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Altar from Micklegate, York.
"To the African, Italian and Gallic Mother Goddesses Marcus Minucius Audens, soldier of the 6th Legion Victrix and a pilot of the 6th Legion, willingly, gladly and deservedly fulfilled his vow".
Audens will have been responsible for guiding vessels up the Ouse to York.
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 [...]
A Roman copper alloy nummus of Constantine II (AD 317 - 340) dating to AD 327 (Reece period 16). PROVIDENTIAE CAESS reverse depicting a camp-gate of two towers with a star above. Mint of Arelatum / Arles. [...]
A post medieval, lead human figurine probably dating from the late 18th- 19th century.The figurine is in the form of a standing figure, possibly female holding a baby. Possibly depicting Mary with child. The reverse is flat [...]
A medieval cast copper alloy single looped oval buckle, complete with plate and pin. The frame has a rounded front edge and a recessed strap bar with lobes at either end. The plate is sub triangular [...]
