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Record ID: DOR-A33BBB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Iron Age Gallo-Belgic quarter stater, dating to the period c.80-60 BC, Gallo-Belgic D / Boat Tree type. Obverse: Boat with two occupants? Pellet to left. Reverse: Tree-like motif, wedge shaped line to either side, forked line below.
The weight of this coin, combined with the pellet in obverse field and wedge shaped motifs in reverse field suggest that this is probably a Gallo-Belgic D rather than an insular British type. See Sills, 2017: p. 15, no. 25; ABC p. 29, no. 40; Scheers 13.
Diameter: 10.88 mm
Weight: 1.47 g
Created on: Monday 13th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Moreton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-B0F6AB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold quarter stater of the British Iron Age, South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type, dating to c. 80-50 BC. Three figures in a galley on the obverse and a zig-zag on the reverse.
Reference: ABC 2205
Date: Late Iron Age
Diameter: 11.45 mm
Weight: 1.06 g
Die axis: 6
Although the coin is rather light for a gold quarter stater, the weights of the BM coin ranging from 1.33 to 1.53g. It is closer to the weights for silver pieces which range from 0.76 to 1.46g. However, the colour of the coin does appear to be pale gold.
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 16th December 2021
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: DOR-21B957
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Extracted from file report by E. Ghey:
The 40 coins are all gold Iron Age coins of the denomination known as a stater. All but one are of similar appearance and are very worn pale gold Continental Iron Age staters produced in Northern France (Normandy area) during the c. 2nd century BC. They are sometimes associated with the people later referred to as the Baiocasses and belong to the series “aux sangliers” (with boars, DT series 341) or “aux lyres” (with lyres, DT series 338) (BN 6955-6988 de Jersey 1994, 108-113 and fig. 57). There are 22 lyre series coins an…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 9th May 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-0FB9E8
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The find comprises two Iron Age gold globular staters These are early uninscribed types now thought to be produced in south-western Britain (Dorset, Hampshire and surrounding areas) in the first half of the first century BC.
The coins can be summarised as:
Uninscribed British Iron Age Insular X1 stater (Sills 2017, 258 no. 290, ABC 94 var.)
Blank obverse with raised cross on reverse, possibly with pellets in quadrants.
Weight: 6.59g.
Uninscribed British Iron Age Insular X1 stater (Sills 2017, 258 no. 290, ABC 94 var.)
Blank obverse with rai…
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th October 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-F05D0D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold quarter stater of the British Iron Age. A South Eastern uninscribed stater of the Atrebates. On the obverse is a stylised wreath with annulets and on the reverse is a three tailed horse with a sun-like object above and a wheel below.
Reference: Van Arsdell 222.01, ABC 578
Date: Late Iron Age - c. 65 - 45 BC
Diameter: 11.80 mm
Weight: 1.24 g
Die axis: 7
A similar coin is recorded in on the database in Celtic Coin Index record CCI-950440
Created on: Wednesday 18th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: DOR-7D3F2C
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Contents of find: The find comprises five Iron Age gold coins, two globular staters and three quarter staters. All are early uninscribed types now thought to be produced in south-western Britain (Dorset, Hampshire and surrounding areas) in the first half of the first century BC.
The coins can be summarised as:
Uninscribed British Iron Age Insular X1 stater (Sills 2017, 258 no. 290, ABC 94 var.)
Blank obverse with raised cross on reverse, two pellets in one quadrant.
Weight: 6.97g.
Uninscribed British Iron Age Insular X1 stater (Sills 2017, 258 no. 290, ABC 94 var.)
Bl…
Created on: Thursday 1st March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-FF12E5
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piddletrenthide, Dorset:
The six coins are all ancient British gold staters dating to the first half of the first century BC. All are of the same type, class I coinage, (c.80-50 BC), gold Staters: abstract wreathed head / reverse abstract horse right, with numerous large pellets, 'eye' with pellet border behind (ABC 515; Sills 457-9; BM cf. 1986,0413.1-2). Sills type 457-9 is regarded by John Sills as probably the earliest British gold coinage.
Weights (in plate order): 1) 6.63g; 2) 6.45g; 3) 6.42g; 4) 6.49g; 5) 6.33g; 6) 6.45g
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Piddletrenthide', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-51C68E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stater of the British Iron Age dating to AD 10 - 40. A Southern type VERICA type of the Atrebates.
Obverse: COM.F in a tablet
Reverse VIR REX - horse right , rider raising spear
References: BMC 1146 - 1153, Van Arsdell 500, ABC 1190
Diameter: 18.32 mm
Weight: 5.24 g
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bishops Cannings', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-6AB90E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold stater of the British Iron Age, South-Eastern type (Atrebates). A complex wreath with two hidden faces on the obverse and a triple tailed horse with a wheel on the reverse. The coin is dished.
Date: Late Iron Age - 60 - 50 BC
References: BMC 445 - 554, ABC 485, VA 210 - 215
Diameter: 19.13 mm
Weight: 5.35 g
Created on: Thursday 24th November 2016
Last updated: Friday 25th November 2016
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: DOR-5B4615
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age early uninscribed British South Western B 'Chute' type gold Durotrigian stater, reverse-dished.
Obverse: Abstract head of Apollo facing right, leaves downwards
Reverse: Disjointed horse going left, triple tail, crab beneath
Date: Late Iron Age - c. 80 - 60 BC
Diameter: 18.30 mm
Weight: 5.79 g
Die axis: 7
Coins of this type were produced in the Dorset-Wiltshire-Isle of Wight area in around 80-60 BC. During the late Iron Age this area is thought to have been inhabited by a people known as the Durotriges.
Reference: Van Arsdell 1205-1; BMC 35-76; ABC 746
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 26th November 2014
Spatial data recorded.
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.
Record ID: DOR-E36B55
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
The coin is an uninscribed British Iron Age gold stater of the South Western series (attributed to the Durotrigian). The coin was produced in the Hampshire/Dorset/Wiltshire area in about 80-60 BC. It is of the "British B" or "Chute" type: ABC 746 (Cottam et al, Ancient British Coinage 2010, p. 57; see also Van Arsdell 1989, no 1205).
The front (obverse) shows a stylised wreath design; the back (reverse) a stylised horse.
Diameter: 18.21mm
Weight: 6.10g
This coin represents an addendum to an earlier hoard from the same site, discovered in several batches found between 2002 …
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Valley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-2FE3A0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A pale gold quarter stater of the Continental Iron Age. A Celtic uninscribed stater from Eastern France. Stylised head on the obverse, and stylised chariot with charioteer left on the reverse. Delestre and Tache III, DT3068.
Date: Late Iron Age- circa 125-75 BC
Diameter: 12.53 mm
Weight: 1.50 g
Created on: Thursday 23rd June 2011
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2011
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Record ID: DOR-0C49D3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early uninscribed British B gold stater, 'Chute' type
This coin has been registered on the CCI as 08.6283
This coins is an early uninscribed Iron Age gold coin of a type known as British B or 'Chute' type staters. Coins of this type were produced in the Dorset-Wiltshire-Isle of Wight area in around 80-60 BC. During the late Iron Age this area is thought to have been inhabited by a people known as the Durotriges.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd June 2010
Last updated: Friday 30th December 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'NORTH DORSET', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: DOR-0C44B8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early uninscribed British B gold stater, 'Chute' type
This coin has been registered on the CCI as 08.6282
This is an are early uninscribed Iron Age gold coins of a type known as British B or 'Chute' type staters. Coins of this type were produced in the Dorset-Wiltshire-Isle of Wight area in around 80-60 BC. During the late Iron Age this area is thought to have been inhabited by a people known as the Durotriges.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd June 2010
Last updated: Friday 30th December 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: DOR-7AE526
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
British Iron Age gold stater. South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian type)
Created on: Tuesday 16th June 2009
Last updated: Friday 30th December 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'NORTH DORSET', grid reference and parish protected.
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