Record ID: DOR-10B90E
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description:. An incomplete silver child's whistle, A tubular whistle formed from sheet silver and with an open D-shaped mouth piece and a D-shaped sound hole. There is a visible seam along the length of the whistle. The body of the whistle expands towards the open end. The open end has a series of sharp triangular projections around its edge. most of which are bent. The body is decorated with three collars. One below the sound hole is formed of coiled, spring-like silver wire, The second, equidistant between the latter and the end of the body, is of the same construction and …
Created on: Tuesday 4th May 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melcombe Horsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-9D1104
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver groat of Mary I (1553 - 1558) dating to 1553 - 1554. Pomegranates in the legends. Mint of London. Reference: North Vol 2, No. 1960 Date: Post Medieval Diameter: 24.25 mm Weight: 1.19 g Die axis: 8
Created on: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 15th June 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-4B6B49
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy 17th century trade token issued by Thomas Gould in Blandford Forum, Dorset. Lion rampant on the obverse Reference: Boyne/Williamson Vol I, Dorset 14 Date: 1664 Diameter: 15.32 mm Weight: 0.57 g
Created on: Friday 19th March 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 9th June 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-94818C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A penny of Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) dating to 1567-70. Mint of London. Coronet initial mark. The coin is clipped. Reference: North 2001 Date: Post Medieval Diameter: 13.52 mm Weight: 0.45 g Die axis: 5
Created on: Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-408261
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A penny of Charles I (1625 - 1649) dating to 1639 - 40. Mint of London. Triangle initial mark. The coin is clipped. Reference: North 2271 Date: Post Medieval Diameter: 12.90 mm Weight: 0.42 g Die axis: 7
Created on: Friday 29th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
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Record ID: DOR-2DAF78
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy trade token of Thomas Atkines of Wickham (Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) dating to 1668. Reference: Boyne/Williamson 1889, Volume I, p. 55, No.155 (Buckinghamshire) Obverse: THOMA[S ATKINES] - Inscription in three lines HIS/HALF/PENY Reverse: [OF WICKH]AM 166[8] - around initials T E A (Arranged A/TE) Date: Post Medieval Diameter: 18.52 mm Weight: 1.31 g Die axis: 9
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
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Record ID: DOR-2D7BDB
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Nuremberg jetton of uncertain manufacturer .A Rose/orb type. The edge has been folded over in one place. The legends are largely illegible. Date: Post Medieval Diameter: 20.62 mm Weight: 0.87 g
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th February 2021
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Record ID: DOR-2D149A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy skillet handle. The handle is broadly rectangular, tapering slightly from the break to a rounded end.It is D-shaped in cross section. Cast onto the surface on the flat, upper face is a partial inscription. The recessed lettering is all capitals and runs from the break towards the end of the handle. It reads: [---]EX ANO[---] Date: Post Medieval - c.1500 - 1750 Dimensions: 83.51 mm x 22.53 mm x 8.84 mm Weight: 78.26 g Naomi Payne has kindly commented: The handle derives from a right-handed skillet of later 16th to early 18th century date. The parti…
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2021
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Record ID: DOR-840B94
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy Post-Medieval slip top spoon. The bowl is 'fig' shaped. The stem has a faceted irregular hexagonal cross-section with a chamfered terminal (slip-top). There is a short V-shaped ridge on the rear of the bowl where the handle joins it. At the top of the bowl, set in line with the handle, is a stamped touch-mark in a rope border of the initials CF. These are orientated with the base of the letters towards the handle. There are multiple scratches on the surface of the bowl and handle, In particular are a group of long incised lines in the bowl which may be a crude c…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Affpuddle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-887895
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval gold ecu d'or au soleil of Francis I of France (1515-47). Second type (23 Jan 1515), minted in Lyon. Crowned shield of France on the obverse and a triple stranded cross fleuretty on the reverse with a crowned F in two of the angles. Reference: Duplessy 771 Diameter: 24.97 mm Weight: 3.32 g Die axis: 6/7
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyme Regis', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-9CF36E
Object type: DRESS PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver-gilt dress-pin. The head is spherical and hollow. The pin shaft is inserted into the base of the head, is circular in cross section and tapers to a point. The shaft has an L-shaped bend about a third of the way along below the head and the remainder of the shaft extends diagonally upwards. The head is decorated with silver wire filigree and pellets which are the heads of applied pins. Two horizontal filigree bands divide the head into two hemispheres. Each hemisphere is decorated with three large filigree circles. Within each circle there are a further five circles su…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stalbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-8B87F1
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver annular hawking ring or vervel. The vervel is a flat ring with a rectangular cross section. Both faces are inscribed in serifed upper and lowercase lettering: Side one: Returne . to . Sir Side two: Thom. Trenchard Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700 Dimensions: 11.97 mm x 4.86 mm x 1.28 mm Internal diameter 7.11 mm Weight: 0.71 g The inscription may relate to Sir Thomas Trenchard of Wolverton, Dorset (1582 - 1657), MP on three occasions between 1621 and 1648, Knighted in 1613 and High Sherriff of Dorset in 1634. The family held land at Charminster and…
Created on: Monday 21st September 2020
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lytchett Matravers', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-364BBF
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A gold finger ring with an internal inscription. The hoop is D-shaped in cross section. On the flat interior surface is two line inscription in Italic lettering. There are incised guidelines visible under the inscription. The inscription reads: The eye doth finde the hart doth chuse Faith doth finde and death doth loose Next to the inscription is a maker’s mark in a shield- DA Dimensions: 24.43 mm x 4.70 mm x 2.78 mm Weight: 10.21 g Date: Post Medieval – c. 1650 - 1730 Discussion: Since at least the middle of the nineteenth century (Waterton 1859, …
Created on: Thursday 17th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 5th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-630A3B
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:  An incomplete silver cuff link element. A disc from one end of a cufflink originally joined with a loop to another, matching element. The disc has an angled rim which is missing and damaged in places. On the front is a raised design of a pair of clasped hands with lace cuffs at the wrists, two hearts below and a crown above. Corresponding recessed areas on the back suggest the design was stamped. Soldered to the centre of the rear is a circular sectioned wire loop. There is no visible makers mark. There is an area of iron corrosion product at the rear. Dimension…
Created on: Monday 7th September 2020
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Rawston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-038BED
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A groat of Philip and Mary dating to 1554 - 1558. Lis initial marks. Tower mint, London. Reference: North Volume 2, No. 1973 Date: Post Medieval Diameter: 23.88 mm Weight: 1.98 g Die axis: 7
Created on: Tuesday 28th July 2020
Last updated: Monday 25th October 2021
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Record ID: DOR-FE7FFB
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gold fitting, possibly a finger ring bezel or cap badge. A circular plate of gold with a raised rim and central recess for a missing setting on the front face. The rim is decorated with a raised edge with a scalloped inner face framing a concentric band of numerous diagonal rows of conjoined pellets forming a rope-like pattern and framed on the inner edge with a concentric row of conjoined pellets. Projecting from this last is a plain inner rim, hollowed underneath, which would have held in place the stone or other setting in the empty central recess. At the rear is the …
Created on: Tuesday 28th July 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Henstridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-8196FF
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy mount, possible a boss from a bridle bit. The mount is circular with a low convex front and a hollowed rear, The front of the mount is decorated with a series of moulded concentric bands around a low domed area at the centre. The bands are as follows (from the outer edge): A band of raised chevrons pointing inwards, a rope patterned band, a plain raised band, a band of pellets. AT the rear is a raised rim around a shallow recess. There are some areas of damage on the rear surface, but no obvious attachment points. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700 Dimensions: 52.32…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Last updated: Friday 12th March 2021
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Record ID: DOR-813F81
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy cast spherical bell. A type of bell often known as a "crotal" bell. A complete example retaining its copper alloy pea. The bell is spherical with a raised girth band separating the two hemispheres. The lower hemisphere has a thin, rectangular slot which is expanded into circular terminals on the underside. There are two circular sound holes in the upper hemisphere (either side of the attachment point of the loop).  At the top is a long, rectangular framed integral suspension loop. The frame of the loop is angular in cross section and the aperture of t…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: DOR-7FD0FB
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy hooked tag or dress hook with a glass insert. The hooked tag comprises a circular central plate with a raised circular rim in the recess of which is set a circular domed piece of glass, a rounded loop at the top and a rearward curved pointed hook at the base. Around the central plate the sides are moulded into an uneven scalloped edge with two large knops at the top, smaller angled knops along the sides and two slightly smaller knops flanking the hook at the base. The integral loop is rounded with a circular aperture. The integral hook is sharply constricted from the pl…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Last updated: Friday 12th March 2021
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Record ID: DOR-1A4DC6
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy jetton. A Nuremberg jetton of the Anonymous stock period, Lion of St Mark type. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1500 - 1550 Reference: Mitchiner, M, 1988, Jetons, Medalets & Tokens: The Medieval Period and Nuremberg Volume One, BA Seaby Limited, London, page 363, No. 1115 Diameter: 28.08 mm Weight: 6.14 g Die axis: 9
Created on: Friday 17th July 2020
Last updated: Friday 12th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.