Record ID: NMS-567F30
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small fragment probably of a pin head, one gilt face decorated with chip-carved interlace. There is one tiny rounded lobe similar to those on the upper part of a pin from Brandon, Suffolk (Webster and Backhouse 1991 cat no.66(e)). This example seems more likely to be on the lower part near the springing of the pin. >12.5 x >8.5mm. 8th century.
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EFD055
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large and unusual scroll-headed pin, made from rolled and wrought sheet (1-2mm thick) with single scroll rolled inward across cut upper edge to form head (scroll, 11 x 6mm), vertical seam on side of hollow circular-sectioned shank, broken, point missing. Length >85mm. Maximum diameter of shank 5mm. Cf. possible rolled examples in West 1998, fig.46, no.1 and fig.96, no.6, dated to the 7th century and examples with solid shanks and rather more delicate spirals from Southampton (Hinton 1996, 31-2) and Flixborough (Webster and Backhouse, 1991, 97, nos.69j- k) which appear to belong to the…
Created on: Wednesday 21st April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke Ferry', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-038344
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy ring-headed pin, cast in one piece, sub-circular sectioned ring and narrowed tapering shank with dog-leg bends and corroded and broken point. Diameter of ring 25mm. Total length 67mm. Cf. an example from Cold Kitchen Hill shown in Dunning, Archaeological Journal (1934), 269-95, fig. 4, no.13. 3rd century BC
Created on: Wednesday 27th January 2010
Last updated: Monday 4th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oxborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-35C944
Object type: PIN
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Picardy Pin, broken at both ends, finely engraved decoration, upper end with two surviving bands of engraved opposed oblique lines above a broad swelling covered with oblique cross-hatching and framed by two bands of multiple transverse lines containing vertical notches, below which can be found the broken stumps of a missing loop on the undecorated lower part. Length >90mm. Diameter of the upper end 6mm, swelling 11mm, lower end 7mm. So-called 'Picardy Pins' are found in Britain and the north European Plain. They are mostly, but not always decorated and may be perforate…
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 4th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Costessey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-63E775
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very large shield-shaped pin head in rather abraded condition. One face is decorated with five closely spaced spirals interlinked and traversed by a knot of lines on a background probably once inlaid with enamel. Only the stub of the shank is extant. 40 x 26.5mm. Thickness 1mm. 8th century AD.
Created on: Monday 14th December 2009
Last updated: Monday 7th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brinton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3DDAA3
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete pin, head and short length of shank. The solid spherical head is decorated with five rounded bosses. Probably a simplified copy of a ball-headed pin, e.g. Evans and Loveluck 2009 no.679, although there is no collar at the top of the shank which might have been expected in a close copy. Diameter 18.5mm, 13mm without bosses. 8th - 9th century
Created on: Monday 30th November 2009
Last updated: Friday 19th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.