Record ID: CAM-EF287A
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy penannular ring. The ring has an oval shape, length 16.2mm x width/depth 13.4mm x thickness 5.5mm. The internal aperture measures width 9.7mm x depth c.8.2mm. It weighs 2.82g, has a 'D' shaped cross-section, straight internal surface and convexly curved exterior. The metal tapers to rounded terminals at each end. A gap of 2.3mm is present between the terminals. The patina is mottled with mid green, paler orangey-brown and dark grey-green patches. Much of the original surface is missing due to shallow corrosion/damage. It is possible that this migh…
Created on: Saturday 23rd September 2023
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'City of Peterborough Unitary Authority', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-F90345
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lump of lead whose function or use is uncertain. This unidentified object is also of uncertain date. It weighs 42.19g, and currently has a sub-spherical to sub-cuboid form. Lead is a heavy but soft metal and it is therefore more probable that this artefact started as a sphere and has deformed to gain flatter sides under its own weight. Only one of the surfaces appears markedly different to the others. This has a depressed slot around less than half of the circumference. The slot has a width of 1.9mm and depth of 0.7mm. The diameter of the lump, measured along the axi…
Created on: Friday 18th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: CAM-EC38EB
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy toilet article, nail cleaner, in the shape of a miniature strigil or sickle. This is presumably used for cleaning a person's fingers while its tip could also effectively be used to clean around and under finger and toe nails. This artefact weighs 1.67g and has a maximum length of 45.9mm. At the proximal end the object terminates in a sub-circular suspension loop of 5.4mm width and 1.2mm thickness. The circular aperture at the centre has a diameter of 3.0mm. Subtle shallow diagonal grooves decorate the outer edges of one side of the loop. The suspensio…
Created on: Wednesday 12th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: CAM-D71B68
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblage of four ceramic items. One spindle whorl and three fragments of ceramic vessel, all of these sherds being of different fabric. Dating is recorded as uncertain as the manufacture date of the whorl could span a wide date range and no pottery specialist has assessed the sherds yet. All items found on the shoreline so may have been washed up from elsewhere. 1 – Ceramic spindle whorl. A ceramic spindle whorl of uncertain date. Spindle whorls were in use between the Iron Age through to the early Post-Medieval period. See https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecording…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2023
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Record ID: CAM-A14EF1
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy unidentified artefact, probably a harness fitting or bit link of Early-Medieval Anglo-Scandinavian date or alternatively an incomplete bow and part of the shank from a key (locking) of Roman date. See WILLIAMS, D. 2007 F.R.G. Datasheet 39, Anglo-Scandinavian Horse Harness Fittings & https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecordingguides/bit-links/ . Also see https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecordingguides/keys/ and PAS records: SF-F573C2 & less like SF-072683.  The example recorded here weighs 19.55g, it has …
Created on: Saturday 25th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2023
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Record ID: CAM-E37EC4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead artefact of uncertain date. This is probably a weight to weigh goods with but may have been used as a small plumb-bob or weight to tension a cord or material instead. Weight is 22.63g (0.80oz) and length is 31.5mm. The cross-section appears to be circular but close inspection shows the sides to be subtly faceted. Some of the facets are much more subtle than others which frustrates counting the total number. At the wider end the diameter is c.9.4mm. c.3.7mm from this terminal the diameter has flared out to 15.2mm. It then contracts gradually to 8.6mm diameter c.2.4mm before the o…
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
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Record ID: CAM-E3274E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A conical lead weight of uncertain date. This artefact weighs 54.19g (1.91oz) and has a height of 20.6mm. In profile the weight has a trapezoidal shape and a sub-circular cross-section of c.23.0mm diameter at the base tapering to 17.8mm at the top. A perforation passes through the approximate centre of the weight on the height axis. At the flat base of the weight this opening is oval 4.7mm x 3.9mm. At the irregular but mostly flat top the opening is not open but blocked, possibly with a mix of pale brown soil and or rusted iron, possibly with some lead from the slig…
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
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Record ID: CAM-E2D713
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A biconical lead weight. Weights of this form are generally thought to be Roman but the date is uncertain as these can be found on multi-period sites. The weight has a biconical profile and sub-circular shape when viewed from above or below, probably originally circular but now miss-shapen. The remains of an iron attachment loop or some other means of suspension are present in the miss-shapen apex end. In its current condition the weight has a height of 35.2mm including the iron remains. The original diameter, on the well preserved axis, is 42.7mm and on the miss-shapen …
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
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Record ID: CAM-290F81
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper-alloy from an unidentified artefact of uncertain date, probably Bronze Age. This fragment weighs 11.87g. It survives to an incomplete length of 28.3mm with a break at both ends. It has a maximum width of 16.6mm and incomplete thickness of 10.9mm. One surface of this artefact is completely missing. The surviving fragment has an irregular sub-rectangular to 'C' shaped cross-section. The walls of the copper-alloy have a thickness of between c.0.1mm to c.2.6mm. The central cavity is filled with a firm and solid off-white substance, possibly a paste.&n…
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th February 2023
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Record ID: CAM-FFBE96
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy single loop sub-rectangular buckle frame, pin missing, with forward projecting off-set bar. The dating of these are uncertain. Single loop rectangular buckles can date from c.AD1300 to at least AD1500, see Whitehead R. 2003, pp.26-27, nos.126-133. The recorder suspects that these buckles with forward projecting off-set bars are likely to be for use with horse harness, the dating possibly extending to at least the first half of 20th century AD?  This would give a wide date range of Medieval to the early Modern period. The thinking being that items use…
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-0212A1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd of ceramic vessel of unknown date, possibly Iron Age or Early-Medieval. This is a body sherd, probably wheel made, the core is an oxidised dark orange/brown with reduced mid grey internal and external surface. Rare small flint inclusions. Weight 4.04g, thickness 6.4mm, measuring 24.3mm x 20.3mm.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-D5B9E6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A conical weight of unknown date. Weight is 12.40g (0.44oz), the diameter at base is 19.6mm from which the walls taper to 7.1mm at the top. Height is 9.0mm. A straight walled cylindrical hole of 3.9mm diameter passes through the approximate centre of the artefact vertically (from flat base to tapered top). This is more likely to have been used as a weight for weighing how heavy something was, rather than as a spindle whorl.
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
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Record ID: CAM-D5969A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead pot mend weighing 8.31g. It has a maximum thickness of 8.2mm and measures 17.0mm x 15.0mm. One side has a sub-oval shape and smoother flattened surface. The other side has greater variation on the thickness axis and a more irregular undefined 'blob' shape. c.2.4mm in from the flatter surface the mend contracts, and would originally have passed through the vessel wall, before expanding on the opposite side. None of the vessel survives around the mend so no dating can be suggested.
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-497F67
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete two piece thimble. Only the domed top of the white metal, probably silver, thimble survives but this has been squashed and bent. Not enough of the artefact survives to be able to accurately date it. However, it was formed by the technique of brazing, sheet metal having been curled round and soldered to form a tube and then the separate domed top applied to one end of that tube. Holmes, E. F. 2004, p.2. states that this technique starts to be used to produce brass thimbles in c. AD1450 though few of these date survive to be found. They can be found…
Created on: Friday 16th September 2022
Last updated: Friday 31st March 2023
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Record ID: CAM-259847
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tertiary flint pebble flake within which is a large impurity at the proximal end and seen in both ventral and dorsal faces. This is present in the bulb of percussion where it has a chert like texture. Consideration has been given to the suggestion that this might be a reworked adze. If not, and it seems more probable that, this is a core rejuvenation flake tool indicating two attempts to remove the larger impurity. Almost all surfaces over this piece of flint are re-patinated with the exception of a very small percentage of surface area where this has been removed by later …
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd September 2022
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Record ID: CAM-4B0087
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A squashed and bent gold finger-ring of uncertain date. This artefact weighs 6.39g and is formed of a single band that forms a continuous hoop without sign of a join or solder line. This band has an oval cross-section, though the inner surface is slightly flatter than the convex curve of the external surface. The band has a width of 3.9mm and thickness of 1.8mm. Probably originally circular, the hoop has been squashed so that the irregular oval form occupies the external measurements of 25.0mm x 19.7mm. The hoop has also been bent from its original plane to occupy c.12.7mm on the …
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-C4D96B
Object type: SLAG
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblege of eight pieces of slag. Seven of these pieces are undiagnostic slag (metal working waste). See Historic England: Archaeometallurgy, Guidelines for Best Practice 2015, p.23. Pieces A, F & G (see image) have a strong magnetic reaction and will jump off of a table top to attach to a strong magnet held near-by. Pieces C & E have a weaker magnetic reaction, moving slightly if a strong magnet is held near-by but not moving to attach themselves to the magnet. All of the above have a mid to dark grey colour, dull and roughened texture. Pieces B & D (see image) …
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
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Record ID: CAM-711F41
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sub-square to disc shaped artefact that resembles a token of Medieval to early Post-Medieval date. It weighs 5.38g, measures 17.4mm x 16.9mm with a maximum thickness of 5.1mm. The object appears to be made mainly from lead or lead-alloy. The edges thicken to one side of the artefact's surface and the area within has a browner hue. Use of a magnet produces a strong reaction to both sides of the object. This confirms that the browner area is a patch of iron. It is uncertain whether the presence of this iron metal is by design, if so the purpose is unclear, or accidentally present. No …
Created on: Friday 1st April 2022
Last updated: Friday 22nd April 2022
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Record ID: CAM-1FD29B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two lead pot mends found relatively close to one another. The thinner of the two mends weighs 34.11g. It has a sub-oval shape measuring 30.2mm x 22.4mm on the smoother larger side. The contraction accounts for c.2.0mm of the total thickness. The rougher side of the mend measures 34.1mm x 23.4mm. The two sides splay out in differing directions giving the mend an overal measurement of 38.0mm x 25.0mm. The mend has an overall thickness of 8.0mm. A very small amount of the ceramic vessel remains within the contraction. It has a mid brownish buff colour. However, not enough survives t…
Created on: Tuesday 21st December 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-1EE2A6
Object type: TILE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a ceramic tile of unknown date, probably Post-Medieval to Modern. This sherd weighs 12.0g, has a thickness of 13.3mm and measures 31.1mm x 23.5mm. This sherd is only slightly abraded. The tile has a reduced, mid to dark grey in colour, core and oxidised, orange in colour, upper and lower surface. The lower surface of the tile is much rougher in texture. There might be slight traces of a white substance on this lower surface, possibly the remains of a mortar. However, the sherd is covered in dried mud and it is not possible to study the fragment thoroughly. For the same r…
Created on: Tuesday 21st December 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.