Record ID: NLM-1BDA32
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible die stamp. Circular moulded die or mount with intertwined bands. Traces of solder on back. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-650 Height: 29.5mm, Width: 28.1mm, Thickness: 3.4mm, Weight: 14.49gms
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: WAW-2D474A
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy die stamp for making pressblech foils, dating to the Early Medieval period (c.AD 550-700). The object is rectangular with rounded corners. The central design consists of double-strand interlaced knot designs which conform to interlace Style II or Schlaufenornamentik decoration without zoomorphic elements. This is placed within a border that has circular annulets in each corner then a repeating pattern around the circumference of linear ribs. There is a further linear border around the circumference that extends to the edge of the object.&nb…
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th December 2023
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Record ID: ESS-0E2875
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy die stamp of probable post-medieval date (c.1600-1900) Description: The object is in the form of a cylindrical rod, with one smooth flat end. The other end is slightly domed and rougher. The domed end has two clear parallel projections, possibly 'I's'. These are 3.9mm in height and project 1.1mm from the end of the rod. They have been created by engraving the end of the rod: there are deeply engraved lines either side of the projections making them more pronounced and the sides appear to have been filed to make them ‘sharper’. …
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
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Record ID: BUC-5F0A82
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy possible die stamp, dating from the medieval to post medieval period, c. AD 1400- 1600. The stamp is rectangular in shape, with one end rounded with a rectangular projection in the centre. The face of the object has impressed decoration. There is a dragon like creature with the head and snout curved round to the left, and the legs and tail curved round to the right infront of the long body. The tail is curved in front of the creature, with the end of the tail creating an interlaced design. Surrounding the creature is a border of continual impressed rectangles in a shield…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
Last updated: Sunday 27th August 2023
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Record ID: DUR-505A68
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy die stamp, probably dating to the medieval period (c.AD1200-1400). The object is bar shaped, rectangular in form and section with one face decorated. The relief decoration comprises deeply incised scrolling foliate motif, seemingly a vine, that moves along the rectangular face diagonally from edge to edge creating smaller triangular shaped voids each filled with a scroll. There are five scrolls in total, and a lateral groove encloses the motif around the edge. The appears to be traces of white paste in the recessed areas created by the motif. One short ed…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-4EFB15
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy object, probably a die of Pressblech type. It is 140.1mm long and straight-sided, tapering from a maximum of 32.3mm wide at one rectangular, straight-cut end to 26mm wide just above a V-shaped pointed end. The object is not completely flat, but is gently curved along its length, with a concave reverse and a convex front. Total thickness 7.3mm, weight 186.14g. The reverse is undecorated. The front is decorated with high-relief ornament which stands up to 2.3mm proud of the base. The base varies between about 4 and 5mm thick, and extends beyond the panel of ornament to…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-A68964
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cuboid block made of an alloy with a high lead content. One long edge is bevelled. One short face of the block has an intricate design, in low relief, comprising an oval escutchion with a heraldic device which may include bars beneath the head of an animal, possibly a hind, couped, right, possibly with a collar of bezants. This is surrounded by an oval border of large pellets, which in turn is surrounded by an elaborate garnish, with a radiating escallop towards the bevelled corner and, on the other side, scrolled elements. Possibly a block intended for use in printing, embossi…
Created on: Friday 20th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 20th January 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-6DC094
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper-alloy pressblech die, dating to c.AD 470 - 570. The die is triangular in plan is irregular edges and it is rectangular in section. It has a raised, slightly rounded triangular boarder. It has an uncertain chip carved design on the front. The underside is undecorated. Length: 28.7 mm Width: 21.1 mm Thickness: 3.1 mm Weight: 5.13 g  Many thanks are extended to Kevin Leahy for assisting with identification of this object, Kevin comments: This is likely an unfinished pressblech die and bares resemblelance to NLM-91BD9A, the animals differ in detail but ap…
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th February 2023
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Record ID: NLM-DF6C33
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Die for making Style 2 mounts. Length: 31.1mm, Width: 22.2mm, Thickness: 3.4mm
Created on: Monday 6th June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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Record ID: WMID-B7994F
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy die stamp or punch of probable Late Medieval to Post Medieval dating (AD 1400 to AD 1800). The die stamp has been made from a sub conical shape. The base is circular and it tapers upwards to a flat horizontal handle. The shape is very similar to that of a human middle phalangeal (finger) bone. A circular hole (probably for suspension) is located slightly off centre, below the handle. It has an internal diameter of 3.0 mm. The base has a double curvilinear design in it, possibly representing the letters I C. It measures 17.2 mm in length, 10.8 mm wide an…
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-BB2D18
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment comprising one quarter of a cast copper alloy discoidal object with traces of a white metal coated surface. The original object when whole would have been around 40mm in diameter. The face is decorated in relief with a six or seven armed radiate star motif, each arm having bifurcating curled ends and radiating from an annulet boss. The motif is surrounded by a border of short radial bars. The sides of the disc are bevelled towards the face, with an incised line defining a rim around it. The reverse appears to be undecorated, but has scratches possibly from use. There are no…
Created on: Friday 29th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
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Record ID: NLM-2E4D8B
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead die stamp. Cast disc with engraved motifs which include a plain cross off-centre within an oval or kite-shaped field, a bordering ring of pellets, and either gouges, letters – perhaps W HN - or indistinct features along one quarter of the edge. The back appears beaten. The proposed function seems supported by the crisp impression obtained from the object, though manufacture of a stamp of still-malleable material seems odd, and may suggest the fragility of whatever was stamped with it. The size and cross motif might suggest this stamp was used to mark unconsecrated communion waf…
Created on: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Stockwith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-CA02A7
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy die stamp for making pressblech foils, dating to the Early Medieval period (c.AD550-650). The object is a cast rectangular plate with rounded edges and with deeply incised detail on one flat side; the other surface is flat and undecorated. The incised decoration at one shorter edge a double grooved base with angled ends (giving the effect of a plinth) topped with a smaller plinth and a short column or stem leading onto an inverted crescent shape which holds the basal loop of a larger interwoven 'knot' design with a pointed apex and two loops to either side. In the …
Created on: Monday 28th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-BC1EAC
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Anglo-Saxon discoidal lead die stamp or matrix for the production of repoussé relief decoration on sheet metal, the pressblech technique. A ring of five running spirals around a central boss lies within two concentric circles of very fine pellets, and an outer circle of larger pellets within a plain rim. This is in turn encircled by a groove on the outside of which the edge of the object is set slightly lower. A short and undecorated handle or tab projects from the edge. The surface is worn in some places. The boss and five-spiral motif commonly occurs on Sa…
Created on: Thursday 3rd February 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: BERK-34B1CA
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy pressblech die of Early Medieval date. The die is circular, flat, decorated on the front and plain on the back. This die matches a the Riseley pendant in Dartford museum The design of the pendant is described by Behr, C., Eagles, B., Saunders, P., & Algar, D. (2016). Anglo-Saxon burials from Shrewton, Wiltshire, England as a "motif shows an unusual figure holding snakes" The parts of the figure is heavily stylised with large, bulbous eyes atop a triangular chin/beard with large lips. The arms are parallel to the body until the elbows, which bend outwards at 90 degr…
Created on: Friday 10th December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 6th January 2022
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Record ID: SUR-DF4D6B
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flat discoidal cast copper alloy object, 41.8mm in diameter and of early Medieval (c. 8th century AD) date. One side is decorated with an equal-armed cross composed of narrow arms of chip carved single-stranded interlace, linked by an outer border of the same and with reticulate interlace panels in each quarter bound by thin ridged borders. At the centre is an undecorated flat central boss 9mm in diameter with a single-stranded interlace border around it. The design is moulded in high relief and wholly enclosed within a beaded margin. The reverse is flat with a li…
Created on: Tuesday 31st August 2021
Last updated: Friday 11th August 2023
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Record ID: LIN-490483
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast, copper-alloy early medieval (Early to Middle Anglo-Saxon) die stamp for making pressblech foils, dating to the late 6th to 7th century. The die stamp is sub-rectangular in form and cross-section. Both sides are flat, one of which is decorated with an interlace Style II or Schlaufenornamentik decoration without zoomorphic elements. The interlacing asymmetric and twisting pattern gives the design a writhing quality, but it lacks any zoomorphic elements such as a head or limbs which means that this design is not strictly Style II. Concurrent with the development of Style II …
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whittington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7CFC25
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy plaque or possibly die of probably late 8th or 9th century date. The piece is flat and subrectangular, slightly curved along its long edges and therefore the short, straight ends are slightly angled. The front is decorated with a rectangular panel of indented decoration. The panel has a triple border formed of closely spaced oval pellets between fine lines. To one side an indented line continues from the border to meet one of the short edges. Filling the centre of this panel is a continuous interlace of two separate strands which both loop and cross in a complex repeating…
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weare CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-BBC877
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy possible die stamp or handle, of probable Post Medieval dating (AD 1600 to AD 1800). The handle is cylindrical with a rounded and expanded top. A circular depression is present on the top. No signs of decoration are present on the sides of the handle. The base displays a possible cross fleuretty design but it is unclear. It measures 44.3 mm in length, 15.3 mm diameter (top) and 10.9 mm diameter (base). It weighs 45.6 g. The handle is a dark green colour, with an even surface patina. Abrasion, caused by movement whilst within the plough soil, has resul…
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 25th November 2019
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Record ID: LON-BB4365
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval iron die stamp dating from AD 1800-1900. The stamp is cylindrical and cuts in at the die end to form a smaller circular die stamp with the letters CA in retrograde. At the opposite striking end there is a collar possible formed when striking the die. Dimensions: length: 95.74mm; diameter: 27.99mm
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2021
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