Record ID: CORN-2D4E5A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver shilling of the Commonwealth of England (1649-1660), mintmark sun (1649-1657), dated to 1653 on the reverse, Tower of London mint, Spink 3217.
Created on: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 5th October 2016
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Record ID: CORN-2344B5
Object type: CURSE TABLET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet lead rolled strip of unknown date, possibly a 'Roman curse tablet' (AD 43-410), as Roman coins were found in the same field. Although this object has been classified as a curse tablet, it is possibly more modern and may have performed an entirely different function, such as a weight or ingot. The strip has a spiral profile suggesting it was rolled rather than folded, which is more typical of such tablets. Linear ridges may have been created when it was being rolled or they may have taken on an impression of what is within or what the rolled strip was inserted into. As the object…
Created on: Monday 3rd October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 5th October 2016
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Record ID: CORN-22E4F8
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base fragment of a large cast copper alloy bell which has broken along the slit between two circular holes, producing a 'dumbbell' shape in plan, with half of one of those holes still extant. Above the slit is an incised linear border and part of the semi-circular 'sun', around the maker's initial 'R' with an annulet on either side, with linear rays emanating from it, decorating part of this half of the sphere. Each ray consists of two or three parallel incised lines, which may have curved into a rounded terminal, but these are now missing. There would have been a metal ball clapper w…
Created on: Monday 3rd October 2016
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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Record ID: CORN-2930D5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy single-loop rectangular buckle frame with moulded outer edge. What remains of the frame has a lozenge-shaped moulding with an incised border following the edge, next to an oval section that has two raised annulets above three oval recesses within it, followed by a square moulding with an incised square border at the corner of the frame. At right angles to this square is another ovate moulding with two raised annulets. The rest of the frame and the pin are missing but there is iron corrosion product on the back of the lozenge-shaped moulding which might …
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
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Record ID: CORN-292154
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180), Reece period 8, TR P XVIII IMP II COS III S C reverse type (c.AD 163-164) depicting Minerva helmeted, draped, standing front, head left, holding vertical branch in right hand and resting left hand on shield with vertical spear resting on left arm, mint of Rome. Cf. BMC IV, p.557, pl.75, fig.11 (reverse only), no.1079.
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 22nd September 2016
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Record ID: CORN-BCEE44
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy spherical bell with a very worn 'sunburst' pattern decorating the lower part. The pattern consists of ten incised petals, 25 mm long and 9 mm wide (central petal), with medial lines that radiate from the edge of the slit at the base of the bell, with five on each side. There is a central raised rib which divides the upper and lower halves of the bell. On the upper half of the bell, there are two circular sound holes, 7 mm in diameter, on either side of the suspension loop, which is made up of an ovoid, 7 mm in diameter, within a square. There are two circular holes, …
Created on: Friday 29th July 2016
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2016
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Record ID: CORN-B9C845
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval silver groat of Henry VIII (1509-1547), Second coinage (1526-44), mintmark arrow (1526-44) with Laker bust D of Henry VIII on obverse, London mint, Spink 2337E.
Created on: Friday 29th July 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd August 2016
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Record ID: CORN-D14F23
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper-alloy double loop asymmetrical buckle frame. Approximately half of the frame and all of the pin bar is missing. The complete end of the frame has four oblique lines on the outer edge. The frame has a straight chamfer to its internal edges and is gently curved on its external edges excluding the decoated outer edge where there is a curved ridge. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar buckle on page 91, no. 572, which he dates from c.1575-1700.
Created on: Friday 24th June 2016
Last updated: Saturday 25th June 2016
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Record ID: CORN-EB1A39
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of the House of Valentinian (AD 364-378), Reece period 19, GLORIA ROMANORVM reverse depicting emperor advancing right, holding labarum and dragging captive from left. Mint uncertain.
Created on: Wednesday 1st June 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 7th June 2016
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Record ID: CORN-EB09A7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine II as Caesar (AD 317-337), Reece period 17, GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting two soldiers, helmeted, standing front, looking at each other; each holds spear and rests hand on shield; between them, two standards. Mint of Trier, issue date c. AD 330-331. Cf. RIC Vol.VII, p.215, no.527.
Created on: Wednesday 1st June 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 7th June 2016
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Record ID: CORN-EAFFAD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of the House of Valentinian (AD 364-378), Reece period 19, SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE reverse type depicting victory advancing left holding wreath and palm. Mint of Arles, Second Period c.AD 367-375. Cf. RIC Vol.IX, p.59, Reverse no.xiii (c); p.66, no.17.
Created on: Wednesday 1st June 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 7th June 2016
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Record ID: CORN-EAF32B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine II (AD 317-340), dating from the period c.AD 337-340, Reece period 17. GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting two soldiers flanking a single standard displaying a Chi-Rho. Mint probably Lyon because type and legends do not match for other two potential mints of Aquileia and Siscia. Cf. RIC Vol. VIII, p.178, no.6.
Created on: Wednesday 1st June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2016
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Record ID: CORN-DD0F44
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead steelyard weight, circular in plan and biconical in profile, with the base of the iron suspension loop still within the upper aperture, that is 6 mm in diameter, at the apex of the weight. See YORYM-369198 for a similar lead biconical steelyard weight with an iron suspension loop that is dated from the Roman period. Read (2001) illustrates a similar lead biconical steelyard weight with a copper alloy suspension loop from Wiltshire on page 115, fig.72, no.830, which is dated from the 1st to the 4th century AD. Bailey (2011) illustrates a similar biconical lead steely…
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2016
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2016
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Record ID: CORN-DCE8F5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver groat of Edward IV, Second Reign (1471-1483), single saltire stops in obverse legend, Standard Type 'F', pierced cross initial mark on both obverse and reverse, London mint, North 1631, Type XVII minted between mid 1473 to the 3rd February, 1477.
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2016
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2016
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Record ID: CORN-DCDCB3
Object type: STAPLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy folded staple, now rectangular in plan but originally diamond-shaped with two pointed ends which have been folded twice to come back on themselves. This creates a layer between the folds that can be inserted into both broken edges of a copper alloy vessel in order to mend the hole. Egan (2005) illustrates a similar folded staple on page 101, fig.87, diagram a and lists others in nos.460-463, which are dated from the 16th to the 17th century. Ottaway & Rogers (2002) illustrate a similar folded staple on page 2815, fig.1399, no.14218, which is dated from the 16t…
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2016
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2016
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Record ID: CORN-7685DA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of David II (1329-1371) of Scotland, Second Coinage (1357-1367) with long cross and stars on the reverse, Edinburgh mint, Spink 5115.
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Last updated: Sunday 24th April 2016
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Record ID: CORN-BCB08D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman nummus (c.AD 300-400) with laureate bust with small head and angled hair (so possibly Diocletian c.AD 300-305) facing right on the obverse and possibly a standing figure on the reverse but the coin is too worn and corroded to make out any details and the legends are missing.
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 24th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buckland Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-955913
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete forged iron knife, with a broken blade at one end, and tapering towards the tang at the other end which is bent at a 45 degree angle. The upper edge and the blade edge have parallel sides in plan, from the break until the blade starts to taper towards the tang, at an oblique angle. One face of the knife is forged and tapered in three stages, as it narrows to the cutting edge, in section. The opposite face is flat, suggesting that this blade was used to cut sideways, perhaps as part of a pair of shears, or used like a 'currier' knife which was used for cutting and paring lea…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2014
Last updated: Thursday 6th March 2014
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Record ID: CORN-F4CEC4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy double tournois of Charles II Gonzaga (1609-1631), dated to 1631 on the reverse, who was the son of Charles I, Duke of Mantua and Catherine of Mayenne, and was the Duke of Nevers and Rethel, together with his father. In 1621, he succeeded his uncle Henry of Lorraine as Duke of Mayenne. In 1627 he married his cousin Maria Gonzaga, inheritor to the Duchy of Mantua and the Marquisate of Montferrat. However, Cesare II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla and Emperor Ferdinand II did not accept this succession line, leading to the War of Mantuan Succession (1628-1631).
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 19th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-F4B902
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Irish silver sixpence of James I as King of Ireland (1603-1626), Second Coinage, c.1604-7, rose mintmark, Dublin mint, with TVEATVR VNITA DEVS on reverse, Spink 6517.
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 19th April 2012
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