Record ID: LON-02CD35
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver coin: machine-made penny of Charles II (AD 1660-1685), IM: crown. The coin has the value mark I behind the royal bust, but no inner circles, indicating it is one of the machine-made issue. As such, no North number can be assigned. Obverse: Crowned bust left with value mark I behind. Obverse inscription: CAROLVS II D G M B F & H REX Reverse: Square shield on cross fleury Reverse inscription: CHRISTO AVSPICE REGNO REGNO (I reign under the auspices of Christ) Die axis measurement: 6.00 Dimensions: diameter: 12.17mm; weight: 0.45g. Reference: North, J. J.…
Created on: Monday 8th February 2010
Last updated: Monday 1st October 2012
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Record ID: LON-02C6F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age British cast copper alloy potin, Flat Linear 1 type, Kent (attributed Cantii), 70-50 BC. BMC686 / VA129. Obverse: Stylised head right, inside a plain border. Obverse inscription: Uninscribed. Reverse: Stylised bull butting left, line below, two crescents above, inside a plain border. Reverse inscription: Uninscribed. Die axis measurement: 9.00 Dimensions: diameter: 17.00mm; weight: 1.65g. Identification by Ian Leins, Curator of Iron Age and Roman coins, British Museum. Reference: Hobbs, R. 1996. British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum. British Museum Pre…
Created on: Monday 8th February 2010
Last updated: Monday 1st October 2012
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Record ID: LON-F278D2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman cast copper alloy Colchester-derivative two-piece bow brooch (1st century AD). The find consists of an almost complete Colchester-derivative brooch; only the tip of the pin, and the base of the foot and catchplate are missing. The brooch has a plate at the back of the head which is pierced twice; the axis bar for the spring passes through the lower hole and the external chord through the upper hole. A hemispherical recession runs along the reverse of the head and the pin bar fits inside this. The sprung pin has seven turns and has broken only at the outermost left…
Created on: Tuesday 26th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-D89896
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval silver coin: cut half penny, probably of John (1199-1216 AD), probably Class 5, 1204-1209 AD. Although the coin is badly worn, the moneyer may be Andreu.
Created on: Monday 25th January 2010
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
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Record ID: LON-D87220
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval silver coin: penny of James I (1603-1625 AD), First coinage, struck 1604 AD. IM: Lis. North no. 2077
Created on: Monday 25th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 26th June 2020
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Record ID: LON-737994
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman silver coin: Republican denarius of the moneyer M. Tullius (120 BC). Reece period 1. RRC 280/1. Obverse: Helmeted head of Roma right, ROMA behind. Obverse inscription: None Reverse: Victory in quadriga right, holding palm-branch, wreath above, value mark X below. M TVLLI in exergue. Reverse inscription: None Die axis measurement: 12.00 Dimensions: diameter: 20.00mm; weight: 3.23g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-7365F2
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late Iron Age to early Roman copper alloy zoomorphic end-looped cosmetic mortar (1st century BC - 1st century AD). The cast copper alloy cosmetic mortar has an oval section and a slight curve throughout its length; there is a deep recession in its upper edge, inset only slightly from each end of the object. At one end, the gently curving mortar terminates in a rectangular-sectioned knop that has been pierced with a circular hole to create an attachment loop. At the opposite end, the mortar thickens into an irregular section, to form the neck of a zoomorphic terminal. The…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2019
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Record ID: LON-5DEA87
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early-Medieval copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount (11th or early 12th century). The mount belongs to Williams's Class A, Type 13 (Williams 1997). It is lozenge-shaped and has a rectangular cross-section. From the uppermost point of the plate projects a smaller lozenge that has been pierced with a central circular rivet hole. This would have served to attach the mount to a leather strap. In line with the central horizontal axis of the plate, a further small lozenge projects out from each side of the mount and each has a decorative raised knop in the centre. In the very centre …
Created on: Tuesday 19th January 2010
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2015
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Record ID: LON-49B2D0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age gold uninscribed Southern quarter stater, British QC type, Rudd's 'Selsey Dahlia' type, attributed to Atrebates / Regni 50-20 BC. Rudd ABC 506. The coin has been struck with a damaged obverse die. Obverse: None: damaged die. Obverse inscription: Uninscribed. Reverse: Horse right, sun above and wheel below. Reverse inscription: Uninscribed. Dimensions: diameter: 14.13mm; weight: 0.99g. Identification by Ian Leins, Curator of Iron Age and Roman coins, British Museum.
Created on: Monday 18th January 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 27th April 2011
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Record ID: LON-5191E7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman copper alloy coin: nummus of Constantius II as Caesar (337-361 AD). Struck at Trier, 324-337 AD. Reece periods 16-17. RIC. 456 Dimensions: diameter: 19.59mm; weight: 3.01g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-518014
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman copper alloy coin: nummus of Decentius (351-353 AD), struck in Rome. Reece Period 8. Sear no. 3935. Dimensions: diameter: 21.88mm; weight: 3.50g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-514187
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval silver coin: groat of Edward III (1327-1377 AD), fourth coinage, series G, struck in London 1356-1361 AD. North no. 1193 Dimensions: diameter: 26.08mm; weight: 4.45g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-593D70
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy prick spur or "rivet spur", iron goad missing, dating 3rd - 4th century AD. Only one side is complete, the other side is broken and the terminal is missing. The surviving side has an irregular hexagonal cross-section which becomes rectangular at a ribbed and cusped moulding before a disc terminal pierced in the centre by an iron-filled hole. The iron-filled goad hole is in the centre of a square heel-plate above and below which are double-cusped mouldings. This example is similar to spurs from Chedworth, Woodeaton and Corbridge (Shortt 1959, fig. 2 nos. 3,4 an…
Created on: Monday 26th October 2009
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2018
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Record ID: LON-5937D4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to Post Medieval copper alloy strap mount, 1300-1600 AD. The rectangular-sectioned mount is rectangular in plan, measuring 22.5 by 17.0mm. A long rectangular tab projects from the centre of both the upper and the lower sides. These tabs have been folded behind the mount to meet each other, thus creating an attachment loop around 16.9mm deep, through which the mount could have been threaded onto a strap or harness. The mount is relatively plain; the only decorative element is one incised vertical line running down the central axis of the rectangular shape. The surfac…
Created on: Monday 26th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-591D56
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver coin: long cross penny of Edward I (1272-1307 AD). Class 9b1: pothook Ns, IM cross pattée, wedge collar with star in the middle. Minted in Kingston-upon-Hull, 1299-1301 AD. Dimensions: diameter: 17.9mm; weight: 1.25g.
Created on: Monday 26th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-74FDA3
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper-alloy jetton: German pfennig (penny) by Lauffer, probably minted in Nuremberg (17th century).
Created on: Thursday 15th October 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 8th March 2017
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Record ID: LON-74F181
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy jetton of the rose orb type, probably minted in Nuremberg (17th century).
Created on: Thursday 15th October 2009
Last updated: Friday 8th November 2013
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Record ID: LON-458C90
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy coin: nummus of the House of Constantine (307-318 AD). Reece (2000) ref. 70. Obverse: Laureate bust right. Obverse inscription: Illegible Reverse: Sol standing facing with whip and globe Reverse inscription: [SOLI I]NVIC[TO CO MITI] Mint mark: T/E//[...] Die axis measurement: 6.00 Dimensions: diameter: 19.35mm; weight: 2.16g. Reference: Reece, R. and James, S. 2000. Identifying Roman Coins. Spink, London.
Created on: Tuesday 13th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LON-458247
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy jetton of the rose orb type, dated 1572.
Created on: Tuesday 13th October 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 21st January 2014
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Record ID: LON-5EEB76
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval silver coin: sixpence of James I; Second coinage, dated 1609. Probably North no. 2103. Dimensions: diameter: 24.96mm; weight: 2.72g.
Created on: Friday 2nd October 2009
Last updated: Monday 25th November 2019
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