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Record ID: DOR-DCAAAD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy small-long brooch. The plate head, part of the bow and the rear lug only remain. The brooch has rectangular head plate with rounded corners. It is decorated on the front with a row of stamped triangles, points inwards, arount the outer edges. The reverse of the head plate is undecorated and has an integral, incomplete, perforated, vertical lug. At the centre adjacent to the lower a-edge is a raised rectangular area from which the bow extends from the lower edge of the plate. .The top of the bow is decorated with a large lozengiform boss, hollowed at…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-DC7CA1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy double looped pointed oval buckle frame with an integral bar. On each of the outer edges of the loops is a moulded knop in the form of a five-petalled flower. There is a pointed, moulded knop at either end of the centre bar. The centre bar is narrowed from the frame and has a trapeziodal cross section.The pin is missing. There are also traces of a black coating or lacquer on the frame.The rear of the frame is flat and undecorated.
Date: Post medieval - c. 1550 - 1650
Dimensions: 42.96 mm x 30.82 mm x 2.77 mm
Weight: 7.09 g
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Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-DC4C67
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy book clasp of Howsham type A.3. A rectangular plate of sheet copper alloy with a narrowed, flat hook at one end and and a flared terminal at the other. The edge of the flared terminal is notched. There is a single circular attachment hole at the flared end, now filled with iron corrosion product. The front of the plate is decorated as follows: Below the hooked end is a low moulded transverse ridge and below that a pair of the same. Below these is a moulded triangular recess containing an indistinct motif comprisd of pellets. The rear of the clasp is …
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-DC298E
Object type: LOCK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of probable lock hasp, possibly from a small chest of cabinet. An incomplete plate with an integral pierced plate projecting at right angles at the centre of one end. The plate is of sub triangular form. It is decorated with an incised line along each side and an incised chevron at the apex (pointing to the opposite end). At the rear of the wider end and slightly off-set is the hasp projection. It has a rounded V-shape with a small iron-filled aperture.
Date: Probably late Medieval to Post Medieval - c. 1400 - 1700
Dimensions: 26.49 mm x 9.75 mm x 14.37 mm
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Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-DC0353
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy composite candle holder. A two-part "Bunsen burner" type. It originally comprised a single piece socket and stem attached to a separate circular base. The base is missing. The socket is straight-sided and unperforated, expanded from the stem. It is decorated with a pair of incised girth grooves about halfway down. There is a piece missing from the top of the socket.The stem is narrowed from the socket and hollowed. It is decorated with girth ridge in the middle. The base of the stem flares to the join at the base and ha…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-DB8A19
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy scabbard chape. The chape is thickly cast. It is U-shaped with a closed rounded base terminating in a moulded, circular cross sectioned knop. The open ends have angled shoulders with a moulded knop at the apex on each side. The front and back of the chapes are openwork, each with three vertical rows of two elongated triangular apertures (in the two outer rows the apex of each triangle point inwards and in the centre row point outward). There are remnants of two circular attachment holes on aeach face of the chape, set about halfway down.
Date: Medieval -…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-DB0FFC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy symmetrical double looped buckle with a an additional side loop. A sword belt hanger. The frame is broken at one corner. The trapeziodal frame has a D-shaped cross section. It has two main loops separated by a thick centre bar with a D-shaped cross section. At one long side of the frame is a small rectangular loop with an angular cross section.
Date: Medieval - c. 1350 - 1500
Dimensions: 32.94 mm x 28.84 mm x 3.86 mm
Weight: 6.26 g
Whitehead (2003;76) illustrates a similar, rectangular examples (No. 470 & 471) which he dates to c. 1305 - 1500
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-DAE9EA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy asymmetrical double loop buckle. The buckle is broken with the centre bar in two pieces, one detached from the frame. The buckle has one rectangular loop with the worn and sub-angular cross sectioned strap bar to one side. The other, outer, loop is roughly D-shaped with the centre of the outer edge extended forward into a point giving an ogee curve to each side. There is a double lobed knop at one end of the centre bar. The edges of each side are slightly bevelled. The centre bar is heavily corroded but appears narrowed from the frame and trapeziodal in cr…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-DAB14A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306 - 337) probably dating to AD 307 - 318 (Reece period 15). Possibly SOLI INVICTO COMITI reverse with a faintly visible standing figure.
Date: Roman
Diameter: 20.67 mm
Weight: 2.29 g
Die axis: unclear
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D9EB0C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Poole
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy coin. A Spanish eight maravedis coin, possibly of Philip III (1598-1621) or Philip IV (1621-1665). The coin has been countermarked at a later date with an 8 inside a circle on the obverse and a date, possibly 1659, on the reverse. The original designs on both faces are indistinct but are possibly a castle on the obverse and a lion rampant on the reverse.The flan is irregular in shape.
Date: Post Medieval - c. 1659
Dimensions: 21.84 mm x 19.79 mm
Weight: 3.53 g
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D9B402
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a lead papal bulla. Approximately one third of the object remains. Issued by Honorius III (1216 - 1227). The obverse with the papal name within a pellet border only has a small section of an inscription lin three lines. It reads H[-]/R[-]/PP[-] for HONO/RIVS/PP III. The reverse has a pellet border and shows St Peter with a pellet beard and part of the inscription above. All that remains is [-]PE from the original inscription of SPA SPE for St Paul and St Peter. The bulla has been delibrately cut with a clean, vertical slice.
Date: Medieval: 1216 - 1227
Dimensions: 44…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D979E3
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a possible stylus, toilet or surgical implement. There are breaks at both ends. It comprises a circular cross sectioned shaft with a baluster style moulding at one end which is then narrowed into a finer circular cross-sectioned shaft. The moulding comprises a narrow collar. a wider barrel moulding, a waisted section and then a pair of narrow collars. The object is bent and distorted.
Date: Possibly Roman - c. AD 50- 400
Dimensions: 51.83 mm x 5.03 mm
Weight: 2.74 g
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D95E32
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy bow brooch. An initial T-shaped brooch with hinged pin mechanism. The wings, bow, and part of the catchplate remain. The bow is flattened and distorted. The pin is missing. The wings are short and cylindrical housing the copper alloy axis bar. There is a notch at the rear of the wings for the attachment of the missing pin to the bar. The fronts of the wings are decorated with vertical moulded ridges and grooves. The head of the bow is wide and extends from the top of the wings. It is a shallow D-shape in cross section with a slight hollow …
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D91FBD
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy with a design on one surface. The design seems to be part of the reverse of a stater of the British Iron Age, South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type. It comprises a group of circular recesses and two crescent-shaped recesses below. This would be equivalent to the raised pellet and two raised crescents seen on such staters (the crescents being the belly of a stylised horse. This may be part of a coin die for manufacturing staters, or it could also be an impression of such a coin, perhaps to cast copies in a mould.
Date: Possibly Late Iron Age - c. …
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D8A38B
Object type: GOUGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy gouge. The tip only. The fragment is parallel sided with a u-shaped channel from the tip to the break. The tops of the sides are angled at the tip.
Date: Bronze Age
Dimensions: 34.08 mm x 13.46 mm x 12.21 mm
Weight: 18.91 g
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D85718
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Royal farthing token of Charles I ( 1625 - 1649) dating to 1636 - 1644. A Rose farthing, Type 2.
Reference: North Vol 2, No. 2291
Diameter: 14.48 mm
Weight: 0.47 g
Die axis: 6
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D810B4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver denarius of Faustina the Elder (AD 138 - 161 ) issued posthumously under Antoninus Pius and dating to AD 141 - 161 (Reece period 7). AETERNITAS reverse depicting Juno standing left, raising right hand, holding sceptre in left. Minted in Rome.
Reference: RIC III, p. 69, No. 344a
Date: Roman
Diameter: 18.03 mm
Weight: 2.68 g
Die axis; 6
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D78E3C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306 - 337) dating to AD 330 - 335 (Reece period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse depicting two soldiers and two standards. Minted in Lugdunum (Lyon).
Mint mark: //crescent PLG
Reference: LRBC part i, No. 192
Date: Roman
Diameter: 15.95 mm
Weight: 1.26 g
Die axis; 12
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C78EA8
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small, leaf arrowhead. A kite-shaped type made on a flake of grey-beige flint with a glossy patina. The arrrowhead has been thinned and shaped with covering, low-angled long flakes extending across both faces.
Date: Early to Middle Neolithic - c. 4000 BC to 2700 BC
Dimensions: 29.89 mm x 17.85 mm x 3.82 mm
Weight: 1.76 g
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C76D4E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy buckle plate. A rectangular piece of sheet metal which has been folded in half to attach it to the bar of the missing buckle. There are two rectangular apertures at the fold where a pin or pins would have been attached. At each of the outer corners of both halves of the plate is a small, circular cross sectioned rivet joining the halves. The front exterior face of the plate is decorated with a diagonal cross of rocker-arm lines, set inside a crude sub-angular incised line frame with a series of short incised lines extending outwards from it. The rear exterior of the plat…
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th April 2023
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