Record ID: PUBLIC-C01161
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Simple and crude small copper alloy finger ring. The ring is made from a 0.9mm thick, rectangular cross-section, copper alloy strip; 5mm wide at its centre, that tapers linearly in width, narrowing to a point at either end. The strip is formed into an approximate 14mm diameter circle to create the hoop of the finger ring with the overlapping pointed terminal ends meeting opposite the widest part of the hoop. There is no discernable decoration. Rings of this most basic form are commonly of Roman to late Early Medieval date. Some Roman examples hav…
Created on: Wednesday 27th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 1st January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-75F2E9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman Aesica rearhook type brooch of Mackreth class 2.a1. Eroded extremities with missing spring and pin. Commensurate with the rearhook spring configuration the reverse of the left hand wing (as viewed from the front) shows a slight solder witness mark, that would have attached the spring to the underside of the wing. The curving head is decorated with central and border grooves, and the fantail foot has the remains of a grooved border with a central downward-pointing chevron. The central penannular raised decoration has slightly oblique tran…
Created on: Saturday 23rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 24th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B51AFC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, worn and corroded copper-alloy Roman Colchester Derivative Rear Hook brooch. Mackreth 2011, probably class 3b. One wing, the bow, and the majority of the catchplate are extant. One of the C-shape cross-sectioned wings survives only as a stump, but the whole of the remaining spring housing has vestiges of the retaining solder that held the spring. The upper surface of the wings appear to be decorated with partial mouldings with a bead adjacent to the end of the wing and worn evidence of reels inboard of this. The forward part of the head has the…
Created on: Thursday 14th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 15th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4FF766
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded copper-alloy Roman radiate coin. Obverse; probable radiate bust facing right. Reverse; standing figure. No further details are legible.  Circa AD 275-296. Diameter 29.5mm, weight 4.06g.
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2023
Last updated: Saturday 18th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4FA955
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and incomplete copper-alloy Roman radiate. Obverse; radiate bust facing right. Further details are illegible.  Circa AD 275-296. Diameter 17mm, weight 1.57g.
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2023
Last updated: Saturday 18th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2BEB61
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman champlevé enamelled British, Plate brooch. Mackreth class 2b. The edge-damaged circular plate is decorated with a central dot around which is hexagon with concave sides and rounded knops at each cusp. The interior of the hexagon is filled with red enamel and the exterior background is filled with blue enamel, of which only minute traces remain. The reverse is undecorated and has two perpendicular eroded lugs positioned at diametrically opposite ends of the plate; one is the pin-lug and is broken across the central piercing…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BC414C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy foot fragment of a Roman hinged pin fantail foot brooch. Probably Mackreth type 7.b3. Triangular in shape broken across the top and eroded at one of the basal angles. The front face is bordered and decorated in relief with a pelta shape below a lozenge. The reserved area around the relief decoration would have contained enamel, but no colour now survives. The catchplate on the reverse of the brooch fragment projects perpendicularly, with its end hooked over to the right as viewed from the front. A brooch with an almost identically shaped foot and decora…
Created on: Saturday 22nd July 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th July 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7DE522
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Heavily worn and corroded copper-alloy Roman sestertius coin, possibly of the emperor Hadrian. Right-facing bust, but all further details are illegible. Circa AD 117-138. Dimensions; Diameter 31mm, thickness 3.9mm, weight 15.60g.
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd September 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B2BC67
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper-alloy nummus coin of the House of Constantine. Twin tower camp gate reverse. Circa 324-330. Reece period 16 Weight 1.30g. dia 14.5mm. 
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8559CC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of nine very worn and corroded Roman copper alloy coins. Four can be identified as radiates, three as nummi, and two as radiates or nummi. The poor condition precludes further identification. Circa AD 260-400.
Created on: Saturday 1st April 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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