Record ID: SOM-B5A11E
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T331: Disclaimed, returned to finder Description: A complete silver spoon of late 17th century date. The spoon has a flat handle with an elaborated trefid terminal and oval lace-back bowl, slightly squashed in to one side. The terminal of the handle is flat and in the same plane as the handle with three large lobes with smaller rounded knops in between the main lobes. The front is decorated with an elaborate scrolling design working in from the edges and expending a little way down the handle with a blank centre. It is more worn as it continues down the handle wi…
Created on: Monday 10th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brompton Regis CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E0E705
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post-Medieval silver pedestal type seal matrix. The seal face is oval with a design of a heart pierced by two arrows in saltire all within a pellet border. The pedestal has six facets and narrows sharply from the face to the top. On one of the side facets is engraved an initial I. The upper terminal of the pedestal is broken, only the lower part of two loops and the three-stepped collar below the loops remain. Several cracks in the upper part of the pedestal may relate to this break. The face is 14.2 by 12.3mm.
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-46A145
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval silver pedestal type seal matrix. The seal face is oval with a design of a heart pierced by two arrows in saltire with a row if short vertical lines above the heart and above them a crown and drops of blood to each side and below, all within a pellet border. The pedestal has six facets and narrows sharply from the face to the top. It ends in a double collar topped by three large suspension loops aranged in a triangle with the lower loops formed of a line that curls out ands projects slightly at the lower end and the upper loop topped by a projecting knop flanked by two s…
Created on: Friday 24th June 2011
Last updated: Friday 23rd May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-734469
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T662: Disclaimed, returned to finder Circumstances of discovery: Metal-detecting on pasture land, with few nearby finds of comparable date with the exception of treasure case 2017 T661. Description: A Post-medieval silver seal matrix. The seal matrix consists of a flat oval swivelling bezel held in situ and still freely rotatable within its frame. The seal is double sided, depicting a bull's head facing left on one face, with five large pellets at the base of its neck, probably a simplified torse, and on the other depicting a hand emerging from a potentially …
Created on: Tuesday 25th July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 21st December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Bradley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-DA992D
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: The seal matrix is of the pedestal type with a sub-oval face. The incuse design on the face consists of a shield, which has straight top and sides curving in at the base to meet in a slight central point, surmounted by a helmet with mantling to each side which continues down to flank the shield all within a pellet border. On the shield is a merchants mark in the form of a retrograde 4 (correct way around on the matrix) at the top with an elongated vertical line and diagonal line extending down from the top point to the left with a curled end; at the base the vertical bar…
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buckland-Tout-Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3A56C1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2018 T186 - submitted for considertation as treasure Description: Post Medieval silver pedestal type seal matrix. The seal face is oval with an incuse design of a coat of arms. The arms are described as they would appear on the seal impression (they are reversed on the matrix). Arms: Unidentified: on a fess engrailed, between three crescents, as many roses, impaling Williams: a greyhound courant in fess between three Cornish choughs proper. The shield has a straight top and sides and a rounded base coming to a point in the centre. The shield is outlined by a thin incised line and…
Created on: Thursday 22nd March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caundle Marsh CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CEAD82
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2018 T502: Disclaimed, returned to finder Description: An incomplete silver pedestal seal matrix, with missing loop. The handle is faceted, hexagonal in cross section, tapering from the face of the seal into a double banded transverse collar at the juncture between the handle and loop. The latter is incomplete, but was probably originally trefoilate. The seal face is oval-shaped and engraved with a design depicting a lion lying right and facing the viewer, and with a more shallowly engraved sun in the top left corner. This is within a beaded border around the peri…
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ravensden CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3D0CEF
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case 2015 T28: Disclaimed, returned to finder A post medieval silver chape. The piece is hollow and broadly conical, tapering from the top to the terminal. The top is now squashed but appears to have been circular or oval in section. The top edge is irregular suggesting it has been torn and is incomplete, although the breaks are old. At the terminal is attached a separate, probably solid knop. The knop has a collar where it meets the end of the open section, then a constriction, then a terminal knop which is circular in plan and oval in profile. The sides are decorated w…
Created on: Monday 12th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 11th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Zeals CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D4CAA5
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tip of a Post Medieval silver chape, probably from a scabbard. The chape is made of silver sheet bent around in a cylinder with a broken, open end and a closed end formed of four triangles bent inwards to meet in the centre. The joint is reinforced with folded sheet and strips of silver visible in the gaps between the triangles. It tapers from the broken open end to the closed end and appears to have been possible oval in section before being squashed inwards. There is part of a makers mark or hallmark on one side but the design is unclear. It is 16.4mm long, 10.1mm wide and 4.0mm thi…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3C93FC
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case 2015 T25: Disclaimed, returned to finder A post medieval silver-gilt dress-pin with squashed head and incomplete shank dating to the period c. AD 1500 - 1600. The pin head is hollow and was originally spherical. The head was formed of two hemispheres with the join marked by a raised band. About half of this join has sprung open when squashed. The head is decorated with twisted silver wire filigree. Each hemisphere is decorated with three large filigree circles. Within five of the circles there is a further small circle surrounding a central pellet. The remaining circl…
Created on: Monday 12th January 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woolavington CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-6452D1
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2014 T26: Disclaimed and returned to finder Description: A small silver-gilt dress-pin head. The silver head is hollow and originally spherical, but now squashed. It is decorated with silver wire filigree. 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 four circles surrounding a pellet. At each junction between the larger circles is a pellet and in each spandrel, between the large circles and the central band, is a small circle. At the top there …
Created on: Monday 27th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 9th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Shepton Mallet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-66CE77
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure case 2017 240: disclaimed, returned to finder Description: A small silver-gilt dress-pin head with a short length of the pin. The silver head is hollow and spherical and decorated with silver wire filigree. A horizontal silver wire filigree band divides the head into two hemispheres, this is missing in places exposing the soldering below and the joint between the two hemispheres. Each hemisphere is decorated with three large filigree circles of twisted wire. Within each circle there are a further three twisted wire circles surrounding a pellet, one pellet missing on the l…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Frome St Quintin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E1154B
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval silver-gilt dress pin dating to 16th century. The pin consists of the head and a short part of the shaft. The head is spherical and probably hollow and contains the end of the pin shaft. It is formed of two hemispheres soldered together. The join is covered by a double band of wire filigree. It is decorated with twisted silver-gilt wire filigree. Each hemisphere has four large filigree circles and within each circle are further four circles surrounding a pellet. Another smaller circle is in the triangular spandrel between the larges circles and the central junctions. T…
Created on: Friday 28th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Poltimore CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F521B1
Object type: NEEDLE HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
One end of a silver sheet tubular item, possibly a needle case or similar. The piece was originally tubular or oval in section formed of a rectangular piece of sheet rolled edge to edge and meeting in a seam down one side. The slightly convex faces suggest it was originally oval in section although it is now squashed flat. One end is incomplete with an irregular break. The other appears complete and has a slightly thinner, plain tubular piece of silver sheet fitted inside the first creating a step in thickness and width where they join. The seam has opened down the side of both tubes …
Created on: Friday 25th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Petherton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-768D7D
Object type: NEEDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Plain silver needle of uncertain, probably Post Medieval date, c. AD 1400-1950. The needle has a sub-rectangular cross sectioned eye end which ends in a rounded terminal and then narrows and thins into the round shaft. At the point it ends in a flat end, probably a break as it is neither pointed nor rounded. The needle has a rectangular eye with slightly rounded corners and between the eye and the adjacent end there is a groove down each wide face, continuing the indent of the eye. It is slightly bend with the shaft now curved in several places. The needle is 82.6mm long and 4.2m…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashcott', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-2C251B
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T757: Disclaimed, returned to finder Description: Late Medieval or Post Medieval silver strap end or lace chape. The fragment is formed of a strip of silver sheet folded along its long edge and now squashed flat. The chape tapers gradually from a broken end at the top to the terminal where it narrows more abruptly to a rounded tip. The tip has been bent over on itself. One side is plain the other is decorated with raised decoration. At the terminal the design is unclear but above the bend is an annulet with rays coming from it, above which is an area with a sca…
Created on: Tuesday 15th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 13th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bruton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-DE0530
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case: 2011 T234, disclaimed and returned to finder. Description: The hooked tag consists of a heart shaped plate with a scalloped outer edge of nine variably sized semi-circles divided by pointed indents. On the front of this plate is soldered a hollow, domed, heart-shaped front piece. The plate and front piece are 11.6mm long, 10.4mm wide and 4.9mm thick. The junction between the plate and front is partly concealed by a plain wire soldered around the base of the front piece. The front piece is further decorated by three circles of twisted wire soldered to it, arranged in a…
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ebbesborne Wake', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-2EB3D3
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2012 T4: Disclaimed, returned to finder Description: Silver gilt hooked tag, with a tri-lobed central section from which the hook and loop, now missing, would have projected. The central section has a flat tri-lobed back and convex front formed of three circular domes, two to the top and one between to the bottom, with an additional flower decoration in the centre. The outer edge of the back plate is serrated, with pointed indents. In the spandrels between each lobe is a small circular projecting tab with a central pierced hole. A twisted wire border runs around the ba…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd January 2012
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Highbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D4A002
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2011 T432: Disclaimed Description: A silver gilt finger ring. The ring is D shaped in section with a flat inner side. There is an inscription running around half of the inner side. It reads 'LOVE EVER', all letters in Roman capitals. The gilding survives better on the inner side, with traces remaining on the outer side and considerable wear and damage on the outer side Dimensions: It is 21.9mm in external diameter, 6.6mm wide, 2.1mm thick and weighs 5.88g. Discussion: A parallel to this ring can be seen on the Portable Antiquities database, PAS-ED9585 2008…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Stoke St Michael', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D4ABB7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2011 T431: Disclaimed Description: A silver gilt finger ring. The ring is D shaped in section with a flat inner side. There is an inscription running around a quarter of the inner side. It reads 'feare god', all letters in lower case italics. The gilding survives better on the inner side and edges with considerable wear and damage on the outer side. Dimensions: It is 23.7mm in external diameter, 4.7mm wide, 1.9mm thick and weighs 4.69g. Discussion: The inscription is a shortened version of that found on comparable finds (2004 T378 reads Feare God only * * …
Created on: Monday 25th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weare', grid reference and parish protected.