Record ID: DOR-82AD42
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of the House of Constantine. Constantinopolis type. AD 330 - 335
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-82E281
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Radiate of Claudius II Gothicus. Posthumous issue. Reverse shows an eagle.
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-836665
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Barbarous radiate, probably copying a coin of Tetricus I. The obverse has a stylised radiate head facing right. On the reverse is a stylised figure - probably Pax.
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-840D26
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper As. Very worn, but probably of Hadrian.
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-844244
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy As. Very worn. Probably Antonine or later (AD 138 - 250) Diameter: 24.87 mm Weight: 6.37 g Die axis: uncertain
Created on: Monday 14th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 6th November 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Record ID: DOR-961532
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin with silvered surface. Irregular oval flan. Possibly a contemporary copy of a radiate.
Created on: Tuesday 15th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DOR-9987B3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver Iron Age coin. South western uninscribed stater.
Created on: Tuesday 15th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Dorchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-2BF413
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy As or Dupondius. Small, squared flan means it is probably 2nd to 3rd century AD. Very little detail surviving.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

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: 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: DOR-41F233
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval stirrup strap mount (Williams Class a, type 8) dating to the 11th century. A cast copper alloy, sub-triangular mount. It has three attachment holes, one set below the apex ant the other two at the base, above the right-angled flange. The lower two holes retain the corroded traces of iron fixings. The front is decorated with moulded zoomorphic elements and lobed tendrils.The details of the decoration are deeply cast and very clear (Williams, 1997, p48, Nos. 130 etc.). At the apex is a zoomorphic head terminal with prominent eyes. There flows from the apex terminal a s…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 16th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-43AA51
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval zoomorphic stirrup terminal dating to the 11th century. A cast copper alloy, hollow backed terminal. It is in the form of a beast's head with large ears, protruding eyes and a long, rounded muzzle. At the end of the muzzle, the snout is rounded and protruding There is a ridge running back from it along the centre of the head, ending between the eyes. Along the each side of the muzzle there extends from the lobe end of the snout a tendril, which folds back on itself and ends in a lobe. At the top of the terminal above the ears is a narrow horizontal ridge or collar. T…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Friday 20th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Monkton', grid reference and parish protected.

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.