Record ID: DEV-C233BB
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An openwork copper alloy swivel, filled with lead and probably reused as a weight, probably dating to c. AD 1000-1200. The object is sub-spherical, sub-circular in plan and oval in cross section, with a central, longitudinal drilled perforation. The cast openwork shell is arranged broadly into two symmetrical hemispheres of three openwork circles each containing a three armed floral scroll motif, an engraved line creates a double-stranded effect on the circular borders. Along the interstice of the two hemispheres each of the three spandrels contains a lozenge which is defined by furth…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: SOM-1C14A8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd probably from a glazed medieval open vessel. The piece is now an irregular quadrilateral shape with red/orange oxidised outer surfaces and a grey core. The body has a coarse sand temper with some micaceous inclusions. The glaze is patchy and of a light-brown/green colour.
Created on: Thursday 12th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broadhembury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-409A17
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast copper alloy pot foot and part of the leg. The leg is D shaped in section with a flat back; it is broken off just above a transverse collar with an old break. The prominent collar is rounded in section. The foot is also D shaped in section with five very worn moulded ribs running down the front and a flat back. The base of the foot is rounded. It is 37.9mm long, 23.5mm wide and 14.1mm thick; it weighs 44.75 grams. Crudely made cast copper alloy vessels were widely used from c.1100-1800 for serving and cooking. Butler et al (2009, 4) suggest there were four main t…
Created on: Thursday 27th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willand CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E48573
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy late medieval or post medieval fragment of vessel repair or handle attachment. The piece is roughly rectangular in shape, though with one edge expanding in a curve, and consists of two metal sheets riveted together. Both sheets have been cut to the same shape. though one has lost about a third compared to the other. The sheets are connected by two rolled copper-alloy sheet rivets; this would have been three when the borken sheet was complete. The rivets have been pushed through from one side and is flattened and smoothed on the other, flush with the sheet. They were pro…
Created on: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-902166
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper-alloy flat disc of probable post-medieval date (c. 18th or 19th century AD). The piece is corroded, with the only decoration discernible with any clarity being the letters VM, both with serifs.
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sampford Peverell CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-859CB8
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unidentified copper alloy sub-oval object, possibly part of a dagger or sword pommel of likely Post-Medieval date or a walking stick top. The object is a hollow dome, with a stretched oval plan, more pointed (narrower) at one end than the other, and D-shaped profile. At the apex of the dome is a circular perforation (c.7.2mm diameter). The object is highly abraded, but appears to survive to its original edge around much of its circumference, The inner surface of the object is plain however the outer surface has moulded decoration that is symmetrical, barring abrasion, through…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
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Record ID: DEV-6032C3
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval copper-alloy 17th-century trade token farthing issued by Alexander Peake of Topsham, Devon. Dickinson (1986, 50) Devon no. 339B (reassigned from Williamson (Surrey) no. 70, where it was assumed to relate to Epsom), dated 1655 (on token). It measures 15 mm in diameter.
Created on: Monday 13th December 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 6th December 2016
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Record ID: DEV-817052
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval to post-medieval cast lead-alloy circular unifaced token of Powell type 21 (c. AD 1250-1800). The token has a raised design of a wheel with eight spokes running from the centre to meet a circular line. Lead tokens had a wide variety of uses and were made locally; they are therefore hard to date precisely and could be Medieval or Post Medieval in date.
Created on: Sunday 14th August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2018
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Record ID: DEV-B9F734
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy halfpenny token issued by unknown issuer (I G possibly John Geyre) at Okehampton, Devon in 1657 or 1658. Williamson Devon 226 or 226A.
Created on: Monday 15th January 2007
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnstaple', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-100B31
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn and corroded post-medieval copper-alloy trade token of unclear issuer and town, AD 1648-1672
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burlescombe CP', grid reference and parish protected.