Record ID: NMS-6AD275
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age to Roman cosmetic mortar dating to the 1st-2nd centuries AD. The mortar is end-looped and has a plain bow with broad, deep V-shaped groove and knobbed or phallic terminal. It is 72mm long and weighs 37.05g. Similar examples are published in Jackson 1985, fig.5, nos.17 and 18.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Stow', 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-7397B7
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age copper alloy button-and-loop fastener, oval D-sectioned bar with engraved lines bordering two deep transverse grooves, and a rectangular-sectioned shank on hollow reverse which quickly develops into a 90º bend, expands with rounded perforated terminal forming loop. 23 x 31mm. It is likely that this fastener would have been used for securing bags, clothes or straps, possibly on a horse-harness. 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Friday 9th January 2009
Last updated: Saturday 30th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D3BF38
Object type: TORC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A buffer terminal of a multi-strand torc, paired with one found on 22/12/05 (2006T13; TAR 2005/6, no. 81). The decoration of the two are the same (cable moulding around the edge, engraved curvilinear La Tène design with pecked dots on the face), although this second example lacks a curlicue on the front face. It is also pockmarked with larger casting flaws. Again, stubs of wire line the periphery of the reverse, but there is no fired clay. Dimensions: Diameter 21.5mm, thickness 6.5mm, weight 15.79g. Metal Content: 33-36% gold, 58-61% silver, the remainder copp…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-41C378
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy miniature terret with an undecorated D-section loop and collar with engraved grooves at both ends of the bar. A fine groove runs around the rear outside edge of the loop. All of the reverse is flat. Height 24mm. Width 23.5mm. Internal height and width 15.5mm. Thickness of ring 3mm, of collars 4 - 5.3mm. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD (Hutcheson 2004, 29).
Created on: Friday 8th May 2009
Last updated: Sunday 5th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Runcton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9927B5
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A decorative stud, probably from harness, with a discoidal head (diameter 14mm, 4mm thick) with an enamelled circular cell comprising a streaky or mottled black and yellow ovoid on a red field, with an integral tapering circular-sectioned shank on the reverse with an oblique bend at the mid-point (projects 20mm (unbent)). 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2009
Last updated: Friday 7th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sculthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D48F17
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of knobbed terret, comprising part of the ring with one globular knob and a grooved collar and stub of a bar. Width and height uncertain. Diameter of oval collar 9mm - 10.5mm. Diameter of knob 9.5mm. 1st to 2nd century AD.
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 10th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E8C763
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and slightly distorted platform-decorated terret dating to the 1st century AD. The upper part of the ring is missing. Outward-slanting collars at both ends of the attachment bar. Enamelled decoration on the sub-ovoid platforms consists of an annular cell of red surrounding a round cell of blue. Width c.60mm.
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F73F01
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age miniature terret ring measures 24 x 25mm. It is sub-triangular in section with a slight bordering moulding on the inner edge of one face which expands at both ends to form a transverse collar at either end of the inset oval-sectioned attachment bar. The bordering moulding may originally have been visible on both faces, but is now damaged on one side. It dates fromt the Late Iron Age.
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Sunday 24th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EE8B03
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two copper alloy objects additional to a dispersed hoard discovered in 2004 and reported as 2004 T301. Copper alloy terret ring with inset rectangular sectioned attachment bar flanked on either side by vertical discs. There are three decorative projections or mouldings around the ring, one on top and one on each side. This terret is very similar to an one discovered at the same site in 2004. Measuring (externally) 59 x 49mm, (internally) 35 x 31mm. Fragment of copper alloy harness mount, semicircular in shape and broken at either end. Decorated with two opposed pointed scrolls w…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F1B253
Object type: COIN BLANK
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A disc of quite pale gold. Although this is a somewhat enigmatic object it appears most likely that it represents a blank for an Iron Age stater. The weight would be most consistent with a 'Norfolk Wolf' type. Probably mid-late first century BC.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 15th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4EFCC3
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age/Romano-British toggle, cast in the form of two cones flanking a biconvex moulding, with the remains of an iron loop inserted at the mid-point. For use in fastening bags, clothes or straps. The iron insertion can be compared with an example with convex ends from Marham (Norfolk Historic Environment Record no. 29231; PAS NMS-0299F5). It measures 15 x 11mm and dates from the 1st century AD.
Created on: Monday 6th September 2010
Last updated: Monday 25th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F333C3
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Late Iron Age three-lipped terret, corroded and battered, with both ends broken (probably in antiquity). The ring is of circular section, one moulded lip is extant, and the collared rectangular-sectioned bar is broken at one end. The surviving object is 32mm long with a diameter of 9mm at the lip. It dates from the 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Friday 8th October 2010
Last updated: Sunday 5th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Ellingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E51D37
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard consisting of two terrets and a mount. 1. A complete oval winged or lipped terret. The attachment bar is recessed and rectangular in section with circular mouldings at either end. The circular-sectioned ring, which tapers from either side of the attachment bar to the apex, has three wing or lip like mouldings, the one at the apex being slightly smaller than those to either side. The edge of each of the lipped mouldings is decorated with a cable moulded rib. There is a glossy green-brown patina over much of the surface, but also wear and corrosion damage, particularly on the …
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shipdham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4C6016
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age harness mount, rectangular plate (1mm thick) with slight rim at surviving original edge, and with remains of decoration comprising three transverse vertical ribs in shallow relief between two discs, one with a central dot within five concentric grooves, the other a fragment of the outer grooves only, integral loop on reverse aligned with and adjacent to the surviving original edge. Old breaks on the two ends with a more recent looking break on the longer edge. Length >30mm, width >18mm. Weighing 3.32 g. See a broadly similar mount found in a h…
Created on: Wednesday 24th August 2011
Last updated: Friday 17th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-5E5724
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age/Roman flat-backed simple miniature terret. See Hutcheson 2004 nos. 81-80. Height 21mm. Width 25mm. Maximum thickness (across one knob at junction of ring and bar) 6.5mm. 1st century BC/1st century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 7th October 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6599B4
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat-ring Iron Age/Roman terret, both faces of flat-sectioned ring decorated with a 'moustache'-like figure reserved on a field of red enamel, in the centre and at both oval ends of the 'moustache' are red enamelled cell, on the inner edge of both faces of the ring is a bordering moulding which expands at both ends to a transverse collar flanking the insert rectangular sectioned attachment bar. Width 67mm. Height 48mm. See a pair of enamelled flat-ring terrets from Ashill (Norfolk Historic Environment Record number 16140), one of which is illustrated in Hutcheson (2004), 135, no. 131.…
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 10th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CED154
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age U-section cast unidentified object decorated on outer face with moulded rib parallel to both curved edges, two probably engraved lines curving from end to end and touching in the centre, and a straight line parallel to one end. Length 17mm. In section 7.5mm wide and 7.5mm high. The mount is possibly a shield clip (Parfitt, 1995) In the record for WILT-628131, a similar finds, the Finds Liaison Officer writes: It is possibly a decorative shield clip (Parfitt, 1995) although it has also been suggested that this type of mount derives from a bucket, tankard or vessel. Howeve…
Created on: Monday 9th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 7th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-038344
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy ring-headed pin, cast in one piece, sub-circular sectioned ring and narrowed tapering shank with dog-leg bends and corroded and broken point. Diameter of ring 25mm. Total length 67mm. Cf. an example from Cold Kitchen Hill shown in Dunning, Archaeological Journal (1934), 269-95, fig. 4, no.13. 3rd century BC
Created on: Wednesday 27th January 2010
Last updated: Monday 4th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oxborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS132
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy terret, bar and collars missing, ring decorated with three projecting shanks with conical knobs, each with basal groove. Ring has D-shaped section.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK LYNG', grid reference and parish protected.