Record ID: LEIC-27E12C
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy seal matrix, dating to c.AD 1200 - 1400. The seal is a pointed oval or vessica shape it is decorated with a central raised rib and an integral lug set close to the upper end on the reverse, the lug is incomplete. The die face is decorated with the virgin mary and child (Jesus) in the centre, behind them in a Romanesque style church and below a person praying. The matrix has an external inscription reading: SISLVnT' ALn D' GRAnO: AnIMA IOhIS (Ora pro anima Johannis, seal praying for the soul of John) Length: 42.5 mm Width: 26.5 mm Weight: 2…
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2022
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Record ID: WREX-56A1AB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy annular brooch complete with pin, dating to the medieval period c. 1200-1400AD. The main part of the band is rectangular in section. The pin, which is also copper alloy, is square in section and tapers to a point. The upper surface of the brooch has two concentric grooves in between which has been stamped lettering reading 'ihc naza renus' (Jesus of Nazareth). The underside of the brooch is plain. See LEIC-09F89A on the database for a similar example. Diameter: 27.6mm; width of band: 5.4mm; thickness: 2.2mm; weight: 5.31g.
Created on: Friday 8th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Goosnargh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-F5B8D7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy annular brooch that has a flat frame that is rectangular in cross-section. There is a circular cross-section constriction on one side for the pin. The pin has a cast penannular loop for attachment with a recessed transverse collar separating the shaft of the tapering pin. Both faces of the frame are engraved with an inscription that is contained within a rectangular border. One side reads (beginning at the constriction) IEO RVEO LVEO LVT and the opposite side is IEO RVEO LVEO LVEO LVT Malcolm Jones (pers comm, 2020) comments, ‘I'm tempted to see both legends…
Created on: Tuesday 8th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2022
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Record ID: NLM-D0374B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy annular brooch fragment. Cast flat lentoid-section fragment from a flat and broad-banded annular brooch, probably broken across a constriction for the pin [lost]. Irregular curvilinear scratches appear on the display side, which proved too incoherent to convey any credible reading to this reporter. Fortunately, Dr Malcolm Jones kindly comments: '..the lettering is definitely late med. I think I can read AMORE folowed by ?I?A..', confirming this to be an amatory message. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1350 Diameter: 39.3mm, Band Width: 5.7mm, Band Thickness: 2mm,…
Created on: Thursday 11th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-34A5B0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold medieval blackletter posy finger ring dating from about AD 1400 - 1500. It is rectangular in cross-section. The posy on the external face is in dense blackletter and is extremely difficult to read, but it has been suggested to read "a [...] Cervyr" (an alternative spelling to servir) meaning 'to serve' with the word in the middle perhaps being an adverb or a name. The first letter of the middle word has a florid ornament like a large letter Z, further confusing the interpretation of the letters. The three words are separated by recessed fan shapes, or foliage or wing motif…
Created on: Monday 4th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sheriff Hutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-BD94F3
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy handle for a scale tang knife, of Post Medieval dating (17th to 18th Centuries AD). The knife handle is sub rectangular in plan, and concave in profile. The handle consists of one side from a paired set. One half would sit on either side of the tang in a scale tang knife. The handle is curved to accommodate the tang, with an closed semi-circular end. The blade end is open and flared. Located centrally on the handle, is a raised rectangular area, delimited by a border. Inside is an inscription 'MAKE YOU BLEED'. The inside of the handle is plain and undecor…
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th January 2022
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Record ID: SF-355B89
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy post-medieval scale tang knife handle. The fragment is semi-circular in cross section and expands slightly at one end. The outer face of the narrower end is flattened and bears a slight recess containing the letters '...OR I' against a stippled background. There is a damaged piece of metal across one side of the expanded end, perhaps where the blade was fitted. A small number of similar (and often more complete) post-medieval knife handles also with inscriptions have been recorded by the PAS, including KENT64, LVPL-BD94F3, NMS-7AFE56 and SOM-4B5883. A…
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2015
Last updated: Friday 14th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wenhaston with Mells Hamlet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-B9E481
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval lead alloy seal matrix, Length: 79 mm, width: 47 mm, thickness: 6 mm, weight: 136 g. The seal has a pointed oval form and a rectangular cross section. It has a flat reverse with no loop but a small depressed area that may have held one. The matrix has a rather crude image of a bishop? with the head squashed into the point and very square body with feet protruding from the hem of his garment. The figure is holding a cross headed shaft, with left hand raised in benediction. His garment is decorated with a double chevron border running from its shoulders with the point …
Created on: Friday 14th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leicestershire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-E24ECF
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval cast lead seal matrix dating to the thirteenth century. The matrix is disc-shape with a triangular attachment lug projecting from the reverse. The front face has an incised design consisting of a fleur-de-lis set within a circle. An incised legend surround this. The legend reads [S] WILL'I WALTER:[...] with WILL'I abbreviated form of WILLELMI, so "[seal] of William (son of) Walter". The reverse features a stylised fleur-de-lis centrally positioned. The upper portion of the central stem is integrated into the attachment lug. The fleur-de-lis is enclosed within a…
Created on: Wednesday 24th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 10th December 2021
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Record ID: NLM-F95023
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy seal matrix. An oval matrix at the end of a facetted hexagonal section tapered handle with a collared lozenge-shaped apical suspension loop, now rounded by wear. A central motif depicts a bird perched on the edge of its nest feeding three chicks below; the angle of the head and a pendent strip in the bill of the bird may suggest the subject to be the Pelican in its Piety, a type or representation of Christ [like Christ caring for the world through his self-sacrifice, the pelican was thought to feed its young with blood drawn from its breast]. Malcolm Jones kindly corrects…
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 1st December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-BF5F52
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy seal matrix dating to the medieval period (c.AD 1275-1400). The die is circular in shape and has a cylindrical handle. At the top of the handle is a broad collar that is double faceted, above which is a flattened, rounded suspension loop that has an off centre circular perforation. The die is engraved with a figure of a man striding right. The man is clothed in a rounded cloak and is wearing a pointed hat or hood with a ball or bell at the tip. Grasped in the figure's hands and held out in front is a staff with a rectangular head and pointed base. The…
Created on: Friday 30th October 2020
Last updated: Friday 5th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marchwiel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CB2CBE
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval gold seal matrix, oval with a centrally set oval stone intaglio and on the reverse a partly squashed sheet gold loop, probably attached with solder. The stone, probably carnelian but with slight banding, is engraved with an elephant in profile walking right (on the impression), with a castle or howdah on its back; it is the right way up when the matrix is held with the loop to the left and the start of the inscription below. The animal has four thick legs with flared feet, well modelled joints (hip and shoulder) and a tail with a rounded expanded end. The he…
Created on: Wednesday 1st July 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 14th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-C010D8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete composite gold finger ring in two separate pieces. The main band of the ring is of sheet gold with a separately applied strip bearing the chased inscription in relief. A broken separate thin gold band with an L-shaped profile was probably attached to form a rim around the edge of the main band and there may originally have been another such applied to the other edge (now missing). The inscription in Blackletter script is a rhyming couplet and reads: +cver de vray amy doit auior mercy Dr Malcolm Jones has translated this as: The heart of a true lover Must have m…
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne Clenston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-2B60EA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Report by Lyn Blackmore of MoLA with amendments by Julie Cassidy (Northamptonshire FLO) and Ben Paites (Essex FLO): Dimensions: Diameter 28.8mm, internal Diameter 19.6mm, Thickness 2.4mm; width of frame 5mm, Length of pin 30mm Complete silver annular brooch with beaded inner and outer edges. There is an inscription in Lombardic, or 'black', lettering on the upper side and a double axe motif on the reverse. The frame has a narrow recess for the sword-shaped pin, which would originally have been articulating but is now held in the tight slot for it by soil/corrosion. Due to th…
Created on: Tuesday 30th June 2015
Last updated: Monday 2nd August 2021
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Record ID: WAW-862C39
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The brooch has an annular frame with a constriction for the pin. The frame is rectangular in section and only decorated on one face. This face has a low-relief French inscription written in Lombardic capitals 'AMIE TV ES MA VIE' meaning 'Love, you are my life'. The inscription starts at the pin constriction. The reverse of the frame is undecorated. The pin is curled around the constriction and has a collar traversing the pin just after the loop. The pin is an elongated triangle in plan and sub-square in section which tapers in width and depth. The pin has a recent scuff mark…
Created on: Monday 6th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 26th July 2021
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Record ID: NLM-FF2E3E
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy seal matrix. A small circular matrix, constricted to form a short collared handle with a rhomboid top loop now blocked by ferrous corrosion. A central motif appears to represent a face in profile, facing right on the impression. This is kindly identified by Malcolm Jones as the head of John the Baptist on a platter. A legend reads: *CAPVT IOHIS, again as corrected by Malcom Jones. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1300 Diameter: 17.8mm, Height: 21.1mm, Weight: 8.12gms
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 15th July 2021
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Record ID: NLM-FF3CA2
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy seal matrix. Oval or shield-shaped matrix on a constricted and lightly facetted handle with a slightly narrowed rounded top loop. A central motif comprises the head of a stag of eight points with a cross potent between its antlers. A short legend above the motif reads LEL; the design is locally known with a similar legend of LE SV, for I am loyal. Malcolm Jones has kindly corrected an initial mis-reading of the legend. The stag with a cross between its antlers is associated with the very similar stories of St Hubert/Eustace, who was accosted by such a beast while hunting.…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 15th July 2021
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Record ID: DUR-FA3454
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval gold posy ring made from a flat band 4.31mm wide and 0.77mm thick. It is engraved with a black-letter inscription in French which reads Jatens tenir (I wait to hold [you]). The inscription starts (and/or ends) with a group of three-pointed motifs, other motifs which are difficult to identify (from the photographs) and a sun with wavy rays. The words are separated by a five-petalled flower on a stem with leaves The finger-ring dates from the fifteenth century. Consequently, in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as T…
Created on: Friday 26th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 24th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middleham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-14E01C
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete anonymous cast copper alloy seal matrix of Medieval (circa 14th century) date. The handle is waisted with a round suspension loop. The die face is circular and 20.6mm in diameter. It depicts a bird, right, with folded wings and an object in front which may be a droplet or egg. The legend reads FORE[C or L]ER[+]S, ending with a retrograde S after a cross-filled square.
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Last updated: Friday 23rd April 2021
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Record ID: WMID-ACAA13
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval lead alloy circular seal matrix dating to circa AD 1200-1300. The seal is circular in plan and is double-sided with a pierced circular lug at the top. One face is inscribed with S’ MARGARIT gREVE or gREVEs [Margaret Greave or Greaves] – with a central incised HIS. Malcolm Jones per comms suggests this could be the more commonly found IHS (he Christogram monogram symbolizing Jesus Christ). Perhaps it was mistankly marked in error by the inscriber. The other seal face reads: S’ IOH’ [short for IOHANNIS = John] FIL’ for daughter, therefore meaning M…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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