Record ID: NMS-F78EB4
Object type: PERFORATED OBJECT
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Mesolithic or Neolithic mace head or pebble hammer, measuring 137mm in diameter at its maximum and 61mm thick. It was probably made on an oval natural cobble, bored centrally by pecking and polishing to give an hour-glass shaped perforation 43mm wide at the surface and 23mm wide at its narrowest. The cobble is abraded in four places around its circumference. This is an unusually large example of a shaft-hole tool that is difficult to date as most examples are surface finds and without associated datable material. This example was found around 1970, while ditch-digging.
Created on: Monday 20th December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 3rd July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawdeswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6537A7
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic polished flint axe, the surviving body of which measures 177 x 64 x 34mm. It is polished all over, but also has extensive residual flake scars from the original shaping of the axe blank by flaking. The lateral edges are rounded for their full length. The axe has been severely damaged in recent times, both at the broad, curved blade end and at the narrow butt; the scars from this damage show incipient patination. The main body of the axe is patinated and stained patchily in brown. It was found in 1958, while ditch digging.
Created on: Monday 13th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 30th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-634A82
Object type: MACE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A stone mace head fragment, 56mm in diameter with a residual length of 56mm. This mace head is probably of the ovoid or pestle type and was broken in antiquity irregularly through the shaft hole, which is cylindrical and approximately 21mm in diameter. The shaft hole has been drilled from each side, meeting about halfway across, with the second bore slightly misaligned. The stone is heavily weathered and pitted, with the domed end also showing signs of abrasion. The fragment was found in about 1980 while ploughing. An important clue to its age is given by the fact that the shaft…
Created on: Monday 13th December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 3rd July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Garveston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-21BC55
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Miniature copper alloy cup with pedestal base, incomplete, more than half of rim missing, roughly finished inner surface and underside, slight traces of silvery possible solder on the latter. Diameter. 26mm. Height 18.5mm. Diameter. of base 14.5mm
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-219A27
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very slightly convex disc with four pierced lugs on underside set saltire- or cross-wise. A curving cut-out on the edge of the disc appears to be a deliberately made feature. There are traces of possible solder on the front face. Apparently ancient, but of unknown date. Diameter. 30mm. Thickness of disc 1 - 2mm. Length of lugs 4, height 4 - 5mm. Diameter. of holes 1.5mm.
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2173A7
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Romano-British copper alloy figurine, lower end of human right leg and foot, the sole part covered with silvery solder. Footprint 22.5 x 10mm. Height 13mm. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-213946
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete middle to late Saxon copper alloy strap-end of Thomas 2003 Class A Type 5, attachment edge missing, broken across start of split end. Two rectangular cells are inlaid with niello and silver wire spirals and elongated S-shapes. The ears of the animal-head terminal are emphasised by double looped mouldings. A third niello-inlaid cell, a narrow triangle, lies on the snout between the eyes. Length 35.5mm. Width 12.5mm. Thickness 2mm. 9th century.
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-20FA23
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle to late Saxon copper alloy hooked tag.The plate is trapeziodal with three attachment lobes at top and engrailed edges. Engraved linear decoration incorporates a cross set lozenge-wise. Length 21.5mm. Width 11.5mm. Read 2008 Class D. 8th - 11th century. Very similar to an example from Beachamwell (HER 2635) and two other examples on the PAS database, NMS-E7CD35 (Congham) and SF-FD3346 (Barham).
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-20C9A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy ansate brooch, one terminal missing, traces of iron pin in double pin lug. Terminals and bow of flat section, of consistent thickness and width, and with chamfered sides. Terminals decorated with small flat lobe at each corner and with five longitudinally engraved grooves. After interruptions the bow is similarly decorated apart from the flat central part on which there is an engraved herringbone pattern. Thörle 2001 Gruppe XI B 2, Weetch type XI. Length 44mm. Width 13.5mm. 9th century.
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2096B6Z
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon to Middle Saxon copper alloy Ansate brooch with loop of iron pin in a single transverse pin lug, D-sectioned bow and trefoil terminals, both decorated with five stamped ring-and-dots. Thörle 2001 Gruppe VII A 1, Weetch type VII. Length 46.5mm. Width 12mm. 7th century. This ansate brooch type has been dated on the Continent to the late seventh to ninth centuries (Thorle 2001, 136) but ansate brooches appear to be confined to the eighth century onwards in England.
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Friday 5th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-200C81
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted fragment of pointed-oval sectioned medieval copper alloy spur side with strong bend that would have passed under the wearer's ankle, both ends broken. Engraved text in pseudo-script on one face. Probably 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1FDAE0
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy sword or dagger scabbard chape of folded thick sheet, one rivet (now loose) through both parts, an upper rivet hole missing. Lines of rather faint punched triangles decorate one face. The form of the outline, with several single and double projections, is zoomorphic, perhaps presenting a bird, with its head pointing downwards at the fold. Cf. an example from North Lopham (HER 30181). For chapes of this type see Woods, P. The Searcher April 2006, 26-9, de Reuck 1991, 2 and Christie, N. (ed.) 'Medieval Britain and Ireland in 2008', Medieval Archaeology. 53 (2009), …
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1FB202
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost flat fragment in the form of a stylised bird's head with one rivet hole and two engraved decorative lines. Probably the terminal of a medieval copper alloy sword or dagger scabbard chape. 10.5 x 17mm. 12th century.
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1F74A4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy mount with partly hollow tall conical boss, with three integral lozengiform lugs pierced for attachment and projecting from a hexagonal flange at the base. A very finely engraved line follows the chamfered edges of the flange and passes around the lugs. The underside, on which there are traces of silvery material possible solder, is slightly concave, indicating attachment to a convex surface. Rather heavy duty (weight 11.11g). Height 20.5mm. Width 27mm. There is some similarity to bossed possible mounts with four lugs, e.g. Read B. 2001 nos. 115-8, and anoth…
Created on: Friday 10th December 2010
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1024C3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver thimble, complete, but partially squashed. There is a border around the base consisting of an undecorated band with rouletting above. Apart from a rectangular field above the border in which there is an engraved letter H and a stamped makers mark II on it's side, the sides and domed top are covered with rows of closely spaced annulets. For similar thimbles see the Treasure Annual Report 2004 (300, no.333) and Treasure Annual Report 2005/6 (377, no.831). c. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 9th December 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bracon Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FA4088
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval silver composite biconvex hollow button with a wire loop attached with solder. There are two blow-holes on the reverse. 17th - early 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenninghall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F73F01
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age miniature terret ring measures 24 x 25mm. It is sub-triangular in section with a slight bordering moulding on the inner edge of one face which expands at both ends to form a transverse collar at either end of the inset oval-sectioned attachment bar. The bordering moulding may originally have been visible on both faces, but is now damaged on one side. It dates fromt the Late Iron Age.
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Sunday 24th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F72E82
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver cuff-link with one fastener missing. The surviving circular fastener, with a separate loop soldered onto the hollow reverse, is decorated in counter-relief with a pair of conjoined hearts beneath a crown on a stippled ground.
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ryston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F71764
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-Middle Bronze Age awl or small chisel. Rectangular sectioned throughout, it thins smoothly from the centre towards the ends, both of which are chisel-like and slightly damaged. It measures 75mm x 5.5mm, with a maximum thickness of 6mm.
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F6C0F5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver finger ring, flat sectioned, the bezel in the form of two clasped hands with three transverse lines at the wrist perhaps indicating the ends of sleeves. There are three similar examples in the Treasure Annual Report 2004 (278 - 279, no.195, 199 and 201). c. 15th century. External diameter 21mm. Internal diameter 19.5mm. Width of bezel 7mm. Erica Darch
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upwell', grid reference and parish protected.