Record ID: SOMDOR-C43F76
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete thirteenth or fourteenth century silver gilt finger ring. The bezel is square with rounded corners and measures 11.28mm by 11.45mm by 4.25mm. It is hollow with a square opening in the front, but the gem is missing. The surviving part (about half) of the hoop suggests a former diameter of 19.36mm, not including the bezel. The hoop is 3.62mm wide and 1.4mm thick. It is decorated on the exterior with alternating engraved lozenges and four-petalled flowers. The inside of the band is plain. The gilding is worn. Weight: 2.36g.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-3396D3
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The tip of a cast copper alloy socketed spearhead of Middle Bronze Age date. The fragment measures 56.05mm by 14.26mm by 9.56mm and weighs 19.48g. On each side there is a central linear ridge and the very tip is missing.
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilchester area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-D80221
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver gilt pin of sixteenth century date. The pin has been bent into a right-angle part way along its shaft. The diameter of the hollow cast pin head is 9.2mm, the diameter of the shaft is 2.1mm and the pin weighs 2.8g. The full length of the shaft when straight would have been c. 54mm. The pin head is divided into two hemispheres with a line of filigree. Each hemisphere is decorated with applied filigree circlets punctuated with spherical knops. One of the smaller filigree circlets and its central boss are missing from the lower (pin end) hemisphere. The pin head is gilded, with th…
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Perrott', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-810598
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nummus of the House of Valentinian dating from between 364 and 378 (Reece period 19). GLORIA ROMANORVM reverse type. Diameter: 17.43 mm Weight: 1.46 g
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Monday 13th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-E2C846
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a cast copper alloy purse frame from a metal-framed purse of late medieval or early post medieval date. Both ends are broken. The object measures 105mm in length and is bent in the centre. It has a circular profile around 5mm in diameter. On the underside there are four regularly spaced attachment flanges, perforated for sewing to the fabric purse. Only one of these survives intact. The others are broken, leaving worn stubs. Just before the break at one end there is a grooved line around the bar and at the other end there are two, and an adjacent chevron on the upper side. A s…
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2006
Last updated: Friday 19th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milverton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-E38DC8
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable terminal from a late medieval or early post medieval purse bar, which has been cast in copper alloy. The globular terminal, 12.34mm in diameter by 9.96mm in height, is moulded with four regular spiral grooves, which start from the uppermost point ('wrythen' decoration). Below the terminal, 14mm of the bar has been preserved. A similar knop with a longer length of the purse bar has been found at Riby in Lincolnshire (LIN-12B6B5). Weight: 6.68g
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2006
Last updated: Friday 19th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milverton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-A9D004
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An elaborate horse harness pendant suspension mount, cast in copper alloy in several pieces and gilded. The pendant suspension mount is somewhat distorted but formerly consisted of an 'M' shaped mount, approximately 40mm wide by 45mm high, from which hung three separately cast pendants. The two outer pendants, both shield-shaped and around 28mm (including the suspension loops, which are turned through 90 degrees) by 17mm, survive in situ. The central pendant is missing, but a parallel (see below) suggests that this was a small bell rather than another shield. The mount would have been…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd January 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 24th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rodney Stoke area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-3A3F42
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Roman silver denarius of Julia Maesa (AD 218-222), SAECVLI FELICITAS, Felicitas standing left at altar, holding patera and caduceus; star to right. Mint of Rome. RIC IV, pt 2, p. 50, no. 271. The finder cleaned this coin after recording and a photograph of the clean coin has been appended to the record and the reading of the legend updated.
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2006
Last updated: Monday 16th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chilton Trinity', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-89E565
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A spiral shaped ring possibly a finger ring formed from a length of cast copper alloy of probable later prehistoric or early Roman date. The ring is in the form of a close and thick spiral of just over two complete turns, 4.9mm in width and 3.3mm thick. It weighs 14.7g. The ring has been distorted but formerly had an external diameter of about 24mm. Its cross-section is rectangular with rounded corners. Both terminals are slightly rounded and the surfaces plain and undecorated. The ring has a rich green patina and an uneven, pitted surface. A similar finger ring has been excavated at …
Created on: Friday 20th October 2006
Last updated: Friday 16th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-979390
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy dupondius (about 2/3 of coin) of Antoninus Pius (138-61). Mint of Rome, c. 153-5. RIC vol III, pp. 141-2, nos. 920 & 932; Bath, p. 297, no. 6ff.
Created on: Friday 8th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 16th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishops Hull', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-039B12
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy multiple ornament suspension harness mount of medieval date. The surviving fragment measures 43.67mm by 8.93mm by 3.95mm and weighs 6.65g. It consists of a flat front plate with a rectangular cross section and a large rectangular loop (17.66mm by 11.82mm) behind. The front plate has an oval terminal with a elongated pointed oval knop. The terminal is perforated by a round hole. On the other side of the terminal there are two small side knops and a plain rectangular section. Adjacent to this there is part of another perforated oval section. Two similar o…
Created on: Friday 2nd June 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crewkerne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-82AB11
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy rowel spur of probable post-medieval date. The rowel box and portions of each side survive, but the rowel and both terminals are missing. The sides are slightly distorted out of shape. The rowel box expands towards its rounded split end, through which there is a transverse perforation. Part of the iron bar survives in situ. On each side of the gently downwards curving neck, a chevron has been incised on the outside of the spur, each end pointing away from the neck.
Created on: Thursday 8th June 2006
Last updated: Friday 12th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-9EBC47
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy rowel from a spur of probable post-medieval date. The five pointed spur has a maximum diameter of 35.9mm. a thickness of 3.1mm and weighs 5.61g. Four of the five points are incomplete and between each large point there is a much smaller point, defined on each side by moulded linears. Similar spur rowels on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database include DENO-300FE7, from Old Bolsover, Derbyshire and IOW-D8E057, from Brighstone, Isle of Wight.
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2006
Last updated: Friday 12th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishops Hull', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-DEA564
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy small long brooch of Early Medieval date. The brooch measures 73.82mm in length, 22.72mm in width and 17.06mm in depth. It weighs 13.91g. The brooch's head-plate has a convex upper edge with a small semi-circular knop which protrudes from the centre. Below, the side edges each have a large semi-circular cut-out creating small arms below; each of the arms has a V-shaped notch at the outer edge. The headplate is decorated with three large double-ring-and-dot motifs. At least the upper example is centrally perforated through the brooch. Below the head-plate is the …
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Cuthbert Out', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-CCB761
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy stirrup terminal of late early-medieval date. The terminal has a hollow back which contains remnants of the lead solder which would have joined it to the side of the stirrup. The front of the terminal is zoomorphic, a simple stylised beast with straight muzzle and large eyes, one of which is oval and one more D-shaped. The muzzle has two parallel longitudinal crests, about 1mm in width, on each side of the upper surface and a protruding semi-circular knop on each side at the distal end of the ridge. Part of the animal's neck also forms part of the terminal and on o…
Created on: Monday 24th April 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-C80552
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A well-preserved cast copper alloy seal matrix of medieval date. The vesica-shaped (oval with pointed ends) seal matrix measures 30.9mm by 19.3mm by 3.2mm and weighs 10.03g. In the centre there is a fleur-de-lis, the vertical 'branch' filled with parallel diagonal lines so that it resembles a feather or ear of corn. The legend around is between two grooves, and begins with a 6-pointed star. It reads * S' WILL' I FIL' IO.h'IS (Seal of William son of John). The letters are heavily seriffed, so that the F of FIL' looks almost like an E. The dot in the centre of IO.h'IS indicates an abbre…
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2006
Last updated: Sunday 16th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stawell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-E58227
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very poor copy of an as of Claudius, probably dating from the later part of his reign or the reign of Nero (AD 48-61). Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints which operated at Lyons (Gaul) and in Spain. This example is a native copy.
Created on: Friday 6th January 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stogursey area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-D3ACC4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
As of Claudius (41-54). Possibly a contemporary copy. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints which operated at Lyons (Gaul) and in Spain. This example is a contemporary copy of those minted at the Iberian Peninsula I, workshop B Mint.
Created on: Friday 31st March 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-9F8701
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The base from a cast copper alloy candlestick of probable late medieval or early post medieval date. The hollow base is circular, 79.4mm in maximum diameter, 21.9mm in height and around 2.5mm in thickness. It weighs 108g. It is slightly wider at its base than at the top (diameter 72.6mm). The upper surface has a slightly raised outside edge and central roundel and in the middle of this there is a circular perforation, 11.4mm in diameter. The only decoration is in the form of incised parallel circumferential linears, two on the side and two on the upper surface, all bordering edges. Th…
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 8th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Brent', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-DF4315
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy strap clasp dating from the medieval period. The clasp measures 44.72mm in length by 12.11mm in width by 5.74mm thick and weighs 3.16g. The rectangular plate is folded around the plain frame. Its proximal end is damaged on both sides and there is no sign of a rivet to hold the strap in place indicating that the plate must have been longer. One one side of the plate there is some incised decoration: three equally spaced transverse zigzags bounded by a line on each side. The narrow frame is damaged and distorted and appears not to have had a folding end. Strap clasps…
Created on: Tuesday 25th April 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 4th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dowlish Wake', grid reference and parish protected.