Record ID: WILT-23638A
Object type: OX SHOE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medeival to Post Medieval right side iron ox shoe, one of a pair, the other missing, dating to c AD 1250 - 1900.  Unlike horses, oxen have cloven or bifurcated hooves so when working, their shoes had to be made in two pieces. It is a 'comma' shape, rectangular in section. Ox shoes commonly had four piercings for attachment along the outer edge, but this one apparently has only three. One can be seen and is oval in shape, the other two retain their nails, with oval heads and rectangular section spikes. The shoe is heavily rusted but retains its shape, b…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-229241
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
13 wrought iron horseshoes dating from the 13th to 15th century (c.AD 1200-1500), with the majority dating from the 14th-15th century (c.AD 1300-1500). The shoe has three rectangular holes to each branch with worn calkins. Two T-shaped iron nails in situ, possibly of the ‘fiddle-key’ form. Ovoid countersinkings for nail heads. Length: 99.37 mm; Width: 103.22 mm; Web width: 35.72 mm. Nail holes ranging from c.4-7 mm in length. Thickness: c.6 mm. Weight: 126.51g. Clark Type 3 dated from the 13th or 14th century. The shoe has three rectangular holes to each branch with th…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bloxholm', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-1F66EF
Object type: STRIKE A LIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval iron strike-a-light ‘fire steel’ probably dating from AD 1500-1700. The 'fire steel' has a stepped rectangular body and curving square-sectioned arms which return touching the rectangular body before curving up and terminating in coils. One arm is broken and missing. Dimensions: length: 80.20mm; width: 39.14mm; thickness: 5.49mm; weight: 47.07g Other strike-a-lights on the database are OXON-EB193E, PUBLIC-1CC6C6, LON-71B542 and LON-6357F6.  Museum of London write "This strike-a-light or ‘fire steel’ was used to light a fire o…
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9FA953
Object type: HORSESHOE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval wrought iron horseshoe. The shoe is 93mm wide by 100mm long. There are three nail holes visible on each branch of the shoe, all blocked by corrosion on one branch, the other branch with two nail holes retaining a rectangular-headed iron rivet and one empty rectangular perforation where the nail is missing. The narrowed heels lack calkins but thicken slightly. The width of the web is 25mm. The metal is spalled and corroded. Cf. Clark, J. The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, p.120-123, Type 4. AD14-15th century.
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 16th September 2021
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Record ID: IOW-DD21A7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a decorative mount. The obverse face is highly decorated with intricate floral filigree, some of which retains gold gilding. The end of the mount is bent over and touches the underside of the object. The reverse face features the stamped decoration from the obverse face and the remains of several pins along the centre.
Created on: Thursday 1st July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 6th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-6690D5
Object type: STRIKE A LIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete probable Early Medieval iron firesteal or strike-a-light dating to circa AD 600-700. It consists of a flat sub-rectangular bar with a central hump and scrolled ends. The scrolled ends contain central apertures. The item is heavily corroded and no discernible decorative element is visible on each face. Other Early Medieval examples can be inlaid and decorated with stylised bird heads. The scrolled ends may be part of a zoomorphic design. The item is similar in form to LIN-EF72D9 and examples depicted in West 1998: pg 195, nos 13-15. In the record of the form it is noted…
Created on: Thursday 20th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 1st June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-E66717
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval spear dating from AD 550-600. This is an Insular, Swanton series I spear head. The spear has a slender leaf-shaped blade with a corrugated cross section and a welded socket with scribed lines encircling the point of the transverse rivet at the mouth. At the broader part contains two shallow fullers, lunate in outline,one either side of a central line. Swanton (1973:117) writes " series I and J, characterised by the incorporation of longitudinal fullering, which feature seems to have been characteristic development of certain early west Saxon forges. Most p…
Created on: Friday 14th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 6th July 2021
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Record ID: LIN-03C462
Object type: SHIELD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) iron shield grip dating to c.AD 410-600 The shield grip is now in two pieces. It consists of a rectangular flat iron strip, hammered flat with expanded terminals, which are slightly convex but irregular due to corrosion, and pierced with two rivet holes with rivets still intact. The rivets have circular heads of 14.66 mm and 16.24 mm in diameter. This piece is classified as a short grip Type 1a1 according to Dickinson and Hines as the overall length is below 160 mm (Dickinson and Hines 1992, fig 17, p. 24). This type of grip is often found …
Created on: Tuesday 26th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cammeringham area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-B0CFF2
Object type: HORSESHOE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval wrought iron horseshoe. The show is nearly complete although it is highly corroded. It is in the archetypal key show shape having a distinctly arched inner profile, and a rectangular cross section/ There is no evidence for calkins (suggesting a later Medieval date onwards) and the upper edge of the tow is bent upwards in a clip (suggesting a Post-Medieval date). One arm of the horsehose is far narrower than the other. It is possible to identify three rectangular nails holes, with the remains of corroded rectangular headed nails within on each side. The horse sho…
Created on: Monday 5th October 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th October 2020
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Record ID: LON-1D8109
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post Medieval iron knife dating from AD 1400-1900. The knife has a triangular blade attached to a tapering rectangular tang. The tang is rectangular in shape and in cross-section. The blade flares outwards slightly where it joins the tang. Dimensions: length: 177.17mm; width: 32.65mm; thickness: 9.08mm; weight: 41.78g
Created on: Tuesday 25th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2021
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Record ID: LON-D0A687
Object type: HORSESHOE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron Early Medieval to Medieval horse shoe dating from AD 900-1099. This is a Type 1 (formerly 'Pre-Conquest) horse shoe. The shoe is rounded and broad with a 'lobate' edge produced when the nail holes are countersunk. There are six nail holes three on each side with large rectangular countersinking for the nail heads. The remains of one nail with a 'T' shaped head is present. The shoe has shallow calkins which are rare on Type 1 shoes and may indicate a date contemporaneous with Type 2 shoes. An example of a Type 1 shoe with shallow calkins is in the Museum of London collection No…
Created on: Monday 4th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2020
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Record ID: OXON-A6B37E
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron knife blade with square tang, possibly Medieval to Post Medieval period.
Created on: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2019
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Record ID: DENO-FF9AB8
Object type: HORSESHOE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete iron horse shoe of late medieval to early post-medieval date (c. 1350 - c. 1700) The shoe has a broad web (46 mm at the toe, 33 mm at the heel) and is 130 mm wide. In overall shape, it matches the late medieval form described by Clark (1986, p. 3, fig. 8). Four nails are in situ in sequence on the branch of the shoe (possibly more are present on the quarter but due to corrosion of the plate surface they are not distinct). There is a calkin on the right heel, none seems to be present on the left. Assuming the calkin to protrude down towards the road surface, the whole plate …
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2018
Last updated: Friday 22nd June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Nottinghamshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-50DF28
Object type: HORSESHOE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron bevelled horseshoe, probably of late medieval date (c AD 1450 - 1550). The object is a rounded U-shape in plan with a more purely U shape inner profile and is apparently complete. It has a broad web (47.63mm), tapering along the quarter of each branch towards the heel (27.79mm). The number and location of nail holes cannot be determined due to corrosion. It is also difficult to distinguish caulkins on the heels but it is likely it has 'upset' or thickened caulkins as there is a thickening of the metal here (13.25mm).There is some wear to the toe of the shoe. The side wall at t…
Created on: Friday 23rd March 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th January 2021
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Record ID: LON-FE0BDC
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post Medieval iron tool or knife comprising a triangular blade attached to a rectangular tang which narrows to a curled pointed terminal. The tang is rectangular in shape and in cross-section. The blade is rectangular on the outside edge where it joins the tang at a 90 degrees angle. The blade thins to a jagged edge. The tool is dark grey in colour. Dimensions: 51.3mm in length, 19.4mm at its maximum width and narrows to a rounded tip.
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2021
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Record ID: SUSS-0FB851
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A complete, modern, steel and plastic, discoidal plate badge, AD.2017. The badge comprises a doubled metallic ferrous disc with an outer plastic coating on the front face. The reverse of the object is slightly concave with a raised edge. There are two circular holes in the reverse plate at opposed sides of the disc. Through these holes emerge the sprung pin and the catchplate, which is formed of a looped wire. The pin is not attached to the front plate of the badge and is, instead free moving between the two plates. There is a maker's mark stamped on to the rear of the badge 'Camaloon…
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2018
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Record ID: LON-726280
Object type: SHEARS
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to Post Medieval iron shears dating from AD 1200 - 1900. The shears consist of two blades joined by a connecting loop. Ward-Perkins Type IB similar shears are illustrated in Ward-Perkins (1940:154 fig. 47) Other shears on the database are LON-0DA665 and LON-A63816. Dimensions: length: 105.64mm; width: 21.22mm; thickness: 1.47mm; weight 12.06g. Shears are often undecorated or simply decorated and there shape changes little between the Medieval and Modern periods, therefore a broad 1200-1900 AD date is suggested.
Created on: Monday 30th October 2017
Last updated: Monday 12th October 2020
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Record ID: LON-CCEF56
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age short sword with copper alloy scabbard elements dating from 100 BC - 43 AD. The sword is corroded and missing part of the tang. Parts of the scabbard remain. The chape frame is a type a2 lobed chape end. The scabbard was approximately mm long, represented by a copper alloy plate at the mouth a copper alloy chape; the main body of the scabbard may have been of an organic material either leather or wood. The short copper alloy front plate is mm wide and mm deep, with a low campanulate mouth (about mm) high. The reverse of the plate has a iron rivet. The mouth desi…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2022
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Record ID: LANCUM-8FB2E3
Object type: HOB NAIL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman iron hobnail.
Created on: Wednesday 13th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tickencote', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-8FAE1F
Object type: HOB NAIL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman iron hobnail.
Created on: Wednesday 13th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tickencote', grid reference and parish protected.