Record ID: HAMP-9E34B3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy double trapezoidal loop buckle of post Medieval date, 16.8mm in length. The frame has rounded edges and is undecorated. The strap bar has knops at either end and retains a pointed copper alloy pin curled around it.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-86961D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn Roman as or dupondius of uncertain emperor, dating to the period AD 41-260. Unclear reverse type and mint.
Created on: Friday 10th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-867D4D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman barbarous radiate copying a coin of an uncertain emperor, dating to AD 275-85 (Reece period 14). Unclear mint and reverse type.
Created on: Friday 10th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-3473B4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval (1600-1800) copper alloy furniture mount in the form of a stag's head with moulded eyes, snout and ears, and antlers projecting from the top of the head. The reverse is concave except behind the lower snout, which is solid. Here is the remains of a circular-sectioned integral shank, 4.5mm in diameter (surviving to a length of c.2mm). The metal has lost its original patina and is now a purplish-brown in colour. The object measures 43.4mm in length, 35.8mm in max.width, 9.3mm in depth and weighs 11.86g.
Created on: Monday 6th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-F30023
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late early-medieval or early medieval (1000-1200) copper-alloy strap fitting from harness / bridle fitting, perhaps from a cheekpiece. It consists of a trapezoidal/ square loop at one end with a parallel-sided integral plate extending from the shortest edge. The loop is decorated on three outside edges with transverse (and sometimes diagonal) grooves. These edges all slope inwards and have a height of max.5.2mm. The loop is 14.7mm in length with a max. width of 15.5mm at the outside edge and a min. width of 11.9mm at the edge where the integral plate extends. Internally the measure…
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 24th April 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-CF038B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval (1200-1500) copper alloy anthropomorphic object of uncertain function, consisting of a short incomplete tube 16.5mm high with recentish damage to one side and a c.4mm diameter perforation at the centre of the edge opposite. To the outside surface, around this perforation, is a short moulded neck projecting from the tube at 90 degrees. To either side are shoulders (moulded to the tube) and short but spindly arms (parallel to the neck). Extending from the neck is a humanoid head, the face an inverted pentagon in shape with triangular chin and right-angled temples.…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Last updated: Friday 4th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Leonards and St. Ives', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-CEEEFA
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval to early post-medieval copper alloy closed thimble, dating from 1350 - 1600. The thimble is beehive shaped with a domed, 'tonsure' top (Holmes 1988; 3) and flaring sides. There is a crack (old damage) at the top of the walls to one side. The circular pits are hand-drilled and arranged in vertical lines (becoming more angled and even diagonal in places) around the walls. Around the domed closed end of the thimble the drilled pits are in an apparent spiral; the very centre is undecorated (the 'tonsure'). The thimble measures 19.1mm in length/ height, 19.0mm in …
Created on: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderholt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-CED983
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval (1600-1800) high-tin copper-alloy composite two-piece button, consisting of the discoidal front plate only. It is domed in shape and hollow to the reverse with traces of iron corrosion. The front is decorated with pairs of grooves forming a central triangle, the points of which are filled with numerous parallel grooves leaving an undecorated triangle at the centre. Two pairs of angled grooves create further triangles of isoceles form using the edges of the central triangle as their base; the inside of these are also filled with parallel grooves. The object…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderholt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-CECC9F
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy post-medieval (1600-1700) strap fitting or dress hook, probably from a sword belt or baldrick. The tag would have had a separate back plate and looped attachment, both now missing. The hook is missing its tip. The plate is circular, domed with three longitudinal facets and hollow to the reverse. One end has a circular attachment-knop with central in situ iron rivet (2.8mm diameter) and smaller finial knop, extending from a transverse rib. From the opposite end extends a solid transverse ridge with a 4.1mm diameter copper alloy rivet head to the reverse, hol…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderholt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-CEBC6A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval (1350-1450) copper alloy composite buckle, incomplete in so far as it is missing the ends of its arms as well as its pin and two sheet plates. The object comprises an oval lipped frame (the outside edge forming a triangular point at the centre) and an integral forked spacer plate. The internal measurements of the frame are 11.8x17.3mm. It is flat to the underside while the opposite face has faceted edges, leaving a triangular area behind the lip as the only flat part. There are diagonal tooling marks on both faces. The forked spacer extends c.24mm behind the frame and car…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderholt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-CEA8F1
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Middle to Late Bronze Age palstave axehead of Transitional or Late type, dating to the Penard or Wilburton phase (MBA III to LBA I; 1100 - 900 BC). The stop ridge is almost halfway between cutting edge and butt end (giving a long butt end) and both faces feature a high stop ridge and prominent central mid-rib, the face angled to either side. The butt end has rounded corners, perhaps through damage, and the flanges though damaged at their beginning do not begin for circa half the length of the butt end. Just above the stop ridge, the depth between ridge and face of the butt end is 1…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Leonards and St. Ives', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-AA5DE1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy coin or token of uncertain date, both faces apparently illegible, their surfaces pitted leaving raised areas around. The object measures 20.2mm in diameter and weighs 1.62g.
Created on: Friday 7th December 2018
Last updated: Friday 7th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderholt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-961D65
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval rose farthing of Charles I (1625-49), North's type 2, mullet initial mark, struck at the Tower, London, c.1635-44. Reference: North 2291.
Created on: Thursday 6th December 2018
Last updated: Thursday 6th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderholt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-F50063
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval/ post-medieval copper-alloy button in the form of a heart, with both halves of the face obliquely-angled forward towards thickened edges (max. 5.4mm thick) from a deep groove at the centre (3.3mm thick). The face and sides are decorated with incised transverse grooves, with chevrons in a herringbone style, stemming from the central deep groove downwards towards the thickened edges, though the grooves and chevrons are fainter on the sides. On the reverse there is an integral D-shaped loop with a circular piercing measuring 6.3mm in diameter. It measures 16.2mm in length, …
Created on: Friday 6th July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th July 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-B31024
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman nummus of the House of Valentinian (AD 364-78), GLORIA ROMANORVM reverse type depicting emperor left with labarum dragging captive from left. Mint unknown, dating AD 364-378 (Reece period 19).
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-B2EE97
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman radiate of Claudius II (AD 268-70), dating to the period AD 268-270 (Reece period 13). [LIBERT] AVG reverse type depicting Libertas standing left holding pileus and vertical sceptre. Mint of Rome. As Normanby no. 783.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-3B201F
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval (1200-1400) copper alloy zoomorphic die, rectangular in shape and engraved on both faces. The reverse has two grooved concentric rings at one end of the object, arranged one inside the other and measuring 21.6mm and 16.4mm respectively. The outer ring touches both long edges and the short edge. The other face is filled by two decorative panels, one small rectangular panel flanking one short end of the object (the short end opposite to that flanking the outer grooved ring on the reverse) and measuring 20.4x13.3mm, the other larger and also rectangular in shape but with an …
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Last updated: Monday 3rd July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderholt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-390777
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval (c.1200-1350) steelyard weight, consisting of the incomplete copper alloy shell only and missing the solid lead interior. Now squashed, the weight would have been roughly conical in shape with a rounded base. A flat oval platform (21.4x14.8x1.9mm) sits at the apex and from the centre a D-shaped suspension loop projects. To the join at one side is a pair of decorative transverse grooves. The centre of the loop is partly filled with copper alloy, perhaps a casting flaw, although the piercing itself is slightly elongated as if through use. The casing weighs 44.51g…
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderholt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-174F4D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An offstruck and worn Roman radiate of probably Tetricus II (AD 272-274, Reece Period 13); the reverse is illegible and the mint uncertain.
Created on: Thursday 9th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 10th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Keyneston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-16D403
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy probable hammered 'cob' 8 Maravedis resellado issued for Philip IV of Spain (1621-65), worn completely flat to both sides except for a counter-stamped VIII on one side (just below the centre) and VIII and XII on the other (around the edge). Cf. SF-6E18D2 and SUR-4E17B8, both of which retain much of their original design and weigh a little heavier than this example. The counter-stamping indicates the official re-valuing of the Spanish coinage during the year 1641, indicating that this particular coin must have arrived in Britain sometime after this point. These pieces a…
Created on: Thursday 9th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 10th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Leonards and St. Ives', grid reference and parish protected.