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Record ID: PUBLIC-0ACA23
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver coin Edward I (1272-1307) penny, London Class 9a (c. 1299) 1.25g
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th December 2015
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D1C0C5
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age axe blade, probably of Middle to Late Bronze Age, c. 1,500 - 700BC The axe is fragmentary, represented by part of the blade edge (with a surviving length of 25.6mm, a surviving width of 30.9mm, a maximum surviving thickness of 10.4mm and a weight of 37.7g). The surviving side is near-straight and slightly divergent to the blade tip (producing a surviving blade width of 30.0mm). The side suggests that the axe was of slightly hexagonal section. The casting seam is evident and has been fettled, seemingly by hammering. The axe faces were gently concave across their widths but s…
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D1A4A6
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age flint arrowhead of Barbed and Tanged type, c. 2500BC - 1500BC The arrowhead is near-complete, missing one barb and the tip (with a length of 24.9mm, a width of 19.3mm, a thickness of 4.4mm and a weight of 1.5g). The surviving barb is pointed and the tang is sub-square and is probably a 'Sutton' type. The flint is mid-grey and has patinated pale grey to milky-white.
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CEC8D1
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant, probably of later 12th to 14th century date The pendant is complete but corroded and is missing the suspension mount (with a length of 37.1mm and weight of 5.5g). The suspension lug is sub-oval (7.4mm wide and 9.6mm high) with an oval perforation (2.9mm x 2.3mm). The pendant is sub-circular (27 - 28mm in diameter). The surface has been lost from the pendant but remnants survive comprising a border of separate circular rings. Five additional rings within the pendant may have defined a cross. Traces of gilding survive near the apex but elsewhere …
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CEBCF7
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bracelet The bracelet is fragmentary (with a surviving length of 32.1mm and a weight of 1.6g) and is out-turned at one end, probably suggesting a damaged terminal hook. The hoop is of rectangular section (1.6mm thick) with straight sides, which converge slightly towards the hooked end (with a maximum width of 5.4mm and a minimum width of 4.6mm). The bracelet is decorated with diagonal rows of punched dots, arranged around incised facets on the sides. The surface has a dark brown patina.
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4E9DC0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy enamelled plate brooch of 2nd century AD date The brooch is of oval form with six equidistant peripheral lugs, one now lost and is near-complete, missing the pin but is slightly distorted (with a distorted length of 35.9mm, a maximum width of 20.7mm, a distorted depth of 8.0mm, a thickness of 2.1mm and a weight of 5.0g). The missing pin was hinged between two perforated lugs, positioned behind the apex of the brooch, rather than the peripheral lug. The catch-plate is eroded and extends onto the rear of the peripheral lug. The six peripheral lugs are circular (4.6-…
Created on: Friday 12th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4DAF36
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant, probably of 13th or 14th century date The harness pendant is of two-part form, comprising a frame and swivelling pendant and is near-complete, missing the suspension mount (with a length of 44.0mm and a weight of 16.2g). The suspension mount was hinged through a lug (2.8mm thick 6.6mm wide) with a central perforation (2.9mm diameter). The sexfoil frame (with a width of 29.2mm) is open and each of the six lobes is separated with a raised rib, which projects towards the centre (leaving a gap of 8.6mm). The inner pendant remains in place and swiv…
Created on: Friday 12th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-92B706
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix of 14th-century date. The seal is complete (with a length of 21.3mm and a weight of 9.8g). The loop is of quatrefoil form (with a width of 8.5mm). The loop is separated from the handle by a wide horizontal rib (7.1mm wide) flanked by two narrower very slim ribs. The handle is hexagonally faceted, with concave sides flaring to the circular seal die (with a diameter of 20.5mm). The seal die has an intricate design with the central device depicting a trotting donkey in side profile and facing right (from the impression). A figure (from the inscription…
Created on: Friday 22nd July 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 24th May 2016
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Record ID: PUBLIC-41DCF3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy coin. A contemporary cast copy, probably of a dupondius, probably of Hadrian (AD 117-38) (Reece Period 6), Fortuna seated left. Prototype Mint of Rome. Without an image, the National Finds Adviser cannot comment more, except to say that cast copies of asses with Fortuna seated left were found in the Bath Spring (Walker 1988, plate XXXII, nos. 22-27).
Created on: Monday 18th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 17th March 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-3F7046
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy coin, an as of Antoninus Pius (AD138-161), dating to AD 154-5 (Reece Period 7), BRITANNIA COS IIII, S C; Britannia seated left. Mint of Rome. RIC III, p. 142, no. 934. This is a Coin of British Association, many such pieces being found inthe Sacred Spring at Bath (Walker 1988, pp. 294 & 297-8, nos. 73-132 & 136-288).
Created on: Monday 18th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 14th July 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-ADF9E1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle, probably of mid 12th to 14th century date The buckle frame is complete but missing the pin (with a length of 20.8mm, a width of 22.7mm and a weight of 3.0g). The buckle has an oval frame with ornate outside edge. The outside edge is widened (at 4.5mm) and comprises a projecting knop at each end, with horizontal ribbing between. The sides are of sub-rectangular section and the bar is off-set and narrowed, of sub-circular section (1.9mm diameter). The rear of the buckle is flat. The surface has a dark brown patina. The buckle can be paralleled with an e…
Created on: Monday 11th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6E14F4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval strap-end of Thomas (2003) Class B and of uncertain Type, possibly Type 2 and of late 8th to 10th century date The strap-end appears to be near-complete (with a length of 47.4mm and a weight of 11.4g) but may have lost the upper part of the split terminal. It is possible that the strap-end was modified and reused, leaving a stepped terminal (with a thickness of 2.4mm - 3.1mm). The attachment end is straight, slightly angled and is widest (with a width of 10.7mm). There were three attachment holes to secure the strap, two positioned near the end (2.0mm and 2.2mm diame…
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6DE338
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age socketed spearhead of uncertain type and of Middle to Late Bronze Age date, c. 1500 - 750BC The spearhead is fragmentary and represented by the tip only (with a surviving length of 50.9mm, a maximum surviving width of 23.1mm and a weight of 18.6g). The end of the circular socket is present at the break (where it has a surviving depth of 17.6mm and an internal diameter at the break of 7.0mm). The socket continues along the blade as a prominent and rounded midrib (giving a maximum surviving thickness of 9.2mm at the break), which gradually narrows and thins towards the tip. T…
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-C712B2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy hooked mount or dress-fastener, probably of 17th century date The fastener is complete (with a length of 45.0mm, a thickness of 2.4mm and a weight of 6.8g) and was secured by three separate pins through the terminal and near the base. The terminal is of trefoil form, while the body of the mount is oval (with a maximum width of 20.9mm). The forward-facing hook at the base has parallel sides (with a width of 6.8mm) and the end abuts the mount (producing a maximum depth of 4.8mm). The front is decorated with a floral-scroll design in cast relief and the …
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4A40D3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy coin, an irregular copy (c. mid 350's AD) of Constantius II / FEL TEMP REPARATIO; soldier and fallen horseman type.
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 27th October 2014
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Record ID: PUBLIC-465925
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy heraldic stud, probably dating from the mid-14th or 15th century The mount is complete, except for some surface loss (and has an overall length of 13.9mm and a weight of 4.9g) and is of elaborate quatrefoil form, comprising rounded lobes separated by slight pointed knops. The face is now asymmetrical, possibly through wear (with a width of 16.6mm x 16.1mm) and is slightly convex (with a thickness of 2.5mm). The design on the mount is now difficult to discern and appears to depict a central rectangular frame, each side of which has three pellets on the end of…
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 9th September 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-463330
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle, probably of 12th to 14th century date The buckle frame is fragmentary, represented by the outside edge and part of the sides (with a surviving length of 11.0mm, a surviving width of 24.2mm and a weight of 1.8g). The buckle would have had an oval frame with ornate outside edge. The outside edge is widened (at 5.4mm) and comprises four rounded knops divided by grooves. The sides are of sub-triangular section. The rear of the buckle is flat. The surface has a dark brown patina with areas grey-green surface loss. The buckle can be closely paralleled wi…
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-461697
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman glass sherd from a vessel The sherd is from the rim of a vessel with no curvature in either its width or height, suggesting a square vase or similar (with a surviving length of 44.0mm, a surviving height of 24.7mm and a weight of 6.3g). The sherd thickens slightly towards the rim (with a thickness of 2.6 - 3.4mm). The glass has a blue-green colour and the rim is bevelled towards one face (with a maximum thickness of 5.5mm).
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-459683
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy coin, an irregular nummus. c. AD 320 imitating Constantine I, VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP type. Obverse: probably copies London Reverse: probably copies Arles issue //PARL
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 27th October 2014
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Record ID: PUBLIC-455502
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy coin Uncertain, later 3rd century radiate, possibly VICTORINUS, Tetricus or irregular
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 27th October 2014
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