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Record ID: NMS264
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy quillons from quillon-dagger, quillons expand with engraved vertical line on either side at each terminal, oval-sectioned centre pierced by triangular perforation for tang, short tapering projection on one side. 15th-century.
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK PENTNEY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS27
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular spindle whorl, bevelled on both face with median ridge and large central hole. Crude raised dots on both faces.
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK BINHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS102
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE chape from sword scabbard, large (53x80mm), asymmetrical sheet rolled over along straight side with two rivet-holes (0ne domed-headed rivet), curved side and upper edge end in lobe with dome-headed rivet. Incised triangular border and central four-petalled flower. Traces of gilding survive.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS104
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE buckle plate with lion passant reguardant, gilding on field end in border, two rivets at attachment edge.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK CAWSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS105
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE elaborate three-piece strap-end, central spacer occupies same space as outer sheets, rivet at terminal, further rivet hole at attachment end.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK CAWSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS106
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger-ring, complete but bent. The slender hoop (2mm wide) is triangular in section, and each of the upper faces is engraved with lettering between four square bosses; the least worn of these has engraved decoration of a quatrefoil with a central circle. It is possible that the lettering should be read along one face to the boss, then back along the other face, and so there are 5 words or phrases. Only those on the shoulders are clear enough to read; one seems to say +AV [boss] MIE and the other +AM [boss] IA. James Robinson has seen the ring and feels that the lettering was pro…
Created on: Friday 5th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEYBOURNE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS110
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two rather chunky unidentified objects, apparently an almost identical pair & found 9 m apart. See copy of 1st edition 1:2500 OS map in file. Partly hemispherical or domed, cast, with hollow underside & central circular hole. Each is pierced by fourteen smaller holes & is decorated on the convex face with somewhat crudely incised lines. One object is far more worn than the other, so that on most of the surface, all of the upper part around the central perforation, there is no longer any sign of the decoration. A very pale brown deposit on the inside surface of each object is probably …
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS111
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete, composite four-piece, double cut-out next to animal-head knop. Most of back-plate missing (knop only), sheet spacer occupying whole width, front plate (with pair of transverse incised grooves) broken across rivet hole. Cast animal-head knop is attached by ?solder (no rivet visible) to front plate. The surface of the animal-head carries cross-hatched grooves & is stylised, with sunken eyes, the ears & snout represented by a T-shaped arrangement of raised rib & longitudinal arris. The open mouth is visible only in side view & is represented by the undercutting of the cast pie…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS112
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast gilded box mount, circular terminal with rivet hole next to straight-sided D-section length, then fracture across point at which edges are widening out, possibly into another circular lobe or a transverse moulding. Surviving length 29 mm, max. width 9 mm.
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS116
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE horse harness pendant, frag. of ?orig. kite-shaped shield, design unclear but has central longitudinal band of mottled blue enamel between patches of red and blue enamel, also patches of gilding. Lower half missing, suspension-loop bent with remains of iron pin. ?Late 12th/early 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK HOWE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS118
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Probable strap distributor. Rectangular frame with both ends of each short side continuing for a short distance beyond the corner. Boss in the form of an animal (?lion's) head is set slightly off-centre and has a circular blind hole on the underside. Unequal sized loops on each side of boss show no sign of wear from strap. Perhaps Romanesque, 11th to 12th century; compare WILT-266B84, LIN-DD4333 and perhaps WILT-7E3806, DENO-825A16 and ESS-637F20. A broadly comparable example has been found, unstratified, at excavations at Bishopstone, East Sussex (Thomas 2010, 107-109, fig. 6.9…
Created on: Friday 19th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 9th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK RYBURGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS12
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
padlock case
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK AYLSHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS128
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Annular brooch, broken in half across narrow pin bar, garbled inscription within borders of pecked lines: A I L I A I \ I L I O A , double pecked outer border with inner wavy line of similar dec. on reverse. Orig. dia. 35mm.
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK BEACHAMWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS131
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Buckle, oval frame with ornate outside and inside edges (23 x 27mm), narrowed outside edge has three grooves flanked by two ridges and prominent knops, inside edge has narrowed pin bar between two ridges and prominent knops, rectangular plate folded widthways (50 x 22mm), recessed for frame and with circular hole for pin, frag. survives, three rivets through plate. Traces of iron staining and corrosion, especially between plates.
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK MARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS135
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE strap-end, shield-shaped plate, point between curved notches on each side, with cast bar-mount at attachment edge. Hollow cast bar-mount knopped at each end, hatched dec. around centre. Three rivets with roves on reverse. 26 x 18mm.
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK LEZIATE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS136
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE horse harness stud, elaborate quatrefoil, shank on reverse, decorated with red enamel and traces of gilding. Blazon: Gules a W ensigned by a crown Or. DRAWN. Prob. 14th-/15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 20th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK LEZIATE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS138
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE sword pommel, hollow cast disc (thickness 25mm, dial. 38mm) with rectangular perforations for tang at top and bottom edge (perforation at top is smaller and damaged at one end). LMMC Fig.1, Type V, 12th/13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK LEZIATE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS139
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy finger-ring, a damaged angled sheet with a back-plate, and an outward-facing black-letter inscription on either side of a median arris, within the remains of a beaded border. One inscription reads: +ies*autem*transiens*per*medium* ibat † The other: i*autem*transiens*per*medium*illorum Thanks are due to Dr Malcom Jones who has provided (in April 2016) the above, correct transcription, and comments: The ring is inscribed with the not uncommon amuletic inscription -- Luke IV.30 "Iesus autem transiens per medium illorum ibat" ["But he passing through th…
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 6th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK HILBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS14
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pb seal matrix, pointed oval but with rather rounded top. 35x24mm. Raised rib on reverse with unpierced lug at upper end. Central motif is inverted lis. Inscription is engraved the correct way round (cast in mirror-writing).
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK BINTREE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS149
Object type: LAMP HANGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Suspension unit for lamp or censer, vertical arm with Suspension-loop, three horizontal arms with pierced, flattened terminals, and small suspension-loop at base. Arms bent and distorted. Cf. EAA 32, fig.50, no.2.
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 3rd April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK SHOULDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.