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Record ID: NMS1107
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
There are two ?decorative fittings. One comprises a two headed 'arrow' curved into a 'horse-shoe' witht he tips of the two 'arrow-heads' touching at the base. On the underside, which is concave, there is what appears to be an integral rivet. Presumably this was a decorative mount that was placed onto leather or some other material. Dimensions = 18mm x 18mm. The other decorative fitting is fragmentary, therefore, its function is less clear. It comprises a circular loop that was integral to a larger object (possibly a strap-end?). Dimensions 18mm in total length, internal diameter of loo…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COLKIRK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DEE1B5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age or Early Roman copper alloy strap-slide. Circular openwork plate consisting of an oval-sectioned frame with two conjoined roundels forming a bar across the centre with pelta-shaped apertures to either side. There is an engraved line around the outer edge of the frame, which is slightly damaged and corroded in places. Each roundel has a central round cell filled with well-preserved yellow enamel surrounded by a circular cell retaining corroded red enamel. On the revers in line with the roundels is a rectangular, D-sectioned loop, the flat face inwards. Diameter 30.5mm.…
Created on: Thursday 21st November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-46A435
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age or Early Roman copper alloy strap or harness fitting, a triplet of conjoined roundels with a small central aperture and an integral rectangular loop on the reverse. There is a deep circular groove on the front of each roundel. None contains any enamel, but all are partly filled with concreted soil and with decayed iron which parly obscured onther parts of the surfaces. No very close parallel has been noted, but objects of the same general type, with two, three or four roundels, often open rings, are quite common. 25.5 x 25mm. Thickness 3.5mm, including loop 11mm. Interna…
Created on: Tuesday 27th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-5CC800
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Early Roman strap distributor comprising three circular loops around a central boss in the form of a stylised animal head (perhaps a horse). About half of one loop is missing. Oblique grooves on the reverse are not accidental. Such objects normally sport a boss depicting a stylised human face. See references under an example from Suffolk (SF-F80655). Width 34mm. Thickness 14mm. 1st century BC - 1st century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-09056D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy strap fitting of Middle Iron Age to early Roman date (c. 150 BC - AD 100). It consists of two opposed concavo-convex teardrop shapes conjoined at the wider ends. Each teardrop exhibits a central ridge running from the pointed tip towards the centre at which point there is a crescentic aperture surrounding a central circular moulding. Each moulding exhibits a deep concentric groove creating a central domed pellet. Projecting from the reverse is a rectangular loop. A number of similar strap fittings have been recorded on the PAS database including: WMID-550E46 & YORYM-A2…
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th February 2019
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Record ID: NMS-8BBC9C
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age enamelled copper alloy strap fitting dating to the period c. 100 BC - AD 150. Quatrefoil in shape with a central domed boss. It exhibits a central circular recess filled with yellow champlevé enamel surrounded by eight sub-triangular cells. The boss is surrounded by a circular recess containing traces of degraded enamel of uncertain original colour. On two sides is a projecting D-shaped petal, each with a D-shaped reserve divided into three triangular cells by two internal reserves. Two of the cells on each petal retain red enamel. The other two petals are el…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2019
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Record ID: NMS-106FE2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy cast strap fitting of probable Iron Age or early Romano British date. The body is circular in plan with a hollow-back. The upper surface is in the form of a truncated cone, the top of which is concave and the sides have three concentric ridges. The reverse has an integral rectangular loop the style of which is similar to that used on strap slides of the period. Cf. YORYM-04B9C2 and YORYM-6634B6 on this database. Circa 100BC to AD100.
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7CE016
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy late Iron Age to Romano British strap union. The design is the same on both faces, comprising a central body with two flat circles conjoined one above the other, both have raised borders and a central circular hole. There is no extant evidence of enamel contained within any of the recessed circles. Both upper and lower circles have laterally projecting flat circular lugs set perpendicularly to the plane of the body. One lateral side of the body is broken at these lugs, but on the other side they extend fully and are bridged by a cylindrical strap bar of slightl…
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2021
Last updated: Monday 22nd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-EB8C35
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete enamelled copper alloy probable strap fitting of Late Iron Age to Roman date (c. AD 1 - 100). Possibly a fragment of strap union of Spratling's (1972, Vol. I, p. 108) sub-group A. Crescentic in form with an old break at either end. The back is flat. The front exhibits a reserve design of opposed scrolls or tendrils. Three circular recesses within the scrolls retain traces of yellow enamel. The recessed fields surrounding the scross retain traces of red enamel. See: Spratling, M.G, 1972, Vol. I, p. 108 & Vol. III, fig. 82, no. 203.
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 10th September 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C04BC6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age or Early Roman copper alloy strap distributor consisting of a triangular arrangement of three globular elements conjoined by short bars. One globe is attached to and is partly enclosed within a casting sprue which terminates in a flat-based jet. A similar object decorated in a La Tène derivative style was found in Felmingham, Norfolk (Rogerson and Ashley 2010, fig. 2 no. 10). Another plain example has been recorded in East Sussex (SUSS-05EDC0 with a list of others on this database). The present example is a rare piece of direct evidence of the manufacturing process. Ove…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 11th November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-2FBEC9
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusual Late Iron Age - Early Roman cast copper alloy strap union from harness, Taylor and Brailsford (1985) Type I. Sub-rectangular openwork with two vertical rows of three conjoined discs, flan…
Created on: Monday 23rd May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2017
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Record ID: NMS-C66A30
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete unusual strap-union from harness, sub-triangular with two of originally three large cast flat-backed terminals decorated in high relief with opposed scrolls and pellets, with three narrowed convex curving bars (two broken where terminal missing). 41 x >26mm. 9mm thick. Iron staining overall. 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Wednesday 7th April 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Felmingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CB4DF4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Early Roman strap distributor comprising three circular loops of pointed oval cross-section around a central hollow-backed boss in the form of a stylised human head. Almost all of one loop is missing. Above the head and between the two extant loops there is a pair of lips or lobes. Below the head single lobes flank the springing of the missing loop. An elaborate headdress is depicted by four horizontal grooves, each filled with a line of punched dots and all between two sets of three similarly filled grooves set obliquely. Punched dots emphasise the eyebrow…
Created on: Tuesday 8th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 16th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7A680A
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age or Roman copper-alloy strap fitting or strap union, comprising a central boss in the form of a forward facing human head in relief and the stumps of three loops. The boss is ovate and slightly hollowed on the reverse. The face is damaged and worn and with traces of one almond-shaped eye, the other eye, nose and mouth are missing. The head has a very elaborate hairstyle and possible headress with multiple engraved and pecked lines and grooves, and rises to a bifurcated apex with possible broken projections between the remains of the two flanking upper loops. The…
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FF54A0
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron age copper alloy spoon. Thin, very shallow dish, pointed at one end and rounded at the other with a groove forming a border around the edge of the dish and very faint traces of an incised cross on the concave face. The handle is formed by a flat crescent shaped projection at the rounded end of the dish decorated with two shallow circular depressions and a groove around the edge, and a much thicker disc with a raised, moulded edge and large central circular boss with central circular depression on the upper face. The field surrounding the boss contains no trace of enamel or keying …
Created on: Thursday 4th March 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ditchingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C04EE6
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a very late Bronze Age or Earliest Iron Age copper alloy socketed axehead, complete apart from a small area of recent damage to the cutting edge. A small hole on one side below the mouth and on the line of a casting seam is probably a casting flaw. Much of the surface is iron stained. Length 115.5mm. Width 59mm. Thickness 40.5mm. Weight 383g. Probably Sompting Type, c.1000 - c.600 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2015
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Dereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-237223
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron socketed axehead partly covered and filled with chalky gravel concretions. Length 152mm, width 58mm, thickness 38mm, aperture of side-loop 18mm x 5mm. Such objects are characteristic of the Hallstatt culture of the earliest Iron Age of central Europe. They are rarely found in the British Isles, with examples from the Berwyn Mountains of Wales (Savory, H. Guide Catalogue of the Early Iron Age Collections 1976, 20) and Cold Kitchen Hill, Wiltshire (Cunliffe, B. Iron Age Communities in Britain 1974, fig.14:2.5). c.800 - c.600 BC
Created on: Friday 29th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton Bendish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF5E45
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Iron Age iron socketed axehead, complete apart from a small piece of the cutting edge. Some detail is obscured by corrosion, but a considerable amount of metal remains un-oxidised. Length 90mm. Width 53mm. Thickness 34mm. Weight 241g. c.800 - c.600 BC Iron socketed axes are rarely found in the British Isles, with finds from the Berwyn Mountains of Wales (Savory 1976, 20), Walthamstow, Essex / Greater London and Cold Kitchen Hill, Wiltshire (Cunliffe 1974, fig.14:2.4 and 2.5). Those recorded by the PAS include examples from Lincolnshire (NLM-1AD972), South Gloucestershire (GLO-D2…
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 18th April 2023
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Record ID: IARCH-1278C9
Object type: SLAG
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Batch 3.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South-West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-499937
Object type: SLAG
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron slag fragment. Maximum thickness 52 mm. Iron Age - Post-medieval.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2012
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dickleburgh and Rushall', grid reference and parish protected.