Record ID: OXON-1C2E42
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete early-medieval Merovingian gold tremissis, late psuedo-Imperial or National Coinage, probably minted at Cirilia (Aveyron), Rodez (France), c. AD 560-585. The coin is comparable to others listed from Cirilia and Rodez (especially Prou 1910-11; Belfort 1509, 1570; Depeyrot Rodez 3-2A). Refs: Prou 1892: 395; Belfort 1892: 428, 445; Depeyrot: 119 (vol IV).
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 5th December 2019
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Record ID: OXON-23E4AA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near complete but worn cast copper-alloy and silver Hiberno-Scandinavian-style Early Medieval strap-end, dating to the latter ninth to eleventh centuries. The strap-end is roughly tongue-shaped with a split end for the insertion of the strap, a zoomorphic terminal consisting of an open-mouthed beast with large protruding eyes, and a flat circular region between these which has incised decoration on both sides, featuring a roundel and separate panels of interlace. The inscribed decoration is identical on each side of the plate. This consists of, in the roundel, an equal-armed cross of…
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2019
Last updated: Thursday 13th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ascott-Under-Wychwood CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-234326
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
 A cast silver gilt looped portion of a post-medieval dress fastener. The item is sub-triangular in shape and is formed of the head and wings of a cherub. Below the head is a large open D-shaped loop, into which the hook part of the garment fastener would slide. Above the head are two smaller sub-circular attachment loops, through which thread would pass to sew the fastener into a garment. In between these two smaller loops is a small knop on the top of the head. Although in an un-cleaned condition, much of the detail of the cherub's face and the feathers of the wings are cl…
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2019
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2023
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Record ID: OXON-22C70A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An ornate base silver mount dating to the 19th century or later. The mount is sub-rectangular in plan with very rounded narrow edges. At the base of the mount on one long edge is an expanded foot, bevelled in section having a flat back and sloping front. At the top of the mount, in the centre of the long edge, is a trefoil-shaped projection. Within the centre of the mount is elaborate moulded decoration consisting of a central trefoil flower bud above a long pelleted stem. The flower bud has scrolled and pelleted decoration within each petal. Protruding from t…
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2019
Last updated: Monday 1st November 2021
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Record ID: OXON-21DE4C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE 2019 T846. Description: A complete and well preserved post-medieval gold 'posy' ring, dating to the period AD 1600 - 1750. The finger ring has a D-shaped band, plain externally. Inside the band is an inscription in a Roman script reading 'God hath me lent my content' followed by a maker's mark of the letters I P within a rectangular cartouche. Dimensions: Internal diameter - 19.25mm. Thickness of band - 1.4mm. Weight - 3.7 grams. Discussion: The practice of exchanging posy rings, made of gold more often than silver, engraved with mottoes were popular for betrot…
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2019
Last updated: Friday 29th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cornbury and Wychwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-AEE243
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman nummus of Crispus (AD 317-26), dating to the period AD 323-4 (Reece Period 16). CAESARVM NOSTRONVM reverse type depicting a wreath with VOT X within. Mint of Lyon. RIC VII, p. 135, cf. no. 220. The exergue is unclear, but there do not appear to be dots either side of PLGC.
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
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Record ID: OXON-AB141E
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A complete three-piece discoidal silver button of post-medieval date, in very good condition. The button is biconvex and is hollow with two blow-holes on the lower hemisphere and separate soldered loop. The upper half of the button is decorated with an incised design of a four petalled flower around a central stamen. This is surrounded by a circular border along the button’s hemisphere which has hashed triangles in the gaps between each petal. The underside is plain with no evidence of a maker's mark. Dimensions: The button has a maximum diameter of 14.8mm…
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2019
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton Veny', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-038CDB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age gold quarter stater of the Western Region / East Wiltshire, dating to the period c.60-20 BC. Obverse: Wreath design with hidden face and wheel. Reverse: Triple-tailed horse right with beaded mane, pellet in ring between mane and neck, floral sun above, wheel below. This is an unknown variety of quarter stater belonging to a larger group of coins derived from British Qc types. It appears to combine an obverse that is close to the 'Three Wheels Right' type of East Wiltshire (ABC no. 2093) with a reverse similar to the standard British Qc/Selsey Dahlia type (ABC 500). John…
Created on: Tuesday 30th July 2019
Last updated: Friday 2nd August 2019
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Record ID: OXON-01F271
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A small gold ingot of uncertain date, but probably later Iron Age to Early Medieval (Viking). The ingot is roughly sub-rectangular in section and in plan. There appears to be damage or a lip in the ingot on one long edge. The short edges appear to show cut-marks. Dimensions: Length: 24.6 mm, Width: 13.5 mm, Thickness: 2.1 mm. Weight: 7.82 g Discussion: Although gold ingots are traditionally difficult to date out of context they are often attributed to a Viking date, c. AD 750-1050. The Vikings had a bullion economy where the purity and weight of the metal were more impor…
Created on: Tuesday 30th July 2019
Last updated: Friday 7th July 2023
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Record ID: OXON-86C7C3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete silver scalloped mount, probably a strap fitting or dress fastener and dating to the early post-medieval period. The mount can be divided into two halves - the upper part is decorated with two scallop shells, with the rounded outer edges of the shells creating the outer edge of the mount with a slight groove dividing the shells. The lower half comprises a plain sloping sub-rectangular field with notched sides and a flat base. In the centre of this panel, slightly encroaching into the scallops, is a large circular perforation. On the reverse of the fitting are to…
Created on: Friday 12th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chinnor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-5EBB97
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold post-medieval finger ring, a posy or poem ring of late 17th or early 18th century date. The finger ring has a plain D-shaped band with internal inscription in cursive script which reads 'for virtues sake my wife I take'. Following the inscription is a maker's mark of IB within a sub-rectangular cartouche. Finger rings with similar cursive script are dated from c. 1650 - 1750 AD however the maker's mark may be that of Joseph Berry, who is recorded as being 'Free of the Goldsmiths' Company' AD 1675 - 1697 (date of death unknown). A similar mark seen on a posy ring made by…
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: OXON-5EB486
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold medieval finger ring with blue/black stone insert (damage to stone). The band of the finger ring is rectangular in cross section with moulded blocks of quatrefoil / saltire decoration separated with rows of raised pellets around the circumference of the loop. Either side of the trapezoidal bezel is lettering that may be an abbreviation of a religious or personal nature; the letters appear to consist of I O L V M [?] (read left to right, top row first). Mid 13th to mid 14th century AD. Weight: 2.2g Inner dia: 19.24mm Outer dia: 24.47mm
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
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Record ID: OXON-5D6B82
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold medieval finger ring with seal intaglio and inscription. The finger ring has a plain oval loop, D-shaped in section (more angular near the bezel) with an oval bezel set within the arms of the hoop. The bezel has a bevelled edge and an blue / black glass (?) intaglio within. The intaglio is of Roman date and appears to depict a satyr advancing right with a pedum over his shoulder and possibly holding an animal in his hand (pers. comm. Martin Henig in litt. 25.07.19). The intaglio is of Roman date but the finger ring it is set within is of 13th century date. The finger r…
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2019
Last updated: Friday 25th March 2022
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Record ID: OXON-4E677E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver penny of Stephen (AD 1135-1154), Irregular Issue, Midlands and South-Western Area (North 887; cf. Mack 181-2), struck by Rogier at the Oxford mint. Ref: North 1994: 206-7; Mack 1966: 69-70. The coin is complete and hardly worn, well struck slightly off-centre. There is a straight crease across the coin, below the centre - the finder reports that he found the coin bent and had it straightened before realising what the coin was.
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wheatley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-4DDAB3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy (with high tin content) Iron Age potin of the Cantiaci (Kent) / South-Eastern Region dating to c.80-50 BC. Rounded Bull type cf. ABC 165. BMC 705-709. David Holman writes: This is a previously unrecorded variety. The nearest parallel is Holman type E1/4-5b, which has the same reverse but an obverse with the face joined to the top of the head. This new variety has a detached face. The obverse also has a stylistic link to E3/4-4a, also from Bucks, although the reverse is quite different.
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 28th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Crendon area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-4DCE7B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Iron Age potin of the Cantiaci (Kent) / South-Eastern Region dating to c.80-50 BC. Rounded Bull type cf. ABC 165. BMC 705-709. David Holman states it Holman type F1/3, but that it is not possible to classify further.
Created on: Thursday 27th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 28th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Crendon area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-E26462
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A complete Medieval gold finger-ring with gemstone setting (perhaps a sapphire) dating to the period AD 1200-1400. The hoop is oval shaped in cross-section. It is thickest closest to the bezel (c.3.1mm thick) and thins evenly to a minimum thickness of 1.5mm. The hoop has been warped into a sub-oval shape but would have been circular. The bezel is sub-oval in shape, set transversely to the hoop. It rises up from the band flaring outwards as it rises up so that it has a conical appearance from all profile views. Its lower surface has a circular hole (c.2mm in diamete…
Created on: Monday 10th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
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Record ID: OXON-8FBEB6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman Republican denarius of Julius Caesar, dating to the period c.47-46 BC (Reece Period 1). CAESAR (downwards) reverse type depicting Aeneas left, carrying palladium in right hand and Anchises on left shoulder. African mint. As RRC p. 471, no. 458/1.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2019
Last updated: Saturday 11th April 2020
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Record ID: OXON-8F6477
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete silver gilt annular brooch of medieval date. The brooch has an annular frame, triangular in section with a decorative projection in the form of an animal's (possibly a snake's) head on one side. The frame has a small constriction where the missing pin would have been located. There are two areas of ribbing around the frame which serve as additional decoration. Suggested date c. AD 1250-1350. Dimensions: 23mm long, 13.2mm diameter, 3.3mm thick, 0.6 grams. Discussion: According to Egan and Pritchard (1991:254) this style of brooch was relatively …
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Benson', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: OXON-67AF42
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn and incomplete large cast copper alloy Iron Age enamelled flat-ring terret, dating from c. 50 BC to c. AD 70. The terret ring retains over a third of the flat decorated ring, a short length of the strap bar and one roundel. The flattened ring of the terret is decorated with elaborate 'S' shaped La Tene style scrolls, conjoined into moustache-like motifs connected by alternating top and bottom scroll arms. These motifs are raised within a background that would have contained red enamel, but most of this is now absent. A small circular inset of enamel is retained in the centre of…
Created on: Tuesday 4th June 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 17th March 2020
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