Record ID: DOR-321244
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible whetstone, hone-stone or polishing stone. A shaped quartzite pebble (probably a beach pebble). The pebble has several angular facets resulting in its broadly rectilinear shape. The profile shape is pentagonal. On both of the long faces there are areas of wear at the short edges. The upper surface, where two facets join together producing a central ridge (the point of the pentagonal profile) is slightly more smooth than the other surfaces. Date: Uncertain Dimensions: 83.81 mm x 47.53 mm x 58.63 mm Weight: 420 g (approx)
Created on: Tuesday 5th July 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-2205A5
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a whetstone. It is square sectioned with a break at either end. One end flares out and has a long, central groove on one face. The opposite face has an angled groove at the other end. A fine grained, laminated, micaceous siltsone or mudstone. Date: Not closely datable, but probably Medieval to Post Medieval - 12th to 18th century Dimensions: 44.76 mm x 31.93 mm x 20.31 mm Weight: 42.52 g Weight: 8g
Created on: Thursday 17th September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-E194B6
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete whetstone of probable Early Medieval or Medieval date (c.800 – 1400). The whetstone is formed from a very fine sedimentary mica rich sandstone or siltstone and bedding planes are clearly visible in the profile. The whetstone is broadly sub-rectangular in plane with tapering sides and faces. It is sub-rectangular in cross section. The edges are slightly bevelled. The top, above the suspension hole, has an angled profile. A relatively small, sub-circular suspension hole has been drilled, off-centre, in the upper part of the whetstone; this has been ac…
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-EE1421
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible net or thatch weight of unknown date. The object is trapezoidal and is made from a fine grained sandstone. It has three smooth edges and the other edge is broken. The perforation, which is a minimum of 5.3mm in diameter, has been drilled from both sides in the centre of the thinner part of the trapezium. The weight measures a maximum of 80.95mm in length, 61.7mm in width and is between 10.02mm and 18.03mm thick. It weighs 151g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cerne Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-721978
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of probable stone tile, or possibly a stone weight. A piece of fossiliferous limestone (probably Purbeck marble) with an hourglass profile drilled hole at one end. Date: Roman to Post Medieval - c. 45 to 1800 century Dimensions: 46.5 mm x 49.5 mm x 12 mm Weight: 31.5 g
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2015
Last updated: Friday 27th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-55B1E4
Object type: TESSERA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
18 blue and white lias limestone and 1 ceramic tessera. the ceramic tessera has a fine orange fabric. the tesserae range in size from 32.30mm x 25.94mm x 16.32mm to 14.23mm x 13.41mm x 10.31mm. The total weight of the assemblage is 229.59g.
Created on: Monday 11th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stallen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-B69A2B
Object type: TESSERA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman Large tessera of white limestone, dating to c. AD 100 - 400. It is sub-square in shape, with the upper surface showing some wear. Length: 25.58 mm Width: 19.05 mm Weight: 21.64 g
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 17th February 2020
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Record ID: DOR-DE0FDB
Object type: TESSERA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tessera of blueish-white limestone. A rectangular block, with the upper surface showing some wear Date: Roman - c. AD 100 - 400 Dimensions: 13.12 mm x 10.84 mm x 10.5 mm (height) Weight: 3.34 g Small tesserae such as these would have been used to make patterned mosaic pavements in the Roman period.
Created on: Monday 6th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2022
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Record ID: DOR-222171
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone spindle whorl. A circular pebble of fine grained limestone. It has a central circular perforation (10.46 mm in diameter) made using a hollow drill. the edges of the object are rounded producing and oval cross section Date: Probably Iron Age (Peter Bellamy, pers. comm) Dimensions: 38.90 mm x 37.81 mm x 15.51 mm Weight: 32.88 g
Created on: Thursday 17th September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOMDOR-EEBBA3
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chalk spindle whorl of unknown date. The spindle whorl is slightly irregular, but is circular in plan, with a diameter of between 58.72 and 60.68mm and plano-convex in profile with a maximum thickness of 21.27mm. In the centre there is a round perforation which has been drilled from both sides. It is between 6.5 and 15.5mm in diameter. On some parts of the surface working marks are visible and around the central perforation on the flat side there is an oval incised line, about 1mm in width. Weight: 77.55g
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bincombe area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-9E1B31
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable chalk spindle whorl or possibly a weight. A sub-circular disc of stone with a hole bored in the centre. The hole has a slight hour-glass profile. The upper and lower faces are slightly convex and the edge is flattened. Internal diameter of hole is 6.27 mm
Created on: Monday 21st February 2005
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2022
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Record ID: SOMDOR-9E3BC1
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable stone spindle whorl or possibly a weight. A circular disc of stone with a hole bored in the centre. The hole isstraight sided. The upper and lower faces are slightly convex and the edge is tapering and rounded. Internal diameter of hole is 8.06 mm.
Created on: Monday 21st February 2005
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2022
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-C6F6D7
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An end-scraper made on a tertiary flake of opaque black obsidian. It retains a wide striking platform at the proximal end. There is a low bulb of percussion with a bulbar scar on the ventral face together with large, widely space waves of percussion running to the distal end.On the dorsal face there are three elongate, parallel flaking scars. The scraper has an irregular trapeziodal cross section. The edges of the striking platform are not abraded. The distal end has been modified by semi-invasive retouch flaking (possibly pressure flaking) to create and out-curved scraping edge. One …
Created on: Tuesday 8th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 8th October 2019
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Record ID: WILT-F2CFFD
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possibly incomplete roof tile of indeterminate date. It is of limestone, probably from Purbeck.These limestones are fossiliferous and part-crystalline, harder than purely oolitic limestones and extremely durable. It is sub-rectangular in shape, but may originally have been a narrow hexagon. It is oval in cross-section (the two surfaces being slightly convex but tapering towards each edge) and has a single approximately central circular hole neatly drilled at a slightly downward angle, close to what is presumably the upper end. The stone has been worked to leave a thinner sectio…
Created on: Monday 13th September 2021
Last updated: Sunday 5th December 2021
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Record ID: DOR-3DC661
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a limestone roof tile. The pointed apex of a probably lozengiform roof tile. There is a sub circular chipped hole at the apex. This has been pecked from one face of the tile only. Roof tiles such as these are common on Roman sites, but continue in use into the 19th century. Date: Roman to Post medieval - 100 to 1800 Dimensions: 64 mm x 111 mm x 17 mm Weight: 184 g
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2012
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stour Provost', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-92F8A8
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A large incomplete rotary quern. The lower stone only. The stone is a fine grained pale pinky-grey quartzite, probably sarsen. The stone is circular with a central circular perforation with an asymmetrical hour-glass profile. The upper, grinding face is convex. It is worn and smoothed through use. The edges, where they survive, are dressed. The underside is irregular and with some smoothing resulting from the stone being dragged and moved, but otherwise unmodified. Date: Roman - AD 43 - 410 Dimensions: 380 mm x 35 mm (edge thickness) x 90 mm (thickness at centre. The perforation is …
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Record ID: SOM-949982
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of quern-stone of probably Roman date. The fragment is sub triangular in shape and it is a segment of a circular millstone, from the central perforation to the outer edge. The upper face is rough and slightly convex. Traces of a central circular hole on the millstone remains on one side of the fragment. This hole measures 14.7 mm in deep before sinking further for 29 mm to the central perforation of millstone.The lower face is flat and has had minimal working. The whole piece measures 136.1 mm in length, 159.7 mm in width, in thickness 44.5 mm at the centre and 57.2 mm a…
Created on: Friday 31st August 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stour CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-659247
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete polished stone axehead, probably of Langdale Tuff. The axehead has an asymmetrical break at the butt end. The surface of the axe is granular but smooth with a distinct grey-green hue. The surfaces are finely polished with striations visible and very little visible of any flaking scars from the rough-out stage of manufacture. The object is sub-rectangular and tapers toward the butt and has a pointed oval section. The blade end tapers out to the side and in along the blade edge. The cutting edge is asymmetrical and has a large flake missing, probably post dep…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E9C3E0
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete perforated stone object or mace of probable Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age date, circa 8300BC- 2100BC. The remaining piece is truncated-sub-oval in plan, with a flat upper surface and near vertical sides. The break has occurred at the point of a central hourglass-shaped vertical perforation. The item has probably been made from a natural cobble.
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr Wimborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-107414
Object type: NET SINKER
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable net weight or sinker. An irregular piece of stone with a deliberately drilled hole towards on edge. The hole is circular and is 7.45 mm in diameter. The stone is a coarse oolitic limestone. Date: Probably Neolithic to Iron Age Dimensions: 48.87 mm x 65.08 mm x 17.11 mm Weight: 69.40 g
Created on: Monday 17th May 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 19th May 2010
Spatial data recorded.