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Record ID: SOM-F6B526
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval incomplete and damaged lead-alloy pilgrim's ampulla. It has a rounded base curving in to a neck where it is irregularly torn across. The tear is both across the width and down the length a third of the way across. It is now squashed flat with part of the sides of the neck folded inwards slightly, and a section at the back torn off.
One face of the ampulla is decorated with a raised line design of a crown with a hatched lining. The crown is depicted from below with the ends of the curved front edge meeting the curved base of the ampulla to each side with the lining in the p…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Ruishton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-C60D70
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval incomplete and damaged lead-alloy pilgrim's ampulla. It has a rounded base from which a rectangular, neck protrudes, expanding slightly in width to the top. The top of the neck is torn across with an irregular edge. There are integral suspension loops on either side at the junction of the neck and body, one squashed inwards and casting lines running down each side and around the base. The surfaces are very scratched and indented but traces of raised line designs remain. On one face is probably a crown, the details of which are unclear, and on the other a flower or four …
Created on: Tuesday 24th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 25th February 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Milbourne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
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
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Record ID: SOM-45907F
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval lead pilgrim's ampulla dating to the period c.AD 1350 - 1530. Most of the neck, loops and part of the body of the ampulla are missing with just a small part of the trapezoid neck and the stub of one loop remaining. The lower half is circular. On one face is a compass drawn flower design, probably of six petals, the other may be plain or the design may be worn away or obscured by corrosion. The lead has a thick off-white patina. The inside contains a hard white concretion.
The ampulla measures 15.82mm in length, 14.41in width, is 7.54mm thick and weighs 16.80g…
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2017
Last updated: Friday 24th May 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Trudoxhill', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-117896
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval lead pilgrim's ampulla dating to the period c.AD1350 - 1530. The top is open and measures 21.75mm in width. The neck tapers in width from the mouth to the base. The loop on either side is missing but remaining stubs suggest there were loops on both sides of the nack, about half way up. The lower half is semi-circular. One face is moulded in the form of a scallop shell of spencer type I with raised radiating lines and the outer edge is scalloped with indents to meet the grooves between the ribs. The other face is heavily worn but has a raised symbol in the middle, possibly a…
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Combe St. Nicholas', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-D953CF
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy medieval lead pilgrim's ampulla dating to the period c.AD 1350 - 1530. The object is flask-shaped with an oval lower part and wide trapezoid neck above ending in an old, irregular, torn break at the top. It is hollow, with one side loop and small traces of a second. The object's lower portion has one side which is smooth and plain and the other side bears traces of a possible pattern. On one side the pattern is a type of elaborated cross or flower with probably a central equal armed cross, the upper arm is unclear, the side and lower arms end in ovals with …
Created on: Tuesday 14th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 14th January 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Nynehead', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: IOW-72F446
Object type: APOTHECARY WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy double-sided apothecary weight of 17th century date (1600-1700). The weight has bevelled edges and has a shiny dark brown patina, although it is corroded in places. 16.4 x 16.4 x 3.5mm. Weight: 7.27g. (112.0 grains). Traditional symbol and rose type (Biggs 1992: 9).
Created on: Monday 1st February 2010
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-F5A5A2
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken fragment of an invasively retouched arrowhead dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (4500-1500 BC). The remaining piece is almost triangular due to breaks, about three fifths of the original outline survives. The point and part of the attachment end is lost, making it unclear what the original form was, possibly leaf shaped. Both the dorsal and ventral faces are covered by shallow invasive semi parallel pressure flaking. The arrowhead is made out of translucent light brown flint, some cortex is visible on the centre of one side.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.
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
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D2660E
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly a cast copper alloy awl or tracer. About half the length is square-section (maximum 6mm across) and fairly even in width, the other half is rounded and narows gradually and terminates to a point. there is no obvious waist where the two sections join. 82mm long and weighs 9.4 grams.
Plain copper alloy awls are hard to date precisely and this lacks the characteristic central thickening of some Bronze Age examples. Plainer examples are known however and as an artefact they were introduced in the Bronze Age (2150-800 BC) with most being Late Bronze Age in date (1150-800 BC).…
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2016
Last updated: Monday 31st July 2017
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This findspot is known as 'otterton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: HAMP-0FE644
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A polished flint axe head dating to the early to mid Neolithic (c. 3500 - c. 2500 BC). The flint has a weathered and iron stained pale to mid-orange colour. It is roughly triangular in plan with a convex curved blade 52.5mm wide, tapering sides 97.9mm long and a broken butt which is now 22.5mm wide but clearly narrowed further originally. The sides taper continuously from the blade but the angle of taper sharpens slightly about half way along. As well as the broken butt there are some chips in the sides and chips along the blade edge. Although these chips are not recent it is hard to t…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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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
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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-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: WAW-745D31
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy unidentified object, but probably a balance arm. The object is a circular sectioned bar which is angled at c. 45°, but this is probably due to damage rather than intention. At the mind point and at each terminal there is a rectangular boss decorated with low-relief ring and dot designs. One terminal then has a short, circular sectioned, narrowed projection protruding from the boss. The terminal of this projection is possibly broken. The opposite boss has a broken surface suggesting there was a projection on this boss as well. The surface of the object has a well e…
Created on: Wednesday 21st July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd March 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-288D25
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken and damaged cast copper-alloy Roman equipoise balance, now incomplete and in two parts. The central suspension lug is broken and both arms are bent and broken; the bent end of one arm was found with it. The balance is circular in cross-section, tapering from the centre towards the centre of each arm; the outer end of each arm flares slightly. At the centre on one side are two thin projecting stubs flanked by stubs of two more projections. These formed the central suspension lug and may have been crescentic when complete (cf. NCL-E18835 on this database). One main tab has been…
Created on: Monday 23rd August 2010
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Bighton CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-445BCB
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post-Medieval incomplete copper alloy scale pan, dating to c. AD 1300-1700. A trapezoidal sheet of copper alloy. The obverse is decorated with a border of two parallel incised lines, as well as being stamped. The design of the stamp resembles an anchor; a vertical line is crossed by a transverse, serifed cross-bar before forking into two, these two lines then curve around into semi-circles. Just below the apex of these two semi-circles, a further curved line joins the two to create a sub-triangular void. Above the intial verticle line, the line expands into a small semic…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Stogumber CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUSS-CF2885
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Knapped flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating from the Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age (c. 2500 BC - c.1150 BC). The arrowhead is bifacially worked and an elongated triangle in plan, with two notches in the base, between a central tang and a barb at either side. The point has broken away. One barb has also been lost, the other is small with a rounded end. The tang is relatively large and now rectangular as the end has broken away. The arrowhead has invasive shallow semi-parallel retouch on both faces. The flint is darkk brown to grey. It is 31.4 mm long, 5.7mm thick; it weighs …
Created on: Wednesday 26th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2016
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This findspot is known as 'Chalvington with Ripe', 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
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This findspot is known as 'Clyst St. George', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-EDFA7C
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A translucent yellow glass bead, probably dating to the Post Medieval period. The bead is spherical with a central piercing and a band of opaque white around the cnetre, caused by a change in colour in the glass trail rather than an applied band.
It measures 9.30mm in diameter and weighs 1.20g. The glass appears to have been wound in a rail to form the bead.
Glass beads are difficult to date with any certainty but the size, shape and colour would suggest that it is probably of Post Medieval date.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 14th May 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bratton Seymour', grid reference and parish protected.
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