Record ID: LVPL-D780C9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman trumpet brooch dating to c.AD 75-175. The brooch falls within Bayley and Butcher (2004) Trumpet Goup C, Hull T154A - further devolved. The head is usually based on a flat plate. Waist-moulding may lobed acanthus or petalled or with plain or leaf-shaped multiple mouldings. See p.161, fig.130. The brooch is exceptionally large and is almost complete, only the pin is missing. The brooch consists of a large circular head plate (D: 31.8mm), atop of which is a small loop. The perimeter of the plate is decorated with stamped rings, four on each side. In …
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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Record ID: BERK-65C48B
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy miniature axe head of probably Roman date. The obect is rectangular in section and had a narrow butt and flat terminal. The butt widens with straight edges to a convex cutting edge. At the butt end the eye is rectagular and cast as part of the object. In the middle of the side of the blade a circular hole has been drilled through from one side after casting.
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 26th May 2022
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Record ID: KENT-652710
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy object, likely a component of a larger composite object dating to the late Iron Age. Description: The object sub-circular in plan, hollow and convex in cross-section creating a dome affect. There are four evenly spaced circular cells that perforate the side face of the dome. It has cast decoration in relief consisiting of pointed ovals defining the cells. Each oval and space between is filled with groups of parralel lines helping define the motif. One of the cells appears to have the remains of corroded coral in-situ. The lower aperture is larger than the…
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2022
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Record ID: GLO-452F33
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy figurine of an owl. The owl stands atop a sub-cylindrical pedestal that has a narrowed waist with an expanded base that forms a wide flanged rim. The interior of the pedestal is hollow and the underside of the flanged rim is rough, suggesting that it mounted atop something. The bird stands with spread legs, the right leg is slightly shorter than the left coursing the bird to lean slightly to the right. The feet are detailed with three claws, the legs have a thick oval cross-section that expand to the body and are detailed with recessed cross hatched lines. …
Created on: Monday 11th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotswolds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-09F7E6
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An fragment of a copper alloy scabbard chape of Iron Age date (c. BC 100 - c. AD 50). Description: The fragment represents the left arm of a broadly V-shaped scabbard chape. The right arm of the chape has been broken and is now missing, presumed lost in antiquity. The outer edge of the object is convex while the inside is concave, giving the object a C-shaped cross-section. The top of the object is worn and irregular, while the bottom, although broken and worn, is broadly rounded. In profile, the object has a slight triangular projection on either side, one of which is decorated …
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2022
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Record ID: LANCUM-A1CA02
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment of a votive plaque of Roman date, likely dating to the second- or third-century AD. At the top centre of the plaque is the remains of an attachment-hole. The plaque's face has an inscription over five lines: [...] OPT MAX [...] [...] T MAR ET VICT [...] [...] SVIR HERCVL[AN...] [...] MEDI COH VI RA [...] [Unclear]. It measures 100.7mm in length, 70mm in width, 3.04mm in thickness, and weighs 33.72g. Dr Roger Tomlin has examined images of the object and wrote the below (pers. comm. 27 February 2022). It…
Created on: Saturday 26th February 2022
Last updated: Sunday 13th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Brough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-64862B
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy terret ring (Spratling's Group VIII, Subgroup A: 'Westhall') of Iron Age date (50BC-AD50). Description: The fragment represents one half of the terret ring which is broken along its vertical axis. The other half of the terret would have been identical so that, in full, it would have had a crescentic flange. A ridge runs along the inner edge decreasing in size as the flange widens towards the apex. This ridge stems from the centre of a circular disc which would have acted as a collar for the attachment bar which is now missing. The flange is deco…
Created on: Friday 11th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-5112A2
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy Bone Disc Type nail cleaner, 42,5mm in length. The object has a flattened bifurcated tip, 4.1mm wide, at the end of a shaft with circular cross section of 2.7mm diameter. The upper part of the shaft is decorated with incised cross-hatched lines. The terminal has a flattened globular bone bead of 8.7mm diameter and 4mm thick which has been drilled to take the end of the shaft. Circa late first to second century AD, but significant numbers are known from 3rd to 4th-century contexts. As Eckardt and Crummy (2008, 130-31, fig. 72).
Created on: Thursday 10th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 11th February 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: BH-14A505
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete late Iron Age to early Roman cast copper-alloy button and loop fastener with raised boss, a variation of Wild’s Class III, dating c. AD 50-200, probably the mid-first century AD. The solid head is irregular sub-hourglass (or figure-of-eight) in shape and plano-convex in cross-section. The longer wider portion is tear-drop (or petal-headed) with a shorter and narrower semi-circular edge at the non-pointed end around the boss. The upper surface of the point is ridged and the surfaces of the plate decorated with three concentric grooves reducing in size to the centre. T…
Created on: Friday 14th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 14th January 2022
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Record ID: KENT-7A2007
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch (plate) of Roman date (c.100-200). Description: The brooch features a circular open work head with three projecting circular knops. Surrounding the central circular perforation is ringed decoration. The three knops are also decorated with similar rings with the addition of central dots. The head is joined to the body of the brooch by a sub-rectangular collar with notched decoration. The body is lozenge in plan with a notched border. At its centre is a raised oval cell filled with enamel, which has no lost its surface colour, creating a boss-…
Created on: Friday 19th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 24th November 2021
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Record ID: KENT-559BF6
Object type: MIRROR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete fragmented copper-alloy with cast copper-alloy handle and engraved decoration. Dating to the period c.75 – 25 BC. Description: The mirror and handle are in multiple pieces, the majority of which were found by the finders with a small number of fragments particularly of the handle were later recovered by archaeological investigations. Of these fragments there are three larger pieces representing part of the centre and bottom of the mirrors plate including a section with the split end and upper section of the cast handle attached. Numerous other fragments were also…
Created on: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Last updated: Thursday 18th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South-West Medway', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-4F1A6D
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy and forged iron key of Roman date (c. AD 43-410). Description: The handle of the key takes the form of a male lion lying on all fours, its front two paws grasping the head of a prey animal which looks out from its locked jaws. No teeth are visible, but the snout of the lion, which has two incised dots for nostrils, rests upon the head of the prey animal whose ears extend up the sides of the lion's face. From the ears, a wide brow represented by a shallow ridge and which is incised with two dots for eyes meets a wide triangular snout. Two circular …
Created on: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Last updated: Thursday 18th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South-West Medway', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-A71641
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy enamelled Roman strap slide probably dating c. AD 43-200. The strap slide consists of three triangular points, the lower one longer than the upper two, projecting from a central circular boss. Each of the points is sub-polyhedral in cross-section. A longitudinal rib rises from the tip of each one and crests before descending. The outer edges are similarly rounded but shallower and downwardly angled, while the lower edge of each point is angled and concavely curved. The defining edges of each point are darker brown in colour than the rest of the surrou…
Created on: Tuesday 9th November 2021
Last updated: Sunday 26th June 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-38C769
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy anthropomorphic socketed terminal fitting of late Iron Age to early Roman date. The object is 34.5mm in height and has a tubular body, 13mm in diameter with a terminal in the form of a human (male) head, moulded in three dimensions and measuring 18.8mm wide by 19.7mm long. The head has typically insular “celtic” features including a triangular face and pointed chin wedge-shaped nose, small and narrow triangular mouth and bulbous oval eyes in triangular sockets. There are small round ears to either side of the head. The hair is defined by incised lines, with a l…
Created on: Thursday 4th November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2022
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Record ID: SF-B23F0B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy zoomorphic (fish) brooch dating to circa AD 100-200 AD. The brooch is rendered in the form of a fish and is complete save for the missing tail of the creature and the pin. The brooch is flat with rounded edges. The front face is decorated with cells containing enamel. The head of the fish is part of the body rather than separately moulded. The mouth is now indiscernible but the eye survives as an incised ring containing the pupil. The incised area would likely have contained enamel but this has now vanished. On the body is an incised D-shaped recessed …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wenhaston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-55A889
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Roman copper alloy stylus, dating to c AD 300 - 400. The stylus is slightly bent and the spatula end bent a little further to one side. The spatula is a broadening of one end to erase, and in this case is close in form to an equilateral triangle. A split leaf-like decorative feature separates the spatula from the shaft. A central panel of decoration takes up about one third of the length of the shaft, separated from the other two sections by a deep circumferential groove. The decoration is divided roughly into three: at the spatula end it consists of a panel of incised diag…
Created on: Tuesday 24th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as ''Hemington CP'', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-6874E9
Object type: CURSE TABLET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman lead alloy curse tablet, dating to AD 43 - 410. The tablet is sub-rectangular with uneven edges and appears to have once been folded in half. It is inscribed on one face, the other is undecorated, the is inscription read from right to left on the tablet, transcribed in reverse (to be read as) below: NOMINECAMVLORIGIETTITOCVNEMOLAMQVAMPERDEDERVNT INFANVMDEIDEV OVICVMQVENVM[.]NINVOLASIT MOLAILLAMVTSAMGVINSVVM MITTATVSQVEDIE'M'QV O MORIATVRQ[..]CVMQUEINVO...A[..]HVRTAMOR'I'ATVR INVOLASITETVERTOGNDEOSPITIOVELVISSACIO QVICVMQVEILLAMINVOLASITADEVOMORIOTVR nomine Ca…
Created on: Friday 13th August 2021
Last updated: Monday 29th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ratcliffe on Soar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-185C06
Object type: SCEPTRE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy object probably of late Iron Age to Roman date, possibly a sceptre handle. Description: The object has a roughly hourglass shape in plan, with wide terminals and middle with fluting between. One terminal (oriented towards the bottom of the image) is rounded with the other end (oriented towards the top of the image) terminates with four prongs. The inner section of the upper terminal is slightly dished. There are concentric lines around the fluted parts of the handle and on the outside of the bottom terminal. There is significant wear that has worn the patinati…
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th October 2021
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Record ID: BERK-AF0483
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy and lead Roman steelyard weight. The weight a head weight in the form of a double head. On the top of the heads is a suspension loop and the bottom of the weight is flat. Both faces at distinctly different in form. The larger head is more pronounced, projects further forward and has more distinct features. Both eyes are deeply sunken, the nose is large and bulbous and the lips of the mouth clearly defined. The second face is flatter and worn. The eyes are just about perceptible but the nose and mouth are very worn. There is a slight beard still visible and large tufts o…
Created on: Tuesday 29th June 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 30th June 2021
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