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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-2FD956
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
17th century copper alloy trade token. A token of Richard Cheney in Dorchester. Dated 1666. Similar to Thompson, "The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750", Part 2. Dorset, Durham, Essex and Gloucestershire, plate III, No. 904a.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd 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-301230
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
17th century copper alloy trade token. A token of Thomas Hall in Dorchester. Dated 1656. Similar to Thompson, "The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles 1575-1750", Part 2. Dorset, Durham, Essex and Gloucestershire, part II, Plate III, no.899.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd 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: PUBLIC-B0E7C1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy buckle frame, dating from the post-Medieval period. The fragment represents the roundedcorner of a sub-rectangular buckle, probably of two-piece form (i.e. with a separately made axis bar).The upper surface bears relief-moulded decoration comprising scrolls and lozenges, with evidence of a white metal coating. Dimensions are: Length 15.5 mm. Width 7.9 mm. Thickness 2.1 mm. Weight 2.047 grams. Cf; Ross Whitehead.Buckles 1250-1800. No 696.
Created on: Thursday 5th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr Wimborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-5521A2
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval baluster seal spoon end. A cast copper alloy spoon top with baluster decoration and a remnant of the stem. The distal end is flat-topped and sub-circular in shape (the seal element of the term). Below this it constricts to a concentric rib with five rectangular indentations below. The spoon ton then widens out again into a rounded knop with fine, vertical, cut indentations (slightly off-set to the wider ones above). The end then narrows again to an hour-glass shape before terminating above the stub of the stem. From what remains of the stem, it appears to have had a copp…
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pamphill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-558082
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast, copper alloy mount. It is thickly cast ith moulded decoration on the front and a flat, undecorated back. The decoration comprises a central flower with a stem running down to a tied bow. Above are two cherubs' heads with a hole between them and a wing at each outer edge. Around the edges at the base and sides are curvilinear elements. At the back are two integral rivets. One is incomplete and extends from between the backs of the cherubs' heads (above the hole) and appears to have been bent downwards. The other is complete and extends fron directly behind the flower and is bent…
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pamphill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-55A6C1
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy post- medieval knife end-cap with traces of the tang of an iron blade. The object is a slightly irregular oval shape and is open at the base to allow the attachment of the tang of an iron blade, the stub of which remains. It is closed at the top. Both faces are decorated with the date 1526 recessed with white inlay. Above and below the date on both sides is a transverse linear groove. The flat, top edge of the end-cap is decorated with three diagonal grooves. Date: 1526 Dimensions: 14.83 mm x 14.01 mm x 6.99 mm Weight: 6.37 g
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 1st October 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-68FC94
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large copper alloy hooked mount with one separate and one integral rivet and pendant fitting. The main body of the ount is a sub-circular dome with a pierced lug at the top and a backward projecting hook at the base. The lug is narrowed from the body of the mount and has a transverse collar at the base and a small knop projecting from the top. The pierced hole is circular and would have had a rivet for attachement. Above the hook is a transverse collar comprising two bands. The hook is oval sectioned. Hanging from the hook is a trefoil shaped attachement. Each foil has a large, sub-…
Created on: Wednesday 6th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-384E81
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy rose farthing of Charles I.
Created on: Tuesday 10th 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-B88254
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy button front with silvered or tinned surface. It is octagonal and domed with a flat, octagonal top and a hemispherical hollowed interior. The surface is coated in white metal and decorated with eight radiating incised lines running from the centre of the flat top and along the edges of the faces. Along side each of these are rows of horizontal lines, framed by another vertical line at the left side (these do not run to the centre of the top. The dome was probably soldered to a separate back with attachment shank (both missing) Date: Probably late 17th to ear…
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-06ACE6
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Nuremberg English style jetton struck by Lazarus Gottelieb Lauffer (Master 1663, died 1709). Shows the bust of William III on the obverse and MAry II on the reverse. Mitchiner, Vol I, p.507, as No. 1802
Created on: Wednesday 1st August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stalbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-0725A6
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast copper alloy end cap or stop from a knife. The stop seems to be the form of a "claw" hammer. There is a short groove between the claws. There is a circumferential groove around the base of the stop and another groove running longitudinally up both sides of the stop and over the top, between the claw and hammer elements. On the underside is a rectangular slot filled with iron which is the remains of the missing tang. Date: 16th century (AD 1500 - AD 1600). Dimensions: 11.34 mm x 17.2 mm x 8.25 mm Weight: 6.36 g See Read (2016) nos 663, 664
Created on: Wednesday 1st August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 1st October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stalbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-C17AD7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap fitting. An asymmetrical belt mount with two integral rivets. At one end is a trefoil and at the oher is a truncated triangle with a pointed projection from the base. Both rivets have been bent outwards towards the ends of the mount. The front has patches of a dark surface, possibly from tinning or lacquer. Post medieval. There is a very similar mount in Read, B, 2001, "Metal Artefacts of Antiquity: Volume 1", p28, no 292 & p32, Fig 20, which he dates to the 16th century. Dimensions: 25.35 mm x 8.89 mm x 5.83 mm Weight: 2.29 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-FE7E86
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy double oval looped buckle frame. The front of the frame is convex with chamfered edges on the insides of the loops. The frame is decorated with four rounded knops, one set at each of the two "corners" of the outer edges. The back is flat and has file marks. The centre bar is D-sectioned, slightly narrowed from the frame and has a rounded knop at each end (extending beyond the frame edge). There are traces of iron corrosion on the bar, probably from the missing pin. Post Medieval - late 16th to 17th century Dimensions: 38.09 mm x 23.11 mm x 2.82 mm Weight: 5.77 g.
Created on: Saturday 25th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-0BF488
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy jetton of rose/orb type, produced in Nuremberg, Germany, between c. 1500-85.
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-B6B3B6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy double loop sub-annular/oval buckle frame with integral bar and a D-sectioned frame. The bar is narrowed. The buckle is possibly a small shoe buckle.
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-C6FDD3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy farthing token of Charles I (1625-1649).
Created on: Monday 22nd 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-C76197
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy royal farthing token of Charles I (1625-1649).
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C81597
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy royal farthing token of Charles I (1625-1649).
Created on: Monday 22nd 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-C84AA4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy royal farthing token of James I (1603-25) or Charles I (1625-49).
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C8C267
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy rose farthing token of Charles I (1625-1649).
Created on: Monday 22nd 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-2070C3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy unidentified object of probable post-medieval or modern date. The object is D-shaped and measures 25.3mm by 22.8mm by 5mm and weighs 14.3g. The flat edge has a shallow notch in the centre. The front is flat and is decorated with a border and central cross formed from lightly stamped triangles. The back is recessed and has three projecting integral rivets. Kevin Leahy has suggested the object is relatively recent in date and may have possibly functioned as a harness mount.
Created on: Friday 26th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B47523
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 'rose/orb' jetton produced at Nuremberg, Germany, by Hans Schultes II or III between 1586-12. Similar to Mitchiner's no. 1390 (Hans Schultes II) and no. 1402 (Hans Schultes III).
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-EF1A52
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy trapezoidal buckle frame of post-medieval date. A double looped buckle. The frame edges are bevelled and the back is flat. The centre bar is narrowed and has a knop at each end. The buckle is undecorated.
Created on: Monday 5th 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-F02A52
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy vessel of probable post-medieval date. It is difficult to be certain if this is a rim or a base fragment. It is possibly a piece of a base from a pedestal footed vessel. It has a curved outer edge with a groove and ridge around the circumference. The vessel is thinned considerably from the edge.
Created on: Monday 5th 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: DOR-07A787
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy hooked mount. The mount comprises an oval plate with an integral hook at one end. The plate is undecorated, convex at the front and concave at the back. There are two attachment holes set on the longitudinal axis, both of which contain the corroded remnants of iron rivets or pins. Above the hook is a transverse raised bar. The hook is D-sectioned and tapers as it curves towards the back of the plate. It curves upwards and terminates at the level of the transverse bar. A similar mount is published in Read, B, 2001, "Metal Aterfacts of Antiquity", p.39 and fig.25, n…
Created on: Tuesday 6th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-17AFC5
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy spoon stem or vessel handle. A short section of the stem or handle only remains. It is slightly tapering and has a flattened D-section. There are breaks at both ends. The flat, front face is decorated with incised lines two sets of two transverse lines flanking a saltire cross and a small nothch at the edge of the object in the side quarters of the cross. Date Post-medieval, possibly 16th to 18th centuries Dimensions: 41.44 mm x 10.34 mm x 3.14 mm Weight: 8.13 g
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SOM-16E497
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy square, double-sided coin weight for the half angel coin. Issued under James I (1603-25).
Created on: Monday 19th 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-17DBF4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy mount in the form of an acorn of crude design. Stalk at one end, two lines to mark end of cup and line at tip. Two stubs of integral rivets. Hollow back and domed front. Post Medieval 1500 to 1700.
Created on: Monday 19th 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-17F1C5
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet metal copper alloy ferrule or chape. Conical form with rounded end circumferential grove towards tip. Single rivet/attachment hole towards rim. Probably of Post Medieval date.
Created on: Monday 19th 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-1832C8
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rolled sheet metal rivet with splayed and folded oval head, of Post Medieval date (16th - 17th cenury).
Created on: Monday 19th 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-185798
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy nail with a tapering square section shaft and a circular flaring flat head, of Post Medieval date.
Created on: Monday 19th 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-186D65
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy mount or boss, sub-circular with circular domed centre, hollow back with iron corrosion, of possible Post Medieval date.
Created on: Monday 19th 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-3E2731
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy trade token farthing produced by Phillip Haynes of Yeovil, Somerset, in 1655. Boyne and Williamson's no. 336 (p. 995).
Created on: Monday 3rd December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Minterne Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3E7111
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy seal matrix of probable seventeenth century date. The seal matrix measures 23.7mm by 15.3mm by 14mm and weighs 4g. The oval die features the initials R I, which are separated by a branch. The handle, which has been bent out of shape, has a trefoil-shaped knop with a perforation in each lobe. The upper perforation may have been used for suspension. Several similar seal matrices feature in Read's 'Metal Artefacts of Antiquity' (2001, p. 81, nos. 619, 620 and 622).
Created on: Monday 3rd December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winterbourne Steepleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-84E896
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy belt mount. A bar mount with two large integral rivets at the back, one at each end, which have been bent over towards the middle of the mount. The front of the mount is symmetrically cast with two septfoil fleurets with central pellets. These are separated by a short transverse bar, which is narrowed from the two fleurets. Date: Post-medieval - 17th century
Created on: Wednesday 29th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-8513B6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy hooked mount. A probable sword belt fitting. The mount originally had two leaf shaped arms with small rivet holes at the top (one arm is missing). Below this is a transverse rectilinear plate with deeply cast parallel grooves and ridges decorating it. There is a central iron rivet in this element. Below this the mount tapers into a forward hooked hook-piece. Flanking the upper part of the hook are two crescent projections. There is an incised downward chevron at the centre of the upper part of the hook-piece. The back is undecorated. There is a short int…
Created on: Wednesday 29th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-44AAA3
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy jetton. A Nuremberg jetton of Hanns Krauwinkle II. 3 crowns and 3 lys around a rose with 8 oval petals on the obverse and a cross and orb within a tressure on the reverse. Date: AD 1586 - 1635 Diameter: 20.53 mm Weight: 0.59 g
Created on: Monday 19th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-6F2748
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. A Double Tournois of Henri III of France and Poland. Date: Post medieval - AD 1580 - 89 Diameter: 20.56 mm Weight: 2.47 g
Created on: Wednesday 21st January 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 21st August 2012
Spatial data recorded.