Record ID: NMS-A45B55
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a possible Late Hallstatt Iron Age brooch, very corroded hollow-backed oval bow with most of surface missing, traces of recessed flange around oval boss with longitudinal incised line (or lines?), damaged sides and broken at both ends with stump of narrowed projection at one end and stump of oval-sectioned projection on reverse at other end. Perhaps related to Hull and Hawkes (1987) Type L, Plate 22, examples from Mortlake 3560 and Woodeaton 7039. 5th-4th century BC.
Created on: Thursday 21st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stradsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F2D734
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age/Romano-British discoidal head of stud, perhaps a harness mount, most of shank missing. The top is decorated with two intertwined comma-shaped cells filled with red enamel and leaving an area of reserved metal in the form of a reversed S between them. A pair of grooves encircle the sides, and the narrow bans between them is knurled. Diameter of head 15.5mm. Thickness of head 3.5mm, thickening slightly towards springing of shank. Length >7.5mm. Shank diameter 7.5mm. 1st century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1A6C51
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast copper alloy Iron Age/Romano-British unidentified object. Loop with round aperture and D-shaped exterior. The exterior of the straight side of the D is original and is continuous with one broad face of the loop. The opposing edge of the straight side is missing, as are both ends. Dark green patination covers all areas not subject to ancient or recent damage. Fractures suggest the metal is brittle. Width 10.5mm. Length >15.5mm. Thickness 5.5mm.
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hindringham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-853B88
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold stater of the Trinovantes, 'Clacton' type, same dies as Hobbs 152, later first century BC
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2CBE53
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Iron Age/Romano-British miniature terret, comprising part of a broken rectangular sectioned attachment bar and one surviving expanded terminal of the broken oval-sectioned terret ring, tapering to the corroded break. 1st century BC-2nd century AD.
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haveringland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9431F6
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age ovoid mount from harness, corroded and very worn remains of a broken and distorted D-sectioned ring that emerges from behind an oval panel with circular central cell containing pale yellowish enamel, between four sub-triangular cells with convex outside edges echoing the form of the panel. A sub-rectangular loop projects from the reverse of the panel. Cf. MacGregor (1976), nos.15 and 16. 2nd-early 3rd century AD.
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-94A414
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age pendent mount or ‘dangler’ from horse furniture, openwork, centre broken around circular cell with deeper central dot and one of probably three radiating pointed-oval arms decorated with another similar circular cell (enamel missing from both) and part of broken circular outer frame (estimated diameter c.37mm). Circular-sectioned shank on reverse, terminal loop with tapering butted-together ends (length 33mm including thickness of plate, 2.5mm). Cf. MacGregor (1976), no.40 and Hutcheson (2004), no.59.
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A4E543
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age/Romano-British complete copper alloy miniature lipped terret ring, circular-sectioned with pair of transverse mouldings in outer edge, between which the ring narrows and becomes oval in section. 31 x 29mm thickness of ring 4.5mm, of collars 4.5 – 5.5mm, and thickness of ring between collars 3mm. 2nd century BC – 1st century AD (Hutcheson 2004, 29).
Created on: Friday 14th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thwaite', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-24ADC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age/Roman brooch, very corroded and broken pointed oval plate, decorated with central perforation between four perforated ring-and-dot, broken stumps of twin pierced lugs for pin and stump of catchplate on reverse. Width >22mm. Length >31mm. 1st century AD. Same type in Chalon-sur-Saône Museum, Musée Denon, cf. Feugère 1977a, pl.14, no.85 (personal communication Michel Feugère, May 2013).
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 14th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swanton Abbott', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A27CB4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age one-piece Colchester brooch, complete but distorted. Ten-coil spring, no wings. Round section bow. Slightly swollen moulding above catchplate. Kicked-forward foot. Both unusual features. Length (estimated) 30mm. Early 1st century.
Created on: Wednesday 26th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A2A5D1
Object type: FOB
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age harness mount: cast openwork disc mount with spinning triskele motif and central round hole from which two cracks radiate and that is surrounded on one face by a shallow circular groove, either decorative or possibly caused by wear from the missing shank. On the same face and between the apertures a motif of dot within two concentric grooved circles is repeated three times. Diameter 47mm, thickness <2mm. Cf examples from Alby with Thwaite HER 32334, Brampton HER 1124, Great Walsingham HER 2024 and Swanton Morley HER 17486.
Created on: Wednesday 26th September 2007
Last updated: Saturday 25th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weybourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E06AC5
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age/Romano-British copper alloy toggle, cast sub-rectangular, corroded and pitted, longitudinally convex with sides flaring from relief decoration comprising the addorsed double-lunate motif of the Iceni. Longitudinally concave reverse with integral pierced vertical triangular attachment bar. >19 x 23mm. It is possible that this toggle would have been used for fastening bags, clothes or straps. It dates to the Late Iron Age/Early Roman period, 1st century AD.
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-898C22
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age/Romano-British copper alloy Colchester-type one-piece brooch, three coils of spring, and coiled pin surviving, catchplate missing. Round section bow. Wingspan 9.5mm, length 38mm. c 20-60AD.
Created on: Friday 19th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mundham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-71B9C3
Object type: BOW BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy incomplete Roman bow brooch of aesica rear hook type, probably an East Anglian form, see Hattat 1989, 310, fig 169, no. 292. The wings are small and short, the rear hook worn and incomplete. The spring and pin is missing and the edges of the foot and catchplate have worn away. The bow is rectangular with longitudinal grooves and steps down to the foot via two trasnverse steps. Below these is a double triangular motif, with the point downwards, There are also faint traces of a pairs of longitudinal grooves running down to the terminal of the foot below this. It measu…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hilgay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9BB486
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron age fragment of La Tène III type brooch, narrowed upper part bent back, coils missing, oval-sectioned plain bow, tapering lower part, catch-plate missing. >4 x >38mm. Cf. Hattatt (1989), broadly similar to nos.9, 10 and 12. 1st century BC/early AD.
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Rudham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-974774
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age/Romano British one-piece Colchester-type brooch, spring, pin, end of one wing and catchplate missing. The bow is flat and narrows to the sharply pointed foot. A piece of sheet has carefully folded around the bow near its upper end, apparently as decoration. Length 48mm. Wingspan (estimated) 14mm. c.20 – c.60 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 11th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Seething', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AC1FC7
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very flimsy Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age razor: ovoid with four triangular apertures around a cruciform motif in the centre, V-shaped cut-out at base and smaller V-shaped cut-out on either side of a triangular neck below an (incomplete) circular suspension loop or handle. Although cast, the object is extremely thin and sheet-like, with the thickest element being the loop. Its condition is very fresh, but there is minor damage, mostly on the edges but including a small perforation and some pitting. Piggott 1946 Class III - the closest parallel to be illustrated by Piggott is from Kin…
Created on: Wednesday 12th November 2008
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cranwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E77CD5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age Birdlip brooch, spring, pin, most of upturned “beak”, lower bow/foot missing, rear of head damaged. Length 35mm. Head width 9mm. Early to mid 1st century. Brooches of this type, named after a silver example found in a grave in Birdlip, Gloucestershire, are not common in Norfolk, with finds from Barton Bendish, Burlingham, Pentney, and Quidenham.
Created on: Thursday 27th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bodham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E81776
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age/Romano British mount in the form of a bull’s or cow’s head and neck, the twin horns and ears incomplete. All features, ears, eyes, nostrils, mouth and dewlap are finely moulded. At the base of the neck a ribbed moulding clasps a U-shaped vertical channel for attachment. If the channel were horizontal then this would be identified as a bucket mount, cf. an example from Corbridge (MacGregor 1976, cat. no. 315). The bull was regarded as a symbol of strength in Roman Britain and was adopted by several deities (Green 1976, 32). Length 34mm. Width across horns >19.5mm. Weight 39…
Created on: Thursday 27th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Northrepps', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-014C82
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age/Romano British miniature terret with an undecorated round section loop and simple collar at both ends of bar. Height 20mm. Width 24mm. Thickness of ring 3.5mm, of collars 8mm. 2nd century BC – 1st century AD (Hutcheson 2004, 29).
Created on: Friday 28th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Runton', grid reference and parish protected.