Record ID: WAW-5C91B4
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sub circular flattened copper alloy vessel mend or flattened rolled rivet, probably of Late Medieval to Post Medieval dating (c.1350 to 1600 AD). The vessel mend consists of a coiled copper alloy that has been flattened by use of a hammer, probably around a rivet. The vessel mend measures 11.19mm in diameter, and 2.35mm thick. It weighs 1.1 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 20th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 26th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-6DE173
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy farthing of Charles I, dated to 1634-36. The reverse is Rose (type 2), North type 2291.
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 24th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-6E4476
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Scottish copper alloy twenty pence of Charles I, dated to 1637-1642.
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2010
Last updated: Monday 26th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-6FDC67
Object type: RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy ring with gilded decoration and applied cut glass stone, probably of Post Medieval dating (16th to 17th Centuries AD). It consists of a small intact ring with a raised row of moulded decoration top and bottom. The decoration consists of a double row of conjoined pellets. The middle of the ring is plain apart from some traces of gilding surviving. A square point cut translucent yellow stone has been applied to the middle section of the ring. It is probable that this stone is cut glass but it is possible that it could be a yellow semi-precious stone such …
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2010
Last updated: Monday 27th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-703FF6
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two cylindral droplets of leaded bronze, of uncertain dating, possibly Roman (1st to 4th Century AD). The larger droplet measures 16.71mm in length, 14.03mm in width, is 11.95mm thick and weighs 12.1 grams. The smaller droplet measures 12.80mm in length, 9.37mm in width, is 9.00mm thick and weighs 4.6 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2010
Last updated: Thursday 29th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-707AF4
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A knapped flint discoidal scraper or knife of Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date (2900 - 1600 BC). The scraper is broadly oval in plan and lentoid in cross section, formed from a teritary flake. The upper / dorsal face of the scraper exhibits a central ridge. The lower / ventral surface exhibits a series of irregular and uncontrolled flake scars, suggesting movement and damage in the plough soil. The edges of the scraper demonstrates signs of retouch with indirect percussion. Some are uncontrolled in nature, but others are well spaced and neat, creating a serrated edge. Little…
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2010
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-711338
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy annular or ring brooch (or possibly an annular buckle) of Medieval dating (13th to 15th Centuries AD). The brooch is circular in plan, with a rounded square cross section. The brooch frame is complete, but the pin is incomplete. There is no evidence for a constriction in the frame for fitting of the pin or of a recessed pin rest. There is no evidence for incised or applied decoration on the frame of the brooch. Approximately 50% remains of the pin, which consists of a square sectioned piece of metal wrapped around the frame. The brooc…
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-713FD7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
7 sherds (1 rimsherds, 3 basesherds and 3 bodysherds) of several wheelthrown ceramic vessels of an miscellaneous (unsourced) local Romano-British oxidised coarseware fabric. The sherds vary in thickness from 6.66mm to 11.91mm. In total they weigh 224 grams. The sherds have a orangey-red oxidised fabric. It is similar in style to a type of local Roman pottery known as Severn Valley ware. This type of pottery was produced in the vale of the Severn river, kilns have been found in the Worcester and Tewkesbury areas. It was manufactured throughout the Roman period in…
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-D75622
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy end looped cosmetic mortar, typically dating from the Late Iron Age to the Early Roman period (1st to 2nd Centuries AD). The mortar has a plain, relatively shallowed bowed profile, with the suspension loop situated at one end. The loop is broken, but appears to fold back on itself, and becomes attached to the base of the mortar. The opposing end of the mortar is plain, without any form of decoration. The mortar itself has a shallow U shaped cross section. In plan, it is broadly ellipitical in shape. The interior (grinding surface) is smooth. …
Created on: Monday 26th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th July 2010
No spatial data available.

Record ID: WAW-EA82D3
Object type: FLOOR TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a line impressed ceramic floor tile, of later medieval dating (13th to 15th Centuries AD). Approximately 40% of the tile is present and consists of a orangey red oxidised ceramic tile with a light brown transparent glaze with a line impressed design. The glaze extends down the original edges. The floor tile would probably have been triangular (corner) in shape. Three original edges survive, the central diagonal one indicates that the tile was originally made as a square and designed to be broken into two to create two triangular tiles. The design present consists of …
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 27th July 2012
No spatial data available.

Record ID: WAW-EBEDF7
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy nail cleaner with folded top, of Roman date (1st to 4th Centuries AD). A complete, but slightly bent, cast copper alloy cleaner, similar to Crummy's type 1a (Crummy, 1983, p57). It consists of a narrow plain, straight-sided strip of copper alloy, with a bifurcated tip and a wrapped suspension loop. Traces of gilding survive towards the top of the nail cleaner. The suspension loop is unusual compared to other nail cleaners as it consists of the rectangular top of the nail cleaner wrapped around what appears to be a cyclindrial copper alloy hollow spacer, c…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2010
Last updated: Thursday 27th August 2020
No spatial data available.

Record ID: WAW-EDF614
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily abraded Roman As of uncertain emperor and uncertain date, but probably 1st to 2nd Century (50-250 AD). The coin has a diameter of 22.15mm and is 3.26mm thick. It weighs 4.9 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Telford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-EE7AA5
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy 'dumb bell' shaped toggle, most likely of Late Iron Age dating. (300 BC to 100 AD). The cyclindrial toggle consists of two domed circular ends joined together by a recessed cyclindrial bar. The larger end has faint signs of cross hatching as decoration. The slightly smaller end has a faint circle of pellets around the edge of the dome. A central ridge is present on one of the cyclindrial centre bar, which is most likely the remnants of a casting seam. The domed ends are 6mm high each. The toggle is a dark green in colour, with an even…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Telford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-EF45B7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy object, probably of Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval dating (14th to 17th Centuries AD). The object consists of seven (7) joined cast rings in hexagonal or floral arrangement. Each ring measures 6.21mm in diameter (external), 2.16mm internal diameter. The arrangement consists of a central ring with six (6) thin rectangular bars joining onto the outer circle of rings. Each of the external rings is joined to its neighbour by another thin rectangular bar. The object is slightly domed, with a plain back. It measures 19.81mm wide, 18.05mm high and 3.99mm…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Telford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-EFEE21
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy sword belt strap fitting, of Post Medieval dating, most likely 16th to 17th Centuries AD. The strap fitting consists of an externally bevelled ring with an octofoil plate joined to it. The octofoil plate has eight corners with alternating arches and angles. A central perforation is present, probably for the rivet for attachment to a belt. Bevelling of the perforation is present on the back of the plate. The front of the plate has been decorated by a two strand interlaced rope work design. The angled corners of the octofoil plate have been pro…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Telford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-FF84F3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy probable handle fragment, probably of Post Medieval dating (16th to 18th Centuries). The object consists of a central rod of copper alloy, bent at right angles at the central point. It is incomplete, but it is impossible to estimate approximately how much of the original object is present. In plan it is a reverse L shape and is circular in cross section. Both the upper and lower ends exhibit an old break in the metal, with abraded edges. The lower end is sub oval in section, and resembles a flattened trumpet end. The upper end is sub circular in section,…
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Telford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-02EBD4
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy purse bar (Ward-Perkins Class A2) of late Medieval or early Post-Medieval date (1475 - 1550). The purse bar is approximately 20% complete and consists of a fragment of the arm and the terminal. The arm is sub-rectangular in both plan and cross section with an domed cylinder on the end. The attached terminal knop is missing. One remaining semi-circular integrally cast loop, with a central perforation (2.04mm diameter) is present on the lower edge of the surviving arm fragment. The loop measures 9.45mm length, 4.42mm width, and is 1.75mm thick. This would…
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 6th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-03C3E2
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy sub oval ring, with strap fitting, probably dating to the Early Iron Age, contemporary with Hallstatt C (800 BC to 400 BC). Approximately 50% of the harness fitting remains and consists of a semi circular strap loop attached to an incomplete sub oval ring, of which only the upper half remains. The strap loop is semi circular in plan, d-shaped in cross section and is 5.69mm thick. The ring is sub oval in plan, sub circular in cross section and 9.73mm thick. This artefact is unusually thick compared to more frequently recorded examples. …
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-042F64
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead alloy bi-convex decorated spindle whorl of probable Medieval dating (1300 to 1650 AD). The spindle whorl is sub-circular in plan. The central hole is sub oval in shape and has been cast slightly off centre. The diameter of the hole measures 5.22mm. The upper face exhibits a series of radiating diagonal lines, from the central hole outwards to the edge of the whorl. A V shaped incision is present either side of the central hole, extending 4.4mm away from it. The lower face is plain and undecorated. A casting flaw (air bubble) is present in the wall of t…
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th July 2010
No spatial data available.

Record ID: WAW-045791
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy weight, probably from a net or line of unknown date, probably medieval - modern (1200-1900). The weight is sub-cylindrical, with a central swelling. A single cast sub oval shaped hole is set off centre with an internal of diameter 5.03 mm. It measures 23.86mm length and 12.81mm diameter. It weighs 17.9 grams. It is a dark grey colour, with an even patina across the surface. It has suffered a minor degree of abrasion, with plough roll scars being present on the surface.
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 28th July 2010
No spatial data available.