Record ID: SOM-8949CB
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast lead-alloy figurine of probable late Post-Medieval to early Modern date (c. AD 1800 - 1900). The figurine is missing its head and legs and/or base. It depicts a robed female, standing, holding a harp in her left hand and what looks like a scroll in her right. It is possible that it is a depiction of a Greek or Roman goddess or muse. There is an iron shank running longitudinally through the centre of the object and protruding from the robe at the base.The function of the object remains unclear; it could be a decorative figurine or perhaps&nb…
Created on: Thursday 1st December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th December 2022
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Record ID: SOM-5CB66C
Object type: MEDAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular gold 'Cross Country Champion' medal with chain mount from Stockport Harriers Club dating to 1930. The front of the medal has the Stockport Harriers logo of an conjoined S and H raised from the medal within a raised outline of a shield. This is surrounded by a bright gold dappled background, which in turn is circled by the words 'Stockport Harriers Club -1930' in a border. The recessed areas around the letters and background of th shield are now rose gold in colour although a patch of blue by one of the letters may be enamel. On the reverse within a raised border there…
Created on: Tuesday 15th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Cleeve CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-DC13B5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
[See Update from December 2023 at the bottom of this record. When originally recorded, it was described as below]. : An eight-sided fragment of thick silver plate stamped on both faces with the design of the ‘Two-line’ type of Alfred the Great of Wessex(871-99). This type was introduced c. 879-80. Surviving examples of the coinage include examples regarded as part of the official coinage in the name of Alfred and others regarded as contemporary Viking imitations produced in areas outside Alfred’s control. The two are typically differentiated by weight, with Alfred&rs…
Created on: Friday 27th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2023
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Record ID: SOM-6477DB
Object type: MEDAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An octagonal silver 'Harvard Monthly' medal from Harvard University. The obverse has a raised cast double outer border, pellet within line surrounding a design of a squirrel holding an ear of wheat facing left sitting on a torse, with the lower case letters h and m overlapping in the field, The squirrels torse is curved and sits on top of the curved part of the h. Under the curve of the h is a shield of arms with 3 books with the inscription VE//RI//TAS on the books. This is the Harvard coat of arms. Underneath the shield is the date: 1885. The reverse has again a double lin…
Created on: Monday 9th September 2019
Last updated: Thursday 23rd April 2020
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Record ID: SOM-70698B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of the rim of a large open vessel, probably a garden vessel, possibly a decorative bowl or relatively modern date. The piece is made in a coarse but high fired dark orange fabric with numerous air gaps giving a laminar structure. The fabric has sparse fine quartz temper and occasional very large, up to 6mm globular clay pellets and occasional white rounded inclusion up to 1mm, probably limestone. The rim is from a widening mouth of a vessel of large diameter. There is a beaded rounded rim on the outer side with an unusual applied decoration on the outer side. The decoration is of…
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 14th April 2020
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Record ID: SOM-7EDC5E
Object type: MEDAL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two objects: A military cap badge with a central flower and inscribed garter belt, surrounded by a laurel wreath leading up to a crown at the top. Inscribed with the words 'Duke of Connaught's Own'. A strip like clip is on the back with the words 'MIN LONDON' printed in small white lettering, the end lost to a break. (8.34g, 38.5mm by 34.2mm, 2mm thick). Probably manufactured by Firmin of London, a major producer of Military buttons and other goods still in existance today. A football club league champion medal with a central shield, a ring shaped border and a loop at the top.Th…
Created on: Friday 24th May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2019
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Record ID: SOM-4E20E3
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern copper alloy public house token from Isaac Cutler of the Horse and Groom pub in Heavitree. Dating between c.1850 - 1891 (Cornforth, 2014. Exeter Pubs). The Obverse reads "HORSE AND GROOM" in the centre with the inscription reading "ISAAC CUTLER. HEAVITREE." The reverse consists of information relating to the makers of the coin with a "3D" in the middle with the inscription reading "MADE BY T. POPE. NEWHALL ST. BIRMINGHAM.".
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Record ID: SOM-4D8219
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern copper alloy public house token for 3d from the Exeter Inn at Honiton Clyst. Probably dating between AD 1900 and 1925. The obverse consists of 'DRAKE'S' in the centre and the inscription reads "EXETER INN, HONITON'S CLYST'. "Drake's" could be referring to William Henry Drake who owned a pub called Exeter Inn in Honiton Clyst in 1919. The reverse has '3d' in the centre and the inscription reads 'SEACE & SON MAKERS EXETER'.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Record ID: SOM-4CB117
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MODERN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern copper alloy token dating between AD 1835-1948 with a value of 4d. It was issued by Great Western Railway with 'Refreshment Department' written on the obverse.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halberton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-68F1A6
Object type: GRENADE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
40 Lead alloy (or highly leaded copper alloy) fragments of at least 5 no. 36 style Mills Grenades three at least of which date to 1940 and are probably related to WWII activity although a later use cannot be ruled out. The collection is made up of 5 filler caps which are circular in shape with the outer edge having the screw thread and one side having a type of metal disk with a screw-threaded hole in the middle to attach it to a rifle. They also have writing referring to the type of grenade it is, although all the pieces are different in this regard, it was not uncommon for mills gre…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Saturday 15th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8115C7
Object type: TILE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of ceramic building material, probably a roof tile, probably of Modern date, although the amount of Roman material in the area suggests an unusual Roman form cannot be ruled out. The fragment is irregular in plan and rectangular in section, broken and abraded on three sides with one complete, angled edge. It has a fine hard fired completely oxidised fabric. Fine linear striations on the surface may suggest a modern technique. Traces of white mortar are on either face of fragment. On one side remain traces of a rounded flange. The fragment measures 96.1 mm in length, 54.2…
Created on: Thursday 30th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stour CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-9D36D7
Object type: BULLET
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fired modern lead bullet. The cast lead bullet was probably originally of domed or pointed form with a hollow base, now mostly melted. The point has been flattened and the lower part of the bullet rolled/compressed upwards. The length is 13.6mm and width 18.8mm. The width of the top of the object is 11.2mm, suggesting its use for perhaps a 0.45 inch calibre weapon. There are two circumferential lines visible. Weight: 14.3grams​. The bullet has characteristics of the Minié ball, but a definite designation is not possible given its condition. This was a type of muzzle-loading…
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 2nd August 2018
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Record ID: SOM-5BC0CB
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern gold finger ring formed of a sexfoil bezel and hoop of multiple twised wires. The bezel is flat with a raised rim and raised collet in the centre. The collet has multiple small triangular projections around the top rim which are bent over a faceted pink stone to hold it in place. The inner point of each indent between each petal is decorated with a pellet and the front of the flower bezel, around the collet is decorated with multple raised dots formed from the background metal. The back of the bezel is plain. The hoop abuts the bezel and is formed of two larger lines of twis…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2018
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Record ID: SOM-4A6B50
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern copper-alloy trade weight dating c.1825 - 1835. The weight is circular with a raised rim on the top. The bottom surface is flat. The top surface of the weight has been stamped with two concentric circles, the words 'IMPERIAL' (at 12 o'clock) and 'STANDARD' (at 6 o'clock), a crowned WR positioned centrally and a stamp attributing to Somerset districts (at 8 o'clock). Biggs (1992:54-56) suggests that the 'WR crowned' stamp continues from the use of the 'crowned GR' stamp, which was used widely on weights that were made outside major centres in the late eighteenth and earl…
Created on: Monday 16th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 16th April 2018
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Record ID: SOM-A313D3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hollow gold finger ring decorated with incised lines and now slightly squashed. A photograph of the ring has been examined by curators at the British Museum who suggest (pers comm 13/02/2018) it post-dates 1718 and therefore does not need to reported under the Treasure Act 1996. The ring is D-shaped in cross section and circular in plan although now squashed and distorted in places. It is decorated around the entire outside with a repeating mtif of a branch (diagonal line with two pairs of angled side branches) alternating with a sideways S, one end of which is crossed by a short …
Created on: Tuesday 27th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2018
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Record ID: SOM-7DB8A7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern modified silver gothic florin of Victoria dating to the period 1860 (the date of the coin) to c. 1950. The obverse features a crowned bust of Victoria facing left, surrounded by the legend 'Victoria d:g: brit: reg: f:d: mdccclx'. The bust and legend are well preserved. However, the bust and the field are covered with multiple randomly placed and crudely made incisions, all of a similar length and breath (c. 5 x 0.5mm) and sometimes crossing. The reverse of the coin has been polished to such an extent that the original design has been obliterated. In it's place, three heral…
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 14th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ash Priors CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-ED9FF3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Modern brass (copper-alloy) button. Slightly domed front and concave back. The front decorated with a circle formed of a belt with buckle inscribed MENTAL HOSPITAL, WELLS. The back has no makers mark and just two concentric raised rings around a central loop formed of a D-shaped strip bent over into a loop and applied to the back. The button is 25.6mm in diameter, 3.3mm thick and weighs 5.59 grams. Mendip Hospital , the former county asylum was known as Wells Mental Hospital by 1929 and the Somerset and Bath Mental Hospital (Wells) between 1940 - 1948 so a date of c.1900 to 1948 is…
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 29th August 2017
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Record ID: SOM-A3F059
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy piece of uncertain use modelled on a die stamp for a livery button of probably 19th cnetury date. The piece is circular with a shaped front, rough sides and smoothed back where the metal has cooled with a slightly concave centre. There is a square piercing through it at 12 o'clock near the rim. The front is concave from the rim with a raised circle with slightly rounded edges 22.4 mm in diameter taking up the centre. The raised circle has a slightly convex top and a raised design on it of a shield of English (Tudor arch) shape bearing four fusils in fess above the shield i…
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holford CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-41C231
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-medieval copper alloy single looped harness buckle, probably dating to AD 1800-1950. The buckle has a rextangular loop with rounded outer corners and a recessed bar set below the plane of the loop. The frame has a thick D-shaped cross section, with a circular cross section to the bar. Traces of iron corrosion survive on the bar, probably from the pin. The frame has been white metal coated on the front, this coating is coming off in relatively thick sheets rather than just a surface application and is probably silver. The only surviving decoration is a pair of logitu…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2017
Last updated: Thursday 23rd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ash Priors CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-40BA82
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A modern copper alloy livery button, dating to the 18th-19th century. Circular in plan and flat in section, with a very slightly convex front and concave back. The obverse depicts a chevron with 3 annulets between what may be three crowns or leopard heads, impaled by a saltire between 4 objects, resembling bishop's mitres, both are within a lozenge shaped wreath. The attachment loop on the reverse has broken away, around this is inscribed Williams & Son // London. Diameter: 26.2mm, Thickness: 1.1mm, Weight: 5.21g.
Created on: Monday 27th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ash Priors CP', grid reference and parish protected.