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Record ID: SUR-7A5064
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman or later Iron Age bow brooch of La Tene III or Nauheim derivative type. The head has an integrally cast spring, the pin is missing. The bow has a flat cross sectional profile and is triangular or trapezoidal in shape, expanding to a maximum width of 11mm at the lower end before tapering sharply towards the foot which has broken off. The bow is decorated with a flanking pair of tapering incised lines along the middle.
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Hayling Island', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-66D652
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Iron Age copper alloy ring-headed hair pin of the ‘swan neck type’, dating circa 550 BC to 50 BC.
The head is composed of an annular loop, D-shaped in cross section, which has been rolled forward to create a closed loop. There are 16 transverse grooves on the outer edge of the loop, the inner part of the ring is smooth.
Below the loop, the pin's shaft is bent in the form of a U-shape which is sub-rectangular in cross section, creating the swan neck. The pin shaft is circular in cross-section tapering to the tip, which has been bent.
Measurement…
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: NLM-662A0C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin fragment. Uninscribed silver unit of the Corieltauvi, possibly ABC 1800, issue of Haselgrove Period 2 Phase 6, 50-20 BC, listed by Rudd et al as ‘common’; three quarters or more of flan lost. This speculative identification leans heavily on that achieved for NLM-65F567 reported along with it.
Obverse description: boar right.
Reverse description: probably horse right.
Diameter: [in excess of] 9.5mm, Weight: 0.38gms
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Lea', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-65F567
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver coin fragment. Uninscribed silver unit of the Corieltauvi, probably ABC 1800, issue of Haselgrove Period 2 Phase 6, 50-20 BC, listed by Rudd et al as ‘common’; nearly half the flan is lost.
Obverse description: boar right, pellet in ring below, curved feature at right edge.
Reverse description: Celticised horse right with eccentric lower leg, ring of pellets above horse, line of dots lower right with a bar below each dot, a feature which does not appear in this position in most versions presented by ABC.
Diameter: 14.0mm, Weight: 0.98gms, die axis: probably 3
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Hardwick', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMGW-5611B4
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete enamelled copper alloy harness fitting (toggle or cheek-piece) of late Iron Age to early Roman date, broadly 1st century AD, but probably more specifically to around the Roman campaigning period in Wales (47-78AD), broadly c. 60-80AD (Davis and Gwilt 2008, pg.164). The toggle is complete with the exception of minor damage to its terminals and enamel inlays.
The toggle has a length of 117.2mm comprising a central perforated section tapering at each end into two circular sectioned arms, which in turn expand to the circular sectioned flat-ended terminals. The central section i…
Created on: Monday 15th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-53C09F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Iron Age gold stater of the Atrebates/southern region, struck under Tincomarus (25 BC-AD 10) dating to the period c.20 BC-AD 10, Rudd’s ‘Tincomarus Warrior Com F’ type. Possibly mis-struck as the reverse has a smeared appearance and the pellet border appears slipped. The coin has a rose gold appearance.
Reference: ABC 1067
Created on: Monday 15th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-522873
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age Silver unit
"Monnaies-a-la-croix" type, c. 200-118 BC,
Obverse: indistinct image of a bust facing left
Reverse: Cross with crescents in each angle. In one angle is a circular on the inside of the crescent.
These coins were produced in the Languedoc region of southern France in the second century BC and are, as such, usually attributed to the Volcae Arecomici (and/or Volcae Tectosages). This tribe had a strong presence in the Mediterranean, but conversely appeared to have very little contact with Northern Europe. As a result, these coins are very rare fin…
Created on: Monday 15th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-4E188D
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete decorated cast copper alloy terminal, probably from a linch pin dating from the late Iron Age. The object is in the form of a tapering curved cone. The socket is around 11m in diameter and has been broken or damaged; two incomplete flanking attachment holes are evident and a small abraded projection of uncertain function is visible on another side, offset at 90 degrees from the attachment holes. The terminal is curved with a ridged collar and ends in a small projection with sub-oval cross section, which has a recess at the end with a red coral inlay. T…
Created on: Monday 15th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2024
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Record ID: BERK-3AE29B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Late Iron Age - Roman brooch of Mackreth type Nauheim Derivative 3.a2 (Lowbury). The spring has four coils and is broken at the top of the pin. The chord is internal is The bow is both rectangular in plan and section and is undecorated. The foot is broken.
Created on: Sunday 14th January 2024
Last updated: Sunday 14th January 2024
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Record ID: BH-005A16
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age copper-alloy core for a gold plated stater of the North Thames Region / Catuvellauni, struck by Addedomaros, c.45-25 BC. 'Addedomaros Sprial' Type. Obverse: six armed wreath spiral, three crescents at centre. Reverse: Horse right, cornucopiae below, three horse muzzles. As ABC no. 2517; VA 1620; BMC 2396-2404.
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th January 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-EB3A49
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy gaming piece or weight of uncertain date. The object is sub-conical with a flat base and tapering sides to a rounded top. It appears undecorated.
The object is 6.6mm tall, 16.3mm in diameter and weighs 7.4g.
Lead objects such as this are common metal detector finds but are rare from excavated contexts. This means that the dating of lead objects of this general type is problematic, and their use is invariably uncertain.
Similarly shaped objects are known from Viking contexts and are interpreted as weights or gaming pieces. The predominant Viking Age …
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-EA9198
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver half unit of the Iceni, Boar-horse B type, Talbot's die group 2, weight 0.42g, worn, c.30BC-10BC
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-EA7476
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver unit of the Iceni, Pattern-horse ECEN type, weight 0.99g, worn, c.AD10-42
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: DEV-E8F050
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy probable horse bit or terret ring, dating to the Iron Age c. 150 BC - 0 AD. The object consists of a globular body with two faces exhibiting high-relief designs. Three arms protude from the body, two transversely and one from the underside. The underside arm is missing completely with remnants of the other two curving downward from the body. The shorter of the two limbs extant has an arched design on one edge, each side. On one face, the high-relief design depicts a simple triskelion with a raised central dot. There is a small…
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Cullompton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUR-E7623C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy Iron Age uninscribed Secondary Phase, flat Linear type potin, attributed to the Cantiaci in the region of Kent, circa 60-45 BC. Class II Type also known as a "nipples" potin. Obverse: styled head facing right around large central nipple, within a plain border. Reverse: stylised bull facing left around large central nipple, within a plain border. As Hobbs (1996) 718-720, ABC 174 and Holman Type G1/6-1b.
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Last updated: Sunday 28th January 2024
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Record ID: WREX-D65F95
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper alloy harness fitting or hanging mount (fob or dangler) of late Iron Age or early Roman date (c100 BC - AD 80). Only part of the once circular, openwork decorative mount survives. The object is likely to have been broadly circular with a three armed or triskele design, only the central part now survives. At the centre of the design is a circular boss with an indentation, possibly for coloured inlay. Radiating from this are three arms which curve into a narrow band to form what would have been the frame of the object. The revers…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Halky', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-D5F649
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Roman terret ring of late Iron Age to Early Roman date, circa 100BC-100AD.
The terret is of the 'simple' type. It is D-shaped, comprised of a subrectangular basal strap bar flanked by lentoid shaped collars. A loop, trapezoidal in cross section, extends to either side of the collars, narrowing in diameter with the thinnest section directly opposite the strap bar.
The object has a well developed green usrface patina, and shows wear in a speckled pattern. There are also straight lines visible.
Measurements:
Length (external): 41.…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: OXON-D5D7CA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A British Iron Age silver stater stater uninscribed Western (Dobunni) group dating to c. 50BC - AD 20. VA 1074; BMC 2976-80, ABC 2024.
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Standlake CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: OXON-D5C5F1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age silver unit of the Catuvellauni and Trinovantes (North Thames region), struck for Cunobelin and Tasciovanus, dating to the period AD 10-40. 'Cunobelinus Rex' type. Obverse: CVNOB[ELINI], bust right. Reverse:orse prancing right with crescent moon above, TASCIO in exergue. As ABC no. 2873
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'Forest Hill with Shotover', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: OXON-D51555
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Iron Age copper-alloy rosette brooch of 1st century AD date, c.25-60 AD. Only the upper half of the bow and wings survive, the lower half, pin and rosette are missing.
The spring casing at the head is cylindrical in form (25.3mm wide), folded to encase the separately cast spring and pin. It has a rectangular pin slot cut into its back for the pin. Four coils of the spring can be seen through a break in the casing. The bow projects from the front of the bow with a width of 11.6mm. It is flat in cross section but arched in profile and straigh…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Warborough CP', grid reference and parish protected.
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