Record ID: SOM-1B5A88
Object type: KILN FURNITURE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible piece of ceramic kiln furniture of unknown date. The fabric is an oxidised mid-orange with a slightly less oxidised buff-coloured core and patchily reduced mid-grey surfaces. The fabric is fairly fine with moderate fine sand and sparse iron oxide. Dimensions: 59.9mm by 39.7mm by 19.1mm Weight: 67g
Created on: Monday 21st May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mells', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-EF9711
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead weight (probably). A rectangular bar of lead, which may have been used as a weight. The sides taper in a little from the base to the top. There are numerious scratches and dents but no sign of a purposeful marking. Date unknown.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-372D02
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified iron object. The small object is very similar to an early Roman brooch in form, with a 'T' shaped head, and curved body. However, the foot is formed where the end of the object is rolled inwards, almost in a spiral. There is no sign of a catchplate or similar. This, and the fact that the object is made from iron, suggest that it is unlikely to be a brooch of this date, despite the other similarities. However, due to heavy errosion it is difficult to see any features of the object apart from its basic form, making it difficult to identify it further. Length: 33.1mm, Wid…
Created on: Tuesday 6th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bawdrip', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-6160B1
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four irregular lumps of copper alloy. All varying in size and shape. Probably the result of metal working. Undatable. 1. Length: 16.6m, Width: 13.3mm, Thickness: 6.6mm, Weight: 4g 2. Length: 1mm, Width: 20.7mm, Thickness: 3.7mm, Weight: 5g 3. Length: 3.9mm, Width: 19.7mm, Thickness: 8.8mm, Weight: 11.6g 4. Length: 23.9mm, Width: 12.6mm, Thickness: 6.6, Weight: 4.5g
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C54395
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of an unidentified iron (coated with copper alloy) object. It consists of a long bar, circular in profile, which goes upwards slightly at the very tip before culminating in a teardrop section, which extends downwards at a slight angle. Through this section is a very regular circular hole. The upper half of the other end appears to have attached to something else. Close to this break an integral, roughly semi-circular, loop extends downwards. The metal is brownish-red in colour with a few small patches of greenish copper alloy in places on the surface. A similar object can also …
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near East Lydeard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-EDF2F4
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large lump of copper alloy metal working debris. Lumps such as this are not easily dateable as they are the result of metal working from the Bronze Age to the present day. Length: 39.72mm, Width: 32.06mm, Thickness: 26.52mm Weight: 72.16g
Created on: Friday 20th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-EE10F3
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small lump of copper alloy metal working debris. Lumps such as this are not easily dateable as they are the result of metal working from the Bronze Age to the present day. Length: 20.31mm, Width: 15.14mm, Thickness: 6.20mm Weigth: 8.61g
Created on: Friday 20th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Carhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B770D7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small fragment of copper-alloy, possibly from an axe or similar implement. The fragment is wedge shaped, with a sharp, rounded edge on one side and straight, rough, blunt edges on all other sides, suggesting that it has indeed broken away from a larger object, which may well have been an axe. However, beyond such suggestions, its small size makes it impossible to draw any definite conclusions about what this object may have been and to what period it dates from. Length: 18.50mm, Width: 7.87mm, Thickness: 3.46mm Weight: 1.50g
Created on: Thursday 26th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SOM-79ED26
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A conical cast lead alloy weight of uncertain date with flat base, tapering slightly faceted sides and a circular hole through the centre from top to base. The central perforation measures 4.6mm at the top to 6.4mm at the base. The height is 34.2mm, diameter 28.2mm at the bottom. It weighs 110.3 grams. Plain weights were cast locally in lead from the Roman period onwards for a wide variety of uses and are hard to date precisely although most are late Medieval - Post Medieval
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 2nd December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otterhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-724911
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead item, probably a one off item made locally to meet a specific need. It has an expanded flattened roughly circular 'head' at one end which is 35.6mm in diameter. Projecting from the back of the head is a large lug with two straight sides alternating with convex curved sides and a rounded end. Through the lug from straight side to straight side is a hole, circular at one end and oval at the other. It is 34.8mm long and weighs 118.8 grams. Such items are hard to date or identify, one suggestion is that, as a parallel to lead vessel repairs such as SOM-6E8BB6 it would be …
Created on: Friday 7th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 10th January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tatworth and Forton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-35B890
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A conical cast lead alloy weight of uncertain date with flat base and rounded point. In indent near the point does not appear to develop into a hole. It is 19.6mm by 16.3mm at the base and 33.5mm tall; it weighs 45.38 grams. Plain weights were cast locally in lead from the Roman period onwards for a wide variety of uses and are hard to date precisely although most are late Medieval - Post Medieval
Created on: Friday 18th March 2011
Last updated: Friday 18th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cossington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-39BB2E
Object type: OVEN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
56 pieces of burnt clay of total weight 800 grams, possibly from an oven of uncertain date. The clay is amorphous with only a few voids from organic inclusions or imprints as one sees on daub. There is no evidence of layering as one might expect in a kiln, furnace or cob. Occasional small rounded iron stone inclusions and very small chalk or limestone inclusions almost certainly reflect natural inclusons in the clay rather than temper. The pieces are all amorphous and friable with angluar fractures on all faces. Only two have small areas of surface, smoothed but poorly finished with c…
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-C48B15
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dark blue glass bead of uncertain date. The bead is sub-oval in plan with one rounded end and one more conical end, and circular in section. It has a rough sided hole 2.5mm in diameter running though it. It is 11.9mm long and 9.6mm in diameter and weighs 1.68 grams. Irregularity in the shape and the number of air bubbles suggest it was made by being wound on a pontil. Although cobalt blue beads were popular in the later Iron Age and Roman period, those examples are usually more globular, wider in diameter than they are long. Guido (1978:70) comments that stray examples of such beads…
Created on: Tuesday 12th July 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 19th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ston Easton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-036B75
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy ring of uncertain date, but most likely Medieval or Post-Medieval. It has a pointed oval cross section with a slightly convex inner side and more convex outer side. The ring has an external diameter of 18.3mm, and an internal diameter of 12.1, with a width that varies between 3.7mm and 2.9mm wide and is 5.7mm to 4.4mm thick; it weighs 4.23 grams. Functional rings such as this one may have had various uses such as harness fittings or loops affixed to other type of straps.
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mudford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-BF6EC7
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead spindle whorl or possibly weight. It has a slightly domed top and flat base with a tapering circular hole running through it, slightly off centre. It is 27.1mm in diameter, 7.5mm thick and weights 27.07g, the hole is 9.7mm in diameter at the base, 7.3mm at the top. Plain spindle whorls and weights were cast locally in lead from the Roman period onwards and are hard to date precisely although most are late Medieval - Post Medieval.
Created on: Friday 5th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-BDDF94
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rectangular cast lead alloy weight of uncertain date with flat base, tapering to a rounded point. There is a hole in the indent near the point. It is 23.1mm in length, 13.1mm in width, 8.7mm in thicknes and weighs 18.71g. Plain weights were cast locally in lead from the Roman period onwards for a wide variety of uses and are hard to date precisely although most are late Medieval - Post Medieval
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 18th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chilton Polden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F2FC45
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead disc which has an incised design on the top, possibly a gaming piece or a weight. The sides slope away from the front slightly so the front is smaller than the back. The front is decorated with an incised design of two concentric ovals with a central dot; the three concentric rings are crossed by lines radiating from the centre to the edge. It is 24.6mm in diameter, 5.3mm thick and weighs 22.87 grams. Plain lead items like weights and gaming pieces were cast locally in lead from the Roman period onwards for a wide variety of uses and are hard to date precisely although mos…
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F32DC7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead weight in the shape of a truncated square based pyramid. The sides are upright at first then change direction with a distict carination to slope inwards to the flat top. It is plain with no decoration. There is an indent in one side which may be mis-casting or damage. It is 28.9 by 28.4mm at the base and 10.3mm tall, it weighs 49.68 grams. Roman and Medieval sub-pyramidal weights are catalogued in Biggs and Withers (2000:27-29) but all the examples have raised cast designs, a larger central square and much more steeply sloped sides than this example. Plain lead weights wer…
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-2F18F7
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead gaming piece of Roman to Post Medieval date. It measures 22.1mm in length, 16.7mm in diametre and weighs 39.18g.
Created on: Wednesday 28th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 16th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Pennard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D64126
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two circular cast lead alloy disc weights of uncertain date. Both weights have an incised cross with smaller diagonal lines projecting the same direction from each arm on one face, possibly representing windmill sails and an incised 'V' on the other. 1) 30.6mm in diameter, 3.9mm in thickness and 18.27g, 2) 28.6mm in diameter, 2.9mm in thickness and 13.44g. Weights sych as these were cast locally in lead from the Roman period onwards for a wide variety of uses and are hard to date precisely although most are late Medieval - Post Medieval
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 14th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Pennard', grid reference and parish protected.