Record ID: SUR-49C117
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman silver finger ring of keeled type with straight sub-triangular sloping shoulders. The hoop is incomplete and bent, with a break on the opposite side to the bezel. The hoop has a flattened oval profile varying from 2.5mm thick at the keel to 0.9mm thick at the break. The bezel is 10.1mm wide and has a hollow for a missing gem or intaglio setting. The shoulders are plain and there is no additional decoration. The silver appears to be brittle and may have a high copper component. Internal diameter: 17.4 mm; external diameter: 22.47 mm; weight: 3.75g
Created on: Monday 16th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 10th October 2019
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Record ID: SUR-49938E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:A late medieval (15th century) gold posy finger ring with an inscription which reads, in black letter: x cest mon desir (this is my wish). The ring is slightly distorted, but complete. The three words are spaced equally around the band and sit within lentoid expansions of two narrow ribs which encircle the ring. Between the words the spaces between the ribs and the rim of the ring are infilled with a diagonal grid. The words themselves may originally have been displayed within fields of enamel, perhaps red. Traces of enamel appear to survive against the keyed bac…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 23rd April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Oxfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-E975F9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn copper-alloy Roman radiate of Probus (AD 276-282), dating to the period AD 276-282 (Reece period 14). PROVIDENT A[VG] reverse type depicting Providentia standing left holding globe and transverse sceptre. Mint of Ticinum. As RIC V.2, p. 70, no. 491; cf. Gloucester Hoard (Abdy et al., CHRB XIII, pp. 21-113) no. 1404.
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2017
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Record ID: SUR-3C0A62
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete tapering openwork copper-alloy object, perhaps a strap fitting. The object has a single iron rivet in a recess behind a devolved animal's head. Projecting from the muzzle of the head is a rebated loop. At the wider end the object is incomplete and bifurcates either side of what may have been a rectangular slot. The object is likely, on the form of the animal head, to be of 11th or 12th century date. cf Biddle 1990, 540; fig. 143, no. 1348
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2017
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Record ID: SUR-5A759A
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Middle Bronze Age basal-looped spearhead measuring 207mm in length. Although complete the blade edges are slightly 'nibbled' where they are very thin. The shaft bears extensive filing where the casting seams have been removed. The socket is 150mm long internally and the opening of the socket is 22.0mm by 23.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 24th May 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: SUR-FEE369
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger ring, now much damaged and distorted, with three settings for missing stones. The central setting is rectangular and those on either side are circular. The sides of each setting are fluted and one of these hollows retains white enamel. The upper parts of the slender band bear foliate decoration. This is a characteristic type of the later 17th century and early 18th century (cf eg PAS-8DFDD7 which bears white enamel and three green stones). Several comparable examples are held by the British Museum. In terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious met…
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 10th October 2019
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Record ID: SUR-9D1663
Object type: PIN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A very unusual Middle Bronze Age looped pin dating to c.1400-1250BC (the 'Ornament Horizon'). The pin has a dark brown patina with small green surface pits caused by corrosion. The pin has broken across its projecting loop and the lower part of the shaft is missing. There is a casting void visible in the break. The pin has a swelling shaft which is extensively decorated; five groups of bands encircle the shaft in the order 5,4,5,6, 6 with the band of five being closest to the head of the pin and the band of six at the break in the shaft. In three instances the space between two ind…
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 6th November 2018
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Record ID: SUR-9B3B91
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A diminutive silver-gilt brooch in the form of intertwining serpents. The pin is missing. At least three heads appear to be visible, while one head and a probable tail appear to be incomplete. The thicker body of a larger snake is clear and this clearly has a head at either end. A more slender snake, which has a clear head and a broken tail, is tightly coiled around the body of the larger snake. Where the body of the larger snake is clear of the smaller snake it is decorated with closely spaced punched circles, and this decoration extends to the body where it is visible behind the he…
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2017
Last updated: Thursday 10th October 2019
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Record ID: SUR-2167C2
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A 17th century sheet metal silver thimble made in two parts and now distorted and incomplete; the separate dome is missing. The thimble has a cast grid of annulets and there are two encircling bands of notching around the rim. Dimensions: Height 23.71mm; Weight 6.94g.
Created on: Friday 20th January 2017
Last updated: Thursday 10th October 2019
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Record ID: SUR-215917
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a possible gold ingot weighing 3.56g. The ingot, which is a dull yellow-brown, has an L-shaped section and the surviving original edge of the object is stepped in three ledges. The broken edges are very ragged. Multiple parallel lines on the hollow side may suggest a more recent date.
Created on: Friday 20th January 2017
Last updated: Sunday 26th March 2017
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Record ID: SUR-2141C8
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
BIX AND ASSENDON addenda, Oxfordshire Two fragmentary Roman denarii; addenda to hoard 2015T990 1. Vespasian, AD 69-79, [IMP CAE]SAR VES[PASIANVS AVG]~CO[S ITER TR POT] (RIC 29 / BMC 26). 17.26mm diameter; 2.08g. 2. Divus Vespasian, AD 79, [DIVV]S AVGVSTVS VESPASIA[NVS]~[S C] on shield supported by Capricorns (RIC 357 / BMC 129). 17.67mm diameter; 2.48g.
Created on: Friday 20th January 2017
Last updated: Thursday 10th October 2019
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Record ID: SUR-93779F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval gold mourning ring dating to 1663. The ring is a little distorted but is otherwise complete. Cast on the outside of the narrow plain band is a representation of a skull. On the inside of the band is inscribed: obijt KN feb 20 63. The maker's stamp appears to be the initials II.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2016
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
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Record ID: SUR-5FABCA
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold bar ingot with a rectangular section and measuring 36mm in length. The ingot weighs 16.79g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 24th December 2019
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Record ID: SUR-2A2601
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete silver pendant with a blue glass setting. The pendant is circular and consists of a silver sheet back-plate, and a collar formed from an upright strip of silver. The edge of the back-plate appears to have been folded upwards to form a flange around the collar, and soldered to it. Small incised marks on the flange indicate it had been decorated, perhaps to mimic beaded wire; this part of the pendant is very worn. The collar contains a cabochon of blue glass with an inlaid white dot, slightly off centre. The glass is cracked horizontally across the centre and a c…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2016
Last updated: Thursday 14th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cumnor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-2F63E2
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval or post medieval silver-gilt object of uncertain purpose. The object takes the form of a male helmeted head in low relief, bearded and facing left. The helmet is fringed with beadwork and has a single pointed ear and a short spike on its apex There is a single circular hole in the helmet, perhaps for suspension. This has been drilled through from the front. From the chin there is a projection, now incomplete. There seem to be no other broken edges. The back is flat and undecorated.
Created on: Tuesday 16th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 14th March 2017
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Record ID: SUR-8A19A6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver denarius of Titus (AD 79-81), AD 80 (Reece Period 4). Mint of Rome. Rev. [TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P]. Seat, draped; above, winged thunderbolt. RIC II (revised edition), pt 1, p. 206, no. 119
Created on: Monday 8th February 2016
Last updated: Sunday 7th February 2021
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Record ID: SUR-89F1D8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a silver denarius of Carausius (AD 286-293), AD 286-293 (Reece Period 14), P(AX AVG). Pax standing left, holding transverse sceptre in left hand. Mint unclear. This type is not recorded in RIC, but Sam Moorhead has three other Pax with transverse sceptre types in his corpus for RIC.
Created on: Monday 8th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 10th November 2020
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Record ID: SUR-3EA1E2
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small silver ingot clearly made from a scrapped object, perhpas a silver vessel. The ingot weighs 11.28mm and has a hollow terminal and multiple hammer marks.
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Record ID: SUR-4A4231
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval hoard comprising 15 silver ingots, 3 complete silver arm rings, 2 hack-silver terminals of neck-rings, 1 fragment of twisted hack-gold rod (probably from a neck- or arm-ring) and 203 silver coins, plus 8 wooden strips and 1 fragment of organic matter, possibly leather. The coinage dates to the period c.AD875–79/80 and provides a deposition date for the hoard of c.AD879–80. The reports below comprises an edited version text from the Treasure Report by Barry Ager on the non-numismatic material plus a summary catalogue of the coinage. The hoard is fully publish…
Created on: Thursday 12th November 2015
Last updated: Friday 17th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Watlington area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-3C33F3
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small silver bell. The bell is plain and comprises a pair of conjoined hemispheres and a separately attached suspension loop. The lower hemisphere is now distorted. A prominent ridge runs around the girth. The bell is probably of later medieval date but is difficult to date closely. The date probably falls within the bracket c1400-c1650.
Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2016
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