Record ID: BM-7D34D9
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The hoard consists of 23 silver miliarenses, 137 silver siliquae and one copper alloy nummus. The siliqua was the main silver denomination of the late Roman period and the miliarensis was double this denomination. Thesewere among the last silver coins minted in the western Roman cities of the Roman Empire in the late fourth and early fifth century but continued to circulate after the collapse of Roman rule over Britain in AD 410. The silver coins listed span the period AD 337-402, ending, as is common with hoards of this date, with siliquae of Arcadius and Honorius dated to AD 395-402…
Created on: Monday 1st February 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Vale of Pewsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-4B9175
Object type: TORC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
The find consists of a single Iron Age twisted multi-strand style torc with ring terminals similar to others found in Norfolk over the last 60 years.  The torc has an internal diameter of approximately 20 cm.  It is made of predominantly gold and silver. It is made from four strands of wires twisted around each other two and a half times. Each of the 4 strands is made from 6 wires (c. 3 mm thick).  The strands are alternately twisted one clockwise and the next counter clockwise.  The strands were cast on to the terminals.  Evidence for this is clearly visible …
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: BM-D83D1C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver-gilt iconographic finger-ring, with a two-faceted bezel with crudely engraved images of saints. The figure in the panel on the right appears to hold in her right hand a tower, and may represent St Barbara. The figure on the left is unidentified, and may represent a male saint. The hoop is grooved and beaded in diagonal bands, and the shoulders are engraved with flowers. The diameter of the ring measures 24mm. The ring probably dates to the 15th century. Beverley Nenk Curator, Medieval collections, Department of Medieval and Modern Europe British Museum
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2022
Last updated: Saturday 6th January 2024
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Record ID: BM-9A7DD8
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Crumpled gold foil pommel cap ornamented with C scrolls executed in beaded filigree wire.  The pommel cap is badly damaged with both ends crushed and distorted and the filigree ornament on one face missing.   The surviving filigree is well made filling the surviving panel with a balanced pattern of graded pairs of loops with spiralled ends enclosing a central motif of an inverted ‘C’ scroll lying back to back with a kidney shaped element executed with two beaded filigree wires.   The panel is enclosed by a border of filigree wire, of a heavier weigh…
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: BM-A72F51
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead possible pencil of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1500 - 1800. The object is circular in section with parallel sides tapering to a blunted point at one end.  The metal has a light grey/white patina and is pitted.  Measurements: Length: 44.45 mm; Width: 9.53 mm; Thickness: 5.33 mm; Weight: 11.38 g A stylus is a writing implement used to scratch letters into the wax of a writing tablet while a pencil makes a coloured mark on wood, paper or parchment. Lead is rarely used for objects that appear to be conventional st…
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: BM-0FA2A5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Plain gold band, scratched and worn, with the inscription: true love is the bond of peace. The inscription is recorded by Joan Evans (1931) in a late 16th century manuscript and the lettering is consistent with a 17th century date, but we know that 17th century lettering style continued well into the 18th century from the British Museum's dated sequence of mourning rings. In the absence of marks or any distinguishing decorative feature there is no firm evidence to date this pre 1704.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2023
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Record ID: BM-C6C1AC
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy terminal pendant, possibly from a shoulder belt dating to the third century AD. The pendant comprises a symmetrical, flat leaf-shaped plate, the outer edges of which are slightly bevelled. The plate is openwork in design: a thin flat, rectangular central bar (broken) with a triangular extension is flanked by two scrolls. The central bar and scrolls meet at the apex of the plate in a bifurcated terminal. At the attachment end, there is a small rectangular plate, from which extend two circular lugs with circular piercings forming a hinge. A circular-section cross bar secur…
Created on: Tuesday 26th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: BM-D9FC64
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper-alloy object, probably an element from the centre of an openwork belt-plate dating to the mid second or third centuries AD. The element comprises a hemispherical-section bar of two circular cells separated by a waisted moulding. Each cell is filled with a ring of degraded turquoise enamel, with the inside of each ring empty. The bar terminates at each end in a trapezoidal collar and small offset rectangular lugs. These lugs were probably used to secure the bar within the larger belt plate. The underside of the element is plain. It measures 30mm in length, a maximum of 7m…
Created on: Wednesday 27th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: BM-DE19DB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy reinforced belt end from a military shoulder belt dating to the third century AD. The terminal pendant would originally have hung from this. The fragment comprises a flat rectangular bar with a marginal rib running along its lower edge. Fragments of openwork decoration extends from the upper edge of this bar supported by four regularly spaced rectangular lugs. These fragments of openwork decoration may represent the lower parts of alphabetical letters forming part of an inscription, possibly the letters 'MILIT' as on SF 426 from Aldborough (Bis…
Created on: Wednesday 27th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: BM-429BE9
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete copper-alloy belt plate dating to the mid-second to mid-third century AD. The fragment comprises a rectangular plate with openwork decoration forming the letters '[...]ES'. From the underside of the plate, there extends a circular-section lug with flat circular end plate. The stud mount measures 18.5mm in length, a maximum of 20mm in width and a thickness of 2mm. The semi-circular stem on the underside is circular in section, measuring 3mm in diameter, with a circular disc 5mm in diameter and 1mm thick. Similar belt plates with the legends 'IOVIS' and '…
Created on: Monday 31st August 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: BM-D5BD71
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy openwork pendant or hanger from a shoulder belt dating to the late second or early third century AD. The fitting is flat and leaf-shaped, with a pelta-shaped terminal. At the wider end, a rectangular strip runs the width of the fitting, presumably part of the means of attachment which is missing. The hanger appears to have therefore been miscast. The mount measures 52mm in length, a maximum of 42mm in width and had a thickness of 3mm. The mount weighs 14.2 grams. Compare with an example from Zugmantel illustrated in Feugere, M. (1993) Weapons of the Romans, Fig. 236, No. 176
Created on: Monday 5th September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: BM-3B6E5B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy element from an openwork belt mount dating dating to mid second century AD. The object comprises a bar of four oval or sub-oval elements which are all rectangular in section. At one end, the bar is pierced with a circular perforation. The object has a length of 58mm, a width of 5.5mm and a thickness of 2.5mm. The object weighs 2.8 grams. Belt plates with similar baluster mouldings are known from numerous military installations throughout the Empire, although Hoss catalogues no examples from Britain. Hoss classifies this as her Type B.14 (Lechința de Mureș type) and not…
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: BM-E4F9F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver Roman siliqua of Arcadius (AD 383-408), dating to the period AD 395-402 (Reece period 21). VIRTVS ROMANORVM reverse type depicting Roma seated left on cuirass holding Victory and spear. Mint of Milan. cf. Hoxne no. 708; RIC X no. 1227.
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-182986
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver pendant in the shape of a hammer, with a hexagonal head angled back from a shallow point in the centre, towards a tapering shaft. The shaft is hammered flat at the terminal, so is deeper than the flat section of the rest of the hammer, and pierced through the terminal for suspension. It is decorated on both the front and back of the head and just onto the shaft by small punch-marked annulets, in some cases grouped into a quatrefoil design, but in other cases less regularly. Analysis: Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface indicated a precious me…
Created on: Friday 17th July 2020
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
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Record ID: BM-D744F2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval finger ring, now badly distorted and measuring 21mm across its greatest diameter.  The ring is engraved with the phrase en bon an (‘in a good year’).    The inscription is punctuated with sprigs of foliage. The ring is silver and was once entirely gilded.  The gilding only survives on the interior of the hoop and in the deepest recesses of the engraved design.  Traces of solder can be seen between the words bon and an on both the interior and exterior surfaces of the ring.  It dates to the fifteenth century.
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
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Record ID: BM-EE16B2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Oval silver buckle, the tab fitted with a stud for attachment to a leather strap. The reverse stamped with a shield‑shaped maker's mark: WW with two small mullets above and one larger mullet below. 
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BM-512238
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver Anglo-Saxon hooked tag, complete, l. 33mm, w. 14mm, wt. 1.95g.  This piece has a triangular plate with elegantly scalloped top and two internal holes near the corners for attachment. The field is plain but the long edges are decorated with borders of incised ladders.  There is a slight bulge above the tapering hook.  The back is plain.  This is probably a dress attachment which could have been used for veiling or gartering, probably the former because it is very light-weight. Heavier-duty hooked tags may also have been used to fasten purses.  
Created on: Thursday 11th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BM-785AFD
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Circular medieval silver mount, with four knops around the outside, some damage to the edges. At the centre is an equal-armed cross with rounded ends, enclosed within a filigree circular border, and surrounded by six pairs of sub-square cells with X-shaped motifs incised at centre. Nondestructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface of the object conducted at the British Museum show a silver content of approximately 96 per cent.
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BM-4C556F
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
A ribbon or thin bar of gold 73 mm long, 9 mm wide and 1.25 mm thick with originally a curved profile on an arch of an approximate diameter of 80-90 mm, but sharply bent 43 mm from the squared off end. The object appears to have been cut from of a larger object. The squared off end is probably the original end of the end, the other is less regularly finished off.  The object is relatively poorly finished compared to other prehistoric gold objects and has ample evidence for hammering and working across all surfaces.  Scientific analysis across the surface of the object suggest…
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BM-4D391D
Object type: WIRE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A small fragment from a thin gold wire strip 12.5 mm long, 2.0 mm wide and c. 0.25mm thick, was recovered from peaty marsh deposits that pre-date the construction of a Roman timber building on the site in the middle of the 1st Century BC.
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
No spatial data available.