Record ID: SOM-F18A88
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval copper alloy book clasp dating to the period c. AD 1500 - 1700. The fitting is rectangular in shape with one wider flaring end. The opposite end of the plate is straight and from the centre projects a broken hook which curves backwards. The tip of the hook is missing to an old break. There is a drilled rivet hole positioned 9.43mm near the flaring end and a rivet in situ at 3.6 mm. A second rivet is situated at 12.36mm from the hook. The front of the plate is decorated at the hook end with a horizontal band with a series of incised parallel lines reaching t…
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 12th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otterhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F0FD00
Object type: PIPE TAMPER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy pipe tamper of Post-Medieval date. The tamper is in the form of a claw hammer but is missing half of the claw, the hammerhead, part of the shaft and the tamper itself due to old breaks. The block at the top of the shaft is rectangular in shape and measures 12.9 mm in length and 8.4 mm in width. At one end there is a small circular projection from which the now missing hammerhead would have extended. On the opposite side survives for 11.7 mm in length part of one of the two claws, now bent at 30 degrees angle upwards. The block is decorated on both flat su…
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 12th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otterhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F0793D
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy token farthing issued by the town of Bridgwater in 1666. Williamson (1891:974) Somerset 48.
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 12th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otterhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-EFD71A
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval copper alloy open thimble dating to the period cAD1500 - 1620. The thimble has sloping sides and a continuous right-hand spiral of square indentations running from the base to the top rim. At the end of the indentations there is a stamped maker's mark of a crown with three circular rings inside a domed recessed panel. An incised line runs round the lower rim of the thimble. It measures 10.74mm in height, 19.17mm in diameter at the top and 21.09mm at the base and weighs 4.84g. Reference is made to this type of thimble in Holmes, FRG Datasheet 9, pg 3.
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otterhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-EF6F89
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post Medieval copper alloy annular buckle dating to the period cAD1350 - 1650. The buckle has a simple circular frame with bevelled inside edge and a recessed strap bar. A seperately made copper alloy pin survives intact on the bar. The buckle measures 18.70mm in diameter and weighs 2.47g. Similar examples can be found in Whitehead (2003:44-45), to which he assigns a date range of AD 1350-1650.
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 12th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otterhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A27C33
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead suspension weight probably dating to the Medieval to Post Medieval period. The weight is sub-rectangular in shape. The top narrows to an integral suspension loop and the base is flat and protrudes slightly from the sides all around. The object is quite crude and all surfaces are pitted. The weight measures 47.89mm in length, 14.52mm in width and weighs 69.21g. Lead weights were used for a long period and lack many diagnostic features, so are difficult to date precisely although most are Medieval or Post medieval in date. A similar example can be found at SOM-BC7E70.
Created on: Tuesday 27th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Limington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A20CCA
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval single silver cufflink dating to cAD1720-1800. The cuff link consists of an octagonal button with slightly convex front and concave reverse with down turned edges creating a border around the back of the cuff link. At the centre of the upper surface is an incised rose. The rose is shown with a circular centre with four larger semi-circular tipped lobed petals alternating with four smaller petals depicted as being behind the larger ones. Concave incised lines form a border around the edge of the cuff link. The reverse surface is undecorated. An oval sectioned bar that…
Created on: Tuesday 27th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Minterne Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A1ABB9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy single loop rectangular buckle dating to cAD1350 - 1400. There is a groove for the pin on the outer edge with an angled groove on either side. The pin is missing. The strap bar is narrowed and offset. The buckle measures 15.95mm in length, 25.77mm in width and weighs 3.64mm. Egan (2007:96) suggests this form, type A, dates to the late 14th century. SOM-686354 on this database is similar.
Created on: Tuesday 27th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A0CBAC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy single loop trapezoidal buckle with integral plate dating to cAD1250 - 1400. The frame has a projecting lip for the pin in the cnetre of the outer edge with an incised line across it. The frame is slightly wider ont he outer edge. The buckle has an integral openwork plate which has broken across two rectangular openings. The the section adjacent to the frame the plate has two circular piercings, the larger one for the pin and the smaller one for the rivet. On either side of these piercings are three parallel grooves which fill the space to the rectangular openi…
Created on: Tuesday 27th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Somerton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-12A6AE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy buckle frame datng to cAD 1500 - 1700. The double looped rectangular buckle is plain and the pin is missing. The buckle has a green patina.The frame is 33.3mm long, 21.8mm wide and weighs 3.86g. An example can be found in Whitehead (2003:75) no. 464 which he dates to the late 16th to 17th centuries.
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combe St. Nicholas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-124A1B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame with ornate outer edge. The frame is oval with an offset strap bar. The outer edge is widened and divided by multiple narrow rasied ribs running around the front and back with two larger rounded knops projecting out at 45 degrees at either end. The ribs are arranged one near each end and hen two groups of three ribs flanking a recessed cnetral are for the pin. The outer edge is oval in section, the upper and lower sides D-shaped with convex outer sides. The pin is cast with a flatter loop ending in a raised transverse line and a D-shaped cross sectio…
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combe St. Nicholas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-11E545
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Post-Medieval pot leg, dating to the period c. AD 1500-1700. The leg is broadly triangular in cross section, the inner surface being flat and the outer surface formed of five conjoined convex ribs. The leg terminates downward in a flared, hoof-like foot, now very worn, separated from the leg by a raised collar. The object has a grey-green patina. The leg measures 54.39mm in length, 22.88mm in width, 20.28mm in thickness and weighs101.60g. Butler et al (2009: 4) defines this type of pot leg as a type C, which was in use by the 16th century and almost universal …
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combe St. Nicholas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-117896
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval lead pilgrim's ampulla dating to the period c.AD1350 - 1530. The top is open and measures 21.75mm in width. The neck tapers in width from the mouth to the base. The loop on either side is missing but remaining stubs suggest there were loops on both sides of the nack, about half way up. The lower half is semi-circular. One face is moulded in the form of a scallop shell of spencer type I with raised radiating lines and the outer edge is scalloped with indents to meet the grooves between the ribs. The other face is heavily worn but has a raised symbol in the middle, possibly a…
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combe St. Nicholas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-100846
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval silver twenty pence coin of Charles I (AD 1625-1649), dating to c. AD 1637-1642. Third coinage, Edinburgh mint. Spink (2003:84) 5589.
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 25th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-0F7134
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A highly worn Medieval copper alloy early Nuremberg Jetton, probably dating to c. AD 1440-1493. Probably a Nuremberg-Mainz-Bavaria type, but not directly paralleled in Mitchiner (1989). The obverse depicts a square topped shield quarterly, the reverse depicts a square topped shield divided in two, the top charged with the lozengy shield of Bavaria, the lower unclear. cf. Mitchiner (1989:335-337) nos. 989-999 for similar issues.
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 25th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-0EBB6F
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval French Jetton, probably dating to c. AD 1300-1500. Moor's Head type. cf. Mitchiner 1988: 157-158, cf. nos. 368-378a.
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 25th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-0E20AB
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy trader's token farthing, dating to AD 1667. Issued by John Michell in Langport. Williamson (1891: 983) Somerset 175.
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 25th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-C25E85
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver penny of Edward I (AD1272 - 1307) dating to AD 1305 - 1306. Edwardian class 10cf1. Mint of London. North (1991 p32) no 1040.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 23rd April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drayton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C12DE5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval silver sixpence of Charles I (AD1625 - 1649) dating to AD 1639 - 1640. Group F. Initial mark triangle, minted at th Tower of London. North (1991: 161) no. 2246.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 23rd April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C08379
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver post-medieval sixpence of Elizabeth I (AD 1558-1603) dated to AD 1571 on the coin. Initial mark Castle, minted at the Tower of London. North (1991:134) 1997.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 23rd April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staplegrove', grid reference and parish protected.