Record ID: SOM-D49248
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Medievel silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307) dating to between May and December AD 1279. Long cross class 1d, face type 2. Minted in London. North (1991, 28) no. 1013.
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 2nd December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Silchester CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-ABA7FD
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy harness pendant dating to cAD1200-1400. The object is in the shape of a flower with a central circular plate and six projecting lobes. On the central plate is depicted a raise, moulded human head with straight hair on either side almost to chin length. There are remains of blue enamel to the left of the head and traces of red to the right. Each lobe has on the front an oval shaped raised knop. From the uppermost lobe extends an integral loop. The loop has a transverse piercing which is worn at the top. The back of the piece is plain. It measures 34.62mm in diam…
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D3056C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver cut half penny of John dating to AD 1200 to 1204. Short cross class 4b. Minted by Willelm at uncertain Mint. North (1994, 220) no. 968/2.
Created on: Monday 2nd September 2019
Last updated: Monday 2nd September 2019
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: SOM-C7F1A7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy radiate of Gallienus, sole reign, dating to AD 260 to 268 (Reece Period 13). Unclear reverse type. Unclear mint.
Created on: Monday 15th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 5th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Goodworth Clatford CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-59E80D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver penny of Edward I (1272-1307) dating to AD 1280. Edwardian class 3d. Minted at London. North (1991:29) no.1022.
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 5th September 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-1432AD
Object type: KEY (MUSIC)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval (1200-1450) copper alloy key for turning a peg or tap, consisting now of the socketed shank only and missing its bow. The shank is V-shaped and mostly hollow with a rectangular cross-section measuring 13.0x12.1mm at the open end and 4.5x3.2mm at the opposite closed end. The internal measurement at the open end is 8.7x5.4mm and the socket is 11.5mm deep. To the outside of the object there is a decorative groove just below the open end and a trio of raised horizontal ribs just above the closed end, 9.4mm in width, 6.4mm in thickness and together 7.7mm in height. T…
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DEV-011E4D
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy pommel from a sword or dagger in the shape of a human bust dating to the later Iron Age (150-50 BC). The bust is moulded in three dimensions, beginning just below the shoulder line, with the point where the thick neck and shoulders meet emphasised with a cast thick line, possibly intended to represent the neckline of a garment. The neck tapers slightly but remains thick at the point where it meets the head. The chin is broad and bearded, with the point of the beard emphasised, giving the chin a somewhat bulbous appearance. The beard continues up to the ears on either…
Created on: Sunday 23rd December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Micheldever', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-96961B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn post-medieval copper alloy duit of Gelderland, province of the Netherlands, dating to the year 1759. Obverse: Crowned arms of Gelderland (two lions rampant, facing, within square shield); [IN DEO EST SPES NOSTRA] - 'In God is our hope' Reverse: .D. / G[EL] / RIAE / 1759 (in four lines) within baroque cartouche.
Created on: Thursday 6th December 2018
Last updated: Monday 10th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rockbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8452A5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman phallic mount dating from c. AD 43 - 410. The object is 'T-shaped' in plan, the phallus itself being triangular in cross-section and its straight sides gradually converging towards the raised, moulded tip. At the other end, the testicles project at a right angle from the right and left hand sides and an oblique ridge separates the rounded testicles from the phallus. The underside of the object is concave with an integrally cast, circular-sectioned rivet at each end. The rivet at the tip is complete but the one at the top has been broken at the base. The object has…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penton Grafton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-836E32
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A incomplete copper alloy clog or shoe clasp of Late Post-Medieval or Modern date (c. AD 1790 - c. AD 1930). The main part of the clasp, the plate is rectangular in shape. At one end there is an integral "anchor"-shaped hook with a C-shaped hook on a narrow neck projecting from the cnetre of the end of the plate. The front of the plate is inlaid in silver with a floral pattern. There is a flower head in each corner: the two in the upper part are made up of 6 pellets each and the two lower ones with 7 pellets each. The flower heads on each side are linked by a curved 'stem'. In the cen…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penton Grafton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-EA36CA
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a cast copper-alloy object of unknown type, probably medieval in date. The remaining fragment is curved (C-shaped) and of a broad and slightly flattened D-shaped cross-section with a flat back, almost vertical inner side (inner side of the curve) and convex front and outer side. The object tapers along its length, being slightly wider at one end than the other and both ends terminate in old breaks. The object is worn and corroded. The object is 46.8mm long and the maximum curvature is 18mm (i.e. from the centre of the convex side to an imaginary line joining the two ends…
Created on: Thursday 23rd August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 18th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-B20DEB
Object type: NUT CRACKERS
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval copper alloy pocket-sized screw-action nutcracker, consisting of the ring of the nutcracker only (and missing the screw handle/ thumbpiece section). The ring is slightly oval in shape (rather than perfectly circular) and has a D-shaped cross-section (being flat to the inside surface). To opposing sides of the hoop are two sub-circular projections, one of which is a walled perforation 12.7x12.1mm (internal 8.5x7.4mm) and 4.9mm tall. It has a screw-thread to the inside and a decorative concentric groove around the outside, which is faceted and octofoil in sh…
Created on: Friday 27th July 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishops Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-E06151
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval/ post-medieval gilded copper alloy disc with a (probably later) perforation close to one edge. The disc is now a little bent. With the perfoartion at the top it depicts from left to right (to one face only) grooved decoration in the form of a cross saltire formed of two opposing pairs of V-shapes, a central band of two vertical grooves c.5mm apart, and a further vertical groove enclosing within it and the right-hand curved edge of the disc an acorn springing from a curved branch, below another curved branch. The curved branches are formed of pairs of lines, the acorn …
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 18th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-E02E9C
Object type: AWL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy unidentified object, presumably a tool of some kind, of uncertain date. It has a very sharp pointed tip and a worn break at the opposite end (probably the base of a missing tang). The surviving pointed element is conical in shape with an oval cross-section, 29.1mm in length and max.7.1mm wide and 6.5mm thick just above the base where it narrows to 6.5x5.7mm. A collar of grooved linear decoration c.6mm high flanks the base of the cone and features a pair of lines forming a zig-zag between a single concentric groove (at the base) and a pair of concentric groo…
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 18th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-D98903
Object type: MACE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
About half of a cast copper alloy mace head dating to the late Medieval period. The object consists of part of a cast, hollow cylinder of copper alloy, with 60% of the top circumference remaining, tapering to c25% at the bottom of the piece. The hollow cylinder has an internal diameter of c25mm. At the top of the mace there are three rows of pyramid-shaped protrusions, two remaining in the first and third rows, three in the middle row. The upper and lower rows are of half-pyramid-shaped spikes, while those on the central row are of full pyramid shape. Below these shapes part of the…
Created on: Thursday 17th May 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-56EB3D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval coin, probably a groat, of Elizabeth I dating from 1558 to 1561. Initial mark unclear. Minted at London. Probably North (1991:133) No. 1986.
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 13th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitchurch, Hampshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-442C46
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval (c.1250-1400) copper alloy circular seal matrix with a pierced semi-circular lug to the reverse. To the opposite (front) face it depicts a six-pointed star, a pellet in each angle, above a crescent. Surrounding this is the inscription + S'WILL'I FIL' REINBERD which translates as Seal of William (WILLELMI) son of Reinberd. The initial cross is a cross potent. The reverse of the seal matrix is undecorated although there is a transverse groove at the base of the lug which extends on one side slightly further than the other, into the centre of the reverse of the matrix. The…
Created on: Friday 4th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishops Waltham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3F8B8A
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic polished flint axehead roughout, probably dating to c. 4000-2400 BC. The axehead is made of a dark grey flint with frequent paler grey/brown patches and areas of cortex on the left edge of the dorsal face and the right edge of the ventral. The axehead is broadly sub-rectangular in shape, tapering from 47.7mm wide behind the blade edge to a squat, rounded sub-triangular butt, 29.1mm wide. It has a pointed oval cross section, at its thickest point around 3/4 of the way down its length at 27.8mm thick. The axehead is missing the edge of the blade itself, with a diagonal line …
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 28th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penton Grafton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3F46E1
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic flint axehead roughout, probably dating to c. 4000-2400 BC. The flint is covered in a white patina with its surface still showing traces of cortex in places. The flint has been bifacially worked, with flakes removed in a variety of directions and worked into a broadly sub-rectangular shape, 116.1mm long. It tapers from it's widest point behind the blade, 52.5mm, to a relatively squared butt, 32.8mm. Below the widest point the object curves into a blade which has a C-shaped plan. The axe has a thick, pointed oval cross section, at its thickest point it measures 27.8mm, this…
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 28th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penton Grafton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3EDAFD
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic flint axehead roughout, probably dating to c. 4000-2400 BC. The object is made of a dark brown/grey flint visible at more recent breaks but is is almost completely covered in a solid white patina, at the distal (butt) end of the dorsal face this surface is still covered in a layer of cortex, discoloured slightly green in patches. The flint has been bifacially worked, with flakes removed in a variety of directions and with a striking platform surviving at the apparently unfinished butt. A number of short removal scars struck from the edge terminate in negative hinge fractur…
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 28th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penton Grafton CP', grid reference and parish protected.