Record ID: HAMP-118DF6
Object type: AXE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy cast palstave with side loop  and lozenge-shaped flanges. The object has a flared blade with a sub- triangular-shaped depression (on front and back) and a worn central mid-rib below the stop-ridge.   The cutting edge is crescentic and relatively unworn; the blade bevels are well formed and the tips of the blade show little sign of wear or resharpening. On the upper blade on both the front and reverse faces is a cast / moulded indented shield-shape pattern.  The loop is relatively small and low. The two slide flanges are well cast and …
Created on: Friday 12th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-3CA7C5
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The blade from a broken Late Bronze Age cast copper-alloy socketed axe. The cutting edge survives in full, with a minor old chip just off centre, in addition to part of the body defined by roughly straight cut. The damage means that only the end of the socket is visible. The surviving cross-section is sub-rectangular, with the sides expanding out towards the blade end. The fragment is triangular in profile, tapering from the body to the cutting edge. The cutting edge is defined by shallow bevelling over the last c. 11.8mm; the absolute cutting edge has been further sharpened. The bevel…
Created on: Tuesday 24th August 2010
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sturminster Marshall CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-50926B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval silver half groat of Elizabeth I (AD 1558-1603) dating to 1583-1603. Third coinage, unclear initial mark. Tower of London mint. As North (1991: 137) No. 2016.
Created on: Friday 6th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 6th May 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-9E34B3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy double trapezoidal loop buckle of post Medieval date, 16.8mm in length. The frame has rounded edges and is undecorated. The strap bar has knops at either end and retains a pointed copper alloy pin curled around it.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-F9C878
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), second issue, dated 1578. Plain cross initial mark. Mint of London. As North 1991, p. 134, no. 1997.
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2021
Last updated: Friday 10th December 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-849EE8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A silver-washed copper-alloy radiate of Probus (AD 276-82), dating to c. AD 277-8 (Reece Period 14), TEMPOR FELICI, Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopiae. Mint of Lyon, Fourth Series. RIC V, pt 2, p. 29, no. 104; Gloucester Hoard (CHRB XIII), p. 64, no. 855 (241 specimens); Bastien, Le Monnayage de l’atelier de Lyon de la récouverture de l’atelier par Aurelian à la mort de Carin (AD 274-294), no. 188. The coin retains considerable silver wash.
Created on: Tuesday 21st December 2004
Last updated: Friday 9th July 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-F152F2
Object type: TONGS
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete small cast copper-alloy object, thought to be the stem and terminal of tongs used for sugar or similar foodstuffs, of post-medieval date (c.1600-1900). The terminal is broadly semicircular in plan with a gradual curve towards the stem of the handle and has a shallow circular dishing within the bowl's upper surface. The stem is twisted to give a rope effect; it is sub-circular in cross-section. The object has a dark grey patina consistent with a probable post-medieval date. For similar items see KENT-41E304 and SUR-748FF3.
Created on: Monday 3rd November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 20th May 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-861CE4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman sestertius of Claudius I (AD 41-54) in honour of his father, Nero Claudius Drusus, dating to the period c.AD 41-54 (Reece period 2). TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP, S C reverse type depicting Claudius in curule chair left. RIC I (2nd ed.), no. 93. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints which operated a…
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 9th March 2021
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Record ID: HAMP3684
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy as of Domitian (AD 81-96), dating to AD 87 (Reece Period 4), VIRTVTI AVGVSTI S C, Virtus standing right, holding spear and parazonium. Mint of Rome. RIC II,1, p. 302, cf. nos. 550-1.
Created on: Tuesday 15th April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2021
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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-2414E0
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Roman flat-bladed nail-cleaner. Copper alloy, with integral loop, turned through 90 degrees. It measures 40.07mm in length, 10.81mm in max. width and 6.22mm in max. thickness, the diameter of the loop. It weighs 3.96g. The bifurcated end appears worn with some recent damage (a shiny copper alloy is apparent through the darker patination of the metal). The top of the nail cleaner is a horizontal line c.2mm thick. From the centre the 3.4mm wide loop extends backwards, being affixed to the reverse of the body with a rectangular area c.7x5.5mm. The loop is decorated with two g…
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 28th August 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-07DF4E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a medieval (1250-1350) silver-gilt annular brooch consisting of an incomplete sexfoil boss and a section of frame soldered to the reverse. The boss is in the form of a six petalled flower with a central pellet, each pellet and the centre being concave to the front (and convex to the reverse). Two adjacent petals are damaged by the same curving break, diagonally across each; the break looks old. The front of the boss has a thick layer of gilding. To the reverse a curving 16.29mm long section of the annular lozenge-sectioned frame is soldered, an old break at either en…
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-867D4D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman barbarous radiate copying a coin of an uncertain emperor, dating to AD 275-85 (Reece period 14). Unclear mint and reverse type.
Created on: Friday 10th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-86961D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn Roman as or dupondius of uncertain emperor, dating to the period AD 41-260. Unclear reverse type and mint.
Created on: Friday 10th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-3473B4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval (1600-1800) copper alloy furniture mount in the form of a stag's head with moulded eyes, snout and ears, and antlers projecting from the top of the head. The reverse is concave except behind the lower snout, which is solid. Here is the remains of a circular-sectioned integral shank, 4.5mm in diameter (surviving to a length of c.2mm). The metal has lost its original patina and is now a purplish-brown in colour. The object measures 43.4mm in length, 35.8mm in max.width, 9.3mm in depth and weighs 11.86g.
Created on: Monday 6th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-DDCEA3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval penny of Edward IV, mint of York under Archbishop George Neville, dating to 1475-6. Initial mark unclear. Reference: North 1645, 1649 or 1650.
Created on: Monday 21st October 2019
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-DE004D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A penny of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), second coinage, coronet initial mark, struck at the Tower of London and dating to 1567-70. Reference: North 2001
Created on: Monday 21st October 2019
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-7A5D2A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A squashed late medieval/ early post-medieval (1400-1600) silver gilt finger-ring with raised edges and the band between with a central line of raised diamond shapes and corresponding raised triangles to either side. It has some edge damage. Where not damaged or worn, the diamond shapes are clearly filled with three rows of four raised pellets. The triangles are apparently undecorated. The inside of the hoop is smooth and undecorated. The finger-ring weighs 5.78g and has a squashed length of 30.2mm (probably close to the original diameter). The object has a width of 8.1mm and a max. …
Created on: Tuesday 11th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shapwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-ED6101
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval halfgroat of Charles I (1625-49), Group D, fourth bust, no inner circles, bell initial mark. Tower of London mint, dating to 1634-5. The coin has a central piercing from obverse to reverse. The flan edge is bent in one place. Reference: North 2257
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-40F982
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman (AD 43-410) copper-alloy penannular bracelet with one squared-off ends, one of which is slightly thicker than the other. The bracelet has a D-shaped cross section. Decoration is confined to the thickened terminal and comprises a short groove just behind the outside edge, with a pair of short grooves behind. The band measures 4.16x1.79mm at the middle, narrowing to 2.84x0.98mm at the narrower end and 4.17x2.72mm at the thickened end. The bracelet measures 48.91mm in width and 50.41mm in length, and weighs 5.22g. The patina is a smooth, shiny and very dark brown.
Created on: Wednesday 31st December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 9th October 2019
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