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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BM-F87E99
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver strap-end and undiagnostic gold ingot The strap-end appears to have terminated in a hook and may have served as a type of chatelaine, not uncommon for key suspension, for example at the end of a belt. The terminal is incomplete and broken. The most closely comparable, base metal example is published in G Egan and F Pritchard, Dress Accessories, London 1991, p. 149, no. 705. Although the published piece is a more elaborate type, the shape and construction are the same. The date, arrived at by ceramic phasing, is 1400–50. Length of strap-end: 55 mm; length of ingo…
Created on: Wednesday 31st August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2022
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Record ID: BM-F84574
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver ear-scoop, bent, with a twisted shank. The top, which would probably have terminated in a pointed toothpick, has broken off. The ear-scoop weighs 1.65 grams, and analysis at Wiltshire County Council Conservation Centre has shown that it is made of silver.
Created on: Wednesday 31st August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2022
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Record ID: BM-F73398
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver seal-matrix of diminutive proportions.  Its sealing surface is circular and is engraved with three spheres within a three-pronged division, surrounded by a beaded border but without a legend.  The device is not easy to interpret.  The reverse is a cone-shaped hexagon terminating in a trefoil handle.  This tiny, enigmatic object was undoubtedly used as a personal seal rather in the fashion of a signet ring.
Created on: Wednesday 31st August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2022
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BM-F6A73C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hoard of coins and a finger-ring. The coins are mostly official English issues, but with two coins of the Burgundian Netherlands, double patards, which were legal tender here at a valuation of fourpence, thanks to a convention between Edward IV and Charles the Bold in 1469.  The gold coin is of fine gold, over 94% pure.  The English silver coins are sterling standard, 92.5% fine, and the Burgundian coins are 80% fine silver. The coins range in date from the 14th or early 15th century (a now fragmentary halfpenny and some very worn pennies) to the latest coins in the hoard…
Created on: Wednesday 31st August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2022
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BM-C2C76B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval brooch formed from twisted wire crafted to create the impression of plaited ropes.  It measures 18mm x 16mm and is slightly damaged at the top right and at about a quarter down the left side.  It is highly decorative, an impression that is heightened by the random soldering of small spheres upon its surface.  These spheres may once have existed in more profusion and given an original appearance of greater symmetry, but this is by no means certain.
Created on: Wednesday 29th June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 14th February 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BM-25CA6C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete early medieval silver strap-end dating to the ninth to early tenth century. The strap-end is sub-rectangular in plan with convex sides, a split, bi-lobed attachment end and a moulded animal-headed terminal. The attachment end is pierced by two circular rivet-holes filled with earth. The animal-headed terminal has a stubbed snout, bulbous eyes and sub-circular ears. The upper surface of the strap-end is divided into a pair of rectangular decorative fields, each containing a continuous, interlacing ?plant motif. The remains of a semi-circular decorative field can be seen at th…
Created on: Monday 15th November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ogbourne St Andrew', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-A033C8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold Iron Age stater of the North Thames Region / Catuvellauni, attributed to Tasciovanus, dating to the period c.25 BC-AD 10, 'Tasciovanus Hidden Faces' type. Obverse: Crossed wreaths, one curved, back to back crescents at centre, hidden faces in angles. Reverse: Horse right, bucranium, solar motif, and (TASCIAVAN) above, hook like object below. ABC no. 2553; BMC nos. 1591-1603; Sills, 2017: p. 554, Class Ib (especially no. 497).
Created on: Friday 4th June 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 10th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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.

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Record ID: BM-C514EA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The find consists of 36 copper alloy, two of which refit to form a partial object (no 35 & 36 in the catalogue below, to form a partial axe). There is 6 full socketed axe , 2 fragmented double winged-axe, 2 fragmented winged-axe and 14 axe fragments, 8 ingots fragment , 1 possible cauldron handle/fitting  fragment, 2 casting jets and 1 possible copper alloy mould fragment. ID DESCRIPTION DIMENSION WEIGHT (g) 1 Full socketed axe, some green rust and corrosion, blade sharp with dent, casting seam along t…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.