Record ID: DOR-DC4829
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  copper-alloy single looped rectangular buckle frame. The frame only remains, the pin is missing. The buckle frame is rectangular with three, flat, broad sides and the fourth largely taken up with a constriction for the attachment of the missing pin. The frame is flat and rectangular in cross section. The constriction is circular in cross section. The aperture in the centre of the frame is rectangular with rounded ends and a slight expansion to the frame constriction. The front of the frame is decorated along each of the short sides with two grooves flanking a knurled ridge…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 6th April 2024
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Record ID: DOR-8F7BB3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 sherd of early medieval coarseware. The fabric is reduced and pale grey except for the oxidised exterior surface which is orangey-red. It contains abundant poorly sorted temper of rounded quartz sand, flint, chert and calcareous pieces (up to 5 mm). The inclusions are prominemt and protruce through the surface of the vessel. An undiagnostic body sherd from a thick walled, handmade vessel. Date: Late Early-Medieval to Early Medieval - 11th to 12th century Weight: 11 g Identified with guidance from Lorraine Mepham
Created on: Wednesday 18th June 2008
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: DOR-E117FE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sceat dating to 600 - 750. Aethiliraed type 105. Runic inscription on the obverse. Quilled crescent on the reverse. Date: Early-Medieval - c. 675 - 750 Diameter:11.56 mm Weight: 0.78 g This coin has also been recorded in the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds (EMC) reference number 2023.0302
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: DOR-FE79C7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Silver coin. An Early-Medieval series C: Metcalf R1 sceatta. Crowned bust on the obverse and a Standard on the reverse. OBV: runic EPA - (Radiate and draped bust with pyramidal neck, facing right. Runic inscription in front, inverted T, A, inverted E.) REV: TOTII - (Standard containing TOTII; above, a triangle of pellets; below, a cross pattée, at each side TAT) Die axis: 9 Diameter: 11.89 mm Weight: 1.17 g Date: Early-Medieval - c. 700 - 710 North Volume One, cf. number 157
Created on: Sunday 29th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 14th December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D7BFC1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver early peny (sceat) of Secondary Phase Series E (type A) "Porcupine" obverse and TOTII standard reverse. Reference: Abramson, p86. cf. E110 Date: Middle Early-Medieval - 720 - 740 Diameter: 12.22 mm Weight: 1.02 g Die axis: 12
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-FAAAA2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver early penny of Primary Phase Series E, variety G1 sceat. On the obverse is a stylised radiate bust of "porcupine" design. On the reverse is a stylised standard. These coins are thought to have been minted on the Northern French/Frisian coast, possibly at Dorestad. Reference: North Volume I, no. 48 Date: Early Early-Medieval - c. 695 - 710 Diameter: 12.06 mm Weight: 1.20 g
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tolpuddle', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR1023
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver early penny (sceat) of Primary Phase Series BX or BI dating to c.AD675-690. Refs: Metcalf 1993: p.96-8; Naismith 2017: cf. no.44 (pl. 2). The identification above is based on the description in the numismatic data section. Another bird-on-cross type is the later Series J (type 85) although this is in a different style which does not appear to correlate to this coin find. Original record description: 'Bird on cross/bust - circa AD 680 - 750
Created on: Monday 9th July 2001
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DORSET WINTERBORNE ZELSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR669
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver early penny (sceat) of Series D (type 2c) dating to c.AD700-15, mint: Netherlands.
Created on: Monday 20th November 2000
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WHITECHURCH CANONICORUM', grid reference and parish protected.

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-110E95
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy pendant, probably for horse harness. An arched plate of copper alloy with a loop at the top and gilding on the front. The suspension loop is set at a right-angle to the plate and has a low, circular hole through it. Below the loop is a rectangular "keystone" panel above a stylised human figure comprising a stylised face which extends into V-shaped legs. These elements are not gilded.  The face has a gilded recess with two pellet eyes. The triangle in the V-shape is recessed and decorated with chip-carved transverse ridges and is also gilded. Flan…
Created on: Wednesday 26th July 2023
Last updated: Saturday 14th October 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D0D928
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
34 sherds of medieval coarsewares. Patchily fired fabrics with pale grey reduction and orange oxidisation. There are prominent inclusions of poorly sorted quartz sand, flint, cherst and occasional calcareous inclusions (one piece has oolitic limestone) which protrude through the surface of the pottery. All are undiagnostic body sherds. The sherds are abraded. Handmade vessels. Probably of relatively local maunfacture. Date: Medieval - 11th to 13th century Weight: 222 g Identified with guidance and notes from Lorraine Mepham
Created on: Monday 9th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Horethorne', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: DOR-D23746
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
1 sherd of medieval coarseware. Patchily fired fabrics with pale grey reduction and orange oxidisation. There are prominent inclusions of poorly sorted quartz sand, flint, cherst and occasional calcareous inclusions (one piece has oolitic limestone) which protrude through the surface of the pottery. A flat-topped rim sherd. The sherd is abraded. Handmade vessel. Probably of relatively local maunfacture. Date: Medieval - 11th to 13th century Weight: 10 g Identified with guidance and notes from Lorraine Mepham
Created on: Monday 9th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Horethorne', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: DOR-D23EA6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
1 sherd of medieval coarseware. Patchily fired fabrics with pale grey reduction and orange oxidisation. There are prominent inclusions of poorly sorted quartz sand, flint, cherst and occasional calcareous inclusions (one piece has oolitic limestone) which protrude through the surface of the pottery. A rounded rim with a slight in-turn. The sherd is abraded. Handmade vessel. Probably of relatively local maunfacture. Date: Medieval - 11th to 13th century Weight: 6 g Identified with guidance and notes from Lorraine Mepham
Created on: Monday 9th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Horethorne', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: DOR-D24406
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
1 sherd of medieval coarseware. Patchily fired fabrics with pale grey reduction and orange oxidisation. There are prominent inclusions of poorly sorted quartz sand, flint, cherst and occasional calcareous inclusions (one piece has oolitic limestone) which protrude through the surface of the pottery. A pointed rim sherd from a jar. The sherd is abraded. Handmade vessel. Probably of relatively local maunfacture. Date: Medieval - 11th to 13th century Weight: 5 g Identified with guidance and notes from Lorraine Mepham
Created on: Monday 9th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Horethorne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-E31D13
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy zoomorphic strap-end. A tapering rectilinear strap end with a split plate at the attachment end. There are two rivet holes on each of the two sides of the split plate, all of which retain traces of the circular rivets.. The strap end tapers to a rounded end. The end is in the shape of a small animal head with its snout at the terminal , two slight recesses for the eyes, a brow ridge and two large oval rears, swept back along the strap-end. This shares some characteristics with Thomas Class b, type I (Thomas, G, FRG Datasheet 32, p4) Date: Early medieval - 9th to 11th …
Created on: Monday 15th September 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 26th July 2023
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Record ID: DOR-74D262
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. A single looped frame with a separate rectangular attachment loop at the rear. The D-shaped loop of the frame has a kidney-shaped aperture and a pointed outer edge with a notch for the pin flanked by low transverse ridges. The inner face of the outer edge of the loop is chamfered on the underside. At the ends of the bar of the loop are moulded ridged and curving projections. The bar has a central arched expansion with a central constriction for the attachment of the pin,. The pin has an expanded, pierced head where it attacheds to the bar the shaft o…
Created on: Friday 19th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 24th May 2023
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Record ID: DOR-F07846
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete strap end. A zoomorphic strap end of Thomas Class a, type 1 (Trewhiddle style). An oval split plate strap end with a very stylised en-face zoomorphic terminal. At the attachment end are two circular rivet holes in the front  and rear plates with one corner broken. The complete rivet hole retains the small circular cross sectioned copper alloy rivet. The plate at the rear is broken and retains the remnant of the rivet holes. The plate is decorated on the front face with an incised interlace pattern filling most of the surface and with a framing band aro…
Created on: Saturday 25th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-BF679A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver pfennig of Heinrich II (1014 - 1024) or Conrad I (1024 - 1039). Issued in the German states, minted at Worms. On the obverse is a pedimented building or church with a large pellet inside the lower part. The pediment is divided in two by a central vertical line and there is a small pellet in each half. On the reverse is an equal-armed cross with expanded ends, a single pellet in each quarter. Also recorded as EMC number : 2022.0380 Date: Late Early-Medieval - c. 1014 - 1039 Diameter: 15..81 mm Weight: 0.75 g In the EMC record the author notes:&nbs…
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Litton Cheney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-FD9BE6
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The pendant is sub-triangular in form and consists of a gold frame which encloses a slightly bi-convex piece of rock crystal. The frame is constructed from gold sheet, with rectangular strips along each upper edge and sub-triangular sheets on front and back with an aperture cut to house the rock crystal. The base was left open, presumably for insertion of the rock crystal, and was then sealed with a separate strip of sheet gold with the other sides of the frame folded over it to hold it in place. At the apex is a separately applied circular suspension loop. The gold frame is decor…
Created on: Thursday 28th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-21439D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver penny of Edward the Elder, King of Wessex (899 - 924) dating to 924. A two line reverse type with the name of the moneyer Sigeferth. Reference: As North Vol 1, no. 649, similar to EMC 1006.0101 Date: Late Early-Medieval Diameter: 22.0 mm Weight:  1.50 g Die axis: 9
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2022
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2023
Spatial data recorded.