Record ID: WMID-1006A0
Object type: RELIQUARY CROSS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gold hollow cross pendant, perhaps used as a miniature reliquary, of late medieval date (15th century AD). The pendant is in the 'budded' cross or 'cross bottony' style, with each arm terminating in three semi-circular knops. The front of the pendant is decorated with five multi-petalled engraved flowers, one at the end of each arm and one in the centre. Multiple lines of tiny punched dots radiate out from each flower. The flowers separate the words of a black-letter inscription; across the arms is written 'crux florat' (meaning 'may the cross…
Created on: Wednesday 30th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newport Pagnell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-2C4836
Object type: RELIQUARY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval reliquary pendant of lozenge shape with a suspension loop. The reliquary pendant is gold and dates from the first half of the sixteenth century. The front panel of the reliquary is engraved with an image of a female saint, either the Virgin Mary or St Helena, supporting the cross. The cross is speckled in a manner suggesting that it is splattered with blood. To the left and right of the figure are foliate tendrils. The saint stands on a chequerboard design, probably indicating a tiled floor or pavement. The back panel slides out to reveal a cavity, undoubtedly designe…
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 2009
Last updated: Monday 18th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hockley Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-0262EF
Object type: RELIQUARY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, gold and rock crystal, pendant, possibly a reliquary. The object comprises a cut piece of rock crystal in a gold setting with opposing suspension loops. When viewed in plan, it takes the the form of a flask or similar vessel. The top is a hemispherical knop in the form of a bottle stopper; there is a wide flanged collar below which it tapers in to form the neck of the vessel. This then widens out to form the main bulk of the vessel, with aneloganted octagon cut in the centre. There is a small foot at the bottom. The crystal is broken at the neck of the vessel and t…
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halland Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C0C27C
Object type: RELIQUARY
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold reliquary. A lozenge-shaped box of composite construction with rich ornate decoration rendered by an applied combination of fine twisted gold strips and spherical gold granules of two sizes [of diameters 1.5mm and 1mm] attached to a plain but roughly textured plate. The sides of the box are of plain smooth gold sheet and it is closed by a plain sheet metal back plate bordered by a further cabled wire. The back borders appear to have been run along the corners of the rhomboid as single strands from the front, though now absent entirely from one of the four corners. There are three…
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-49DFF2
Object type: RELIQUARY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold reliquary. A hollow oval biconvex locket with its plain flat back formed by a plain hinged plate with a slightly projecting outer edge opposite paired hinges, and with four pairs of collets [each collet of diameter 2.8mm and height 3.2mm with wall thickness of 0.7mm, and with each pair of collets sharing a single heart-shaped base plate] symmetrically distributed round its edges, and with its crest occupied by a rounded oval or D-shaped orange-red translucent polished stone – possibly a garnet [of visible length 9.6mm and width 6.7mm] - whose smooth face protrudes slightly f…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton Night Soil Field', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-DCD252
Object type: PUZZLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A set of three interlinked gold 'puzzle rings'. Each of the three rings passes through the other two. Two of the rings are of equal form and size, each having been made from a single strand of wire, the ends butted together, a kink deliberately created at one point in the circumference. In contrast, the other ring has been formed from a twisted strand and has been bent into an uneven figure of '8' shape. Maximum width of ring: 23.2mm. Total weight: 7.38g. A similar set of puzzle rings is Treasure case 2005 T518, from Ilam, Staffordshire, which could not be securely dated and …
Created on: Monday 8th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coleshill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-9020B1
Object type: POMMANDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An openwork gold object, now crushed, which originally formed a hemispherical dome shape. The gold framework is composed of a series of interconnected semi-circle and roundel designs, some of which feature minute hatching. Four strands of thin gold wire pass through tiny holes in the larger gold decoration; in some cases these wires form a loop, their ends twisted together on the underside of the decoration. Dimensions: Length: 21.48mm Width: 18.23mm Thickness: 0.73mm Weight: 2.38g Discussion: This object was submitted as potential Treasure on the supposition that it may for…
Created on: Tuesday 20th June 2017
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-0F1783
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is an incomplete object made of gold sheet, probably dating to the Roman period. It has been tentatively identified by Roman specialist Martin Henig as a votive plaque representing the female sex organs. The remains of the plaque consists of two segments, which have fractured off from each other, but which fit together; the upper portion includes a curved suspension hook and the upper portion of the plaque, which is sub-triangular in shape. The upper portion is torn/fractured across its lower horizontal edge; the second portion of the plaque continues the main area of the plaque …
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Last updated: Friday 5th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2B7876
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
The object consists of one end of a rectangular strip of filigree-decorated gold sheet. It has a border formed by a false herringbone plait of two plain, twisted wires in-between two finely milled wires. The border encloses two lengthwise rows of back-to-back S-scrolls (only two scrolls on each side now surviving) separated by a single median wire, all finely milled. Fixed to a short gold shank soldered to the back of the sheet is a small, lozenge-shaped foil. The fragment is probably part of a plaque inserted into the front of a rectangular belt- or buckle-plate with a raised rim, suc…
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alkborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-1F5AB1
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Small gold appliqué decorated with curvilinear filigree wire. The plaque comprises a thin piece of sheet gold forming an extended rectangle in two decorative 'halves', with each of the shortest sides cut to form a 'V' shape. There is a small circular perforation at each corner, as well as an additional perforation below one of the corner perforations; other holes appear to be wear and tear. The appliqué is decorated with fine applied filigree wire, which forms a continuous border around the whole outer edge (although it is broken and missing in a few places). The inner part of the d…
Created on: Tuesday 30th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 15th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alciston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-755330
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Square shaped flat gold tablet with punched Greek lettering dating to the Roman period c. AD 100-410. Description: There are ridges on the surface showing that the tablet was folded at some point. The longest ridge, running vertically down the centre, suggests that the tablet was folded once at the centre, and then twice over horizontally, as suggested by the three transverse ridges intersecting it on the left side. The side to the right of the vertical ridge is relatively flat.  There appear to be three fields of punch inscribed writ…
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-833BD8
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval gold pin head (16th century). Curator's report: Small, heavy gold pin head with hole for attachment to a gold wire. The hemispherical head squashed flat, decorated with applied filigree circlets and knops, and with flower heads made up of small turquoises (identified by Raman spectroscopy) held in claw settings and surrounded by petals of openwork gold decoration made of fine twisted wire. This fascinating pin head suggests the gold prototypes for the silver-gilt types of the 16th Century which are commonly reported through the Treasure Act. Its e…
Created on: Wednesday 29th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-FD88E7
Object type: PIN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold pin of unknown date; the pin is slightly bent. The shank is circular in cross-section at the tip, the shank of the pin has a more flattened cross-section. The diameter of the shank gradually declines, towards the point. The head of the pin is roughly square, formed by a flattening of the shank, with a concave impression on one face. This object has been examined, at the British Museum, by the Prehistoric, Roman, Iron Age, Medieval and Post-Medieval curators. It is the consensus that this object cannot be securely dated to a specific period. Due to the undiagnostic nature of th…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 20th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sidcup', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-6D17C2
Object type: PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gold pin head in the form of a fleur de lys with amethyst inlay
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 27th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woking Palace', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-3ECB42
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold fitting decorated with filigree and enamel, in the shape of a stylus eraser, possibly from a styliform pin. It is basically a hollow cone, now flattened to become triangular, and open at both ends; at the narrower end there is an oval aperture measuring 5 x 2 mm, surrounded by a plain square-section wire. At the wider end it is squashed flatter, especially in the middle, but both ends are slightly rounded. This end does not have a corresponding wire around it. Each face, front and reverse, is decorated with a double border of two twisted wires around a trapezoidal panel. The pane…
Created on: Tuesday 25th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Potter Street Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL1744
Object type: PIN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Twisted, square sectioned wire shank soldered to back of an oval empty setting. The setting is decorated around its front edge. The tip of the shank is missing.
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH YORKSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF5959
Object type: PIN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
pin head only
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK PAKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-989028
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A Fragment of a Post-Medieval silver-gilt pin-head datng to the 16th Century. The pin is decorated with applied filgree ornament on two hemispheres joined by a plain band. The top hemisphere has six circles, each surrounding a quatrefoil, the bottom hemisphere has five, with the hole that would have originally housed the pin shank on the underside. At the centre of each quatrefoil and top and bottom between each foil is a knop (one missing). The top hemisphere's central quatrefoil has a larger applied knop. Pin-heads of this type are commonly reported under Treasure Act 1996. For a …
Created on: Thursday 29th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 1st March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chiddingstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-032814
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Gold globular ('ball-headed') pin-head, which has been squashed flat. The shaft of the pin is missing, and there is some damage at its shearing point. The head is decorated with filigree: a median band of larger pellets would have divided the field in two; each half was then decorated with four spirals of fine filigree, coiled round a central pellet (not all of them surviving). The design at the top of the head was further embellished by four lobes (containing two pellets each) converging in a cruciform pattern. This is now visible on one side of the flattened pin-head. Probably of 8t…
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 30th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DARENTH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-FF9E65
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably hollow spherical headed pin dating from the Post Medieval period (probably 16th or 17th century) and made of gold. The head is 5.64mm in diameter. The pin head is decorated to imitate filigree and applied knop decoration has probably actually been incised or moulded. The design is a mixture of leaves, flowers, dots and rings. The pin shank is wire, circular in section and tapers to the point. It is curved along its length and there are regular notches in the wire. The pin is similar to filigree and imitation filigree ball headed pins of the 16th century such as SWYOR-538…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 20th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.