Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4175 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Iron Age bridle-bit ring |
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Summary
An Iron Age copper alloy bridle-bit ring depicting the figure of a horse was found. This may be an imported Etruscan object.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8765 1313 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81SE |
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| Parish: | LITTLE DUNHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Spring 1969. Stray Find.
Found while drilling sugar beet (surface find) on newly ploughed parkland:
Iron Age copper alloy bridle-bit ring with decorative horses head. See drawing (S1).
Possibly of developed Villanovan/Etruscan type - see correspondance (S2) in file and sketches (S3) of similar objects depicted in (S4).
Purchased by Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1971.278).
Information from (S5).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 August 2018.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- BRIDLE FITTING (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1969. Drawing of a Iron Age copper alloy bridle-bit ring with decorative horses head. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Correspondence: Johns, C.. Letter Re. Bridle-bit ring. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Johns, C. 1969. Sketches of Villanovan bridle fittings depicted in 'Die Pferdetrense in ihrer Formen-Entwicklung' (1893). Paper. 1:1. |
| <S4> | Monograph: Zscille, R. and Forrer, R. 1893. Die Pferdetrense in ihrer Formen-Entwicklung. |
| <S5> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Iron Age. Dunham (Little). |
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