LVPL-34FE36: COIN
A gold Gallo-Belgic E type stater attributed to the Ambiani tribe, minted c. 60 BC-c. 50 BC. Obverse: Mound. Reverse: Celticised horse galloping right, disjointed lines and pellets above. (ABC 16). Ref.: Van Arsdell 1989: 70, cf. no. 52-1. Dimensions: 17.8mm diameter, 2.8mm thick; weight: 5.99g.
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SF-68ADE9: COIN
An Iron Age gold uninscribed stater of the Iceni/East Anglian region 'Norfolk wolf' left type dating to circa 50-20 BC. Obverse:Wreath, cloak and crescents. Reverse: Wolf left, [jaws open], bird motif on back and pellets above, pellet and pellet triad below. As ABC p. 78, no. 1399; VA 610-613; MC 218-278.
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WILT-D87397: COIN
A gold post medieval double crown of James I dating to AD1604-1619. IACOBVS D G MA' BR[IT] FRA HIB REX depicting a crowned bust (fifth bust) facing right. The coin has been bent and is damaged. HENRICVS ROSAS REGNA IACOBVS reverse type depicting a crowned square shield with I R on either side. Mint of London. North (1991) vol 2, p 145, North 2088/2089.
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PUBLIC-04B91F: COIN
A gold Iron Age quarter stater of the North Thames region / Catuvellauni, attributed to Tasciovanus, dating to the period c.20 BC-AD 10, Tasciovanos Verlamion type. Obverse: Crossed wreaths, one curved, with back to back crescents at centre, the legend V-E-R-L in the angles of the cross. Reverse: Horse left, bucranium above, the legend T-AS-C below (T before horse, AS below, C below tail). cf. ABC p. 129, no. 2598; Sills, 2017: p. 563, nos. 524-525, Class 4b. Measurments :- Diameter 11.94mm , Thickness 1.92mm, Weight 1.5g

PUBLIC-89571D: COIN
A gold one third guinea of George III (AD 1760-1820) dated AD 1797. Obverse: First laurel head, GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA. Reverse: Royal crown, MAG.BRI.FR.ET.HIB.REX.1797 SPINK coins of England 2018 (53rd Edn.), p.423, ref.378 Diameter: 17.28mm, Weight: 2.76gms

PUBLIC-F8B44A: COIN
A complete Iron Age gold quarter stater. Maybe an Gallo-Belgic 'boat-tree' quarter stater of the Morini, dating to the period c.80-c.60 BC. c.f. ABC 40; LT 8611: DT 249; VA 69-1; Ev. E10. Weight: 1.45gms. Length: 12.55mm. Width: 10.55mm. Thickness: 1.89mm

SF-742999: JEWELLERY
Description: A complete Bronze Age gold item of jewellery dating to circa 2,300-800 BC. Now flattened and squashed, the piece is comprised of a cylindrical piece of sheet metal folded in on itself multiple times. The join is overlapping rather than soldered. The external face of the object is decorated with incised horizontal grooves running around the circumference. They cover the entire length of the piece. Length: 15.7mm; Width: 5.6mm; Thickness: 2.4mm; Weight: 0.60g. Discussion: The piece was likely used as an item of jewellery most likely a bead. It is similar to other objects on the database recorded as beads such as 2019T513 (GLO-FE959E), 2019T316 (LEIC-47D0C2) and 2018T876 (SF-AC2907). Their use as beads on a necklace is well illustrated by a complete example in the British Museum (BM 1853,0926.2). Similarly formed beads are also pictured by Armbruster (2021: 133, fig 138-9) which are suggested in Britain to date from the earliest Bronze Age (ibid: 131) to the end of the Bronze Age (ibid: 132) with those in France tending to be primarily Late Bronze Age (see Eluère 1982, 30-31, 168-171). However, stylistically, it has much in common with other Bronze Age sheet metal gold objects often recorded as ribbons including 2021T434 (LEIC-28D5B5), 2007T672 (WAW-C0C0B3) and 2012T577 (ESS-C13B97) attributed to the Early Bronze Age. An Early Bronze Age date would be supported by an in-context that was found from The Hamel, Oxford (Palmer 1980) in a layer which also yielded Beaker pottery dating to the late 3rd -early 2nd millennium BC. One further example on the database has also been found in a hoard from Cornwall 2020T222 (CORN-705C14) which has been dated to the Penard phase (c.1275-1150 cal BC following Roberts et al. 2013). Consequently, a broad Early to Late Bronze Age date is suggested here. Conclusion: The object contains a minimum of 10% of precious metal and is over 300 years old. As a result, in terms of both age and precious metal content, it satisfies the criteria for Treasure under the terms of the Treasure Act 1996. Authors: Dr Phil Hughes, SSCAS, November 2022. With contributions by Dr Edward Caswell, Finds Liaison Officer, Oxfordshire References: Armbruster, B.R. (2021) Les ors de l’Europe atlantique à l’âge du bronze: technologie et ateliers. Mémoire LIV. Chauvigny, Association des publications chauvinoises. Eluere, C. (2000) Les Ors préhistoriques en France - T2: Tome 2, Les ors préhistoriques. Paris, PICARD. Palmer, N. (1980) 'A Beaker Burial and Medieval Tenements in the Hamel, Oxford', Oxoniensia, XLV 124-225

BM-9A7DD8: SWORD
Crumpled gold foil pommel cap ornamented with C scrolls executed in beaded filigree wire. The pommel cap is badly damaged with both ends crushed and distorted and the filigree ornament on one face missing. The surviving filigree is well made filling the surviving panel with a balanced pattern of graded pairs of loops with spiralled ends enclosing a central motif of an inverted ‘C’ scroll lying back to back with a kidney shaped element executed with two beaded filigree wires. The panel is enclosed by a border of filigree wire, of a heavier weight than the ornament, which is set on a narrow fillet of gold sheet. The one end that survives in fair condition is filled with two lengths of beaded wire placed vertically and graded to fit the slope of the cap. In the field between these is a single surviving filigree rosette. The interior of the cap is empty. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis at the British Museum indicated a gold content of an approximately 89%.

NMS-2745FE: COIN HOARD
Two quarter nobles found very close together. One is of Edward III, the other of Henry V. They surely represent part of a hoard or purse loss. Some wear as well as scuffing is evident and we might suppose a date of loss or depostion at some point in the mid-15th century. Catalogue Edward III, quarter noble, Treaty Series, North 1243, weight 1.44g (clipped), 1363-9 Henry V, quarter noble, Class C, North 1382, weight 1.72g, 1413-22

NMS-415C35: PENDANT
Description: Gold pendant, of roughly circular shape, made from small pieces of gold sheet soldered together. The centre is formed of a square foil collet set set upon a base of spiral-coiled gold wire and set with a stone, probably a rock crystal. Around this were originally four similar rectangular collets set with what are probably garnets, forming a cross shape. One collet is missing entirely, another is missing its setting, but two adjacent collets survive complete. In the angles of these collets are elaborate fleurs-de-lis manufactured from strips of sheet gold set on edge, forming cells; slightly smaller but similarly made fleurs project from the external side of each of the garnet-set collets. The cells originally contained a pale blue-grey material, possibly enamel, but this is now missing from most cells. One of the smaller fleurs has had its upper petal expanded to form a suspension loop with hole from front to back; in this is linked a more solid gold loop which in turn is looped to a much smaller flimsy loop of gold foil. At the opposite end of the pendant, what would have been the bottom, the outer metal has similarly been expanded to form a loop; presumably something, perhaps a pearl, was originally suspended from this loop, but it is now missing. The back is undecorated save for a gold strip encircling the perimeter which serves to strengthen the whole. The pendant is buckled to one side of the central collet and bent back upon itself. Dimensions: In its bent state, 27 x 23mm. It weighs 5.78g. Discussion: Similar to a dress ornament from Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire (BERK-247489, 2002T131) which has no suspension loop and which is thought to have been stitched to the clothing. This also has pale inlays, thought to be glass, in cells forming fleurs-de-lis; it also has loops around the edge for further ornaments to be suspended. Date: 16th century.

NMS-453EDD: COIN
A gold Roman solidus of Magnentius (AD 351-353), dating to the period c.AD 351 (Reece period 18). VICTORIA AVG LIB ROMANOR• reverse type depicting Victory right holding palm over left shoulder, Libertas standing left holding transverse sceptre, both of them holding the shaft of a trophy between them. Mint of Aquileia. As RIC VIII, p. 327, no. 137. Weight 4.27g.

PUBLIC-8766BF: COIN
An Iron Age gold quarter stater of the North Thames region / Trinovantes, attributed to Addedomaros, dating to the period c.45-25 BC, Addedomaros Flower type. Obverse: Flower of seven petals around a ring, a single pellet between each, on a plain field. Reverse: Horse right with pellet in ring motifs above, below and in front. As ABC no. 2526, BMC no. 2416. Measurements :- Diameter 12.61mm, thickness 1.18mm weight 1.5g

NMS-CE9491: COIN
Medieval gold quarter noble of Edward III dating to the period AD 1363 - 1369 (Treaty Series B). Mint of London. See: North, Vol. II, p. 56, no. 1243.

NMS-7A5CA5: FINGER RING
Description: Gold late medieval to early post-medieval finger-ring. It has a rectangular bezel with a raised collet containing a clear grey glass or gem setting, possibly rock crystal. The gem is table-cut and has lost three large chips along one side. The walls of the collet are bent around the gem to hold it in place. They rise from a slightly wider collar decorated with a longitudinal groove. Below this is a larger groove, and then below is the wider base of the bezel which is decorated with a series of transverse (vertical) grooves running around the edge to give a ribbed effect. The shoulders project from either side of the gently domed bottom of the bezel, and taper from a width of 3mm to 2.1mm at the bottom of the hoop. Each shoulder is triangular or D-shaped in cross-section and engraved with a series of cross-hatched grooves with an eight-pointed star below. The hoop is complete, but now bent out of shape. Dimensions: Extant diameter (excluding bezel) 23.1mm (internal diameter 20.5mm), height 27.5mm, maximum width 8.2mm, minimum width 2.1mm, weight 3g. Discussion: Similar examples from the Cheapside jeweller’s hoard have similar bezels housing cut gems, including a cut sapphire setting (No. A14245) and a table cut diamond (No. A14244), both attributed to the late 16th – early 17th century. The decoration on the shoulders of this example points to a potentially slightly earlier date range. A number of finger-rings of similar form have been reported as Treasure and are recorded on the PAS database, including DUR-6A98C8 (2014 T628) and DOR-5CF698 (2013 T888), both of which have been dated to the 15th or 16th centuries. Date: c. AD 1400 - 1600.

PUBLIC-D95806: LOCKET
The backplate of a late post medieval gold locket. The remaining part of the locket is made from thin gold sheet. The outer face of the backplate has a stamped floral design with continuous leaf pattern around the edge which develop in five places as defined leaves towards the centre around an open lily type flower. There is a very small amount of copper alloy wire protruding from the rim which may have originally been part of the inside of a loop for hanging the locket or may just have provided a rigid inner framework for the edge of the backplate. On the inside the thin gold sheet is folded over and pressed down to form a complete seal. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1775-1900

NMS-FD505B: COIN
Gold stater of the Trinovantes, Rudd's so-called Waldingfield type, Ancient British Coinage 2335, weight 6.31g, circa 50-30BC

ESS-E11C7A: MOUNT
Gold sheet mount with applied filigree and granulation ornament on the upper surface. The sheet is an irregular discoid shape which flares slightly on one side to incorporate space for a pierced hole, probably for attachment. The remains of at least two more pierced holes survive around the edge of the sheet, spaced at 12, 6 and 9 o'clock (as photographed). The upper surface is decorated with an applied, serrated-band filigree design contained within a circular outer border. It comprises four separate U-shaped motifs with outward-turning spiral terminals, the bottom of the U facing inwards towards the centre of the disc. The negative spaces between the filigree motifs are filled with approximately 42 small gold granules. The back of the sheet is plain, and the mount is slightly bent and distorted.

ESS-7EF877: COIN
A gold half noble of Edward III (AD1327-1377), dating AD 1361-69. The obverse depicts the king standing facing forward in a ship. He is crowned and armoured, holding a sword in right hand and a shield of England and France in left hand. The inscription reads EDWARD DEI GRA REX ANGL DNS HYB Z AQT. The reverse depicts a floriated cross with a fleur-de-lys at the end of each arm and an ornamented compartment containing the kings initials (e) in the centre. In each angle is a lion passant, guardant with a crown above. all is within a tressure of eight arches. The inscription reads DOMINE NE IN FURORE TUO ARGUAS ME. North no. 1238. Dimensions: diameter: 26.87 mm; weight: 3.75g.

NMS-3D4D78: COIN
Gold quarter stater of the Iceni, Rudd's so-called Mossop Mystery type, ABC 1486, weight 0.99g, late first century BC/early 1st century AD

ESS-CF88B6: BROOCH
A gold annular brooch dating to the Medieval period. The frame is circular in plan and 'D' shaped in section (flat back, curving front) with two opposed oval collets which taper towards the top, both now empty but once would have contained a cabochon stone. The pin is 'D' shaped in section (flat back, curved front) and is looped around a narrowing in the frame. A flanged transverse ridge is present on the upper face at either side of the narrowing for the pin. A rounded and segmented collar is present just after the loop and the pin tapers in width to the rounded end. The pin rest is formed from a separate lozengiform plate soldered to the frame and decorated as a quatrefoil flower. Separate soldered arms spring from either side of the pin rest and either side of the narrowing for the pin, and rise to meet the sides of the collets. Each arm forms a decorative stem before splitting to enclose the collet, meeting the opposing arm. Each split end terminates in two trefoil leaves. There are multiple tiny engraved lines around the edges of the leaves and a median groove on each of the upper leaves, and the edges of the leaves have been slightly angled in places to create three dimensional, natural-looking foliage. The reverse is plain. The brooch has been damaged and the frame is now cracked at the lower collet. The collet has been bent inwards and down. One arm is lost entirely and only the leaf terminals survive attached to the collet. A very similar but complete example has been recorded on the PAS database through the Treasure Act; NMS-F42931 / 2014 T148. Dimensions: 24.5mm in length, 24.3mm in width, 9.9mm in thickness and weighs 4.02g.

SF-CE9D94: MOUNT
Description: An incomplete gold possible decorative mount of possible Roman or Anglo-Saxon date. It is rectangular in shape and now distorted and bent with one end being folded over backwards and a longitudinal dent across the centre of the front face. The front face of the object is decorated beaded filigree ornament. There is a beaded wire strand of filigree along both of the long edges of the object and a vertical strand across the centre, dividing the front face of the object into two halves. Both halves are decorated identically with small beaded filigree annulets around the edges and a pair of beaded strands of filigree, each with scrolled terminals at either end. The back face is undecorated Dimensions: 32.65mm in length and 20.92mm in width, 7.33g in weight. Discussion: No parallel could be found for this object, but stylistically it could potentially be Roman or Anglo Saxon in date.

New British G quarter stater; see P de Jersey, SNC Sept. 1993, p. 236-237.

Obverse stylized head/wreath in typical British L/Q style; rev. double-tailed horse right, four pellets above, others around; pellet border below horse. Provenances suggest N Thames attribution. See also 92.0277, 231, 93.0895.

Obverse four-spoked wheel at centre, four lines out to pellet in ring motifs; between each pair, teardrop motif with bar across top; pellet borderight Reverse horse right, on branchlike exergual line; possibly ring of pellets above. Trin. or Icenian?

Obverse plain except for striations (intentional?). Reverse horse right, oval below tail, many pellets above. Reverse has parallels to the new British G quarter staters (eg 94.0478 etc.).

CCI-95343: COIN
Crude version of uninscribed Norfolk quarter stater; obverse seems to have face, on offstruck die (see 92.0484). Reverse horse right, only body and parts of legs visible. See 95.1075 etc.

New British G quarter type.

British G type quarteright

CCI-01232: COIN
British G type quarteright

CCI-01421: COIN
British G type quarteright

Obverse large ringed pellet at centre, stylized wreath across flan and two pelleted leaves, ring in each; other ?rings in quarters. Reverse open-headed horse left, double upper front legs, ringed pellet above. Cf Snettisham types for obverse.

New Clacton quarter stateright

New Clacton quarter type.

Obverse worn ""three men in a boat"" design. Reverse highly stylized development of British O type reverse.

British G quarter, new type.

New Clacton (British G) quarter stateright

ESS-F66F70: COIN
Iron Age gold coin: Probably a British QC uninscribed quarter stater. Hobbs p71 no 478ff.

ESS-BC70A5: COIN
British Eastern (Trinovantes) Iron Age gold quarter stater of Cunobelin. Wild type, VA 1935-1. Dating 10-40AD.

SF-4EA2B2: COIN
North Thames (Catuvellauni/Trinovantes). Gold stater of Cunobelin (Biga type).

SF-51AC07: COIN
East Anglia (Iceni). Gold stater, Freckenham type. The gold has a variable colour, mainly slightly reddish but with some patches much yellower. BM 3386-3388.

SF-F8EA61: COIN
Small hammered circular piece, apparently a Merovingian continental tremissis, of 7mm diameter and 2.8mm thickness, plain on one face but struck on the other with the motif of a double cross, formed of a single vertical strokes with two crossing bars or, if viewed at 90 degrees, like an H with a single horizontal stroke and two vertical bars. Both tips of each bar are swollen into an irregular enlargement flat above but expanded at either side, somewhat like a heart-shape. Each stroke of the motif is approximately 4.2mm long suggesting that the die was formed by three strokes into the matrix each made with a single blow from the same cutting or impressing tool. Around this central double-cross motif is a ring formed of a series of pellets spaced 1mm apart, linked by a connecting bar into a circle. As the strike is not central, part of the ring is missing, but as there are six pellets in the visible sector, which describes a full semicircle corresponding approximately with the arm-ends of the single stroke axis of the central motif, it appears that there were originally ten pellets thus linked to form the ring. The rim of the flan is irregularly-shaped, showing bumps caused by the initial casting of the flan or by secondary hammering. This little coin is very unusual. A single example occurred in the famous Crondall hoard, the primary source of knowledge about the earliest English shillings usually ascribed to Kent or London, dating to 616-640, the reign following AEthelbert I. The Crondall example is given by Metcalf, Thrymsas and Sceattas Volume I, Plate 3, Item 73, together with two plain items of gold of the same size, from the same hoard, all weighing in the vicinity of 1.29-1.3 grams, as does the present Sudbourne example. Metcalf calls them 'Possibly Anglo-Saxon'. They may also be compared very closely with the example found near Coddenham, Suffolk, in association with a group of the (later) pale gold thrymsas including the hand and cross portrait type, the two emperors type, the Pada types and the Desaiona types. It is extraordinary that the two outstanding known group finds of thrymsas should both include an example of this rare type, despite the difference of their date horizons, but the fact leaves no doubt that the present Sudbourne object belongs firmly in a mid seventh century numismatic context, and reinforces its known distribution in south-eastern Suffolk. Sudbourne falls closely within the region of intensive high-status activity in the 7th century associated with Rendlesham, Butley, Sutton Hoo, Iken (St Botolph) and Snape. Increasingly the view must be that this entire domain was in active use during the 'high' phase of Wuffing activity from Raedwald down to Ealdwulf (664-713) and AElfwald (713-749). Parts of Sudbourne are adjacent to the Butley river (between Deben and Alde) above Burrow Hill, a site increasingly active in the later seventh century. Sudbourne remained important during the period following the Viking Wars and the collapse of the East Anglian royal house, for during the 940s the entire estate of the 'Wicklaw', i.e. the area corresponding to the Five-and-a-half Hundreds purchased by Bishop Athelwold for the re-endowment of the monastery of Ely in 970, and therefore known as the 'Liberty of St Etheldreda', lay in the hands of a Danish Earl named Scule who was located at Sudbourne. (Liber Eliensis.) If (cf Peter Warner & co.) this endowment to Ely was a re-presentation of a franchise originally made to Etheldreda herself, foundress of Ely c.673, who had acquired the Isle of Ely by marriage, the presence of seventh century coinage in Sudbourne would be contemporary with the first phase of Ely activity there. The relationship of the type with examples found at Dorestad and Nietap (etc) illustrate important high-level contact with the Rhine communication before the period of the Utrecht mission. EMC 2004.0113

DENO-5E3D52: COIN
Iron Age gold stater, Iceni, Van Ardsell no.s 620-1. The obverse shows two opposed crescents, with three pellets above & below, and two to each side, with a ring & dot at each corner. The reverse shows a horse facing right, with loop as muzzle, a flower of seven pellets between legs and above back, three pellets in front of front knee, a ring and dot above tail, and vertical lines in the exergue. Diameter c.16.4mm, thickness c.2.8mm, weight 5.29g.