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Record ID: KENT90
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
silver plated contemporary forgery on Iron (?) core, also a brockage
Created on: Monday 6th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT WORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYMM355
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Square loop, with oval ring, which is broken at the thinnest point.
Created on: Friday 16th April 1999
Last updated: Tuesday 21st August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH YORKSHIRE SCOTTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT3389
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron linch pin (Group III vase headed), 110mm in length, with decorated, cast terminals of copper alloy. The terminals are 49mm apart, set at each end of a slightly bent, tapering, square-sectioned iron shank, 11 to 9mm across. A horizontal perforation, 5mm in diameter occurs at the base of the upper terminal but this is now largely blocked by iron corrosion. The top of the 21mm diameter upper terminal is decorated by raised motifs comprising (?), with two areas of basketry hatching (Celtic art Style V) executed in the wax before casting. Two undecorated areas between the motifs take t…
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT THANINGTON WITHOUT', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT5004
Object type: FIXTURES AND FITTINGS
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Three sections of thin and very corroded iron ring. The ring is bound in places with three short sections of copper alloy. One of the copper alloy sections appears to form a terminal, suggesting that the ring may once have been penannular. Possibly a vessel mount or fitting?
Created on: Friday 20th December 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID6016
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
The linch pin terminal is cast copper alloy. The external face is a circular 'disc' with rounded edges. The surface of this 'disc' has a sub-circular central hole, through which the iron pin is visible. The 'disc' is sub-circular due to a flattening of the edges on opposite edges. This flattening occurred in antquity as the patina covers these areas. Protruding from the reverse of this 'disc' there is an integral narrowed, circular sectioned cylinder which is most narrow in the centre. On the side of this cylinder there is a circular ?indentation or hole…
Created on: Tuesday 11th March 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HEREFORD AND WORCESTER LEIGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-37A496
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lynch pin from a chariot which most probably dates to the late Iron Age. The shank of the pin (18 mm in diameter) which would have been inserted into the ends of the wheel shaft or axle is made of iron. The pin has a copper-alloy head which is circular in section This head is 27 mm in diameter where it joins the iron shank but tapers to 18.7 mm before expanding out into a terminal disc of 32.6 mm in diameter. The head of the lynch pin has two perforations shortly after it joins the iron shank. These may have been a means of securing the head to the shank. There is decoration on the …
Created on: Thursday 13th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-3AB1A7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
An iron object. The object is quite badly corroded and it is hard to discern what it may have been. However, it was found in the same area as an Iron Age linch pin, and is roughly the same size and shape as the linch pin's head. There is a possibility that this item also relates to an iron age chariot.
Created on: Thursday 13th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-F1CEF4
Object type: MIRROR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron mirror dating to the Late Iron Age or early Roman period (300 BC to AD 150). The handle is made from iron and its surface is very pitted. The body of the handle consists of a circular-section bar decorated with four spherical mouldings. The diameter of the bar measures a maximum of 16.63mm. At one end is a circular section ring, which is now broken. The diameter of this ring is 52.69mm; at the other is a similar circular-section, semi-circular extension. This extension has a rectangular slot cut into it to hold the mirror, which is now missing. The length of the han…
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 6th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Darlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-0E9E90
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron axe head, possibly iron age. The cutting edge remains, which are curved at the edges , although the original surface has coroded. The blade tapers to the butt giving the axe head an oval shape.
Created on: Thursday 29th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leyburn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-0EC7C7
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron age (200-300 BC), flanged socketed axe head. The cutting edge is fragmented and one of the points is missing, at the cutting edge the axehead is at its widest, this then tapers to a circular in section socket which is still mostly intact.
Created on: Thursday 29th April 2004
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dovenby Craggs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-18F013
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified object, possibly an Iron Age baldric ring. The object comprises a small open ring, from which projects a long shaft with a swollen terminal. The object appears to be copper alloy with an iron core.
Created on: Tuesday 29th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

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Record ID: YORYM-274F57
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete (except for the tip of the catchplate) iron Nauheim/Colchester brooch. The catchplate is decorated by a single circular perforation 3mm in diameter.
Created on: Wednesday 30th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Dalton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LON-047293
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron dagger in a wooden sheath, dating to the iron age. The piece measures 00mm in overall length, 00mm in width and is 00mm thick; it weighs 00g. It comprises a long slender iron dagger housed within an ash-wood sheath. Both are in a reasonable state of preservation although the dagger's organic hilt-plates and pommel, and the sheath's suspension loop(s) and chape, are missing. Initial cleaning of the surface corrosion products on the sheath in the laboratory by Rebecca Lang has revealed negative traces clearly demonstrating the former existence of a series of overlapping ? copper al…
Created on: Friday 3rd December 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 10th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bermondsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-D7B264
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete probable harness ring. The object consists of an solid oval-sectioned iron ring with bronze casing, which has split as the iron has expanded due to corrosion. This splitting is visible along the internal and external line of the ring, which obscures the details regarding whether the copper alloy casing was U-shaped and hammered round, or a complete cylinder. The external surface of the bronze casing is decorated with transverse ribbing. The object is similar to a simple terret ring found with two other probable harness rings and two terret rings in a context dating to circa…
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Kesteven', 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: LANCUM-49BB41
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible iron ring-headed pin with bent ring-head. The terminal of the ring-head has not been moulded onto the stem and this might betray its early date. Considering the not too much corroded state it might be medieval, although the earliest ring-headed pin start in Hallstatt D (Early Iron Age) and this specimen would be of the right shape and length for a period as early as that.
Created on: Wednesday 25th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-59F831
Object type: SLAG
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large lump of iron slag
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-E49550
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron axehead, possibly Late Iron Age but more likely Post-Medieval or modern. If it did date from the LIA, it would be a very rare Lancashire find indeed. The object is heavily corroded, but the socket and blade are still readily recognisable. Early Iron Age axes were made from forged, not wrought iron and it was difficult to form whole 'sockets' as were known from LBA socketed axes. For iron axes like this the wings needed to be reheated and hammered into the required shape. However, iron axes like this survive only very rarely and since post medieval and some modern tools apply this …
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fylde', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-4704C0
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Iron Age welded Iron sword. The fragment represents the top part of the blade and the sword tang. The pommel, guard and grip are entirely missing so it is impossible to say what form these took beyond the basic make-up of the sword grip. However the hilt edge (where the tang extends from the top of the blade) is straight which means that the sword is probably of La Tène III type , Stead type IV(See Stead, 2006, British Iron Age swords and scabbards, The British Museum Press, page 9 and figure 3). The fragment is in very poor condition, with the original surface an…
Created on: Friday 12th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epping', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-C756C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Iron Age or Roman iron penannular brooch of Fowler type C. This simple brooch is formed from a single circular sectioned piece of wire, curved into a C shaped hoop. The ends of the wire are spiralled and then bent at a right angle to the plane of the hoop. One spiralled terminal is missing, as is the pin. The brooch has a diameter of 26.18mm and the hoop is 1.82mm wide and 1.8mm thick. The spiral terminal is 4.98mm wide. The brooch weighs 1.16g. It has lost its original surface and exposed surfaces are now brown with patches of orange corrosion. The break edge is worn, …
Created on: Friday 11th August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.