Record ID: NCL-5E9B55
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval (1200-1400) harness pendant. The object is square in plan - 20.59mm x 20.89mm - with an integral elongated lug, which is 9.36mm long, protruding from the centre of the upper edge. The lug tip has a circular perforation which is perpendicular to the pendant. The perforation is blocked with iron corrosion. The outer edge of the object is scalloped creating a square field in the centre. Within this square field there is a depiction of a castle. This motif has two turrets, four windows and a door with a Romanesque arch. The windows and doors are decorated …
Created on: Wednesday 12th July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 12th June 2018
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Record ID: NCL-74C5D5
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy flanged axehead of Early Middle Bronze Age date of later short-flanged axe of Type Ulcrome. The axehead dates to c. Acton Park II / Taunton phase of early MBA which corresponds to Needham typology date is c. 1600-1300 BC. The blade of the palstave is a splayed/crescent-shaped, with convex expanding sides, and a convex cutting edge, which is damaged. In profile the blade is sub-triangular with the widest section being at the stop ridge. The blade is 90.31mm in length. The width of the cutting edge measures 38.21mm. The thickness of the blade is 12.63mm The rear pa…
Created on: Thursday 13th July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2017
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Record ID: NCL-5BD5BD
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The coins were submitted as 9 loose coins and two clumps of coins concreted together with corrosion products. These were separated in the British Museum Conservation laboratory. Associated with the coins were seven artefacts. These were found in one discrete group with the exception of the phallic pendant, found one to two metres to the south, and the lead object, found five metres to the south. They are likely to have been moved by ploughing Contents of find The coins (E. Ghey) The coins submitted for consideration consist of a group of 24 medium-sized copper alloy coins, pr…
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 26th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodburn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-AD9E11
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Massive terret ring made from cast cu-alloy, with an incomplete projection of a twin spur (lipped projection) within the ring. It would also have had a strap bar concealed at the base. Most known examples come from northern England and Scotland with an emphasis in Aberdeenshire. There are also examples from North Wales. It's very close to an example from Chesters, Northumberland in Jope 2000, 309, 291e and MacGregor 1976, 113. Generally dating from late 1st-mid 3rd century AD. A fine example of this type of object is LANCUM-1F06E0
Created on: Friday 8th December 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 8th September 2020
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Record ID: NCL-C9205B
Object type: POWDER FLASK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pressed copper-alloy sheet which is a component of an incomplete powder flask. The object probably equates to one half of a powder flask. The object is roughly pear shaped with a flat top at its narrowest point, and has a piercing at its narrow end. The date is probably ealry to late post medieval, however the lack of decoration makes this object problematic to date. The object is 71.38mm at its widest, 155.15 long, and 0.93mm thick.
Created on: Sunday 10th December 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 8th September 2020
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Record ID: NCL-1759D8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete gold finger ring with a surface treatment of white enamel, dating from the late 16th to 17th Century AD. The ring has a D-shaped cross-section. The bezel has setting for three stones. Two subrectangular red stones - probably rubies - remain in their setting. The stones are facetted with a rectangular flat top and angled sides. A third central stone is missing and there are traces of white enamel in the socket where it would have been. The gold around each stone has been pressed around the top to hold it in place. The gold settings for the stones form a scall…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2017
Last updated: Friday 10th December 2021
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Record ID: NCL-BABE07
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Published
The folowing report is from Martin Henig. "An attractive intaglio in a lower quality, base silver ring. The material of the stone is a non crystalline quartz, a chalcedony, with an upper blue layer and brownish ground, so it could be called a blue onyx or nicolo [ jewellery terms rather than scientific ones], the blue caused by staining/chemical treatment. The gem was cut with an outwardly bevelled edge. The subject is a cow, a popular subject from the Augustan period onwards, though I would date this to the late 1st century/first half of the 2nd century AD. Comparanda: see M.…
Created on: Thursday 21st December 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 19th September 2018
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Record ID: NCL-C26B26
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Silver band-shaped finger-ring, with a large flat ovoid bezel, continuing as a tapering flat on either side of the centre, reducing to narrow, round wires at either end. These are looped around each other in short spirals to close the ring, and would originally have given some adjustability of size. Both the bezel and the tapering flanks are decorated with an unevenly repeated pattern of small circular punch-marks. A single line of these down the centre of the bezel is impressed more deeply. The ring is slightly flattened rather than completely round, and wider from side t…
Created on: Thursday 21st December 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hamstall Ridware area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-7DCD09
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast lead-alloy spindle whorl. The weight is circular in plan, although chipped and abraded around the perimeter It is bi-conical in profile. The artefact is decorated by a single circle of pellets on each side, many of which have worn flat. Diameter 27.84mm; Diameter of central hole - 8.66mm; Thickness - 10.61mm; weight 32.57g
Created on: Saturday 30th December 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 18th December 2018
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Record ID: NCL-7DF0DE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Scottish Bawbee
Created on: Saturday 30th December 2017
Last updated: Friday 14th December 2018
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