Record ID: DOR-764317
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete silver gilt fede ring, now consisting of the applied bezel and partial hoop. The bezel is cast into the form of a winged heart, surmounted by a crown and with further details engraved into the surface of the crown and wings. The loop is sub-rectangular in cross section, and appears to have incorporated openwork elements, although these are truncated by an unworn break. Dimensions: 17.94 mm x 11.71 mm x 3.49 mm Weight: 2.47 g Date: Late Medieval to Post Medieval - c. 1400 - 1600 Discussion: Similar finger rings are relatively common finds and a numbe…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-763C3C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A Post-Medieval gold posy ring. The ring consists of a gold band, plano-convex in cross section, and with the exterior decorated with a scrolled foliate motif, reserved against a recessed band with small traces of white enamel surviving in places. The interior is inscribed "Absence is no let to love,", in an italic script. There are no maker's or hall marks. Dimensions: 18.82 mm x 3.5 mm x 1.3 mm Weight: 2.30g Date: Post-Medieval - c. 1650-1750 Discussion: Posy rings with longer, italic inscriptions tend to date to after the mid-17th century, though they can occa…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-760764
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Silver-gilt brooch formed of a ring of wire with four applied plaques, now broken in two and incomplete but retaining the pin. The wire of the ring is c.1.6mm in diameter and alternative quarters are of plain, circular sectioned wire and twisted square sectioned wire. One twisted quarter is almost entirely missing to old breaks. Parts of all four plaques remain, two are damaged on the outer edge, one is broken at a modern break in the brooch and one is missing around two thirds to an old break. The plaques are formed of octofoils with alternating long and short petals giv…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lillington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-75F9FC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A Post-Medieval enamelled gold posy ring. The ring consists of a gold band, plano-convex in cross section, and with the exterior decorated with a recessed foliate motif, retaining both white and green enamel in situ. The interior is inscribed "Free consent breeds much content", in an italic script. There are no maker's or hall marks. Dimensions: 18.41 mm x 4.42 mm x 1.45 mm Weight: 3.66 g Date: Post-Medieval - c. 1650-1750 Discussion: Posy rings with longer, italic inscriptions tend to date to after the mid-17th century. Similar inscriptions can be seen on SUSS-9…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Friday 17th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lillington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-75D2A7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring with an external inscription. The band is flat and broad. It is decorated with triple strand ridges along the top and bottom edges framing the linear inscription. The capital serifed Roman letters have been incised on to the ring and read LOVE + AND + OBAYE. The ring has been cut through vertically at the start of the inscription and has several angular bends making it faceted. Dimensions: 23.09 mm x 7.38 mm x 0.78 mm Weight: 4.18 g Date: Early Post Medieval c. 1500 - 1600 Discussion: A similarly inscribed ring, although of copper alloy, is recorded in dat…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Orchard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-75B3FD
Object type: DRESS PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A silver-gilt dress-pin head. The head is spherical and probably hollow and contains the end of the pin shaft. It is decorated with silver wire filigree. A raised band separates the two hemispheres of the pin head, with each decorated with three filigree circles, each containing a central pellet surrounded by three smaller filigree circles. There is a pellet between each larger circle, with a small filigree circle in each spandrel. At the apex of the head is a further pellet within a small circle. The pin projects from the opposing end, this is circular in cross section, …
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pamphill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-74EB47
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
The coins consist of 11 South Western British uninscribed silver staters commonly associated with the Durotriges, a people thought to have inhabited an area covering the modern county of Dorset, parts of Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight during the late Iron Age. The silver coins appear to be all of the type ABC 2169 / VA 1235-1 / BMC 2555ff produced from about 60/50 BC to the late first century BC. However in most cases the coin design is too indistinct to be certain that they do not belong to varieties of this type. The coins are fairly worn in appearance an…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne St. Andrew', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-7450C3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete silver gilt fede ring. The ring consists of a silver gilt band, sub-rectangular in cross section, and with a single join masked by an applied bezel cast into the form of a heart, surmounted by a crown and flanked by quatrefoilate flowers whose stems droop from the band of the crown. The base of the loop is cast into the form of two clasped hands, delineated by two double stranded collars and with further details incised into the surface. The band between the bezel and rear is faceted. The central facet on either side is sub-square, decorated with an angular qua…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DOR-5C0B1A
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy token. A Taunton town token issued in 1667. Obverse: A TAVNTON FARTHING - T and a tun Reverse: BY THE CONSTABLES 1667 - a castle Reference: Williamson Volume II, No. 10d Date: Post Medieval Diameter: 21.30 mm Weight: 2.70 g Die axis: 3
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd February 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-5BEFC7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A radiate of Claudius II (AD 268 - 270) issued posthumously (Divus Claudius) dating to AD 270 - 271 (Reece period 13). CONSECRATIO (Altar 1b) reverse. Reference: Normanby No. 1113 Date: Roman Diameter: 15.17 mm Weight: 1.46 g Die axis: 10
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd February 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-5BBD76
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A brass dupondius of Trajan dating to AD 98 - 117 (Reece period 5). Uncertain reverse with female figure seated on a chair formed of two crossed cornucopiae. Date: Roman Diameter: 26.94 mm Weight: 8.78 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd February 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-E179D9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 60 BC to AD 20 . South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian ) type. A stylised wreath on the obverse and a stylised horse on the reverse. Diameter: 18.68 mm Weight: 3.89 g Die axis: 2
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-E104AC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy strap slider, probably from a sword belt.. Similar to a buckle frame, all that remains the centre bar and stubs of the frame. At the end of the centre bar is a large integral loop, set at right angles to the frame. This would allow for attachment to other straps and fittings that formed the sword belt. The oval loop has a large off-centre circular aperture. The centre bar is lozengiform in cross section. The remnants of the frame are D shaped in cross section. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1500 - 1650 Dimensions: 46.25 mm x 14.92 mm x 11.77 mm Weight: 6.01 g…
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-CDBF75
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy pointed oval seal matrix. The base of the matrix is missing. At the rear is a central longitudinal ridge.The inscription is unclear apart from the first word, SIGILLVM, meaning seal of. The central design is of the Virgin Mary standing, holding the infant Jesus with a kneeling supplicant in front. Date: Medieval - c. 1300 - 1400 Dimensions: 41.50 mm x 31.30 mm x 7.15 mm Weight: 25.56 g Possible inscription: SIGILLVM --- CO--- D---SENTS
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-CD9261
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pair of copper alloy tweezers. Constructed from sheet metal folded over at the mid point to form two arms. At the fold is slightly expanded to form a drop-shaped loop and the outer surface has molded decoration of a central groove flanked by ridges all contained in a rectangular framing ridge. Below this, both arms are decorated with a transverse incised line and a framing outer line along the whole length. The arms are waisted and flare out to the terminals which are bowed before curving in to squared ends. Date: Probably Roman - c. AD 43 - 410 Dimensions: 81.72 mm x 7.54 mm x 1.…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-CD5FD6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy annular brooch with constriction for the pin and two knops, one a canted collett containing white material, the other an elongated oval in form with a central groove and incised transverse lines, perhaps intended to represent a feather or a leaf. The frame is D-shaped in cross section. The pin is missing. The collett may have held a glass or other stone (the white material is possible a remnant of a paste used to secure it). Date: Medieval -c.1270 - 1350 Dimensions: 30.47mm x 18.41mm x 2.10mm Weight: 2.42g See Egan, G & Pritchard, F 1991 Dress Accessorie…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-CD22C7
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy, hollow backed stirrup terminal. It is in the form of a beast's head with large ears, protruding, oval eyes and a snub-nosed muzzle. the snout has two small nostrils delineated. The muzzle is decorated with curving tendrils. At the proximal end is a transverse raised collar. The distal end is closed by the supporting ledge. The back of the terminal is hollow and retains pieces of the iron stirrup frame. The terminal is quite corroded and there is some waer and damage at the proximal end. Date:Late Early Medieval - c. 1000 - 1100 Dimensions: 48.00 mm x 13.3…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Friday 20th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-CCDF2D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap fitting. A belt mount with two incomplete integral attachment spikes at the rear, set on the long axis. The mount has an upper inverted drop-shaped plate with a scalloped upper edge and projection at the base. The projection is trilobed with the central lower lobe being a loop with a central hole. The loop is likely to have had an element suspended from it, now missing. The main plate is decorated with a possible moulded human face at the centre, perhaps flanked by wings. The lower projection is decorated with a row of three raised oval pellets. Both faces retain…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-CCADF6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap fitting. A belt mount with two integral attachment spikes at the rear, set on the long axis and both bent downwards. The mount has a central oval plate with a projection top and bottom. The top projection is in the form of a crown, the lower one is a crude fleur-de-lys. The oval plate is decorated with moulded human face at the centre, below the crown, inside a U-shaped wreath. The rear is flat but for a slight hollow behind the human face. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700 Dimensions: 40.46 mm x 22.42 mm x 3.51 mm Weight: 8.72 g
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-CC8A4B
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin weight. A square, bifacial weight for an unknown denomination, probably a coin of the Low Countries. Obverse: a standing figure with crossed knotty staves to the left between the four digits of the date, 15 67, all within a pelleted circle. Reverse: a hand, the mark of Antwerp between the 85 all within a ring of indistinct motifs (?leaves) Date: Post Medieval - 1567 See P and B R Withers, 1995, "Lions, Ships and Angels", p. 33 Dimensions: 16.16 mm x 15.46 mm x 1.72 mm Weight: 2.94 g Similar to database record NMS-12ED5B
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.