Record ID: SOM-145085
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Early Post Medieval pilgrim badge depicting the Annunciation. The badge is uni-face with a relief decoration on the front and the remains of a simple attachment hook on the reverse. The design is within a raised border and features two cloaked figures facing each other and holding a book over a vertical branch between them. The figure on the left, the Angel Gabriel, is crowned and a row of diagonal lines behind his back may represent wings. The figure on the right, Mary, wears a hooded cloak and lines around her may represent a building. the branch has a vertical stem split…
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wembdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-11C221
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval lead alloy cloth seal. Fragment of a two or four part seal consisting of the central plug of lead, circular in section with the front disk and a fragment of the back disc attached. The front is stamped with the portcullis with a B underneath, surrounded by a legend, now illegible. It measures 18.1mm in diameter and 4.6mm thick. It weighs 4.82g. The portcullis was "the main design for alnage seals in the late Tudor period... and continued in use into the early seventeenth century" (Egan 1995:9). Alnage seals indicated the cloth had been checked for quality by a Crown o…
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-A7E1E4
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two lead alloy shot balls, probably from a pistol. Both have a flattened end from impact. 1. Diameter: 15.9mm, weight: 22.2g, 2. diameter: 14.2mm, weight: 15.0g. Total weight 37.1g. The larger of the two balls has traces of a casting line.
Created on: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-A7C7C2
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy musket ball with rounded ends and a flattened centre from firing. Diameter: 20.1mm, weight: 43.5g. Due to the flattened centre it is difficult to establish evidence of casting lines.
Created on: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-A7A1D3
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy musket ball with rounded ends and a flattened centre from firing. One end is flattened from impact. Diameter: 18.4mm, weight: 42.4g. Due to the flattened centre it is difficult to establish evidence of casting lines.
Created on: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lydford On Fosse', grid reference and parish protected.