Record ID: PUBLIC-B2B2B9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver, medieval long cross penny of Edward I. Probably class 3cd. Circa AD1280. Diameter 19.3mm, weight 1.35g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7102EB
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded, copper-alloy, post-medieval unattributed farthing Trader's token of Kings Lynn. Obverse: OF LIN REGES/ Grocers Arms. Reverse: IN NORFOLKE// /W/N. R. Williamson 102. Circa AD1650-1672. Diameter 15.3mm, weight 0.89g.
Created on: Sunday 17th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8CDEE5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A post medieval silver penny of James I (1603-25), second coinage (1604-19), initial mark: rose (probably) dating to AD1605-06, mint: Tower (London), North 2106/1. Ref: North 1991: p.146.  Obverse: Tudor rose within beaded inner circle; I D G ROSA SINE SPINA. Reverse: thistle within beaded inner circle; TVEATVR VNITA DEVS. The coin has a very slight bend and is not uniform in shape missing some of the legend. 
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thompson', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-33995D
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Slightly damaged lead alloy Medieval ampulla. The ampulla is a bag or flask shape that is waisted towards the middle. There are triangular lug handles to either side, set where the more bulbous body joins the narrower tapering neck. The handles are not quite laterally aligned with one positioned lower than the other.  The top is damaged and is split and lipped over to one face, probably as a result of post-depositional impact damage rather than any contemporary attempt to force it open or shut. The iconographic decoration is raised and bifacial, with one face consis…
Created on: Saturday 2nd March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D08755
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object, possibly the goad terminal of a Medieval prick spur. The terminal end has a flat-tipped pyramidal shape with a circular recess at the apex. At the base angle of the pyramid, there is an angular bevel on three of the four sides. From the slightly rectangular flat base a circular stub projects with a distorted broken, or possibly even cut end, which is possibly the remnant of the neck. There is an overall green colouration with patches of dark brown patina. The surface has no trace of iron corrosion and the object does not react to a magnet. Simi…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CFD2A9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bent medieval silver long cross crockard sterling penny of John II D'Avesnes; Lord of Hainaut. Mons mint. Obverse; Facing bust, crowned with a chaplet of roses. I COMES HANONIE. Reverse; Long cross with three pellets in each quadrant. MON/ETA/MON/TES. Mayhew 34. Circa AD1290-1298.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A6E84D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus,. A probable contemporary copy of a coin of the House of Constantine dating to AD 330 - 335 (Reece period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting two soldiers holding two standards between them. Mint mark illegible. Diameter: 12.27 mm Weight: 0.54 g Die axis: 5 o'clock
Created on: Saturday 24th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-275037
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete late Medieval copper alloy purse hanger frame with niello inlay decoration. From the base of a narrow rectangular strap loop a semi-oval loop projects down and forwards curving back on itself towards the base of the strap loop from which it sprung. Just short of the return to the strap loop it bifurcates into two arms. One arm juts downwards in a short tapering projection to restrict the upper part of the semi-oval loop. The other arm continues the frame and turns abruptly to run upwards slightly obliquely to the plane of the loop. Just beyond the terminal end of the…
Created on: Sunday 18th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-28305F
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, post-medieval, worn, and corroded copper-alloy farthing trade token; issued by John Moyes in Wisbech. Obv: (mullet) IOHN.MOYES.1664, Grocer's Arms. Rev: (mullet) IN.WISBECH around a cabled inner circle, M over I E triad of initials. Williamson, Vol. 1. 209. Dimensions; Diameter 15.3mm, weight 0.35g.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2AAE58
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy 'disc-on-pin' buckle frame. The annular frame is divided in half by a non-integral narrower bar let into the reverse of the frame. The frame is pinched over the bar retaining it flush with the lower edge of the frame. The frame has a wide 'brooch-like' pin restriction, set such that the line of the missing pin would run perpendicular to the bar. The configuration is that of a disc-on-pin buckle but the lack of a surviving pin precludes any further classification. Circa AD1250-1500. Dimensions; Diameter 24mm, weight 4.67g.
Created on: Monday 1st January 2024
Last updated: Saturday 17th February 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-284A7A
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant hanger. T-shaped in plan with a transverse rectangular strap attachment bar of triangular cross-section. On the reverse of each wing of the bar is a thick integral rivet with an upset end. In the centre of the lower edge of the bar, projecting perpendicularly is an integral bifurcated hanger, which also initially has a triangular cross-section before it splits into two pierced hanger arm loops that would have suspended the pendant from an iron pin passing transversely between them. B…
Created on: Monday 1st January 2024
Last updated: Saturday 17th February 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-C01161
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Simple and crude small copper alloy finger ring. The ring is made from a 0.9mm thick, rectangular cross-section, copper alloy strip; 5mm wide at its centre, that tapers linearly in width, narrowing to a point at either end. The strip is formed into an approximate 14mm diameter circle to create the hoop of the finger ring with the overlapping pointed terminal ends meeting opposite the widest part of the hoop. There is no discernable decoration. Rings of this most basic form are commonly of Roman to late Early Medieval date. Some Roman examples hav…
Created on: Wednesday 27th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 1st January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-75F2E9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman Aesica rearhook type brooch of Mackreth class 2.a1. Eroded extremities with missing spring and pin. Commensurate with the rearhook spring configuration the reverse of the left hand wing (as viewed from the front) shows a slight solder witness mark, that would have attached the spring to the underside of the wing. The curving head is decorated with central and border grooves, and the fantail foot has the remains of a grooved border with a central downward-pointing chevron. The central penannular raised decoration has slightly oblique tran…
Created on: Saturday 23rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 24th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-00E1E3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Damaged and distorted copper-alloy Medieval thimble. Dome-shaped top with slightly tapering sides to the body, with a plain basal band. The lack of raised distortion around the rows of hand-made circular indentations suggests they are drilled rather than punched. When viewed from the base the indentations travel in a left-hand spiral direction up towards the top. The base is split and distorted, but there is no sign of a seam. Circa AD 1350-1500. Dimensions; Height 20mm, estimated basal diameter 19mm, weight 9.83g.
Created on: Monday 18th December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 23rd December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B51AFC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, worn and corroded copper-alloy Roman Colchester Derivative Rear Hook brooch. Mackreth 2011, probably class 3b. One wing, the bow, and the majority of the catchplate are extant. One of the C-shape cross-sectioned wings survives only as a stump, but the whole of the remaining spring housing has vestiges of the retaining solder that held the spring. The upper surface of the wings appear to be decorated with partial mouldings with a bead adjacent to the end of the wing and worn evidence of reels inboard of this. The forward part of the head has the…
Created on: Thursday 14th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 15th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-439C1C
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval lead alloy, uniface, circular, probable coin weight. One face is marked in the upper half with a W, with the roman numerals XXXVI or XXVII below. The other face is blank apart from a central pimple. A coin weight for a Noble is shown on p24 of Withers, P & B, Lions Ships and Angels that is marked with an XXXVI value in roman numerals. At 4.37g (67.4gn) the weight of this object would approximate to a half noble. It is not clear what the W indicates. On this basis, it is likely this is an unofficial coin weight. Circa 1351…
Created on: Saturday 9th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-35C697
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Finger ring dating to the late 19th or early 20th century, made from silver or another white metal with enamelled decoration. Although now incomplete and bent, it was clearly originally very small and quite flimsy. The hoop is missing a small part at its narrowest part, where it is 2.5mm wide and nor more than 0.8mm thick; the breaks appear fairly fresh. The hoop then flares gently in width to the shoulders, which expand and flatten to form a flat shield-shaped bezel. This is decorated with a shield of arms comprising three diagonal cells part-filled with decayed enamel, with an&…
Created on: Friday 8th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-183BED
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distal terminal-end fragment of a copper alloy early Saxon girdle hanger. A significant part of the central lower shank survives, flanked by a complete prong to one side, with the formerly symmetrical stub on the other side which is now entirely missing from an old break. The undamaged prong terminates in an outward canted rounded end. One face of the fragment has the entire border decorated with continuous rows of spaced punched dots. The rear face is undecorated. Brown patina over most of the surface. Circa AD460-550. Extant length 46mm, thick…
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-08A7D1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and worn copper alloy Post-Medieval gilded and enamelled strap mount. The central body is pirifom-shaped with a debased acorn knop extending at each end, with the tip of one knop missing from an old break. In cross-section the mount is flat on the reverse with rounded sides to the top face. The back had two square section sharp prongs located at either end, but only one survives, bent outwards to retain it on the original strap. There are incuse circular decorations on the face which towards the centre look like a flower with surroundi…
Created on: Friday 24th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-94C249
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Medieval three-part folding clasp with attached plate. Trapezoidal frame with upright rectangular cross-section strip and transverse rotating end plate. The bar mount attached to the folding end plate is missing. The non-recessed undecorated clasp plate is folded back on itself laterally around the frame. Contained within the two faces of the plate are the remnants of the fabric strap that have been preserved, presumably by the copper corrosion compounds from the plate. The attachment copper alloy end-rivet also remains within the fabric. The nature of the f…
Created on: Saturday 18th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st December 2023
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