underneath to form a hook. The reverse is flat except for the hook and a protruding stud, both of which have been integrally cast. The stud is 5.1 mm high and 5.5 mm in diameter. The metal is a brownish-red colour with an irregular formation of a green patina in some places. The mount is 12.3 mm at its widest point, and 19.3 mm long; it weighs 1.97 g. Read (1988) Fig 17 no.6 illustrates a similar hooked fitting with attachment studs. He dates…
Created on: Thursday 13th May 2010
Last updated: Monday 17th May 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashburnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-943915
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (306-337 AD), BAETA TRANQVILLITAS (Altar with globe on the top) reverse, mint unclear, AD 318-324.
Created on: Tuesday 11th May 2010
Last updated: Thursday 13th May 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alfriston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-6CB9F6
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy 'beehive' shaped thimble with central hole. The thimble is almost hemispherical with slightly lengthened sides. The small circular pits are arranged in an irregular spiral from the base to the top leaving a small bare tonsure with a cenral circular hole. There is also a fine incised line around the base just above the rim. There is a slight indent on one side but this appears to be damage rather than from manufactring technique.   The height is 12.9mm, the diameter at the rim is 16.3mm, thickness 1.7mm and weight 4.36 grams.  A similar example can be fo…
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 29th April 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Itford', grid reference and parish protected.

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: SUSS-61FE15
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A trapezidal cast copper-alloy buckle frame of medieval date. The external edge has a U-shaped groove running along the length on the outer side in the thickness of the frame. The groove is decorated with 4 rows of triangles running down the length. The upper surface of the outer edge features a central transverse pin rest. Either side of this, the upper surface is decorated with punched annulets. The strap bar is narrowed with a slight raised rib around the sides of frame opposite each end. The metal is a deep grey-green in colour with little corrosion. The buckle measures 18.1mm long…
Created on: Friday 2nd October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarring Neville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-48B7A2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy double loop buckle with one large oval loop and one much smaller (shorter and narrower) rectangular loop which forms a seperate outer bar for the strap to be folded over. There is a rectangular recess in the centre of the pin bar (between the loops) to hold the pin, which is missing, and three transverse incised lines at the centre of the front of the large oval loop to act as a pin rest. It is 2.5mm long, 2.5mm wide and weighs c.4 grams. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle, p.87 no.539, which he dates c.1350-1450 AD. He comments "They are thought to have b…
Created on: Thursday 1st October 2009
Last updated: Saturday 18th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forest Row', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-9BBFB1
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of an unidentified copper-alloy object. The remaining piece has a side bar 51.5mm long, with a rectangular cross section and a terminal in the form of a two-lobed fleur; projecting from beneath this fleur, and on the same plane, is the remnant of a sub-trapezoidal element, measuring 16.9mm long and with an uneven bottom edge which suggests the former existence of openwork decoration. The object is 4mm thick and weighs 12.4g. It is similar in form to the 17th century double-loop trapezoid buckles with openwork decoration, but appears too large for this use and may therefore be a c…
Created on: Monday 18th February 2008
Last updated: Friday 26th April 2019
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Record ID: SUSS-9C4178
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame with integral cast plate. Dimensions 35.35mm x 16.08mm x 3.74mm and weight 5gms. The loop of the buckle is oval, 19.6mm long by 14.9mm wide and 2.1mm thick with a lipped pin rest. Traces of an iron pin remain in the circular pin hole, the sides of which project into the buckle loop. The fixing plate is 13.3mm long by 11.7mm wide and takes the form of a wide collar topped by a fleur d'lis. There is an integral rivet on the rear, at the centre point of the lis. it is 4.2mm in diameter and 3.7mm long. Although no exact parallel was found this fi…
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Itford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-099B26
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A solid copper-alloy late Iron Age or Roman head of a sheep, ram or possibly goat from a mount or figurine. The head is cast in three dimensions and is triangular in shape with one horn each side. The head measures 18.7mm in length from the top to the end of the nose; it is 9.8mm thick and 12.4 mm wide at the widest point, 24.7mm wide including the horns. The head tapers to a rounded nose with no sign of nostrils. The eyes are represented by indentations on each side of the head with a raised central pupil visible in the left eye. The horns start from the side of the head and curve ou…
Created on: Thursday 25th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-007DB8
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half (the hook part) of an 18th to early 19th century stock clasp. One of the outer edges is straight with a rectangular hook on the underside. The opposite edge then flares outwards and forms a much wider, trilobite edge. There are four circular-headed rivets on the upper side of this curved edge. The rivets can also be seen on the reverse. The front surface is covered with an embossed decoration. There are three bands of parallel lines running parallel with the straight edge. At the end of this design there is a design resembling a draped pair of curtains, tied at the top. Eit…
Created on: Friday 1st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-007854
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half (the hook part) of an 18th to early 19th century stock clasp. One of the outer edges is straight with a rectangular hook on the underside. The opposite edge then flares outwards and forms a much wider, rounded edge. There are three circular-headed rivets on the underside of this curved edge. The rivets can also be seen on the front surface. The front surface is covered with an incised decoration. There is a parallel set of lines running up from the straight edge of the plate. Inside these lines there are three bands of cross-hatched lines, inside borders. Also curving away …
Created on: Friday 1st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-E3FC95
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Loop part of a two part cast copper alloy dress fastener of Post-Medieval, seventeenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1700). The fastener is flat and piriform (drop shaped) in plan with an integral loop at the wider end; the loop is broken on the outer edge and the inner edge curves down on each side to meet at a centre point, flanking this point the border on the main plate curls inwards, continuing the curves. At the widest point there are integral perforated knops, one each side, which would have been used to sew the clasp onto clothing, one is broken. The end opposite the loop is brok…
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willingdon & Jevington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-DBC125
Object type: BULLET MOULD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy possible casting mould, possibly used for casting lead musket shot. The object is rectangular in shape and measures 76.02 mm x 21.59 mm and is 10.01 mm thick. The object tapers and gets slightly thinner to one end. The object is curved along the length. Two holes have been drilled into each end of the object in the corners of the copper alloy plate. The front surface is decorated with two rows of drilled hollows. There are eight hollows in each row, with a groove running between the two. At the end of the groove there is a further single hollow. The reverse is unde…
Created on: Wednesday 31st May 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 27th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laughton', grid reference and parish protected.