Record ID: WMID-A00504
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron tang-knife, possibly dating from the Roman period. Length: 75.9mm; width: 16.2mm; thickness: 3.2mm. Mass: 10.2g. The back of the knife drops at the end to join the cutting edge at the tip. The cutting edge is incomplete. The blade has a triangular cross-section. The knife has a short tapering tang which may be broken at the end. The corroded surface of the knife has been removed by the finder. The knife has a similar form to Manning’s Type 14 Romano-British knife (see Manning, 1985, “Catalogue of the Romano-British Iron Tools, Fittings and Weapons in the British …
Created on: Wednesday 13th May 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilam CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-9FEAF8
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron tang-knife, possibly dating from the Roman period. Length: 98.0mm; width: 14.4mm; thickness: 3mm (tang). Mass: 9.3g. The back of the knife drops at the end to join the cutting edge at the tip. The cutting edge is incomplete, but appears to have been slightly convex in plan. The blade has a triangular cross-section. The knife has a tapering tang. The corroded surface of the knife has been removed by the finder. The knife has a similar form to Manning’s Type 14 Romano-British knife (see Manning, 1985, “Catalogue of the Romano-British Iron Tools, Fittings and Wea…
Created on: Wednesday 13th May 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilam CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-2C41D7
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron axe, possibly medieval. Length: 145mm; width of blade: 80.1mm; thickness (butt): 35.4mm; mass: 544g. Tapering profile. Blade flares in plan. Triangular Socket (length: 23.5mm, width: 12.1mm) with lugs on the lower edges. Corroded brown surface. One tip of the cutting-edge is missing. A broadly similar axe with more pronounced lugs and the addition of a makers mark is included in the: "London Museum Medieval Catalogue", Ward-Perkins, 1940, number 3 (A7673), p63 and figure 14.
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 29th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waterhouses CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-2C2FB2
Object type: AXE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Iron axe. Length: 155mm; width of blade: 43.3mm; thickness (butt): 40.6mm; mass: 710g. Triangular longitudinal section. Socket with rounded ends and straight sides (length: 42.3mm, width: 22.6mm). Curved wings projecting above and below the socket. In plan, the blade expands towards the cutting edge. One edge of the blade is broadly straight, and the other flares out. Corroded brown surface. A similar although larger axe is included in the: “London Museum Medieval Catalogue”, Ward-Perkins, 1940, number 4 (A13508), p. p56 and figure 12. Ward-Perkins comments that the “wood…
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Last updated: Friday 30th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilam CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-4E98D4
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete iron whittle-tanged knife. Length: 22.7cm; width: 5.5cm; thickness: 7.1mm (tang); mass: 144.2g. Triangular sectioned blade. The knife has a cutting edge which rises to meet the back which is angled slightly down. The blade is missing its tip and there has been some loss of material from the cutting edge. The tang tapers to a point. The knife has a heavily pitted grey surface which has been extensively cleaned to remove much of the corrosion. Dating is difficult. Whittle-tang knives were used in the medieval and post-medieval periods (e.g. see Margeson, “Norwich …
Created on: Monday 19th January 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilam CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-1F5906
Object type: HIPPOSANDAL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A largely complete but broken iron hipposandal dating from the Roman period. Length: 19.1cm (including the loop above the toe which is detatched), width: 13.3cm; height: 10.0cm (including the loop above the toe which is detatched). Mass: 508.7g. The hipposandal has a flat sole with a central tear shaped hole. There are side wings, at right angles to the sole, which run forward and meet in a (now detatched) loop above the toe. The heel is upturned at about 45 degrees and flares outwards. The heel terminates with a downward facing hook. The base of the sole is flat. The hipposan…
Created on: Friday 24th October 2008
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilam CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-A30B52
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete iron snaffle dating from the Roman period or possibly later. The snaffle consists of a mouthpiece of two jointed links fastened to cheekpieces of ring form. The mouthpiece links consist of a bar with a loop at each terminal. On one of the links (length 70.2mm) the loops are orientated at an angle of about 80 degrees from one another. On the second link (length 77.8mm), the angle between the loops is approximately 20 degrees. The snaffle is corroded and has an uneven brown surface. One cheekpiece moves freely within the mouthpiece loop, but the other cheekpiece and the two m…
Created on: Monday 7th April 2008
Last updated: Friday 17th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waterhouses CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-A2FE55
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An largely complete iron knife or cleaver from the Iron Age or Roman period or later. The knife/cleaver is a maximum of 27.1cm long, a maximum of 5.3cm wide, and it weighs approximately 192g. The knife has a narrow blade with a convex cutting edge and a concave top edge. The handle, which is rectangular in section, is approximately 85.7mm long, and approximately 8mm thick. In profile, the handle has a slightly convave upper edge. The lower edge of the handle is formed by two curves which meet at the widest point in the middle, 19.9mm wide. There is a lozenge shaped terminal at the en…
Created on: Monday 7th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waterhouses CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-175AD1
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete forged iron arrowhead, probably medieval in date. The blades form a broadly triangular shape when viewed in plan - with one barb incomplete and the second missing - and theer is a socket at the base. The socket tapers towards the tip and forms a central spine between the wings. In section, the socket and spine are circular and the wings are broadly flat. The arrowhead has an uneven, corroded, brown surface, with some white/grey patches visible; an unidentified substance. The socket is partially filled, probably with soil. There is a portion of the base of the socket …
Created on: Friday 7th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WMID-1700A3
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete forged iron arrowhead, probably medieval in date. The wings form a leaf shape when viewed in plan. It is clear from one blade that there are distinct narrow inwardly curved tapering barbs, at least 11.6mm in length, although these are now rather indistinct due to corrosion and having been bent inwardly towards the socket (and laterally). There is an incomplete socket at the base of the arrowhead which tapers and becomes indistinct towards the upper portion of the barbs. In section, the socket is circular and the wings appear to be very slightly lentoid. The arrowhead …
Created on: Friday 7th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WMID-C6FAF7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded D shaped iron buckle, probably medieval or post medieval in date. In plan the buckle frame is broadly oval with one straight side - forming a D shape. In section the frame also appears to be D shaped - with a flat base. The iron pin is fused to the frame through corrosion. The form is similar to buckle type 1 in the typological scheme identified by Griffiths, Philpott and Egan (2007, fig. 2.5.1) in "Meols: The Archaeology of the North West Coast". The buckle is a maximum of 40.1mm long, and a maximum of 30.4mm wide (across the pin). Thw buckle weighs 10.40g. In "Dress Acces…
Created on: Monday 3rd March 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 25th July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blore with Swinscoe CP', grid reference and parish protected.