Record ID: HAMP-2E4184
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead weight of uncertain date. The weight is circular in plan. It is decorated unifacially; the lower face is marked and worn but seemingly only as a result of old damage. The upper face features a design rendered in relief. It may represent a figure advancing right with a staff, or, the other way up, perhaps the Roman numerals 'III' or the letter 'IN', below which a pair of 'C' shapes and a transverse line. At 47.7g it is equivalent to around one-and-a-half troy ounces, or around one-and-two-thirds ounces avoirdupois. Biggs and Withers (2000, 24-26) features two round flat wei…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2010
Last updated: Monday 13th February 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-196F54
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An undatable (Iron Age to Post-Medieval) copper alloy multi-purpose ring, circular in cross-section . It measures 23.29x22.35mm in 'diameter' (internal c.16mm), 2.63mm in thickness and weighs 3.05g. Tooling marks are apparent on both faces. Rings like these are numerous and would have been multi-purpose, eg.for hanging keys from a belt etc.
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Hinton', 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-F0EAB7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 4th-century copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constantine II, 'Gloria Exercitus' type, first issue, Trier mint (330-35 AD; Reece issue period 17). The coin has suffered abrasions to its circumference without the main surfaces receiving much wear.
Created on: Monday 3rd November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-861CE4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman sestertius of Claudius I (AD 41-54) in honour of his father, Nero Claudius Drusus, dating to the period c.AD 41-54 (Reece period 2). TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP, S C reverse type depicting Claudius in curule chair left. RIC I (2nd ed.), no. 93. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints which operated a…
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 9th March 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-D0F240
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and corroded silver-plated contemporary copper-alloy copy of an early 3rd-century Roman denarius of Elagabalus, 'LIBERALITAS AUG', 'Rome' mint (c. 218 - c. 222 AD; Reece issue period 10; cf. R.I.C. 97)
Created on: Monday 7th June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-543290
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy T-shape Roman brooch. The leg, catch-plate and pin have been lost. The wings are circular in cross-section. The length across them is 24.35mm. At one tip there is a transverse incision on the upper surface; the other tip has been abraded away uppermost. The wings are below the head which turns through a right angle to begin the bow which then continues to slope downward, attaining the level of the wings by the point of the (old) break. At the junction of the wings and the head is a diagonal moulding flanked by grooves. Within the pin slot are the vestig…
Created on: Friday 13th August 2010
Last updated: Monday 16th August 2010
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Record ID: HAMP-566962
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The head and upper bow from a broken cast copper-alloy Roman Colchester derivative brooch with a double pierced lug spring attachment, dating to the 1st century AD. The double pierced lug is situated behind the head as is characteristic of this type. The axis bar, chord and sprung pin are all missing. The wings are curved, up to 6.3mm wide and extend for c. 11mm on each side of the head. They both have an incised transverse line towards the tip; the tips themselves are both abraded, one more than the other. The broken bow is plain with flattened sides and thus a sub-oval cross-section…
Created on: Friday 13th August 2010
Last updated: Monday 16th August 2010
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Record ID: HAMP-A8F5D3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete 1st-century silver Roman denarius of Domitian (AD 81-96), 'IMP XXI COS XV CENS P P P' (Minerva), struck at Rome in AD 91 (R.I.C. 726; Reece issue period 4). The obverse seems to bear evidence for overstriking. This coin has suffered a loss at its circumference.
Created on: Tuesday 16th February 2010
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-A93AE2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A silver denarius of Augustus dating to the period of c. 15 BC to 10 BC. IMP X (15-13 BC) or XII (11-10 BC) ACT reverse type depicting Apollo Citharoedus standing l. holding a plectrum in r. hand and a lyre in l. hand. Mint of Lugdunum. RIC I (rev.ed.), p.52, no.171a or no.180. This coin has suffered a loss to its circumference.
Created on: Tuesday 16th February 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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Record ID: HAMP-DA9842
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy incomplete Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 4.d sub group, flat wing ends type). At the head is one of the characteristic wing tip plate extensions, pierced to take the axis bar; one has been abraded through. The rearward facing lug which protrudes from the centre of the head would have held the chord of the spring mechanism. The semi-cylindrical wings that cover the spring and have tips that rise slightly to form a ridge. There is a further ridged moulding to each side of the head. The bow is semicircular in cross se…
Created on: Thursday 18th February 2010
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: HAMP-DAA634
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy Roman T-shaped brooch of initial type dated to later 1st to mid-2nd century AD. The brooch survives quite well, only having suffered some post-depositional damage and the loss of its pin. The head has tubular wings, each with a terminal ridge. There is a further ridge either side of the wide head. The axis bar is largely obscured by the wings, but would appear to be made from iron judging by orange corrosion product both at the wing terminals and within the pin slot. The pin is missing. The upper bow emerges from the wings initially at a width of c. 13.1mm before t…
Created on: Thursday 18th February 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 12th July 2016
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Record ID: HAMP-7ED617
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly corroded bowl from a probable Roman cast copper-alloy spoon (6.2mm deep). The bowl is pear shaped in form, making it a Type 2 spoon in Crummy's (1983, 69) classification. It is plain with some abrasions to the rim and some accretions and losses of patina as a result of corrosion. At the narrow end are the vestiges of the junction with the handle, triangular in cross-section. The artefact has a variable grey-green patina with the corrosion product coming through light green. The bowl can be compared with one illustrated in Crummy (1983, 70; ref.: 2012).
Created on: Friday 26th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-7EEC26
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A slightly corroded Contemporary Copy of a mid 4th-century copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constantius II, 'FEL TEMP REPARATIO' (Soldier and hut), prototype mint probably Trier (348-450 AD; Reece issue period 18). Losses to the patina have obliterated sections of the obverse face. RIC VIII, p. 153, c.f. 220-1.
Created on: Friday 26th February 2010
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-7F9521
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy pin of probable Roman date. It has a biconical head (max. dia.: 11.2mm), with a groove below at the junction with the shank. The shaft below the groove is slightly expanded/everted (Dia.: 4.7mm). The shaft is circular in cross-section with a central swelling (Th.: 4.0mm). The tip has been bent to one side, first shallowly, then through ninety degrees. As Geake (2001, 39) notes, both Roman and Middle Saxon pins can have swellings on their shafts and can be bent; they are therefore difficult to tell apart. Although early-medieval pins often have collars the…
Created on: Friday 26th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-804352
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent Roman copper-alloy probable toilet implement broken into two unequal pieces. The larger piece consists of a twisted wire handle, broken at one end just before a terminal, with part of an oval terminal at the other. This broken scoop or bowl is shallowly concave (W.: 10.15mm); the break is ragged. The handle has been bent through ninety degrees at both ends; the ends have also been bent upwards and downwards. The smaller fragment represents the other terminal which is spatulate (trapezoidal), with the vestiges of the twisted handle attached (38.75 by 7.85mm by 0.8mm (min. Th.).…
Created on: Friday 26th February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-7D3331
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged cast copper-alloy Roman bow-and-fantail brooch, incomplete in that it is missing its pin. At the head is an integral circular chain loop, bent downwards as a result of old damage. Below is a plain tubular crossbar (W.: 14.05mm) which housed the axis bar. Orange-brown corrosion product at the terminals and around the pin slot suggest that the axis bar was made of iron. The pin would have hinged around the bar in the central longitudinal slot. The head tapers into the bow which is reeded, with a central longitudinal ridge within a border. At the foot the expanded triangular …
Created on: Friday 28th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-79A290
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast copper-alloy Roman brooch, probably best classified as a trumpet derivative. The fragment consists of the head, upper bow and integral chain loop; the rest of the brooch is missing. The chain loop, which would have been sub-circular, has been largely truncated as a result of old damage. There is a pair of transverse ridges at its junction with the head. Below is a ridge along the width of the head, 15.6mm wide. This notably wide upper bow tapers to a width of 5.4mm at the break. The sides of the bow are faceted. The lower surface of the bow is recessed. At …
Created on: Wednesday 9th September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP3306
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Wednesday 19th March 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP3258
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy T-shaped bow brooch in two joining fragments. Headloop broken, wide tubular wings, flat, rectangular-sectioned bow tapering to rounded foot knob.The upper bow has four moulded longitudinal ridges separating two broad grooves with rounded ends. The area above and below the ridged area is plain. Hinged pin missing, copper-alloy axis bar intact. Catchplate intact but edges damaged. Even mid-green patina.
Created on: Tuesday 18th March 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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