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Record ID: DOR-74F6F6
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable flint knife dating from the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (c. 4000 to 1600 BC). A large piece of orange-brown flint with off- white coretex on one face. The dorsal face shows evidence of possible polish at one end and there has been clear knapping on both faces around the unbroken parts of the margin. At one end is a clear break on one side of it and this suggests that it is part of what was once a larger tool. There is no clear bulb of production or striking platform.
Dimensions: Length: 47 mm Width: 51 mm Thickness: 17 mm
Weight: 29.01g
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 6th November 2019
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Record ID: DOR-74B826
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is a leaf-shaped arrowhead dating from the Neolithic period (4000BC -2350 BC). The originally mid-grey flint is heavily patinated to an off-white colour.The dorsal face is covered in invasive pressure flaking scars. The ventral face has very little evidence of further working. The bulb of percussion and striking platform are not clearly visible.
Dimensions: Length: 33mm Width: 19 mm Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 5.66g
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 6th November 2019
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Record ID: DOR-369E04
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete ground greenstone axehead. A triangular axehead with flattened sides. The cutting edge is convex and slightly offcentre. The axehead tapers to the broken butt. One face remains convex, the other has been damaged. The cross section is sub-lenticular. The surface has been pecked and ground and is slightly pitted as a result of weathering. The origin is uncertain, but it is possible that it originated on Cornnwall or South Wales.
Date: Neolithic - 4000 - 2300 BC
Dimensions: 84.03 mm x 36.38 mm x 22.41 mm
Weight: 155.76 g
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Owermoigne', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-367423
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken and incomplete key. The bow is broken but was originally lozengiform with knops at the angles. The stem is hollow and tapers slightly to the broken tip. There is a small bit with a rectangular ward and single small angular cleft on the inner edge. The key is in two parts. Ward-Perkins type V.
Date: Medieval - c. 1200 - 1400
Dimensions: 78.68 mm x 24.02 mm x 10.66 mm
Weight: 23.43 g
Reference: Ward-Perkins, 1940, Medieval Catalogue, p. 138 - 140, plate XXX, No. 30, Type V
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 5th April 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Owermoigne', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-364AF6
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of cast copper alloy socketed axe. Part of the opening of the socket. The mouth of the socket has a collar at the rim. There is a curving side loop below it set longitudinally. There is a filed casting line running from the rim and along the mid-line of the loop
Date: Late Bronze Age - c. 1000 - 800 BC
Dimensions: 26.72 mm x 23.78 mm x 12.47 mm
Weight: 15.87 g
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Monday 26th June 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Owermoigne', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-36223D
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver fob seal matrix. The die only of a seal matrix with a separately applied handle, now missing. The die is an irregular octagon. Around the edge is a framing band of punched rectangular indentations. Inside this is a deeply incised design of a stag lying on a grassy tussock, facing right. On the rear of the dies are traces of solder where the handle was formerly attached.
Date: Post medieval - c. 1600 - 1710
Dmensions: 17.40 mm x 15.44 mm x 1.40 mm
Weight: 2.45 g
See HESH-FB8727 for a seal matrix of similar construction.
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 15th December 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-35CA11
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy harness pendant. A circular plate with a pierced suspension loop at the top. The front of the plate is decorated with an incised design of three fish, a smaller fish in the centre, thead upwards, flanked by two larger fish, heads down. There are traces of possible gilding on the front. The rear of the plate is flat and undecorated.
Date:Medieval - 1175 - 1400
Dmensions: 32.47 mm x 23.07 mm x 2.58 mm
Weight: 7.57 g
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2018
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Record ID: DOR-34A3F3
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy coin weight. A square weighrt for the Philipsgulden of the Low Countries made in Antwerp by Reynier Van Ettersom
Obverse: S P - Saint Philip the Apostle standing front. In the field, a cross
Reverse: RVE - the hand of Antwerp
Reference: Withers, P & B, Lions, Ships and Angels, 1995, P23 & p61
Date: Post Medieval - 1575
Dmensions: 14.54 mm x 14.31 mm x 2.29 mm
Weight: 3.04 g
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 5th April 2017
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Record ID: DOR-346EA8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A penny of Edward I. Class 9b1 dating to 1299 - 1300/1. Bristol mint.
Reference: North Vol II, no. 1037/1
Date: Medieval
Diameter: 17.84 mm
Weight: 1.34 g
Die axis: 1
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 5th April 2017
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Record ID: DOR-345572
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Romano-British brooch of zoomorphic type. The brooch is in the form of a bird, possibly a pigeon or a dove, which is depicted in the round, with the body and head projecting from a flat base The bird's head is missing, making identification of the species uncertain. On the upper face of the oval body the folded wings are indicated. Along the centre line of the body is a tapering triangular recess containing traces of enamel of uncertain colour and possibly applied in transverse bands. At the end of the body is a flared tail with three triangular recesses which probably …
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 14th February 2019
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Record ID: DOR-340E52
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sestertius of Lucilla, issued under Marcus Aurelius, dating to AD 164 - 169 (Reece period 8). FECVNDITAS (Fecunditas seated, nursing a child, two children at her feet) reverse.
Reference: RIC Vol III, No. 1736
Date: Roman
Diameter: 33.55 mm
Weight: 19.41 g
Die axis: 11
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 5th April 2017
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Record ID: DOR-FE3AD4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold half sovereign of Henry VIII (issued posthumously under Edward VI) dating to 1547 - 1549. Mint marks: E/E. E below reverse shield. Southwark mint.
Reference: North Vol. II No. 1866
Diameter: 29.2 mm
Weight: 6.03 g
Die axis: 12
Created on: Monday 20th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th March 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Buckland Newton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-FF8039
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:
A fragment of silver hooked tag. The tag has a thin, circular plate with two semi-circular, pierced, projecting, knops at the top for attachment. The opposite edge is broken with an irregular, patinated break. The hook is missing to this break. The front is decorated with a unrecessed border around a recessed centre. Within the recessed area is a central raised octofoil surrounded by a circle of raised annulets. The octofoil has rounded outer edges to the petals which are separated from each other by incised lines. Each is also decorated with an incised V shape followin…
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Blandford area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-FF639C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete, but damaged, silver gilt finger fede ring, with plano-convex band and with the bezel cast into a three-dimensional depiction of two clasped hands, projecting from cuffs. The interior of the band is plain.
Dimensions: 26.00 mm x 20.94 mm x 3.13 mm Weight: 3.76 g
Date: Late Medieval to Post Medieval - c. 1400 - 1600
Discussion: Although typically with a plano-convex bezel, rather than three dimensional as here, similar finger rings are relatively common finds and a number have been reported through the treasure process and are recorded on the PAS databas…
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Iwerne Minster', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-FF338E
Object type: CAPE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A fragment of embossed gold sheet, decorated with circular (repoussé) bosses and pointillé (applied to v-shaped furrows in the sheet). There are two lines of pointillé and two rows of bosses (five complete and two incomplete bosses on one row and five bosses and one incomplete boss on the other row). The fragment has be snipped along three edges, while the forth edge is ragged. Along the ragged edge are several small, intentional perforations. One edge has apparently been folded and unfolded - in antiquity or since discovery. The decorative bosses are …
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Rampisham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-FF12E5
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piddletrenthide, Dorset:
The six coins are all ancient British gold staters dating to the first half of the first century BC. All are of the same type, class I coinage, (c.80-50 BC), gold Staters: abstract wreathed head / reverse abstract horse right, with numerous large pellets, 'eye' with pellet border behind (ABC 515; Sills 457-9; BM cf. 1986,0413.1-2). Sills type 457-9 is regarded by John Sills as probably the earliest British gold coinage.
Weights (in plate order): 1) 6.63g; 2) 6.45g; 3) 6.42g; 4) 6.49g; 5) 6.33g; 6) 6.45g
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Piddletrenthide', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-FEEB7A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete Post Medieval silver fede ring, with only the bezel surviving. This is cast into the form of two clasped hands surmounted by an openwork single-arched crown, with the fingers defined by incised lines. The band is plano-convex in cross section, with the interior plain. Leached copper alloy impurities have formed a patch of corrosion on the interior of the band.
Dimensions: 10.70 mm x 1.99 mm Weight: 1.51 g
Date: Late Medieval to Post Medieval - c. 1400 - 1600
Discussion: Similar finger rings are relatively common finds and a number have been reported …
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Launceston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-E85F59
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval billon mite of Louis I of Nevers (Flanders) dating to 1322 - 1346.The coin is clipped. Minted in Aalst.
Obverse: L[VD COM] FLA [DRI] - Long cross with nothing in the angles
Reverse: [MO]NETA ALOST[ENS] - Large letter L with trefoils on each side
Date: Medieval
Diameter:18.25 mm
Weight: 0.77 g
Die axis: 7
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 10th March 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: DOR-E85CAE
Object type: COSMETIC SET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy three-part cosmetic set. The comprises an ear scoop, tweezers and a nail cleaner. All three are pierced at the top with a circular hole through which thy are joined using a circular rivet with flared ends. The ear spoon has a rounded attachment end to accomodate the attachment hole. There is a slight transverse collar below, The sides are narrowed at the top before flaring out into the flat, round-ended scoop. Te edges of the sides are chamfered from the front. The rear of he scoop is flat. The tweezers are in two pieces with a break at the attachment end and both appea…
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 10th March 2017
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Record ID: DOR-E856D8
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy zoomorphic dagger or knife stop or pommel. A large animal head with a long pointed muzzle ending in a high pointed snout and a straight incised line along both sides for the mouth. The eyes and brows set on each side of the head and are indicated by three angeled ridges (running fom the snout at the top towards the rear of the hea at the bottom). On either side of the back ofthe head is a deeply moulded ear. Both ears are rounded with a deep recess. At the back of the head, below the ears is a short transverse moulding. The head is oval at the base with a moulded ridge …
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 10th March 2017
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