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Record ID: NMS-8BF812
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Abraded fragment of a Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy terret with old breaks. Lewis 2015 Simple type. What remains of the apparently undecorated loop is very badly distorted. Its size is unknown and its shape may have been either circular or D-shaped. Its cross-section is oval (7.7 x 6.3mm) at the base and narrows upwards to be sub-circular (diameter 5.5mm) at the break. The collar is oval (14.8 x 13.6mm) and the stump of the strap bar is rectangular-sectioned (8 x 4.5mm and set vertically). Weight 15.12g. 1st century BC - 1st…
Created on: Saturday 18th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-FD6E6B
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Late Iron Age to Early Roman Roman copper alloy terret of Lewis 2015 Simple type, consisting of one collar between a small part of the loop and the strap bar which survives only as a stump, the breaks being old. The collar is circular but straightened on its inner edge. Around the curving edge a short length of shallow groove remains, the rest possibly removed by wear. The cross-section of the loop is round as it springs from the collar but before the break it becomes D-shaped with a flat inner face. The stu…
Created on: Sunday 6th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 7th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-81F1EB
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy terret. It is oval in cross-section, curved along its length (probably originally oval or circular) and terminating at both ends in a worn break. It expands very slightly in cross-sectional diameter from one end to the other. At the thicker end there is a triple-lipped moulding: three closely-spaced expanded disc-like ridges projecting outward and slightly laterally, diverging from each other at an acute angle. The central one is smaller and thinner than the flanking ones. An example of a similar and complete terret, albeit with only double…
Created on: Friday 7th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-130F34
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy brooch, probably a rosette type. It has an incomplete cylindrical spring case, now open at the top, with all edges being worn breaks, perhaps apart from the forward edge and a concave pin slot at the centre of the reverse. The bow is reasonably flat in cross-section. It arches in a C-shaped profile and probably tapers in width from top to bottom. The lateral edges are heavily abraded and no more than half of one edge is original. Decoration begins with a narrow transverse groove and ridge immediately below the spring case. Then …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-84BB97
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hoard of four Iron Age gold coins. Coins 2, 3 and 4 were found within 10m of each other, and coin 1 was found 30m further to the south. Catalogue: 1. Stater, Corieltavi, North East Coast, Rudd's so-called Right type, ABC1716, 6.33g, c.50-1 BC 2. Stater, Corieltavi, North East Coast, Rudd's so-called Right type, ABC1716, 6.26g, c.50-1 BC 3. Stater, Corieltavi, North East Coast, Rudd's so-called Right type, ABC1716, 6.25g, c.50-1 BC 4. Quarter stater, Corieltavi, Rudd's so-called Lindsey scyphate type, ABC 1767, weight 1.42g, c.60-2…
Created on: Monday 20th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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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-C8B20B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two sherds of Iron Age hand-built reduced pottery, one with profuse flit grits up to 3.5mm across and oxidised exterior, one with less dense flint grits and one surface missing, weight 7g. 8th century BC - mid 1st century AD
Created on: Tuesday 5th October 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B04606
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two gold aurei of Augustus, addenda to a hoard now numbering eleven coins. Coin 10 was found on 8th August 2021; coin 11 was found on 29th January 2022. Catalogue: 10. Gaius and Lucius type, reverse showing the emperor's two grandsons who predeceased him (RIC I, no. 206, mint of Lyons). Weight 7.80g, date 2 BC to AD 4. This coin has a similar peck to the obverse field in front of the emperor's face to the other nine coins, surely a check mark to ascertain it was not a copy.   11. Augustus, aureus, reverse showing eagle grasping wreath (RIC I, no…
Created on: Monday 4th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-42EEDE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age to early Roman copper-alloy Colchester brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type 2.a or 2.b (the standard British type with a catchplate pierced by fretwork or square holes). It is largely complete except for the catchplate, which survives only as a series of stubs between incomplete openwork voids, and the shaft of the pin, approximately a third of which is missing from the tip. The head consists of a pair of short flat wings and an integral spring that emerges from between them on the lower side of the reverse. The spring coils up and around a separate axis bar three time…
Created on: Friday 30th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-42DAD3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Probably Iron Age to Early Roman small U-sectioned copper alloy object with some decayed iron attached to the inner face. The outer face is decorated with a moulded groove along both curved edges and with two probably engraved lines curving from end to end and touching in the centre. Weight 0.78g. Length 8.3mm, width 7.3mm, height 5.8mm. Very similar to, but slightly smaller than, NMS-4B61A5 and NMS-1D7C72, see also NMS-CED154 and NMS-CEFFD7. Perhaps some form of edging. Probably 1st century BC - 1st century AD. The mount is possibly a shield clip (Parfitt, 1995) In the record fo…
Created on: Tuesday 6th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 7th July 2021
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