Record ID: NMS-925752
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete and unidentified silver gilt object, possibly a fragment of a pendant cross. There is a transverse suspension loop above a tri-lobed terminal, each lobe of which has a shallow sub-oval concavity on the front face, followed by a short section of a rectangular sectioned shaft before a break.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-922183
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt eye plate from clothing. Triangular plate with trefoil at each corner and a circular loop in the centre of each edge, one of which is larger than the others. There is a central boss, hollow on the reverse, decorated with a central pellet, three filigree circles and surrounded by a circle of filigree. There is a further filigree circle in each corner of the plate, and the edge of the plate is bordered with twisted wire. One of the edge loops is broken and the plate is bent and cracked. Similar to dress hooks in Gaimster et al (2002). 16th century. Measuring 20 x 18.5mm. 1.1g.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 7th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-7D7386
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of large spoon, oblique break across shallow oval bowl with the stump of a rectangular-sectioned stem that continues onto the back of the bowl as a rat-tail in the form of a rather etiolated acanthus leaf. There is a broadly similar form of stem and rat-tail, although with more elaborate decoration on the reverse of a Lobe-end spoon dated to 1679-80 in Gask (1926), plate xx, 4-5. 17th century. >39 x >40mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7D6271
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch or buckle. Angled sheet frame now slightly distorted, narrowed for cast pin. Stamped maker's mark on the reverse EH.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7D2595
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver cufflink. Circular, with down-turned flange around the edge. Stamped with a multifoil flower within a very worn circular border. Attachment loop soldered to the reverse.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1036F5
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt dress hook. The plate, which is cast in one, is in the form of a four petalled rosette with four conical bosses, and has a central hole where a fifth decorative element would have been held in place by a rivet, now missing. On the reverse there is a large scar where the (missing) hook was soldered into place. The transverse attachment bar, also soldered into place, is stamped with the makers mark AK. Very similar to a five petalled version in Gaimster et al (2002, 167, no.10).Measuring 16 x 15mm. 2.71g.16th century
Created on: Thursday 11th December 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FCF465
Object type: SHIELD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Highly corroded disc head from iron rivet with silver sheet. Probably originally from a shield. For a similar example on a shield boss see Green, Rogerson and White (1987, 197, fig.294, Ci).Diameter 18mm. Thickness 5.5mm. Weight 2.68g. Early Saxon.
Created on: Wednesday 10th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-D65952
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Two silver pennies of William the Lion of Scotland's Short Cross and Stars issue, struck by the moneyer Henri Le Rus of Roxburgh between 1205 and 1230. Date: 1205-30 Discussion: These two coins are both struck from the same obverse die. Whilst pennies of William the Lion are found in Norfolk these two were found close together and the fact that they were both struck by the same moneyer employing the same obverse die they were, on the balance of probability, brought to Oxborough together and lost at the same time. They most likely represent part (or possibly al…
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oxborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D40697
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
After inspection 24 of the recovered coins, all large copper alloy nummi of Constantius II, Constans and Magnentius, were recognized as being from a dispersed hoard and were separated. Description of find All 24 coins are large copper alloy nummi of Constantius II, Constans and Magnentius which, with the exception of one irregular imitation, were all struck at the Roman empire's Western mints between 348 and 353. These coins are relatively uncommon as stray finds and the presence of so many together in one area is good evidence for the constituent coins being part of a hoard d…
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 12th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C378D2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT Incomplete 13th Century silver finger ring. Circumstance of Discovery Found while searching with a metal detector. Description The oval bezel has a rebate at the shoulders, with a missing stone or glass setting. There is a fragmentary Anglo-Norman inscription around the broken flat-sectioned band (back part missing): + EOAIM[.........]ALMENT (I Love ?..., the incomplete final word is likely to be an adverb although alment alone means step or walk). The letters M and E are ligatured. Conclusion The age and precious metal content of …
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C28AC4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two medieval silver coins were found whilst searching with a metal detector during October 2008, in the same immediate area as a small dispersed hoard of six coins that was discovered by the same finder in November 2007 (2007T676, recorded at NMS-EA4080). Description: The two coins are both sterling pennies of Edward I, one a class 3d type of Bristol, the other a class 9b of London. The earlier coin is more heavily worn than the later, which is consistent with the hoard's putative terminal date of c1310. Catalogue: 1) Edward I penny, class 3d, Bristol mint, 1280-1 2) Edward …
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C277B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description of find Eleven silver groats that vary in date. The earliest, worn and quite heavily clipped, dates to Edward III's so-called Pre-Treaty issue of 1351-61, seven to the reign of Edward IV (1460-83) and the three latest to that of Henry VII (1485-1509). Despite thorough searching of the immediate area, there was no sign of any receptacle and so the hoard presumably constitutes a purse loss. The three latest coins, dating from 1490-1504, show some wear but not a great deal and so we may set the date of loss or deposition of these coins to around 1510-20. Catalogue Edw…
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 26th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breckland', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C25257
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CORONER'S REPORT Description of find: The coins, originally totaling at least five in number, had been stacked one on top of the other. At some time extreme heat has caused them to fuse together, this process rendering all details apart from one side of a fragmentary coin illegible. This one legible face is a small cross pattee type, presumably a reverse, of early tenth century date. The lettering is crude and this coin would seem to be a contemporary imitation from the Danelaw. A similar group of fused pennies was found at Aylsham in 2002. The legend reads [...]HRlDGAR[...].…
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AA0858
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT A 6th - 7th century fish shaped mount. Circumstance of Discovery Found while searching with a metal detector in East Walton, Norfolk. Description Silver gilt mount in the form of a fish and made from a thick piece of sheet folded lengthways and hammered together at the tail. A gap or socket runs along the rest of the underside as far as the head. The tail and the head, which has suffered slight damage and distortion, are cut to shape and gilded, and both are edged on both faces with an engraved groove. Black niello remains in a small part of the groove near …
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A9E816
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT Late 9th - 10th century silver pendant. Description Undecorated silver Thor's hammer pendant, the suspension loop missing. For discussions of this class of Viking object see Treasure Annual Report 2002 no. 44 and Treasure Annual Report 2003, no. 98.
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A9CC55
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT 17th Century silver button Description Composite three-piece biconvex silver button, the underside of which is now squashed and a distorted, with a D-sectioned wire loop. Engraved decoration on the top consists of a six-petalled flower within a circle and with the spaces between the petals filled with parallel lines, all set within a band of short oblique lines between two concentric circles. There are two blow-holes on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A9AC37
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT A 15th - 16th century lace tag. Circumstance of Discovery Found while searching with a metal detector, in Description Incomplete silver lace tag or chape. The terminal, probably made from filed and tooled thick wire, is in the form of a stylised, elongated and collared acorn above a slightly swollen shaft engraved with cross-hatching. The tubular socketed part, into the top of which the terminal is inserted, is missing its base. It is of sheet bent into a tube with straight butt seam, and is decorated at the top with two encircling engraved lin…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A995A0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT Medieval to Post-medieval silver finger ring. Circumstance of discovery Found while searching with a metal detector in Wereham, Norfolk. Description Silver finger-ring consisting of simple undecorated hoop with soldered butt joint. Slight hammer marks are visible over all the outer surface. Possibly late medieval or post-medieval, although there are no diagnostic features. Although this ring may be as early as late-medieval or post-medieval in date, the absence of any diagnostic features prevents that…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A95326
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT A late 16th - 17th century silver hawking vervel. Circumstance of Discovery Found while searching with a metal detector in Wereham, Norfolk Description Incomplete silver hawking vervel: a small shield-shaped plate with the scar of a missing ring on the reverse. The top is scalloped and the base pointed. Engraved decoration on the front consists of a contour line and a cross. For a short discussion of vervels see Treasure Annual Report 2004, no. 345. The age and precious metal content of this item therefore qualify it as treasure under the stipulations of …
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Friday 4th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B00E55
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Hollow, bi-convex, with a small central boss and a seam at the junction with the flat reverse. D-sectioned loop. Diameter 9mm. Weight 1.08g. 16th-early 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 12th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cawston', grid reference and parish protected.