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Record ID: ESS-31EEFC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy cloisonné enamelled probable finger ring, or possible disc brooch (Weetch Type 20) of early medieval date (c. 950-1100).
Description: The object is circular in plan and rectangular in cross-section. It is constructed from a sheet metal disc with upturned edges and cell walls creating a cross design. The cross has a quatrefoil at its centre, inlaid with blue enamel, and four larger lobes between these, inlaid with white enamel. The surrounding field is inlaid with blue enamel. Most of the enamel remains in place, but damage to the e…
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SF-1BDAE8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy Roman finger ring. Only the shoulders and bezel of the ring survive intact, the remainder missing due to old breaks. The shoulders are flat, oval shaped in section and expand to encompass the oval shaped bezel. The bezel contains a central S-coil motif either side of which are recessed fields filled with the remains of red enamel. Adam Daubney has done some research into Enamelled Romano-British Finger Rings, where he identifies a classification, which would make this example a Group 5 'Curves'. He also suggests this design is typical of East A…
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-1B6B8C
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy harness pendant. Quatrelobed harness pendant with central motive a lion rampant in square, surrounded by fleur-de-lys on blue enamel background. Very corroded. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1350
Height: 33.8mm, Width: 23.4mm, Thickness: 5.3mm, Weight: 3.81gms
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-084529
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An enamelled cast copper alloy early post-medieval dress hook. The plate is triangular, with two pairs of flanking attachment loops and a rounded lobed terminal decorated with incised lines, probably representing a scallop. The front of the plate is decorated with moulded-relief and champlevé enamel and features an anthropoorphic mask at the centre, perhaps with a pointed beard and what appear to be projecting animal ears. These along with other radiating elements define cells infilled with white and black enamel. A blunt ended hook projects from the wid…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-047B79
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy brooch of late Iron Age to early Roman date, c. 100 BC – AD 100. Uncertain type.
The brooch comprises a rectangular plate with a narrowed elongated trapezoidal foot to one end and an integral coiled spring to the other. The circular sectioned spring extends from the centre of one edge of the plate. It extends backwards and curves up and round to form a coil. The coil continues upward and curves over the central spring to form a second coil to the other side. The coil then extends downward to form the tapering sectioned pin.
The rectangular …
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-EE0186
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman enamelled Trumpet brooch dating to c. AD 100-250 (cf. Mackreth (2011), TR 1.2b4, p. 83, pl. 80). The head is oval with enamel inlay decoration in the form of two back-to-back flanking C-shaped cells filled with blue enamel, with lozenges of two triangular cells above and below, infilled with orange or red enamel. There is a stump of a single round loop at the centre of the underside of the head to hold the spring and pin, now lost. The bow is narrow with a plano convex cross section. It curves sharply around to a…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: WMID-AF5D54
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete enamelled heraldic horse harness pendant of Medieval dating (12th to 14th Centuries AD).
The harness pendant is of the 'heater' shield shape, with a flat top and two inward curving sides to a point beneath. A suspension loop is set at right angles at the centre point along the flat top. The suspension loop has an internal diameter of 1.8 mm. The front of the harness pendant has been decorated with enamel. There are six vertical lines, alternating three silver and three blue.The reverse is undecorated.
It measures 48.9 mm in length, 30.5 mm wide and 8.9 mm thick. It…
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: WMID-9C9C83
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete enamelled copper alloy button and loop fastener, of Roman Wild 1970, Type VIa dating (2nd Century AD).
Less than 50% of the button and loop fastener is present, consisting of the head of the button and loop fastener. The loop and part of the shank are missing. The head is rectangular and decorated with two colours of enamel, probably red and blue. The enamelled decoration is split into two styles. On one side is an alternating triangular pattern, with red inward facing triangles on one side and blue on the other. The other side has five rectangular cells, with alternatin…
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2024
Last updated: Saturday 16th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-9A71BD
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast copper alloy medieval enamelled horse harness pendant. The plate is lozengiform with semi circular lobes projecting on each side, decorated with grooves. The centre of the plate has a quatrefoil recess containing a light blue enamel inlay. The round suspension loop is 5.3mm in diameter and has broken through wear.
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: WMID-9A1091
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete heraldic horse harness pendant of Medieval dating (AD 1270 to AD 1400).
Around 50% of the heraldic horse harness pendant is present.
The pendant is lozenge shaped, with the remains of a suspension loop extending from the upper corner. The obverse depicts a quartered design. Quarters 1 & 3 are vertical lines of red enamel. Quarters 2 and 4 are unclear. A large loss of enamel has hindered the identification of the heraldry. The reverse is undecorated.
It measures 31.0 mm in length, 21.4 mm wide and 2.8 mm thick. It weighs 3.7 …
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-73399D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy military belt plate of Roman date, c.AD. 150 – 300.
The object comprises two ovate panels joined by a narrowed integral D-shape sectioned shaft. A similar shaft extends from the opposite edge of each panel, one terminating is a transverse ridge, the other in a worn break. The panels have raised edges creating recessed cells which retain blue enamel. The reverse is flat and undecorated.
The metal has a mid-green patina and is worn. The object is 22.1mm long, 13mm wide, 2.7mm thick and weighs 2.5g.
Similar examples are recorded as WILT-441178, NCL-3104…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-703BA0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 650 - 750.
The buckle is D-shaped with a bevelled outer edge, narrowed bar, and half-round pin recess. The upper surface is decorated with a series of ten (10) sub-rectangular cells of red, yellow and white enamel. The bar is flanked by three narrow transverse rectangular cells, the outer two bear yellow enamel, the centre one has white enamel.
A hinge loop projects from the outer flat edge of the frame, behind the bar. The remains of a second hinge loop are present at the opposite end of the bar. This is broken and worn.…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-5FB539
Object type: STUD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy and enamelled Iron Age stud (150 BC – AD 43). The object is circular in plan and semicircular when viewed in profile. The sides are decorated with a large triangular cell followed by an irregular trumped like cell that has two concave sides and a convex base, behind the convex base is an engraved crescent that is infilled with stippling. The situated at the point of this trumpet is a circular cell, all cells are filled with a red enamel. This pattern is repeated three times around the circumference of the item. The inside of the stud is dished and filled with the d…
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Mark', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUR-1AA9A8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy enamelled zoomorphic Roman plate brooch in the form of a hare or hound, dating to c.AD 100-300 (Mackreth (2011) OBJECT 3.c Plate 125). Only the front portion of the brooch remains; this depicts a running hound or hare with a square-nosed snout, dot eye, linear mouth, long ears swept back, and stretched forward front leg (now missing). The body has two recessed cells, originally infilled with enamel, the front retaining a fragment of a colourless or possibly white enamel. The back half of the animal is missing. The reverse of the plate is flat and has&nb…
Created on: Friday 1st March 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: OXON-095587
Object type: TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Medieval ceramic floor tile.
The tile has an orange red fabric with speckled inclusions. In the upper surface is a design in white enamel that is to small to identify the original design. This surface also has brown glaze across both the white enamel undecorated portions of the tile. The reverse is plain and undecorated having an irregular surface.
The tile fragment is 67mm long, 52.1mm wide, 23.9mm thick and weighs 82.12 grams.
Similar floor tiles on the database include LON-D71409, LON-B8CD46 and LON-229A12
Created on: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Boarstall CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: KENT-06BE9F
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval cast copper alloy horse harness pendant, c.AD 1200-1500
Description: The pendant is quatrefoil in plan with small, very worn triangles projecting between the lobes and a broken integral suspension loop in the form of an off-set plate. In the centre is a decorated square. Around the square is very worn decoration on red enamel depicting a four-legged beast. The reverse of the pendant appears to be undecorated. The surface of the pendant has an abraded dark brown-green patina.
Measurements: Height: 36.31mm, Width: 28.…
Created on: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: WMID-CADFF2
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy knobbed terret ring of probable later Iron Age or early Roman dating (100 BC - AD 200).
The terret is D shaped in plan. The cross section varies in shape along the length of the terret; for the majority it is oval / lentoid. At the base of the ring is a horizontal strap bar with an angular faceted lentoid cross section. The strap bar itself is slight and much thinner than the ring. The ring itself is thicker with distinct raised moulded lappet (circumferential swelling or collar) at the junction with the bar. The ring has an angula…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Kenilworth', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUSS-C9B59D
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn, incomplete Medieval copper-alloy heraldic horse harness pendant with the 'Arms of England' dating to c. AD 1340-1400.
The plate is sub-circular but worn with breaks around all edges. A short triangular projecting knop on the shoulder of the plate suggests it was probably originally of quatrefoil form. It has a pierced attachment lug projecting from the apex set at 90°s to the plate; the aperture is filled with corrosion, possibly iron. The main body of the plate is slightly convex on its front and slightly concave on its back.&n…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C8BF99
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch, a hinged heastud type, dating from around AD 100 - 225. It is of Mackreth Headstud group 8b. The brooch consists of a small tubular case on the back of the wings for a copper alloy axis bar and hinged copper alloy pin which is missing apart from the top. The mechanism is masked by short wings with enamelled lattice in red and white on their front. There is a crest or pseudo forward hook on the top of the bow. There is a circular recess that would have housed the missing headstud at the top …
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-C68C69
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch, a type of hinged Trumpet brooch dating from AD 75 - 175. The integrally cast headloop is missing. The wings are worn but rectangular and hide an incomplete tubular housing for the missing axis bar. The hinged pin does not survive but there is a slot for its head to fit into. The upper bow is plain and D shaped in cross-section. The central knop is replaced by a flat lozenge shaped plate, with a recessed ring containing traces of enamel. The lower bow is missing. It could be a fantail type. The brooch is very worn. Compar…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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