Record ID: SOM-89AD03
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval or Medieval whetstone or hone. The stone is sub rectangular with slightly concave long edges so it widens slightly towards each end. One end is complete with rounded corners, the other ends in an old break. In section it has straight sides and slighty convex faces. It thickens slightly towards the complete end before thinning to a rounded edge. Just before the break is a circular perforation for suspension. the hole is hour glass shaped having been drilled from both sides and is 3.8mm in diameter in the centre. The stone is fine grained, grey to slightly grey green in c…
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 12th December 2012
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Record ID: SOM-667738
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead wieght; square with a flat base and a cast design of a grid with a central pellet on the slightly concave top surface. It is 19.8mm by 19.6mm by 9.4mm and wieghs 29.08 grams, 1.033 ounces. As the weight so nearly approximates to an ounce it probably dates to after the widespread adoption of the averdepois system in the 14th century. Similar square weights with simple cast designs on the top face are illustrated in Biggs and Withers (2000:27-9) although none with the same design as this example, they are also though to be mostly Medieval - Post medieval in date.
Created on: Thursday 24th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 3rd March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-D0B8E5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy globular weight with corroded iron suspension loop embedded at the top. The weight is sub-spheircal with a flattened base and flattened part at the top. The loop is made of a short piece of iron wire with each end embedded in the top of the weight with an transverse indent in the top of the weight, below the wire, creating an oval hole. It is 42.9mm in diameter, 32.8mm thick, excluding the loop, 36.4mm including and weighs 352 grams, 12 and a quarter ounces. The suspension loop suggests it may have acted as a steelyard weight. Plain lead weights are usually locally …
Created on: Monday 20th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke St Michael', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-D0D492
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy disc shaped weight with corroded iron suspension loop embedded at the top. The weight is circular with a flat base and top. Both top and base have a wide, irregular, thickened border around the edge. The loop appears to be made of a short piece of iron wire with each end embedded in the top of the weight and a further piece of corroded iron extending to one side, possibly part of a larger loop running through the first. It is 65.3mm in diameter, 18.2mm thick and weighs 433 grams, 15 and a quarter ounces, nearly a pound. The suspension loop suggests it may have acted…
Created on: Monday 20th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke St Michael', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A6DA7C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sub-circular lead alloy 'pan' weight of probably Medieval to early post-medieval date, c. 1390-1700 The weight has a slightly concave back and flat sides with a slightly irregular, in width and thickness, raised rim around the front. The front is stamped with three very large fleur de lis, almost filling the field. The weight is 53.3mm by 49.9mm and 7.9mm thick. It weighs 108g, 3.8 ounces. The weight was probably originally 4 ounces, a quarter of a pound in the Avoirdupois system, adoped after c. AD 1390 (Biggs 1992, 44). The marks are likely to be local verification marks. Such m…
Created on: Friday 6th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 6th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marshfield CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-658472
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead truncated steelyard weight that is circular in plan and conical in profile and slightly asymmetrical. There is a perforation from the base to the apex for the hooked rod that would then attach to the steelyard arm. The hole is off centre. The weight weighs 190 g which equates to about 6.7 avoirdupois ounces or almost half of an avoirdupois pound, as one avoirdupois pound was 15 ounces. One Roman pound or libra was 328.9 g so this weight would equate to more than a half of a Roman pound, but half an English troy pound equates to g, and the shape and weight sugge…
Created on: Friday 16th November 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd June 2020
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Record ID: SOM-EA1CD5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast lead shield shaped weight. The weight has a raised central section on the front within a thinner border. On the central section is a worn lion rampant while around the border is a row of indented dots. A larger dot at the centre of the top may have been intended as the start of a suspension hole, which is incomplete. The back is plain. It is 34.6mm long, 25.2mm wide and 11.6mm thick, it weighs 54.34 grams, 1.913 ounces. Biggs and Withers illustrate a number of similar shield-shaped lead weights with rampant lion design (2000: 37-41, nos. 88-99). Like most shield-shaped…
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 5th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Petherton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C427A5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post Medieval lead trade weight of one pound. The 'pan' weight is octagonal with eight facets around the sides and a flat top and base. On the top is cut X\\\\, each line has a deeply indented circular hole at the start, end and middle. On the back is incised I, again with an indented hole top, bottom and middle. The weight is 52mm across, 21.5mm thick and weighs 445g, 15.69 ounces, just under 1 pound. The averdupois system of pounds and ounces was developed in the late 13th-14th century. It is likely the I refers to 1 pound but the XIIII is confusing as it should be 16…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Monday 16th April 2018
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Record ID: SOM-E96EB1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast copper alloy pot foot and part of the leg. The leg is D shaped in section with a flat back; it is broken off just above a transverse collar with an old break. The foot is also D shaped in section with five moulded 'toes' running down the front giving a scalloped lower edge and a flat back. The base of the foot is flat and would mean the leg sat at c.80 degrees to vertical. It is 39.5mm long, 22.4mm wide and 16.6mm thick; it weighs 41.74 grams. Cast copper alloy vessels were widely used from c.1200-1700 for serving and cooking. Butler et al (2009:4) sugges…
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 6th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Stoke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-FAFAB7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy pot leg, 1200-1700 AD. The leg is trapezoid in section with a wider front than back and a central raised rib running down the front. It has an old irregular break at the upper end. and has lost part of one side to a break or mis-casting; there are also several holes in the front from mis-casting The leg widens outwards at the base to create the plain trapezoid foot. The foot has an irregular front edge and may have been intended to have rounded front corners and an indented curved front with a central projection at the end of the rib bu…
Created on: Friday 26th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 6th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piddlehinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7A67C7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead vessel repair (pot mend). It is roughly oval in plan and H-shaped in section with two irregularly shaped outer sides, one larger than the other, joined by a smaller central section. In the groove created between the outer sides there are fragment of the original pot. The pottery has a bright orange fabric with common (c.20%) coarse sand temper. It is 42.5 mm by 39.2mm, 9.3 mm thick and weighs 81.7 g. Pot mends of this form are found in both Roman and Medieval periods, as a common way to repair broken pottery. The fabric appears similar to Medieval cooking pots alt…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Friday 7th January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otterhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-CD1B16
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body fragment from an unglazed Medieval cooking pot of probably 13th to 15th century date. The fabric is high fired, mid orange-dark buff with common (c.20%) medium sand temper. On the outer side is a sharp carination where the side angles inwards at c.40 degrees, the change of direction is more rounded on the inner side. It weighs 15.91 grams.
Created on: Monday 6th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 6th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawdrip', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F675B1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim fragment from a late Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy vessel. The rim has a rounded swelling on the inner side. The rim was angled at about 60 degrees from horizontal. The outer side is crudely finished while the inner side has been burnished smooth. It is 5.8mm thick at the rim, and 2.7mm thick at the lower broken edge; it weighs 42.34 grams. It is too small to estimate the original diameter.
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 14th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Coker', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-6E8BB6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead vessel repair (pot mend). It is roughly oval in plan and H-shaped in section with two irregularly shaped outer sides, one larger than the other, joined by a smaller central section. The smaller side is concave in the centre and the larger convex. In the 3.1mm wide groove created between the outer sides there are fragment of the original pot. The pottery has a bright orange fabric with common (c.20%) medium-coarse sand temper. It is 52.2 mm by 40.9mm, 19.2 mm thick and weighs 192.8 g. Pot mends of this form are found in both Roman and Medieval periods, as a co…
Created on: Friday 7th January 2011
Last updated: Friday 7th January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-78A432
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy pot foot, 1200-1650 AD. The foot is trapezoid in plan with a wider front than back and a central raised rib running down the front. It has an old irregular break at the upper end where the leg is missing. The foot is flat and the leg rose at an angle of c.75 degrees.There are sooting deposits on the front. It is 19.9mm tall, 43.1mm wide, 32.1mm thick; it weighs 80 grams.
Created on: Friday 25th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 3rd March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-35D3E4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy pot leg, 1200-1700 AD. The leg is oval in section with a flattened front back and a central raised rib running down the front. It has an old irregular break at the upper end. The leg widens outwards at the base to create the plain trapezoid foot with a wider front than back. The leg rose form this at an angle of c.75 degrees. It is 24.9mm tall, 41.1mm wide, 32.4mm deep; it weighs 114 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2011
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-DADBC6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body fragment from a Medieval or Post-Medieval copper alloy vessel. The fragment is from the upper part of the vessel where it consiticts before flaring out to the inverted rim, now missing. The outer surface is roughly cast with multiple parallel raised lines from wiping the clay mould, the inner surface is smooth. The curve of the fragment suggests the vessel was 210mm in diameter internally at the constriction. The fragment is 27.9mm long and 33.1mm wide, and its thickness varies from 3.8mm at the lower edge to 2.6mm at the top where it is part of the rim. It weighs 32.01 grams.
Created on: Friday 29th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 29th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wembdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-DAFC08
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a cast copper alloy leg from a Medieval to Post Medieval vessel. The leg is flat cross section with convex rounded edges and a flat front and back. The leg terminates in a rounded but plain end with no clear 'foot', at the top is an old break. The front of the leg has a raised central rib running down the length.There are extensive traces of sooting on the leg and foot. It measures 30.3mm in length, 31.1mm in width and 9.7mm in thickness; it weighs 28.40g. This appears to be an example of Butler, Green and Payne (2009, pg 4) Type 'a', lacking the foot, which was widespread…
Created on: Friday 29th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 29th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wembdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-869498
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd from a jug consisting of part of the body wall and part of the lower fixing point for a strap handle. The fabric has a pale grey reduced core and mid orange surface with abundant (c.25%) fine to medium angular quartz temper. The outer side is covered in pale olive green glaze. The junction between the handle and wall has been slashed with at least four parallel vertical lines to ensure the thicker area dried and fired consistently. Over this slashing is stamped a recessed circle containing a raised equal armed (plain) cross with a separate recessed pellet above and to the l…
Created on: Monday 27th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2011
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Record ID: SOM-882E55
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six sherds of South Western coarseware dating to c.1200-1500, including some base sherds, from a large cooking pot with slightly convex, sagging base. Mostly grey fabic with oxidised outer side. c.25% poorly sorted coarse to fine quartz, flint and chert temper with some iron oxide pieces. 78 grams in total.
Created on: Monday 27th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2011
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