Record ID: ESS-4E1CC7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy Roman decorative mount. The mount shows a crude bust of Mercury. The shoulders are shown draped. The face is moulded with incised lentoid eyes, raised ridges for the brows that join with a crude broad flat, nose with a short incised straight line for the mouth. The head appears to be moulded with curly hair though this may equally be the edge of the helmet. The helmet is otherwise plain. It has two wings extending at right angles to either side. Both of the wings are decorated with small circular indents. The reverse of the bust is plain. When viewed in profile, th…
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Thurlow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-4D7A85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Borre-style disc brooch. The brooch is circular in plan and flat in section. It is now damaged and two significant portions of the circumference are now missing. The front face of the brooch is decorated with a raised moulded design of a central lozenge with a circular depression at its centre. Each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double-contoured knots that fill each quarter. Around the edge of the brooch is a plain raised moulded border. To the reverse of the brooch is a transverse catchplate. The pin-lug is now missing due to damage, bu…
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2006
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-4BC243
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete Early Medieval cast copper alloy pommel cap of 'Cocked hat' type. The pommel cap is sub rectangular in plan and pyramidical in outline. The pommel cap is hollow with slightly concave sides; there are no traces of decoration. To either end of the pommel cap are a horizontal pair of circular lugs with circular perforations for riveting the cap to the wooden (or other material) of the pommel. None of the rivets survive. The object is worn but the original surface survives with an even mid green patina. There is some damage to one end on the upper surface by one set of lugs and t…
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Thurlow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-39FF15
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hooked tag probably of Late Saxon date. The plate of the tag is square in plan and flat in section. It is decorated with nine raised dots, the top middle dot being the circular piercing for attachment. Two of the other raised dots are also pierced due to wear. Extending from the middle of the bottom edge is the integral hook which extends down and then curves back towards the front of the tag. It ends in a sharp point. The reverse of the tag is plain, though the reverse of the raised dots are concave. The original surface is missing. Exposed surfaces are brown with pa…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Temple End', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-39B536
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead weight, probably of Viking date. The object has been cast in one piece and takes the form of a flattened sphere. One flat face has a shallow circular depression, whilst the other is damaged and it is impossible to tell whether there is deliberate markings (though it also seems to have a depression). The object is 13.92mm high, 20.82mm in diameter and weighs 33.67g. It is abraded and is mid grey in colour. A similar weight has been reported from Hertfordshire as BH-C5E266. Here Kevin Leahy postulates the Viking period date as the object is similar to approximately 150 weights …
Created on: Monday 16th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Linton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-397B61
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy badge, probably Medieval. The badge is circular in plan and flat in section. To the front of the badge is a raised moulded design of a simple human face within a border. The face takes the form of two lentoid eyes, with dots for pupils, a slightly raised moulded, straight nose joined with the straight eyebrows and a simple straight line for the mouth. The border is decorated with a series of rings-and-dots. The reverse of the badge is plain, but there is an integral shank that extends from the top edge of the badge and is bent back parallel with the reverse. This is pr…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2006
Last updated: Monday 11th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-393616
Object type: LID
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval or Post-medieval cast lead alloy lid from a weight box or something similar. The lid is circular in plan and flat in section. It is 59.09mm in diameter, 2.94mm thick and weighs 66.21g. The top of the lid is decorated with a raised, moulded design. It takes the form of the shield of Tudor England (the lions of England quartered with the lis of France) set within a circular border that is then subdivided into squares with an alternating pattern of crosshatching and ‘S’ shapes (some reversed). The reverse or underside of the lid is plain. A small knop to one point of the…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shudy Camps', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-38B2A4
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Medieval horse harness pendant. The pendant is shield shaped and flat in section. It is worn and abraded but some decoration survives to the front of the pendant. The design shows the filed of the shield divided vertically into two halves (or per pale). The left field has the remains of red (gules) enamel in which are the outlines of three lions rampant (as on the arms of England) which may have once been enamelled or gilded. The right filed is much abraded and no discernible design remains, though there are flecks of gilt. The reverse of the pendant is plain, To the…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2006
Last updated: Friday 23rd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wicken Bonhunt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-385123
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon hooked tag of 8th century date. The tag has a flat, elongated triangular plate. Extending from the tip of the triangle is the integral pointed hook which curves back the rear of the object. This is now truncated and survives for no longer than 5.4mm. At the top of the plate are two circular perforations for attachment. The front of the tag is decorated with a recessed linear, geometric design of triangles and lozenge shapes. The recesses were probably once filled, possibly with black niello and the tag may have been silvered. The revers…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wicken Bonhunt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-E60347
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward III. York episcopal issue, probably series G, 1356-1361.
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'White Notley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-E58C70
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval or Post-medieval cast copper alloy dagger pommel.The pommel is sub square in plan and section with slightly divergent sides. To each corner is an integral moulding, petal-shaped, slightly on the diagonal, as if the pommel was twisted, with a diagonal groove between each. The mouldings extend from the lower edge of the pommel to curl up and over the top, so that when viewed from above it has four distinctive knops. Three of these mouldings are decorated with incised diagonal lines (though these do not extend onto the upper ‘curled over’ portion), whilst the fourth appe…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boxted', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-B73DD1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Cut farthing of Aethelred II. Long cross type. North 774, moneyer probably Beorhtlaf (BRIHT/BRYHTLAF) known at London and Southwark mints.
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 10th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Magdalen Laver', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-B71426
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A nice example of a cast copper alloy medieval barb spring padlock. The lock takes the form of a central casing, which is rectangular in plan and section. At one end of the case is a rectangular transverse, aperture for taking the key. Within this cavity it is just possible to see the internal mechanism. The opposite end is flat and enclosed. Above the aperture, to one end of the top of the casing is the bolt arm, set on a short vertical stem, with a circular piercing, running parallel with the casing. It extends beyond the end of the casing and is 31.54mm long. The casing is 26.72mm l…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manuden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-27D367
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Angela Evans of the British Museum provided the following report. Late 6th or early 7th century Early Medieval gold sword pommel cap of high cocked-hat form decorated with panels of beaded wire filigree. The pommel cap is damaged and distorted but retains details of both faces, the top and the side panels. Each face is divided into three panels by fillets of gold sheet arranged in the shape of an inverted Y. The outer panels are each filled by an identical peg-headed zoomorph with open flaring jaws and a body that interlaces asymmetrically to fill the irregular field. The central, low…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2006
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East of Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EB9884
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver voided long cross penny of Henry III. Type IIIb, North 986/1.
Created on: Monday 18th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wicken Bonhunt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EB3C72
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Aesica Romano-British brooch. The wings of the brooch are flat. They are possibly decorated with a raised diagonal moulding to either end, but the brooch is too worn to state this with any conviction. To the rear of the brooch head there is no visible remains of the spring attachment. A small worn knop may be the remains of a rearward facing hook (as seen in Dolphin type brooches) but so little remains it is impossible to rule out the lugged fittings normally seen on Colchester type brooches. The spring and pin are entirely missing. The bow of the brooch is…
Created on: Monday 18th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newport', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EAD081
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy ring type thimble. The thimble is formed from a ring of metal with both ends open, which tapers towards the top end. There is an incised line running around the edge of both ends of the thimble, between which are the hand punched holes. The holes are large and punched in very uneven vertical lines around the thimble and appear quite haphazard. The original surface of the thimble survives with a dark green patina, though some of the dots appear with a light brown patina. The thimble is 14.4mm long, 16.8mm in diameter at the base, 13.94mm in diameter at the top and wei…
Created on: Monday 18th September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 21st May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wicken Bonhunt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-AC8164
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy iron Age unit. 'Warrior type' of Cunobelin. VA 2093-1.
Created on: Friday 15th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-A87512
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman nummus of Constantine I.
Created on: Friday 15th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hatfield Broad oak', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-A84323
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete medieval copper alloy buckle with plate. This buckle has an oval frame with a D shaped section. i.e. it has a flat inner face and domed outer face. It has an offset pin bar, though it is not much narrower than the frame. The pin is missing. The front of the frame is ornate, it is moulded with an outer projection to each edge, before which is a raised, pronounced transverse ridge. Between the two bands the front edge of the frame comes to a slight point. The point has a deep groove to either side and a slightly deeper groove between these. This central groove acted as a …
Created on: Friday 15th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Laver', grid reference and parish protected.