Record ID: SF-87AB02
Object type: BALDRIC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Late Iron Age to Roman baldric ring dating to circa 70 BC-AD 50. It is discoidal in plan with rounded edges. Projecting from one edge, on both faces, is a hemispherical suspension loop. Each face is decorated with the same openwork design. It contains three central crescentic voids arranged in a 2-1 formation. In the centre is a crescentic shaped element with recessed cell. Positioned above the crescent is a discoidal element, which joins with the outer edge of the piece. It carries a recessed cell. The outer edge is decorated with crescentic recessed cells. E…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Shottisham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-870063
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy Continental Plate brooch dating to circa AD 25-250. Now with incomplete, jagged edges the piece is flat and discoidal in plan. The front face is decorated with two concentric roundels. The inner roundelis decorating with alternativing rectangular and triangular cells with blue and orange millefoire inlay. THe outer roundel has alternating roundels of rectangular cells of light green and yellow millefoire. Projecting from the centre is an integrally cast stud. The stem is circular-sectioned and the head is flat and wider than the stem. The head is n…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Alderton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2FE7EF
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy pilgrim-badge. It depicts a robed figure, seated, holding a lamb - the Lamb of God. The figure may be on a boat although this is not certain, and is likely to represent St John the Baptist. On the back is a single loop for attachment to a garment. This badge is one of only a few of this type recorded to date, including BERK-29EB55 and YORYM-DB0F36, and an example from Fetter Lane, London (Ward Perkins 1967 [1940], 264, no. 36.146/2) Dimensions: It is 24mm wide and 22mm high, it weighs 2.9g Thanks to Rob Webley for identification 
Created on: Friday 8th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Thelnetham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-E4E242
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy pin from a buckle of early medieval date, c. 6th-9th century AD. It is possibly of insular/irish style. It is sub triangular in shape with flattened corners. From the central flattened edge a rounded knop extends. The face has been divided into recesses with raised edges. There seems to be a central cross, with L and U shaped recesses surrounding it. The recesses are scored, and contain the remains of adhesive. Three of the shorter arms of the cross have the remains of millefiori contained within them, they are yellow and red coloured. One of these is worn and …
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FA0AA0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete - broken buckle dating from the Post-Medieval period c. AD 1720 - 1790. Approximately 25% of the buckle frame has been lost by the damage. The chape which is attached to the pin spindle is in place and in good condition. It measures 29.78 x 22.19 mm, and the 'Spike' 8.97 mm in length. The iron pin itself has corroded over time and left its remains, which are plain to see on the spindle housing.  Dimensions: Length 36.04 mm. Width 33.31 mm. Thickness 2.79 mm. Weight 10.60 g.
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Record ID: DUR-810DA2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Redcar and Cleveland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Modern ceramic ointment vessel c. AD 1750-1900. It is a circular stoneware vessel with a raised lip on the upper face creating a circular depression and a central pedestal foot on the lower face. The side is incised with  'Singleton's Eye Ointment' in cursive script and filled with mid-blue glaze. The artefact has an overall white/grey glaze with some minor chips. Unlike other ointment vessels, a mercuric oxide ointment was placed on top of the upper face, covered in wax paper and sold in a cardboard box. A version of Singletons was produced as e…
Created on: Monday 18th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
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Record ID: DUR-EE5753
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy button and loop toggle fastener from the late Iron Age to early Roman period (C. BC 150-AD 100). The artefact comprises a solid, elongate copper alloy object formed in three parts. The central portion comprises a circular segment with projecting 'button' which is decorated with intersecting transverse and longitudinal ridges creating a chequerboard design which may have been filled with (now-lost) enamel. On the opposing side of the central segment is a projecting sprue which may have extended into a (now-lost) attachment loop.  The centra…
Created on: Monday 11th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2023
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Record ID: NLM-B1ADEC
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible mount fragment. Cast openwork fragment, probably flat-backed. Two curled tendrils, one ending in a trilobate form and another as a spur, with surface detailing comprising a border line infilled by an open arrangement of diagonal lines. Abraded. The motif might be considered as either vegetal or zoomorphic. Suggested date: probably Medieval, 1100-1250 Length: 26.7mm, Width: 20.9mm, Thickness: 2.1mm, Weight: 4.1gms
Created on: Friday 8th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1AD582
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. Thomas Class A Type 5 Subtype a-b. Complete except for damage to split butt end; Dave Haldenby notes ‘Thomas reserved this type for strap ends with voided panels, as in this case’ whereas Thomas's Finds Datasheet [no. 32] defines the class as decorated by scrolls of silver wire. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 800-850 Length: 47.6mm, Width: 12.4mm, Thickness: 1.2mm, Weight: 3.42gms
Created on: Friday 1st September 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DF22E2
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular object that may be the top of a dagger or similar. It has a circular copper alloy frame. Within this is a domed decoration, comprised of white enamel or glass, although this is now broken into irregular shaped pieces. It does retain a sheen. Under this mount are the remains of an iron fitment. The decoration has some similarity with the rondel dagger guard recorded in  NARC-FF7764, which is also decorated with glass inlay. Dimensions: Diameter is 22mm, and it weighs 6.76g
Created on: Thursday 17th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sabden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-48C3C9
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy artefact, most probably a Handle for a vessel lid of late Post Medieval to Modern date. It measures35.31mm from top to bottom. From the centre of the underside of its circular base, is the stub of an integral rivet which would have held the Handle and a lid together. The rivet head is slightly oval, and measures 8.22mm x6.36mm, and it projects 2.4mm from the base. The handle base measures 15.80mm in diameter, upward from which a short column with a convex beginning and end  rise to a bulbous feature. This has a diameter of 23.09mm,and a thickness of 14.42mm. Ar…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 10th August 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-35E97C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy artefact, most probably a Handle for a vessel lid of late Post Medieval to Modern date. It measures 26.20mm from top to bottom. From the centre of the underside of it's circular base ,is the stub of an integral rivet which would have held the Handle and a lid together. The rivet head projects from the base,is circular, and measures 9.49mm in diameter. The handle base measures16.12mm, upward from which is a short stem rises to a bulbous feature. This has a diameter 19.36mm, and a thickness 10.88mm. On its top is a centrally sited pimple 5.22mm in diameter, and 3.…
Created on: Wednesday 9th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Record ID: SOM-25FEDB
Object type: TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of decorative ceramic floor tile dating to the medieval period, c. AD 1200-1450. The tile fragment is bi-chrome and inlaid with a white clay depicting the edge of a design that possibly features an animal (a leg and tail survive), surrounded by a plain double line border with a thicker line at the bottom. There is one bevelled edge (the other edges are broken).  Length (unbroken edge): 69.77mm, width: 61.29mm, thickness: 23.41mm, weight: 107.59g. 
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-E05421
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy artefact , probably a Handle for the lid of a Vessel of late Post Medieval date. It measures 24.70mm from top to bottom. On the underside of its circular base,is the stub of an integral rivet which would have held the Handle and a lid together. The end of the rivet is roughly square, 6.4 x 6.4mm, and it projects approximately 2mm from the base. The base has a diameter of 15.30mm, and upwards from this is a short stem 6.73 mm in length, and 6.48mm in thickness. This is topped by a bulbous feature 17.59mm in diameter with a thickness of 9.22mm. Finally marki…
Created on: Saturday 5th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-A4763D
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  probable brooch of  copper alloy, cast in the shape of a turtle or tortoise. The brooch is oval in shape with four triangular legs, a triangular tail and a head protruding from it. The head is now folded over but was probably oval in shape. The body is pierced with cast holes of varying sizes, to give the appearance of a shell texture. The body is hollow, the whole having an 'egg shaped' section. There are traces on the upper of some treatment which would have given the turtle a red colouring, although it is not possible to discern the nature of this…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Castle Sowerby', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-995961
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant, probably dating to c AD 1150 - 1300. It is broadly pelta shaped but may originally have been scallop shaped, as the find has slight fluting along one side. The find also has slightly concave upper edges. The pendant has a incuse design which may have depicted a dragon or wyvern advancing left, tail curled to the right. However, all the inlay (perhaps enamel) is missing and so the motif is unclear. The reverse is plain and the integral suspension loop partly missing to an early break. Dimensions: 31.8mm…
Created on: Monday 26th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
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Record ID: SF-DE26ED
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an annular copper-alloy medieval brooch. It is decorated with four raised collets projecting at equal intervals around the outer face of the fragment. The collets are angled slightly outwards; the settings have been lost and three out of the four collets retain traces of silver-gold paste or fixative within the mount. The pin fixings are not present on the fragment.  The use of collets likely dates the brooch to the 13th century (Alexander and Binski 1987). Length: 27.02mm, taken at the widest surviving point; Width (of …
Created on: Monday 5th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-B654C8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, medieval, cast, copper alloy annular brooch dating to the 13th to 14th centuries AD. The annular frame is plano-convex with a slightly rounded convex decorated side and a constriction for a missing pin. It has seven evenly spaced circular projections, collets, each with a hollowed top, five of which contain cream or pale yellow paste. Diameter: 28.13 mm; Thickness: 2.99 mm; Weight: 3.76g
Created on: Wednesday 10th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 12th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Pickworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4003EB
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy early medieval stirrup strap mount, c. 11th century AD. Williams Class A Type 1. Only the base and a small portion of the plate survives, including the projecting foot and two iron rivets. On the surviving portion of plate surviving, white-filled engraved lines are evident, similar to SUR-FF9BB1 and HAMP-CBB354.  Length: 22.09mm, width: 25.57mm, thickness: 8.63mm, weight: 10.73g. 
Created on: Friday 27th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-1052F3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy mount from a buckle of medieval date, c.AD 1200 – 1450. The mount comprises a large central conical boss from which four evenly spaced, ovate sectioned arms extend to form a cross. Each arm terminates in a smaller conical boss. Each of the five bosses has a deep central circular recess, all except the central boss retain an applied white paste or solder. The reverse of the mount is flat with an integral cylindrical lug or rivet at the centre. The metal has a mid-green patina and is in fair condition. The object is 27.8mm long, 27.8mm wide, 7.5mm t…
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Spatial data recorded.