Record ID: DEV-C89B2C
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A late early-medieval copper-alloy openwork stirrup-strap mount, dating to c. AD 1000-1100. The mount is broadly sub-triangular, 50.1 mm long and 30.3 mm wide at the maximum, with a rounded apex flanked by two extremely abraded knops. Just below the mid-point the plate of the mount narrows into a waist, 25.0 mm wide, with a small semicircular depression on each side. The mount is generally flat, c. 2.1 mm thick, but thicknening at the centre into a raised boss 3.4 mm thick, although due to its highly abraded surface little decoration is visible. A sub-rectangular flange expands 6.7mm …
Created on: Friday 5th May 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bickenhall CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-076016
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A late early-medieval stirrup-strap mount, probably dating to the 11th century. The mount is stepped and broadly sub-pentagular in plan, with a slightly downward angled flange expanding from the base of the reverse. The flange has two circular perforations. The main body of the mount is sub-square, with a slightly narrower, squat sub-rectangular tab protruding above this and terminating in a rounded lobe at the apex. The perforation of the apex loop is positioned slightly off-centre at the junction between the sub-square body and sub-rectangular tab. There are a further four openwork …
Created on: Monday 8th May 2017
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-97C0B6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case: 2017T465; Description: A gold finger ring of likely medieval date. The integral circular hoop is plain, with an external diameter of 20.0mm. The hoop has a flat cross section, although thickening at the shoulders where it becomes slightly trapezoidal, the external face being flat. The hoop varies in thickness between 0.6mm at the bottom of the hoop reaching 1.0mm thick at the shoulders. The width of the hoop similarly increases from 1.4mm at the bottom to 2.2mm at the shoulders. The ring has a transverse oval bezel, which is similarly plain. This is broadly b…
Created on: Monday 15th May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 16th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Parkham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-9AB065
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A worn late early-medieval copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas's Class E, Type 5, culturally Carolingian (c. 10th century). The strap-end is tongue shaped, with a recessed attachment end with two circular perforations, and terminating in a broad curve at the other end. The recessed step at the attachment end is on the reverse, with a 'ledge' below it; the strap-end thins from this point towards the terminal, attaining a constant thickness after a gradual thinning. The front of the strap end is decorated, cast in relief, with a floriated cross dominating the field within a raised borde…
Created on: Monday 15th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bickenhall CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-42B6B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman denarius of Vespasian (AD 69-79), dating to the period AD 75-76 (Reece period 4). [P]ON M[AX TR P COS VI/VII] reverse type depicting Pax seated left holding branch. Mint of Rome. As RIC II (2nd ed.), pp. 114, 120, nos. 772-773, 852.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd May 2017
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clyst St. George CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-451F14
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy as of Herennia Etruscilla (wife of Trajan Decius), dating to AD 249-51 (Reece Period 12), FECVNDITAS AVGG S C, Fecunditas standing left with hand over child and holding cornucopiae. Mint of Rome. RIC IV, pt 3, p. 137, no. 135b. This is the third as of Herennia Etruscilla recorded on the PAS Database, the first with this reverse type.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnstable CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-B79D4D
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy beaded or ribbed bracelet, probably Iron Age in date, c. 200 BC - AD 43. The bracelet is cast into the form of a continuous series of sub-ovate segments, each divided by a narrowed ridge or "waist". Although not regularly so, in general the segments of the bracelet become progressively smaller from one end to the other. The cross section of the bead at one end measures 7.5mm thick by 6.0mm wide and with the bead at the other measuring 6.9mm thick and 5.7mm wide. The smallest segment measures 6.8mm thick by 5.7mm wide. There is a worn and patinated brake at…
Created on: Tuesday 4th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Curry CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-8C19C3
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval cast open work copper alloy pilgrim badge, probably dating to the 15th century. The badge is cast into the form of St. Michael trampling and spearing the devil at his feet. St. Michael is depicted in what appears to be plate armour, holding a long, transverse spear across his body. This is topped with a cross and has its point at the devil's head to the lower right. He holds a plain, sub rectangular shield which tapers to point at the level of his waist in his left hand and his right leg is bent slightly with his right foot parallel to the plane, resting on the lower tor…
Created on: Friday 14th July 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 8th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burlescombe CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-2D641B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A silver gilt finger ring of likely medieval date. The circular loop is D-shaped in cross-section, with the inner face being flat. The hoop is plain, but with traces of gilding remaining in some areas. The hoop is 1.0mm wide and 0.8mm thick at the base, thickening slightly into the shoulders, 1.5mm, where the hoop meets the bezel. This is sub-circular in plan, and trapezoidal in profile tapering towards the base, 3.3mm wide, 3.2mm long and 3.4mm thick. Within the bezel a small cabochon pink/brown gem is retained, projecting from the top of the bezel (included in the measurement for th…
Created on: Thursday 3rd August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upottery CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-D6D86A
Object type: TOOTH PICK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017T709; disclaimed, returned to finder. Description: An incomplete Post-Medieval silver toilet article-pendant, combining a toothpick/nail-leaner and ear scoop. The surviving fragment consists, broadly, of a rectangular sectioned bar of silver, forming the handle, with an integral attachment loop expanding centrally from one side. This was damaged subsequent to finding, and has been reattached by the finder using superglue. A plain silver hoop with a circular cross-section and soldered join passes through the loop, with this apparently being original. A thread of bl…
Created on: Friday 11th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wembworthy CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-2F6E66
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman Republican silver denarius of the moneyer M. Baebius Q.f. Tampilus, dating to the period c.137 BC (Reece period 1). Reverse type depicting Apollo in a quadriga right, holding bow and arrow with reins in left hand and branch in right, below ROMA, in exergue [M.]BAEBI.Q.F. Mint of Rome. As RRC, p. 268, no. 236/1
Created on: Tuesday 15th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2019
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Record ID: DEV-C34CF4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T738: Submitted for valuation Description: A Post-Medieval gold posy ring. The ring consists of a hoop with a shallow D-shaped cross section and plain exterior. The interior of the hoop is inscribed in italic script: Not the gift but the Giver, followed by a maker's mark in block roman capitals within a rectangular punch: TS. Dimensions: The finger ring measures 19.2mm across the hoop, is 2.4mm wide and 0.9mm thick; it weighs 1.33g. Discussion: A finger ring in the British Museum features the same inscription, but in an earlier script: 1961,1202.138. P…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 15th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Modbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-C4F5F9
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy nail cleaner with a swollen blade of Eckardt and Crummy 2008, 122, probably dating to c. AD 75-250. The object consists of a flat blade, 0.8mm thick, in the form of a stylised leaf. With a transverse oval plate at its shoulders, 14.1mm thick, from the bottom of which projects a long, narrow sub-rectangular neck which bifurcates and terminates in a split end of two points, 3.9m wide. The split point is further defined by a V-shaped groove on one face. From the top of the blade expands a narrow shank, rectangular in plan and cross-section, 3.9mm wide by 2.1mm thick,…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Friday 7th August 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DEV-7A936B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case: 2017 T790, not Treasure, returned to finder Description: A Post-Medieval gold posy ring. The ring consists of a hoop with a D-shaped cross section and plain exterior. The interior of the hoop is inscribed in italic script: Lett thy love bee as mine to thee, followed by an unidentified maker's mark, probably an obliquely angled W within a sub-rectangular punch. Dimensions: The finger ring measures 23.3mm across the hoop, is 4.3mm wide and 2.2mm thick; it weighs 7.99g. Discussion: The length and style of inscription would both suggest a 17th-18th century da…
Created on: Tuesday 12th September 2017
Last updated: Friday 17th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Modbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-10FFBF
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age or Roman glass annular bead, probably dating to 300 BC - AD 410. Sub-circular in plan with a central sub-circular perforation and sub-rectangular in cross-section, with rounded ends. Of an opaque blue glass with a white trail applied in a continuous wavy band. Dimensions: diameter 17.5mm; thickness 8.8mm; weight 3.22g. Guido (1978: 63-64) describes beads of this type as her group 5A, illustrating an comparable idealised example plt. 1, no. 10d. She describes how this was an extremely long lived style which continued in use throughout the Iron Age, Roman and Early Med…
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2019
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Record ID: DEV-514F0E
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy slide key, probably dating to c. AD 43-150. The key is largely complete, with only slight damage to one of the teeth. The key is 52.7mm long, conisting of a sub-rectangular shank terminating in a circular hoop at its apex, 13.5mm wide, the shank below the hoop is 11.8mm wide, narrowing to 5.9mm below the mid-point. In profile the shank tapers gradually from 9.0mm at the hoop, to 7.6mm at the terminal. The shank is decorated with a combination of cast and incised decoration, with the jucntion of the hoop and handle flanked by a pair of transverse ridges on either la…
Created on: Friday 22nd September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DEV-A3286F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A worn silver Roman denarius of Tiberius (AD 14-37), dating to the period AD 14-37 (Reece period 1). PO(NTIF-MAXIM) reverse type depicting a female figure seated right holding long vertcal sceptre and branch. Mint of Lugdunum. Cf. RIC I (2nd ed.), p. 95, no. 26 passim.
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 9th October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-B6F580
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T840: Acquired by Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon Description: An incomplete Post-Medieval probable hair or bodkin pin. The surviving fragment comprises of the shaft of the pin, missing its head. The shaft is rectangular in cross-section, with rounded ends and tapers from an old break into a rounded point. One face of the pin features incised decoration, with a line following either edge of the face and converging at the point. A further transverse line defines a rectangular field below the break, this contains a series of short, longitudinal incised scores,…
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heanton Punchardon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-264F62
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas' Class E, Type 1, decorated in the Winchester Style, probably dating to c. 900-1100. The strap-end is tongue shaped, with a slightly pointed terminal. At the attachment end the strap-end bifurcates (splits) transversely, with two parallel cast projections to retain the strap, undecorated, but with a slightly recessed rectangular transverse band on the front, and three roughly equally spaced circular rivet holes; none of the rivets survive. Below the attachment end the strap-end is cast into a symmetrical openwork design depictin…
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DEV-343398
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T869: disclaimed; returned to finder. Description: A silver-gilt dress-pin head. The head is spherical and probably hollow and contains the end of the pin shaft. It is decorated with silver wire filigree. Two horizontal filigree bands divide the head into two hemispheres. Each hemisphere is decorated with four sets of filigree circles, each containing three further circles around a central pellet. In each spandrel, between the large circles and the central band, is a small circle containing a pellet. At the top there is a pellet within a smaller filigree circle, …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Curry CP', grid reference and parish protected.