Record ID: SUR-D24694
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and bent cast copper alloy Roman Initial T-shaped brooch, of Colchester derivative hinged pin type (Mackreth (2011) CD H) dating to the late 1st to early 2nd century AD. The wings are cylindrical with moulded lobes around each end and contain remains of an iron axis spindle which has corroded, expanded and broken the wings in places. The centre of the head has a notch for the pin. The bow is convex, with a moulded spine, ridged margins and a triangular lobe at the apex with a small hole at the centre and a lobed collar behind. The bow then tapers back to a round…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-4B07BD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Iron Age copper alloy brooch of the La Tene I type dating to the 4th - 3rd century B.C. ' Wessex' Type, Hull's Type 1A. The brooch has a strongly arched faceted bow with a diamond-shaped cross section.. The top of the arch extends to form the tightly coiled spring with an axis bar and arched mock-spring. A tapering pin with a sub-circular section remains, and tapers down to a pointed terminal that is situated near the catch plate.  The opposite end of the arch extends to form the foot and catchplate of the brooch which consists of a bar that is ben…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-A42766
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy and millifiori enamelled stud of c.2nd - 3rd century AD date. The copper alloy plate is circular with champlevé enamelled decoration on the upper surface comprising an empty central circular recessed field surrounded by four concentric recessed rings containing incomplete millifiori enamel inlay. The plate cells and shank are integrally cast, and each field of decoration is contained within a copper alloy flat-topped rim flush with the enamel. In the very centre of the empty circular central field (19.63mm diameter) …
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
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Record ID: BERK-627B62
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman rotary key with an elaborate trilobate handle cast in copper alloy, from which emerges a fragmentary iron stem. The handle is formed of a number of gradually blocks of circular cross-section, above which the openwork trilobate terminal. The iron stem is circular in cross-section and is broken. Some orange corrosion product extends up the blocks of the handle. Above the blocks the trilobate handle flares out. It thins very slightly along it length at which point it terminates in a globular knop. The end has three arches, as is to be expected, with the …
Created on: Sunday 28th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0FAA7A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy uninscribed Iron Age unit, probably a Gallic unit of the Carnutes, dating to the c.late 1st century BC. Obverse: Female bust right, flower(?) behind? Reverse: Eagle with spread wings, head turned right, a snake(?) to right, unclear motifs in the field. cf. DT 2576 ('classe III a l'aigle et au serpent'); Allen, 1995: nos. 160, S148-151. Delestree and Tache (1992: p. 132, no. 2576) place this type with the coins of the Carnutes and in pre-Augustan period after the end of the Gallic Wars, while Allen (1995: p. 75) regards them as being of the neighbouring …
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-65D51F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold posy / posie / posey ring of 18th century date. The ring has a plain narrow hoop with D shaped cross section 1mm thick and 2.2mm wide. The interior is inscribed "Love and live Happy" in an italicised script. There is a maker's mark of I.W in a rectangular escutcheon. The internal diameter of the ring is around 20mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2024
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Record ID: HAMP-12CCF2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An complete and possibly defaced early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Substantive Light Coinage, 'Profile/Cross of lobes' type (North 296; Chick 24) dating to c.AD784/5-92/3, moneyer: Dud(da), mint: London. Refs: North 1994: p.87; Chick 2010: pl. 4; Naismith 2017: p.134, table 9.  The coin is slightly bent and the obverse field shows numerous straight scratches across the portrait focusing on the area of the face. These appear to be deliberate suggesting that the coin has been defaced. Obverse OFFA REX. Bust Cc  draped with diadem, one &…
Created on: Friday 12th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BD4128
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman anepigraphic nummus of Crispus (AD 317-326) as Caesar, dating to the year c.AD 326 (Reece period 16). CRISPVS/CAESAR reverse type depicting the legend over two lines. Mint of Trier. RIC VII, p.210, no. 488. This coin measures 17.0mm in diameter, and weighs 1.63g. See also: SOM-85F8C7; BH-081748
Created on: Monday 8th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-BE2952
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy penannular brooch of late Roman to Early-Medieval date, c.AD 350 - 600 and of Booth Type F (Fowlers Type F). The frame is bent open and has a sub rounded cross section, with thin incised decorative transverse banding running around it. The zoomorphic terminals are integrally cast and aligned with their upper surfaces facing outwards from the body of the wearer; each is sub-rectangular with moulded details (second image) including a snout facing forwards with recessed circular eyes and a brow behind. The pin is 67.5mm in length and slight…
Created on: Wednesday 27th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 28th December 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-2E9271
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn, complete Roman copper alloy octagonal finger ring dating c. AD 200-410. The hoop is sub-rectangular in section, with a circular flat internal surface and octagonal external surface comprising eight plain facets of varying lengths. The surface is worn and abraded with a reddish-brown patina with patches of light green.  Measurements: diameter 24.53mm (internal diameter 20.28mm), width 4.06mm, thickness 2.10mm, weight 3.62g. The ring is consistent with Henig's type IX (Guiraud type 9a). Henig (1974, 50) suggests that polygonal rings …
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 10th March 2024
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