Record ID: DUR-11AAE3
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast bronze side-looped, socketed spearhead from the early Middle Bronze Age, c.1500-1150 BC. Mostly complete with the tip missing and worn blade edges. The blade would have been leaf-shaped and has a raised midrib on both sides running from top to bottom. The socket widens towards the end. It has two small side-loops about half way down. These are rectangular and have been cast integrally with the spear. The socket is slightly out of shape with the edge being uneven, however it is mostly circular in section and hollow. Nothing of the wooden shaft remains. Side-looped spearheads are …
Created on: Tuesday 10th August 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: DUR-876052
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver-gilt annular brooch. The frame, cut from flat metal, engraved with four heraldic shields placed equidistantly, with a series of crosses between each shield. The pin survives, looped around a constriction, although the end is broken off. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface of the mercury gilt brooch indicated a silver content of approximately 96%.
Created on: Tuesday 21st September 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-D79EC8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Scottish turner of Charles I (1625-49), either 1642, 1644, 1648 or 1650. It is extremely worn and corroded.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 13th January 2023
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Record ID: DUR-B81853
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead Post Medieval disc from a large four-part cloth seal that has been cut as for a whizzer (or whirligig). The disc is circular with a zig zag edge. The front face has a crowned triple-rose with flowering plant motif at the sides, in relief. This is probably a part of a seal from the first ten years of George I reign, for a complete example see Egans book (1993, p74-5 no. 197). Geoff Egan discusses the use of this type of item- A whizzer is a zigzag-edged sheet roundel toy, (of lead for our purposes) with two holes centrally for a string, which is held in each hand, and by skilful t…
Created on: Wednesday 1st July 2009
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2022
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Record ID: DUR-3B9605
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MODERN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible Modern collar badge c.AD1900-1920. It appears incomplete, or possibly mis-cast. It has a semi-circular lower section, with the rounded end at the base. At the top is a trefoil motif, with hollows in each foil on the front. Reviewing this record in September 2021, Peter Hart suggests this could possibly be a collar badge of the Durham Light Infantry's 6th Battalion, the lower section of the badge representing the distinctive Light Infantry bugle horn.Citing Colin Churchill, Hart further notes of the Durham Light Infantry's 6th Battalion that "During their short exi…
Created on: Wednesday 19th May 2010
Last updated: Monday 27th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-650407
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy shield shaped Medieval harness pendant It is decorated on the front face with 3 horizontal lines of towers with 4 on the top line, 3 on the middle and 2 on the bottom. The toweres are picked out in red (gules) enamel. The pendant has a broken attachment loop at the top. Irene Szymanski has seen an image of this item and commented- 'I think these are the arms of Ferrers and the earls of Derby, "vairy or and gules" (attached). The de Ferrers were a powerful and bellicose clan, who married wives of the highest rank; for example, Earl William de Ferrers (died 1254) marri…
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-651663
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy quatrefoil medieval harness pendant It has four semi-circular lobes with a triangular point in between each lobe. It is decorated on the front face with enamel. In the centre is a dragon passant left in red (gules). The dragon is inside a square, on each side of this a lis extends out. The field is blue (azure). The pendant has a broken attachment loop at the top which is set perpendicular. Irene Szymanski has seen a photograph of this pendant and comments that this design is fairly common. If you go to IHS-11E882; its associated finds will link to other examples. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2009
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-217460
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy dragonesque brooch, dating to the early Roman period (c.AD50-200) The object comprises an incomplete curvilinear plate in an S-shape, with squared bar terminals (one of which is missing). Across the wider body section are two further bars with an inscription between, of which "...N OR..." can be read. The reverse of the object is undecorated. Dimension: Length 29.89mm; Width 23.88mm; Thickness 4.94mm; Weight 7.8gm. The brooch conforms to the type desinated by Hunter (2010) as as Type C3, S-shaped brooch with bar terminals, and by Mackreth (2…
Created on: Thursday 17th March 2011
Last updated: Friday 13th November 2020
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Record ID: DUR-5706F4
Object type: MEDALLION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead-alloy Post Medieval medallion, probably 19th century in date. It is circular in plan and has one square-ish loop attached at 10 o'clock if the medallion is at the correct orientation. The front face has a crowned bust facing left. He has long straight hair. The bust is inside a circle of dots. The reverse has a central circle, surrounded by concentric circles decorated alternately with a series of dots or split into segments by lines. For the medallion to have hung correctly for the design on the front there must have been another loop and there is the remains of something t…
Created on: Wednesday 13th October 2010
Last updated: Saturday 25th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boldron Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-52D587
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman coin, possibly a copy of a Claudian dupondius, c.41-54 AD. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints which operated at Lyons (Gaul) and in Spain. This example could not be classified to a mint.
Created on: Monday 8th March 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 6th November 2019
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Record ID: DUR-D75FE4
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin weight from the Post Medieval period. It is square in plan and has designs on both faces. Obv.- Crowned figure holding a sword (right) and orb (left), set within a beaded border Rev.- Open hand with K/I on either side, set within a beaded border. The reverse type is attributed to an unknown maker from the Low Countries dating to 1576-9 (Withers, 61).
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 1st November 2019
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Record ID: DUR-E049A2
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy late Medieval sword chape, c.1400-1600. Only one half remains, the front half, its edges are curved round and would have attached to the flat back plate. This is broken at the top also. It would have had a scalloped edge along the top and only one corner remains of the original edge. There are two circular holes in the upper section and this would probably have been mirrored on the other side (now missing. Below this is a slightly raised horizontal line. Below this the chape widens to a bulbous base with a rounded knop on the terminal. In the centre is a possible …
Created on: Monday 13th September 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 14th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-3B8C76
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap fitting from the Post Medieval period. It consists of a central, domed circular piece with a rectangular loop on one side and a circular loop (set perpendicularly) at the other. The central boss is decorated in relief with a lions face. The fitting would have been gilded all over and some of this still remains. Edit 07/02/19 (BW): the record for WMID-2BD731 notes: "A similar eye-section together with its S haped hook has been published and dated to the early 19th century (Read 2008: 231, ref: 826) and attributed to use with a 19th Century military cloak f…
Created on: Wednesday 19th May 2010
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-A81FF1
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy Post Medieval purse bar (c. 1550-c. 1650). Ward Perkins 1940: 169, fig. 52, Type B8. This purse bar has double arms. The upper arm has a central block, trapezoidal in plan. The arms are circular in cross section and have an overall length, including the terminal, of 61.17mm. Both terminals are sub-circular in plan when viewed from the end. One is slight larger than the other At the base of the central block, on this upper arm, there is an integral shank, circular in cross-section, which penetrates the lower central block. At the base of the shank there …
Created on: Thursday 3rd February 2011
Last updated: Friday 31st August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-C2DA56
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead Post Medieval cloth seal. The seal is compelte with both discs still attached by the strip. One face has an A stamped for Augsburg, Germany. These seals, attached to the fustian which was imported to England are one of the most common types of foreign seals found in England according to Egan (Lead Cloth Seals and related items in the British Museum, pl.41, nos.308-10).
Created on: Monday 19th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2018
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Record ID: DUR-C2E0F2
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead Post Medieval cloth seal. One face has A on, the other half is missing. A stands for Augsburg, Germany. These types of seals, found on the fustian imported from there to England are amongst the most common found in England according to Egan (Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum, pl.41- no.308-10).
Created on: Monday 19th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2018
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Record ID: DUR-D86482
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead Post Medieval sack seal. Complete circular seal with two circular discs and the folded attachment loop. One disc has a pineapple with a plume on top in relief. The other side has a central circular depression, over which is an A in relief with an annulet to right and below. The A stands for Augsburg, Germany. Seals from the fustians of Augsburg are among the most common and widespread of all recorded imports in England according to Egan. This example is similar to nos. 308-10 in his book 'Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum'.
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2018
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Record ID: DUR-CEE7D2
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman peltate chape, dating from the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. It has been cast in one. It is complete with the front and back plate being identical. The design is peltate shape with two openwork petae on the face. The chape has been squahed slightly and so the top edges are nearly touching and one arm has a crack in. Similar examples were found at Housesteads and South Shields Roman forts and these items are usually related to military activity. This is an identical parallel in an example from Caerleon (Chapman, 2005: p. 14, no. Bb01; Bishop and Coulston, 1993: fig.…
Created on: Monday 7th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 21st June 2018
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Record ID: DUR-D8AFB4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
11 pieces of Roman grey ware. Most are body sherds. The sherds can be grouped to represent possibly 7 individual pots. A pot sherd of fine grained Buff/pale grey fabric with a wall thickness of 5mm turning at a basal angle of approximately 45 degrees to a base 10mm thick. There are shallow grooves scored into the internal surface. It is possible that this fragment could be Crambeck parchment ware in the form of a shallow sided dish form 2 as per Corder 1937. A river worn pottery sherd 8mm thick pale grey on the surface and sandy coloured fine grained fabric. A 6mm thick p…
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th June 2018
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Record ID: DUR-651FF7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy quatrefoil Medieval harness pendant dating to the 14th century. It has four rounded lobes with a triangular lobe in between each. It is decorated on the front face with enamel with a raised border around the edge. Crowned I in an azure field with azure and gilding in the charge. The pendant has an attachment loop at the top. This is fitted into a hanger which is split allowing the loop to fit in between the two arms. Each arm has a circular hole at the same level as the loop. Above the split section the hanger extends upwards to a bilobe section with a circular stud …
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2009
Last updated: Friday 29th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durham Area', grid reference and parish protected.