Record ID: NMS-2FB546
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Saxon discoidal lead weight with a cast openwork copper alloy sheath or cover. On both faces, two sub-triangular and two D-shaped apertures are outlined by a reserved pair of addorsed C-shapes. The edge is convex. The surface of the lead within the apertures is not flush with that of the sheath, but is pitted to varying depths. It measures 27mm in diameter, is 10.5mm thick and weighs 46.66g. This is 1.5000oz Troy / 720 grains / 30 pennyweights or 2 shillingweights and 6 pennyweights, i.e. precisely one tenth of a mercantile pound of 7200 grains or one eighth of a Troy pound. …
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Last updated: Thursday 27th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upton with Fishley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2F7E62
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval composite five-part copper alloy strap-end, with a single rivet hole at the attachment-end, rectangular, with opposed cusped and rectangular notches and a constriction before a full-round acorn knop (formed from two additional outer plates) with oblique cross-hatching. The sheet spacer is full-width and the face is decorated with engraved rocker-arm lines which intersect to form a lozenge. It dates from the 14th century. It measures 75mm x 9.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cley next the Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2F6861
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Saxon stirrup-strap mount, Williams' class A Type 1. It is pentagonal, with a suspension loop at the top, two large holes above the straight lower edge and an angled flange on the reverse. There is no trace of iron rivets. The front of the mount is decorated with stamped lines forming two addorsed beasts heads, the ear and curved, upturned snout of which form knops on the outside edge of the mount. There is a further knop to either side of the attachment loop. For an example with a similar outline, see Williams (1997, 27, fig.19, no.3), and for an example of similar decoration …
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Last updated: Sunday 13th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cley next the Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2F2185
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Saxon disc brooch with a central collet containing an opaque red pellet, apparently glass, surrounded by seven round blind-drilled holes or pits within a rocker-arm engraved border. On the reverse, a pair of parallel grooves runs between a single transverse pin lug, with some staining from a missing iron pin, and a transverse catchplate. Drilling of the pits has produced slight swellings on the reverse, and the metal has been minutely pieced at the base of one hole. This piece is of Continental manufacture and is very close to an example from Balhorn near Paderborn, Germany, wh…
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2F0BB3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of an Early Saxon small-long brooch, comprising the lower end of the hollow-backed bow and footplate (break not recent). There is a pair of transverse engraved lines on the rectangular panel at the base of the bow. The upper footplate is decorated with one and three pairs of transverse engraved lines. The elongated sub-triangular terminal is decorated with rows of punched annulets along the sides. On the reverse, there is a catchplate with a missing flap. It dates from the early 6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2EE537
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Saxon lead Winchester style strap-end, Thomas' Class E, type 1. The split end is broken, the reverse missing and the surviving front part folded down over the top of the decorative plate. There are two rivet holes, and the corner of the split end is broken across the second. The surviving decoration, cast in relief, is symmetrical, with a pair of confronted beasts above, and a pair of opposed bird like creatures with long tails below, within tendrils. A piece has been deliberately cut from the lower part of the plate. The surviving length is 47mm and the width is 24mm. It dates…
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2EBB31
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A distorted Iron Age/Roman terminal from a penannular bracelet. D-sectioned, with slightly expanded terminals divided into sections by four transverse grooves. The surviving fragment is now almost straight. It is 53mm long and the terminal measures 9 x 5.5mm. For similar examples, see PAS database record number LEIC-F3CBE8, and Crummy (1983, 44, no.1717). This example dates from 800 BC - 410 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2EA0C3
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval lead cloth seal. All of the original edge of both surviving discs are missing. A pierced five petalled flower above a (probable) shield bearing a crowned double headed eagle // a possible letter, perhaps R, K or B. There is a hole through both discs, and the impression of fabric on the reverse of the larger disc bearing the eagle. The surviving diameter is 19mm. There are very similar, although not exactly like, examples in Egan (1994, 192, fig. 41, no. 314 and 196, fig. 45, no. 338).
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2E8E58
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval brooch with a square, openwork frame. The upper edge of the frame is decorated with closely spaced stamped annulets forming a line of beading. Internally, the frame is angled with a blind hole in the centre of each side and in each corner. One of these holes is pierced through and retains the remains of the sheet pin. The outer edge of the frame is concave, expanding at the base to form a flange, which is decorated with rocker arm engraving. The reverse is flat. The frame measures 17 x 17mm and is 3mm thick.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2E78B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman incomplete enamelled plate brooch. The brooch is broken across the rectangular, slightly curved plate, the upper part, including the pin and pin lugs, missing. The decoration consists of a central transverse panel of five square cells filled alternately with orange and blue enamel, with a small rounded knop projecting from either side. The lower part of the plate is divided into interlocking triangular cells, the upper ones filled with blue enamel, the lower ones decayed but perhaps white. There is a transverse groove along the lower edge of the plate which projec…
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2E2927
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy tubular object of ovoid cross-section, probably as a result of distortion. It tapers slightly and is decorated with three encircling moulded ribs externally. Probably a ferrule from a vessel handle or staff. It may be compared with a multi-ribbed object from Verulamium (Waugh and Goodburn in Frere 1972, fig. 37 no. 94), and two examples from Mildenhall and Ixworth in Suffolk (PAS database numbers SF-1F68A7 and SF-9F7DD2), the former being the most similar. It is 14.5mm long, with an exterior diameter of 12 - 13.5mm at one end and 13 - 15.5mm at the other. The inte…
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Witchingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2D98C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Iron Age/Roman copper alloy Rosette brooch. The spring, pin, most of the spring housing, outer parts of rosette or plate and foot are missing. The stub of the chord hook projects from the rear of the head. The small amount of surviving decoration on the plate resembles that on Hattatt no. 277. It is 28.5mm long and dates from the early to mid 1st century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Witchingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-2D0795
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Anglo-Scandinavian socketed fitting with hook, possibly a strap or harness fitting and comprising a tapering openwork socketed body with cruciform boss in the centre at the open end of the socket and an elongated slot down both sides. The fitting has a narrowed solid terminal with hook. The front of the fitting has the remains of Ringerike style decoration although this is worn. The exact function of these objects remains uncertain, but they may be a form of harness junction as they appear to have been made to carry or secure considerable weight / strain. Other examples can be foun…
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BUC-2CEA87
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy nummus of Constantine II as Caesar (AD 317-37), dating to AD 335-7 (Reece Period 17), GLORIA EXERCITVS, two soldiers and one standard. Mint of Trier. RIC VII, p. 223, no. 591.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Thursday 22nd August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bow Brickhill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-2CE004
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete cast copper-alloy "toy" cannon of probable eighteenth to nineteenth century date (c. 1750-c. 1850). The toy is described as if it were a functioning cannon. The cascable (or cascabel) and the cascabel button has a length of about 9.2m. The base ring diameter is 8.9mm. Between the base ring and the first astragal, the vent field has a length of c. 3.7mm and the circular vent itself has a diameter of 1.4mm. This vent is sometimes referred to as a 'touch-hole'. The trunnions (length: 18.0mm) divide the first and second reinforce from the chase. The trunnions are set …
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-2CD140
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix, flat with median rib ending in a pierced lug projecting beyond the upper end on reverse. The central motif on the circular face is a double headed eagle and around this is an inscription between grooved borders. It appears to read + S' MAGRI ThOME D MELD' SADYAS (seal of Master Thomas of Meld...Sadyas) The place Meld... is abbreviated and could stand for Meldon, Meldreth etc. The last word is hard to read and its meaning is unclear. It would be logical if it was some kind of occupation or craft; Magristri means male teacher, so Thomas would be master…
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Monday 19th October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bow Brickhill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-2C2060
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 17th century half penny trade token of Brill, Buckinghamshire. Obverse: THOMAS CATER 1671, T E C in centre; Reverse: IN BRILL IN BVCKS, HIS HALF PENY in centre. Dickinson (1986) 25.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beedon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-2C0FB2
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 17th century farthing trade token of the Town of Newbury. Obverse: BOROVGH OF NEWBRY, castle with three or four terrets in the centre. Reverse: IN COVNTY OF BERKS, BN 1657 in centre. Dickinson (1986) 51 or 52.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beedon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-2C06A4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 17th century farthing trade token of the Town of Newbury. Obverse: [BOROVGH] OF NEW[BRY], castle with three or four terrets in the centre. Reverse: [IN COVNTY OF BERKS, BN 1657] in centre. The reverse is worn beyond recognition. Dickinson (1986) 51 or 52.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beedon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-2BFB75
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 17th century farthing trade token of the Town of Newbury. Obverse: [BOROVGH OF NEWBRY] (castle in centre). The obverse is very worn and illegible. Reverse: IN COVNTY OF BERKS, BN 1657 in centre. Dickinson (1986) 51-54. Because the obverse of the token is so worn is is not possible to identify which town issue this token is.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beedon', grid reference and parish protected.