Record ID: SOM-482D35
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval hooked tag of copper alloy sheet. The plate is flat, triangular in plan with rounded corners. One edge is curved and the point opposite this edge has a small hook formed by the plate being bent to the front. There is a small, circular hole roughly in the centre of the plate towards the curved lower edge. The hole is punched through the plate from the back. The tag measures 22.4mm long, 20.7mm wide, 2.1mm thick with the hook; 0.4mm without and weighs 0.75g.
Created on: Friday 23rd December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-470522
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval asymmetrical buckle. The buckle is broadly rectangular in plan with one rounded side. The strap bar is in the centre of the frame and is narrowed and triangular in section with a flat back and angled sides. The strap bar has suffered some damage; it is now broken and one third is missing to a lateral break. The remaining fragment of strap bar has been bent at a c. 15% angle. The frame is 'D' shaped in section with a flat back. The pin is missing. It measures 34.7 mm long, 23.6 mm wide, 2.5 mm thick and weighs 4.63 g. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar example; no. …
Created on: Friday 23rd December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-466D24
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy mount with two integral spikes. The mount has a drop shaped main section; a circular plate tapering to a point which then widens to a a tri-lobed terminal with two rounded lateral lobes and one central vertical lobe more triangular in shape. There is a possible break at the rounded end of the circular section. The front of the mount has moulded decoration, although the corroded state renders this difficult to discern. There appears to be scrolls emphasizing the two lateral lobes and two scrolls in the rounded circular section towards the possible break with …
Created on: Friday 23rd December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-45E657
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval rim fragment of a copper alloy vessel. The fragment has a curved outer edge and is broken from the rest of the vessel leaving a curved inner edge and irregular breaks at each side. There is a raised ridge following the contour of the inner curved edge. Along one side is a circular drilled hole, indicating a previous repair. the fragment is broken across the hole. It measures 54.6 mm long, 20.2 mm wide, 2.1 mm thick and weighs 11.83g. The rim is unusually flat and is possibly from a shallow dish. The surface has traces of sooting and file marks.
Created on: Friday 23rd December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-35F7F1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy mount with separate rivets. The mount is a flat plate, lozenge shaped in plan, with bevelled edges. The front of the plate is so worn that any decoration that may have been present is now no longer visible. There are two separate copper alloy rivets present on the mount located on the reverse, just above the widest point of the plate. They would have once been linked a bar which is now broken and lost. The back is otherwise plain and free from decoration. One side has damage resulsting in the tip of the point being lost. The mount measures 29.7mm long, 26.2mm w…
Created on: Thursday 22nd December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-35A1D7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy single looped buckle and pin. The frame is rectangular in plan. The pin is also copper alloy, wrapped 270 degrees around one edge of the frame. The end of the pin is blunt, terminating in an oval section. It measures 27.9mm long, 17.6mm wide and 19.9mm incuding the pin and weighs 6.35g. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle, no. 126, which he dates from 1300 to 1500 AD.
Created on: Thursday 22nd December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-20D903
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy asymmetrical buckle. The frame is broadly ovoid with a curved outer edge and a straighter inner edge and rounded top and bottom edge. The inner edge has a recessed middle section for the pin which is now missing. From this inner edge projects a rectangular frame forming the strap bar. It measures 33.8 mm in length, 27.5 mm in width, 2.5 mm in thickness and weighs 4.45 g. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle, no. 539, which he dates from 1350 to 1450 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Saturday 11th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-205DF2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval copper alloy annular buckle. The frame is circular with a scalloped outer edge forming the shape of a rose. This is emphasised by moulded scrolls on the front of the frame. The strap bar is narrowed. The pin is missing. It measures 3.1 mm in thickness, 31.6 mm in diameter and weighs 8.61 g. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle, no. 273, which he dates from 1450 to 1550 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1F6643
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy double loop buckle. The frame has a trapezoidal loop either side of a narrowed strap bar. The buckle has suffered damage and on loop has broken close to the strap bar and has been lost. There is a knop at each end of the strap bar, which appears trapezoidal in section with a flat back and bevelled sides. The outer side of the frame has a central triangular projection flanked by a rounded knop at each corner of the frame. It measures 22.9 mm long, 22.6 mm wide, 2.5 mm thick and weighs 3.46 g. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar buckle, no. 523, which he…
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1EE382
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy mount with integral attachments dating from 1500 to 1700 AD. The mount is a circular section flanked by a rounded bar at each side. The upper bar is followed by a lateral break. From the lower bar, a long narrow vertical section extends with a widening expansion in the centre forming a broad lozenge shape. The vertical section ends in a tri-lobed terminal. The reverse has two integral rivet, one just below the break and one after the circular section. Each rivet is central in the plate, bent outwards facing the ends. It now measures 46.5 mm long, 16.9 mm wid…
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Friday 20th January 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1E73C0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy hooked mount. The hook is now missing, lost to an old break. The mount has a circular mid-section, domed with a convex front and concave back. From the domed section projects a collar with rounded ends from which expands a smaller circular dome ending in a small rounded knop. From the bottom of the domed section projects a square section from which the hook would have extended. There are circular attachment holes for rivets, now missing, on the rectangular section and in the centre of the smaller circular section. Iron corrosion products around the holes sug…
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1E1645
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval asymmetrical buckle. The buckle is broadly rectangular in plan with one rounded edge. The strap bar is narrowed and has suffered some damage; it is now broken and only one third remains. The remaining fragment of strap bar has been bent at a c. 20 degree angle. The frame is 'D' shaped in section with a flat back. The pin is missing. It measures 25.5mm long, 18.3 mm wide, 1.5 mm thick and weighs 1.86 g. Whitehead (2003) illustrates a similar example; no. 561, which he dates from 1575 to 1760 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1D0152
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval copper alloy annular buckle with strap bar and sheet copper alloy pin. The strap bar is narrowed, circular in section and has suffered slight damage so that it is now bent out of line. The frame is circular and even in width round the circumference. The front of the frame has an incised decoration of zigzags; repeating chevrons in a line and annulets. It is 2.6mm in thickness and 23.9mm in diameter; it weighs 4.0g. Whitehead (2003) illustrates several similar examples such as no. 255 and 256 which he dates to 1350-1650 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1C9B36
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy farthing of William III, 1694-1702 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1C6087
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval sword belt mount dating to the 16th century. The mount has a tri-lobed end with a narrowed waist underneath. This waist then expands forming rounded shoulders before tapering in width to a lateral ovoid section. Below the oval starts the hook which extends downwards before curving towards the front of the plate and ends in a rounded knop. The front of the mount has floriate decoration. There are two iron rivets still present in the plate, both in the centre; one to the tri-lobed end and one towards the hook. It measures 49.1mm long, 20.8mm wide, 2.3mm thick (12.7mm thick…
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 13th December 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1BE2D2
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy traders token farthing issued by the borough of Dorchester in 1669, Williamson Dorset 53-6.
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1BA745
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy buckle with copper alloy pin and plate. The frame is oval in plan, double looped with a circular sectioned and narrowed strap bar. The outer edges are widened and the frame has a slightly scalloped edge. The pin is rectangular with the end tapering to a rounded point. It is bent around the strap bar. The plate is rectangular in plan with a rectangular with two tabs at the strap bar. These tabs bend over the strap bar and widen into the back plate. There are two circular attachment holes at the end of the plate, the rivets have been lost. Similar buckles ca…
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1AF086
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable Medieval or Post Medieval, sheet copper alloy, buckle plate or possible handle attachment. The plate is broadly rectangular in plan with a crude circular attachment hole at one end. The opposite end terminates in two tabs with a rectangular open slot between. The ends of the tabs have evidence of having been bent over, probably attaching to a back plate, now lost. The ends are now broken. The front and back of the plate is rough, with no traces of decoration. It measures 35.7mm long, 16.9mm wide, 1.5mm thick and weighs 4.31g.
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1A5112
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver penny of Henry V, class f, minted at York, AD 1413-1422. North: 1403.
Created on: Wednesday 21st December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F5E618
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant. The pendant is a lozenge shaped plate with a transverse suspension loop projecting from the top with a drilled circular hole. The pendant is decorated on both sides; incised on the back and moulded on the front. Both faces have traces of gilding. The front, with the loop to the top of the image, appears to show an animal within foliage; possibly a monkey, squirrel or cat facing left with limbs extending forward as if to clutch a branch surrounded by possible leaves to represent a tree. The back also appears to show an animal within a line border,…
Created on: Monday 19th December 2011
Last updated: Friday 23rd December 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cerne Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.