Record ID: BUC-7A04A1
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A corroded, virtually complete post-medieval cast copper-alloy dress fastener hook-piece (16-17th century AD). It has a sub-triangular plate with three small circular loops for attachment, one at each apex, and an integral blunt curved hook which extends from one of the sides; this would have engaged with a separated eye-piece. One of the sewing loops has now abraded through. The hook is curved right back on itself and has a rounded end. The main field on the front is decorated with a design moulded in low relief within a ropework border. There is a central six-petalled flower from wh…
Created on: Friday 19th February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Totternhoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-79BF95
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A D-shaped to sub-triangular late early-medieval buckle frame with moulded Ringerike-style zoomorphic decoration on the sides and outside edge (c. 11th century). The frame is complete in and of itself but the pin is missing. The bar is slightly narrowed and offset, and gripped at both ends in the mouth of an animal; it recessed behind the ends of the sides. The animals' snouts, ears and eyes are moulded. They connect at the centre of the outer edge in a stepped trefoil. A median groove decorates much of the front of the buckle. Dimensions: 28.13 mm long by 3.9 mm thick. It wei…
Created on: Friday 19th February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 31st January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Totternhoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-789176
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age, cast copper-alloy razor dating to c.800BC-600BC. The razor has a trapezoidal shaped blade in plan and appears to consist of the lower portion of a razor. On the front face, it is decorate with two grooves separated by two moulded ridges, the lower ridge is narrower than the upper one. The reverse is undecorated. The razor has an overall green patina with surface pitting on both faces. The remains of the cutting edge is worn, with some small breakages in parts. Broadly similar examples, that can be see on the PAS data…
Created on: Friday 19th February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haversham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-783718
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy Roman mount in the form of a sleeping hound from a patera (vessel). The mount is D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat reverse. The features of the dog are moulded, particularly the hunched up hindleg and similarly bent foreleg upon which the dog's head rests. Unlike the relatively well-known series of sitting hound-mounts and brooches known from Roman Britain, this hound is depicted curled up asleep. The dog has a generally smooth body with longitudinal decorative short lines representing fur behind the fore paw and ear which abuts it, the ear formed of a pair of…
Created on: Friday 19th February 2016
Last updated: Saturday 16th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gayhurst', grid reference and parish protected.