Record ID: BH-FE0309
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete pipeclay figurine, cast in two parts, probably of Post Medieval date. The figurine is oval in cross-section and comprises the body of a figure wearing a cloak that hangs over the shoulders and drapes to rounded hems either side. The cloak is drawn together on both the front and back of the figure. On one side there is an oval ventilation hole where the two sides of the cloak meet. On the opposite side there is a small circular moulding probably depicting a clasp holding it in place. The neck hem of the cloak is v-shape on both sides, within which are folds of hair. B…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-FD7BB5
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval copper-alloy trade token of John Haward. Obverse: IOHN . HAWARD . IN . HELMET surrounding HIS // HALFE // PENY. Reverse: COVRT . IN . ST . KATHERNS around St George and the dragon. As Williamson 1889, p. 728, no. 2613.
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-FCFA6B
Object type: POWDER FLASK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval lead powder measure with a nozzle dating c. AD 1600-1700. The measure comprises a hollow open ended container that has been compressed. On either side is a small handle. The basal rim is ridged. Extending from the flat lentoid base is a conical, circular-sectioned, nozzle that tapers to a partially enclosed end with a circular perforation that extends through to the measure. The patina is light grey. The measure is 35.4mm long, 28.7mm wide, 14.9mm thick and weighs 23.76 grams.
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-FC9AB7
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating from the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, c. 2400-1500 BC. This arrowhead has been knapped from a dark grey-brown piece of flint and there is no cortex remaining. It is broadly sub-triangular in shape and lentoid in cross section. The piece is broadly symmetrical with a broken tip, one complete barb, one broken barb, and, between these, a broken tang. The edges of the blade have been retouched to create sharp edges and has scaled, low angle retouching across both faces, with each face showing an equal amount …
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-FC3936
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Colchester derivative rear hook brooch dating c. AD 43-70. The brooch consists of the damaged wings, part of the spring and axis bar, and the upper bow. The lower bow, foot, half of the spring and the pin are missing. The very worn wings are sub-semi-cylindrical with a hollow interior and open ends. The face of each wing is very abraded depicting just a faint indication of reeled decoration adjacent to the bow on one of them. Within one of the wings is half of the spring. This consists of four coils and approximately half of a fifth on t…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-FB6D1F
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead cloth or food seal of Post Medieval date. The object is disc-shape with a slightly raised circumferential border and a central cross dividing four fields. Each field has several cast motifs. One edge is damaged. The reverse of the object is flat and undecorated. The patina across the object is mid-grey in colour. The object measures 29.5mm diameter, 2.2mm thick and weighs 10.21 grams.
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: BH-FB4F95
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy Medieval gilt copper-alloy openwork harness pendant mount and hanger dating to the period c. AD 1200-1400. The pendant comprises a quatrefoil, sub-D-sectioned, outer frame formed of four arches with a trefoil knop between each arch. The top arch has an elongated rectangular sectioned neck that is surmounted by a square, rectangular-sectioned, plate with a circular perforation through it. Through the hole is a circular-sectioned spindle from which the outer frame suspends. Each end of the spindle sits within the arms of the mount plate. The arms ar…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-D4E49B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy vessel handle, probably of Roman date. The handle comprises a circular-sectioned arched bar that is broken at one end and bent into a circular terminal at the opposite end. The bar is even thickness and has a mottled light and dark green patina with widespread areas of lamination. The handle measures 77.9mm long. The bar is 3.3mm diameter. The terminal is 14.7mm long and 14.6mm wide. The entire handle weighs 6.08 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-D4D701
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Colchester one piece brooch (Mackreth 2011 C type 2e) dating from the Late Iron Age to Roman period (c. AD 25-60). The brooch consists of the wings, bow and part of the catch plate. The spring, pin and most of the catch plate are missing. The head of the brooch has two short rectangular wings, both broken and worn on the edges. Projecting from the upper edge of the reverse is a short broken pointed hook that would have looped upwards over the wings. The short base of another broken hook projects from the lower edge. The D-sectioned upper bow …
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-D4CBFB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Colchester one piece brooch (Mackreth 2011 C type 2e) dating from the Late Iron Age to Roman period (c. AD 25-60). The brooch consists of the wings and bow. The spring, pin and catch plate are missing. The head of the brooch has two short rectangular wings. Projecting from the centre of the wing interior is a short rectangular-sectioned integral block with the remains of a lower projecting hook and the worn base of another hook that would have looped upwards over the wings. The bow projects from the centre front of the wings where it is sub-s…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-D4BB83
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Bronze Age socketed axehead of uncertain type, probably a South-Eastern type of the Wilburton/Wallington period, probably the Ewart Park phase of metalworking, c. AD 1000-800 BC. Only part of the rounded rim and wall of the axehead survives. The mouth was probably sub-rectangular given the surviving corner, likely suggesting a body that was sub-rectangular in cross-section. A casting seam extends from the rim to the base of a sub-oval-sectioned loop. The seam has been trimmed but not hammered. The loop break is extremely worn. There is no decoration on the outer…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-D22C31
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Hod Hill, plain lower bow, variant type brooch dating to the period c. AD 43-75. The brooch consists of the head, the upper bow, the lower bow and the catch plate. The hinged pin is missing. The head of the brooch consists of two short pointed wings. Between the wings is a forwardly bent sub-rectangular knop and, at the base of this, a short point. The arrangement is reminiscent of the Colchester one piece spring system. The upper bow extends from the lower edge of the head into a long sub-trapezoidal plate. The plate is shallowly …
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-D18DF0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy late Iron Age to early Roman Langton Down brooch dating to the period AD 25-60. The brooch comprises the wings and upper portion of the bow. The lower bow, spring, pin and catch plate are missing. The wings are cylindrical, open ended and with an open hollow reverse. The edges are unevenly broken and worn. The front face is rounded and undecorated. At the centre of the lower edge of the wing casing is a small notch. The bow extends downwards from the centre of the front face of the wings. The bow has a square top and is broadly trapezoid…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-D13520
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Rosette brooch, probably of Mackretch ROS 2/3, dating from the Iron Age to the Roman period (c. AD 20-60). The brooch consists of part of the upper bow, bow plate and part of the catch plate. The wings, spring and pin are missing. From a worn uneven transverse break the surviving portion of the upper bow is broadly rectangular in shape, shallow D-shape in cross-section and slightly arched. It is decorated on the front with three very worn longitudinal grooves dividing four ridges. The base of the bow connects to a flat and slightly convex…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-D088C4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Colchester derivative, double pierced lug, Harlow type brooch dating to the Roman period (c. AD 50-80). The brooch comprises the wings, central lug and bow. The spring, pin, foot and catch plate are missing. The wings are semi-cylindrical in shape and divided by a central lug with two circular perforations, one filled with deposition residue. Each wing has an open rounded end and the interior of both is hollow. The face of each wing has moulded decoration of a set of two vertical ridges near the terminal. On one wing there is another set of tw…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-D03D78
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Colchester derivative, double pierced lug, Harlow type brooch dating to the Roman period (c. AD 50-80). The brooch comprises one wing, part of the double pierced lug and upper bow. The spring, pin, foot and catch plate are missing. The surviving wing is semi-cylindrical with worn rounded corners and a hollow interior. A small portion of the other wing survives the other side of the broken central lug. The lug is also incomplete, with only part of the two piercings intact, the upper of which projects above the wings slightly. The bow…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-411A23
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy nummus of Valentinian I (AD 364-378) dating to the period AD 364-378 (Reece period 19). [G]LORIA [ROMANORVM] reverse type depicting the Emperor advancing right dragging a captive. Unclear mint.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: BH-C508CD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper-alloy radiate of Allectus (AD 293-296) dating to the period AD 293-296 (Reece period 14). PAX AVG reverse type depicting Pax standing left holding branch and transverse sceptre. Unclear mint.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: BH-C4F133
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy barbarous radiate of Carausius (AD 286-293), dating to the period AD 286-293 (Reece period 14). [PAX] AV[G] reverse type depicting Pax, draped, standing left, holding olive-branch in right hand and transverse sceptre in left hand. Unclear mint.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: BH-C4CB54
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy radiate of Victorinus (AD 269-271) dating to the period AD 296-271 (Reece period 13). IN[IVCTVS] reverse type depicting Sol running left with right hand raised and holding whip in left hand, cloak flying out behind. Mint of Rome. As Normanby 1910.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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