Record ID: SOMDOR-611D02
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast composite two piece lead/tin alloy button with separate embedded drawn iron wire shank (17th century). The button is discoidal in shape and flat. The decoration is dificult to see but comprises at the very least, two concentric relief circles, with a pattern between. The edge is ragged and flaking, the looped shank is broken and corroded. A good parallel from North Dorset is described in Read's 'Metal Buttons', p.101, no.400.
Created on: Monday 30th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-5E5CF8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An assemblage of 16 medieval pottery sherds from Kingsbury Milborne Port, Somerset. The date range of the assemblage seems to broadly encompass the 12th to 13th centuries AD, although, one sherd may be late Saxon and a few sherds of post-medieval pottery were also found in association. The earliest sherd is the flattened upright rim of a late Saxon cooking vessel. The fabric has a light grey to buff core and dark grey-black surfaces. It is coarsly gritted with predominately rounded and sub-angular quartz grains (
Created on: Monday 30th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-217031
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper-alloy radiate or nummus dating from c. 260-402. Very worn and illegible, with most of the surface missing.
Created on: Friday 27th October 2006
Last updated: Saturday 14th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-2115E1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper-alloy nummus, probably of Constantius II and dating from the period AD 353-361. FEL TEMP REPARATIO reverse type depicting a soldier advancing left spearing a fallen horseman. Mint of Lyons.
Created on: Friday 27th October 2006
Last updated: Saturday 15th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-20B465
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn and illegible late Roman copper-alloy radiate or nummus dating from c. 260-402.
Created on: Friday 27th October 2006
Last updated: Saturday 14th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-208C82
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn and illegible late Roman copper-alloy radiate or nummus dating from c. 260-402.
Created on: Friday 27th October 2006
Last updated: Saturday 14th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-204D07
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper-alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337), dating from the period AD 320-321 (Reece period 16). VIRTVS EXERCIT reverse type depicting Two captives seated on ground either side of a trophy or standard. Mint of Trier. Cf. RIC VII p. 186 no. 249 passim.
Created on: Friday 27th October 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-1D3DD4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
8 abraded sherds of medieval coarse ware pottery dating from the 12th to 14th centuries. two of the sherds are conjoining, and the join is abraded suggesting that they were separated in antiquity. they are base sherds from a cook pot with sagging base. the sherds are externally sooted. the fabric is light grey throughout, hard and coarsely gritted with super-abundant rounded and sub-rounded quartz (
Created on: Friday 27th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Briantspuddle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-0ADED3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a trapezoidal double frame cast copper alloy buckle, probably dating from the seventeenth century. Only the exterior edge of one of the frames survives. The frame is flat with a projecting ovoid knop on the exterior of each angle and in the centre of the exterior side of the frame there is a trefoil knop. A very similar example can be seen in Whitehead's 'Buckles 1250-1800' (1996, p. 84, no. 529). Whitehead dates his example to between c. 1620 and c. 1680. The buckle fragment is 28.99mm wide, 24.88mm long, 2.29mm thick and weighs 4.31g.
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-0A0986
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy strap end with two loops and two folded sheets (1270-1400 AD). The loops are made from plain copper alloy wire folded over and welded together. the loops are very narrow. the two loops are joined by a section of folded plain copper alloy sheet with wide gaps at the folds to accomodate the loops. A second broken sheet is attatched to one of the loops to form a jointed hinged stap end. There are no good parallels for this object in Egan and Pritchard, although plain folded sheets of this type were in use during the late 13th to early 14th centuries (Egan and Pritc…
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-09BAB4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy buckle with roller, pin missing (1200-1400 AD). The buckle has an oval frame with an ornate outside edge and offset and narrowed bar. The outside edge has two knops flanking a constriction for the roller. Parallels for this buckle can be found in Egan & Pritchard (1991, 72-4, no.s 288 & 301) although neither of the parallels are the same size as this example. this style of buckle seems to have remained in fashion for a period of at least two centuries. The buckle measures 26.12mm wide and 20.01mm long, it weighs 5.26g.
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-08FEE0
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval copper alloy button (late 15th-16th centuries). The button is discoidal and solid with a convex front and flat back. It is decorated with a central pellet and a clockwise 8-bladed impeller. It has a rectangular-section sub-lozenge shaped shank. The object has a diameter of 12.06mm and is 14.74mm long (shank length 10.34mm)and weighs 2.84g. A good parallel for this button is recorded in Read (2005, no. 112), although this example is approximately 1mm smaller in diameter than Read's.
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-CE2E67
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy awl of probable Bronze Age date. The object measures 56.09mm long and 3.41mm diameter. It has a cylindrical cross section with a simple tapering point at one end and is flattened at the other. A similar object with comparable dimensions was found sealed under the rampart of a 'henge' at Castell Bryngwyn, Anglesey (Savory, 1980, no.486, pp.156 & 199).
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 28th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-CD9723
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two sherds of early Medieval cooking vessels datable to the 11th-13th centuries. An upright, slightly everted plain rim sherd with neck from a cooking vessel of 440mm diameter. The fabric is coarse, hard and fairly heavily gritted with poorly sorted sub-rounded quartz (
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-CC47D8
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A selection of 7 flint objects found at Ham Hill, Somerset in 1950. One is probably a late Neolithic chisel arrowhead (62.17mm long, 35.26mm wide, and 14.56mm thick, 26.67g. Another is probably an early Neolithic notched flake (36.82mm x 18.56mm x 4.50mm thick and 2.66g). Another three are early neolithic serrated blades (37.86 x 19.48 x 5.81mm, 4.91g; 29.64 x 26.95 x 7.21mm thick, 3.44g; 32.44 x 14.13 x 3.42mm thick, 1.56g). Two more objects are either a waste flake (32.63 x 23.12 x 8.52mm thick, 6.51g) or a core (55.77 x 27.68 x 10.40mm thick, 14.33g) without evidence for retouch.
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 28th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke Sub Hamdon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-CB1D33
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One rim and one body sherd of early Roman quartz-tempered pottery. The fabric is hard and generally coarse with abundant inlusions of well sorted small rounded quartz grains (
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke Sub Hamdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-CA3562
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One rim and one body sherd of Iron Age shell-tempered pottery. The fabric is hard and generally fine with abundant inlusions of fossil shell (
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke Sub Hamdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-C952D1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
large body sherd from a large medieval coarseware jug with thumbed decoration. The fabric is dark pink-orange in colour with patches of buff-brown. Inclusions incude: frequent large angular to sub-angular iron oxide (
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dorchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-764453
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval lead papal bulla of pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303). The obverse has the usual images of saints Peter and Paul in pelleted aureoles, although the expected abbreviated lettering; SPA SPE is badly damaged and illegible. The reverse bears the inscription BONI [F]AT[I]VS PP VIII.
Created on: Thursday 19th October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Hinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-759225
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Groat of Edward III, fourth coinage, pre treaty period (AD 1351-1361).
Created on: Thursday 19th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Damerham', grid reference and parish protected.