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Record ID: PAS-755C62
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval finger ring, of stirrup shape. The hoop is slightly distorted and abraded along its edges. The ring is set with a roughly rectangular stone, which is held in place by two claws. The ring is gold, and dates from the 13th century. The stone is blue, and is a sapphire. Surface analysis indicated gold and silver contents of approximately 73–76% and 16–18% respectively, and confirmed the gemstone Dimensions: length 25 mm, width 20 mm It has been published in the Treasure Annual Report 2005/6 (p. 115, no. 403)
Created on: Saturday 10th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 10th February 2024
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Record ID: DEV-4D0E0D
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval late Tournai copper-alloy jetton of Shield of France modern type. Ave Maria reverse legend, dating to c. AD 1415-1497. See Mitchiner (1988, 226-228), no. 683 in particular (p. 227). Measurements: diameter 26.5 mm, weight 4.75 g  This jetton has received some losses to its circumference, particularly on one side off its flan.
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: DEV-10E72D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age La Tène III type/ Nauheim derivative brooch dating to the period c. AD 10-100 (Plouviez period E). While much of the brooch survives, the integral pin is missing, as is the catch-plate. At the top of the bow is the head of the brooch. The head was probably made of four coils of circular cross-section, two either side of the bow, but the internal coil that would have developed into the bow has been lost to an old break. The coils on the other side of the bow may have been squashed flat. When viewed head uppermost, the first coil to the left of the pin and …
Created on: Monday 6th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th February 2023
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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: DEV-AA0E25
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy casing from a medieval drop-shaped weight, formerly containing a lead core. The body was once piriform, expanding to a rounded base from a point at the top. A broken loop projects from a flattened summit, above a collar of two circular concentric ridges formed by a pair of grooves. The loop only exists to one side. Around 50% of the copper-alloy casing survives, with losses at two main point one the sides, leaving a small remnant between them at the base; the lead core has been lost entirely. Measurements: 63 mm in maximum height and has a maximum …
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 31st October 2022
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Record ID: DEV-6CD12E
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late early-medieval openwork copper-alloy zoomorphic mount, possibly from a strap or horse harness, dating to the 11th century AD. The mount is in the form of an animal's head and is convex on the front and hollow on the reverse. At the mount's upper edge two small, rounded projections are placed in the corners to represent the animal's ears. The animal then has a protruding hemispherical face that has two recessed swirls at the top for the eyes and a flaring triangle in the centre for the nose. Above the eyes are shallowly moulded recurving curls connected…
Created on: Thursday 7th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2022
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Record ID: DEV-6C0904
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper-alloy French jetton of the 'shield of France modern' type, rosette series, probably struck under Charles VII (1422-1461). Unparalleled in the major resources as a combination, though the obverse is as Mitchiner (1988, 192) no. 525, dated to c. 1418-1437. Measurements: 26 mm diameter, weight 5.51 g
Created on: Saturday 25th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 1st August 2022
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Record ID: PAS-426364
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A broken and fragmented late early-medieval copper-alloy probable stirrup sheath/side (c. 11th century AD). The fragment is comprised of a main rectangular convex strip which turns at one end through an oblique angle; the hollow channel running along the reverse of the object would have enclosed one of the arms a stirrup (Williams 1997, 1). At the end which does not turn the front is decorated with a low, moulded panel which occupies the object's width, itself decorated with engraved longitudinal grooves between a transverse border at each end. There is a possible adhesive on the reve…
Created on: Tuesday 19th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 9th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-C5B747
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A seemingly incomplete cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of late early-medieval date (c. 11th century AD) of Williams Class A, but not falling into an apparent sub-type.The object is sub-rectangular, with a sub-trapezoidal protrusion at the apex. At the straight base is a flange of the common right angle type as depicted in Williams (1997, 25; fig. 18A), recessed to each side. At each lower corner is a large rivet hole; neither rivet survives. At the apex is the protrusion noted which may e broken. This is further suggested by a third rivet hole through the front of the mount, tow…
Created on: Friday 1st November 2019
Last updated: Friday 1st November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimborne St. Giles', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-C43BBB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A twisted, but complete medieval copper-alloy probable buckle plate (c. 13th century). The plate is sub-rectangular, and terminates in a protruding zoomorphic head. It is folded at the frame end; the frame is missing. There is a central cut out for the pin. The fold is short to the reverse, truncated at the first of two rivet holes; it also tapers to its end on that face, giving it a trapezoidal shape. The second central rivet hole on the plate is located towards the terminal. While the rivet connecting the folds survives in situ, the second is missing. At the terminal the plate narro…
Created on: Friday 1st November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 23rd November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2F9CAB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and damaged cast copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame of medieval date. The artefact is an irregular D-shape with prominent protruding outer edge such that it tends towards the sub-trapezoidal. The sides of the frame have been bent; one is truncated, a loss that extends to the bar. The surviving bar, consisting of the majority of the original bar, has been bent back on itself; the pin is missing. The bar is narrowed and offset. The protrusion forms the pin rest and features a shallow central pin groove along its width. It terminates with truncated, straightened cur…
Created on: Friday 25th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sixpenny Handley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2F7696
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy swivel strap fitting of medieval date c. 1200-1400. The fitting comprises a pair of D-shaped loops which are connected in such a way that they can each swivel. Each loop has with zoomorphic heads biting a central internal boss. The heads have prominent brows and expanded jaws. One of the bosses has an integral bolt that emerges from the centre of its base, the bolt narrower than the base of the boss. The bolt fits into a large circular perforation which almost fills the boss on the other loop. The metal has a variable mid-green patina and is worn. Similar…
Created on: Friday 25th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sixpenny Handley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-411051
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A broken and incomplete late early-medieval cast copper-alloy stirrup terminal (c. 11th century AD). The hollow channel running along the reverse of the object would have enclosed one of the arms of the lower part of the stirrup (Williams 1997, 1). The terminal appears to be of a simple, highly devolved zoomorphic design. The upper attachment end has been broken off. Below, there is a bulbous moulding which thins in a step as it travels down at an angle before narrowing into a rounded tip. Beyond the step the front of the head is decorated with a V-shaped engraved line, its po…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2F5E63
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A broken and incomplete copper-alloy scabbard chape of medieval date, missing its side arms which would have been connected to each other via a perforated terminal loop. The fitting is zoomorphic, representing a winged animal in profile, probably a bird, whose head is at the arm end of the base plate. It was formed from a single plate that has been folded in half. The animal's tail is at the bend. The ends of the plate have been riveted together and are in the shape of the animal's head; the rivet survives and appears to have been made of a different alloy. There is a sub-triangular…
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2F1343
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A broken and incomplete late early-medieval cast copper-alloy harness link (c. 11th century AD). The object consists of a central plate with boss; to one side the arm and its terminal loop has been lost. The arms are D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat reverse. At what would have been the centre of the complete link there is a low oval boss which is hollow on the reverse. The complete arm terminates in a circular loop that features three rounded knops, one at each cardinal point. The object is a red-brown colour with some small patches of light-green corrosion product.
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2DCC7A
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy fragment probably part of the sheath from the side of a late early-medieval stirrup, or possibly part from the upper end of a stirrup terminal (c. 11th century AD). The curved hollow reverse would have enclosed the sides of the stirrup's iron frame; it retains possible traces of a lead-alloy solder. The fragment is U shaped in cross-section. A slightly wider element is delineated by two transverse ridges. Beyond one of the ridges the object is vestigial. At the other end it continues, similarly cruved in profile, tapering slightly before having been broken as a…
Created on: Friday 26th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-F28459
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A late early-medieval cast copper-alloy stirrup terminal (c. 11th century AD). The hollow back would have enclosed one of the arms of the lower part of the stirrup (Williams 1997, 1). This hollow contains traces of the lead solder by which the terminal was attached to the stirrup. The terminal appears to be of a simple, highly devolved zoomorphic design. The upper attachment end is seemingly abraded, though the extent of the losses it has suffered is not clear. Below, the head is moulded, with a central area defined by bevelled sides which flatten out at their edges. Retained betw…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-8B0567
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy strap distributor, bent to one side at one end (c. 10th-11th century). It is formed of two opposing strap loops, broadly triangular, with external recessed strap bars, which are connected by a central moulded animal head. The animal is viewed en face and is cat like, with small, slightly pointed ears, and two converging curved ridges which form both the eyebrows and nose; they do not meet. In profile the animal head can be seen to have gaping jaws. Emerging from the jaws, mirrored behind each ear, is an outcurving tendril. These have bevelled sides. On the …
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-75D66D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A worn and corroded copper-alloy strap-fitting of medieval date. The artefact has a sub D-shaped frame with central internal projection from its outer edge. The incurved outer edge effectively consists of a pair of semicircles which converge in this projection which terminates in a slightly expanded knob. The front of the object is bevelled slightly both externally and internally on the front; the reverse is flat. Around the bar part of a sheet plate has been retained; since it is partial the artefact can be considered incomplete, although the frame is an intact component. The plate i…
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-72DFB6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy buckle of the 'gaping-mouth beast' type, complete with its pin (c. 12th century). This buckle is moulded in three dimensions and takes the form of a hollow, open-mouthed animal head which is integrally cast with a frame and bar. The head is sub-circular when viewed from above and a three quarters circle in cross-section. The top of the head is decorated with a central nasal ridge which bifurcates about halfway along the head to turn into ears which continue down the sides of the head to the base. Set in front of the ears are moulded elongated oval eyes which st…
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.