Record ID: SUSS-6D3795
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval to post-medieval cast copper-alloy double looped spectacle buckle. dating c. AD 1350-1650. The buckle only has one full loop remaining with a small section of the second loop. The central strap bar still remains but the pin is missing.The remaining loop is roughly D-shape in cross-section. The loop is lightly bevelled with a flat reverse and no decoration visible. The buckle is a greenish grey with a pitted surface. The buckle measures 25.61mm long, 23.94mm wide, 2.07mm thick and weighs 1.74g. This common buckle type is recorded extens…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-6C85FB
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Post-Medieval cast copper alloy rumbler bell, also known as a 'crotal' bell dating  c.AD 1760 and 1825. The fragment incorporates a section from the lower hemisphere of the bell.  Part of the edge has a raised mid-rib that would have run around the circumference of the bell.  The fragment is decorated with the sunburst pattern; three foils surviving radiating from a hemispherical panel containing the letters o R o. The fragment has a dark green patina. The  fragment measures 27.32mm long, 22.45mm high, 2.62mm t…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-69EAFC
Object type: APOTHECARY WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but worn cast lead alloy object, probably an apothecary weight dating to the post medieval period (c.AD 1600-1800). The object is square in plan and flat with bevelled edges. The faces are very worn and appear undecorated and has a darkish grey patina. The object measures 16.89mm long, 16.85m wide and 2.81mm thick. It weighs 5.96g. Compare:  CORN-270292 and LVPL-B91DA9 which notes: Biggs (1994, p.9) discuses such weights stating that apothecaries broke away from the Grocers Company in 1617 and were granted a Royal Charter. They subs…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-6947B6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim fragment of a large copper alloy cooking vessel (cauldron) dating from the Medieval to Post-Medieval periods (c. AD 1100-1700). The fragment is sub-triangular in shape and the rim is slightly turned out with a raised convex moulded border 14.9mm wide on the internal edge. The wall thickness tapers in thickness from 2.5mm to 3.4mm where it meets the border at the rim. The exterior surface is green, smooth and glossy and the interior surface is covered in a black concretion.  Thr fragment measures 50.04mm long, 54.53mm wide. It is from 2.49mm thick o…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-591698
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval rim fragment of a ceramic glazed ware, a charger or platter probably of Metropolitan slipped ware dating c. 1630 -1700. The fragment comprises a rim sherd, trapezoidal in plan with a beaded rim projecting on both external and internal sides. The sandy fabric is oxidised orange with a slightly paler yellow core and abundant well sorted rounded quartz inclusions. The upper surface is decorated with trailed yellow slip decoration composed of a tendril with circular lobe, the entire upper surface and inside face of the rim are covered in a clear glaze. …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-556285
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval silver shilling of William III (1694-1702) dated to 1697. London mint. Cf. Spink 3497. Obverse: Lightly worn bust, facing right, wearing a laurel crown and draped cloth around the shoulders. Inscription: GVLIELMVS III.DEI.GRA. Reverse: Four crowned shields placed in cruciform pattern, with a possible uncrowned lion shield in the centre. Inscription: 97 MAG BR FRA [ET] HIB REX16. The coin measures 25.37mm diameter, 1.28mm thick and weighs 5.49.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-54DFF5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval cast copper alloy rectangular knee or shoe buckle with a drilled frame for a separate spindle. c.AD1660-1720. The frame is bent in profile indicating its function as a shoe or knee buckle. It has expanded triangular outside edges with rows of notches on the inside edge of the upper surface. The upper surface also has moulded decoration in the form of a raised border of transverse ribs/grooves on the long sides of the frame. The spindle is missing but there are deposits of iron oxide inside the spindle holes in the frame and on the underside o…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-543781
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval copper alloy vessel leg dating c. AD 1700-1900.  The object is sub-triangular in plan, at the wider attachment end there is a worn break. The narrow foot is rounded and worn.and projects slightly forward. The object is oval shape in cross section. The external surfaces are a darkish green colour, with patches of red orange and the object has a black core. It measures 38.28mm in long, 25.50mm in width, 13.45mm in thickness and weighs 46.50.g.  Copper alloy vessels were used from the medieval period until the 19th century though cas…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-DCBD72
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn Roman copper-alloy nummus of the House of Constantine dating to the period c.AD 330-335 (Reece period 17). CONSTANTINOPOLIS with the reverse depicting Victory standing left on the prow holding spear and shield. Mint of Trier.  The coin measures 18.03mm diameter, 1.40mm thick and weighs 1.7g.
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-DC7892
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast, copper-alloy Post- Medieval single loop buckle dating to c.AD 1500-1650. The buckle frame is rectangular with moulded frame and narrowed strap bar. The sides of the frame are concave with bifid mouldings. The outside edge of the frame also has bifid mouldings meeting in the middle at a moulded pin-groove. The pin is missing.  The buckle measures 22.90mm long, 28.80mm wide, 3.38mm thick and weighs 6g. A similar example is recorded on the PAS database: CORN-2DD1DA and Whitehead (1996) illustrates similarly moulded single loop sub-rectangular bu…
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-DC40C4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn and corroded, Post-Medieval copper alloy rose farthing of Charles I (AD 1625-1649) dating c. 1636-1644. Single arched crown, probably type 3, North nos. 2292-2293. Illegible initial mark. The farthing measures 12.96mm diameter, 0.96mm thick and it weighs 0.6g.
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-9CB44E
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn complete Post-Medieval copper-alloy halfpenny trade token of Thomas Withers of Arundel dated. AD 1668. Obverse: THOMAS . [WITHERS . IN] = HIS [HA]LF [P]ENY in three lines within a pellet circle.  Reverse: [ARNDELL]IN.SVSEX. = 1668. With one large flower with two small each side, above and below, within a pellet circle.  The token measures 18.63mm diameter, 0.72mm thick and weighs 0.99g. Copper alloy trade tokens were first struck in 1648 in and near London. In 1656 half penny tokens were introduced and they spread to all counties in England, peaking in 1666/7.…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-9C8B85
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval copper alloy mount with integral lugs dating c.AD 1600-1750. The mount consists of a sub-triangular plate with concave lower edge and moulded decoration. The mount is decorated with a  central motif of a fleur-de-lis.within a raised, scrolled foliate border around the edge of the plate with two knops on each side and a trilobate fleurs projecting at the apex. The rear is flat with three broken integral lugs with a rectangular cross-section. One behind the fleur at the apex and two off-centre on the main body, one near…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-9C5004
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast, Post Medieval, copper-alloy,  double-looped, trapezoidal, buckle dating c. AD 1620-1680. The buckle is broadly rectangular in shape and waisted in the middle at the pin bar creating concave sides terminating in projecting lobes. The lobes on one side are missing so semi-worn breaks.  The outside edges of each side are different. Between the lobes on one side the frame expands into a triangular projection. On the other side between the breaks is a central bifid knop with a rounded projection on each side. The pin is missing. The frame has a …
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-9C176A
Object type: STUD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy stud of probable post-medieval date c.AD 1500-1600. The stud has a shallow domed head, circular in plan. There is a projection on the outer edge of the head, likely a casting fault. The upper surface is decorated in moulded relief with six pellets spaced equally around a central pellet or annulet, all within a raised border. There is a trace of white metal on this surface. On the rear is a central attachment spike which is square in cross-section and tapers gradually from the head to the point. It has been bent to one side. The stud has a greenish gr…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-87F857
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast leaded copper alloy late post-medieval to modern bridle boss of Maslin (2020) composite centre type, dating c. 1750-1880.  The object is solid and circular with twelve projecting petal lobes. It has a central dome with a central raised pellet surrounded by four broad, curling petals with a sepal in between all contained within a raised linear circular border. The flat area of the plate is decorated with a raised circumferential and engrailed border each point projecting  into three petalled flowers which form the lobes. The reverse is slightly…
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-8749C1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  complete cast copper alloy Post Medieval circular openwork sexfoil mount with single spike dating c.AD. 1600-1800. The mount is hexagonal in plan and gently domed with a concave reverse. Each point has a rounded projecting knop with a smaller knop projecting from the angled recess between each point. The body of the plate is openwork with a windmill pattern of six apertures in the form of curved elongated pointed petals radiating from a solid circular centre; the tips terminating at the smaller knops. Six further tear-shaped recesses with curved tails lie b…
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-F4794E
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Post Medieval cast copper alloy rowel spur, c.AD 1600-1700. The fragment consists of the broken rowel box and a short length of each arm. The rowel box is set at a 90 degree angle from the arms; joined by an sub-oval neck with a slight S-profile and oval cross section. The neck narrows slightly in width and thickness at each end where there is a triangular moulding where it joins the arms. The split rowel box is incomplete with each D-sectioned bar, (measuring 7.5mm and 16.45mm long),  terminating in a worn break. At the opposing end the r…
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-F4012A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy late Iron  Age to Roman Rosette type brooch Mackreth (2011) Type ROS 4.b dating c. AD 20 - 60. The brooch is bent, worn and abraded. Part of the head, bow and lozenge plate survive with the pin and catchplate missing. The sheet metal spring casing at the head is folded into a cylinder to encase the separately cast spring and pin. Part of the back is missing exposing the coiled spring, revealing seven turns and the worn broken stub of the pin. The curved sheet metal bow is rectangular in plan with a worn moulded decoration on its upper fac…
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-357D68
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast Post Medieval copper alloy double-loop shoe buckle dating c. AD 1720-90. The buckle frame is rectangular in form with rounded corners and it has a drilled frame for a separate spindle. The spindle and chape are now missing. The upper surface of the frame is decorated with a moulded groove around the edge. The point of attachment for the spindle is thicker, and is expanded towards the missing spindle and on the reverse. The reverse is plain and undecorated. The frame has a mid green patina and is curved to fit around a sho…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th October 2023
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