Record ID: DOR-BC7033
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver denarius of Julia Mamaea dating to AD 221-235 (Reece Period 11). IVNO CONSERVATRIX reverse depicting Juno standing left holding patera and sceptre, peacock at foot left. Mint of Rome. Reference: RIC  Volume IV, part 2, No. 343 Date: Roman Diameter: 20.22 mm Weight: 2.34 g Die axis: 12
Created on: Saturday 20th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-BC547E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy radiate of Claudius II Gothicus dating to AD 268-270 (Reece Period 13). Illegible reverse depicting a standing figure. Date: Roman Diameter: 18.51 mm Weight: 1.53 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Saturday 20th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-BC3754
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy radiate of Claudius II Gothicus dating to AD 268-270 (Reece Period 13). Illegible reverse depicting a standing female figure with vertical sceptre. Date: Roman Diameter: 19.28 mm Weight: 2.25 g Die axis: 12
Created on: Saturday 20th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-BBEC41
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy radiate of Gallienus (Sole reign) dating to AD 260-268 (Reece Period 13). LIBERO P CONS AVG reverse depicting a tigress standing facing left. Mint of Rome. Reference: Cunetio No. 1343 Date: Roman Diameter: 20.05 mm Weight: 1.97 g Die axis: 12
Created on: Saturday 20th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-BB753D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306 - 337) dating to AD 318 - 324 (Reece Period 16). VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP reverse depicting two Victories holding a shield inscribed VOT PR above and altar, two captives below. Mint of Lyon. Date: Roman Diameter: 17.71 mm Weight: 2.20 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Saturday 20th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 31st January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-BB405D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of Constantius II (AD 323 - 361) dating to AD 343 - 348 (Reece Period 17). VICTORIAE DD AVGGQ NN reverse depicting two Victories holding wreaths. Mint of Lyon. Mint mark: Symbol//PLG Reference: LRBC part 1, No. 266 Date: Roman Diameter: 15.44 mm Weight: 1.39 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Saturday 20th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: DOR-03A27A
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy flat axehead or chisel. There is some damage to the cutting edge and the butt. The butt is narrow and angled at the end. The axehead is elongated with long, low-flanged sides which flare out from the butt to the curved cutting edge. The flanges start at the butt and increase slightly in height to the mid.point of the axehead before decreasing in height until stopping around 1 cm from the cutting edge. The side profile is pointed oval. The transverse profile is a shallow H-shape. There is no evidence of a stop-ridge. The surfaces are all heavily pi…
Created on: Monday 18th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 31st January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-6F37AD
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A base sherd from a Roman Oxfordshire red slipped ware vessel dating to the period c. AD 240 - 410. The sherd consists of part of a circular foot ring with edges terminating in old breaks. The fabric is orange in colour. It exhibits mica inclusions. The surfaces are coated in a smooth orange-red slip which has been heavily abraded. Similar record on the database SOM-8D7006 The remaining profile of the sherd suggests that it probably derives from a bowl of Young's form C40 - C96. See Young, C. J., The Roman pottery industry of the Oxford region,…
Created on: Monday 11th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-1CD8AB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman to Early Medieval Bow Brooch probably Continental and dating c.100 - 800 AD. Decorated front facing footplate with remains of the catchplate on the plain reverse. Footplate displays the stub of a ring and dot terminal lobe, wing shaped lower frame and sub circular upper frame terminating with an old break before the bow  The wing shaped lower frame has a raised border, decorated inner field and a ' ring and dot ' decoration at the tips. The sub circular upper frame displays a central rivet which probably held a decorated disc…
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
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Record ID: DOR-09004D
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead cloth seal. A two part seal with decoration on both discs. On one face is a central cross or privy mark flanked by possible letters and some symbols; a six pointed star on the bottom right. On the other face are further indistinct markings in a pellet border. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1500 - 1650 Dimensions: 18.15 mm x 2.61 mm Weight: 4.22 g This is similar to a number of items in Egan, G 1994 Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum, e.g. No. 208 (ibid p. 90 & p. 181 fig 30) which is dated to the 16th to early 17th centuries  
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-065441
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy silvered radiate, possibly of the Gallic Empire and dating to c.  AD 260 - 275.  (Reece period 13).  Female figure on the reverse, possibly Pax. Date: Roman Diameter:  20.01 mm Weight:  3.27 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-064198
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy contemporary copy of an As of Claudius (AD 41 - 54) dating to c. AD 43 - 54 (Reece period 2). Stylised, helmeted figure of Minerva advancing right holding round shield and throwing javelin. Crudely rendered letters SC flanking the figure. Date: Roman Diameter: 23.62 mm Weight: 4.86 g Die axis: uncertain
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-06242D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Iron Age copper alloy stater of the British Iron Age dating to c. 20 BC to 50 AD. A South Western uninscribed (Durotrigian) type. A stylised wreath on the obverse and a pellets on the reverse. Struck on an irregular flan and incomplete. Reference:  similar to ABC 2175 Diameter: 20.64 mm Weight: 3.01 g
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-05586E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy sestertius of Marcus Aurelius dating to AD 160 - 181 (Reece period 8).  Very little detail surviving. Standing female figure left, holding cornucopiae. Date: Post Medieval Diameter: 27.28 mm Weight: 18.78 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 17th December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-053E63
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy halfpenny of William III (1694 - 1702) dating to 1695 - 1700.  Reference: Spink 2015 Nos. 3554 - 3556 Date: Post Medieval Diameter: 27.53 mm Weight: 8.16 g Die axis: 6
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-0518F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver halfgroat of Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603) dating to 1594 - 1596. Mint of London. Woolpack initial marks. Reference: North Volume 2, No. 2016 Date: Post Medieval Diameter:16.84 mm Weight: 0.84 g Die axis: 3
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-F3F5FB
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy possible part of a knife bolster with an integral quillon.It has an oval-shaped body with a key-shaped aperture in the top and open at the bottom. The sides are straight and decorated on the long sides with two double diagonal lines of stamped triangles forming a truncated V-shape.Projection up and out from the narrow ends of the oval at the top are two arms of the integral quillon. They are trapeziodal in cross section and taper to stylised zoomorphic terminals. The terminals each have a two incised diagonal lines (perhaps the ears) forming a rea…
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 17th December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-9C5D42
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete ground and polished stone axehead. Cornish Group I. The surfaces are heavily weathered and quite rough. It has a transverse break across the body and only about half of the axehead remains.The cutting edge is not present. It tapers gently to a slightly rounded and asymmetrical butt. One side has a slight ridge, the other is faceted. It has an elliptical cross section. Date: Neolithic - c. 4000 - 2350 BC Dimensions: 95 mm x 56 mm x 31 mm Weight: 263 g Mik Markham carried out a macro examination of the material of the axehead and noted the following: The material…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-755827
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A worn, base silver radiate of Gallienus (AD 253-268), joint reign, dating to the period c.AD 253-260 (Reece period 12). VICT GERMANICA reverse type depicting Victory running left holding wreath and trophy, trampling captive to left. Gallic mint. Cunetio no. 724. Diameter: 20.54 mm Weight: 1.73 g Die axis: 12
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: DOR-47A5EB
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tertiary flint flake. Incomplete. The flake is of mid-grey flint with off-white patches and has a glossy patina. There is a wide striking platform at the proximal end and a low bulb of percussion on the ventral face. The distal end has been snapped off. There are multiple, multi-directional flaking scars on the dorsal face, some possibly to thin the flake to create an arrowhead or other implement Date: Neolithic to Early Bronze Age c. 4000 - 1600 BC Length: 23.41 mm Width: 20.37 mm Thickness: 7.29 mm Weight: 3.14 g
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Saturday 30th December 2023
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