Record ID: SOM-2C0625
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy double-looped oval buckle with an iron pin and separate strap-plate. The loops form one continuous oval outer frame and the outer sides of the loops are slightly widened. The outer edge is rounded and the inner edge and back flat and plain. The integral strap bar is plain. The iron pin is highly corroded but remains in situ. The strap plate is formed of a thin rectangular strip of copper alloy sheet bent in half around the central bar. It has a rectangular slot at the fold for the pin and both sides are borken with irregular breaks. It is 19mm long, 21.1mm i…
Created on: Monday 7th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-B90D78
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knapped flint flake or debitage, possibly retouched, of probable Mesolithic to Bronze Age date. The flint is a dark to mid grey. It is triangular in plan and section. Around 20% of the surface has the cortex remaining running down one edge. Two possible blades or flakes have been removed from the dorsal face and there is a small bulb of percussion on the ventral face. Crude removals at the proximal end may have removed the remainder of the bulb. There are chips along both sides of the edge which is not covered by cortex andpossible retouching along at the point of the proximal end. I…
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chardstock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E8CE93
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A solid copper alloy ring of unknown date and function, possibly a suspension ring or part of a chain for suspension. The ring is very regular in form and has a maximum diameter of 66.2mm that varies little across the ring. The hoop is similarly regular. In cross section it is an an isosceles ​​​​​ triangle with the short straight edge being the inner edge of the ring. From the top and bottom of this inner edge the upper and lower surfaces taper to a rounded point marking the ring's exterior edge. The hoop has a maximum thickness of 4.8mm and is 8.8mm wide . The …
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-577EE2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early 13th-century medieval silver penny of John (AD 1199-1216), short voided cross class 4b, probably minted by Willelm, probably London mint, c. AD 1200-1204
Created on: Thursday 2nd January 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 14th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-12F59B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman cast copper-alloy T-shaped or hinged dolphin brooch dating to c. AD 60-100. The lower part of the bow, foot, part of one wing and the pin are missing to old breaks. The brooch head has open-ended cylindrical wings, now 36.1mm wide, containing an axis bar for the hinge. Both ends are worn and one is partially broken with a worn break. The outer two thirds of each wing is decorated with evenly spaced but slightly uneven transverse incised grooves across the front, six on the complete wing, two before the break on the other. There is also an incised groove runnign along the top of …
Created on: Tuesday 24th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Silverton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-13B014
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Knapped flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating from the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (c. 2700 BC - c.1600 BC). The arrowhead is bifacially worked and sub-triangular in plan with slightly convex sides and a small chip at the point. There are two round ended notches in the base, flanking the central tang with a barb at either side. The tang is wider and longer than the barbs and has a rounded end. One barb has lost it's tip, the other is complete with angled ends coming to a point at the base (obliquely shaped). The arrowhead has semi-invasive semi-abrupt parallel retouch down b…
Created on: Tuesday 24th March 2015
Last updated: Saturday 25th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clyst St. George', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-141A7D
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy post-medieval dress fastener with a large circular central plate. This is the eye section of a hook and eye fastener, with a rectangular loop for the eye extended to one side of the plate. The circular plate is slightly convex and moulded in low relief on the front with a central six-petalled flower and a narrow border at the edge. Around the flower are four mouldings in the form of pairs of curled lines that start on the outer border of the circle and curve away form each other as they go towards the centre. There are holes between the pairs, curls and edge and cu…
Created on: Tuesday 24th March 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Silverton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-689AF0
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy purse bar of early Post Medieval date. The bar has a central rectangular block with a slightkly rounded lower face and corners and a circular perforation running through it on the vertical axis. Through this perforation is threaded a vertical copper alloy bar which is circular in section and rotates freely in the hole. The bar ends in a globular terminal below the block and expands into a loop above it; this loop would ahve been used to hang the purse from the belt. The loop has three collars at the base, oval in section and just the stubs of the sides…
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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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.

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Record ID: SOM-1C6BB5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely corroded and incomplete probable finger-ring of Roman date. The object appears to consist of a thickened bezel of rectangular form, rounded at the top from the ends of which extend shoulders and hoop in a continuous curve. The hoop has broken around halfway down each side with the truncated remains abraded to a point on both sides. The hoop is broadly D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat internal surface (int. dia.: c. 19.2mm). A dark-green patina survives in small patches, particularly on the underside of the bezel. Elsewhere the object is highly corroded with a green …
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-9005D5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy four-way strap junction of post-medieval date. The piece is formed of four circular loops arranged around a central sqaure; one of the loops has broken through. The loops curve into the square's field. The central element is recessed apart from a central pellet, perhaps to take in inlay that has now been lost. While the upper surface is moulded the lower surface is flat. The piece has a red/brown colour with patches of light-green and off-white corrosion product. This, the form and finish, suggest a date for this piece perhaps in the 17th or 18th ce…
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-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-AA45B0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame. Around a half of one of the buckle's loops has been broken away following old damage, with the outer edge gone completely and the sides surviving to differing extents above and below. The pin is also missing. The remaining oval loop is curved in cross-section due to a central recess between the sides of the buckle on the back. This is presumably a result of casting in an open, one-piece mould, whereby the metal has cooled and contracted. At the centre of the outer edge of the complete loop is an angled lobed kn…
Created on: Wednesday 25th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 30th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halberton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5DE53B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver penny of Edward II (AD 1307-1327) dating to AD 1309-1310. Class 10cf5. Mint of Bury St. Edmunds. North (1991, 32) no. 1043/1.
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-1130D0
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead-alloy pilgrim's ampulla dating to c. AD 1350 to 1530. It is flask-shaped in plan with thinned elongated neck that expand slightly toward the mouth and a rounded lower body. The mouth measures 22.8 mm in width and is now squashed. The neck measures 16.4 mm in length. It is covered by multiple horizontal raised lines running across both sides, but more evidently on the front. A sub-triangular suspension loop projects from either side at the juncture of the body and the neck. On one side the loop is squashed backwards. The lower body is decorated on both sides. On the fr…
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 13th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-3BCF8C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval silver halfgroat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) dating to AD 1584 to 1587. Third issue, shell inital mark. Minted in London. North (1991: 137) no. 2016.
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 24th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-8A6FD1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy coin from India, probably the denomination called a paisa, probably dating to AD 1790-1830. A close parallel seems to be SWYOR-B55B81, "a Paisa of Gwalior State, Gwalior Fort mint, struck in the name of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Akbar II, during the reign of Maharaja Daulat Rao Scindia (1796-1825)". It is common to find Indian coins in Britain, probably because they were brought here by people serving in the colonial Empire in India.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-74AE41
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman silver denarius of Lucilla dating to the period AD 164 to 169 (Reece period 8). PVDICITIA reverse depicting Pudicitia, veiled, seated left, with right hand on breast. Minted at Rome. RIC III, p. 276, no. 781.
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Axminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-760958
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval silver half groat of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) dating to the years AD 1583 to 1603. Initial mark unclear. Minted at London. North (1991:137) no.2016.
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shute 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
Spatial data recorded.