Record ID: CORN-426675
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut half of a voided long-cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Long cross coinage (1247-1272), Phase II, Provincial Phase (1248-1250), Class 3b with neat round bust with beard in three pellets either side of a larger central pellet, mintmark missing, moneyer Henri, London mint, Spink 1363.
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-42150D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of House of Constantine (AD 337-364), Reece period 17 (AD 330-348), VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN reverse type depicting two Victories standing, facing each other, each holdng a wreath (c.AD 343-348), mint letter are illegible but like example referenced below from Trier. Cf. RIC Vol.VIII p.151, pl.2, no.185
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2017
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Record ID: CORN-41F6E5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stater of South Western uninscribed type, probably minted by the Durotriges of Dorset and Somerset in the first century AD. British Museum Catalogue Type: 2790; ABC 2175; Van Arsdell Type: 1290-1, which is dated from 30 BC to AD 10, but current thinking now dates them from the first half of the 1st century AD. The style of these coins derive originally from Gallo-Belgic gold staters which were copying Greek gold staters in circulation at the time, with the head of Apollo on the obverse, and a horse and chariot on the reverse. The evolution of this coin's design is: …
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-41BD2D
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy horse harness suspension mount, sqaure in plan, with separate extant rivets that are 3 mm in diameter and 7 mm long, but missing its pendant which would have been suspended between the two parallel loops that extend below the lower rivet. The suspension loops have apertures that are 1 mm in diameter. The front face of the square plate is decorated with a diamond-shaped raised border around a lion rampant facing left, possibly as a patriotic pseudo-heraldic device representing England, and in each angle a trefoil or fleur de lis. There does not appear to have been any…
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-98653E
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy English jetton with geometrical tracery on the obverse similar to that on the window of the vestry at Merton College, Oxford, which dates from c.1310. The pictorial obverse is contemporary with sterling bust jettons dating from c.1280-1343 like Mitchiner p.116, no.243, but the closest reference is the 'Anglo-Gallic' jetton (now known to be English) recorded in Barnard (1981) on page 101, pl.II, fig.35, no.35, which is not dated and where the obverse is not illustrated but appears similar from the description. Mernick reference 4f.3.6
Created on: Tuesday 20th June 2017
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F22154
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman dupondius of Hadrian (AD 117-138), Reece period 6, PONT MAX TR POT COS DES III S / C // ANNONA AVG reverse type depicting Annona standing left holding corn ears in right hand and cornucopiae in left arm but cannot see prow of ship behind her. Cf. BMC III, p.406, pl.77, fig.3, no.1144 which is COS DES III which dates the coin to AD 118.
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F1E374
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bar mount with two separate intact rivets. The central section of the mount is circular in plan and hemi-spherical in profile, with a hollow back. The domed upper face is decorated with two raised transverse lines of tiny squares, giving the impression of rouletting. The central lobe tapers on either side to a rectangular arm, each with a rivet in the centre of it. The rivets are 2 mm long and 2 mm in diameter. Read (2001) illustrates similar examples on page 23, fig.12, nos.154-155, which are dated from c.1350-1400.
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2017
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Record ID: CORN-6ABBDC
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy dress fastener or strap fitting with a large rectangular eye that was used to attach to a strap or sewn onto textile and a scallop-shaped terminal at the opposite end to attach to another clasp. The frame is heart shaped with decorative openwork 'kidney shaped" apertures, with a circular aperture at the center. The frame narrows to a stem and terminates in scallop shaped toggle which has been cast so that it bends upwards and is proud of the stem. The broken internal straight edge of the scallop forms a narrow ledge, which may have expanded into a toggle, which sugge…
Created on: Thursday 25th May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2017
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Record ID: CORN-B097A6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver uninscribed South-Western quarter stater of Duro Boat Bird type, minted by the Durotriges tribe (Rudd, 2010, p.112, no.2208) dating from c.58 BC onwards. The obverse design is 'three men in a boat', The reverse design is a stylised zig-zag thunderbolt with a Y-shaped object on either side of it and two other indeterminate shapes, but the one to the right is referred to as a bird by Van Arsdell (see below). Rudd ascribes this type to the Durotriges tribe, whose territory was approximately the area covered more recently by Anglo-Saxon Wessex, centred on Maiden Castle and Dorchest…
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2017
Last updated: Saturday 6th May 2017
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Record ID: CORN-AFE72A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver halfpenny of Henry V (1413-1422), initial mark pierced cross pattée, mint of London. An apostrophe and a single saltire divides hEnRIC and REX and a double saltire between REX and AnGL in the obverse legend, along with the broken annulets on either side of the hair, and a single saltire between CIVITAS and LOnDOn in the reverse legend indicates that this is Type 5b (i). Cf. North 1991, p.72, no.1409; Withers 2003, p.26, Type 5b (i)
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2017
Last updated: Saturday 6th May 2017
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Record ID: CORN-0A979E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Roman Republican legionary denarius of Mark Antony, dating from 32 to 31 BC, Reece period 1, obverse depicts a praetorian galley rowing left, LEG X (belonging to the 10th Legion) reverse type depicting a legionary eagle flanked by two standards, travelling mint. Cf. RRC p.540, no.544/24
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2017
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2020
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Record ID: CORN-0A2814
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman radiate with bearded bust facing left on obverse, possibly Postumus (AD 260-269), Reece period 13, and standing figure on reverse, possibly PAX AVG reverse type, minted in the Gallic Empire. Cf. Cunetio p.145, plate 27, no.2446:1.
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2017
Last updated: Saturday 6th May 2017
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Record ID: CORN-8C7FA4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver douzain, probably of Henry III of France (1574-1589). The coin is in poor condition, partially encrusted with copper alloy corrosion, with a portion broken off, a piece of which is with the coin and another fragment is missing. There is a square shield on the obverse with an 'H' on either side, but it has not been stamped centrally, and the letters [HEN]RI[CV]S.II[I] D.G [FRA]N [ET] PO [REX] in the obverse legend in the right position for this type of coin. The reverse has a forked cross, which is notched and squared off, with alternating lis and crowns in each angle. The …
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2017
Last updated: Monday 1st May 2017
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Record ID: CORN-8C4EC9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy incomplete forked spacer from a single loop buckle. The frame of the buckle would have been circular, judging from the curvature of the broken edge, although only a quarter of the circumference is still present. The forked spacer would have supported a pair of sheet metal plates which are also missing, as is the pin. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar forked spacer with a circular frame on page 37, no.217, which is dated from c.1350-1450.
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2017
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Record ID: CORN-8BC39D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy single loop buckle with traces of enamel decoration, once sub-rectangular, now distorted with a broken pin bar. The front edge of the buckle where the pin would have rested is rectangular in plan with the remains of a roundel inlaid with enamel at each end of the bar and a rectangular enamelled inlay between the two roundels. The side bars of the frame are thinner with slight knobs where the sides meet the front bar and the pin bar. The pin bar is broken in two and the frame is distorted. The back of the buckle is plain and flat. The dates ascribed to other examples of bu…
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2017
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Record ID: CORN-88C1B3
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy Roman nail cleaner with a spool-neck, sub-Group A. It is simple in form, with an elongated leaf-shaped blade culminating in a forked point. The suspension loop sits at a right-angle to the plane of the blade and is pierced with a small, circular hole at the apex that is 2 m in diameter. The blade is flat in section with a plain undecorated back and a decorated face consisting of a circular wheel motif surrounding a punched dot on the widest part of the blade, an undulating decorative border around the edges of the blade and an engraved line leading up the blade from …
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2017
Last updated: Sunday 30th August 2020
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Record ID: CORN-8811FE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Rose farthing of Charles I (1625-1649), Type 2f (1635-1644), crescent initial mark and reverse mint mark, single arched crown, Spink 3205, Peck 340.
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2017
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Record ID: CORN-826D9B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy hooked strap end with complete hook but missing the opposite end where the rivet holes would have been to attach the hook to an item of clothing. The upper face of the tag is inlaid silver wire that has been fired into the green enamel which has since slightly worn away leaving the wire to sit proud of the surface. The wire is scrolled into opposing ends in an 'S' shape and there appears to be the impression of another 'S' above it where the wire is now missing at the broken end. Below the enamelled section, the tag tapers towards the hook which is divided by t…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 30th September 2021
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Record ID: CORN-824FC3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337), dating to AD 321 (Reece Period 16), BEATA TRAN-QVILLITAS reverse type depicting globe set on altar inscribed with VOT/IS/XX with edge of one star above, Mint of Trier. RIC VII, p. 191, no. 305
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 20th April 2021
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Record ID: CORN-7ED78D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of House of Constantine, (AD 330-337), Reece period 17, dating from the period AD 332-333, CONSTANTINOPOLIS reverse type depicting Victory standing left on prow holding shield and sceptre, mint of Trier. Cf. RIC VII, p.215, pl.5, no.530
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 7th March 2017
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