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Record ID: SOM-02A795
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy initial T-shaped brooch, probably dating to c. AD 50-100. Only the head and upper part of the bow of the brooch survive. The wings are broken at the end and measure 23.59mm in width and are cylindrical with a sub-rectangular slot cut into the reverse to accommodate a hinged pin, now lost. White cement can be seen in the ends of the broken wings, to hold the cross bar.
The bow is D-shaped in section with a flat back and convex front. The front of the bow is cast into a series of converging ribs, forming one V-shape and probably a second nest V surrounding a cen…
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-7CE108
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval copper alloy book clasp of Howsam type A.8.1, probably dating to c. AD 1350-1450. The object is rectangular and made of a single folded sheet of copper alloy. At the attachment end are three rivet holes with two separately made copper alloy rivets still in situ. The sheet narrows at the folded end, creating a rectangular projection. The outer edge of the obverse has been decorated with a cabled design, made from a series of diagonal incised lines and defined by a rectangular border made of up two parallel lines of pecked dots on each edge. The corners of this border are joi…
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 18th December 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-7EBAED
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2017 T203; disclaimed and returned to finder
Description: A plain silver button with makers mark. The button is bi-convex with a domed front and back. The front is plain. The back has two circular blow holes made from the inside (leaving a ridge around the outside) flanking a loop. The loop is formed of a strip of D-shaped sectioned wire bent over on itself and the ends soldered to the back of the button. There is a visible line of solder around the joint between the front and back where they were attached. On the back, half way between the holes near the edge is stam…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-55B123
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy contemporay copy of an as of Claudius (AD 41-54), dating to c. AD 41-54 (Reece Period 2). Uncertain reverse type. Robert Kenyon, following on from the work by the French scholars P-A. Besombes and M. Bompaire (in Trésors Monétaires XXI, 2005), is working through the British examples of Claudian coinage recorded through the PAS assigning many so-called Claudian contemporary copies to Roman auxiliary mints which operated at Lyons (Gaul) and in Spain. This example is a native copy.
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-717C4C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch, dating to the period AD 43 - 75, of the Hod Hill type. The brooch is missing much of the head, but the remaining area consists of four vertical flutes separated by ridges. There is a knop protruding from one side of the base of the head. The head narrows to form the neck of the bow which has two transverse moulded lines. These lines are repeated further down the bow close to its centre. The bow tapers almost to a point before terminating in two transverse moulded lines. Part of the catchplate still remains, although this has a worn break around…
Created on: Friday 21st August 2015
Last updated: Monday 30th November 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-70FCF3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative Polden Hill (flat wing ends type), Western Group), dating to the period c. AD 80-120. The brooch measures 50.42mm in length, 28.03mm in width at its widest, 4.02mm at its narrowest and is 13.02mm thick at the head. It weighs 15.75g. The pin is missing.
The brooch exhibits C-shaped wings with a pieced lug on either tip. The wings house the corroded copper alloy sprung pin mechanism of which ten loops of the spring survive. The spring terminates in an old break at the point at which the pin would have projected. Each wi…
Created on: Friday 21st August 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 5th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-C4CC5F
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval copper-alloy dress hook dating to the 16th century. The hollow body is rectangular in shape and D shaped in cross section with a flat back. One end of the hollow body is open, the opposite end, with the hook, is closed with an angled end. The convex front is seperate and soldered to the closed end and back. It is divided into 4 panels seperated by five raised ribs running along its length. They are evenly spaced with one to each side and three on the curve of the D; the ribs at the side are separately soldered on but the others are possibly integral. In the panels betwee…
Created on: Tuesday 24th February 2015
Last updated: Sunday 13th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port CP', 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-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: LON-6AF058
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An early post-medieval gilded silver ball-headed pin dating to the 16th century (c.1500-c.1600), now in two fragments. The head is decorated with six filigree rings, three above a circumferential ridge around the midline and three below. Inside each ring there is a smaller ring with a central pellet. One inner ring and pellet is missing. Gilding remains on the head and neck of the pin. The pin is broken approximately midway down the shaft but the end is still present. This is a small example of the type.
Dimensions: approximate original length: 44.5mm; diameter of head: 7.58mm; weig…
Created on: Tuesday 26th October 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: SOM-D19CF4
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A probable copper alloy nail cleaner which has been fashioned from a broken bow brooch, of Roman date. The nail cleaner measures 46.4mm by 9.1mm by 1.9mm and weighs 2.8g. The broken bow has been straightened and adapted to make it suitable for this use. The notched end suggests that it was originally a Hod Hill or similar type. There is no surviving decoration.
Created on: Friday 28th March 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 6th October 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-18D8F3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast silver strap-end of early-medieval date. The Thomas Class B, Type 1 (transverse grooved) strap-end measures 28.2mm by 7.5mm by 2.9mm and weighs 1.9g. Its width to length ratio is 1:2.6. It has a proximal split end with a trifid terminal and a central perforation. The interior side of the split end has broken off. A further perforation, which is filled with iron corrosion, is located close to the other end of the split. From the proximal end, the strap-end narrows until the point where the end splits, then tapers more gently into a stylised zoomorphic terminal. Two p…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-614C87
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine II as Caesar, CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, Lyon, 323-4. RIC vol. VII no 217 (p. 135).
Created on: Monday 30th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-5F8181
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An enamelled cast copper alloy buckle of medieval date. The oval simple frame buckle measures 24.8mm in length, 31.2mm in width, it is 5.8mm thick and weighs 13.1g. The strap bar is narrowed and offset, with cube-shaped terminals. The frame has a thickened outside edge with a marked triangular pin rest (the pin is missing). The front of the outside edge is decorated with traces of blue enamel, set into four cells on each side. The two pairs of cells adjacent to the pin rest are roughly rectangular and the others are more triangular, to fit with the narrowing frame. Geoff Egan (pers. co…
Created on: Monday 30th April 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-5EE5E7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester derivative Polden Hill brooch (flat wing ends type, Western Group), cf. Mackreth 2011, 5.b1a. Plate 50. The brooch measures 42.7mm in length, 30.1mm in width and weighs 15.5g. The semi-cylindrical wings would have concealed the spring and axis bar for the pin. These are almost entirely missing, other than the short section of the chord which is threaded through the perforated crest. The wings are decorated with two circumferential ridges on each side, which are flanked by smaller less well-defined ridges. The bow projects forwards and slightl…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-71BE30
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy nummus of Maximian I (286-310), dating to AD 307 (Reece Period 15). Reverse: HERCVLI CONSERVATORI. Mint of London. RIC VI, p. 130, no. 91.
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd March 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-89E565
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A spiral shaped ring possibly a finger ring formed from a length of cast copper alloy of probable later prehistoric or early Roman date. The ring is in the form of a close and thick spiral of just over two complete turns, 4.9mm in width and 3.3mm thick. It weighs 14.7g. The ring has been distorted but formerly had an external diameter of about 24mm. Its cross-section is rectangular with rounded corners. Both terminals are slightly rounded and the surfaces plain and undecorated. The ring has a rich green patina and an uneven, pitted surface. A similar finger ring has been excavated at …
Created on: Friday 20th October 2006
Last updated: Friday 16th October 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOMDOR-A8ED01
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper-alloy nummus of Constantius II (AD 323-361), dating from AD 326 (Reece period 16). CONSTAN/TIVS/CAESAR reverse type depicting the legend over three lines. Mint of Trier. As RIC VII, p. 210, no. 490.
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.
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