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: 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: 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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Record ID: SUR-0E5605
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy ball from a pistol or small musket, 11.1mm in diameter and 6.35g.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0E2D90
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy ball from a pistol or small musket, 12.9mm in diameter and 7.96g.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0E1473
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A crushed brass thimble of 18th to early 19th century date. The thimble has small circular pits starting from half way up the sides and running in concentric bands to the crown. Beneath this is a decorative band of chevrons and then a plain band around the base.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FBD4D9
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast lead alloy personal seal matrix with a flat circular die, 29.1 in diameter, which depicts a curled vinescroll motif with surrounding legend S' ROBERTI WICLVS or sigillum (seal of) Robert Wiclus. There are two stumps from an integrally cast suspension loop on the top edge. The reverse is blank.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FB24BB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn silver medieval short cross penny of Henry III, class 7c dating to 1236-1242. Moneyer is LEDVLF at London mint.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FAF75C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle plate of later Roman date (Hawkes and Dunning (1961) type IIB), dating to, c. AD 250 - 400. The plate is rectangular with three rectangular perforations and a rivet hole at each corner. The sides and rear edge have decorative cusped borders. There is a ridge across the front end behind a pierced pin articulation and small bar which retains a copper alloy pin. The integrally cast frame has broken away and been lost.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FAD33B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper strap-end (cf. Thomas Class E, Type 4) made from a single plate of cast copper alloy. The rear end has broken off. The body of the object is tongue-shaped and decorated with a complex double-stranded insular Borre style ‘vertebral ring-chain’ interlace motif. The reverse is undecorated. 
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FAAFD6
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy casket key, 39.9mm in length. The bow is oval with a pierced centre. The shank has a sub-rounded cross-section with a pointed end and there is a simple bit which is incomplete but which appears to have had two clefts. Circa 12th-15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FA9A8A
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy casket key, 37.9mm in length. The bow is lozengiform with a pierced centre, a rounded terminal knop, flanking corner knops on either side and a small ridged collar. The shank has a sub-rectangular cross-section with a hollow end and there is a simple bit which is incomplete but which appears to have had a single cleft. Circa 12th-15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FA6D00
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small and undecorated cast copper alloy rectangular buckle frame of medieval date, 16.5mm in length.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FA5A57
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy fragment, 47.5mm in length, from the rim from a post medieval cauldron, skillet or posnet. The exterior surface is rough and fire blackened, the inner surface is smoothly finished. The rim is 5.4mm thick and tapers with a lenticular cross section. The original rim diameter was around 200mm.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FA5152
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy fragment, 77.1mm in length, from the rim from a post medieval cauldron. The exterior surface is rough and fire blackened, the inner surface is smoothly finished. The rim is 5.8mm thick and has a plano convex profile with the curved lip being on the interior of the vessel. The original rim diameter was around 250mm.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-FA3E60
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy foot from a post Medieval cauldron. The foot has a central midrib on the outer face. The reverse is flat. Circa 16th-17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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