Record ID: NCL-5683C3
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a copper alloy and enamel terret ring from the Late Iron Age/early Roman period, c. BC 100-AD 100. The artefact consists of a fragment of the copper alloy terret ring, broken at both ends and tapering from the base to the sides of the ring. The thinnest end is broken and the exposed face is highly abraded. A circular boss with red and white enamel inlay projects from the terret ring. At its widest end is an integral curved collar with a projecting fragment with a rectangular profile extending from it.  Terret rings were used to guide reins on horse harnesses and…
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-634684
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rim sherd from a burnished, hand made bowl of later Iron Age or early Roman date (possibly Black Burnished ware 1). The fabric is reduced dark grey to black with a coarse sand temper and abundant mica. The rim is plain and was originally around 160mm in diameter. There is no decoration to the surface, but thumb impressions from the potter are evident around the interior side.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: BERK-50A71A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Iron Age silver unit of Eastern North Thames Region, possibly of the Trinovantes. Obverse worn. Rev. Horse right. The form of the legs, open triangles, is similar to those on coins of the Trinovantes.
Created on: Sunday 21st April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: BERK-46798A
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Late Iron Age to Roman copper alloy disc headed pin dating c.400 BC-AD 410. The head is circular and slightly bi-conical, with rounded edges. The upper side of the head has moulded decoration in the form of a central sub-circular recess with a raised central pellet; the recess is surrounded by two raised rings, with the upper surface sloping down to the edge. The shank has a sub-rounded section, tapering slightly to the pointed tip. The shank is bend twice along the length.
Created on: Sunday 3rd March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: GLO-68C443
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age silver unit of the East Anglian Region / Iceni, dating to the period c.AD 10-45, possibly EDN type. Obverse: Back-to-back crescents on vertical wreath. Two pellets between crescents. Reverse: Globular horse right, large oval head with pellet for eye, S below head, corn-ear mane, three pellets below. cf. ABC no. 1672.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: KENT-33C787
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An imported Roman copper-alloy bowl and two forged iron bars dating to the 1st century AD. Bowl initially discovered and reported to the FLO in situ 0.4m below the surface, in a pit. Subsequently recovered by Canterbury Archaeological Trust, along with the iron bars and some scattered Gallo-Belgic ceramics of 1st century BC-1st century AD the latter found in the fill of all features excavated on site. Project number PHW-EX-1. Description: The bowl had been placed inverted in pit and did not lay flat, but rather at an angle of about 45°. No trace of any contents w…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North East kent', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-10595C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Coin of the Southern Region of the Regini and Atrebates; Commios Ladder Head Lazy E silver unit SO6 (dates 50BC to 25 BC). Obverse features Moon head left with a vertical lentoid eye and a curved ladder representing hair. There are also two rings left of the nose. The reverse of the coin has a horse left with a horizontal E symbol above. ABC 1040
Created on: Monday 6th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: CAM-8A1AEA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A plated Gallo-Belgic Iron Age gold stater of the Ambaini tribe. ABC.16. The obverse of this uniface stater is blank. Reverse shows a sinuous horse right. Weight is 6.22g, diameter is 16.7mm.
Created on: Thursday 1st December 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-8A3CB8
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy strap union dating to the Late Iron Age to early Roman period. The central part of the artefact is comprised of two lunate forms arranged with the concave sides pushed together so as to create a figure-of-eight shape with circular aperture, of 14.6mm diameter, at the centre. These lunate forms have a maximum thickness of 8.1mm. The upper surfaces of these lunate forms is convexly curved and undecorated. Together they have a length/height of 36.4mm and width of 26.6mm contracting to 22.8mm at the waisted centre of that figure-of-eight shape. Th…
Created on: Thursday 1st December 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-7D6391
Object type: MIRROR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy mirror. The handle of a mirror which has been broken into two pieces. The handle comprises two loops separated by oval transverse collars and a bi-lobed involute looped slotted mount where the missing plate of the mirror was attached. The lower, terminal loop is sub-circular and the central loop is oval. They are separated by an oval collar. The frame is circular in cross section. At the top of the oval loop is a second oval collar separating it from the bi-lobed involute looped terminal. The loops of the terminal are open and have a lozengifor…
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-82876F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative rearhook brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD RH 1, perhaps 1g. The spring, pin, foot, catchplate and tiny fragments of the tips of the wings are missing. The rest is in a fairly worn and abraded condition, including the breaks. The wings are C-shaped in cross-section, convex on the front and concave on the reverse. They are each decorated with a pair of moulded transverse ridges near the tips. The short distance from these ridges to the head of the bow is longitudinally concave, suggestive of a bead and reel motif. The bow is…
Created on: Friday 7th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9E4C60
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper alloy Rosette brooch, spring, pin, rear part of spring housing and part of catchplate missing. The front of the spring housing is decorated with two grooves near both ends, the bow and the foot with ribs and grooves, the almost flat rosette with standard pendent triangles. The backplate extends close to, but does not touch, the spring housing. Engraving on the reverse of the comprises a transverse engraved line immediately above the catchplate and a large V-shape with its apex above the top of the backplate. The catchplate is pierced by a single…
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-0A599F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative rearhook brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD RH 4b or 5b. The spring, pin, all but a stub of the chord-hook and catchplate are missing. The wings are convex on the front, concave on the reverse (a very shallow C-shape in cross-section). They taper in width from the head of the bow to their rounded tips. One is more heavily abraded on the underside and has lost a greater depth of surface on the front due to corrosion. Neither wing preserves any evidence of decoration. The reverse of the better preserve wing retai…
Created on: Friday 24th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-85519A
Object type: NET SINKER
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead net sinker or line weight of unknown date, 400 BC - AD 1800. It is circular in cross-section and oval in profile with tapering ends and a circular perforation of 3.6mm diameter. It has a overlapping longitudinal seam. Measurements are; length 30.0mm, maximum diameter 12.9mm and weight 20.37g. This weight is probably a type that would have been positioned around the edge of a net, probably used for fishing or netting birds, to hold it taut. The dating of such weights is difficult as their design and method of manufacture remained unchanged for a con…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-063ABA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative rearhook brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD RH 1b or 1c and similar to ibid Pl. 38, Nos. 795 and 812. The spring, pin and all but a stub of the chord-hook and catchplate are missing. The wings are C-shaped in cross-section: convex on the front and concave on the reverse. Viewed from the front, they are slightly narrowed or waisted as they emerge from the head of the bow. They then expand into a now almost circular terminal, probably rounded by wear and abrasion at the tips. They are fully decorated on the front…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SF-56E10E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy late Iron Age/early Roman Langton Down brooch of Mackreth type LD 3.a. The bow and part of the wings remain. The bow is parallel-sided with a squared top and bottom, transverse moulding on the step between the bow and spring-case. The bow has longnitudinal incised parallel grooves. Similar examples can be found in Mackreth, 2011, pg 23, plate 20 6496-6453. Length: 41.95mm Width:14.00mm Weight: 4.91g
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Moulton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-949058
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Vale brooch of Iron Age date. The brooch an example of the regional 'Vale brooch' type from the Oxfordshire / Berkshire area. This example is lozenge-shaped in plan with an openwork centre and four large bulbous hollow domes on each corner, each separated by a plain elongated shank or neck. The domes are rounded on the front and flat on the reverse. The reverse retains the double-lug housing for the pin, a C-shaped catch plate and the pin itself.
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-FA2AD5
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly burnt and deformed or miscast fragment of a Late Iron Age to Roman enamelled copper-alloy terret. It consists of a short length of the curved loop terminating in an ancient break at one end and an expanded oval collar followed immediately by another ancient break at the other. The loop is broadly triangular in cross-section, being pointed at the external edge with a flat internal face. At least, that part of the internal face closest to the collar is flat. At the opposite end it becomes lumpy and amorphous. The other two faces each contain one complete and on…
Created on: Wednesday 1st September 2021
Last updated: Sunday 21st April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-83E197
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A white semi-opaque glass bead of Iron Age to Modern date (about 400 BC - AD 1900). It is globular and slightly asymmetrical. Measurements are; diameter 9.4mm, length 6.5mm and weight 0.75g.  The central hole has a diameter of 2.3mm. Owing to the lack of diagnostic features and contextual evidence it is very difficult to accurately date simple beads such as this example, because they were in use across a number of different periods.
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-2574D6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron age silver unit (12.8mm, 1.24g) of the Atrebates / Southern region attributed to Verica. "Verica Smiley" type dating to c. AD 10-40. Obverse: [C]OM [F] with crescent and two pellet-in-ring motifs above and below. Reverse: boar, right, with star above and [VIRI] below. As ABC 1220.
Created on: Friday 19th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 19th April 2024
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