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-248F38
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description of objects Hoard of Iron Age metalwork 1st century BC - mid 1st century AD. 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 …
Created on: Thursday 20th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.