Record ID: PUBLIC-C437DC
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This pin consists of a copper alloy pin head and part of the iron shaft.The pin head is subcircular, 5.5mm in diameter and 1.99mm thick. it is decorated with a raised pattern of small dots around the top face. The centre of which is a textured surface. The head tapers down to the inset shaft. The iron shaft is square in plan section and tapers to a point, which shows signs of a recent break. i.e. the shaft would have been longer (9mm) . The head was likely cast onto the shaft. The overall length is 7mm and it weighs 0.80g. It probably dates to the 17th century and is similar to BH-…
Created on: Friday 4th November 2016
Last updated: Monday 7th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wantage', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-C3880D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy headstud brooch of Roman date, c.AD 75 - 200. The head of the brooch is comprised of rectangular wings the reverse of which act as a double lug hinge mechanism which retains a central axis bar and pin loop. The pin proper no longer remains and an incomplete attachment loop projects from the upper edge of the head. The front of the wings are decorated with three alternating ridge and grooves. An integral bow extends centrally from between the wings beginning with a square section and tapering to D-shaped and terminating in a circular foot knop. An …
Created on: Friday 4th November 2016
Last updated: Friday 4th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wantage', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-B0674A
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy knife terminal (end cap/pommel) dating to c. 16th Century. The end cap is zoomorphic in style and may imitate a heraldic design, in this case possibly a bear or a dog. The creature appears open mouthed with the tongue visible and a pronounced and upturned snout; the eyes are depicted by small circular recesses while the ears and hair or fur are depicted by incised lines on the top of the head and the creature's neck. The jawline is also delineated in this fashion. On the underside of the creature's neck are the remains of the iron tang of the knife, now broken off level…
Created on: Saturday 22nd October 2016
Last updated: Monday 6th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wantage', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-A7E4B4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The brooch is a cast copper alloy La Tene III Nauheim type brooch dating from c. 50 BC - AD 50. The brooch is cast as one piece. The spring is coiled with two coils with the second coil missing. Due to the coil being incomplete the pin is missing. The break of the coil is not a recent break. The first coil emerges from the tip of the bow. The bow is a 'C' shape in profile and is a pointed oval in plan which tapers at each terminal. In section the bow is semi-circular. The exterior of the bow, the convex face, is decorated with a pair of linear grooves either side of a raised thicker r…
Created on: Friday 21st October 2016
Last updated: Monday 24th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wantage', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-86F3AB
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a bronze vessel or possibly waste from metal working. With pronounced file marks to one side of one edge. There are an additonal set of file marks at the bottom of the same side. There are no file marks on the other side. However there is what looks like the remains of a rivet or nodule on the back edge. At either end is a half circular hole or indent. The fragment is dark green in colour with a different colour bronze where the hole or nodule is. The file marks are the same colour as overall suggesting they are contemporary with the fragments creation.
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2016
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wantage', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8666A6
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a ground and polished stone axehead of Neolithic date. Theaxe is broken at the cutting edge and at the butt end. The surface of the axe is granular but smooth with a distinct blue green hue. The type of stone has not been identified. The handaxe is broadly crescentic in cross section, with the outer surface convex and the inner concave. Grinding occurs after 4000 BC, so this axe is likely to have a date range of between 4000-2500 BC. Axes were ground using large stones used for the purpose. Grinding or polishing axes was a manfuacturing technique which produced less …
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-66E12A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Roman, open loop zoomorphic buckle with bird and beast/dragon appendages, dating to the period c. 350 - 500 AD. The buckle would have been D-shaped in plan but is now disorted and bent where the strap bar would have fitted. Around the outside of the buckle are head heads and necks of indeterminate birds or beasts. On the outside of the buckle frame the beasts face each other (four heads in all) while the terminals of the frame, where the strap bar and plate would have fitted, also terminate in heads. All but two of the heads have pouting lips / snouts and a single bulbous eye d…
Created on: Tuesday 18th October 2016
Last updated: Monday 8th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyford', grid reference and parish protected.