Record ID: NMS-341287
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman - Early Saxon copper alloy propeller-shaped military belt stiffener, twin perforations in both sub-triangular ends (one contains a copper alloy rivet), oval expansion in the centre decorated with a double ring-and-dot. The outside edges are chamfered with some damage at both ends. Length 42mm. Width 18mm. 4th century (Clarke 1979, 285), but such objects occur in Early Anglo-Saxon contexts (Macgregor and Bolick 1993, 210 and 212, cat. nos. 36.8 and 9).
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-1537C3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy propeller-shaped belt stiffener, sub-circular centre between flaring trapezoidal terminals, one of which is missing, with a prominant rectangular-sectioned, median, longitudinal rib terminating ina piercing in the surviving flared terminal retaining a copper alloy rivet. 4th century but such objects occur in Early Anglo-Saxon contexts (Macgregor and Bolick 1993, 210 and 212, cat. nos. 36.8 and 9). Length 32mm, reconstructed 50mm. Width 17mm. For similar examples see NMS-EEDF21 and NMS-19CE40.
Created on: Thursday 24th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-410B73
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy mount of Boucher's (2008) Type B5 dating to the period c. AD 80 - 250. Openwork circular terminals (one broken) with short projections to either side before a central, raised rectangular plate. The circular terminals each has a crescent-shaped cell retaining corroded blue enamel or glass, and the outer edge of the complete circle may be damaged, suggesting a possible further elemnet sucha as a knop has broken off. There is a circular hole through the rectangular plate now filled with corroded iron and surounded by a circular collar or rove on the reverse. There are …
Created on: Monday 14th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FBE027
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British / Early Saxon Belt mount, discoid attachment from belt, circular, tapering projection springs from edge and is folded onto reverse to form loop (end possibly cut or broken), central perforation within four concentric circles, 18 x 22mm. Cf. Hawkes and Dunning (1961) fig.24, b-g.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bracon Ash', grid reference and parish protected.