Record ID: DOR-FAC625
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Published
A cast tanged dagger or knife.The blade is double edged, tapering, with a central ridge producing a lozengiform profile, At the top is a broken tang with a single, circular attachment hole ( about 4 mm diameter). The tang is narrowed from the top of the blade with angled sides. The dagger has breaks at both ends. Date: Late Bronze Age - c. 1000-850 BC Dimensions: 73.38 mm x 18.83 mm x 4.01 mm Weight: 18.66 g Katie Hinds has recorded a similar blade as record WILT-83A428 and dates it to the late Bronze Age Wilburton and Ewart Park phases. Dot Boughton has commented that Burgess and Ge…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 18th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bryanston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-FA9935
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy farthing token. A 17th century token issued by the Mayor of Poole in 1667. Obverse: FOR THE MAYOR OF Ye TOWN - around the arms of the borough of Poole: dolphin, the base wavy, in chief three escallops. Reverse: AND COVNTY OF POOLE - around the date 1667 The token has been bent into an S shape in the manner of a "love token". Reference: Boyne/Williamson, 1858, p.65 , No. 61 Diameter: 18.05 mm Weight: 0.91 g
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bryanston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-FA0ED7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy radiate of Victorinus dating to the period AD 269-271 (Reece Period 13). No detail survivng on the reverse Date: Roman - AD 269 - 271 Diameter: 17.80 mm Weight: 1.04 g
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bryanston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F9D3D3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Henry VIII (1509 -1547) . Second coinage (1526 - 1544). Mint of Durham.Issued under Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall. Reference: North, Volume II, page 112, No. 1813 Date: Post Medieval - 1530 - 1544 Diameter: 15.03 mm Weight: 0.70 g
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 31st October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F9A361
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead cloth seal. One disc of a two disc seal with a central projection on the back. Projecting from the edge of the disc is a strip or tab which would have joined this part to the second, missing disc. There is no decoration on either face of the disc. There are, however, clear impressions of the weave of the fabric to which this was attached.The lack of decoration makes this example difficult to date closely. Date: Medieval to early Post Medieval - c. 1350 - 1700 Dimensions: 28.67 mm x 20.69 mm x 5.17 mm Weight: 5.70 g
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F98561
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame. The frame has two oval loops with flat backs and beveled inner edges. The centre bar is narrowed from the frame and has a trapeziodal cross section. The pin is missing. Finds from London indicate broad date range with examples published including Egan G and Pritchard F, 1993, Dress Accessories p 82-6, cf no.331 and 349 and Egan, G, 2005 Material culture in an age of transition, p35, cf. no. 93. Date: Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval, c. 1350 - 1600 Dimensions: 24.44 mm x 18.96 mm x 2.21 mm Weight: 2.65 g
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F976A1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame. The frame has two oval loops with hollowed backs and beveled inner edges. Both loops have a notch in the inner edge as a pin rest. The centre bar is narrowed from the frame, has a trapeziodal cross section and a slight knop at each end. The pin is missing. Finds from London indicate broad date range with examples published including Egan G and Pritchard F, 1993, Dress Accessories p 82-6, cf no.331 and 349 and Egan, G, 2005 Material culture in an age of transition, p35, cf. no. 93. Date: Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval, c. 1350 - 160…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-656D81
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold quarter noble of Edward III. A coin of the Treaty Series from the Calais mint. Date: Medieval - 1363 - 1369 Reference: North Volume II, p 56, no. 1245 Diameter: 19.37 mm Weight:1.90 g Die axis: 8
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-BF1D81
Object type: DRESS PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Published
A silver gilt dress pin. The pin has a large spherical head of gilded filigree. There is a flat band around the head, dividing it into two hemispheres. The hemispheres are each decorated with five circles of wire containing four smaller circles set around a small central knop. The upper hemisphere has a small circle at the top, again with four smaller circles inside and a larger central knop. On the lower hemisphere the equivalent area is where the shaft of the silver pin emerges. The pin is not gilded and tapers to a sharp point. It is circular in cross section. There are traces of a …
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-6B57B5
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint hammerstone. A rounded piece of mid grey flint with heavy off-white patina and iron staining.. There are areas of use wear (battering) on much of the surface with a few small unused areas on the sides where the object was held in use. This object is probably prehistoric, but such stones have also been found in later contexts (e.g. Roman) and it is difficult to be certain of the date. Date: Prehistoric (Mesolithic to Bronze Age) - c 8300 - 800 BC Dimensions: 79 mm x 72 mm Weight: 403 g
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-695A14
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy padlock in the form of a human head. The padlock is oval in plan and deeply convex. There is a rectangular opening at the top of the head surrounded on three sides (the back is open) by a flange. The front edge of this is decorated with a horizontal ridge. Inside the aperture there is a ridge below the flanged edge. From behind the front edge, at the mid point is a thin, flat, rectangular projection. Originally this projected towards the open back of the aperture, but has been bent to one side. At the base of the closed neck is a small flat projection w…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-417FA2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small silver gilt brooch. The brooch frame is triangular. There are rounded knops on each corner and at the mid point of two sides. These are decorated with stamped circles and semi-circles. On the third side there is a constriction for the attachment of the pin at the mid point. The pin is hooked around the frame. There is a low collar at the attachment end which is also decorated with stamped circles and semi circles. The pin is D-sectioned and tapers to a sharp point. Date Medieval - 13th - 14th century Dimensions: 15.30 mm x 14.38 mm x 1.98 mm Weight: 0.51
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-4169A6
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of gold ingot. The ingot is a narrow, D-sectioned bar. The fragment has been cut at both ends. Date: Dimensions: 9.68 mm x 6.81 mm x 4.93 mm Weight: 3.24 g
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-29D957
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Oval box bezel from a 4th century gold finger-ring with dextrarum iunctio design. The backing plate and walls of the cell are formed of a single piece of gold. Within the cell is another thin sheet of gold decorated in repoussé with a pair of clasped hands surrounded by a beaded boarder. It is kept in place by a loose, chamfered band which extends around the inside of the cell and not affixed to the walls themselves. A twisted gold wire surrounds the outside of the cell, approximately a third of the way up the walls. A short remnant of a plain wire below this suggests oth…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 13th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-D966F2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete silver strap-end. Both ends have been broken off, leaving part of the mid section of the strap-end only. The remaining fragment is waisted, with remnants of decoration at either end. At one end is a round-ended rectangular panel of single-strand interlace; two rounded knots survive, both with sharp angles within. There may have been enamelling or other inlay in the recesses. At the other end is a single strand frame around another field, this time with a pointed end. The reverse is undecorated. It is not possible to say which end might have been the attachmen…
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 13th February 2013
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-066737
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
A silver thimble. A tall thimble with straight sides and a domed top. There is a wide plain, at the base of the thimble and there is a circular pierced hole through this at one side. The rest of the sides of the thimble I decorated with stamped rows of square indentations in three unequal rectangular areas, separated by three longitudinal bands each containing three annulet stamps. the domed top of the symbol is quite worn but has been decorated with concentric circles of smaller rectangular indentations around a central tonsure. The tonsure contains traces of a cinquefoil formed of pe…
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2013
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-05D0F7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver and gem-set button. A small circular button with a separately applied loop attachment at the back. The loop has become detached and the button is now in two main pieces there is a circular recess at the centre of the button which may possibly have held a gemstone. Set around this six rectangular recesses, also for gemstones. Three of the recesses retain the rectangular faceted red stones, probably garnets. One garnet has become detached and remains with the object and the two remaining stones are missing. between each of the recesses is a raised transverse ridge. …
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pamphill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-9BC000
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver-gilt badge, possibly a pilgrim's badge, depicting St George slaying the dragon. The openwork badge depicts a horse and rider in low relief. The rider is in armour and holding a lance. Below the horse is a dragon into which the end of the lance is pressed. The back of the badge is undecorated and has a patch of solder where a loop was attached (the loop was recovered with the brooch but had become detached). Dimensions: 28.18 mm x 20.29 mm x 2.66 mmWeight: 4.52 g Date: Late Medieval - 15th to early 16th centuryDiscussion: St George became popular from the early 15…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne Kingston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-987D57
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver circular buckle, The plain circular frame is round sectioned. The pin is oval in section and tapers to a flattened tip. The pin is attached to the frame with an expanded loop. Adjacent to the loop is a raised transverse collar. This is more likely to be a buckle rather than a brooch as there is no constriction for the pin or decoration (see, Egan, G and Pritchard, F, 1991, Dress Accessories, pages 64 - 65). Date: Medieval-c.1300 - 1450 Dimensions: Frame: 32.31 mm diameter x 1.85 mm thickness. Pin: 33.52 mnm long x 5.04 mm (head) x 2.62 mm (pin thickness) Weight: 4.16g Similar …
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 2nd May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fifehead Magdalen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-823C46
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: DORSET
Workflow stage: Published
A contemporary copy of a denarius of Septimius Severus dating to the period AD 193 to 211 (Reece period 10). [...]RP IIII P II COS reverse type depicting Virtus standing right. As Eastern mint.
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2012
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hazelbury Bryan', grid reference and parish protected.