Record ID: WMID-09CB46
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Solihull
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron rowel spur of Post Medieval to Early Modern dating (18th to 19th Centuries). Around 75% of the spur is present. Neither arm is complete. The neck and rowel box are complete.  The arms have a lenticular cross section and are missing both terminals. The neck and rowel box are 29.8 mm in length with cylindrical cross section. It measures 53.1 mm in length, 62.9 mm wide and 11.0 mm thick. It weighs 19.1 g. The spur is a dark brown colour, with an uneven patina. The spur would benefit from being kept in a dry box.  A similar iron spur has bee…
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th December 2021
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Record ID: WMID-181AE4
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large fragment of a dished iron object of uncertain function and date. The fact that the object is clearly incomplete makes identifying its purpose very difficult. It measures 135.92 mm long and 117.96 wide. It is approximately 45 mm high.
Created on: Friday 22nd October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
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Record ID: WMID-164B47
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A wrought iron medieval arrowhead of 'spearpoint' type. The corroded arrowhead has a circular socket which is damaged but when complete would have measured approximately 10.5 mm in diameter. The head is triangular in shape with very short barbs. It is lozenge shaped in section. The arrowhead measures 56.42 mm long, 15.59 mm wide, 9.36 mm thick and weighs 6.3 grams. Arrowheads found outside a dated archaeological context are difficult to date precisely. Their typological sequences do not necessarily correspond to a chronological development and so attempting to date them on sty…
Created on: Friday 22nd October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
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Record ID: WMID-050787
Object type: AXE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dudley
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large and fairly well preserved wrought iron axe head of probable medieval date, almost certainly a woodman's axe. Iron axes are notoriously difficult to date when discovered outside of a dated archaeological context as the general form of axes has continued from at least as early as the Roman period (Manning 1976, 3). However, it has been suggested that as a general rule medieval axes are larger than those of earlier date, and normally had a simple socket, lacking the projecting hammer-end seen in many Roman examples (Ward-Perkins 1940, 56). This example has a blade which is almost …
Created on: Thursday 21st October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 21st October 2010
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Record ID: WMID-65A844
Object type: HAMMER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Coventry
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A socketed iron hammer head, missing its handle. The hammer head is slightly bowed and is blunt at each end. There is a sub-rectangular socket in the centre for attachment of a handle. The socket measures 19.5 mm long and 7.8 mm wide and is orientated to with its longest side along the length of the hammer head. The hammer head measures 114.6 mm long, 23.4 mm wide and 18.7 mm thick. It weighs 240.3 grams. The date of the tool is not certain, although it is likely to be medieval to post-medieval in date. Other objects recovered from the area in which the tool was found include medieval…
Created on: Tuesday 7th September 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 10th September 2019
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Record ID: NARC-598D14
Object type: AXE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Birmingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An iron double headed axehead, also known as a labrys. The axe is heavilly corroded, yet is in good enough condition to suggest it is not of any great antiquity. Dr Kevin Leahy has advised that this axehead is unlike any weapon ever to have been used in Britain. However, the double headed axe was used as a symbol of justice since the Roman period, and this may therefore be a neoclassical, 19th century symbol of justice. The labrys also became a symbol which was adopted by the Greek fascist movement in the 1930s and 1940s, though it seems unlikely that this example is associated with th…
Created on: Monday 26th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WMID1446
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Solihull
Workflow stage: Published
Spherical shape. Surface covered with corrosion. Weight 2lb 6oz.
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST MIDLANDS MERIDEN', grid reference and parish protected.