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Record ID: NMS-E3383A
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late Iron Age copper-alloy D-shaped terret, now very corroded but perhaps originally enamelled. It has a sub-circular or slightly oval upright collar terminal 13.7mm wide, 12.1mm tall and 4.8mm thick. From one side of this projects a triangular-section upper ring, with a flat inner and an angled outer. On the other side of the collar, at its base, is a stub of the attachment bar which shows that this was rectangular-section, 6.5 x 3.4mm, and set vertically. The overall length is 21.0mm and it weighs 7.34g. All surfaces of the fragment, including the breaks,&…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-927536
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two Icenian silver units, additions to a hoard of 18 coins found in 2015 (2015T546, NMS-79D400) with a further five found in 2017 (2017T1080, NMS-2E6730). The numbering follows on from these two finds. Catalogue: 24) ANTED type Pattern-Horse silver unit, ABC 1642/1645. Weight 0.88g. c.AD10-42. Finder's reference N004.CGI.0024. 25) Pattern-Horse type, the copper alloy core of a silver plated silver unit, a little plating remaining on the obverse. Weight 0.66g. c.AD10-42. Finder's reference N004.CGI.0025. Discussion: All of the 25 …
Created on: Friday 14th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-6E0D9C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy late Iron Age or early Roman Langton Down brooch, with the outer ends of the spring, most of the pin, the lower part of the bow and all of the catchplate missing. The wings consist of a thin undecorated sheet cylinder with a seam along the reverse and a slot in the centre for the copper-alloy circular-section pin. The broad bow springs from the centre of the wings, with a faint curved ridge running round the top and grazing the edge of the pin slot. The bow is thin and C-shaped in cross-section, with remains of very worn vertic…
Created on: Friday 31st March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-84BB97
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hoard of four Iron Age gold coins. Coins 2, 3 and 4 were found within 10m of each other, and coin 1 was found 30m further to the south. Catalogue: 1. Stater, Corieltavi, North East Coast, Rudd's so-called Right type, ABC1716, 6.33g, c.50-1 BC 2. Stater, Corieltavi, North East Coast, Rudd's so-called Right type, ABC1716, 6.26g, c.50-1 BC 3. Stater, Corieltavi, North East Coast, Rudd's so-called Right type, ABC1716, 6.25g, c.50-1 BC 4. Quarter stater, Corieltavi, Rudd's so-called Lindsey scyphate type, ABC 1767, weight 1.42g, c.60-2…
Created on: Monday 20th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-7D7C83
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and part of shaft from a copper-alloy pin. The head is circular, 14.3mm in diameter and with a rounded edge. The top has a groove around the edge and is convex within this. The edge is rounded, and the head is about 7mm thick. The underside tapers into a circular-section shaft 6.9mm in diameter, which then steps down to 5.0mm in diameter before a worn break. Total surviving length 17.5mm long, weight 8.6g. It is somewhat like DOR-B177D4 and WILT-45E175, which have been dated to the early or middle Iron Age (500 to 200 BC), although this example has a lower central …
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7D0591
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age brooch made from a single piece of copper alloy. The spring is large, with two coils on either side of the pin joined by an external chord running across the top of the spring. About half of the pin is missing, with a fairly fresh break across an oval cross-section. The bow flattens and widens from the spring to a maximum of 11mm wide, then tapers with straight edges to the foot. The upper part of the bow is flat, decorated with two median longitudinal ridges and a border groove, worn away over much of one edge, which all run down to a central D-section area whi…
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AD8C38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late Iron Age or early Roman copper-alloy brooch, probably a Nauheim or Nauheim derivative. It consists of a flat, triangular bow, now a little bent, tapering from 7.5mm wide at the top with straight sides to a pointed tip with a tiny upturned bump. There is a groove down the centre and either edge; all the grooves peter out before the end of the brooch, and the side grooves have hints of ribbing or beading or punched decoration. Although the foot of the brooch appears complete, as there is absolutely no hint of a catchplate on the smooth reverse, it may be broken and …
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-9DE3D5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified object made from copper alloy, of uncertain date but possibly Iron Age or Roman. It appears to have been cast, but may have been hammered together from a rod of sub-circular or sub-rectangular cross-section. If so, the rod was bent in half, with a rounded loop at the bend (3.3mm internal diameter). The two halves then join (with a groove between them) before separating again. One prong is broken off after the fork, but the other diverges in a straight line, then begins to curve before a break. Both breaks are very worn. The resulting object measures 33mm from the loop…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E38C5E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy late Iron Age or Roman bow brooch, consisting of the very end of the foot only, with part of a perforated catchplate. The rounded-section bow is very narrow at just 2.4mm wide. On the reverse, the catchplate could be described as perforated (or pierced) or framed, in that the (now incomplete) triangular perforation neatly follows the line of the edge of the catchplate. One side is turned over to the left (when viewing the brooch from the reverse). The breaks are worn. The surviving length of the bow is 10.7mm, less than that of the catchplate; th…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E36337
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy late Iron Age or Roman bow brooch, consisting of the foot only. The D-section bow is very narrow but fairly even in width, tapering from 2.9mm wide and 1.7mm thick at the break to 2.2mm wide at the bottom. On the reverse is a pierced or perforated catchplate, consisting of a triangle springing from one edge of the bow, with the end turned over to the left (when viewing the brooch from the reverse) and a slot made at the curve to hold the end of the pin. It has a lozenge-shaped perforation, less neatly shaped than the rest of the brooch, The break…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E31D90
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and top of bow from a copper-alloy Roman brooch of Langton Down type, dating to c. 25-c. 60 AD. The head is formed from a thin sheet cylinder, complete on the left side (looking from the front) but the front missing on the right. There is no trace of decoration on the front of the head, but a seam can just about be seen along the reverse, with the slot for the pin in the centre. The inside of the head is filled with hard corrosion products, probably from an iron spring bar. The D-section bow tapers from 11.2mm wide at the top to 7.2mm wide at the broken end. It has a rid…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E0BBDF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Largely complete copper-alloy Colchester one-piece brooch of late Iron Age to early Roman date (c. 20-c. 65 AD). The bow is oval in cross-section, with no decoration surviving. At the top are a pair of rectangular, flat-section wings, with a long forward-facing hook above. The hook still retains the chord of the spring, half of which survives, with three coils on the right (as you look at the reverse). The left-hand end of the spring, and the pin, are missing along with any axis bar. The bow tapers downwards towards a missing foot (fairly old break), with a stub of catchplate on t…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-777696
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment from a horse bridle bit, of late Iron Age or early Roman date, 1st century BC or 1st century AD. The object is a short cylindrical tube of cast copper alloy, decorated on the outside with cast grooves.At one point on the exterior is an oval-section scar from a broken-off bar, measuring 10.5 x 9mm in cross-section. This has a bold ridge around the base before the break, which increases the cross-section to 15.5 x 13 mm. The break is slightly worn and possibly iron-stained. The grooves emerge from either side of the oval-section stub and diverge to run around the outside of the…
Created on: Monday 14th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-784F33
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age or early Roman copper-alloy cosmetic mortar of end-looped type, missing part of its loop (worn breaks). It is U-shaped in cross-section, with a smoothly polished concave interior and a slightly more angled exterior. It has a very grey patina that is now corroded and flaking, especially on the exterior, over a greener inner metal, so it may originally have had a tinned or silvered surface. There is no other decoration. One end of the mortar is worn and rounded; it is difficult to tell if it is complete. The object then flares in width and thickness to the centre, aft…
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 30th April 2021
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Record ID: NMS-65F5C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy Colchester one-piece brooch of late Iron Age or early Roman date, now worn, bent and incomplete. One wing survives apparently intact; it is short, and rectangular in cross-section. The other is missing (worn break). The right-hand side of the spring survives (viewed from the reverse) with three coils before the chord, which passes under the forward-facing hook. The other side of the spring is missing along with any axis bar. The bow starts at the top with a wide oval cross-section (6mm wide and 3mm thick); it appears to be undecorated. It tapers smoothly to a circula…
Created on: Monday 7th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-3E5C7E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age hoard of four copper-alloy objects, comprising a pair of strap-mounts, a binding strip and a ring. 1. First of a pair of cast copper-alloy strap mounts. Description: The mount takes the form of a looped drop-shaped openwork frame, of D-shaped cross-section (flat on the reverse),with the ends of the loop cast as if butted together before curling outward to form supports for two conjoined roundels at the terminal. A third roundel is contained within the loop, attached to the inner sides where they narrow towards the terminal. Each of these roundels has a slightly offs…
Created on: Thursday 7th May 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-B9113C
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object of late Iron Age or early Roman date, consisting of three circles with open centres fused together in a trefoil or triangle. Each circle is 9-10mm in internal diameter and 14-16mm in external diameter, depending on wear. The edges are bevelled slightly to front and back. The whole object is 3.5mm thick and measures 31-33mm across two circles, again depending on wear. It weighs 7.8g. The circles each have a double groove between them on both faces, making a tiny ridge projecting between each circle. One face is otherwise undecorated, but has six irregularly space…
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-92562B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy Rosette brooch of late Iron Age or early Roman date, cast in one piece except for an applied thin plate of decoration. The head is a cylindrical spring cover 27mm wide, now open and incomplete at the back; it is very grey within. On the front the spring cover is decorated with several fine longitudinal grooves, above panels of very fine oblique engraved lines. The lines in the left-hand panel point to the bottom right and the lines in the right-hand panel point to the bottom left. The bow is wide and decorated with a ridge down either side, and three wider r…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-636839
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One-piece Colchester brooch, missing spring and pin and now worn. The wings are short and narrow, and rectangular in cross-section. From the base of the wings a central stub projects to the rear; this would have gone on to form the spring and pin, but is now broken (worn break). From the top of the wings another central projection bends forwards and forms a complete forward-facing hook which would originally have held the chord of the spring in place. The bow projects from the front of the wings. It is oval in cross-section, 6 x 3mm at the top, and tapers smoothly from the top to t…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-11A464
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy bull's head mount from a bucket or similar vessel, of late Iron Age or early Roman date. Only the centre survives, with one well-preserved eye (the animal's left) made from a gradual swelling outlined with a double pointed-oval groove. The other eye is largely lost along with most of the surface, which has suffered badly from corrosion; where the surface survives it is grey and glossy, and looks like a white-metal coating. In the centre, above and between the eyes, is a circular hole 6mm in diameter. To either side are broken-off projections which may original…
Created on: Friday 29th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-D39907
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable toggle, made from copper alloy and now incomplete. The surviving end consists of a flattened sphere 8.5 mm in diameter and 7 mm long, at one end of a short shaft 3.7 mm in diameter, decorated with three transverse grooves. At the other end of the shaft is another basically globular element, but this is tapered on one side to give a sub-triangular cross-section. Through the apex of the triangle is a circular perforation 2.9mm in diameter. On the opposite side of this element is the stub of another shaft 3.2-3.5 mm in diameter and about 2.5 mm long, which ends in a fresh break.…
Created on: Friday 12th November 2010
Last updated: Thursday 16th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAMHER-883FA5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age to early Roman brooch of Nauheim derivative type, made from a flat strip of copper alloy. At one end the strip has been wound into a spring; the chord passes under the bow and is then broken, so that the other half of the spring and the pin are missing. The surviving spring half has two turns and then widens into a bow 5 mm wide, which is decorated with a border groove down each edge. The bow gently tapers again, but the very end of the bow and the catchplate are missing (fresh breaks). Despite being small and flimsy, the brooch seems to be well made. 1st century BC to…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 10th September 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAMHER-8829C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded remains of a Colchester one-piece brooch made from copper alloy. It has tiny stubs of rectangular wings, a forward-facing hook worn to a tiny curved spike, the remains of the pin as another spike, and a very corroded circular-section bow curving down to a point. The remains of a catchplate can be seen as a thin fin on the reverse of the foot. The metal is a rough brown. Late Iron Age or early Roman, c. 20-60 AD. 41 mm long. 2.15g.
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Saturday 16th May 2015
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Record ID: SF8971
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 23rd July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'EYE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8927
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper-alloy object of unknown date and function. It is long and thin, and in excellent condition, with a very fresh break at one end and what appears to be an animal head at the other. At the broken end it is almost pentagonal in section, with four facetted faces and the fifth filled with a U-shaped groove. The apex of the pentagon has tiny transverse nicks and this forms the back of the animal's neck; the nicks may represent a mane. The grooved underside is almost flat, but the back of the neck is more steeply humped into a brow, with a conical ear or horn projec…
Created on: Monday 15th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8884
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy brooch of La Tene I type, in very fragile condition. Two coils of the spring are visible, but much obscured by a lump of iron corrosion which is probably from an iron axis bar. The metal then flares and flattens into an oval or leaf-shaped bow, which is cracked across near to the top. The bow is decorated with a broad short flute in the centre, then a narrow groove to either side; these are then flanked with a pair of longer broad flutes and then finally a narrow groove border. A short length of rocker-arm engraving is visible on the lower part of the central flu…
Created on: Friday 5th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BENTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8686
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy vessel mount in the shape of a stylised bull's head. The neck is long and curving, and broken at the lower end (fresh break). It flares slightly from the break and has a flaring groove running up the reverse, which forms an indentation on the top of the head. To either side of the head horns project, outwards at first but then curving up to become vertical (one is bent slightly backwards). Each one is circular in cross-section, and tapers as it rises; they end in a slight waist and then a flattened knob terminal. The nose of the bull is short and square-ended, w…
Created on: Monday 10th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8699
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mini-terret, very corroded but complete. The hoop is circular or oval in cross-section, tapering from oval stops, the least corroded of which measures 9 x 8 mm. The bar is rectangular in section and 6 mm long. There is no decoration surviving.
Created on: Monday 10th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANTHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8675
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete mini-terret decorated with enamel. Most of the hoop is missing, but what remains is oval in cross-section. There are two stubs from a loop on the reverse; all the breaks are old. On the front, opposite the loop, is a circular boss which extends upwards into the hoop. It is decorated with a large drilled dot surrounded by a ring; the dot is filled with light to mid blue enamel.
Created on: Friday 7th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRATING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8383
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Bar and base of hoop from a copper-alloy terret. The terret is very corroded and both breaks have worn to a point. The bar is rectangular in section, now measuring 4 mm front to back and 7 mm top to bottom; it is 20-21 mm long. The stops increase the thickness of the terret to 12 mm; they taper smoothly into the hoop, although there is a trace of a line delimiting the outer boundary of the stop. The surviving 'width' of the fragment is 51 mm, and it measures 14 mm from top to bottom.
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DEDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8337
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Circular openwork object, 26 to 27 mm in diameter, with slightly uneven openwork three-armed decoration. Around the circumference are three bosses, and the centre is filled with three long drop-shaped perforations. The narrower end of each perforation fits between a boss and the wider end of the neighbouring perforation, and extends to the edge of the mount as a groove. The reverse has a broken-off circular stub in the centre measuring 3 mm. It also has some decoration; the grooves are repeated, and there are low bumps on the reverse of the bosses. The presence of these features ma…
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8197
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete La Tene III brooch, made from a single piece of copper alloy. The top of the bow, the spring and much of the pin survive but the foot and the tip of the pin are missing. The bow is flat and a maximum of 7 mm wide. It is decorated with a fine longitudinal groove down either side, but in between most of the surface has been corroded away and so no other decoration is visible. At the top of the bow it narrows to a rectangular section which is wound into a four-coil spring, with the chord passing under the spring. Longitudinal striations are visible on the coils. It then n…
Created on: Monday 25th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7989
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
About half of a terret with a rounded hoop which retains one (of perhaps an original three) 'lip' mouldings. The bar is sub-rectangular in section and is tall and narrow; it is bent at one end just before an old and worn break. At the other end is a diminutive oval stop measuring 8 x 9 mm. The circular-section hoop then rises from the other face of the stop, and tapers as it curves around. At the widest point of the terret is the 'lip' moulding. This consists of a longitudinally set oval moulding on the outer edge, with a broad V-shaped groove set transversely across it looking like a…
Created on: Monday 28th January 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 7th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STOWUPLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7961
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of terret, of flat-ringed type. The bar is slightly trapezoidal in cross-section (10 mm tall, 3 mm wide at the bottom and 4.5 mm wide at the top) and has an old break a little way along. The surviving stop is nearly circular, 17 mm from top to bottom and 18 mm from side to side, and is 4 to 5 mm thick; there are faint traces of a groove just inside each edge of the stop. The hoop tapers from 14 mm tall as it leaves the other side of the stop, to 8 mm wide at the old break. It is triangular in section, 5.5 to 4 mm thick at the inner edge and rounded at the outer edge. Close to…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 7th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ASHFIELD CUM THORPE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7840
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Just under half of the hoop of a ribbed terret which originally had an iron bar. At the upper break it is oval in cross-section and measures 5 x 6 mm. Transverse grooves run around the whole circumference except for a narrow band on the inner surface; the ridges in between are worn. As the hoop curves around, the undecorated band on the inside becomes wider, eventually occupying the whole of the inside. The wear on the ridges becomes less, and the hoop itself becomes thicker and wider so that it measures 7 x 10 mm close to the base. The hoop has a squared-off end at the base, so t…
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CLIMPING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7566
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It is rectangular in cross-section, but otherwise hard to describe. There is one wider flatter end (16 x 3 mm), and then one long edge has a straight taper and the other is incurved. It becomes narrower and thicker, reaching 4.5 mm thick and 6 mm wide in the centre. The incurved edge continues its line, but gains a central longitudinal groove. The straight edge follows the line of the curved edge. The object continues to thicken to a maximum thickness of 10 mm, and the width increases to 9 mm; this almost square-section end has some poss…
Created on: Monday 10th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7546
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of terret of unusual shape. Part of the rectangular-section bar survives, and measures 6.5 x 3 mm in cross-section at the unworn break. The single surviving stop is 11.5 mm in diameter, and from its top emerges a second bar which continues the curving line of the stop's arc. This runs parallel with the bar, and presumably held a strap which fixed the terret to the yoke. It also ends in an unworn break. The hoop survives much more poorly, and is now not much more than a blunt point; it tapers from the stop to a very worn break.
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK KESSINGLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7516
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Colchester one-piece brooch made from copper alloy. Upper half only, with stubs of wings, forward-facing hook and spring. Very corroded, with no surface surviving. The remains of the wings are rectangular in cross-section; the bow is oval in cross-section, and tapers and curves to the break. There is no surviving decoration on either wings or bow. Surviving length 31 mm, surviving width 9 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COCKFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7411
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete La Tene I brooch, missing end of foot, pin and most of spring (old breaks). Half of the first coil of the spring survives, and has some iron staining. This then swells out and arches up into a heavy solid oval-section bow, at its most measuring 5 x 7 mm in cross-section. There is no decoration on the bow. The bow then tapers and curves back down again to form the foot. This has a grooved extension to one side which forms the catch for the pin; beyond this it begins to curve back up again towards a broken-off terminal. Total surviving length 49 mm, height of curved bow …
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7119
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Foot of brooch. Relatively wide, flat and with vertical grooved decoration, the brooch type could be either Langton Down or Rosette; a remoter possibility is a Lion Bow brooch, but these are rare with fluted feet. The decoration is now worn or corroded, but appears to have consisted of five broad parallel flutes. In some of the deeper flutes there is a dark grey colour which may be the remains of a white-metal coating. Both ends are broken, so it is impossible to tell whether the foot was flaring (like most Rosettes) or tapering (like most Langton Downs). There are the remains of a…
Created on: Sunday 14th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.