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Record ID: SOMDOR-2F7200
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A folded fragment of sheet gold strip with a narrower strip threaded through and wrapped. Maximum length 13mm; width of wider strip 6mm; thickness 3mm as folded; width of narrow strip 2.5mm; weight 1.43 grams. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface indicated a gold content for both of 86-89%, a silver content of 8-10% and at least 1% copper. Though the analysis does not rule out an ancient date, the piece is an undiagnostic fragment which cannot be assigned to a cultural or chronological context. Due to the undiagnostic nature of the find it can not be securely date…
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Nether Compton area', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: PAS-A4ECC4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A plain gold ring, the shape distorted.
Dimensions: 25mm x 20mm
Note: It was not possible to date the ring with any accuracy; it was, therefore considered not to qualify as treasure.
Created on: Wednesday 13th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wareham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-189F60
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold finger-ring with a d-shaped cross-section. The ring may be in the form of three snakes chasing each other as there are three distinct bulges around the ring, though it is fairly worn so the details are unclear.
Date: Uncertain
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Fontmell Magna', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-5CE7A6
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a gold bar or ingot. Square sectioned with one end smooth, the other broken.
Dimensions: Length: One inch. Weight 14.4g
Author: Hazel Shorland
Created on: Monday 9th December 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Spetisbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-D40CC7
Object type: WIRE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of lozengiform sectioned gold wire.
Date: Unknown
Report to H. M. Coroner on find of potential find of Treasure from Osmington, Dorset.
2013 T 218
Description
Coiled fragment of gold wire with quadrangular section.
Diameter 13.69 x 12.57mm; Thickness 1.87mm; Weight 1.9g.
Identification
It is not impossible that this fragment is ancient; however there are no diagnostic features and thus it is not possible to assign to any cultural or chronological context. It cannot therefore be securely dated to pre-1713 and as such falls outside the provisions of the …
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 24th September 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Osmington', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-B66C8E
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible gold ingot. A tapering sub-rectangular piece of gold with a sub-angualr cross section:
Nell Wilkin and Mafalda Raposo of the British Mueum comment:
Due to the undiagnostic nature of the find it cannot be securely dated to pre-1717 and as such falls outside the provisions of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Thursday 7th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Buckland Newton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-F81F77
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of gold ingot. A segment of a bar or strip of gold. The piece is angular and tapers in one direction in terms of thickness (from 3.81 mm to 1.51 mm) and tapers in the opposite direction in its width (8.18 mm to 6.55 mm). The break at the thinner, wider end appears to be the result of a cut. The surface all have slight ripples and marks.
Date: Uncertain
Dimensions: 8.54 mm x 8.18 mm x 3.81 mm
Weight: 1.80 g
Neil Wilkin of the British Museum has defined this as undiagnostic in terms of date.
Created on: Wednesday 21st January 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Rushton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-75C12B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A small undecorated gold finger ring. The band is rectangular in cross section, with a slightly circumferentially concave exterior surface. There are no maker's or hall marks.
Dimensions: 17.33 mm x 1.07 mm Weight: 1.85 g
Date: Unknown
Discussion: It is difficult to parallel such a plain object, and in the absence of any maker's or hall marks the ring cannot be definitively dated to pre-1718.
Thus whilst the ring does appear to comprise of more than 10% precious metal, it cannot be said with certainty that it was 300 years old at the time of finding and theref…
Created on: Saturday 1st July 2017
Last updated: Friday 26th April 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Folke', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-2AD08A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken and distorted fragment of probable mount or fitting. It is most likely of modern date.
A band formed of four parallel strands of twisted gold wire soldered together. The wires appear very regular and are probably machine made (Judy Rudoe pers. Comm). The upper and lower wires are plain and not twisted for a short section at one end (opposite ends to each other)
Dimensions: 32.33 mm 19.84 mm x 5.60 mm
Weight: 4.03 g
Discussion: In the opinion of Judy Rudoe, Sue Brunning and Rachel King of the British Museum, this item is not paralleled in material over 300 years ole, appears…
Created on: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-80DB65
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold bead
A complete gold collared bead.
The bead is broadly a cylinder shape formed of gold sheet. This has a section at its middle where its is mostly flat above and below which it narrows in a smooth convex arch. Each curve ends, and so preventing the bead becoming spherical in shape with a collared terminal. Each collar is made of a gold wire curved into a spiral that complete two rotations. The bead has several dents along its circumference at its mid point but is otherwise undamaged.
Scientific Analysis carried out by the British Museum’s Department of Scientific Resear…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Last updated: Thursday 16th February 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.
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: IARCH-10A009
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Robertson 2000, 372 no. 1524:
"During the excavation of the Romano-Celtic Temple inside the Iron Age hill fort of Maiden Castle:
"a small hoard of four gold coins of Arcadius and Honorius found with a gold ring close outside the east wall of the temple (see plan pl. XXII)."
... The gold finger ring, 3/4 in. in diam., had a large bezel, 3/4 in. by 5/8 in., flanked by ornamental pellets. The stone was missing. (Cp. BM Cat. of Finger-rings (1907), pl. XIV, 508-13)
R.E.M. (Sir Mortimer) Wheeler, and H. Mattingly, in Research Rep. Soc. Ant., XII (1943), 133, 267, 334, types, mints, f…
Created on: Friday 17th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 17th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Maiden Castle (Temple)', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-8FCC98
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman gold finger ring with a simple D-shaped hoop widening and thickening at the shoulders to the bezel which has an open lozenge shaped hole in the centre to hold a stone or intaglio, now missing. The shoulders and bezel have been formed of a flattened area of gold the long sides of which have been rolled inwards, to meet in the middle on the shoulders and to clasp the missing stone. The shoulders and bezel are thus hollow and the edges of the setting for the stone rough and slightly irregular where the edge has been pushed over the edge of the stone to hold it.
The ring has been…
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2015
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bradford Abbas CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BM-8E97C8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Gold solidus of Valens (AD 364-378), dating to AD 364-367 (Reece Period 19). Reverse: RESTITVTOR REI PVBLICAE, Emperor standing facing, head right, holding labarum and Victory on globe. Mint of Trier. RIC IX, p. 13, no. 1 var.; G. Depeyrot, Les monnaies d'or de Constantin II à Zénon (337-491), p. 113, no. 21/2.
Created on: Tuesday 5th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th May 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Cranborne Chase', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-790A2B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold faceted finger ring. The hoop is small and distorted. It is comprised of eight sub-circular facets, each with a faint transverse ridge across the diameter.
Date: Roman - c. AD 200 - 300
Dimensions: 15.23 x 11.15 mm x 0.63 mm x 5.63 mm (height of band)
Weight: 1.42 g
Two similar rings have been recorded on the database in records HAMP-F7A356 (Treasure case 2011 T861) and BUC-E7B767 (Treasure case 2013 T669). In both records it is noted that the rings are of Henig type IX.
Created on: Friday 9th October 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-29D957
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Oval box bezel from a 4th century gold finger-ring with dextrarum iunctio design. The backing plate and walls of the cell are formed of a single piece of gold. Within the cell is another thin sheet of gold decorated in repoussé with a pair of clasped hands surrounded by a beaded border. It is kept in place by a loose, chamfered band which extends around the inside of the cell and not affixed to the walls themselves. A twisted gold wire surrounds the outside of the cell, approximately a third of the way up the walls. A short remnant of a plain wire below this suggests oth…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bradford Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-1BBA42
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring. A sub-circular band with a D-shaped cross section. The band is decorated with a continuous horizontal row of incised tulip-like flowers with stems and leaves at their bases. The inside of the band is undecorated and there is no hallmark. Tulips bacame a very fashionable decorative motif in the 17th century giving a possible date for this ring. Date: Post-medieval - possibly 17th century
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Winterborne Kingston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUR-EB7801
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A cast gold complete mourning ring with an image of a skull on the outside of the band. The internal inscription reads In mem of E:N ob 9(..) 17III 1700. (in memory of EN died 9 (??) 17III 1700). The superscript letters between 9 and 17 are unclear. The maker's stamp is RS.
Dimensions: Weight: 2.71g, diameter 19.17mm.
Discussion: The maker's mark is not identifiable in any standard work of reference. Within the inscription the formatting of the date of death is unusual, as date inscriptions such are usually formatted: day, month, year
This item is more than 300 yea…
Created on: Tuesday 26th July 2011
Last updated: Thursday 25th April 2013
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: PAS-8E0946
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
gold mourning ring (2006 T458)
Date: 1702
Description: This large ring with D-section hoop is decorated on the exterior with a skull and floral wreath which still retains its original black enamel. The inscription inside reads: ‘. F J . [or T] Arm ob . 23 . Jan . 1702’, with maker’s mark in black letter script in a rectangular shield which reads possibly JA or JD.
Discussion: This is a characteristic type from the second half of the 17th century into the 18th century. The abbreviation ‘Arm’, stands for ‘Armiger’, ie. entitled to bear arms. Both the ‘m’ in â…
Created on: Friday 18th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Corscombe', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LEIC-6E0AF1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Post medieval gold guinea of William and Mary, 1691, London.
Created on: Friday 20th November 2009
Last updated: Monday 26th April 2021
Spatial data recorded.
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