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Record ID: SOMDOR-216202
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount or possible pin head. Circular with a central circular hole and silver inlay decoration. The mount is domed around the central hole, making it correspondingly hollow at the back. The decoration is in three main sections, comprising two panels of chip-carved interlace, separated by a narrow (apparently undecortated) panel radiating from the centre to the edge, and a third area containing triple strand decoration,probably a beast. There is an undecorated framing band around the outer edge. The decoration continues over the domed area until a raised, plaine ring which f…
Created on: Monday 10th July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-EE1252
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy strap end. Fragment only. A rectangular, openwork strap end decorated in the Winchester style. It is very worn and incomplete, but there are vestiges of probable animal and plant elements between the openings, arranged symmetrically along the central axis. The design is in relief. The back is flat and undecorated. The attachment end is missing. The distal end has two curved notches in the edge. 10th century. Identified by Kevin Leahy Dimensions: 27.28 x 24.44 x 4.58 mm Weight: 11.53 g
Referred to in Thomas et al. 2008, 173; n. 2
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Record ID: SOMDOR-ED68B8
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy openwork mount with Ringerike style decoration. Identified as probably part of a cheek piece from a bridle by Dr Naomi Payne (confirmed by Dr Kevin Leahy). The mount is irregular in shape and incomplete. Both faces are flat. The front face is decorated with Ringerike-style engraved lines around several openings. It is possible that the curving, tapering element along one side (around the largest opening) is the neck and head of an animal. The design iprobably contains one or more animals but, as the mount is incomplete and quite worn, it is hard to distinguish more p…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 13th December 2017
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Record ID: SOMDOR-ED0DC0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy mount with Urnes style decoration. The mount is sub-rectangular (rounded ends) and convex at the front. The back is concave. The decoration is a complex openwork interlace design in Urnes style, of a sinuous beast intertwined with finer vines and fronds inside a thin framing band. The means of attachment for this mount is unclear, but is is likely that some of the openwork holes once containe rivets, There is a break in one hole in the middle of one long side and bending at the edge of the frame in a hole directly opposite on the other long side suggesting that these…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Record ID: SOMDOR-06A773
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast, copper alloy Winchester style openwork strap end. Tongue shaped strap end with a curved distal end, wavy long edges and short, integral attachment plates at the proximal end. The plates have a hole for a rivet at each corner and two more between. Each plate has a break in one corner attachment hole (on opposite ends). The inner holes retain the copper alloy rivets. The strap end is thickly cast with many small circular and sub-circular holes and a relief tree-like design with leaves and curling fronds. The design extends around the sides producing the wavy egdes. At the mid poin…
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Record ID: SOMDOR-8A4D13
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
3 sherds of pottery. Oxidised orange red and buff fabric with moderate mixed grit and quartzite sand (up to 5 mm). One rim sherd from a shouldered jar. Two thin-walled body sherds. Abraded. Identified as Ilchester type gritty wares, 10th to 12th century by Lorraine Mepham.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-8A3616
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 sherds of pottery. One sherd is oxidised to a dull red colour, the other is very dark grey, reduced fabric. Both are tempered with abundant mixed grit and quartzite sand (up to 3 mm). Thick walled rim sherds from jars. The oxidised piece has an wide external bead. The reduced sherd is a cupped rim with a plain edge. Abraded. Identified as Ilchester type gritty ware, 10th to 12th century by Lorraine Mepham.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-06DE98
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper alloy late Saxon stirrup-strap mount. The base only remains. A small amount of the decorated part of the mount remains. This comprises a central, projecting zoomorphic head flanked by two broken apertures (rounded) with stubs of the frame at the outside. The surface of the stubs is raised. The base of the mount is flattened from the raised decoration. Below this the narrowed attachment plate is angled backwards slightly and has traces of two iron rivets (the left one survives in a more complete state that the right, retaining a projecting domed head). There is iro…
Created on: Monday 15th August 2005
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Roughmoor area', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SOMDOR-A471F3
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable copper alloy hooked tag. A broken, circular (or almost complete circular), now pelta-shaped disc with the remnants of two attachment holes at one edge. Between the holes, the object is broken, but it possibly had a hook attached at that point. Both faces are decorated with chased lines of loops.
Created on: Tuesday 5th July 2005
Last updated: Thursday 12th December 2019
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Record ID: SOMDOR-265372
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy dress pin with a round sectioned shaft. The head is polyhedral with facets of varying dimensions. The four largest facets are hexagonal in shape and each decorated with a single ring and dot stamp. These are arranged around the main girth of the pin head. The other facets are smaller and generally triangular or irregular hexagonal in shape. they are un decorated. At the base of the head, where the shaft joins the head there is a small collar. The shaft is incomplete and slightly bent. Dimensions of head - 6.42 mm x 4.64 mm x 4.53 mm. Shaft diameter - 1.55 mm
Created on: Wednesday 29th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-045444
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of sheet copper alloy with an incomplete circular attachment hole. The object appears to have been lozenge shaped with the hole at one of the points. It is decorated on one face with incised curving lines. The back is flat and undecorated. It is possible that this is part of a Medieval belt mount or an Early Medieval dress hook. If it was the latter, the incised lines may have held niello inlay.
Created on: Saturday 26th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-305381
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy horse harness mount. Broadly rectangular mount which is slightly arched. The central plate of the mount has a raised rectangular frame around raised decoration of Style 1 animal art. This comprises two symmetrically arranged birds with head, body and foot in profile. The body of each is formed of two thick lines, one solid and one transversely ribbed. Where the two heads are set next to each other they form a full-face human head with a curled moustache. At each end of the central element is a zoomorphic moulding with prominent pellet eyes with framing grooves and a mid li…
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2016
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Record ID: SOMDOR-6A4655
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Penny of Edward the Confessor
Created on: Monday 20th December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2017
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Record ID: SOMDOR-010D81
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A rectangular copper alloy plate with a flat back and recessed front. The front is decorated with carved decoration of a triple strand, interwoven zoomorphic design. Two animals are depicted with their heads at diagonally opposite corners into which they face with their jaws open. Below each head is a limb with rounded shoulder, angled elbow which ends in a paw with toes curled upwards.The bodies are triple stranded and form into simple loops. They termiante in a transverse triple strand bar.In the centre are two forther shapes which may represent other elements of the animals' bodies.…
Created on: Wednesday 15th December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-00C276
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Silver sceatta, Series J, Type 85. North 128.
EMC 2006.0149
Created on: Wednesday 15th December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-C66403
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 sherd of pottery.Reduced grey fabric with darker grey, sooted outer surface. Very coarse, mixed temper of sub-angular quartz and frequent flint pieces (generally c. 2.5 mm, but up to 5 mm). Sherborne A/B fabric. Body sherd from a thick-walled vessel, probably a cooking jar. Handmade. Some abrasion.
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-290AD2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy brooch with cloisonné enamel inlay and gilding. The base is a disc with six circular recessed lugs. Four of the lugs still contain the blue glass circular, domed stones. At the front is a copper alloy collar (slightly narrower then the base disc)housing a deep recess for enamel decoration in the form of a central five pointed star, infilled with turquoise enamel and outlined with gilt copper alloy strip. The semi circular cells formed by this around the outside of the disc are filled with dark blue enamel. In several of the cells the glass enamel is fractured. There…
Created on: Tuesday 5th October 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2016
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This findspot is known as 'Petworth', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SOMDOR-A84B73
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy, pointed oval strap-end. At the proximal end the plate is split in two (one side has broken off) and there are remnants of a circular attachment hole on the remaining piece. The strap-end tapers to a point distally. It is decorated with a zoomorphic design. The point forms the snout with cast decoration of eyes and rounded ears. Behind this, on the wider part of the plate, os a rectangular recessed panel with traces of linear niello inlay decoration. The panel ends where the plate splits at the proximal end. the back is flat and undecorated. There is a circular recess at …
Created on: Wednesday 29th September 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 30th September 2015
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Record ID: SOMDOR-C0B984
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stud. 3 dimensionally cast animal head. It has a long muzzel with a central longitudinal ridge and an up-turned nose above an open mouth. The nose has two lines delineating the nostrils. Behind the muzzel are two raised, oval eyes with the central ridge continuing between them, at the back of the head are two projecting, rounded ears. Overs surface of the head and framing the eyes curving double lines which retain traces of gilding. The base of the head is flat and undecorated with a single, integral rivet projecting from it. The rivet is circilar sectioned, tapering, and …
Created on: Saturday 18th September 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-291EB1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cut half penny of Edward the Confessor. Expanding cross type.
Created on: Wednesday 30th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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