Record ID: NMS-1E2708
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Mid Saxon fragment of pin, very worn and corroded with bi-conical head (diameter 8mm) and slight trace of collar, short length of broken shank, length (at least) 17mm.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1E4032
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mid Saxon fragment of pin, bi-conical head only (diameter 8mm), no trace of collar or shank, length (at least) 8mm.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1E5968
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval Book clasp, tiny example with hook, notched splayed end with feathered decoration comprising longitudinal and oblique lines, three circular perforations in front plate between three copper alloy rivets one through transverse grooves and longitudinal lines at hooked end, two at splayed end, 17 x 13mm. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1E7392
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Buckle frame, oval (21 x 26mm) with two knops flanking constriction for missing sheet roller, offset narrowed bar with slight constriction for (missing) pin. Cf. Dress Access. (1991), fig.44, no.298. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lowestoft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1E8C22
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Gilt horse harness mount, worn, bent and corroded, lozengiform (30 x 37mm), pierced in centre by rivet-hole, with remains of blue enamel and gilding, blazon: Azure an eight-pointed star Or. Cf. Ashley (2002) nos.168-9.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lowestoft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1EA737
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant, worn and corroded, shield-shaped with straightened-out (originally butted together) loop and circular perforation in base, no trace of original decoration, 20 x 34mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Friday 20th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lowestoft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1EB7F3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British unidentified object, possible mount, stylised bird with simplified oval sectioned head and beak, lozengiform body with median ridge, hollowed underneath and short tail, a circular band springs from the outer point of both wings, now flattened, internal diam. approx.11mm. there are double engraved bordering lines forming a lozenge on the body. 33 x 15mm.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lowestoft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1ECCD3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British Key handle, flat sectioned solid heart-shape, broad end with bi-conical double knop on looped terminal, C-shaped mouldings on both sides of broken socket for missing circular iron shank, 18 x 32 x 8mm. Cf. similar type (although fleur-de-lis) in Crummy 1983, fig.142.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1EEA45
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval incomplete belt fitting, very corroded, possibly a sword hanger, or perhaps used on harness, large rectangular loop, designed to accommodate a strap or belt, with a larger open loop projecting from base to almost complete a circle and touch the front of the vertical loop, whereupon it projects vertically upwards and is broken. There is a integrally-cast shield on the upper face of the larger loop bearing an incised cross. Cf. examples from Quidenham (HER 34977) and Cawston (HER 19522).
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1F05B4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval signet ring, D-sectioned band, internal dia.21 mm. oval bezel, 13 x 10 mm. Crowned Lombardic t.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1F1C71
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British incomplete Hod Hill brooch, corroded, broken hinge curled-over at top, pin missing, transverse rib and groove above bow which flares out to side-knobs (one bent), multiple-fluting in inverted V-shape on bow, transverse groove and ribs at top of tapering bent foot, catch-plate broken, approx.33 (unbent) x 59mm. Cf. Hattatt 1987, 848. c.AD 43-65.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1F39E5
Object type: SADDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a two-piece copper alloy saddle pommel cap, with two pairs of oblique engraved lines (and a half of a third pair at vertical join) and two curving and one straight line around base, small knop at terminal, wing missing. At least 31 x 62mm. Cf. Read (1995) 808-9. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 31st May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-469383
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy metalworking scrap, lump of various molten objects, now unrecognisable, 27 x 38mm, weighs 32.69g.
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Catfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-46B045
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy hooked stud from spur leather, flat rectangular-sectioned with narrow rectangular transverse projection on both sides of springing of (bent) hook, rounded terminal pierced by separate mushroom-headed rivet, 26 x 7mm.
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-46E1C7
Object type: CASKET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Binding strip from casket, flattened D-sectioned bar, with transverse and oblique lines and stamped annulets forming stylised animal head at both ends, broken across rivet-hole though head at one end, other end with transverse rib and flat-sectioned continuation with break across rivet-hole, 8 x (at least) 31mm. Cf. brief discussion of type by Goodall in Coad Arch. J. (1982), 235. 12th/13th century.
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heckingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-470720
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon fragment of pin, worn and pitted, biconical head with broad flattened median band (diameter 9mm, height 12mm), collar and tiny stump of missing shank, total length surviving 16mm.
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heckingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-471CB5
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mid Saxon Pin, globular-headed (diam.6-7mm) with engraved spiral decoration ‘wrythen-headed’ (Hinton 1996, 16-17), shank bent at oblique angle at approximately one-third up from point. Cf. three finds made in 2004, from Barton Bendish (17212), Beachamwell (4530) and Oxborough (2634). 8th-9th century.
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heckingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-473B68
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval incomplete copper alloy hooked tag, rectangular loop elaborate openwork trefoils and foliage above broken springing of hook, 15 x (at least) 19mm. of identical form and proportions to that illustrated in Margeson (1993), fig.8, no.71. 17th century
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heckingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-475EC6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame, distorted, sheet strip, obliquely-angled outside edge between curving sides and curled ends containing fragments of separate narrowed iron bar. Face of outside edge is black enamelled with broad rocker-arm lines forming central lozenge between oblique lines. Reconstructed, approx. 17 x 49mm. Cf. broadly similar types from a Cheapside buckle-makers hoard, shown in Margeson (1983), Plate IX. 15th century.
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heckingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-480788
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant, shield-shaped, traces of decayed enamel (now pale green), and iron pin in suspension-loop. A cross indented [Or/Argent]. Late 13th-early 14th century.
Created on: Friday 13th May 2005
Last updated: Friday 20th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beccles', grid reference and parish protected.