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.

Record ID: NMS262
Object type: BELL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete & abraded small copper-alloy bell with remains of iron clapper, perhaps a dress fitting. Conical with circular base and convex sides, surviving height 28mm, diameter. approximately 20mm. At the apex an incomplete flat-section lug or handle has three curved cut-outs, one of which (at one side) looks intact and is three-quarters circular. The uppermost one may be incomplete and originally for suspension. No parallel example has been found, but in terms of size and general form it is closest to Roman bells of the 1st century AD, which tend to be circular and with convex sides…
Created on: Friday 22nd June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 7th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK THURLTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS255
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded silver early Post Medieval pin, complete with bent shaft and filigree-decorated head. Published in the Treasure Annual Report for 2000 (TAR 2000, 94, no. 170). The description there is as follows: "16th century. Silver-gilt dress-pin with hollow-cast spherical head. The head is applied with filigree ornament. Surface heavily tarnished. 70mm length. Disclaimed."
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 10th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK DENTON', 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.

Record ID: NMS245
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver undecorated octagonal finger-ring, internal diameter 19mm, weight 3.06g. Published in TAR 2001, no. 16.
Created on: Friday 8th June 2001
Last updated: Friday 26th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK FELTWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS237
Object type: TOY
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE cast leg from ?toy o r?statuette (length 69mm), solid cast in the round, with socket at thigh, short integral burred over stud at base of heel occupying full width, short foot with straight inside edge and sharp obliquely angled outside edge to form shape at toes (length 17mm).
Created on: Wednesday 6th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK REPPS WITH BASTWICK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS238
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver hooked tag, one pierced attachment lobe and the hook missing. The plate is circular (diameter 17mm) and a dome-headed rivet passes through the centre. An equal- and expanding armed cross is made from four arcs set within an engraved circular border. The triangular arms of the cross are decorated with fine dots (known as speckling or pecking) and the spaces between them are occupied by four shield-shaped fields containing an engraved design of a pair of leaves sitting on a semi-circle base; the design resembles a fleur-de-lis. Niello inlay remains in many of the engraved lines. …
Created on: Wednesday 6th June 2001
Last updated: Friday 26th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WHISSONSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS239
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver head-dress pin or bodkin of rectangular section, complete but bent into a tight S-shape. The terminal is a thistle with a possible crown on top, the crown pierced with a circular hole. Below are two rectangular slots with an engraved rosette between two pairs of transverse grooves. Below this the pin has bevelled edges and some geometric zigzag triangle engraving. Front and back are decorated identically. 47mm compressed length. Dutch, early C17. Published in TAR 2000, no. 199.
Created on: Wednesday 6th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK POSTWICK WITH WITTON', 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.

Record ID: NMS231
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy covered-loop terret. Triangular, leaf-shaped skirts, curling upwards on either side (one missing), and with single knop at point on front and back. Concealing broken fragment of iron loop, iron staining overall. Slightly concave collar below loop.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK EAST WINCH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS227
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE hairpin, small knop at terminal above two sets of transverse mouldings above and below incised oblique spirals around head, bent swollen shaft with tiny transverse lines above broken point. Length (straightened) 98mm.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK EMNETH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS228
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE hairpin, spherical head, short, bent, length of broken shaft and remains of tinning.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK EMNETH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS223
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Double mouth moulding, of which the upper is more prominent while the lower is little more than a low ridge. The loop projects from the groove between the mouldings. Descending from the lower moulding are four raised ribs in two groups of two separated by a 10mm gap in the centre. The two outermost ribs follow a furrow which emphasises the edge of the rectangular-sectioned body, but which slightly curves. The two inner ribs follow the outer, curving behind it and then round it to join it at a point ¾ of the way down the body. These also follow the line of a furrow which precedes th…
Created on: Monday 21st May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK EAST RUDHAM', 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: NMS203
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE head of hairpin, tiny fragment of circular sectioned shaft, with expanded terminal ending in a rectangular-sectioned chisel-shape.
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: NMS204
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
AE handle from ?toilet instrument, with transverse mouldings and remains of setting for ?shaft of implement. Length 45mm.
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: NMS205
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
AE bow-and-fantail brooch, semi-cylindrical wings and backward hook, bent fan-shaped bow (one corner missing) continuing as longitudinal ridge to angled lower edge. Broken catch-plate on reverse. 24 x 32mm
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: NMS207
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a crescentic, possibly a flat-ring terret? The central channel, which has one raised circle, may have originally contained enamel. When complete, the decoration on terrets is generally symmetrical. This example is only decorated on one side. 14mm wide, 2mm thick. A 1st century BC/AD date seems most likely.
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK SHELTON', grid reference and parish protected.