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-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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-07DF4E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a medieval (1250-1350) silver-gilt annular brooch consisting of an incomplete sexfoil boss and a section of frame soldered to the reverse. The boss is in the form of a six petalled flower with a central pellet, each pellet and the centre being concave to the front (and convex to the reverse). Two adjacent petals are damaged by the same curving break, diagonally across each; the break looks old. The front of the boss has a thick layer of gilding. To the reverse a curving 16.29mm long section of the annular lozenge-sectioned frame is soldered, an old break at either en…
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-82268F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307), class 2b, minted at London (1279-80). The coin appears to have been struck from worn dies.
Created on: Monday 22nd December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 8th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-C7F502
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete silver Medieval annular brooch dating to the 13th/ 14th century. The frame is circular in shape and in cross-section, and is plain and without decoration. The surface of the metal is entirely smooth and there is a constriction for the pin at one point. The pin has a brambled spherical boss (with punched annulet decoration) beneath its attachment loop, which is complete and without a join and 2.99mm wide. Below the boss (4.75mm in diameter) is a slight collar. The pin tapers from here towards its point (2.5mm to 1mm diameter), with a kink to both front and bac…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St. Leonards and St. Ives', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-78DAA4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 5.c., flat wing ends type, Western Group, dating to AD c.70-110. It is missing its spring mechanism and pin. The wings are semi-cylindrical with D-shaped capped ends; they are designed to hold the axis bar (now missing). The ends of the wings are decorated with a trio of moulded ribs at each end, the outer-most of each being the capped ends. The centre-most rib is decorated with short transverse grooves. The bow extends from the top of the wings and is decorated with moulded pl…
Created on: Friday 23rd August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milton-On-Stour', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-2414E0
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Roman flat-bladed nail-cleaner. Copper alloy, with integral loop, turned through 90 degrees. It measures 40.07mm in length, 10.81mm in max. width and 6.22mm in max. thickness, the diameter of the loop. It weighs 3.96g. The bifurcated end appears worn with some recent damage (a shiny copper alloy is apparent through the darker patination of the metal). The top of the nail cleaner is a horizontal line c.2mm thick. From the centre the 3.4mm wide loop extends backwards, being affixed to the reverse of the body with a rectangular area c.7x5.5mm. The loop is decorated with two g…
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 28th August 2020
Spatial data recorded.

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-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-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
Spatial data recorded.

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-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-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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-8AE451
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A worn and corroded, silvered copper-alloy Iron Age uninscribed South-Western (Durotrigian) quarter stater dating to the 1st-century BC (c. 45 - c. 35 BC) (possibly a contemporary copy); cf. Hobbs 2748ff; VA 1249/1260). This coin is slightly dished and has lost some of its coating, particularly on one face.
Created on: Monday 29th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-893364
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
CORONER'S REPORT A hoard of 197 bronze socketed axes, broken socketed axes and socketed axe fragments. A full catalogue has been produced for this hoard but is not offered here; it is available on request from the Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum. Rather, the axes, all being similar, are discussed as a group. All of the axes in this hoard appear to be of Type Portland (Bruns pers. comm), which dates to the Llyn Fawr stage of the Bronze Age (LBA4) (800-600BC) (Needham et al 1997; O'Connor 2007). This type is distributed in…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langton Matravers CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-2865F1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
CORONER'S REPORT A hoard of 303 bronze socketed axes, broken socketed axes and socketed axe fragments. A full catalogue has been produced for this hoard but is not offered here; it is available on request from the Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum. Rather, the axes, all being similar with one exception, are discussed as a group. All but one of the axes in this hoard appear to be of Type Portland (Bruns pers. comm.), which dates to the Llyn Fawr stage of the Bronze Age (LBA4) (800-600BC) (Needham et al. 1997; O'Connor 2007). Thi…
Created on: Friday 13th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langton Matravers CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-840FB8
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy pommel (end-cap) from a post-medieval sword. The upper surface of the cap is roughly circular (38.55 by 35.05mm). It features a central circular protrusion (Dia.: c. 11.05mm, H.: 4.2mm) with a central hole (Dia.: 4.1mm), for the tang. At the base this protrusion is decorated with a ring of punched annulets. Around it, at the cardinal points, are, alternately, moulded cherubic faces and fleurs-de-lis. The faces are identical and well rendered, with eyes, nose, mouth and hair all moulded. Between each moulding is a crudely incised lozenge with double lines; this has …
Created on: Monday 12th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 28th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringwood CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-849EE8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A silver-washed copper-alloy radiate of Probus (AD 276-82), dating to c. AD 277-8 (Reece Period 14), TEMPOR FELICI, Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopiae. Mint of Lyon, Fourth Series. RIC V, pt 2, p. 29, no. 104; Gloucester Hoard (CHRB XIII), p. 64, no. 855 (241 specimens); Bastien, Le Monnayage de l’atelier de Lyon de la récouverture de l’atelier par Aurelian à la mort de Carin (AD 274-294), no. 188. The coin retains considerable silver wash.
Created on: Tuesday 21st December 2004
Last updated: Friday 9th July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-9DC165
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Roman; late 2nd-3rd century AD. Copper-alloy Tutulus plate brooch. Circular, with eight semi-circular lugs placed equidistantly around the perimeter. One of the lugs is damaged. The two lugs at the centre, with the pin lugs and catchplate behind, are slightly larger than the other lugs. The centre of the brooch is conical (and recessed at the rear), with a slightly convex, circular protrusion which has a a slightly raised concentric moulding with a raised central, circular knob. The diameter of the protrusion is larger than the circular-sectioned shank from which it extends. The cent…
Created on: Friday 12th December 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Dorset', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-9DB028
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Roman; mid-1st century (40-50 AD). Copper-alloy large Strip-bow brooch (Hull Type 58). The straight-sided rectangular-sectioned slightly curving bow tapers elegantly to a plain foot. The bow has longitudinal grooves at either edge which terminate at the head in a pointed end. The grooves create a slight ridge down the centre of the bow, which accentuates as the bow narrows. The inner edge of each groove is decorated with incised transverse lines and the outer edge is similarly decorated, but with shorter lines, on the upper half of the bow. The wings are curled down and under in orde…
Created on: Friday 12th December 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Dorset', grid reference and parish protected.