Record ID: ESS-1350A5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Silver, sceat, series K (type 32a), c.720-40, Metcalf 1994 p.386-7, 395-402.
Created on: Thursday 14th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EC4D04
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A Bronze Age hoard. 1. Socketed axe, South-Eastern class A. Complete. Double mouth moulding, sub-square mouth with rounded corners. The axe is wedge-shaped in profile and almost rectangular in plan. The upper mouth moulding is worn and chipped. The cutting edge is expanded and there are slightly developed blade tip hollows. The blade edge and blade tips are missing due to corrosion damage. There are curving striations along the same plane as the blade edge on both sides of the cutting edge and lower blade. Internal ribs on both faces. The casting seams are barely visible on both sid…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2006
Last updated: Friday 1st February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid Essex', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EC2997
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Plain gold D-sectioned finger-ring, with posy inscription around inner face: NOT*THIS*but*me π to.chos[e]* The symbol between 'me' and 'to chose' is likely to be the worn letters 'it'. This ring is unusual in having both capital and lower case lettering employed in the inscription. The combination of upper and lower case lettering indicates a 17th-century date rather than 16th. The N is reverse barred. The lettering is unevenly engraved and spaced, the last word truncated by the insertion of a fillet, either a repair or hoop enlargement. This partially obscures the letter 's', a…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2006
Last updated: Monday 4th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Good Easter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EA0B55
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver medieval ring brooch. The brooch is circular in plan and sub square in section. It is formed from twisted wire. Within each twist, the brooch has been decorated with raised pellets along the entire length. The narrowed pin bar is broken and missing. The pin is also missing. Break edges are worn suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. Apart from this minor damage, the brooch survives in good condition with a mid grey silvery patina. It has a diameter of 28.9mm, the hoop is 3mm wide and 3.68mm thick. the brooch weighs 6.78g A similar example is reported in the Treasur…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2006
Last updated: Monday 19th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gestingthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-E9CCB4
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A Middle Bronze Age bipartite composite penannular ring, complete but pulled out (possibly post-deposition). The piece comprises two lightly c-sectioned gold strips joined longitudinally. Length 30.5mm; width 5.3mm; thickness 1.3mm; weight 1.62 grams. This is a well known Middle Bronze Age type, decorative in nature, dating to circa 1300-100BC.
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coggeshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-E97973
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Gold penannular ring with body of circular cross-section tapering gently to flat terminals. The ring bears decorative narrow stripes of yellow and paler gold but this is heavily worn, especially at the circumference and outer surfaces. Slight damage to one terminal suggests that the ring comprises a gold covering over a base metal core (this was subsequently confirmed in the laboratory).The ring has an external diameter of 16x14.5mm, an internal diameter of 6mm, a breadth of 5mm and weighs 5.28g. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface of a striped penannular rin…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelvedon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-E8DF33
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete post-medieval silver dress accessory. When viewed vertically, the main body of the object is drop shaped in plan, which sits curved end on a thin rectangular bar. Two raised circles, separately soldered, sit either side of the curved drop shape on the bar. The object is formed from two separate plates of silver, joined with a separate band of silver that runs from the halfway point along one side of the drop shape, around the curved end and back up to the same halfway point on the opposite side. This in effect makes the object hollow with an aperture or split where the plat…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South of Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-E8A4F8
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Penannular gold ring of subcircular section, with decorative banding in yellow and paler gold (Treasure case 2004 T502). The silver-rich stripes particularly have an etched appearance; examination by a Colchester Museums conservator suggested that the find had been cleaned after discovery. Analysis suggests that the ring is solid (ie does not have a base metal core). It has a dimeter of 18mm, is 6.2mm thick, has a 3.5mm gap between the terminals and weighs 14.35g. Penannular gold rings of this type are assigned to the late Bronze Age, c.1150-750 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Takeley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-D7DA64
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon strap end, copper alloy and covered with decorated silver plating. The lower back plate is torn. There are four rivets on the back plate and one of the original ones fixing the piece to a strap. The shape is the traditional oblong with a rounded-eared animal head at one end and two rivets at the split end. The strap end belongs to a class of widely used objects in Anglo-Saxon England. Some of these were made of silver, sometimes gilt and finely decorated. This piece imitates rich artefacts in precious metal and covers a copper alloy core with silver-plate embellished wi…
Created on: Monday 11th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 26th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East of Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-D45534
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete 9th century steel-bladed Viking sword of Petersen type K (or Wheeler type IV). Examples can be seen in Peirce, 2002, Swords of the Viking Age, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. The sword is incomplete and heavily corroded, but enough survives to make it an interesting example. It weighs 442g. The upper hilt consists of an upper guard which is sub rectangular in plan, having slightly curved corners, and rectangular in section. It is 62.94mm long, 26mm wide and 11.74mm thick. It is pierced to either end with a circular perforation, approximately 6mm in diameter, where the pommel…
Created on: Monday 11th December 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-80E976
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an Early Roman copper alloy buckle frame. Approximately half of the buckle survives (when viewed with the bar to the bottom, it is broken vertically through the frame). The frame was originally D-shaped, and is flat in cross-section. To the bottom of the frame is a rectangular knop from which extends horizontally the narrowed bar. The bar is truncated and only 2mm survives, little more than a knop itself. Just above the rectangular knop and half way up the side of the frame are two pointed extensions that curl into the open middle of the frame. These were perhaps once deco…
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2006
Last updated: Friday 30th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Albans', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-1D1BC2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Complete, cast copper alloy, Late Iron Age strap fitting c.100BC-50AD. This strap fitting has a sub circular frame, which is D shaped in section, having a slightly flatter inner edge. When viewed vertically, to the lower portion of the frame are two opposing slight, triangular knops. It is from the portion of frame between these knops that extends an integral short shank, slightly wasted. The shank has a rounded end from which extends at 90 degrees another shorter wasted neck which terminates in a globular knop or stud. The object is complete, but the frame is split to the right hand …
Created on: Monday 20th November 2006
Last updated: Saturday 25th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Bishops', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-DD1FC5
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Complete cast copper alloy miniature terret ring. The terret ring is sub circular in plan and semicircular in section having a completely flat rear. It is 23.86mm in diameter and weighs 6.01g. The frame of the ring is broader and thicker towards the bottom, being 7.68mm wide and 4.1mm thick. It tapers and thins as it arches to the top point where it is 3.52mm wide and 2.8mm thick. At the bottom of the frame are a pair of hemispherical knops, 7.34mm thick and 4.94mm wide, set with a gap of 3.3mm between them. The portion of frame between the gap is the same width but is slightly thinner…
Created on: Friday 17th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-9A0BF6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an Iron Age silver unit of Amminus (probably Adminius), probably struck in Kent circa AD 38-40. See Rudd 38 (1998), no. 8 (probably same obverse die), Numismatic Circular, December 1992, p. 354, no. 7378, Numismatic Circular, July 1993, p. 188, no. 12. Rare coins of this type were attributed to Gaul in the 19th century, but the finding of several in Kent and Essex in recent years (at least 9 are on the Celtic Coin Index) does mean that we can associate Amminus with Adminius, the son of King Cunobelinus, as mentioned in Suetonius (Caligula 44). SEG or SEGO possibly means…
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fingringhoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-897604
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver sceat of Primary Phase Series BIc, dating c.685-95. The large eye and short-armed cross are paralleled on Rigold 1960, plate 3.
Created on: Monday 13th November 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 10th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-091A22
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete rare Roman silver denarius of Didius Julianus AD 193. RIC IV, pt 1, p. 15, see 2; BMC V, p. 12, see 7-8.
Created on: Thursday 26th 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-8BD770
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman denarius of Macrinus (AD 217-218), possibly a plated copy(?), dating to the period c.AD 217-218 (Reece period 10). SALVS PVBLICA reverse type depicting Salus seated left feeding snake and holding sceptre. Mint of Rome. As RIC IV.2, p. 11, no. 86.
Created on: Friday 20th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 4th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-8A7B84
Object type: LOCK
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Complete cast copper alloy lock pin. The object has a conical head with the upper face sunk around a central cone. Beneath the cone is a slightly wasted neck and then a moulded collar. Beneath the collar extends the shaft. The shaft is rectangular both in plan and section which does not taper. Towards the end of the shaft should be a circular perforation but at the time of recording the shaft was obscured by dirt and corrosion. Where the metal is visible, the original surface can be seen in patches with a dark green patina. Exposed surfaces are light green. The object is 60.26mm long, …
Created on: Friday 20th October 2006
Last updated: Friday 3rd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weeley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-609965
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Large composite cast copper alloy horse harness pendant. The pendant is formed from a six lobed frame with a raised moulded line between each lobe. The frame is flat to the reverse but the upper face of each lobe is bevelled to the inside face. To the centre of the frame is a large globular headed rivet with a large circular sectioned shaft. This holds a large, thin circular plate to the rear of the frame, in effect making the pendant solid and not openwork. The end of the rivet is clearly seen through the other side. To the top of the frame is an elongated neck which would have held t…
Created on: Wednesday 18th 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-4F8086
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy medieval strap end. This strap end is formed from a narrow sheet of metal folded lengthways. One end of the strap end tapers to a rounded flat loop and forms the back of the strap end, being narrower than the portion in front. Extending from the end of the front, broader portion is an elongated neck, sub circular in section, that terminates in a flat round loop, parallel with the other loop. The neck is decorated to either end with a pair of transverse grooved lines. Both flat loops have a circular perforation and they would have been fixed to the strap with a rivet that w…
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wicken Bonhunt', grid reference and parish protected.