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Record ID: SOMDOR1622
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Sherd of pottery. Handle (lug) from a JAR. Reduced dark grey fabric with coarse tempering seen mainly as voids with some flecks of chalk.. Large lug handle with circular hole.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd December 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR1603
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
2 sherds of pottery. Jar? Reddish grey patchy fabric. Quite smooth with some fine sand temper. Outer surface has been smoothed or burnished. Both are thick walled body sherds. ? black-burnished ware type. Handmade. Date: Possibly late iron age to Romano -British Reddish grey patchy fabric. Quite smooth with some fine sand temper. Outer surface has been smoothed or burnished. Both are thick walled body sherds. ? black-burnished ware type. Handmade. Date: Possibly late iron age to Romano – British TOTAL - 2 2 sherds of pottery. Jar?
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-7F2F93
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
One large body sherd of coarse pottery. Reduced dark grey core and oxidised orange-red surfaces. Poorly sorted coarse sand temper (up to 2 mm) with occasional stone pieces (up to 4 mm). Irregular wall thickness. Handmade with visible coils in section. Very little abrasion.
Created on: Tuesday 4th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: PUBLIC-70B793
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late Iron Age to early Roman copper-alloy strap union of Taylor and Brailsford's (1985, 247) Type 1. The fitting comprises two circular loops connected together. The loops are plano-convex with flat reverses and off centre perforations set towards the point at which they join and recessed on the front. To each side of each loop is the broken off ends of the terminals of a straight bar which would have run between them to accommodate the straps. It is corroded, with a slight green patina, weighs 11.2g and measures 30mm in length, 22.5mm in width. Each circular perfo…
Created on: Thursday 30th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Dorset', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7E4346
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Late Iron Age to Early Roman strap fitting, strap-union or belt-link dating to 300 BC - AD 100. From the rear the object has a solid 8-shaped design, with a bar on either side around which leather straps would have been attached. The 8-shape is comprised of two conjoined plano-convex discs of 19.0mm diameter, although through being compressed together they each measure 17.9mm in length from the join to the outer edge. At the front there is another central disc positioned above the waist of the 8 and compressed into it. Each of the three discs is decorated at the front wi…
Created on: Thursday 29th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piddletrenthide CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR1714
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Unevenly fired clay with areas of reduction and oxidisation . Tempered with flint and crushed limestone pieces . The spindle whorl is a slightly tapering cylinder with convex sides. There is a circular hole running longitudinally. This is placed centrally at the narrower top and off centre at the wider base. At the top there is a ridge around the edge. The base is flat. There are three girth bands sub-circular depressions running around the outer surface.
Created on: Wednesday 29th January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-B177D4
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy pin. The shaft is circular in cross section and tapers to the break point (from 3.12 mm to 2.49 mm) The head is disc shaped and has a concentric ridge framing a groove around a central domed projection. Below the head is a narrow ridge or collar around the shaft. Dr Kevin Leahy has suggested an Iron Age date for this pin. Date: Iron Age - 500 - 200 BC Dimensions: 41.25 mm x 7.99 mm (diameter of head) Weight: 2.2 g
Created on: Monday 10th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP3682
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy pin. One end is cylindrical and has thirteen concentric ridges around its diameter. The shank is cast integrally with the terminal and lies perpendicular to it. The shank has a strong curve, which at its top, flattens out and becomes a straight, circular-sectioned bar which terminates in a narrow collar followed by a rounded knop. The upper surface of the straight part of the shank is decorated with two leaf-shaped mouldings, with curving lines between them which also have stamped circular motifs along the external edge,. Slightly mottled, mid-dark green smooth pat…
Created on: Tuesday 15th April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-514CD7
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Iron Age ring headed pin dating to the period c. 300BC - AD50. The pin consists of a circular head with a circular perforation. The shank of the pin projects from the bottom of the ring-head and features a circular perforation with a cylindrical rivet in situ. The pin bends at a slight angle just below the rivet and then curves back in the opposite direction, tapering along its length. The ring-head measures 28.26mm in dimater with an internal diameter of 13.58mm and is 7.91mm thick. The pin has a smooth dark brown patina. This object has been published in Gree…
Created on: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-B37E55
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy and red glass pin head (most likely the head of a dress pin, see note). The object is of composite construction The lower part is hexagonal in outline with a wide central aperture containing the domed upper section of (probable) red glass with a central separate copper alloy pin. The sides of the lower part are decorated with chevrons formed of raised oval ridges with dotted lines oitlining them and some of the spaces between infilled with moulded cross hatching. At the back of the lower section is a central shallow angular recess and some iron staini…
Created on: Wednesday 13th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sixpenny Handley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-670C56
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Iron Age or Roman mount, possibly a decorative shield clip dating to the period c. 300BC - AD 100. The mount consists of a hollow tubular sheet of copper alloy decorated with a series of raised collars in a "reel and bead" design. Cf. SUSS-D4AAD7 for a similar example on the database. Similar objects have been illustrated in a report on excavations at Cadbury Castle, Somerset (Barrett et al., 2000); cf. also Worrell 2009, 'Draft Iron Age Artefact Identification Guide', p 22.
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 25th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-676687
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Iron Age or Roman mount dating to the period c. 150BC - AD 100. It is possibly a decorative shield clip, although it has also been suggested that this type of mount derives from a bucket, tankard or vessel. The mount consists of a hollow tubular sheet of copper alloy decorated with a pair of moulded grooves at each end, with a further pair in the middle. Between these grooves are two fields each incised with an X shape, the arms of which follow the curve of the object. Cf. SWYOR-1B5433 for a similar example on the database. A parallel is shown in …
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 3rd November 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St Michael', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F12EF3
Object type: MIRROR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
4 glass beads, 3 stone beads, 2 copper alloy brooches, one pair of tweezers, one fragmented Bronze mirror and a silver plated copy of a denarius serratus. Date: Late Iron Age Report to H.M Coroner for western Dorset District 2010 T415 Mirror burial from near Portesham, Dorset Circumstances of discovery Description 1. Copper-alloy Rosette/Thistle type brooch. Dimensions: 47mm x 15mm x 18mm; Weight: 6 g 2. Silver-plated copper-alloy Denarius Serratus, late Republican. Date - 83-82 BC. There is a circular perforation just off centre. Diameter: 18mm; weight: 3g …
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 18th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chesil', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP3303
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy miniature votive socketed axe. Parallel vertical sides, tapering in slightly to straight blade edge with rounded ends. Irregular, sub-oblong socket, uneven upper edge. Side loop. Surfaces lightly scratched. Pale green slightly mottled patina. This example is very similar to a metal-detected find from All Cannings, Wiltshire (Robinson 1995, 64 no. 18 fig. 2).
Created on: Wednesday 19th March 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-AD5282
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A possible linch pin terminal with a crude anthopomorphic head. It is in nthe form of a crude human head, cast in the round. The head is broadly oval with an off centre groove at the top (running front to back) The eyes are two small, but relatively deep holes, possibly once containing other material. The nose is flattened and triangular. The mouth is a simple horizontal line. There is a groove around the the base of the head to mark tha neck and below this the object flares slightyl into a circula collar. At the base this continues as a short tubular projection, narrowed from the &quo…
Created on: Tuesday 16th February 2010
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
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Record ID: PAS-852621
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A small fragment from a possible gold ingot, this object is difficult to date with any certainty without more precise information from the context from which it came, if any. It is probably of prehistoric date and was found in an area well known for both its Neolithic and Early Bronze Age monuments and a series of Iron Age settlements. As such, this item is more than likely a prehistoric object, older than 300 years, and is therefore probably Treasure.
Created on: Wednesday 12th March 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2011
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: IRON AGE
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: Wednesday 9th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-63E9B4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) writes: "Initial publication (Haselgrove 1984, 136) recorded several silver and bronze coins found near Dorchester in 1982. In fact the coins had been handed in to the Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth, in October 1980, and were said to have been found at a depth of c.75 cm "buried beneath a flat stone" (BMHF). There are persistent suggestions in the published and unpublished reports of the find that a) it was much larger than the declared portion, and b) it was found somewhere other than the given location. A large quantity of Roman bronze - up to 200 coins, mostly o…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Common', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-3D0783
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Preliminary record of a hoard of 27 Durotrigan staters found by members of the Stour Valley Search and Recovery Club in June/July 2010 (Grenfell 2010; NC 171 (2011), 407 no. 3; 2010 T543). The coins were scattered over an area of some ten square metres. Treasure numbers associated with this hoard: 2010 T543 Other PAS records associated with this hoard: DOR-A7B395
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Valley II', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-A63179
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) writes: "The hoard consists of a series of finds of Durotrigan coinage from a field south-east of Maiden Castle, recovered over the course of twelve years or more. The nominal total of coins is 113, found at the following dates: 10-19 July 1986: 20 staters and 1 quarter stater October 1988: 30 staters and 12 quarter staters 4-5 November 1989: 24 staters and 26 quarter staters The first group of coins were said to be within an area of 40 m2, "denser in the centre with three within three feet of each other" (Keen 1987, 124; see also Bickmore 1986 and Cowell et al…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterborne Monkton', grid reference and parish protected.