Record ID: DOR-823696
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver halfgroat of Edward III. Pre-treaty series G. 1356 - 1361
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-82AD42
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of the House of Constantine. Constantinopolis type. AD 330 - 335
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-82E281
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Radiate of Claudius II Gothicus. Posthumous issue. Reverse shows an eagle.
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-836665
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Barbarous radiate, probably copying a coin of Tetricus I. The obverse has a stylised radiate head facing right. On the reverse is a stylised figure - probably Pax.
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-840D26
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper As. Very worn, but probably of Hadrian.
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-844244
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy As. Very worn. Probably Antonine or later (AD 138 - 250) Diameter: 24.87 mm Weight: 6.37 g Die axis: uncertain
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 6th November 2012
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Record ID: DOR-847886
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy shield shaped harness pendant with a broken suspension loop. The front of the shield is decorated with three lions passant guardant (probably the arms of England before 1340) with a recessed field around for enamel. No enamel survives. The lions are arranged one above the other down the length of the shield and consequently become progressively smaller as the shield narrows. The back is undecorated. Medieval. 14th century. Dimensions: 34.10 mm x 19.07 mm x 4.61 mm Weight: 5.47 g
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 14th April 2021
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Record ID: DOR-84C4F5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a leg from a cast copper alloy tripod cooking vessel of medieval or post-medieval date. The leg would be from a cauldron or similar vessel. The upper part has a D-shaped cross-section. The back is flat and undecorated. The foot projects forwards and widens out from the upper part. It is damaged at one corner but is broadly paw-shaped having a central rib and and a rounded corner. Dimensions: 34.10 mm x 19.07 mm x 4.61 mm Weight: 5.47 g
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 30th August 2016
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Record ID: DOR-85D737
Object type: VESSEL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of rim from a copper alloy vessel. This is probably a rim from a cauldron or similar vessel. The rim is pointed and has an external bead. The vessel wall is thinned from the rim.The interior surface appaers smoothed whilst the exterior is rough and un-polished. There is clear evidence of mending of this vessel in the form of two rivet holes (one whole, with partial rivet and one incomplete). These were probably used to fix a plate of sheet metal (not present) to join a split in the vessel wall just below the rim. Medieval to post medieval. Possibly 15th to 17th century. Dimen…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-861013
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle frame and pin. Double looped oval buckle with copper alloy pin. The inner edges of the frame are bevelled. The front is convex and the back is flat. At one side is a pionted projection with a central notch which forms the pin rest. Opposite this at the outer edge of the other loop is a moulded triangular knop also with a central notch. The pin is hooked around the narrowed centre bar and tapers to a point at the distal end. The pin has a rectangular cross-section. Early post- medieval. C. 1550 - 1650. Dimensions: 42.02 mm x 25.77 mm x 2.94 mm Weight: 8.56 g
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-869DD1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle frame and pin. A single looped, D-shaped buckle. The outer edge of the frame is thick and crudely cast with a rounded rectangular cross section. The bar is slightly recessed from the frame and has a more circular cross section. The frame has numerous file marks over most of the surface. The pin is hooked around the bar with a narrow and tapering tab.The pin flares out from the tab at the proximal end and tapers to a point at the distal end. The pin is hollowed at the back. The somewhat crude and irregular casting makes this hard to date closely. Medieval. C. 1250 …
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-86C840
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy belt mount. A small decorative belt mount in the form of a flat sexfoil with a central hole and integral rivets. The front is decorated with the foils being alternatingly plain and grooved. At the back are two integral fixing spikes, both incomplete. One is set at the outer edge of the mount and is bent outwards. The other is set at the inner edge by the central hole and is just a stub. Medieval. C. 1250 - 1400. Dimensions: 13.59 mm x 6.31 mm Weight: 1.19 g
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-86F7D6
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
French jetton of Tournai. Tower shield of Tournai on the obverse. Fictitious legends on both sides.Dating between 1497 and 1547. This jetton is similar to several published examples but identical to none. In Barnard, The Casting-Counter and the Casting-Board see p.120, no. 64 for obverse design and p.121, no. 65 for the reverse but not the legends. In Mitchiner, Jetons, Medalets & Tokens, the Medieval Period & Nuremberg see p. 238, no. 725 which is the same except that it lacks the towers in the angles of the reverse cross.
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2016
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Record ID: DOR-875081
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver halfgroat of Henry VII. Minted at York under Archbishop Bainbridge. There are two keys below the shield on the reverse. Late Medieval. Reference: North Volume 2, p. 106, No. 1751/1
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-961532
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin with silvered surface. Irregular oval flan. Possibly a contemporary copy of a radiate.
Created on: Tuesday 15th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-9987B3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver Iron Age coin. South western uninscribed stater.
Created on: Tuesday 15th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Dorchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-16CDE5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Medieval silver gilt annular brooch. A small segment of a brooch with alternating knops and recesses. A single complete knop flanked by the edges of the neighbouring recesses is all that remains. The knop is circular and domed and is decorated with ring stamping over the whole surface. What remains of the recesses appear also to be circular and would originally have held stones of some type. The front retains much of its gilding, although there is some wear on the top of the knop. The back is flat and undecorated. A parallel can be seen on the PAS database (see recor…
Created on: Monday 21st May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th July 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-173638
Object type: PEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy pen Medieval date. A cast copper-alloy pen with a lozenge faceted and twisted shaft. The shaft narrows into a plain, circular sectioned length at the distal end and and terminates in a rounded knop. There is a similar plain, narrow section between the faceted decoration and the lanceolate end. The lanceolate end has four curving, flat foils and tapers to a point. The shaft has been bent. See Egan, G, 1998, Medieval Household, no. 898. Date: Probably Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval - c. 1400 - 1550 Dimensions: 84.56 mm x 6.30 mm x 6.27 mm Weight: 5.96 g A simi…
Created on: Monday 21st May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Record ID: DOR-18DC85
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Barbarous radiate. The obverse shows a very stylised radiate head, right which is possibly copying a bust of Carausius (large head with a squared nose) (AD 286-93) (Reece Period 14). The reverse probably shows Pax (a female figure standing with a vertical sceptre in her left hand). Both sides have attempted lettering, but it is not legible. This coin is included in Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Created on: Monday 21st May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 7th April 2016
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-1A48D7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver threepence of Elizabeth I. Dated above the reverse shield- 1578.
Created on: Monday 21st May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.