Record ID: BERK-621BE7
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy toggle clasp, dating to the 16th / 17th century. The mount is triangular in form with two open circles cut out from each long side at the top and bottom. There is a three-pronged crown design on each side between these open circles, with a central circular hole between for decoration. There is one rivet hole towards the base of the clasp that retains an iron rivet, the base is crenellated while the peak has a rounded knop which would have slotted into a clasp attachment, now missing. The clasp would have been one of two opposite each other with a clasp attachment…
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 8th December 2010
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Record ID: BERK-624D97
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy toggle clasp, dating to the 16th / 17th century. The mount is triangular in form with two open circles cut out from each long side at the top and bottom. There is a three-pronged crown design on each side between these open circles, with a central circular hole between for decoration. There is one rivet hole towards the base of the clasp, the base is crenellated while the peak has a rounded knop which would have slotted into a clasp attachment, now missing. The clasp would have been one of two opposite each other with a clasp attachment in the centre of t…
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 8th December 2010
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Record ID: BERK-ACF1D2
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A square trader's token issued by William Burges of Buckinghamshire in (AD) 1670. The token depicts a turbaned man pouring coffee, flanked by the date, 1670. The reverse has five lines of Script: William / Burges in / Aili[] / his half / Peny. Other 17th century square tokens often held the value of a halfpenny. Buckinghamshire 8A in Berry and Morley (1973, 99). Thanks to Laura Burnett for the ID.
Created on: Wednesday 12th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 27th August 2019
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Record ID: BERK-5468A8
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper alloy post-medieval half-penny trade token, dating to between AD 1648-1672. The token was issued by Robert Willy Senior of Witney and depicts a woolpack on the reverse. Williamson Oxfordshire 247.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd June 2016
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Record ID: BERK-86B523
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy strap fitting for a sword belt, dating to the Post-Medieval period. The fragment consists of the lower part of a shield-shaped plate with concaved sides and a rounded base with the stub of a hook projecting from the centre. The front face of the plate is decorated with a symmetrical foliage design in moulded relief. The design vaguely resembles leaves of the vine. The reverse is plain and undecorated. This type of fitting would have been attached to a scabbard strap. Read (2008: 219, no. 790) illustrates a similar mount which he dates to the 16th or 1…
Created on: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th March 2014
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Record ID: BERK-749F94
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy toy or miniture vase, dating from the post-medieval to modern period. The miniture is incomplete with two-thirds of the upper edge missing; the vase is hexagonal with splayed rim and a pedistal base. 17th-18th century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2011
Last updated: Monday 11th August 2014
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Record ID: BERK-EFC7E5
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
17th century traders token from Great Eastcheap. Williamson London 1260. Obverse: [WILLIAM . TEW . AT] . THE . IN = A unicorn. Reverse: [GREA]T . EA[STCHIP . M]EAL[MAN] = T over W . B arranged as a triad
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 21st October 2020
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