Record ID: NARC-528F4A
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy probably Harness Fitting of Post-Medieval to Modern date (AD 1550-1950). The object consists of a decoration knob with a long circular shaft extending from the centre of the reverse. The knob consists of an inner hemispherical section with an acorn-shaped knop extending from the centre of its outer face. Below the knop is circular expansion with an integral sub-rectangular spur. The terminating end has a small circular expansion beyond which the shaft is rectangular. The metal is dark green in colour with areas a pitting and corrosion. This…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th October 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-CFA2EA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman plate brooch dating from c. mid 1st century AD to 2nd century AD. The surviving part of this brooch is circular in shape, however there is significant damage to most of the edge. The cross section has a trapezoidal shape to it with the remains of the back plate protruding slightly further from the edge. The upper surface of the brooch is the smaller diameter of the profile. The trapezoidal shape has a diameter of 17.5mm flaring out to 20.5mm where it joins the remains of the integral back plate. This results in the design being raised up from the ba…
Created on: Wednesday 8th July 2015
Last updated: Friday 22nd April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-EF8F75
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A silver composite dress-hook. The backplate is pinked and forms three lobes. In each lobe is a dome that has been decorated with three rope twist design circles and a central knop. In the centre of the dress hook is a central element made to resemble a flower comprised of a pin with a slightly rounded head fed through a piece of cut sheet silver with seven edges. The pin emerges through the reverse and is split. On the reverse of the backplate, above the split pin, are solder marks where a transverse bar would have been attached. Below the pin hole, perpendicular to wher…
Created on: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Last updated: Monday 17th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-3728C6
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver dress pin of bodkin type, incomplete. The body of the bodkin has a sub rectangular section with bevelled edges. One terminal of the bodkin has a circular bowl and the circular shape that this sits in tapers to a point, where it meets the connecting segment of the piece, a triangular panel. A further two small triangular panels, with etched decoration, are positioned perpendicular to the length of the bodkin, and join it on either side of this junction. The larger triangular panel has a circular perforation and has etched lines following the edges. Following this is a shor…
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 12th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kimbolton Parish Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-4F41B6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy buckle that is silvery-grey in colour suggesting an alloy low in copper metal. The buckle frame is trapezoidal in shape with a sub-oval to sub-rectangular cross-section. The frame has an external length of 15.20mm, maximum width along the leading edge of 24.8mm and minimum width along the shorter width of 21.2mm. The frame has a thickness of 2.7mm. The reverse of the frame is smooth and undecorated. The upper surface of the frame is decorated with shallow grooves set diagonally across the bar of the frame. A buckle plate was originally part of this buckle and seems t…
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Monday 10th February 2014
No spatial data available.

Record ID: CAM-233BA6
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy late Medieval French jetton. The obverse shows a sheild of France (flat topped and pointed base), three fleurs de lis within, above is an annulet with single pellet either side. Obverse reads: (cross initial mark = X) AVE MARIA + CIACIA (or less likely GRACIA instead of CIACIA). Reverse shows triple stranded straight cross fleuretty in four arched tressure. Surrounding the tressure, externally, are four equally spaced annulets with a single pellet either side. The four internal angles each have a letter, alternately V and M. Weight is 4.36g, diameter is 27.72mm, thi…
Created on: Tuesday 14th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Hertfordshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-AA1961
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy chisel of possible Bronze Age date weighing 1.91g. It is 35.42mm in length with a square cross section at one end 3.49mm wide, flattening, and widening very slightly to a rectangular end from approx two-thirds the way along its length. It measures 3.44mm thick at the base end and thins to 1.22mm thick at the chisel tip. This small chisel could be of any date between the early Bronze Age to present day. Peter Reavill says that these tools "get ascribed to the Bronze Age - but"..."they could be almost any age - if not found in a hoard context - true diagnostic Bron…
Created on: Friday 26th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 8th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Soham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-454BE2
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval cast copper alloy zoomorphic S-shaped belt clasp, circa AD 1600 - 1800. An animal head with rounded ears, a prominent forehead and snout. Its neck is arched and circular in cross-section (2.9mm diameter). The mouth is open showing an indistinct tongue or teeth on its right side. The object's surface has traces of silvering, and the openings of the nostrils are marked with micro-dots of a reflective red substance. The piece measures 17.7mm in length, the head has a thickness of 4.1mm, and it weighs 1.8g. See YORYM-7A0785 which references Egan (2005), p47, 172.
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE.', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-17F455
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy late Iron Age to early Roman strap fitting or slide. The strap fitting is incomplete with the attachment missing. The strap fitting is composed of 2 'eye' forms (characteristic of the Iron Age) which create a double-lozenge shape in plan view. The 'eyes' take the form of prominent domes within a sunken circular field. The diameter of each 'eye' is approximately 8.3mm. The outside edge of both 'eyes' tapers to a point. The reverse of the strap fitting is flat with the remains of either an attachment loop or prongs present. The attachments are very worn but circular …
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 27th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-17DD43
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy unidentified object. The date of the object is uncertain but it is probably Post-Medieval to Modern. The object is distorted and there is a break on one side but the damage is not new. Originally, the object would have been a flat frame creating a sub-rectangular aperture approximately 12mm x 60mm. Although the frame is quite narrow it has a protruding knop to one side. Originally, the object would have had a maximum length and width of approximately 92mm x 27mm. The object is now bent and twisted out of shape, resulting in the frame no longer being on a single pla…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 9th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdonshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-98BB56
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold signet ring with octagonal bezel engraved with a lion rampant within a dotted border. The bezel oriented in the same direction as the loop, the back of the bezel with a maker's mark: the letter B (?) in a lozenge, this mark does not occur on any of the rings in the British Museum collections and we have not been able to identify it. The ring dates from the 16th or early 17th Century. Weight: 9.12g. Diameter (at widest): 28.18mm Bezel width: 13.39mm Band width: 3.60mm Band thickness: 1.63mm
Created on: Friday 20th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cambridgeshire Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-2298A5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Pyramidal mount made from gilded silver with relief decoration on the flat top and the sides. Each corner has a projecting pierced attachment lug, one having broken away (fresh breaks). The square panel on the top is decorated with four deeply engraved pointed-oval leaf or petal shapes arranged in a saltire and retaining gilding in the recesses. Each of the side panels is decorated with a central stem which branches at the top into two, each stem then curling downwards to end in a long crescent-shaped leaf. The bulbous leaves with pointed ends are similar to those on the plant ornam…
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 24th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-58F054
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Continental silver Iron Age unit, attributed to the Aedui dating to the period to 125 BC to 75 BC. Obverse shows Roma left. Reverse shows horse left. Die axis is 9 o'clock, diameter is 12.98mm, weight is 1.8g. cf. Delestree and Tache, p. 74, DT 3196; Allen, BMC no. 314.
Created on: Saturday 7th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: CAM-4F7020
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy middle Saxon double-hooked dress fastener dating from the 8th to early 9th century. This clasp is a Class M double sharp-hooked clasp (see Read, B. 2008 p.40). The artefact has a central area 33.18mm long with a diameter of 10.19mm. The surface of this part of the artefact is decorated with shallow transverse and lateral lines that form tiny squares c.1.68mm x 1.68mm. A circular perforation, of 5.34mm diameter, is present just off centre through this part of the artefact. At either end of the central area the artefact narrows to a circular cross-section of 4.89mm diamet…
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2010
Last updated: Friday 30th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Wratting Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-2A8CA1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age copper-alloy La Tène I type brooch of 4th- to 3rd-century BC date. The integral spring survives at the head, it is of four coils, two to each side (both loose to one side), wrapped around a separate copper-alloy cross bar 9.8mm long with hammered down ends. The pin and external chord are lost to an old break. Below the head the bow widens out and is pointed oval in plan, with a maximum width of 8.1mm, narrowing again to the foot. The back of the bow is flat and the front concave with an indented line down the centre which is deeper at the widest point. The bow …
Created on: Monday 23rd August 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bighton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-2A7753
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment consisting of the head of a copper-alloy Roman Trumpet brooch of 1st to 2nd century AD date. The head is oval in shape and measures 16.85mm wide by 10.75mm. At the upper edge is a tiny lip that extends outwards by 0.95mm. Beyond this is the remains of an extension of the brooch, 10.05mm wide by 3.2mm and 1.35mm thick, that probably was the start of a head loop. At the lower centre of the trumpet head is the surviving fragment of the bow which seems to have had an oval cross-section (4.0mm by 2.05mm), which extends by approximately 5.9mm. On the reverse of the trumpet head a…
Created on: Monday 23rd August 2010
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bighton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: HAMP-29CD65
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded cast lead spindle whorl or weight of uncertain date. The artefact is circular in plan and has a diameter of 26.1mm and is 7.4mm high. A circular perforation with a diameter of 6.8mm is present at the approximate centre of the artefact. The object is broadly plano convex, with a flat lower surface. The upper has a bevelled edge and a conical centre, forming a ridge or raised ring, that rises from a flatter zone between it and the circumference. The artefact weighs 21.33g. It has been pointed out that the weight of a spindle whorl is suggestive of the thickness of yarn prod…
Created on: Monday 23rd August 2010
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bighton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: HAMP-25FC91
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead-alloy pot mend, used to mend a broken vessel in order to lengthen the period of use after damage had occurred. The larger side of the circular mend has a diameter of 30.9mm. The lead pot mend is 11.09mm thick and the smaller of the two sides of the disc has a maximum diameter of 24.75mm. No vessel fabric has seemingly been retained within the central slot, and is wide date range is therefore offered.
Created on: Monday 23rd August 2010
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bighton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: HAMP-25B406
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A conical lead standing weight of unknown date. The weight has a circular flattish base with a diameter of 31.6mm. The cone is 65.1mm high with an irregular top which is likely to be a result of old damage. The weight has a mass of 184.45g, which is 0.3 pounds. The weight is corroded and with some strikes.
Created on: Monday 23rd August 2010
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bighton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: HAMP-2555B4
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded and abraded cast lead Roman steelyard weight with a broken iron prong at one apex. The object is broadly biconical in shape, as typical Roman steelyard weights were (Geake 2001, 67). The object is 33.3mm in diameter and 34.5mm high with an iron loop extending from the top by an additional 7.4mm. The loop is circular with an external diameter of 8.35mm and internal diameter of 3.8mm. The loop is 2.75mm thick and the centre is currently filled with dried mud. The artefact weighs 122.87g which equates to about 4.5 Roman ounces (although corrosion and losses ought to be borne i…
Created on: Monday 23rd August 2010
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bighton CP', grid reference and parish protected.