Record ID: CORN-826D9B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy hooked strap end with complete hook but missing the opposite end where the rivet holes would have been to attach the hook to an item of clothing. The upper face of the tag is inlaid silver wire that has been fired into the green enamel which has since slightly worn away leaving the wire to sit proud of the surface. The wire is scrolled into opposing ends in an 'S' shape and there appears to be the impression of another 'S' above it where the wire is now missing at the broken end. Below the enamelled section, the tag tapers towards the hook which is divided by t…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 30th September 2021
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Record ID: CORN-DAA524
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine II (AD 317-340), dating to c. AD 320-1 (Reece Period 16), BEATA TRANQVILLITAS or BEAT TRANQVILLITAS reverse type depicting an altar, inscribed with VOTIS XX, with a globe on top and three stars above. Mint of London, ? // PLON. RIC Vol.VII, pp.111 and 112, cf. nos.216 and 236
Created on: Tuesday 29th November 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 20th April 2021
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Record ID: CORN-824FC3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337), dating to AD 321 (Reece Period 16), BEATA TRAN-QVILLITAS reverse type depicting globe set on altar inscribed with VOT/IS/XX with edge of one star above, Mint of Trier. RIC VII, p. 191, no. 305
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 20th April 2021
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Record ID: CORN-C166DE
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast gilded silver mount in the form of a hollow, four-sided pyramid. The pyramid has a square base with an integral flat bar, running transversely across the base. Each face is decorated with a punched motif comprising a triangle of three annulets, and the edges between each face with a line of paired dots. Most of the gilding survives on the upper face, and some corrosion product has accumulated in the hollow back of the mount.
Created on: Monday 27th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buckland Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-22E4F8
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base fragment of a large cast copper alloy bell which has broken along the slit between two circular holes, producing a 'dumbbell' shape in plan, with half of one of those holes still extant. Above the slit is an incised linear border and part of the semi-circular 'sun', around the maker's initial 'R' with an annulet on either side, with linear rays emanating from it, decorating part of this half of the sphere. Each ray consists of two or three parallel incised lines, which may have curved into a rounded terminal, but these are now missing. There would have been a metal ball clapper w…
Created on: Monday 3rd October 2016
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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Record ID: CORN-1D6428
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold half noble of Edward III (1327-1377), Fourth Coinage (1351-1377), Pre-Treaty period (1351-1361), Series G, Cross 3 initial mark (1356-1361), Spink 1494.
Created on: Saturday 14th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bridport', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-2F3BFD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval silver halfgroat of James I (1603-25), Second coinage (1604-1619), mint mark rose (1605-1606). Spink 2659.
Created on: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Last updated: Sunday 26th May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-2F2FEB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy single-loop buckle, dating from the Medieval period, c.1350-1500. The buckle frame is trapezoidal in shape with some engraved transverse oblique grooves on the outer edge which acted as a pin rest but the pointed end of the pin is missing. What remains of the pin is wrapped around the axis bar, which would have tapered towards the opposite bar. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar example on p.30, no.170, which is dated from c.1350-1500.
Created on: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-2F2542
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy double looped rectangular buckle, Post-medieval in date, c.1570-1700. The fragment consists of a single rectangular loop with a central bar, the second loop is missing along with the pin, and the break is next to the strap bar which is narrowed and recessed. The frame is has a squared-off inner edge and a curved outer edge with a D-shaped section. It is unclear if the rest of the frame would have been a similar rectangular loop or something larger with perhaps a different shape, making it asymmetrical. From what remains of the buckle we can compare it t…
Created on: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-2F17A6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy buckle frame dating from the Post-medieval period, c.1500-1650. The buckle frame would have originally had two oval loops, but only one survives with the broken edges of the other loop showing a D-shaped section with a bevelled underside and straight internal edge. The upper face of the surviving loop has moulded foliate decoration but is now quite corroded so that the detail is unclear. The central bar is flush with the frame and is more circular in section and the pin is also missing. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar spectacle buckle with fol…
Created on: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-2EE6AE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy double loop oval buckle dating from the Post-medieval period, c.1500-1650. This buckle has a distorted frame and narrowed strap bar. The buckle has moulded fanned knops at either end of the strap bar. A loop is missing, and part of the iron pin is present but it now a lump of iron corrosion product. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar distorted buckle frame with fanned knops on p.54, fig.306, which is dated from c.1500-1650.
Created on: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-2ED5DA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete tinned cast copper alloy double loop buckle frame dating from he Post-Medieval period, c.1600-1720. The frame is sub-rectangular with concave longer sides and convex short sides. It has a flat back and a bevelled inner edge and curved outer edge. The center of the side loops have a swelling on the inner edge. The strap bar is recessed and narrowed and the frame at either end has a pair of transverse grooves giving the buckle an appearance of having a separate spindle. The pin is missing and there is no groove on the outer edges for a pin rest. There are tiny patches of tinn…
Created on: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-2E8899
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy belt decoration dating to the Post-Medieval period from the 17th century. This design on the upper face of the mount is of a rosette with a central circular pellet surrounded by five rounded petals alternating with five pointed leaves. The back of the mount has two integral pointed lugs, one of which is complete and 6 mm in length. Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 34, fig.19, no.273 which dates from the 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-2E3BD5
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy hooked mount from a sword belt dating from the Post-medieval period c.1500-1600. The object is one of the three hooked mounts that would have been suspended from a larger mount riveted to a belt. The hook is missing on this piece of the mount. The mount piece is leaf shaped and from the broken edge the mount triangulates into two side fronds below two semi-circular cut outs which expand into two larger knops on either side of a pointed knop creating a trefoil terminal. In the middle of the terminal is a small extant iron rivet which is 3 mm in diameter.…
Created on: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-E873CD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stater of South Western uninscribed type minted by the Durotriges of Dorset and Somerset in the first century AD. British Museum Catalogue Type: 2810; ABC 2175; Van Arsdell Type: 1290-1, which is dated from 30 BC to AD 10, but current thinking now dates them from the first half of the 1st century AD. The style of these coins derive originally from Gallo-Belgic gold staters which were copying Greek gold staters in circulation at the time, with the head of Apollo on the obverse, and a horse and chariot on the reverse. The evolution of this coin's design is: Gallo-Belg…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-FCC4CE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cut farthing of a short cross penny of John (1199-1216), Class Vb1 (1205) with flat-topped 'R', moneyer Ilger, London mint, Mass 1408.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 29th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F3723A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy openwork disc brooch, circular and flat, with a plain edge. The brooch is decorated with four pointed-oval holes defining a cruciform shape, with a small punched ring-and-dot in the centre and on each expanded arm. The rectangular hinge and catchplate survive on the back of the brooch, but the pin is missing. Hattatt (2000) illustrates a flat disc brooch with a cruciform shape alternating with lentoid shapes around a central circle or hub, which he classifies as a Wheel brooch, on page 347, fig.206, no.1137, which is dated from the 2nd century AD. This brooch i…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-DB3022
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy finger ring with an empty circular collet for an intaglio. The hoop is oval in profile and D-shaped in section, tapering from the wide (10 mm wide), slightly bevelled shoulders to the narrower base (4 mm wide) of the hoop. The roughly circular collet on the oval bezel is formed from a raised collar which creates a recess, now empty, which would have contained an intaglio made from glass or a gemstone. The collar of the collet is 9 mm in diameter and 2 mm in height, and the internal diameter of the collet for the stone is 7 mm. The ring likely belongs to Henig's (1974) …
Created on: Sunday 28th January 2018
Last updated: Saturday 18th August 2018
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Record ID: CORN-EBC65D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Medieval single looped buckle with its pin missing dating from c.1250-1400. The buckle is broadly oval in shape, with two prominent lobed knops flanking three transverse grooves on the outer edge and a narrowed and recessed pin bar at the opposite edge. The pin might have rested in the central groove, if it was a wire pin, but they are also used for decoration. In total it measures 21.6 mm in length, 17.8 mm in width, 3 mm imn thickness and weighs 2.05g. A similar parallel to this can be seen in Whitehead (1996) on page 22, no.88, which is dated from c.125…
Created on: Friday 7th July 2017
Last updated: Saturday 11th August 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F3A44F
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman seal box lid, lozenge-shaped in plan with cross-hatching of twenty-five lozenge-shaped cells for enamel. Some light blue-green enamel survives in a few of the cells. The four corners of the lozenge shape have knops projecting from them which are now worn. These knops would have originally fitted into notches in the base half of the seal box. The sides of this lid survive, and are at right angles to the lid. Similar lozenge-shaped seal box lids have been discovered in Sutton, Suffolk (see SF-ADC726) and in Aldworth, Berkshire (see BERK-2698F3). Bishop (199…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2018
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