Record ID: NMS-DC939F
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small silver shield-shaped flat mount with two holes, probably for separate rivets, one in the centre near the top and the other near the base. There are two incurved scallops on the top edge, with a point in the centre, and the front face is decorated along all three edges with a row of hand-punched dots. Weight 0.21g. Height 10mm. Width 9mm. Thickness 0.5mm.  Despite the handmade decoration, shields of this shape (with a double incurve to the top) are only found in the post-medieval period, most commonly from the 18th century onwards, and so this mount is likely to be 18th…
Created on: Saturday 16th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-A52A1D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of a small gilded silver flat openwork mount, probably Roman in date, perhaps a rectangular fitting for belt or strap. It is sharply rectangular in cross-section, with parallel, straight sides and both ends broken. Two triangular apertures are present, along with one crescentic, and part of another. The reserved bars have a scrolly appearance, ending in roundels. No means of attachment has survived. One break is recent but the other is not, being covered in a ferrous deposit that has afflicted many metal objects on this site. Patches …
Created on: Sunday 19th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B0FF45
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Unusual partly gilded silver and niello-inlaid mount of early-medieval date, perhaps broken and repaired. It is rectangular, thick and hollowed on the reverse, and decorated in Carolingian-style relief with openwork elements. The decoration is based around a bold raised flat-topped diagonal cross or saltire dividing the square into quarters, with  a worn boss in the centre and at the end of each arm. At the end of each arm of the saltire is a low-relief leaf motif, with a sunken, lobed centre and an outcurved leaf to either side which is inlaid with a niell…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-C62D1B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver-gilt mount. Two rivets on back cast integrally with mount. Length: 31.6mm
Created on: Wednesday 29th June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C9957B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Partly distorted medieval repoussé sheet silver mount. It is circular, and the now-bent edge is decorated with twelve small bosses. Through the centre is a dome-headed copper alloy tack, set within a hole through the slightly domed centre; the edges of the hole are bent back along the shaft of the tack, which is square in cross-section, tapers to a point, and is bent flat against the reverse of the mount. The reverse shows the hollow bosses and centre of the sheet element. Dimensions: The mount is c.11.5mm in diameter, the head of the tack 7mm in diameter; the shaft…
Created on: Thursday 24th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 14th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-CE060D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A fragment of a gilded silver object, originally circular, with a groove within a hollow-backed ridge around the original curving edge, probably to add strength. The fragment is roughly triangular, with the apex missing. The front is gilded, and decorated with a panel edged with grooves and filled with incised cross-hatching. The panel flares slightly from the broken-off centre to the edge, and the cross-hatching disappears at the groove around the curving edge. This edge is relatively rough. The other two main edges look broken (worn breaks). …
Created on: Wednesday 19th August 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-83ADB2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of a medieval gilded silver object, probably a mount, with very neat engraved decoration on one face. The fragment is approximately rectangular, although nearly all the edges are broken. It is now bent but appears to have originally been flat or slightly convex about the long axis.  The decoration comprises a standing human figure made up from engraved lines around reserved areas against a carved-out or keyed recessed background. The figure is standing facing the viewer, with the head turned slightly to the viewer's left (the figure's right). It…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
Last updated: Friday 26th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Orsgates West', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B7BF2A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver medieval bar-mount. It consists of a D-section bar which flares towards a central circular lobe with large circular perforation. The narrower ends of the bar each have a small circular lobe pierced to take a rivet; both rivets are missing. Each half of the bar is divided from the central and terminal lobes by transverse ridges. The reverse of the bar is flat, but each lobe has a hollowed reverse. Dimensions: It is 22mm long, and 6mm wide and 1mm thick at the central lobe. It weighs 0.53g. Discussion: Bar-mounts of this type are very common in the medieval…
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8C4C7B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver mount, an elongated lozengiform shape, rectangular in cross-section, thickest in the centre and tapering in thickness to either end. The centre has a rectangular hole from front to back, set longitudinally, which on the underside is surrounded by a similarly aligned lozengiform groove, V-shaped in cross-section. The upper surface of the mount has symmetrical relief decoration of an X-shaped feature either side of the hole. Each of these X shapes is made up of a C-shaped facet on either edge, emphasised by grooves. The inner arms of the two X shapes make a central l…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near South Lopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5A31BA
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of a probably medieval, cast silver, probable mount. Two radial lobes, divided by a moulded groove and broken on both sides and at the narrow end, remain of what may have been an approximately circular octofoil. The reverse is slightly concave. The complete object may have been a strap fitting with one or two rivet holes of which no trace survives, or it may have been attached to another object by solder. Dimensions: Weight 0.89g. 10.6 x 9.3 x 2.3mm. Discussion: Egan and Pritchard (1991, 195, fig 122, no 1045) discuss similar multifoil mounts. Altho…
Created on: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-24EB9E
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Post Medieval silver anthropomorphic stud or mount. In the form of a human bust, the facial features are rendered in low relief with lentoid eyes, moulded nose and lips. The head sports long curly hair, or possibly a wig which flows down the sides of the head and covers the shoulders. The curls are rendered and a continuous looping wavy line with circular recesses at each curve. Projecting from the reverse is a central integrally cast cylindrical shank which terminates in an old break. The reverse exhibits traces of parallel striations indicating it was cast in a cuttlefis…
Created on: Friday 7th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-855FAC
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval gilded silver bar-mount. Rectangular when viewed from the front, trapezoidal in cross-section. A cylindrical shaft with a burred-over end, either a well-concealed separate rivet or an integrally cast rivet, projects from the centre of the reverse. The front and sides exhibit traces of gilding. Dimensions: Originally recorded as length 19.8mm, width 17.5mm, thickness 2.5mm, weight 2.1g. From the photograph, it appears that the length is closer to 11mm, the width to 4mm and the thickness to 2.5mm without rivet and 4mm with rivet. Discussion: Egan & Pritc…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 4th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8F0CF4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete medieval silver octofoil mount. It exhibits a slightly domed centre with a central perforation for a separate rivet. Radiating from the centre are six surviving trapezoidal petals with rounded outer edges. The mount is broken in half across the centre and is missing a small portion of its circumference, probably equivalent to two missing petals. Dimensions: Diameter 16mm, thickness 2.1mm, weight 1g. Discussion: Base-metal mounts of similar form are discussed by Egan & Pritchard (2002, 186 – 192), and occasional examples in silver, one of which als…
Created on: Wednesday 14th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2020
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Record ID: NMS-4E176B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval gilded silver bar-mount. It has a central transversely set oval boss with brambled decoration in the form of punched annulets. The reverse of the boss is concave. A D-sectioned arm projects from either side, each terminating in an oval terminal. Each terminal has a central perforation, one of which retains a silver rivet with the ends burred over. Substantial traces of gilding survive on the front of the artefact. Dimensions: Length: 20mm. Maximum width: 9mm. Minimum width: 3mm. Maximum thickness: 3.5mm. Minimum thickness: 2mm. Weight: 0.9g. Discussio…
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2017
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-F7F6BE
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Incomplete, partly gilded silver Carolingian-style rectangular mount or strap fitting inlaid with niello. The mount has one complete and two partial original edges surviving, with a transverse break which appears to be relatively recent. It has a rounded knop on each of the two surviving corners (one now incomplete) and the ungilded sides of the plate are moulded into a series of convex semi-circles. The front of the plate is decorated with a wavy line of inlaid niello running along each long edge, bordering the recessed centre. This is interrupted along the short ed…
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2016
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
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Record ID: LANCUM-DC5B9C
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very small silvered copper alloy mount dating from the medieval or post-medieval period or, if (possibly) solid silver, dating from the later 18th/early 19th century and thus not potential Treasure. Date 15th-19th century. The small fragment only displays moulded foliate decoration and it is uncertain what it was originally part of. NB: This is a rally find that was not seen by the FLO in person. Images and findspot information were kindly provided by the rally organiser.
Created on: Wednesday 24th August 2016
Last updated: Thursday 1st September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9D4408
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Anglo-Saxon silver and copper-alloy boss from unidentified object. Domed, formed from three layers; an upper silver decorated dome over a layer of corroded copper alloy before a further silver layer. Parts of the edge of the upper silver dome may be original, but the lower two layers have no original surviving edge. Decorated with a triquetra in very low relief within a border defined by engraved lines, with gilding surviving between the raised lines. Dimensions: Surviving diameter 14-16mm. Height at least 9mm. Weight 5.2g. Discussion: The function and identity …
Created on: Monday 16th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-049B31
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver grosso of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), Rome, 1492-1503, adapted by the cutting out of a disc from the centre of the coin. The reason for this is uncertain; annular brooches are known which have been similarly treated but they are generally over two centuries earlier in date and have a hole drilled in the perimeter to accommodate a pin. The fashion for making annular brooches out of coins seems to have died out long before the last decade of the 15th century when this grosso was struck. It is probable that another function was intended for this large silver washer but wha…
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2019
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Record ID: NMS-9AE5E7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver mount, now distorted and incomplete, the surviving part in two joining pieces. A conical faceted sexfoil, each foil with a median arris terminating in a short pointed projection at the outer edge, with an engraved line separating each foil, and a central hole in the flat apex of the cone. Height 17mm. Diameter of base (reconstructed) circa 34mm. Weight 3.3g. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 16th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-18AEC3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Mount or inlay. Fragment of flat-sectioned silver strip, parallel sided, broken at one end, the other end an angled concave edge with the corners broken. The upper face decorated with a flower and leaves on a field keyed for niello, much of which survives. There is a narrow, plain border around the edge without niello. On the reverse are discoloured patches probably the result of solder, with no other visible means of attachment. Surviving dimensions 21 x 12 x 1mm. Weight 1.1g. The size of the fragment has made finding parallels difficult and consequently a broad date range of 15…
Created on: Thursday 10th September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wiveton', grid reference and parish protected.