Tag: guillotine
PAS North Yorkshire
- NLM-8E02C7 LEAF ARROWHEAD NEOLITHIC 28 January 2025Pale grey flint with cortex strip leaf arrowhead. A finely made long-bladed leaf-shaped arrowhead with invasive angled scalar retouch executed from the dorsal aspect, and with further invasive angled scalar retouch executed from the ventral aspect. The surface is now pale, possibly an effect arising from exposure to a calcareous environment if this was not […]
- NLM-8DDC8D SCRAPER (TOOL) NEOLITHIC 28 January 2025Grey flint with reforming cortex spots, scraper fragment. A rounded thick flake with broad flakes struck from its dorsal side and invasive angled scalar retouch executed from the dorsal aspect. The ventral surface was perhaps flat though the interruption of slight misty patina arising from limited contact with a calcareous environment may suggest it has […]
- NLM-8DBEB9 BROOCH IRON AGE 28 January 2025Copper alloy brooch. Cast Langton Down brooch, as kindly identified by the finder, Mackreth type LD 3.b. A plain spring case with butted seam behind retains a spring with the stub of pin and is separated from a straight-sided flat strip bow by a plain horizontal moulding. Three longitudinal ridges flanked by shallow gutters pass […]
- NLM-8D9A8F MOUNT POST MEDIEVAL 28 January 2025Copper alloy mount. A small cast openwork mount with a central stubby baluster form with a splayed trilobate terminal at one end and a point at the other, flanked by opposed loops. The form as presented here may be distantly related to a fleur de lis. Two integrally cast fixing prongs of length 8mm are […]
- NLM-8D7F68 MOUNT POST MEDIEVAL 28 January 2025Copper alloy mount. Cast plate of an angular, splayed and devolved fleur de lis form with a single integrally cast fixing spike of length 7mm flattened against its back. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1650-1850Height: 15mm, Width: 32mm, Thickness (clear of spike): 1.6mm, Weight: 2.34gms
PAS West Yorkshire
- YORYM-8E1BC7 BUCKLE MEDIEVAL 28 January 2025A complete copper-alloy buckle of medieval date, c.AD 1250 -1500. Meols Type 2.The buckle is a single looped D-shape with a narrowed and recessed strap bar. A grooved pin rest is present on the upper surface of the outside edge of the loop. A circular sectioned pin is fitted around the bar by an open loop. A rectangular […]
- YORYM-8E4F89 BUCKLE MEDIEVAL 28 January 2025A complete copper-alloy buckle of medieval date, c.AD 1250-1500. Meols Type 1.The buckle is a single looped D-shape with a narrowed strap bar. The upper surface of the frame has been decorated with four groups of four parallel incised grooves. A rectangular sectioned pin is fitted around the bar by an open loop. A rectangular plate is looped […]
PAS South Yorkshire
- YORYM-8FC319 HARNESS PENDANT MEDIEVAL 28 January 2025An incomplete copper-alloy gilded zoomorphic harness pendant of medieval date, AD 1200 - 1400.The pendant comprises a D-shaped plate in the form of a forward-facing animal's head, probably a stag, with integral attachment loop. The upper surface is moulded with features including pellet eyes, an elongated raised muzzle, and rounded snout. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The attachment […]
- NMGW-C31C53 CHARIOT FITTING IRON AGE 24 January 2025Addendum to an Iron Age sacred lake assemblage: a Late Iron Age bridle-bit and terret (50 BC - AD 75)1. Two-link bridle-bit, Polden Hill Subtype, bronze, complete Dimensions: maximum length 238.0mm; external rein-ring diameters (1)73.8-74.0mm & (2) 73.5-74.7mm; internal rein-ring diameters (1) 55.6mm & (2) 56.3mm; thickness rein rings – side to side (1) 8.3-9.0mm & […]
