Record ID: DOR-830838
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post medieval milled gold Portuguese 1000 reis or 'moidore' of João V (AD 1706-1750) dating to 1721.  Date: Post medieval Diameter: 16.69 mm Thickness: 0.8 mm  Weight: 2.59 g Dies axis:6
Created on: Monday 18th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-E055D3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with internal inscription. The band is D-shaped in cross section. The internal inscription on crude upper and lower case lettering reads: Yours in (heart). The heart is a symbol for love. There is a split in the band where it has posiibly been cut to resize it. The exterior is undecorated. Date: Post Medieval Dimensions: 3 mm width Weight.: 2 g Rachel King of the British Musaum has kindly commented: "I would place this ring as 17th or 18th century on comparison with BM examples. Thinner hoops tend to suggest a date of this range. I can’t see anything…
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burton & Winkton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-CA338D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval gold finger ring. A posy ring with the internal inscription Let vertue be thy guide in italic lettering. There is no maker’s or other mark. The hoop has a D-shaped cross section and is slightly distorted into an oval shape. Dimensions: 21.70 mm x 2.25 mm x 0.80 mm Weight: 1.78 g This inscription is common on rings from the later 17th to mid-18th century. Judy Rudoe of the British Museum has noted that in the absence of a makers mark there is insufficient evidence to confirm that the ring was over 300 years old when fond in 2021 (pers comm 18/11/2022).
Created on: Wednesday 15th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gillingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-A33BBB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A gold Iron Age Gallo-Belgic quarter stater, dating to the period c.80-60 BC, Gallo-Belgic D / Boat Tree type. Obverse: Boat with two occupants? Pellet to left. Reverse: Tree-like motif, wedge shaped line to either side, forked line below.  The weight of this coin, combined with the pellet in obverse field and wedge shaped motifs in reverse field suggest that this is probably a Gallo-Belgic D rather than an insular British type. See Sills, 2017: p. 15, no. 25; ABC p. 29, no. 40; Scheers 13. Diameter: 10.88 mm Weight: 1.47 g
Created on: Monday 13th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Moreton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-49825B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold quarter noble of Henry VI (first reign 1422 - 1461) dating to 1422 - 1427. Annulet issue. Minted in Calais. Date: Medieval Reference: North Volume 2, No. 1421 Diameter: 20.84 mm Weight: 1.73 g Die axis: 12  
Created on: Monday 28th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-A4262A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold quarter noble of Henry VI ( 1st reign 1422 - 1461) dating to 1422 - 1427. London Mint. Reference: North Volume 2,  No. 1420 Date: Medieval Diameter: 20.04 mm Weight: 1.76 g Die axis: 10  
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 11th November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sturminster Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-B0F6AB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold quarter stater of the British Iron Age, South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type, dating to c. 80-50 BC. Three figures in a galley on the obverse and a zig-zag on the reverse. Reference: ABC 2205 Date: Late Iron Age Diameter: 11.45 mm Weight: 1.06 g Die axis: 6 Although the coin is rather light for a gold quarter stater, the weights of the BM coin ranging from 1.33 to 1.53g. It is closer to the weights for silver pieces which range from 0.76 to 1.46g. However, the colour of the coin does appear to be pale gold.
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 16th December 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-887895
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval gold ecu d'or au soleil of Francis I of France (1515-47). Second type (23 Jan 1515), minted in Lyon. Crowned shield of France on the obverse and a triple stranded cross fleuretty on the reverse with a crowned F in two of the angles. Reference: Duplessy 771 Diameter: 24.97 mm Weight: 3.32 g Die axis: 6/7
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyme Regis', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-364BBF
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A gold finger ring with an internal inscription. The hoop is D-shaped in cross section. On the flat interior surface is two line inscription in Italic lettering. There are incised guidelines visible under the inscription. The inscription reads: The eye doth finde the hart doth chuse Faith doth finde and death doth loose Next to the inscription is a maker’s mark in a shield- DA Dimensions: 24.43 mm x 4.70 mm x 2.78 mm Weight: 10.21 g Date: Post Medieval – c. 1650 - 1730 Discussion: Since at least the middle of the nineteenth century (Waterton 1859, …
Created on: Thursday 17th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 5th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-86B8B9
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of gold strip or bar with a flared terminal. The strip has been coiled with the terminal on the inside. The strip is rectangular in cross section. At one end is a flared, flat-ended, terminal (approximately 4.5 mm thick) which is oval in cross section. At the other the strip has a deliberate angled cut. The strip is flattened from the terminal and expands in width to the cut end. The sides have been raised to create low flanges. This is slightly more prominent along the edges of one face (the outer face of the coil) than the other. The strip is 1.4 mm thick at the ridge…
Created on: Friday 10th July 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-62FA91
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small gold finger ring with an internal inscription. The band is D-shaped in cross section. The exterior, convex surface is decorated with a pattern of six evenly spaced quatrefoils with linear designs between and forming a lozengiform frame around each. It is possible that the recesses of the quatrefoils once contained enamel. The internal surface is inscribed in upper and lowercase italics with a recessed dot between each word and at the end. The inscription reads Mutata ab illa (perhaps translating as She is changed - see below for detailed discussion by Rachel KIng) Date: Post…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 7th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lytchett Matravers', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-21B957
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Extracted from file report by E. Ghey: The 40 coins are all gold Iron Age coins of the denomination known as a stater. All but one are of similar appearance and are very worn pale gold Continental Iron Age staters produced in Northern France (Normandy area) during the c. 2nd century BC. They are sometimes associated with the people later referred to as the Baiocasses and belong to the series “aux sangliers” (with boars, DT series 341) or “aux lyres” (with lyres, DT series 338) (BN 6955-6988 de Jersey 1994, 108-113 and fig. 57). There are 22 lyre series coins an…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 9th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-C7C656
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A gold finger ring with decorated shoulders and a faceted projecting bezel. The bezel is now empty, but originally held a gem setting. The band is rectangular in cross section and flares into lozengiform shoulders which then extend into the base of the four-sided, hollow bezel. The shoulders are recessed and decorated with a triangular foliate motif with two curlicues extending from the tip, all in relief. The shoulders may originally have held enamel around the motifs. The sides of the bezel are high and angled slightly inwards. Each has U-shaped moulding which fills the…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Affpuddle & Turnerspuddle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-C79965
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval gold Half-Guinea of James II (1685 - 1688), dating to AD 1686. Reference: Spink (2015) p 353 no 3404. Diameter: 20.53 mm Weight: 3.86 g Die Axis: 6
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-0FB9E8
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The find comprises two Iron Age gold globular staters These are early uninscribed types now thought to be produced in south-western Britain (Dorset, Hampshire and surrounding areas) in the first half of the first century BC. The coins can be summarised as: Uninscribed British Iron Age Insular X1 stater (Sills 2017, 258 no. 290, ABC 94 var.) Blank obverse with raised cross on reverse, possibly with pellets in quadrants. Weight: 6.59g. Uninscribed British Iron Age Insular X1 stater (Sills 2017, 258 no. 290, ABC 94 var.) Blank obverse with rai…
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-0F8D88
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post-Medieval gold and rock crystal 'momento mori' finger ring, dating to AD 1680 - 1720. The hoop is circular with a D-shaped cross-section. The bezel is oval set with a domed and facetted rock crystal or glass stone secured by a scalloped rim with foliate decoration. Beneath the stone is black fabric background on to which is sewn twisted gold wire. The gold wire is sewn in a looping border. Inside the border the wire has become detached and jumbled, but may have originally formed personal initials as seen on other rings of this type (e.g. OXON-9A2E11). The underside of …
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Affpuddle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-FD9BE6
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The pendant is sub-triangular in form and consists of a gold frame which encloses a slightly bi-convex piece of rock crystal. The frame is constructed from gold sheet, with rectangular strips along each upper edge and sub-triangular sheets on front and back with an aperture cut to house the rock crystal. The base was left open, presumably for insertion of the rock crystal, and was then sealed with a separate strip of sheet gold with the other sides of the frame folded over it to hold it in place. At the apex is a separately applied circular suspension loop. The gold frame is decor…
Created on: Thursday 28th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-BA5EE8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with internal inscription. The hoop is narrow and D-shaped in cross section. The internal inscription is in an italic letter style with a chevron pointing to the right at the end. It reads: Acsept my love There is no makers mark Date: Post Medieval Dimensions: 19.08 mm x 2.29 mm x 1.24 mm Weight: 1.72 g It is not possible to securely date this ring as over three hundred years old at the time of discovery, therefore it was not subject to the Treasure Act. Judy Rudoe of the British Museum comments: in the absence of a datable maker's mark, there is not …
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2020
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-551573
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with external inscription. It is of composite construction, comprising five separate bands. The wide central band is flanked by a narrow band of filigree wire and an outer, angled rim on each side. The central band is recessed to accommodate a separately applied strip of paler gold which bears a Medieval French blackletter inscription in relief, reading as follows: +loiautet (5 five cinquefoils) pas tout (5 five cinquefoils) - translating as Loyalty Passes All The inscription band may once have been enamelled. There are no marks inside the band. The outer rim a…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bettiscombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-BC727D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age early uninscribed British South Western B 'Chute' type gold stater, reverse-dished. Obverse: Abstract head of Apollo facing right, leaves downwards Reverse: Disjointed horse going left, triple tail, disjointed crab beneath Date: Late Iron Age - c. 80 - 60 BC Diameter: 19.50 mm Weight: 6.15 g Die axis: 7 Coins of this type were produced in the Dorset-Wiltshire-Isle of Wight area in around 80 - 60 BC. Reference: Van Arsdell 1205; BMC 35-76 cf no.57; ABC 746 ; Allen BRI B; Evans B5 ; Mack 32
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Friday 15th November 2019
Spatial data recorded.