Record ID: NARC-C34EC9
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Toggle of Iron Age to Roman date (200 BC-AD 150). The object is sub-ovate in form, with upturned rounded terminals, a convex upper surface with two circular knops, one on either side of the upper frame. The upper portion between the knops is steeply convex. The middle section of the frame has an ovate aperture with slightly upturned upper ends. The lower frame is D shaped in section with an outer linear boarder which respects the form of the lower frame. Length: 16.38mm, Width: 14.10mm, Thickness: 12.08mm, Weight: 5.9g Aperture: Length: 7.43mm, Width: 4.24mm.…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-74B614
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver Unit of North Easter region/ Corieltavi, struck by Vepo, dating to the period AD 10-45. Diameter: 14.16mm, Thickness: 1.16mm, Weight: 0.7g The coin is missing a section between 4-9 O’clock. ABC No 1866, BMC 3277-3282.
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: NARC-269741
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Brooch of Iron Age date (500-200 BC). The object is a Hallstatt brooch. Hull and Hawkes Type 2L variant. The object is composed of a domed ovate (leech shaped) central plate, the back of the plate is steeply concave. The head is missing due to an old, abraded break. The foot is composed of a sub-rectangular plate with a central recessed band with repeating longitudinal lines within. The back of the foot retains a short, recurved catchplate. Length: 26.60mm, Width (wings): 25.98mm, Width (plate): 13.09mm, Thickness: 7.99mm, Weight: 7.4g The metal i…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: NARC-80F37D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Iron Age gold stater of the Catuvellauni, attributed to Addedomaros dating to the period 50 BC-AD 10. Addedomaros Spiral type.  Obverse: Six-armed wreath spiral, three crescents at centre. Reverse:  Horse right, cornucopia motif below and inscription [ADDIIDOM] above. Diameter: 18.38mm, Thickness: 3.01mm, Weight: 5.6g ABC No 2517. VA No 1620 BMC No 2396-2404
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2023
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Record ID: NARC-9D56F8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Iron Age unit of Tasciovanos of the North Thames region/Catuvellauni tribe, dating to 20 BC- AD 10 (Tasciovanos Regal Rider). Obverse: VER on plain field, pellet border. Reverse: Horseman riding right, wearing hat with two streamers. Diameter: 12.30mm, Thickness: 1.97mm, Weight: 1.2g ABC p. 130, no. 2625.
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
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Record ID: NARC-A98912
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy probable Cruciform headed pin of Iron Age date (800 BC – AD 100). The object is comprised of four abraded ovate mouldings positioned at the cardinal points round a possible fifth similar central lobe. A waisted shaft descends from the underside of the lobed head. At its base is a bead moulding. The shaft continues below the moulding and bends sharply at right angle and terminates in and old abraded break. Length: 15.18mm, Width: 11.70mm, Diameter (of shaft): 2.61mm, Diameter (of bead moulding): 5.69mm, Weight: 2.0g The metal is dark green and heavil…
Created on: Friday 21st July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2023
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Record ID: NARC-9CE931
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Brooch of late Iron Age to Roman date (AD 25-100). The object is a La Tene III /Nauheim one piece brooch. It is composed of four coils, with interior chord. Between the wire projecting between the outermost left coil and the second coil is a separate perforated pin with expanded upper section and tapered lower end. This is a modification, added to extend the use of the object. There is a short portion of the wire, which would have formed the pin, visible to the left of the separate pin. The bow is D shaped in section and tapers and flattens t…
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 7th July 2023
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Record ID: NARC-123DE4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy 'La Tène I' style brooch of Early Iron Age date (450-300 BC). Adams Type 1A or type 1b. The head and spring mechanism are missing due to an old, abraded break, the pin was found in close proximity to the body and is therefore retained.  The bow of the brooch extends downwards from the break and is arched and expanded with in ovate cross-section. The front of the bow is decorated with a single, central, incised longitudinal line. The foot is formed by forward recurving of the lower bow, with an expanded back portion, forming …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th May 2023
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Record ID: NARC-11E1C8
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Toggle of Late Iron Age to Early Roman date (50 BC- AD 100). The body is baluster-shaped, the centre of the object is composed of two rounded expansions with a groove between, which taper before expanding into two discoidal terminals. A loop extends vertically upwards from the upper portions of the object, straddling the two central mouldings. This loop is of circular section and extends to a rounded, sub-rectangular form. Length: 16.45mm, Width: 28.00mm, Thickness: 10.89mm, Weight: 14.7g The metal is dark brown in colour with a predominantly smooth patina an…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th May 2023
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Record ID: NARC-7BDAD2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Brooch of probable Middle Iron Age date (300-150 BC). The object is composed of two coils of wire with circular sectioned pin extending downward to the back, while the bow expands from the centre of the coils with a slight low arch and is D shaped in section. The bow is attached to the pin via a recurved catchplate. Length: 32.42mm, Width: 6.69mm, Thickness: 7.29mm, Weight: 3.0g The metal is dark green in colour with a pitted patina. The example is distorted and abraded by post-depositional processes but may fit into Adams (2013) type 1C, on&nbs…
Created on: Tuesday 25th April 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th May 2023
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Record ID: NARC-D42945
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Brooch of Late Iron Age date (100 BC-AD 100). The object is a Le Tene III type and is formed from one piece of copper alloy wire which is square in section. This forms the pin, now mostly missing, which is twisted four times at the head of the brooch to form the spring. The wire, projecting from the centre of the spring component forms the main body of the brooch. The body flattens to form the bow which is decorated with two, incised, longitudinal lines and terminates in an old abraded transverse break. The foot and catchplate are missing. Length: …
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: NARC-6A93D1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver Iron Age unit of the North Thames region / Catuvellauni dating to the period 60-20 BC. Whaddon Bird type. Obverse: head left with coiled hair and a small animal and wing motifs in front. Reverse: Horse right with a small bird above and a pelletal sun below. Diameter: 13.92mm, Thickness: 1.70mm, Weight: 1.2g ABC 2481 VA 1546 BMC 377-379
Created on: Friday 31st March 2023
Last updated: Friday 31st March 2023
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Record ID: NARC-2A5FC8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Unit Iron Age date (AD 10-40). Probably attributed to Catuvellauni tribe The reverse depicts a horse advancing left. Diameter: 13.54mm, Thickness: 2.52mm, Weight: 1.7g. The coin is missing portions of its outer flan.
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2023
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Record ID: NARC-1B4FDB
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper allot Terret ring of Iron age to Roman date (200 BC – AD 200). The object is composed of a single cast section of the original loop form. The fragment is circular in section with one collared and expanded terminal, tapering to a pointed opposing end. The object may fit into Lewis’s (2015) simple terrets group. Length: 40.36mm, Diameter (max): 10.97mm, Diameter (min): 3.42mm, Weight: 11.1g The metal is green in colour with a slightly pitted patina. Similar examples can be seen on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database: SWYOR-E7B839, BERK-3D764D a…
Created on: Monday 27th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2023
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Record ID: NARC-9CE034
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Brooch of Roman date (AD 25-60). The object is a Colchester type two-piece brooch, Harlow type. The brooch is composed of a head with short rectangular wings, to the reverse of the wings is a double central lug. In the centre of the top of the head there is a transverse wire fixed in place by the upper lug. Within the lower lug is a wire with three coils to flanking the lower lug, the wire axis bar is retained, the pin is missing. The bow is rectangular in plan and D shaped in section and extends down into a tapered foot. The catchplate to the back …
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 25th April 2023
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Record ID: NARC-F20EBE
Object type: FOB
Broad period: IRON AGE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, fragmented, Fob or Harness Fitting of late Iron Age to early Roman date (100 BC- AD 100).  The object is composed of a circular, bevelled outer frame, from the frame three curvilinear arms extend attached to the frame by trapezoidal projection and culminating at the centre of the openwork portion in an ovate domed boss. The curvilinear triskele design are of a zoomorphic form, they are comma shaped, and the terminating ends depict a dragonesque heads. Two of the heads are complete, the third is missing due to an old and abraded break. The retained heads are com…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 17th March 2023
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Record ID: NARC-F19B68
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Strap Fitting, Strap-Union or Belt-Link dating of late Iron Age to early Roman date (200 BC - AD 200). The object is composed of a central plate, composed of two conjoined discs, forming an 8 shaped design. The object is D shaped in section with the back of the central plate being flat and the front convex. Each of the plate has an identical moulded design consisting of three concentric, stepped rings with the innermost being concave. Flanking the central plate are bars, attached to the plates via small circular lugs, set at 90 degrees to the…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 17th March 2023
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Record ID: NARC-71A5F7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy core from a contemporary copy gold Stater, East Anglian region, Iceni, probably copying “Eyelash Crecent” type dating to the period 10 BC- AD 40. The coin is missing portions of its outer flan and is heavily abraded, with traces of gilding retains on both surfaces. Diameter: 16.66mm, Thickness: 1.59mm, Weight: 2.1g ABC No 1558 VA No 679 BMC Nos 3763-66
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th March 2023
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Record ID: NARC-1500E7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold quarter Stater of Late Iron Age date, Trinovantes, attributed to Addedomaro dating to the period 20 BC–AD 10.  Central Eastern, Addedomaros floral type. Obverse depicts Flower of four leaves and rings around pellet in ring Reverse depicts Annulate horse right, ring below tail, triplet and misc. symbols above, pellet in ring below Diameter: 17.33mm, Thickness: 0.62mm, Weight: 1.0g Ancient British Coinage No 2529 Van Arsdell No. 1623 British Museum Nos. 2417-2421
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 27th January 2023
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Record ID: NARC-14EC0D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver Unit of Trinovantes in the name of Tasciovanos dating to the period 25 BC-AD 10. North Thames group, Tasciovanos, Eagle and Griffin type. Obverse depicts Eagle standing left TASCI/O around Reverse depicts Griffin standing right three pellets below Diameter: 13.75mm, Thickness: 1.77mm, Weight: 1.3g ABC. 2646 VA 1792 BMC 1658-59
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 27th January 2023
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