Record ID: PUBLIC-7E3134
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval copper-alloy anthropomorphic knife terminal. A knife stop or end-cap from a scale-tang knife. The figurative three dimensional end-cap is an anthropomorphic head on an oval cross-section plinth. The head is wearing a large pointed hood, suggestive of a cowl or hooded cloak worn by monks.  The long, thin face with pointed chin is looking up at an angle of approximately 45 degrees and has crudely engraved facial features. A long vertical ridge forms a nose, separating the two round recesses for eyes, one of which is higher than…
Created on: Friday 5th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-44EEEA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of Constantius II, as Caeser (AD 317-340) dating to 326 AD (Reece period 16) PROVIDENTIAE CAESS reverse type depicting camp or town gateway with two towers. Mint mark -/-//PTR dot in crescent, mint of Trier. Reference RIC VII, Trier 480. Date: Roman Diameter: 19 mm Weight: 3.1 g Die axis: 5 o'clock
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-5A0E22
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) probable small-long brooch (AD 400-600) The pin is missing and the bottom part of the brooch is missing. The cruciform head plate is flat and formed of a central lozenge-shaped plate from which extend three.flat, roughly lozenge shaped arms, each with a waist between it and the central plate. The central plate is decorated with five punched ring and dot elements, one within each of the upper and side projections, and two arranged vertically on the central plate. Protruding from the lower edge of the head there is…
Created on: Monday 17th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd February 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0F7A62
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337), dating to the period c.AD 314 (Reece period 15). SOLI INVICTO COMITI reverse type depicting Sol standing left raising right hand and holding globe in left. Mint of London. As RIC VII, p. 98, no. 10; Cloke and Toone, 2015: pp. 212-213, no. 8.02.015.
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2019
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EA5FDC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy single-loop pointed buckle with integral forked spacer plate. Medieval in date, c. 1350 - 1450. The frame is oval in shape and curves to a point on the outer edge where the (missing) pin would rest. There is also a slight taper on the front face from the inside edge of the loop down to the point around the whole circumference of the loop except where the spacer legs are attached. Both soldered buckle plates are also missing. The forked spacer is roughly filed and recessed each side to locate the plates. The frame is also recessed between the spacer legs on the …
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A55BFB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy plate brooch. A symmetrical continental plate brooch with zoomorphic decoration dating to the 1st to 2nd Century AD . There are faint traces of red enamel remaining. The brooch is cruciform in shape with a large central sub- circular plate. The plate is framed by a raised reserve of metal along both edges, creating a recess for enamel and has a central circular aperture.There are two opposing zoomorphic heads with recesses in the eyes and two opposing two circular projections also recessed for enamel.At the rear of the brooch behind the opposing zoomor…
Created on: Friday 8th June 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Launceston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-06C327
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy mount, hexagonal and flat, with a large off-centre rivet hole 3.7 mm in diameter. The hexagon is not regular; two parallel and opposite sides are longer than the others, making it 19.64mm long but only 12.41mm wide. At the shorter ends, one angled corner is longer then the other, making the angle more acute; the rivet hole is placed where the centre would be if the hexagon was regular and both angles less acute. The central hole is surrounded by incised oblique lines which slant outwards from the hole. They are relatively regular around the less acutely angled hal…
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th January 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-068523
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy buckle with forked spacer. Oval, lipped and notched frame. Copper alloy wire pin. The forked spacer consists of two 'prongs' which extend from the back of the frame and are roughly filed to provide a key when soldered to the composite double sheet copper alloy plates which are now missing. Most of the tinning still survives on the surface of the buckle frame. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example on page 36, no.214, which is dated from c.1350-1450.
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-05F60B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy composite buckle with a D-shaped frame, that has been drilled for a separate pin bar, and an integral folded sheet copper alloy plate with one rivet. The copper alloy pin bar was inserted into the frame through two holes at the open end of the frame and then the ends were hammered into place. The bar is worn where it touches the inside edge of the plate in the area cut away from the plate to allow the pin to loop around the spindle. The pin is now missing but would have been made of copper alloy wire. There are the remains of the leather strap still held within…
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E13782
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Iron age or Roman copper alloy T-shaped applied hook brooch, probably dating to c. AD 25-100. The surviving fragment comprises of the head of the bow, wings and partial pin, the lower bow being lost. The cylindrical wings expand transversely from the head of the brooch, these retaining a copper alloy axis bar in situ and with a slot cut into the reverse to accomodate a hinged pin, the latter, also of copper alloy, partially survives. The bow expands out from the head terminating in a patinated break. The bow is undecorated, but with an incised groove running down…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-590B73
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337), Reece period 16, dating from AD 324-330. VIRTUS AVGG reverse type depicting camp gate with open doors, four turrets and star above, mint of Arles or Arelatum. Cf. RIC VII p. 269, pl.6, no.321
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-566794
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy single loop clasp, missing its strap bar and plate at one end, with a moulded zoomorphic decoration at the other end, the head of a mystical beast, possibly a griffin. The head is in high relief and has fine detailing, with pointed ears, holes for eyes which may once have had a decorative infill, a protruding snout, a band of diagonal grooves above the eyes and grooves radiating from either side of the snout, which probably represents the animal's pelt. In plan the clasp is rectangular, and in profile the animal's head is curved over as if to fit over anot…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4AA477
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy English jetton. Sterling bust type depicting facing bust of Edward I (Class 10), Berry type 1, Mernick reference 2c.12.34*, dating to c. 1300-c. 1310. Mint uncertain. Its dimensions are diameter 20.32 mm, thickness 0.7 mm, weight 1.64 g As Mernick reverse 34 (Series 2c) is novel (created following discussions regarding this jetton) this example has been marked as a find of note. Furthermore, large key reverses (Berry reverse type 8) have, to date, been noted by Mernick in his online catalogue on jettons attributable to the reign of Edward II (see also Ber…
Created on: Saturday 28th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CC654D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete medieval copper-alloy bar mount with symmetrical hemispherical lobes: at either end a small one with squared off terminal, flanking a larger central one. There are drilled holes for separate rivets in each small lobes, both in situ. The mount is undecorated and generally flat on the reverse; the small lobes are hollow backed. The metal is a dark-grey colour and there are possible file marks on the reverse. Length: 16.7 mm; Width: 8.7 mm; Thickness: 3.6 mm; Weight: 1.3 g See Egan and Pritchard (1991, 213-214; nos 1160, 1161) for similar mounts illustrated from London's…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Friday 18th January 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CBD6A8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy fragment from the front sheet plate of a medieval composite strap-end (c. 13th-14th century). The plate is sub-rectangular; it has broken perhaps halfway along the object, based on its engraved design, with a ragged, old break. The terminal has bevelled corners, with angled cuts. Along one long edge there is evidence on an engraved border, on the front. The field is filled with the rear half of a beast; beyond the break there is a bent leg with toes engraved, the rear of the back and a long tail which travels along the centre of the field. The end of the creature's …
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CB81C8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval single-looped copper-alloy buckle frame of c. 14th- to 16th-century date; the frame itself is complete but the pin is missing. It is broadly trapezoidal, tending towards kidney shaped, with rounded corners on the outer edge. The outer edge expands gradually towards its centre internally; externally it tapers from the corners to the ends of the bar. The front is bevelled shallowly externally, mirrored internally on the reverse of the outer edge. There are multiple oblique (diagonal) grooves on the sides and outer edge, covering each and rendered neatly. The bar is slightly n…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Friday 19th July 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CAB516
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A worn and corroded copper-alloy Roman radiate of Gallienus (AD 253-268), sole reign, dating to the period AD 260-268 (Reece period 13). The reverse type is unclear due to the preservation of the coin, but possibly depicts a quadruped (deer/antelope/goat?) left. Mint of Rome.
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 12th October 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CA37EC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A worn copper-alloy Roman nummus of the House of Constantine, probably a contemporary copy, dating to the period AD 335-341 (Reece period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting Two soldiers standing either side of one standard. Uncertain mint.
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 12th October 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BD0BB0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Iron Age stater of the South Western Region / Durotriges, dating to the period c.50 BC - AD 40, 'Hod Hill' type. Obverse: Wreath, cloak, and crescents. Reverse: Disjointed horse left, rectangular head, body of crescents, vertical legs, many pellets above. As ABC, p. 111, no. 2175; BMC (Hobbs), nos. 2790-2859.
Created on: Monday 9th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-913011
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman Polden Hill type two-piece brooch with a spring mechanism. The cross bar of the brooch is composed of hollow, rectangular wings which are semi-circular in profile to accommodate the iron spring, now missing. Between the two wings at the back projects a semi-circular lug pierced with two holes. The upper hole was for the chord of the spring and the lower hole has the corroded remains of the end of the iron axis bar in place. The pin is also missing, which was probably also made of iron. There is a small fragment of copper alloy wire, found with the…
Created on: Monday 25th September 2017
Last updated: Sunday 8th October 2017
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