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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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-C6E5D8
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman or Georgian? copper alloy silvered coin re-used as a pendant, 14mm long, 11mm wide and 1mm thick. The object consists of a coin that has been cut in half and pierced for use as a pendant. It is missing its lower portion but appears to show a Roman style bust on one side.
Created on: Wednesday 8th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-69CF28
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper-alloy Baldock-type nail cleaners, 51mm long, 13mm wide and 1mm thick. The object is in good condition with a green patina and weighs 2.2g. The object consists of a sub triangular suspension loop which is 10mm long and 5mm wide and has a circular hole, 3mm in diameter near its upper, curved edge. This sits at a 90o angle to the rest of the object. The object is largely sub rectangular with a bulging ovoid shaped upper half and a rectangular shaft below. The object terminates with a V shaped cut out. It is decorated on both sides with a simple incised border that runs from …
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2006
Last updated: Friday 7th August 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-430726
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy belt mount, 34mm long, 9mm wide and 2mm thick. The mount is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 1.98grams. The mount is rectangular in form and semi-circular in section. It is decorated with three transverse ridges, between which are two bulging semi-spheres. There is a circular sectioned rivet near at each end, which taper to a point (one has broken off).
Created on: Thursday 14th February 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-BDB166
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper-alloy casket key, 33mm long, 13mm wide and 3mm thick. The key is in good condition and weighs 2.28g. The key has an offset lozenge-shaped bow, circular internally. The stem tapers in width to a rectangular bit which has one rectangular cleft on its outer side.
Created on: Wednesday 17th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 8th April 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-6D8FA0
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval copper alloy jetton, Krauwinckel type.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-7A72A7
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Prehistoric flint flake, possibly re-touched along one side, but the serrations are not regular and appear on the back rather than the front of the flake. This flake may be debitage resulting from the production of another implement. The object is 23mm long, 11mm wide, 4mm thick and weighs 1.09g.
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Record ID: LEIC-88D303
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Roman silver finger ring fragment, 20mm long and 7mm wide. The object weighs 0.86grams and is in fair condition. The ring consists of a circular raised bezel which is flanked by two sub triangular shoulders which have an incised border running up to the circle. The shape roughly fits Henig type VIII. There is a small circular depression in the centre of the bezel which is surrounded by linear scratches which appear to be damage
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bromham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-6CDD60
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Post medieval copper alloy coin weight of James I, 20mm in length and width and 5mm thick. The object is in a poor condition with a green patina and weighs 12.61grams. The object is rectangular in form and section and is decorated on one side with the letters XXXIII below a crown. The other side shows the royal crest in a 'tudor' rose border. The weight was issued for the Rose Ryal, 2nd coinage.
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Friday 1st November 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-23E946
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval Scottish silver short cross halfpenny, of William I or Alexander II, 1195-1249, mint unknown.
Created on: Friday 12th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2013
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