Record ID: SOM-70698B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of the rim of a large open vessel, probably a garden vessel, possibly a decorative bowl or relatively modern date. The piece is made in a coarse but high fired dark orange fabric with numerous air gaps giving a laminar structure. The fabric has sparse fine quartz temper and occasional very large, up to 6mm globular clay pellets and occasional white rounded inclusion up to 1mm, probably limestone. The rim is from a widening mouth of a vessel of large diameter. There is a beaded rounded rim on the outer side with an unusual applied decoration on the outer side. The decoration is of…
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 14th April 2020
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Record ID: SOM-7EDC5E
Object type: MEDAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two objects: A military cap badge with a central flower and inscribed garter belt, surrounded by a laurel wreath leading up to a crown at the top. Inscribed with the words 'Duke of Connaught's Own'. A strip like clip is on the back with the words 'MIN LONDON' printed in small white lettering, the end lost to a break. (8.34g, 38.5mm by 34.2mm, 2mm thick). Probably manufactured by Firmin of London, a major producer of Military buttons and other goods still in existance today. A football club league champion medal with a central shield, a ring shaped border and a loop at the top.Th…
Created on: Friday 24th May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2019
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Record ID: SOM-5BC0CB
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern gold finger ring formed of a sexfoil bezel and hoop of multiple twised wires. The bezel is flat with a raised rim and raised collet in the centre. The collet has multiple small triangular projections around the top rim which are bent over a faceted pink stone to hold it in place. The inner point of each indent between each petal is decorated with a pellet and the front of the flower bezel, around the collet is decorated with multple raised dots formed from the background metal. The back of the bezel is plain. The hoop abuts the bezel and is formed of two larger lines of twis…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2018
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Record ID: SOM-A313D3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hollow gold finger ring decorated with incised lines and now slightly squashed. A photograph of the ring has been examined by curators at the British Museum who suggest (pers comm 13/02/2018) it post-dates 1718 and therefore does not need to reported under the Treasure Act 1996. The ring is D-shaped in cross section and circular in plan although now squashed and distorted in places. It is decorated around the entire outside with a repeating mtif of a branch (diagonal line with two pairs of angled side branches) alternating with a sideways S, one end of which is crossed by a short …
Created on: Tuesday 27th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2018
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Record ID: SOM-ED9FF3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern brass (copper-alloy) button. Slightly domed front and concave back. The front decorated with a circle formed of a belt with buckle inscribed MENTAL HOSPITAL, WELLS. The back has no makers mark and just two concentric raised rings around a central loop formed of a D-shaped strip bent over into a loop and applied to the back. The button is 25.6mm in diameter, 3.3mm thick and weighs 5.59 grams. Mendip Hospital , the former county asylum was known as Wells Mental Hospital by 1929 and the Somerset and Bath Mental Hospital (Wells) between 1940 - 1948 so a date of c.1900 to 1948 is…
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 29th August 2017
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Record ID: SOM-A3F059
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy piece of uncertain use modelled on a die stamp for a livery button of probably 19th cnetury date. The piece is circular with a shaped front, rough sides and smoothed back where the metal has cooled with a slightly concave centre. There is a square piercing through it at 12 o'clock near the rim. The front is concave from the rim with a raised circle with slightly rounded edges 22.4 mm in diameter taking up the centre. The raised circle has a slightly convex top and a raised design on it of a shield of English (Tudor arch) shape bearing four fusils in fess above the shield i…
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holford CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E00B4E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight of distinctive shape and probably Modern date. The weight is a trangular prism, triangular in cross section with rectangular sides and rounded corners. There are vertical casting seams down each end and a flattened spike at one end may indicate where it was cast in a row with others. One the top is a raised section; this is circular and bent over the top ridge giving a semi-circular raised section on each of those two long sides. The piece is 16.9mm long, 15.4mm tall and 15.7mm thick and weighs 25.03 grams. Two identical although slightly lighter weighs were found in th…
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2017
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Record ID: SOM-7E094E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy circular weight of probable post-medieval to modern date. The weight has a broad raised rim, and recessed centre. In the centre is a circular hole encircled by four more irregularly spaced circular holes. The back is plain. It is 50mm in diameter, 8mm thick and weighs 108 grams, c. 3.8 ounces. It is probably a very light 4 ounce weight that has lost some weight through corrosion. The form is found throughout the Post Medieval period both in stamped trade weights and less official weights Biggs and Withers 200:54 e.g. Fig 5). It is not clear if this weight was origina…
Created on: Friday 10th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 10th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colyton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CCA5CC
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern public house token (pub check) for the Blue Anchor Hotel, Old Cleeve, Somerset, dating to the period AD 1830 to 1920. Different type to that published in Minnitt et al (1985) p. 69 no. 133.
Created on: Monday 19th January 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-65CFB5
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval or Modern copper alloy livery button. The button is circular with a slightly convex front and concave back. In the centre of the back is a separate copper alloy loop. There is part of a makers name on the back, now unclear. The front is tinned with a an elaborately shaped and garnished shield. In general it is lozenge shaped and therefore maybe the arms of an unmarried women or widow. The arms are impaled and are: Argent (or Or) a chevron sable between three boars heads couped impaling sable a chevron argent (or Or) between three cherubs. It is 25.8mm in diameter, 3.5mm …
Created on: Friday 16th November 2012
Last updated: Friday 18th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stogursey CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-6518A0
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Post Medieval to Modern lead alloy kosher seal. The seal is circular and has a slot running through it from top to bottom, cord would be run around the object then through the slot and it which would have been squeezed closed to attach it to the cord. One face has a raised Star of David (open interlocked equilateral triangles forming a six pointed star), the other the number 321. . It is 15.9mm in diameter and 3.5mm thick. It weighs 2.63gm. The seal may be from meat or some other goods where similar restrictions apply, and denotes that the merchandise is Kosher. The number pro…
Created on: Friday 16th November 2012
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2019
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Record ID: SOM-63E160
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy three piece sheet hollow button with back plate and oval wire attachment loop intact. The pressed motif on the face of the button is of a helmet and crossed axes for the fire brigade which was used nationally around the turn of the 19th century.
Created on: Friday 16th November 2012
Last updated: Sunday 14th June 2020
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Record ID: SOM-695D42
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern copper alloy half sovereign token issued by the Ebbesbourne Wake Co-operative Society Limited, made by Ardill at Leeds, c.AD 1870-1897. Meers, P. in Ebbesbourne Wake Through the Ages identifies Charles Young as the manager of the Cooperative in an 1885 directory and again in the 1891 census. A William Duckles is the manager on an 1895 directory but by the next issue of a directory in 1897 while Willaim Duckles is still in the village running a shop the Cooperative society is no longer mentioned and may have folded. Ardills were a large producer of tokens and gaming counters a…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AE96C7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Modern copper alloy finger ring made from a George VI penny. The ring is D-shaped in cross-section, convex on the outside and flat on the inner side. The outer side is corroded but appears to have no surviving decoration. On the inner side is the remains of the coin's design. The inscription can be seen, reading ONE PENNY with the helmet of Britannia between the words, and then the date: 1940. It seems to have been deliberately shaped to retain these elements of the design. It is 20.0mm in diameter, 4.9mm wide and 1.4mm thick, it weighs 2.21 grams. Given the date of the penny, this…
Created on: Friday 15th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 13th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hinton St George', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-9CFA16
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken lead Russian bale seal dating to 1847. The seal is circular with a hole for the cord running from side top to bototm. Breaks at the top and bottom have removed baout a quarter of the seal. One side has the inscription in five lines and reads: *[...]PX.[....]/ NYДEAB/ 2 COPTЂ /A.P/ 1847. The other side is more worn but appears to read: ДCCЯЉ[...]/ [...]OPT/ [...]OR/ [...]Ъ.This probably includes information about the place of export, the producer, the quantity and the control officer with a reference number. It is 30.1mm in diameter, 28.7mm long and 4.2mm thick; it weigh…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-9CB4F5
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken lead Russian bale seal dating from the 18/19th century from the Estonian port of Narva. The seal is circular with a hole for the cord running from side to side. The lower third has been lost to a relatively straight break or cut. One side has the inscription in three lines and reads: * N : P * / A N 1 2 M D / [...]. NP stands for Narva (Estonia), the place of export, the next row is codified data about the producer, the missing lower row would have been the date. The other side has unclear and worn lettering, this would have been information about the control officer with a r…
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7CCFD3
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron spur with white metal coating, probably of later 18th to early 20th century date. The spur sides are d shaped in section with a flat inner side and a plain flat circular terminal, 9.3mm in diameter, with a circular hole to hold a mushroom stud. The sides widen and thicken slightly towards the back, from 5.4mm by 4.4mm to 7.9mm by 6.2mm. There is no crest. The long neck is circular in section, 6.2mm, and straight, projecting from the middle of the back of the spur. It is now 43.8mm long and ends in a V shape, presumably the broken end of the rowel box. It is now 129mm long, 70.9mm …
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 4th November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tatworth and Forton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-840B27
Object type: DIE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Home made lead die, probably of 19th century date. The die is a cube with two opposing convex sides and four flat sides. It is unlikely the die would settle on the convex sides leaving four options. On three sides a letter has been scratched by hand: T, P and L and on the fourth side is a large indent. It is 18.7mm across the convex sides, 15.2mm by 15.9 across the others and weighs 36.21 grams. Home made lead items are hard to date precisely but the style of the lettering suggests a relatively modern date.
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2012
Last updated: Friday 20th January 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Taunton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7FCF16
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast copper-alloy flat circular button. The button has a moulded front with a legend around the outer border arranged so both words are upright: BRIDGWATER VOLUNTEERS. In the central field is a castle with a large central turret on a bridge. The back is plain with a seperately formed central copper-alloy loop. There are traces of a black substance on the back and front. It is 23.9mm in diameter, 1.4mm thick excluding the loop, 6.0mm including and weighs 4.44 grams. The Bridgwater Volunteers started in 1794, they were active in 1803 and 1804 and all the Somerset Volunte…
Created on: Monday 7th November 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-720190
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy contemporary copy of a shilling of George III (1760-1820), dated 1817 on coin, Spink 3790. Besley and Boon (in Brennan 1991:15, no.28) report a similar copy and suggest they were relatively common in this period when people were still becoming familiar with the new style of coinage. It was presumably originally silver plated but the plating has worn off. SOM-4E0936 and DENO-E286E1 are similar.
Created on: Monday 19th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 20th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shepton Mallet', grid reference and parish protected.