Record ID: SWYOR-C874E2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy mount, probably for a strap such as horse harness, dating from the post-medieval period, probably AD 1500 - 1700. The object is circular in plan and conical. The upper surface is decorated with a raised central circular ring encircled by a groove and two concentric circular bands. The reverse of the object is hollow. There are the remains of  two integral attachment spikes projecting from opposite edges of the reverse; both are broken.  Measurements are; diameter 16.5mm, thickness (including remains of attachme…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C8517C
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete Medieval copper alloy harness pendant dating from AD 1100 - 1400. It is circular and bears a rampant lion in moulded relief. The face of the pendant is gilded. There is an incomplete suspension loop, at right angles to the plane of the pendant. Measurements are; length 28.7mm, width 20.7mm, thickness 4.0mm and weight 5.47g. Compare WILT-1ED6E5 for style, but it has a different motif. Griffiths (1986, 1) suggests that horse harness pendants typically date to the 13th and 14th centuries but have been traced back earlier to the 12th century, especially circul…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C83D69
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval cast copper-alloy dress fastener; an eye piece form a hook and eye fastener of Read class A, type 8 dating from about AD 1550 - 1700. The fastener is sub-oval in plan with a broken sewing loop at one end and two complete loops at the opposite end, one either side of a protruding rectanglar eye. There is a bifurcated knop on each side of the centre of the plate. There is decoration on the face in the form of a foliate moulded design in the centre surrounded by two oval moulded border lines. The reverse is plain and flat and the surface has…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C83C82
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Medieval strap slide dating from AD 1250 - 1400. It is a rounded rectangular frame with a single integral external rivet. Measurements are; length 19.5mm, width 17.2mm, thickness 2.8mm and weight 2.26g. See https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecordingguides/strap-slides/#Medievalstrap-slides
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C82EFB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single plate from a Medieval copper alloy strap end dating from AD 1250 - 1450. The plate is sub-rectangular with one end angled to a point. There is a copper alloy rivet in the pointed end. Scars on the reverse may be from side strips or a forked spacer. Measurements are; length 16.9mm, width 9.2mm, thickness 1.3mm and weight 0.71g. Compare examples in Egan and Pritchard (1991).
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C808A3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy, double looped buckle dating from the Medieval to Post medieval period, about AD 1400 - 1650. It has two D shaped loops with a slight knop at eacha nd of the bar. The frame is angled upwards from the bar.  The outer edges are expanded and the frame is D shaped in cross-section. The copper alloy pin is D sjaped in cross-section and tapers to a sharp point. Compare examples on page 53 of Whitehead (2003). Length: 20.57mm Width: 15.68mm Thickness: 6.04mm Weight: 1.96g
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C8063B
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy clasp of Medieval date, AD 1250 - 1450. Only the rotating end of the three part clasp survives, with the bar of the frame encased in the rolled end of the plate. It is a rectangular sheet of copper alloy, rolled tightly round the bar at one end and incomplete at the other. The front of the plate is decorated with short longitidinal incised lines on the rolled part, and two incised crosses saltire flanked by transverse lines of beading on the main plate. The enclosed bar is copper alloy and circular in cross-section. It is 8.9mm long, 12.4mm wide a…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C7FD38
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy tinned buckle of Post-Medieval date, about AD 1660 - 1720. The buckle is oval with a drilled frame for a separate spindle. The spindle is made of iron and is in sittum but the pin and plate are missing. The upper surface is decorated with moulded oblique grooves. The reverse is flat with bevelled edges on the inner edge. The metal has a dark shiny grey patina and is in fair condition. Measurements are; length 30.9mm, width 30.1mm,thickness 3.9mm and weight 8.08g. A similar example is illustrated in Whitehead, page 97, number 602 and is dated to circa&…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C7EF30
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Post Medieval buckle probably dating from AD 1750 - 1900. It would have been D shaped but is distorted from being pulled from both ends. The bar and frame are sub-circular in cross-section. The bar is curved owing to the distortion, and the outer edge is strongly bent. The pin and plate are missing. Measurements are; length 32.4mm, width 27.2mm, thickness 3.2mm and weight 6.33g. The plain design and cross-section suggest a late date for this buckle.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C7E61E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Post Medieval double looped buckle probably dating from AD 1600 - 1800. It is sub-rectangular with straight sides and gently curved outer edges with rounded corners. The bar is integral. Both loops angle upwards from the bar and the front face is bevelled. The pin and plate are missing. Measurements are; length 22.8mm, width 18.4mm, thickness 4.1mm and weight 2.38g. There is no close parallel for this very plain buckle in Whitehead (2003), but 330 is similar though larger.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C7DED7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy, single loop, D shaped buckle and plate from the Medieval period, dating from AD 1200 - 1400. It is of Meols type 1. It is a plain D shaped frame, rectangular in cross-section. The plate is a single strip of metal bent round the bar with a hole for the pin. There is a single copper alloy rivet at the attachment end. The pin is of rectangular cross-section and tapers to a blunt point. The buckle has a brigh blue green patina. Length: 25.88mm Width: 16.65mm Thickness: 6.84mm Weight: 2.19g
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C7D82E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Medieval buckle frame and plate dating from about AD 1200 - 1400. The diagnostic outer edge of the frame is missing, but it has a recessed and offset bar and was probably D shaped. The plate is long and rectangular. It is a single sheet of copper alloy folded round the bar. There is a slot for the pin. Only the loop of the copper alloy pin survives. The front plate is decorated with a border of opposed triangle rouletting along each long edge. There is a rivet hole and surviving copper alloy rivet in the middle nearer the buckle end, and another hole at …
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C7BECF
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete copper alloy double looped Medieval asymmetrical buckle dating from AD 1350 to 1450. One of the loops is oval and the other is rectangular in form and smaller.  Both faces of the buckle are flat.  No pin is present and the buckle has a dark grey patina. It is 18.1mm long, 27.6mm wide and 2.2mm thick. It weighs 1.8.g. Compare YORYM-AEFE74. A similar example is illustrated in Whitehead, p.87, number 540 and is dated to about AD 1350 - 1450.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C7BE59
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd of a ceramic vessel, probably Black Burnished ware of Roman date, AD 43 - 410. It is a rim sherd from a bowl with a dropped flange. The fabric is relatively fine grained, hard and dark grey throughout. It has a very dark grey slip on the exterior surface although the interior has been left plain and coarse. There are sub-rounded to sub-angular translucent quartz inclusions. The flange is dropped below the pointed rim. Measurements are; length 48.6mm, height 31.4mm, thickness 20.1mm and weight 18.20g. The internal rim diameter is about 160mm, estimated from less than 10% o…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C78A31
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Seven sherds of Roman ceramic; greyware, all found in the same field within 20 metres, dating from AD 43 - 410. 1. length 53.1mm, width 37.8mm, thickness 9.1mm and weight 17.03g. Wall sherd. Fine texture, fairly hard, black rounded and quartz inclusions. 2. height 30.7mm, width 52mm, thickness 31.5mm and weight 58.57g. Rim sherd. Abraded, fine texture, fairly hard. Frequent quartz and tiny black inclusions. Thick beaded rim. Rim diameter about 300mm or more, estimated from about 5% of the perimeter. 3. height 48.2mm, width 57.4mm, thickness 22.8mm and weight 50.15g. L…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C73EE1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent gold post-medieval coin; a Britain crown of James I (1603-1625), dating from AD 1605/6. Second coinage (1604-1619), initial mark: rose. North (1991), p145, number 2090.  Measurements are; diameter 20.9m, thickness in its bent state 2.7mm and weight 2.46g.  The metal is 0.4mm thick.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C72AE0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman coin; an illegible nummus dating from AD 330 - 402. Bust right obverse and standing figure reverse. Measurements are; diameter 11.8mm, thickness 1.1mm and weight 0.52g.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C721D5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver coin; a round halfpenny of Richard II (AD1377-1399) dating from AD 1377-1399. Withers Type 1, probably variety b(ii). North (1991) p63, number 1331b.  Measurements are; diameter 13.1mm, thickness 0.6mm and weight 0.50g.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C71A7D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver coin; a voided long cross cut farthing of Henry III or Edward I, dating from AD 1247 - 1279, unknown class. Mint and moneyer unknown. North number 983 -999. The obverse is double struck. Measurements are; length 7.7mm, width 7.8mm, thickness 0.5mm and weight 0.16g.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C7125D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval silver coin; a round farthing of Edward I or II (AD 1272 - 1307 or 1307 - 1327), North Class 10 - 13 or Withers' Type 28 - 32 (AD 1301 - 1317), mint of London. Part of the edge of the coin is missing. Measurements are; length 9.7mm, width 9.6mm, thickness 0.3mm and weight 0.16g.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 9th March 2024
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