Since April, it’s been an interesting and enjoyable few months. I’ve assisted on four rallies (Foxham, Ludlow (x2) and the Fosse Way RABI one). There’s been a wide variety of finds to be recorded, which has been very nice. I’ve helped Angie out at some of her club meetings, so a big thank you to all of those club members for making me feel welcome.
I thought I would highlight a few of the more interesting finds I’ve dealt with over the last six months, to serve as a summary of my internship, and here they are:
An Upper Palaeolithic flint chopper from Shropshire.
Chopper
Palaeolithic
Shropshire
A Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age discoidal scraper from Herefordshire.
Scraper (tool)
Neolithic
Herefordshire
An almost complete Socketed Axe, of Bronze Age dating from Staffordshire.
Axe
Bronze age
Staffordshire
A bodysherd from a Middle Iron Age dated ceramic vessel, with scratch decoration, from Warwickshire.
Vessel
Iron age
Warwickshire
A copper alloy nummus of the House of Constantine, VRBS ROMA issue, with Wolf and twins on the reverse, dating from 330 to 335 AD. Discovered during the Fosse Way rally in Warwickshire.
Coin
Roman
Warwickshire
A Wirral type Roman brooch, dating from 75 AD to 175 AD, found in Staffordshire.
Brooch
Roman
Staffordshire
A basesherd from a ceramic strainer type vessel, of Romano-British dating, from Warwickshire.
Vessel
Roman
Warwickshire
A nice complete Cosmetic mortar, of Roman dating, from Derbyshire.
Cosmetic mortar
Roman
Derbyshire
The first Ansate type brooch recorded from Shropshire, dating from 8th to 9th Centuries AD.
Brooch
Early medieval
Shropshire
A sherd of pottery of Anglo-Saxon dating, from amongst the Romano-British pottery assemblage recovered by fieldwalking from the site at Tysoe, Warwickshire.
Vessel
Early medieval
Warwickshire
A quarter of a Papal Bulla, issued by Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241), from Shropshire
Bulla
Medieval
Shropshire
An almost intact Purse bar, of Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval dating, from Shropshire.
Purse
Medieval
Shropshire
An uncommon combination lock of mid 16th to 17th Century dating, from Shropshire.
Lock
Post medieval
Shropshire
I will say, that although the internship has officially finished, this is not the last you will see of me. I am still planning on helping out my colleagues in the West Midlands team (Angie, Peter and Tom), either at club meetings, rallies or helping out with their back log of finds to be recorded.
Teresa