Record ID: WMID-E076D4
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy spoon finial (length: 34mm; width at shoulders of blade: 13mm; thickness at shoulders of blade: 3mm; weight: 3.03g). Intregrally cast with the blade, the small handle/ end knob (length: 7mm) has bead, reel and spool mouldings. The blade tapers fairly gently from shoulders to the blade where the forked tip has been broken off to form a jagged edge. The front of the blade has been engraved/ incised with possible animal motifs. This decoration, however, is fairly crude and mostly consists of unidentifiable linear markings. The overall condition of the artefact is fai…
Created on: Friday 21st May 2004
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2017
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Record ID: WMID-148286
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy post-medieval trader's token of the mid to late 17th century. The token is fairly worn and suffers from some corrosion so reading it is not easy. However, the obverse legend may read THO. CA[TTER]B[ANKE] and possibly [IN] LEITC[HFIELD] TC on the reverse, making it a token of Thomas Catterhanke, bailiff of Litchfield. A shield can be discerned in the centre of the obverse. It measures 17.1 mm in diameter, 1.1 mm thick and weighs 1.5 grams.
Created on: Monday 15th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 15th November 2010
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Record ID: WMID-7CE208
Object type: TONGS
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete tinned copper alloy sugar tongs arm, of Post Medieval dating (17th to 18th Centuries AD). The arm has a D-shaped, dished terminal with a short length of a pointed oval-sectioned arm. It measures 31.6 mm in length, 14.5 mm wide and 3.0 mm thick. It weighs 2.1 g. The sugar tong arm is a mid grey colour, with an even surface patina. Several other sugar tongs (some misidentified as possible balances) have been recorded on the PAS database, including: LEIC-A531C3; NMS-09E313 and WAW-091A4A. More examples have been recorded on the Norfolk HER including: from Burgh …
Created on: Friday 10th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st August 2017
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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: WMID-3AE25E
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper-alloy 17th-century trade token halfpenny issued by Henry Fideo at Wednesbury in Staffordshire, Williamson Staffordshire 089, dating to 1666 on the token. Ref.: Williamson (1891, 1059). The initial mark is a five petaled flower. The die axis is 7 o'clock. Obverse description: The Ironmongers’ arms Obverse: HEN[RY . FIDOE] Reverse description: HIS / HALF /PENY in three lines Reverse: IN . WEDNESB[VRY . 1666] Diameter: 17.0 mm Thickness: 0.7 mm Weight: 0.7 g
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2022
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Record ID: WMID-61FCEF
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval octagonal copper alloy 17th-century trade token halfpenny issued by Tamworth Chamberlains in Tamworth, Warwickshire between 1656 and 1672. Williamson Warwickshire 159. Ref Williamson, 1891, 1213. Diameter: 19.8 mm Thickness: 1.0 mm Weight: 1.0 g
Created on: Monday 9th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 10th September 2019
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Record ID: WILT-02BF51
Object type: HINGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval (1500-1700) copper alloy decorative hinge from either a box or possibly a book fitting, folded on top of itself. It measures 23.92x12.50x4.13mm and weighs 2.7g. The object consists of two openwork halves c.1mm thick with what appears to be a shorter, flat spike sandwiched between. One half terminates in a fleur-de-lis a small rivet hole (1.3mm diameter) at the farthest point. Below this is an inverted, rather angular, heart-shaped openwork at the base of which is another rivet hole, complete with iron rivet corroded in place. Below is the c.4x2.5mm are of 'hinge' f…
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 3rd February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chippenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-1CA621
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early Post-medieval copper-alloy eye section from a toggle clasp. The section is comprised of a circular 'eye' containing an irregular, but roughly cross shaped aperture. A circular loop and an incomplete plate extends from one side of the eye. The artefact has been bent.
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 5th March 2018
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Record ID: WILT-93DD24
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Post-Medieval (late 17th or 18th century) copper alloy small spoon, consisting of part of the handle and terminal only. It measures 35.35x11.21x4.64mm and weighs 2.4g. The main body of this object is an elongated triangle in shape, flat in cross-section. The top edge is curved and also curves slightly backwards. At the centre of the curve is a collared globular terminal, topped with a knop. The pointed end of the triangle is missing but would have extended into a thin, twisted shaft, circular in section, and from which the spoon bowl would have projected. The upper sid…
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-67ABE5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn 17th-century copper-alloy post-medieval farthing of Charles I, 'Maltravers round' type 3, London mint (1634-1636 AD; North 2280-2282)
Created on: Friday 18th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 18th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Urchfont', grid reference and parish protected.