Record ID: KENT-346441
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Anglo-Saxon cast copper alloy brooch of long equal-arm type. The brooch has symmetrical triangular head and foot-plates set either side of a short, arched, bow. Both head and foot-plate terminate in a round knop, and both are flat and plain. The head-plate has an integrally cast pin bar lug on the reverse on its centre-line immediately above the junction with the bow, set parallel to the line of the pin, and there is a corresponding catch-plate on the foot, just below the junction with the bow, again set parallel to the pin. Iron corrosion adhering to the lug on the back of the …
Created on: Monday 14th April 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 14th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyminge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-344345
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an early Anglo-Saxon S-shaped brooch, representing just under half. The object was cast in silver, but most of the gilding has rubbed off. Triangular punch marks decorate the body of the animal and were once filled with niello, now only left in a few punch marks and visible only under magnification. The back still retains the attachment lug for the pin and is otherwise plain. Discussion: S-brooches were popular in the early medieval period, both on the Continent and in England. Here, they are most common in Kent. Dimensions: L 15 mm; W 10 mm max.; Weight 1.3 grams …
Created on: Monday 14th April 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 24th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyminge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F67CF2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment from a Medieval finger-ring consisting of an openwork bezel in the form of a crowned heart. The heart is held on the right side by a strap within a clenched hand. The strap on the corresponding side has broken, but would have been modelled in the same fashion. The ring fragment is silver-gilt and dates from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Consequently, in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996. J P Robinson Curator of Medi…
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ashford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F4FA96
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular frame, pinked backplate with raised inner wall protecting decorated section of the mount. Around the open centre is an openwork, continuous ring made up of spiralling filigree ornament with bosses. The backplate plain but punched on the rim with two holes; one torn open. Signs of wear. This would appear to be a complete silver-gilt annular brooch frame with the small pinhole for the pin, now missing. The filigree spirals and knops, and the pinked backplate, resemble decoration on 16th C dress fittings and this may be of a similar date. It resembles a brooch-frame from…
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snargate', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F4DA40
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
8th-9th century Small, silver hooked tag with rounded head-plate. I attachment hole and incised decoration in form of a six-petalled flower. The hook on the back is intact. Hooked tags are all-purpose fasteners, used to secure small bags or purses and also clothing. They occur in various forms from the late 8th century onwards. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface of a small hooked tag from Bilsington, Kent, indicated a silver content of 92-97%, the rest being copper with traces of lead and gold. The decoration is crudely chased into the silver and there …
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bilsington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F4AC47
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Ball, biconvex with attachements. Projecting seam, broken off at point of attachment, with 8-petal 'rose' motif of applied bent wire. Edit: 23/12/15: This is the bulb from a style of whistle normally called a 'bosun's' whistle.
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 21st October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingsnorth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F48398
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt finger-ring with broad flat band. Gilding is intact on the interior. The interior is inscribed FEARE GOD* . The ring is much damaged, being split apart and partially straight with several cracks. The ring shows evidence of cleaning. The inscription in capital letters is indicative of a 16th-17th century date. A similar inscription, "Feare God, will live ever", can be found in Evans, J (1931). English Posies and Posy Rings. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, pg 36. This inscription dates to AD1596. Consequently, in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% prec…
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 9th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bethersden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F46040
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval brooch frame, missing its pin. It consists of a simple wire hoop and four spherical bosses placed at equidistant intervals around it. Each of the bosses has been decorated with circular punches, though much of the definition has now been lost. The brooch is silver-gilt and dates from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century. Consequently, in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996. J P Robinson Curator of Medieval Collections …
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Mary in the Marsh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F446C0
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Late Anglo-Saxon silver hooked tag with round headplate, two rivet holes close to the top edge and intact hook. The front is decorated with a simple, niello-inlaid design consisting of a spiral motif inside a cross frame. The back of the object is plain. Hooked tags are all-purpose fasteners, used to secure small bags or purses and also clothing. They occur in various forms from the late 7th century onwards, but those with this type of spiral motif are thought to be 11th-century on the grounds that the spiral is characteristic of Anglo-Scandinavian art. For other examples of the…
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Friday 10th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Romney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F3ECF6
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
undiagnostic silver (?) ingot.
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yalding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-E1F594
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Elongated tool of pale grey-white flint, with some iron staining.
Created on: Thursday 10th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wrotham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-E1C570
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Drop-shaped cast copper alloy strap-end, with single off-centre hole (missing rivet) at top. The body of the strap-end swells slightly in the middle before tapering to a rounded point at its terminal. The open end has a flattened rectangular cross-section, but for the lower two thirds of its length it has a bifaced front and concave back. Probably of late Roman or early Anglo-Saxon date.
Created on: Thursday 10th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-E19B07
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman coin: nummus.
Created on: Thursday 10th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Faversham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A31134
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A silver late Anglo-saxon hooked tag, very damaged. Round head plate with two openings at the top. The plate is seriously damaged and part of one hole and of the right edge are torn off. Shank of hook bent backwards and only a short length of it is preserved. The front of the plate was engraved with a geometrical motif that is indecipherable now. Traves of niello inlay remain in parts of the incised lines. Hooked tags are all-purpose fasteners, used to secure small bags or purses and also clothing. They occur in various forms from the late 8th century onwards, but those with circula…
Created on: Monday 7th April 2008
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitstable', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-3652A4
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead circular medieval seal matrix, with petal design in centre, around which is the legend S'Thom.F.Iohp (Seal of Thomas, son of John (or Joseph?). The reverse has a small handle and a moulded fleur-de-lys design.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-361C31
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead Papal Bulla of Nicholas III (1277-1280). The obverse has the legend NICO/[----]/P.III, whilst the reverse has two bearded faces facing each other.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-35F464
Object type: CURSE TABLET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead object, possibly a Roman curse tablet. The object is roughly rectangular, with a single hole in the centre. It is bent into a curve, perhaps as a result of having been rolled or folded in the past. One surface has an area of cross-hatching, whilst on the other side area some incisions that may be lettering.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-35E905
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object, possibly a ferrule. The object is hollow, with one open end and a drop-shaped cross-section. There is a single hole in the side, presumably for a fixing rivet.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hawkinge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-35D988
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead or lead alloy figurine of robed figure holding an infant. The figurine is hollow, with an open base.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hawkinge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A6C434
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver coin: short cross cut-half penny.
Created on: Friday 14th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westerham', grid reference and parish protected.