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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.

Record ID: NMS362
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy strap-end, composite with forked spacer extending half way around circular body with flaring upper part, broken scalloped attachment edge with lines engraved in V-shape below, acorn knop, traces of tinning. C.f. Dress Accessories no.650. 33x57mm
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK PENTNEY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS263
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a rectangular lead plaque with inscription on both faces. 20-21mm wide & at least 39mm long, one end curled over & finishing in a ragged break. The inscription is inscribed in a cursive hand. On one face there are three lines of Latin text, with an initial cross & other crosses between words. The other face carries four lines of less firmly inscribed & smaller letters. The object has been examined by Paul & Elizabeth Rutledge who have kindly provided the following tentative transcription & comments: + applon + ……. appla + applon… + qam se rit……. + approb…+.. +…
Created on: Friday 22nd June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK THURLTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS252
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE horse-harness pendant, circular with remains of gilding and red enamel, suspension-loop broken. Blazon: Gules a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy Or. Arms of Howard, of, Norfolk, probably either John, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk (d.1333), or his son and heir John, Sheriff of Norwich (still alive in 1388).
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK RACKHEATH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS256
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy strap-end, two-piece tongue-shaped with trefoil terminal, rivet at terminal, broken rivet-hole at attachment end.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK SHIPDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS257
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE pendant cross-patonce, ?originally part of elaborate suspension chain for censer or lamp, suspension-loop at top, flattened sphere at foot with broken remains of projecting ?loop at base.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK SHIPDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS259
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE buckle plate, rectangular, bent, recessed for pin and with pin-slot, back missing. Front of plate is heavily tinned and is pierced by four rivet-holes.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WHISSONSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS260
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy buckle plate, rectangular, part of edge damaged, recessed for pin and with pin-slot, with short, narrow (and ?broken) back. Front of plate has crudely executed border of twin lines containing zigzag decoration and is pierced by five large rivet-holes.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WHISSONSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS246
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and sapphire medieval finger-ring. Oval bezel, flat at back, with milled border. Central raised sub-oval collet with pale to mid blue stone still in place (termed 'sapphire' in the Treasure Annual Report, so perhaps analysed at the British Museum). Bezel of a noticeably redder gold than hoop. Plain slender flat-section hoop which appears to be soldered to the bezel at the shoulders. Height 23mm max. Width 18mm max. Probably 13th century.
Created on: Friday 8th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WIVETON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS247
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring. Central lonzengiform collet with four claws. Rounded bumps at base of both lateral claws. Stone missing. Scalloped shoulders. Heavy moulded cable hoop, tapering slightly to base. Immediately below both shoulders the cabling is decorated with two moulded oak leaves. H. 26mm. W. 24mm max. cf. Oman 523. Probably 15th C.+
Created on: Friday 8th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 25th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK REEPHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS236
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Triangular fragment of gilded silver, perhaps from a brooch, with indeterminate cast counter-relief decoration of birds’ heads or foliage. X-ray fluorescence analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content of 96 per cent. Published in TAR 2001, no. 170, where it says: "Not earlier than 1700"; it was thought on first recording to be possibly medieval.
Created on: Friday 1st June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK RUNHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS226
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy composite strap-end, front plate only, rivet at each end, narrows to terminal in form of cross patonce.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 7th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK EMNETH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS212
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusual gilded AE unidentified object. Domed (diam.21mm, height 10.5mm), with open-work decoration filled with blue glass paste. Slightly squashed and incomplete. The open-work motifs consist of a circle at the apex, then four equal-sized ovoids above four equal-sized sub-rectangles. The lower edges of the latter are serrated. Where the glass has survived (in about one third of the underside of the dome-of the surviving part of the glass filling, the material adjacent to the metal is darkish blue translucent while that towards the centre is paler blue and opaque- it lies tight up agai…
Created on: Thursday 22nd March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK QUIDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS202
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE seal matrix, hexagonally facetted conical handle with broken pierced terminal. Circular, 14mm. Bearded and hooded bust facing left, with unidentified object behind or springing from head. * PRIVE SVV (I am private). CAST
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK TACOLNESTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS197
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE cauldron foot, nicely cast triangular-sectioned leg, slightly concave at top where attached to cauldron, with transverse rib at change in angle for facetted foot, giving the general impression of an armoured leg.
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK DICKLEBURGH AND RUSHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS166
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE strap-end, shield-shaped plate with bar-mount at attachment edge, pointed end and two rivets. 10 x 19mm.
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NARFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS167
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE buckle plate, rectangular (30 x 15mm), folded widthways, recessed for frame and with drilled hole for pin (missing). Plate decorated with two lines fringed with tiny V-shaped notches. Two small rivets.
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NARFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS169
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE belt mount, cast open-work fleur-de-lis, two rivet holes, one rivet remains. 12 x 15mm. Cf. Dress Accessories no.1084.
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK CASTLE RISING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS171
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE strap loop, rectangular-sectioned with integral external rivet and triangular outside edge. 15 x 13mm.
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK CASTLE RISING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS172
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE strap-end, sheet plate with bar mount at attachment edge and triangular outside edge, two rivets, both with roves. 9 x 15mm.
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK CASTLE RISING', grid reference and parish protected.