Record ID: WILT-B04B68
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman puddingstone beehive quern stone, dating to the period AD 1-150 There are a few types of Puddingstone, Green (2017) suggests that it is French and has been imported. A possible suggestion for this importation is that the stones used for this conglomerate are extremely hard, so hard over in Hertfordshire that it was very difficult to use, but due to its tough exterior, it produced almost grit free flour, therefore a much demanded product (Green 2017). French stones are earlier than Hertfordshire products, and were in fact the basis of a whole industry, as it spre…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2018
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Record ID: WILT-3E3E0E
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy purse bar, dated to the medival period of 1475 AD to 1600 AD. The bar fragment is V shaped in cross section. The edges are smooth, and both ends are broken. The anterior side would have been seen by the public, and it has been purposfully decorated with a lined geometric pattern (two thin lines running parrallel to each other in a diagoinal direction, the following set of lines follow, but in a different direction). The pattern continues all the way around the external surface. There is a small perferation on the external surface which would have been utilis…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Monday 31st October 2016
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Record ID: WILT-231F21
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy purse bar, dated to the medieval period of 1475 AD to 1600 AD. The bar fragment is V shaped in cross section and is curved. The edges are smooth, and both ends are broken. The front face is inscribed: [...GL]ORIA followed by niello inlay.There are two small perforations (side by side) on the front face which would have been utilised as an attachment point for the purse. The reverse is undecorated. The length of the purse bar is 49.12mm, the thickness is 4.72mm and its weight is 7.60g. Ward Perkins (1940:169) suggests metal framed purses first became…
Created on: Monday 3rd April 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 11th April 2017
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Record ID: WILT-C70181
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman plate brooch, dating to the period AD 100- 250. The brooch is circular in shape, measuring 21.37mm in diameter and weighs 4.48g. It is incomplete insofar as the pin is missing, along with any decoration that may have resided in the central circular recess. The plate brooch has been divided into three. A small central circular recess, measuring 2.96mm in diameter, then there is a larger circular recess, measuring 14.88mm in diameter. After this there is 3.58mm, running concentrically around the larger circular recess to the edge of the plate. As…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2017
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2018
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Record ID: WILT-91B037
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy buckle pin, dating to the medieval to post medieval period AD 1400- AD 1700. The pin oval in cross section and would have attached itself to a central bar of a buckle by the open ended hooks. There is also a notable ridge (almost like a decorative boarder) on the main body of the pin, just below the attachment hook. The pins end is pointed, but fairly rounded. The entire object remains undecorated. The pin is 39.09mm in length, 3.26mm in diameter and 4.85g in weight.
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 12th April 2017
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Record ID: WILT-5F08EE
Object type: PIN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy gilded pin of an uncertain date. A broadly similar parallel can be found in Egan and Pritchard (1991) "Dress Accessories" page 300 No,1476 which suggests a medieval date is possible. Overall, the pin is badly corroded, but the head of the pin can be surely identified as a pentagonal head with five points, four of which form the sides of the shape, and the fifth located at the top of the head. From each of the four side points are fine ridges which follow upwards, towards the central point at the top of the shape. Where the head of the pin has been fixed …
Created on: Tuesday 18th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 30th November 2016
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Record ID: WILT-0C614E
Object type: PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possibly complete medieval to post-medieval copper-alloy pin, dating to the broad period of AD 1300-1750 . The undecorated head is an oblate spheroid. Below the head is a small elongated collar. The shaft is circular in cross-section and narrows to a sharp point. The shaft has an unatural 90 degree bend to it. There is a chance that this pin has been reworked, possibly to make it shorter. The pin is 28.97mm in overall length; diameter of head: 8.99mm; height of head including collar: 10.23mm; diameter of shaft at its widest: 2.21mm. Weight: 3.92 ExampleS of this pin can be fo…
Created on: Wednesday 26th October 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th December 2016
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Record ID: WILT-A6CBA4
Object type: PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy buckle pin, dating to the medieval to post medieval period AD1400- AD 1700. The buckle oval in cross section and would have attached itself to a central bar of a buckle by the open ended hooks. There is also a notable ridge (almost like a decorative boarder) on the main body of the pin, just below the attachment hook. The pins end is pointed, but fairly rounded. The entire object remains undecorated. The pin is 45.12mm in length, 3.85mm in diameter and 3.92g in weight. Please see WILT- 91B037 on the PAS database for similar.
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2017
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Record ID: WILT-2B2AF1
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy palstave dating from the Middle to Late Bronze Age c. 1500 - 1150 BC. The fragment is sub-rectangular in shape the butt and a fragment of the flanged sides survive. The axe has an angular butt . The sides are unfinished, as you can still see the ridges from the casting process. The faces of the axe fragment are slightly concave, creating a H-shaped cross-section. The faces of the axe show signs of wear, such as scratches and the break is even and patinated, suggesting that the object was broken in antiquity, located at the break are two voids from a c…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Monday 31st October 2016
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Record ID: WILT-3962CF
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast made medieval copper alloy once piece bar mount dating to c AD 1350-1400. The mount has a central circular section with a circular perforation. From each side of this section are short flat rectangular sections which extend at opposite sides. These terminate with circular lobes, each with a rivet hole. Both rivets remain intact, and the entire mount remains undecorated. The mount weighs 1.49g and measures 31.71mm in length. The circular section is 8.10mm in diameter and it is 2.21mm in thickness. Please see Read, B, 2001, Metal Artefacts of Antiquity Volume On…
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 6th April 2017
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Record ID: WILT-93C7D9
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy medieval mount, dating to the period AD 1200- 1400. The mount begins with a small flat rectangle section which has three protrusions on its top edge (one each top corner and once centrally). This section remains undecorated. From this section the mount angles inwards at 90 degrees and follows into the main bar plate of the mount, which arches slightly. This is decorated with a series of three squares which are further decorated with cross hatching. The squares are connected with a fine channel like border which finishes horizontally. Below this is a small …
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2017
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Record ID: WILT-88E107
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval cast copper alloy bar mount dating to cAD 1350 - 1400. This is a bar mount with terminal lobes and a central hemispherical-section central lobe or boss which shows a pattern of 6 transverse grooves. Both end lobes have no perferations but on the reverse surface, one rivet on in terminal lobe. Also on the reverse the hemispherical section is hollow and dips, creating a bowl type shape. The bar mount is 24.3mm in length (each terminal lobe c5.30mm in diameter), 11.09mm in width and weighs 3.28g. Two parallels can be found in Brian Read (2001) "Metal Artefact…
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2016
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Record ID: WILT-063464
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, copper alloy probable bar mount, dating to between the medieval and post medieval period (AD 1250- AD 1600). One terminate of the mount is square in shape and cross section. Both of the horizontal edges act as a collar as they both exceed the shapes width. There are two rivets in place, on centrally, and one just below, both of which, penetrate all the way through. The bar of the mount increases in thickness as its central ridge protrudes upwards into an arch. The bar terminates in a circular shape and cross section. There is also a singular rivet in this terminate, w…
Created on: Monday 7th November 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 20th December 2016
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Record ID: WILT-FEA026
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy bar mount with two rivet holes, dating to the period AD c.1350- c.1400. The mount consists of a rounded body with two terminal lobes. Both lobes show a central hole for the inserction of the rivets, one of which is still in place. The body is decorated with four ridges and grooves. The rounded body and the lobes are concave on the back part. The length of the mount is 18.02mm, the thickness is 3.46mm, the diameter of the central hemisphere is 8.81mm and the weight is 1.23g. Please see Read (2001) "Metal Artefacts of Antiquity. A Catalogue of Small Find…
Created on: Monday 20th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 29th March 2017
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Record ID: WILT-FEBFE8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy bar mount with two rivet holes, dating to the period AD c.1350- c.1400. The mount is composed of three hemispheres, one large centrally, and two small ones either side. The posterior surface of the central hemisphere is hollow, and the two smaller ones has the shanks of the rivets protruding through. The central shape is decorated with a series of 5 horizontal lines and one vertical, which appear to be made out of dots. The length of the mount is 16.27, the thickness is 3.60, the diameter of the central hemisphere is 8.96 and the weight is 1.16g. Pleas…
Created on: Monday 20th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 29th March 2017
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Record ID: WILT-BC71B4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy bar mount with two rivet holes, dating to the period ADc.1350- c.1400. The mount consists of a rounded body with one terminal lobe (there would have orginally been two). The surviving lobe still has its rivet intact. The body is decorated with four ridges and have tiny grooves inbetween each one. The rounded body and the lobe is concave at the back. The length of the mount is 18.52mm, the thickness is 3.11mm, the diameter of the central hemisphere is 11.67mm and the weight is 1.89g. Please see Read (2001) "Metal Artefacts of Antiquity. A Catalogue of …
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 6th April 2017
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Record ID: WILT-360F1C
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy sexfoil, convex sheet mount of medieval period AD 1350- 1400. The mount has been die-stamped so that each foil stands up from the next and also has a central perforation. The entire mount remains undecorated, but holds a green patina on all surfaces. It is 13.75mm in diameter and 3.92mm in height. The central hole has a diameter c1.92mm. It weighs 0.46g. Read, 2001,Metal Artefacts of Antiquity, pages 13 and 15, fig 9 no. 103, and WILT-378FE1 on the PAS database.
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2017
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Record ID: WILT-4EDB43
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Nuremberg 'rose and orb' jetton of Hanns Kravwickel II dating to AD 1584-1635. Obverse depicts three crowns alternately with three lis around a central 8-petalled rose and with the legend HANNS KRAVWINCKEL. Reverse depicts an imperial orb surmounted by a cross pattee. The reverse legend is GOTES SEGEN MACHT REICH. Michael Mitchiner, M, 1988, Jetons, medalets & tokens: The Medieval Period and Nurember Volume One, BA Seaby Ltd, London, p 443, no 1555 and p 444, no 1568.
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2017
Last updated: Thursday 19th January 2017
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Record ID: WILT-5E0AD0
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy post-medieval Nuremberg Rose/orb jetton of uncertain issuer, struck between AD c. 1500-1650. The obverse depicts a imperial orb within a tressures of three arches and three angles. The reverse depicts a five petals rosette surrounded by three crowns and three Lys alternatively
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th February 2017
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Record ID: WILT-8418F8
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn copper alloy French jetton, possibly the quaterfoil type, dating to the period AD 1200- 1400. Uncertain issuer, and reverse type.
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 3rd August 2018
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