Record ID: SOMDOR-C27EE7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fine to medium grained sandstone pebble which appears to have been used as a whetstone, but also has areas of pecking. It is an unusual shape for a whetstone and was possibly originally intended to be a polished stone implement such as a battle axe, but was left unfinished and then reused. There is some damage on one face. Dimensions: 93.61mm by 73.95mm by 46.43mm Weight: 500g
Created on: Monday 6th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-B27405
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy T-shape brooch of early Roman date. The brooch measures 40.7mm in length, 22mm in width and weighs 9.6g. The cylindrical wings conceal the axis bar for the (missing) hinged pin. Both ends of the wings are damaged. On the crest of the bow is the stub of a loop. The bow projects forwards for c. 15mm, then the angle changes and becomes more vertical. From this point the bow curves backwards gently, towards the foot, which is missing, as is the catchplate. The front of the curving section has a central facet marked with a longitudial incised line. Just above the break i…
Created on: Friday 4th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-EE8A81
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy pinhead of probable Roman date. The biconical pinhead has a diameter of 6.7mm, a length of 7.8mm and it weighs 1.03g. Only the tip of the shaft survives, but there is enough to show that the pin had no collar.
Created on: Monday 7th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-EEB5C2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy finger ring of probable Roman date. The finger ring is plain with no bezel and a consistent width of hoop. It has a diameter of 21.2mm and weighs 1.45g. The hoop has a sub-circular cross-section with a diameter of 2mm and a slightly flattened interior. The exterior of the ring is decorated with four sections of closely-spaced incised transverse parallel lines, interspersed with four plain sections.
Created on: Monday 7th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-F00BB4
Object type: STUD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete enamelled cast copper alloy stud of Roman date. The surviving portion measures 18.1mm by 17.5mm by 1.8mm and weighs 1.7g. The stud is broadly pelta-shaped, with a tapering backwards-curving flange top and bottom, for attachment. There are three recesses on the front of the pelta-shaped section, all of which contain traces of enamel. The central cell is broadly hourglass-shaped and contains red enamel. One of the (presumably symmetrical) flanking cells is complete. It is crescentic and contains blue enamel. The cell on the other cell is incomplete due to an old break. A si…
Created on: Monday 7th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-433105
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six sherds of samian ware pottery of early Roman date. Three are body sherds and three are rim sherds. Two of the rim sherds have external beads and one is plain. All the sherds are oxidised throughout with shiny brownish-orange slips. The fabric contains moderate very small limestone pieces and occasional voids, so the vessels were probably produced at one of the South Gaulish kilns. Total weight: 44g
Created on: Friday 11th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4391F7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nine sherds of South-East Dorset Black-Burnished Ware I pottery of Roman date. Five are rim sherds, three are body sherds and one is a base sherd. The largest rim sherd is from a flanged bowl, three others are plain and everted and probably come from jars and the other is flat and appears to have come from a lid with a groove parallel to the rim. All of the sherds are reduced, although one has slightly more oxidised surfaces. Two or possibly three of the sherds have a black slip. The fabric contains abundant small rounded quartz sand and sparse larger pieces of quartz and calcareous fr…
Created on: Friday 11th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-43C603
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd of New Forest Slipped Ware pottery of later Roman date. The fabric is a reduced light grey with a darker grey slip. Dimensions: 30.7mm by 34.8mm by 4.9mm Weight: 7g
Created on: Friday 11th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-192254
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus of the House of Constantine, VRBS ROMA, mint of Trier, 330-331, RIC (vol.VII, p.215, no.529)
Created on: Monday 17th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D161C1
Object type: JAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd from a Roman Black Burnished ware jar, dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD. Grey to black reduced fabric with abundant rounded quartz sand temper. The surface has been coated in a thick black slip and are burnished. South Western ware imitating Poole/Wareham fabric. The sherd is part of a handmade necked jar rim similar to Wessex Archaeology type 16. The breaks are abraded. It weighs 17.21 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Last updated: Thursday 3rd March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-798936
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy radiate of Allectus (293-296) (Reece Period 14), probably PAX AVG, Pax standing left with branch and transverse spear. Mint unclear. This coin is noted for Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Created on: Friday 25th February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-79B716
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (307-336), PROVIDENTIAE AVGG reverse (camp gate with two towers with star between), minted at Trier, AD 324-325, RIC VII Trier 449
Created on: Friday 25th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 3rd March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7B30B3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy nummus of Constans (333-350), VICTORIAE DD AVG Q NN reverse (two Victories standing facing each other, each holding up a small wreath), mint unclear, AD 343-348. The coin has lost about a fifth of the flan from one side.
Created on: Friday 25th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 3rd March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7B97D3
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Roman 'cable style' bracelet formed of two strands of wire twisted around each other in a spiral. About a third of the bracelet including one terminal remains. It is D shaped in section as the inner side has been slightly flattened after the two wires were twisted together. One wire stops short of the terminal and the plain end is soldered to the longer wire. The longer wire thins and is bent over to form a hook. At the other end the wires have broken at different points with one projecting further, this longer wire has been slightly straightened and bent out of line. The wires have c…
Created on: Friday 25th February 2011
Last updated: Monday 24th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7BDCD5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman cast copper alloy T-shaped brooch dating to the late first to early second century AD. The head has two cylindrical wings to hold the probably copper alloy axis bar for the hinged pin which would have moved in the slot on the underside of the head. The slot is filled with corrosion, probably the remains of the bar and the pin. The wings are decorated at the ends with simple transverse incised lines, three on one side and four on the other. There is no evidence for a tab or loop at the head. The bow has a D shaped cross section with a flat back. It projects at 90 degrees from th…
Created on: Friday 25th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 3rd March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B6D415
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head of a devolved T-shaped brooch of local type with a expanded fan shaped head plate. The head is a fan (D shaped) plate with a concave back and convex front with a slight carination running vertically down the centre. The lower corners are damaged. Along the straight lower edge is a cylinder with a central slot, this cylinder holds the bar (spindle) on which the pin hinged, pivoting in the slot. The triangular head of the pin remains in the slot with a short stub of the pin. There is damage to one end of the cylinder but it is otherwise complete; it appears to be filled with a whi…
Created on: Monday 28th February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-B99D33
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Foot and lower part of the bow of a cast copper alloy Roman bow brooch. The bow has a flat back and front with the sides shaped into two steps creating a broad central raised strip on the front flanked on each side by two narrower steps running down the length of the bow. The central strip is decorated with incised lines; groups of multiple parallel lines starting from one side of the strip indicate roughly triangular shapes which alternate with triangles formed of lines starting from the opposite side. The bow tapers in width gradually towards the foot. The foot is plain ending in a …
Created on: Monday 28th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-D09FB5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
5 sherds of Black Burnished ware of Roman date. Grey to black reduced fabric with abundant rounded quartz sand temper. The surfaces are generally burnished. Poole/Wareham fabric. All the sherds are slightly abraded. The vessels were handmade and comprise of 1 possible sherd of Wessex Archaeology type 20, "dog-dish". 4 undiagnostic body sherds which are heavily abraded, the sherds date between the 1st and the 4th centuries and the combined weight is 38.67g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-D11362
Object type: JAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 sherds of Black Burnished ware, Roman in date. Grey to black reduced fabric with abundant rounded quartz sand temper. The surfaces are generally burnished. Poole/Wareham fabric. All the sherds are slightly abraded. The jars were handmade and comprise of 2 inverted rims which date between the 2nd and 3rd centuries. The combined weight is 16.31g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOM-D144A3
Object type: JAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sherd of Black Burnished ware jar, Roman in date, dating to the 2nd or 3rd century. Grey to black reduced fabric with abundant rounded quartz sand temper. The surfaces are generally burnished. South Western ware imitating Poole/Wareham fabric. The sherd is part of a handmade inverted rim, has been coated in a thick black slip and is abraded.
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.