Record ID: OXON-79F46D
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy transverse wing terret dating to the Iron Age (c.100 cal BC - AD 100). About one third of the ring survives. The surviving fragment is made up of a circular cross sectioned bar bent into a curve that would have originally being circular or D-shaped in Plan. There are two surviving prominent mouldings, one placed just after a break, another at the apex of the surviving curve and traces of a moulding at the second transverse break. The first two mouldings consisting of two raised lips flaring away from another creating a V-sahped groove between them. The parit…
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanton St. John', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-42B63E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold, Iron Age stater of the Catuvellauni, 'Middle Whaddon Chase, Big Wheel' type of the Eastern (North Thames) region; dating to the period c. 60 - 20 BC. Obverse: crossed wreaths, outline crescents back-to-back at centre. Reverse: horse right, wing motif above, wheel below. ABC p. 124, no. 2442, BMC nos. 331-335, VA 1487. The coin has a diameter of 18.21mm, it is 2.63mm thick and it weighs 5.63 grams.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-0A7F48
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age La Tène III Nauheim derivative brooch dating to the period c.25 BC- AD 100. The brooch is almost complete only missing its pin. At the top of the bow is the head of the brooch. The head is made of the begining of a coil before ending in a transverse break. From the head of the brooch the bow expands in sharp diagonal lines into a flat, rectangular cross sectioned plate that is 1.2mm thick and 6.8mm wide. It narrows over its final third to a plain rounded foot (0.5mm wide).  A flat catchplate projects from the back of the foot. Thi…
Created on: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: BH-C6EBAE
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Bronze Age to Iron Age ceramic vessel dating to circa 1000 BC-AD 43. The fragment is irregularly shaped, relatively flat and thick. The breaks are uneven. The fabric is hard, coarse and black across the faces and breaks. Dense hard white calcareous and flint tempered annular inclusions <3mm but mainly <0.2mm.  The fragment measures 39.2mm long, 37.1mm wide, 12.3mm thick and weighs 17.68 grams.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: BH-C681E4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An everted rim sherd fragment of a Late Bronze Age to Iron Age ceramic vessel dating to circa 1000 BC-AD 43. The fragment is broadly rectangular in shape and tear-drop-shape in cross-section and profile. The breaks are uneven, revealing light grey fabric. The external face is light orange. The fabric is hard and coarse with moderate sub-angular white sand <2.5mm and widespread <0.5mm black sand. The fragment measures 38.4mm long, 22.4mm wide, 12.6mm thick and weighs 10.25 grams.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: BH-C65DD1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A wall sherd from the body of a late Iron Age to early Roman ceramic earthenware vessel. Thick irregularly shaped fragment of hard coarse fabric tempered with spare poorly white quartz (mainly <2mm, occasionally up to 3.5mm). Black core and light grey internal and external surfaces with smooth faces. The external surface is covered with parallel grooves. The fragment measures 60.3mm long, 53.5mm wide, 10.2mm thick and weighs 34.36 grams.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-F76A26
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn and corroded Iron Age copper-alloy unit. Possibly a 'Tasciovanos Loopy' type struck by Tasciovanos of the North Thames region / Catuvellauni, dating to the period 25 BC to 10 AD. Obverse: geometric pattern of loops and triangles around central box with X in middle(?). Reverse: horse left(?). Cf. ABC no. 2688; VA 1812; BMC 1709-10.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-F73A52
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age copper-alloy unit of the North Thames region / Catuvellauni attributed to Rues and dating to AD 1-10. Obverse: lion, right, RVEI above and surrounded by a hatched border. Reverse: eagle standing facing head turned to the left. As ABC 2760.
Created on: Friday 16th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 16th February 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
Spatial data recorded. 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
Spatial data recorded. 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.

Record ID: OXON-D32545
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but broken one-piece cast copper-alloy late Iron Age to Early Roman brooch of the Tène III Type, dating to 50 BC - AD 70. It has a three-coil spring mechanism with internal chord and complete pin that has split from the bow head and slipped down the shaft. The bow is curved in profile and has an oval cross-section tapering towards the foot where it flatens creating the catch plate. The catch plate is trapezoidal in profile and has the upper corner of the back edge folded in itself in order to create the catch for the pin. The brooch measure&…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: OXON-F4A596
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Iron Age unit of the Regini and Atrebates / Southern Region, struck by Tincomarus, dating to the period c. 25 BC to AD 10. 'Tincomaros Bull' type. Obverse: laureate head right. Reverse: bull rearing right, TIN above, CO below. As ABC 1115, VA 381-1, BMC 911-921.
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2023
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Record ID: OXON-E3FC6F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable silver Iron Age (half?) unit of uncertain type, c.50 BC-43 AD. Both faces of the coin are worn smooth but the coin has the typical dished appearance of an Iron Age coin.
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: OXON-E1A8C8
Object type: RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy ring of possible Iron Age or Early Roman date, c. BC 800- AD 50. The ring is circular in plan and oval in cross section being wider than it is thick. The surface is worn and slightly pitted in places so it is uncertain if it was originally decorated. The ring is a dark green colour. The ring is 23.5mm in diameter, 5.9mm wide, 5mm thick and weighs 9.12 grams. This may have been a decorated ring (see for example OXON-F6C9D0) or left plain (as BERK-82E1CB). These examples have have had a suggested prehistoric date, however …
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: OXON-E0F458
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age La Tène III Nauheim derivative brooch dating to the period c.25 BC- AD 100. The brooch is almost complete only missing its pin. At the top of the bow is the head of the brooch. The head is made of two coils, one to the left of the bow and then ends in a transverse break. these would have cotinued through a cord over the head of the brooch then becoming a pin. From the head of the brooch the bow expands in sharp diagonal lines into a flat, rectangular cross sectioned plate that is 0.9mm thick and 6.1mm wide. It narrows over its fin…
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-A67C64
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Iron Age gold quarter stater struck by Cunobelinus of the Catuvellauni-Trinovantes dating to the period AD 10-40. Cunobelinus Plastic type. As ABC p. 137, no. 2816. Obverse: Corn ear without central stalk, CA to left, M[V] to right. Reverse: horse rearing right, dashes for mane, pellet above and below, CVN below. Measurements: diameter 12.05, weight 1.36g
Created on: Thursday 26th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-E4BBB3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Iron Age bow brooch of La Tene I type, 39.5mm in length and dating to the 4th - 3rd century B.C. The integrally cast spring and pin is missing, as is the projecting terminal at the foot. The bow is flat, lenticular in shape with a slightly plano convex cross section 1.8mm thick and decorated with a pair of grooves along the spine. These grooves taper to each end of the bow where there are sharply angled junctions with the head and foot; the latter has a stump of a catchplate running along the underside.
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: SUR-D1E7EC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely worn copper alloy inscribed unit of the Eastern Region / Catuvellauni and Trinovantes, struck for Cunobelinus (c. AD 10-40) - 'Cunobelinus Cunobelini' type. Obverse: [CVNOBELINI] in two panels. Reverse: Victory seated left. ABC p. 140, no. 2918; BMC nos. 1921-7.
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
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Record ID: OXON-3DACF4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A debased silver Iron Age unit of the Western Region Dobunni, dating to the period AD 20-43 and issued by the ruler Antedios. Cottam et al.'s 'Anted silver unit' (ABC 2072) with reverse featuring the ruler's name. Obverse: highly stylised profile face the hair represented by two rows of close-set pellets. Reverse: Triple tailed horse, advancing left, mane made up of close set pellets, pellets in front and behind horse, below the horse [AN[, above the horse TED. ABC 2072; BC 3032-3028; VA 1082.
Created on: Monday 9th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Standlake CP', grid reference and parish protected.