Record ID: HAMP-AAAF61
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead bag seal from Portsmouth (c. 18/19th century). The artefact is sub-circular. It would have had a central recess through which a cord would have passed. It is stamped on both faces with motifs in low relief. One face has lettering across its centre surmounted by a crown and with a rose below. The letters are obscured as a result of corrosion but appear to read '?G POST?' The other face has the word 'PORTS[M]OUTH' within a circular border with a central motif, indistinct but sub square in form. On this face a lip has been formed to one side. The artefact has corrode…
Created on: Thursday 4th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-7A15D4
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably incomplete lead-alloy bag seal of modern date (c. 19th century). The artefact is sub-rectangular. It is stamped on both faces with motifs in low relief, both set at a slight diagonal angle from the sides of the object. One face depicts a cow (bull) standing left with a calf (or sheep) before it, all within a double border. The other side contains an elaborate monogram, seemingly reading 'LME Co' (or 'MLE Co'), also within a double border. Such a company has not been traced, but it can be suggested that it supplied animal feed. Two identical objects have been recorded on…
Created on: Wednesday 9th September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Selborne CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-473505
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead seal of Roman date. Roger Tomlin (pers. comm.) points out that the majority of rectangular seals are legionary in origin (see Tomlin, Frere and Roxan eds. 1990, p. 93-100); however, the legend on this piece (see below) does not have an obvious military connection and must therefore be classified as 'miscellaneous'. The seal consists of a sub-rectangular block which appears to have been cut from a strip. It is unclear as to how the seal would have operated, as it lacks a hole for the chord to pass through. The legend has been deeply stamped into the surface, the letters themse…
Created on: Saturday 31st January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upton Grey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-60AB75
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet copper-alloy end-cap from a medieval scale-tang knife. The object is sub-oval in shape with protrusions at each narrow end. There is a slight groove as the protrusions begin with transverse filing on the upper surface. The central rectangular slot has rounded corners. In profile the object is arched into a 'U' shape. It now has a largely dark green patina with some iron staining on the lower surface. Such end-caps tend to be given a 15th-century date.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penton Mewsey CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-0F1686
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal of four-disc form, stamped on the inner discs, with the initial of the alnager: 'S' surrounded by the word 'HAMPSHIRE' inside a raised ring border: the other disc is stamped with a bird within a shield, which is in turn also within a ring border. The bird has a hooked beak and bells on its legs, above the claws, suggesting that it is meant to portray a hawk or a bird of prey. This seal dates from the 17th century (Geoff Egan pers comm).
Created on: Thursday 23rd October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-0EA871
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stamped lead cloth seal of four-disc form: Disc 1: a tripartite motif with the number 24 below, which is presumably the length of the cloth in yards as measured. Disc 2: the initials of the alnager: TB to the sides of a flower (perhaps a pun on the surname - ? = Bloom/Blossom etc.) surrounded by a ring of pellets, with the legend 'HAMSHIRE' around the outside. Disc 3: a crowned heraldic rose. Disc 4: 'searched' written as SER/CHE/D. This seal dates from the 17th century, c.1600-1650 (Geoff Egan pers comm).
Created on: Thursday 23rd October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-DA5021
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged lead-alloy seal probably from a post-medieval bag. The object is decorated unifacially, with a device stamped in low relief within a circular border. The device may represent a pair of keys in saltire (cross keys), or alternatively the sails of a windmill (cf. tokens illustrated in Fletcher 2005, 75). The object has been squashed from both sides such that it is now sub-circular in plan and uneven in profile.
Created on: Tuesday 21st October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-9BA747
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 19th century button belonging to the City of Winchester. The name of the city surrounds a coat of arms.
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-DFF656
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A clip or clamp made from thin sheet metal, now rather corroded. The object comprises a rounded cylindrical clip with a series of transverse corrugations wrapping around the body. In the centre of the two opposing sides is a pair of rounded lobes each pierced with a single circular hole for a rivet, evidentally to secure the clamp.
Created on: Wednesday 16th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-32C363
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post-medieval lead cloth seal of 17th-century date. This two-disc seal is of a type associated with imports from Haarlem in the Netherlands of a fine linen known in England as 'holland' (Egan 1994, 110; ref. 321). Disc 1 bears a moulded shield with the city arms: sword erect, four mullets to sides, cross potent in chief. Only part of the common inscription, 'HAERLEMS GOET' ('goods from Haarlem'), is on a disc seemingly too small for the stamp (at Dia. 18.6mm). Of the same diameter is disc 2 (formed by rivet head). It bears the numeral '20' in relief within a beaded circle; c…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-D35357
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Not strictly a trade token, this appears to be a lead 'disc' bearing the impression of one. The 'flan' is irregularly shaped, crudely trimmed, and of varying thicknesses: 2.85mm - 1.05mm. The token appeared to be related to a public house (the 'Hart'), although its location remains unconfirmed. Undated, this artefact is attributed the general range for trade tokens (c. 1648 - 1672 AD) as it would be most likely contemporary with token usage, albeit a later date cannot be ruled out.
Created on: Monday 11th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-BB4F16
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy cruciform mount probably of post-medieval to modern date. Specifically of the cross-crosslet form, the mount has openwork squares between the cross' arms. It is seemingly pressed from thin sheet metal and the edges of the mount are turned over from the upper surface to the lower. The upper surface bears a decorative border created from punched dots following the shape of the cross. Central on the reverse are probable traces of the solder which would have held a central rivet in place. The mount has suffered from some bending as a result probably of post-depositional d…
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-2040D7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead two-piece cloth (alnage) seal of post-medieval date. It is formed of two discs linked by a loop. One of the discs is decorated on its upper surface by a large fleur-de-lys moulded in low relief within a raised border.
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-020012
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small medieval copper-alloy thimble of sheet construction. The thimble is domed with a ?pointed top (H.: c. 11mm); it has been squashed both from the side and the top. The small, circular drilled pits begin at the top, the uppermost part of which is bare, and continue in a continuous spiral to the base in a regular fashion. The thinness of this cast thimble might suggest that it was used for light duty work. The bare circular patch on top of the thimble, or 'tonsure', indicates a relatively early date; similar early thimbles are often dated to the 14th or 15th centuries (Holmes 1988…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-3BBDA1
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and corroded copper-alloy bracelet of late Roman date. The artefact is sub-rectangular with a rectangle with rounded corners form in cross-section. It has been bent and slightly twisted as a result of old damage. The bracelet is decorated unifacially using multiple motifs. Bracelets decorated using different motifs have been found in this country and on the continent (see for example Crummy (1983, 46; fig. 47), Swift (2000, 154; fig. 192)). This example begins indistinctly due to wear, after which is a transverse ridge. Between this latter and a second transverse ri…
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-8EC018
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy thimble of medieval date. The thimble is made of stamped, sheet metal and is domed with a central hole. It has drilled pits of varying sizes in roughly vertical rows. There are two engraved lines around the base. The thimble is worn, corroded and slightly distorted. The dimensions of the base vary from 14.91mm to 16.04mm. The thickness varies from 0.79mm to 1.03mm. A similar example can be found illustrated in Egan 1998 (266; ref. 824).
Created on: Friday 21st April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Exton CP', grid reference and parish protected.