Record ID: SF-E1B756
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Double-hooked clasp made from copper alloy. The central part is expanded into a thick rectangle measuring 25 x 10 mm and 4 mm thick. This has a central circular hole 3.5 mm in diameter, and is decorated with a spiral groove which travels from one end of the rectangle around both faces to the other end. Much of the centre of one face is worn, and the other face has a shallow channel running at a slight angle from one end to the other, so that the groove is incomplete on both faces. A curved hook emerges from each end and curls over in the same plane as the central rectangle so that the…
Created on: Monday 4th August 2003
Last updated: Friday 30th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roudham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9041
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded small-long brooch made from copper alloy. The head is rectangular, measuring 20 mm wide by 18 mm long, and is decorated with a double row of punchmarks around three edges. Each punchmark consists of a crescent around a dot, and may have been made by holding a ring-and-dot punch at an angle. There is a just-discernable engraved line between the two rows, and the punchmarks each have their straight edge towards this groove. On the reverse of the head is a single pin bar lug now blocked with iron corrosion. The lower edge of the head has no decoration, and the bow springs from…
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SAHAM TONEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7482
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead disc brooch, 28 mm in diameter. It is flat and has relief decoration of a double-strand border around a Jellinge-style animal. The animal begins with a head with a round eye and open bulbous jaws. A long double-strand tongue emerges to interlace over the body and under one leg. The animal is twisted into a reversed-S shape, with an angular junction between the long curving neck and the body which runs across the centre of the brooch; both neck and body are transversely ribbed with a contour line running along the back. From the angular junction emerges a transversely ribbed forel…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GOODERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF6879
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin, apparently complete. The head is a relatively large cube with the corners cut off; the cube measures 7 x 7 mm and is 8 mm thick. The edges of the head are worn down and there does not appear to be any surviving decoration. Beneath the head, the circular-section shaft begins immediately with no collar or other decoration. The top 15 mm of the shaft is just 2 mm in diameter; it is then bent, and swells to 3.5 mm before narrowing again and bending back. The bends do not appear to have caused stress to the metal, but the surface is generally very worn so that it is …
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK INGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF5786
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two body sherds of handmade pottery, probably early Anglo-Saxon.
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK FOULDEN', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF5787
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two rim and three body sherds of Thetford-type ware, 9th to 12th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK FOULDEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4684
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hook-piece from a wrist-clasp, which appears to be of the very unusual Hines's Form B11. It is formed from a vertical bar 40.5 mm long, which has a square plate in the centre. Above and below the square plate the bar is D-shaped in section, and decorated on each half with a pair of narrow mouldings above and below a wider moulding. After this, each half has two transversely set rectangular plates separated by a waisted area. The outer of these two plates is slightly smaller and has decoration of three grooves set longitudinally to the plate. From the rear edge of the central squa…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2001
Last updated: Friday 14th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK GOODERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4685
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small prick spur made from copper alloy. The sides are curved, forming less than half of a circle; they do not extend into the straight arms of a U shape like most spurs. They are D-shaped in section, with the internal straight face undecorated, and the external curved face decorated with slightly asymmetric bead-and-reel mouldings. Each side has two long curved mouldings, each with a narrow moulding at either end; but one side has the two narrow mouldings in the middle separated by a slightly wider moulding in the centre (the drawing minimises the differences). Beyond the outermost…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2001
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK GOODERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4704
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small-long brooch, missing the terminal to the foot. The head consists of a central square plate, decorated with two vertical rows of crescentic stamps which continue the line of the bow edges upwards. The stamp used appears to be rather crude and the rows are irregular. The headplate is worn, and four stamps in each row can clearly be seen, although there are hints of others running right up to the edge of the square plate. On three sides of the square central plate are large flat mushroom-shaped knobs, with cut-out curves making the 'stems'. The total width of the headplate is 4…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK MERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4705
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin head and part of shaft. The head is a cube of side 6 mm with the corners cut off; although the pin is rather corroded, each face seems always to have been undecorated. Beneath the head is a collar, and then 15 mm or so of perfectly straight circular-section shaft, tapering to 1.5 mm at the break. A classic middle Anglo-Saxon pin type.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK MERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4706
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin head and part of shaft. The head is a flattened bicone, and is decorated with 12 deep curving oblique grooves which radiate from the centre of the top. Instead of a collar, the top of the shaft has decoration of three turns of a spiral groove. The shaft is perfectly straight. Head diameter 7 mm, shaft diameter 2.3 mm, surviving length 27.5 mm. A classic middle Anglo-Saxon pin type.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK MERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3885
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead pseudo-coin brooch based on the Aethelred II last small cross type (minted 1009-1017). Circular and 26 mm in diameter, it is now bent around the edges. In the centre is a small relief cross made from four distinct wedges; around this is a plain relief circle, then the legend within an outer border of pellets. The legend reads + T M A O P P - - - N A O (the T may be a second cross; the P shapes are reversed; part of the legend is missing). The legend may be derived from + MA [NIE ON NOR] HA (Manna of Norwich, the moneyer) but it is too blundered to be certain. On the reverse is an…
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2000
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEETING WITH BROOMHILL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3658
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular copper-alloy strap-end made from a piece of strip folded in half. The upper sheet has a slightly incurved attachment end and is decorated with an engraved rectangular panel. Inside this is a reserved stylised symmetrical plant motif on either side of a narrow longitudinal central band. Each half of the plant motif consists of five curving stems each ending in a rounded lobe. There are two rivet holes, one blocked with copper-alloy corrosion, nearly halfway down the strap-end. The underplate is broken at these rivet holes. Gabor Thomas comments that the ornament is derived …
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEETING WITH BROOMHILL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3659
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Sub-rectangular copper-alloy mount with openwork Urnes-style decoration of an interlacing animal. There is a diagonal break towards one end (neither particularly old nor particularly new) but at the surviving corners are small circular rivet holes. The decoration is hard to decipher - a large patch of corrosion adds to the problems - but a large pointed-oval eye can be seen and a thicker ?body which interlaces with thinner thread-like ?limbs, tail etc. Surviving length 42 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEETING WITH BROOMHILL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3470
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy finger-ring made from two pieces of wire c. 2 mm thick, twisted together to make a hoop c. 3 mm in diameter and then ?hammered to give a fairly smooth finish. The ends are missing (old breaks). Maximum width, or diameter, is 22 mm.
Created on: Friday 15th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEETING WITH BROOMHILL', grid reference and parish protected.