Record ID: BERK-CF5653
Object type: STOUP (BASIN)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval stone (sandstone) decorative carving, Professor Rosemary Cramp suggests it is a fragment of a holy water stoup or piscina(11th-12th century). The fragment is curved and includes the upper finished edge. The internal diameter of the complete object would have measured approximately 60mm and about 30 percent of the total diameter remains. The outer surface has been decorated with carved three-dimensional figures in high relief, the figures represent apostles or saintly figures. Fragments of two figures remain and they are different. Both are bearded with simple lentoid eyes an…
Created on: Monday 24th April 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 25th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-0E2784
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very fine early medieval polished whetstone pendant, made from a light black stone. There is a suspension hole at the top which has been pierced fom both sides to give a clean even finish. There are numerous shallow linear scores visible on both sides of the whetstone. This whetstone was probably used for the final finishing sharpening rather than the initial sharpening. The whetstone measures 76.50mm long, 13.91mm wide and 6.89mm thick. It weighs 15 grams.
Created on: Thursday 11th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BERK-616AB5
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The upper half of a stone rotary quern. Sally Worrell has discounted it being either Iron Age or Roman. Ottaway & Rogers (2002:2799) state that rotary querns were used widely during the middle and later Saxon periods but that prohibition during the 12th century resulted in the decline of their use. No exact parallel was found for this quernstone to assist with dating it further. It is circular with angular/squared off edges; in the centre is an elongated circular perforation(the perforation has been worn at opposite points creating two worn semi-circular projections from the main c…
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thatcham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: BERK-BF8163
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
These items form part of a collection of 60 sherds of Roman and Medieval pottery and other finds that were submitted for identification in November 2009. The two whetstones that were submitted are, like the nails very hard to date without contextual information. Whetstones have been in use for many hundreds of years. On whetstone is perforated, probably for suspension; this practice was not common during the Roman period. These whetstones may date anywhere from the post Roman period (AD 410) into the post-medieval period.
Created on: Wednesday 18th August 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 18th August 2010
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