Record ID: LON-E69633
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy incomplete buckle (1600-1650). This is a double-looped buckle with moulded rosettes on the outer edges and lobes at the junctions between the frame and the cross bar. The pin is missing. A very similar buckle is illustrated by Margeson (1993:30 no.174) and dated to 1600-1650. Dimensions: length: 44.31mm; width: 26.06mm; thickness: 2.04mm; weight: 6.44g. Reference: Margeson, S.1993. Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-1978. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 58.
Created on: Monday 12th June 2017
Last updated: Saturday 17th June 2017
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Record ID: LON-915B21
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval cast gilded silver keystone garnet disc brooch, comprising one half of the original disc, broken off across the central line. The pin is missing, but the broken remains of the pierced integral pin lug and catch-plate survive on the back of the brooch, perpendicular to the edge. The surviving decoration on the front of the brooch comprises two (of potentially three) keystone cloisonné settings (one partially broken) containing red stones, presumably garnets, backed by hatched gold foils. These alternate with trapezoidal fields containing small, highly…
Created on: Monday 27th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2019
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Record ID: LON-8FBF4C
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Lower Palaeolithic small, bifacially worked, flint handaxe of cordate type dating c. 400,000-150,000BC. The handaxe was found on the foreshore and consequently is rolled and abraded with a small amount of edge damage. There is invasive soft hammer flaking covering both faces. The butt and mid portion of the axe is thick and it then tapers to a rounded point. The cross section is lentoid (pointed oval). The flint has an orange patina. There is some damage to the butt with two large flakes missing. The patina has reformed over one of these suggesting the damage occured in …
Created on: Monday 27th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
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Record ID: LON-5279B8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman silver finger ring dating 3rd - 4th century AD. The finger ring has an oval raised bezel with decorative angular shoulders. The gem stone or glass setting is missing from the bezel but there are the remains of a white cement surviving. The angular shoulders are decorated with three stamped chevrons. The band has a rounded triangular cross-section and the profile of the finger ring shows the band forming an oval. There is a crack through the band opposite the centre of the bezel. Vindolanda Type XV, Henig type Xb. Dimensions: Length of band: 19.67; length of bezel:…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2023
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Record ID: LON-671726
Object type: BOX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver box dating to the mid - late 18th century. This box was probably a snuff box or a patch box but Hazel Forsyth believes a snuff box is more likely. The box is oval in plan with curved walls. The lid is hinged and there are two oval facets; one on each side wall. These oval facets are plain without the engraved decoration that covers the rest of the surface. The lid is decorated with an engraved scene which depicts a church and other buildings in the background; there is a large sunflower in the foreground and a ornate sun with ornate rays in the sky. The walls of…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
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Record ID: LON-C79603
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A composite gold button consisting of a flat disc with applied septfoil decoration on one face and a drawn wire loop attachment on the other. The decoration takes the form of a flower and is made up of a central knop where the seven ‘petals’, made of thin sheets of gold, join. A double row of braided wire forms the border around the circumference. Dimensions: Thickness: 3.24mm Diameter: 10.51mm Weigh: 0.66g Discussion: Discoidal flat and convex buttons made of lead/tin-alloy and copper-alloy, with various designs on their faces, are listed in Read (2008: 76-93) an…
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
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Record ID: LON-28003D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver coiled ring, possibly a finger-ring, of post medieval to modern date (see 'Discussion'). It is made from a silver strip with a triangular cross-section and coiled with five turns into a spiral. The ends of the strip are cut with no further shaping. Stamped decoration is visible on the external surface of the ring, comprising a repeating pattern of small triangular motifs along both edges. The pattern starts on the second turn, faint to begin with but becoming more pronounced on the third turn; it then fades and changes into a hammered appearance on the fourth turn that itself…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2016
Last updated: Thursday 31st May 2018
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Record ID: LON-278159
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver penny from the Commonwealth (AD1649-1660). North 2729. Tower of London mint. This coin is perforated near the edge above the top of the shields on the obverse and reverse. There is also a crack in the coin. Dimensions: diameter: 13.10mm; weight: 0.42g.
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2016
Last updated: Thursday 15th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-EA71A7
Object type: SHOE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval leather inner sole dating 17th - 18th century. This inner sole has a rounded heel, narrowing around the arch and then flaring for the ball of the foot before ending in a square toe. There are the impressions from the bracing threads where the shoe was stitched together. There are also holes around the entire outer edge for stictches. Dating from Goubitrz, van Driel-Murray and Groenman-van Waateringe (2001:82 and285). Dimensions: length: 238mm; width: 72mm; thickness: mm; diameter: 5mm; weight: 50.28g. Goubitz, O., van Driel-Murray, C and Groenman-van Waatering…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-E960F2
Object type: MONEY BOX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval ceramic sherd comprising a knop, probably Borderware, probably from a money box dating late 16th - late 17th century. This fragment comprises an ornamental knop at the top of a long neck, the knop is made up of three concentric ridges tapering towards the peak. The peak has a central depression. Small traces of a clear glaze survive in the grooves in between the ridges and on the long neck. Pearce (1992:37) writes about money boxes with similar shaped knops but none have as long a neck. She suggests a date range of late 16th - late 17th century for the money boxes.…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-E8DA62
Object type: MUG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval ceramic rim sherd from a stoneware mug, from Frechen, Germany, dating to the late 16th century. The rim sherd includes an applied lion-mask on the neck. The sherd is a dark grey stoneware, the surface has a brown iron wash under a coarse speckled salt-glaze. Complete mugs with similar lion masks are illustrated in Gaimster (1997:214 no.53-54) no. 53 dates c1580-1590 and no. 54 is dated 1594. Dimensions: weight: 25.38g. Reference: Gaimster, D. 1997. German Stoneware 1200-1900. Archaeology and Cultural History. British Museum Press, London.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-E873E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval silver coin of either Philip IV of Spain (AD 1621-1665) or Charles II of Spain (AD 1665-1700). This is the local coinage in Valencia. The edges are irregular and have been clipped. Parallel records on the PAS database: LON-5C7313, LON-5BE3B3, LON-CB9685. Dimensions: diameter: 13.31mm; weight: 0.69g.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2017
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Record ID: LON-E8365E
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy trade token farthing from Southwark dated AD1651. Williamson (1891 no. 79). Dimensions: diameter: 1.12mm; weight: 15.78g Reference: Williamson, G. C. 1891. Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century Vol. II. Elliot Stock: London.
Created on: Monday 12th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-AB5E8D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age copper alloy unit probably of Cunobelin dating late 1st century BC - early AD 1st century. Dimensions: diameter: 11.26mm; weight: 1.12g.
Created on: Friday 9th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-AB48C3
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval lead alloy toy watch dating AD 1700-1750. The front surface is cast with the pattern of the watch face, the back is blank. On the front surface moving from outside to inside, it has an outer circular section of a floral pattern and then a beaded ring and then the chapter ring which is marked with roman numerals, then a simple line ring, the next ring is hard to decipher if there is a pattern or if it is plain and then there is another beaded ring and finally the integrally cast hands which are arranged to show 6 o'clock. This toy has been folded and stra…
Created on: Friday 9th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-AAFA9A
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval lead alloy button or cufflink dating 17th - 18th century. The object is a disc with an integral loop for attachment. The shape of the loop is distorted. The front surface of the object is decorated with a cast pattern of four hearts arranged at the cardinal points with their points directed to the centre of the object. There is a raised linear border. A button, with a similar pattern but the button itself is a slightly different shape, is recorded on the database NMS-3A56A6 with a suggested date of 17th century. Dimensions: diameter: 15.81mm; weight: 1.77g.
Created on: Friday 9th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-AAC05E
Object type: DIE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval bone cuboid dice dating 16th - 18th century. The numbers are indicated by a double circle and dot motifs; they are arranged so the opposite sides add up to 7. The sides are in the arrangement known as Potter's variant 16. Egan (1997:3) writes "A remarkable degree of uniformity is emerging in London for the most recent excavated dice, that is those of the 16th/17th century and later, first noticed among a group of over 40 of various sizes and with numbers indicated by double-circle-and-cot, circle-and-dot or dot alone, all of 17th - 18th century date and found at …
Created on: Friday 9th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-AA18B7
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval lead-alloy toy watch, dating late 17th century - early 18th century. This is a Forsyth & Egan (2005) Type 5 watch, being a single side from a double-sided domed watch. It is convex on the front side and concave on the back. The clock has two cast hands, the minute hand pointing at 10 and the hour hand pointing at 12. The chapter ring is outlined with two concentric circles and is marked with Roman hours I-XII, interspersed with pellets which indicate the half-hours. The edge of the watch has a border consisting of circular pellets and elongated pellets, the…
Created on: Friday 9th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-A9F947
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval lead-alloy button, dating 16th century to early 17th century. The button is biconvex and solid, with an integral undrilled, circular-section loop. There is no decoration on the button. The button has an overall grey colour. A similar button is illustrated in Read(2005:69, no.248) with a date of c.16th century, possibly extending into the early 17th century. Dimensions: length: 15.79mm; width of loop: 6.7mm; diameter: 10.87mm; weight: 4.3g Reference: Read, B. 2005. Metal Buttons C.900BC - AD1700. Portcullis Publishing, Langport, Somerset
Created on: Friday 9th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2016
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Record ID: LON-A9B131
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver shilling of Elizabeth I (AD.1558-1603), dating AD1591-1594. North (1975) no. 2014. Third issue. Initial mark: Tun (AD1591/2-1594). The obverse a crowned bust facing left with legend EL[IZAB D G ANG F]R ET HIB R[EGI] The reverse depicts a shield on long cross fourchée dividing the legend. The legend reads POSVI DEU [A]D[IVT]ORE[M] MEV. The coin has been bent to form an "S-shaped" profile, indicating that it's secondary function was likely as a love token. Love tokens were often made from a silver denomination and are earlier post medieval in date. Creating lo…
Created on: Friday 9th December 2016
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2016
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