Record ID: PUBLIC-726FBB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment from a copper-alloy medieval double-looped buckle of probable 13th-14th century date. The fragment is the corner of one of the loops, including part of the side, measuring c. 12 mm long, and probable just over half of the outer edge, the latter measuring 17 mm in length. The outer edge has three equally-spaced knops each with a single engraved line running through the centre of the knops on the front, at least. Such grooves may have contained wire. The frame is c. 5 mm thick. A very similar buckle can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 98; ref. 443), fo…
Created on: Friday 17th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 6th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-7144A0
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of 17th-century clay pipe bowl with marker's mark on the heel. The stem and bowl are missing to old breaks. The stamped mark on the heel reads THO/MAS/ HVNT, in three lines. This is a recorded maker from Norton St Philip, Somerset, c. 1635-1650, brother of John and Jeffery Hunt. The fragment measures 7 mm in length; the heel measures 7 mm by 8 mm. It was found in the same area as a pipe of Jeffry Hunt (SOM-E93FA7 on this database). See Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter 8 (October 1985, 14-21) for further information on the Hunt family. A further example can be fo…
Created on: Friday 17th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 1st October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-6FA88B
Object type: PIPE (SMOKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a post-medieval clay pipe stem of late 17th- to early 18th-century date. The bowl is completely lost to a old break. The stem tapers from the heel, and appears to be truncated at the other end. The heel has been stamped with a maker's mark of a sixteen pointed star in a lozenge. The fragment measures 45 mm in length, and up to 7 mm in thickness. A directly comparable maker's mark has been recorded on a pipe found in the same parish, recorded as SOM-8BA2D1 on this database. The mark can also be compared with two pipes from Taunton illustrated in Leach (1984,148-150; no…
Created on: Friday 17th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 1st October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-6F431B
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of copper-alloy probable post-medieval spur, probably a rowel spur. The piece appears to be the end of one of the arms which includes the expanded oval- or heart-shaped terminal plate with two circular holes through it for attaching the spur to the wearer's boot. Both holes are broken through. The is a slight collar between the terminal and remains of the spur arms, separated from the terminal by an engraved line on the front. The arm is flattened oval in cross-section and very worn with a worn break at the end. The object measures 24 mm in length and 1 mm in thickness.…
Created on: Friday 17th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-5E5DAA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A clipped and bent post-medieval silver halfgroat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Third coinage (North 2016). Initial mark: unclear, dating to 1582-1603. Mint of London (Tower). North (1975, 113). It measures 15 mm in diameter.
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-5DF183
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A clipped and bent post-medieval silver halfgroat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Third coinage (North 2016). Initial mark: escallop, dating to 1584-1587. Mint of London (Tower). North (1975, 113).
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-5D76C0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A slightly clipped, bent and damaged post-medieval silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Second coinage (North 1997). Initial mark: pheon, dated 1565 (on coin). Mint of London. North (1975, 111). It measures 24 mm in diameter; the inner beaded circle is 17.5 mm. It has received a very small removal at one point of its circumference, located below the obverse bust.
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-5CA9D8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman Denarius of Trajan (AD 98-117), dating to the period AD 116 (Reece period 5). PARTHICO P M TR P COS VI P P S P Q R reverse type depicting Mars advancing right carrying trophy and spear. Mint of Rome. As Woytek, MIR 14, p. 467, no. 566v.
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Friday 17th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-5C75B8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A very worn copper-alloy Roman coin, probably an as or dupondius, or perhaps a very worn sestertius, of uncertain 1st to 3rd century AD ruler, c.AD 41-260. Both faces are illegible.
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2017
Last updated: Friday 17th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8ECB27
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two solidified and melted fused lumps of metal alloys and coins. The first group measures 12cm in length and 7cm in width. Only two coins are identifiable by type, within the melted alloy on the far left is the remains of a modern period fifty pence piece, and on the outside centre a fused five pence piece, both are consistant with the date of the pier fire in 2008. No further details on the coins can be discerned. On the reverse side in the centre a non metal alloy is present and appears to be the remains of a cement this measures 3cm in width and 4cm in length The second small gr…
Created on: Friday 13th January 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2017
Spatial data recorded.