Findspot - Post Medieval finds

Description of this historic site

Findspot - various finds, including pottery, buckles and coins, dating to the Post Medieval and Imperial periods. They were all found 500m west of the church, Weston on Avon.

Notes about this historic site

1 17th century pottery was found at this location.
2 Finds made with a metal detector in 1987: Post medieval ring with traces of surface gilding and a 17th/18th century ‘D’ shaped buckle.
3 Find made with a metal detector in 1988 at SP154519 approx.17th century jetton from Nuremberg.
4 Finds made with a metal detector in 1988: 16th/17th century strap end or book mount and a fragment of cast mount, probably a Victorian copy of a medieval design, possibly a bible hinge.
5 Illustration of Victorian book hinge.
6 Finds made with a metal detector in 1988: Double harness buckle of the 16th to 18th century and a decorative mount of the 16th to 19th century.
7 Finds made with a metal detector in 1988: Double harness buckle, decorative mount in rosette shape, 16th century jetton, 17th century tokens and Farthings of the 17th to 18th century.
8 Finds made with a metal detector in 1988: Shoe buckle and three coins of the 16th and seventeenth centuries
10 Finds made with a metal detector in 1988 between June and August: a 16th/17th century bronze strap end, harness fitting, mount, harness ring, coin weight, two coins of Charles II, A Scottish coin worth a farthing and a Nuremberg token.
12 Find of a sliver shoe buckle in 1989 at SP154519.
13 Find made with a metal detetcor in 1990 at SP 154519. A bronze spoon, a silver thimble, a foreign lead seal and other small items from the post medieval and Imperial periods.
14 Find made with a metal detector in 1990: Four coins of the 17th century.

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