Record ID: HAMP-53DFF1
Object type: PICK
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Mesolithic to late Neolithic flint (7000 BC - 2100 BC) pick or chopping tool, a large core tool made on an elongated flint nodule which retains c.40% coretex. The object has a sub-triangular cross-section, with two faces of flake removal and one convex face retaining a pale orangey-brown cortex. The flint is grey-blue in colour and heavily patinated. Flake removals are transverse to the elongated shape of the object, angled towards the arise between the two worked faces. The tip has shorter flake removals to create a point on one of the worked faces and to one side of the con…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 2nd March 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-539427
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age (1000-400 BC) hollow scraper made on a natural flint flake, which retains 50% of its cortex. It has a plano-convex cross-section which widens from the short worked end to the opposite short end, and has convex long edges. The worked short end is on the convex face and is convex in shape with long, scaled, semi-abrupt flake removals (which have removed part of the cortex). The flint is opaque and grey in colour with light patination spots on the convex face, and heavily patinated/ white in colour on the opposite flat face. The object measures 85.0mm in…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 27th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D2F147
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval (perhaps 1250-1400) copper alloy 'animalier' candleholder, consisting of the head, body and incomplete foreleg, hind leg and tail of the animal. The metal is heavily pitted in places and all breaks are very worn and old. The animal is in the form of a dog, with foreshortened conical snout and a prominent ridge at 90 degrees to the top of the head, presumably for now-lost ears. A saltire groove across the snout represents the eye region, with a possible moulded ring-and-dot eye below to either side (now very worn). Behind the 'ear' ridge is a thick moulded rib …
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D2E5A4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval (1600-1900) copper alloy cup weight from a nested set, for weighing gold and silver bullion in the form of coins, small objects or as scrap metal. It is stamped inside its base with a ewer (for the London Founder's Company), a worn possible triangular shape (perhaps the letter A for the Avoirdupois system of weights) and a vertical with a hook at one end (perhaps an incomplete sword for St Paul's and the City of London). The object measures 21.9mm in diameter at the open top (internal 16.8mm) and 15.3mm (internal 13.8mm) at the chamfered base. The diameter at the bas…
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D2DDE4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval/ early post-medieval (1450-1550) cast copper alloy double-looped annular buckle frame, incomplete insofar as it is missing its pin. It is in the form of a five-petalled flower, the petals having concave outer edges. It is flat to the underside and slightly moulded to the front Iron staining on the axis bar and frame suggests the pin was made of iron. The axis bar is bent in a C-shape, presumably through wear. The metal is a mid bluey-green in colour. The object measures 30.8mm in length, 28.0mm in width, 2.9mm in thickness and weighs 6.58g. The internal loop measurem…
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D2D31D
Object type: JEWS HARP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval (c.1500-1800) copper alloy Jew's harp (also known as a Jaw's harp), missing its iron tongue, one arm and most of the other arm. It is lozenge-shaped in cross-section, max.7.2x6.5mm at the end of the circular mouth end and 3.7x3.6mm at the break across the fragmentary arm (recent-ish break). The other break (old and worn) measures 3.4x3.1mm. The circular mouth end has an internal width of 14.1mm and a rectangular notch at the centre of one face, now stained with iron corrosion from the missing tongue. There are tooling marks on all sides of the object. T…
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D2CBC6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and incomplete probable Roman coin, a radiate or nummus of uncertain emperor dating to the period AD 260-410. Uncertain reverse type, mint unclear.
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D2C160
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn Roman radiate or nummus of uncertain emperor dating to the period AD 260-410. Uncertain reverse type, mint unclear.
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D2ABE2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-37), dating to AD 310-313 (Reece Period 15), SOLI INVICTO COMITI reverse type depicting radiate bust of Sol right. Mint of Trier. RIC VI, p. 227, cf. nos. 893, 894 or 895.
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D29B7B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver denarius of Marcus Aurelius as Augustus dating to the period AD 175 to 176 (Reece period 8). TR P XXX IMP VIII COS III reverse type depicting Genius, nude, standing left holding patera and corn-ears. Mint of Rome. RIC III, p. 240, no. 353.
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D28414
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval short-cross cut farthing of John (1199-1216), class 5b, struck by Andreu at Lincoln or Winchester and dating to 1205-7. Its estimated original diameter is c.17mm. Reference: North 970
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D1A45B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval continental sterling imitation silver penny issued by Robert of Béthune, Count of Flanders (1305-22), and struck at Alost. Reference: Mayhew 212.
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D19027
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307), class 4a4 to 4c, mint of London, dating to the mid 1280s. Reference: North 1023-1027.
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D186CC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval penny of Edward I or II, class cf3a1 or 10cf3a3 (late), mint of Durham, dating to 1307-9. Reference: North 1042/1-2
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D17D3C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval groat of Mary (1553-54), pomegranate privy mark, struck at the Tower, London, 1553-4. Reference: North 1960
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D16D32
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval silver halfgroat of James I (1603-25), second coinage, uncertain initial mark, dating to 1604-19, struck at the Tower of London. Reference: North 2105/1
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D160F5
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper-alloy post-medieval 17th century farthing trade token issued by James Smith of Castlehold, Isle of Wight, dating to the period 1648-72. Reference: Williamson, Hampshire 50.
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D113BE
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy post-medieval rose/ orb jetton struck at Nuremberg by an anonymous late sixteenth/ early seventeenth century issuer, the obverse legend reading GLICK KVMPT VON GO (a shortened form of GLICK KVMPT VON GOT ISTWAR, 'Happiness comes from God, is true'). Reference: Mitchiner 1462.
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D104CB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rather worn middle/ late early-medieval (800-1000) copper alloy and niello strap-end of Thomas' class A, probably type 1 (A1; Trewhiddle), perhaps type 2 (A2; Patterned). It has a split end (9.4x3.3mm) and convex sides (max.13.7x2.1mm). The decoration takes the form of a sub-rectangular panel and a semi-circular panel between an edging of rectangles flanking the long sides. Beyond the straight short edge of the rectangular panel is a the zoomorphic terminal. The sub-rectangular terminal is defined by a grooved line with one stright short edge, two convex long edges and a final …
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-D0FE77
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn late early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) to medieval lead-filled copper-alloy pan weight, probably dating c.950 - c.1150. The copper alloy has lost all its original patina and has a light powdery green corrosion product over a reddish-brown surface beneath. The object is circular in shape with flat faces and a convex outside edge. Both faces are openwork with lead infill. The copper alloy design is of two opposing arches with expanded terminals extending from the edge of the object to touch at the centre of their curves. The lead infill stands slightly proud of the copper alloy…
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
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