Record ID: SUSS-7CE182
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post Medieval silver-gilt finger-ring, c. 1400-c. 1525 Silver-gilt ring , flat inner hoop with five projections divided by ridges. On the projections are lightly engraved panels of foliate ornament with three leaves and one with IHS [name of Jesus], The Virgin crowned, M crowned for MARIA. Dimensions: Width: 7.8 mm Thickness: 1.4 mm Weight: 7.07 g Diameter: 22.5 mm Discussion: Gilding worn on some ridges to reveal silver beneath. This devotional ring would appear to be late 15th-early 16th Century. There are no direct parallels in the British Museu…
Created on: Friday 8th April 2016
Last updated: Friday 3rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-5E1217
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt figurine of a standing angel. The dress is pleated; the inside of the wings hatched and the figurine has shoulder length hair. There is damage to the feet and hands of the angel. The item has been repaired recently and it appears that the object may have been found in two or more pieces. The reverse of the figurine is plain and the lower half reverse is flat. This object has broken from another object, perhaps a terminal. It is hard to place and has no obvious parallel. Length: 21.47mm, width: 14.15mm, thickness: 4.76mm, weight: 2.74g. Report by Janina Parol, Lloyd de B…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 24th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Osyth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-329465
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Silver artefact, heart-shaped, with back plate onto which a cushioned heart-shaped element has been soldered. The heart on the front decorated with applied filigree circles and knops radiating from the centre. The back flat with no sign of previously-attached bars or hooks, though the front right of the object suggests that a projecting element there has been torn away and lost. Length: 20 mm. It is not clear how the object was worn or used but its decoration suggests a close comparison with Tudor dress fittings with hooks and attachment bars. Heart-shaped dress fittings are not …
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Friday 3rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crewkerne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-8ED883
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
post-medieval silver fragment Round piece of silver sheet hammered into hemispherical shape, central hole. Possibly upper part of a bell for hawking or dress. Bells were worn as accessories to dress in the 15th C but surviving examples are usually made of base metal, see Egan and Pritchard, Dress Accessories, pp. 336-7. This artefact could also be part of a hawking bell, attached one to each leg of a hawk with leather rings so as to jangle when the hawk moved. Joseph Strutt describes hawking bells in his Sports and Pastimes of the People of England of 1801, p. 26. He explains that …
Created on: Friday 18th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenilworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-280A53
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Crushed silver bell, made from silver sheet hammered into two hemispherical forms, soldered together, crushed at the point at which the loop for suspension would have been inserted. Compare examples in base metal found in dated London contexts, eg: G.Egan and F.Pritchard, Dress Accessories, London 1991, no. 1666, dated c1400-50. Similar bells were fashionable dress accessories in the 14th and 15th Centuries. This example can probably be dated to the 15th Century.
Created on: Sunday 13th April 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 12th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Harston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-7730B2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt dress fitting: cast foliate element, broken at one end where there may originally have been a bar or hook for attachment. Pierced in three places for sewing to clothing. Scrolling tendrils around a central element in the form of a bud or seed pod (?). The back flat. Probably 16th Century. As such, due to its age and precious metal content, this object qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996. Dr Dora Thornton, Curator of Renaissance Collections
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-779C73
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval/Post-Medieval silver double-ended dress fastener (14th - 16th century). Curator's report: Silver artefact finely made from twisted wire, two sharply pointed ends curved over to form an agraffe. This appears to be a double strap attachment or garter hook, of a type fashionable in the late 15th Century. They are sometimes decorated with applied plaques or decorative elements, see a four-pronged one with a Tudor rose, in TAR 2005, nos. 695, also a three-pronged one, no. 696, both dated by their decoration or related pictorial evidence to the la…
Created on: Friday 11th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'TOWER HAMLETS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-E99857
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular silver medieval mount with a quatrefoil in its centre depicting a bird, with outstretched wings, lowering its head. The length of the neck and the shape of the beak suggest that it may be a swan.
Created on: Wednesday 5th September 2007
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Exton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-593A27
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Medieval silver spoon comprising part of the slimly tapering stem of hexagonal section and small portion of fig-shaped bowl; knop (probably originally a wrythen-knop or acorn knop) broken off and missing at top. Approx 5.6 cm long. The form of stem and bowl suggest a mid to late 15th Century dating for this English spoon
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2007
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2011
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Record ID: NARC-883270
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A postmedieval, openwork belt mount of cast silver. It is rectangular in shape, with four loops and a central lozenge for foliate ornament. This openwork ornament was designed in order to show off the leather or textile belt beneath. There are 2 studs for attachment on reverse, and the backplate is filed. Late 15th-early 16th century. Consequently, in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BH-011831
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver double-oval buckle of medieval date. A similar example was excavated in London, dated by ceramic context to 1350-1400. This example may be slightly later but probably can be dated to the 15th Century. The buckle has a central transverse bar, pin and part of plate with rivet. The frame has angled outer edges. There are remains of etched foliate decoration on one side of plate and on front edges of frame. Measures 17.5mm long, 15.7mm wide and 8.4mm thick. The weight is 3.76g. Treasure case 2006 T276.
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Hertfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-00E682
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A crushed silver rumbler bell of medieval date. Comparable examples in base metal have been found in dated London contexts (see G. Egan and F. Pritchard; 1991; pp. 339, no. 1666). This example is probably 15th century in date. Similar bells were fashionable dress accessories in the 14th and 15th Centuries. The bell has been made in two sections from silver sheet and soldered together. It measures 16.5mm wide, 6.5mm thick and weighs 2.89g. Treasure case 2006 T439.
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Graveley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-32A8A7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver quatrefoil mount dating from the fifteenth or sixteenth century. The mount is cut from sheet and is pierced at the centre. There are petal markings engraved on the front, but the reverse is plain. Similar mounts can be seen in 'Dress Accessories' by Geoff Egan and Frances Pritchard (1991) on page 185. The mount is 14.7mm long, 14.3mm wide and 0.9mm thick. This object qualifies as Treasure under the Treasure Act 1996 and has been reported under the Act. It has since been disclaimed since no museum wishes to purchase the mount.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Last updated: Sunday 10th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Riccall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-B82E81
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval or early post-medieval silver strap-fitting or belt chape, U-shaped, cast with scalloped lower edge, raised ridge and central hole, three smaller holes above, perpendicular-style edging across upper edge. On the back, two studs for attachments, mark made by metal file cleaning up the cast. Approximately 2cm across. The rear of the object is covered in the curving lines commonly seen on items cast in moulds made of cuttlefish bones. Compare an engraved gold example with St George and the Dragon in The British Museum (Prehistory and Europe 1991, 6-7, 1). The style of the o…
Created on: Monday 17th July 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pulham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-FC52B0
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver dress hook, cast in the form of a scallop shell. At the base of the shell is a recurving hook for attachment; opposite this, a small attachment loop on the edge of the shell, two further loops at the base of the hook. Reverse plain. Length: 2.9mm. 15th-16thCentury. The hook is in one plane, and can be compared with similar dress hooks cast in copper-alloy. Silver versions appear to be relatively rare survivals. This hook may be a precursor of the more familiar type of hook reported through the Treasure Act, which is in two planes and has both hook and bar attachment. The scallo…
Created on: Thursday 22nd July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodstock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-3DC9D4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment comprising part of the side and bezel of a silver-gilt finger ring. The surviving side has two concave facets, each containing what appears to be an engraved quatrefoil.
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded.