Record ID: DOR-571B93
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base silver stater of the British Iron Age dating to 60 BC to 20 AD. A South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type. Reference: ABC 2163. Date: Iron Age. Diameter: 17.93 mm Weight: 3.25 g Thickness: 2.63 mm Die axis: 9.
Created on: Friday 11th May 2018
Last updated: Saturday 10th November 2018
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Record ID: DOR-571509
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base silver stater of the British Iron Age dating to 20 BC to 10 AD. A South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type. Very corroded. Date: Iron Age. Diameter: 17.48 mm Weight: 2.02 g Thickness: 1.78 mm
Created on: Friday 11th May 2018
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2018
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Record ID: DOR-71D7AA
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy miniature spear head, probably dating to the Iron Age to early Roman period. It is broadly leaf shaped with a long pointed tip, it continues to the stem which has an oval sectioned socket which appears hollow (although partially filled with soil). Date: Dimensions:57.4mm x 9.90mm x 2.11mm Weight: 3.93g. There are database records for similar objects, including LIN-B052A0 where Adam Daubney notes that: Miniature spears are difficult to date although they are thought to range from circa 400BC to the mid-late 1st century AD.
Created on: Wednesday 18th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 30th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-B95968
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base silver stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 50 BC to AD 20 . South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian ) type. A stylised wreath on the obverse and a stylised horse on the reverse. Diameter: 18.14mm Thickness: 2.05mm Weight: 1.79g Die axis: uncertain
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2018
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Record ID: DOR-B93A05
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 20 BC to AD 56 . South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian ) type. A stylised wreath on the obverse and a stylised horse on the reverse. Diameter: 15.80 mm Weight: 1.63 g Diameter: 18.46mm Thickness: 2.74mm Weight: 2.66g Die axis: uncertain
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2018
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Record ID: DOR-B92A53
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible copper alloy bead or decorative ring. The object is circular with a large central aperture. The ring or bead is grooved transversely to create a segmented appearance. The alloy and patination suggest a possible Iron Age date. Date: Iron age - c. 800 BC - AD 50 Dimensions: Diameter: 18.92mm, Width: 3.53mm, Thickness: 2.85mm, Weight: 2.91g
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2018
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Record ID: WILT-900B63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy one-piece brooch of 'Nauheim derivative' La Tene III type of the Late Iron Age or Early Roman period (c. AD 10-c. AD 100). Some of the spring, the pin and catch-plate are missing. The brooch has a head with an internal chord. It has an incomplete bilateral four-coil spring which extended to form the pin, now missing. The upper part of the bow is triangular in plan, C shape in section, and tapers to the point where the catchplate would flare out but this is entirely missing except for a small flat section. The lower part of the bow is oval in section. …
Created on: Monday 26th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th January 2023
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Record ID: DOR-8DDD79
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two Iron Age silver staters, both uninscribed issues of the South Western Durotriges type (ABC no. 2169, BMC 2532-2550. VA 1235), probably dating to 50-20 BC. Coin 1: Diameter 20.59mm; weight 3.08mm; die axis 8 o'clock. Coin 2: Diameter 20.33mm; weight 3.32mm; die axis 2 o'clock Date: Late Iron Age - 50-20 BC. Discussion: The two coins were found in relatively close proximity to each other and on the balance of probability were probably associated at the time of deposition, but later disturbed by cultivation. The coins therefore probably represent a dispersed hoard of t…
Created on: Monday 26th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sturminster Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-265C3A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy British Iron Age Potin coin. A degraded "Thurrock" type of the Cantii. Left facing head of Apollo on the obverse and a left facing bull above an exergual line on the reverse. The remains of the casting sprue are visible on opposite edges (above abd below the head). Reference: Hobbs p.82 nos. 660 - 666, ABC 120 Date: Late Iron Age. c. 175 - 140 BC Thickness: 2.67 mm. Diameter: 19.26 mm. Weight: 2.45 g. Die axis: 5
Created on: Friday 9th March 2018
Last updated: Saturday 10th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-125957
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver or billon South Western Cranborne Chase uninscribed stater of the Durotriges tribe of Dorset and Somerset, ABC 2169, BMC 2626, dating from 58 BC - AD 43. Van Arsdell (1989) classes this Abstract uninscribed type as Durotrigian E and refers to it as of the earlier silver or billon coinages on page 294, no.1235-1, and dates it from 58-45 BC.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
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Record ID: DOR-E4071A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 60 BC to AD 20 . South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian ) type. A stylised wreath on the obverse and a stylised horse on the reverse. Diameter: 19.27 mm Weight: 4.73 g Die axis: 3
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th March 2018
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Record ID: DOR-E3E325
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver quarter stater of the British Iron Age. South West uninscribed (Durotrigian) geometric type. dating to c. 50-10 BC References: Hobbs, cf. No. 2734-47; Rudd ABC 2208 Diameter: 11.21 mm Weight: 1.07 g
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2019
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Record ID: DOR-7D3F2C
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Contents of find: The find comprises five Iron Age gold coins, two globular staters and three quarter staters. All are early uninscribed types now thought to be produced in south-western Britain (Dorset, Hampshire and surrounding areas) in the first half of the first century BC. The coins can be summarised as: Uninscribed British Iron Age Insular X1 stater (Sills 2017, 258 no. 290, ABC 94 var.) Blank obverse with raised cross on reverse, two pellets in one quadrant. Weight: 6.97g.  Uninscribed British Iron Age Insular X1 stater (Sills 2017, 258 no. 290, ABC 94 var.) Bl…
Created on: Thursday 1st March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-66340C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete base silver stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 50 BC to AD 20 . South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian ) type. A stylised wreath on the obverse and a stylised horse on the reverse. Diameter: 15.80 mm Weight: 1.63 g
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashmore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-6623E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 60 BC to AD 20 . South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian ) type. A stylised wreath on the obverse and a stylised horse on the reverse. Diameter: 19.20 mm Weight: 4.34 g Die axis: 9
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashmore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-D8935E
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cosmetic mortar. An end-looped type with a knobbed terminal. The loop is incomplete. The elliptical bow is wider at the looped end, tapering and curving up to the pointed knop at the terminal. It is hollowed on the upper face and angled at the lower giving it a pointed-vacked C-shaped cross section. There is slightly diagonal groove and ridge decoration on both sides at the looped end, running from the lower to upper faces. Date: Late Iron Age to Early Roman - c 100 BC to AD 200 Dimensions: 50.14 mm x 13.56 mm x 6.61 mm Weight: 9.49 g
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
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Record ID: WILT-300880
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age copper-alloy Durotriges (South Western) stater dating to the period 58 BC - AD 43. Obverse depicting a wreath, cloak and crescents. Reverse depicting a disjointed horse facing left.
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2018
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Record ID: SOM-06A3D2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
British Iron Age slightly base silver (billon) stater, uninscribed South Western (Durotriges), c. 40 BC - AD 10; VA 1235; BMC 2555ff, ABC 2169.
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitchurch Canonicorum CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-05BF42
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
British Iron Age copper-alloy stater, uninscribed South Western (Durotriges), c. AD 10-40, VA 1290, BMC 2790-2859, ABC 2175.
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burleston CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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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