Perhaps not as exciting as Charles Bullock’s find of the Milton Abbas Pendant, but telling us more about the history of Milton Abbas are some of Charles’ recent finds which he is reporting to the UK Detector Finds Database are such as the following – 

These and many other artefacts show the occupation of the people of Milton Abbas from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period, and not anywhere near the village which was known to be just south of the Abbey church from the mid tenth century to the late 18th century when it was moved by Joseph Damer, Lord Milton.

One thing is abundantly clear – a lot of horses were here in the medieval period with many horseshoes and nails and bronze high status harness fittings found. It is likely that the abbots had stables for the horses and kennels for dogs with which they fraternised the great and the good of Dorset.