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Found 1298 objects in the category Archaeology
Flint scrapers
Various flint scrapers, mostly unpatinated
PEZPH : temp.32.18-32
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Cupped mace head
half a cupped, possible macehead, battered at complete end, ground smooth all over.
PEZPH : temp.22
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Stone axe head
Polished sandstone axehead, tear-shaped in plan and lozenge-shaped in profile with symmetrical blade end and gashes to the surface.
PEZPH : 2011.L4
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Silver half penny of Edward the Confessor
Silver voided short-cross broken halfpenny of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), moneyer probably Leofwine but mint name is missing.
PEZPH : 2011.L2
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Silver penny of Cnut
Silver penny of Cnut. King's head on obverse, jewel cross on reverse. Minted at Exeter in 1035/6 by his widow Queen Emma of Normandy during the reign of Harthacnut (1035 - 1037)
PEZPH : 2011.L3
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Hone
Medieval greenstone hone, with ground sides and grooved faces. One face has a cross-like indentation and the other side is dimpled with 40 small circular depressions. May have been used to sharpen hooks or needles, or used to push thick needles through leather or sails, circa AD 1200-AD1700.
PEZPH : 2010.52
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Silver Denarius Matidia coin
Silver denarius of Matidia (c.AD 112-120)
PEZPH : 2011.L1
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Roman coin
silver Roman coin, Postumus 259-68. Found in donor's garden in Newmill. Has a portrait of Postumus on the obverse and a seated River god on the reverse. This is an early issue of this coin and is quite common, though not as common as the variety showing a reclining River god.
PEZPH : 2007.27
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Flint flake
A flint flake that hashad its edges battered.
PEZPH : 2005.31.6
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