Record ID: HAMP-716D58
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An undatable lead weight, an isoceles triangle in shape with a rectangular cross-section (11.6mm thick) and a projecting loop for suspension at the apex. The loop is oval in shape and narrower (5.6mm) than the body of the weight. It has a central oval piercing 5.2mm wide and 3.4mm tall. The short edge opposite the projection is convex and has a longitudinal groove in the centre of its underside. The weight measures 61.5mm in length, 36.6mm in max.width (13.7mm min.width, just below the loop), 11.6mm in max.width and weighs 136g (to the nearest 2g). It probably dates from the medieval…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd July 2019
Last updated: Monday 5th August 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-E2B2A6
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval (1250-1300) lead pointed-oval seal matrix with a pierced (and slightly squashed) lug to the reverse. The matrix depicts perhaps an eight-pointed star (a transverse with six projections to either side) with an inscription around, S' WIL' DE ASTERBY (the seal of William of Asterby). To the reverse the projection is D-shaped and bent to one side. It has a 1.9mm diameter central piercing. The matrix, without projection, is c.2.7mm thick. The object measures 40.8mm in length, 24.6mm in max.width, 9.3mm in max.depth (at the squashed loop) and weighs 19.29g.
Created on: Monday 10th June 2019
Last updated: Saturday 22nd February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-EA0A16
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of medieval (1150-1500) lead pilgrim's ampulla consisting of part of the rounded bottom half only, with a jagged tear (old damage) across its upper half. The ampulla depicts a petalled flower with raised edging and central pellet on one face (the break makes the number of petals uncertain; often such ampulla display four petals but this one may have had more). The decoration on the other face is not clear and appears to comprise a small triangle with raised edges, diagonally arranged. Below the edge is flanked with slightly diagonal parallel raised lines. The object measur…
Created on: Wednesday 29th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-71DA45
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead weight or perhaps trial piece of probable medieval to post-medieval date. It is sub-circular in shape and roughly flat to both faces. One face has a trio of worn rectangular impressions close to one edge, while the other face has deeper impressions of longer rectangles, perhaps seven or eight in number, some paralell to each other but otherwise haphazzardly placed. Three of these show within them a pattern of five raised dots arranged one at the centre and two pairs either side. The object measures 36.7mm in length, 33.5mm in width, 5.0mm in thickness and weighs 29.37g.
Created on: Monday 29th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st May 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-F2F814
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval lead papal bulla of Pope Honorius III, whose papacy lasted from 1216 to 1227. The obverse bears the legend HONO / RIVS / .PP.III. within a beaded border, an omega above the 'PP', perhaps an abbreviation of Papa Patria (priest of Rome) or Pastor Pastorum (shepherd of shepherds). The reverse depicts the faces of St Peter and St Paul below the (remains of) the inscription SPASPE (SPA = Sanctus Paulus, SPE = Sanctus Petrus), all of which are surrounded by a beaded border, flanking the outside edge of the bulla. St. Paul is seen on the left looking right, with a long pointed…
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-684BE6
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval (1200-1500) lead alloy pointed-oval seal matrix with solid lug handle projecting above and to the reverse. An inwards partial fold runs from the front of the matrix to the left of the lug in a diagonal to the opposite side. The matrix depicts a central stem with downward-angled spikes to either side rising from an inverted V-shape at its base. Just above the base and roughly halfway along are two short transverse mouldings from which rise (one either side) a curling palm frond. Between the central moulding and the pointed terminal of the stem are two shorter outward-curvi…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Liss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-E55CB5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval/ early post-medieval (1400-1700) lead vessel which has been squashed almost flat. The base is semi-circular in shape with flaring sides, extending into a prominent (and probably originally out-turned) rim. A wide concentric rib decorates the junction between rim and body, and what would have been the flat face has the initials HG formed of two thin raised ribs. At the base the vessel measures 44.3mm by 14.9mm. The squashed rim measures 80.2mm long and 21.1mm wide. The vessel is 59.3mm in length and weighs 107.53g.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 1st May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-CF41C1
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval probable four-part lead cloth seal, consisting of disc two and three only, and probably dating to c. 1525-1724. Both discs extend from either end of a bent connecting strip, a further flat projection extends from the second: probable portcullis of three uprights with angled ends (or possible black-letter initial) within raised beaded border // the number 6 or 9 within raised beaded border. The cloth seal measures 23.4mm in length, 17.1mm in width/ diameter, 3.3mm in thickness and weighs 4.70g.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rockbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-BD10D2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman (AD 43-410) lead anthropomorphic weight in the form of a human face. It is D-shaped in cross-section, being solid and flat to the underside, and ovoid in shape with one rounded end (the top of the head) and one more pointed end (the chin). The convex face has a raised moulded transverse band below the wider end, formed of c. four or five large conjoined pellets. Below are two hollowed oval areas with raised central lentoid eyes. The nose between has been lost through damage but was a central ridge and the highest point of the object. Below this, and just above the more pointed…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2018
Last updated: Thursday 14th February 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-DFDA6B
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably Roman lead votive model or miniature object in the form of an axehead. The object is trapezoidal in shaped and triangular in profile, increasing in thickness and width from the "cutting edge" (8.0x1.5mm) to the "attachment end" (9.7x6.5mm), where there is a central circular piercing (3.5mm diameter). The attachment end is slightly rounded with a lip/ overhang to one side only. The metal is a creamy-white in colour. The object measures 21.4mm in max.length, 9.7 in max.width, 6.5mm in max.thickness and weighs 6.72g. Cf. BH-38AFF9 on this database.
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-BFD309
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead alloy circular token with the raised initials TC on one face and HA on the other, both with a partly raised rim. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally. They are difficult to date precisely, although those with initials are generally thought to be post-medieval in date (c.1500-1850). Other examples with this combination of intials on this database appear most commonly to be from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, for example IOW-BBE9CD, IOW-638C35, HAMP-1D2A58 and HAMP-AC8D96. Most recently, HAMP-253150 which is from the same district ward.
Created on: Thursday 21st June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Titchfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-BDE8B1
Object type: DIE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An irregular cast lead die of uncertain, Roman to post-medieval, date (c.AD 43 - 1800). The die is oblong in shape (rather than a cube, suggesting it is probably home-made) with incuse dots indicating the values of each side. The die measures 10.3mm by 9.4mm by 8.0mm and weighs 6.87g. The opposing longer, wider faces are 6 and 5; the longer, narrower faces are 3 and 2; the short ends are 1 and 4. None of these faces add up to seven so it does not conform to a 'regular' known pattern. Opposing faces adding to seven becomes common during the medieval and especially post-medieval perio…
Created on: Thursday 21st June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 27th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-BBDFBB
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably early post-medieval (1500-1650) uniface lead alloy circular token with the initials AB divided by a crozier (the end curling right). Above the A (and to the left of the head of the crozier) is the letter O. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally. They are difficult to date precisely, although those with initials are generally thought to be post-medieval in date (c.1500-1850). Rob Webley comments of this token, 'The form of the A reminds me of that on the Augsburg cloth seals, so a foreign source may be a possibility' (pers. comm. June 2018). Augsburg …
Created on: Thursday 21st June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-1F6A8F
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval lead alloy composite button, missing its loop. It is biconvex in shape and hollow, with two blow-holes to the reverse. The front half is decorated with cast radiating lines from a central pellet. The spaces between the radiating lines are decorated with, alternately, a vertical line of pellets and raised transverse ribs forming a ladder effect. The button measures 16.5mm in diameter, 14.7mm in height and weighs 5.26g. Cf. LON-719EF2 and Read, 2005 (111), which the author suggests a late 16th-17th century date for.
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-1EBDD3
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead circular double-sided token, dating to c. 1500-1850. The token has raised bust on one side within a raised edge; it is uncertain in which direction the bust is facing. The reverse has a raised letter A placed off-centre; it has no raised edge. Lead tokens had a wide variety of potential uses such as tallies, gaming pieces, tickets, weights, etc. and are believed to have been locally produced; they are therefore difficult to date precisely. Those carrying initials are generally deemed to be post-medieval in date (1500-1850), those which seem to mimic medieval…
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-5F4335
Object type: MUSKET BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of eleven post-medieval (1644-c.1800) lead shot, measuring and weighing (from largest to smallest, as per image): 18.7mm, 37.76g, two broken projections within oval area; 17.5mm, 30.75g; 12.8mm, 11.67g, concave flattening from impact; 11.8mm, 9.96g, worn casting seam visible; 11.8mm, 10.03g, worn casting seam visible and small circular flattened area where it has been trimmed; 13.2mm, 12.63g, concave flattening from impact; 13.4mm, 11.37g, flattening from impact; 11.9mm, 8.67g, irregularly-shaped; 12.7mm, 10.32g, flattening from impact; 11.9mm, 10.03g; 6.0mm, 1.40…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-3D528B
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete two- or four-disc post-medieval (c.1600-1700) lead cloth seal for alnage/ subsidy. It consists of disc one only, rather oval in shape with the rivet to the reverse squashed to one side. The cloth seal depicts a crowned rose with the letters L S to either side and the remains of an inscription around the edge, reading from right to left [....]HOP or [....]HOF The rivet to the reverse is stamped with the remainder of the letters AB or perhaps AR or AP. The object measures 14.7mm in length, 10.5mm in max.width, 3.4mm in max.thickness and weighs 2.49g.The dimensions of the…
Created on: Thursday 22nd March 2018
Last updated: Monday 26th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bentley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-A6808A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval lead alloy circular token with the initials WE (or perhaps WL) above a pair of transverse ribs on one side, and a six-petalled flower with large central pellet and raised edge on the other. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally. They are difficult to date precisely, although those with initials are generally thought to be post-medieval in date (c.1500-1850).
Created on: Thursday 15th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Farnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B2FC05
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a post-medieval (c.1650-1700) four-part lead cloth seal, consisting of a square inner part ('disc' two or three) only. A fragment of connecting strip survives projecting from two opposing edges. It has a depiction to one face only, a letter V or perhaps a harp within a rope-like border. Several annulets are visible in the field surrounding the V/ harp, and within it are raised horizontal ribs (depiction of harps mroe usually have diagonal ribs filling the shape). It measures 15.2x13.2mm, is 0.9mm thick and weighs 1.20g. A similar harp, but with diagonal rib decoration, c…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-B2C70C
Object type: FIRE MARK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four fragments of decorative Royal Exchange lead fire mark of 18th century date. Each fragment is rather bent with post-depositional damage to the edges, and the original complete object would have been oval in shape with an openwork crown projecting above and a rectangular panel with the policy number extending below (http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/royal-exchange-assurance-lead-fire-marks18th-century-4375579-details.aspx). All fragments are flat to the reverse with raised and moulded decoration to the front depicting a figural scene that appears to broadly depict a votive or …
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2018
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