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-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-A5D4C1
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy token farthing minted for William Smith of Steyning, Sussex in 1667. Williamson Vol 3. p.1182, Sussex No.165. William Smith was a mercer. There is a reference, in Sussex Archaeological Collections 19 p.95, to a William Smith of Steyning who had an estate worth £20 seized by parliment in 1655 because the owner was either a Royalist or a Catholic (the ordnance covered both). This may or may not be the same person as issued the tokens but Williamson suggests it is.
Created on: Thursday 18th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Goring by Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-B663A4
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken cast copper-alloy pin with spherical filigree head of early post-medieval date (c. 16th century AD). The pin shaft is circular in cross section with a spherical knop at one end which projects just beyond the pin head. The other end is bent through 45 degrees and broken just below the head. The remainer is 22.1mm long by 1.9mm in diameter. The whole piece weighs 1.94 grams. The head is unusual, in that, unlike other similar examples e.g.HAMP-A136D5, it is hollow with no central ball onto which the filigree was applied. The head is 12.1mm in diameter and divided into hemisphere…
Created on: Wednesday 31st December 2008
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-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-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-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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-1B8B22
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval seventeenth century traders token farthing of unclear trader and town, 1648-1672 AD
Created on: Monday 5th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 12th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Goring by Sea', 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-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-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-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-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.