Record ID: SOM-D32860
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval - post-medieval cast copper-alloy single loop buckle frame, missing its pin. The loop is oval with flattened edge acting as the pin/strap bar. The loop is D shaped in section with a flat back. All the way around the front are deeply incised, regular spaced diagonal lines creating a crude ropework. The frame is 30.1mm long and 28.3mm wide; it weighs 5.71 grams. A similar frame is illustrated by Whitehead (2003, 25), no.122 which he dates to c.1450-1550 AD
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-D5DC02
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy late medieval annular buckle frame with central strap bar. The outer face of one side is decorated with incised grooves, forming lobes in between. The other loop has two constrictions on the outer edge, with a lobe at either side, the area between containing multiple transverse grooves. The front is bevelled internally and externally while the back is flat. The frame measures 31.2mm long, 27.3mm wide and 3.2mm; it weighs 7.24 grams. A similar buckle is illustrated by Whitehead (2003, 46), no.266, and is dated to c.AD 1400-1500.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-D63E54
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper-alloy impersonal seal matrix. The matrix has a pointed oval face with a central design of a lion rampant standing right within a line border encircled by the legend. The legend appears to read * PROTA[...]R[...]. The legend starts with a star. The matrix has a central ridge running up most of the back which would have terminates in a loop; this last has been lost following an old break. This object 19.75mm long by 14.7mm wide and 3.3mm thick; a weight was not captured on the day.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-D68B66
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver penny of Charles I (1625-1649), uncertain group and bust, unclear initial mark, minted at London, AD 1625-1649. This coin is very worn and has been clipped.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-D70CF2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval plain cast copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame. The frame has two oval loops with bevelled outer and inner sides on the front; the back appears flat. The strap bar is narrowed with a triangular cross-section. The pin is missing but dark orange corrosion product at the pin bar shows that it would have been of iron. It is 24.9mm long, 20.3mm wide and 2.2mm thick, it weighs 3.0 grams. It is likely that simple forms like this were in use by c.1350 (Egan and Pritchard 1993:22, 82-3, cf no.332), and they continued into the 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-E7EED7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper-alloy rose farthing of Charles I (1625-1649), Type 2, crescent initial mark, AD 1636-1644, North (1993:165) no.2291
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-E81A27
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper-alloy rose farthing of Charles I (1625-1649), Type 1, unclear initial mark, AD 1636-1644, North (1993:165) nos. 2287-2290.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-E87605
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver cut halfpenny of Henry III (1216-1272), long voided cross class 5a-g, minted by Henri at London, AD 1250-1265, North (1993:226-227), no. 991/1-997.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-E90C23
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper-alloy buckle frame missing its plate and pin. The frame is oval with an offset and narrowed strap bar and offset outer edge recessed in the centre to take a sheet roller which survives in place. The outer edge has knops flanking the recessed centre. The upper and lower sides have a convex outer face. The frame is 19.5mm long, 4.75mm thick and 24.05mm wide and weighs 4.53 grams. Egan (2007, 95) illustrates a very similar example, no.590. He suggests (ibid:86) this type (Meols Type 11) dates to the medieval period (c.1250-1400 AD).
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-E93014
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper-alloy buckle frame. The frame is broadly 'D' shaped in plan, with a protruding pointed lip for the pin in the centre of the outer edge. The lip seems to have a notched centre for the pin to rest in formed by an incised line. The frame is broadly D-shaped in section with a flattened inner side. The strap bar is slightly offset and recessed. The pin is missing. The buckle measures 17.3mm long, 20.9mm wide and 3.3mm thick; it weighs 1.89g. Similar buckles are illustrated in Egan (2007:91) e.g. no.496-497. These examples are categorised as a Meols type 4 and it is …
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Saturday 22nd October 2016
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Record ID: SOM-E9F928
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper-alloy vessel leg, c.1300-1500 AD, probably from a ewer (water jug). The leg has an elongated D-shaped cross-section with a rounded front and flat back. It has an old irregular break at the upper end. The oval foot projects forward and has a rounded end. It is 35.2mm tall, 23.3mm wide, 12.8mm thick; it weighs 38.06 grams. The foot would have been one of three on a complete vessel, which would have been used to hold water for hand-washing (Lewis 1987).
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-EA3777
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper-alloy pedestal type seal matrix. The matrix has a circular face with a central design of a quatrefoil with frond like leaves. The impersonal legend around the design reads * LEL AMI AVET (you have a loyal friend). The legend starts with a star. The matrix has a pedestal type handle rising from the face in six facets, narrowing as it rises to a waist from which it expands out slightly before ending in a recessed, crude trefoil at the top, above a double collar.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Friday 3rd January 2014
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Record ID: SOM-EAB321
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy mount of elaborate openwork with a broken hook at one end, dating to the post-medieval period. The object is largely pointed oval in plan, extending at one end into a curved hook with broken tip. At the other end is a lozengiform knop with small trefoil tip. The centre of the mount is shaped by four trefoil shaped perforations that create an internal web that is complicated, but has longitudinal symmetry. Where the four central ribs meet the edge of the mount there are small bifid protrusions. The hook begins with a pair of addorsed crescentic mouldings. Above these lat…
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-EB0FE6
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy domed thimble, probably of medieval date with angled sides and a domed top with a distinct carination between the sides and top. The thimble has small circular indentations arranged in slightly irregular lines down the sides and in a spiral around the top. There is a bare tonsure at the centre of the top. The sides are squashed in at the base and it is now 23.9mm long and 15.8mm wide; it is 17.6mm in height and weighs 8.31g.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-511921
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken and now incomplete copper-alloy domed thimble, probably of medieval date with angled sides; the top has been lost as a result of old damage and the sides squashed. The thimble has rectangular pits arranged in a spiral around the sides. The sides are squashed in and it is now 24.1mm long and 7.8mm wide; it is 17.7mm in height and weighs 5.44g.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-5145C1
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped tertiary flint flake, undiagnostic in date and therefore dated from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age. It is incomplete as there is some recent damage to its edges. There is a prominent bulb on the ventral face with an adjacent scar. The dorsal face features numerous longitudinal removals generally from the proximal end. The flint is grey, stained brown. It measures 34.9mm long by 28.2mm wide and 6.8mm thick; it weighs 6.36 grams.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-51E286
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval cast copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame with rectangular loops, bent in profile and now missing its pin. The loops are trapezoidal in cross section. The outer edges of both loops are straight other than a central rectangular projecting lobe. There is an incised line running down the centre of each projection acting as a pin rest. There are smaller projecting knops at the ends of the narrowed strap bar, also bifid. As noted, one of the loops has been bent upwards and twisted slightly as as result of old damage. The frame is 38.0mm long, 24.0mm wide and 3.5mm th…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Membury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5224C4
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A curved fragment of the outer cast copper-alloy casing of a medieval globular steelyard weight. It would originally have had a lead core held within the complete casing. The fragment has irregular breaks all around its edge, but bears a decoratively cast shield in relief. The shield has a straight top and convex sides meeting at a point at the bottom with a raised design of a lion rampant on it. The fragment measures 39.4mm long, 37.9mm wide and the casing is c. 1.9mm thick; it weighs 23.65g. Such globular weights with raised shield designs on a copper-alloy casing around an lead …
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 21st August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Membury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-525B57
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Scottish post-medieval twenty pence of Charles I (AD 1625-1649), Third coinage, Class III (Falconer's first issue), minted at Edinburgh, AD 1637-1642, Spink 5588. The coin appears to have received a small puncture through the reverse between the inner circle and the centre.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Membury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-52F646
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver halfgroat of James I (AD 1603-1625), Second coinage, initial mark rose, minted at London, AD 1605-1606, North 2104.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Membury', grid reference and parish protected.