Record ID: NMS-F5DA73
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Romano-British protected-loop terret, badly distorted by heat. Part of round-section ring, part of the skirt and one end of attachment loop extant. Estimated width of base along plane of ring c.50mm. Weighing 40.80g. Late 1st century.
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Monday 9th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edgefield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F48D96
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Iron Age harness fitting. The main part is crescentic, of rounded section and decorated on both sides. A scar at both ends of the crescent show that a small projection has been broken off. Just back from both ends of the crescent project round sectioned integrally cast bars, both curving to a break. On both sides decoration consists of a very slightly recessed crescentic area containing upstanding dots (seven on one side and eight on the other) against a background off cast or engraved basket-weave pattern. This combination of motifs can be seen on a sword pommel from East…
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 10th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Briningham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F29433
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness mount: a large circular enamelled stud with incomplete, bent, integral attachment shank on reverse. The front, partly obscured by corrosion products, is decorated with a sexfoil in the centre of two interlaced triangles forming a six-pointed star, all set within a circle. There are slight indications that spaces between the points and the circle were also decorated. The circle, the lines outlining the triangles, and the space between the sexfoil and the surrounding hexagon are filled with dark enamel. One speck of gilding suggests that the reserved areas …
Created on: Monday 8th May 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 19th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brinton', grid reference and parish protected.