Record ID: DOR-17B0DA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Items from an Iron Age crouched inhumation: A copper alloy vessel with handle, a pottery vessel, two copper alloy brooches and an iron implement Grave assemblage: 1] A copper alloy vessel with ornate handle. In excavation the vessel was observed to comprise two layers of horizontally ridged copper alloy sheet. Adjacent to it was the probably handle in two pieces. The handle consists of a rectangular copper alloy bar, which constricts into right-angled ends which then expand into right-angled, squared escutcheons. The handle is decorated with longitudinal grooves on the main body and…
Created on: Friday 4th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maiden Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-1B028B
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description Small gold penannular ring with circular cross-section, the hoop tapering to plain terminals. The piece is highly polished. There is a split on the interior surface opposite the gap. Given its small size, it is likely to be solid and not plated. Diameter 11.5x10.0 mm; maximum thickness of hoop 2 mm; weight 1.46 grams. Composition See appended report. Identification A well-known Bronze Age type, decorative in character. This piece lies at the small end of the spectrum (cf the smallest of 3 such rings in the Late Bronze Age hoard discovered in Balmashannar,…
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Southbourne and Tuckton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-E19D19
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken, not retained.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-16F57C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
De Jersey: The hoard container, a black-burnished ware pot about 15 cm high (ibid., 42) also supports a date of deposition not before c.AD 120. Robertson: A cooking pot of black-burnished A ware, about 6 in. high and 5 in wide, with slightly everted rim, well defined neck and lattice pattern on body.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holdenhurst', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-19AD1F
Object type: BASKET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The coins had evidently been deposited in bundles, probably wrapped in basket-work, as a fibrous matter was found adhering to many of them.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hengistbury Head', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-63E9B4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey (2015) writes: "Initial publication (Haselgrove 1984, 136) recorded several silver and bronze coins found near Dorchester in 1982. In fact the coins had been handed in to the Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth, in October 1980, and were said to have been found at a depth of c.75 cm "buried beneath a flat stone" (BMHF). There are persistent suggestions in the published and unpublished reports of the find that a) it was much larger than the declared portion, and b) it was found somewhere other than the given location. A large quantity of Roman bronze - up to 200 coins, mostly o…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corfe Common', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-2E1B5D
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
De Jersey writes: "On the index card for CCI 79.0098, Melinda Mays refers to a letter of 14 June 1913 from G.F. Hill, in the Red House Museum archives, mentioning the discovery of that coin "in a broken pot not preserved, with a Constantius and 6 SW British type". If the association with the Roman coin is correct then this might be better regarded as a Romano-British deposit. It is possible that one of the other coins was CCI 79.0225, a struck bronze stater (ABC 2175) found by Mr Pester at Pokesdown Cliffs, Southbourne, in 1912 (Haselgrove 1984, 137), but the precise location of th…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-F1FA2B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
A find of 20 copper alloy coins (described as 'third brass') of Vespasian made in a garden. The Antiquary 46, 1910 p.162
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bournemouth (Westby Road)', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-78DBAC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 302 no. 1255: ""An interesting collection of 129 coins was obtained a short time ago at St. Leonard-o-Sea, Sussex, by Dr. E. Burstal of Bournemouth, from whom I recently purchased it. Unfortunately its provenance is unrecorded, but there is little doubt that it comprises a hoard: the coins have a homogeneous appearance and there is an unusually large number of die-identities. It may well be, in fact, that most of them were produced quite near their place of burial, wherever that may have been." The coins were 2 official ant., 120 irregular ant., including 94 minims…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-277C96
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 152 no. 689: "In July 1959, a Mr. Hobbs, of the Knight of the Road Filling Station, Bridgwater Road, Dundry, near Bristol, submitted to the Bristol City Museum for identification 29 ant. of Gallienus 11), Victorinus (7), Claudius II (3), and Tetricus (8), which he had bought from Mr. R.J. Curtis, 37 Woodfield Road, Kinson, Bournemouth. L.V. Grinsell, City Museum, Bristol, and R.G. Bartlett discovered that Mr. Curtis had "little information of value to assist in deciding the find-spot of the coins, as he himself purchased the lot, about 1348 in number, as the result …
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: IARCH-E9B8B8
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
"During the excavation of the native British site at Hengistbury Head, on site 33: "Coins were found lying on the surface and all through the soil in the area indicated by the dotted line in fig. 17. The soil was riddled with rabbit burrows, and it was undoubtedly these animals that had caused the dispersion of the coins, a few having afterwards been carried farther afield by the plough. The coins had evidently been deposited in bundles, probably wrapped in basket-work, as a fibrous matter was found adhering to many of them. The largest collection, a mass of 734 coins lying on a sto…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hengistbury Head', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-FE3B6C
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Poole
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 256-257 no. 1082: ""Roman Hoard. Two treasure hunters have found a hoard of 1000 Roman coins dating from the reign of Emperor Constantine the Great, 1600 years ago. Mr. George Fletcher, 64, and Mr. Ken Emery, 52, both from Bournemouth, discovered the silver coins, believed to be worth thousands of pounds, in a potato field near Poole, in Dorset." -Glasgow Herald, 27 Jan. 1986, 3 -"Upton...: A hoard of 1663 nummi down to AD 318 is recorded." -Britannia, XVII (1986), 418. "The hoard was discovered on January 23 1986 by two treasure hunters using metal detectors on…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upton House', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-4C0CA5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
Robertson 2000, 25 no. 134: ""The hoard of coins described in the following pages was found some years ago in Southants. It was contained in the earthenware pot here figured which was broken in the course of the discovery, but a sufficient number of the fragments were preserved to permit of restoration.. The hoard, which, so far as is known, has been recovered in its entirety, contains Roman coins, barbarous or semi-barbarous imitations of Roman coins, native British coins, both struck and cast, a few coins which may be either British or Gaulish, and one or two blanks." The coins…
Created on: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holdenhurst', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E95041
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An assemblage of artefacts from an early Anglo-Saxon female furnished burial. Each object is discussed in turn below. 1. Merovingian coin pendant with (detached) gold suspension loop Pale gold solidus of Sigebert III (634-56), minted in Marseille, pierced in order to be riveted to a suspension loop, now detached. The suspension loop comprises a rectangular strip of ribbed gold sheet with one terminal curved over into a loop. The strip has a small circular perforation at the other terminal for a lost rivet that would have fixed it to the coin. The loop is apparently of higher qua…
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2015
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH NORFOLK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-25CEB5
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
Complete copper alloy cast palstave (Type Class 4/1 (Rowlands 1976:34, Site 73: pg. 243 (no.1) and plate 6 (1) variation on Type Werrar; see also Northover 2001, Fig 3a, no. 3 and 4). Ill-shaped/absent stop-ridge with U-shaped septum and straight-sided open flanges for hafting. The flanges are lozenge-shaped in profile. Broad, triangular-shaped blade with shallow mid-ridge. Brown patina with green encrustations and corrosion. Small chipping along blade edge. The object is part of a hoard of seven axes found in association. It therefore qualifies as treasure under the 1996 Treasure A…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bournemouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-25BFD5
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
Complete copper alloy palstave with side loop (Type Class 5/1 (Rowlands 1976:34, Site 34: pg. 231 (no.1) and plate 6 (1). The object has a short, deep U-shaped septum with stop-ridge and low, triangular-shaped flanges. Flared, triangular-shaped blade with central mid-rib. Small loop on side of the palstave next to the stop-ridge. Reddish-brown patina with green corrosion, with a large chip out of blade edge and at the top of the septum. The object is part of a hoard of seven axes found in association. It therefore qualifies as treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act. The treasure rep…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bournemouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-25B355
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
Complete cast copper alloy palstave axe dating to the Bronze Age (Rowlands 1976: fig. 1, O'Connor 1980: 47-49, Site 43: pg. 332 & fig. 18 (8) and Site 61: pg. 338 & fig. 24 (1-4) variation on Norman Type) . It has a deep, U-shaped septum and triangular side flanges. The object has a broad blade with multiple short-ribs (4) or rib and groove ornament below the stop/inset. Brown patina with green encrustations and corrosion. The object is part of a hoard of seven axes found in association. It therefore qualifies as treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act. The treasure report states: Th…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bournemouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-25A796
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
Complete copper alloy cast palstave with side loop (Type Class 5/2 (Rowlands 1976: 35, Site 1060: Plate 3)) and lozenge-shaped flanges. The object has a flared blade with triangular-shaped depression and central mid-rib below the stop-ridge. It has a deep brown patina with green corrosion and encrustations and some surface pitting. The object is part of a hoard of seven axes found in association. It therefore qualifies as treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act. The object is corroded, patches of a mid-green patina remain. The treasure report states: This hoard represents a diverse col…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bournemouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-2599D7
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
Complete copper allow cast palstave (Type Class 2/2 (Rowlands 1976: 31, Site 127: plate 3 and Site 132 (no.6) & plate 2; O'Connor 1980: 57, Site 21: pg. 319 & plate 1 (1-4)) with deep, U-shape septum and leaf-shaped flanges. Flared, triangular blade with central mid-rib. Brown patina with green encrustations/corrosion, surface pitting, and chipping along the blade edge. The object is part of a hoard of seven axes found in association. It therefore qualifies as treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act. The treasure report states: This hoard represents a diverse collection of palstave t…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bournemouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-2588F5
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bournemouth
Workflow stage: Published
Flared blade fragment of a cast copper alloy palstave axe dating to the Bronze Age. The object has a shallow mid-rib with casting seams along the side of the blade. There is chipping along the blade edge. The object has a brown patina with green encrustations. The fragment is part of a hoard of seven axes found in association. It therefore qualifies as treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act. The object is corroded, patches of a mid-green patina remain. The curator's treasure report states: 'This hoard represents a diverse collection of palstave types typically found in Southern Englan…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bournemouth', grid reference and parish protected.