Record ID: WMID-682F0A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy cruciform mount of Post Medieval dating (AD 1600 to AD 1800). The mount is cruciform in shape, with fleur de lis/lys knops on each corner. The front have been decorated with a central pellet surrounded by a circle of pellets, all within a lozenge shaped border. The edges have been bevelled. On the reverse, in the centre, is an integral attachment spike. This is square sectioned and measures 2.5 mm by 3.0 mm.  The mount has a length of 23.6 mm, a width of 24.0 mm and is 9.9 mm thick (including spike), 2.8 mm thick (not including spike. It weighs 3.3 g. …
Created on: Thursday 6th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2023
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Record ID: WMID-2D70D6
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval stirrup, of Medieval dating (c. 14th century AD). Around 25% of the stirrup is present, consisting only of the attachment end with a trapezoidal cover plate. The arms and foot rest are missing, presumed lost in antiquity. At the attachment end is a trapezoidal cover-plate, expanded at its base. The object has a trapezoidal cover-plate with a double collar border around its base and a smooth top edge, which is bevelled and well worn. The border does not, in this example, continue onto the side plates, which are angled at approximately 75 degree…
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd July 2023
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Record ID: WMID-2D4EAC
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy spur fragment of Post Medieval dating (AD 1600 to AD 1800). Less than 25% of the spur is present, part of the spur arm.  The spur arm is rectangular in shape and flat in cross section. No decoration is present on either side. It measures 52.3 mm in length, 7.0 mm wide and 3.8 mm thick. It weighs 7.7 g. The spur is a dark green to brown colour with an even surface patina.
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd July 2023
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Record ID: WMID-2CB457
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead or lead alloy bi convex decorated spindle whorl, of probably the Medieval period, dating from c. AD 1100 to AD 1450. The spindle whorl is sub circular in shape, and lentoid in section. Both the obverse and reverse have been decorated, with the same design. It consists of either a five or six pointed star. Three pellets are between each point and one pellet inside each point. The central hole is circular in shape and has been cast / set roughly centrally. It has a internal diameter of 8.8 mm. The whorl measures 31.7 mm in diameter and 15.8…
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd July 2023
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Record ID: WMID-2C6E3B
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete vesica or pointed oval lead or lead alloy seal matrix, of Medieval dating (AD 1300 to AD 1400). The reverse has a incomplete tab handle. The central device is a trifolate branch or tree. A partially legible inscription is present around the edge, reading S'ADA[ ]ORG[ ] It measures 32.2 mm in length, is 20.1 mm wide and 5.4 mm thick. The matrix is 3.6 mm thick. It weighs 12.4 g. The matrix is a mid grey colour, with an even surface patina. Abrasion, caused by movement whilst within the plough soil, has resu…
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd July 2023
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Record ID: WMID-2C1C1D
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy unifaced token of Medieval to Post Medieval dating (AD 1400 to AD 1800). The obverse of the token has a long cross design with four pellets in each quarter (Powell type 14). The reverse is undecorated. It has a diameter of 26.3 mm and is 2.9 mm thick. It weighs 7.9 g.
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd July 2023
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Record ID: WMID-2BE597
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy unifaced token of Medieval to Post Medieval dating (AD 1400 to AD 1800). The obverse of the token has a grid over half of it and the then a crescent on the other half  (Powell type 7). The reverse is undecorated. It has a diameter of 17.2 mm and is 3.1 mm thick. It weighs 5.4 g.
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd July 2023
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Record ID: WMID-29DE5C
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy unifaced token of Medieval to Post Medieval dating (AD 1400 to AD 1800). The obverse of the token has a long cross and pellets  (Powell type 14). The reverse is undecorated. It has a diameter of 15.6 mm and is 3.8 mm thick. It weighs 5.0 g.
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd July 2023
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Record ID: WMID-ED2CFC
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy unifaced token of Medieval to Post Medieval dating (AD 1400 to AD 1800). The obverse of the token has an uncertain design involving crescents and pellets (Powell type 24). The reverse is undecorated. It has a diameter of 19.1 mm and is 2.1 mm thick. It weighs 3.9 g.
Created on: Friday 30th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: WMID-ED0881
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy unifaced token of Medieval to Post Medieval dating (AD 1400 to AD 1800). The obverse of the token has an eight segmented or wheel design with a central pellet (Powell type 3). The reverse is undecorated. It has a diameter of 18.6 mm and is 3.5 mm thick. It weighs 6.7 g.
Created on: Friday 30th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: WMID-EC84C2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver penny of Henry II (AD 1154 to AD 1189), dating to the period AD 1180 to AD 1185. Minted at London by Moneyer Davi. Class 1b. C.f. North type. 963. Diameter: 21.1 mm Thickness: 0.7 mm Weight: 1.4 g
Created on: Friday 30th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: WMID-EC5CB9
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete struck / knapped blade, formed from a tertiary debitage flake, of probable Neolithic dating (c. 4,000 BC to c. 2, 350 BC). The probable blade has a sub triangular cross section, and is sub triangular in shape. Retouch is present along the long edges and the short side (short, subparallel, abrupt). The probable blade has been made from a piece of tertiary debitage, probably the remains of a core for making blade. The flake has been made from a dark grey flint, with little surface patination. Length: 49.8 mm Width: 28.6 mm Thickness…
Created on: Friday 30th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: WMID-EB5661
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint probable arrowhead of Neolithic-Bronze Age dating (AD 3450-1200 BC). The artefact broadly resembles a Leaf-shaped arrowhead. It is lentoid in plan and bi-convex in section. Both the dorsal and ventral surfaces have covering scaled flaking and all edges, with the exception of the proximal, have fine low angled retouch. The proximal edge has been abruptly blunted, forming a notched aspect at its base. The lithic retains no cortex and is therefore a tertiary flake.The flint is grey in colour. Length: 26.2 mm Width: 22.8 mm Thickness…
Created on: Friday 30th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: WMID-EB0EA8
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete clay pipe (smoking) of early to mid seventeenth century AD dating (AD 1620 to AD 1660). Most of the bowl survives, but the rim is incomplete. The bowl is slightly bulbous and curves upwards at an angle of 45 degrees. A circular foot is present but incomplete, no maker's marks are visible. Part of the stem is present. The bowl and stem are still full of soil. It measures 43.1 mm in length, 36.4 mm tall and the bowl has a maximum diameter of 20.3 mm. The stem has a diameter of 9.7 mm. The foot measures 15.9 mm lon…
Created on: Friday 30th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: WMID-EAA268
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily worn copper alloy penny of George III (AD 1760 to AD 1820), dating to AD 1797. Minted at Birmingham, at the Soho Mint. C.f. Spink 3777. Diameter: 34.9 mm Thickness: 2.8 mm Weight: 18.8 g
Created on: Friday 30th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: WMID-E96D5B
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy probable two faced doll's head of Late Post Medieval Dating (AD 1800 to AD 1900). The probable doll's head consists of a flattened oval, extending downwards into a narrow neck, with flattened shoulders. The front and reverse faces are flattened with no decoration. Probable faces made from triangular notches removed to depict eyes and mouth are on both sides, indicating it may represent Janus - a two faced Roman God of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. The shoulder have been circular and wo…
Created on: Friday 30th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: WMID-D8B00F
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Middle Bronze Age copper alloy palstave dating circa 1500-1150 BC. The fragment consists of the crescentic cutting edge and lower blade. The upper body terminates in a worn and irregular rectangular break. The solid cross-section and the mid rid on both sides suggests the object is a palstave rather than a socketed axehead.   The object measures 61.9 mm in length, 63.5 mm in width (across blade), 27.9 mm wide (across the body). The blade edge is 3.8 mm thick and the body is 14.4 mm thick. It weighs 170.0 g. All s…
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2023
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Record ID: WMID-D85BC0
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete hollow white metal terminal, probably depicting a snake head, of probable Post Medieval dating (AD 1800 to AD 1900). The terminal is sub rectangular in shape. On the front, It has two bulbous areas at the top, with an almost heart shaped top edge. Beneath this is a rectangular ridged area. The reverse is flat, with no decoration and a slight depression at the top. It is hollow. The object has been crimped around the edge. It measures 14.2 mm in length, 8.7 mm wide and 3.2 mm thick. It weighs 1.6 g. The object is a mid to dark grey colour, with an uneven surface patina.…
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 29th June 2023
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Record ID: WMID-D7C0FF
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete bent silver fourpence of Charles II (AD 1660 to AD 1685), dating to the period 1676. Minted at London. C.f. Spink no 3384. The coin has been bent twice into an 'S' shape, presumably for use as a love token. Diameter: 18.8 mm Thickness: 0.9 mm Weight: 1.8 g
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 29th June 2023
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Record ID: WMID-D79317
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead or lead alloy bi convex decorated spindle whorl, of probably the Medieval period, dating from c. AD 1100 to AD 1450. The spindle whorl is sub circular in shape, and lentoid in section. The upper and lower faces have been decorated with different designs. One side bears a series of outward pointing triangles with central raised dots. The other involves multiple diagonal radiating lines. The central hole is circular in shape and has been cast / set roughly centrally. The central hole is currently filled with soil but has an internal diameter of 9…
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 29th June 2023
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