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: SF-18600D
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Incomplete copper-alloy Iron Age linch pin terminal, dating to 300 BC- AD 100. It has a sub conical shape and terminates with a large flat integral disc which is set parallel to the longitudinal axis of the main body of the terminal. One side of the conical body has a circular recess. The disc has a thick crescentic-shaped rim and two recessed circles on the front face. The opposite end of the terminal has a circumferential raised collar followed by a narrower cylindrical extension, which has a rectangular cross-sectioned socket; one edge of the socket mouth is bent outwards. The so…
Created on: Monday 12th August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Topcroft', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-B28906
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy crescentic linch pin terminal of Spratling 1972 Group II. with a small part of the socket mouth missing (ancient break). On the front face of the crescent a fan-shaped cell is now empty of enamel. below this an engraved ring with a central punched or drilled dots is flanked on one side by rows of fine pecking. No part of the iron shank is extant. Weight 16.30g. Length 33.3mm. Width 20.9mm. Thickness 11.4mm. Socket mount 10 x 8.5mm. !st century BC - 1st century AD.
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-78884E
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an unusual Late Iron Age or Roman Copper alloy vase headed linch pin. Relatively small copper-alloy head with a flattened disc-shaped terminal, the upper face with a central boss within a raised circular border decorated with multiple transverse notches to give the impression of a corded border, and an outer plain border. Below this the convex underside is stepped before a narrowed neck with twin narrow corded ribs, expanding to a bulbous hemispherical body, around the base of which is a groove and slight collar. Above the collar, on one side is a projecting lateral loop wi…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2019
Last updated: Saturday 16th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F5C55E
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete iron and copper alloy linch pin dating to the period c. 100 BC - AD 100. The head is missing. The iron shank is now heavily corroded, the original cross-section indiscernible. The base of the shank fits into a socketed copper alloy foot. Sub-conical in form, traces of a moulded collar are visible at the mouth of the socket under a layer of iron corrosion. Just below, on one side only is a moulded relief ring-and-dot motif. The foot curves along its length and expands into a discoidal terminal. The face of the terminal exhibits a raised circular border expanding in width from…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-DC7F9C
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper alloy Iron Age linch pin, damaged hoof-shaped foot terminal with a damaged collared socket for the missing iron pin. The face of the hoof has a sub triangular cell for missing enamel, with a convex lower edge and two concave obliquely-angled upper sides. Height 39.5mm. Width 19mm. Weighs 18.74g. 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-2ED198
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pitted and corroded Iron Age copper alloy hoof-shaped foot from a linch pin with the embedded remains of the end of a rectangular-sectioned iron pin and a radial groove at the flat inner end. A circular depression, asymmetrically placed on the underside of the hoof with convex centre. Length 39.5mm. Maximum diameter 23mm. Diameter of decorated underside 21.5mm. Weighs 56.23g. 1st century BC / AD.
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 24th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2BE014
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy vase-shaped linch pin head. The flat-topped discoidal terminal is surrounded by two grooves, and there is another encircling groove immediately above the mouth. This groove is interrupted by two opposed holes in which is set a pin or dowel, in paler green surfaced alloy, which would have secured the iron linch pin. Of the latter there is no trace. For the most part hard against the inner face a piece of copper alloy sheet is pierced by one end of the dowel and runs around to the other end. This sheet must have acted as packing to reduce the i…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-15F679
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete hoof-shaped Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy linch pin foot terminal, the circular hoof with a short length of the curving shank on the reverse, an ancient break. Most of the face is recessed slightly asymmetrically and is decorated in very fine pecking with a reversed-S motif with bifurcating terminals and a central open circle. This design is reminiscent of that found on some Dragonesque brooches, e.g. Kilbride-Jones 1980, fig. 48, nos. 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9. Diameter 20.2 - 20.7mm. Extant length 16mm. 1st century BC - 1st century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Saturday 16th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-690256
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper alloy enamelled Iron Age crescent-headed linch pin. The head is almost complete save the crown and the base skirt that accommodated the transverse securing pin. The stemmed head is a sub-crescent shape stepped outwards at either side to form laterally opposed stubbed arms. The central stem at the base of the crescent flares smoothly outwards to a wider base which has a forward-stepped semi-circular skirt. The top of the crescent (estimated 15%) is missing from an old break. The underside of the skirt has a transverse semi-circular groove running across the full …
Created on: Monday 14th September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F36EDA
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very unusual Late Iron Age to early Roman iron and copper alloy composite linch pin with bent and corroded square-sectioned shank (14 x 14mm), pelta-shaped openwork head and foot with discoidal terminal. The peltoid head and the foot are both cast. The face of the head is decorated with six circular cells containing traces of red enamel, four in a Y-shaped arrangement within an engraved triskele reserved on a circular pecked field, one in the centre and each of the three outer cells in a curled terminals of the triskele, two further cells are set in the swollen convex base of the head…
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Saturday 16th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6FFAD9
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Burnt and slighty molten Iron Age discoidal knob from lower part of linch pin terminal. The broken oblique stub on the reverse indicates that the knob was of hoof type, set at right angles to the rest of the terminal and the pin, cf. Gregory 1980 fig 7 and MacGregor 1976 no. 135. On the front of the knob a large off-centre recessed area is edged by a circular cordon. On the flat base of the recess are two circular blind holes filled with white material (perhaps shell) and traces of a zone of fine pecked decoration. Diameter 19mm. Weighs 11.54g. 1st century BC - 1st century AD.
Created on: Thursday 29th May 2014
Last updated: Saturday 16th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AE1963
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the hoof-shaped terminal of a Late Iron Age to early Roman copper alloy linch pin, roughly circular and cast with a chord missing, and part of the ankle or shank. At the break across the shank a large air-hole has been exposed. A blob of metal adheres to the reverse near the edge. Parts of the surface and the fracture are blackened. These features suggest miscasting or the subsequent effect of heat. The front of the hoof is recessed and within the recess a circular setting, now empty, was probably once filled with enamel. A small sub-triangular area defined by the edge of …
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 12th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-09C173
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age to early Roman copper alloy hoof-type linch pin terminal. Set off-centre on the underside of the "hoof" a circular cell contains red enamel. Another similar cell lies close by on the same face. The incomplete square socket for the entirely lost iron pin is 18mm deep and 9mm wide. Length 40.5mm. Width 17.7mm. Thickness 11.5mm. Weight 21.15g. 1st century BC - 1st century AD
Created on: Friday 28th February 2014
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A92100
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age to early Roman iron and copper alloy composite linch pin with square-sectioned shank, barrel-shaped head and hoof-shaped foot. The circular head and the foot are both cast with a chord missing. All inlaid enamel has been lost apart from on the face of the hoof. The top of the head is decorated with four crescentic cells and two curving engraved lines, and is partly obscured by corroded iron. Of three round cells on the side, one is entirely iron-filled. On the lower part there are two round cells within ribbed surrounds and two others joined by very fine curvilinear engra…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D285B2
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age copper alloy and iron linch-pin terminal. Domed head with three raised semi-circular bosses around the edge each with deep radiating grooves. Slightly narrowed, circular-sectioned lower half with a groove around the lower edge and bisected by a deep rectangular slot in the base from which protrudes corroded iron. Length (excluding iron) 17mm. Diameter 16mm. A1.
Created on: Monday 21st January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-64E392
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A hoof-shaped Iron Age linch pin foot terminal with the remains of an iron pin socket. Most of the face of the hoof is recessed so that the outer edge appears as a crescent and there is a blind hole in the convex centre. The length of the object (excluding iron) is 40mm and its maximum width is 23.5mm. It dates from the 1st century BC-1st century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 7th September 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 20th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6C94D8
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hoof-shaped terminal of foot of linch pin. A circular depression, asymmetrically placed on the underside of the hoof is decorated with three curving ribs moulded in counter-relief leaving a triangular concave-sided space in the centre. The motif is the same as that on a linch pin foot from Kirstead (HER 51673) Diameter of decorated underside 20mm. 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Monday 3rd August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8C2255
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hoof-shaped foot from a linch pin with the embedded remains of the end of an iron pin. A circular depression, asymmetrically placed on the underside of the hoof is decorated with three curving engraved lines that have left a triangular concave-sided space in the centre. The motif is the same as that on a linch pin foot from Wymondham (HER 37333) Length 45mm. Maximum diameter 18.5mm. Diameter of decorated underside 20mm. 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Monday 29th June 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kirstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2E6C31
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age discoidal knob from lower part of linch pin terminal. The oblique stub on the reverse indicates that the knob was of hoof type, set at right angles to the rest of the terminal and the pin, cf. Gregory 1980 fig 7 and MacGregor 1976 no. 135. On the front of the knob a large off-centre recessed area is edged by a circular cordon On the flat base of the recess are two circular blind holes and two zones of fine pecked decoration, both with doubly curved edges. Another blind hole touches the edge of the recess. All three would have been inlaid with enamel. Diameter 26 – 28mm. 1st…
Created on: Tuesday 20th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Briningham', grid reference and parish protected.