Record ID: SOM-E09A7B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman incomplete cast copper alloy developed T-shaped brooch dating to the late first to early second century AD. The pin, lower bow, foot and part of the head loop are missing. The head has two hollow cylindrical wings, now 26.8mm wide but probably damaged at the ends, to hold the axis bar for the hinged pin. Both taper in width to the damaged ends which are too corroded to see any decoration. Between the wings is a slot in which the pin would have hinged. Patches of iron corrosion in this slot and on the back of the brooch suggest an iron pin. There is an incomplete head loop for…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingston Seymour CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E0C82A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus, possibly a contemporary cast copy, of Constantine I dating to AD 307-318 (Reece Period 15). SOL INVICTO COMITI reverse type, depicting Sol, probably with chamys falling from left shoulder, with right arm raised and holding a globe in left hand. Uncertain mint. The edge of the coin is damaged in places with c.5% missing.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingston Seymour CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E0E5E8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy contemporary copy of a nummus of the House of Constantine, dating to AD 335-341 (Reece period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type, depicting two soldiers with one standard. Copying unclear mint.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingston Seymour CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-E13ADB
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
40 pieces of lead of various forms. Given the context they came from they are certainly Roman. They appear a mix with some which may allude to casting. Others appear to be for vessel repair and it is possible all the pieces were used or gathered for this purpose. 5 are off-cuts of sheet lead, all show evidence of neat straight cuts on at least one edge and are 1-1.5mm thick. 1 has the distinct cross section of a vessel repair with expanded faces sandwiching a thinner joining section The larger pot mend is 57.3 by 35.1 by a maximum of 12.9mm thick and has repaired a vessel about …
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingston Seymour CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-E746D7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) dating to 1567. Initial marks - coronet. Reference: North Vol. 2, No. 1997 Date: Post Medieval Diameter: 25.85 mm Weight: 2.41 g Die axis: 4
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: DOR-E786FA
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap mount. The mount has a symmetrical plate with the stubs of two integral rivets on the rear. The plate is in the shape of two lozenges joined in the centre by a transverse ridge. It ii decorated in the form of two acorns, each with cross hatched "cups" with a transverse ridge and a rounded knop at the top of the acorn nut. The rear is slightly hollowed behind each acorn element. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1550 - 1650 Dimensions39.87 m x 11.34 mm x 3.09 mm Weight: 4.72 g A similar mount is recorded in record WILT-99E1DC
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Record ID: DOR-E7C843
Object type: TUMBREL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy trebuchet or tumbrel-type folding coin balance, Approximately half of the tumbrel survives, consisting of half of the vertical casing and half of the balance arm. Part of the hinge mechanism survives. The other side of the balance arm has been broken off. The arm is attached to the rectangular casing, articulating around a transverse axis bar across a retangular aperture in the frame. The casing is a tapering rectangular bar, flattened and thinned at one end and terminating in a point, probably for fixing it to a flat surface. The other end is hollowed on th…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Record ID: DOR-E7E98E
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
In incomplete clay pipe. A clay pipe bowl with a flat heel. The rim is knurled. A Bristol and Wiltshire type. The incuse mark on the heel is JEF/FRY.H/VNT in three lines. Jeffrey Hunt is a maker admitted to the freedom of Bristol in 1651(Watkins E 1966 "Clay Tobacco Pipes found in Dorset", DNHAS Proc Vol. 88, 228, No. 9 Date: Post Medieval - c.1640 - 1660 Dimensions: 30.69 mm x 14.77 mm Weight: 5.80 g
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2019
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Record ID: DOR-E807F7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd of colour coated fineware pottery. New Forest ware. Reduced pale grey fabric with fine sand temper and occasional iron oxide pieces. The slip coating is dark grey. The base of a beaker with a slight bead at the foot. Wheelthrown.Some of the breaks a fresh, others abraded. Date: Late Roman - c. AD 260 - 370 Weight: 24 g
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Record ID: DOR-E83322
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small multi-platform flint core. The mid-grey flint is patinated white and there is an area of worn, off-white nodule cortex remaining on one face. There are several bladelet removal made in three directions. The platforms have been abraded. Date: Late Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - c. 7000 to 3500 BC Weight: 18 g
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Record ID: DOR-E86A54
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A worn copper-alloy Roman sestertius of Didius Julianus (AD 193), dating to May to 7th June AD 193 (Reece period 10). [P M TR P] COS, [S] C reverse type depicting Fortuna standing left holding a rudder on a globe and cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. As BMC, p. 16, no. 26; RIC IV.1, p. 17, no. 15. Diameter: 30.02 mm Weight: 11.21 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2018
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Record ID: SOM-E89A9D
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two amorphous blobs of cooled melted copper alloy. 21.65g.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingston Seymour CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-E89B72
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy dress or hair pin. Only the head and a very small portion of the stem survives. The head is cuboid and rectangular in cross-section, each panel is faceted, with cut corners and a flat lozengiform front panel. The stem is circular in cross-section and bent out of shape. Date: Roman - c. 250 - 450 AD Dimensions: 15.76 mm x 6.94 mm Weight: 2.97 g Similar pins have been recorded on the database: WAW-7421DC, SF-DC75CA, SWYOR-8D2FC3. In database record DOR-53ACEF for a similar object, Lucy Bevan notes that that example belongs to Cool's (1990, 164) …
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Record ID: BH-E90DFA
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two Iron Age gold coins; both staters of Tasciovanus, belonging to the Eastern (North Thames) British Iron Age coinage region and dating to the period 20 BC to AD 10. Eastern British Iron Age coinage is found in the region north of the Thames and to the east, with some coin types issued in Kent. The Northern Thames area is traditionally associated with the Trinovantes and the Catuvellauni tribes, with distribution centering on Essex, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and parts of surrounding counties. Tasciovanus is thought to have issued coinage in his name in the North …
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Friday 20th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Missenden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E93D66
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval gilded copper alloy buckle with integral plate, dating to the mid thirteenth to mid fourteenth century. The frame of the buckle is incomplete, having lost about 30 to 40 per cent to worn breaks. The frame appears to have originally been sub-circular or oval in plan but all that remains are two prongs. These are sub-circular in cross-section, with a diameter of approximately 1.6mm. One of them is bent about 40 degrees in opposition to the intended curve of the frame. The plate appears to be complete. It may be missing a small fraction of its tip due to wear or a worn brea…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018
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Record ID: DUR-E95A47
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete possible strap end of Post Medieval period (AD1500-1700). The object is roughly rectangular in shape with a wider damaged end. The narrower end is rounded and, at the wider end, the damaged edge has been folded over on one side. The other side has a deep cut into the side and has been slightly folded back. Halfway down the object is a folded hook; a similar hook would have been on the other side. These would have been used as part of the attachment to a leather strap. On the other side near the wider end there seems to be a casting error with the metal having run slig…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 13th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-E97837
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval to post medieval copper alloy key dating to the period c. AD 1500 - 1600. A kidney-shaped bow with two internal projections and a moulded double collar at the junction with the shank, solid shank, propjecting pin and simple rectangular bit projecting at right angles to the shank. See: Read, B, 2017, p. 72, nos. 564 - 567.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Record ID: BH-E983FA
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead-alloy badge dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century AD. The badge is flat and circular in plan. The upper surface is decorated with a range of integrally-cast ribbed decoration comprising two concentric circles. This creates two ring-shaped cells and a central circular cell. Each ring-shaped cell contains evenly-spaced circular knops whilst the central circular cell contains a cross-shaped rib with a knop at the end of each arm and at its centre. On the underside of the badge there is a rectangular-section lug which has been bent over to form a hook and a further two sma…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 8th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E9A646
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post medieval lead two-disc cloth seal dating to the period c. AD 1500 - 1700. One disc is smooth, with no trace of any design visible. Projecting from one side is the stub of the xconnecting strip. The second disc is incomplete and exhibits traces of a relief knotwork design, possibly a merchant's mark.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Record ID: NLM-E9AC45
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead musket ball. Cast ball with a deep cut and a shorter cut across it, and lighter cuts; patinated. The mass, at well over an ounce, indicates this to be for use with a smoothbore muzzle loading firearm of military specification. Objects identified by this reporter as musket balls are those shot weighing in excess of one averdepois ounce, an arbitrary distinction from lighter shot and one encouraged by the circumstances of deposition of a large number [over 730] of such objects recorded in northern Lincolnshire. In this case, the ball approaches one twelth of a 16 ounce pound, a mas…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.