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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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Record ID: NMS-1E6F97
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy Langton Down brooch with an iron axis bar. The pin and most of the roun-topped bow are missing. The spring housing is decorated with transverse groove and the bow is reeded. Extant length 13.8mm. Width of head 15.5mm. c.25 - c.60 AD.
Created on: Sunday 4th July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-1E4AB2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy Colchester brooch with the spring, the pin, part of the forward facing hook and part of the catchplate missing. The wings are plain. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section and ends in a spike. Enough survives of the catchplate to show that it was perforated. Wingspan 9.5mm. Length 44mm. c.20 - c.60 AD.
Created on: Sunday 4th July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0C5E61
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete and very abraded Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy Rosette brooch, with the rear of the spring housing, much of the rosette and all of the lower bow and catchplate missing. The spring was of iron. Width of head 15.5mm. Extant length 26.6mm. c.25 - c.60.
Created on: Monday 21st June 2021
Last updated: Saturday 3rd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-81E925
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of hand-built Iron Age pottery, dark reduced with dark greyish brown smoothed outer surface, sparse sand & ill-sorted fine flint inclusions, thickness 9 - 10mm, weight 14g, 8th century BC - mid 1st century AD. Found on bare soil surface in St George's churchyard close to north-west corner of the west tower.
Created on: Sunday 9th May 2021
Last updated: Thursday 8th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9A05D3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Thirty-nine sherds of Iron Age hand-built flint gritted pottery, all body apart from two flat basal, all reduced, many with the external or both surfaces oxidised. The density and sorting of the inclusions are variable, as are their sizes, the largest being c.4mm across, most much smaller. Weight 217g. 8th century BC - mid 1st century AD.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2021
Last updated: Thursday 8th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0CAA6D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy incomplete late Iron Age to early Roman birdlip brooch. The spring, pin, lower bow and catchplate are all missing. The head of the brooch curves sharply around the broken spring housing straightening to a moulded transverse collar across the upper bow, below which the outwardly cusped beak projects. The upper head has a much worn moulded central crest that forms a 'T' with the collar. From the birdlip the lower bow continues straight in a triangular taper terminating in an old break before the foot. On the reverse of the bow, emanating from the back of the transverse moul…
Created on: Tuesday 16th March 2021
Last updated: Monday 1st November 2021
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Record ID: NMS-375F5E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rim sherd of Late Iron Age - Early Roman probably hand-built pottery, hard, very dark reduced, sparse sand, one probably flint inclusion 4mm across, weight 5g, 1st century BC - 1st century AD.
Created on: Thursday 17th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 9th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-3734F5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of Iron Age hand-built pottery, hard, reduced with most of the pale brown exterior lost, and with sparse flint grits, weight 4g, 8th century BC - mid 1st century AD.
Created on: Thursday 17th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 9th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-35A8AD
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rim sherd of Iron Age hand-built pottery bowl, abraded but seemingly upright with top rolled over externally, reduced with oxidised outer surface, profuse fine flint grits with sparse examples up to 3mm across. Weight 6g. 8th century BC - mid 1st century AD.
Created on: Thursday 17th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 9th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-784F33
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age or early Roman copper-alloy cosmetic mortar of end-looped type, missing part of its loop (worn breaks). It is U-shaped in cross-section, with a smoothly polished concave interior and a slightly more angled exterior. It has a very grey patina that is now corroded and flaking, especially on the exterior, over a greener inner metal, so it may originally have had a tinned or silvered surface. There is no other decoration. One end of the mortar is worn and rounded; it is difficult to tell if it is complete. The object then flares in width and thickness to the centre, aft…
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 30th April 2021
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