Record ID: NMS-2F9812
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold ANTED type stater
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-09A627
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Icenian stater, Norfolk Wolf JB type with left-facing wolf, very pale metal (presumably gold with a very significant silver and copper content), perhaps plated, weight 4.00g, c.50BC-30BC
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-73E984
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold quarter stater, Central Eastern gold attributed to Addedomaros, obverse flower, reverse horse right, weight 1.36g, Hobbs 2416, late 1st century BC
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2012
Last updated: Thursday 29th November 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-4F9DB5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold crown of Charles I, Tower, initial mark probably plume, North 2182, weight 2.24g, c.1630-1
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-397D42
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A coin hoard comprising 44 Iron Age staters of the 'Norfolk Wolf' Uninscribed Icenian JB type. These were found scattered in what appear to have been two groups over a relatively small area, the first group in November 2012 and the second in ?March 2013. If two hoards were concealed, however, these must surely be two part of one main deposit; the two groups of coins share die-links as well as being of the same type. All of the South Norfolk coins are struck from the same rather pale debased gold, implying a date of production some years after the beginning of the Norfolk Wolf serie…
Created on: Monday 26th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A0BEC2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold guinea of Charles II, Tower, 1672
Created on: Monday 19th November 2012
Last updated: Monday 19th November 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-270B24
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold stater, Gallo-Belgic E type, weight 6.15g, c.60-50BC
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 14th November 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-BE5AB1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
G Description: Gold touch-piece of James II Obverse: IACO II D G M B FR[..] ET HI REX, three-masted ship Reverse: SOLI DEO GLORIA, St. Michael and the dragon Pierced at 12 o'clock (reverse) Dies: Woolf O1/R2 [See Noel Woolf, The Sovereign Remedy: touch-pieces and the King's Evil (1990)] Date: 1685-8 This is a touch-piece, a gold medal purpose-made for use in the ceremony of Touching for the King's Evil, the ritual though which English monarchs exercised their thaumaturgic gift of healing the disease scrofula. In the 16th century the habit evolved of hanging a g…
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cantley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-57B5E1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragmentary gold half guinea of James II, Tower, 1688
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-53D572
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold quarter noble of Edward III, Treaty period, London, North 1243, 1363-9
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-4198A8
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Early Anglo-Saxon gold disc pendant made from a relatively thick back-plate onto which are soldered all the other components. In the centre is a collar formed from a vertical strip of sheet gold, retaining a shiny translucent orange/brown cabochon containing air bubbles, identified by Raman spectroscopy (see below) as glass. The collar is now cracked and has a lumpy appearance, possibly some gold solder acting as a repair. Arranged around the setting are ten beaded-wire heart shapes, either touching each other or nearly so; the points touch the collar and the inward-sp…
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C64BA5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold halfcrown of Henry VIII, Bristol, WS initial mark, North 1839, weight 1.53g, 1546-7
Created on: Friday 21st September 2012
Last updated: Monday 24th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F53081
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or post-medieval gold finger ring. Hollow, D-sectioned hoop expanding slightly from the rear through the shoulders to an oval bezel with setting for (missing) stone held by four claws, three of which partially survive. The sides and shoulders have an external black-letter inscription, reserved on a field keyed for enamel or niello, now missing. It reads en. bon on one shoulder and ectein on the other. There may be a line indicating a ligated e after the bon. The hoop is now slightly distorted, with several small holes, and damage to the edge of the setting. Height 21mm. Widt…
Created on: Tuesday 11th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 21st October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corpusty', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DF72E6
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold dress fastener. Sub-rectangular plate with slightly convex upper edge and slightly concave sides, stepped inwards before short, narrowed, rearward facing hook. There is a sub-rectangular attachment hole at the upper edge with irregular tool-marked edges. There is no trace of any decoration or attachment for additional decorative elements. c. 16th century. Length 20mm. Width 14mm. Thickness of plate 1mm. Weight 2.3g. The lack or decoration and the irregular edge of the attachment hole suggests it is unfinished. The overall construction, apart from the lack o…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 8th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4AC5F5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring. The flat-sectioned hoop expands smoothly to form shallow D-sectioned shoulders and an oval bezel with concave moulding, set with a cabochon garnet or amethyst. The edges of the inside of the hoop under the bezel and bevelled. Height 27mm. Width 20.5mm. Internal measurements 19.5 x 18.5mm. Width of hoop at bezel 8.5mm. Weight 2.7g. 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2012
Last updated: Monday 19th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pulham St. Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E10384
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold stater of the Iceni, early Freckenham type, Van Arsdell 620-7, weight 5.25g, late first century BC
Created on: Friday 17th August 2012
Last updated: Friday 17th August 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-98E733
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A pendant made from an imitation of a gold solidus of Maurice Tiberius (582-602), a suspension loop with three longitudinal ribs having been soldered to the edge of the coin immediately above the emperor's head. The coin description is as follows: Obverse: [...]AVRC TIb P P AVG, helmeted, cuirassed bust facing, shield on left shoulder, spear over right Reverse: VICTORIA AVGGV, long cross on steps above globe, M-A/V_RI in fields Mintmark CONOB in exegue The piece is of uncertain origin but is almost certainly a garbled Western copy of originals struck in Constantinople. Obv…
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Elmham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-872C21
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold finger ring. The hollow hoop, formed from folded sheet, is slightly distorted. An opaque pale blue gemstone en cabochon, perhaps a turquoise, is held within an oval collet by eight small rounded claws projecting from a separate oval rim. The shoulders, the lower ends of which are defined by a chevron of punched dots, are decorated with very finely engraved cross hatching and applied flowers consisting of a sexfoil on a curving stem flanked by two leaves with engraved details. The petals of the flowers are a pinker shade of gold than the rest of the ring. Early 19…
Created on: Monday 25th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-46A4D6
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of probable Middle or Late Bronze Age gold sheet strip or ribbon ornament decorated on one face with nine longitudinal grooves. One end has been chopped obliquely, while the other is apparently complete and slightly convex. Length at least 16mm. Width 8.5 - 9mm. Thickness 0.4mm. Weight 0.86g. For notes on Bronze Age ribbon ornaments see Treasure Annual Report 2007 47-8, nos. 38 and 39. c.1300 - c.800 BC.
Created on: Friday 22nd June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-066DC5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold stater, Icenian type J, 'Norfolk Wolf' type, Hobbs 212ff, weight 6.05g, c.50-30BC
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2012
Spatial data recorded.