Record ID: SUR-D24694
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and bent cast copper alloy Roman Initial T-shaped brooch, of Colchester derivative hinged pin type (Mackreth (2011) CD H) dating to the late 1st to early 2nd century AD. The wings are cylindrical with moulded lobes around each end and contain remains of an iron axis spindle which has corroded, expanded and broken the wings in places. The centre of the head has a notch for the pin. The bow is convex, with a moulded spine, ridged margins and a triangular lobe at the apex with a small hole at the centre and a lobed collar behind. The bow then tapers back to a round…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-73BB78
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337) dating to the period AD 324-30 (Reece Period 16). PROVIDENTIAE AVGG reverse type depicting a Camp-gate with two turrets, star above. Mint of Trier -//[..]TR pellet in crescent. LRBC, p4.  no: 28; RIC VII, p. 20, no. 475.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-4B07BD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Iron Age copper alloy brooch of the La Tene I type dating to the 4th - 3rd century B.C. ' Wessex' Type, Hull's Type 1A. The brooch has a strongly arched faceted bow with a diamond-shaped cross section.. The top of the arch extends to form the tightly coiled spring with an axis bar and arched mock-spring. A tapering pin with a sub-circular section remains, and tapers down to a pointed terminal that is situated near the catch plate.  The opposite end of the arch extends to form the foot and catchplate of the brooch which consists of a bar that is ben…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-A42766
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy and millifiori enamelled stud of c.2nd - 3rd century AD date. The copper alloy plate is circular with champlevé enamelled decoration on the upper surface comprising an empty central circular recessed field surrounded by four concentric recessed rings containing incomplete millifiori enamel inlay. The plate cells and shank are integrally cast, and each field of decoration is contained within a copper alloy flat-topped rim flush with the enamel. In the very centre of the empty circular central field (19.63mm diameter) …
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
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Record ID: BERK-627B62
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman rotary key with an elaborate trilobate handle cast in copper alloy, from which emerges a fragmentary iron stem. The handle is formed of a number of gradually blocks of circular cross-section, above which the openwork trilobate terminal. The iron stem is circular in cross-section and is broken. Some orange corrosion product extends up the blocks of the handle. Above the blocks the trilobate handle flares out. It thins very slightly along it length at which point it terminates in a globular knop. The end has three arches, as is to be expected, with the …
Created on: Sunday 28th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0FAA7A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy uninscribed Iron Age unit, probably a Gallic unit of the Carnutes, dating to the c.late 1st century BC. Obverse: Female bust right, flower(?) behind? Reverse: Eagle with spread wings, head turned right, a snake(?) to right, unclear motifs in the field. cf. DT 2576 ('classe III a l'aigle et au serpent'); Allen, 1995: nos. 160, S148-151. Delestree and Tache (1992: p. 132, no. 2576) place this type with the coins of the Carnutes and in pre-Augustan period after the end of the Gallic Wars, while Allen (1995: p. 75) regards them as being of the neighbouring …
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-65D51F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold posy / posie / posey ring of 18th century date. The ring has a plain narrow hoop with D shaped cross section 1mm thick and 2.2mm wide. The interior is inscribed "Love and live Happy" in an italicised script. There is a maker's mark of I.W in a rectangular escutcheon. The internal diameter of the ring is around 20mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-12CCF2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An complete and possibly defaced early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Substantive Light Coinage, 'Profile/Cross of lobes' type (North 296; Chick 24) dating to c.AD784/5-92/3, moneyer: Dud(da), mint: London. Refs: North 1994: p.87; Chick 2010: pl. 4; Naismith 2017: p.134, table 9.  The coin is slightly bent and the obverse field shows numerous straight scratches across the portrait focusing on the area of the face. These appear to be deliberate suggesting that the coin has been defaced. Obverse OFFA REX. Bust Cc  draped with diadem, one &…
Created on: Friday 12th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BD4128
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman anepigraphic nummus of Crispus (AD 317-326) as Caesar, dating to the year c.AD 326 (Reece period 16). CRISPVS/CAESAR reverse type depicting the legend over two lines. Mint of Trier. RIC VII, p.210, no. 488. This coin measures 17.0mm in diameter, and weighs 1.63g. See also: SOM-85F8C7; BH-081748
Created on: Monday 8th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-BE2952
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy penannular brooch of late Roman to Early-Medieval date, c.AD 350 - 600 and of Booth Type F (Fowlers Type F). The frame is bent open and has a sub rounded cross section, with thin incised decorative transverse banding running around it. The zoomorphic terminals are integrally cast and aligned with their upper surfaces facing outwards from the body of the wearer; each is sub-rectangular with moulded details (second image) including a snout facing forwards with recessed circular eyes and a brow behind. The pin is 67.5mm in length and slight…
Created on: Wednesday 27th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 28th December 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-2E9271
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn, complete Roman copper alloy octagonal finger ring dating c. AD 200-410. The hoop is sub-rectangular in section, with a circular flat internal surface and octagonal external surface comprising eight plain facets of varying lengths. The surface is worn and abraded with a reddish-brown patina with patches of light green.  Measurements: diameter 24.53mm (internal diameter 20.28mm), width 4.06mm, thickness 2.10mm, weight 3.62g. The ring is consistent with Henig's type IX (Guiraud type 9a). Henig (1974, 50) suggests that polygonal rings …
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 10th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-C242FC
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy awl 87.2mm in length with a sub rectangular cross section. One end tapers to a point, the other to a rounded chisel tip. The surface has a deep-green patina with considerable loss, but there is no evident decoration.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0B9EC2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete medieval gem-set silver gilt 'stirrup' finger ring. The hoop is undecorated, with a plano-convex or D-shaped cross section, and although now broken would have had an internal diameter of approximately 17mm when intact. The bezel is pointed and triangular, 4.6mm high, with a  single setting for a (now lost) oval gemstone measuring 3mm in length and 2.2mm wide. The smooth shoulders of the bezel merge into the hoop. There are no marks or inscriptions.
Created on: Friday 24th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-E0BDBB
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete lipped decorated terret (rein ring) of Iron Age date c. 100 BC-100 AD, with La Tene style enamel decorations . The fragment is sub-circular in section, and would have originally been a sub-oval or D- shape, and features intergrally cast raised discoidal transverse moldings ( 2 sets of lips made up of four sub-oval projections).  One end of the ring is thicker than the other ( 10.70mm diameter vs 7.74mm diameter). The terret is decorated with two triangular cells on each lip ( a total of 8 triangular cells, 5 of which still contain  red enamel). There is a cast…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CC26C1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn copper-alloy Roman contemporary copy of an as of Claudius I (AD 41-54), dating to the period c.AD 41-54 (Reece Period 2). Reverse type depicting Minerva helmeted advancing right, holding spear and shield. Prototype of the mint of Rome. cf. RIC I (2nd ed.), nos. 100, 116. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxil…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 23rd November 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-753937
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and worn copper-alloy Roman probable as of Augustus (31 BC-AD 14), probably dating to the period c.27-10 BC (Reece period 1). COL NEM reverse type depicting a palm branch behind a chained crocodile, teeth visible on top of upper jaw. Mint of Nemausus (Nimes, Gaul). RIC I (2nd ed.), p. 51, nos. 154-157; RPC I, nos. 522-523. This coin is relatively lightweight, although quite worn, and probably belongs with the lighter (as?) issues of Nemausus Series I (RPC 523)   
Created on: Friday 17th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-4B387A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman Denarius of Severina (AD 270-275), probably dating to the period c.AD 275 (Reece Period 13). VENVS FELIX reverse type depicting Venus standing left holding unclear object in right hand and vertical sceptre in left. Mint of Rome. cf. MER-RIC temporary no. 1897 (https://ric.mom.fr/en/coin/1897); BNCMER XII.1, cf. no. 336; RIC V.1, p. 316, no. 6.
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-26E002
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval Scottish silver cut halfpenny of William I of Scotland (AD 1165-1214), third coinage (Short Cross and Stars); Phase B dating c.AD 1205-30. Reverse:  [S]VREL[IRNEh Henri Le Rus retrograde. Mint: Perth or Edinburgh.  As Spink 5031. Length: 19.14mm; width: 11.19mm and weight; 0.65g
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-25F03E
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn Roman copper alloy zoomorphic knife handle with a rams head terminal dating to the period c. AD 43-200. Only the handle remains of the knife, the blade is missing. The knife handle has a circular-sectioned shaft which terminates in an old break at one end (the blade end) while the other end expands into the zoomorphic terminal in the form of a ram's head. There is a raised double collar at the base of the neck. There are prominent rounded projections either side of the head representing curled horns, hence the interpretation as a ram's head. The head…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-0E0FD2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron age gold quarter stater of the Southern Region / Regini and Atrebates struck for Verica, c.AD 10-40, 'Verica Stars' type. Obverse: VERIC/COMF over two lines, crescent above, star below. Reverse: A Horse stepping right, star above, REX below. ABC p. 72, no. 1208; Sills, 2017: 382, no. 377. Dimensions: diameter: 11.44mm,  thickness: 1.42mm,  weight: 1.36g
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
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