Record ID: LEIC-42744B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval gold Spanish 2 escudoes of Felipe II, series 1, 1566-88. probably minted in Seville or Segovia. The coin is very worn and has been crudely pierced.
Created on: Wednesday 15th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 24th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-9C54D5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron age uninscribed gold stater, probably of the Southern Region / Regini, c.80-50 BC, 'Sills Insular CF' type. Obverse: Wreathed head right. Reverse: Sinuous horse right, oval motif behind? Cf. ABC, p. 49, no. 515.
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2017
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leicestershire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-57BE78
Object type: AESTEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval gold terminal mount in the form of an animal's head. The mount is hollow (now filled with mud), and has been constructed from a sheet of gold that has been shaped into a three-dimensional horse-like head, beneath which is a plain gold sheet back-plate probably attached by soldering. A single strand of beaded wire runs around the base of the artefact, masking the join between the head and the back-plate. Overall the mount is sub-rectangular in form and cross-section. The head is bulbous in the centre and tapers towards the blunt snout at one end, and the open socket at t…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-89B7B4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gold quarter noble of Edward III, 1344-77
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2016
Last updated: Monday 15th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdonshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-896BAE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gold noble of Henry VI, Annulet issue, 1422-30, London mint. SCBC 1799
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2016
Last updated: Friday 12th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yorkshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-D6218C
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval gold bracteate fragment, 19mm long, 13mm wide and 0.5mm thick with a weight of 0.74grams. The object is sub-rectangular in form and cross section and represents a fraction of the edge of a bracteate pendant. This bracteate has no known English parallels but does have similarities to Scandinavian examples. Charlotte Behr writes, Description: Only a small, almost rectangular, fragment of the bracteate has been found that includes the outer edge of the gold foil between roughly '10.30 and 12.30' assuming that the projecting section of the gold foil was part of the…
Created on: Monday 5th September 2016
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-D4B2BE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval gold and white enamel mourning finger ring, 20mm in diameter, 3mm wide and 2mm thick with a weight of 5.55grams. The ring has a D shaped cross section with the flat side forming the outer surface. This is decorated with a solid raised border, top and bottom, the remainder is filled with lettering in a field of white enamel, now patchy. It reads (leaf like motif) ELIZ SIMPSON OB 18 FEB 1762 AE (ligated) GD (ligated) 57.
Created on: Monday 5th September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-6B7C83
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Post medieval gold finger ring, 27mm high, 21mm in diameter and 11mm at its widest, with a weight of 5.51g. The ring has a band 2.5mm wide and 2mm thick, which is decorated on its shoulders with a chain like pattern consisting of 4 overlapping lines of raised lines (or links), arranged to look like four chains. This terminates with a cruciform motif. The bezel is 11mm long and 10mm wide and 9mm high. It has a trapezoidal cross section and is rectangular in form. It is decorated with a series of incised lines running down each side to a central rectangle at its base which is filled …
Created on: Wednesday 31st August 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LEICESTERSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-47932A
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval gold filigree disc pendant. The pendant comprises a circular, flat sheet of gold that is plain on the back and decorated with applied filigree motifs on the front. At the top is a suspension loop of rectangular gold strip with four grooves, attached by soldering. The filigree decoration comprises a central cruciform motif of two intersecting rectangular loops with rounded ends, executed in beaded wire with a finer beaded wire border. The motif is enclosed by a circular beaded wire border. Each cardinal point is marked with an inward-pointing triangle, the tip meeting…
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 27th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rutland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-47843A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
A plain gold buckle of rectangular cross-section, comprising a hollow triangular plate and an oval loop. The buckle plate consists of a flat upper plate which is soldered to side walls, creating a box-like hollow-backed element. The apex of the triangular box expands into a circular lobe; there are also two curved projections, each slightly smaller than the apex lobe, along the long sides near to the wider end. The upper part of the buckle plate is then fixed to a sheet gold back-plate by (probably) five rivets. One rivet is placed at each of the rounded projections, one at the ape…
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2016
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rutland', grid reference and parish protected.