Record ID: SOM-AC6865
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small glass roundel of possible Roman date. The dark blue plano-convex roundel measures 11.5mm in maximum diameter by 5.3mm thick and weighs 1.1g. On the curving side there are three impressed parallel lines. It was perhaps used as a counter for a game.
Created on: Thursday 7th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CE7052
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass wine bottle seal dating from 1702. The fragment measures 49.7mm by 39.2mm by 12.5mm and weighs 25.5g. The seal itself is circular although the upper edge is slightly damaged. Part of the body of the bottle is affixed to the back. On the front there is a moulded monogram made up from a T and a P and below this, the date 1702.
Created on: Thursday 3rd July 2008
Last updated: Monday 1st July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combe St Nicholas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-0C5AC7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of the neck of a glass flask of probable 1st to 3rd century AD date. The fragment measures 55.7mm in length by 19mm (maximum suviving diameter) by 2.1mm thick and weighs 7.7g. The glass is transparent and slightly greenish. At one end of the neck there is a decorative glass trail.
Created on: Monday 31st March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Horethorne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-FD01A0
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near-complete glass bead of probable Roman date. The bead is in the form of a flat cylinder with bevelled edges. It measures 20.6mm in diameter by 13.5mm thick and weighs 6.7g. The glass is a light transparent brown.
Created on: Sunday 30th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Horethorne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-65FEC7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd from a glass vessel of probable Roman date. The fragment measures 27.9mm by 12.7mm by 4.6mm and weighs 1.8g. The rim has been folded over externally to form a bead. The glass is a transparent turquoise.
Created on: Tuesday 11th March 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haversham Cum Little Linford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F8B8C3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A glass wine bottle seal dating from 1777. The seal is circular although the lower edge is slightly damaged. Part of the body of the bottle is affixed to the back. The seal has a gold coloured skin due to devitrification. The inscription reads 'W. Weaver Tanner 1777'. Dimensions: 40.8mm by 36.1mm by 7.8mm Weight: 14.3g
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2008
Last updated: Monday 1st July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tatworth and Forton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-8DB0F4
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A glass segmented bead of Roman date. The blue/green glass bead comprises three segments and measures 11.4mm (length) by 4.1mm (diameter). It weighs 0.2g.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle Abbotts', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-1CEDF3
Object type: BOTTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small light green blown glass bottle of post-medieval date. The bottle has a globular body with a maximum diameter of 35.94mm. In plan it is sub-quadrangular with rounded corners. There is a central conical depression in the base. Overall the bottle is 39.66mm high. The body narrows quickly into a straight cylindrical neck, 14.93mm in diameter and 11.17mm in length and then extends again into a flat rim, 24.16mm in diameter. The bottle weighs 39.57g including the earth which remains inside. Geoff Egan has dated this bottle to the sixteenth or more likely the seventeenth century. Its …
Created on: Friday 28th April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-A47812
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Just under half of an annular translucent light blue glass bead with white opaque swirling wave motif around the circumference. Guido's group 5, type A. According to Guido (1978), this style of polychrome bead was popular for a long period in the British Isles, appearing first in fourth or third century BC graves at Arras (Yorkshire). However, the size of this example (just under 22mm in diameter) and its colour (light as opposed to cobalt blue) suggest that this bead might belong to the post-Roman period (Guido 1978, p. 63-64). In Guido's later study of Anglo-Saxon glass beads (1999)…
Created on: Monday 10th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-20B086
Object type: INTAGLIO
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman blue glass intaglio. The intaglio is oval in plan and sub-hemispherical in profile with a flat undecorated reverse. It measures 11.46mm in length, 9.54mm in width, it is 2.02mm thick and weighs 0.33g. The glass is a dark blue on the reverse with a lighter blue face, probably in imitation of nicolo. The intaglio depicts a kneeling warrior with spear and shield. Martin Henig has dated this intaglio to the first century BC or 1st century AD and believes that it may have originally come from an early Roman fort.
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.