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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Record ID: PUBLIC-82499C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Head fragment of a Colchester derivative Hinged pin Roman brooch. The fragment consists of a perpendicular collared head-loop, below which the head of the incurving tapering D-shaped cross-section bow springs. The arching bow fractures transversely after a short distance across a line of raised decoration. A short tubular wing casing encloses the iron axis bar for the hinged pin which is let into a central slot in the casing. Only a stub of the rectangular-section pin remains. Dimensions: Extant length 19mm, width 12mm. weight 3.87g.
Created on: Saturday 1st April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-1EF0FB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded Roman copper alloy nummus, from the House of Constantine dynasty. FEL TEMP REPARATIO reverse type, depicting a soldier going right and looking back left dragging a small figure from a wooden hut. [...]RS in exergue, probably mint of Trier. Most of the original dark brown patina has corroded away to a lighter green corrosion product, degrading the detail of the strike. Circa AD 348-350. Reece Period 18. Diameter: 21mm; weight 3.91g.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2022
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DDDB46
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy, Roman, Colchester-Derivative, Rearhook type brooch. The fragment consists of the head, eroded wings, and the upper part of the tapering D-cross section bow. The wings have a C-shaped section and are decorated with remnants of reel and bead moulding. The bow joins the wings in a rising moulded diagonal with the remains of the central chord hook projecting forward at the head. From the line of the hook, a centreline ridge flanked by a groove to either side runs back down the remaining length of the arching bow. The centre of the underside of t…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A46C6D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified and Incomplete copper-alloy, possibly Roman or Iron Age object. Sub-crescentic in plan, the curving outer edge has a shallow downward-sloping bevel creating a lunate-shaped border. At the mid-point of the sloping face are two 5mm diameter adjacent recessed circular cells, each with a central pit, that originally probably contained a decorative embellishment such as enamel. From the upper inner curve of the bevel the object dishes down in a smooth concave recess where a surviving ridge at the extremity se…
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2022
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-5C68C7
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete set of copper alloy, probably Roman tweezers. The tweezers consist of a narrow and thin, parallel strip of copper alloy. that has been bent back on itself through a 180-degree expanded loop at one end. There is no decoration visible. The terminal end of one arm is missing from an old break, and the other is end-damaged to one side. The field on which the tweezers were found has produced almost entirely Roman artefacts, so the date probability given is quite high. Circa AD43-409. Dimensions: length 44.5mm, width 3.3mm, thickness 1.1mm, weight 1.9g.
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-308FA8
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman vulvate or coffee-bean mount. It consists of an oval-shaped plate with erosion damage to its edges, and a central raised oval boss which is decorated with a v-shaped groove running longitudinally down its centre. These grooved raised bosses are typically interpreted as stylised vulvae. In the centre of the reverse there is a concave depression that contours the back of the boss, at either end of which an integral perpendicular incomplete rivet projects. The surface of the metal is green with mottled corrosion. Mounts of th…
Created on: Sunday 9th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-28886C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead or lead alloy 1 pound steelyard weight with axial remains of an iron suspension insert. The weight is bi-conical with a flattened equator. At the apex of the upper cone, there is the remains of an iron insert, probably a loop or hook for suspension. The iron insert does not protrude through to the opposite side of the weight. The surface of the weight is heavily corroded to a whitish-grey colour, and is very scratched and pockmarked through interaction with the soil. The bi-conical form and iron suspension loop are typically Roman, as is the predomina…
Created on: Sunday 9th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-300068
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silver Roman denarius of Hadrian. Obverse; HADRIAN/AVG[...]II PP, bust of Hadrian facing right  Reverse; FORTUNAE [...]VCI,  Fortuna holding rudder and cornucopiae. Rome mint. RIC  II 247. AD 134-138. Reece period 6. Dimensions: diameter 19mm, weight 2.49g
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 6th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D7188A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Roman denarius of Faustina senior, Issued under Antoninus Pius after her death and deification. Obverse; DIVA FAV/STINA, draped bust of Faustina facing right  Reverse; AUGV/STA, Vesta, veiled, standing facing left holding simpulum in right hand, and palladium in left. RIC Vol III p71, 368. Rome mint. Circa AD 141-160. Reece period 7. Dimensions: diameter 17.8mm, weight 2.65g
Created on: Friday 23rd September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-7837B4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rear Hook type Roman brooch; probably of Mackreth 2011, 5.d. The eroded wings, bow, and a linear stub of the catchplate survive. The cross-section of the wings is a shallow C-shape, and their perimeter is eroded through post-deposition soil impingement. The forward part of the head has the extant stub of the hook curling forwards. The bow has bordered sides, with a D-shape cross-section and a twin-grooved medial line of decoration. The curving bow narrows in a linear taper&nbs…
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 25th August 2022
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