Record ID: NMS-D285B2
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age copper alloy and iron linch-pin terminal. Domed head with three raised semi-circular bosses around the edge each with deep radiating grooves. Slightly narrowed, circular-sectioned lower half with a groove around the lower edge and bisected by a deep rectangular slot in the base from which protrudes corroded iron. Length (excluding iron) 17mm. Diameter 16mm. A1.
Created on: Monday 21st January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F36EDA
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very unusual Late Iron Age to early Roman iron and copper alloy composite linch pin with bent and corroded square-sectioned shank (14 x 14mm), pelta-shaped openwork head and foot with discoidal terminal. The peltoid head and the foot are both cast. The face of the head is decorated with six circular cells containing traces of red enamel, four in a Y-shaped arrangement within an engraved triskele reserved on a circular pecked field, one in the centre and each of the three outer cells in a curled terminals of the triskele, two further cells are set in the swollen convex base of the head…
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Saturday 16th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-178AE0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age socketed terminal mount in the form of a bull's head. Circular-sectioned socket filled with orange-stained soil, perhaps from iron corrosion, with four evenly spaced rivet holes between two very fine engraved lines around the edge. One of the rivet holes is broken through and there is a ragged crack extending 11mm from the edge, possibly caused by internal corrosion forcing the socket apart. The socket tapers smoothly from the opening, curving at the end to form a narrow neck before the stylised bull's head. This is cast in the round, with horizontal horns which bend sha…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 16th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scarning', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-538138
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age or Early Roman incomplete copper alloy spiral finger ring. Shallow D-sectioned band forming almost two complete turns. Broken at one end, expanding slightly from the break towards the complete terminal at the other, before tapering to a rounded end. External diameter 17mm. Maximum width of band 5mm. Thickness 1mm. For a similar example see SWYOR-5966D0.
Created on: Tuesday 15th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-DEE1B5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age or Early Roman copper alloy strap-slide. Circular openwork plate consisting of an oval-sectioned frame with two conjoined roundels forming a bar across the centre with pelta-shaped apertures to either side. There is an engraved line around the outer edge of the frame, which is slightly damaged and corroded in places. Each roundel has a central round cell filled with well-preserved yellow enamel surrounded by a circular cell retaining corroded red enamel. On the revers in line with the roundels is a rectangular, D-sectioned loop, the flat face inwards. Diameter 30.5mm.…
Created on: Thursday 21st November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-42BB88
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age or Roman copper alloy Nauheim Derivative brooch. Flat, undecorated bow tapering slightly from spring with four coils to distorted foot with broken catch-plate. Transition between bow and pin smooth with only slight change in width and thickness. Pin missing. Surviving length 48mm. Width at spring 12mm. Maximum width of bow 4mm. Circa 50 BC - 80 AD.
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-827735
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age to Romano-British copper alloy fragment (18 x 9mm) of lipped terret. Oval-sectioned with four transverse mouldings and grooves between. 1st century BC to 1st century AD.
Created on: Thursday 9th December 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6C4A15
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Iron Age copper alloy socketed leather-working knife. The socket tapers towards a pair of transverse mouldings before flaring for the widley splayed blade, which thins towards the missing cutting edge. The upper part of the socket, and the cutting edge are missing, with irregular breaks. There is an orange / brown patina over the surface. Length at least 45mm. Width of cutting edge at least 35mm. Length of blade at least 26mm. Length of socket at least 19mm. Maximum surviving external diameter of socket 12mm. Cf. Savory (1980, fig.45, no.3 - 6).
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-375E42
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete La Téne I type brooch, comprising remains of three coils of broken spring at top of oval sectioned bow with median groove, foot with a side extension forming the catch-plate, and narrowing and curving back on itself to terminate in a stylized animal head consisting of an oval disc with a snout. There is a single stamped dot in the centre of the top of the animal head. Length 40mm, width of bow at max. 5mm, depth of bow at max. 4mm. Similar to an example in Hattatt (2000, 288, fig.147, no.725) and another from Fring (HER 23001). 4th-3rd century BC.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-EE8B03
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two copper alloy objects additional to a dispersed hoard discovered in 2004 and reported as 2004 T301. Copper alloy terret ring with inset rectangular sectioned attachment bar flanked on either side by vertical discs. There are three decorative projections or mouldings around the ring, one on top and one on each side. This terret is very similar to an one discovered at the same site in 2004. Measuring (externally) 59 x 49mm, (internally) 35 x 31mm. Fragment of copper alloy harness mount, semicircular in shape and broken at either end. Decorated with two opposed pointed scrolls w…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-30AC24
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
This group of three later Iron Age copper alloy objects recovered from near King's Lynn, Norfolk comprises two enamelled flat-ring terrets and a miscellaneous flat ring terret. The terrets are of the same type, however, one is in relatively good condition, being nearly complete and the other is in three pieces with a part missing. The complete terret has a rectangular sectioned attachment bar that is flanked on either end with moulded collars each decorated with a median groove. The flattened ring of the terret, which gives the type its name, provides a large area for decoration. This…
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Kings Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-45CA53
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age copper alloy mount, incomplete and corroded consisting of D-sectioned bar with rounded, slightly domed terminals each countersunk on the reverse and pierced for a separate copper alloy rivets which project beyond the surface on both sides, one complete and one broken. A narrow, C-sectioned projection, one broken almost flush with the edge of the bar and one now curving upwards and tapering slightly to the break, spring from the centre of each long edge of the mount. Width 25mm. Surviving length 21mm. Thickness (excluding rivets) 6mm. Length of rivet 12mm. For very…
Created on: Tuesday 27th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A54510
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age / Romano-British Langton Down brooch, spring, pin and foot missing. A faint line of probably engraved zig-zag or rocker-arm across the top of the head, while the front is decorated in relief with a triangular moulding enclosing three dots, between two scroll mouldings. Cf. Hattatt no.270, “hooks and eyes”. Below a transverse groove at the top the D-section bow is apparently undecorated. A continental variety, so called Nertomarus type, Hattatt (1985), 36. First half 1st century
Created on: Monday 11th April 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-177C87
Object type: HARNESS RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete (53 x 28mm) with upper part of the ring missing, rectangular sectioned attachment bar, flanked on either side with collared mouldings. 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2004
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A63C64
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a late Iron Age-early Roman copper alloy Rosette or Langton Down brooch. Only part of the foot survives. It is slightly splayed and has five vertical grooves and a scar of the catch-plate on the reverse.
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-384922
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age or Roman possible harness mount, cap of shallow hollow cast inverted cup-shape with convex sides, containing remains of red enamel with damaged possible circular cell or setting in centre. Circular-sectioned shank on reverse, chamfered to square section, irregular cut-out at terminal. Diameter of cap 19mm. thickness of cap 5mm. Length 36mm. Cf. related type of mount from Flitcham with Appleton (HER 52540). 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 12th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8AFF26
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy cast bronze unit of Massilia (Marseilles), obverse head of Apollo, reverse Bull butting right, weight 4.27g, Rudd ABC 115, 2nd century BC Finder's reference number: 10.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4842B6
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age ring-headed pin, cast in one with ring joined to the shoulder by a bulbous moulding between two low ribs with continuous transverse grooves giving the appearance of pellets. The outer edge of the ring is followed by a median rib decorated in a similar fashion. A small hole passes through the shank immediately below the head and at the top of a curving length of shank. There is a slight circular depression in the surface at the end of the hole below the decorative moulding. This would have housed a decorative discoidal appliqué or stud secured by a (now loose) rivet. This pro…
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E51D37
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard consisting of two terrets and a mount. 1. A complete oval winged or lipped terret. The attachment bar is recessed and rectangular in section with circular mouldings at either end. The circular-sectioned ring, which tapers from either side of the attachment bar to the apex, has three wing or lip like mouldings, the one at the apex being slightly smaller than those to either side. The edge of each of the lipped mouldings is decorated with a cable moulded rib. There is a glossy green-brown patina over much of the surface, but also wear and corrosion damage, particularly on the …
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 8th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shipdham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-41A985
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1. Linch pin head. Stub of corroded rectangular sectioned iron shank protruding from a rectangular socket at the base of the copper alloy head. Above the socket is a circular moulding at the base of a globular body which is waisted before large flat circular top. The body is pierced by a transverse hole the ends of which are defined by circular mouldings, there are two circular cells filled with red enamel between the openings on one side only. The upper surface is recessed in the centre, the rim decorated with three evenly spaced circular cells, one of which contains traces of red ena…
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.