Record ID: WILT-338A6A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman silver reduced siliqua of Constantius II, dating to AD 360-363 (Reece Period 18). VICTORIA - DD NN AVG reverse type, depicting Victory, winged, draped, walking left, holding wreath in right hand and palm in left hand. Mint of Lugdunum. RIC VIII, p. 193, no. 214.
Created on: Monday 6th January 2020
Last updated: Saturday 16th May 2020
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Record ID: WILT-336084
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy Colchester derivative Polden Hill brooch cf. Mackreth 2011, CD PH 4.b, probably dating to AD 80-175. The fragment consists of the head only, with the bow lost to an old break. The head expands transversely into a semi-cylindrical wings, open on the reverse and with closed caps at either end. A perforated crest extends over the top of the head, containing the remains of an incomplete external cord. The corroded remains of a coiled spring are contained within the wings, and there is a incised groove at either wing tip. Dimensions: 15.90mm in leng…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 23rd October 2020
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Record ID: WILT-322847
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester derivative developed T-shaped brooch, probably dating to AD 50-150. The head has cylindrical wings containing an axis bar, and a rectangular slot accommodates a hinged pin, although the latter is lost except for the attachment end. The ends of the wings each have a set of two partly circumferential shallow grooves.The upper part of the bow has a cabled band along either edge and a central arris. The remainder of the top half of the tapering bow is taken up with three lozenge shape cells with raised margins, each cell receding in size. They pr…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2020
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Record ID: DOR-F5BC17
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of Roman T-shaped Brooch, dating to c. AD 50 - 150. The wings, the hinged pin mechanism and top of the bow only remain and are mostly covered by corrosion. The wings are cylindrical in cross section and decorated with vertical ridges at the ends. The wings house the axis bar for the hinged pin. The bent remnant of the pin is still attached in the groove between the wings at the rear. The tapering bow is curved and a slightly and any decoration is no longer visible. Length: 24.90 mm Width: 29.29 mm Thickness: 11.29 mm Weight: 6.94
Created on: Friday 3rd January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2020
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Record ID: DOR-A41E14
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy radiate of Diocletian (AD 284-305), dating to AD 286 (Reece Period 14). IOVI CONSERVAT AVGG reverse type, depicting Jupiter, standing left, holding a thunderbolt in right hand and sceptre in left. Mint of Lugdunum, Second Series. RIC V, pt 2, p. 225, cf. no. 43; Gloucester Hoard (CHRB XIII) cf. no. 1818 (72 specimens); Bastien, Le monnayage de l'atelier de Lyon, AD 285-94, p. 125, cf. no. 54 Diameter: 22.69 mm Weight: 2.53 g
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 6th January 2022
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Record ID: DOR-A3AB0F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Nummus of Crispus (AD 317-26), dating to AD 321 (Reece Period 16). BEATA TRAN - QVILLITAS reverse type depicting a globe on altar, inscribed VOT/IS/XX, with three stars. Mint of Trier. RIC VII, p. 191 / Trier, no. 308 Diameter: 18.43 mm Weight: 2.61 g Die Axis: 11
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 16th March 2021
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Record ID: DOR-A3A5EB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper-alloy radiate of Carausius, dating to AD 286 - 293 (Reece Period 14). RESTI[T]VT SAECV, reverse type shows Carausius standing left, holding globe and spear, being crowned by Victory, standing left, holding palm over left shoulder. No mint mark. RIC V, pt 2, p. 540, cf. no. 969, Four coins of this type with reverse legend RESTIT SAECVL are recording for the new RIC for Carausius. One is in the Hunter Cabinet in Glasgow (no. 157). It is just possible that there is an obscured L after SAECV, but this is still a new variant nevertheless. Diameter: 22.78 mm Weight: 3.20…
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 25th May 2021
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Record ID: DOR-8AEAF9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy T-Shaped brooch, dating to c. AD 100- 200. The brooch has a pentagonal head loop with a circular aperture, projecting from the top of short cylindrical wings. The wings are decorated with two vertical grooves at each end and house the axis bar to which the remnant of the hinged pin is still attached. The pin has an expanded head and articulated in a vertical notch at the rear of the wings.The head of the bow projects horizontally from the centre of the front of the wings before dropping downwards at a right angle into the bow. The bow is tapering and D…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2020
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Record ID: DEV-0EF141
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A near complete copper alloy harness fitting of Iron Age date, c. 250-150 BC. The object is a form of terret, sub-circular in plan with a straightened attachment bar. This bar is more clearly and consistently cylindrical in cross section, and its ends are marked with bulbous circular studs. The ring then resumes its more slender cylindrical cross section, before thickening further to two flaring cups which join together at the 9 and 3 o'clock positions to close the terret ring. Each of the bulbous studs is flanked by two lines which emphasise their position. There are further inc…
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2020
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Record ID: DOR-0D1875
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy radiate of Carausius (AD 286-93) (Reece Period 14). C Mint. Obverse: CARAVSIVS ET FRATRES SVI; Radiate and cuirassed busts of Carausius (furthest away), Diocletian and Maximian left, with right hands raised Reverse: PAX AVGGG; Pax standing left, holding olive-branch and vertical sceptre Mint mark: S/P//C RIC V, pt 2, p. 550, no. 1 Diameter: 21.35 mm Weight: 3.96 g Die Axis: 6 Note: There are almost thirty coins of this general type known. There are 7 specimens of this particular type, with hands raised, in Sam Moorhead's corpus for the new RIC of Cara…
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2019
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Record ID: SOM-D1FB03
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy developed T-shaped hinged brooch probably dating to AD75 - 150. Only the wings and upper part of the bow remain. The wings are chipped at each end but nearly complete and have a pattern across the front of a single incised diagonal line about halfway along and a pair of incised lines at the end. The broken ends are filled with white cement to hold the hinge bar. There is a slot through the centre of the back of the head in which the pin would have hinged. This is filled with iron corrosion, probably the remains of an iron pin. The upper part of the …
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 10th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-6B8535
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A clipped(?) Roman silver Siliqua of Valentinian I, dating to AD 364-367 (Reece Period 19). RESTITVTOR REIP reverse type depicting the emperor standing facing, head right, holding labrum in right and in left victory on globe, holding wreath. Mint of Thessalonica. RIC IX, p. 175, no. 12a; Hoxne 225.
Created on: Thursday 21st November 2019
Last updated: Sunday 17th May 2020
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Record ID: PAS-426364
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A broken and fragmented late early-medieval copper-alloy probable stirrup sheath/side (c. 11th century AD). The fragment is comprised of a main rectangular convex strip which turns at one end through an oblique angle; the hollow channel running along the reverse of the object would have enclosed one of the arms a stirrup (Williams 1997, 1). At the end which does not turn the front is decorated with a low, moulded panel which occupies the object's width, itself decorated with engraved longitudinal grooves between a transverse border at each end. There is a possible adhesive on the reve…
Created on: Tuesday 19th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 9th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-AB17F8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy annular buckle, dating to c. AD 1300 - 1500. The buckle is circular and has an integral central bar. The frame is decorated with eight chevrons which form a zigzag style pattern. The pin is missing. The underside is undecorated. Diameter: 24.67 mm Thickness: 3.65 mm Weight: 6.11 g Reference: Similar buckles are recorded in database records LIN-23EC31 and NMS-212C24
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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Record ID: DEV-0AC761
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A late medieval gold finger-ring, with a sapphire setting. The bezel is hexagonal and cusped with six flat lobes. The sapphire has six sides following the gemstones natural crystal habit. The hoop is not perfectly circular, but rather resembles a distended stirrup shape. The band is narrow at the rear, thickening as it nears the bezel. The band is decorated with a series of floral designs. From bezel downwards these show: two flower heads, each of five petals, above and sitting approximately between three long stems, each with multiple sets of paired leaves and appearing to grow from a…
Created on: Monday 4th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2023
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Record ID: PAS-C5B747
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A seemingly incomplete cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of late early-medieval date (c. 11th century AD) of Williams Class A, but not falling into an apparent sub-type.The object is sub-rectangular, with a sub-trapezoidal protrusion at the apex. At the straight base is a flange of the common right angle type as depicted in Williams (1997, 25; fig. 18A), recessed to each side. At each lower corner is a large rivet hole; neither rivet survives. At the apex is the protrusion noted which may e broken. This is further suggested by a third rivet hole through the front of the mount, tow…
Created on: Friday 1st November 2019
Last updated: Friday 1st November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimborne St. Giles', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-C43BBB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A twisted, but complete medieval copper-alloy probable buckle plate (c. 13th century). The plate is sub-rectangular, and terminates in a protruding zoomorphic head. It is folded at the frame end; the frame is missing. There is a central cut out for the pin. The fold is short to the reverse, truncated at the first of two rivet holes; it also tapers to its end on that face, giving it a trapezoidal shape. The second central rivet hole on the plate is located towards the terminal. While the rivet connecting the folds survives in situ, the second is missing. At the terminal the plate narro…
Created on: Friday 1st November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 23rd November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-846658
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman silver siliqua, contemporary copy of Julian II (AD 355-363), dating to the period c.AD 363 (Reece period 18). VOTIS/X/MVLTIS/XX reverse type depicting the legend within a wreath. Prototype of the mint of Lyon. The coin is unusually crude.
Created on: Tuesday 29th October 2019
Last updated: Sunday 17th May 2020
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Record ID: PAS-2F9CAB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and damaged cast copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame of medieval date. The artefact is an irregular D-shape with prominent protruding outer edge such that it tends towards the sub-trapezoidal. The sides of the frame have been bent; one is truncated, a loss that extends to the bar. The surviving bar, consisting of the majority of the original bar, has been bent back on itself; the pin is missing. The bar is narrowed and offset. The protrusion forms the pin rest and features a shallow central pin groove along its width. It terminates with truncated, straightened cur…
Created on: Friday 25th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sixpenny Handley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2F7696
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy swivel strap fitting of medieval date c. 1200-1400. The fitting comprises a pair of D-shaped loops which are connected in such a way that they can each swivel. Each loop has with zoomorphic heads biting a central internal boss. The heads have prominent brows and expanded jaws. One of the bosses has an integral bolt that emerges from the centre of its base, the bolt narrower than the base of the boss. The bolt fits into a large circular perforation which almost fills the boss on the other loop. The metal has a variable mid-green patina and is worn. Similar…
Created on: Friday 25th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sixpenny Handley CP', grid reference and parish protected.