Record ID: SF4049
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A pierced 7th-century early medieval pale gold sceat, Pada type (Pa III), c. 660-675.
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2000
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX LITTLE OAKLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5194
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Lozenge-shaped copper-alloy horse-harness pendant with intact but worn suspension loop at top. The front is gilded with three crown shapes in red enamel, making up a reversed version of the arms of the bishop of Ely: gules, three crowns or. The reverse has fine scratches running from corner to corner to form an uneven cross.
Created on: Monday 9th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX ALRESFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5205
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Shield-shaped copper-alloy horse-harness pendant with a broken and incomplete suspension loop. The surface of the metal has been eaten away by corrosion, leaving the inlaid blue enamel proud of the surface. The arms are those of the de Bohun family, earls of Hertford, Essex and Northampton: azure, a bend between two cotises and six lions rampant or (i.e. a blue background with a diagonal gold line between two smaller parallel lines, with three rampant lions to either side). The lions are reversed so that they face to the right (as you look at the pendant) rather than the left. Th…
Created on: Monday 9th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 17th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX ALRESFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5206
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, roughly oval with a small suspension loop projecting from the centre of one of the long sides. The design consists of a hexagon with incurved edges, inside which is a six-petalled flower inlaid with red enamel. Between the flower and the raised edge of the hexagon there is gilding laid over a dotted background. The narrow ends of the oval are formed from circular perforations set into the incurved edges of the hexagon. Along the other four edges, along the top and bottom of the pendant, are small projections. This pendant is not heraldic, j…
Created on: Monday 9th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX ALRESFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5207
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Circular copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, with suspension loop at top. There is a central trefoil of white enamel set in a gilded ground, with a triangular cell of red enamel filling the angles between the foils. In the white trefoil is a stag's head of gilded bronze, with a long oval face, ears, and antlers each with a pair of lower tines and an asymmetrically set pair of upper tines. The technical heraldic term for this style of head with no neck is 'cabossed'. The trefoil is unusual in heraldry and it may be that this pendant was merely decorative and not heraldic.
Created on: Monday 9th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX ALRESFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5330
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy toggle, 35 mm long and oval in section (11 x 8 mm). Each end is convex, with a groove around the circumference just inside the widest part as it begins to taper to a waist. Beyond the waists, each end then flares again to a centre which has a rectangular perforation now filled with iron corrosion. There are two further grooves around the circumference here, one at each end of the perforation (and apparently cut by it). The iron corrosion is probably from a separate iron loop. The surface has a nice brown/green patina, but much has been lost and in these patches t…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX ALPHAMSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5707
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Probable stylus which has been identified as late 12th or early 13th century by John Cherry at the British Museum. The shaft is rectangular in section, 3 x 2 mm at the rounded tip, and flares to a flattened eraser which is 10 mm in width at the slightly curved top. The eraser end is ?stamped with a lion passant guardant in a circle; there are some sketchy texturing marks on the body and the hindquarter, and the curving tail has a decorative blob halfway along it. Below the circle are some back-to-back curving tendrils, each ending in what is probably an ivy-like leaf. The stamp…
Created on: Friday 1st June 2001
Last updated: Monday 20th May 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF5809
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Lead seal matrix, pointed oval in shape and flat with a pierced lug on the reverse at one end. Now slightly crumpled, it measures 35 x 26 mm. The central motif is a very ornate fleur-de-lis. The inscription reads +S' IOHANNE DE. LA. ROUEL (the U is possibly a D) - Seal of Joanna de la Rovel or Rodel. The 'de la' should imply a placename, although we haven't found one in England like this (it may of course be French). Alternatively it could be a nickname referring to a spur rowel. Women's seals such as this one are surprisingly common; about 23% of all seals recorded on the PAS databas…
Created on: Friday 8th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX KELVEDON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF6536
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular lead weight, 34 x 31 mm and 12 mm thick, with a copper-alloy disc set slightly off-centre into one face. The weight is neatly made and the addition of a decorative piece of copper alloy dates it to the Viking period. These decorative pieces are, however, usually highly ornamented and it is unusual to see this plain, pale green disc, 14 mm in diameter, with no visible ornament at all. Viewing it under a strong raking light, a hint of a border line can be seen, and taking this, the diameter and the colour into account it is possible that the disc was originally a fourth-ce…
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX CANVEY ISLAND', 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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX GREAT HENNY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF6706
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy slide key. The bow is incomplete, but was originally perhaps lozengiform with an oval perforation which has worn through resulting in the loss of the outer corner. The bow is small and flattened compared to the solid circular-section stem, which is 6.5 mm in diameter. From the end of this extends a long rectangular bit which has a central rectangular perforation. Halfway down on one face are two projections, one either side of the perforation, and there is another pair of similar projections at the bottom giving the bit an F-shaped section. Beyond the bit, the stem h…
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX TOLLESHUNT MAJOR', grid reference and parish protected.

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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
Spatial data recorded. 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
Spatial data recorded. 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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAHG-33D653
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Circular early Anglo-Saxon horse-harness mount with two zones of Style II decoration, dating to the first half of the seventh century; identified from the image only. The material is uncertain, although the image appears to show gilding in very good condition with occasional spots of green corrosion showing through from underlying copper alloy. The mount appears complete if slightly bent, and the image is apparently at near life size, indicating a diameter of c. 65 mm. There is a central circular setting with four similar but smaller settings evenly spaced around to form a ‘quincu…
Created on: Friday 3rd February 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: FAHG-858AD2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of foot from a florid cruciform brooch, partly distorted by heat. The fragment consists of a decorated triangular panel with traces of an undecorated rectangular terminal below, which has been torn away; the tear has bent the metal before breaking, and the break is now a little worn. The rectangular terminal is separated from the triangular panel by a line of beading. The triangular panel has a relief border, and is filled with Style I decoration, now worn and hence hard to decipher. There may be a single bird, with curly beak filling the apex at the top, body in the centr…
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North-west Essex', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8970
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 23rd July 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 4th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COGGESHALL', 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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LITTLE OAKLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7569
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver sceat, Series C2, Primary Phase.
Created on: Monday 10th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 6th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GREAT BROMLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7571
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Lead seal matrix. Circular, 28 mm in diameter, and plano-convex, rising to 8 mm thick. In the centre of the reverse is a long projecting peg which is now bent over (and not included in the measurement of thickness). The die has engraved inner and outer borders and a deep circular dot. Between the borders are engraved straight lines which must have been imitating letters. Not a single letter is confidently recognisable, although there does seem to be a cross at one point (presumably beginning the inscription) and after this there may be the letters WILL. The matrix is then damaged…
Created on: Monday 10th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ALDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.