Record ID: SOM-66FAC3
Object type: APOTHECARY WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy apothecaries weight for 2 scruples. It is rectangular and flat and stamped on both sides with the traditional symbol for 2 scruples (like a backwards capital E joined to a y with two dots above it) with a star above. It measure 12.3mm long, 10.5mm wide and is 2.8mm thick. It weighs 2.39 grams. This type of weight was in use from 1618 AD to the 19th century.
Created on: Friday 19th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-688B81
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast copper-alloy terminal (stop) for a scale-tang knife handle. The stop is in the form of a pair of bifurcating horses hooves with deep incised lines between the pair and seperating the 'hooves' from the 'shoes' which are indicated by an incised central line for the frog, raised calkins at the ends and four punched indents for nail holes on each 'shoe'. The attachment end of the stop is oval and has a slot through it which contains the remains of the iron knife tang, the longer sides have wide incised lines running parallel to the edge between the slots. It is 17.6mm w…
Created on: Friday 19th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2010
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Record ID: SOM-69C142
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval composite sheet copper-alloy button. The front and back are made of two pieces of copper alloy sheet soldered together, the separate copper alloy wire shank is missing. The front is convex with a central raised boss an an incised line around the edge. The back is now concave but parallels and the off centred form of the indent suggest it was originally convex and has been damaged. There is an irregular hole with spayed edge in the centre where the shank has been removed flanked by rectangular blow holes. To one side are stamped the initials TC or TG, probably a makers ma…
Created on: Friday 19th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2010
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Record ID: SOM-A4DF10
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast copper alloy stud chape from a shoe buckle. The chape has two cylindrical tubes at one end with the remains of a tube from the pin between them, around these is the rusted remains of the seperate iron spindle which would have gone through the tubes and into the buckle frame at either side. The body of the chape is flat and narrows immediately after the tubes before curving slightly out and then inwards to a narrower rectangular projection at the end opposite the tubes. This now ends in an old break but would have has a stud to attach to the leather shoe. The chape i…
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 24th November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stawell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A5FAD2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast copper-alloy button with a convex front and a integral attachment loop set off centre in the concave back. The loop was probably originally rectangular and has an off centre circular hole drilled through it; the upper part is missing to an old break. The front of the button is decorated with incised lines forming an outline, equal armed cross with a ring and dot at the centre. The central ring and dot has at least 4 rings, the outer of which is made of small annulets. The arms of the cross are also decorated with ring and dot, two on each arm, the outer ones have tw…
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stawell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A69B38
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast lead-tin alloy button probably dating to the 17th-18th century. About three fifths of the button and the loop is lost to an old break. The front is slightly convex and decorated with a raised, cast design of a pellet border containing six symetrically arranged tendrils with two short branches and a longer branch curving in from the outer edge, the longer branches bifucate into two curls, the central curls from each branch create a ring around a central pellet giving a flower like appearence. The back is rough but appears plain with a central irregular indent where t…
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 24th November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stawell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A7F4F0
Object type: SKILLET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy skillet handle. The fragment tapers in width and thickness along its length and is trapezoid in plan with a wider upper surface, bevelled sides and flat back. The front has moulded geometric decoration of raised lines between recessed areas forming a row of squares containing four pointed ovals arranged in a saltire, like a quatrefoil; one complete square and sections of two others survive. Between two of the squares is a raised band with diagonal incisions making a rope effect and between the other two may be a row of pellets although this is unclear. …
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2010
Last updated: Monday 6th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stawell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A8F848
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval silver threepence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), plain cross initial mark, dated 1578 on coin, over stamped on 1577, North 1998
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2010
Last updated: Monday 31st January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shapwick', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-A98C62
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast lead alloy musket ball, 17.0mm in diameter and 26.31 grams in weight. There are faint traces of a casting seam and several dents and flattened areas, possibly from firing of post deposition damage. Lead bullets such as these were used from c1550 - 1850, most of them are likely to date from the 17th - 18th century as post-1800 most shot was made in shot towers rather than cast.
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shapwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D20D91
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy toy cannon of probable 18th-century date, with part of the gun carriage attached. The cascable (closed end) of the cannon is domed and there is a pronounced base ring. The small vent hole, blocked with mud, is half way between the base ring and first reinforce ring. The second reinforce ring has roughly semicircular expansions to each side, on the muzzle side of the ring, from which project the short trunnions. The trunnions have corroded, pointed ends and still go through the carriage, attaching the two together. The total width of the cannon across the trunnions…
Created on: Wednesday 24th November 2010
Last updated: Sunday 6th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pitminster', grid reference and parish protected.