Record ID: PUBLIC-CF6811
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval copper Portuguese ceitil of an uncertain ruler from Alfonso V - Manuel I (1438-1521), probably belonging to an earlier part of this period, Alfonso V (1438-81) or John II (1481-95). Obverse: Portuguese shield, inscription illegible. Reverse: Castle with three towers, waves below, inscription illegible. Dimensions: Diameter 21.1mm. Weight 1.142grams.
Created on: Thursday 30th December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 30th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr Wimborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-2EDC74
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy sestertius of Lucilla, wife of Lucius Verus. PIETAS SC (Pietas veiled, standing left, raising right hand over an altar, holding perfume box in left) reverse. Mint of Rome. Reference: RIC Volume III, No. 1756 Date: AD 164 - 169 Diameter: 30.92 mm Weight: 22.57 g Die axis: 12
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2011
Last updated: Friday 16th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-2F2A82
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver denarius of Maximinus Thrax (AD 235 - 238 ), dating to AD 236 (Reece Period 11). FIDES MILITVM (Fides standing, head left, holding two standards) reverse. Mint of Rome. Reference: RIC Volume IV part II, No. 7A; BMC VI, pp. 227-8, nos. 58-61. Date: AD 235 - 236 Diameter: 18.38 mm Weight: 1.06 g Die axis: 1
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-2F7D77
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An nummus of Maximinus Daia (AD 305 - 313 ), AD 310-312. GENIO POP ROM (Genius standing left with cornucopiae and patera) reverse. Mint of London. RIC VI, p. 136, no. 209b. Diameter: 21.92 mm Weight: 3.84 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 26th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-304002
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A radiate of Carausius (AD 287 - 293) (Reece Period 14). PAX AVG (Pax standing left, sceptre in left hand) reverse. Mint of London, L -//(ML). Reference: RIC V, pt 2, p. 472, No. 101 Diameter: 21.19 mm; Weight: 2.66 g; Die axis: 12 This coin is included in Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 17th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-33AAC3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337), dating to the period AD 322 (Reece period 16). BEATA TRANQVILLITAS reverse type depicting an Altar with globe and stars above, inscribed VO/TIS/XX.. Mint of Trier. Mint Mark: -//STR. Reference: RIC VII, p. 194, no. 341 Date: AD 322 Diameter: 19.89 mm Weight: 2.32 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Tuesday 4th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-44D752
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A radiate of Carausius (AD 286- 293) (Reece Period 14). Illegible legionary title (bull standing right) reverse. Uncertain mint. Reference: RIC V, Part II, pp. 468 -469 & 488, cf. nos. 66 - 67 & 274 Diameter: 20.62 mm; Weight: 2.3 g; Die axis: 6. This coin has been considered for Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-5D03E7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Contemporary copy of a nummus of the House of Constantine, copying a coin of Arles, AD 324-5, CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, VOT X. The obverse legend is a shortened version of a Constantine I title, the reverse proper for his sons. The crescent below VOT X is a fantasy addition by the forger. RIC VII p. 261, c.f. 252/4. Reece 16
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-AF1B95
Object type: MORTARIUM
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
One sherd of Samian ware/terra sigillata (Eastern Gaulish fabric). Oxidised orange fabric with some white flecks. The surfaces are covered with with a brownish-red, thin slip with a matt finish. The brown finish is probably due to a slight mis-firing reduction of the kiln The surfaces are quite abraded and chattered. A body sherd, probably from a Dragendorf 45 mortarium. The grits are white and quartzitic. The slip overlies them. Wheelmade. The fabric and form date this vessel to the mid to late 2nd century (AD 170- 230) (Webster, P. 1996, Roman Samian Pottery in Britain, CBA Pra…
Created on: Monday 10th January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-B177D4
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy pin. The shaft is circular in cross section and tapers to the break point (from 3.12 mm to 2.49 mm) The head is disc shaped and has a concentric ridge framing a groove around a central domed projection. Below the head is a narrow ridge or collar around the shaft. Dr Kevin Leahy has suggested an Iron Age date for this pin. Date: Iron Age - 500 - 200 BC Dimensions: 41.25 mm x 7.99 mm (diameter of head) Weight: 2.2 g
Created on: Monday 10th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradford Peverell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F03396
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A sestertius of Lucilla (minted under Marcus Aurelius). VENVS SC ( Venus standing left holding an apple and vertical sceptre). Reference: RIC III, no. 1765 Date: AD 164 - 169 Diameter: 30.25 mm Weight: 19.38 g Die axis: 12
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2011
Last updated: Friday 16th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chickerell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F04047
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy nummus of Crispus (AD 317-26), dating to AD 320-1 (Reece Period 16), BEATA TRANQVILLITAS, globe on altar inscribed VOTIS XX. Mint of London, P A // PLON. RIC VII, p. 110 no. 211. H. Cloke and L. Toone, The London Mint of Constantius and Constantine (Spink, 2015), p. 264, no. 9.04.017. Dated according to Cloke and Toone. Diameter: 18.62 mm Weight: 3.09 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2011
Last updated: Sunday 5th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chickerell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-861CE4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman sestertius of Claudius I (AD 41-54) in honour of his father, Nero Claudius Drusus, dating to the period c.AD 41-54 (Reece period 2). TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP, S C reverse type depicting Claudius in curule chair left. RIC I (2nd ed.), no. 93. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints which operated a…
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 9th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-038704
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper rotary key. The terminal of the key is trilobate with a circular aperture at the end on each lobe. There is also a small, rounded knop on the outer edge of each lobe. One lobe is broken. Running from between the lobes are low ridges (four in total). Below these are seven transverse ridges running across the tapering end of the key handle/terminal. The stem of the key is narrowed from the end of the handle and becomes sub-circular in cross section. The stem is hollow. The bit drops down from the end of the stem and the outer edge is flush with it. The bit has a single ang…
Created on: Friday 15th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-4FF035
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy as of Vespasian (AD 69-79), (PROVIDENT), Altar, Probably Mint of Lyon, c. AD 77/8. Reference: RIC II (2nd ed), c.f. 1234. Reece 4.There are several varieties of this coin; the reference given is to the most common. Date: AD AD 77-78 Diameter: 28.47 mm Weight: 8.81 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chickerell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-4FFAF6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A nummus of uncertain Tetrarchic Ruler, GENIO POPVLI ROMANI (Genius standing) reverse. Mint of Trier. Mit mark: [S]/F/PTR Date: AD 303 - 307 Diameter: 24.30 mm Weight: 3.82 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chickerell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-500416
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A silver quarter stater. British Iron Age. South West uninscribed.Geometric type. c. 50-1BC Hobbs, cf. No. 2734-47; Rudd ABC 2208 Diameter: 12.38 mm Weight: 0.84 g
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chickerell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-EF2423
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of the bowl from a cast copper-alloy spoon dating to the first to fourth century AD. The upper part of the bowl survives, the rest of the bowl and handle are lost to old breaks. The bowl is mandolin shaped with a narrow neck at the top widening into an oval bowl. The bowl is shallow with a flattened rim. At the top of the neck the flat rims join and widen into a transverse bar forming the terminal. On the back the end of the neck is angled in profile, thinning towards the terminal. In the centre of this thinned section is a bar creating the start of the handle; this continues…
Created on: Tuesday 26th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-B7F760
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constantius II (AD 323-361), dating to the period c.AD 348-350 (Reece period 18). FEL TEMP REPARATIO reverse type depicting a Phoenix on a rocky mound. Probably mint of Trier. Diameter: 18.02 mm Weight: 2.44 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Monday 28th February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chickerell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-BA5536
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A sestertius of Faustina II struck under Marcus Aurelius and dating to the period after AD 176. CONSECRATIO S C reverse depicting a peacock standing left. RIC Vol III p. 349, no. 1703.
Created on: Monday 28th February 2011
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marnhull', grid reference and parish protected.