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Record ID: SF9030
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Rim sherd of Roman grey ware.
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'ELMSTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF9033
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Terminal from a snake-ring, made from a very greyish soft metal, apparently a lead alloy. The hoop of the ring is circular in cross-section at the break, 3 mm in diameter; it quickly flares out to form a snake's head bezel which is 10 mm wide and 3 mm thick. The head is oval or lozengiform, and is quite stylised, with grooves along the edge on the rear half of the head but no other visible decoration. The head tapers into the hoop with no border between them, and the fragment is strongly curved to fit around the finger.
Created on: Thursday 1st August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'ELMSTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF9120
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Miniature axe made from copper alloy. The blade is almost rectangular, tapering very slightly towards the blade end which is decorated on one face with three transverse grooves. The grooves are visible when the axe is held with the blade to the left and the shaft to the right. The shaft is circular in cross-section; where the original surface survives it is 3 mm in diameter. The shaft is set very slightly in from the butt of the axehead, but as many of the edges are fragmentary it is hard to tell exactly where the original edge of the butt was. The undecorated face has a slight gr…
Created on: Monday 12th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'ELMSTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7962
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded terret, of 'covered-loop' type. The loop is a curved bar which is still intact. There is a 'skirt' which comes down towards both faces of the loop; on one face the skirt is incomplete, but on the other it has two incurved edges meeting at a point. The skirt extends upwards into a projection which is then broken, but which may originally have ended in another loop, this time for a rein to pass through. There are hints of grooves around the base of this projection. The patina is an iron-like brown colour, with small fragments of a deep brown surface; underneath the brown i…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2018
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This findspot is known as 'LITTLE OAKLEY', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8680
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy button-and-loop fastener of Wild's type Vib (fasteners with plain (i.e. unenamelled) rectangular heads). Although the head was probably originally rectangular, it has now lost most if not all of its edges, and is now sub-rectangular or sub-oval and measures 25 x 16 mm x 3 mm thick. The breaks are very old and worn, and reveal a number of small holes in the metal. In the centre the head is decorated with a deep dot surrounded by a double ring. The stem emerges from the reverse of the head, turns a right-angle and then expands into a sturdy teardrop-shaped loop which is …
Created on: Monday 10th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'LAYER DE LA HAYE', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SF8676
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy button-and-loop fastener, of Wild's class VIc. The head is basically rectangular, with gently rounded sides and corners; it measures 17 x 12 mm. It has a raised border and longitudinal line along the centre, plus two raised lozenges bisected by the longitudinal line, all forming six outer and four inner triangular cells for enamel. The inner cells retain some white enamel in fairly good condition, but the enamel in the outer cells has completely decayed away. The stem projects from the reverse and then turns at a right angle; there is a lot of bubbly copper corrosion in…
Created on: Friday 7th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'ESSEX BRADFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF6556
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 14th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'ESSEX GREAT HENNY', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8386
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Russian bale seal, an oval lead disc measuring 20 x 23 mm. Two holes for ties are clearly visible running through the thickness of the seal along its short axis. The seal has been crimped together by the use of obverse and reverse dies which bear lettering. The dies are not oriented; on the obverse, the lettering runs parallel to the holes rather than perpendicular to them, and on the reverse the lettering runs at about 45 degrees to the holes. On the obverse, the lettering is in Cyrillic; a transcription by John Sullivan can be seen on the scan and the Latin equivalent is something…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'MISTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8679
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Long slim copper-alloy arrowhead. The head is leaf-shaped and hand-forged, with a stepped cross-section; when held with the point to the top, the left-hand side of the blade is depressed. The head measures 12 mm wide and 38 mm long; the rest of the 163 mm long object is taken up with a slim tapering tang. The upper half of the tang has a rectangular cross-section, with diagonally opposite corners having oblique cuts forming decorative barbs. When the object is held with head uppermost the left-hand rear corner and right-hand front corner are decorated in this way. The barbs are to…
Created on: Monday 10th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'LAWFORD', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SF8294
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 11th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'BRADFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8109
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy mount. It has a rectangular panel surrounded by a ridged border, with two transverse rows of pellets dividing it into short end panels and a longer central panel. The central panel is filled with a symmetrical scrolly pattern and the end panels are each filled with a row of six larger pellets. The ends each have a broken-off terminal, perhaps openwork and not necessarily identical. On the reverse is a bent-over attachment spike and the scar from a second.
Created on: Thursday 7th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'DEDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8110
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Circular lead disc, 26 mm in diameter and with one face flat and one slightly convex. The convex face is decorated with a beaded border and the relief figure of a person on horseback. When looked at together with sf1027/8111 (from the same parish) they look like part of a set of gaming pieces with a hunting theme. Perhaps late 18th century.
Created on: Thursday 7th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'DEDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8111
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Sub-circular lead disc, a maximum of 24 mm in diameter; it looks as if it has been poorly cast with the metal not quite reaching the edges of the mould. It is slightly convex, with a slightly hollowed reverse, and has relief decoration of a fox's head seen from the front. When looked at together with sf1026/8110 (from the same parish) they look a little like part of a set of gaming pieces with a hunting theme. Perhaps late 18th century.
Created on: Thursday 7th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'DEDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7380
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Russian bale seal, not quite complete, measuring 23 x 21.5 mm. One face is stamped with Cyrillic lettering in four lines, reading (transliterated) L.D./ IMVI / NNIKS / M 55 (the last two letters of the second line and the second 5 are unclear). The other face has Roman letters reading NP. / - F 12 H / 1809. The second line on this face is very unclear but is read with the help of the parallel in Fife Museum, CUPMS 1999.56.14 (Sullivan 2000, no. 40). There is, however, a definite initial before the F. John Sullivan has seen this seal and confirms that the Quality Control Officer iss…
Created on: Monday 12th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'MISTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7381
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Lead bale seal, originally thought to be possibly Russian. A simple lead disc, 22.5 mm in diameter and now incomplete, which reads MD / 1780 in two lines on one face, and has a coat of arms with a coronet above on the other. The charge on the shield appears to be (see sketch) quarterly, 1 and 2 a lion rampant, 3 barry of four with a lozenge on the second bar, 4 missing, with possibly some central device (a rose?) These arms do not seem English. John Sullivan has seen this seal (February 2002) and considers it not to be Russian.
Created on: Monday 12th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'MISTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7378
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy figurine, 40 mm tall. It has lost its feet, most of a sword held in its right hand, and part of a possible shield held in the left hand. It is also very worn, with no facial details surviving, and other details hard to see. It has transverse grooves across what appear to be 16th-century padded trunks; this may indicate armour, as there are more grooves over the shoulders. Both arms are slightly bent. The sword has a clearly visible pommel and guard, and was originally held upright, blade uppermost. Length 40 mm, width 29 mm, weight 8.74g.
Compare BH-5852A2, …
Created on: Friday 9th November 2001
Last updated: Monday 3rd September 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'ESSEX LITTLE OAKLEY', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7357
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy hooked tag, now rather corroded. The plate is roughly oval in shape, with a rectangular attachment loop at the top. In the centre of the plate is a circular cell with a raised edge which may once have held a setting. Around this are 12 circular indentations, seven of which perforate the metal; they were probably all intended as perforations but were badly cast. They are of differing sizes, and not set in a circular pattern; the edge of the plate follows the lines of the perforations, so is wavy. At the bottom is the hook, which is decorated at the top with two to fo…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2001
Last updated: Monday 10th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'GREAT AND LITTLE WIGBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7241
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Russian bale seal. Flat and circular, there are two holes within the thickness to take cords. The obverse has four lines of Cyrillic lettering, reading (transliterated) .LD / MTAR / PCHINO / N II. This will be the name of the quality control officer and perhaps the number of the location at which he worked. The reverse has the Roman initials SP / NP. / F.W / 18 - - in four lines, with the last two digits of the date unfortunately missing. SP is probably missing a B (for St Petersburg); the next two lines are the initials of the producers of the goods. In the fourth line, the thir…
Created on: Friday 26th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'RAMSEY AND PARKESTON', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7053
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Russian bale seal. One face is quite clearly stamped with two lines of Cyrillic lettering and H 32 6 on the lowest line. The reverse is very hard to read; John Sullivan of St Andrews University has transliterated it as the surname (P)alov(o)khin - there is a Polovokhin recorded on two seals in Fife.
Created on: Friday 5th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'MISTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7592
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Flint 'tortoise' core, relatively large and thin. Dark brown/black flint, slightly rolled, with some cortex on one face. A core is a flint from which flakes have been removed. 'Tortoise' cores may be implements as well as cores, and they occur in Late Neolithic contexts with Grooved Ware, which is a kind of crude pottery with grooved decoration which is found mostly in ritual, not domestic, contexts (e.g. at henges).
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'FRINTON AND WALTON', grid reference and parish protected.
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