Record ID: HAMP-8A6431
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy terminal, probably from a Roman hair pin. The head is 7.7mm in diameter and mushroom shaped, with a narrow projecting ridged collar and a stump of a shank of circular cross section, 4mm in diameter. Circa late 1st to 2nd century AD.
Created on: Friday 25th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 25th February 2022
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Record ID: LIN-FA08C8
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly part of a copper alloy eyed needle or a Roman hairpin or one arm from a set of dividers.The needle may have been used for weaving, nalbinding. It may date from the Roman period to the modern period. The object is 101.81mm long. It tapers from a width of 7.50mm at the end with a rectangular cross section to a rounded end. The rectangular end ie the head has an old break.The rounded end does not appear to have been broken.  For a length of  32.92mm ( the head) the surface of the face and reverse are flat, then the shaft  becomes sem…
Created on: Friday 18th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Nettleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-E4517E
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An in complete lead alloy Pilgrim Badge of Medieval date (AD 1400-1550). The badge takes the form of a two-dimensional representation of the Virgin Mary, standing facing, the body of Christ cradled in her arms. The Virgin's facial features are stylistically rendered with headdress/hair above. Mary wears a long, flowing, vertically segmented robe, the central column of which is further divided into smaller segments via equally spaced transverse ridges. The body of Christ, wearing only a loin cloth, is held at the Virgin's waist. The head has been broken from the main badge but has been…
Created on: Thursday 17th February 2022
Last updated: Thursday 17th February 2022
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Record ID: BH-BCE393
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman cast copper-alloy hair pin of Cool’s Group 3, dating to the first to third century AD. The head is spherical with a cordon underneath. Below this the body tapers inwards before expanding. After tapering inwards once more there is another collar. Extending below the head is part of a circular-sectioned shank with an uneven transverse break. The patina across the entire object is light green in colour. The pinhead measures 19.8mm in length and 6.62mm diameter. It weighs 2.96 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 15th February 2022
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bedford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-A40ED7
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Roman hair pin head, of Crummy's Type 3 / Cool's Group 1D with a flat conical or slightly bi-conical head 9.1mm in diameter. The pin head appears undecorated, although the surface is heavily corroded. The shaft of the pin is around 1.8mm in diameter and is bent into an S shape.
Created on: Monday 14th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 14th February 2022
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Record ID: IOW-BB0ECB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Early Medieval button brooch, c.AD 450-550, Suzuki Class B1. Slightly squashed and bent with no gilding remaining. The obverse has a circular base and a wide border that has been rolled down in some places. The base depicts an anthropomorphic face within a concentric raised ridge in chip-carved relief. A central horizontal sub-rectangular band comprises the eye-area, with convex short ends and a concave lower edge above the chin/mouth area. Occupying the top and centre of the band is a raised T (brow ridge and nose) with a pointed oval eye in each angle, flanked on its ex…
Created on: Thursday 3rd February 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-7F8C14
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Post Medieval copper alloy pin. The object comprises a circular sectioned shaft which measures 55.6 mm in length and 2.9 mm in thickness. The end of the shaft has a rounded end. It has a globular head which has a diameter of 16.2 mm. The full length of the object is 68.8 mm. The object weighs 16.7 grams which could suggest lead solder or similar as seen on an example discovered in Somerset (SOM-DEB3EA). The object has a dark green/brown coloured patina. There are three vertical cracks in the globular head. Spherical-headed dress-pins were used by women to secure …
Created on: Monday 31st January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st March 2022
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Record ID: NLM-2992EB
Object type: ROOF FINIAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Ceramic roof furniture fragment. A hand-moulded fragment of a decorative finial from the tiled ridge of a roof. Reduced dense fabric with limited oxidisation at the edges of applied features only, and with an external green copper glaze overall. A round tapered socket is assumed to have been oriented vertically. This may have permitted the finial to be secured with a wooden pin, though the void would also permit thorough firing and reduce weight. The object has a vertical conical element with a narrow crest projecting from one side; this crest is now broken but probably followed …
Created on: Thursday 27th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th January 2022
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Record ID: WAW-17FE67
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy hairpin, most likely post-Medieval. The head of the hairpin is triangular, though some bits have been chipped off. On the tip of the head, there is a raised section in a parabola shape. The head is 18mm long and 22mm wide at the widest point remaining. Below the head, there are two thin (3mm diameter) protrusions that start off 3mm apart and gently curve towards one another. These are 46mm long. Due to the curve of the object, its overall length is less than that of the two sections combined. The item seems to be made from a lead alloy, though there does ap…
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2022
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Record ID: BERK-14EE43
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman padlock. The padlock is a mask puzzle padlock. The front cover of the padlock is in the form of a male head with straight, vertical ridges for hair and almond shaped eyes. Around the edge of the padock are serveral protrusions. Below the face there are three and two would have been either side of the head where the shakle was attached. These protrusions were often decorated with circles and this example would have had a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 7. On the sides of the padlock there is a slight gap where the cover joined the mechanism housing, but the cover is …
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 26th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-82E6A9
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two Roman copper alloy hair pins, one incomplete and one a fragment, mid 1st - 4th century: - lower part of shank missing, biconical head with an encircling moulded groove on the lower part and a square engraved around a saltire, or four joined triangles, on the upper. Closely related to Cool 1990, Group 10, sub-group A. Extant length 47mm. Head diameter 8mm. Diameter at break 2mm. - lower part of shank, extant length 41mm, maximum diameter at old break 1.8mm.
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 9th May 2023
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Record ID: KENT-7F3910
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete cast early Early-Medieval gilt copper-alloy button brooch dating to the period c.AD 480-550. Series 1, class A1.3 (Avent and Evison 1982; Suzuki 2008). Description: The brooch comprises a circular base with a raised rim on the circumference creating a 'saucer' shape. The human face on the brooch is formed of a nose above a thin downturned crescent moustache below, over the chin. The nose branches out into slightly curved double peaked eyebrows. Above the brows is the hair or peak of a helmet. The reverse is undecorated and not gild…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2022
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Record ID: KENT-188DA4
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy pin of Roman date (c.AD250-400). Description: The pin remains as the polyhedral head and a small section of the sub-circular shank which is now bent at the base. The head of the pin has 14 facets, six of which are large and lozengiform, the remaining being comparatively small and triangular. There is no visible decoration on the facets. The patina of the pin is dark grey with heavy pitting.  Measurements: length: 14.6mm; width: 8.6mm; weight: 4.61g Discussion: Pins of this shape have been found in early medieval context…
Created on: Friday 14th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 9th May 2023
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Record ID: BH-007F16
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy silvered figurine of a cockerel, possibly a hair pin or mount, dating to the Roman period (AD 43-410). The head is small and oval in shape, with a forward pointed beak, shallow wattle and prominent comb. The neck is long and starts narrow before gradually widening into an arched back and rounded breast, extending into the rounded underside. A horizontal groove extends across the body from one side to the other. The tail is plumed and arches upwards, tapering at the tip. Two legs, one straight and one bent, extend from the underside of the body onto a re…
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th January 2022
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Record ID: SUR-ECE6F4
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper alloy hair or dress pin of composite construction, 19.7mm in length, with a globular head, 5.1mm in diameter and a thin shaft which runs through it to end at a break. There is no evident decoration.
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 12th January 2022
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Record ID: BH-EB0768
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete bone hair pin probably of Roman date (c. AD 250-410). The pin, of Crummy type 4, has a cuboid head with the corners removed to leave five lozenge-shaped faces and eight triangular facets, though on this example approximately a third of the head has been sheared off at a slight angle. Extending from the underside of what survives is a circular-sectioned shaft that widens slightly towards the uneven old and worn break. A crack extends from the break part way along the length of the shaft on one side. There is no decoration on the shaft or on the head. The patina is yellowi…
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th January 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-C2CE97
Object type: PIN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy probable dress or hair pin, of uncertain date, Roman to medieval, AD 43 - 1500 It is also possible that it is part of a panannular brooch or another object. It has a sub-spherical head, with a slightly flattened top, above a narrow, circumferential collar. The head and collar are made separately to the shaft. The shaft is circular in cross-section and the point is broken away and is missing. There is a narrow groove running the full length of the shaft from beneath the collar to the break in the shaft, suggesting that the shaft was rolled from a sheet of metal. The pin…
Created on: Monday 10th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2022
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Record ID: GLO-710784
Object type: HAIR PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy probable hair pin. The head is formed from a flat disc with a concave narrowed waist leading to second disc. Below the shaft has a circular cross-section (3.5mm in diameter) and is approximately 60mm long but has been bent into a curve. The artefact has a dark green/ brown patina.
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 6th January 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-5B7DFB
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy pin likely of Roman date (c.AD43-410). The head is sub-biconical (with a max diameter of 7.0mm) with a shallow pointed top and a small collar (9.7mm high from collar to tip of head). The body of the head rises from the collar in a stylistic acorn shape with the ‘cap’ emphasized by a circumferential groove and decorated with a cross-hatch pattern. The shallow conical tip is undecorated. The shaft is circular in section and tapers gradually from the collar to the pointed end (max diameter of 3.5mm, mid point diameter .2.5mm, end 1.0mm). The pin is likely…
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 26th January 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-5A735A
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper alloy hair pin of early medieval date (c. AD 700-900). A faceted-cuboid head (polyhedral) with ring-and-dot motif on each face, and possible traces of white inlay within the decorative elements. The shaft is complete, bent at approximately 100 degrees approximately half way along its length, and tapers to a point. For a similar item please see LEIC-590907. Length (top of head to bend in shaft): 30.5mm. Width (bend in shaft to tapered end): 32.5mm. Head: width 6.6mm, depth 5.1mm, height 6.9mm.
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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