Record ID: LEIC-9F0EC6
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval Copper alloy pin, 21mm long, 8mm in diameter and weighing 2.20g. It has an incomplete circular-sectioned shaft, with a hint of a raised collar around its centre at the top. The head is bi-conical with a median band. The collar suggests a middle Anglo-Saxon date, 8th or 9th century.
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2016
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Record ID: LEIC-9D2E76
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of the house of Constantine, Urbs Roma - wolf and twins Siscia mint?
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
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Record ID: LEIC-9D19E4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of Crispus, reverse type CAESARVM NOSTRORVM VOT X , Trier mint. 318-24.
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
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Record ID: LEIC-9D1328
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of the house of Constantine, GLORIA EXERCITIVS reverse two soldiers, two standards. 330-35
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
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Record ID: LEIC-9D080D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of the house of Constantine, CONSTANTINOPOLIS issue - victory on prow.
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
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Record ID: LEIC-9CEC5A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of Magnentius Reverse type SALVSDDNNAVGETCAES, 350-53.
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
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Record ID: LEIC-3F2FC0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy rose farthing of Charles I (AD 1625-49), type unclear. Diameter: 13.0mm, thickness: 1.0mm, weight: 0.83g
Created on: Tuesday 8th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pertenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-9BFB60
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy hinged bow and fantail brooch of 1st to 2nd century AD date. The bow is plane, the sub-triangular fantail at the foot is decorated with a raised scroll motif containing traces of blue and red enamel. There is a damaged loop on the head. There is some damage to the catchplate. Length: 35.0mm, width: 19.0mm, thickness: 13.0mm, weight: 6.61g
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2013
Last updated: Saturday 23rd November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinehead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-9AF606
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Iron Age Nauheim derivative brooch. Pin missing and damaged catchplate. Hull Type 10-11.1st century AD.Bayley and Butcher 2004, p.54, no.7. Length: 39.0mm, width: 16.0mm, thickness: 7.0mm, weight: 6.96g
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinehead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-4CCB82
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of the House of Constantine dating to the period AD 316-337. PROVIDEN [TAECAESS] reverse type depicting turreted camp or town gate with two stars above it. STR mint.
Created on: Friday 10th August 2012
Last updated: Friday 19th March 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-7A5916
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-37), dating to AD 323-4 (Reece Period 16), SARMATIA DEVICTA, Victory advancing right, holding palm-branch and trophy, treading on captive. Mint of Trier. RIC VII, p. 202, cf. no. 435.
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th April 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-79FEA2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval gilt copper alloy saucer brooch, 500-600AD. The brooch is 33mm in diameter and 3mm thick. The front of the brooch has a band of disjointed Style I animals around a central boss, and is flat with a raised lip forming the characteristic 'saucer' shape. The reverse is undecorated and a projecting pin housing or part of a catch-plate remains. Close to where the other part of the pin attachment would have been, the object has a very regular circular hole pierced through, midway between the centre and the edge; this is probably a repair. The object has a dark brown patina …
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2012
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-85A6D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy Colchester one-piece brooch, 58mm long, 21mm wide and 10mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 12.77grams. The brooch consists of a narrow rectangular bar which holds a spring of seven coils. This sits on top of a circular sectioned bow which tapers in width to a point. The brooch has part of an openwork catchplate c.20mm long. The brooch is similar to eg 1455, fig 156 in Hattatt, R. A visual catalogue of ancient brooches.
Created on: Tuesday 20th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 9th August 2012
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Record ID: LEIC-B261C6
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze age (Taunton phase?) copper alloy chisel fragment, 23mm long, 19mm wide and 6mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 10.86 grams. The object consists of the tip of the chisel and is rectangular in form and triangular in section. The tip is quite worn and un-even and the interior has a sub circular void.
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 28th July 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-842B46
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy radiate, possibly a barborous copy of a Divus Claudius
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2013
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Record ID: LEIC-835CF8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy headstud brooch, 43mm long, 16mm wide and 17mm deep. The brooch is in fair condition and weighs 8.6grams. It is mising its pin but some of the uncoiled spring was retrieved with the item. It consists of short rectangular wings with stepped vertical lines which sit beside a rectangular sectioned bow. This is decorated with a riase circular stud which sits above a row of rectangular enamel cells with traces of red enamel. This sits above a stepped foot and in front of a triangular catchplate.
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 24th August 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-7D8B32
Object type: TRIPOD VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy tripod leg, 46mm long, 11mm wide and 10 mm thick and weighing 9.82grams. The object consists of a circular sectioned shaft which is decorated with a protruding lions head about a third of the way down. Beneath this the shaft forms a bow (to represent the animals body?) and then continues for a few millimetres as a circular shaft again. Sitting above this shaft is a thin circular disc, with a sphere on top. The sphere has a rectangular sectioned slit cut through it, running left to right when viewed face on. The object is part of a tripod support.
Created on: Wednesday 10th March 2010
Last updated: Thursday 23rd April 2015
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Record ID: LEIC-7D8344
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy Sestertius of Marcus Aurelius, Rome?, 166-7, Victory (over Parthia) reverse (RIC931).
Created on: Wednesday 10th March 2010
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2012
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Record ID: LEIC-7D7677
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of Valens dating to the period AD 364-378 (Reece Period 19). Securitas reverse type depicting Victory advancing left.
Created on: Wednesday 10th March 2010
Last updated: Saturday 20th March 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-7D7152
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of Valens dating to the period AD 364-378 (Reece Period 19). Gloriano Visaeculi reverse type depicting emperor standing with shield and banner.
Created on: Wednesday 10th March 2010
Last updated: Saturday 20th March 2021
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