Record ID: SOM-FA6C66
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval cut halfpenny of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), expanding cross type (heavy issue, North 823) dating to c. AD 1050-1053, mint: Shaftesbury, moneyer: unknown. North 1994: 179-80.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 4th July 2019
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Record ID: SOM-FA0A07
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver penny of John (AD 1199-1216) or Henry III (AD 1216-1272), dating to c. AD 1216-1217. Voided short cross class 6c2. Minted in London by Abel. Mass (2001: 45). North (1994: 222) no. 976/2.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F9AE94
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver halfgroat of Elizabeth I dating to AD 1583-1603. Unclear initial mark. Minted at London. North (1997: 135) no. 2016.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F95587
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy farthing token of Charles I (AD 1625-1649), dating to AD 1636-1644. Rose farthing type 2, muled with a type 1 reverse. Crescent initial mark. London mint. North (1991: 165) no. 2291.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F91A1D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age copper alloy stater (uninscr.), dating to c. 50 BC- AD 40. (South Western) Durotriges, BMC nos. 2790-2859. VA 1290.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F8D2C7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy radiate or nummus, probably dating to c. AD 260-402. Uncertain type and mint.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F8B218
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy radiate or nummus, probably dating to c. AD 260-402. Uncertain type and mint.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F88F02
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy nummus of the House of Constanine, dating to AD 330-335 (Reece period 17). URBS ROMA type, depicting a wolf and twins. Probably Lugdunum mint. LRBC I, no. 224.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F858AC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy nummus of the House of Constanine, dating to AD 330-335 (Reece period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type, depicting two soldiers with two standards. uncertain mint.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F8191B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd from a small cup, bowl or jar with almost vertical sides. The fabric is mid orange with some fine quartz temper. The exterior is decorated with white slip interrupted by four turned parallel lines at the top and indented ovals with dignal scratches across them below. A yellow glaze over all appears brown on the inside and areas where the slip has been removed. This form of decoration is typical of South Somerset ware of the late 17th to 19th centurys altough the scratched ovals are slightly unusual.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shepton Beauchamp CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F80B5A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper-alloy as of Hadrian (AD 117-138), probably dating to the period c.AD 125-134 (Reece period 6). FORT RED (in exergue), [...] reverse type depicting Foruna seated left holding rudder and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. cf. RIC II, no. 677 passim.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 27th November 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F7B11A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy nummus of the house of Constantine, dating to AD 335-341 (Reece period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type, depicting two soldiers with a single standard. Uncertain mint.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F77A74
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy nummus of Contantius II (AD 337-361), dating to AD 341-346 (Reece period 17). VICTORIAE DD AVGG Q NN reverse type, depicting two victories standing facing eachother holding wreaths. Trier mint. LRBC I no. 145-147.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F765FD
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete medieval copper-alloy bar mount (strap-fitting). The strap fitting consists of a sub-rectangular sheet of copper alloy, tapering into a narrow strip at the bottom, which curves backwards to form a hook, but has seemingly lost its terminal through which a rivet would have travelled for attachment. The bar is flat and is perforated with two rivet holes, one at each narrow end. The hook appears to have been twisted slightly. On the front of the fitting the long edges are very slightly recessed and decorated with finely incised wrigglework. The reverse is smooth and flat …
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shepton Beauchamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F749F6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy pot leg, dating to c. AD1200-1700. The foot is U-shaped viewed from the front and sub-triangular in cross-section. The inner surface is broadly flat becoming convex at the base. The outer surface has a raised rib running along its length, just left of centre. It has an old break at the top. The bottom is rounded and worn and the foot is missing. It is covered by a green and black patina. Dimensions: length: 19.7mm, width (at top): 6.6mm, thickness at base: 4.1mm, thickness at top: 5.2mm. Weight: 6.63g. Crudely made cast copper alloy …
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shepton Beauchamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F73534
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman silver denarius of Tiberius (AD 14-37, Reece Period 1). PONTIF MAXIM reverse type, depicting a female figure seated right holding a vertical sceptre and branch with ornamented chair legs. Mint of Lugdunum. RIC I, p. 95, no. 30.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-F71F37
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy pot leg, dating to c. AD 1200-1700. The foot is broadly trapezoidal in section, and sub rectangular in plan, tapering towards the base. The outer surface has a raised rib running along its length, just right of centre. It has an old break at the top. The bottom is rounded and worn and the foot is missing. It is covered by a green and black patina. Dimensions: length: 39.7mm, width at base: 16.2mm, width at top: 24.3mm, thickness at base: 4.4mm, thickness at top: 8.9mm. Weight: 28.87g Crudely made cast copper alloy vessels were wid…
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shepton Beauchamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F69064
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small piece of casting waste from the join between two sides of a mould or a casting run off. Both sides are irregular and seem compaosed of runs of metal with a clear ridge down the centre form the mould joint. The piece is not distinctive and could be of any date from the Bronze Age onwards although it is evidence for specialist, high temperature, metal working. t may eb associated with other material found nearby, see SOM-79CE57.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shepton Beauchamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F59FB7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a post medieval lead cloth seal. Part of a four-disc seal, the remaining section is the two outer disks of the conjoined pairs joined by the rivet from the back of one disk running through a hole in the other. The discs appear plaina nd the design would probably have been on the inner discs. It measures 15.9mm long by 11.2mm wide, 6.4 mm thick excluding the tab and weighs 3.97g. See SOM-4AEAFC for a complete four-disc seal or similar form. Without the design it is not possibly to date this precisely but most are AD 1500-1800.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shepton Beauchamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F579DB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman silver denarius of Domitian (AD 81-96) as Caesar, dating to AD 77-78. CERES AVGVST reverse type, depicting Ceres, standing left holding corn ears and a vertical sceptre. Rome mint. RIC II, pg. 129, no. 976.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2018
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