Record ID: HAMP-C8CE59
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early post-medieval (c.1500-1600) silver gilt dress hook of Read's Class D, Type 7 (quatrefoil) with separately soldered hook and attachment loop. One end of the plate has been bent and it is missing two decorative bosses. The quatrefoil-shaped plate is decorated with five large rings of twisted wire, four occupying each 'foil' around a central fifth; not all the rings are complete, perhaps through damage. Each large ring encloses four small twisted wire rings arranged in a quatrefoil. At the centre of four of these is a solid silver boss; the fifth is missing. Additional bosses …
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 14th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-F71A6D
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early post-medieval silver gilt dress hook of Read's Class D, Type 6 (trefoil), dating to c. 1500 - 1600; it is missing its separately soldered recurved hook and has damage to one of its bosses. The object comprises a gilded trefoil base-plate 0.5mm thick, the edges of which are notched, surmounted by three hemispherical gilded bosses flanked by a solid encircling rib around each base. One boss has been squashed. The two intact bosses are decorated with three double-strand 'rope-twist' filigree wire circlets, an additional smaller single-strand filigree circlet between…
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-A90C59
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval silver fragment of a "bosun's" whistle, dating to c.1550-1700. It consists of the body or 'buoy', a cast hollow sub-spherical of sheet silver with an oval-shaped opening and a ridge running to either side of this and above. The opening measures 5.3x3.8mm and the ridge 2.6mm in thickness and 1.7mm in height. The ridge consists of a central rib flanked by a lower rib to either side and appears to seal together the two hemispheres of the body. It is otherwise undecorated. A small broken silver projection just below one end of the ridge may be the remains of the tube (whic…
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 20th July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-9A558A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval penny of Harold I (1035-40), 'Jewel cross' type, bust 1, dating to 1036-8. Moneyer Eadwold, mint uncertain (Lincoln, London, Canterbury). The coin has been bent into an 'S' shape in profile. Reference: North 802
Created on: Wednesday 1st May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 14th May 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-90BA88
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver annular brooch complete with pin, probably dating between 1200 and 1400. The frame has a sub-triangular cross-section, being flat to the underside with a convex outside edge, and a constriction for the pin. The tip of the pin turns upwards at c.90 degrees, away from the brooch. No decoration is present on either side of the frame, but there are tooling marks to the underside. The pin is flat and triangular in shape, curling around the frame's constriction at the wider end. It has a length of 18.9mm and a max.width of 2.8mm, decreasing to a width of 1.1mm at the tip…
Created on: Friday 1st March 2019
Last updated: Sunday 29th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melksham Without', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-BC66DC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval voided long-cross penny of Henry III (1216-72), class 5c, struck by Davi at London, dating to 1251-72. Reference: North 993
Created on: Friday 14th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 14th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owslebury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-55878A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A French post-medieval silver possible douzain of Henry IV of France (1589-1610). The coin is now in two pieces, in profile bent into an 'S' shape (and broken along one fold). It perhaps had a secondary use as a love token. Carl Savage comments that the coin is too worn for a more accurate identification as both legends and the obverse are lost through wear.
Created on: Tuesday 28th August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-D0A165
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman silver denarius of Faustina I (138-61), posthumous issue dating to the period after her death in AD 141 (AD 141-61, Reece period 7). AVGVSTA reverse type depicting female figure standing left (probably Ceres [veiled]) holding sceptre in right hand, left hand not visible. Mint of Rome. Reference: RIC III, p.70, no.356 (denarius).
Created on: Monday 16th July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-D07394
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age silver unit of the Southern Region / Regini and Atrebates, struck under Tincomarus (25 BC - AD 10), dating to the period c.20 BC - AD 10, Rudd's 'Tincomarus Bull Right' type. Obverse: Laureate head right. Reverse: Bull rearing right; TIN above, CO below (separated by back legs). Reference: ABC, p. 69, no. 1115; Van Arsdell 381-1; BMC 911-921.
Created on: Monday 16th July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-FDE526
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval (1500-1600) gilded silver composite hooked tag of Read's Class D, Type 1, consisting of plate, hook and attachment loop. The rectangular plate has seven projecting lobed knops, one on each corner and one at the centre of three sides. From the fourth side a larger and more elaborate fleur-de-lis shaped knop projects and acts as a junction where the plate and the hook meet. The front of this is decorated with a recessed heart above a trefoil of recessed circular pits, within a raised rectangular border. To the reverse the attachment loop and hook have been soldered onto …
Created on: Tuesday 12th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitchurch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-A0638A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and clipped post-medieval silver sixpence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), second issue, coronet initial mark, dated 1568 to the reverse. Tower of London mint. Reference: North 1997.
Created on: Friday 20th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 28th November 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-C2493E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver medieval cut halfpenny of Henry III (1216-1272), class 3c (depicting neck), struck by the moneyer Nicole at an uncertain mint (London, Canterbury, Shrewsbury or Winchester) and dating to 1248-50. Reference: North 988
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 28th August 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-FEAC59
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of gilded silver late medieval finger ring, consisting of roughly half the bezel and a section of the hoop. This fragment joins with HAMP-FDC75C / 2016 T1036 (and completes the bezel). The break is relatively fresh and reveals the metal to be silver gilt rather than gold (the gilding is thickly-applied and covers the object). The surviving section of bezel is flat, semi-circular in shape and originally would have been oval. It is decorated at its base with an S-shaped grooved stalk, a short groove to one side and a curving groove to the other at the bottom. At the top ther…
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishops Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-94CC61
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval penny of William I (the Conqueror, 1066-87), BMC viii, PAXS type (c.1083-6; North 848), struck by Aegelric at Wareham. The coin is cracked with a section missing between 12 and 2 o'clock on the obverse. Reference: North 1994: 192.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton and Shawford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-1D6239
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of post-medieval (1550-1650) silver gilt spoon, consisting of the 'baluster-moulded' terminal only which ends in an engraved seal-top knop. The break across the stem is recent-ish and rectangular in cross-section. Above this rises a pyramidal moulding with rounded edges. Each face is decorated with a raised ring-and-dot above a short curving raised line. Beyond is a ridged collar, above which a waist. At the centre of the waist is a chunky collar (9.5mm in diameter) decorated with wide transverse grooves. Above the waist is the seal-top, 11.5mm in diameter and flat. At th…
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horndean', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-C3FDFF
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval silver cufflink, consisting of two sheet silver circular elements joined with an elongated silver wire loop. The circular elements have a down turned edge; one is missing two thirds of this edge, the other one third (possibly recent-ish damage from the plough). A separate loop is soldered in the centre of each element to the reverse. The front of each element depicts a crown with two hearts, side-by-side, beneath. The hearts and crown are raised on a granulated background. This design is believed to be a reference to the marriage of Charles II (1660-1685) to Catherin…
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-747D19
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval silver cufflink element with a (now slightly squashed) silver wire hoop soldered to the reverse, dating to c. 1662-c. 1700. It is circular in shape with a down-turned edge and depicts two slightly overlapping hearts beneath a crown. The heart on the right overlaps the left heart. The hearts and crown are raised on a background of numerous small punches, mostly circular in shape. The down-turned edge has a slight rim; this is damaged in one place with small square piece missing. This design is believed to be a reference to the marriage of Charles II (1660-1685) to …
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Petersfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B9616D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A late medieval or post-medieval (c.1400-1700) silver annular brooch, complete except for a crack in the frame across the constriction for the pin. The frame is triangular in cross-section (max.4.8x1.5mm) with a vertical inside edge (1.5mm high), convex upper surface and flat reverse. All faces are undecorated. At the constriction for the pin, the frame (2.6mm wide) widens to 4.8 and 5.5mm, where the terminals are surmounted by a transverse ridge c.3mm thick. The pin is bent and 19.8mm in length. It has a width of 2.7mm, tapering to 1.5mm at the tip. At the opposite end …
Created on: Monday 9th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Froxfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B7066E
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early post-medieval silver gilt dress hook dating to c. 1500 - 1600; it is missing its separately soldered hook. The object has a gilded trefoil base-plate, the edges of which are notched, surmounted by three hemispherical gilded bosses to the upper aspect. Each boss is decorated with a pair of single strand 'rope-twist' filigree wire circlets. Between each pair of circlets, on the inner side, is a granulated pellet above a small filigree circlet. One of these granulated pellets is now missing. Three further granulated pellets, equidistant from each other, adorn the top…
Created on: Monday 9th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-D36613
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman base silver radiate of Gallienus (AD 260-8), FIDES MILITVM reverse type depicting Fides standing facing, head left, holding two ensigns. Mint of Rome, AD 254-5 (Reece period 12). Reference: RIC V (i), 137C
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hursley', grid reference and parish protected.