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Record ID: NMS-29145F
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment from a post medieval copper alloy strap fitting dating to the period c. AD 1600 - 1700. An openwork plate with central circular perforation flanked by trefoliate mouldings on either side. Above and below, the plate terminates in an old break. See: Read, B, 2017, p. 44, no. 371.
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-28F7A7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval single loop buckle dating to the period c. AD 1250 - 1450. D-shaped frame with narrowed strap bar, most of which is now missing. The front edge is expanded with a wide central notch for the pin rest. Traces of white metal coating are visible. See: Whitehead, R, 2003, p. 18, no. 39.
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2018
Last updated: Friday 22nd May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-28E2BE
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval to post medieval leg from a cooking vessel such as a cauldron, posnet or skillet dating to the period c. AD1300 - 1700. The leg has a worn break at the top. Broadly trapezoidal in cross-section, the leg is angled and bends at a right-angle, into a splayed foot. A prominent mid-rib runs up the front between the two toes. The vessels to which these were attached were usually of a tripod form and were widely used from circa AD 1200-1700 for serving and cooking. Butler and Green (2003) 15, state 'there is evidence that (cast copper alloy) metal cooking vessels beca…
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-28C842
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval L-shaped scabbard chape dating to the period c. AD 1100 - 1300. It consists of a tapering socket with D-shaped lip at the top. One side is open, the other exhibits a horizontal -D-sectioned arm with a prominent mid-rib, terminaing in a rounded zoomorphic head. Just behind the head is a circular rivet hole. The other arm is missing. A U-shaped collar runs around the underside of the surviving arm and the break-point for the missing arm. See: IOW-D615A2 & NARC-5323A4
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-CF433E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete silver artefact of unknown function, possibly a form of terminal. The artefact comprises a 'shaft' with a faceted 'head', both made from silver sheet. The 'shaft' comprises a strip of silver sheet with the long edges rolled inwards to form tubes, now packed with earth. The open end of the shaft is broken. The other end inserts into the artefact's 'head'. The 'head' comprises a sub-rectangular faceted polyhedral box made in two halves, each half being a shaped piece of silver sheet. The seam between the two halves has come apart in places. The light…
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 26th August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-60831B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy contemporary copy of an as of Claudius dating to the period c. AD 41 - 54 (Reece period 2). Uncertain reverse type. Uncertain mint.
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-601313
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy Rose farthing of Charles I dating to the period AD 1636 - 1644. Rose Type 2. See North, Vol. II, p. 140, no. 2291.
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2017
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2017
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Record ID: NMS-5FEECA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy buckle with integral plate dating to the period c. AD 1250 - 1450. The frame is trapezoidal with a knop on three of the four corners. The plate exhibits two perforations, one of which is incomplete due to old breaks. On either side is an oval knop. The plate terminates in an old break. See Whitehead, R, 2003, p. 34 - 35.
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2017
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2017
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Record ID: NMS-5EFD19
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy single loop buckle dating to the period c. AD 1250 - 1400. An oval frame with two angled knops flanking two transverse ridges projecting from the front edge. The strap bar is narrowed and offset. The pin is missing. Similar examples are illustrated in Whitehead, R, 2003, p. 22, no. 91.
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2017
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2017
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Record ID: NMS-5EDAA6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd from a medieval to post-medieval copper alloy cooking vessel such as a cauldron or skillet. The original diameter is not possible to determine. The inner and outer surface both exhibit traces of sooting. Cooking vessels of this type were in use from as early as AD 1100 and slowly go out of use by 1850, after being superseded by cast iron pots and saucepans (Butler, Green and Payne, 2009, 1).
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2017
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2017
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Record ID: NMS-5ECE81
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd from a medieval to post-medieval copper alloy cooking vessel such as a cauldron or skillet. The original diameter is not possible to determine. The outer surface exhibits traces of sooting. Cooking vessels of this type were in use from as early as AD 1100 and slowly go out of use by 1850, after being superseded by cast iron pots and saucepans (Butler, Green and Payne, 2009, 1).
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2017
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2017
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Record ID: NMS-0F72C2
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sheet copper alloy possible book fitting. The edges have been cut in a series of short straight lengths to form an ovoid shape with a slight concavity on both sides of the spring of the hook near which is a small rectangular aperture. A single rivet hole is aligned with the aperture and the hook. The front face is decorated with V-shaped motifs, one inside the other and both formed from pairs of lines of punched dashes. Similar examples recorded on the PAS database include: SUR-1B5329 & NMS-BED3F0.
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th May 2017
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Record ID: NMS-F91A1E
Object type: POT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman ceramic body sherd from a wheel thrown greyware vessel dating to the period c. AD 43 - 409. A light grey fabric with abundant mica and frequent iron inclusions. The inner face exhibits marks from having been wheel thrown. All edges are heavily abraded.
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2017
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Record ID: NMS-8A0D9D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval gilded copper alloy buckle plate broken across the fold. Rectangular in shape, with a narrowed front edge tapering to the worn break at the fold. Bent across a transverse line. There are two rivet holes positioned one at each corner of the inside edge. The plate is decorated by a rocker arm border running around the edge. Within are two concentric ridged borders creating a reserve in between and framing a central rectangular panel with an engraved pattern of lozenges, each of which has a plain cross in the centre.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th May 2017
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Record ID: NMS-7B1E37
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval double looped oval buckle dating to the period c. AD 1550 - 1650. It has a central narrowed and offset strap bar with a lobed knop at either end. The pin consists of a tapering piece of iron looped around the strap bar and may be a replacement. At the apex of each loop is an oval knop engraved with a series of transverse lines alternating with lines of punched crescents. The frame is decorated with a series of punched annulets. See Whitehead, R, 2003, p. 64, no. 392.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2017
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2017
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Record ID: NMS-7A3C5A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post medieval vessel foot from a cooking vessel such as a cauldron dating to the period c. AD 1200 - 1700. The leg is trapezoidal in cross-section with a central mid-rib. It exhibtis traces of sooting across the surface and a worn transverse break at the top. The vessels to which these were attached were usually of a tripod form and were widely used from circa AD 1200-1700 for serving and cooking. Butler and Green (2003) 15, state 'there is evidence that (cast copper alloy) metal cooking vessels became increasingly common during the 13th and 14th centuries'. While certai…
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2017
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2017
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Record ID: NMS-9549CE
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post medieval white-metal coated copper alloy spoon dating to the period c. AD 1600 - 1700. Flat-sectioned stem with a trifid terminal bearing, on one face, the stamped initials A P.
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2016
Last updated: Thursday 8th December 2016
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Record ID: NMS-244527
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Incomplete Early Saxon gold circular setting or mount with a domed cloisonné garnet setting. The object has a sheet gold back plate which exhibits a scar, with the remains of what may be a missing loop projecting from it. The back plate is framed by a beaded wire collar consisting of narrow, regular beads, some of which have been dented during deposition. Within the thick outer collar is a thinner inner collar consisting of two strands of gold wire twisted around one another, one plain wire and one beaded wire. The central circular setting has an outer strip bent inwards…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 16th March 2017
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