https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png UKDFD Recording Software https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ Recently Added Records | UKDFD Recording Software https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/recently-added.html Harness Pendant https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/harness-pendants-and-pendant-suspension-mounts/harness-pendant-59313.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:01:20 GMT Harness pendants, studs and suspension mounts Harness Pendant  
Description: A complete shield-shaped heraldic harness pendant of the medieval period. The pendant is quite unusual in bearing the heraldic arms on both sides. Although some of the detail is worn and unclear, a composite interpretation of the blazoning would appear to be: Azure, a fess dancetty Or between in chief four crosses fleury Or and in base a cross fleury Or between two bezants Or.

The following information has been sourced using AI and has not been independently corroborated. 
The original or inherited arms are Azure, a fess dancetty Or; the crosses are secondary additions. The four charges in chief  are family decoration, and the three charges in base are personal differencing.
The only families known to bear this coat in the right period and region are Edgar / Eger / Ager, northern gentry with documented movement into Lincolnshire ecclesiastical lands. The most likely bearer of the arms is a cadet member of this family serving Spalding Priory or Crowland Abbey.
Category: Medieval, Harness pendants, studs and suspension mounts
Category: Harness pendants, studs and suspension mounts
]]> Henry II Cut Short Cross Halfpenny https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/medieval/henry-ii-richard-i-john-and-henry-iii-short-cross-coinage/pennies-and-fractions-uncertain-mints/henry-ii-cut-short-cross-halfpenny-59312.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:18:30 GMT Pennies and fractions (uncertain mints) Henry II Cut Short Cross Halfpenny  
Description: Henry II class 1 cut short cross halfpenny.
Category: Medieval, Henry II, Richard I, John and Henry III (Short Cross Coinage), Pennies and fractions (uncertain mints)
Category: Pennies and fractions (uncertain mints)
]]> Candlestick https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/medieval/lighting-equipment/candlestick-59311.html Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:25:17 GMT Lighting equipment Candlestick  
Description: An incomplete tripod base from a candlestick. The base is cast in copper alloy and consists of a central ring with three radial legs equally-spaced around the periphery. Two of the legs are now broken and incomplete, but the surviving one terminates in a moulded animal-foot. It is likely that all three legs would originally have been of the same form. The central ring would have held a vertical stem, surmounted by the candle holder, either a pricket - a spike onto which the candle was fitted - or a socket, often with a surrounding drip tray or 'wax-catcher'.

Cf. PAS: BUC-9C114B
For a more recent example of generally similar type, see UKDFD 56399.
Category: Medieval, Lighting equipment
Category: Lighting equipment
]]> S-Shaped Belt-Hook https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/buckles-belt-hooks-and-belt-clasps/belt-clasps-hooks-and-miscellaneous-items/s-shaped-belt-hook-59309.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:04:42 GMT Belt clasps, hooks and miscellaneous items S-Shaped Belt-Hook  
Description: An S-shaped belt-hook in the form of a flattened three-dimensional serpent with scales on the body and a decorative moulding at the centre..
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Buckles, belt hooks and belt clasps, Belt clasps, hooks and miscellaneous items
Category: Belt clasps, hooks and miscellaneous items
]]> Elizabeth I Threepence https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/tudor/elizabeth-i/elizabeth-i-threepence-59308.html Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:13:07 GMT Elizabeth I Elizabeth I Threepence  
Description: Elizabeth I threepence, dated 1575. Initial mark eglantine, both sides.
Category: Tudor, Elizabeth I
Category: Elizabeth I
]]> Henry III Cut Long Cross Halfpenny https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/medieval/henry-iii-and-edward-i-long-cross-coinage/pennies-and-cut-fractions-uncertain-mints/henry-iii-cut-long-cross-halfpenny-59307.html Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:34:56 GMT Pennies and cut fractions (uncertain mints) Henry III Cut Long Cross Halfpenny  
Description: Henry III class 5 cut long cross halfpenny.
Category: Medieval, Henry III and Edward I (Long Cross Coinage), Pennies and cut fractions (uncertain mints)
Category: Pennies and cut fractions (uncertain mints)
]]> Henry II Cut Short Cross Farthing https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/medieval/henry-ii-richard-i-john-and-henry-iii-short-cross-coinage/pennies-and-fractions-uncertain-mints/henry-ii-cut-short-cross-farthing-59306.html Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:24:40 GMT Pennies and fractions (uncertain mints) Henry II Cut Short Cross Farthing  
Description: Henry II class 1 cut short cross farthing.
Category: Medieval, Henry II, Richard I, John and Henry III (Short Cross Coinage), Pennies and fractions (uncertain mints)
Category: Pennies and fractions (uncertain mints)
]]> Richard II Penny https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/medieval/richard-ii/richard-ii-penny-59303.html Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:08:05 GMT Richard II Richard II Penny  
Description: Richard II penny of the archiepiscopal mint of York. 
Category: Medieval, Richard II
Category: Richard II
]]> Corieltavi Gold Fractional Stater https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/iron-age/corieltavi/corieltavi-gold-fractional-stater-59302.html Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:08:15 GMT Corieltavi Corieltavi Gold Fractional Stater  
Description: An uninscribed gold fractional stater of the Corieltavi.
On the basis of the recorded weight of just 0.54g, the coin would initially appear to be an eighth stater, but a very worn quarter stater is regarded as more likely. John Sills (see below) notes that the coin is struck from the first known reverse die (rev 1 in his forthcoming publication), and that the only other example weighs 1.3g.

The reverse design appears to be derived specifically from the Gallo-Belgic Ca2 class 4 type quarter stater*, the only issue of that series where the reverse design disintegrates into a meaningless array of blobs, curves and pellets above and below a central bar.
* Sills, J, Gaulish Gold Coinage, p. 229, figs 76g-h

The UKDFD is grateful to Liz Cottam and Dr John Sills for their assistance with the identification of this coin. 
Category: Iron Age, Corieltavi
Category: Corieltavi
]]> John Cut Short Cross Farthing https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/coins/medieval/henry-ii-richard-i-john-and-henry-iii-short-cross-coinage/pennies-and-fractions-london/john-cut-short-cross-farthing-59301.html Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:36:36 GMT Pennies and fractions (London) John Cut Short Cross Farthing  
Description: John class 6 cut short cross farthing of London.
Category: Medieval, Henry II, Richard I, John and Henry III (Short Cross Coinage), Pennies and fractions (London)
Category: Pennies and fractions (London)
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