Record ID: NMS-81C480
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal, circular, disc one only, diameter 28.5mm. Late 17th century. (W)OR / (S)TED / (R)EFOR / (MED)
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 8th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-816A96
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle with oval frame, integral plate and strip pin. The front of the plate is gilt and there are traces of gilding on the pin. The rear of the frame is white-metal coated. On the reverse of the plate there are the stubs of two integral and two separate rivets. The rectangular pin hole lies between two transverse grooves and is flanked by multiple oblique grooves. A central rectangular motif and a pentagonal aperture lie between a pair of confronting bird heads that meet at the inside edge. Marzinzik (2003) Type II.24c. See ibid. 54, pl. 149.4, Speake 1980 pl. 2b, and al…
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stow Bedon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-814E93
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cruciform gilt horse harness pendant, upper arm missing. The three extant arms are very slender with slightly expanded terminals. The arms meet at a quatrefoil, each foil engraved with a pair of concentric sub-circles, and there is a hole for a missing riveted stud at the centre. Width 60.5mm. Maximum thickness 3.5mm. 12th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 21st October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-813353
Object type: GOUGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distal end of socketed gouge, ancient break with some recent damage on the fracture Length 47.5mm. Cf. examples from the Heathery Burn hoard (Inventaria Archaeologica (1968) GB.55 10(7) 85-7). Final period of the Late Bronze Age, c.800 - c.700 BC
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 21st October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-811895
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular enamelled copper alloy strap fitting of Boucher's type A2a, flat with four peripheral lobes (one largely missing), a central round perforation that probably once held a separate stud, and two integral T-shaped attachment lugs on the reverse. On a blue enamel ground five reversed roundels are filled with red enamel. Diameter 19.5mm (25mm across the lugs). Gap between reverse and cross-bar of lug 4mm. 2nd century. In terms of the attachment rivets, this artefact is related to similar enamelled strap fittings, most commonly circular in form and a number of which have been rec…
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 28th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-80F154
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete tongue-shaped openwork copper alloy strap-end of Thomas 2004 Class E, but of uncertain type. Split attachment end with two rivet holes, one side of the split missing. Asymmetrical arrangement of apertures, shallow counter-relief mouldings on both faces, punched annulets on one face only. Length >32.5mm. Width 23mm. 10th - 11th century
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 5th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-80B6A5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap-end of Thomas 2003 Class B Type 1. Straight attachment edge, one rivet, eleven transverse grooves and a short length of longitudinal groove, animal head with deeply grooved saltire on top, blind-drilled eyes and mouth depicted by groove on sides and around outside edge. The split end is of rectangular cross-section and the main part of ovoid section. Length 43.5mm. Width 8.5mm. Late 8th - 9th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-808D53
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy casing of globular steelyard weight, once lead filled, all edges broken. A raised shield shows a lion rampant in counter-relief within an engraved frame. The diameter of the complete object cannot be calculated, but it was more than 44mm. Thickness 2 - 4mm. Cf. London Museum Medieval Catalogue 171-4, pl. XXXVIII. 13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 18th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-807220
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Oval copper alloy buckle frame with offset, narrowed bar, outside edge with slight knops flanking a moulding, decorated with three longitudinal engraved grooves on the front face, which is imitative of a sheet roller. Incomplete sub-square sectioned wire pin (recent break). 16.5 x 14mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7FFC95
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy D-shaped buckle frame with single lobe at both ends of narrowed bar, at junctions of sides and outside edge, tri-lobed knop in centre of outside edge, and nine stamped ring-and-dots. Cf. an example from Norwich (HER 156, Margeson 1993, no. 128). Many other frames quite close in form have been recorded. Near parallels have been found in Norfolk at Horsham St Faith (HER 50700) and Southrepps (HER 51114). 26.5 x 29.5mm. 11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.