Medieval and Later Lead Artefact Group

The coin in a handwritten coin packet and displayed in a wooden glazed frame with a certificate of origin. 557 grams total, 33.7 x 23.7 cm including frame



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.

In October 1707, the Association, commanded by Captain Edmund Loades, was returning from the Mediterranean with Shovell on board. The 21 ships in the squadron entered the mouth of the English Channel on the night of 22 October 1707 (Old Style). The Association struck the Outer Gilstone Rock off the Isles of Scilly, and was wrecked with the loss of her entire crew of about 800 men, along with three other ships (including HMS Eagle and HMS Romney). As a result of navigational errors, the ships were not where they were reckoned to be. It was largely as a result of this disaster that the Board of the Admiralty instituted a competition for a more precise method to determine longitude. The wreck site was rediscovered in 1964 by the Naval Air Command Sub Aqua Club. Members of the club recovered gold coins, a bronze cannon and many other artefacts from the Association site. More than 2,000 coins and other artefacts recovered from the wreck site were auctioned by Sotheby’s in July 1969.

Slender tubular glazed ceramic vessel with ribbed neck and base, loop handle; vertical columns of low-relief floral, foliate and tendril ornament with double-headed spread eagles, heraldic shields, facing masks, facing armoured figure with leged 'E.K. Carolvs' and scroll with '1581' legend. 1.41 kg, 32.7 cm



From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.

Composed of small tubular, polygonal and large coin-shaped beads with an axe-shaped pendant, restrung. 61.6 grams, 38 cm



Ex West London, UK, collection, 1990s.