Record ID: LON-E082A1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval ceramic sherd from a Raeren stoneware bottle dating to AD 1517-1585. The sherd represents part of the body with a large round medallion featuring a male bearded portrait  within a plain  border, this is then framed with the legend [BI.MICH.BALDEM.ME]NN[ICKEM]. The vessel is by the potter Balden Menneken (AD1517-1585). The vessel has a grey stoneware fabric and is covered on the outside in a brown speckled glaze.  Other examples of Raeren stoneware on the database are SUR-4CFE6A and LON-5FA3F9. Dimensions…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: LON-E06925
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete base sherd fragment from a Roman Central Gaulish samian ware cup or small bowl possibly Dragendorff Form 33 dating to AD 140 - 170. The sherd has a chamfered foot ring base. In the centre of the base is a maker's stamp reading VVI /. The fragment has a pink fabric and is coated in a red slip on both the inside and outside.  Dimensions: length: 31mm; width: 34.18mm; thickness: 4.65mm; weight: 7.05g Oswald & Pryce (1920:189-190) "This form is probably related to the Arretine cup, Loeschcke Type 10 a (Fig. 1), but its dev…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-E0688C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy brooch, dating from the late Iron Age to early Roman period c.AD 25-60. It is a one-piece Colchester brooch, Mackreth 2011, Standard British Colchester, plate 23, no.92. The head of the brooch comprises short rectangular wings with an integral forward-facing hook projecting from the centre of the top edge. To the reverse of the head, an integral circular sectioned strip of metal extends, overlapping the the forward-facing hook. The body of the brooch is curved and ovate in section and tapers into a point at the bottom. The remains of a catchplate are present,…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2024
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Record ID: LON-E0601D
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman pipe clay figurine, of Mercury dating from AD 100-250. The remaining figurine consists of part of the body draped in fabric. Dimensions: length: 48.52mm; width: 31.30mm; thickness: 9.41mm; weight: 8.75g Other Roman figures from the same area are LON-B7E305, LON-5536D6 and LON-CDF7B1. References: Flittock M. 2013, A Contextual Study of the Pipe-Clay Figurines Found in Roman London. University of Reading.
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-E05FE4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post medieval silver halfgroat of Charles I (AD 1625-1649) probably dating to AD 1645-1646. Group D, probably sun initial mark. Tower of London mint under the crown. See North (1991:162); no: 2258. The coin is bent, having possibly been folded in half then slightly flattened again, resulting in a slight crack at 9 o'clock on the obverse. Dimensions: diameter: 16.70mm,  thickness: 0.55mm,  weight: 0.87g
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
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Record ID: LON-E0585D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd fragment from a Roman Gaulish samian ware hemispherical bowl. Form Dragendorff 37 dating from AD 150-200. The sherd has moulded decoration, consisting of a band of ovolo, under which are panels divided by rope twist borders. Within the panels are standing figures and wild beasts. The fragment has a pink fabric and is coated in a red slip on both the inside and outside. The slip is abraded and worn away from the high points of the moulded decoration. Dimensions: length: 61.11mm; width: 60.73mm; thickness: 7.86mm; weight: 33.43g. Similar Drag. form…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-E05174
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast sub-rectangular double looped buckle frame with expanded ends which intrude slightly into the loops and with moulded decoration of opposed housings for a separate steel spindle [lost]. The curvature of the frame viewed in profile suggests a function as a shoe buckle. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1660-1720 Length: 39.4mm, Height: 24.1mm, Thickness (at housings): 4.1mm, Weight: 6.33gms
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-E0361A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast single looped buckle with an expanded moulded ribbed outer edge flanked by everted knops, bowed upper and lower edges and a narrowed and offset strap bar with a knop at either end. The stub of a rectangular section pin is wrapped round the strap bar. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1400 Length: 24.3mm, Height: 28.6mm, Thickness: 4.5mm, Weight: 7.67gms
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-E033B8
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint axehead. A flaked axehead. Made on a nodule of pale grey-brown flint, now patinated to matt off-white and with iron staining along the flake ridges. Flaked on both faces from the edges, butt and cutting edge. All the cortex has been removed. The side edges are largely straight. It has a wide, slightly convex, cutting edge formed by flake removals from the edge into the body of the axehead. The axe tapers to the butt and has a lentoid cross section. There is some slight damage to the butt. Date: Neolithic - c. 4000 to 2350 BC Dimensions: 118 mm x 60 mm x 27&n…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-E01046
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast frame with an expanded and canted outer edge with a knop at either end of a narrowed and offset strap bar; the frame is clasped by a cast rectangular buckle plate [of thickness 1.5mm] with a proto-heraldic beast walking right, regardant or looking backwards, viewed against a textured ground, with two rivets [one lost] of diameter 2mm at its inner end to attach the ends of the plate to each other and the strap [lost]. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1300 Length: 32.7mm, Height: 24.9mm, Thickness (frame): 1.4mm, Weight: 8.72gms
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-DFEAEE
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post Medieval copper alloy padlock, dating to circa AD 1500-1850.  The object is one face of a padlock. The body of the object is broadly circular with a projecting lobe at each upper outer corner. An integral flat vertical rectangular bar is present running along the centre of the padlock face. This is decorated with a pair of vertical grooves adjacent to each long edge. There are three horizontal lines as decoration running across forming a grid pattern. The bar is flanked on either side by a double ring and dot motif. The i…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-DFEA71
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. A small cast single looped or D-shaped buckle with an expanded and thickened rounded outer edge and a markedly narrowed and offset strap bar. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1500 Length: 11.3mm, Height: 14.1mm, Thickness: 3mm, Weight: 0.95gms
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-DFD2BF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Crossbow brooch fragment, dating to the Roman period (c.AD 350-380). It has a rectangular section head with a collared onion knob at either end, one is missing, with a thin stiff copper alloy wire which would have passed through the head of the brooch, but is broken, this serves as an axis bar for the stub of a hinged pin. At the centre of the bow, between the onion knobs and at the centre of the body's head, is a circular perforation. The body, catchplate and pin of the brooch are missing. It is a Keller Type 4, Crossbow brooch.  Similar records: NLM-9FD1D7 
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-DFCDCB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver denarius of Octavian, uncertain Eastern mint, obverse bare head left with no legend, reverse [CAESAR] DIVI F, Pax standing left, BMCRE 605, 3.21g, well worn, 31-29BC
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-DFC131
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete clipped post medieval silver three halfpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) dated '1575' on coin. Second coinage (1561-1582) eglantine initial mark, mint of London. As North (1991) no: 2000. Spink: 2569.  Obverse description: Crowned bust facing left, rose behind head. Obverse inscription: +[E] D G [RO]SA SI[NE SPINA] Reverse description: Long cross fourchee over shield bearing royal arms, date '1575' above Reverse inscription: +[CIVI/TAS/L]ON/DO[N] Dimensions: diameter: 14.55mm,  thickness: 0.47mm,  weight: 0.64g
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: LVPL-DFB778
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy buckle dating to the medieval period (c.AD 1350-1450). The buckle consists of a double-looped frame that is presented as a large oval loop and a smaller rectangular loop. Both loops are largely undecorated with patches of filing lines visible. The central that separates the two loops presents a constriction in the centre around which is wound a pin. The pin is copper alloy and is wrapped once around the bar, the wrapped portion is flat and rectangular in form, the main body changes to have a circular section and the tip is flattened and shaped into a point. The…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: LVPL-DFB3B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post medieval silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (1559-1603), second coinage (1561-1582) dating to 1563. Initial mark: Pheon. Cf. North Vol. II (1991) no. 1997.  Obverse: Crowned bust left, rose behind; [ELIZABETH D G ANG FRA] ET HIB] REGINA. Reverse: Square shield on long cross fourchée dividing the legend; POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV. 
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-DF9B1C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron buckle. Small cast double looped or spectacle buckle with slightly unequal loops and a narrowed central strap bar; a mass of ferrous corrosion shows that the buckle was deposited with its iron pin attached; frame is flat-backed. Fiercely abraded. Suggested date: Late Medieval to Post-Medieval, 1350-1650 Length: 23.8mm, Height: 19.2mm, Thickness (frame): 2.5mm, Weight: 3.48gms 
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-DF938C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 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 still in place and formed from one piece of copper alloy that ends at a pointed tip.The reverse is flat and undecorated.  The buckle is green in colour and has an uneven surface patina.  Measurements: length 23.9mm, width 20.4mm, thickness 1.8mm, weight 1.7 grams Whitehead (2003: p.19, Nos. 53 & 55) states that cast copper alloy…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
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Record ID: LVPL-DF8B2F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn post medieval silver sixpence of William III (AD 1694-1702) dated to 1695-1702. Mint uncertain. Both faces are completely worn and the coin has been bent twice into an S-shape. Obverse: Laureate, draped bust facing right; [GVLIELMVS III DEI GRA] Reverse: Crowned shields of England, Scotland, France and Ireland arranged in a cruciform; lion of Nassau at centre; [MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX ...]. Diameter: 19.6mm, Thickness: 0.7mm, Weight: 1.65g. Worn and bent coins such as this one are often described as 'love tokens'. Dr Kevin Leahy notes in FAKL-A043BC: '…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
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