Record ID: CCI-730185
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CCI-93024
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drayton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CCI-611576
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
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Record ID: CCI-681428
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CCI-681429
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CCI-68143
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-8A5434
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn 3rd-century base-silver Roman radiate of Gallienus (joint reign), 'PAX AUGG', Rome mint (257-258 AD; Reece issue period 12; Cunetio 632; R.I.C. 157 var.)
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 7th June 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-4EB0E5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age uninscribed Southern gold quarter stater, c.50-30/20 BC (Haselgrove phase 6), of British 'QC' variety. It weighs 1.36g and measures 13.08mm in diameter. Obverse: Spiral formed of four animal's heads Reverse: Horse, left, sun above References: ABC (Cottam et al 2010) 782 VA (Van Arsdell 1989) 256 BMC (Hobbs 1996) 542-543
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2012
Last updated: Thursday 29th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Portsmouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-513887
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
A Post-Medieval gold posy ring, probably 17th century in date and inscribed on the inside of the hoop: *BE.TRVE.TO.THY.FRYNDE. (The stops being triangular punches). The exterior of the hoop is keyed all over to take enamel, with traces of a green enamel remaining. Flanking each edge is a narrow flange. The hoop of the ring is 3.12mm wide and D-shaped in cross-section (being 0.89mm thick). It has a diameter of 16.27mm and weighs 1.20g.
Created on: Wednesday 9th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 27th May 2015
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Record ID: HAMP-87F0C8
Object type: SHOE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four parts of the leather seat area (where the heel goes) of a shoe bottom of wooden pegged construction which was used from the 17th through to the 19th centuries. The individual parts measure c.55x60mm; 60x35mm; 25x55mm and 35x55mm. With many thanks to Quita Mould for the identification of this object, and to the finder for sending in the photographs and measurements.
Created on: Wednesday 11th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 12th June 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-3696DB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman sestertius of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar (AD 139-80), depicting Mars advancing right with transverse spear and trophy. Minted at Rome, AD 159-60 (Reece period 7). RIC III, p.188, no.1352A(a). The coin is extremely worn and the flan split.
Created on: Tuesday 19th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th August 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-C98876
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged and corroded copper alloy Roman coin: possibly a nummus of Helena, mother of Constantine,dating from AD 337 - 340 (Reece Period 17), PAX PVBLICA reverse type depicting Pax standing left holding a transverse sceptre and branch. Mint unknown. The legends are illegible, and the details of the coin are very difficult to make out. The remaining portion of the coin is 13.5mm long, 11.4mm wide and 1.2mm thick. It weighs 1gm.
Created on: Tuesday 26th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 12th November 2020
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Record ID: IARCH-D42AFD
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 357 no. 1465: ""On Friday, August 3, some workmen digging in a chalk-pit, at Paulsgrove, on Portsdown Hill, about a mile from Porchester Castle, found a skeleton in the chalk, in the left hand of which were twenty-two Roman third brass coins. As the workmen were working underneath the spot where the skeleton was lying, it fell down, and the bones were loosened from their position and were disjointed. A day or two after another interment was met with; but only a portion of the skeleton was found, part of the skull. The bones were lying with the head towards the east…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Portsmouth', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-42B6B3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 335 no. 1368: ""About 30 years ago, in a field near Lumps Lane, Southsea, some workmen who were digging clay turned up a number of fragments of Roman pottery, and one vase or urn was recovered entire. This same field lately came into the possession of Mr. Harry A. Evans whose workmen also discovered several fragments, and one of them had the good fortune to unearth a jar filled with silver coins to the number of about a thousand. They included a few of the reigns of Trajan, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, but the majority belonged to the middle of the fourth cen…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southsea', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-EC4BBD
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 114 no. 499: ""A hoard of nine third-century coins (Valerian to Postumus) was declared Treasure Trove." -Britannia, VIII (1977), 418 From The News, 29 June 1976 P.J. Casey, in CH III (1977), 60, no. 165, gave the total of coins found as 10: Ant. Valerian I 2 Gallienus (joint reign) 3 Postumus 5 10 10 coins in Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery"
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Portsdown Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-AC6E81
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015): ""A few years since a parcel amounting to nearly one hundred coins, in silver and mixed metal, were found near Portsmouth. They, for the most part, resembled those given by Ruding, Plate 3, Nos. 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, and, Plate 2, Nos. 32, 33 and 34. Mr. Cuff, who communicates this, observes, it is worthy of remark, that not one of them has the androcephalous horse." Akerman 1837, 221 n.26 The records of this hoard are so confused - even by the standards of the early nineteenth century - that it is debatable whether there is a great deal of point in attempting…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Portsmouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-6332CA
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic/ Bronze Age (4000 - 800 BC) secondary flint flake, translucent brown-buff in colour.
Created on: Sunday 1st November 2015
Last updated: Monday 2nd November 2015
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Record ID: HAMP-877E3E
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic/ Bronze Age (4000-800 BC) flint tertiary blade flake, with long, parallel, semi-abrupt retouch to the bulb of percussion. It has three flake scars to the dorsal face. The flint is opaque but transluscent around the edges and a dark brown in colour with few small white patination spots.
Created on: Monday 8th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2016
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Record ID: HAMP-87A577
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic/ Bronze Age (4000-800 BC) flint tertiary blade flake, with possible short, scaled, low-angle retouch along both long edges (or possibly this is modern damage). The flint is mostly transluscent and grey-brown in colour, with a light brown colour at the distal end.
Created on: Monday 8th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2016
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Record ID: HAMP-1A2A1B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman silver finger-ring, dating to the period AD 43-410. It is incomplete insofar as the intaglio which would have been set in the bezel is now missing. The frame of the ring is still complete. It is a Henig Type VIII, measuring 20.57mm in height, 25.58mm in width and weighs 5.89g. The thickest part of the ring, around the hoop, measures 2.01mm in thickness. The bezel measures 1.05mm thick. The hoop has no decoration, until just before the shoulders. On one side, there are two pairs of diagonal incisions, one pair either side. The pair of lines are approximately para…
Created on: Monday 13th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Portsmouth', grid reference and parish protected.