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Record ID: NMS-2095F7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of Constantine I dating to the period AD 318 - 324 (Reece period 16). BEATA TRANQVILLITAS reverse type depicting an altar inscribed VO/TIS/XX surmounted hy a globe, three stars above. Uncertain mint.
Created on: Saturday 13th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-2CA22C
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Bronze Age socketed axehead dating to the period c. 1500 - 1200 BC. Narrow-bodied with a square mouth and socket bordered by a deep, flat collar, now damaged. There is an irregular hole in one side of the body. Straight-sided, it remains uniform in width from just below the socket mouth until it expands into the flared cutting edge. It tapers in thickness from 18mm below the collar to 3mm at the cutting edge. The cutting edge itself is heavily chipped. A casting seam is visible along each side. Apart from the tip of the blade, which exhibits a shiny, dark green pa…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2BA4D2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy button dating to the period c. AD 1650 - 1750. Discoidal, concavo-convex. The front decorated with an engraved voided saltire, two concentric circles at centre; crescents and annulets in each quarter. An integrally cast, D-shaped shank projects from the reverse. It exhibits a drilled circular hole. See: Read, B, 2005, p. 44, no. 153.
Created on: Monday 20th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2017
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Record ID: NMS-2B1538
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy scabbard chape of medieval to post medieval date (c. AD 1485 - 1600). The upper section is trapezoidal with a crenelated upper edge. It exhibits openwork decoration in the form of a heart-shape, below which is a transverse ridge dividing the trapezoidal section from the lower ovate section. Below the dividing ridge is an openwork trefoil surrounded by a series of radiating ridges and grooves, described by Ward Perkins (1993) as scallop. At the bottom is a small D-sectioned knop. The back plate is missing. Similar forms are discussed by de Reuck (1991), p.26…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2017
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Record ID: NMS-DAAEA9
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy French jetton dating to the period c. AD 1326 - 1337. Standing king under canopy type. Similar to Mitchener, M, 1988, p. 402, no. 405.
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th August 2021
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