Record ID: HAMP-69FB47
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval copper alloy tinned openwork bridle boss of Openwork Multifoil Type (Maslin, 2020). The boss has a central domed roundel (hollow to the reverse) c.22mm in diameter with a raised flattened knop and moulded concentric circles around. Surrounding the roundel is the openwork decoration are a series of arms (five of eight survive), bifurcating to join with a neighbouring bifurcated arm at the base of a fleur-de-lis. Between the arms, and alternating with the lis, is a probable acorn. Much of the original patina is missing but a white metal coating, probably…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 15th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-699D22
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy double-looped asymmetrical buckle of Medieval to Post Medieval date (c.1250-1550). It is complete with pin and roller, both of which are a different copper alloy to the rest of the frame. The frame is has one rectangular loop and one D-shaped loop. The latter is bent slightly upwards from the axis bar. The patina on this side of the buckle is worn in comparison to the other. This buckle measures 26.05mm in length, 21.61mm in width, 4.37 thick and 4.47grms in weight.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 23rd May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-695395
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (1450-1550) copper-alloy open type thimble or 'sewing ring'. The sides are splayed and the base is wider than the top. The ring has a spiral of fairly regularly spaced stamped triangular pits arranged in four rows around the sides. There is an apparent makers mark of a stamped S within a square panel. The top of the thimble has a rather jagged edge. Measures 20.09mm in max. diameter (internal 18.12mm) and 16.84mm in min. diameter (internal 15.66mm) and weighs 1.57g. The splayed sides allow an easier fit on the finger and is also chronologically…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-68EDB4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval (c.1550-1650) copper alloy double-oval buckle frame with moulded floral decoration on the outside edge of the remaining loop and at either end of the axis bar. It is exceedingly worn and the axis bar has almost worn through. Comprises one loop and axis bar only. The surviving loop has a trefoil moulding at the centre of the outside edge. There is a similar but smaller trefoil moulding at either end of the axis bar. The buckle is flat to the reverse. Measures 27.37x27.01mm (internal 13.14x17.38mm) and weighs 2.09g.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 25th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-689923
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval/ Early Modern (1600-1800) copper alloy finger-ring, comprising a band 18.10mm in diameter (internal 15.69mm) and 5.3mm wide. It weighs 2.24g. The finger-ring is a little sqaushed to one side and is decorated with alternating panels of a cross saltire and a diagonal decorated with tiny transverse grooves (three of each panel). The style of the decoration suggests a 17th/18th century date.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-526B26
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval groat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), reference: North 1986. Measures 22-13mm, weighs 0.98g, die axis 6. The coin is exceedingly worn, buckled and with edge damage. Obverse: Crowned bust left Reverse: Shield of arms Mint: Tower, 1558-61
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-50F166
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An exceedingly worn fragment of a Post-Medieval silver possible 5-sol piece of Louis XIV of France (1643-1715), approximately half, which has been bent and straightened. Measures 21mm diameter and weighs 0.65g. Obverse: Illegible Reverse: Quartered with lis at an angle
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 25th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-19D7F2
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete probably Bronze Age (2150-800 BC) copper alloy awl or punch, missing much of its tang. It measures 43.77x(max)8.12x(max)6.62mm and weighs 8.02g. The tang is circular in cross-section and worn at its break, where is measures 4.97mm in diameter. The 'working end' of the awl measures 8.10x6.65mm where the tang extends and is oval in cross-section, but with the longer edges flattened. It tapers to c.4.5x4.1mm where the tip widens to 4.6mm in diameter and then arrows again to the point (now 1.3mm in diameter).
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-199E01
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post-Medieval (1350-1600) copper alloy double oval buckle frame, missing its pin. It measures 32.15x26.95mm (internal surviving loops c.10.6mm and 8.9mm x 19mm) and weighs 4.92g. Examples of this type of buckle frame from London (Egan and Pritchard 1991 nos.331 to 342) date from the second half of the fourteenth to the second half of the fifteenth century, but as the form persists a later date cannot be ruled out.
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-196F54
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An undatable (Iron Age to Post-Medieval) copper alloy multi-purpose ring, circular in cross-section . It measures 23.29x22.35mm in 'diameter' (internal c.16mm), 2.63mm in thickness and weighs 3.05g. Tooling marks are apparent on both faces. Rings like these are numerous and would have been multi-purpose, eg.for hanging keys from a belt etc.
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-185F95
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman VRBS ROMA nummus of the House of Constantine, Romulus and Remus suckling wolf reverse, AD 330-40. Mint of Trier. Measures 17.89mm and weighs 2.65g.
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-3BEEA3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent 17th-century cast copper-alloy post-medieval double-looped buckle formed of two trapezoidal loops, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin. Each loop has a triangular outer edge with central transverse pin groove, and rounded knops at their corners. The frame is flat both surfaces with steep internal and external bevelling between the faces. The sides bend inwards. There is a lobed knop at each end of the pin bar. This latter is trapezoidal in cross-section. Traces of iron corrosion product towards one of its ends suggest at the pin's composition. The frame has a grey/gr…
Created on: Sunday 2nd September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Leonards and St Ives CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-BD2E74
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged, almost complete cast copper-alloy harness pendant of medieval date. It has a flat plate that is lozengiform with rounded knops at the apexes, abraded away at the lateral ones. The top of the plate has a slight rectangular shoulders, above which an integrally cast, forward facing oval suspension loop with off-circular perforation set at 90 degrees to the plane of the plate. The back face of the plate is flat and undecorated, while the front face decoration in the form of double rows of wavy lines that follow the upper edges of the plate. Below is a parallel set of double lin…
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-BC8993
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged and incomplete medieval cast copper-alloy casket key. The key has a seemingly solid stem of oval cross-section with a hollow end; the end has been slightly abraded and squashed. The bow was oval in shape with an oval perforation, broken such that only half survives (Ext. dia.: 12.3mm, Int. dia.: 8.4mm). At the other end, the bit is rectangular in shape with a pair of long rectangular clefts central on either short side creating four small wards of broadly equal size. Similar keys can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 72; refs. 544ff.). This artefact has a variable dark-gre…
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2012
Last updated: Friday 3rd August 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-BC59C8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent cast copper-alloy post-medieval sub-rectangular double-looped buckle (c. 17th century AD). Each loop is trapezoidal, with lobes at the corners. Central on the outer edges is a triangular protrusion, each with a transversely incised pin rest on the upper surface. There are pointed knops at either end of the pin bar, which remains intact along with the pin, which is of simple, looped construction and bent downwards at the tip. The buckle is a variable mid-brown colour with traces of tinning. One of the loops has been bent upwards, particularly at one corner. The lower corner has …
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2012
Last updated: Friday 3rd August 2012
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: HAMP-C3E0F1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large cast copper-alloy foot fragment from a cooking vessel of later medieval to post-medieval date, possibly a cauldron given its size. The object is trapezoidal in form and narrows from a width of 47.5mm at the point it has broken to 30.15mm at its terminal. It also thins, from 22.8mm thick at the point it has broken to c. 8.0mm at its terminal. A central rib runs up the front of the foot, this also thins with the foot. The break reveals that the leg had a trapezoidal cross-section with a triangular protrusion for the rib; the front is wider. This form of foot is comparable to the…
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-9E1F63
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly damaged and incomplete cast copper-alloy medieval 'locking buckle'. The frame is rectangular in plan, with rounded corners. The outer edge is wide (c. 5.6mm), flat and rabbeted (or notched) to accept and secure the U-shaped arm attached to the pin bar; this latter is now missing due to an old break. It also features a shallow central triangular indentation in which the pin still rests. In profile the sides of the frame are expanded (Th.: 5.3mm) to receive the off-centred pin bar; from this point they travel down to the outer edge in a curvilinear fashion. As implied, the …
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-94D641
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded cast lead weight, probably a pan weight of post-medieval date. The weight is circular in plan with some bevelling and abrasions from the smaller upper surface to the larger lower. It is decorated on its upper face with a cross in relief dividing the surface into quarters. Incised finely on the flat lower surface is a pair of keys in saltire (cross keys). This device is found on a number of artefacts recorded on this database, all of post-medieval date; the keys are of this style. Through the keys is a vertical incision, with traces of a transverse incision and possible bord…
Created on: Monday 13th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-8EF243
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn 2nd-century copper-alloy Roman sestertius of Antoninus Pius dating to the period AD 145 to 161. COS IIII SC reverse type depicting Securitas seated left. RIC III, p. 124, no. 764.
Created on: Monday 13th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-753921
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from the handle of a post-medieval cast lead-alloy (lead-tin) spoon. The fragment is the corroded and abraded handle terminal. The terminal is expanded (W.: 21.55mm), and tapers towards the break (W.: 13.3mm). The lower surface is plain; the upper surface features moulded decoration in low relief. The decoration is in the form of an inverted symmetrical foliate design with two side lobes gathered together either side of a central lobe. There is a moulded ball to each side of the point at which the design is gathered. There are further small pellets between the lobes and a m…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Leonards and St Ives CP', grid reference and parish protected.