Record ID: BM-785AFD
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Circular medieval silver mount, with four knops around the outside, some damage to the edges. At the centre is an equal-armed cross with rounded ends, enclosed within a filigree circular border, and surrounded by six pairs of sub-square cells with X-shaped motifs incised at centre. Nondestructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface of the object conducted at the British Museum show a silver content of approximately 96 per cent.
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
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Record ID: BM-EE16B2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Oval silver buckle, the tab fitted with a stud for attachment to a leather strap. The reverse stamped with a shield‑shaped maker's mark: WW with two small mullets above and one larger mullet below. 
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
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Record ID: BM-EDC937
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Complete silver bodkin with knop on the end and eyelet, flattened shaft and tapered point. Entire upper section is engraved. Longitudinal opening surrounded by hatching with two transverse bands of lozenge pattern. Beneath the lower band, a tongue  is engraved which points downwards along the shaft of the bodkin.  Bent below the eyelet. Length: 111 mm. Weight: 7.49g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
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Record ID: BM-D744F2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval finger ring, now badly distorted and measuring 21mm across its greatest diameter.  The ring is engraved with the phrase en bon an (‘in a good year’).    The inscription is punctuated with sprigs of foliage. The ring is silver and was once entirely gilded.  The gilding only survives on the interior of the hoop and in the deepest recesses of the engraved design.  Traces of solder can be seen between the words bon and an on both the interior and exterior surfaces of the ring.  It dates to the fifteenth century.
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
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Record ID: BM-3BEA83
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Near complete Late Iron Age silver La Tene III bow brooch of 1st Century BC date. The brooch is missing the pin, but otherwise is in good condition. The spring stems from the rear of the head in a right angle and coils twice before the chord is anchored beneath the spring. The spring is broken as it rises, probably to coil for another turn before the pin. The head of the bow is unusual, consisting of a domed semi-circular plate with raised ribs at the base, which continue along the sides of the bow to the foot. The bow is sub-rectangular in profile and is decorated with a central rib, …
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 8th March 2023
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Record ID: BM-BC26E7
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Oxford Archaeology carried out a programme of work during 2000, and again in 2003-4 prior to redevelopment of the site of the well-known late Roman cemetery, which lies to the north of Winchester on the Cirencester Road. Excavations by Giles Clarke in the 1960s had identified 451 graves. The recent work resulted in the discovery of a further 343 graves, 24 of which were cremation burials. Two of the graves from the recent work, both excavated in 2004, produced silver objects. These graves and their entire contents are summarised here. Both are dated to the 4th century AD and …
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-B7E323
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Roman silver finger ring, wide plain hoop set with a undecorated circular orangey-pink carnelian. Most of the hoop is missing.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-275770
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small penannular ring comprising a plain round to oval-sectioned hoop with flat terminals. The interior of the hoop and the flat terminal surfaces have not been polished. Gold content approximately 82%. The specific gravity at 16 is not low enough to indicate that the ring has a base metal core.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-237231
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small gold sub-circular disc, of irregular shape and appearance, probably a small ingot.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-15AE47
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A crushed and distorted roll (apparently rolled six times) of very thin sheet-gold strip, narrow, and seemingly parallel-sided, the free (outer) end slightly damaged. No markings are visible.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-120F32
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A sub-rectangular gold binding, not a finger-ring, comprising a flat strip, 4 mm. wide and 0.77 mm. thick, decorated externally with a five-ribbed linear reeding. A butt join on one of the long sides is secured on the inner face by a small ?soldered strip (length 9 mm.).
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th December 2022
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Record ID: BM-0FA2A5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Plain gold band, scratched and worn, with the inscription: true love is the bond of peace. The inscription is recorded by Joan Evans (1931) in a late 16th century manuscript and the lettering is consistent with a 17th century date, but we know that 17th century lettering style continued well into the 18th century from the British Museum's dated sequence of mourning rings. In the absence of marks or any distinguishing decorative feature there is no firm evidence to date this pre 1704.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2023
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Record ID: BM-5974EC
Object type: DRESS PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy spherical headed pin, with evidence of gilding surviving. Surface analysis conducted at the British Museum confirmed the non-precious metal content.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-5943B0
Object type: DRESS PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver-gilt dress pin; long shaft originally bent, since straightened; hemispherical head with central lateral line dividing it into two equal sections, each section with applied filigree ornament in spirals. English, 16th C, of a type frequently reported through the Treasure Act.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 19th December 2022
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Record ID: BM-54A7BA
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Triangular dress-hook; cusped backplate applied with recurving hook (broken) , attachment bar missing. On the front three hemispheres with filigree roundels and central knops; at the centre a pin with shank attaching it to the backplate, with small pierced circle of silver in form of a flowerhead which fits in middle of the dress fitting. The shank is damaged and the flower-head element is loose; it would originally have been attached to the shank by a domed-headed pin. Approx. 2.9 cm in length. 16th Century, English.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-548A08
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt dress hook in the form of a book, rectangular backplate with seven projecting knops along the sides; fleur-de-lis at the point where the recurving hook is soldered onto the backplate. On the front, within a rectangular frame, an impressed heart and 3 indentations above. Front gilded. Bar attachment on reverse now missing; solderb marks show its original position. Length: 1.5 cm. 16th Century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-540D5C
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver 16th Century silver hooked tag with recurving hook. The trefoil plate is solid (L. 11.7mm. W. 11.5mm). The upper surface has a plain raised border, and there are three slightly domed circular bosses, one within each lobe of the trefoil. There is a small, raised pellet in the centre of the plate, with three further small, raised pellets on the outside edge, one in each angle between the lobes. The reverse of the plate is flat. There are two circular attachment scars in each of the upper two lobes indicating where the rectangular loop, now missing, was originally attached…
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-AECA52
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver bodkin, approximately 5 cm long from ear scoop on one end to the point where the bodkin is bent back on itself. Complete, tapering at one end, engraved along its length on both sides, with flowerheads on either side of the rectangular opening. Beyond this, a threading hole, then the ear scoop which is also bent back on itself. No marks. 17th Century. Dr Dora Thornton, Curator of Renaissance Collections Prehistory and Europe The British Museum
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2022
Last updated: Monday 19th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chilcomb Civil Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-99D3E5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver iconographic finger-ring, the bezel divided into two facets each bearing the crudely engraved figure of a saint. The left side bears a female figure, possibly the Virgin, the right side a bearded male figure. The shoulders of the hoop are engraved with flowers and foliage. The back of the hoop is engraved with diagonal lines, perhaps to give the impression of a twisted hoop. The ring is distorted and cracked at several points.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Toot Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-210B1C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval finger ring of stirrup shape, the bezel terminating in a small, semi-spherical boss. The ring is made of silver-gilt (it contains a minimum of 10% precious metal) and dates from the fourteenth century. It measures 26mm in length and 20mm in diameter across the hoop.
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Exbury and Lepe', grid reference and parish protected.