Record ID: WMID-1328C5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy buckle frame of Medieval to Post-Medieval date, circa AD 1250 - 1500. The buckle is D-shape in plan and single looped. It has a narrow and off-set axis bar and the outer surface has bevelled edges. The pin is missing, presumed lost in antiquity. The reverse is flat and undecorated.  The buckle is dark green in colour and has an even surface patina.  Measurements: length 22mm, width 12.2mm, thickness 3.4mm, weight 1.5 grams Whitehead (2003: p.19, Nos. 53 & 54) states that cast copper alloy single looped D-shaped buckles with …
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: OXON-1316D1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy medieval seal matrix, dating from AD 1200-1400. The matrix face is circular. The pedestal has six almost imperctible facets and each of these faces thin as they rise to a neck which first narrows and then widens slightly at its top. A pentagonal collar then creates a flat platform from which a rectagnualr cross sectionedd tab projects. This is trefoil shaped and there isa D-shaped projecting lug pierced by a circular hole extending from its apex. The seal face is round in shape, with the die depicting a letter W. The letter is surrounded by branches and has a crown abov…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Forest Hill with Shotover', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-128F70
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from an ornate rectangular double looped buckle probably dating from c.AD 1350-1700. Only the outer edge of the narrow frame survives. The frame fragment is rectangular in section and has what would have been a long edge that is narrower than the outer edge. This has a long projecting rectangular tab that projects 6.0mm from the frame. This tab has incised decoration on its upper surface consisting of two zigzag lines placed in a wavey pattern down the length of the buckle. The buckle has a dark green colour. The buckle is 31.8mm long, 16.1mm wide, 1.9mm thick includi…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Haseley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-127B51
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a Roman hair pin. The shaft is truncated by a transverse break. This is circular in cross section and then at its top has moulded decoraton. This begins with four transverse raised collars each sepereated by a gouge, above this is then a pear shaper knop at thet of which is a smaller collar and projecting D-shaped knop. The pin is an orange brown colour. The pin is 27.3mm long, 6.4mm wide, and weighs 3.20 grams. There are several similar pins illustrated by Cool (1990: figs 2.13, 3.9, and 4.5). 
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Haseley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-126B72
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval biface cast copper-alloy token dating to AD 1672. Obverse: The head and neck of an antelope facing left within beaded circle. Legend: * HONYCHILD•1672 (initial mark of a sexfoiled rosette). Reverse: monogram of S C between single sexfoiled rosettes within beaded circle. Legend: •OF*THE•MANOR. Measurements: diameter: 21.40mm; thickness: 1.04mm and weight: 1.94g. D/A:1.  A token recorded on the database; KENT-04D1E3; also may relate to Honeychild Manor which it notes was frequently home to powerful individuals, many of…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: OXON-122286
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The foot and catchplate of a cast copper alloy Roman bow brooch. The pin, head and upper portion of the bow, are missing to an old transverse break in the bow. The bow is thick but rectagnular in cross section. It initially widens from 6.5mm wide at its transverse to 10.9mm wide and then narrows down its remaining length to a squared off foot that is 3.2mm wide.  The front of the bow is decorated by three prominent raised ribs at the initial widened section of the bow.  On the back of the bow is a triangular catchplate whose upper edge curves slightly to meet …
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Haseley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-1218EB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn Roman copper alloy contemporary copy of an as of Claudius (AD 41-54) dating to period c. 41-54. (Reece Period 2). Reverse type Minerva advancing right brandishing spear and holding shield. Prototype mint of Rome, as RIC vol.I, p.128 nos.100 or 116. Dimensions: diameter: 20.54mm,  thickness: 1.18mm,  weight: 3.84g Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: OXON-120DA3
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast copper alloy probable Roman bead-imitative bracelet dating to c.AD 200-410. It is truncated by two transverse breaks.  The fragment is made from a copper-alloy strip that is D-shaped in cross section with a flat interior and domed exterior. It has a repeating pattern of raised plain rectangular zones divided by sunken regions marked by three shallow raised transverse collars. The object has a very dark brown patina. The fragment is 46.4mm long, 3.7mm wide, 3.2mm thick and weighs 2.99 grams. Its original diameter would have been 55mm in …
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Haseley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-11A193
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman key. The key has a oval bow set at right angles to a simple rectangular bit, and with a hollow-ended shank. The bow aperture is mushroom or pelta shaped. Below this there are a pair of low ribs positioned below the bow and where the stem meets the handle, which continue as slight projections on both sides. The bow is a medium green colour. 45.9mm long, 22.7mm wide, 6.9mm thick and weighs 8.77 grams. On the PAS small numbers of similar keys have been reported all of which are given wide roman dates:  KENT-C…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Haseley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-112A96
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy trade weight, one of a set that would have stacked. It is circular with a raised rim, and the weight would suggest that it is 1/2 ounce. Inside are the stamps of a laver or coffee pot, the inspection mark of the Worshipful Company of Founders, who controlled the lawful making of weights in London and for three miles around (Withers and Withers 2011, page 78). Also a sword, which is the mark of St Pauls London, and possibly a crowned C, which would date the weight to the reign of Charles 1-11. Similar example on the database are NARC-C1DECA and DEV…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-108E58
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small composite copper alloy Victorian military uniform button for the light infantry. The button is domed and convex and depicts a Queen's crown over a horn. No maker's mark is visible on the reverse.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-107316
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy livery button. The face depicts a bull's head erased engorged of a ducal coronet, with a Tudor rose to the left and a portcullis to the right. The reverse has a stump for a loop shank with the maker's mark FIRMIN & WESTALL which dates the button to 1794-1811.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-105166
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete cast copper alloy penannular object, possibly a mount or a brooch frame. The object has a crescent shaped frame, 4mm thick, with bevelled sides and a triangular cross section which expands to the mid point where there is a small hole, possibly an articulation for a now missing pin, or a mounting point. The frame has broken in half across this hole. The remaining terminal at the end of the arm has a small rounded plates with a central hole, which could be decorative or for an attachment rivet. The surface of the object has traces of tinning.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: OXON-102EDA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a very worn Roman radiate of unclear emperor dating to c. AD 260-275 (Reece period 13). Unclear reverse type. Unclear Mint.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stratton Audley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-102783
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy post-Medieval double-loop trapezoidal buckle with lobes at either end of the recessed strap bar. The outer edges are pointed and the outside edge of the buckle is bevelled. 
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0EEF3E
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 19th century copper alloy discoidal livery button. The crest depicted is a falcon standing left on a sheaf of arrows. The reverse has a loop shank but no visible maker's mark.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0EB51D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval trapezoidal copper alloy strap slide with separate rivet. The sides have a rectangular cross section with the front part having rounded edges. There is a drilled hole which holds a copper alloy rivet in the rear part of the frame. Circa 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0E8FE5
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast copper alloy thimble of 18th to 19th century date, possibly functional or a toy. The sides have mechanically knurled pits and the crown has die-stamped circular pits. There is a rim but no decoration or maker's mark.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: LEIC-0E7705
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Medieval to Early Post-Medieval copper-alloy book fitting, dating to c.AD 1400 - 1600. Howsham type A.3.  It is sub-rectangular and formed of one sheet copper alloy. The plate has a flared and scalloped open end. At the opposing end terminates in an old break. It is decorated in the centre with an annulet and three concentric rings. At the scalloped edge are six circular rivet holes.  Length: 62 mm Width: 27 mm Weight: 9 g See https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecordingguides/book-clasps/#Clasps_with_hooks. Well-dated examples from excavate…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0E729F
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy thimble of Holmes' Type III dating to c. 1730-1800. The sides have mechanically knurled pits and the crown has die-stamped lozenge-shaped pits. There is a rim but no decoration or maker's mark.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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