Record ID: ESS-0457E3
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A silver whistle. The whistle is formed of a sheet of silver with one domed end and one flattened, open end. The domed end appears to be formed of a separate piece of silver and attached to the end. The body narrows in width the open end which has a 'D' shaped aperture. Roughly in the centre of the upper surface of the whistle is a 'D' shaped open hole, forming the sound hole. A soldering scar is visible on the underside, from which a loop would have been attached. Dimensions: 30.8mm in length, 7.0mm in width, 3.6mm in thickness at the open end and weighs 2.44g. Discussion: Simi…
Created on: Friday 29th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th August 2015
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Record ID: PAS-ADA8C7
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a silver-gilt Post-Medieval whistle. The spherical sounding-chamber is all that has survived. It is comprised of two hemispheres with turned edges, which have been soldered together to form a hollow globe. At one side is a hole and there is damage and loss of the silver-gilt where the pipe would have been attached. Although a fragment, it shows similarities with boatswains' whistles. See for example DOR-243912, BERK-E24712 and DOR-6E2574. The whistle fragment is Post-Medieval and dates from the sixteenth to seventeenth century. Dimensions: maximum width 17 mm, m…
Created on: Friday 9th December 2016
Last updated: Friday 20th September 2019
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Record ID: PAS-B05027
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Flat annular disc, made of silver, inscribed on both sides. Similar hawking vervels or hawk rings dating to the 17th century have been reported under the Treasure Act. See for example 2007T305 from Emneth, Norfolk (NMS-2C1204, acquired by Norwich Castle Museum) and 2003T58 from King's Somborne, Hampshire (HAMP3205, returned to the finder). The inscription, 'Sr Robert Lee of Bilseley' likely refers to one of three generations of the Lee family who shared that name and title and who resided in Billesley from the turn of the 17th Century through to the late 1600s. The third Sir …
Created on: Wednesday 29th December 2010
Last updated: Friday 18th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billesley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-EA634F
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
The vervel is composed of a narrow silver ring, with D-section profile, applied with a shield containing the Royal Stuart arms and inscribed around the outside of the band with the name King Charlles, probably for Charles I or Charles II. It is of Lewis and Richardson type C.i. Weight 0.84g Analysis at the British Museum produced a silver content of 97 per cent. Treasure number may be quoted as T109, 1999T109, MME T109 or MMET109.
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2014
Last updated: Thursday 16th September 2021
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Record ID: PAS-DABAFB
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver hawk-ring or vervel of Lewis and Richardson type C.ii, consisting of a D-section ring with a shield-shaped plate soldered to the flat outer face. There is a small gap between the ends of the ring at the junction with the plate. The flat outer surface of the hoop is engraved: Tho. Gryme. of. The shield is engraved three times with the letter T, two side-by-side above a slightly larger example. This motif is the arms of the Grime family of Trimingham, Antingham and Suffield, Norfolk: Azure three cross taus Or (Rye, W. Norfolk Families 1913, 271), although no tincture su…
Created on: Wednesday 27th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 16th September 2021
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Record ID: PAS-2BC222
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver circular band, called a hawking ring or vervel, inscribed on both faces with the owner's name and address. The inscription refers to 'Sr Thomas Luci * // of Charlecote'. Contemporary records attest to three successive Sir Thomas Lucys, between 1551 and 1640. Vervels are metal rings employed in falconry that were used to attached the jess (the leather strap around the bird's ankle) to the leash, which could then be held in the falconer's hand or secured to a perch or block.
Created on: Friday 27th July 2012
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellesbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-8343A1
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Surface metal analysis undertaken at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the lump of 96%, with copper and trace levels of gold and lead. The find consists of an irregular lump of melted silver with pitted and abraded surfaces. It is possibly metal-working debris, but it has no recorded archaeological context. Examination under magnification did not reveal any features to indicate that the metal had been melted down from any recognisable object type. The metal composition could have originated at any period between the Roman period throu…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 18th November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hertfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-92D204
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A probable medieval silver object of uncertain function, possibly waste metal. The object is roughly rectangular and domed on one surface, with an almost C shaped section (see attached photographs). Two surfaces on the reverse appear to have worn breaks
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 7th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lewes area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-93FA11
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver object, baluster shaped and bent towards broken off end. The other end curved to form a strong hook. Undecorated except for one transverse band of cable ornament at top of baluster. Possibly a book clasp? Difficult to date, but perhaps 17th Century.
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 7th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holme Next the Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-6F2DA2
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
The object is similar to a pair of tweezers in form, but one of the arms is broken off shorter than the other and both tips are missing; length of longer arm (side B), 53.5mm; length of shorter arm (side A), 41.6mm (max surviving); width 9.9mm (max). It consists of a tightly folded strip (or possibly two strips riveted together) tapering towards the remaining ends and close to the head it appears to have been pierced through by a copper rivet, traces of which survive, and traces of a circular outline round the rivet stubs on both sides suggest it may have had a domed head on each end …
Created on: Friday 6th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Honington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-F070D5
Object type: TORC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold terminal of an Iron Age torc; the object was found by Dr Hammond whilst metal detecting as part of a survey conducted by SHARP (Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project) as part of their long running study of the history and archaeology of the parish of Sedgeford. See here for more information. This terminal comes from the same Iron Age torc or neck ring discovered in 1965. When the 'Sedgeford Torc' was originally found one of the two terminals was missing. This discovery is almost certainly the missing terminal. It is identical in size and design to the earli…
Created on: Monday 18th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sedgeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-B8C216
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold sheet pommel composed of two highly stylised animals with a shared body. The pommel, which is high profiled and thin in cross-section, is made of five pieces of thick gold sheet. Two make up a double-skinned core into which the end of the tang fitted. Onto this core are soldered three smaller sheets. Two are moulded to form stylised heads with punched holes for the eyes, while a third arches over the underlying core and forms a shared body. The five sheets were originally soldered to each other and the joins between them are covered with a variety of beaded, twisted and…
Created on: Monday 13th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 13th October 2014
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Record ID: PAS-4163E5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold tongue-shaped front or back plate from a strap-end, buckle plate, or other similar object. There are two empty rivet holes at the attachment edge and a single empty rivet hole at the blunt point. The edges are slightly raised on one face, but there are no other traces of decoration. The edges are slightly convex, one more so than the other. This object is similar in shape to early Anglo-Saxon strap-ends (e.g. those from graves 393 and 397 at Morning Thorpe cemetery; Green, Rogerson and White 1987, vol. 2, p. 347, fig.444, G and p. 352, fig.449, M), though these are not…
Created on: Saturday 29th January 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Ruston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-933A66
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver strap-end consisting of two flat sheets soldered to a thicker, sheet spacer. The width tapers from the attachment end to the terminal, where the edges turn in and recess before forming a point. The attachment edge is concave on one sheet and straight on the other. A single iron rivet, possibly a replacement for an original silver rivet, remains in situ at the centre of the attachment edge.
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 7th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lewes area', grid reference and parish protected.

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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Record ID: PAS-98F108
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt maidenhead knop from a spoon. Female head and shoulders emerging from rounded petals or leaves from between which five longer, thinner petals project. The bust has long, straight hair at the back indicated by engraved lines, a band around the head with five engraved radiating lines indicating hair parting at the top of the head, and moulded ears, eyes, nose and mouth. Broken below leaves, none of the stem survives.
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cawston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-E38F8A
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a silver spoon, almost certainly of Roman date. The fragment consists of part of the handle, of circular cross-section, in the form of unevenly twisted thick wire - the end of the handle is broken and missing. At the bowl end, the handle is square in section, and has a solid, quarter-circle offset with rat's tail onto a fragment of the bowl, probably oval or pear-shaped originally, but now almost entirely missing. The surface gives the appearance of having been heavily cleaned. Discussion: it is possible that the fragment has been deliberately created, i.e. that th…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd July 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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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-7FDD47
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver seal-die, oval matrix engraved with bust of a woman with hat, necklace and hair worn in bunches; exposed shoulders. Fluted handle with integral suspension loop, worn. The seal-die is hard to date; the handle suggests a late 17th Century date but this is tentative and it may be of later manufacture. Since the dating is uncertain it is not possible to definitely classify this as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snarestone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-9599B4
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
The object represents the missing handle from the late 17th century seal matrix previously found on the site by Mr Barlow (Treasure case 2005 T16, Treasure Annual Report 2005-6, Item 806). An examination of the two parts shows that they join perfectly along a hackly fracture line leaving no doubt that they are parts of the same silver matrix.
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 14th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Honeybourne', grid reference and parish protected.