Record ID: SF8654
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead ornament in the shape of an arrow, with flat reverse and angled or midribbed front giving a low triangular cross-section. The object appears to be complete. Similar lead objects in the shape of stars are thought to have been set into the plaster of medieval ceilings as architectural ornaments; see Egan 1998, no. 90.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WIX', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8385
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified gold object. It consists of an apparently solid truncated cone with concave sides (a bell shape), and a narrow tube set transversely on the top. The tube appears to be hollow (although now filled with soil) and is 10.5 mm long; it is basically 2 mm in diameter, but has a collar of beaded wire around either end and a line of similar beaded wire along the top. The wire is 0.8 mm wide; the beads are regular and rounded, and the bead-count per 2.5 mm is 7. The beads around the ends of the tube are very rubbed and worn, particularly towards the top, so that here they are alm…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF7358
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified copper-alloy object, now very corroded. It is roughly triangular, 35 mm long and with a base 18 mm wide. Close to the apex are two rounded projections which bring the width here up to 17 mm. At the apex the object is only 2 mm thick, but it steadily increases in thickness towards the base to a maximum of 6.5 mm thick. One face then has a deep bevel along the basal edge, and just above this is a protruding piece of what looks like iron, although there is no attraction to a magnet. The whole of the surface is missing, leaving a soft powdery pale green corrosion. We hav…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GREAT AND LITTLE WIGBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.