Record ID: BH-DA1C8A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A halfgroat of James I's second coinage dating to the period AD 1604 to 1605. Initial mark Lis. North p. 121, no. 2104.
Created on: Monday 7th March 2016
Last updated: Thursday 3rd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Birchanger', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-D72C07
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy artefact of uncertain date and function, but possibly representing an Iron Age ear ring. The hollow object is sub-crescentic , with two touching points at the apex. The undecorated surface has a blueish-green patina and is pitted from corrosion. Width: 16mm; height: 13.5mm; depth: 10.4mm. Weight: 5.74g. Several similar artefacts, identified as ear rings and dated to the La Tène I period, were found in the Champagne region of France (Stead and Rigby1999: fig. 120). The patination of this piece is consistent with an Iron Age date. A similar, albeit decorated, ob…
Created on: Monday 7th March 2016
Last updated: Friday 21st June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-D72042
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy barbarous radiate and hybrid dating to the period AD 275 to 285 (Reece period 14) combining an obverse of Tetricus I or Victorinus, with a PIETAS AVGVSTOR/AVGG reverse depicting priestly implements. 17, 16.1o, 2.1. 2.33g da3
Created on: Monday 7th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-D71BF0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy nummus of Constantine I dating to the period AD 313 to 314 (Reece period 15). SOLI INVICTO COMITI reverse type depicting Sol left raising right hand and holding globe. Mint of London. RIC VII, p. 98, no. 9 or 10. 20.8o, 1.6. 2.57g da6
Created on: Monday 7th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-D71365
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy radiate of Severina dating to the period AD 270 to 275 (Reece period 13). CONCORDIAE MILITVM reverse type depicting Concordia standing left holding two ensigns. Mint of Ticinum. RIC V, Pt I, p. 316, no. 8. 23.1, 22.8o, 1.6. 3.12g da11
Created on: Monday 7th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-D709DE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy As of Domitian (AD 81-96), probably dating to AD 86 (Reece Period 4), MONETA [AVGVST/I] S C reverse depicting Moneta standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. RIC II.1, p. 299, cf. nos. 492-3. Diameter:26mm. Weight: 8.34g.
Created on: Monday 7th March 2016
Last updated: Saturday 16th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilsworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-9BF948
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver voided long cross penny of Henry III (1216-72), class 5b2, dating c.1253. Voided long-cross coinage. Moneyer Gilbert. Mint of Canterbury. Diameter: 18.1mm; thickness:0.6mm; weight: 1.3g.
Created on: Friday 4th March 2016
Last updated: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ivinghoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-95BF63
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead-alloy cloth seal, dating to the period AD 1650 to 1705. The seal comprises two flat circular discs, one of which is now damaged, joined with a small rectangular connecting strip. One disc bears the relief-stamped legend 'WOR/STED/REFOR/MED', within a stamped circular border. On the second disc are the numerals '41', which probably refers to the length of the cloth, in yards. Length: 22mm; width: 20mm; thickness: 4mm. Weight: 6.04g. According to Geoff Egan, "'Worsted reformed' seals are among the most common and widely found of all kinds (of cloth seal)..., …
Created on: Friday 4th March 2016
Last updated: Thursday 3rd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Offley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-84F042
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman denarius of Trajan (AD 98-117), dating to the period AD 103-111 (Reece period 5). COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI / DAC CAP reverse depicting Dacian seated left on pile of arms in mourning. Mint of Rome. As RIC II, p. 251, no. 98. Dimensions: 19.4mm diameter, 1.9mm thick. Weight: 3.04g.
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2016
Last updated: Sunday 3rd May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fowlmere', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-825EB9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date (c. 450-550). Both the headplate and footplate are essentially triangular, with gently incurved sides to the triangles and rounded corners. The original shape of both may be slightly different, as the edges are worn. There are double-crescentic stamps around all the edges of both head and foot plates. The bow is low and arched, and triangular in cross-section, with a flat reverse and an arris down the front. Each end, where it joins the terminals, is pointed; the headplate end has a longer, narrower point than the footplate end. On t…
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Longwick-cum-Ilmer', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-82314E
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A flint 'leaf' arrowhead, dating from the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. The piece is pear-shaped and bifacially worked from a tertiary flake. Retouch is covering, scaled and low angle. The flint is a translucent light brown at the base, with a light grey patination to the upper half. There is a small amount of damage to one of the edges, just above the halfway point. Length: 27.1 mm; width: 16.1 mm; thickness: 3.3 mm. Weight: 1.25 g.
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2016
Last updated: Thursday 11th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redbourn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-81FAA0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silvered copper-alloy radiate of Probus, dating to the period AD 276-282 (Reece Period 14). CLEMENTIA TEMP reverse depicting the emperor on the left, standing right, holding a sceptre surmounted by an eagle and receiving a globe from Jupiter, who stands on the right, faces inwards and holds a vertical sceptre. Probably Mint of Antioch. RIC V, pt 2, p. 120, no. 921. The mintmark, ? // XXI, is unclear, but the obverse legend is only recorded for XXI mintmarks at Antioch (rather than Tripolis). If there is a V between the figures, the coin would be from Cyzicus, but the style appears w…
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2016
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Albans', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-8196E7
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy awl, probably dating from the Late Bronze Age The widest part of the awl is approximately one third of the way along its length; either side of this point, the piece tapers. The longer portion is of rectangular cross section, displays evidence of filing on its surfaces and tapers to a wedge-shaped terminal. The remaining third also has a broadly rectangular cross section, but in this portion the corners have been deliberately removed, probably by filing. The patinated surfaces are almost black in some areas, perhaps suggesting that a coating was applied in antiquity.…
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2016
Last updated: Sunday 7th August 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-AFE45B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy single-loop buckle with integral plate. Together, the frame and plate are pear-shaped, the latter terminating in a wider, round, lobe. An integral rivet of circular cross section extends backwards from the underside of this lobe. A circular perforation at the frame end of the plate represents the point at which the now-missing pin would have been attached. The frame has vertical inner edges and steeply sloping upper surfaces. A rounded pin rest projects outwards from the centre of the bowed frame. Length: 23 mm; width: 12.1 mm; thickness (including rivet): 5…
Created on: Monday 22nd February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sherington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-AFD168
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Part of an early Roman copper-alloy bow brooch, probably of Colchester-derivative form. The lower part of the bow and foot survive, the remainder having been lost in antiquity. The bow is of sub-trapezoidal cross section, with a ridge that extends down the centre of the upper surface, tapering towards the slightly rounded foot. The catchplate is unperforated and has a rolled outer edge and adjacent pin groove. Length: 33.6 mm; width: 7.3 mm; depth: 16 mm. Weight: 7.02g.
Created on: Monday 22nd February 2016
Last updated: Monday 14th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stagsden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-AFA0EA
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount, dating from the early-medieval to medieval periods. The tapering sub-rectangular mount is decorated with an elaborate pattern of zoomorphic interlace, executed in high relief, with openwork fields. This is surmounted by a flat-sectioned loop with circular perforation and three peripheral lobes, the longest of which is that extending straight upwards at the apex. The exact nature of the decoration is difficult to ascertain, but the general design is that of an animal whose head is located immediately below the apex loop and faces upwards. This hea…
Created on: Monday 22nd February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 9th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sherington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-84659E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy nummus of Maximian I, dating to AD c. 300 (Reece period 15). SACRA MONET AVGG ET CAESS NOSTR depicting Moneta standing left, holding scales in right hand and cornucopiae in left. Mint of Aquileia. RIC VI, p. 315, no. 29b. Dimensions and weight not known (recorded from photograph).
Created on: Saturday 20th February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-0BFD17
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A miniature copper-alloy buckle and plate, dating to the early Anglo-Saxon period. The buckle comprises an oval loop with long, narrow tongue and a plate consisting of a rectangular copper alloy sheet that has been folded in half through the loop, with small sections cut away at the shoulders and in the centre where the plate is in contact with the loop, in order to accommodate the tongue and loop. At the other end, the plate is pierced by three rivets arranged in a triangular formation. On the front face of the plate only, the rivet-holes are surrounded by a ring of silver beaded wir…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 21st December 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Souldern', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-F608FA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy nummus of Maximian I, dating to AD 307 (Reece period 15). GENIO POP ROM reverse depicting genius standing left, head towered, loins draped, holding patera in right hand and cornucopiae in left. Mint of London. RIC VI, p. 129, no. 90. Diameter: 25 mm; thickness: 2.8 mm. Weight: 7.19 g.
Created on: Monday 1st February 2016
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Therfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-B72FCB
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy pyramidal mount, presumably from a sword scabbard. Each face of the pyramid has two chip-carved (incuse) triangles at its base, with an inverted triangle at the apex. A trapezoidal groove surrounds these three triangles, and a pair of angled grooves within the panel separate one triangle from the next. A flat-sectioned bar extends across the reverse, linking two opposing sides, and an empty rectangular cell occupies the apex. Traces of possible iron corrosion adhere to one side. Dimensions of base: 15.3mm by 14.6mm; height: 8.2mm. Weight: 4.26g. A…
Created on: Friday 29th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crowmarsh', grid reference and parish protected.