Record ID: CORN-647193
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman T-shaped brooch, with red enamel still intact in the circular settings on the bow of the brooch. The three settings are surrounded by raised and moulded diamond shaped frames, lined up in a vertical row, and defined by raised ridges either side of each point. The wings have two linear parallel incisions at each end. The hinge and pin (37 mm long) survive in their entirety, but the foot of the brooch and the catchplate are missing. Hattatt (2000) illustrates similar examples on page 303, Fig.162, Nos.908, 386 and 28, which are dated from the 1st to the 2nd cen…
Created on: Tuesday 27th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-BCB08D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman nummus (c.AD 300-400) with laureate bust with small head and angled hair (so possibly Diocletian c.AD 300-305) facing right on the obverse and possibly a standing figure on the reverse but the coin is too worn and corroded to make out any details and the legends are missing.
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 24th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buckland Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-22E4F8
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base fragment of a large cast copper alloy bell which has broken along the slit between two circular holes, producing a 'dumbbell' shape in plan, with half of one of those holes still extant. Above the slit is an incised linear border and part of the semi-circular 'sun', around the maker's initial 'R' with an annulet on either side, with linear rays emanating from it, decorating part of this half of the sphere. Each ray consists of two or three parallel incised lines, which may have curved into a rounded terminal, but these are now missing. There would have been a metal ball clapper w…
Created on: Monday 3rd October 2016
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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Record ID: CORN-292154
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180), Reece period 8, TR P XVIII IMP II COS III S C reverse type (c.AD 163-164) depicting Minerva helmeted, draped, standing front, head left, holding vertical branch in right hand and resting left hand on shield with vertical spear resting on left arm, mint of Rome. Cf. BMC IV, p.557, pl.75, fig.11 (reverse only), no.1079.
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 22nd September 2016
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Record ID: CORN-2930D5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy single-loop rectangular buckle frame with moulded outer edge. What remains of the frame has a lozenge-shaped moulding with an incised border following the edge, next to an oval section that has two raised annulets above three oval recesses within it, followed by a square moulding with an incised square border at the corner of the frame. At right angles to this square is another ovate moulding with two raised annulets. The rest of the frame and the pin are missing but there is iron corrosion product on the back of the lozenge-shaped moulding which might …
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
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Record ID: CORN-44160E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring, probably Roman in date, consisting of a flat strip of metal bent into a penannular ring with both terminals narrowing to a point and overlapping slightly. The pointed ends suggest this could have been used as an earring, but they may also simply be narrowed to fit together when worn on the finger and penannular to allow for expansion. The ring may also been made from a broken fragment of a bracelet which are often penannular in the Roman period. The outer face of the hoop is decorated with three horizontal concentric grooves which converge towards the ends …
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Saturday 17th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F3723A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy openwork disc brooch, circular and flat, with a plain edge. The brooch is decorated with four pointed-oval holes defining a cruciform shape, with a small punched ring-and-dot in the centre and on each expanded arm. The rectangular hinge and catchplate survive on the back of the brooch, but the pin is missing. Hattatt (2000) illustrates a flat disc brooch with a cruciform shape alternating with lentoid shapes around a central circle or hub, which he classifies as a Wheel brooch, on page 347, fig.206, no.1137, which is dated from the 2nd century AD. This brooch i…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F3665F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman T-shaped hinged brooch with an enamelled stud on the bow. The stud consists of two circular cells, one within the other, with the central cell still retaining the darker remains of some red enamel and the outer cell retaining some fragments of brighter red enamel. The wings are damaged at each end, revealing the copper alloy spindle within, but the pin and hinge that wound around the spindle, in the aperture between the wings on the back of the brooch, are both missing. There are four incised triangles on the head, two on either side of a central band of chevr…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Sunday 15th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F3A44F
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman seal box lid, lozenge-shaped in plan with cross-hatching of twenty-five lozenge-shaped cells for enamel. Some light blue-green enamel survives in a few of the cells. The four corners of the lozenge shape have knops projecting from them which are now worn. These knops would have originally fitted into notches in the base half of the seal box. The sides of this lid survive, and are at right angles to the lid. Similar lozenge-shaped seal box lids have been discovered in Sutton, Suffolk (see SF-ADC726) and in Aldworth, Berkshire (see BERK-2698F3). Bishop (199…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F3B498
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hooked mount with a bifid terminal at one end and an incurving hook at the opposite end and a moulded rosette in the middle with a central extant iron rivet. Read (2001) illustrates a similar hooked mount with a moulded rosette on the central plate, that was used for suspending a sword scabbard, on page 42, fig.25, no.360, which is dated from the 17th century. Read (2008) illustrates a similar hooked suspension mount with a central riveted roundel which expands into an openwork terminal on page 232, no.828, which is dated from the 17th century and recorded in I…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Sunday 15th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-E6D311
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy double-loop annular buckle, circular in plan with two semi-circular loops, and with a bevelled inside edge so that the profile and section is D-shaped. There is an integral narrowed pin bar across the centre of the frame which also has bevelled sides so that it is almost triangular in section, which is 22 mm long and 2 mm wide. The pin that would have wrapped around this bar is now missing. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar annular buckle with a bevelled inner edge on page 44, no.252, which is dated from c.1350-1650.
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-E6F46E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy double-looped oval buckle frame with moulded decoration on the surviving outer edge and at either end of the strap bar. The frame has a bevelled inner edge and a flat back so that it is D-shaped in section. At the outside edge of the frame there is a moulded rosette with a raised central pellet, but within these, there is no groove or evidence for a pin rest. The strap bar is narrowed and slightly recessed from the upper surface of the frame and has a smaller moulded rosette at either end. There are traces of black lacquer on the mouldings which would have…
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-E6FFAD
Object type: CAULDRON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy cauldron leg and foot, trapezium-shaped in plan, triangular in profile, and lentoid in section at the upper broken edge which is below the point where the leg would have attached to the body of the cauldron. The front of the leg and foot has a single central rib running vertically down the middle that is 9 mm in width and divides the face into two flat side panels. The foot then is everted and also expands sideways so that it looks trapezoidal in plan and the base of the foot is pitted and damaged from use when the cauldron was dragged in front of and on t…
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-913A77
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy barbarous Roman radiate dating from c.AD 275-285, Reece period 14, with radiate bust facing right on obverse but unclear reverse.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: CORN-034453
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine II (AD 317-340), Reece period 17, c.AD 330-331, GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting two soldiers standing facing one another holding spear in outer hand, inner hand resting on shield set on ground, between them two standards, TRP in exergue so Trier mint. Cf. RIC Vol VII, p.214, no.520 (AD 330-1)
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2017
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Record ID: CORN-915BC7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy barbarous Roman radiate dating from c.AD 275-285, Reece period 14, with radiate bust facing right on obverse and lower part of draped female standing figure on reverse.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: CORN-917532
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of House of Constantine, dating from c.AD 330-340, Reece period 17 with helmeted bust facing left on obverse, VRBS ROMA obverse type, and reverse depicting the she wolf suckling twins below.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: CORN-919CFA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of House of Constantine, dating from c.AD 330-335, Reece period 17 with unclear bust facing right on obverse, and GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting two soldiers either side of two standards.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: CORN-9E6AE7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Langton Down strip brooch dating from the early Roman period, made of a strip of thin copper alloy sheet metal, folded into a tube at the top to hold the pin mechanism. Only one of the wings and the bow of the brooch survive with a tapering body with three broad parallel longitudinal grooves down the front face. The foot, catchplate, pin, spring mechanism and one of the wings are all missing. The brooch appears to have been coated in a black substance, perhaps burnt organic material having been part of a cremation burial, which has since rubbed off on the upstanding surface…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: CORN-CC83D5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306 - 337), Reece Period 15, Group II (May 305 - Autumn 307) Period 2 (after 25th July AD 306), GENIO POP ROM reverse type depicting Genius stood in contrapposto facing left, head towered, loins draped, holding a patera in right hand and cornucopiae in left arm. Mint mark PLN indicating London mint. Cf. RIC VI, p.129, no.89b
Created on: Saturday 27th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2018
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