Record ID: NMS-E5A5C4
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of a flat silver object, plain on one side and decorated on the other. A short part of the finished edge survives, the rest lost to breaks. The surviving decoration comprises an incised outer border of rectangular pellets enclosing the remains of a zoomorphic motif, depicting a long-necked animal with its head turned back, a pricked rounded ear, drilled eye and slightly open mouth. Dimensions: Width: 12mm, length: 6.8mm, thickness 0.5mm, weight 0.17g. Discussion and Date: It is not possible to identify this artefact definitively, due to its fragmentary…
Created on: Saturday 22nd December 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E2FB41
Object type: TORC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fourteen fragments of gold alloy (electrum) twisted round-sectioned wire. All, apart from three single pieces, consist of two twisted wires. All are broken at both ends into lengths between 10mm and 29.5mm. Diameter of cross-section 1.5 - 1.7mm. Weight 12.97g. The findspot is close to an area in which 148 very similar fragments were recovered by the same finder between 1987 and 1996 (BM acc nos. 1989, 1201.1-2; 1990, 0304.1-135; 1991, 0602.1-7; 1997, 0901.1-3). On the reverses of two buffer terminals of a Late Iron Age torc found in 1985 (BM acc. nos. 1985, 1204.1-2) are the stum…
Created on: Saturday 22nd December 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Kings Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-E1EDB0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Post Medieval clipped halfgroat of Elizabeth I. London (Tower) mint. Initial mark 0, sixth issue (Spink), AD 1600.
Created on: Saturday 22nd December 2018
Last updated: Sunday 23rd December 2018
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Record ID: NMS-E0E5C6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn copper alloy Roman sestertius of Hadrian. Possible Clementia reverse. Circa AD132-134. Reece period 6
Created on: Saturday 22nd December 2018
Last updated: Saturday 22nd December 2018
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