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.

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: NMS147
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object. Very thin sheet (0.5mm) with highly polished patina and blotches of corrosion. ?No original edge survives, now circular with projecting ‘arm’ (13 x 19). Engraved dec. in form of six lines with branches radiating outwards from central depression to border comprising many short radiating lines within two concentric circles. Other side has series of five very finely engraved lines with oblique lines between.
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK SHOULDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS110
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two rather chunky unidentified objects, apparently an almost identical pair & found 9 m apart. See copy of 1st edition 1:2500 OS map in file. Partly hemispherical or domed, cast, with hollow underside & central circular hole. Each is pierced by fourteen smaller holes & is decorated on the convex face with somewhat crudely incised lines. One object is far more worn than the other, so that on most of the surface, all of the upper part around the central perforation, there is no longer any sign of the decoration. A very pale brown deposit on the inside surface of each object is probably …
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.