Record ID: WMID-5BF778
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper/tin/zinc/lead alloy spur fragment. Post-medieval (probably). Mass: 8.81g; length: 49mm; width: 13mm; thickness: 15mm. The fragment, which is broken at one end, consists of a tapering, D-sectioned arm, with a figure of eight terminal. At the broken end of the front of the arm there is a raised 3-faceted decoration which tapers to a point. The fragment has a silver/grey appearance.
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 2nd June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brewood CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5BEAC0
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped flint flake. Prehistoric (probably Mesolithic to Bronze Age). Brown flint. Mass: 3.1g; length: 29.5mm; width: 21.4mm; thickness: 6.3mm. On the ventral face there is a bulb of percussion and ripples of the conchoidal fracture. On the dorsal face there are negative flake scars and small areas of cortex (<5%) at the distal and proximal ends. Approximately 60% of the dorsal face is patinated.
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lichfield area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5BDBA4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver groat of Henry VIII (1509-1547); London mint; second coinage (1526-1544); North, 1991, p.111 (no. 1798).
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Sunday 31st January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wiggington and Hopwas CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5BBC20
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knibbs Cast copper-alloy dog's head vessel spout, c.15th century. Mass: 78.1g; width: 79mm; length: 48mm; depth: 20.9mm. T he spout is hollow with a sub-triangular cross section where it would have been attached to the vessel. From the triangular sectioned end, the spout rises and tapers to a moulded dog's head gripping a circular tube which is incomplete at the bottom.
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 27th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Constantine CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5BB314
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy centre-looped cosmetic mortar. Late iron-age / Roman period. Mass: 25.2g; length: 23mm; width: 61mm; depth: 12mm. The mortar is curved in plan and U shaped in section, with moulded ends. There is a suspension loop on the back. In 'Cosmetic sets from Late Iron Age and Roman Britain', in Britannia, Volume 16, 1985, pages 172 & 175, Jackson comments that few 'cosmetic sets' or their component parts are closely and securely dated, but many do seem to fall in to the 1st/ 2nd century AD.
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 27th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shenstone CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B8D77
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy seal box. Roman period. Mass: 5.0g; length: 30mm; width: 19.3mm; depth: 8.0mm. The seal box is lozenge shaped in plan, and the lid is detached from the incomplete base which is in two adjoining pieces. There is a grid pattern on the lid consisting of twenty-five reserved champlevé enamelled, lozenge-shaped cells. The outer fields are now off-white/light blue. The central field is yellow. Around the central field there are four cells, two of which contain an unidentified dark coloured enamel, one has a red enamel surface, and the third has an incomplete red surface a…
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shenstone CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B8547
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver halfgroat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603); London mint; third issue (1583-1603); tun initial mark (1591/2-4); North, 1991, p. 137 (no. 2016).
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kings Bromley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B7304
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy thimble. Probably post-medieval. The thimble is dome shaped, with a slightly flattened top. Mass: 3.4g; diameter at base: 17.9mm; height: 18.0mm; wall thickness at the base: 0.7mm. On the exterior of the thimble there are a series of circular indentations in the form of a spiral beginning at the open end and continuing up to the crown. The remains of a linear groove runs around the exterior of the thimble, near to the base (which is incomplete). The thimble has a pitted brown surface with green corrosion products visible. In “Sewing Thimbles” (Finds Research Group 700…
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Constantine CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B69C6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken silver cross and crosslets (Tealby) penny of Henry II (1154-1189).
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B6666
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward II (1307 - 1327); Canterbury mint; class 13 (probably) (c.1315-c.1317); North, 1991, p.37 (no. 1064).
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Sunday 31st January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brewood and Coven', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B6331
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy sestertius, 27BC - 269 AD.
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B5F51
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy sword pommel. Medieval, c.14th/15th century. In plan and cross section, the pommel is in the form of an irregularly sided octagon, with a rectangular slot in the top and bottom. Mass: 133g; length: 50.5mm; width: 52.2mm; depth: 46.9mm. The bottom slot is 18mm long x 11mm wide. The top slot is 5mm wide, but as there is a fragment missing from the pommel at one end of the slot, the length is not recorded. The pommel, which is broken in half, is hollow with a grey mortar-like material in the centre through which runs a channel for the tang of the sword. The external…
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B5842
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy coin weight for a laurel of James I (1603-25). Mass: 8.5g; length: 17.8mm; width: 18.1mm. Square. Obverse: Crowned XXs within a pellet circle, and a crowned I stamped in the top left hand corner. Reverse: Bust of James I, laureate, within a pellet circle. Die axis: 6 O’clock. Cf “Lions, Ships and Angels”, Withers and Withers, 1995, p12-13 (XXs, d).
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B5532
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Winkle Cast copper-alloy fragment of a trumpet brooch (probably). Roman period, circa AD 75-175. Mass: 3.6g; length: 23.1mm; width: 9.4mm; depth: 8.9mm. The fragment is from the arched bow of a brooch, and it has a pronounced transverse rib on the front, flanked by a groove to either side, a feature commonly seen on Trumpet brooches (e.g. see PAS record WMID-21E722).
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brewood and Coven', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B4DA4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy Polden Hill brooch. Roman period, c. AD 75-200. Mass: 8.2g; width: 21.3mm; length: 27.8mm; depth: 10.7mm. The brooch would have been T-shaped in plan, but one semi-cylindrical side-wing is largely missing. The more complete side-wing has a pierced end cap with the remains of an iron axial rod in it, although the spring, pin, and external chord are all missing (as is the hook/lug on the head which would have secured the external chord). The bow is arched in profile and broken at the bottom. There is a moulded plate on each side of the head. Three raised ribs with groo…
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brewood and Coven', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B3703
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy dog's head vessel spout, c.15th century. Mass: 68.7g; width: 76mm; length: 37mm; depth: 23mm. The hollow spout is curved in plan, and octagonal in external section at the (broken) vessel end, rising to a moulded dog's head gripping a circular tube at the pouring end.
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire finds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B3341
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy hooked tag (dress hook). Post-medieval, c. 16th/17th century. Mass: 3.4g; width: 20.4mm; length: 39.3mm. Openwork plate with a central fleur-de-lys design, rectangular loop and hook. Cf Read, 2008, p. 100 (no. 380).
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 2nd May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire finds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B2E81
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy rotary key. Medieval, c. 14th/15th century. Mass: 23.1g; length: 79.5mm; width: 19.5mm. The bow is incomplete but appears to have been solid with ?circular perforations within it. There is a collar where the bow joins the shank. The shank is incomplete and the central perforation which runs from the bit-end is exposed on much of the corroded bow. There is a cleft on the bottom edge of the large bit, and one on the outer edge. The key has a brown and green pitted surface to which a lacquer has been applied. In the Museum of London's "Medieval Catalogue" (1940 p13…
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire finds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B2602
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy button. Late medieval/early post-medieval, c.15th/16th cenury. Mass: 6.7g; length: 15.6mm; diameter: 17.6mm. Circular in plan with a slightly concave front and a convex reverse with a bevelled edge and an integral shank. The front is decorated with a circle of squares within concentric circles at the outer edge, within which is an incised cross with dots in the angles and a sub-circular incised design at the centre. The limbs of the cross terminate with notches on the circumference of the button.
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire finds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5B21A7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete long-cross penny of Henry III (1216-72); moneyer Nicole; uncertain mint; both sides of the coin have been struck with obverse and reverse dies and contain elements of both.
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire finds', grid reference and parish protected.