Record ID: SUR-5889C9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An uninscribed Iron Age silver half unit of the Southern Region, attributed to the Belgae and of "Danebury Spiral" type dating to c. 60-20 BC. Obverse: four pairs of spiral arms around a central pellet. Reverse: annulet horse, right, with ladder mane. As ABC 950; BMC 649.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-48AD7C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete uninscribed gold quarter Stater of the Belgae dating c. 55-35 BC. " Cogwheel Smiler"" as ABC 770.  Obverse features stylised boat design with figures separated by line and cogwheel each side, grinning mouth below. Reverse horse left, sunburst above, other rings around. Sills 2017 Db2 Class 2a Cheriton Cogwheels.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-A42766
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy and millifiori enamelled stud of c.2nd - 3rd century AD date. The copper alloy plate is circular with champlevé enamelled decoration on the upper surface comprising an empty central circular recessed field surrounded by four concentric recessed rings containing incomplete millifiori enamel inlay. The plate cells and shank are integrally cast, and each field of decoration is contained within a copper alloy flat-topped rim flush with the enamel. In the very centre of the empty circular central field (19.63mm diameter) …
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-2179ED
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy lid from a box or vessel, possibly a canister or pyxis of Roman date. The lid is conical and missing most of one side. From the apex projects a waisted terminal with a flat circular top. From one side of this terminal is incised a parallel pair of lines forming a decorative stripe, 4.7mm wide, with fainter transverse lines or striations within. There appears to be no other decoration. The apex of the terminal and the centre of the concave underside of the lid have dimples from lathe finishing.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Basingstoke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-0FAA7A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy uninscribed Iron Age unit, probably a Gallic unit of the Carnutes, dating to the c.late 1st century BC. Obverse: Female bust right, flower(?) behind? Reverse: Eagle with spread wings, head turned right, a snake(?) to right, unclear motifs in the field. cf. DT 2576 ('classe III a l'aigle et au serpent'); Allen, 1995: nos. 160, S148-151. Delestree and Tache (1992: p. 132, no. 2576) place this type with the coins of the Carnutes and in pre-Augustan period after the end of the Gallic Wars, while Allen (1995: p. 75) regards them as being of the neighbouring …
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-12CCF2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An complete and possibly defaced early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Substantive Light Coinage, 'Profile/Cross of lobes' type (North 296; Chick 24) dating to c.AD784/5-92/3, moneyer: Dud(da), mint: London. Refs: North 1994: p.87; Chick 2010: pl. 4; Naismith 2017: p.134, table 9.  The coin is slightly bent and the obverse field shows numerous straight scratches across the portrait focusing on the area of the face. These appear to be deliberate suggesting that the coin has been defaced. Obverse OFFA REX. Bust Cc  draped with diadem, one &…
Created on: Friday 12th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-05E56A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman cast copper alloy enamelled bow brooch of continental type (cf. Mackreth type PL CONT 2.a). The wings are short and cylindrical, encompassing an iron axis bar for a hinge copper alloy pin, a portion of which is retained. The head is sharply angled to the bow, which is flat, tapering slightly to the foot and comprises a single large recessed field containing five oblong blocks of millefiori enamel in white, red and blue. The central panel has a blue spiral on a white field, the other panels have blue and white checks; each panel and the whole design is surrounded by a …
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: WILT-A2B2B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Spanish dinero of Alfonso I, king of Aragon and Navarre (1104-34), king of Castile (1106-1111/13), known as El Batallador ('The Battler'), mint: Toledo, Clemente and Cayon no.938 (stars in first and third quarters of the reverse). Ref: Clemente and Cayon 2005: p. 198. Obverse:diademed bust left;  ANFVS REX Reverse: a short cross potent with a five-pointed star in two opposing angles; TOLLETA  
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-2215C9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a silver early medieval penny of Ecgberht of Wessex (AD 802-839), portrait type dating to c.AD825-30, moneyer: Æthelmod, mint: Rochester (North 578var; Naismith R12.3var). Ref: North 1994: p.118; Naismith 2011: pl. 67-8, esp. R12.3a. The coin survives only as a fragment, approximately two-thirds of the outer circle missing, broken away along fracture lines roughly following the inner circle. There are crack lines across parts of the surviving flan.  Obverse has a diademed head, right, [...]BEORH[...]. Reverse has four crescents around a lozenge…
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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Record ID: SUR-E975B6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete uninscribed Iron Age silver unit of the Southern region attributed to the Regini and of Rudd's "Tangmere Two Horses" type dating to 60-20 BC. Obverse: two opposed horse on hind legs, smaller horse and pierced star below. Reverse: triple tailed horse with ladder mane, right, large spoked wheel above. As ABC 689.
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-6A61CE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver early medieval penny (sceat) of Series E, Secondary Phase sub-variety a dating to c.AD720-30, mint: probably Netherlands. Ref: Metcalf and Op den Velde 2009-10: p.41-2; nos 720-25 (probable die-links to new find).  Obverse: quilled crescent coiled right, triangular head enclosing pellet eye, three bars below. Reverse: beaded square standard, with central annulet surrounded by a ring of pellets.
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2023
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Record ID: WILT-994A3C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Middle to Late Early Medieval copper alloy 'ansate' or 'equal arm' type brooch dating to c AD 700-1000.  Weetch (2014) type XIII 'Other or unknown type'. The pin of the brooch is missing and the catchpate loop is damaged, otherwise the brooch is in remarkable condition.  The brooch comprises trefoil terminals at each end which are attached to a wider heart shaped lobe.  The brooch then rises up into a semi-circulare section which has parallel sides and is decorated with two raised horizontal ribs and in the centre a rectangular section whi…
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th December 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-07CA2C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Medieval silver Anglo-Merovingian penny/sceat, of Series W (Primary) type, dating to c. AD 700-715. As North (1991) Vol: 1: no.148. Abramson (2006:110)  Sub-Group 6: Series W: type 54 no: 205. Dimensions: diameter: 12.30mm,  thickness: 1.50mm,  weight: 1.12g This coin is one of only 11 examples of its type now recorded on the database, and the third such example in Hampshire. As such it has been designated as being a find of local interest.
Created on: Tuesday 12th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
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Record ID: WAW-E0F653
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper alloy openwork zoomorphic buckle plate dating to circa AD 1100-1150.  The object takes the form of a beast, probably a lion passant, advancing left. It is looking back over its shoulder towards the right with its mouth open and has the tip of its tail between its jaws. The buckle plate is moulded and stands in light relief. The features on the head are moulded with a small ear standing upright from the head and an oval shaped eye. The paws are rounded and the claws are represented with small linear incisions. Areas betwe…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: SUR-342E24
Object type: FIREARM
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy firing mechanism from an eprouvette, or powder tester pistol of 18th century date. The mechanism has two components joined together at a rotating pivot. The lock plate element is 56mm in length with a narrow, flat plate on one edge of which is cast a small hollow cylindrical barrel with a drilled touchhole at the closed end. The plate would have attached the mechanism to a lock and also to a wooden handle. It retains two small holes, one rectangular and infilled with a silvery metal, probably from a spring and a smaller circular hole infilled with ir…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
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Record ID: BERK-DF88EA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Henry V (AD 1413-1422) Niquet dated to AD 1421-22, minted in St Lo or Rouen. Obverse: lis above crowned lion passant, H REX ANGL HERES FRANC. Reverse: 'h' at centre of cross pattee, trefoil in each angle, SIT NOME DNI BENEDICTV. As Spink 8162.
Created on: Thursday 17th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
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Record ID: SUR-A514A9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy as of Volusian (AD 251-253), dating to the period c.AD 251-253 (Reece period 12). LIBERTAS AVGG, S C, reverse type depicting Libertas, draped, standing left, holding pileus in right hand and sceptre in left hand. Mint of Rome. RIC IV.3, p. 188, no. 255b. This type is recorded in RIC with both AVG and AVGG legend (see also http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.vo.255 ), the latter making sense numismatically for Volusian under Trebonianus Gallus.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Basingstoke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-A3A374
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constantine II (AD 317-341), dating to the period c. AD 330-331 (Reece period 17). VOTA PVBLICA reverse type depicting Anubis standing left, wearing a tunic, a mantle over his shoulders and boots, holding a branch in his right hand and a caduceus in his left. Mint of Rome.  Unlisted in RIC for this obverse and reverse combination. This is a VOTA PVBLICA token issued for the Festival of Isis that finds parallels in several British examples, most notably with similar dies to a piece recorded from Princethorpe, Warwickshire (https://coins.warwick.…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Basingstoke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-3CF89F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An uninscribed Iron Age silver unit of the Southern region, probably attributable to the Belgae and dating to c. 60-20 BC. Obverse: wreath design with crescents and cogwheel. Reverse: horse, left with wheels above and unclear elements below.
Created on: Friday 28th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th July 2023
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Record ID: SUR-11AE28
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn but complete medieval silver penning "Kopje" of Floris V, Count of Holland (1256-1296) dating to c.1284-86, mint: Dordrecht, Grolle 11.6.1b. Ref: Grolle 2000. Obverse: bust, left, COMES HOLLANDIE. Reverse: long cross with rosettes in the quarters, HO-LL-AN-TX.
Created on: Friday 14th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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