Record ID: DOR-0F9EBA
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver seal matrix. A pointed oval seal matrix with an empty central, oval recess which may have contained a glass or gemstone intaglio (now missing). There is a raised rim around the central recess which has traces of a white material in it, possibly a paste to secure the missing intaglio. The seal is inscribed with recessed and reversed Lombardic lettering reading +IOhANNIS DE DEVEREL anti-clockwise. At the rear is a soldered attachment loop with a foliate escutcheon extending over most of the rear face. This has three stems terminating in trefoils, the central one is …
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne St Andrew', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3A56C1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2018 T186 - submitted for considertation as treasure Description: Post Medieval silver pedestal type seal matrix. The seal face is oval with an incuse design of a coat of arms. The arms are described as they would appear on the seal impression (they are reversed on the matrix). Arms: Unidentified: on a fess engrailed, between three crescents, as many roses, impaling Williams: a greyhound courant in fess between three Cornish choughs proper. The shield has a straight top and sides and a rounded base coming to a point in the centre. The shield is outlined by a thin incised line and…
Created on: Thursday 22nd March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caundle Marsh CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-C26598
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver seal matrix. A pedestal type with a hexagonally facetted handle tapering to a collar above a broken suspension loop. The face of the matrix has a deeply incised hound passant with a Lombardic script inscription around it between two concentric framing grooves.. Inscription: SOHOV RODAINNE Dimensions: 14.66 mm x 13.69 mm x 7.59 mm, Weight: 2.89 g Date: Medieval - c. 1300 - 1400
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-36223D
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver fob seal matrix. The die only of a seal matrix with a separately applied handle, now missing. The die is an irregular octagon. Around the edge is a framing band of punched rectangular indentations. Inside this is a deeply incised design of a stag lying on a grassy tussock, facing right. On the rear of the dies are traces of solder where the handle was formerly attached. Date: Post medieval - c. 1600 - 1710 Dmensions: 17.40 mm x 15.44 mm x 1.40 mm Weight: 2.45 g See HESH-FB8727 for a seal matrix of similar construction.
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 15th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-27D10B
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval cast silver seal matrix with engraved oval die, dating from c.AD 1600 - 1700. The base of the handle is octagonal in section until it reaches a raised collar towards the top of the handle. From the collar upwards, the handle is circular in section. Towards the top is a second wider raised collar. The suspension loop at the top is bulbous and has a circular perforation for attachment. The oval die is engraved with a square topped shield bordered by a curvilinear foliate design. Within the shield are the two initials which, when a stamped impression was made, would read…
Created on: Thursday 30th April 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 14th August 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-6E9AE9
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver seal matrix. The matrix has a trefoil openwork handle with a hexagonally faceted conical stem at the back of the die. The die is oval with a deeply incised design of a sheaf of wheat. The loops of the trefoil element are drop-shaped and there is a small knop nat the top of the upper loop and one either side at the base of the two bottom loops. Date: Late Post Medieval to Modern - 18th to 19th Century Dimensions: 24.58 mm x 16.95 mm x 14.80 mm Weight: 5.67 g This matrix cannot be securely dated to before 1714 (Judy Rudoe, pers. comm. 2015) and therefore it has n…
Created on: Monday 16th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 16th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-0D2272
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An oval seal matrix with a trefoil handle. The handle is openwork with three inverted drop-shaped apertures (one at the top with two below). At the top of the upper foil is a small knop and there are slight knops on its shoulders and on the outer shoulders of the lower foils. The lower foils end in scrolls at the sides. The handle stem has an irregular hexagonal cross section, the facets extending on to the flared base behind the face of the matrix. The matrix is oval and is decorated with a deep, incuse design of a three towered castle. The tops of the towers are domed and each has a…
Created on: Wednesday 30th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 25th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wimborne Minster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-E34815
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver seal matrix. The face is sub-circular and the handle is faceted producing an octagonal cross section. One facet has a letter B stamped on it, possible part of a maker's mark. The face bears a coat of arms in a squared shield which comprises three quatrefoils in chief and two saltires in base.
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2012
Last updated: Monday 7th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wimborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-455AD3
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver seal matrix. A pedestal type. The seal face is oval and carries a design of crown above a heart pierced by two arrows in a saltire. Around the heart in the remaining three angles of the saltire are indentations representing drops of blood. There is a pellet border around the edge. The handle is broken. It is hexagonal in cross section and decorated with two raised horizontal bands before it flares out into a a probable openwork lobed terminal, now too fragmentary to be certain of the design.The seal design is very similar to those seen on cufflinks of the 17th cen…
Created on: Thursday 29th September 2011
Last updated: Monday 17th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glanvilles Wooton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-770917
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure case 2011 T372: Disclaimed and returned to finder Treasure Report: An incomplete silver seal matrix. A pedestal type. The seal face is oval and carries a design of crown above a heart pierced by two arrows in a saltire. Around the heart in the remaining three angles of the saltire are indentations representing drops of blood. There is a pellet border around the edge. The handle is broken. It is hexagonal in cross section and decorated with two raised horizontal bands before it flares out into a probable openwork lobed terminal, now too fragmentary to be certain of th…
Created on: Tuesday 14th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glanvilles Wootton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-8719A3
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver seal matrix with an incomplete openwork trefoil handle. The die is circular and bears a design of a fleur de lys. The back of the die has six facets and tapers inwards to form the hexagonal sectioned shaft of the handle, There are two transverse ribs around the mid point of the handle, beyond which it is flattened out into a trefoil with a circular hole in each foil.The central, upper foil is broken. this may have been the suspension loop for the seal matrix. Date: Post-medieval - 17th century Dimensions: 14.92 mm x 13.03 mm x 12.87 mm Weight: 3.04 g Ciorstaidh Ha…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd February 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-1EF321
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver seal matrix dating to the late 18th century, c.1775 AD. The handle of the matrix is hollow, oval and conical with a large suspension loop at the top. The loop is flat with an octagonal outer edge and a circular hole. The conical handle is decorated with concentric bands and has a longitudinal seam at one side. At the base the edge of the handle is flared out and roughly shaped into an oval. There is a hall mark at one side (the same side as the seam)comprising a left facing bust, a lion and the letter A. It does not include a town mark, but it has been suggested by Peter D. S…
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Friday 12th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke Abbott', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C157D7
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The die from a cast silver seal matrix of post-medieval date. The seal measures 15.6mm by 11.9mm by 5.1mm and weighs 2.2g. The die is oval with a conical reverse which has eight slight facets. The handle has broken off. The die, which is slightly damaged, features an elaborate bird.
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cerne Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-A23EB6
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A small oval cast silver seal matrix with inset central cornelian intaglio. The intaglio is a reused Roman gem and the figure depicted is probably satyr of a type found incorporated into another medieval seal matrix, from North Walsham, Norfolk (pers. comm. Martin Henig). In both examples the satyr is walking to the right, of classicising style, and is datable to the end of the first century AD (Henig and Heslop 1986, 306). The seal matrix is flat with a stepped profile and at the upper end of the back is a round peirced lug. The legend, which reads clockwise when imprinted, reads SIG…
Created on: Friday 29th July 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manston area', grid reference and parish protected.