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: SUSS-73023E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, medieval gold finger ring, probably dating to c. AD 1500-1700. Description:The ring appears to be made from two sheets or panels. The exterior is a band which is highly decorated with two concentric circles of raised, round bosses bordered by filigree, with a plain, raised band between them. There are 35 bosses on each band. The inside of the ring is plain, and is a plain band. Dimensions: diameter 20.30mm, height 9.13mm, thickness 1.75mm and weight 7.70g Discussion: Gold finger rings with similar decoration have been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Sche…
Created on: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Portsmouth Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-72C719
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, post-medieval gold button, probably dating to c. AD 1500-1700. The button is highly decorated with concentric circles of raised pellets and filigree rings. The attachment loop is missing, and has been broken off along with part of the gold plate on the underside of the button. Measurements: diameter 10.58mm, thickness 1.70mm and weight 0.83g Discussion: gold buttons with similar decoration, though not exactly the same have been recorded on the database. LON-7C6E7B and SUSS-179AC2. These have been dated c. AD 1500-1700.
Created on: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 20th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Portsmouth Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-9BE553
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An abraded base sherd from a medieval jar or cooking vessel of a coarse flint tempered ware. The external surface is oxidised orange-red and the internal surface and cross section is a reduced grey.
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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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-E07EB3
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
A cordate Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxe, bifacially knapped and lightly iron stained. There are areas which appear a pale buff colour on each side as they have not been stained. The remaining area is coloured in shades ranging between mustard yellow and a dark brown on the edges of the most stained areas. There is a small shallow hole in the ventral face of irregular shape.
Created on: Friday 6th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
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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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