Record ID: SOM-C9A6C4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fourteen pieces of glazed red eathenware vessels dating to the end of the 17th to first half of the 18th century all found together in an area of the garden with a wine bottle and pipes of similar date. Calcereous deposits suggest highly acidic environment with ash, ie dung heap or latrine. The pieces mostly seem to be of the same fabric, high fired, dark to mid orange with occasional mid to dark grey thin cores and occasional (c.5%) fine sand inclusions including very occasional very fine white quartz. The pieces mostly have very unworn breaks, most old but a few fresh. The breaks…
Created on: Saturday 14th September 2019
Last updated: Saturday 14th September 2019
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Record ID: SOM-E17B84
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 George Ashe at Nunney in Somerset, Williamson Somerset 202, dating to 1652. Ref: Williamson (1891, 985).
Created on: Friday 29th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashcott', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B8C317
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight, probably from a steelyard as it has a loop at the top for suspension, possibly of Roman date. The weight has a flat base and top and is oval in plan with sloping sides so the top is smaller than the base. From the centre of the top projects a tab, rectangular in cross section and D-shaped in profile with a small circular hole through it at the top, now bent over slightly. The sides are decorated with raised lines: regularly saced lines run from the top to the base all the way aorund and then are crossed by several curved lines making a design almost like overlapping arche…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B81875
Object type: HORSESHOE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete iron horseshoe of probable medieval date (c. 1250 - 1500). The horseshoe exhibits similarities to Clark's "Transitional" or "Later medieval" types It exhibits a broad web and a broad margin between the outer edge of the shoe and the nail holes, as well as a calkin at one terminus. There are eight reactangular nail holes visible, four on each branch. Cf. Clark, J, 2004, The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, Museum of London Press, London, p. 86 - 89.
Created on: Monday 12th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-68973C
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic flint scraper dating to the period c. 4000 - 2350 BC. The scraper is struck off a tertiary flake and retains no cortex. The dorsal surface exhibits two parallel longitudinal negative flake scars from previous flake removals. At the distal end along one mesal edge is a small area of short, scaled semi-abrupt retouch creating a small notch. The proximal end exhibits a long irregularly shaped striking platform. The ventral surface exhibits a high bulb of percussion inidcative of hard hammer working. The scraper exhibits a hinged termination at the distal end. The flint is a m…
Created on: Monday 14th September 2015
Last updated: Friday 18th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CA4E8C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval cast copper alloy strap end of Thomas Class B Type 1. The strap end has a flared attachment end then straight sides to the zoomorphic terminal. The attachment end is relatively long for this type, taking up two fifths of the length. It is split to take the strap. There are two circular holes for rivets at the attachment end, one still contains a separate copper alloy rivet, the front level with the front plate while the back is burred over slightly. The upper edge of the front plate is shaped into two cusps over the holes with a more pointed lobe in the centre, the ba…
Created on: Tuesday 24th February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 24th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-1618A8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The urn was so shattered by the first finders, and the fragments so dispersed, that only a few small pieces could be recovered, and nothing can now be learned as to its form, except that it was circular, with the sides sloping outwards, and having an exterior diameter of about four and half inches at its base. It was formed of clay very imperfectly burnt, and mixedwith particles of calcaerous mattera fossil shellis imbedded in the bottom part of the urn" (Evans 1861, 3).
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2016
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Record ID: IARCH-4FEF4A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small bow-shaped fibula in bronze was found upon the spot, but it is uncertain whether it formed part of the contents of the urn or not. "of the type No. 11, Pl.xii., of Akerman's Archaeological Index" (Evans 1861, 4).
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-EF820E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) writes: "An uncertain record of a small hoard mostly of Dobunnic silver, perhaps containing six or eight coins, first published by Allen (1960a, 249), on the basis of information received from A.D. Passmore. The latter had noted "about half a dozen of Nunney type, with unique silver coin" (Allen 1961a, 130). On the CCI record card for one of the Dobunnic units (no. 2 in the list below), Sheppard Frere has quoted a letter from Passmore to the British Museum, dated 20 May 1936, in which he says that these coins "were I think found together but am not sure." The uniq…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wanborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-461BFD
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 9 no. 37: ""It was on the 15th. of October last that two men, ploughing in a field known as the Eleven Acres, and forming a portion of West Down Farm in the parish of Nunney, broke open a small urn, and thus brought to light the hoard of coins I am now about to describe.. The urn was so shattered by the first finders, and the fragments so dispersed, that only a few small pieces could be recovered, and nothing can now be learned as to its form, except that it was circular, with the sides sloping outwards, and having an exterior diameter of about four and half inches…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-C8E91F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
4 silver IA staters, 3 denarii, 2 sestertii and 6 dupondii. NC 2011. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2010 T404 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: PAS-6AA253
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owermoigne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-6AA253
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The group consists of two silver Roman Republican coins of a denomination known as denarii and one denarius of Tiberius, four silver Iron Age staters and eight copper alloy sestertii and dupondii from the reign of Claudius I (AD 41-54). The Iron Age staters are uninscribed types usually associated with the Durotriges, a people thought to have inhabited an area covering the modern county of Dorset, parts of Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight during the late Iron Age. They were produced in the mid to late first century BC (about 60 to 20 BC). In terms of date, the e…
Created on: Monday 30th July 2012
Last updated: Friday 4th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owermoigne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-9EF797
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A scatter of post-medieval pottery was reported by the landowners in c. 2012, mainly deriving from a large vegetable patch. The pottery included a large quantity of redware sherds, some of which were wasters, plus 18th century yellow slipwares and iron-enriched glazed wares. A sample was donated to the Museum of Somerset (TTNCM : 45/2023). A note on the find by Laura Burnett and David Dawson was published in PSANHS vol. 157 (2013, p. 161). This notes that the fabric has a similar laminated appearance to waste recovered at Nunney Catch and to the north of Trudoxhill.  The donated…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2011
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7A0776
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of the House of Valentinian, GLORIA ROMANORVM (emperor with captive), mint unclear, AD 364-78. Diameter: 17.29mm, Thickness: 1.34mm, Weight: 1.61g
Created on: Wednesday 8th September 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7A0143
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of the House of Constantine, CONSTANTINOPOLIS, Victory on prow reverse, mint unclear, AD 330-40. Diameter: 16.40mm, Thickness: 1.34mm, Weight: 1.10g
Created on: Wednesday 8th September 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-79C031
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver washed copper alloy radiate of Claudius II: AD 268-70, Laetitia or Vberitas reverse, Siscia. Diameter: 20.78mm, Thickness: 1.95mm, Weight: 3.56g
Created on: Wednesday 8th September 2010
Last updated: Thursday 9th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-65EA35
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead musket ball of Post-Medieval date. Spherical in shape with a slight casting line around the centre. Diameter: 17.56mm, Weight: 30.34g
Created on: Tuesday 7th September 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-656532
Object type: COIN
Broad period: BYZANTINE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Byzantine copper half follis of Heraclius (AD 610-41), struck at Carthage, AD 616-7. MIB III, pl 17 & Table IV, no. 234(2) Diameter: 17.14mm, Thickness: 3.03mm, Weight: 4.64g
Created on: Tuesday 7th September 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-94AB65
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy wire finger ring of probable post medieval date. The hoop, which measures 28mm in diameter, is made from four strands of wire which are woven together. A rectangular 'bezel', 19.7mm by 8.4mm, has been formed from two strands of wire twisted together and in the centre of this there is a separately cast setting for a stone or glass. This is square with eight petals surrounding it, two on each side. Geoff Egan has suggested an 18th century date. Simple wire accessories of this type are difficult to date accurately without a context.
Created on: Friday 8th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney', grid reference and parish protected.