Record ID: HAMP-B4E0C6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy late Iron Age to Early Roman (AD 20-70) Colchester one-piece brooch, missing the spring mechanism and pin; the catchplate has some damage to its curl. The short rectangular wings span 9.3mm (1.8mm wide) and are rectangular in cross-section. To the reverse of the wings are two protrusions, one extending into a forward-facing hook while the other (the lower) extends a short way before an old break. The bow extends to the front of the wings and is flat and rectangular in cross-section (6.0x1.3mm). It drops in a gentle curve and narrows to 1.5mm wide at the foot…
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-B42AE3
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy a grooved collar type, Variant 1 nail cleaner. It is missing the end which would determine this (old break) and has an additional worn break across its suspension loop. The object is bent slightly to one side. The loop measures 4.8mm in width (and probable diameter) with a 3.3mm central perforation. it is 1.5mm thick. It extends from a shaft with an ovoid cross-section 4.3x3.3mm at the loop end and narrowing to 2.6x1.7mm at break. Below the loop are two areas of diagonal groove decoration (now rather worn), bound by two transverse grooves and the top…
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upper Clatford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B3FE8F
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy medieval/ early post-medieval (c.1250-1600) handle from a chafing dish, consisting of the attachment lug only. The lug is tear-drop shaped with a rectangular cross-section and a central piercing 6.0mm in diameter. The pointed end of the tear-drop is truncated and instead has a ridge moulding to the sides, which gives a square cross-section at this point c.8.0 x 8.5mm. At the centre of this is a short, squahsed circular projection c.7mm in diameter and 1.5mm in length. The object has a green-brown coloured patina and measures 21.1mm in length, 13.5mm in ma…
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upper Clatford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B3BD3E
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval (1600-1800) two-part lead cloth seal, disc one retaining the squashed rivet and disc two with a central perforation: portcullis // worn/ illegible, break around line of rivet. The cloth seal measures 20.0mm in length, 13.0mm in width, 6.2mm in thickness and weighs 6.12g.
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upper Clatford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B380F2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn middle/ late early-medieval (750-1050) copper alloy strap-end of Thomas' Class B Type 1 (or B1), parallel-sided with wedge-shaped split end, stylised zoomorphic terminal and transverse-rib decoration. The split attachment end comprises a top and back plate, each 0.6mm thick, and both have rounded corners with a rivet hole (c.1-1.4mm diameter) in horizontal alignment with each other. Below the split the sides continue to narrow to the main shaft of the body. Although worn to the front, visible on the sides at this point is a pair of transverse ribs. The shaft is parallel-sided …
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thruxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B3246A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn, incomplete Roman (AD 100-250) copper alloy enamelled umbonate plate brooch, missing some of the enamelling and some of the plate itself, as well as the lug and pin attachment and most of the catchplate. It is now quite squashed. The brooch comprises a dome of sheet metal. At the centre of this is a circular depression, 1.9mm in diameter and 0.6mm deep. A groove flanks this and around is a sunburst design of fourteen radiating elongated triangles. Eight of these (in two groups of four) contain traces of a decayed, reddish-coloured enamel. The remaining triangles are all either…
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2018
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thruxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B2A9AE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval (1350-1400) copper alloy buckle frame of Egan's 'rectangular Meols Type C', complete with sheet pin. The frame has concave sides and a flat rectangular bar at the outside edge. This is decorated with a trio of transverse grooves at the centre and a single transverse groove at either end. The bar is offset and narrowed. The pin has parallel sides and is cut to a point at the end; it has a flat cross-section. The buckle measures 15.2mm in length, 19.4mm in width (internal 8.7x16.7mm), 2.0mm in thickness (at the outside edge) and weighs 1.51g. The pin is 13.2mm long.
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thruxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-AFC375
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval zoomorphic strap-end, now in two pieces, and probably only the top plate of an originally two-part strap-end. One section comprises one third of the original object, with a concave short end and an in situ rivet at either end of this. The second section comprises the remaining two thirds, with one jagged (damaged) long edge, and terminating in a three-edged cut end, triangular in form with a truncated apex. All breaks are worn and relatively old. The object is rectangular in form with its short ends shaped as above. It depicts, within a grooved outline c.1mm from the edge …
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kings Somborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-AF39D0
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early post-medieval (1500-1700) copper alloy book-clasp, consisting of the hook-end and roughly two-thirds of the body. It is truncated by a straight, intentional, old cut diagonally across the body of the plate. The hook measures 8.3mm wide, behind which is a rectangular expansion (19.0x7.7mm) above beyond the body of the object. This is decorated with a central V-sectioned groove (longitudinal to it) and two incised lines accentuating the rectangular shape of the expansion. Behind is the body of the book-clasp, is 16.3mm wide and flaring slightly to 17.5mm wide at th…
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kings Somborne', grid reference and parish protected.