Record ID: DOR-038704
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper rotary key. The terminal of the key is trilobate with a circular aperture at the end on each lobe. There is also a small, rounded knop on the outer edge of each lobe. One lobe is broken. Running from between the lobes are low ridges (four in total). Below these are seven transverse ridges running across the tapering end of the key handle/terminal. The stem of the key is narrowed from the end of the handle and becomes sub-circular in cross section. The stem is hollow. The bit drops down from the end of the stem and the outer edge is flush with it. The bit has a single ang…
Created on: Friday 15th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-02CA85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper devolved T-shaped brooch. Part of the bow, head and one wing only remaining. The remaining wing is tubular and slightly tapering. It would have housed the missing axis bar for a hinged pin mechanism. At the head is a smal integral chain loop with a curved upper edge and a circular pierced hole. Below this the head is triangular in cross section and projects forwards. The bow drops down from the head at an almost 90 degree angle. The bow flattens and expands out into a lozenge shaped plate. It is decorated with a symmetrical design of two isoceles triangle shaped recesses…
Created on: Friday 15th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-0249B3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy probable fitting resembling a small pulley. The alloy appears to be leaded bronze. The fitting is a circular disc with a central hole. Around part of the rim is a U-shaped channel. The remaining section of the rim (adjacent to the loop) is D sectioned with a small circular aperture at the base.The edges of the rim are scalloped. Around the central hole, on both faces of the disc, is a raised disc with eight regularly spaced grooves. At the top is a loop, possibly broken, which contains corroded iron. DATE: Uncertain - possibly Iron age to Post Medieval Dimensions: 30…
Created on: Friday 15th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-01F432
Object type: STRAINER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy probable strainer. A slightly dished disc of copper alloy sheet metal which has been perforated by hand using a sub-circular punch for 33 of the holes, and a rectangular punch for one. The perforations are arranged in approximate concentric circles and are of varying sizes. Possibly part of a watering can rose or a shaker (for flour, salt or sand?). DATE: Probably medieval to post medieval - c. 1400 - 1800 Dimensions: 40.71 mm x 40.34 mm x 3.22 mm Weight: 9.64 g
Created on: Friday 15th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-01BDC3
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon cast, copper alloy stirrup terminal. Of zoomorphic design, this terminal would have completely enclosed the joint of the base and one arm on the lower part of a stirrup. It is in the form of a crested animal head which is curled around so that it faces up the stirrup arm and forms a circular aperture. The animal head has a pointed snout and lentoid knops for eyes. The crest is decorated with grooves. The main body of the mount is hollow,D-sectioned and is filled with corrosion product from the missing iron sturrup. It has two rectangular apertures, one at the top where the …
Created on: Friday 15th July 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.