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-69D617
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron age copper alloy clothes fastener, 23mm in diamater and 9mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 11.01 grams. The object is rectangular in form and circular in section. It consists of an outer 'collar' which is 4mm in diameter and 3mm thick, at each end. This contains a shaft which is shaped like two squashed spheres with each sphere having the base of a shaft emerging from it. This part would have formed a loop with which the fastener was attatched to clothing
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-48E7C7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy strap end, 27mm long, 10mm wide and 1mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a brown patina and weighs 1.72 grams. The object is sub rectangular in form and section. It is very worn, missing most of its decoration, but the dots forming the eyes of the animal head terminal can just be seen.
Created on: Tuesday 15th April 2008
Last updated: Monday 2nd May 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-EECED6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy strap end, 45mm long, 31mm wide and 2.5mm thick, The object is in fair condition with a brown patina and weighs 8.57 grams. The object consists of a crescent, with one tip missing, which has an incised border on its upper edge and what appears to be random incised lines within it. The lower side is slightly hollow and the object has three rivet holes, two near the central part of the crescent, one filled and another filled one at the crescents tip. The fourth would have been present in the centre of the missing tip of the crescent. Below the central rivets is a tr…
Created on: Wednesday 7th March 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-82CA46
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or Post Medieval copper alloy spur fragment, 28mm long, 15mm wide and 3mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 4.25grams. The object consists of the terminal of a spur which would have held the buckles and straps with which to fit the spur. It has a semi-circular sectioned bar which terminates in a raised collar. Above this is a rectangular sectioned plate which has two rounded edges surrounding two circular holes, 3mm in diameter.
Created on: Monday 12th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-6DB627
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval copper alloy seal matrix, 15mm long, 137mm wide and 7mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a patina and weighs 2.42grams. The object is oval in form and has a central oval sectioned shaft emerging from the centre of the reverse, which has snapped off. The matrix consists of a raised circle with four points coming off at right angles. in between these are curving lines or rays and the whole is surrounded by a raised border.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-6DAC73
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix, 18mm in diameter and 3mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a brown patina and weighs 4.15grams. The object has a loop on its reverse which slowly emegres from the main body and is 7mm long and 4mm high. It has a small circular suspension hole, 1mm in diameter. The seal has an inscription running around its edges and a dipiction of a horse? in its centre. The inscription seems to read HVLVNEDVL?
Created on: Tuesday 12th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-BDD5B4
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval lead alloy seal matrix, 25mm long, 18mm wide and 3mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 6.7grams. The matrix is incomplete with about half present. It is oval in form and rectangular in section. It is decorated on one side with a foliate design, perhaps a corn ear? and is inscribed around its edge, GMIS+SMA?
Created on: Wednesday 17th February 2010
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-6DABF8
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy dagger chape, 34mm long, 17mm wide and 8mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 6.28g. The object is triangular in form and oval in section and is formed by overlapping the metal, forming a cone.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2016
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Record ID: LEIC-C07468
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze age/Iron age? copper alloy 'ring', 33mm in diameter and 7mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 25.91grams. The object is a solid ring with a circular section. it has no markings but its patina suggests some age.
Created on: Tuesday 24th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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