Record ID: SOM-F20C78
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constans, FEL TEMP REPARATIO (emperor in a galley with a standard), Lyon, 348-50. LRBC no. 185 (1960, p. 49).
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F21922
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nummus of the House of Valentinian. Securitas Reipublicae (Victory advancing left with wreath) type. Date: AD 364-378. Incomplete - damage to edge in front of bust.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F23FC7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver-washed copper alloy nummus of Crispus, VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP, mint uncertain, 318-24.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F24D67
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nummus of the House of Valentinian. Securitas Reipublicae (Victory advancing left with wreath) type. Date: AD 364-378.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F26467
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy radiate of Claudius II, LIBERT AVG, mint uncertain, 268-70. Cf. Normanby p. 204, no. 1784.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F2B197
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of the House of Valentinian, type and mint uncertain, 364-78.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F29666
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy brooch. An incomplete strip bow brooch. The incomplete wings were folded back to house the axis bar for a separate hinged pin (both missing) the left wing is broken. There is a large notch between the wings to allow the pin to be articulated. The flat strip bow tapers from the head and is decorated with a longitudinal ridge at each edge flanking a blank central area. The foot is missing. The back is undecorated. Date: Roman, 1st to 2nd century
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F2D853
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 'Tower of Tournai' jetton produced at Tournai, France between c. 1497-1521. Mitchiner's no. 736 (1988, p. 240).
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F40254
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle of late medieval date. The incomplete oval double frame buckle measures 15.7mm by 20.7mm by 4.2mm and weighs 3.6g. The majority of one loop is missing. The outside edge is decorated with a panel of incised transverse parallel lines. At each end of the narrowed strap bar there is an external knop, both of which are also decorated with incised parallel lines. The pin has been wrapped around the strap bar and tapers to a pin. It has a moulded transverse line on the external face, adjacent to the loop.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F40C20
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead button of probable seventeenth century date. The slightly convex circular button measures 19.4mm in diameter by 5.3mm thick and weighs 3.7g. The front is decorated with a central circular moulded knop, surrounded by radiating slightly curved lines. In the centre of the reverse is the stub of the integral shank. The edge is damaged in places.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F41741
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy finger ring of probable late medieval date. The hoop measures 23.3mm in diameter, 3.5mm in width and 2mm in thickness. The damaged rectangular bezel measures 13mm by 8.6mm and the ring weighs 4.2g. The hoop has a D-shaped cross-section, with an external curve. It widens slightly to meet with the bezel which is flanked by a transverse line on each side and is decorated with an incised saltire cross. A number of finger rings with this general form can be seen in part 1 of the 'Salisbury Museum Catalogue' (Saunders 1991, p. 46, fig. 12, nos. 17, 18 and 19).
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Durweston CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F41FF7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable gilded cast copper alloy horse harness pendant of medieval date. The curvilinear pendant measures 25.6mm by 8.9mm by 2.5mm and weighs 3.6g. At the apex is a loop which has been turned through ninety degrees. The pendant has a convex front and a concave back. On the front there are traces of gilding. A pendant with a broadly similar form from Norton Bavant, Wiltshire, has been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database (WILT-674E02).
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Child Okeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-07A787
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy hooked mount. The mount comprises an oval plate with an integral hook at one end. The plate is undecorated, convex at the front and concave at the back. There are two attachment holes set on the longitudinal axis, both of which contain the corroded remnants of iron rivets or pins. Above the hook is a transverse raised bar. The hook is D-sectioned and tapers as it curves towards the back of the plate. It curves upwards and terminates at the level of the transverse bar. A similar mount is published in Read, B, 2001, "Metal Aterfacts of Antiquity", p.39 and fig.25, n…
Created on: Tuesday 6th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-17AFC5
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy spoon stem or vessel handle. A short section of the stem or handle only remains. It is slightly tapering and has a flattened D-section. There are breaks at both ends. The flat, front face is decorated with incised lines two sets of two transverse lines flanking a saltire cross and a small nothch at the edge of the object in the side quarters of the cross. Date Post-medieval, possibly 16th to 18th centuries Dimensions: 41.44 mm x 10.34 mm x 3.14 mm Weight: 8.13 g
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-194EE1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 sherd of coarse flint tempered pottery (pieces up to 7 mm). Oxidised red surfaces on the exterior, reduced black on the interior with a reduced grey-brown core. Thick walled body sherd. Handmade vessel. Date: Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Weight: 6 g
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-196947
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint waste flake. Mid brown flint with large pale grey patches and a high gloss patina. There is a small area of off-white nodule cortex at the distal end. There is a small striking platform at the proximal end and a small bulb of percussion with a bulbar scar on the ventral face.The dorsal face is heavily worked with numerous small, elongate flaking scars from the production of bladelets. the scars have marked waves of percussion. There is some irregular loss at the proximal end of the dorsal face and this, together with the fact that the flake is quite thick, suggest this is a co…
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-19D834
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A coarse discoidal scraper. Made on a primary flake of light grey brown flint with a large area of off-white nodule cortex. It has a heavy grey to white mottled patina. The small striking platform is retained at the proximal end and there is a large bulb of percussion with bulbar scar on the ventral face. The distal end has been removed and a large area of the circumference has been coarsely retouched from the ventral face. Dimensions: 37 mm x 39 mm x 15 mm Weight: 27 g
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-1A3786
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 sherd of earthernware pottery with abundant fine sand (> 1 mm) temper and occasional haematite pieces (up to 1 mm). The exterior and interior surfaces are oxidised to a pale orangey pink whilst the core is buff in colour. There is some sooting on the exterior surface. A damaged rim sherd from near the rim, probably from a jar. Heavily abraded. Probably 13th to early 14th century coarseware from East Dorset industries. Weight: 15 g
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-1A5486
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 sherd of earthernware pottery . A reddish brown and dark grey coarseware with abundant, coarse, rounded sand temper (up to 1.5 mm). The fabric is largely reduced black to brown apart from the internal surface which is oxidised reddish orange. Slightly abraded. A thin walled body sherd, probably from a cooking jar. Handmade. Date: 12th to 13th century coarseware from the East Dorset/South Wiltshire industries. Weight: 3 g
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-1D2861
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two secondary waste flakes. Irregular flakes, both of banded light grey-brown and dark grey flint with a low gloss patina on the light grey brown areas and a milky-white patina on the dark grey. Both have areas of yellowed nodule cortex. Both flakes have some recent edge damage. The first flake has a small striking platform and a bulb of percussion with a bulbar scar. The distal end has been snapped off. There are two flaking scars on the dorsal surface flanking a large area of cortex. The second flake is a fragment from the distal end of a larger piece. Again the rest has been snappe…
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.