Record ID: SUSS-544102
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Iron Age cast copper alloy La Tene brooch, probably type 1B. The head of the brooch originally consisted of four coils to the spring in a bi-lateral form with two loops located on either side of the bow. One spring turn and the chord that joined the two sides of the spring together are missing. The bow turns up from the head at an initial 90 degrees whereupon it flattens and widens into a leaf-shape before turning back down at 90 degrees to the foot and catchplate. The reverse or underside of the bow is flat whilst the top surface has decorative moulding with three flute…
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-5715C6
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy trade token of Edmund Middleton of Lewes, Sussex, dated to 1666. Obverse: * EDMVND.MIDDLETON.OF / (in centre) The Haberdashers' Arms. Reverse: * LEWIS.IN.SVSSEX.1666 / (in centre) *M*//E . E For a comparable example, cf. Williamson (rev.ed) 1891, Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century By Corporations, Merchants, Tradesmen, Etc. Vol 2, p1175, No 114. For PAS database parallels, cf. SUSS-5715C6; SUSS-F5C9E1; SUSS-27C1F4; SUSS-4FDDD3.
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-120F17
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A crudely hand-made sheet copper alloy Medieval or Post Medieval sword or dagger chape, c. 14th-c. 15th century AD. The chape is made from a single sheet, which has been curved around to meet itself and is wider at one end with three sets of circular rivet holes opposite one another and the other end cut and folded inwards to form a crude base. It has been slightly crushed from deposition. It measures 30.19 mm long, 27.7 mm wide, 12.92 mm thick and weighs 7.39 grams. For a similar example, see Read 2001, No. 671, dated to c. 14th century.
Created on: Monday 14th November 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2016
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Record ID: SUSS-581973
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead alloy large standing weight of probably Medieval or Post Medieval date (c. 1200-1700 AD). The weight is conical in shape and sub-oval in cross-section with a large circular suspension hole at the top. Lead weights were used throughout a large span of time and were generally easy to manufacture; therefore, they are difficult to date outside of secure archaeological contexts. This style of standing weight seems to have been used most frequently within the Medieval and Post Medieval periods. For a similar example, cf. Biggs and Withers 2000, esp. No. 73.
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Monday 12th March 2012
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Record ID: SUSS-5405F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy radiate of Tetricus II dating to the period AD 272 to 274. PIETAS AVGG reverse depicting sacrificial implements. Mint uncertain.
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-547292
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy Medieval single loop buckle with integral, forked spacer and double sheet plate, dating to c. 1350-1450. The buckle consists of four parts: the buckle frame, two plates and pin. The buckle frame is oval in shape with a pointed lip on the outer edge and a notched frame; there are remains of filing on both the front and back surfaces, but no additional decoration. The rectangular double sheet plate is riveted to the forked spacer by means of two circular copper alloy rivets down the centre of the buckle plate. The pin is made of copper alloy wire and simp…
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th November 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-54C103
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast complete Early Medieval copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, c. 11th century AD. Williams Class A, Type 11A. The stirrup mount is sub-triangular in shape with a trilobed apex including a circular pierced apex loop; at the bottom of the mount, there is a right-angle flange, which has two circular rivets piercing its underside. Unlike most examples from Class A type mounts, there are no fixing holes penetrating the lower segment of the mount from the front surface, parallel to the flange; instead, the two fixing holes pierce directly through the underside of the flange, orienting th…
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2015
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Record ID: SUSS-551C84
Object type: AWL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy awl, probably dating to between the Bronze Age and Medieval periods (c. 2500 BC-1499 AD). Although the copper alloy portion of the awl is intact, the tool is missing its handle, which likely would have been another type of material such as wood, bone, or iron. The remains of the awl consist of a tapering nonagonally (nine-sided polygon) cross-sectioned tool end (measuring 56.74 mm long; 11.40 mm maximum diameter; 2.29 mm diameter (at tip)); with a wedge-shaped and rectangular cross-sectioned haft (measuring 41.48 mm long; 6.07 mm thick (max); 1.57 mm thick (min)). …
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brighton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-5532F0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy radiate of Salonina dating to the period AD 260 to 268. IVNO REGINA reverse. Mint of Siscia. Cunetio, p. 131, no. 1844.
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-55FE46
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An as of Antoninus Pius dating to the period AD 154 to 155. BRITANNIA COS IIII reverse type depicting Britannia seated left on rock. Mint of Rome. RIC III, p. 142, no. 934. This is a Coin of British Association as listed by D. Walker in his study of the Sacred Spring at Bath, cf. Walker, 1988: pp. 294, 297-8, nos. 73-122, 136-288, pls. XXXV-VI.
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 14th July 2017
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Record ID: SUSS-563D84
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval copper alloy traders token farthing issued by Ambrose Galloway of Lewes, East Sussex in 1667. Cf. Williamson (1828), Vol 2, p1175, No. 112. Obverse: * AMBROSE . GALLOWAY /(at centre) *//1667//* Reverse: *IN . LEWIS : IN . SVSEX / (at centre) *G*//AE
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-566993
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy double loop buckle, consisting of an annular buckle frame with a central narrowed strap bar. The pin is missing. The frame is circular in cross-section with a bevelled inside edge. It measures 19.5 mm in diameter, 2.56 mm thick and weighs 1.55 grams. Similar buckles can be seen in Whitehead (2003), p45 which he dates to c.1350-1650 AD.
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-5683C2
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval cast lead alloy circular unifaced token. Powell Type 2. On one side are the raised initials JS together with a central raised pellet and a further raised pellet after the inital S. The other side is blank. The token measures 16.1mm in diameter, 2.18mm thick and weighs 3.61grams. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally; they are therefore hard to date precisely. Those with intials are thought to be Post Medieval in date, c. 1550-1800 AD.
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 26th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-56A025
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy probable strap fitting of uncertain date, probably Post Medieval to early Modern in date (c. 17th-19th century AD). The fitting has a rectangular strap loop with bevelled inner edges, followed by a sub-triangular integrally-cast segment with a central circular rivet, culminating in a large circular suspension loop positioned at a right angle to the loop, with a circular rivet hole running parallel to the loop. It measures 36.3 mm long, 19.27 mm wide, 9.16 mm thick and weighs 6.35 grams. Strap fittings of this nature were used throughout a large span o…
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2012
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Record ID: SUSS-56C3F4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval cast copper alloy bar mount, c. 14th c AD. The mount is flat with terminal lobes at either end and a larger convex central lobe, which is hemispherical in cross-section. The central lobe is decorated with hatching consisting of four incised horizontal lines and intersecting irregularly-spaced short vertical lines. There is a separate circular rivet hole in each of the terminal lobes with remnants of both copper alloy rivets still in situ. Several examples similar to this bar mount are illustrated in Egan (1991, 214, 1161) and are dated through ceramic association …
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-573123
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval cast copper alloy animal rumbler bell, also known as a 'crotal' bell. The bell is divided into two hemispheres by a prominent ridge which runs around the centre of the bell. The upper hemisphere is undecorated and houses two large sound holes. A loop extends up from the top of the upper hemisphere. The loop is square and pierced. The lower hemisphere houses the long sound slit on its underside. The remains of the iron pea survive inside the bell. The lower hemisphere appears to be decorated with faint worn lines which could represent a typical sun burst design…
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-574B31
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy thimble of Medieval or early Post Medieval date (c. 1400 - c. 1550 AD). The thimble had slightly sloping sides and a domed crown. The sides and crown are covered in hand drilled small circular pits arranged a spiral on the crown and a separate spiral on the sides. There is a plain, unthickened band at the rim. The thimble measures 17.48 mm long; 16.52 mm in diameter (at base); 1.13 mm thick; it weighs 4.46 grams. The thickness of the walls suggests this thimble was for heavy duty use. Cf. Finds Research Group Datasheet 9, fig 2, A.
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 26th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-5858F2
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy cotter pin, dating from the post-Medieval period. it is in fair condition. No further details recorded.
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th July 2019
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Record ID: SUSS-587593
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A nearly complete cast copper alloy buckle pin from a Medieval or Post Medieval buckle, c. 1250-1650 AD. The pin consists of a large oval suspension loop, followed by a rectangular transverse ridge decorated with incised hashmarks, ending in a square-sectioned tapering pin shaft. Less than half of the loop is missing due to an old break. The metal of the pin is of an even dark green patina. Unlike many examples of pins from this period which are manufactured hastily, this pin has been carefully cast and is very large in comparison. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, Fig 32 for different…
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 13th March 2012
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Record ID: SUSS-5896D4
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A nearly complete copper alloy Low Countries Medieval jetton, similar to Barnard Pl. XXIII, no. 1 (1981: 187). Barnard suggests that the jetton is from the reign of Philip le hardi, Duke of Burgundy between 1363 and 1404. However, as this jetton is unusual, a more general date range of 1350-1450 is suggested here until further research confirms this association. The obverse bears a heater-shield of Burgundy-modern and Burgundy-ancient (the bands in the top right quarter being incorrectly aligned) and has the legend 'AVE MARIA [GRA]CIA [M A]'. The reverse bears a triple-stranded stra…
Created on: Monday 24th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 15th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldershot', grid reference and parish protected.