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Record ID: SOM-5F3441
Object type: TILE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Two fragments of Roman tile. One is from a flue tile and the other could either be floor or roof tile. The flue tile has combed, incised lines on the upper surface, and weighs 31.67g. The other tile fragment has no distinct markings and weighs 29.80g. Both fragments are quartz tempered and have fired to a pale orangey colour.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 4th September 2013
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Record ID: SOM-5E3915
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd from an Iron Age Glastonbury Ware jar or bowl. The fabric of the sherd is quartz tempered, and fired to a dark brown. The fabric fits into the Meare Fabric Group 1 (Rouillard 1987, 183). The rim is upright, slightly everted and rounded, broken not far below the rim. Both surfaces have been smoothed to finish and the external surface is decorated with curved lines creating a swag like pattern around the circumference of the vessel. The space between and under the curves is shaded in with oblique lines. This decorative element is finished with two parallel lines underneath t…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Sunday 27th April 2014
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Record ID: SOM-5DD122
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd from a Roman Black Burnished ware jar dating from the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD. The rim is an upright, rounded and beaded and due to the curve of the body before the break it appears as though it was a globular jar. Both the internal and the external surfaces are burnished but there is no apparent pattern on the sherd, likely due to the position of the break rather than an absence of decoration. The rim diameter is 15cm and the weight is 23.05g. Black Burnished ware was made in south West England from the late Iron Age/Early Roman to the late Roman periods (1st centur…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2013
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Record ID: SOM-5D5E70
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd from a Roman Samian Ware dish, form type 18 or 18/31, dating to the late 1st to mid 2nd century AD. The sherd is from the base of the dish with a rounded foot ring of which only 15% now remains. The floor of the base rise slightly towards the centre of the dish. On the internal surface of the floor of the base is part of a makers stamp IVLN[...]. The foot rim is 10cm in diameter and now weighs 24g. Samian Ware was made in France and imported into Britain from the 1st to the mid 3rd century. The bowl here is a type which was made in the late 1st to the mid 2nd century but due…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2013
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Record ID: SOM-F73EF1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of Roman Greyware and Black Burnished pottery sherds. Greyware There are 133 body sherds, 9 rim sherds and 3 basal sherds from various vessels. One of the rims was from a flanged bowl and the other 8 were from closed forms. One of the sherds was from a carinated jar with intersecting arc decoration. In total the sherds weigh 1014g. Black Burnished Ware There are 69 body sherds, 6 of which have distinguishing decoration. Four body sherds have obtuse lattice burnished decoration and 2 sherds have line motifs. In total the body sherds weigh 69g. There are 12 rim…
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 10th April 2014
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Record ID: SOM-A54AE2
Object type: BRIQUETAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of briquetage probably a supporting pillar and Roman in date. The briquetage, coarse ceramic material, is cylindrical in shape with broken flat ends. It is 118.1mm long, 43.2mm in diameter and weighs 206g. Briquetage is the name for coarse fired ceramic objects, evaporating vessels and supporting pillars, used in the production of salt. There is a known saltworks at East Huntspill PRN 10979 and therefore unsurprising that this fragment was found here. The ceramic supporting pillar is not closely datable but salt working is known in this area from the 3rd to the 4th century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 12th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
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Record ID: SOM-A45D85
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval to early post-medieval cast lead alloy maidenhead spoon knop. This is the decorative end of a spoon broken off the top of a spoons stem. The figure depicts the bust of a female emerging from a rosette of leaves or petals. The figure appears to be wearing a long headdress. The knop is now 25.4mm long, 9.6mm wide and 6.6mm thick, weighing 5.61g. Maidenhead spoons are dated from the later half of the 15th century to the mid-17th century and are also made in silver as well as lead-alloy such as the example here. The headdress depicted on this figure may in fact be a nun'…
Created on: Tuesday 12th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
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Record ID: SOM-5309E7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two Roman body sherds from Black Burnished Ware vessels. 1. A body sherd from the shoulder of a vessel just before the rim as in section the curving body begins to evert at approximately 60 degrees. The external surface is relatively highly burnished whilst the internal surface has been wiped and smoothed. The sherd weighs 12.90g. 2. A sherd from the main body of a jar or similar large vessel. The sherd is burnished with lattice decoration on the external surface although this is now very worn. The internal surface has been wiped smooth. The sherd weighs 29.87g Both sherds have …
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th February 2013
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Record ID: SOM-52EBC5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A basal sherd from a Roman Black Burnished vessel. The base is flat and likely to be from a type 18 jar (Seager Smith 1993, 232-233). The base is complete as well as some of the vessel sides. The fabric is a soft, mostly quartz tempered with occasional rounded non-calcareous white inclusions. The clay has fired to a browny grey on the surfaces and the core is mostly brown although it becomes darker towards the internal surface. The base diameter is 5cm (EVE 100%) and it weighs 145g. Type 18 jars are dated from the 3rd-4th centuries (Seager Smith 1993, 233).
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th February 2013
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Record ID: SOM-52A268
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman rim sherd from a Black Burnished ware jar. The rim is very everted and unlike some vessels does not have a neck before the rim begins to flare. The fabric is finely quartz tempered and has fired dark grey in the core and dark blackey brown burnished surfaces. The external surface has what appears to be a white residue adhering to it which is probably post-depositional. The rim diameter is 17cm (EVE10%) and the sherd weighs 18.93g. The rim is a Dorchester type 3 rim and this form is dated from the later 3rd century to the late 4th-early 5th century (Seager Smith 1993, 230-231).
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th February 2013
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Record ID: SOM-524E76
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd from a Roman Greyware vessel probably a jar. The sherd is an angular fragment from towards the base of a large vessel. Due to the area in which it was found (a river bank), despite washing, it still has moss and calcareous residues adhering to both the internal and external surfaces. The sherd weighs 70g. Due to the unknown form it is not possible to be more precise when dating the sherd as can be done with rim sherds. Therefore a broad 2nd to 4th century date is given as this is the date range for Greywares at Dorchester (Seager Smith 1993, 281).
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th February 2013
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Record ID: SOM-520364
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A rim sherd from a Roman Black Burnished jar. The rim is an everted, rounded rim, type 2 form (Seager Smith 1993, 230) The sherd is notably abraded with patches of the burnished surface having been worn off on both the internal and external surfaces.The jar has been thrown in a finely quartz tempered fabric and fired to a dark brown/black colour. The rim diameter is 22cm (EVE 17.5%) and it weighs 82g. Jars with this type of rim have been dated at Dorchester to the 2nd century onwards and found most commonly in the 3rd century (Seager Smith 1993, 231) and this provides a general date…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
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Record ID: SOM-514701
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two rim sherds from Roman Greyware jars.The sherds have a distinct upright neck and flat rim (rim type 602 (Seager Smith 1993, 268). The sherds are quartz tempered and have fired a grey colour throughout. Sherd 1 - Rim diameter 22cm (EVE 10%) and weighs 20.03g. Sherd 2 - Rim diameter 22cm (EVE 7.5%) and weighs 36g. The sherds have been dated to the late 1st - 2nd century based on the form and fabric as discussed in association with the Dorchester assemblage (Seager Smith 1993, 281-284).
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th February 2013
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Record ID: SOM-50EDA6
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a medieval cast copper alloy purse hanger. Purse frames usually have two straight sides, a straight bar and arched hanger. The fragment here is from the arched top with two complete arches and either side of these the following arches are now broken with old patinated breaks. The arches curve inwards towards the centre of the frame and from the ends of the arches there are lobed projections, three of which survive. The purse hanger is oval in section. The frame is now 47.4mm long, 17.5mm wide, and 2.9mm wide, weighing 4.67g. The number of arches and projecting lobes…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
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Record ID: SOM-50E224
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval English copper alloy jetton, round based shield of bearing three lions passant in tressure of three arches / cross moline design. Pierced through the centre. On edge of the corner there appears to be an old break, probably as a result of plough damage and at this point the edges have slightly bent. The jetton combines two reverses from the sterling bust series and is thought to be contemporary with them c.AD 1280-1340. Mitchiner (1988:111) no.198 appears very similar.
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Friday 26th April 2013
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Record ID: SOM-50DC64
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman cast copper-alloy lower part of the bow and catch of a brooch. The upper part of the bow, the head of the brooch and pin are missing due to an old patinated break. In section, the bow is D-shaped, with a flat back and curved front. The bow is narrow and ends in a blunt, rounded point at the foot. The majority of the remaining bow has the catchplate attached to the back. The catchplate is triangular in shape, curving out at 45 degrees from the bow to a rounded corner and returning with a straight edge to meet the foot. The straight edge is curved at 90 degrees towards the bow f…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 11th December 2014
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Record ID: SOM-50D6E5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gilded cast copper alloy late medieval or early post-medieval signet ring. The ring has a rounded bezel and the hoop has broken at the join of the bezel on one side as well as towards the top of the hoop before the bezel on the other side. Both breaks are old and patinated. The hoop for the ring, although cast, has been made to appear as though it was made with two twisted pieces of copper alloy. There is one complete twist at the beginning of the hoop at the join with the bezel but has broken as the second begins. On the top of the first twist are two round blobs and it…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
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Record ID: SOM-4F72E7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval cast copper alloy double looped buckle with an integral copper alloy strap bar but it is missing its pin. The buckle frame is broadly oval in shape with straight upper and lower sides and convex curved ends. The internal edge of the loops follows the same outline as the outer edge although the ends are thickened in the centre coming to a point on the inner side.The buckle is 24.4mm long, 16.7mm wide, 2.0mm thick and 2.04g. Whitehead (2003:70) illustrates two similar examples, no.440 and 441, which he dates to c.AD 1600-1720 although the example here does not have the…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
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Record ID: SOM-4F1CC4
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy shield shaped mount with an integrally cast rivet on the reverse. The mount is flat and the shield has a flat top with curved sides ending at a point. On the front of the mount is the remains of red enamel and there is decoration or a legend running across the centre. The rivet on the reverse is circular in section and protrudes initially from the back and half way along the rivet is slightly bent approximately 45 degrees. The rivet appears to be complete. The mount is 15.1mm long,13.8mm wide 19.2m, thick including the rivet and 2.6mm without. The rivet…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
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Record ID: SOM-4EA074
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval cast copper-alloy sword belt fitting with a separate copper alloy loop still hooked and iron rivets dating to the 17th century. The strap fitting is sub-triangular in shape with a hook at the base and the top is an indented v-shape. There are two holes, the first just below the top of the fitting and the second directly below, and the iron rivets are now corroded in place. The sword fitting is 35.1mm in length including the separate loop and 30.5mm without. At the top, the widest point, it is 13.3mm and 2.4mm thick and it weighs 3.17g. Sword fittings similar to t…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilchester', grid reference and parish protected.