Record ID: NMS-8FC367
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Crumpled and perhaps incomplete piece of gold sheet. It appears roughly circular in shape, but has one original straight side with a slightly burred thickened edge. This edge was c. 23mm long but is now bent about halfway along, with one half irregularly folded back on itself. The disc has a straight, slightly raised repoussé band parallel to the straight side and probably at the object's widest point; the band is about 3.5mm wide. Between this band and the straight edge are four rounded repoussé bosses which look like deliberate decoration, and seem too regular to be c…
Created on: Thursday 4th June 2020
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Holme Hale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-2CE367
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four copper alloy rings found together as a group in context. There are two larger and two smaller rings. One of the larger rings is broken and incomplete. One of the smaller rings is also incomplete and has part of an iron object still attached and iron corrosion adhering to the others suggests they were also linked by iron pieces. Ring 1: Lozenge shaped in cross section with clear fold lines around the central ridge on the inner side of the ring and file marks on the inner face from forming. No very worn areas but it appears to thin towards one side where there is an piece of …
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 23rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Pennard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-CBC05F
Object type: TORC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of solid gold rod, possibly part of a torc of Iron Age date, about 350 - 50 BC, but not conclusively so. The object is likely to be over 300 years old. The fragment is a short length of solid gold rod, of oval cross-section, and slightly curved. One flat end appears complete.; it is smooth, but is angled across the rod and is slightly concave. The other end is cut half way through with a shap instrument such as a chisel, and then torn/broken across the thinnest point. The break is rough and shows some small air pockets within the rod, suggesting an imperfect casting. T…
Created on: Thursday 26th September 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-F6BB91
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy anthropomorphic sword pommel and guard dating from the Iron Age, about 300 BC - AD 100. The blade and grip are missing. The two parts were found about 3 metres apart. The pommel is cruciform in shape with a circular section shaft and arms. The arms are short and angled slightly upward, with dome shaped terminals. The terminals are plain apart from an incised line round the base. The dome part is larger in diameter than the arm. The shaft has a wide groove round it near the base, flanked by an incised line above and below. Above, the shaft steps out wider and the…
Created on: Monday 16th September 2019
Last updated: Saturday 12th October 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-62A518
Object type: TORC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy thistle headed torc of Iron Age dating (2nd Century BC to 1st Century AD). One terminal and part of the neck ring are present. The terminal is of the thistle head style, with a flat top. The terminal extends from the neck ring, first with a narrow collar (8.2 mm diameter), and then a wider swollen collar (4.6 mm long, 9.4 mm diameter), then a circular groove (8.9 mm diameter), before expanding outwards into a flat thistle head. This part of the terminal is 12.3 mm long. A possible maker's mark of a punched ring and dot is present but is covered with some …
Created on: Monday 9th September 2019
Last updated: Saturday 12th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shenstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-E78C8A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Interim information on the hoard for the PAS & Treasure Annual Report launches in March 2020: This hoard comprises a copper alloy bowl, the fittings from a copper alloy bucket, and part of a clay pot. Buckets such as this one are usually found in high-status cremation graves from the mid-first century BC, alongside other pots, jugs and pans. These were drinking sets, used for serving mead, wine or beer at feasts. Perhaps the deceased hosted such feasts in life, or maybe this was a way for the living to share the funeral feast with them. Several such graves are known in Kent, and …
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 17th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-E89F0E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Report for H M Coroner on find of Potential Treasure from Frodesley, Shropshire (2019 T6) Iron Age Gold Finger Ring PAS Database number: WAW-E89F0E Date: Iron Age c.400 – 200 BC Discovery: whilst metal detecting. Description: A gold finger ring whose hoop is slender and circular in section. In plan it is a sub-lozenge with rounded corners as two sides have been bent towards each other forming a V-shape in profile. When on the finger the ring forms a zig-zag. Dimensions: 15.79mm across, 15.25mm wide, 11.71mm deep, the hoop is 1.05mm thick a…
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 16th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Frodesley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-6B6481
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy late Iron Age to early Roman strap fitting, likely a baldric ring which would have been used as part of a composite belt suite used to hang a sword scabbard or a strap terret. Description: The loop is formed from an evenly cast ring, with a squashed ovoid cross-section. There is cast integral mushroom shaped stud at the apex of the ring. The stud is roughly mushroom shaped with a thick neck and a circular convex head, which has a rosette decorative motif cast in relief on its upper surface. The ring has two additional knops evenly aligned towards the bo…
Created on: Friday 17th August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-B37694
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: The find comprises five finds: two stave-built tankards with copper alloy fittings, a pair of shears, a circular iron knife and a ceramic vessel. The objects have not yet been closely examined, as they are extremely fragile, and considerable conservation work would be needed to make a more complete investigation possible. White powdery material apparent in the soil recovered during the excavation may represent powdered bone, or may be chalk. No fragments of bone of any size or recognizable shape has survived. Tankard 1 - This object is in a fragile state and retains …
Created on: Friday 27th January 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Basingstoke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-5668FE
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 Iron age copper alloy fittings, found together. 1. 19mm long, 17mm wide and 13mm thick with a weight of 8.60grams. 2. 23mm long, 21mm wide and 16mm thick with a weight of 17.92grams. Both are circular in form and sub triangular in cross section, having a circular sectioned shaft emerging from the centre of the underside at a 45 degree angle. The slightly smaller one (1.) is decorated with two raised concentric circles, the outer one having a series of transverse lines decorating it. This may be a Wild (1970) Type Va (disc heads with cast ornament) button and loop fastene…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 11th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DUR-B03969
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy strap fitting of Late Iron Age date (300 BC - AD 43). The object is composed of a flat disk with an integral rectangular attachment loop on the upper edge of the back face of the object, projecting at 90 degrees to the disk. The bar is integral and rectangular with a a central groove running longitudinally down the length of the object and a shallow groove running down both the left and right hand sides of the bar. At the terminating end, the bar angles outwards and curves into a sub-circular hook. The object terminates in a tapered end with a circular perforation runni…
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Durham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-0090BA
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy toggle of possible Iron Age date. The toggle has two tapering terminals joined by a waisted central shaft. Each terminal is circular in section with three parallel grooves decorating the widest end, which is the point at which the shaft and terminal meets. Each terminal tapers gradually before slightly flaring again to for a bulbous end. At the narrowest point of the terminal are two parallel grooves. The metal has a dark green patina and is worn. The toggle is 59.16mm long, 13.23mm in diameter at the widest end of the terminal; 5.76mm in diameter at the c…
Created on: Tuesday 14th June 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oswestry', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-212DD8
Object type: FOB
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete 'fob' or 'dangler' believed to be a harness fitting from the Iron Age or Early Roman period. The object has a triskele, or triple spiral, design, with a central raised boss. The object is damaged and the loop is missing; it has a white powdery patina. It appears to be made of a lead alloy, which is rather unusual (Julia Farley pers comm). Similar finds have been recorded on the database and these are: CORN-D96569 and LVPL-E60E27. Diameter: 31.25mm; thickness: 14.29mm; weight: 27.7g
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2016
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-775AA5
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A short section of a flat, rectangular-sectioned gold ingot, trapezoidal in plan. Shows clear evidence of having been chiselled at both of the narrow ends. This object bears some similarity to small flat ingots used in the Viking period, and often broken up for the purposes of trade. However, the form is undiagnostic, and it could also date to an earlier or later period.
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-C5B072
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small silver bow brooch of Roman style. This brooch seems to have possibly been reformed for reuse from an earlier and larger bow brooch. The brooch weighs 2.52g and consists of a rectangular cross-section at the foot (width 2.9mm x 1.7mm thickness) which flares outwards to a width of 3.7mm and thickness of 1.6mm at a diatance of 25.0mm from the foot. The bow then bends over backwards and starts to taper at a distance of c.37.0mm from the foot and the cross-section gradually becomes sub-circular. The reverse half of the bend of the bow forms the brooch pin. The approximate juncture …
Created on: Monday 30th November 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 16th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-B364C6
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy and iron Iron Age dagger (c.300-c.100 BC), consisting of part of the copper alloy hilt closest to the blade, a short length of the iron blade and part of the iron handle. It is missing most of its blade and hilt. Overall, the fragment measures 43.6mm long, 53.0mm wide and 17.1mm thick. It weighs 63.45g. The copper alloy part of the hilt that survives is shaped like a V and is similar to the cross guard or quillons of a more recent sword or dagger. Overall, the decoration of the object is in a three-dimensional style of Celtic art more common in continen…
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-89FC47
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete whetstone for sharpening metal tools or flensing tool for cleaning hides with both ends broken off, engraved with a lobe and circle pattern on one face that is comparable to the decoration seen on Iron Age metalwork. There is also the beginnings of this pattern with S-shaped scrolls on the opposite flat face of the whetstone. This decoration is under, and therefore earlier than, one set of parallel linear grooves on the side edge of the whetstone, that consist of three shorter, wider lines, 5-6 mm in length and 2-3 mm in width, followed by another nine lines, 8 mm in length…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 27th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-D9A17D
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
British Museum Report: Description: 1.Long thin copper alloy strip bent into a U-shape in a plane perpendicular to the width of the strip. The strip terminates at one end with an oval terminal with strap loop in the same plane as the strip. The other end is broken off. The outer surface of the strip is engraved with two parallel lines that run down the centre. The narrow area between these lines is hatched with short perpendicular engraved lines, giving a ladder effect. The strip is pierced with a circular hole in the centre of the 'U', with the hole going through the engraved l…
Created on: Monday 7th September 2015
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-CF0714
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy zoomorphic mount in the shape of a bovine head, probably a vessel or bucket mount, dating from the Late Iron Age to early Roman period, c. 100 BC - c. AD 100. The mount is moulded in the round at the upper surface in the form of a bovine head, with two short upturned horns flanking a furry head and forehead; vague impressions corresponding to eyes and snout are visible, including raised undulating moulded lines giving the impression of fur along the entire face, forehead and head, continuing onto the upper portion of the back of the head on the mount's reverse. At …
Created on: Wednesday 8th July 2015
Last updated: Sunday 3rd April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tenterden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-9E5865
Object type: YOKE (ANIMAL)
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy probable fragment of a Y shaped Irish harness fitting of late Iron Age date (c. 300 BC - 100 AD). It measures 19.22mm in diameter, 17.73mm in height and weighs 12.72g. The object is a domed oval in shape with a hollow interior and a flattened underside. It exhibits a circular aperture on the underside surrounded by a projecting jagged break. The upper surface exhibits an incised decoration consisting of three incised spirals joined at the centre. There is a small patch of iron corrosion from an iron rivet at the apex of the spiral design. The remains of t…
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingston Deverill', grid reference and parish protected.