Record ID: IOW-5479B4
Object type: FLUE TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Roman flue tile, c.AD 43-410. This is a fragment of a rectangular tile with flat faces, with broken edges and corners. The obverse is scored with regular lines to help mortar to adhere to the surface. The breaks around the edges mean that no corners survive that indicate whether this is a wall or floor tile.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-05D008
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy T-shaped (initial) T137 hinged brooch of Roman date (AD 55-100). The head of the brooch is comprised of wide tubular wings with a central rectangular groove, and axis bar around which the loop of the hinged pin is retained. The lower portion of the pin is missing due to an old, abraded break. The wings have bulbous terminals and are decorated with semi-circular collars. The top of the bow is decorated with a triangular projecting boss with an incised zig zag outer boarder. The bow itself is rectangular in section and tapers in towards a worn transverse b…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-7222BE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification The reported object is a decorative gold posy ring. The ring consists of a thin gold band, D-shaped in section, with a tightly set repeating pattern of tooled S-shaped indentations on the external surface, possibly for enamel, although none appears to have survived. The internal surface in engraved with an inscription which reads ‘Though absent yet constant’ in italic letters in sentence case. The ring profile is slightly misshapen.  Measurements  External diameter: 19.5 x 18.7 mm Internal diameter: 17.5 x 16.5 mm Depth: 2.4 mm Ba…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanddyfnan Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-5FA7C6
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Published
Author: Dr Sian Iles  Description & identification Small silver seal matrix with an oval face. It is engraved with a motif of crested and plumed bird, walking right and in side profile. it’s the bird’s beak is open, holding a leafed branch which extends over its head and back. The motif is set within a single cabled oval border. The face is slightly misshapen with some damage to the right side.  The hexagonal handle tapers upwards to a large circular suspension loop with a transverse perforation, above a transverse collar. It is surmounted by a decorative sph…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nantcwnlle Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-5F2A77
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Author: Dr Sian Iles Description & identification The object is a small complete silver seal matrix. It has an oval face and an octagonal facetted openwork handle. The octagonal handle tapers to a banded collar, above an openwork trilobed handle with flourishes. There is a small chip on the top left edge of the face.  The face is engraved with a heater shield containing a coat of arms, within a single beaded border. The design of the arms consists of the upper section or ‘chief’ which is indented and decorated with three (3) five-point stars (mullets), in negative…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llawhaden Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-0F2787
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy brooch fragment. Cast hinged Colchester derivative brooch, Mackreth type CD H 3.b. Cylindrical wings with a horizontal step or groove behind retain an axis bar which itself retains a cast pin with expanded proximal end. The front of the wings bears three bands of vertically billeted ornament with a single diagonal incision passing across them on either side. They are clasped by a D-section bow with a moulded groove down either side and a central narrow ridge which is cross-cut like the patterns on the wings. Most of the bow is lost. Suggested date: Early Roman, 75-125 Len…
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wroot', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-E82B10
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
A post-Medieval French one-tenth ecu (dixième d'ecu au bandeau) of Louis XV of France (1715-74), Duplessy 1683, dating to the 1770s (possibly 1770 or 1776, the final digit is unclear), mint: Paris (letter A below bust). Ref: Duplessy 1988: p.320. The coin is countermarked R.F. ( 'la République Française') suggesting that it was still in circulation after the French Revolution of 1789. This countermark of  is stamped above the three central fleur-de-lis. The coin is very worn, much of the inscription now illegible and only the …
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-DF2123
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy vessel fragment. Handle of a patera, some drilled and incised decoration. suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Length: 86.4mm, Width: 60.1mm, Thickness: 5.0mm, Weight: 99.47gms
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-615AC8
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Gold penannular ring Dimensions: external diameter (front to back) 10.1mm, external diameter (side to side) 10.7mm, internal diameter (front to back) approx. 6.0mm; internal diameter (side to side) approx. 6.5mm, diameter of body (internal to external) approx. 2.0mm; diameter of body (upper to lower face) 2.5mm, distance between terminals 0.3-0.5mm, weight (before conservation cleaning) 0.27g. This is a complete and very small penannular ring of gold with incised linear decoration around its sides and external diameter surface. Judging from surface dents and a localised small tear …
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Nicholas and Bonvilston Community', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-B86FFC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch with the spring, the pin and the curled over part of the solid catchplate missing.On both wings there are two vertical engraved grooves and one diagonal. On the D-sectioned bow a median groove and a row of closely spaced transverse engraved lines run the full length between grooves or offsets along both sides. Mackreth 2011 CD RH 4.f. Weight 9.83g. Wingspan 27.3mm. Length 39.2mm. AD c.43 - c.65.
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-CEF428
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification A complete silver thimble of apparent one-piece construction (no visible join or solder line). The body and crown are decorated with regular repeated indentations, possibly the result of knurling during manufacture. There is a wide band of moulded floral/ scrolled decoration, worn in parts, on the lower portion of the body, interrupted by a bearded moustachioed face (front facing, upside down). At the front of the thimble is a plain rectangular panel or cartouche, containing engraved seriffed initials ‘MN’ in Roman capitals, upside down. Th…
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mathern Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-A16115
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Early Iron Age copper alloy La Tene I brooch, dating to c. 450 - 300 BC. Adams' (2013) Type 1Bb. The brooch would originally have had a four coiled spring but only one half of the coil survives. It is also missing the chord and its pin due to old breaks. The bow is rounded and arched, with a band made of two incised horizontal parallel lines below the spring mechanism, for decoration. The arch of the bow has incised and punched decoration, consisting of two vertical parallel lines (approximately 1.5mm apart) with small circles p…
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-671C74
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A single later Post-Medieval silver stud cuff link, dating to the later 18th century (c. AD 1720-1800). The octagonal button has down turned edges and is decorated with an incised Tudor rose comprised of two quatrefoil flowers which overlay each other and are offset. The centre of the flower is a small circle. The margin of the button has a border of incised curved lines creating cusps to each of the eight flat edges. The reverse has a round sectioned bar which connects to a circular plate, roughly similar in diameter to the button and which has a simple incised line border on the bac…
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-82FF21
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A late Roman military copper alloy propeller-shaped belt-stiffener, which is flat and 19.1mm in length. The central part of the plate is circular and decorated with two concentric circles around a punched dot in the centre; this is flanked by two triangular projections each with a rivet hole.
Created on: Wednesday 6th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-8BD14A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Rosette variant brooch dating c. AD 25-75. The brooch comprises the wings, hinge, bow and foot plate, bow as well as the catchplate. The stem of the pin is missing. The wings are cylindrical with an oval aperture at the centre of the reverse and capped terminals enclosing the circular-sectioned iron hinge axis bar. The end of each wing is capped. One is complete and has a circular recession while the other is worn and abraded, revealing one end of the axis bar within. Decoration on the upper surface is worn but two crude sets…
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Last updated: Saturday 14th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-FD8BDB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Colchester derivative, double pierced lug, Harlow type brooch dating to the Roman period (c. AD 50-80). The brooch comprises the wings, spring, upper portion of the pin, the central lug and upper and the lower bow. The foot, catch plate and lower portion of the pin are missing. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open-ended, and divided by a central lug with an upper and lower circular perforation. The external wing surfaces have double-grooved decoration either side. The lug is plain. The wing interior is plain and occupied by a spring of 13 coil…
Created on: Thursday 13th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 13th July 2023
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Record ID: WILT-AD13C9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy strip brooch, dating to c. AD 40-50. Mackreth DURO type 5b. The brooch comprises the head, bow, and most of the catchplate. The pin is missing. The remainder of the brooch is formed of a single flat strip which splays out towards the rounded bottom. The strip was originally curved around at the top to form the head and hold the pin, but the head has straightened out slightly now, due to old damage. The bow is narrow and flat, and straight, only curving up slightly towards the head. The brooch is decorated with transverse lines on the wings. There i…
Created on: Tuesday 27th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 26th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-9D96B1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy Ring Buckle of Roman date date (AD 200-300).  The object is complete with frame and pin, the hoop is unfaceted, while the pin has an expanded upper recurved portion with repeating incised longitudinal lines around the recurved portion. The frame has bevelled inner and outer edges with repeating punched annulets, regularly spaced, around the frame. The underside of the frame is flat and undecorated. At the lower end of the frame are a pair of integrally cast, square collars with a single central punched annulet with small, punched pellets in each quarte…
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 4th August 2023
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Record ID: NARC-9D825A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy buckle of late Roman to early Early-Medieval date (AD 350-450). Hawkes and Dunning Type IIA. The fragment is in form of a dolphin with open jaws and part of a lozenge in the mouth, from the apex of the head of the animal is a projecting ridge with incised vertical line and a pinched pellet eye. The object is curved and terminates in an old, abraded, transverse break resulting in the loss of the majority of the frame.  The back of the object is flat and undecorated. Length: 13.39mm, Width: 16.60mm, Thickness: 3.72mm, Weight: 2.4g The metal is light g…
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2023
Last updated: Saturday 8th July 2023
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Record ID: LVPL-1D74E0
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy and enamelled terret ring dating the late Iron Age (c.50 BC-AD 100). The terret is formed of a flat crescentic ring with a promeninet ridge along the inner edge and a wide oval terminal. Roughly half of the object is missing. Both faces are decorated with the same details of a recessed teardrop shape pointing towards the terminal with a crescent in the centre to form a single swirl. The recessed portions are filled with remnants of red enamel, small grains of blue enamel also appear present. The teardro and cresent are outlined with a single incised border l…
Created on: Thursday 8th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.