Record ID: PUBLIC-828F3F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A post medieval silver shilling of William III (AD 1694-1702), Third bust type (AD 1697)  London mint. Spink 2013, number 3505
Created on: Saturday 30th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PAS-18F8A3
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt badge in the form of a recessed roundel with two concentric circles forming a deep frame, the edges of which are dentillated. The centre of the badge is engraved with a crowned 'I' between two Tudor roses on a hatched background. The reverse of the badge is soldered with a strip of metal which has been broken off at the point where it doubles back forming a looped pin. The relatively small size of the badge and the shape of the pin suggest its function as a hat-badge. Diameter: 25mm Weight: 1.09g Scientific analysis at the British Museum produced a silver content …
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8CDEE5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A post medieval silver penny of James I (1603-25), second coinage (1604-19), initial mark: rose (probably) dating to AD1605-06, mint: Tower (London), North 2106/1. Ref: North 1991: p.146.  Obverse: Tudor rose within beaded inner circle; I D G ROSA SINE SPINA. Reverse: thistle within beaded inner circle; TVEATVR VNITA DEVS. The coin has a very slight bend and is not uniform in shape missing some of the legend. 
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thompson', grid reference and parish protected.

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: LANCUM-4DDE72
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval copper alloy 'Pineapple Penny' token of Barbados. On the obverse there is an African's head facing left and wearing a crown with Prince of Wales plumes. On the reverse is a drop shaped pineapple. These 'pennies' were not official currency, but said to be an anti-slavery campaign token commissioned by Sir Philip Gibbes (1731 - 1815). Olaudah Equiano (c1745 - 1797), a freedman, writer, and abolitionist, regarded Gibbes as "the most worthy and humane gentleman" (Gautier, G Slavery and the Fashioning of Race in Oroonoko, Robin…
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Whalley', 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: WREX-90A174
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Published
Description The ring is a memento mori ring with a flat bezel in the form of a central square, each side having a projecting semi-circular lobe engraved with a leaf, to form a quatrefoil design. The outer surface of the bezel square is engraved with a death’s head (a skull), inlaid with traces of white enamel, surrounded by the inscription: + Memento Mori, in small neat italic script. The shoulders are cast with scrolls in green enamel, with white enamel ‘stems’ below. Much of the inscription and engraved design remains infilled with soil, and it is not clear whether…
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carreghofa', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-65D51F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold posy / posie / posey ring of 18th century date. The ring has a plain narrow hoop with D shaped cross section 1mm thick and 2.2mm wide. The interior is inscribed "Love and live Happy" in an italicised script. There is a maker's mark of I.W in a rectangular escutcheon. The internal diameter of the ring is around 20mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9AC40C
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: 17th-century silver cufflink element decorated with crowned hearts, together with the oval wire loop that originally joined it to the other element. It is circular, originally with a flat centre and a shallow downturned rim with an out-turned edge. The rim is now bent and cracked. The flat area has a recessed centre enclosed within a raised edge. The centre has a stippled background, a pair of counter-relief heart shapes, one next to the other, and a crown over both. The crown is neatly made, with a wide lower band decorated with four dots, a…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-EFEE71
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small flat silver book-clasp of post-medieval date. It is neatly made from thick silver sheet, rounded at both ends and with a concave waist in between. A flat turned-under hook has been broken at one end, which has shoulders curving down into the waist. There is a tiny pointed angle between the waist and the other rounded end, which is oval, slightly larger, and set transversely. This end has a hole, neatly lozengiform on the front and circular on the reverse, presumably for attachment to a strap. The hole is now filled with greenish corrosion on …
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: LVPL-898926
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Published
A post medieval silver shilling of Charles I (1625-1649), 'Declaration type', dating to 1643. Mint: Oxford (North 2442). Initial mark: Plume. Ref: North (Vol II) 1991: p.178; cf Morreison 1921: p.155-7, pl. VII, 1643 obverse D, reverse 1. Obverse: Crowned bust left, XII behind; CAROLVS D G MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX Reverse: Declaration over three lines with three Oxford plumes above and date below; RELIG:PROT / LEG:ANG / LIBER:PAR / 1643 // EXVRGAT:DEVS:DISSIPENTVR:INIMICI Stray finds of coins from Charles I's Civil War mints are not common and this coin is…
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-5DCF04
Object type: NEEDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete post-medieval silver needle or bodkin with one pointed end and one pierced end. It has a circular cross-section for most of its length, and then flattens and widens at the top to a round-cornered rectangle through which a hole has been made. The top of the hole is rounded, mirroring the top of the needle, but the lower end of the hole tapers to a point.  The needle is decorated with two sets of double grooves around the entire circumference, one near the pointed tip and one about halfway up the shaft. Just below the hole, where the shaft begins to flatt…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-5B8717
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A post medieval silver cufflink button, 13.6mm in diameter, which is stamped with left facing conjugate busts of a king and queen, probably William III (to the rear) and Queen Mary (in front). The button has a down-turned rim. The reverse has a soldered silver wire loop shank to which is attached a silver wire loop, 13.4mm in length; this demonstrates wear at both ends. The other button has been lost.
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Sunday 28th January 2024
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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: NMGW-BC1D42
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Carmarthenshire
Workflow stage: Published
Circumstances and context of discovery The object was discovered by Mr Davies whilst metal detecting in a field under pasture at a depth of 5-6 inches. Further details including the find spot and landowner details can be found on the Treasure receipt. Description and identification The reported object is a complete silver double-sided oval medallion or pendant. On the obverse is a side profile bust of Charles I, facing right with a Latin abbreviated inscription in Roman capitals ‘CAROLVS. D. G. MAG. B[RI. FR.]ET. HIB. RX’ along the outer edge; a cut mark obscures part o…
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llansteffan Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-B58EA3
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2023 T1087 A complete silver vervel (hawking ring) dating to the post medieval period (c.AD 1500-1700). The object comprises a flat silver ring inscribed on one face. The inscription reads: ‘Sr:Tho’ IIermyne of:’. The reverse is undecorated.  Measurements Diameter: 11.27 mm; Thickness: 0.92 mm; Weight: 0.43g Discussion: The vervel fits within Lewis and Richardson’s Type A 'washer form' which are characterised as are flat circular rings that are sub-rectangular in cross-section (2019 9). Vervels connected the leather …
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holbeach', grid reference and parish protected.

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: PUBLIC-0355F6
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A very corroded 17th century copper-alloy token farthing issued by George Kerington of St Saviours Dock, Southwark in Surrey dating to c.1648-72. Obverse: a shield bearing the Bakers' Company Arms. Inscription: G[EORGE KERINGTON B]AKER. Reverse: initials triad K / G M. Inscription: AT•ST•SAVERIES•DOCK. As Williamson (1889) Southwark no.377; Everson (2015) 888; Norweb 5060. Diameter 16.1mm, thickness 0.8mm and weight 0.8g. Williamson B (1889) Traders' tokens of the 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 19th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.