Record ID: BH-FA3942
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A squashed and corroded copper-alloy thimble of probable late medieval or early post-medieval date. The method of manufacture for this thimble is uncertain: it appears too thin to have been cast and may have been stamped out. The top is domed and, apart from a plain band at the bottom, the outer surface is completely covered with closely-spaced rows of circular punch marks. The object measures 16.5mm high, 19.1mm wide and has walls 0.7mm thick. The weight is 3.15g.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clothall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-69C7E1
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble, dating to the late Medieval to early Post-Medieval period. The object has irregular punched circular decoration. The thimble has been crush slightly, distorting its shape. Part of the side has been torn, but is still intact. The weight given includes the soil within the thimble.
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-69A8C2
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble, probably dating to the late Medieval to Post-Medieval period. The object has been crushed flat. There is stamped or punched decoration of small circles. The crown is partially torn away from the body of the thimble, but it appears that none of the material is missing.
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-FE2AB7
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble with stamped pitting. The object is crushed nearly flat. There are no signs of turning.
Created on: Friday 30th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-416C22
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy halfpenny token. Chichester type with Queen Elizabeth on the obverse and Chichester cross on the reverse, edge plain or illegible, date illegible. Atkins Sussex Type 15 or 15a.
Created on: Wednesday 21st November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-A2A858
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pressed sheet copper alloy oval strap union and square plate, perhaps used as a book binding. The square cover plate has four rivets, two of which attach it to the folded trefoil fixing plate beneath, with a folded loop to hold the buckle. The other two rivets hold a narrow rectangular plate on the back of the cover plate. There are the remains of the leather strap, held by the rivets, between the front and both back plates. This suggests to the recorder that the object cannot be very old as organics do not survive well in the local acidic soil, unless preserved in anaerobic condition…
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-3382E2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper duit of Zeelandia, minted 1762.
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-FEB280
Object type: BOX
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 20th century military fitting. A large pentagonal copper plaque with three rivet holes. At the top of the field is a crest below which, in an arc, appear the punched letters GRENADIER GUARDS. Below this is punched 2615270 R.BUET
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-EAC6E1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very thin copper alloy mount depicting the whiskered, squinting face of a lion. The copper sheet is thin enough to have worn through on the nose of the lion. The face has most likely been formed through stamping; each feature is in distinct relief from the next. The reverse shows signs of a lead alloy solder. The edges of the mount have been torn and damaged.
Created on: Wednesday 5th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-EE9E25
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete hammered sheet copper alloy 'skep' (like a straw beehive) thimble, circular in plan and conical in profile. The thimble is punched with vertical, concentric and random small circular indentations above two incised lines around the base, as a border. The thimble has been damaged at its most weak spot, the plain, 'tonsure' (bald spot!) crown, where there is now a hole. Read (1988) illustrates two similar examples on page 76, Nos.429-430, which are dated to the 14th century.
Created on: Friday 24th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-EE75C2
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete hammered sheet copper alloy 'skep' (like a straw beehive) thimble, circular in plan and conical in profile. The thimble is punched with vertical, concentric and random small circular indentations above two incised lines around the base, as a border. The thimble has been damaged at its most weak spot, the plain, 'tonsure' (bald spot!) crown, where there is now a hole. The size of this example suggests that it might have been used by a child. Read (1988) illustrates two similar examples on page 76, Nos.429-430, which are dated to the 14th century.
Created on: Friday 24th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-1B88C5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy dix centime coin of Napoleon III, dating to 1856.
Created on: Tuesday 14th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-A4C386
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy one-piece child's thimble with flattish crown and narrow below rows of circular indentations that are alligned in continuous concentric rows. On the crown are square indentations alligned on a cross-hatched grid. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 192, No.1360, which is dated to c.1700-1750.
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-A43AA2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stamped copper alloy trade weight of Charles I (1625-1649) or Charles II (1660-1685). The weight is circular in plan and flat in section. The upper surface has a lipped rim, within which is a ring of turned parallel lines, from the die. The upper face of the weight is recessed and stamped with three motifs around a central rosette. At the 5 o’clock position there is an ewer, the Founders Company of London mark, which shows they have verified this weight. At the 11 o’clock position there is the royal cipher, a ‘C’ which is surmounted by a crown. The ‘C’ represents Charles I …
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-8E9E85
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A square, copper alloy coin weight of postmedieval date. The weight is stamped with a left-facing, bearded and laureate Roman-type bust within a circular border on the obverse; the reverse bears the Roman numerals 'XX', surmounted by a crown. It is thus clear that the weight is for 20 shillings, and it is known as a'laurel'. Coin weights of this type date to the late 16th and early 17th century. Most can be dated to between AD 1620 and 1632. L/W 17mm Th 3.9mm Mass 8.1g
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-F2A214
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sheet copper alloy mount / applique. Stamped out domed sexfoil sheet. There is no rivet hole, but there is a circle of iron staining (c. 4.5mm diameter) at the centre of the reverse indicating this was fixed to an iron object. Probably medieval c.1250-1450. Diameter 13.7mm, thickness of sheet metal c.0.3mm, overall thickness 2.9mm, weight 0.70g.
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breedon on the Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-F5C9D7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast gilt copper alloy two-piece button, circular in plan and flat in section, with a circular disc surrounded by moulded openwork decoration in the form of fourteen domed annulets, each with a border of tiny pellets. The back of the button retains its circular loop which has been soldered on as a separate piece. The upper face of the button is very corroded but the back retains some of the original gilding just inside the edge of the circular plate. Bailey (2004) illustrates two similar examples, on page 71, Figs.9.248 & 9.249, which are both dated to the 18th century.
Created on: Friday 1st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-308C26
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular mount, probably for attachment to the inside of a medieval wooden drinking bowl known as a mazer. The mount comprises a thin sheet disc with a stout central rivet on the back, inserted through a hole in the mount and flat at both ends. The mount appears to have die-punched decoration which comprises a central four-leaf motif within a cross-hatched field and a pelleted frame. Outside this is a raised thin and thick circular frame then another frame of raised pellets.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-380432
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sheet copper alloy pilgrim badge, in the shape of a smooth edged scallop shell. There are two rows of dots running across the ribs of the shell – at least three of these dots (two in the centre, and one to the left on the top row) are pierced to allow the badge to be sewn onto cloth. A fourth on the right side may also be pierced. Weight 13.74g.
Created on: Monday 16th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 15th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-B96F52
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Trade weight of Charles I or II. The object is a bronze disc with a raised edge. At the twelve o'clock position on the obverse is a 'London dagger' with C topped by a crown to the left and an A (avoirdupois) to the right. One further design at the six o'clock position is hard to distinguish but is probably an ewer.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.