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: HAMP-D99A92
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy enamelled unidentified object of uncertain date, all edges very water-worn but the original shape still apparently retained. The object is very flat (1.0mm thick) and subcircular in shape with a rectangular projection extending from the edge (which presumably originally extended further). The front of the object, with the projection extending at 12 o'clock, depicts a sub-circular enamel design within the curved edges of the object. It has a flat area at the top, beneath the projection. A facing bust is centrally placed on a now light-blue enamel background;…
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
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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-3F6B2A
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worked secondary flake of dark grey flint, most likely a waste or a trimming flake or possibly an unfinished tool. The proximal end has a small striking platform and the dorsal surface at this end has removal scars, which represent working from several angles and has small areas of possible short retouch along the sides. The distal end is unreduced and retains a patch of pale brown cortex.
Created on: Monday 11th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 11th April 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-B04DC3
Object type: LAMP
Broad period: MODERN
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy artefact of probable post-medieval date. It is formed of a sub-triangular central element with an arm protruding from one of the corners. There is a large central piercing in the central element (Dia.: 10.1mm). Its sides are formed of two incurving arcs which continue into the protrusion. At the end of the arc the protrduing arm has a maximum width of 9.35mm. Below this it tapers to a terminal 5.4mm wide. On the reverse face of the terminal is a solid hook which curves towards the central element. It is supposed that two other arms would have pr…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2006
Last updated: Friday 11th February 2022
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Record ID: DOR-92F9B4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of twelve palstaves in varying states of completeness (two are in two fragments) but all in a poor condition, possibly owing to their findspot environment being saline. The expanded and corroded nature of the finds in their current condition means that the measurements given below are at a considerable remove from their original condition/form and cannot be used in detailed metric analyses without extreme caution. Note: Thickness measurements are across the widest point (i.e. from bar stop to bar stop). 1. Looped palstave with narrow blade. Poor, corroded, condition, dar…
Created on: Monday 13th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2019
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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-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-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.

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: 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-180C3A
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An undatable Prehistoric (Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4000-800 BC) secondary flint flake with short, scaled, abrupt retouch along the lower right and left dorsal edges and the upper left ventral edge. The flint is translucent and buff in colour with a small patch of cortex behind the distal end. It measures 37.3x(max.)17.6x(max.)5.3mm and weighs 3.84g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2018
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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-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: CCI-00445
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: City of Portsmouth
Workflow stage: Published
Obverse head right, large crescents for hair, pellets for lips. Reverse horse right, crude imitation of lyre below, vertical legs; ring below head. Poor imitation of Armorican issues; see also 98.1039 etc.
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2011
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