Archaeologist, Finds Liaison Officer (FLO) at York Museums Trust.
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Rebecca Griffiths
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Queen Victoria was born #OTH in 1819. This bag seal was issued by Webb & Sons, English seed merchants from Wordsley, West Midlands. By the 1890's the company were appointed seedsmen to Queen Victoria & added a crown to their trademark. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
It's Limoges season in York! This is our 3rd Limoges object of the year, this time a medieval figurative mount. Figurines like these were made to be mounted on enamelled crosses or reliquaries and are the most commonly found Limoges pieces. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
We don't just record metal finds here @ PAS & this lovely Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead is one of a number of flint tools recently deposited with us. It has lost the central tang but is still a striking example of its type. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
This partifact is one terminal from a Roman dragonesque brooch. These are known with a variety of designs & decorative motifs. This example is enamelled. These brooches date to the 2nd century and have a mainly Yorkshire / East Coast distribution. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
This Birdlip brooch dates to the Iron Age/Roman period. They are British variants of continental Flugelfibel brooch & are highly variable in decoration. The flanking hood, straight upper moulding, and projecting beak gives a zoomorphic appearance. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
Roman bracelets adapted into rings, like this example, are commonly seen in later 4th-mid-5th centuries AD with some examples from Saxon cemeteries. The number of examples recorded by the PAS suggests using one terminal end of the bracelet is common. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
Rebecca Griffiths
Rebecca Griffiths
Rebecca Griffiths
Rebecca Griffiths
Rebecca Griffiths
Rebecca Griffiths
This Early-Medieval brooch is decorated with Borre Style interlaced knot motifs. Such brooches combine 'an Anglo-Saxon brooch form with a Scandinavian art style’ making them ‘true cultural hybrids reflecting a fusion of Scandinavian & Anglo-Saxon styles’ #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
This Roman pestle is part of a cosmetic set used for grinding materials like eye or face paint. Most are made of copper-alloy though iron examples, like this, are also known including one from the St Albans King Harry Lane Late Iron Age and Roman cemetery. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
Brooches are the 2nd most commonly recorded Roman object after coins. There are a variety of types, many decorated with colourful enamel, like this plate brooch. The earliest dated examples are late 1st C though they are most common in the 2nd C. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
Wrist-clasps, like this, were used to fasten the cuffs of women’s clothing in the early Anglo-Saxon period. They are found almost exclusively in the Anglian culture-province encompassing East Anglia, Cambridgeshire, the East Midlands, North & East Yorkshire. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
