Record ID: CAM-F970F5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy brooch in the shape of a three-dimensional bird. The bird’s head may be slightly damaged, but seems always to have had a short beak, and there are two dot eyes. The short neck curves down to continue into the back of the bird as a long ridge, with a folded wing to either side; the wings are outlined with more small dots. The dots are neater on one wing than the other. A double ridge, each one decorated with a fine groove which has now almost worn away, separates the body of the bird from the flared tail. The tail is also outlined with similar dots. On the concave un…
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-FA62B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Colchester two-piece brooch made from copper alloy. The bow is decorated with two slight longitudinal ridges, each transversely ribbed. The foot is missing (old break) and there are hints of slight transverse ridging across the lower part of the bow near the break. The two ridges merge at the top of the bow to develop into a central crest which has a notch cut across it; behind the notch are two perforations for the axis bar and the chord of the spring. There is iron corrosion blocking the lower hole, presumably from the axis bar, but there is a small fragment of copper-…
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-9DCE93
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver radiate of Victorinus, AD 269-71. Mint of Gaul (mint II). Reverse: SALVS AVG standing right, holding snake in arms. Now squarish, presumably very worn. Pierced with single 2 mm hole in front of face. Now a slightly square shape, presumably very worn; the hole is just broken through to the edge. 1.59g.
Created on: Tuesday 30th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-9E05A7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Uncertain nummus of c. AD 310-317. House of Constantine, reverse illegible, probably SOLI INVICTO COMITI. Very worn and pierced twice; two 2 mm holes. 2.26g.
Created on: Tuesday 30th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-9E3644
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three-dimensional copper-alloy figurine in the shape of a dolphin. The dolphin is 27 mm long, 9 mm wide and 11 mm tall. It has a pointed beak with a groove around it forming the mouth, and ring-and-dot eyes. The head and body are steeply humped and there is low-relief modelling to either side forming triangular fins. The dolphin’s left-hand fin has a small dot on it. There is a low longitudinal ridge forming a crest on the top of the body. The body then dips down to the junction with the tail, which has a rounded end. Although it would seem more likely for the tail to once hav…
Created on: Tuesday 30th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-843967
Object type: CHATELAINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy chatelaine, of Roman date. Half of the rectangular main plate, along with the suspension bar, is missing (fresh break), but the surviving half is decorated with three horizontal zones of relief decoration bordered and separated by narrow flat-topped horizontal ridges. The upper and lower zones are filled with a single strand of angular waves, and the central line is a flat-topped ridge with transverse grooves forming a ladder pattern. In the centre of the upper edge is a biconical knob, and above this is a suspension loop set at 90 degrees to the main plate. The survivi…
Created on: Thursday 23rd July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAMHER-864ED7
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of narrow copper-alloy bracelet. Although both ends are broken, the curve of the bracelet is still obvious. It is very worn and the decoration is unclear in places, but there appears to be a zone of narrow oblique grooves at either edge, pointing in different directions to give a chevron effect but with the centre unmarked. Then there is a zone of similar oblique grooves in the centre, this time not reaching the edges. In places the decoration appears to be worn away completely. Flat cross-section. Total uncurled length of fragment, 87 mm; width, 5 mm. Weight 3.85g. Rom…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAMHER-867260
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of narrow copper-alloy bracelet. One end is broken (old break) and the other is sharply pointed; the curve of the bracelet is still obvious. It is apparently undecorated, although very corroded. Plano-convex cross-section. Uncurled length, 80 mm. Width 3 mm. Weight 3.84g. Probably Roman, late third or fourth centuries AD.
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAMHER-868496
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy bracelet terminal that has been converted into a finger-ring. The original bracelet was flat and 7 mm wide, and may have been decorated with small dots perhaps along either edge, although the presence of many small corrosion pits makes this uncertain. One end is cut straight across, and the other preserves the original snake-head terminal of the bracelet, which has a slight flattening around the edge but no other detail or decoration. The finger-ring is large, 20 x 22 mm internally. The bracelet is Roman, late third or fourth centuries AD, and it was probab…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAMHER-869537
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy bracelet. One end is (oldish break) but the other retains a curled-back snake-head terminal. The body of the bracelet is very worn, but some decoration can just be seen – a groove running along either edge, with oblique nicks surviving in some places across the groove. Very close to the terminal, the oblique grooving seems to run right across the width of the bracelet, and it may be that the lines appear to be across the groove only because they are worn away from everywhere else. The bracelet drastically narrows at the surviving terminal, then turns back…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAMHER-870745
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy plate brooch, circular and originally c. 25 mm in diameter. The plate is now bent and a little is missing. There are extensive traces of a whitish substance, probably decayed enamel, across the front, but no colour or design can be made out; the red colour of the exposed metal beneath is a common copper corrosion product in the presence of enamel. On the reverse is an integrally cast raised strip with a pair of hinge lugs at one end and a curled-over catchplate at the other. Roman, 2nd century AD. 3.45 g.
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAMHER-871938
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy plate brooch. The central plate is lozenge-shaped, with bevelled edges around a deep central recess. There is a knop at each corner. Two opposing knops have a pair of hinge lugs and a catchplate, and they are longer, each decorated with a single bead (convex moulding) and reel (concave moulding). The other two knops are smaller, each decorated with a single bead moulding between a pair of collars. The brooch measures 32 mm long along the axis of the pin (now missing) and 24 mm at right angles to this. It weighs 2.69g. From the parallels in Hattatt (nos. 1090 and 10…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAMHER-881C04
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy spoon with white-metal coating. The oval bowl has all its edges broken, and surviving dimensions of 43 mm long and 30 mm wide. The handle is short and very chunky, with a pointed-oval cross-section. The white-metal coating extends over the smooth interior of the bowl, up the handle, and over the end of the handle to continue down the back, suggesting that the short handle is the result not of breakage but of deliberate manufacture. The handle meets the bowl at its back rather than its edge. The back of the spoon has relief decoration of a well modelled human fac…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAMHER-884BC4
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Openwork mount, perhaps from horse harness. In shape it is a little like an urn, with a projecting stem, then a rounded base decorated with incised lines radiating from the junction of base and stem. The upper part has two large circular perforations, 5 mm in diameter, with a transverse groove above and below. Above, the mount is damaged and possibly distorted, but there appears to be a long narrow transverse oval perforation in the centre, and then a straight or slightly incurved top edge which projections slightly to either side. On the reverse are two integral rivets, one large…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF4912
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pin made from bone or antler, highly polished and very smooth. The head consists of three more or less square mouldings separated on the top of the shaft; the top of the head is rough showing that further moulding(s) have broken off. The shaft here is 2.5 mm in diameter and it then swells to 5 mm in diameter before tapering again to the pointed tip. The widest area is c. 40 mm from the tip and this may originally have been the midpoint of the pin before the loss of the top of the head. The section of the pin is not quite circular.
Created on: Thursday 1st March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF3520
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nummus (AE 1 - AE 4) with neat circular perforation in centre, diameter c. 1 mm
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2000
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BARTON MILLS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6944
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual cast copper-alloy and corroded iron mount/terminal, probably from a knife with an iron tang. It is unusual because of its decoration, which consists of a female double faced head. The base is a thick circular disc 13 mm in diameter. It has a groove around its circumference, and on the underside is iron corrosion from a central iron shank. This disc replaces the neck; above it is are the heads. The rear quarter or so of the heads are fused, and the hairstyles and faces (although worn and corroded ) look identical. The hair has a centre parting and seems to be loosely gathe…
Created on: Friday 28th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HARTEST', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1449C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Colchester derivative hinged brooch with enamelled decoration, missing its foot and parts of the head. The bow is rectangular when viewed from the front, and decorated with a pattern of criss-cross ribs which divide it up into two lozenges and eight triangular fields, all originally filled with enamel. The central column of two lozenges with a triangle above and below retain some pale enamel, and the triangles to either side retain some green or blue enamel. At the base of this panel there are three curved ridges protruding at right angles to the rest of the bow, the cen…
Created on: Friday 29th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8C4C7D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large and heavy cast copper-alloy Roman brooch, of Hod Hill type. It is missing the head (patinated but not worn break) and some of the catchplate but is otherwise complete. The surviving part of the bow consists of a rectangular panel 23mm long, which tapers slightly downwards from 14mm wide at the top to 10.5mm wide at the bottom. It is decorated with a central vertical line and at least five horizontal or slightly sloping lines to either side (the slope is in a variety of directions). These lines are inlaid in places with a shiny grey material, either decomposed niello or silv…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D4FA0A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy mount of Roman date, probably originally circular but with much of the edge now missing (worn breaks). It is flat, with a raised ring about halfway between the edge and the centre. Within this the front of the object is slightly concave, or dished, and the surface is very smooth and polished here. There is a small raised circle in the centre, with a sunken central dot. The reverse has two sturdy circular-section stumps, representing the remains of integral rivets. Maximum surviving diameter 25.5mm. Thickness including rivets 6mm. Weight 7.1g. The closest parall…
Created on: Wednesday 19th August 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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