Record ID: WILT-C6F765
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete pointed flint handaxe dating to the Paleolithic. Handaxes were manufactured in Britain from 500,000 BC to 40,000 BC. The tool has been bifacially worked with removals struck from either edge on both faces. There is one small oval area of original cortex on the ventral face measuring 16.5mm x 10.7mm. The handaxe is almost completely recorticated with iron staining suggesting it rolled in water for a considerable time. However, there are a few places where the recortication has chipped off and the original colour of the flint can be seen to be a pale to mid grey. The thi…
Created on: Saturday 24th July 2021
Last updated: Friday 6th May 2022
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Record ID: HAMP-D0EBC5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late early-medieval (11th century) copper alloy mount in the form of a zoomorphic oval loop, decorated with four moulded animal heads arranged alternately facing upwards and downwards. The heads are arranged equidistantly, but appear at the middle of the long edges and occupying all of the short edges. The band between is vertical and an elongated D in cross-section (being flat to the inside surface), 6.4mm tall and c.2mm thick. Projecting above the heads on the two longer edges is a semi-circular extension c.7mmx2mm, pierced at the centre (1.5mm in diameter); the piercings are perf…
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-2BEA0E
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early early-Medieval (450-700) copper-alloy cheekpiece from a cheek-bar bridle bit, consisting of a central loop and one extending arm (the other arm, diametrically opposed, is missing due to an old break and now consists of a small stump). The central loop is oval in shape (32.0x27.7x7.8mm) and with significant wear to the irregular central perforation (max.18.1x17.2mm), presumably originally circular in shape but now with four distinct areas of wear, most exaggerated to one edge (between the two arm extensions) where it has a curved profile. These wear marks reflect t…
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Itchen Valley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-F22C4B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An apparently complete copper alloy Carolingian mount dating to the 8th or 9th century. It is rectangular in shape with silver inlay and gilding to one side (the 'front') and devolved acanthus decoration. In cross-section, the object is C-shaped, being hollow to the reverse and convex to the front. The front has moulded decoration in the form of two lozenge shapes (formed of a pair of V-shapes on their side) with two half lozenges (a single sideways V-shape) to either side, at either short end of the object. Between and at the end of the two central (complete) lozenges, at the point o…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2015
Last updated: Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Record ID: BERK-827350
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy mount of probable early Medieval date. The mount is broadly rectangular in plan with splayed edges towards the base, which has smooth curved serrations along the bottom edge. The surface of the mount has an incised design of which the centrepiece is the head of a wolf-like animal. The wolf head is flanked by other linear designs but they are hard to distinguish; they may be intended to represent wings. Beneath the wolf head is what may be the body or legs of the animal, which in turn is standing on a domed feature with linear marking possibly intended to be eye…
Created on: Tuesday 17th March 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 17th March 2015
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Record ID: HAMP-52C1E6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possibly incomplete copper alloy Late Early-Medieval (1000-1100) zoomorphic strap fitting, possibly a strap-end or strap-distributor. It is possibly in the form of a bird's head, with the point opposite the widest end having a very worn rivet projecting from the underside. In profile this resembles a hooked beak. However it also appears to have moulded horns. It measures 26.92mm in length, 11.76mm in max.width and 3.92mm in max.depth, and weighs 3.58g. The object is triangular in shape with two rivet holes (c.3mm diameter) at the wider end, retaining traces of iron rivets. This end…
Created on: Friday 8th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 15th August 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-C797F6
Object type: LEVALLOIS FLAKE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Levallois flake tool of Early Middle Palaeolithic date (c. 250,000 - 180,000 BC). It is sub-cordate in form. It is orangey-brown or 'toffee' coloured all over except for an area of damage to the centre of the ventral face and another area of probably damage on the right towards the distal end of the dorsal face, both of which are lighter in colour. The patination of the flake is an indicator of its age and also shows that it has been 'rolled', suggesting it has been in a high energy environment (such as a river) before its final deposition.
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 9th July 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-636366
Object type: PESTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible cast copper-alloy pestle probably Post Medieval in date (c. AD 1600-1800 AD), now bent, with one half turned through about forty-five degrees. The object is a bar of broadly circular cross section, though with some faceting to its sides. There is a bulge at a point just off centre which acts as a collar. This is echoed by an expanded flat terminal at one end (Dia.: c. 11.3mm). At the other end is a shallowly biconvex terminal knob; the bar expands gradually towards it. This end has a wider diameter (c. 15.7mm) and was presumably the end that was utilised primarily. It bears…
Created on: Monday 9th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Record ID: HAMP-06CEC1
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Late Neolithic (2500-2100 BC) flint polished axehead (or perhaps adze), with damage to the cutting edge and broken some distance before the butt end. It is rectangular in shape although with a pronounced curve, visible in both edges (one concave, one convex). It is pointed oval in cross-section and at the break measures 35.27x15.30mm. At the cutting edge it measures 39.62x9.07mm. The axehead is 67.81mm in length and weighs 66g. The axehead has been polished behind the cutting edge on both faces, although the cutting edge itself is missing due to damage. Behind, flake r…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buriton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-679901
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a probable cast copper alloy horse harness boss of early medieval date. The decorative style appears to be Salin's Style II. The circular collared setting appears to be filled with a separate rivet which projects from the back; this can be paralleled on some of the disc brooches illustrated by George Speake (Kevin Leahy, pers.comm.). The complete object appears to have been circular with art of the circumference surviving. The central design may have been in the form of a cross. Late sixth/seventh century. It is not clear that the object is gilded.
Created on: Sunday 3rd November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-FFCDF4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Early-Medieval (Anglo Saxon, c.450-550) near-complete copper-alloy mount, possibly for furniture or a strap, with (now red) enamel decoration. The edge is cracked in one place and bent upwards a little. There are two holes in the plate, and the central rivet hole (2.85mm in diameter) has traces of iron corrosion inside it. The finder reports that there was a small amount of iron on the reverse that came off in his hand when he lifted it out of the ground. At the centre of the plate, around the rivet hole, is a hexagon. Inside is a sexfoil and the resultant triangles all …
Created on: Friday 12th July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Mary Bourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-AE5141
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Later Early-Medieval copper alloy rectangular mount with a rivet hole in each corner. It is ever so slightly dished to the reverse, while the front carries an apparently devolved interlace design in the form of a sinuous beast with beaked head and oval eye within edges flanking the shape of the mount. The mount appears to be cast, the decoration appearing in relief, the reverse being flat (although now rather worn and missing much of its original patina). There is a small nick in one of the short edges and the remains of iron rivets in three of the four rivet holes. Traces of prob…
Created on: Wednesday 26th June 2013
Last updated: Friday 5th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owslebury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B292C2
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon, c.410-700) unidentified object, possibly a die stamp. It is sub-rectangular in plan and broadly flat in section. The upper edge of the fragment appears complete, with the lower edge slightly uneven, suggesting prior continuation of this artefact. The upper surface depicts a central stylised figure composed of a central oval face and elongated narrow torso, wearing a helmet with two large curved horns above. The oval face of the figure is raised from the flat body of this artefact and appears convex in section. In the c…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2013
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Record ID: HAMP-51ABA2
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and undatable copper alloy unidentified object, consisting of a rectangular plate (14.27x17.22mm) from one edge of which extends an arched arm, expanding into something flatter at its other end, although only a tiny fragment of this survives. At this point to the reverse however is a curving hook, in the same plane as the arm, but curving first backwards then forwards again. The tip is worn and it is uncertain if it is a break or not. Behind the plate, just before the arm extends, is a rectangular projection extending at right angles and broken at its end, possibly acros…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 25th September 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-3A1EF7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An apparently complete copper alloy unidentified object, probably Early-Medieval to Medieval in date (c.400-1500) and with no obvious breaks. Measures 30.08x14.03x2.91mm and weighs 3.93g. The object is flat and curving in profile, with one crimped end, tapering and thickening to become D-shaped in cross-section (5.23x2.91mm) though apparently not crimped to hold anything - there is a very slight opening only. The object is otherwise rectangular in cross-section with the opposite end measuring 14.03x1.42mm. The sides narrow to c.13mm, whereby they thicken (2.76mm) and taper sharply i…
Created on: Thursday 7th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Somborne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-5DC9E2
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy gilt pin of probable Post-Medieval date (c.1500-1600), missing part of the pin shank. It measures 49.80mm in length and weighs 2.84g. The head is bi-conical and oval in cross-section, with a median rib and another rib encircling the flattened (circular) top. A pair of such ribs encircle the join with the shaft (the upper of which is slightly misaligned). The head measures 15.97x12.03x7.62mm and is rather squashed on one side. It retains much of its original gilding and has a small hole (from damage) on either face. The pin shaft survives to a length of c…
Created on: Monday 10th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nether Wallop', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-AFB672
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy unidentified object of probable late early-medieval date. The artefact is broken at both ends. The top end is incomplete, a recess is visible at the break, presumably the cylindrical recess would have accommodated a circular cross-sectioned axis bar. The cylindrical recess is at a one hundred and thirty five degree angle suggesting that the artefact was offset to the bar. The artefact gradually tapers towards a zoomorphic head. The head is depicted through raised mouldings and incisions. Located at the top of the head is a V-shaped incision which is sit…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2012
Last updated: Thursday 20th September 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-17DAE6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete early-medieval strap-end of 8th/9th-century date and probable Continental origin (Kevin Leahy pers. comm. 6th July 2011), broken and bent slightly at its tip. The attachment end of this tongue-shaped strap-end is wedge shaped. It is recessed on the upper surface; within the thinned section (Th.: 1.8mm) are four perforations, the two at the corners slightly larger than those between them. The sides of the strap-end are broadly symmetrical. On the plain lower surface they can be seen to taper from the attachment end (W.: 15.3mm) to a waist 12.1mm wide after c. 12mm.…
Created on: Monday 4th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B06557
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy openwork mount of late early-medieval date decorated unifacially. The mount is broadly oval in shape and with a rounded protrusion on either of the narrow outer edges. These protrusions are perforated for attachment; no rivets survive, although on a similar example quoted below a corroded rivet survives in iron. There are a further six, decorative perforations in the mount, of varying sizes. The upper surface of the mount is decorated in low relief with an interlacing zoomorphic design with diagonal symmetry. The design appears to be two Ringerike-style beasts whos…
Created on: Wednesday 29th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2015
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Record ID: HAMP-E2CCF2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly corroded and damaged medieval cast copper-alloy strap-end with similarities to Thomas Class B, Type 6, an 11th-century type (Thomas 2003, 6), although thought to be 12th or 13th century in date (Kevin Leahy pers. comm. 8th June 2011). The split at the attachment end is c. 13.6mm in length. A single rivet remains in situ within the two perforations, one above the other. The upper rivet has been lost following a loss to the side of the hole of the lower part of the split. The upper part of the strap-end is wedge shaped, tapering gradually in width to a central transverse r…
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: HAMP-963C51
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded iron trident-shaped artefact of possible Roman date. The object has lost one of its side prongs. The central prong is enlarged (W.: 15.85mm) before tapering to a point. It has been bent in profile. The tang is solid and tapers in both length and thickness over c. 37mm. It has a rectangular cross-section. The artefact could have acted as a weapon as it seems somewhat over elaborate as an agricultural or fishing tool.
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Micheldever CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-45D0F7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Early-Medieval (11th century) copper alloy mount or strap fitting, measuring 41.75x13.38x7.43mm and weighing 10.71g. The mount is zoomorphic in form and depicts an oval head 11.65mm wide and 7.43mm thick, rounded to the front and hollow to the reverse. It has prominent bulbous triangular eyes either side of a central 1.7mm wide vertical rib with groove flanking either side. At either end is a horizontal rib. At the narrower, presumably snout, end it is curved and 7.47x5.67mm from which extends a D-shaped loop 6.43x6.70x2.60mm. It has a central piercing 2.44mm in diameter. The…
Created on: Wednesday 7th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 20th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-D8F1E6
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy key of possible post-medieval date. The object consists of a large sub-oval loop with very slightly off-centre circular hole bevelled internally on both faces (countersunk) (Dia.: 8.55mm). The lower edge of the loop is flattened and the object tapers to a stem (W.: c. 8.5mm). The stem is of flat rectangular cross-section and flares out at its base to a double ridged collar (W.: 9.25mm). Below this collar is a spiral, three and a half twists of which survive, that tapers from a diamater of 6.45mm to 4.45mm at an apparent break. This hand-cut screw thre…
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winchester area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-AC75C6
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast, copper alloy zoomorphic double hooked clasp. The body of the clasp is in the form of two outward facing animal heads separated by a squared central knop on the upper surface. The necks of the beast heads are decorated with cast chevrons pointing outwards. The heads are cast in the round and have ears set at the sides of the heads, a raised brow with slight eye recesses, elongated and ridged mussels and two nostril holes on the snub-ended snouts. The ears and nostrils contain an off-white material which might be degraded enamel or paste. The mouths are slightly open and project…
Created on: Thursday 5th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fordingbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-236E16
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast copper-alloy brooch of early-medieval date consisting of the lower bow and foot (6th century AD). The foot plate is flat with cusped side projections each decorated with three hollows. The projections taper towards the terminal which appears to have been slightly truncated as a result of old damage. The field between the projections is decorated with a so-called 'chip carved' triple triangular motif with a further engraved line on each side. Much gilding survives within the recesses, with some also present on the bow. On the lower surface of the plate is an abra…
Created on: Tuesday 30th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-24FE64
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete and very well preserved pair of tweezers of Middle Saxon date. The tweezers have wide flaring blades which are characteristically mid-Saxon, and a circular spring where the two blades meet. Along each of the sides is a bordering groove. On both blades there is decoration comprising punched pits and these coincide with lengths of the bordering grooves. Both sides also have additional decoration in the form of thin incised lines. On one side this appears as a diagonal cross and a series of five transverse lines. Between one pair of lines is a pair of similar crosses, bet…
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-94D2F0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular cast copper-alloy gilded mount of probable medieval date. The lower surface is essentially flat, but heavily corroded. There is a pair of probable rivets near the circumference with a probable rove under one of them. They correspond to a pair of rivet heads on the upper surface. These are mirrored on the other side of the brooch by a pair of punched circles; these do not feature any obvious remains of rivets and there is no clear evidence for them on the lower surface. The upper surface is decorated in relief within a beaded border. The decoration consists of a creature …
Created on: Wednesday 19th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-8E4F97
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy openwork finial or ferrule from a staff, probably dating to the 11th/12th-14th century. It consists of a 12mm diameter (internal 9.5mm) and slightly squashed tube, open at both ends, with an intact iron rivet running through it just above a crude incised line flanking the external end. The tube extends from a faceted openwork structure 42mm high. It has four diamond-shaped faces with one point stretched, all four of which meet at the top of the finial and are topped with a rounded knop 5mm in diameter. The opposite point of each diamond also has a rounded knop, c. 3.5mm…
Created on: Friday 21st April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 13th December 2012
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