Record ID: NMS-E36337
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy late Iron Age or Roman bow brooch, consisting of the foot only. The D-section bow is very narrow but fairly even in width, tapering from 2.9mm wide and 1.7mm thick at the break to 2.2mm wide at the bottom. On the reverse is a pierced or perforated catchplate, consisting of a triangle springing from one edge of the bow, with the end turned over to the left (when viewing the brooch from the reverse) and a slot made at the curve to hold the end of the pin. It has a lozenge-shaped perforation, less neatly shaped than the rest of the brooch, The break…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E31D90
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and top of bow from a copper-alloy Roman brooch of Langton Down type, dating to c. 25-c. 60 AD. The head is formed from a thin sheet cylinder, complete on the left side (looking from the front) but the front missing on the right. There is no trace of decoration on the front of the head, but a seam can just about be seen along the reverse, with the slot for the pin in the centre. The inside of the head is filled with hard corrosion products, probably from an iron spring bar. The D-section bow tapers from 11.2mm wide at the top to 7.2mm wide at the broken end. It has a rid…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E0BBDF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Largely complete copper-alloy Colchester one-piece brooch of late Iron Age to early Roman date (c. 20-c. 65 AD). The bow is oval in cross-section, with no decoration surviving. At the top are a pair of rectangular, flat-section wings, with a long forward-facing hook above. The hook still retains the chord of the spring, half of which survives, with three coils on the right (as you look at the reverse). The left-hand end of the spring, and the pin, are missing along with any axis bar. The bow tapers downwards towards a missing foot (fairly old break), with a stub of catchplate on t…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1E9172
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a late Iron Age to early Roman copper-alloy terret. A part of the oval ring and a part of the straight attachment bar are extant. At the junction between the two there is an expanded collar, and at each end there is a worn break. The ring is oval in cross-section and tapers gradually in width and thickness from the collar to the break. The cross-secional shape of the collar is similar to that of the ring. The attachment bar has two broad straight parallel faces joined by narrower, rounded (near semi-circular) ends. Similar to NMS-5F4772 Length: 41.0mm. Width (collar):…
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DC24D2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base gold stater of the Iceni, so-called Freckenham or Boar Horse B type, obverse back-to-back crescents, reverse a horse right, annult below muzzle, star below and beaded circle behind head, weight 5.22g, c.10BC-AD42
Created on: Monday 6th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DBF139
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable bronze unit of Cunobelin, obverse perhaps a head right, reverse the forequarters of an animal right, further details illegible, weight 0.88g, c.AD10-42
Created on: Monday 6th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DB6CC1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold stater, Gallo-Belgic E type with blank obverse and a horse right on the reverse, struck by Vercingetorix during his wars against Caesar, weight 6.11g, c.AD60-52
Created on: Monday 6th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CBFEE7
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Late Iron Age to Early Roman rectangular-sectioned iron linch pin engaged with a copper alloy hoof-shaped foot terminal. The front of the hoof is imperfectly circular, its sides being flattened by wear thus interrupting an encircling moulded groove. For the cause of such wear see Spratling 1972, 59 and fig. 41. The main part of the front of the hoof is recessed and at its centre a round cell is filled with red enamel and lies within a spiral of very finely engraved lines forming two three-sided fields filled with pecked dots. On one side between t…
Created on: Sunday 5th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 20th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CB56E9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Early Roman Colchester brooch, Mackreth 2011 C 6.c, the Sedgford (sic). The pin, most of the spring and almost all of the catchplate are missing, The chord remains held by the forward-facing hook but is loose. Decayed iron within two coils of the spring is probably what remains of the axis bar. Both wings are complete but distorted. The hook terminates in a roundel.  The D-sectioned bow is wide at the top and is decorated with a pair of wavy ribs set in counter-relief within a median groove. Both faces of the stump of the catchplate …
Created on: Sunday 5th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-0AA43C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy brooch with the pin and almost all of the spring missing. The bow is sub-circular in cross-section and the catchplate is solid. Mackreth 2011, Nauheim Derivative, 3.b3. Weight 1.9g. Extant length 35.4mm. Width (at mid bow) 2.5mm. AD c.20 - c.70.
Created on: Friday 27th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 27th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D04B8A
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pair of Iron Age tweezers. It appears to be complete except for some loss of edge and pitted loss of surface around the tips of the arms and the connecting loop. It is formed of a single strip of metal folded in half, perhaps around a rod, to create a closed circular loop. The loop has then been hammered flat on a plane perpendicular to that of the arms. The arms are parallel-sided and the tips appear to be rounded. The original shape of the tips is partially obscured by abrasion and loss of edge and surface. However, parts of the side edges at the tips appear to …
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CEFB80
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age la Tene 1 style brooch. The head is broken where it coils (leftwards as viewed from the front) to the first loop of the spring and pin. The bow is oval in cross-section with a medial depression in the front face. It expands in width to the high point then tapers down again to the foot. The foot continues on to form a right hand side catchplate and then turns back on itself, expanding into a pierced circular disc which finishes in a collared hoof shaped terminal, just short of the bow. Circa 400 to 300 BC Dimensions;- length 47.5, width 6..0, weight 5.76g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8D7EA4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Early Roman Colchester brooch, Mackreth 2011 C 6.c, the Sedgford [sic]. The pin, most of the spring and a small piece of the catchplate flap are missing, and the front-facing hook has been distorted. The front of the wings is decorated with low mouldings (cf. ibid. pl. 26 no. 665), the bow with a pair of wavy ribs set in counter-relief within a median groove and the solid catchplate with rocker-arm engraving on both faces. Weight 19.8g. Wingspan 26.3mm. Width at top of bow 12.7mm. Length 85.9mm. AD c.20 - c.70.
Created on: Saturday 21st May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8D11B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Iron Age to Middle Iron Age copper alloy brooch of Hull and Hawkes Type 1A (Adams 2013, 52-3), with almost all of the spring, part of the pin rest / catchplate and all of the reverted part of the foot missing. The break across the spring appears recent but that at the foot is old. The high-arched bow is of D-shaped cross-section with a flat underside. There is no sign of decoration though the surfaces are somewhat worn. Weight 8.9g. Extant length 47.7mm. Height 18.8mm. Width at centre of bow 7mm. c.450 - c.300 BC.
Created on: Saturday 21st May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-654BA8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Iron Age to Roman penannular brooch of Fowler/Booth type C. The brooch is made from oval cross-section wire formed into a circle, with a tapering oval-scrolled coil at both free ends. The void at the centre of one of the coils is filled with what could be orange enamel, which is now very powdery. There is no trace of a similar material in the second coil. The tapering wire pin is bent and has been made flat where it wraps around the frame. The sharp end reaches beyond the opposite frame to enable it to be turned around the frame for fastening. No other decoration can be s…
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4F4095
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type 6.a.d or 6.c.d, and similar to ibid, No. 7480. The bow, wings and most of the catchplate are extant. The sprung pin and forward facing hook are missing, leaving only short stubs projecting from the rear of the head, curving up slightly and terminating in worn breaks. These are both rectangular in cross-section to begin with, although the lower one (the stub of the spring) becomes oval before the break. The wings are short, narrow, rectangular and undecorated. They taper in thickness from the t…
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 23rd May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-014853
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy head and upper bow fragment of a single piece Iron Age La Tene/Nauheim style brooch. Bilateral four loop spring with an external chord. The pin has been bent back and only survives as a short length. The upper bow is extant and expands symmetrically in width in a curvilinear form then narrows again forming a narrow leaf shape, before fracturing transversely. There is narrow medial chevron-like decoration running down the bow probably made with a graver. Circa 100BC-AD50.
Created on: Saturday 14th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-947D98
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy brooch with the pin and most of the catchplate missing. The undecorated bow is D-sectioned although the front face is only slightly convex. Mackreth 2011, Nauheim Derivative, 3.b3. Weight 3.2g. Length 35.2mm. Width (at spring) 11.1mm. AD c.20 - c.70.
Created on: Monday 9th May 2022
Last updated: Saturday 14th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3C8F87
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy Langton Down brooch of unusual form, with the pin, the foot and part of the catchplate missing. On the front face of the spring case an irregular and rough surfaced deposit may be the remains of some sort of appliqué, on the lower edge of which a small area of coating is probably gilding. The undecorated bow narrows below this to a pair of lateral cut-outs and then tapers again to a non-recent break. Part of a probably round perforation remains in the catchplate. Weight 4.7g. Width of head 17.8mm. Extant length 37.2mm. AD c.25 - c.60.
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-0792E5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Iron Age copper alloy brooch, complete apart from the pin, half of pin lug, a small part of the catchplate and some localised recent damage. The head is as the cross-bar of the letter T, but with both ends projecting forwards to a round recess which would have held some inlaid decorative material such as coral or glass. The quite steeply arched bow is lozengiform with two more round recesses, both empty, laterally placed at the highest point. The reverse is concave, while decoration on the convex front face is quartered, with two plain sub-tria…
Created on: Friday 8th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2022
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