Record ID: BERK-9637D4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver long cross halfpenny probably of Edward III (AD 1327-1377). London mint. The coin is damaged around the edges.
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 17th April 2014
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Record ID: BERK-94F654
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver cut-half long cross penny of Henry III (AD 1216-1272), Irish issue, struck in Dublin.
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 17th April 2014
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Record ID: BERK-94E964
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An illegible forth century Roman copper alloy nummus (AE3). No details can be made out on either face of the coin. No picture provided.
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2011
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Record ID: BERK-94C6C5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver soldino of Michele Steno (AD 1400-1413), struck in Venice. The coin is incomplete and very worn around the edges making the legends unreadable.
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2011
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Record ID: BERK-945FD6
Object type: PIPE TAMPER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy post-medieval pipe tamper in the form of two boxing men. Although worn some detail of the bare chests and muscles in the arms and legs are visible. The two boxers stand on a thin, slightly angled platform beneath which projects the moulded stem of the tamper. Pipe tampers were used to compress tobacco in the bowl of a pipe and so ensure that it would burn evenly. They were manufactured from a variety of metals as well as wood and bone. The earliest British pipe tampers date to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries although this example would date fro…
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2011
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Record ID: BERK-941C03
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy nummus (AE3) probably of Crispus (AD 317-326). BEATA TRANQVILLITAS reverse. Struck c. AD 318-324. Reece 16.
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2011
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Record ID: BERK-93B833
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sceatta dating to the Early-medieval period, c. AD 675-750. Porcupine sceat with stepped cross, Series E.
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 20th December 2012
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Record ID: BERK-817A95
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy figurine of the Roman god Attis, dating from the first to third centuries AD. The figure appears to be wearing a phrygian hat and is holding a circular object, possibly a tambourine, in the right hand. In the left hand the figure may be holding a syrinx or pan pipes. The figurine is worn but most detail on the body is still identifiable; the figure is mostly naked with only a short tunic wraped around the waist and possibly over an arm. The figure is broken beneath the knees, missing its feet that may have formed the attachment point to another object, possibly an …
Created on: Friday 15th April 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2013
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Record ID: BERK-A0F027
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast copper alloy single loop D-shaped buckle dating from AD 1300-1450. The buckle has the remains of a frame attached around the recessed strap bar, although there does not appear to be a recess in the plate for the pin. The nose of the buckle has a small lipped pin rest.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
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Record ID: BERK-A0D848
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn coper alloy Rose / Orb jetton struck in Nuremberg by Hans Krauwinckel II, who became master in 1586 and died in 1635. The jetton is bent and as such is difficult to read, especially the obverse.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Monday 11th April 2011
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Record ID: BERK-9FB075
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast copper alloy single loop D-shaped buckle dating from the medieval period. The buckle is plain and undecorated, with a recessed and off-set, but integrally cast, strap bar. This type of buckle dates from c. AD 1250-1450.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
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Record ID: BERK-9F9927
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a leg from a cast copper alloy cauldron or other large cooking pot. The vessel leg has a flared foot that turns to angle upwards for actual leg, which has an integrally cast raised rib running down the outside centre. This type of vessel leg is known to have adorned vessels dating from the later medieval period although copper cooking vessels were in use well into the post-medieval period. This vessel leg probably dates from the late 15th to 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
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Record ID: BERK-9F7216
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Edward I (AD 1272-1307), slightly clipped and struck in London. The coin is too worn on the obverse to be able to identify the coin more closely.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
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Record ID: BERK-9F6190
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy early Post-medieval dress hook or hooked tag of Read (2008) Class E Type 6. The dress hook has a heart-shaped central body with t asmall fleur-type design at the curved peak of the heart. The external sides of the central body has moulded ribbed and knopped patterning. The head of the hooked tag is rectangular while the hook itself, although now broken, would have curved under back towards the main body. This dress hook is idenitcal to one recorded by Read (2008:112 no.452) and dates from AD 1500-1550.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Monday 11th April 2011
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Record ID: BERK-9F52D8
Object type: ROWEL SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The copper alloy rowel of a rowel spur and a fragment of the spur neck attachment. The rowel has seven spikes and has been dislodged from its securing rivet within the spur neck. The neck itself is plain but has a thin moulded collar before bending slightly downwards. This type of rowel spur was popular for a good number of years, but the design and style suggests a 17th to 18th century date for this example.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
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Record ID: BERK-9F30B7
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy French jetton, probably a Tournai stock jetton and dating to the 15th century. The obverse displays the ancient Shield of France, with a garbled inscription surrounding it. The inscription appears to read something along the lines of ANESVRE_ABINE_RVS__A. The reverse depicts a short double-stranded cross with large annulet quatrefoil inthe centre. The four quarters made the arms of the cross also bear this device, and the outer areas of the jetton also bear this design. No direct comparision could be found in Mitchiner. See Mitchiner p.224ff for examples of the tournai …
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
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Record ID: BERK-9C9B04
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy double loop buckle dating from the late 17th to early 18th century. The buckle has a sub-rectangular frame with rounded corners and slightly concaved ends. There are three (now worn) moulded collars over the spindle holes. The seperate spindle is now missing. The buckle dates to c. AD1690-1720.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
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Record ID: BERK-9C84A6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy double loop buckle dating from the 17th to early 18th century. The buckle has a sub-oval frame with rounded ends and slightly concaved side. A narrowed and seperate pin bar is possibly made from iron although the corrosion is bad and this may just be from the (now absent) iron pin.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
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Record ID: BERK-9C3EC6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy medieval strap or possibly a casket mount. The mount is roughly diamond-shaped with a thick central body and four short arm projections, each with a rivet hole at the terminal for attachment. The main body of the mount has incised geometric patterning following the outline of the mount and a crude inner diamond shape. Length: 37.28 mm; Width: 33.17 mm; Thickness: 2.88 mm; Weight: 8.6 g A similar example is known from King's Stanley, Gloucestershire (Heighway 2007; fig. 29, no. 66)
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
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Record ID: BERK-8DC954
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn Irish silver farthing of Edward I (1272-1307), Lord of Ireland 1254-1307. Dublin mint. Spink (2003) 6267.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
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