NHER 30318 (Find Spot record) - Roman hair pin, medieval key

July 1989. NAU aerial photography.
See NHER 38993 for details of linear cropmarks previously recorded under this record.
D. Edwards (NAU). Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 13 February 2026.

February to March 2000. Metal detecting. [1].
?Roman possible hairpin. The object has a rounded conical head above a narrow waist, with a disc below. Below the disc is a circular-section shaft which ends at a corroded ?break. It is not dissimilar to one of Cool's Group Two ('knob on cordon' heads) but the 'cordon' is very sharp. It also reminds me of a small drawer handle, with the 'cordon' there to prevent the shaft being driven too far into the wood.
Medieval Incomplete copper alloy key of LMMC (Late Medieval Metal Corpus) Type VI (S1). The openwork bow is largely missing, but was probably lozenge shaped with a central ?cross shape and circles in the angles of the cross. The bow is hollow and the bit is chunky with deep cuts. These are dated by LMMC to the 14th or 15th century.
Identifications by H. Geake (NCM).
K. Hinds (NLA), 13 April 2000.

January-March 2017. Metal-detecting. Site extended to the whole field. [2].
Post-medieval crotal bell.
H. Mellor (HES), 20 July 2017. Amended E. McDonald (HES), 4 July 2017.