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-A08B1F
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy toggle. The body of the toggle is cylindrical in shape with a rounded, drop-shaped attachment loop projecting from the centre of the body. The body tapers slightly to each of the ends. The ends are concave. The toggle is undecorated save for a circumferential groove running around each end of the cylindrical body and a raised central ring in the indentation on either end. Date: Late Iron Age to early Roman - c. 100BC - 75AD Dimensions: 31.54 mm x 18.18 mm x 7.33 mm Weight: 11.96 g
Created on: Monday 2nd July 2018
Last updated: Sunday 24th March 2024
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Record ID: SOMDOR1194
Object type: JAR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
1 sherd. Reduced dark grey fabric with mixed temper including quartzite, chert and iron ore. Body sherd from a shouldered jar. Rounded rim.
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2001
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOMERSET BRIDGWATER WITHOUT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-E14169
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver stater of the British Iron Age. South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type. Reference: ABC 2163 Date: Late Iron Age - c. 60 BC - AD 10 Diameter: 19.12 mm Weight: 4.62 g
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: DOR-06242D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Iron Age copper alloy stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 20 BC to 50 AD. A South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type. A stylised wreath on the obverse and a pellets on the reverse. Struck on an irregular flan and incomplete. Reference:  similar to ABC 2175 Diameter: 20.64 mm Weight: 3.01 g
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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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: SOMDOR1357
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy terret of Simple type,. D-sectioned copper alloy loop. Sub-circular with two rounded projections flanking a constriction at one side.  
Created on: Monday 29th October 2001
Last updated: Sunday 19th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DORSET PIDDLEHINTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR1356
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy simple terret ring. D-sectioned copper alloy loop. Sub-circular a defined collar at each end of the strap bar; one of which flanks a constriction at one side.  
Created on: Monday 29th October 2001
Last updated: Sunday 19th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DORSET PIDDLEHINTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-CF0B77
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy double-sided strap union,. The oval central plate element has a frame of two raised crescents forming a central circular recess. On one side in the recess are two large raised ring and dot/ roundel decorations flanking two smaller ring and dots with a continuous frame forming an hourglass shape. At the centre of each of the roundels on the first side is a slight projection. This design is mirrored on the other side, although it is obscured by heavy corrosion. Instead of the domed roundels, on the second side these elements are flatter and each have a central spike that wou…
Created on: Monday 27th October 2003
Last updated: Sunday 19th November 2023
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Record ID: DOR-05CCB8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Iron Age silver quarter stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 50 - 20 BC.A South Western (Durotrigian) uninscribed type. A "Badbury Starfish" type Reference: ABC 2220 Diameter: 12.91 mm Weight: 0.82 g  
Created on: Sunday 24th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
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Record ID: DOR-05B7E5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Iron Age copper alloy stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 20 BC to 40 AD. A South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type. A stylised wreath and pellets on the obverse and a pellets on the reverse. Reference: ABC 2175 Diameter: 17.70 mm Weight: 2.97 g  
Created on: Sunday 24th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
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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.

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Record ID: DOR-EDB580
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
1 sherd of prehistoric pottery. A low fired reduced brown to greyish fabric with grog inclusions and occasional voids which may have been calcareous pieces. Undiagnostic body sherd. Heavily abraded. Date: Late Iron Age Weight: 3g Identified with guidance and notes from Lorraine Mepham
Created on: Tuesday 10th 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-17B0DA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Items from an Iron Age crouched inhumation: A copper alloy vessel with handle, a pottery vessel, two copper alloy brooches and an iron implement Grave assemblage: 1] A copper alloy vessel with ornate handle. In excavation the vessel was observed to comprise two layers of horizontally ridged copper alloy sheet. Adjacent to it was the probably handle in two pieces. The handle consists of a rectangular copper alloy bar, which constricts into right-angled ends which then expand into right-angled, squared escutcheons. The handle is decorated with longitudinal grooves on the main body and…
Created on: Friday 4th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maiden Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

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-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-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-F732BC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Iron Age copper alloy stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 20 BC to 40 AD. A South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type. A stylised wreath on the obverse and a stylised horse on the reverse. Reference: ABC 2175 Diameter: 18.01 mm Weight: 2.75 g Die Axis: 10
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Record ID: DOR-F74F55
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  base silver stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 20 BC to AD 40. South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type. A stylised wreath on the obverse and a stylised horse on the reverse.  Date: Late Iron Age Diameter: 18.3 mm Weight:  3.77 g Die axis: 10
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 15th December 2022
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Record ID: DOR-D2CD87
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Iron Age silver stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 60 BC to 10 AD. A South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type. A stylised wreath on the obverse and a stylised horse on the reverse.  Reference: ABC No. 2157 Diameter: 18.49 mm Weight: 2.68 g Die Axis: 11
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
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