Copper alloy jetton. Hammered French jetton, Late Medieval issue of 1350-1400Obverse description: box-like structure of bars ending on annulets – probably Chatel Tournois.Obverse inscription: [---]*E[-]I[-]SVReverse description: long cross, with short bars at ends of arms [...]
An Iron Age gold quarter stater of the East Wiltshire region, dating to c. 50-35 BC. Savernake Wheel type. Obverse: wreath, crescents below, pelleted spike. Reverse: horse, wheel below, solar spiral above. As ABC p.107, no.2101; BMC 546. [...]
An incomplete copper-alloy imitation of a Roman radiate, probably of Tetricus I (AD 271-274) or Tetricus II (AD 272-274) dating to the period c.AD 275-285 (Reece Period 14). Probably PIETAS AVGG / AVGVSTOR reverse type depicting sacrificial instruments. Unclear [...]
An incomplete cast copper alloy double looped trapezoidal buckle of post medieval date. Only one loop remains. The frame is narrow with bevelled edges and a narrowed strap bar. There is no visible decoration. [...]
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman bow brooch, of plate headed hinged T-shaped type dating to the 2nd century AD. The arms are narrow and cylindrical, enclosing an axis spindle and with a notch at the centre [...]
A worn and corroded post-Medieval copper-alloy Nuremberg Jetton of anonymous 'ship-penny' type (c. 1490-1550). Obverse has a sailing ship, the reverse has four fleur-de-lis in a lozenge. Illiterate legends. Cf. Mitchiner 1152-1165. [...]
Lead token, tally or boardgame piece. Hammered bifacial disc with one side bearing a pattern or device resembling a stylised tree with stocky fringed trunk and an arcing ‘legend’ of dots between faintly defined circles. [...]
Silver coin fragment. Worn long cross round halfpenny, broken to achieve well under one farthing’s weight, issue of 1280-1327Obverse description: worn smoothReverse description: long cross, three pellets in each angleReverse inscription: CIVI/[TAS]/(----)Diameter: 14.3mm, Weight: 0.23gms [...]
Silver coin. Short cross cut halfpenny of John (1199-1216) or Henry III (1216-1272), London mint. Class 6a1 issue of 1208-1218Obverse description: facing bust with sceptre left, hair left of two oval curls, beard of fine [...]
Copper alloy unidentified object fragment. Cast square-section bar with a stepped and rounded end; other end broken. The rounded tip forbids interpretation as a nail shank, which this object otherwise resembles. Suggested date: possibly Roman, [...]
Copper alloy finger ring. Cast oval bezel and tapered/constricting shoulders of a finger ring; the bezel is filled with blue enamel, sunken in the middle and crazed by recent impact; Guiraud type 1. The rest [...]
Silver coin. Penny of Edward I (1272-1307), class 10cf3 issue of 1307-1309, London mintObverse description: facing bust with broad bifoliate crown cf3 with break in band, drapery of angled wedges, initial cross pattee.Obverse inscription: +EDW [...]
A Medieval silver groat of Edward III (AD 1327-1377). Series E (North 1163) dating to AD 1354-5. London mint. North (1991: 51). Edge on the lower right quarter on the obverse has broken away. Coin measures 28.3mm in diameter. [...]
Silver coin. Voided long cross cut halfpenny of Henry III (1216-1272), probably class 3a issue of 1248-1250Obverse description: facing bust no sceptre, legend starts at 12 O’clock, hair comprises two neat curls and pellets left [...]
Copper alloy brooch fragment. A now-cruciform scrap of a cast plate brooch, possibly Mackreth type British Plate [unspecified], comprising the paired U-shaped lugs from the seat for a hinged pin, with a flat front retaining [...]
Silver coin. Denarius of an indeterminate early Roman emperor, cut with the loss of about one fifth of the flan, probably issue of AD14-138.Obverse description: bust laureate draped right, clean-shaven and jowled, lightly tousled hair.Obverse [...]
A worn and corroded Roman copper alloy nummus of the House of Constantine dating to AD 330-340 (Reece period 17). VRBS ROMA type with a reverse depicting Romulus and Remus suckling a wolf, with three stars above. Mint of Trier. Cf. LRBC Vol [...]
Lead and iron possible steelyard weight, as kindly suggested by the finder. An irregular plano-convex lump of cast lead retaining relicts of a heavy iron suspension loop with recent breakage evident; the lead is slightly [...]