Record ID: CAM-6A6A67
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pierced silver Medieval halfgroat coin, of Henry VII, AD 1485-1509. This is a class IIIb dating to AD 1490s. Obverse shows a Forward facing crowned bust within multifoil. Obverse legend reads: hENRI[C DI] GRA.REX.ANGLI.Z.[FR...] with rosette stops. The reverse shows a Long cross fourchee with three pellets per quarter and legend in two concentric circles reading: + POSVI/[DEVM] A/DIVTO[R]/E[M] MEV - CIVI/TAS/LON/DON. The 'R' and 'M' of ADIVTOREM probably don't feature on this coin rather than being illegible through wear. Die axis is 6 o'clock. Diameter is 18.0mm, th…
Created on: Friday 12th February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 5th January 2022
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Record ID: CAM-E9D2A3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval gold finger-ring. The hoop is circular with a 'D' shaped cross-section being flat on the inner surface and convexly curved on the outer. The finger-ring weigh 5.85g, has an external diameter of 22.4mm. The band that forms the hoop has a width of 3.6mm and thickness of 1.9mm. The external surface is undecorated but dulled by shallow scratches and pits the result of wear while in use and post-depositional damage. A couple of shallow dents and associated burrs are present on the edge between the internal and external surfaces. The inner surface has a shinier appearance an…
Created on: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2022
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Record ID: CAM-6A9FC8
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy crotal bell of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. Only a small amount, less than a quarter, of the bell survives and none of the suspension loop is present. The fragment weighs 3.49g, has a length of 26.4mm and width of 16.6mm. It has a concave inner surface and convexly curved outer surface. The fragment has a thickness of 2.1mm at one edge and 1.1mm at the opposite edge. The thicker edge is relatively smooth and straight with concave curves at either end. It is probable that this is the edge to, one side of, the crotal bell's sound slot, which would have be…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2019
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Record ID: CAM-6A8FE8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-Medieval copper-alloy strap-end with niello inlay decoration. This strap-end is a Thomas Class A, Type 1 and weighs 3.34g. The artefact has a length of 30.0mm and maximum width of 10.1mm. The en-facing animal head terminal is subtle and accounts for 9.2mm of the total length. The main decorative field has a straight transverse edge at the back of the animal head terminal zone. The edges, defined by a shallow narrow incised line, run approximately parallel to the slightly convex curved edges of the strap-end. The upper end, towards the split end, has a concave curve which l…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2019
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Record ID: CAM-6A7E52
Object type: ROWEL SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Medieval to Post-Medieval rowel from a rowel spur. The rowel is complete and is formed of six arms radiating out from a central attachment aperture. The rowel weighs 7.52g, has a maximum diameter of 36.3mm and maximum thickness of 4.4mm. The sub-circular aperture at the centre of the artefact has a diameter 4.9mm. Across the central aperture, between the arms of the rowel, the artefact has a diameter of 1.5mm. The arms of the rowel are partially facetted, giving them a sub-oval to sub-hexagonal cross-section. The arms have a width varying between 4.2mm - 5.5mm and all t…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 5th February 2019
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Record ID: CAM-6A7440
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Post-Medieval mount with double integral pointed lugs. This mount weighs 4.13g and has a roughly flat circular shape of 22.4mm diameter. The upper surface and edge have been moulded into a sexfoil fleuret of six wider arcs interspersed with six pellet lobes that create the undulating curved sexfoil shape. One of these larger arcs is damaged resulting in a much straighter edge at this side of the mount. It is uncertain whether this is the result of a casting error during production or later damage. If this is the result of later damage the break is worn. Within this b…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 5th February 2019
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Record ID: CAM-6A3626
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Medieval buckle plate. This incomplete plate weighs 3.52g, is sub-rectangular in shape with a length of 21.3mm and width of 19.5mm. Although the plate appears to have straight sides at first glance, closer inspection reveals that the edges are actually slightly concavely curved. The sheet metal has a thickness of 1.2mm. Protruding from one of the width edges are the integral remains of two broken and very worn tabs. These indicate that the plate originally had a bifid notch consisting a central pin slot with sub-angular cut-away corners to either side. The w…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 5th February 2019
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Record ID: CAM-6A2877
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gilt copper-alloy buckle plate of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. The plate has been made from sheet metal, cut out to a shape that is rectangular at one end and sub-triangular (tear-drop shaped having rounded corners at the wider end which is adjacent to the integral rectangular half) at the other. The rectangular end has a width of 12.3mm and the widest part of the tear-drop end has a width measurement of 18.3mm, although this is slightly bent and, if flat, would be a touch wider. A rectangular slot for a buckle pin has been cut through the plate. This slot is mostly positioned…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2019
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Record ID: CAM-6A19DE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Medieval finger-ring, complete with the exception of a missing setting from the bezel. This finger-ring weighs 2.26g. The ring has a sub-circular loop, possibly the result of having been slightly squashed out of shape. The interior dimensions of the loop are: height 20.5mm and width 19.3mm. The band has a width of 2.9mm and thickness of 1.4mm at the base. Further around the loop the band has a narrower width of 2.7mm. It is not clear whether this narrowing is by design, the result of wear or damage, although it is less likely to be by design. The band gradually widens a…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
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Record ID: CAM-69BDA1
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Medieval flat-topped shield shaped mount. This mount weighs 1.93g, has a height of 12.8mm, width of 11.2mm and thickness of 2.3mm. The front of the shield shows no obvious decoration. However, this surface feels lumpy to the touch which may be the worn remains of moulded decoration. Indeed a diagonal shallow recess of c.2.8mm width crosses the shield. This may originally have been filled with enamel to match a true heraldic design or to suggest at such a motif. The reverse surface of the shield is flat and undecorated. An integral rivet shank projects out from the appro…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Last updated: Thursday 14th January 2021
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Record ID: CAM-699B19
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead weight of uncertain date. The weight has a sub-rectangular shape with a length of 30.0mm and maximum width of 14.0mm. The artefact has a sub-rectangular cross-section, with rounded edges, and a thickness of 3.9mm. At one end, the top of the object, there is a sub-circular aperture of c.3.8mm diameter set in from the artefact's edge by 2.1mm. This aperture would have been used to suspend the weight, possibly though not conclusively suggesting that the weight may have been used with a steel-yard. The top end of the artefact is rounded and this narrows the object's width to 10.6mm…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 5th February 2019
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Record ID: CAM-67C1EA
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Either a single lead token, struck off centre or more likely, two lead tokens that have been fused together each flan partially off-set from the other. For the sake of this record this/these tokens will be described as two separate but now joined artefacts. The combined weight of the two flans is 5.27g and for each the visible surface is decorated with moulded curvilinear relief lines. The partial inner surfaces of the over-lapping flans have no visible decoration, although it cannot be confirmed whether these tokens were definitely uniface artefacts. One of the tokens has a fla…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 5th February 2019
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Record ID: CAM-1DBF9C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper-alloy milled farthing of Charles II, AD 1660-1685. This coin would date from AD 1672-1679. Obverse shows a worn laureate and cuirassed bust left. Obverse legend reads C[AROLVS]A - CAR[OLO]. Reverse shows a worn Britannia seated left. Reverse legend reads BR[ITAN-NIA]. Exergue reads [16.....]. Die axis is 6 o'clock. Weight is 4.79g, diameter is 22.4mm and thickness is 1.7mm.
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2017
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Record ID: CAM-920265
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Roman republican Denarius coin of Cordius Rufus 46BC. Reverse legend reads [MN]CORDI. Reverse shows Venus standing left holding scales and sceptre, Cupid at shoulder. See Sear, D.R. Roman Coins and thier Values 2000, vol.I, p.155-156, no.440. Obverse legend is retrograde and reads RVFVS[ III VIR]. Obverse shows conjoined heads of the Dioscuri right wearing pilei surmounted by stars. Die axis is 9 o'clock. Weight is 3.84g, diameter is 17.84mm, thickness is 2.22mm.
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2013
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Record ID: CAM-97CB01
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver medieval voided long cross penny, Henry III, (1216-1272), Class Va, mint: Canterbury, moneyer: Nicole. Obverse shows forward facing crowned bust with sceptre. Obverse legend reads HENRICVS REX/III/. Reverse shows a voided long cross with three pellets per quarter. Reverse legend reads NIC/OLE/ONC/ANT. Die axis is 4 o'clock. Weight is 1.25g, diameter is 19.15mm, thickness is 0.88mm. See North, J.J. English Hammered Coinage: Volume I, Early Anglo-Saxon to Henry III c.600-1272. 1994, p.226-227.
Created on: Thursday 13th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 18th June 2013
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Record ID: CAM-976DB1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval gold half-noble of Edward III, Treaty period (1363-1369), Mint: London, N 1238. The obverse shows a forward facing king in ship with sword in right hand and quartered shield of England and France in left. Obverse legend: xEDWARDxDEIxGxREXxAnGLx[D]xhYBxZxAQT with double saltire stops. Reverse shows the small 'E' at the centre. Reverse legend reads +DO[MINExM]ExINxFVRORExTVOxARGVASxME with double saltire stops. Weight is 2.99g, diameter is 25.23mm, thickness is 0.53mm. Die axis is 12 o'clock. See North, J.J. English Hammered Coinage: Volume II, Edward I to Charles II…
Created on: Thursday 13th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
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Record ID: CAM-A2C903
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver early medieval sceat, Series E ('Plumed Bird' variety J), c.AD700-20. See also Abramson, T. Sceattas: An Illustrated Guide. 2006, p.11 (continental series), 89, 92 (post script 1), Quilled figures, sub-group 5 quilled bird with tubular body curved into elongated head, two clawed legs below and triple tail, cross also present above head. Series E, variety K E300. Reverse shows beaded standard with pellet in annulet at centre, single line with attached pellet in each corner and two clusters of three pellets opposite each other, crosses and pellets externally surrounding th…
Created on: Monday 20th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 18th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Hertfordshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-233BA6
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy late Medieval French jetton. The obverse shows a sheild of France (flat topped and pointed base), three fleurs de lis within, above is an annulet with single pellet either side. Obverse reads: (cross initial mark = X) AVE MARIA + CIACIA (or less likely GRACIA instead of CIACIA). Reverse shows triple stranded straight cross fleuretty in four arched tressure. Surrounding the tressure, externally, are four equally spaced annulets with a single pellet either side. The four internal angles each have a letter, alternately V and M. Weight is 4.36g, diameter is 27.72mm, thi…
Created on: Tuesday 14th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2013
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Record ID: CAM-2054C1
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy trade token of 17th century AD date. The obverse and reverse intital marks are mullets. The obverse legend reads *EMERRE.BRADLE.(16)68 . The obverse field shows a worn wheatsheaf. The reverse legend reads *BAKER IN HARTFORD. The reverse field contains E B with a star/mullet between these letters both above and below. Die axis is 6 o'clock. Weight is 0.78g, diameter is 15.66mm, thickness is 0.76mm. See Williamson, W. Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales, and Ireland. Vol.I. Hertfordshire, p.313, no.101.
Created on: Tuesday 14th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2013
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Record ID: CAM-3DC6F3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy zoomorphic plate brooch in the form of a fish, of Roman, second century AD date. The upper surface has been inlaid with blue enamel. The brooch has an incomplete length of 30.02mm with the tail having broken off leaving an irregular transverse break. The brooch is likely to have been cast. Depressed fields are present on the upper surface to become cells to contain the inlaid enamel. This brooch was designed to have a flat upper surface when all of the cells were filled with enamel however the plate has been slightly curved presumably to be more fish like. …
Created on: Friday 3rd May 2013
Last updated: Saturday 22nd August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Hertfordshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.