Record ID: DEV-CE1F77
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a silver ingot of unknown date. A fraction of two original straight edges remain, they converge at a rounded corner, suggesting the original object was sub-rectangular or sub-square. The remaining perimeter of the object consists of fresh angular breaks. The material is likely silver: it is not magnetic. One surface is even and smooth showing striations in varying directions. The opposing surface is uneven and textured. Measurements: length 38.5 mm, width 37.1 mm, thickness 6.9 mm. Weight: 55.68 g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Tawton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-A60894
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unidentified copper-alloy object of unknown date. The object is a narrow bar, with a rounder upper surface and a flattened, slightly wider, reverse surface. The cross-section is D-shaped.There is a fresh break at one end and a rounded terminal at the opposing end. The sides are roughly parallel, but they taper inwards slightly towards the broken terminal. The surface is corroded and shows a green patina, with an area of black patina on the reverse. The patina suggests age. There is a short diagonal line across the reverse surface at&…
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: DEV-FCF57A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy mount in the form of a lion couchant modelled in relief on the front face but flat on the rear face. The front face has a slightly melted appearance as though a blob of metal has been dropped on it, with consquent loss of some decorative detail. The front paws are placed together beneath the mouth and there is no other creature pinned down beneath them, as is normal in leonine knife handles and figurines (e.g. BH-2159D4 and SWYOR-F1D5D6). To what other object this piece was fixed is unknown. Dimensions: Length 35 mm, Height 18 mm, …
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
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Record ID: DEV-0FB47A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged copper-alloy object, presumably incomplete, of uncertain function and date. It is broadly tubular - hollow, with a square cross-section with rounded corners. At one of the shorter ends the 'tube' appears to have been pinched closed. At the other terminal the outer edge is slightly bevelled suggesting a finished end, though there is a small loss. Both sides feature small, broadly rectangular protruding tabs, nearer the probable original end. These are reminiscent of the loops on a miniature socketed axehead, but are off centre, aligned diagonally the one to the ot…
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 25th January 2023
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Record ID: DEV-EA0255
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy probable mount of uncertan date. The artefact takes the form of a thin, sub-oval plate of which perhaps around 50% now survives, assuming both ends are identical, which is not necessarily the case. The plate was perhaps of elongated oval form, with at least one somewhat squared off short end; indeed, only one terminal and is abraded. On the reverse of the mount is an integral rivet set centrally at the surviving short end. From this end the object gradually widens before narrowing again; it has broken in a sligtly jagged fashion beyond this widest point.…
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2023
Last updated: Friday 3rd February 2023
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Record ID: DEV-B283BD
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small, flat gold fragment with possible evidence of deliberate flattening of uncertain date. The fragment is sub-trapezoidal, with a very thin pointed oval cross-section. It appears broken at both shorter ends. Flattening seems to have occurred principally to the longitudinal edges. Measurements: length 12.5 mm, width 10.5 mm, thickness 0.5 mm, weight 0.97 g
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 15th December 2022
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Record ID: DEV-052687
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead spindle whorl or possibly weight. It is broadly conical with a flattened top and base with a slightly tapering circular hole running through the centre. It has received some slight abrasions at the top. It is 22.5 mm in diameter at the base, 15.5 mm at the top, it is 10 mm high and weighs 28.20 g; the hole is 7.5 mm in diameter at the base, 7 mm at the top. Plain spindle whorls and weights were cast locally in lead from the Roman period onwards and such plain and rough examples are hard to date precisely although most are late medieval - post-medieval.
Created on: Friday 7th October 2022
Last updated: Friday 7th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashburton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-2F1B7B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead weight, likely a net or loom weight, dating from the Roman to the post-medieval periods, c. AD 43-1700. The weight is cylindrical in shape with a central channel which is also circular. This is slightly off centre. There are scratches and dings to the lead alloy which are likely post depositional.  Lead weights are difficult to date securely or assign to specific tasks without archaeological context, as they change very little and thus a wide date range is suggested. The form of these weights has been suggested as reflecting those utilised for fishing or as net s…
Created on: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
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Record ID: DEV-8FB235
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two worked and heated fragments of sedimentary rocks of unknown age, dating to c. 1500 BC -AD 1900. The fragments are of irregular shape, although loosely rectilinear. One is a blackened stone with thin lines of strata and a white cortex on the underside whose heated surface has an almost greenish tinge, while the other is a reddish brown tone and markedly smoother. They have been deliberately heated to produce an extremely high shine surface on their dorsal side, which has then been used as a base for cutting as there are multiple deeply incised cut marks on these high shine su…
Created on: Tuesday 1st February 2022
Last updated: Friday 11th February 2022
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Record ID: DEV-8F8C21
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A whetstone formed from a sedimentary rock, possibly greywacke, of unknown age, dating to c. 1500 BC -AD 1900. The whetstone is trapezoidal in shape and rectangular in section. It has a deep area of wear where it has been used for sharpening tools, which is discoloured and dark compared to the surrounding mid grey coloured stone. The wear has created a ridge where the objects being sharpened were brought backwards along the wear surface. While a medieval to post medieval date is posited, examples from Cornwall recorded with the PAS (e.g. CORN-0EE8C3) have been found in con…
Created on: Tuesday 1st February 2022
Last updated: Friday 11th February 2022
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Record ID: DEV-792A2C
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
14 amorphous lumps of copper alloy metal working debris that show melting. They appear as mixture of forms some which may allude to casting. The majority of pieces are very irregular with little to distinguish their forms. Eight pieces have a bubbly structure typical of high temperature working. One trapezoidal piece with a rectangular cross section is likely to have been a copper alloy pot handle but also shows signs of having been heated to a high temperature. There is one particularly large piece. This is V shaped in plan with a rectangular cross section that is hollowed a…
Created on: Wednesday 5th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 29th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ottery St. Mary CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-60ACE4
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unidentified copper alloy object of uncertain date. The object consists of a copper alloy loop and highly corroded, partial iron shank. The loop has an inverted, sub-piriform plan, flaring outwards into a circular base, creating a narrowed waist. The piriform section is sub-rectangular in cross section. The broad side of the terminal is perforated, forming a loop; the opening is sub-rectangular, with 'pinched' lateral sides and a sloping lower edge, narrowing into a circular perforation. A corroded iron shank projects from the circular base, now roughly sub-rectangular in cross sec…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 23rd July 2018
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Record ID: DEV-17D6CD
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy metal working debris of unknown date, c. 2400 BC - AD 1900, but probably post AD 1500. Weight: 77.18g.
Created on: Friday 1st December 2017
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2017
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Record ID: DEV-6727BD
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of Prehistoric flint debitage, probably dating to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age, although a single flake cannot be dated with confidence. Tertiary flake; dark-grey/brown flint mottled with biege inclusions, the larger having a sandy texture. A striking platform partially survives at the proximal end with a diffuse bulb of percussion, there is an obliquely angled hinge approximately three quarters of the way down the length of the flake, in line with a large inclusion on the ventral face. Two sub-parallel blade-like flake removal scars survive on the dorsal face, one was …
Created on: Monday 11th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2017
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Record ID: DEV-E95533
Object type: CORE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six Prehistoric flint core or core fragments, part of a larger assemblage of 43 peices of debitage, see also (DEV-E7AD5A, DEV-E88F5F). All are of pebble flint. 1. Secondary core, with cortex covering c. 55% of the surface. Of a pale grey/white flint with some ferrous inclusions. The core has a single striking platform, with a number of neat, parallel removals struck from it, some of the later being very small and potential bladelets if intentional. Weight: 39.06g. 2. Secondary core fragment, of a very similar flint and with natural breaks at its rear and bottom. One surviving st…
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2017
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Record ID: DEV-E88F5F
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of 4 Prehistoric worked flint flakes , part of a larger assemblage of 43 peices of debitage, see also DEV-E95533, DEV-E7AD5A. Those flakes discussed here all exhibit some evidence of retouch. Flakes 1-3 are all from beach pebbles, similar to the rest of the assemblage. 1. A large secondary flake of pale grey flint with very frequent paler inclusions, dark flecks and a very large ferrous inclusion. Retaining cortex on c. 45% of its dorsal face, covering the majority of the right half of the face. The strking platform survives with a relatively diffuse, unscarred bulb of perc…
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2017
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-E7AD5A
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of 33 peices of Prehistoric flint debitage; although the group is not uniform, it appears to have been sourced almost exlusively from beach or river pebbles. No flakes discussed here exhibit evidence of retouch. Part of larger assemblage of 43 peices; see also DEV-E95533, DEV-E88F5F. The assemblage includes a single primary flake (w: 15.01g), this is incomplete, missing its distal end. Struck from a pebble, with a surviving striking platform and diffuse bulb of percussion with no scars, of a pale grey flint with frequent inclusions. 15 secondary flakes (w: 74.98g, avg. w…
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-6E49A1
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete whetstone of uncertain date and of a fine, greywacke sandstone. Rectangular in plan and sub-rectangualr in profile, the fragment terminates in worn breaks at either end. Due to abrasion to either face of the stone, in profile the whetstone tapers from 19.3mm wide at one end to 13.7mm at the other, with the narrowing being pronouncedly concave at one end and becoming more gradual below. This is more prominent on one face than the other. Dimensions: length 50.5mm; width 21.8mm; thickness 19.3mm; weight 29.03g. Whetstones were in use from the Bronze Age onwards, and w…
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2017
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Record ID: DEV-6DEA2A
Object type: HAMMERSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unmodiefied beach cobble of metabasic igneous cornish "greenstone" utilised as a hammerstone, probably of prehistoric date, c. 8,000 BC - AD 43. The cobble is broady sub-trapezoidal in plan, oval in cross-section and piriform in profile, with the cobble being truncated by extensive, fairly localised battering damage on one end, now worn. Dimensions: length 85.4mm; width 67.5mm; thickness 51.8mm; weight: >300g. A similar hammerstone recorded on this database, CORN-2E4F62, references an unmodified "greenstone" hammerstone excavated within a Middle Bronze Age round house at Scar…
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2017
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Record ID: DEV-9C7B05
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unidentified Lead alloy object, probably of fairly recent date, but potentially older, c. AD 1400-1900. The object is incomplete, comprising of a lead alloy disc with a single surviving attachment loop. The disc is decorated, all deeply incised, with a robed figure on horseback within a circular border. The border appears to have been used as a guide to cut away much of the original circumference, with, by the orientation of the decoration, between 2 and 9 o'clock missing. The weight of the object in combination with the positioning of the loop (which is not alligned with the decor…
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2017
Last updated: Saturday 26th August 2017
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