Record ID: SUR-E67A3B
Object type: FLUE TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily abraded fragment of a Roman box flue tile, 53.5mm in length. The tile has a reddish low fired earthenware fabric. The outer surface has been combed for the attachment of plaster.
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-E669DB
Object type: FLUE TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily abraded fragment of a Roman box flue tile, 83mm in length. The tile has a reddish low fired earthenware fabric. The outer surface has been combed for the attachment of plaster.
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-E65071
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A handle from a Roman jug or small amphora. The fabric is hard fired and sandy, oxidised reddish brown to buff coloured, with fine sand inclusions. The handle is 27.3mm wide with a rounded sub rectangular cross section and has a pair of parallel grooves running down the outside.
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-E62D59
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd from a Roman reduced greyware jar, possibly Alice Holt ware and of 3rd to 4th century date. The fabric is hard fired and sandy, the surface is grey, with a reduced grey core. The exterior is burnished with a band of combed five-line decoration over a pair of parallel circumferential grooves defining a low cordon.
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-E6135F
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd from a Roman reduced greyware everted rim jar, possibly Alice Holt ware and of 3rd to 4th century date. The fabric is hard fired and sandy, the surface is grey, with a reduced grey core. There is no decoration. The original rim diameter was around 170mm.
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-E5E024
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd from a Roman reduced greyware everted rim jar, possibly Alice Holt ware of 3rd to 4th century date. The fabric is hard fired and sandy, the surface is oxidised reddish grey, with a reduced grey core. There is combed or incised triple line zig-zag decoration in a band around the shoulder of the jar. The original rim diameter was around 160mm.
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-D20F6D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated body sherd from a Roman vessel of a black slipped Samian or imitative ware. The fabric is reduced grey-brown, hard and sandy with few inclusions and a glossy black slip. The exterior has moulded decoration comprising part of a frieze of panels containing curled vinescroll or foliate forms.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-D16A10
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman bone hair pin dating to c.  AD 50 - 250 (cf. Greep type A2.2 / Crummy type 2). The terminal has broken at a ridged collar, but was possibly conical (see LON-03A984, LON-77DEB3 and LON-68D0FE etc). The shaft has a circular cross section tapering to a triangular point.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
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Record ID: LON-C1F7AD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of Constantine II as Caesar (AD 317-340) dating to the period AD 332 Reverse shows two soldiers and two standards. Reece period 17. Uncertain mint. Dimensions: diameter: 17.38mm; weight: 1.73g. Obverse description: Right facing bust, cuirassed and laureate Obverse inscription: []CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C Reverse description: two solders two standards Reverse inscription: [GLOR IAEXERC ITVS]
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: LON-409133
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman jet flat elliptical armlet bead dating from 3rd-4th century AD. The  Dimensions: length:17.76mm; width: 11.15mm; thickness: 5.43mm; weight 0.79g Allason-Jones (1996:28) writes "The most common beaded armlet at York and elsewhere is made up of flat elliptical beads with one edge more markedly curved than the other and decorated with a deeply cut motif. The beads divide into two types: those with a series of raised ovals(cf. Colchester: Crummy 1983, fig. 37, no 1498; Wroxeter: unpubl.), and those with either S on Z motif beads are more co…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-1B134B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd from a jar of Roman Black Burnished ware (BB2). The fabric is reduced grey and sandy. The rim is everted and beaded; the original external diameter would have been c. 200mm. The exterior surface is burnished below the rim. Circa mid 2nd to 4th century AD.
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
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Record ID: LON-98C563
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman brooch 'Hod Hill' Type, dating to AD 43-100. The brooch has five transverse ribs, two above the bow, one central rib and two below, the foot expands slightly. The catch plate is solid and the pin is broken and missing. Similar brooches are illustrated in Hattatt (2000:322) Dimensions: length: 38.94mm; width: 13.35mm; thickness: 2.25mm; weight: 2.31g References: Hattatt, R., 2000 A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches Oxford : Oxbow Books.
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: LON-9790CC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman copper alloy Radiate of Claudius II (AD 270 - 271), period AD 268-270 Reece period 13. CONSECRATIO reverse type depicting an alter with flame above. Obverse description: Right facing radiate bust  Obverse inscription: [DIVO CLAVDIO] Reverse description: Altar and flames  Reverse inscription: [CONSECRATIO]  Dimensions: 15.08mm; weight: 1.79g
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-8259C5
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small, rounded, garnet bead, of unknown date, Roman - Post Medieval, AD 43 - 1900. It is an irregular, smooth, rounded shape and has a circular hole through it (about 1mm diameter) nearer to one end. The bead is 3mm long and 2.7mm in diameter. It weighs 0.1g. Garnets are frequently found on the Thames foreshore (LON-0C7DE2 for example) and another worked garnet bead is LON-0335F7, but they can seldom be dated without additional context.
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-436EED
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd of Roman coarse reduced grey ware, possibly from a bead-rim jar of Alice Holt ware. The fabric is grey, hard fired and gritty, with abundant coarse sand inclusions. The exterior has a decorated band of wavy line decoration bound with circumferential lines above and below.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-41F862
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated body sherd from the lower portion of a large bowl of central Gaulish Samian ware, dating to the 2nd to early 3rd century AD. The fabric is hard fired and orange-pink with infrequent dark inclusions and a reddish brown slip. The sherd is curved and the exterior has a moulded scene depicting a semi-clad female figure, possibly Venus, partially draped and seated facing left, with a beaded border of the panel running down the sherd on the right hand side.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-41D1F8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated body sherd from the lower portion of a large bowl of Gaulish samian ware, possibly of Dragondorff form 29 or 37 and dating to the 1st to early 3rd century AD. The fabric is hard fired and orange-pink with a reddish brown slip. The sherd is curved and the exterior has a moulded hunting scene with a hare, running left, large palm fronds to the right and a running border of spirals below. Beneath this is a change in angle to the base.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-41B56B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated body sherd from a bowl (cf. Dragendorff 37) of south Gaulish samian ware dating to the 1st to early 2nd century AD. The fabric is hard fired and orange-pink with fine limestone inclusions and a reddish brown slip. The exterior has a moulded band of foliate or acanthus decoration on the lower edge. The rim is beaded and would have had an original diameter of around 220mm.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-417ED0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated body sherd from a bowl or cup of south Gaulish samian ware dating to the 1st to early 2nd century AD. The fabric is hard fired and orange-pink with fine limestone inclusions and a reddish brown slip. The exterior has a moulded hunting scene with a long-eared hound running right; the hound is wearing a rope collar.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: LON-195CCC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337), dating to AD 307-318. Reece Period 15. SOLIINVIC TOCOMITI reverse type.  Obverse description: Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust facing right Obverse inscription: [CONSTANTINVS PF AVG] Reverse description: Sol standing facing, looking left, chlamys across left shoulder holding globe, right hand raised.  Reverse inscription: SOLI[INVIC TO COMITI] Dimensions: diameter: 16.91mm; weight: 1.47g.
Created on: Friday 1st March 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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