Record ID: SOMDOR-446A83
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy flask which may have been used as a flask for holy oil, of probable medieval date. The flask is 56.9mm high and weighs 69.3g. It has a circular profile and a convex base with a maximum diameter of 39.75mm which narrows to 17.7mm at the top. On opposite sides, just below the circular opening, there are two flat sub-rectangular lugs. Both lugs contain a small round perforation (diameter 2.8mm) in the upper centre, presumably either for suspension or to tie the stopper in place. One lug is set slightly higher that the other. On one side the body of the flask has been d…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-4543B8
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable sheet copper alloy strap plate of later fourteenth or early fifteenth century date. The flat rectangular fitting measures 41.7mm in length, 21.9mm in length, 1.2mm in thickness and weighs 5.7g. Each of the shorter sides has had three rounded triangular notches removed. The central notch is slightly larger and a short horizontal line has been incised across the plate from the 'points'. There is a rivet hole at each angle. Three of the rivets are broken in situ but the fourth is intact. In the centre of the fitting there are two puched perforations which have diameters of arou…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', 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-811B25
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper-alloy nummus of the House of Constantine dating from the period AD 330-35 (Reece period 17). VRBS ROMA type with the reverse depicting a wolf and twins. Mint of Trier. LRBC no. 70 (1970, p. 5).
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Monday 7th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-813A01
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nummus of the House of Valentinian dating from between 364 and 367. LRBC 493 (1970, p. 56).
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-81A196
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy strap end of late Anglo-Saxon date. The tongue-shaped strap end measures 34.3mm by 17.7mm (a width to length ratio of 1:1.94) by 1.9mm and weighs 4.06g. The strap end has three equally spaced rivet holes alongside its narrowed straight end, one of which contains some corroded metal, apparently also copper alloy. The moulded openwork design is in the form of a symmetrical plant scroll. There are traces of silvering or tinning on parts of the surface. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The strap end is an example of Thomas's Class E, type 1 ('Winchester style') and…
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-81EDA1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy strap end of late Anglo-Saxon date. The tongue-shaped strap end measures 30.5mm by 15.2mm (a width to length ratio of 1:2) by 2.8mm and weighs 4.97g. The strap end has two equally spaced rivet holes alongside its narrowed straight end, one of which is broken. The front of the strap end is decorated with stamped annulets which are arranged in a border around the edge and along the centre of the longitudinal axis. There are also two lines incised parallel to the narrowed section. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The strap end appears to be an unusually plain exam…
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-83B161
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy T-shaped Roman brooch of 1st or 2nd century AD date. The brooch measures 48mm in length and weighs 6.48g. The cylindrical wings measure 24.1mm in length and 4.4mm in diameter. They conceal the copper alloy axis bar for the missing hinged pin. The axis bar is visible within the central notch which would have accommodated the pin. The wings are decorated with two parallel vertical incised lines on the external face of each end and two parallel slightly diagonal lines which frame the bow. The bow narrows to less than a millimetre at the foot. The thicker part of the bo…
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-83FD61
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring of probable post-medieval date. The ring measures 22.2mm in diameter, 8.5mm in width, 1.1mm in thickness and weighs 3.04g. It has been made from a cast strip which has been bent into a ring and the ends soldered together. The slightly convex central section is bounded by two ridges on each side. The central section is decorated with tiny stamped annulets. There is a single line of annulets on either side of the convex section and in between these lines there are diagonal linears formed from two lines of annulets. In the cells created by the diagonals there ar…
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-E8D1A3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle of post-medieval date. The double loop buckle measures 48.8mm by 37.7mm by 2.6mm and weighs 9.45g. The frame is oval and the narrowed central bar projects outside the frame at both ends. The front is convex and the back is flat. The buckle is slightly distorted and the pin is missing. It probably dates from the sixteenth or early seventeenth century.
Created on: Wednesday 6th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Taunton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-FD7C88
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy buckle of post medieval date. The double frame trapezoidal buckle measures 52mm by 46mm by 2.8mm and weighs 12.5g. It has pointed outer edges with an engraved horizontal line at the widest point on each side. There is a rounded external knop at each end of the narrowed strap bar and a projecting oval knop at each corner of the frame. The pin is missing. There are faint traces of silvering or tinning in several places. This buckle probably dates from the seventeenth century.
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kington Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-FDA123
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy foot from a cooking vessel of medieval or post-medieval date. The foot measures 48.5mm by 27.5mm by 19.8mm and weighs 102.6g. It has a D-shaped base and a flat front with a central vertical ridge which is set at 45 degrees. The foot would have been one of three on a cauldron, skillet or posnet.
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kington Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-FDC635
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy object which is probably the terminal from the drop handle from a vessel of later medieval or early post-medieval date. The zoomorphic terminal measures 23.4mm by 17mm by 14.8mm and weighs 24.4g. Both ends are flat with a off-centre hole which is much narrower at the mouth end. The terminal appears to be moulded to resemble a dog, with diagonally orientated leaf-shaped ears, sunken eyes, slightly narrowed snout, upwards projecting nose and open mouth. A similar zoomorphic terminal collar is illustrated in Egan (1998, p. 175, no. 487). Egan states that a comparable h…
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kington Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-9204E6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper leg from a ewer (water jug), of medieval date. The fragment measures 55.9mm by 18.5mm by 11.7mm and weighs 35g. It would have been one of three on a complete vessel. The inside face of the leg is flat and the outside face is faceted to form an irregular hexagonal cross-section. Immediately above the foot there is a horizontal ridge. The foot projects forward and has a rounded terminal. This ewer foot dates from the fourteenth of fifteenth century. The vessel of which it formed part would have been used to hold water for hand-washing (Lewis 1987).
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-927DD5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular radiate copying a prototype of a DIVO CLAVDIO issue of Rome, for Claudius II (268-70). Probably struck c. 275-85. See RIC vol. V, Part 1, p. 234, no. 166 for prototypes; see Cunetio p. 160, no. 2877 and Normanby, p. 205, no. 1835 for other similar copies.
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-92C632
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A trade token farthing produced by John Liddon of Uplyme, Devon, in 1667. Boyne and Williamson's no. 229 (p. 61).
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Queen Camel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-9342B8
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy rose royal coin weight of James I, dating from 1612-19. The weight is square, 18.1mm by 18.2mm by 4.8mm, and weighs 11.37g. The coin weight is very worn but the designs are just discernible on both sides. On the front the legend reads XXXIII and on the back there is a shield on a rose. This coin weight would have weighed 13.8g when new (Withers and Withers 1995, p. 12).
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-938D12
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy spur ryal coin weight of James I, probably second coinage revaluation and therefore dating from 1612-19. The weight is square, 16.4mm by 16.8mm by 3.6mm, and weighs 6.12g. On the front is a crown and to the left of this is a small stamp of another crown over the letter 'I'. The Roman numerals underneath probably read XVs VID (the 'D' is faintly visible). On the back is a central rose surrounded by a sun symbol, in turn surrounded by lions and fleurs-de-lis, all within a circular border. This coin weight would have weighed 6.9g when new (Withers and Withers 1995, p. 13).
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-940716
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy bridle cheekpiece of eleventh century AD date. The surviving part of the cheekpiece measures 42.1mm by 20.2mm by 9.7mm and weighs 13.73g. It consists of a central boss with two arms each side which both terminate in a lozengiform terminal, each with a large oval perforation. Neither terminal is complete but originally they would both have had three knops, one on the end and one of each side. Projecting from each side of the central boss, perpendicular to the two arms, is a further, larger knop. The back of the object is flat with a slight depression on …
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2006
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-A37BC3
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy spur ryal coin weight of James I, probably 3rd coinage (as indicated by the weight) and therefore dating from 1619-25. The weight is square, 16.6mm by 16.4mm by 3.1mm, and weighs 5.9g. On the front is a crown and to the left of this is a small stamp of another crown. The Roman numerals underneath read XVs. On the back is a central rose surrounded by a sun symbol, in turn surrounded by lions and fleurs-de-lis, all within a circular border. This coin weight would have weighed 6.4g when new (Withers and Withers 1995, p. 13).
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilminster', grid reference and parish protected.