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Record ID: SOM-29E1B6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three Roman copper-alloy radiates or nummi of unclear emperor dating to the period c. AD 260 to 402. Unclear reverse types. Unclear mints. One coin is incomplete, another is a fragment. A combined weight is given for the group.
Created on: Wednesday 24th September 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halberton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4AA8D0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken medieval cast copper-alloy composite buckle with forked spacer. This example is incomplete in so far as it is missing the sheet plates and the end of one of the prongs. The frame is oval with a small pointed, projecting lip on the outer edge, but no groove for the pin. The frame is shallowly bevelled externally on its upper surface, with a small flat zone near the inner side. The lower surface is largely flat other than some slight bevelling externally. The prongs are only very slightly recessed for the plates; their surfaces have been covered in the corrosion product presuma…
Created on: Wednesday 20th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 17th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Membury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-17075A
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy spherical animal bell (crotal) of post-medieval date. The fragment comprises half of the lower of two hemispherical domes, the hemisphere naturally divided in two by the sound slot, and vestiges of the upper hemisphere broken around a sound hole, together with a raised circumferential join. The upper hemisphere would have had two circular sound holes with a rectangular tab projecting from the top between them. The upper hemisphere is seemingly plain from the small amount that survives. The sound slit on the lower hemisphere is flanked by an indente…
Created on: Monday 30th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 30th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halberton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-14BBC1
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn and corroded post-medieval copper-alloy trader's token farthing issued by Richard Strangar, tallow chandler of Tiverton, Dorset, 1648-1672, Williamson (Devon) 331. See also SOMDOR-D06333 on this database
Created on: Monday 30th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 30th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halberton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AA45B0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame. Around a half of one of the buckle's loops has been broken away following old damage, with the outer edge gone completely and the sides surviving to differing extents above and below. The pin is also missing. The remaining oval loop is curved in cross-section due to a central recess between the sides of the buckle on the back. This is presumably a result of casting in an open, one-piece mould, whereby the metal has cooled and contracted. At the centre of the outer edge of the complete loop is an angled lobed kn…
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 30th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halberton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-41EAF8
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper-alloy dress fastener, sub lozengiform. This is the hook section of such fasteners, with its rectangular loop truncated around halfway through the recurve. The central area of the plate has a raised foliate design with a central quartered berry and four leaves in cross formation with four small circular berries in the angles. This design is within a broadly lozengiform line border formed of four lines with scrolled ends; at the middle corners these form a pair of projecting rounded knops at either side. There are two pierced lobes flanking the start of the hook, …
Created on: Friday 20th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 4th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halberton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4152D1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame with trapezoidal loops, now having lost one of its loops. The surviving loop is rectangular in cross section. The outer edge of the loop is extended into a rounded point in the centre, flanked by rounded knops at the corners. There is an incised line running down the front of the outer edge with a shorter transverse line across the centre acting as a pin rest. There are raised knops at the ends of the narrowed strap bar that project slightly. The back is flat and plain. The copper-alloy pin is D-shaped in cross-s…
Created on: Friday 20th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 30th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halberton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-4023C5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely corroded post-medieval copper-alloy farthing of Charles II (AD 1660-1685), dating between 1672 and 1679, London mint, Spink 3394
Created on: Friday 20th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 20th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halberton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E48573
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy late medieval or post medieval fragment of vessel repair or handle attachment. The piece is roughly rectangular in shape, though with one edge expanding in a curve, and consists of two metal sheets riveted together. Both sheets have been cut to the same shape. though one has lost about a third compared to the other. The sheets are connected by two rolled copper-alloy sheet rivets; this would have been three when the borken sheet was complete. The rivets have been pushed through from one side and is flattened and smoothed on the other, flush with the sheet. They were pro…
Created on: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-BCD091
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded post-medieval Nuremberg copper-alloy jetton of Hans Schultes I (fl. AD 1553-1584) of the 'Rose / orb' type, Mitchiner (1988, 401-404) This jetton has received a precisely drilled hole between the inner circle and the circumference through the reverse at 7 o'clock, corresponding to 2 o'clock on the obverse, presumably for conversion into a jewellery item. It has also received slight cirumferential abrasions.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halberton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-DCA985
Object type: STAMP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late post-medieval to modern copper-alloy tool, probably a finishing tool for book binding. It has a blade of rectangular cross-section which expands gradually from a width of 11.4mm at the stop to 20.5mm at the cutting edge. It attains its greatest width before the cutting edge, travelling straight down towards this edge which is largely straight. The stop referred to is sub-circular and slightly dished to accommodate the handle. It measures up to 16.9mm across but has been broken to one side of the tang and is mostly missing here. The central tang is of rectangular cross-section a…
Created on: Wednesday 26th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 26th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenn CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E27044
Object type: HARNESS HOOK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy medieval hooked mount, generally described as a harness hook. It consists of a large conical stop from the base of which protrudes a long D-sectioned integral hook, now broken at its tip. The stop is thicker than the hook and has a sub-circular cross-section. It is shallowly faceted, and tapers to a zoomorphic terminal. The animal head has moulded nose and jaws, the lowermost parallel to the base of the stop. The hook travels straight down from the centre of the stop before developing into the hook, the inner surface of which is flat. The artefact has corroded t…
Created on: Friday 14th February 2014
Last updated: Friday 14th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-DFB4E7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded and abraded cast copper-alloy foot from a later medieval to early post-medieval cooking vessel. The object is splayed at the base in a simple, out-turned, pad-like foot of trapezoidal cross-section, slightly irregular now. The front of the foot is decorated with a prominently moulded central rib: any further elaboration has been obscured by old damage. The break is irregular. The flat back and base make an obtuse angle of about 110 degrees. As noted, the object has become corroded post-deposition, and is largely a variable mid/dark-green colour. This form of foot is compara…
Created on: Friday 14th February 2014
Last updated: Friday 14th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broadhembury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B55A84
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy mounted fastener from an early post-medieval sword belt. The object is formed of a symmetrical mount with integral circular terminal. The terminal is affixed to the toggle, which tapers underneath. The circular element is decorated on its visible, upper surface by a floral or solar pattern of central dot with curved lines radiating out moulded in low relief. The main body consists of a series of points incurving to waists and terminates in a trefoil end: two waists and two points. Centrally aligned with the lowermost protruding points is a rivet hole that retain a …
Created on: Wednesday 12th February 2014
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holcombe Rogus CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-91B2B8
Object type: CASKET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded and incomplete copper-alloy hinged mount probably from a medieval casket or box. It comprises two arms joined by a hinge, the ends of the arms now abraded due to old breaks. One arm is formed of a sub-trapezoidal plate formed of a single piece folded in half widthways. At the wider end is a rectangular removal in which a loop integral to the other arm sits. Towards the narrower end are two perforations for rivets which are both now missing. On one of the folds the hole nearest the narrower end has abraded through as a result of old damage; this fold has also been bent up…
Created on: Friday 17th January 2014
Last updated: Friday 17th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uplowman CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-914264
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken copper-alloy mount of post-medieval date, though it is uncertain to what it would have belonged. Formed of one piece the object has two zones, the smaller a thinner handle-like end, broken and slightly bent and twisted one way following old damage. From this smaller end (general W.: c. 8.6mm) the object begins to widen before a transverse groove on the upper surface which divides the handle end from the larger zone. The larger end continues to expand very gradually along its length, attaining a width of 17.4mm at an old ragged break. The mount has a rectangular cross-secti…
Created on: Friday 17th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-9087F2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A spherical hollow copper-alloy artefact of probable post-medieval date: either a bead or a pin head. The object is formed of two hemispheres of sheet copper alloy joined by white metal solder at their respective bases. The top of each is perforated at its centre with a hole of c. 2.4mm diameter. Around each hole radiates multiple small, fine incisions. Also radiating from each hole, at seven equally spaced points, are diverging pairs of incised lines that extend to a circumferential incision just before the centre of the object. As these lines approach the centre of the object each i…
Created on: Friday 17th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-51B6A1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy initial T-shaped brooch, missing the majority of its bow and pin, and also the leg with catch-plate. The brooch consists of heavily abraded cylindrical wings, upper bow and the head of the pin. Both wings are abraded at their tips, with one having lost most of its underside. There is possible incised diagonal decoration on the upper surface of the other wing, though this is not clear. The remnant of the circular-section copper alloy axis bar is visible at the broken wing, it is itself truncated. Between the wings is a slot in which the remnants of the …
Created on: Tuesday 14th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-516F44
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval cast copper-alloy button with a convex front and integral attachment loop set off centre in the flat back. The front of the button is decorated with a punched design of an asymmetrical flower within a circumferential border of punched crescents. The back is plain apart from the loop. The loop is flat with a semi circular top and has a cicular hole drilled through it adjacent to the back. Read (2005, 39) illustrates buttons of similar construction with floral decoration, though far more buttons with such decoration have concave backs. Read (ibid., 36) suggests they w…
Created on: Tuesday 14th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-402F87
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a post-medieval spherical animal bell ('crotal') cast in copper alloy (c. 17th century AD). The fragment consists of part of the lower half, part of the median rib, and a smaller part of the upper hemisphere, with ragged breaks and one broadly straight edge - the sound slot. One of the upper hemisphere's sound holes has been broken through; this and a counterpart would have been set at right angles to the sound slot. A shield shaped cartouche abuts the slot and may bear initials, now hard to discern. The lower half beyond is decorated with a lobed 'sun burst' pattern, …
Created on: Monday 13th January 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton CP', grid reference and parish protected.