Record ID: OXON-2C8357
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy Roman toilet tool or other personal implement of uncertain use, dating to the period AD 43-409. The tool can be divided into two sections; the upper section has a flat elongated plain panel with a suspension loop set perpendicular to the panel. This loop would have attached the tool to a ring, probably with other tools on it. The lower section of the tool is separated from the flat plate section by moulded double collars. The lower stem is sub-square in section, now slightly bent, with an open loop terminal, an eyelet, bent to 90 degrees towards the face o…
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-2BB20D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill, Mackreth 2011, CD PH 8, dating to the 1st - late 3rd century AD. The pin, spring, most of the catchplate and knoped foot terminal of the brooch are broken and missing. This brooch belongs to the 'sawfish' family of T-shaped brooches, so named becuase of the serrated edges of the bow. The teeth only extend a short way down the middle of the bow. A small panel of alternating triangular-shaped cells lays between the serrations mid-bow. These cells were probably filled with enamel but this is now all miss…
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 3rd September 2021
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Record ID: OXON-2B81C6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy zoomorphic plate brooch of Roman date, 2nd century AD. This plate brooch resembles a fish in its current incomplete state however the brooch was originally intened to be in the form of a bird with the head protruding up from the body. The head has broken off of this brooch and the scar where this break occured is visible. The central body of the bird is recessed and it is presumed to have originally have been filled with enamel, now missing. At the centre of this recessed cell is a raised ring, the height being that of the edges of the brooch, with a recesse…
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-2AF821
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy strap fitting or harness mount of medieval date. The fitting is rectangular in plan and plano-convex in cross section. The upper surface fo the mount is decorated with recessed triangular cells which retain their gilding. The are arranged point-to-point towards the centre of the longitudinal ridge of the mount. On the underside of the mount is the remains of an integrally cast attachment shank. Suggested date AD 1300-1500.
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-2AD3B5
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy hair or dress pin of Roman date (AD 43-409). The pin has a biconical head with very worn, faceted hemispheres. The lower hemipshere narrowes to the same thickness as the pin shank and the two are separated by a raised circumferential collar. The shank of the pin is now bent with two almost right angled bends evident, in the same fashion as another Roman pin found nearby (see OXON-2AC55D). The shank narrows slowly towards an old break.
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-2AC55D
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy hair or dress pin of middle Anglo-Saxon date (AD 700-800). The pin has a biconical head, more rounded on the upper half and more conical on the lower hemisphere, narrowing into the circular-section shaft; this head shape is sometimes called 'balloon-shaped'. The head and shaft are separated by a raised circumferential collar. The shaft of the pin is now bent, with two almost right-angled bends, in the same fashion as a Roman pin found nearby (see OXON-2AD3B5). The shaft narrows towards the tip of the pin, the very end of which is missing.
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 1st July 2021
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Record ID: OXON-2A8EEC
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy slide key for a slide lock / padlock of probable late early-medieval to medieval date (c. AD 900-1300). The key has a sub-rectangular shaft with bevelled edge and a double collar towards the bit. The bit is a reversed 'D' with T-shaped aperture within and a T-shaped projection on the outer edge. At the opposing end is a lozenge-shaped loop with external angled projections. A similar find, HAMP 799738 states; '"There is much discussion on these type of slide keys, known popularly as 'Viking' keys, though only similar to known Viking keys (from dated con…
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
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Record ID: OXON-2A683D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval copper alloy sceat, Secondary Phase Series E Variety A, dating to the period AD 675-750. Obverse: Quilled crescent coiled right, enclosing four bars. Reverse: Beaded standard enclosing angular symbols and central annulet, representing degenerate TOTII legend. Reference: Abramson E130, E140.
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Monday 20th May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-2A3CF5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval buckle consisting of only the buckle plate. The plate is formed from a single piece of sheet copper alloy folded in half - the fold would have looped around the buckle frame. A strap would have been inserted into the void between the plates and secured by a single copper alloy rivet, which is extant. Both surfaces of the plate have scrolled / swirling decoration, possibly floral, and have also been gilded, much of which survives. Suggested date AD 1250-1400.
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Monday 20th May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-2A1D34
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy post-medieval coin weight for an angel. The coin weight was issued in Antwerp by an unknown maker with the initials K I (star) in AD 1576. The coin bears St Michael slaying the dragon on one side while the other has the hand of Antwerp and the maker's mark. See Withers & Withers 2011:27.
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Monday 20th May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-29B126
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and cut silver short cross halfpenny of John (AD 1199-1216), dating to the period AD 1204-1205. Class 5a. Struck by the moneyer Iohan at Canterbury. North N221.
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Monday 20th May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-296F06
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval Nuremberg copper-alloy jetton of Hans Schultes II or III (dating to AD 1586-1612). Rose / orb type, obverse legend: HANS SCHVLTES . ZV . NVRE, reverse legend GLICK IST WALCZET VND (Fortune is changeable). The jetton is pierced at roughly 6 o'clock on the obverse. Reference: Munich Coll. Arthur Koenig - Schultes obverse 454/reverse 453; Not in Mitchiner. See also HAMP-2099A9 on this database.
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Monday 20th May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-289685
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE 2019 T487. Description: A complete set of post-Medieval sheet silver cufflinks of Lewis 2013: Form 1, Type A and dating to the period AD 1662-1714. Each button bears a stamped motif comprising two hearts surmounted by a jewelled and arched crown set against a faint stippled field, within a raised circular border. Each has a flanged edge, which is undecorated. The underside of the cuff links are hollow due to the pronounced rim on the underside of each cuff button. Each cuff button has a soldered loop extending from the reverse and an oval loop of silver joins the two cuf…
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 23rd July 2021
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Record ID: OXON-EA7F59
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy medieval strap end dating to c. AD 1390-1420. The strap end is also known as a box chape; it is of the 'lyre shaped' group as found at Meols (Griffiths et. al. 2007, Pl. 17, No. 765). The strap was fitted into the square socket through which are two rivets. On one face of the box is an incised floral design, while the other side is undecorated. At the front of the chape is a narrowed neck which leads to a flanged transverse bar that forms the base of the frame - the lyre shaped openwork terminal of the chape is broken and missing. Similar examples are r…
Created on: Friday 17th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 17th May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-EA5770
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy cooking vessel, such as a small cauldron, dating to the late medieval or early post-medieval period (c. AD 1400-1700). The fragment is one leg of the vessel - the leg is plano-convex in section at the broken edge, and expands from the break to the foot pad. Three very shallowly convex ribs are present on the upper surface and extend to the edge of the foot. The base and back of the foot are flat. This type of leg is known to have been used on vessels dating from the later medieval period although copper-alloy cooking vessels were in use well into the …
Created on: Friday 17th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 17th May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-EA4546
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy cooking vessel, such as a small cauldron, dating to the late medieval or early post-medieval period (c. AD 1250-1700). The fragment is one leg of the vessel - it is sub-triangular in cross section with an angled foot in the shape of a hoof. The opposing end of the leg has a rounded top and damage to the inside, possibly where it adjoined the vessel basin.
Created on: Friday 17th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 17th May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-EA22C3
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a polished flint axehead dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000-2500 BC). The axehead has been very badly damaged, with mechanical damage evident. The remains of the axe comprises most of the cutting edge, which is beautifully polished and still sharp, and also a length of either the dorsal or ventral side. The breaks are jagged and sharp.
Created on: Friday 17th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: OXON-E9FE54
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near-complete cast copper alloy dress hook of early Post-Medieval date, c. AD 1500 - 1700. The dress hook is of Read's Class E, Type 3 being circular in plan and with a rectangular attachment loop. The body of the dress hook has a central cross while each quarter has an openwork trefoil or quatrefoil, some now very worn. The hook is missing. Read (2008) number 370-371 on page 99 for parallels.
Created on: Friday 17th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 17th May 2019
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Record ID: OXON-E94593
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but very worn copper alloy post-medieval farthing trade token, issued by Humphrey Bodicott between AD 1652-1660. Bodicott was a Vintner and landlord of The Three Tuns public house in Oxford near All Souls College. Bodicott died in AD 1660. Norweb no. 3683a-3684b. Leeds 27.
Created on: Friday 17th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2022
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Record ID: OXON-E91E4A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but very worn and corroded copper alloy post-medieval farthing trade token, issued by the City of Oxford (the Mayor) between AD 1652-1657. The token features the City arms of an Ox crossing a ford. Norweb no. 3365-3375.
Created on: Friday 17th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2022
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