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-AFB261
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead circular unifaced token. The obverse of the token is decorated with the raised initials G over GF or GE. The reverse is blank. The token is 24.8mm in diameter, 2.33mm thick and weighs 6.84 grams. Tokens with simple designs were very easy to make, had a range of uses and continued in use for a long period. The arrangement of initials in this format was common in 17th century for married couples, the upper initial indicated the surname and the lower initials the husband and wives first names, suggesting this token dates to that time.
Created on: Monday 12th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 19th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dallington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-F469B6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a strap fitting of cast copper alloy, bent over at one end. One end has a rectangular strip, bent over to form a crude hook; it is rectangular in section and appears complete. Below this hook is a raised collar on the front below which the object widens slightly before tapering in gradually and ending in a expanded oval knop at the foot. This lower section, the collar and below, is D shaped in section with a convex front and slightly concave back in the centre. The length is 47.5mm, the width is 8.8mm, and thickness is 3.8mm. The weight is 7.52 grams. It is probably Post m…
Created on: Tuesday 14th September 2010
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chichester district', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-F746B4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hooked clasp with openwork design. This is the hooked section of a two part clasp. The main plate is heart shaped with a trefoil opening in the centre. At the top projects a rounded knop containing the residue of an iron rivet in the centre. The lower point of the heart extends downwards and continues into a forward facing blunt hook. The top of the hook is flanked by projecting rounded knops with the residue of a second iron rivet between them. There is evidence of white metal coating, probably tinning. Length 55.3mm, width 21.7mm. Weight 8.49 grams. It is ide…
Created on: Tuesday 14th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-360447
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two copper alloy rings, formed of a double loop of square sectioned wire the ends and middle of which are attached to each other and to the top of a knop. The knop has a circular top to which the wire is attached below which is a constriction then a oval terminal. Both the loops and terminal are complete with no breaks suggesting it was suspended from another obect through the loops. It is 20.1mm long, 16.6mm wide and the wire is 1.2mm thick; it weighs 1.06 grams. It is unclear what this is from. The finder has suggested a parallel with a wire looped terminal on a Medieval …
Created on: Friday 17th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-3630E5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hook piece from a copper alloy Post Medieval (c.1550-1750) book clasp. It is a sub-rectangular piece of copper alloy sheet, with a slightly flared attachment end. At the opposite end is a curved hook (3.6mm wide) the end of which is missing. Below this the main body of the clasp is 9.0mm in width, 9.1mm at the attachment end. At the centre of the attachment end is a perforation through the upper surface for a rivet, now missing. Towards the hook end there is stamped decoration within two fields delineated by transverse zigzag lines. Each field is filled with an 'eye' shaped object: …
Created on: Friday 17th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-A122D3
Object type: PATTEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron ring for attachment to a wooden patten or sole. The ring is oval with raised terminals for attachment to each side. Both terminal have rectangular strips rising at right angles to the ring and then are bent out at right angles where they expand into attachment plates. One plate is D shaped with two iron rivets through it. The other is oval with one rivet through it and a strip extending from the opposite side of the plate to the ring which ends in an irregular end, probably an old break. The ring is rectangular in section, 93mm by 101.1mm, 8.3mm wide by 6.8mm thick; with the term…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Last updated: Monday 4th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brightling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-474556
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame. The frame has two oval loops with slightly widened outer edges. The front and back are bevelled and the front is decorated with a raised rim around the inner side of the loops and raised foliate patterns (the pattern is discribed by Whitehead (see below) as vine scroll). There are traces of a black lacquer around the patten. The strap bar is narrowed and recessed. It is very bent and now 45.9mm long, 31.3mm wide, 2.8mm thick and weighs 6.34 grams. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle (page 68, No.423) whi…
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Patching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-486225
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval - Modern cast lead two disc cloth seal. The disks sit one on top of the other and are joined by a tab. One had a hole in the centre and the other a projecting point which has been pushed through the hole and then stamped flat to fix them together. The tab is mostly missing from old breaks. The stamp has the initials R.W. The discs are bent and at most 27.4mm in diameter, 3.7mm thick and it weighs 14.22 grams. The simplcity of the design of initials rather than a privy mark suggests a later date, 17th-18th century (cf Egan p.84, no.234, 236 and p.86, no.242)
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warningcamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-48B4B6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast copper alloy sword belt fitting. It is roughly foliate in form, with incised decoration forming a leaf pattern. It has a trefoil shaped terminal at one end below which it narrows before widening to rounded shoulders about a third of the way down from which it tapers to the other end where there are two lugs flanking a forward projecting hook. The hook is oval in cross section and the terminal is lost to an old break. There are two circular fixing holes containing iron corrosion, one near the trefoil terminal and one above the hook. It is 52.6mm long, 22.6mm w…
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warningcamp', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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-9100F6
Object type: FURNITURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four fragments of wood shaped into objects. The objects are not clear but they are possibly part of furniture rather than tools. They are likely to be Post Medieval in date in line with other material found nearby. No weights area given as this depends on how dry they are. Piece 1: Snapped in two (all the wood is waterlogged and very delicate). Slightly curved (possibly bent once waterlogged) strip of wood with straight, parallel sides, a squared off end and an irregular break at the other end. One side is slightly thicker than the other but this could be from differential …
Created on: Friday 4th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 12th August 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-1AA852
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy scabbard chape with angled sides, slightly domed front and hollow back. The lower part of the chape has an oval outline with incised radiating lines on the front creating a scallop shell appearence and a rounded knop projecting down at the centre of the lower edge; the upper part is trapizoid, stepping in at the top of the scallop before widening slightly to the top. The top edge is castellated with two incided horizontal lines below. There is a central quatrefoil shaped apeture. The separately soldered back plate is missing. The chape measures 39.8mm long by 29.7m…
Created on: Friday 23rd April 2010
Last updated: Monday 26th April 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Arundel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-735DB2
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval cast copper alloy hooked tag. The tag is flat backed and has a moulded front. The central plate is oval extending into a point at one side with a raised line border containing raised floral/foliate decoration. The oval attachement loop is attached opposite the pointed side and is brocken and bent at one side from an old break. On the opposite side the plate extends out into a point ending in a trefoil terminal. The hook extends from the central leaf of the trefoil. The hook is bent backwards but end in an old break at the start of the bend; it is D shaped in section wi…
Created on: Friday 8th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Goring by Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-7D6712
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval cast copper alloy lozenge shaped mount. The mount is flat on the surface with bevelled edges. On the reverse there are two integral rivets. One of them has broken and is now 3.6 mm long, the other is bent over at 90 degrees and approximately 11.6 mm long at is full length. A piece of dried leather is still fastened on the underside of the mount. The metal surface of the object is a red copper colour with a bright green patina in places. The mount is 32.5 mm, 25.6 mm at its widest point, and wieghs 6.82 grams. It probably dates to 1500 - 1700 AD.
Created on: Thursday 3rd June 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warningcamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-3FD345
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast copper alloy trade weight from the reign of James I (1603-1625). The weight is circular with a wide raised rim on the top. It is 21.9mm in diameter by 3.2mm thick and weighs 2.95 grams, c. 0.20 ounces (one fifth). It is stamped with: Crowned I (for James I) at 7 o'clock The sword of St Paul (for London) at 5 o'clock An inverted ewer (for the founders company) at 1 o'clock
Created on: Tuesday 25th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Goring by Sea', 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.

Record ID: SUSS-E18B20
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver twopence of George I (1714-1727), minted 1727. It is generally considered these coins were all minted for the Maundy sets although many subsequently circulated as small change.
Created on: Wednesday 16th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-E22D75
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy farthing of James I, Type 3d (Lennox round), initial mark possibly a tun, 1614-1625 AD, North 2136. Reverse struck off centre.
Created on: Wednesday 16th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-E27612
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin which has been polished until no trace of the design or legend remains. The size suggests it was origionally a post medieval three pence. Coins were polished in this way for use as love tokens but also to make small silver items such as boxes.
Created on: Wednesday 16th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-E2BF63
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy farthing of Charles II, 1672 AD
Created on: Wednesday 16th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-FC6B57
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy post medieval double loop buckle frame. 28.3mm long, 27.1mm wide, 2.5mm thick and 3.4 grams in weight. One loop has gone almost completely from old breaks. The other is D shaped in profile with an expanded outer edge and a central pair of projecting lips forming a pin rest. The centre bar is recessed and narrowed, there are projecting knobs at both ends, outlined by grooves across the frame. Similar to Whitehead (2003) page 61, no 306 hence a date of c.1550-1650 is suggested.
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-FCC538
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy post medieval rectangular shoe buckle with seperate spindle. 17.5mm long, 13.1mm wide, 3.5mm thick and 2.2 grams in weight. The frame is rectangular and slightly curved upwards, with outer sides that expand inwards slightly, these widened areas have no visible pin rests but the triangular pin is still cemented to one of them. The sides are also widened inwards and thickened at the centre to hold the spindle. The iron spindle is still in place, although rusted. The pin is complete, trianguler, 8.8mm long and 2.8mm wide at the base. The chape is incomplete; it is attach…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-FD8C04
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy early post-medieval hooked tag with a central circular boss, trapezoid loop and complete hook. The central boss is 11.9mm in diameter, 2.3mm thick and worn; it has a outer, flat ring decorated with short radiating lines; the central raised section may be decorated with the letters 'ihs' (for Jesus), although this is too worn to be certain. The back of the boss is mostly flat with an off-centre slightly concave oval area. The attachment loop is trapezoid, 11.1mm wide where it meets the loop and 12.8mm wide at the outer edge, the bar itself is 1.5mm wide and 0.9mm thick. Th…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 14th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-0D7B32
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy farthing of William III (1694-1702), 1696 issue.
Created on: Friday 18th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-693EB3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A struck silver Post Medieval escalin of Albert and Elizabeth of Austria, ruling in the Spanish Netherlands. Coin probably minted in Hertogenbosch in 1617. Obverse depicts an eagle with the shield of Austria-Burgundy on breast; legend reads: ALBERTVS [ET ELISABET] [...] [GR]ATIA. The reverse depicts the crowned shield of Albert and Elizabeth on St. Andrew's Cross; legend reads: AR-CHID.AV[S] [...]. Cf. World Coins 1600-1700, ref. KM# 47.3, page 1212. Most of these coins are undated or are later, from Brabant or Antwerp mints. However, it is suggested that coins displaying the date '16…
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forest Row', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-593350
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Post Medieval silver gilt dress pin with hollow-cast spherical head, c. 16th century AD. The pin has been drawn from a thick silver wire 2.40 mm in diameter and the shaft measures approximately 72 mm long (including the section through the head) with a 90-degree bend about one third of the length up from the point. Such bends are a common feature of these pins and it appears to be purposeful, perhaps due to use. The pin tapers gradually to a point at one end and ends flat at the other. The flat end seems to have been pushed through and soldered into a highly-decorative head…
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-490184
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn trader's token issued by Edward Goodwin, candlemaker of Dorking. Obverse: a man making candles, ED[WARD] G[OODWIN], Reverse: [OF DARKIN IN SVRRY] / EEG. As Williamson Surrey 48.
Created on: Friday 11th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-D13AD4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A trader's token issued by William Joyce of Salisbury WILLIAM IOYCE/ A camel couchant IN SARVM 1652/ W I
Created on: Wednesday 26th May 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-C573D7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Reading
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A shilling of Charles I. Group D, North 2225, initial mark Bell,1634-5
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-018DE3
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bracknell Forest
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 17th century trader's token, now very worn. GIS//A sole
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 29th April 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-7D20E6
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A halfpenny trader's token issued by William Taylor of Winchester.
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-A30DF5
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 17th century trader's farthing. Obverse: three horseshoes, O. WILLIAM . HARDING. Reverse: H over W . M arranged as a triad, OF . HAMERSMITH . 1667 = HIS / HALFE / PENNY. As Williamson Middlesex 68.
Created on: Tuesday 16th November 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-A1E026
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn 17th century trader's token. Obverse: a hart lodged, [THOMAS . GHOST . AT . THE]. Reverse: [IN . BROMLY . IN .] KENT = HIS HALF PENY. As Williamson Kent 34.
Created on: Wednesday 24th September 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-24F1F2
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A trader's token. The sides have been hammered to form a rim, possibly to act as a gaming piece. Obverse: A boar's head, with a lemon in its mouth, lOHN .SAPCOTT . AT . YE . BORESHED. Reverse: S over I . E arranged as a triad, TAVERNE . IN . GREAT . EASTCHEAP. As Williamson London 1259.
Created on: Tuesday 15th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR239
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
The copper alloy matrix from the end of one arm of a Post-Medieval multi-armed seal matrix. The face of the matrix (the die) is broadly circular and inscribed with a design of a heart pierced by two arrows with drops of blood or tears above and to the sides and a probable crown or possible eye above; all within a engrailed border. From the back of the matrix rises the stub of a handle, the handle is circular in section with a district casting line running down the sides at 12 and 6 o'clock on the matrix. The handle now ends in an old break just above the matrix. It is 15.5mm in diamet…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2000
Last updated: Monday 1st September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOMERSET STOGUMBER', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR240
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
The copper alloy matrix from the end of one arm of a Post-Medieval multi-armed seal matrix. The face of the matrix (the die) is broadly circular and inscribed with a design of a three masted sailing ship within a engrailed border. From the back of the matrix rises the stub of a handle, the handle is circular in section with a district casting line running down the sides at 12 and 6 o'clock on the matrix. The handle now ends in an old break just above the matrix. It is 16.1mm by 15.5mm and 6.4mm thick and weighs 4.06 grams. SOMDOR239 found in the same area is related and probably fr…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2000
Last updated: Monday 1st September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOMERSET STOGUMBER', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR1573
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy pedestal type seal matrix with a oval die from which rises the handle in the form of a flattened trefoil on a short, oval sectioned, stem. The upper loop of the trefoil is missing to an old break, the lower side lobes have roughly circular holes through them. The die has an incised design of the letters I C with a branching tree running between them and spreading out above and below them and no outer border. The die is 14.2mm by 13.6mm; the matrix is now 20.6mm tall; it weighs 3.43grams. Various similar matrices are recording on the database and in Read (2001, 81…
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2002
Last updated: Monday 1st September 2014
Spatial data recorded.