Record ID: SUR-D16A10
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman bone hair pin dating to c.  AD 50 - 250 (cf. Greep type A2.2 / Crummy type 2). The terminal has broken at a ridged collar, but was possibly conical (see LON-03A984, LON-77DEB3 and LON-68D0FE etc). The shaft has a circular cross section tapering to a triangular point.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
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Record ID: DENO-F263CA
Object type: EAR SCOOP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete post medieval bone toilet implement dating to the 16th century, possibly an ear scoop dating to c. AD 1550 - 1650. It has been carved from a single small animal bone, with the wide end formed into a small scoop above two curved indents forming shoulders. This is  cut into the main stem on either side, and the other narrower end formed into a point, again with two smaller curved indents below it. The general condition is good with slight chipping along the edges. Length 73.2 mm, width 9.7 mm, thickness 4.6 mm and weight 2.28 g.
Created on: Monday 13th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
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Record ID: LON-34929C
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible incomplete Post Medieval bone hat pin dating from 19th century. The remaining pin consist of the head only. The head is circular in plan and is decorated on both sides with six evenly spaced radiating grooves around central circular hole where the pin stem would have attached. Dimensions: diameter: 18.47mm; thickness: 1.87mm; weight: 1.87g
Created on: Monday 19th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: LON-78B66F
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval to early post-medieval bone rosary bead dating from AD 1450-1550. The bead is a memento mori type with a forward facing young female bust on one side probably depicting Maria (Mary) and on the other side a skull to ‘remember thy mortality’. The female figure is wearing late Medieval fashion consisting of a wimple, the cloth headdress covering the head, neck, and the sides of the face. The bead is pierced vertically with a central perforation for suspension on a rosery. After Queen Elizabeth I (…
Created on: Thursday 24th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-AE4AD2
Object type: ANIMAL REMAINS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large mammal tooth. Molar of a large mammal; horse or cow are the most likely. Possibly food waste. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 43-1850 Length: 55mm, Weight: 34.49gms
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cockerington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-ADB2C5
Object type: OYSTER SHELL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Oyster shell. The bottom half of an edible oyster shell. A seafood diet was introduced or expanded under Roman rule, when British oysters acquired an empire-wide reputation. Oysters remained as a common foodstuff into the early post-medieval period, their availability probably only declining with environmental degradation in industrial times – though Viking Age York contrived to pollute its waterways to an extent which altered the local faunal range significantly. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Medieval, 43-1500 Length: 70.5mm, Weight (with adherent soil): 33.69gms
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cockerington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-33C715
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete bone toggle of uncertain date, possibly Romano-British (100 BC - AD 100), but it could also be later, up to about 1950. It is a cylindrical bone, probably a bird bone, shaped into a tube that is swollen in the centre and waisted at each end. A circular hole perforates the swollen area. The surface is smooth and polished. Length: 41.77mm Thickness: 9.63mm Weight: 2.77g This object was found at a site that has been excavated and which produced Neolithic to Romano-British finds which are now housed in Craven Museum. However…
Created on: Monday 19th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-07923E
Object type: NEEDLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete bone needle, potentially of Roman date. The needle is made from the exterior of a long bone, with a flat cross section and with one side smooth and finished and the other retaining the spongey surface of the bone's interior, which has been partially polished with the high points smoothed. The wider end has a narrow rectangular eye, 5.6mm in length and an incomplete spatulate terminal. The other end tapers to a break.
Created on: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-071FBE
Object type: DIE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post Medieval die carved from bone or antler, with faces around 7mm wide and drilled spots of c.1mm diameter. Circa 16th-17th century, most probably of Elizabethan or Jacobean date.
Created on: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-8675FD
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A canine tooth from a wolf or dog which has been drilled for suspension through the root. The tooth is complete, 41.8mm in length and has wear to the tip suggesting that the animal it came from was relatively old. The drilled hole is 3mm in diameter. There is no decoration or other working.
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 24th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-61AC2C
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an object, possibly produced in bone. Possibly a bodkin dating from the Post-Medieval period, c. AD 1600-1800. The fragment is sub-rectangular in plan and rounded sub-rectangular in section. At either end of the fragment there are worn breaks. At one end there is a pair of grooves. One of which runs around the full object while the other runs around one side, the edges but does not meet on the other side. The fragment has a surface which resembles other bone objects recorded by the PAS. It is dark brown and appears slightly porous. It measures 35.52mm in lengt…
Created on: Friday 9th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-8FB900
Object type: WEFT BEATER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worked bone probable weft beater (or pin beater) of Early Medieval to Medieval date, about AD 700 - 1200, or another similar pointed tool such as a stylus. It is a straight piece of bone, sub-rectangular in plan and oval in cross-section. One end is a worn break. The other end tapers to a blunt central point. The surface is worn and smooth, suggesting age, weathering or prolonged use, but it is not polished. It is 60.7mm long, 11.8mm wide and 8.2mm thick. 6.1g. Compare NMS-ED44EE and BUC-CAACD6 which cite  Rogers, P. W. 1997. Textile Production at 1…
Created on: Sunday 11th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: LON-1AFB56
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval ivory knife handle dating from AD 1768. The remaining knife consists of the two scales from a scale tang 'pistol grip' knife. The scales have eight iron rivets securing the handle to the scale tang. Both sides are decorated with inlayed silver annulets. The annulets are arranged to read [P]ETER 6 // 8 IOHNSON, the name is probably the owner of the knife (Peter Johnson) the 6 and 8 represent the year 1768. The knife was found with the iron elements heavily corroded, part of which is sill attached to inside of the scales. Knives with this style of…
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2023
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2024
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Record ID: LON-9AC4F5
Object type: PARCHMENT PRICKER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post Medieval bone parchment-pricker dating to the 13th-16th century. The shaft has a circular cross-section and tapers towards the tip, which is socketed to accommodate the iron tip. At the opposite end the stylus would have been carved terminal this is broken and missing. There is a series of five incised lines around the shaft of the stylus at the terminal end. The parchment pricker is a mid-dark brown in colour. Dimensions: length: 59.46mm; width: 5.74mm; weight: 2.32g. These objects were in use throughout the medieval period though most p…
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-B6FAEA
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large bone pin, probably a hairpin and of Roman or potentially later date. The pin is 136.7mm in length with sub circular cross section and tapers from a rounded end, 7.2mm in diameter, to a point which has broken off. There is no decoration and the terminal is not pierced, marked or worked in any diagnostic way.
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-7A0116
Object type: TUNING PEG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval bone tuning peg probably dating from AD 1200 - 1500. The tuning peg has a sub-circular sectioned shank with a perforation at one end, through which the instrument string would have passed. At the opposite end the cross-section changes to a sub-rectangular shape approximately 12mm from the end. The tuning peg has a light tan patina and the dimensions are; length 49.9mm, width 7.4mm, thickness 5.9mm and weight 3.0g. LON-9337E9 cites that similar tuning pegs are published in MacGregor (1985:147) and MacGregor, Mainman & Rogers (1999:1978) where they note that a key would h…
Created on: Monday 29th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
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Record ID: LON-A203FA
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval bone zoomorphic toilet implement dating to the 16th century. The remaining part consists of the decorative head and stem. The terminal has been decoratively carved to depict a three dimensional head of a unicorn. Part of the horn is broken and missing. The neck is curved, and is decorated with five diagonal engraved lines on either side, representing a mane. Where the animal connects to the stem is an elaborate collar consisting of a plain band, a concave section expanding to a middle band with two incised groves, a second conca…
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-CC33A1
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval bone gaming piece for the game 'dominos' or 'dominoes', probably dating to the 18th-19th century. The piece is 24.6mm long, with an incised line across the width of the centre on one side. There are no marks of value to each side of this line, suggesting that the piece is either unfinished or represents a double blank (i.e. a "wild" in the game).
Created on: Friday 2nd February 2024
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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Record ID: LON-806576
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Medieval to early Post-Medieval bone rosary bead dating from AD 1450-1550. The bead is a memento mori type with a forward facing male head and on the other side a skull to ‘remember thy mortality’. The male figure is bearded and probably depicts the Head of Christ. The bead is pierced vertically with a central perforation for suspension on a rosary. After Queen Elizabeth I (AD 1558-1603) was formally excommunicated by Pope Pius V legislation was passed in 1571 to finally outlaw rosaries in Eng…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-B6BCCD
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman bone gaming counter dating from AD 43-410. The counter is decorated with three shallow concentric rings on the upper surface, around a central circular depression. The reverse is undecorated. This decoration was possibly produced through turning on a lathe. The edges are bevelled outwards. Measurements are; length 17.7mm, width 11.9mm, thickness 2.8mm and weight 0.86g. Nearly half of the counter is missing. Similar examples have been recorded on the database particularly from the London area including LON-CCA86B and LON-57967B which cite published re…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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