Record ID: DOR-D9EB0C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Poole
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy coin. A Spanish eight maravedis coin, possibly of Philip III (1598-1621) or Philip IV (1621-1665). The coin has been countermarked at a later date with an 8 inside a circle on the obverse and a date, possibly 1659, on the reverse. The original designs on both faces are indistinct but are possibly a castle on the obverse and a lion rampant on the reverse.The flan is irregular in shape. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1659 Dimensions: 21.84 mm x 19.79 mm Weight: 3.53 g
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D9B402
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a lead papal bulla. Approximately one third of the object remains. Issued by Honorius III (1216 - 1227). The obverse with the papal name within a pellet border only has a small section of an inscription lin three lines. It reads H[-]/R[-]/PP[-] for HONO/RIVS/PP III. The reverse has a pellet border and shows St Peter with a pellet beard and part of the inscription above. All that remains is [-]PE from the original inscription of SPA SPE for St Paul and St Peter. The bulla has been delibrately cut with a clean, vertical slice. Date: Medieval: 1216 - 1227 Dimensions: 44…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D979E3
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a possible stylus, toilet or surgical implement. There are breaks at both ends. It comprises a circular cross sectioned shaft with a baluster style moulding at one end which is then narrowed into a finer circular cross-sectioned shaft. The moulding comprises a narrow collar. a wider barrel moulding, a waisted section and then a pair of narrow collars. The object is bent and distorted. Date: Possibly Roman - c. AD 50- 400 Dimensions: 51.83 mm x 5.03 mm Weight: 2.74 g
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D95E32
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy bow brooch. An initial T-shaped brooch with hinged pin mechanism. The wings, bow, and part of the catchplate remain. The bow is flattened and distorted. The pin is missing. The wings are short and cylindrical housing the copper alloy axis bar. There is a notch at the rear of the wings for the attachment of the missing pin to the bar. The fronts of the wings are decorated with vertical moulded ridges and grooves. The head of the bow is wide and extends from the top of the wings. It is a shallow D-shape in cross section with a slight hollow …
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D91FBD
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  fragment of copper alloy with a design on one surface. The design seems to be part of the reverse of a stater of the British Iron Age, South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type. It comprises a group of circular recesses and two crescent-shaped recesses below. This would be equivalent to the raised pellet and two raised crescents seen on such staters (the crescents being the belly of a stylised horse. This may be part of a coin die for manufacturing staters, or it could also be an impression of such a coin, perhaps to cast copies in a mould. Date: Possibly Late Iron Age - c. …
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D8A38B
Object type: GOUGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  fragment of copper alloy gouge. The tip only. The fragment is parallel sided with a u-shaped channel from the tip to the break. The tops of the sides are angled at the tip. Date: Bronze Age Dimensions: 34.08 mm x 13.46 mm x 12.21 mm Weight: 18.91 g  
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D85718
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Royal farthing token of Charles I ( 1625 - 1649) dating to 1636 - 1644.  A Rose farthing, Type 2. Reference: North Vol 2, No. 2291 Diameter:  14.48 mm Weight: 0.47 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D810B4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver denarius of Faustina the Elder (AD 138 - 161 ) issued posthumously under Antoninus Pius and dating to AD 141 - 161 (Reece period 7). AETERNITAS reverse depicting Juno standing left, raising right hand, holding sceptre in left. Minted in Rome. Reference: RIC III, p. 69, No. 344a Date: Roman Diameter: 18.03 mm Weight: 2.68 g Die axis; 6
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-D78E3C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306 - 337) dating to AD 330 - 335 (Reece period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse depicting two soldiers and two standards. Minted in Lugdunum (Lyon). Mint mark: //crescent PLG Reference: LRBC part i, No. 192 Date: Roman Diameter: 15.95 mm Weight: 1.26 g Die axis; 12
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C78EA8
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small, leaf arrowhead. A kite-shaped type made on a flake of grey-beige flint with a glossy patina. The arrrowhead has been thinned and shaped with covering, low-angled long flakes extending across both faces.  Date:  Early to Middle Neolithic - c. 4000 BC to 2700 BC Dimensions: 29.89 mm x 17.85 mm x 3.82 mm Weight: 1.76 g
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C76D4E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy buckle plate. A rectangular piece of sheet metal which has been folded in half to attach it to the bar of the missing buckle. There are two rectangular apertures at the fold where a pin or pins would have been attached. At each of the outer corners of both halves of the plate is a small, circular cross sectioned rivet joining the halves. The front exterior face of the plate is decorated with a diagonal cross of rocker-arm lines, set inside a crude sub-angular incised line frame with a series of short incised lines extending outwards from it. The rear exterior of the plat…
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C73177
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy developed hinged trumpet variant brooch dating to AD 75 - 200. The wings are semi-cylindrical and set behind the head of the bow. They house a copper alloy axis bar to which the pin is attached via a notch between the wings. The pin has an expanded head and tapers to a point. At the top of the head is an incomplete chain loop with transverse moulded ridges at the base. The trumpet-shaped head projects fowards and tapers in as it drops down. The bow is D-shaped in cross section. At the base of the trumpet head is a stylised acanthus knop flanked top and bottom by…
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C6A95F
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy collared and tanged chisel. The chisel has a flared blade the end of which is damaged. There is a broad transverse collar before a tapering tang. There is surface damage to the tang in particular, but it appears to have been square in cross section. The tang tapers to a point.  Date: Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - c. 1150 - 750 BC Dimensions: 52.62 mm x 11.66 mm x 8.14 mm Weight: 10.38 g A similar chisel is recorded in database record WREX-8372FD where Dr Susie White notes: Tanged and collared chisels typically date from the Late Bronze A…
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C421E4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy bow brooch. A  developed T-shaped brooch (Colchester derivative). The brooch has cylindrical wings housing a copper alloy axis bar for the hinged pin. The ends of the wings are each decorated with two incised vertical lines on the front. The pin is attached to the bar via a central notch between the wings at the rear. The pin has an expanded head to tension it against the rear of the bow and tapers to a point. The bow extends from the centre of the wings and is C-shaped in cross section with a slight hollow at the rear.  The bow tapers to a projecting foot.The …
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C3F707
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy sheet metal buckle plate.  Half of a folded strip of sheet copper alloy with a central rectangular aperture at the fold where the pin would have attached to the bar of the missing buckle. There are two circular rivet holes at the outer end of the plate. The rivet is missing. The outer end of the plate is scalloped and has a central notch. The buckle plate is undecorated.  Date: Medieval - c. 1200- 1500 Dimensions: 35.91 mm x 20.53 mm x 0.74 mm Weight: 2.70 g
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C3C3AA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy sheet metal buckle plate. A folded strip of sheet copper alloy with a central rectangular aperture at the fold where the pin would have attached to the bar of the missing buckle. There is a small circular rivet hole at the outer ends of both halves of the plate. The rivet is missing. There is a second, angular, off-centre rivet hole through both plates with one containing iron corrosion and the other having iron staining. The buckle plate is undecorated. One half of the plate is bent and distorted. Date: Medieval - c. 1200- 1400 Dimensions: 31.…
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C38CA4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy sub-rectangular framed, two-piece buckle with separate centre bar and broken stud chape. The frame has angled ends and straight sides, the ends have angular trefid moulded points with a central groove. There are rounded knops at the corners. The sides are decorated with deeply moulded transverse ridges. The copper alloy pin and chape are attached to the separate bar. The pin is set between two arms of the chape, is flat and tapers to a point. The end of the chape has broken off, but it was most likely a stud type. Reference: Whit…
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C35D2C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy single looped D-shaped buckle frame with narrowed and off set bar. The thickened outer edge has a D-shaped cross section. The bar is oval in cross section. The outside edge is thickened with a rounded cross section. The pin is missing. Date: Medieval - c. 1250 - 1500 Dimensions: 15.15 mm x 21.45 mm x 2.68 mm Weight: 2.12 g
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th April 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C332B1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver halfgroat of Charles I (1625 - 1649). The coin has been clipped,  has two pierced holes and has broken along a fold line. Diameter: 12.78 mm Weight: 0.30 g Die axis: unclear  
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C30C42
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Edwardian date (1279 - 1377). Mint of Durham. Very little detail surviving. Diameter: 18.58 Weight: 0.99 g Die axis: unclear  
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st April 2023
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