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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-2F9C48
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy jetton. A French jetton, probably of the Tournai mint. The obverse shows the "Chatel Tournois" (the Castle of Tours)design of the town of Tours. No direct parallel found in the references, but similar to Barnard No 28. Barnard explains that the design of the Chatel Tournois varies so that the object on the top of the tower can be a cross, a lis or a crown. Dating from circa 1415 to 1497.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SOM-6BE638
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle of probable late medieval or early post-medieval date. The asymmetrical double loop buckle measures 56.1mm by 19.4mm by 4mm and weighs 7.2g. The strap bar is narrowed and off-set and at each end of it the frame has a small external knop. One side of the rounded frame is larger than the other and there is a large projection from the centre of the outside edge on both side of the frame. These appear to be loosely zoomorphic, with one side moulded to represent a stylised head and shoulders and the other side a flared, possibly feathered, tail. In the centre of t…
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stour', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-6C8EB5
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An English copper alloy jetton of medieval date. The obverse is of the enthroned king type, which dates from c. 1350-1400, although the reverse does not feature in Mitchiner (1988, p. 124).
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piddlehinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-D3A235
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame. A single oval looped frame with forked spacers to take rigid sheet plates (missing). The frame has a point in the middle of the outer edge and a slight notch behind this where the missing pin would have rested. The back of the frame is notched for the attachment of the pin. The proximal ends of the spacers are thickened into transverse ridges with grooves aither side. The inside edges of the spacers are stepped in before they tapes to the distal ends (one end is snapped off). Both spacer arms are bent. G Egan(in Egan a & Pritchard, 1991, Dress Acc…
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-D402A2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame. A single oval looped frame with a separate folded sheet metal plate. The frame is oval with a narrowed and offset bar. The pin is missing. The plate is a single pieces of sheet metal folded around the barIt has a cntral notch to allow for the missing pin and the sides are recessed for the frame. There is a single attachment hole (passing through the front and back parts of the plate) in the centre of the proximal end of the plate. The front of plate tapers slightly to the distal end whilst the back part is considerably shorter and narrower then the f…
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-D43EE5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap bar-mount. A bar with a terminal lobes and a larger central lobe. The central lobe is convex and decorated with four incised transverse lines. The terminal lobes are have small, circular attachment holes. The back is hollowed. Medieval in date (c. 1350 - 1400). Several such mounts would have been attached transversly to a strap or belt, possibly interspersed with mounts of differing designs. See G Egan(in Egan a & Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories, p214) nos. 1160 & 1161. Dimensions: 18.83 mm x 8.87 mm x 3.17 mm Weight: 1.17 g
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-3E5635
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sheet-metal folding, adjustable candleholder. The object has been folded and squashed. At the top is a flaring sheet metal cup which is open at the base. Soldered at one side is a bar of copper alloy with the top shaped into a triangular point and zig-zag line decoration on the outward face. At the distal end the bar is riveted to an angled arm, probably for fixitg it to a surface for use. Attached at the same point is another bar. This is of much thinner sheet metal and is undecorated. It extends upwards to the base of the cup where there are signs that it was once folded…
Created on: Monday 4th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-688601
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy trade weight. Probably 15th to 16th century. A small, circular, uniface weight. There are two concentric incised lines at the edge. The obverse is stamped with a crown at one edge and a lis opposite at the other edge. These stamps are over the incised bands. There is small hollow at the centre of the weight and the whole surface is slightly concave. The reverse of the weight has clear file marks over the whole surface. The weight of the object does not appear to conform with any known 15th to 16th century weights for coins and the placement of the symbols is different to …
Created on: Wednesday 6th June 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-FC3F23
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin weight. A circular, uniface weight for the Ryal (a gold denomination). The weight shows a ship with a rose on the hull (indicating that this is for the Ryal), a lion above the prow and a lis above the stern. The image is similar to that which appears on the actual coin. Such weights were used to check that coins offered in payment or for exchange were the proper weight. Date: Late medieval to early post medieval - 15th to 16th centuries. See P and B R Withers, 1995, "Lions, Ships and Angels", p. 18 Dimensions: 17.66 mm (diameter) x 3.74 mm (thickness) Weight: 6.36 g
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stalbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-79C3A4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy belt mount with two integral rivets. A figurative mount in the form of a scallop shell with a narrowed trefoil projection above. The front is slightly convex. The shell is decorated with radiating grooves. The back of the mount is hollowed behind the shell. There are two integral rivets, one behind the base of the trefoil element, the other in the middle of the back of the shell. The two integral rivets seem to be a feature of post medieval (16th to 17th century mounts), but the decorative design is posssibly medieval. Date: Late medieval to post medieval (possibl…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Monkton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-B47732
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval buckle frame and plate. A copper alloy D-shaped buckle frame with a separate sheet metal plate. The outer edge of the frame widens from the sides and has a slight point. The bar is narrowed and offset. There is a remnant of the flat, sheet metal pin hooked around the bar.The plate is recessed for the frame and notch to allow attachment of the pin to the bar. The plate is undecorated and has a single circular sectioned rivet at the centre of the distal end of the front plate. The back plate is also undecorated and is longer than the front plate. Date: Medieval: c. 1350 - 150…
Created on: Monday 16th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maiden Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-B6D151
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval buckle frame and plate. A copper alloy oval buckle frame with a separate sheet metal plate. An oval, lipped frame with a narrowed, offset bar. The outer edge of the frame has a slight point which is notched to form a pin rest. The rectangular sectioned pin is hooked around the bar.The plate is recessed for the frame and notched to allow attachment of the pin to the bar. The plate and frame are silvered or tinned. The plate has a single circular sectioned rivet at the centre of the distal end of the front plate. The back plate is also undecorated and is slightly shorter than t…
Created on: Monday 16th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maiden Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-B829A5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast, copper alloy trade weight. A uniface, circular weight with concentric grooves at the edge and about halfway in. there is a central circular depression.At the edge of the inner circle is a stap comprising a crown above a probable letter H. The back has several scratches and file marks. Date: Late Medieval to Post Medieval (Henry VII to Henry VIII) Dimensions: 41.29 mm x 2.81 mm Weight: 22.23 g
Created on: Monday 16th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maiden Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-BF5356
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
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 with a bevelled interior face and flat exterior. The vessel wall is thinned from the rim. The interior surface appears smoothed whilst the exterior is rougher and covered in horzontal scratches. There are traces of sooting on the exterior. Late Medieval to post medieval. Possibly 15th to 18th century. Dimensions: 46.5 mm x 42.2 mm x 6.67 mm Weight: 52.35 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-BF7A05
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment from a copper alloy vessel. This is probably from a cauldron or similar vessel. The rim is incomplete, but is everted and thinned from the vessel body. The interior surface appears smoothed whilst the exterior is rougher and covered in horizontal scratches. There are traces of sooting on the exterior. Late Medieval to post medieval. Possibly 15th to 18th century. Dimensions: 44.02 mm x 53.36 mm x 3.83 mm Weight: 42.24 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-BFC323
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment from a copper alloy vessel. This is a large vessel leg probably from a cauldron. The fragment consists of the foot and part of the leg, which is has an irregular break at the top. The leg is tri-lobate in section with a rounded, prominent ridge running up the centre of the front of the leg. The back of the leg is flat. The foot projects forwards from the leg and has a triangular profile. The base of the foot apears mis-cast and is slightly hollowed and rough.The surface of the leg is quite pitted and bumpy. This also indicates mis-casting and poor finishing. Late medieval to …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-C080A4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle and plate. The buckle frame is single looped and rectangular. The outer edge is lipped with a central trilobed pointed projection on the outer edge ans a smaller projection on the inner edge (possibly a pin rest). The outer edge and projection are decorated with diagonal incised lines. The sides of the frame are narrow and flat sided. The bar is slightly off set from the frame and has a circular section. Wrapped around the bar is a sheet metal plate made from a single strip of metal. The back plate and small remnant of the front plate remain. The back plate …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 18th September 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-C0F1A8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle frame. The buckle frame is single looped and trapezoidal. The outer edge is straight and thickened from the frame. The sides of the frame are slightly offset from the outer edge and have a rectangular cross section. The bar is a simple continuation of the ides in terms of thickness and cross section. The pin is missing. Possibly medieval (14th to 15th century). Dimensions: 17.58 mm x 17.46 mm x 5.4 mm Weight: 3.73 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-C11B56
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy buckle frame. A simple double oval looped frame with an oval cross section to the frame and centre bar. The pin missing. One loop has been torn open and the centre bar pulled out of shape. Medieval to early post medieval. Dimensions: 28.05 mm x 19.54 mm x 2.10 mm Weight: 3.04 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-C14615
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap fitting. An annular strap junction. A ring probably used to join or attach straps. The ring has an oval cross section and shows signs of thinning and wear along one side. Not closely datable but possibly medieval or early post medieval. Dimensions: 18.66 mm x 2.54 mm Weight: 1.77 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-FE1ED2
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet copper alloy spirally rolled rivet. The rivet is made from a lozenge-shaped piece of copper alloy sheet rolled to form a cone. The remaining point is folded into the wide end and the head formed by a slight splaying at this end. Such rivets were used to repair copper alloy vessels. This example is similar to a number found in London and dated to the late 15th to late (or mid?) 16th centuries (Egan 2005: 101, although such rivets are observed to have continued in use into the 18th century (ibid). Late Medieval to Post Medieval - late 15th to 18th century Dimensions: 60.93 mm…
Created on: Saturday 25th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-D80124
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy pendant seal matrix of medieval date. The seal matrix is 18.8mm high and weighs 5.4g. The matrix has a round die (diameter 16.6mm) which narrows into a hexagonally faceted conical handle. This terminates with a perforated pointed knop for suspension. The legend reads FEI ME TENT, French for 'faith holds me'. The central motif is a pair of crossed hands with a six-pointed star above. A seal with this inscription is affixed to a document within the ancient deeds of the Duchy of Lancaster at the Public Record Office (Harvey and McGuinness 1996, 'A Guide to British Medi…
Created on: Tuesday 4th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cerne Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8D0111
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle of probable late medieval to early post medieval date. The rectangular double loop buckle measures 24.5mm by 23.7mm by 2.6mm and weighs 4.2g. It has a narrowed strap bar and bevelled outer edges which are decorated with incised hatching. The pin is missing. The frame has a slight forwards curve.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cerne Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-0CBA06
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy lozenge shaped annular brooch with broken pin of Medieval date. The frame is rectangular in section and has eight tubular collets (arranged slightly irregularly so that two sides have two each, one side has three, one at the corner, and the last has one). Six of the collets contain degraded glass in the form of a white paste. The collets are set through the frame so that the bases are visible at the back of the brooch. There is a constriction at the corner for the now broken pin. The pin is fine, D-sectioned and looped over the narrow bar.
Created on: Monday 1st October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B53A93
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy shield-shaped strap fitting of possible late medieval to post-medieval date. The upper part is flared and has a curvilinear/scalloped edge. There is a rivet hole in two corners and one larger rivet hole in the centre. The lower part of the plate is narrower and rounded. At the lower edge is a single, small separate rivet. The plate is flat. It is undecorated.
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B614D8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete sheet copper alloy two-piece strap-end of medieval date. It is of tapering rectangular form with a small pointed projection at the bottom edge. The front plate is complete and the back plate is broken. It has two rivets, one at centre top and one at centre bottom. It is undecorated.
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-4A72D3
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy English jetton. Three lions in shield/short cross moline. Contemporary with sterling bust jettons (classes 11 to 15). See Mitchiner, page 111, as no. 199 but reverse without inner border.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2016
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SOM-9CACF6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small fragment of a cast copper alloy buckle of medieval or post-medieval date. It consists of a fragment of the centre bar from a double-looped buckle with knop at the end of the bar.
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B466D4
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy dauphine-type jetton produced at Nuremberg, Germany between c. 1480-1500.
Created on: Friday 2nd November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 11th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shillingstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F2D853
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 'Tower of Tournai' jetton produced at Tournai, France between c. 1497-1521. Mitchiner's no. 736 (1988, p. 240).
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F40254
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle of late medieval date. The incomplete oval double frame buckle measures 15.7mm by 20.7mm by 4.2mm and weighs 3.6g. The majority of one loop is missing. The outside edge is decorated with a panel of incised transverse parallel lines. At each end of the narrowed strap bar there is an external knop, both of which are also decorated with incised parallel lines. The pin has been wrapped around the strap bar and tapers to a pin. It has a moulded transverse line on the external face, adjacent to the loop.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F41FF7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable gilded cast copper alloy horse harness pendant of medieval date. The curvilinear pendant measures 25.6mm by 8.9mm by 2.5mm and weighs 3.6g. At the apex is a loop which has been turned through ninety degrees. The pendant has a convex front and a concave back. On the front there are traces of gilding. A pendant with a broadly similar form from Norton Bavant, Wiltshire, has been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database (WILT-674E02).
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-2E6750
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy disc with relief heraldic decoration comprising a raised shield with three lions passant guardant on a field of red enamel, the arms of England. Around the shield the surface of the mount is stippled and gilded. Around the raised shield are moulded decorations comprising a fleur de lys above the shield and curving foliate lines at the sides. The back is flat and undecorated. There is no visible means of attachment for this mount, so its function remans unclear. Date: Medieval - Probably 14th century Dimensions: 25.72 mm x 25.51 mm x 3.00 mm Weight: 7.24 g
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Folke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-17AF41
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy strap mount fitting with strap loop of thirteenth to fourteenth century date. Rectangular loop with integral external projection and rectangular cross section.
Created on: Monday 19th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-30CF62
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A leg from a cast copper alloy cooking vessel such as a cauldron or skillet, of medieval or post-medieval date. The leg measures 46.1mm by 22.1mm by 11.5mm and weighs 52g. The cross-section is D-shaped, with a flat undecorated back and a curving front. The D-shaped base is slightly rounded and at a near right-angle to the rest of the leg. From the base the leg narrows gradually but widens again briefly after about 20mm. Alove and below the wider section there are five linear vertical grooves which are equally spaced around the curving front. This leg would have been one of three on the…
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Over Compton', grid reference and parish protected.