Record ID: HAMP-27A744
Object type: TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Mesolithic tranchet axe knapped from light grey flint. The axe is S-shaped in profile with some long removals at the cutting tip. Little or no cortex survives. There are small patches of iron staining on the surface.
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2007
Last updated: Friday 23rd May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-511211
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy 'beehive' thimble constructed from sheet metal, probably dating from 1400-1500 AD. It is squashed and there is damage to the rim but was originally dome shaped, with no division between crown and sides. Unusually, this thimble either has a double layered wall, or is in fact two thimbles which were stacked one inside the other when deposited. Two closely fitting layers of copper alloy are visible at the rim, most noticeable where inner component has been squashed resulting in folds in the metal. The pits covering the walls and top are small, round and evenly spaced. Ther…
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th June 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-586027
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A late Anglo-Saxon three-dimensional silver finial/strap-end, broken at one end. From a sub-rectangular plate with two fixing holes depends a small rounded animal head which bites into the top of the head of a backward-looking canine creature, which in turns appears to bite another ill defined creature attacking its rump. The tail of another creature is visible at the broken end of the piece. The finial/strap-end is in the so-called Winchester style, with similar lively animals represented in 10th century manuscript borders and metalwork
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2007
Last updated: Sunday 4th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warnford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-AEA895
Object type: SHEET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Bronze age strip of sheet gold which long, cigar shaped with squared off terminals. At either end is a set of three small perforations set in a triangle. These are roughly circular piercings with evidence for rotational action in their formation; the tiny lips of metal pushed through to the reverse have been crudely doubled back and flattened. There is no evidence for decoration. The strip has many transverse creases consistent with it having been rolled up and crushed flat (see above circumstances). The main additional damage is a repeating pattern of rounded hammer dents of varied…
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winchester Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-C319B7
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy pin of Middle Iron Age date, decorated in 'plastic style'. The pin has a large knobbed head, consisting of a spherical head with a slightly flattened base with multiple motif decoration. The main body of the head is broadly circular in plan and D shaped in cross section with multiple knops, projections and grooves. It is 17.15mm long and 16.95mm wide). On opposite faces are two broadly D shaped raised sections that join forming an oval raised platforms which due to the contours of the head appear to be higher at either end (12.25mm long, 2.9mm maximum height…
Created on: Tuesday 10th July 2012
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-6C7C91
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small, plain penannular gold ring of flattened oval cross section; the ends taper slightly to flat terminals. Examination in the laboratory indicated that the object has a base metal core. External diameter 15.5x14mm; internal diameter 4.5mm; breadth 6mm; weight 6.18 grams. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface of penannular ring from 'Havant area', Hampshire, indicated a gold content of 76 - 79 %, silver content of 16 - 18 %, the remainder being copper. The ring weighs 6.18 grams and the specific gravity measurement of 9 indicates that it has a base metal core.
Created on: Thursday 30th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Havant Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-573DA3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon gold sheet panel. The panel is flat and made from gold sheet in the form of a long, narrow rectangle with three sides sharply cut at right-angles to each other and the fourth torn. Running broadly parallel to the long cut edge are two lengths of beaded wire separated by a running ziz-zag, also made of beaded wire.
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2007
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rockbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-EBBA05
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval roundel which consists of a round gold tray inlaid with cloisonné enamel. The enamelled front is decorated with the right Hand of God, the dextera Dei, descending in a gesture of blessing or divine acknowledgment. The Hand is in opaque white enamel, separated by an opaque yellow cuff from the opaque blue cloud from which it emerges. On either side of the Hand descend two branched elements dividing into three sprigs, each terminating in an opaque yellow disc. The background is of translucent green enamel. The undecorated underside has four larger and two smaller pier…
Created on: Wednesday 5th September 2007
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thames Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-FEB1C4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman openwork belt mount, probably associated with the military and dating from the 3rd century AD. The is an elaborate pelta shape in plan with a bifurcating terminal which curves towards the concave section of the pelta, one terminal is incomplete due to an old break at the tip of the pelta mount. The reverse of the mount has a large integrally cast rounded shank with wide flattened head that would have secured the mount to a leather strap.
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-6D69F2
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
The ingot is short cigar-shaped with a smooth upper surface and a pitted lower one which appears to have been slightly flattened; length, 35mm. A large number of silver ingots of the Viking period have been found mainly in hoards in England, Ireland and the Netherlands, as well as in Scandinavia. Silver ingots from the region of the Danelaw were probably used as bullion in payments or trade transactions. But in southern England, where there was an established Anglo-Saxon coinage, it seems more likely that they were used for casting into items of jewellery, etc. The form and abraded su…
Created on: Thursday 30th August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Headbourne Worthy', grid reference and parish protected.