Record ID: SOM-097246
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy dupondius or as of unclear ruler dating to AD 1 to 250. Unclear reverse type. Unclear mint.
Created on: Tuesday 15th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stogursey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8E991D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy hinged strip bow brooch dating to AD 25-70.The majority of the brooch survives although it is missing its pin. The brooch is formed of a single continuous strip of copper alloy rolled up and forward at the top forming the head. The wings are circular in cross-section and enclose a copper axis alloy bar, now corroded but still visible at either open end of the wings. A slot is cut at the back of the head and would have held the hinged pin, now missing. The bow projects out of the head measuring 9.1mm in width. It is thick and rectangular in cr…
Created on: Wednesday 9th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stogursey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F219CB
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval, copper-alloy, large, circular mount depicting the white boar of Richard III, dating to the later 15th century (1470-1485). The mount is gilded, silvered and enamelled and consists of two parts: a decorated disc held in a separate circular frame which has integral rivets and separate roves. The 63.4mm diameter disc has a slightly raised design of a boar walking left on an area of ground. Around this is an opaque red enamel background which ends before it meets the frame with the remainder gilded. There are areas of damage to this background particularly at 12 and 6 o'clo…
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 15th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colyton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F03458
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd from a glazed medieval jug with applied strip on the outer face. The high fired fabric is a reduced mid-grey with a mid-buff on the inner surface only. It has common fine-medium sand temper and very occasional angular pieces of patinated chert/flint up to 1.9mm and very occasional rounded quartz up to 1.2mm. The vessel appears to be wheel thrown with an green glaze on the outer face. On the outer face is a short section of an applied strip, 9.8mm wide and appearing to curve slightly. The strip is decorated with regularly spaced diagonal slashes. The fragment has abrade…
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2020
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Record ID: SOM-EFFE64
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper-alloy 17th-century trade token farthing issued by the City of Wells in Somerset, Williamson Somerset 301, dating to 1669 (on token). Ref: Williamson (1891, 993).
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke St Gregory', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-EFD598
Object type: CANNON BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast iron ball, probably round shot, that is a cannon ball, dating from the Post Medieval period, about AD1500-1900. The object, which is pitted and corroded, has a diameter of c.100mm and a weight of 3919g, c. 4kg. In recording a similar piece Kinnear states: This corresponds closely with the dimensions and weight of four inch, 'nine-pounder' (weighing 9lbs) ordnance. Shot of this size were used in the 16th and 17th centuries in a gun known as the Demi Culverin. However, the shot could also date from the later period. In the 18th century ordnance was regularised, and the Chie…
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2020
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Record ID: SOM-EF733D
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper-alloy 17th-century trade token farthing issued by the town of Bridgwater in Somerset, Williamson Somerset 48 or 49, dating to 1666 (on token). Ref: Williamson (1891, 974).
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2020
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Record ID: SOM-EF11B7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd from a closed vessel, probably a cooking pot, dating to the 11th to 12th century. The rim is everted and has broken at the point it met the vessel wall. A small amount of wall on the inner face suggests a c. 120 degree angle between them. The upper part of the rim is widened and stands up slightly with a rounded beaded outer edge and vertical inner edge. There is also a groove running around the centre of the upper face of the rim. The fabric is hard fired and a pale orange to buff with abundent c.35% poorly sorted angular chert, some patinated, up to 2.5 with occasiona…
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2020
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Record ID: SOM-CFFF37
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame with seperate copper alloy pin. The frame is D-shaped in plan and flat in section with rounded inner and outer edges. It has a widened and slightly thickened outer side to the loop and a slightly offset and thinned bar. There is a transverse groove across the front in the centre of the outer edge making a pin rest. It is decorated on the front with double lines of back to back triangles. These lines run around the frame following the inner edge and are interupted by the pin rest which is flanked by similar double lines runnning across the frame.…
Created on: Wednesday 8th April 2020
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CFB06E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Medieval single-looped oval frame and pin dating to c. 1250-1400. The frame is triangular in cross section with a vertical outer edge, flat back and inner edge angled backwards. The outer side has a central moulding with angular knops at either end flanking a pair of smaller angular knops flanking a pin rest. The bar is narrowed, recessed and offset. The copper alloy pin is formed of circular cross sectioned wire with a simple loop around the bar and slightly downward angled point. The buckle frame measures 20.7 mm in length, 27.5mm in width, 40mm in thickness. The…
Created on: Wednesday 8th April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 8th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CAD618
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
The head and part of the bow of a Roman copper alloy hinged initial T-shaped brooch probably dating to c. AD 50-150. The head is nearly complete but the pin, lower part of the bow, foot and catchplate are missing to worn breaks. At the head of the bow are cylindrical wings which taper from 6.3mm to 5.1mm in diameter at the ends. The left appears almost complete, the right s broken with a worn break. The complete wing is open at the end revealing the end of an iron axis bar, also see in the other wing. There is a central slot between the wings to allow for a hinged pin, now missin…
Created on: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Last updated: Sunday 26th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CA7CF4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman brooch of uncertain type and probably late first to second century date. Only the the lower part of the bow, foot and catchplate survive. The bow tapers slightly in width towards the foot and is D-shaped in cross section with convex front and flat back. Adjacent to the break is a raised transverse ridge. The foot consists of a semi-circular, stepped knob with three transverse ridges on the front, the central ridge wavy. The catchplate is solid and triangular with a straight upper edge and broken outer edge. Length: 31.9mm, Width: 5.9mm, Thickness: 13.9mm, Weig…
Created on: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C9EE44
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy hinged large South-western T-shaped brooch, probably dating to c. 80 - 200, missing the lower part of the bow, parts of the wing and head loop and the pin. At the head of the brooch the cylindical wings survive to a width of 26.4mm, the right wing is broken near the bow, the left probably complete, both are worn and no decoration survives. There is a slot between the wings on the underside of the head to hold the pin, hinging on an axis bar running through the wings. The remains of the iron axis bar can be seen at the end of each wing and iron cor…
Created on: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Last updated: Sunday 26th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C9BCD8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete Roman copper alloy Aucissa varient brooch, or possibly strip bow brooch varient, probably dating to c. AD 40-60. The majority of the brooch survives but the head is fragmentary, and it is missing part of its catchplate and pin. The head of the brooch projects backwards from the bow in a thin triangular plate. The plate is decorated with pairs of incised lines running parallel to each edge, ending in a transverse incised line at the top of the bow. A rectangular slot has been cut in the centre of the head to hold the hinged pin. to each side the plate has been roll…
Created on: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C59656
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver denarius of Vespasian dating to the period AD 77 to 78 (Reece Period 4). COS VIII reverse type depicting a yoke of oxen. Mint of Rome. Cf. RIC II (ed II) no. 943.
Created on: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C55291
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Roman as of Hadrian (AD 117-138), dating to the period AD 119 (Reece period 6). BRITANNIA, PONT MAX TR POT COS III, S C reverse type depicting Britannia seated facing right, foot on rock, resting head on right hand and holding sceptre, large shield to right. As RIC II, p. 412, no. 577A or 577B. This is a coin of British Association, struck in Rome for issue in Britain - 39 specimens were found in the Sacred Spring in Bath (As Walker, 1988: p. 291, nos. 1-39, pl. XXXI).
Created on: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C49769
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy strip bow brooch probably re-used as a nail cleaner.The fragment is a thin strip of copper alloy, gradually tapering in width from one end to the other and a shallow arch in profile. At the wider head end (of the brooch) is a patinated but slightly irregular break, suggesting it was broken rather than deliberately cut, a slight projection at one side may suggest it was widening slightly, but not thickening,into a curled over head . At the other (foot) end the foot and catchplate are missing and a semi-circular notch has been cut, leaving two projections, one to each…
Created on: Tuesday 7th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 6th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B3E6DD
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post medieval copper-alloy sheet scabbard chape dating from AD 1300-1800. It is trapezoid in plan and oval in cross section with flattened front and back. The sheet has been rolled into a tube with a single overlapping seam down the back. base is broken but it appears to be tapering to a rounded point. The top, attachment, end is also broken across the back. At the front this end is cut into a V-shape which may be original. There are irregular holes to each side, just below this edge which may be broken attachment points. Faint incised lines running down the front and co…
Created on: Monday 6th April 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B3ACCB
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Post Medieval clay pipe. Most of the bowl and the heel survive, but damaged and the stem is missing. The bowl is set at about 60 degrees to the stem and is swollen with convex sides becoming straight only at the top. The rim of the bowl is plain. The heel projects with a large flat, circular base. There is no makers mark visible on the heel but one side is missing to a break as is the stem, both locations used for marks. The bowl measures 25.9mm in length and 20.1mm in maximum diameter. The clay pipe weighs 6.36 g. The size and shape of the bowl and angle to the s…
Created on: Monday 6th April 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Somerton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B38C65
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small fragment of a post medieval clay tobacco pipe, probably dating to the period c. AD 1680 to 1730. Only the heel and a very small part of the bowl survives. The heel is flat and oval shaped, and it is still possible to identify that the heel projects very slightly from the base of the bowl. The base of the heel is stamped with the inscription [C]HAR / WEBB / IN / CHARD. One side of the projecting heel also has a raised letter C. The pipe fragment is a pale beige on the outside, white within, no part of the original inner surface remains. The pipe fragment is c.12.4mm long,…
Created on: Monday 6th April 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Somerton CP', grid reference and parish protected.