Record ID: NMS-593AC5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet belt mount folded into U-shape and secured by a rivet with collared globular knop head, engaged with a pendent loop with similar collared knop. The loop is similar to Dress Accessories no. 1192 and Meols no. 1251. A sheet washer is sandwiched between the rivet head and the U-shaped mount. Loop 17 x 13mm. Length of rivet 9.5mm.14th century
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 7th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-591463
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap-end formed from cut and folded sheet and secured by a single rivet through an incomplete rounded lobe at the attachment edge. From this edge the sides diverge before narrowing to the outside edge. Some hard brown, possibly organic, material remains within the fold. See G. Thomas' recent discussion of the large series of Saxon sheet strap-ends from Flixborough (Evans and Loveluck 2009, 9-10). 24.5 x 7.5mm
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Sunday 30th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-58F021
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of base ring from hanging bowl: flat curving bar, one end broken, the other neatly chopped, decorated with a herringbone pattern on an enamelled ground. A small amount of dull pinkish enamel, probably once red, is extant. Very close to the vertical strips on the Faversham bowl (Brenan 1991, 210-11). Width 8mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Diameter 95mm. 7th century.
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-58B750
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small-long brooch of Leeds 1945 square-head (plain) type. Parts of the edges of the headplate and the lower footplate are missing. The headplate is punctured by a small hole. Incomplete single pin lug and catchplate on reverse. A ring-and-dot is visible near the two more intact corners of the headplate. D-sectioned bow with rectangular panels forming facets at top and base. Single transverse groove above side chafers on footplate. Ancient breaks. Length >39mm. Width >22.5mm. 6th century.
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-589DF2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Trapezoidal buckle frame in green surfaced alloy with scallop shell lobe in centre of outside edge, small lobe at both junctions with sides, and D-sectioned pin in purplish alloy. An atypical form. 26.5 x 18 - 20.5mm. 14th or possibly 15th century.
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-588C50
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower part of girdle hanger decorated on the front face with lines of punched crescents along both sides of the shank and the wards. Abrasion has removed all surface detail from the lower part of the front face. Ancient break. Length >46mm. Width 39.5mm. Thickness 2mm. Felder 2009 Type A2c. Late 5th -6th century
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-585EA1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Outside edge of openwork tongue-shaped strap-end. What remains of the symmetrical design is very close to that of a strap-end of found at North Creake in 1992 (Norfolk HER 11707). This example has additional detail engraved on one face only. Length >18mm. Width >4.8mm. 10th - 11th century
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-576D06
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible harness pendant consisting of circular sheet with central domed boss and (partly damaged) edges obliquely cut into twenty-three serrations, and a tapering strip with round perforation at its broad end and a hook at the other, which is attached with solder to the underside of the boss. Tinning survives on the front face. Height 32.5mm. Width/diameter 24.5mm. Thickness at centre through boss and hook 7.5mm. No good parallel noted
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-571E31
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knife handle with ram's head terminal. The slightly damaged octagonal-sectioned socket is decorated with two encircling engraved lines near the open end and a collar of two moulded ribs around the ram's neck. The details of the head are moulded, apart from the eyes which are punched. Length 43mm. Maximum width 12mm. Socket 8 x 6mm internally. Perhaps 2nd century.
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-56CCE8
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Book fitting or furniture fitting in the form of a highly stylised animal head with an iron-filled socket. The mouth of the socket is sub-rectangular. On the underside just beyond the mouth a large gap has left the iron filling exposed, a deliberately formed opening. The animal has protruding ears, no eyes and a long triangular-sectioned snout decorated on the front two faces with transversely engraved lines. The reverse of the upturned end of the snout is flat, and a spot of iron staining within it probably marks the end of the iron object. The object bears some resemblance to a Late…
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-569BC4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap-end from a strap distributor with a single rivet at the split end. The main part is in the form of an animal head gripping in its mouth the head and tail of an additional animal whose folded-over body forms an integral loop and is decorated with short obliquely engraved grooves. Parts of the surface are obscured by corrosion products. Length 47.5mm. Width 5.5mm. Internal width of loop 3mm. No close parallel noted, but strap distributors with three strap ends attached to a central ring are well known in Anglo-Scandinavian contexts. 10th - 11th 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-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-555C53
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap-end formed from two sheet secured by two rivets, tapering with straight sides from the attachment edge to a simple (damaged) knop. The front face is decorated with rocker-arm engraving in two large saltires. Length 36.5mm. Width 9.5mm. 14th 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-06EEE1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete buckle frame, oval, slightly angled broad flat-sectioned outside edge and beginning of offset for missing narrowed bar on one side, the other side broken, decorated with incised lines forming a pseudo inscription and zig-zag line between dots at both ends. >30 x 48mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newton by Castle Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-06D263
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very unusual rectangular enamelled horse harness mount, with an integral shank on the reverse, bearing the arms: Gules a maunch ?Or/Argent. Probably for HASTINGS, the more usual tinctures of the arms Or a maunch Gules being reversed here. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Last updated: Saturday 13th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newton by Castle Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0644A7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal, DE / FECT / IVE
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-05C211
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1 lead Boy Bishop token, just over half surviving, obverse shows a Mitre, uninscribed. Reverse shows cross with pellets in angles within circle, DEACT / NICO/ in black-letter. Rigold (1978) Bury Series VII2. Late 15th - early 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-05A5B8
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead seal matrix, flat with slightly chamfered sides and median rib with broken perforated lug at top. Pointed oval, 24 x 13mm. Face blank. Not engraved, unfinished. 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-053A06
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal, W / H (bell) I // 35 = (incised)
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0489E5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy bow brooch, probably a cruciform. Worn, corroded and distorted, head-plate and upper part of facetted bow missing, incised horizontal lines on rectangular panel at lower end, upper part of leg with transverse engraved lines, foot missing, broken catch-plate on reverse. Ancient breaks. 5th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upwell', grid reference and parish protected.