Sherds
These seven fragments of a large, Medieval, coarseware dish or bowl were found in a sand pit in Lillington. The fragments are probably fourteenth century, and were found with a fourteenth century sword....
Sherry Glass
Drinking glass from Stourbridge, c.1963. A crystal sherry glass with a cutting of leaf-chain and panel decoration. The glass has a short, light baluster stem.
Sherry Glass
Drinking glass, made in Stourbridge, with a straight-sided deep bowl on a very slim stem. The design of the glass is called 'Connoisseur', c.1963.
Sherry Glass
Plain glass, made in Brierley Hill, with a 'balloon' bowl. c.1963.
Sherry Glass
Crystal sherry glass, made in Stourbridge, with a straight-sided bowl. The glass has a mercurial air twist stem, c.1963.
Shield Boss with gilded decorated
An umbo (or ‘shield boss’) with gilded bronze plates embossed with a stylised boar’s head decoration on the rim. This breast-shaped boss was fastened to the wood shield with rivets. Found in a warrior’s ...
Shield Boss with gilded decoration
An umbo (or 'shield boss') with gilded bronze plates embossed with a stylised boar’s head decoration on the rim. This breast-shaped boss was fastened to the wood shield with rivets. Found in a warrior’s ...
Shoe Horn
A shoe horn made of bone. It has a hole pierced through one end for suspension.
Shoe Horn
A bone shoe horn which is cream and brown in colour. It has a hook formed at one end for suspension.
Shuttle
A small bone shuttle with a fine cord wound inside it.
Silver Pin
Silver pin with garnet inlaid ornament, found under the skull of a female child.
6th Century A.D.
67mm long
1922/23 excavations (Grave 96)
Silver Tongs
A pair of silver tongs with incised decoration on the outside surface.
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - title page book 2.
Petruchio talks of training his hawk in The Taming of The Shrew
Petruchio who has won a wife with a fortune in The Taming of the Shrew, talks about training her to his wishes by starving her, and constraining ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - title page, [A1r].
A falconry handbook on a subject well known by Shakespeare.
Falconry was a popular sport with the Elizabethan gentry and nobility. Latham’s handbook describes all aspects of ‘the princely ...
Small Barrel or Costrel
This small wooden barrel, or costrel, has an iron handle and iron rings to hold the staves, wooden strips, in place. Costrels were used by farm workers to carry their beer and cider out to the fields. ...
Small Iron Knife
Iron knife. Knives were found in male and female burials.
6th Century A.D.
75mm long
1922/23 excavations (?Grave 81)
Small Pot
A fine, earthenware pottery food vessel, probably made on a potter’s wheel (unlike most of the pottery found on this site). A small black pottery cup was found inside this pot.
6th Century A.D.
100mm ...
Snuff Box
Circular wooden snuff box. The lid fits on to the inner rim around the base. The lid is decorated by a hand painted view of an elderly gentleman with a white beard and scarves tied around his head.