Record ID: SOM-068DE2
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2019 T382: Declared Treasure, undergoing valuation Description: An incomplete, composite silver-gilt dress hook dating to the Post Medieval period. The loop is missing but the hook is present and complete, and there is little to no damage to the plate. The dress hook has been formed to represent a flower, possibly a rose. The plate comprises three layers giving a broadly circular plan and designed as a six-petalled flower. The cast bottom plate is flat and its circumference is formed of six smooth arches alternating with six smaller, more rounded knops that hav…
Created on: Friday 12th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 17th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chilthorne Domer CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-BF1990
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragments of three Post medieval ceramic vessel. Probably of 18th to 19th century date. 1. Part of the neck and handle from a large jug. South Somerset (Donyatt) ware. Medium orange fabric with occasional dark orange grog inclusion. Oval sectioned applied strip handle with central thumb groove running down its length. Internal clear glaze. 173g. 2. Part of the rim of a pan, slightly closed with the body angled into the neck then an angled out rim with a flat top edge with several grooves running around it. South Somerset (Donyatt) ware. Medium orange fabric with occasional d…
Created on: Monday 26th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-E7BE48
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy horse harness pendant with enamelled heraldic decoration. The pendant is in the shape of a square topped shield with straight top and convex sides meeting in a point at the bottom. There is only a small section remaining of a transverse suspension lug projecting from the centre of the top of the shield. The shield appears to be decorated with enamel making heraldic decoration, this can be emblazoned: gules three cinquefoils pierced sable (or Or) arranged two and one and in chief an unclear charge Or, possibly a lion passant guardant. The red enamel survives …
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2019
Last updated: Saturday 13th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colyton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F506CB
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a palaeolithic flint tool reused in the later prehistoric period, possibly as a knife or other cutting tool. The tool is of a dark brown/black flint, rolled and with significant areas of iron staining. At more recent removal scars the flint can be seen to be mottled with cloudy white areas and rare white inclusions. The tool is D-shaped in plan, and with a truncated pointed oval cross section, with the dorsal face being more pronouncedly curved than the ventral. The initial working of the tool is bifacial, with covering, sub-parallel semi-abrupt retouch on the dorsal fac…
Created on: Tuesday 25th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 27th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Godmersham Cp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-686BD2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman cast copper-alloy Colchester two-piece brooch dating to the first century AD. The brooch consists of the head of the brooch, its wings and a portion of the bow.The head has semi-circular sectioned wings, slightly concave at the back to accommodate the spring (not found with the artefact). The front of the wings are rounded, plain and show chipped ends which have become rounded through abrasion. Between the wings and projecting 6.8mm away from the bow of the brooch is a rounded lug pierced by a single hole (1.6mm in diameter) that is now filled with brown soil. This would …
Created on: Monday 11th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shrewton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A74FCE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusually large and decorative medieval silver annular brooch complete with pin and decorated with incised lines, inlaid niello and an inscription. The brooch is circular in cross section and, while weighty, the weight suggests it is hollow. There is a constriction at one point where the pin head is looped and corresponding slight wear on the opposite side of the ring, on the front where the pin point rests. The front is decorated with four bands of decoration with plain areas between. The bands are evenly spaced around the ring with one starting adjacent to the pin constrict…
Created on: Tuesday 14th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 23rd July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-F2CB6C
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2017 T78; Disclaimed, returned to finder. 2 copper alloy roman coins and a copper alloy ring. No. mint date Obv. Rev. Rev. Type m.-m. ref Qty. Wt 20 ? AD 348-50 Cn FEL TEMP REPARATIO Emperor standing left in galley with a standard, holding a phoenix or Vict…
Created on: Monday 30th January 2017
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Merriot CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C0BD4E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of Constantine II as Caesar dating to c. AD 330 -335 (Reece period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting two soldiers standing flanking two standards holding spears in outer hands. Minted at Trier. LRBC pt I no. 49 56 or 68.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 6th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martock CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-3F82B7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy heraldic harness pendant. The pendant is shield shaped with a straight top and convex sides which meet at a point at the bottom. From the middle of the top edge projects a transverse suspension loop.The front is decorated with 'bendy argent and gules'; red enamel bands (red lines running from the top left to the bottom right) alternating with plain bands which appear to have traces of a white metal coating. It is 47.5mm long including the loop, 27mm wide and 3.3mm thick. The pendant weighs 10.43g. Harness pendants are generally dated from the twelfth to…
Created on: Monday 14th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 23rd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Martock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8826F7
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper-alloy shield shaped mount. The mount has a flat front plate in the shape of a triangular shield with a straight top and slightly convex sides meeting at a point at the bottom. It is badly corroded but has a design of checks, alternating between depressed and raised. The raised ones were once all blue enamelled, a few have retained their enamel. In heraldry this would be described as checky or and azure. On the back there is a single circular sectioned rivet in the center with a flat end. Overall length 14.7mm. Width.11.0mm Thickness 2.3mm. Weight 2.23gms. The…
Created on: Thursday 6th March 2014
Last updated: Friday 23rd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton CP', grid reference and parish protected.