Record ID: DOR-A9C46D
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead alloy ampulla.  The object comprises a hollow flask with a sub-circular body and narrowed, open neck. The bilateral lugs have broken off, part of the neck is missing leaving a torn edge and there is a ragged hole running diagonally across one face. The chamber of the ampulla is decorated with deep grooved radiating lines representing a cockle shell. There is no decoration visible on the other face. Date: Medieval (c.1300-1500). Dimensions: 49.35 x 31.23 x 5.08mm. Weight : 30.76g. Ampullae were pilgrim souvenirs known to have been …
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2023
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-A98B5B
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy ampulla.  The object comprise a hollow flask with a sub-circular body and narrowed, open neck with integral lugs either side. One face of the chamber is decorated with deep grooved radiating lines representing a cockle shell. on the other face of the chamber are traces of a moulded design of a crown with cross hatched infill. Date: Medieval  - c.1300-1500 Dimensions: 48.65 x 25.54 x 6.59 mm Weight : 28.49 g There are many examples of ampullae with crowns and cross hatching in various styles and configurations on the PAS database, fo…
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2023
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-2B33B3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead or lead alloy weight of probable later Medieval or Post Medieval date (1350 - 1700). The weight is circular with one edge missing possibly cut. A sub-rectangular hole has been cut / or more likely cast through the centre. This hole has been filled with a fragment of clear glass. The weight is a mid grey colour with a relatively even and corroded patina that covers all surfaces. A light active powdery corrosion product is present on all surfaces. Date: Medieval Diameter: 25.26 mm Thickness: 4.12 g Weight: 18.4 mm
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-01BA17
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of pewter rectangular double-looped buckle frame of post-medieval date. The fragment consists of an expanded, rounded corner and an extending arm of one loop. The corner is decorated with decorated with a pellet with cross within and the arm of the frame with  a central groove and multiple vertical lines on the outer edge. The frame thickens slightly at the break  and there are traces of an aperture for the attachment of a missing centre bar. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1750  Dimensions: 30.74 mm x 9.73 mm x 3.74 mm Weight: 4.41 g
Created on: Monday 19th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 29th September 2023
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Record ID: DOR-BBEDCA
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead ampulla. The ampulla is flask-shaped with a rounded lower chamber and a flared neck. At each side where the neck meets the body is a lozengiform cross sectioned side loop, both of which are distorted. The opening at the top of the neck is squashed. The faces of the chamber are both decorated with moulded low relief patterns. On one is a field of diagonal cross hatching framed at the edge by a single strand border with a row of pellets outside it. On the other face the chamber is decorated with a stylised scallop shell pattern. There is a depression below …
Created on: Saturday 21st January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: DOR-933604
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast, single piece lead or lead alloy button. The button is sub-circular with a slightly domed front and a flat rear with an integral looped shank which has been flattened against the rear face. The domed face is decorated with a moulded design of raised lines on the form of a crude anchor. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600- 1700 Dimensions: 15.68 mm x 14.85 mm x 6.69 mm Weight: 6.55 g Similar buttons are recorded in Read, B, 2005, Buttons c 900 BC - AD 1700, p64 and are dated to the 17th Century
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D8F349
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  lead alloy double-looped buckle. The frame is trapeziodal with two symmetrical pentagonal loops. The frame has a flat, rectangular cross section. The outer ends of the loops are both expanded into an openwork trilobed knop with oval apertures, and there is a rounded knops at each of the corners of the loops. The centre bar is narrowed from the frame trapezoidal in section, and has a rounded knop at either end. The rear is undecorated. The pin is missing. Date: Post Medieval c. 1620 - 1680 Reference: Whitehead, R 1997 Buckles 1250 - 1800, …
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
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Record ID: DOR-AB90ED
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a lead alloy ampulla The rounded base only of a flask-shaped vessel. The upper part of the chamber, and the necked top and lugs are missing. The break is old and appears compressed and torn. One face of the ampulla is decorated with deep grooved radiating lines representing a cockle shell. There is no decoration visible on the other face. Date: Medieval - c. 1300-1500 Dimensions: 40.35 mm x 27.09 mm x 8.59 mm Weight: 32.88 g Ampullae were pilgrim souvenirs known to have been in use from the late 12th century and contained holy water from a s…
Created on: Monday 3rd October 2022
Last updated: Saturday 21st January 2023
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Record ID: DOR-35D354
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy double looped buckle with drilled frame for separate spindle.. The buckle is rectangular. Three quarters of the frame remains, The separate central spindle is missing. One of the vertical sides of the frame survives - it has a serrated outer edge with five pointed teeth, the inner edge is scalloped. The long edges are bevelled on both sides,  creating a diamond shaped facet, The long sides are curved and have a thickened mid-point which is drilled to house the missing separate spindle (centre bar). There are file marks on the …
Created on: Saturday 3rd September 2022
Last updated: Friday 14th October 2022
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Record ID: DOR-708387
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy button. A two part button with a solid, conical front and a separately applied copper alloy drawn wire attachment loop at the rear. The front is decorated with cast raised lines radiating from the centre. The back is flat and has the wire loop embedded in it. Date:Post-Medieval -c. 1650-1750 Dimensions: Diameter: 20.74 mm, Height (without loop):11.43 mm.Height (with loop): 19.62 mm.  Weight: 14.23 g. Similar in construction to Read B 2005 Metal Buttons c. 900 BC to c. AD 1700, page 80, No. 330
Created on: Monday 13th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Record ID: DOR-E739F3
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead ampulla. The ampulla is flask-shaped with a rounded lower chamber and a flared neck. At each side where the neck meets the body is an angled side loop which have not been pierced and retain lead from the casting process. The opening at the top of the neck is squashed and has an angular piece cut out at one edge. One face of the ampulla is decorated with a low relief design of a crown with a large central fleur de lys and long bifoliate side fleurs. Below the crown is an area of diagonal cross-hatching. The other face appears undecorated. Date: M…
Created on: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
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Record ID: DOR-B6B022
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pewter spoon fragment. Part of the bowl and a section of the handle only remain. The handle has a sub-angular cross section and tapers away from the bowl to the break. The remnant of the bowl flares out and appears to be broken along the whole of the outer edge. There is a rib extending along one face from the handle. Date: Post Medieval - 16th to18th century Dimensions: 68.01 mm x 24.27 mm x 2.56 mm (bowl) 7.19 (stem) Weight: 16.78 g
Created on: Monday 23rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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Record ID: DOR-12D5E8
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete toy lead alloy plate. A circular plate with a broad flange, shallow curving wall and a flat base with a footring on the underside. The rim is decorated with two thin concentric ridges. There is a piece missing from the rim and it is slightly distorted and partially torn away from the side. Reference: Forsyth, H. and Egan, G. 2005. Toys, Trifles and Trinkets. Base Metal Miniatures from London 1200 to 1800. Unicorn Press, London, page 263, design 59, figure 8.59 Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700 Dimensions: 28.68 mm x 2.81 mm Weight: 3.16 g
Created on: Sunday 15th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 1st June 2022
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Record ID: DOR-50F958
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete solid cast lead alloy button with missing solderd wire shank. The4 button is bi-convex and the front is decorated with incised lines forming a double-strand triangular frame around cross hatching of three triangles, transversly in-filling the points of the frame and leaving a void in the centre. There is a double stranded chevron incised at the mid point eacj of the outer edges of the frame. The rear of the button is undecorated and retains traces of a possibly copper alloy loop with a blob of solder. Date: Post Medieval - c. 17th to 18th century Dimensions: 11.76 mm…
Created on: Friday 5th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Record ID: DOR-840B94
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead alloy Post-Medieval slip top spoon. The bowl is 'fig' shaped. The stem has a faceted irregular hexagonal cross-section with a chamfered terminal (slip-top). There is a short V-shaped ridge on the rear of the bowl where the handle joins it. At the top of the bowl, set in line with the handle, is a stamped touch-mark in a rope border of the initials CF. These are orientated with the base of the letters towards the handle. There are multiple scratches on the surface of the bowl and handle, In particular are a group of long incised lines in the bowl which may be a crude c…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 20th January 2021
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Record ID: DOR-8196FF
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy mount, possible a boss from a bridle bit. The mount is circular with a low convex front and a hollowed rear, The front of the mount is decorated with a series of moulded concentric bands around a low domed area at the centre. The bands are as follows (from the outer edge): A band of raised chevrons pointing inwards, a rope patterned band, a plain raised band, a band of pellets. AT the rear is a raised rim around a shallow recess. There are some areas of damage on the rear surface, but no obvious attachment points. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700 Dimensions: 52.32…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Last updated: Friday 12th March 2021
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Record ID: DOR-184CE4
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead ampulla. The ampulla is flask-shaped with only ther rounded lower chamber surviving. There is a tear accross the top of the chamber where the nck has been removed and part of the neck has been squashed on to the body. One face of the chamber has moulded decoration of a pointed shield with radiating lines extending to the edges around it. The other face is decorated with moulded radiating lines in a stylised scallop shell pattern. Date: Medieval - c. 1300 - 1500 Dimensions: 36.71 mm x 32.45 mm x 6.72 mm Weight: 26.61 g Ampullae were pilgrim souvenirs and …
Created on: Friday 17th July 2020
Last updated: Friday 12th March 2021
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Record ID: DOR-ECDDBC
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead ampulla. The ampulla is flask-shaped with a rounded lower chamber and a flared neck. At the sides where the neck meets the body is one broken loop and the stub of another,The decoration on both faces has been obscured by many angular indentations, some of which may be teeth marks. The chamber and neck have been squashed flat by this process. Date: Medieval - c. 1300 - 1500 Dimensions: 54.62 mm x 31.67 mm x 4.42 mm Weight: 29.90 g Ampullae were pilgrim souvenirs and are known to have been in use from the late 12th century. They contained holy water from a…
Created on: Wednesday 15th July 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 30th September 2020
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Record ID: DOR-E1F9DD
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead ampulla. The ampulla is flask-shaped with a rounded lower chamber and a flared neck. At the sides where the neck meets the body is one broken loop and the stub of another, The remaining, broken loop appears to have been angled. The opening at the top of the neck is squashed and damaged. The faces of the chamber are both decorated. On one is a moulded fleur de lys, possibly an ornament of a crown, there is moulded cross-hatching faintly visible below. On the other face the decoration is indistinct but also includes an area of moulded cross hatching. Date: Medieval…
Created on: Monday 8th June 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 9th September 2020
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Record ID: DOR-8174A3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Medieval to Post-Medieval lead alloy or pewter button dating to c.1450 - 1600. The button has a conical head with a ring round the apex and the sides decorated with radiating ribs with panels of transverse lines between them. The reverse is flat with a casting seam across it. The attachment loop has broken off and is missing. Diameter: 12.6 mm Thickness: 7.2 mm Weight: 2.69 g
Created on: Monday 3rd February 2020
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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