Record ID: NMS-2FAA5E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon Anglo-Scandinavian disc brooch dating to the period c. AD 900 - 1000. The front exhibits cast Borre-style decoration comprising a concave-sided lozenge with a central circular recess. Each of the four corners of the lozenge extends to form interlaced, double contoured knots. The brooch exhibits some heavily abraded edge damage. On the reverse is the stub of a single, perforated pin lug of Anglo-Saxon type, set parallel to the edge of the brooch. Opposite this is a small scar indicating the position of the missing integrally cast looped catchplate of Scandinavian form, set a…
Created on: Friday 26th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1BB245
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon copper alloy small-long brooch of Leeds 1945 square-head (panelled) type dating to the period c. AD 480 - 500. The head is rectangular with a raised rectangular panel at the centre of the head. The panel to each side is decorated by a border of punched crescents. The central panel forms facets at the top of the arched bow which exhibits a slight central mid-rib and terminates in an old break. On the reverse of the head is a single pierced lug housing the corroded remains of the iron spring. The lower bow, foot and catchplate are missing.
Created on: Thursday 25th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Field Dalling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1B8984
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon - medieval copper alloy single loop buckle dating to the period c. AD 1000 - 1100. D-shaped frame with narrowed strap bar, knops at the shoulders and a trilobed projection on the outer edge. The front is decorated with two engraved grooves running down each side, the tips of which overlap at the trilobed projection. See: SF-A7D2D9 & SWYOR-22FFC7. A similar example is illustrated in: Griffiths, Philpott and Egan, 2007, Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast, pl. 8, no. 308
Created on: Thursday 25th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Field Dalling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-198EEB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon Anglo-Scandinavian disc brooch dating to the period c. AD 900 - 1000. The front exhibits cast Borre-style decoration comprising a concave-sided lozenge with a central circular recess. Each of the four corners of the lozenge extends to form interlaced, double contoured knots. The brooch exhibits a small chip in the edge and a small aperture on one side of the central loznge, probably a casting flaw. On the reverse is a single, perforated pin lug of Anglo-Saxon type, set parallel to the edge of the brooch. Opposite this is the integrally cast looped catchplate of Scandinavian…
Created on: Thursday 25th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Field Dalling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-02CB34
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon silver sceat of anonymous ruler dating to the period c. AD 695 - 710. Series F. Uncertain mint.
Created on: Wednesday 24th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 17th February 2020
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-F0C339
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and incomplete early medieval hooked tag of Read's Class A, Type 2 dating to the period c. AD 700 - 1100. Sub-circular plate with two pierced attachment holes. Projecting from one side of the plate is the stub of the hook which terminates in an old break. No traces of decoration are visible. See: Read, B, 2008, p. 14, no. 55 - 57.
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2019
Last updated: Friday 5th July 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-DC20FC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Late Anglo-Saxon strap-end, perhaps re-purposed into an object of uncertain function. The wider end has been cut straight across and filed down to produce a smoothly rounded edge. Small areas of the edge are missing around the base,but the object is otherwise complete. It is described with the straight edge held uppermost. A narrow reserved strip runs across the wide straight edge; the rest of the front is covered with engraving around symmetrical plant decoration in counter-relief. The effect is that of a flower, with a stem which springs from a rosette of simple p…
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 19th July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-1F8161
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Middle to Late Saxon silver strap-end. Broadly rectangular in form, the split end has a scalloped edge with two rivet holes housing silver rivets with roved-over ends. The central panel is divided into two by a longitudinal beaded ridge. On either side is an asymmetrical recessed field and a teardrop-shaped field, possibly intended to depict a wing, which tapers to meet a roundel around each rivet hole. Each wing has a central recessed field with reserved zoomorphic decoration comprising a serpentine animal with rounded, double-nicked body and interlaced tail. The st…
Created on: Monday 1st April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-0D0ED4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon copper alloy annular brooch dating to the period c. AD 500 - 550. Small fragment of flat, annular frame with chamferred edges and old breaks at either end. Decoration is restricted to one face and comprises a series of punched dots running around the frame. See: West (1998) p. 184, fig. 66/4. Finder's ref: 8/18 16
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2019
Last updated: Friday 14th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0D02EA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon copper alloy annular brooch dating to the period c. AD 500 - 550. Small fragment of flat, annular frame with chamferred edges and old breaks at either end. Decoration is restricted to one face and comprises a series of three engraved transverse grooves. Any further decoration is obscured by corrosion product. See: West (1998) p. 184, fig. 66/4. Finder's ref: 8/18 15
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2019
Last updated: Friday 14th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0CA4BE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an Early Saxon cruciform brooch of uncertain type dating to the period c. AD 420 - 500. Only the bow remains. It commences in a moulded ridge engraved with horizontal grooves and then tapers into the arched bow. At the bottom of the bow the junction between the bow and footplate forms a moulded ridge engraved with horizontal grooves. The remains of the footplate have old breaks on three edges. The stub of the catchplate projects from the underside. Finders ref: 8/18 14
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2019
Last updated: Friday 14th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D4AB7E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper alloy Early Saxon cruciform brooch, probably Martin Type 1, dating to the period c. AD 420 - 500. It commences in an old break across the bow which arches downwards and bends at a right-angle into the foot. The junction between the catchplate and foot is a moulded triple collar with bands of engraved grooves in between. Below is the moulded zoomorphic foot in the form of an animal's head. It exhibits bulbous eyes set either side of a long triangular-sectioned head and bulbous flared nostrils with a rounded snout.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D46A19
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy detachable knob from a cruciform brooch dating to the period c. AD 420 - 480. Fully-rounded with a bi-conical shape and a moulded double collar at the base. The corroded remains of the iron axis bar pass through the knob.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D192C9
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy strap fitting dating to the period c. AD 950 - 1100. It comprises a symmetrical plate with worn engraved linear decoration and two openwork apertures. Projecting from one edge is a cuved hook, the junction with the plate marked by a thick moulded collar. The opposite side of the plate terminates in a heavily worn break. The type is broadly related to a rather more elaborate series of hooked fittings, perhaps sword belts, from West Acre (HER 28744) and West Rudham (NMS-C0E720) in Norfolk, Monk Sherborne, Hampshire (HAMP-1733D0) and Westbury, Bucks …
Created on: Monday 4th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Field Dalling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-94C5DA
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight of probable Late Saxon (c. AD 900 - 1100) date. Roughly discoidal in form, the upper surface has a raised rim with, in the centre of the recessed area four broadly triangular impressions forming a reserve cross. Two recent nicks, positioned opposite one another on the top of the weight. 110g/ 1697.56 grains. The weight may (although slightly underweight) represent 12.5 of the postulated Scandinavian units of 24.4 ±0.8g (Kruse 1992).
Created on: Friday 1st March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-931DB1
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon - medieval copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams' (1997) Class B, Type 1, group 1, dating to the period c. AD 1000 - 1125. Rectangular with a rearward-projecting flange at the base pierced by two rivet holes containing the corroded remains of iron rivets. Each top corner exhibits three protruding knops. The plate exhibits three moulded zoomorphic heads arranged in a triangle, the largest at the bottom, the smaller two above surrounded by openwork. Each head exhibits a pronounced snout, bulging eyes and pointed oval ears. The lower head is flanked be two crescentic ap…
Created on: Friday 1st March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-918D7B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon silver sceat of Secondary Phase Series E (variety A),dating to the period c.AD 720-740. Probably minted in the Netherlands. Obverse: Quilled crescent right (possible a very devolved bust), three lines beneath. Reverse: Beaded standard enclosing TOTII See: Metcalf, D.M, 1993, p. 196 - 197 & pl. 13.
Created on: Friday 1st March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8FBCC9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver penny of Edmund (939 - 946), Bust Crowned type without mint name (North 697). Moneyer: Ercimbalt (variant reading). Ref: North 1994: 140.
Created on: Friday 1st March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-553AC3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:  Composite gold object with glass and possibly gem settings. It comprises a rectangular strip of gold bent into a loop with a visible joining seam, now partially split. The loop is now squashed out of shape. The band exhibits a vertical seam approximately 10.8mm along its length, visible on both exterior and interior faces, although largely obscured by applied decoration on the exterior; the decorative scheme clearly designed to disguise the join (see below). On one side of the seam is a second vertical join, visible only on the inside of the strip, possibly indi…
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Aldborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-526078
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle - Late Saxon copper alloy prick spur dating to the 8th to 11th century. It comprises a central circular boss with projecting conical goad and A D-sectioned arm curving to either side. One arm terminates in a relatively recent break; the other terminates in a D-shaped loop with a circular perforation directly behind. There is a small corpus of Middle - Late Saxon prick spurs recorded from Norfolk including an example from Swanton Morley (HER 56146).
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Pickenham', grid reference and parish protected.