Record ID: CORN-4394EB
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper alloy farthing trade token, very worn. The obverse has a shield with a coat of arms, possibly the tree and three wells denoting the City of Wells in Somerset. The token was found in the same area in Dorset as CORN-435F92, another trade token from Wells. The reverse bears what looks like the letters C W in the centre of the field, possibly under a crown but the edge of the token and its legends are missing. A similar item on the database is dated 1657 (SOM-5477BO) with the same initials and the same token with the crowned letters C W is listed after it in Williamson (196…
Created on: Thursday 9th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-435F92
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-medieval copper-alloy 17th-century farthing trade token issued by the City of Wells in Somerset. The token is very worn but it is possible to see on the obverse a shield with a tree and three rectangular shapes representing the three wells on the city's coat of arms. The reverse is very worn but should show an elaborate crown above the letters C [W] for City of Wells. A very similar item on the database is dated 1657 (SOM-5477BO) with the same initials and the same token with the crowned letters C W is listed after it in Williamson (1967), p.993, nos.300-301.
Created on: Thursday 9th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-428F78
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Henry V (1413-1422), probably Class C, York mint. A third of the coin is missing having broken off. The obverse bears a crowned head facing with a bifoliate crown and a mullet to the left of the crown. The inscription is [hENRIC DI] GRA [REX ANG]. The reverse has a long cross with three pellets in each quadrant and a quatrefoil in the centre. The inscription would have read CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI, but only the last four letters remain.
Created on: Thursday 9th May 2019
Last updated: Sunday 26th May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-40565E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of Faustina II, struck under Antoninus Pius (AD 145-61), Reece period 7, AVGVSTI PII FIL S C reverse type depicting Concordia draped, standing left, with right hand extended holding patera, cornucopia in left arm, mint of Rome. Cf. BMC Vol. IV, p.383, pl.53, fig.1, no.2198
Created on: Thursday 9th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 23rd May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-6D64E7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut farthing of a voided long cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Long cross coinage (1247-1272), Class III (1248-1250) from the position under the chin of the letters VS R from the legend hENRICVS REX and no hand or sceptre on the obverse; mint of London from the letters N LV on the reverse, which are part of the inscription ON LVND. This cut farthing was found in the same hole as a Scottish cut farthing of similar date recorded in CORN-6CD4C4.
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Sunday 9th December 2018
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Record ID: CORN-69EC61
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver long cross penny of Edward I (1272-1307), Class 4a (1282-1283), London mint. The crown is trifoliate, which places it in Classes 1-9. The obverse inscription is +EDW R'ANGL'DNS hYB, which eliminates Class 1a-c, as the contracted form EDW R began with Class 1d. The face is wide with long hair and the drapery at the neck is composed of two shallow wedges. The ornaments between the fleurs are spearheads, and there is a short beaded line above the forehead below the band of the crown. The S in CIVITAS is egg-waisted and there are large, comma-shaped contraction marks which suggests…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Saturday 8th December 2018
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Record ID: CORN-44160E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring, probably Roman in date, consisting of a flat strip of metal bent into a penannular ring with both terminals narrowing to a point and overlapping slightly. The pointed ends suggest this could have been used as an earring, but they may also simply be narrowed to fit together when worn on the finger and penannular to allow for expansion. The ring may also been made from a broken fragment of a bracelet which are often penannular in the Roman period. The outer face of the hoop is decorated with three horizontal concentric grooves which converge towards the ends …
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Saturday 17th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-E32F13
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper alloy buckle plate with a gilded front face, made of a piece of sheet metal folded over to fasten onto the bar of a buckle, with a semi-circular recess cut out to hold the pin. There are two copper alloy rivets set longtitudinally to fasten the buckle plate on to a leather strap, a fragment of which is still caught between the front and back plate. The plate itself is tapered from the buckle end and rounded at the opposite end. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar buckle plate with a tapered end on p.27, no.133, which is dated from c.1300-1500 Egan & Pritchard (20…
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2018
Last updated: Saturday 7th July 2018
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Record ID: CORN-E2BCD5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver long cross penny of Edward III (1327-1377), Fourth Coinage (1351-1377), Pre-Treaty Series C (1351-1352), with lombardic 'm', closed 'c' and 'e' and 'R' with wedge-shaped tail, initial mark Cross 1, annulet stops, crozier at end of cross arm before CIVI on reverse, Durham mint, Spink 1592.
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2018
Last updated: Saturday 7th July 2018
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Record ID: CORN-E1FD25
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver long cross penny of Edward III (1327-1377), Third 'Florin' coinage (1344-1351), initial mark cross pattee (1334-1351), Class 4(I) with reverse-barred 'N' on obverse and lombardic 'n' on reverse. The coin has been bent in two then straightened at some point (not by the finder) and there is a ragged perforation at the edge of the coin to the left of the bust. The bust wears a bifoliate crown with sharply pointed triangular jewels between the fleurs. London mint. Spink 1546.
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2018
Last updated: Saturday 7th July 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-083EFA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A penny of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Second issue (1560-1561), mint mark cross crosslet (1560-1561), with beaded inner circle and no rose behind the bust (which is too worn to identify the variety) on the obverse or date above the shield on the reverse, Spink 2558.
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-06C327
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy mount, hexagonal and flat, with a large off-centre rivet hole 3.7 mm in diameter. The hexagon is not regular; two parallel and opposite sides are longer than the others, making it 19.64mm long but only 12.41mm wide. At the shorter ends, one angled corner is longer then the other, making the angle more acute; the rivet hole is placed where the centre would be if the hexagon was regular and both angles less acute. The central hole is surrounded by incised oblique lines which slant outwards from the hole. They are relatively regular around the less acutely angled hal…
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th January 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-068523
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy buckle with forked spacer. Oval, lipped and notched frame. Copper alloy wire pin. The forked spacer consists of two 'prongs' which extend from the back of the frame and are roughly filed to provide a key when soldered to the composite double sheet copper alloy plates which are now missing. Most of the tinning still survives on the surface of the buckle frame. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example on page 36, no.214, which is dated from c.1350-1450.
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-05F60B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy composite buckle with a D-shaped frame, that has been drilled for a separate pin bar, and an integral folded sheet copper alloy plate with one rivet. The copper alloy pin bar was inserted into the frame through two holes at the open end of the frame and then the ends were hammered into place. The bar is worn where it touches the inside edge of the plate in the area cut away from the plate to allow the pin to loop around the spindle. The pin is now missing but would have been made of copper alloy wire. There are the remains of the leather strap still held within…
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 2018
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Record ID: CORN-9E6AE7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Langton Down strip brooch dating from the early Roman period, made of a strip of thin copper alloy sheet metal, folded into a tube at the top to hold the pin mechanism. Only one of the wings and the bow of the brooch survive with a tapering body with three broad parallel longitudinal grooves down the front face. The foot, catchplate, pin, spring mechanism and one of the wings are all missing. The brooch appears to have been coated in a black substance, perhaps burnt organic material having been part of a cremation burial, which has since rubbed off on the upstanding surface…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: CORN-9CC225
Object type: INTAGLIO
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy oval setting containing an opaque blue glass intaglio, with a trace of a red border around the edge of intaglio and a bevelled edge to the copper alloy frame. The red material is probably setters wax, made of shellac and turpentine or resin, which was used to hold the glass intaglio within the frame. There is a trace of white substance on the edges of the frame of the intaglio, perhaps lead solder. The intaglio depicts a bust of a head facing right. The image appears to be a male head wearing a wig with layers of curls, that is tied at the back of the head, and wit…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-590B73
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337), Reece period 16, dating from AD 324-330. VIRTUS AVGG reverse type depicting camp gate with open doors, four turrets and star above, mint of Arles or Arelatum. Cf. RIC VII p. 269, pl.6, no.321
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-566794
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy single loop clasp, missing its strap bar and plate at one end, with a moulded zoomorphic decoration at the other end, the head of a mystical beast, possibly a griffin. The head is in high relief and has fine detailing, with pointed ears, holes for eyes which may once have had a decorative infill, a protruding snout, a band of diagonal grooves above the eyes and grooves radiating from either side of the snout, which probably represents the animal's pelt. In plan the clasp is rectangular, and in profile the animal's head is curved over as if to fit over anot…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-9CEAF2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of Licinius I (AD 308-324) dating from c. AD 310, Reece period 15, GENIO POP ROM reverse type depicting Genius standing left, draped, holding patera and cornucopiae, with 'T' to left of figure and 'F' to right, mint of Londinium with reverse mint mark T/F//PLN. Cf. RIC VI, p.132, no.117b
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2017
Last updated: Saturday 4th November 2017
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Record ID: PUBLIC-913011
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman Polden Hill type two-piece brooch with a spring mechanism. The cross bar of the brooch is composed of hollow, rectangular wings which are semi-circular in profile to accommodate the iron spring, now missing. Between the two wings at the back projects a semi-circular lug pierced with two holes. The upper hole was for the chord of the spring and the lower hole has the corroded remains of the end of the iron axis bar in place. The pin is also missing, which was probably also made of iron. There is a small fragment of copper alloy wire, found with the…
Created on: Monday 25th September 2017
Last updated: Sunday 8th October 2017
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