Record ID: SOMDOR-861648
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An elaborate cast copper alloy buckle of medieval date. The frame of the openwork buckle is D-shaped, three dimensional and concave on the underside. It measures 35.23mm by 24.38mm by 18.24mm and weighs 11.33g. The back consists of a fairly thin flat D-shaped band of copper alloy, the straight edge of which is narrowed. The pin is missing. Projecting from the front of the frame there are three moulded animals, probably dogs, in Romanesque style. The central dog, which is standing facing left, is largest. The small dogs both face towards the large dog, all with heads looking forward. To…
Created on: Monday 15th May 2006
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-C43F76
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete thirteenth or fourteenth century silver gilt finger ring. The bezel is square with rounded corners and measures 11.28mm by 11.45mm by 4.25mm. It is hollow with a square opening in the front, but the gem is missing. The surviving part (about half) of the hoop suggests a former diameter of 19.36mm, not including the bezel. The hoop is 3.62mm wide and 1.4mm thick. It is decorated on the exterior with alternating engraved lozenges and four-petalled flowers. The inside of the band is plain. The gilding is worn. Weight: 2.36g.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-B53702
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy annular brooch with inscription, probably dating from the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The diameter on the brooch is 22.65mm, the ring is around 4.7mm wide and it is 2.7mm thick. It weighs 5.74g. The ring narrows to accommodate the pin, which is 22.18mm in length. The loop of the pin is quadrangular with rounded corners and it has a slight collar. It then tapers to a point. The letters of the inscription on the front of the brooch are defined by short inscribed lines and each letter is separated by an area of light hatching. It reads POVERT and is preceeded by …
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2006
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cerne Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-378F61
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment from a enamelled cast copper alloy Crescentic terret of probable late Iron Age date. The fragment measures 36.8mm by 24.6mm by 12.1mm and weighs 18.44g. It consists of part of the hoop and a 10mm length of the cast-in-one copper alloy bar, which is narrowed with a circular cross-section (diameter 6.2mm). Beside the bar the hoop has a sub-circular cross-section (diameter 11.9mm). This narrows to around 6mm internally, with a flat rectangular cross-sectioned exterior, much of which has been damaged. This flat part is decorated on both sides with red enamel, inlaid around raise…
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corscombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-171FB6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337), dating to the period c.AD 313-314 (Reece period 15). SOLI INVICTO COMITI reverse type depicting Sol standing left raising right hand and holding globe in left. Mint of London. RIC VI, p. 140, no. 282; Cloke and Toone (2015), p. 208, no. 8.01.009.
Created on: Thursday 14th December 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Okeford Fitzpaine', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-29F941
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast lead pilgrim badge of medieval date. The badge measures 49.11mm in length, 25.15mm in width, its maximum thickness is 4.45mm and it weighs 6.12g. The front of the badge is moulded to represent the bust of St Thomas Becket, indicating that this was a product of his shrine at Canterbury, Kent. The archbishop wears a mitre which has a raised central vertical panel on which there is an off-centre line of raised dots. The rest of the mitre is filled with cross hatching. The top of the mitre has been bent backwards but it appears to have been topped with a cross. The face has well-de…
Created on: Thursday 23rd March 2006
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-9EF797
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A scatter of post-medieval pottery was reported by the landowners in c. 2012, mainly deriving from a large vegetable patch. The pottery included a large quantity of redware sherds, some of which were wasters, plus 18th century yellow slipwares and iron-enriched glazed wares. A sample was donated to the Museum of Somerset (TTNCM : 45/2023). A note on the find by Laura Burnett and David Dawson was published in PSANHS vol. 157 (2013, p. 161). This notes that the fabric has a similar laminated appearance to waste recovered at Nunney Catch and to the north of Trudoxhill.  The donated…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2011
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nunney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-9E68C2
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy pilgrim badge of probable late medieval date. The badge, which is moulded to represent St Barbara, measures 26.2mm by 18mm by 1.9mm and weighs 3.98g. The badge is quite worn but the standing figure of a haloed St Barbara is clear. To her right is the tower where she was imprisoned, and to her left a palm leaf, a symbol of martyrdom. The tower appears to have a doorway at its base and several sections, topped with a crenellated roof. The figure is possibly holding a chalice, another symbol associated with St Barbara, and an open book, but neither is very clear. On th…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2007
Last updated: Friday 16th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingsdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-AE2A67
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a medieval silver-gilt iconographic finger-ring. Only the bezel survives. The bezel is divided into two facets, each bearing the crudely engraved figure of a saint. The left side bears a male figure, the right side the Virgin and Child. This finger-ring is referred to by Standley (2013, 77)
Created on: Tuesday 19th February 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Taunton Manor and Wilton DW', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-AE03E3
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tertiary flint waste flake measuring 25.8mm by 22.83mm by 7.81mm and weighing 3.57g. The striking platform is visible at the proximal end, with the bulb of percussion, a pronounced bulbar scar and slight ripples on the ventral surface. There are several flaking scars on the dorsal side. The flint is dark grey-black with a mid gloss patina. This object may be a late Neolithic or early Bronze Age waste flake, but one of the flaking scars, which is steep and perfectly flat, may indicate that the flake was a by-product of gun flint manufacture in more recent times.
Created on: Monday 28th November 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-6E7EB5
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead. The arrowhead has been made from a flake, which was invasively retouched on both sides by pressure flaking. The arrowhead has a tang but no protruding barbs. Its small size, light weight and large length to breath ratio place it as a Sutton type (Butler 2005, pp. 162-3). The light brownish-cream flint has a low-gloss patina.
Created on: Monday 19th December 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nynehead area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-59B168
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint triangular arrowhead of probable later Neolithic or early Bronze Age date. The arrowhead has been made from a tertiary waste flake and there is pressure-flaked invasive retouch over both faces. The mid-brown flint has a mid-gloss patina. Dimensions: 22.9mm by 18.4mm by 5.3mm Weight: 2.09g
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caradon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-33F9A1
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast copper alloy side-looped and socketed spearhead of probable Middle Bronze Age date. The surviving section comprises the central part of the spearhead, with the beginnings of the side flanges of the (probably) leaf-shaped spear blade at one end and the start of the two side loops at the other. The socket is circular in profile and tapers towards the blade end. The fragment measures 41.7mm by 14.94mm by 13.51mm and weighs 12.61g.
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-43C137
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two sherds of Samian ware pottery of probable early Roman date. One sherd is the central part of a base from a bowl and the other is a body sherd from a bowl with a slight carination. Both sherds are micaceous with pinkish-orange fabrics suggesting that they are Lezoux (Central Gaulish) products. Total weight: 49.3g
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 25th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Horethorne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-25B110
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy hooked tag of probable late medieval or post medieval date. The hooked tag measures 34mm by 16.1mm by 1.4mm and weighs 1.72g. It has a lozenge-shaped plate with decoration in the form of a wavy edge and a moulded quatrefoil in the centre. At one end is a backwards curving hook, which has been slightly bent out of shape. At the other end is a square loop, for attachment. It has been published as Read (2008, 109) no, 432
Created on: Monday 8th January 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Okeford Fitzpaine', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-04A009
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two joining sherds from the rim of a large open bowl in a North Devon gravel-tempered fabric of late medieval to early post-medieval date. The sherd has oxidised orange surfaces and margins, and a reduced mid-grey/brown core. The rim is flared and slightly dished, with a flat, angled top and a slightly wavy outer edge. About 40 mm below the rim there is an internal ridge and at this point the wall angle changes, becoming steeper. There is a small splash of glaze beside the ridge. Measurements: 47 mm maximum height, 68 mm maximum width, weight 42.36 g overall Complete bowls of similar…
Created on: Monday 19th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 15th February 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-327544
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy hooked fastener of probable 17th century date. The dress fastener comprises a sub-circular plate with one round attachment loop intact, the stub of a second and the third entirely missing. The three circular loops would have been spaced equally around the edge of the plate. Between two of the loops there would have been a rectangular eyelet, also now missing, which would have accommodated a complementary fastener's forward-curving hook. The moulded decoration on the front of the fastener consists of a moulded-in-relief cross of St George within a wre…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2006
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mareham on the Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-4697E9
Object type: TEGULA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four fragmentary pieces of Roman ceramic building material: all tegula roof tiles made from a similar moderately well-fired oxidised fabric. Date ranges and types below are derived from Warry (2006). Tile 1: tegula fragment with complete lower cutaway present of Warry’s Group C (c. AD 160-260) The flange profile is perpendicular with a rounded corner. Dimensions 142 mm by 85 mm by 42 mm (max.); weight : 337 g Tile 2: tegula fragment with partial lower cutaway present. This could belong to Warry’s Group B or C (c. AD 100-260). The flange profile is seem…
Created on: Wednesday 28th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 24th November 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-D80221
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver gilt pin of sixteenth century date. The pin has been bent into a right-angle part way along its shaft. The diameter of the hollow cast pin head is 9.2mm, the diameter of the shaft is 2.1mm and the pin weighs 2.8g. The full length of the shaft when straight would have been c. 54mm. The pin head is divided into two hemispheres with a line of filigree. Each hemisphere is decorated with applied filigree circlets punctuated with spherical knops. One of the smaller filigree circlets and its central boss are missing from the lower (pin end) hemisphere. The pin head is gilded, with th…
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Perrott', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-810598
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nummus of the House of Valentinian dating from between 364 and 378 (Reece period 19). GLORIA ROMANORVM reverse type. Diameter: 17.43 mm Weight: 1.46 g
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Monday 13th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.