Record ID: OXON-510BB9
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy vessel lid of Roman date (c.AD 200-400). The object has two regions a mostly flat flat of copper alloy sheet and a raised mount. The sheet is in its current state D-shaped with the straight edge being bent inwards and possibly having  an originally curved surface. All the egdes are ragged and may not represent the original surface. At the apex of the D-shape sheet the sheet has an oval concave depression on the opposite surface to the moulded work. This is in the form of a duck having a  wide triangular rounded body, narrow neck and round…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-4F0E5E
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Early Medieval stirrup terminal dating to circa AD 950-1100. The terminal is hollowed with a convex front face and concave reverse. It is rendered in the form of a styled animal foot consisting of a flat D-shaped base with evenly spaced trilobite projecting knops emerging from the front of the flat base. Above this is a rectangular shaft with D-shaped section. A moulded median transverse groove runs across the outer face just before the foot. The stirrup has a mottled reddish brown green colour. The stirrup is 67.8mm long, 24.1mm wide, 15mm thi…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Standlake CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-D589E7
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy ring of a dark brown colour. The darker colouring may be due to waterlogged condition of the soil, and there are areas of wear and chipping where the green colouring of copper alloy are visible. The object is annular with a D-shaped cross section; it has a flat interior and a convex exterior. The centre has two groove. There is one groove at the top and bottom of the ring. The dating of this object is diffuclt to specify, ranging from Bronze Age to Post-Medieval. It is possibly a harness ring, but could have had a number of uses.  Measureme…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
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Record ID: WMID-D52291
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper alloy strap mount. The object has a pointed trefoil teminal, with an undecorated triangular plate that has two curvilinear shapes flaring from th main body (lys or lis). The bottom of plate is rectangular in shape, emerging from the centre. The reverse is flat with two integrally cast fixing rivets. The object has an uneven dark grey surface patina.  Measurements: Length: 29mm Width: 15.4mm Thickness: 5.5mm Weight: 3.8g
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
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Record ID: OXON-439AC3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near complete cast copper alloy brooch, of Adams class 2LD dating from the Middle Iron Age 350-150 BC.  The pin is missing.  The top of the brooch comprises a central rounded knop (6.38mm diameter) from which the two wings extend on either side. The wings of the brooch are rectangular in plan and near circular in cross section and each terminates in a circular knop (5.9mm diameter).   The main body of the brooch emerges from the base of the central knop and is comprised of a thick humped bow which is oval in plan and crescent sh…
Created on: Friday 15th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Record ID: OXON-DF7307
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Roman cast copper-alloy 2 piece Aesica type brooch dating to the 2nd century AD.   The brooch is made of 2 pieces, the first being a bow that is riveted onto a flat plate. The wings at the head of the brooch are x mm wide and made of a cylindrical tube with an open reverse and oval endcaps. The endcaps are pierced bya circular hole through which a copper alloy axis bar is threaded.  The pin mechanism is made of 8 coils, four to the right and three to the left of the pin. The right-most outer coil curves over the wings before re-joini…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2023
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Record ID: OXON-34F61C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete cast copper alloy, Early Medieval, small-long brooch dating to c.AD 450-550. Only the pin is missing. The brooch can be divided into three zones, a head plate, an arched bow and foot with trapezoidal terminal. The head plate is subrectangular in plan narrowing only at the interface to the bow. It has clean incised decoration consisting of two pairs of deeply incised transverse lines, two just before the upper edge and two more just before the lower edge. Between these there are small rectangular cells on both the side edges. On the reverse of the plate is a r…
Created on: Wednesday 9th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
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Record ID: OXON-1309DB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near complete Roman, copper alloy rear hook Aesica brooch dating to the middle of the 1st century AD 50-75. The brooch is only missing its sprung pin mechanism. This brooch appears to have been cast from a single flat plate and is relatively complex. At the top of the flat plate are the wings. They are 30.69mm wide and each made of crescent plates, being convex on the front and concave on the back. There is a prominent central ridge which extends down the centre of the bow which is decorated with three lines of chevrons or beading. On each wing, there is an incised l…
Created on: Friday 14th July 2023
Last updated: Sunday 16th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ramsden CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-3D3531
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle with zoomorphic decoration, integral plate and a hinged stud plate dated to the Early Medieval period c. 10th-11th century. The buckles' main frame is D-shaped frame in plan and also in cross section. From its apex there is a projecting zoomorphic terminal. This is triangular in plan and moulded to include a two sub-triangular projecting ears, a clear eyebrow ridge, snout and has two incised oval recesses for eyes. Projecting from the opposite side of the frame is the integral plate. This narrows from the frame in smoot…
Created on: Tuesday 4th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2023
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Record ID: OXON-AADE70
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy anthropomorphic socketed terminal fitting of late Iron Age to early Roman date although an Early Medieval date may also be possible. The object is hollow and moulded into the form of a human head and neck. This has long hair with incised vertical lines giving the impression of strands. A projecting nose and chin and recessed cells for eyes beneath a prominent eye brow ridge. A subtle downturned mouth is present as an incised line beneath the nose. At the base of the neck are the remains of two attachment loops. The left (when seen from the front) i…
Created on: Tuesday 27th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Checkendon CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-746A39
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, (Mackreth 2011, Chap 3 Part 1, Group 3a-b Plate 34, AD c. 60-late 4th century). The copper alloy brooch has undecorated wings which do not have a cap. The bow head is slightly hump-like and has a perforated lug which is visible on the tope of the wings and a secend perforated lug in the centre of the wings. The first perforation has the chord travelling through it. The second perforation has a copper alloy axis bar around which the spring is coiled eight times. The pin is complete and leads from the spring. The upper ridge with the …
Created on: Saturday 24th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 28th June 2023
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Record ID: OXON-F00E06
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete worn roman vessel mount, statue fragment or steel yard weight. The fragment consists of a head and shoulders below which the objects is truncated by a break. Similarly the face and helmet plume are damaged.  Above the head is a projecting spike that could be a helmet plume but is possibly more likely to be an attachment loop. The face has moulded and incised features detailing a prominent nose and brow ridge, a beard and potentially curly hair. The spike is plain but its front face is damaged. While the front face is moulded into a naturalistic form the reverse is f…
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
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Record ID: OXON-7DD6A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman ( c. AD 50 to 100) zoomorphic (bird) brooch of Mackreth Type 4.a.2 (The Animal Kingdom), dating to AD 100-200. The brooch is in the form of a bird, with a slender neck and head facing forwards. The head tapers to a blunt point which is the beak. There is no definition or decoration on the head. The body is sub-oval with slightly concave sides, and is truncated at the tail. In section the body is triangular and is decorated with two linear grooves forming a chevron across the body. The tail is slightly off-set from the truncated body and is flat and forms …
Created on: Friday 19th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: OXON-9D2026
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast spherical iron canon ball with a diameter of 78 mm  weighing 1758 grams dating to c. AD 1550 – 1750. It is spehrical and a dark orange brown colour. It likely relates to the civil war. The size of the ball suggest that it is from a Falcon, Minion, or possible it might have been used in a larger calibre field piece, firing canister shot. The Minionis referenced at P 55 - Principal English guns of the sixteenth century - Artillery Through the Ages https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20483
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2023
Last updated: Monday 31st July 2023
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Record ID: OXON-9D1AF2
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged flint leaf-shaped arrowhead, dating from Early to Middle Neolithic - c. 4000 BC to 2700 cal BC The arrowhead is made of a tertiary flake of medium to light grey semi-glossy flint. It has been knapped into a pointed oval shape with one point being more rectangular to form a tang. Both surfaces have been worked bifacially with invasive, low angled parallel retouch on all margins and beyond towards the medial area of the arrowhead. It is a pointed oval in cross section. This form fits Butler's (2005: 123) type 1C which suggests and E…
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: OXON-452316
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near complete, looped, Middle to Late Bronze Age transitional palstave axe with medium/high flanges, and a stop ridge, dating to c.1250 to 950 cal BC. A section of the butt is missing. The butt of the axe is flat, c.23mm wide and 3.3mm thick.  The septum measures 52.7mm in length and it thickens and then narrows again towards the stop ridge from 5mm at the break across the septum.The flanges of the axe expand from the butt of the axe twoards the stop in a broadly straight line. This gives the upper and lower surfaces of the axe a sub-triangular form before the bl…
Created on: Friday 17th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2023
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Record ID: OXON-4CCCF9
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval lead alloy pilgrim badge of the Head Reliquary of Thomas Becket dating to the 14th century.  This fragment only depicts the head of the saint wearing his bishop's mitre. The mitre appears to have a textured design made of cross hatched lines with less dense cross hatching in the head band. The eyes are made of raised sub-oval borders and flank a prominent protruding triangular nose. Below this is a moulded downward pointing mouth. The reverse of the object is plain barring a prominent raised mould line running the length of it from top to bottom T…
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: WAW-6E7853
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, copper alloy zoomorphic figurine, likely of a dog and possibly of Roman date (c. AD 43-400). The surviving section of the body includes most of the hindquarters. The surviving section of body is slender and straight. The legs are facing backwards at an angle and there is a wide slot underneath the animal running from the middle of its hind legs forward, potentially so as to mount or fit the figurine onto something or to save resources. The right leg stretches backwards and ends in a sub-triangular, forward facing foot. The left leg is similar, except that most of the foo…
Created on: Wednesday 12th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 12th October 2022
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Record ID: OXON-84347A
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy socketed axehead of 'Meldreth' type. dating to the Late Bronze Age c.1150-800 cal BC. The socket of the axehead is sub-hexagonal in section with rounded edges. It has a projecting collar that is 5.6mm thick that flares outwards slightly. Below this the main body of the axe is broadly hexagonal in cross section due to diagonal facets on its front and rear faces. Below the collar the axehead is 28.3mm wide and it then expands over its length in a smooth shallow crescentic curve to 49.0mm wide at the blade wing tips.…
Created on: Friday 8th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 6th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-843111
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy developed flat axehead of Needham’s Class 3A (Type Lansdown), dating to the early Bronze Age, c. 2200-2000BC. The haft has a transverse terminal which is is sub-rectangular in cross section. From this point it widens in a smooth concave curve to its point of maximum width at its blade tips (c.46.1mm).  The blade has a crescent edge. In profile the axehead is oval shaped. widening to its middle and narrowing to its blade edge. The axehead has a proto-stop approximately half way down its length which is is straight and subtle.&…
Created on: Friday 8th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 6th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.