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seal impression
No date
A white seal impression from a cylinder seal, showing a royal chariotieer, palm tree and rampant lion. It is possibly depicting Darius I.
cuneiform cone
No date
A cuneiform tablet in white clay, in the shape of a cone with script all the way around. This may be a foundation cone.
Denomination: coin
Date(s): 759-762
Issuer/creator: Suzong, 756-762, of the Tang dynasty
Material: copper alloy
cuneiform tablet
c. 1000 BCE
A cuneiform tablet, also described as a 'miniature brick book'. Described in a note as from Nebuchadnezzar's Library.
Grant of two acres in assart alongside the marsh
[Mid 13th century]
1 Peter de Hornington 2 William de Plumton Annual payment: a pair of white gloves Witnesses: Fragment of a seal
Jerome (fol. 2r)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'F' encloses the scene of St. Jerome writing, holding a quill and a sharpening knife. He wears a tonsure, a black cape and white garments. The margin contains a stork-like bird and a head of a...
Grant in special tail of messuage and four bovates
[Late 13th century]
1 William de Stopham, knight 2 Adam de Westwike and Agnes his wife Property: messuage and land and meadow which had been held by William de Westewike; at yearly rent of a pair of white gloves at...
Grant of six bovates of land with tofts and crofts
[Mid 13th century]
1 Isabel formerly wife of Sir Robert de Plumptona in her lawful widowhood 2 Ysolt ['Yseude'] her sister Property: formerly held severally by William Pinder, William de Scalewra and Eilas de Stub...
bead necklace with Eye of Horus
No date
A necklace of small flat beads in whites, blues, greens and browns, with a loose woven brown fabric fragment attached (possibly added later) and an Eye of Horus, or udjat, in turquoise ceramic or faie...
clay cones
No date
A box of 30 long cone shapes in white clay of various thicknesses, without marks. These were thought to be used in wall mosaics with flat ends displayed.
Grant of a toft and a croft
[13th century]
1 Peter son of Dolfin 2 William son of Robert de Plumton Property: toft and croft lying between the toft of Hobekin and the toft of Richard son of Bencelin Annual payment: a pair of white glo...
cuneiform tablet (section)
No date
A broken middle section of a cuneiform tablet, in pink clay with script on both sides.