Record ID: SUSS-E2E091
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn as or dupondius, Roman coin.
Created on: Friday 21st May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littlehampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-E2E936
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn copper-alloy as or dupondius.
Created on: Friday 21st May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littlehampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-49F656
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring. The ring has been badly bent out of shape. It is inscribed on the interior (of the band) with a crudely engraved legend, which is indecipherable. The band of the ring is very thin and very worn. The finger ring most likely dates from the 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 26th May 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dundrigde', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-60E5D7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy sestertius Roman coin of Antoninus Pius, AD 143-4. The reverse dates this coin specifically between these two dates.
Created on: Thursday 27th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringmer', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-6177C4
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy coin weight from the medieval to post-medieval period. This coin weight is a representational weight of a Ducat (or florin), from circa 1500. This example is square and the design has been stamped diagonally acorss the square. Most ducat coin weights are circular. The obverse depicts an ornate fleur-de-lis. The reverse is blank. These coin weights should have originally weighed 3.55g. This one weighs 2.92g. A similar example can be seen in Biggs, 1993, pp27.
Created on: Thursday 27th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Storrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-7397D1
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy coin weight from the post medieval period. This coin weight is a representational weight of a ryal. These coin weights are usually dated to the 16th to 17th century. This coin weight is unifaced, those weights with a blank reverse tend to be German in origin. The obverse depicts a ship. The coin weight is square. A similar coin weight is pictured in Withers & Withers, 1995, pp20.
Created on: Friday 28th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Storrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-740382
Object type: JEWELLERY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small silver heart shaped charm from a charm bracelet. The heart appears to have been made by casting two moulded sheets of silver together, forming the hollow heart. The point of the heart and the two curves on top of the heart-shape all have attachment hoops cast onto them, these hoops are integral to the charm. One of the top hoops still has three silver chain links attached. Both surfaces of the heart have been decoratively engraved with zigzag engravings. One surfaces depicts a long cross, the other depicts the letters 'AVM' which could stand for 'Ave Maria’, which translates …
Created on: Friday 28th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Storrington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-7464F2
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy promissory half penny token dated to 1796. The obverse depicts a horse and rider; the rider is carrying a sword. The legend above the horse and rider reads PETERSFIELD which is a Sussex place name. The reverse depicts a standing stork, crane or heron. The reverse legend reads PROMISSORY HALFPENNY 1796. There is also a legend around the edge of the token which reads x - EAMES . HOLLAND ANDREWS PETERSFIELD
Created on: Friday 28th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Houghton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-74E3B5
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy coin weight from the medieval to post-medieval period. This coin weight is a representational weight of an angel. These coin weights are British and date from between the 15th - 16th centuries, having first been issued in 1464. This particular coin weight is unifaced and square. The obverse probably depicts St Michael spearing a dragon (to the right) but it is so badly worn that it is difficult to be sure. The offical mint weight for an angel would have been 5.18g, the surviving coin weights are usually lighter. This weight weighs 4.05g.
Created on: Friday 28th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Shoreham-by-Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-76B6B2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Short cross penny class 5b2, Chichester mint
Created on: Friday 28th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Steyning', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-76F7B1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a D-shaped buckle with plates. The actual D-shaped frame of the buckle has been lost; this artefact represents the 'plates' which are often attached to these types of buckles. This artefact has been constructed from one sheet of copper-alloy, which has been bent in half and then a notch has been taken out of the bent terminal to allow the D-shaped buckle frame to move more easily. This terminal has also been climped to minimise the movement of the D-shaped frame (had it still be in position). Both plates are roughly rectangular and both have rivet holes drilled through them at …
Created on: Friday 28th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Steyning', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-774631
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy coin weight from the post-medieval period. This coin weight is a representational weight of a noble. These are British and date from the 15th - 16th centuries. This example appears to depict (on the obverse) a ship with two lions. The reverse is blank; it is a unifaced round coin weight. This is a particularly crude example as the ship's body has been made up of a rather crude brick-like design, other examples are more sophisticated. The offical mint weight of a Noble (after 1411) tends to be 7g. This coin weight weighs 6.4g the surviving coin weights are usually lighter…
Created on: Friday 28th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shoreham-by-Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C5A9E1
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A finger ring made of copper-alloy. The ring has a thick hoop, which gets thicker towards the shoulders, as the hoop becomes the bezel. The bezel is integral to the hoop and is circular in shape. The hoop is roughly circular, though the outer circumference appears to be more oval than circular because of the bezel. This finger ring in quite large suggesting that it may have been a gentlemen’s finger ring. The bezel has been engraved with the word ‘LEURBA[IX]’. This word has been engraved diagonally across the bezel of the ring from a 7 o’ clock position ending at a 1 o’ clock…
Created on: Tuesday 1st June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Amberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C937A8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A finger ring made of copper-alloy with traces of gilding. The ring has a thin hoop, the bezel is integral to the hoop and as a result (where the bezel is) the hoop is flat. Either side of the bezel the hoop is at it widest to accommodate the bezel. The hoop then get thinner and then it thickens out again opposite the bezel. Apart from the flat section (the bezel) the hoop is roughly circular. The bezel depicts a standing lion (perhaps other large cat), standing on its hind legs and it has it tail curled up behind it. The cat has been framed within an engraved circle. The finger r…
Created on: Tuesday 1st June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Shoreham-by-Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C94921
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A non-heraldic personal seal matrix, with an unfaceted conical handle, made of copper-alloy. The seal matrix stands to a height of 19.7mm. The die is flat, the reverse of the die is slightly concave and the conical handle extends from the centre of the die. There is a large rib on the handle before the hoop at the top of the handle. Five dots (four in a square, with one in the middle), indicate to the user of the seal matrix that this is the 'top' of the matrix. The initial mark (in this case a star) on the die is in alignment with these dots. The central motif (on the die) is a man's…
Created on: Tuesday 1st June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Tarring Neville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C95278
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy 1st - 2nd century AD Trumpet brooch. All that remains is the head and the top part of the bow and part of the spring. The bow is slender and tapering. Where the bow and the head meet there are two incised grooves. There is a projection, now broken, on top of the trumpet head which is also decorated with horizontal grooves. On the reverse of the brooch there are two full turns and two part turns of the spring, attached between two pierced lugs. There are the corroded remains of the iron axis bar. A hoop of copper-alloy also survives jutting out from below th…
Created on: Tuesday 1st June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Tarring Neville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C95A85
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap-end with hollow end (also known as a ‘box chape’), now missing its terminal. The hollow end has a front and bevelled sides cast together, and a sheet backplate held on with solder and with four iron rivets, one in each corner. The front of the hollow end is decorated with what appears to be a clumsy attempt at a letter M; there is a central stem and two curving side elements, but they are all close together with no space between. On either side are three or four vertical columns of triangular punchmarks, not very neatly applied; all is contained within an engr…
Created on: Tuesday 1st June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Bramber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C96CB4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object of uncertain function. One end is deeply split for attachment, with both halves cut into the shape of a fleur-de-lis. The front half has relief decoration on the lobes of the lis, and a relief central vertical line below, with an engraved border line down either side and a row of oblique engraved lines to either side of the central line. Both fleurs-de-lis are pierced, and a large copper-alloy rivet joins the two; the rivet has a large domed head. This area is 26 mm long, and ends in a solid area consisting of two transverse mouldings which run around the front …
Created on: Tuesday 1st June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Bramber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C972F7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy belt-mount. It is flat, quite thin (c. 1 mm) and almost square, measuring 33 x 34 mm. There is a copper-alloy rivet in each corner, 3 to 4 mm long, and the mount is decorated with a black-letter lower-case m, probably for the Virgin Mary. The m is on a background decorated with bold rocker-arm engraving, and all is enclosed within an engraved single-line border, which has been drawn with a couple of false starts. The style of the lettering dates it broadly to the 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Houghton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-C97E83
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large leaf-shaped lead weight, with four facets. Each facet has been decorated with high relief lines, similar to the veins on a leaf. Both terminals of the weight have broken off. At one terminal there does appear to be the remains of a loop, now broken and very much worn. These weighs are not yet completely understood. It is possible they could have been fishing weights dating from the Roman period or later, but due to a lack of excavated examples these weights must remain undated. The lead is a light whitish-grey colour.
Created on: Tuesday 1st June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr. Shoreham-by-Sea', grid reference and parish protected.