York Archaeology Online Collections

Items

• Copper Alloy Amulet Fitting
  Hollow-backed central section with central hole for attachment, decorated with linear engraving; sub-rectangular bar emerging from narrower end with a stylized right fist in profile making the mano fica gesture with thumb protruding between the folded first and second fingers; stylized phallus directly opposite.
• Copper Alloy Buckle
  Square copper alloy buckle, with four perforations; two of the edges are decorated.
• Copper Alloy Mount
  Peltoid mount; military type; sub-circular; central stem rises beyond the conjoined scroll arms to convex terminal edge. Outer face edge decorated by neat, small, stamped triangular motifs. Perforated by rivet hole at each end of vertical midline, from lower of which the rivet survives, detached; of round section, hammered over to one side at tip, with convex terminal face.
• Copper Alloy Brooch
  Looped mount with attached archer's bow; military type. Cordate pendant, lower end broken; grooved transverse bar across upper end, from which rises sub-triangular loop with curved upper edge. Small mounting boss located on midline behind bar. Complete miniature model of a bow affixed to pendant centre by narrow strip loop around drawstring, the terminals passing through the pendant and splayed out at rear. In three adjoining pieces.
• Jet Inlay
  The image of a man, possibly wearing a helmet, has been carved into jet and used as an inlay for a box or similar object.
• Ivory Handle
  A folding-knife handle. It is a broad flat body with the grip end terminating as a rod with a ridge and knob terminal at one side, and an openwork scroll, with spur at the outer edge, at the other side. The outer surface of the blade end is at slightly lower level (to accomodate ferrule?). A slot extends diagonally across the handle interior from the knob terminal to blade edge, stepped out slightly at recessed zone to clear a rivet hole retaining its corroded iron rivet with square-sectioned shaft and remains of head. This terminal zone has three rivet holes behind edge, one in situ, of iron, square section shank. Mineralised scored lines concentric about the second rivet hole in from the slotted side may reflect the blade bearing on this rivet; a much slighter concentric line closely encircles the rivet hole next to the slotted edge. At the grip end, the scroll bears traces of drilled holes along the gap, later cut through to produce the scroll.
• Head Pot Fragment
  A fragment of a head pot showing an eye and part of a nose.
• Fired Clay Head Pot
  A funerary face vase.
• Fired Clay Head Pot
  Cream ware face neck flagon, fragment of face and head with painted detail.
• Bone Pin
  A bone pin. It has a circular-sectioned head with a faceted point separated from the shank by a wide groove. The head is decorated by a diagonal cross-hatched grooves. There is 1 narrow and 1 wide cordon formed by horizontal grooves on the upper part of a circular sectioned shank. The lower cordon has diagonal grooves. The shank is tapering to point. It is a strip of longbone.
• Fired Clay Figurine
  A pipeclay figurine fragment. It is the central and left side portion of a Dea Nutrix figurine that is seated in a wicker chair. She is holding a cornucopia, or a child, on her lap in her left hand.
• Stone Sculpure
  Altar fragment. It is a magnesian limestone which is broken across sloping base of the main panel. The main face bears the relief of a cockerel facing left and a graffitose inscription \'MA(R)TIN(VS)\' on lower border.
• Fired Clay Vessel
  Complete fired clay vessel with residue, originally containing chicken skeleton. Found buried with SK24.
• Glass Indented Unguent Bottle
  A glass unguent bottle. It is a blue green colour with occasional small bubbles. There is a narrow rim edge bent out, up, in and flattened. It has a cylindrical neck with a shoulder curving out to a square-sectioned body with four indentations. It has a concave base with a small pontil scar off-centre. It has a ribbon handle consisting of a trail dropped onto one side at the upper part of an indentation and tooled so that the lower attachment consists of two strands either side of the indentation, trail then taken up as an angular handle and attached midway up neck with a small return trail forming a loop.
• Glass Indented Unguent Bottle
  A glass unguent bottle. It is blue/green in colour with many small bubbles and some black impurities. It has a narrow rim edge bent out and up and then in and flattened. It has a cylindrical neck with a shoulder curving out to square-sectioned body with four indentations. It has a concave base with small central pontil scar. Height 77mm, rim diameter 16mm, maximum body diameter 20mm.
• Jet Finger Ring
  A jet finger ring. It has an octagonal faceted outer face and is rectangular-sectioned. It is widest towards the finger. The hoop has a groove running around the outer face. External diameter (centre faces) 21mm, section 5 x 3mm.
• Copper Alloy Finger Ring
  A copper alloy finger ring. It has rectangular-section which is narrowest towards the finger. The inner and outer faces rounded. External diameter 20mm, section 3 x 2mm.
• Jet Segmented Bracelet
  32 flat elliptical beads each with two circular perforations for stringing. Four separate designs:- (A) Upper face carved with ‘V’-shaped notches to form (in relief) a Z-circle-Z-circle-Z design. (C) Upper face carved with ‘V’-shaped and transverse notches to form (in relief) a Z-Z-Z design. (D) Upper face carved with five V-shaped notches on one edge with shallow groove running around face of bead on other edge. (E) Very narrow bead with four notches on upper face Comprising of strings: B1-14. All the beads are plano-convex with two perforations being notched on the convex edge. All notches are from side to side, but with exceptions e.g.B3 which incorporates a Z-shaped motif on upper edge, and B4 on which notches are on one side of upper edge only. AB1-4 the same forms as majority on B string. A1-14 most have Z-motif on upper edge
• Jet Bracelet
  38 flat elliptical beads each with two circular perforations for stringing. There are two designs: (a) Upper face carved with ‘V’-shaped notches to form a Z-circle-Z-circle-Z design. (b) Upper face carved with ‘V’-shaped notches to form a Z-Z; rectangular unit with diagonal grooves; Z-Z design. Probably a bracelet made from its original beads rather than mismatched beads put together. Found in a grave.
• Copper Alloy Bracelet
  A cable twist bracelet fragment. It has three strands which are right-hand twist. Both ends are broken. Approximately half extant. Diameter c. 65mm, section 3.5mm
• Shale Bracelet
  A shale bracelet. It has a tall rectangular section which is narrowest towards the wrist. The upper face is decorated by triangular notches paired across the upper face with two pairs forming a diamond shape with bars between each diamond. There is a transverse groove across the face centrally on each bar and on each side a groove runs around close to the inner edge which has a beaded edge formed by small diagonal grooves.
• Glass, Shale And Jet Beads
  A necklace consisting of four different bead types which if strung in a single strand would stretch c. 1.26m. Bead string contains types in use by AD 230.
• Glass Indented Unguent Bottle
  Indented unguent bottle. It is a blue/green colour with occasional large bubbles throughout. The wide rim is bent out and slightly down with the edge rolled in unevenly. It has a cylindrical neck with shoulders curving out to square-sectioned body with four indentations. It has a rounded base with small central pontil scar. Height 103mm, rim diameter 35 x 32mm, maximum body diameter 23mm.
• Shale Bangle
  An annular bracelet. A D-section hoop expanding towards one side. Outer diameter 79mm, section maximum 21 x 12.5mm, minimum 17 x 11mm.
• Copper Alloy Bell
  Sanctus bell from St Saviour's Church.