Record ID: NMS-6F24F1
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Furniture fitting: gilt copper alloy mount or binding strip from casket (2 joining parts), worn, corroded and distorted, reading from one end: perforated, rounded lobed terminal with rivet-hole, D-sectioned bar, break across perforation in larger hollow-backed quatrefoil expansion, bar broken beyond distorted circular loop flanked by two rivet-holes. 14 x (unbent) >77mm. Cf. broadly similar mounts/strips in Goodall in Coad Archaeological Journal (1982) fig.43 and Hen Domen 2000, nos.120-2. A closer parallel is known from Burton-in-Lonsdale (Moorhouse 1971, 94; fig. 3, no. 23). 12th-ea…
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 17th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6ED271
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gilt copper alloy horse harness suspension mount, bar has solid exaggerated triangular section, rounded horizontal edge projecting forwards, flat-sectioned (probable fleur-de-lis) terminal broken across rivet-hole and perforation in flat-sectioned centre with remains of folded projections at base forming twin loops, other half of mount missing, >57 x >14mm. Cf. Keen and Hough (1993) Beeston Castle, fig.102, no.68, and examples of related bar mounts from Postwick (Norfolk HER 20434) and Colkirk (Norfolk HER 37130). 12th-century.
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 18th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6EAD10
Object type: CHISEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy tanged chisel, rectangular-sectioned tang tapering slightly to terminal at upper end and splays with rounded shoulders to trapezoidal flat-sectioned blade. Length 50mm. Maximum width 31mm. c.1000-c.700 BC
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sedgeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-59F190
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of gilt mount, probably a furniture fitting, broken at both ends and across division between two cusped edges on one side, the other side straight, plain borders around cusps and along straight edge, with transverse reserved pointed oval between, on a field of transverse lines of finely engraved interrupted rocker-arm engraving giving the appearance of tiny addorsed triangles and is pierced by a rivet-hole. The edge of the smaller cusp projects forward, as if for a setting, and is pierced by a tiny rivet-hole. >18 x >35mm. 12th-13th century
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-59D2E4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete bow brooch, probably a small cruciform or possibly a small-long with cruciform head, broken below bow, foot missing. Cast-in-one half-round waisted top and side knobs, each with a pair of transverse grooves flanking a waist. The head-plate is not decorated. Flattened D-sectioned bow with rectangular panel at both ends forming facets; slight vertical groove on median arris. On reverse, a single pin bar lug with remains of the corroded iron spring. Ancient break. Width 28mm. Length 37mm. 6th century
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-599B52
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very unusual book mount or clasp, but without hook. It has a very slightly flaring 'fishtail' end, and opposed rectangular projections at the other end. This end would usually have a projecting broad blunt hook, but there is no trace of one here. The rectangular area formed from the opposed rectangular projections is decorated with a longitudinal rib (transverse to the long axis of the entire fitting), which is decorated with oblique grooves. From this, toward the 'fishtail' end, project longitudinal lines of varying lengths. There is a large perforated double ring-and-dot towards …
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 11th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-594887
Object type: LAMP HANGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 suspension units or holders for lamp or censer, both consisting of a vertical arm below a suspension loop and above three broken horizontal arms each originally ending in a loop, and on the underside a pierced lug. Height of both 30mm. Cf. an example of found at St Peter's church, Guestwick (EAA 32, fig.50, no.2) and others from London, one in a later 14th-century context (Medieval Household 130-1, nos. 356-7).
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-58A617
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal, ¼ on one side of elaborate rose
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-585B94
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal, XXI / XXXV
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-584582
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy finger ring, D-sectioned with deep chip-carved or knurled grooves bordering inscription: * A I A M A R I A (Anima Maria: Soul (of) Mary). Internal diameter 21mm. 2mm thick. Width 6mm. 14th-15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'aylsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-57D384
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy cheek-piece, very worn and corroded, elaborate openwork plate in the form of the body and curved neck and head of a dragon-like monster, engraved interlaced possible limbs and tail at base, broken across large central perforation. >41 x >25mm. Cf. broadly similar types in Pedersen 1996-7, fig.4. Williams' (2007) Type 1, fig. 3, d. 11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Saturday 19th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodbastwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-57AEC2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap-end, Thomas's Class A, Type 5, very pitted and corroded, much of detail missing, broken across three vertical probably lentoid panels with traces of niello and silver wire, also present in ears belonging to the large head at terminal with large ring-and-dot eyes and pair of dots for nostrils on blunt bifurcated snout. 18 x >29mm. 9th-10th century.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 5th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gisleham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-576C24
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete stirrup-strap mount, worn and corroded, diamond-shaped, iron corrosion in perforated lug at apex, base missing, central saltire with central boss and boss at terminal of each of the three surviving arms. 27 x >43mm. Williams (1997) Class A, Type 12. 11th Century.
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Last updated: Saturday 30th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4937C4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Detachable fully round side knob from cruciform brooch with remains of iron pin bar in central hole, waisted, knop on outer end, groove for head-plate on inner face. Length (excluding projecting stump of pin bar) 15mm. Oval-sectioned 10 x 11mm. Mid to late 5th century
Created on: Tuesday 13th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-48FFD3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete belt or harness mount, fleur-de-lis, elongated upper part, transverse break, lower part missing, integral spike on slightly hollowed reverse, 30 x >33mm. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 13th April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-48D3C4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead token, possibly intended as a check or tally. One side depicts a horse, perhaps with a rider, leaping right, The other side has an inscription in three lines which appears to read M / 1766 / 24 S. The object is pierced at six o'clock, perhaps to enable it to be threaded onto a string. Diameter 23mm. Weight 8.06g
Created on: Tuesday 13th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-487FB5
Object type: INSCRIBED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 non-joining fragments of an inscribed object, lead strip with an inscription in relief, the larger fragment (>15 x 24mm) reads: ]...R...[ and the other (>10 x 24mm) is uncertain.
Created on: Tuesday 13th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-480BB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of bow brooch consisting of most of the bow, of flattened D-section. A rectangular panel survives at one end with engraved transverse grooves; there are also traces of longitudinal median grooves, 15 x 24mm. The width suggests that it is probably a cruciform brooch rather than a small-long. Ancient breaks.
Created on: Tuesday 13th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 12th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-47C701
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap-end, probably from harness, corroded purplish metal, sub-rectangular, folded widthways, attachment end with opposed twin notches below a sexfoil terminal with radiating engraved lines defining foils, integral rivet on reverse passing through remains of leather strap and upper end of folded back part. 16 x 33mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 13th April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 21st December 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-47B176
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Vessel fragment, part of a patera handle, trapezoidal terminal with shaped double-convex outer edge, symmetrical foliate decoration of pointed oval leaves springing from a central stem bifurcated with curling tendrils at terminal on orange enamelled field, edges damaged. >30 x >28mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.