Record ID: PAS-18F8A3
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt badge in the form of a recessed roundel with two concentric circles forming a deep frame, the edges of which are dentillated. The centre of the badge is engraved with a crowned 'I' between two Tudor roses on a hatched background. The reverse of the badge is soldered with a strip of metal which has been broken off at the point where it doubles back forming a looped pin. The relatively small size of the badge and the shape of the pin suggest its function as a hat-badge. Diameter: 25mm Weight: 1.09g Scientific analysis at the British Museum produced a silver content …
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: PAS-79DB4D
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post-Medieval silver bodkin (incomplete). The bodkin is rectangular in cross section and tapers to a point at one terminal. The other terminal is missing, broken off at a point in the shaft which appears to be an aperture. Below the break, on either of the two wider faces, the shaft is decorated with an engraved eight-petalled flower with transverse bars above and below. Below the lower bars (again, on both faces) are a series of four roughly engraved lines of varying lengths, paralleling the direction of the shaft. There is no other decoration. The bodkin is bent 2/3 down its leng…
Created on: Tuesday 25th April 2023
Last updated: Friday 19th May 2023
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Record ID: PAS-E55AC1
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver-gilt finger-ring imitating the form of a miniature strap or belt, with a bezel in the shape of a buckle. The hoop, which is rectangular in section, is now slightly squashed into an oval shape. The hoop is engraved with a black letter inscription, * iesus * nazerenus. The ring probably dates to the late 14th or 15th century. Compare BM BEP OA.7468 for a similar example. Dimensions: max. external diameter of distorted hoop 29.3mm min. external diameter of distorted hoop 19.1mm width band 3.3mm thickness band 1.4mm length (curved) belt motif 2…
Created on: Friday 13th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
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Record ID: PAS-425D07
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A late medieval or early post-medieval silver signet ring, with a circular bezel engraved with a Lombardic letter E. The bezel is engraved with sprigs above and below, and to the right of, the initial, all within a border of punched pellets. The hoop is of D-section, with rounded raised edges to the hoop which extend from each shoulder. A small piece of the edge of the hoop is missing towards the back.  The ring probably dates to the 15th or 16th century. Dimensions: Diameter: 24.7mm, width: 12.9mm, thickness: 1.7mm. Weight: 9.23g.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2023
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Record ID: PAS-4A576B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman silver finger-ring of Henig Type XI with TOT inscribed. Circular hoop, rectangular in section, convex shoulders. Flat, rectangular bezel incised with an outer linear border enclosing a single line of slightly curving stamps. At the centre of the panel 'TOT' is inscribed from small line and dot punches respectively with the 'O' unusually formed from circular stamps and a central circular stamp. At the shoulders a triangular motif consists of incised cross-hatched lines. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface by R. Fillery-Travis at Institute of Archaeolog…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 3rd October 2019
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Record ID: PAS-4A481A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman snake-headed terminal fragment from silver finger ring, probably of Johns's Type Bii, dating to the first or second century AD. The outer edge of the head is decorated by a line of circular beading, but no facial features are represented. Dimensions: Thickness: 13.5mm; Weight: 1.6g.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
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Record ID: PAS-483CDA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete Roman 1st-3rd century silver finger-ring. The hoop is D-shaped and tapering with a fracture at the narrowed lower hoop with possible scarf joint. Rounded shoulders, flat, oval bezel which is decorated with a simply incised with a stylized palm-branch motif, with a saltire above and below. Dull brown-black over silver. Dimensions : Height: 17mm; Thickness. Hoop: 0.6-2mm; External Diam.: 20.5mm; Internal Diam.: 15.5-16.6mm; W. Shoulder: 3.1 - 6mm; bezel: 8.2 x 11.3mm; Weight: 3.5g.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
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Record ID: PAS-48222B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete, Roman silver trumpet brooch of Castleford group 2. Head with spring attachment with six turns in situ and pin missing. Part of square projection broken above spring. Two cross ribs with circle of squares between form pattern above and below full petalled central moulding. Triangular-sectioned lower bow. Most of the catchplate intact. Cylindrical foot-knob consisting of three horizontal cordons, the central one of which is vertically nicked. Projecting 'pip' on base of foot. Dark brown with orange patches and silver on bow, foot and catchplate. L: 44.9mm; W. head: 13.6mm…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
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Record ID: PAS-061801
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt pin head: a spherical object of gilded silver. A plain band runs around the equatorial circumference of the pin head, dividing it into two equal sized hemispheres. The surface is decorated in each hemisphere with three equal sized circlets of applied, braided wire. Within each circlet are four more, smaller circlets, and a knop projects where the four circlets join. Further knops project from the surface in the voids outside of the three larger circlets, and the largest knop prjects from the "top" of the pin head. Opposite this, a void in the "bottom" is where the shaft of…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Friday 20th September 2019
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Record ID: PAS-05D58A
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver seal matrix: a sub-oval shaped face is backed by a stem that tapers into a hexagonal column, out of which sprouts two scrolls that curl under themselves. Two opposing curls attach above these, such that there is a void in the middle of the stem. At the top of the handle is a circular attachment loop. The face is inscribed with a grooved circumferential line, within which are a coat-of-arms. These are composed of a shield divided per chevron upon which are three animal or bird heads (ducks?) erased. Above the shield is a helm and a crest featuring the same animal or bird. The s…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2019
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Record ID: PAS-95F07B
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt silver dress tag, of openwork construction, cast in one plane with trapezoidal bar developing from central floral garland enclosing a heart (?). Gilt. Hook previously soldered onto reverse at lower edge now missing. 16mm long. 15th-16th Century. Similar in type to the dress tag from Martyr Worthy, Hampshire, for which see David Gaimster et al, "Tudor silver-gilt dress hooks", Antiquaries Journal 2003, p.168, fog.11.
Created on: Monday 12th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th November 2018
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Record ID: PAS-03D086
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman silver small keeled finger-ring with narrow D-shaped hoop. The simply-engraved triangular shoulders have damaged notched edges and frame a flat circular bezel, which is neatly engraved with the letters ToT. Rings with this inscription on their bezel are distinctive to Roman Britain and have been found in some numbers in Lincolnshire. The inscription is regarded as an abbreviation of the name of the Celtic god Toutatis (or Totatis), who was often identified with the Roman god Mars. The ring is Henig's Type VIII. A near-identical ring was found in archaeological excavations i…
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th August 2018
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Record ID: PAS-EEFF9E
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver quatrefoil dress hook. The front plate is divided into four quadrants by a central cross, the arms of which are 45 degrees from vertical. At the centre of the cross protrudes a small hollow annulet. Each quadrant contains a slightly larger annulet. The border of the plate broadly follows their circumferences, and then pinches in towards the centre at the apex of each arm of the cross. The overall effect, when viewed from above, is of a stylised four-petal flower. The front place is covered in gilding, which has worn away in a few places. A separate, circular-sectioned si…
Created on: Monday 30th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
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Record ID: PAS-2CEBA4
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A silver-gilt dress hook belonging to Read's (2008: 55-56) Early Post-Medieval Class C Type 4. The body is of hollow-box construction, trapezoidal in section, with a sheeting front-plate of three longitudinal rectangular panels each containing three domed bosses, circled by filigree wire, in a vertical row. Each panel is delineated by a filigree wire border and in the two side panels four smaller granules frame the central boss. Below the central panel is a fleur-de-lys projection. The back-plate is slightly cracked along the top edge of a sub-rectangular aperture, and the top edge is…
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Friday 21st August 2020
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Record ID: PAS-28CDBE
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver-gilt composite dress hook belonging to Read's (2008: 75-81) Early Post-Medieval class D type 6. It consists of a backplate, sub-traingular in plan, approximately 1mm thick, with saw-toothed edges. From each of the three corners of the backplate project three hemispherical domes. Along the centre of each side of the backplate, in the space between the domes, the edge forms the point of a triangle, so that when viewed in plan the overall effect is of another triangle sitting below, and orientated in the opposite direction to, the backplate itself. Each dome is decorated wi…
Created on: Monday 21st May 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th January 2022
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Record ID: PAS-03B034
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A silver signet finger-ring. The hoop expands to form a heart-shaped bezel. The face of the bezel is lightly etched with the initials "WRC" in faux-Gothic characters running from the upper-left to the lower right; the letters are made from minute hatches. Small flourishes of hatching lend a decorative, floral effect. Opposite the bezel, the hoop is flattened, perhaps intentionally. Dimensions: Length: 20.62mm Thickness: 2.05mm Width of bezel: 15.48mm Weight: 8.52g
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th September 2019
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Record ID: PAS-62DAD2
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded silver hooked tag in the form of a wreath, pierced centre, the back plate with five projecting petals, applied with five knops with central studs. Recurving hook soldered on reverse, remains of original bar attachment below. Length 1.8mm. Similar in design (though with hollow centre) to one from Brampton, Lincs., reported through the Treasure Act, Treasure Annual Report 2000, no.179. 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 3rd July 2020
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Record ID: PAS-62A405
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman silver finger ring, plain oval hoop, broken and dented at the bottom. The flattened slightly swollen bezel widens to accommodate an oval pinkish-red carnelian intaglio. The motif appears to be a very stylised pair of clasped hands (dextrarum iunctio). The wrists and palms are represented by a simple thick line with blocks at each end, and the fingers and thumbs by lightly incised lines.
Created on: Tuesday 18th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
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Record ID: PAS-60FAB6
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Silver spoon with ovoid bowl, thickness 1.5mm The stem is of rectangular section with a chamfered end, engraved with three indistinct initials, perhaps A above F and M. In the bowl, near the join to the stem, is the leopard's head crowned for London. On the underside of the stem, three marks: near the tip, a date letter for London, indistinct but possibly that for 1649 ( Jackson, English Goldsmiths and their marks. London 1921, p.83). At the base of the stem, two further marks; the lion passant for London, and, nearest the bowl, a maker's mark which has yet to be identified. To…
Created on: Tuesday 18th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2022
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Record ID: PAS-803E51
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A large cast silver strap-end with zoomorphic decoration and glass settings. The strap-end is leaf-shaped, flaring from the transverse attachment end and then tapering towards the rounded terminal. The attachment end is split to take a strap, and pierced by two silver dome-headed rivets. The end is lobed around the rivets with a small pointed peak in between. The main part of the strap-end is decorated extensively with Trewhiddle Style ornament. At the attachment end, below the rivets, is a recessed pelta-shaped field containing a central incised teardrop motif. Beneath this is a l…
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 19th September 2019
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