Record ID: YORYM-35C9E7
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy Door Knob Spear Butt of Roman or Early-Medieval date, circa 200-300 AD or 500-600 AD. The object comprises a hollow circular shaft, tapering slightly from the open end before expanding where it joins the door knob terminal proper; the terminal measures 37.7mm in diameter. The mouth of the shaft has been slightly flattened. The terminal is bulbous and also hollow, it has a rounded base. There is a ridge around the top of the bulbous terminal. Apart from this there is no other decoration. The metal is pitted and mottled, but is largely a mid brownish-green in…
Created on: Monday 13th October 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 24th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wilberfoss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-1E88EA
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Probably a complete copper alloy Door Knob Spear Butt of Roman or Early Medieval date, circa 200-300 AD or 500 to 600AD. The object comprises a hollow shaft, tapering slightly from the open end before expanding where it joins the door knob terminal. The terminal is bulbous and also hollow and it has a rounded base. The metal is pitted and mottled with a mid-brownish patina. The length is 54mm, the width is 44mm diameter of base 40mm and the weight 114.75g.
Created on: Tuesday 10th May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 24th April 2024
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Record ID: BERK-40D57B
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy cast 'Door Knob' Spear Butt possibly dating from Roman to Early-Medieval date, c. 200-300 AD or 500-600 AD. The neck/elongated ferrule of the device has a flared opening that then tapers down to a midpoint, when it again flares back out to join with the top knob. There is a cast circumferential ridge/line at the point beneath the expanded knob terminal and further decoration just above the rim, in the form of four concentric grooves. It is possible that the item was cast hollow and then filled with perhaps lead, to add momentum to the action of the spear. These ob…
Created on: Friday 4th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 24th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-712EF4
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy 'Door Knob' spear butt of Roman or Early Medieval date, c. 200-300 AD or 500-600 AD. The object consists of a hollow plano-convex base, which extends upwards with a hollow flaring cylinder. The upper face of the convex part has traces of a raised circular section, which is where the cylinder meets the plano-convex element. The flat face has denting and a small perforation (1 mm of diameter) due probably to the use. The outer surface is corroded and abraded. These objects were once thought to be Iron Age in date, however they are now known to be of either Roman or Early …
Created on: Monday 30th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 24th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Butley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-DED29E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Stockton-on-Tees
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy and enamel finger ring, of which only the bezel survives, of Roman date, probably (c.AD200-300).  A pellet or circle at the centre of the ring is infilled with white enamel and is surrounded by further concentric circles, one of which has fragmentary (possible) upstanding copper alloy decoration. Traces of gilding survive on the outermost circle. The concentric circles sit within a quatrefoil design, of which three lobes survive. The recesses within each of the four lobes is partially infilled with what appears to be light coloured enamel and close insp…
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-5683C3
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a copper alloy and enamel terret ring from the Late Iron Age/early Roman period, c. BC 100-AD 100. The artefact consists of a fragment of the copper alloy terret ring, broken at both ends and tapering from the base to the sides of the ring. The thinnest end is broken and the exposed face is highly abraded. A circular boss with red and white enamel inlay projects from the terret ring. At its widest end is an integral curved collar with a projecting fragment with a rectangular profile extending from it.  Terret rings were used to guide reins on horse harnesses and…
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: ESS-469B4A
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy bracelet of Roman to early medieval date (c. 200-450). Description: The bracelet remains as a section with transverse breaks at each end. The cross-section is rectangular. The fragment is decorated with a pair of oblique grooves flanking a punched ring-and-dot. and pair of transverse grooves then divide this from a fiurther ring and dot. The width of the bracelet varies in accordance with the decoration, being wide and straight where there are ring-and-dots, and becoming narrower and oblique to frame the oblique grooves. …
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: ESS-C4B808
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch (Harlow) of Roman date (AD 50-80). Description: The brooch has a half-cylindrical head with double-pierced lug in which the external cord of the spring and axis bar are held, now missing. The wings are worn. The top lug is rounded and the crest emerges at a low angle from this, flattening  as it travels down the length of the bow. Two further crests flank this and and two more travel down the edges of the bow, starting on the head. The bow narrows along its length, ending in a worn, rounded break.…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: ESS-ACCE62
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch Harlow CD Ha 1.b of Roman date (AD 50-80). Description: The brooch has a half-cylindrical head with double-pierced lug in which the external cord of the spring and axis bar are held. The axis bar has broken in half and has come out of the lug, although it is still intact inside the spring. The spring is complete coiling around the axis bar four times on the right before passing over the head, through the lug, coiling around the left hand side of the axis bar three times and extending into the now missing pin.&nb…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: ESS-AD1A5A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch (Harlow) of Roman date (AD 50-80). Description: The brooch has a half-cylindrical head with double-pierced lug in which the external cord of the spring and axis bar are held, now missing.  The wings are decorated with grooved ridges at the ends and beside the bow. The top lug is rounded and the crest emerges at a low angle from this, flattening  as it travels down the length of the bow. Two further crests flank this, merging with the central one, and two further ridges travel down the edges of the bow. The …
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4F2537
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Broken copper-alloy Roman devolved trumpet brooch of Bayley and Butcher 2004, Group C; Mackreth type TR. 1a.1a. The spring mechanism, pin, lower bow, foot, and catchplate are all missing. The trumpet-shaped head from which the brooch gets its name is plain; with a projecting nib uppermost. On the reverse of the head is a perpendicular loop that would have retained the spring. There is a three-disc knob on the upper bow. The outer tiers are fluted into four-petalled mouldings that run entirely around the bow. Both reverse petals are less prominent…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: KENT-33C787
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An imported Roman copper-alloy bowl and two forged iron bars dating to the 1st century AD. Bowl initially discovered and reported to the FLO in situ 0.4m below the surface, in a pit. Subsequently recovered by Canterbury Archaeological Trust, along with the iron bars and some scattered Gallo-Belgic ceramics of 1st century BC-1st century AD the latter found in the fill of all features excavated on site. Project number PHW-EX-1. Description: The bowl had been placed inverted in pit and did not lay flat, but rather at an angle of about 45°. No trace of any contents w…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North East kent', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C79033
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch with the spring, the pin, almost all of both wings, the lower part of the bow and all of the catchplate missing. The three beaks are not recent. Two probably beaded ribs run down the centre of the bow and some white-metal coating remains within the space between them. Weight 5.06g. Extant length 24.7mm. AD c.43 - c.65.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-368882
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval seal matrix, flat with median rib ending in pierced lug on reverse. Pointed oval, 41 x 25mm. Arm in sleeve holding crozier with crescent moon to left and star to right. + CONTRAS' ABATI DE PONTE ROB'I· (Counterseal of the Abbot of Robertsbridge). The Ns are retrograde. A counterseal (contrasigillum, Latham 1965, 112) was impressed on the reverse of the wax as a corroboration of the owner's principal seal (Harvey and McGuinness 1996, 9). The Cistercian Abbey of Robertsbridge in Sussex was founded in 1176. A known early 13th-century counterseal is not impresse…
Created on: Tuesday 6th January 2009
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-82876F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative rearhook brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD RH 1, perhaps 1g. The spring, pin, foot, catchplate and tiny fragments of the tips of the wings are missing. The rest is in a fairly worn and abraded condition, including the breaks. The wings are C-shaped in cross-section, convex on the front and concave on the reverse. They are each decorated with a pair of moulded transverse ridges near the tips. The short distance from these ridges to the head of the bow is longitudinally concave, suggestive of a bead and reel motif. The bow is…
Created on: Friday 7th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-0A599F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative rearhook brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD RH 4b or 5b. The spring, pin, all but a stub of the chord-hook and catchplate are missing. The wings are convex on the front, concave on the reverse (a very shallow C-shape in cross-section). They taper in width from the head of the bow to their rounded tips. One is more heavily abraded on the underside and has lost a greater depth of surface on the front due to corrosion. Neither wing preserves any evidence of decoration. The reverse of the better preserve wing retai…
Created on: Friday 24th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F1B4B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch with the spring, the pin, part of the rearhook, the lower part of the bow and all of the catchplate missing (the breaks are not recent). The wings are decorated with bead and reel and the low and wide triangular-sectioned bow with pairs of beaded ribs flanking a wider median rib. Mackreth 2011 CD RH 1.e. The proportion of the bow and wings is close to that of ibid. pl. 39 no. 865. Weight 4.47 g. Extant length 18.8mm. Wingspan 20.5mm (width of bow at top 10mm). AD c.43 - c.65.
Created on: Sunday 17th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-55DD68
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative Harlow brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD Ha 1.a1a and similar to Ibid Pl. 31, No. 1016. It is minimally distorted and complete except for the pin. The wings are concavo-convex in cross-section and broadly rectangular when viewed from the front. The edges at the tips are very slightly curved. One is broadly perpendicular to the top and bottom edges and the other is very slightly oblique. The wings are not decorated.  The spring is in-situ and immobile: its coils and the external chord have corroded and fused to the wings and to each…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-063ABA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative rearhook brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD RH 1b or 1c and similar to ibid Pl. 38, Nos. 795 and 812. The spring, pin and all but a stub of the chord-hook and catchplate are missing. The wings are C-shaped in cross-section: convex on the front and concave on the reverse. Viewed from the front, they are slightly narrowed or waisted as they emerge from the head of the bow. They then expand into a now almost circular terminal, probably rounded by wear and abrasion at the tips. They are fully decorated on the front…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-E2A7DC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy brooch, Colchester Derivative Harlow type with double pierced lug dating between 50-80 AD The brooch is cast in two pieces, consisting of the head, bow and catchplate as well as a partially intact in situ copper alloy spring. The head consists of two uncapped, undecorated semi cylindrical wings with a centrally placed vertical double perforated lug on the interior side. The upper perforation contains the bent external chord which terminates in the incomplete coiled spring, with three loops surviving on one side and one and a half at the …
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Sunday 21st April 2024
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