Record ID: NMS-585C3E
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Disc 2 or 3 from a four-part lead cloth seal, diameter 17.3mm, in rather worn condition. Rectangular structure surmounted by a smaller, domed object and supported on four pillars with a cross between the central pair. CAN[ around. This may be a Canterbury seal depicting the shrine of St Thomas (destroyed in 1538). No similar piece was noted by Egan 1987 and none occurs on this database. 15th - early 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-CE1C82
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver pin of uncertain (Roman or early-medieval) date. It has a biconical head and a plain shaft of circular cross-section, which has been bent in two places. The shaft is probably incomplete; the tip is blunt and worn but has a slight curve, suggesting that it broke at another bend. Both parts have a uniform dull grey patina. Some of the outer surface has been cracked and lost at the bends, exposing a rougher surface of the same colour underneath. This stress to the metal may suggest that the bends are post-depositional, whereas the break at the tip appears ancient. …
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-846BBA
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver thimble of two-piece construction, relatively short and now crushed. The sides are made from a single piece of silver, 13mm tall, with a vertical seam. The rim is unthickened and undecorated; above this is a single row of pellets forming a line of beading. Above this, the sides are.covered with seven or eight rows of small raised rings or annulets, forming circular indentations alternating with lozenges. In the most badly crushed area there appears to be a rectangular undecorated area (a 'cartouche') with a bird in relief filling the left-hand side,, then two lette…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 26th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-845199
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver lace-tag, also known as an aiglet or aglet. A long thin hollow cylindrical tube, with a longitudinal seam and a pair of tiny opposed rivet holes. One end has a groove above a small spherical terminal; the open end is cut into four V shapes or petal shapes which are bent slightly inwards to grip the lace or cord. Dimensions: Length 46.0mm. Maximum diameter 3.5mm, diameter just above terminal 3.3mm. Weight 2.2g. Discussion: The seam is butted and there are rivet holes, features consistent with Livings type 1 (Livings 2017, 18-21). The best parallel on the …
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 26th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-83843A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver finger-ring of 16th-century date. The hoop is a low D shape in cross-section, and is gilded on both the flat interior and the curved exterior. The exterior is decorated all the way around the hoop with a series of discontinuous broad oblique grooves, each flanked by a narrow groove to either side, forming a zig-zag. The spaces above and below are filled with closely spaced and very neat rows of pellets, giving an effect often known as 'brambled'; the rows are set parallel to the oblique grooves. The decoration is all contained within a grooved border to eith…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 26th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-819C6E
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of shaft from a silver head-dress pin, often called a bodkin. It is rectangular in cross-section but with slightly rounded sides. The lower part with point is broken off (fresh break), as is the upper part (older, more worn break) from the base of the vertical slot, which is just visible. Below the slot, two sets of transverse lines are engraved on each of the larger faces, enclosing a small area which appears to be engraved or stamped with four annulets set out as the corners of a square; there are hints of other lines and this motif is probably to be interprete…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 26th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-F7910D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger-ring. Oval colourless translucent flat-topped glass within a raised box-setting surrounded by a roped flange. Flat hoop of constant width, with two twisted roped wires applied to it and bordered on each edge by finely milled wires. Two globules at junction of hoop and bezel on each side. 4th century. The oval box setting is oriented longitudinally to form the bezel of the finger-ring. It is formed from a strip of gold bent to fit closely around the slightly irregular piece of glass. The 'roped flange' is a piece of twisted gold wire around the base of the box setting.…
Created on: Tuesday 8th December 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 8th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-4FDBDA
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Part of silver circular composite button, the front only surviving. Hollow domed convex face with small central circular boss, also hollow on the reverse. This sits at the centre of an elaborate octagonal engraved flower, covered with irregular radial grooves which mostly do not run the full radius of the flower. This is set inside a double-groove lozenge with slightly concave sides; the double grooves form strapwork and the points of the lozenge are filled with closely set transverse grooves. The four semi-circles outside the strapwork lozenge each contain a tripartite m…
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9A83FA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Incomplete post-medieval shoe or knee buckle, now in two pieces. It consists of a sub-rectangular silver frame, a silver plate which has lost its attachment edge (recent break), a copper alloy pin and an iron bar. The bar passes through drilled holes in the frame, but is now broken so that the frame is no longer attached to the plate and pin. The frame has rounded corners, and each side is slightly incurved internally. There is an incomplete hallmark on the reverse of one of the short sides, a lion passant guardant within a sunken area (as below). The plate has a tub…
Created on: Saturday 11th July 2020
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-5CA83B
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy late Early Medieval to early Medieval key. A flat section 11mm wide, 3mm thick rectangular body extends to a lozenge-shaped openwork frame with a circular knop at each of the three corners. Each of the knops is pierced by a circular hole. The knop opposite the body is larger than the flanking two with a larger diameter hole. One of the flanking holes appears to show signs of internal wear, although this may just be a function of manufacture. The body is decorated in-the-round by a series of moulded transverse parallel grooves running towards a broken forked attachment en…
Created on: Friday 26th June 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8C9DA3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of a gilded silver late Medieval iconographic finger-ring. The fragment consists of the bezel only; it has two shallow transverse parallel concave panels bordered and separated by ridges. Within the panels there are engraved iconographic images of nimbate robed standing figures; these are saints, but there is not enough detail to allow the precise saint to be identified. The bezel is approximately square, and is flanked by further undecorated concave panels; at the end of these panels, the ring is broken. The breaks are fairly fresh. The reverse is gilded but oth…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

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-8C188A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete and damaged silver finger ring. Around half of the hoop survives, of even width throughout; the breaks seem quite worn. The ring has a flattish cross-section, with the exterior being longitudinally ribbed. There are four grooves and five ridges around the circumference, the central ridge being wider than those that flank it. Dimensions: The hoop is 4.2mm wide and 1.3mm thick. As bent, the entire fragment measures 20mm in length and its original diameter may have been not much more than this. It weighs 1.1g. Discussion: Finger-rings without bezels and …
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Newton Flotman', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8B5F0C
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Nearly complete early-medieval silver hooked tag, comprising a long triangular piece of flat sheet with the apex turned under to form a sharp hook. The upper corners each have their tips missing from old fractures across circular attachment holes. The plate has a straight top edge and is decorated with horizontal rows of alternate blind-drilled dots and ring-and-dots. The top row runs dot, ring-and-dot, dot; the second row down, ring-and-dot, dot, ring-and-dot. There is less space for the third and fourth rows, so the third row has two dots and the fourth one ring-and-dot…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Brandon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8A8DE8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of medieval silver finger-ring of 'stirrup-shaped' type. The bezel and shoulders survive, with more of one shoulder than the other; the rest of the lower hoop is missing (unworn breaks). The shoulders are 4.2mm wide at the breaks, and the ring tapers very slightly in width towards the bezel to a minimum width of 3.7mm. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section with a flat interior, 1.0mm thick at the breaks, but then the shoulders rise in thickness to a tall bezel; the ring is 4.4mm thick here. The bezel is small and square, and instead of being set with a gem is sim…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-89E45C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval gilded silver brooch pin. The shaft is oval in cross-section and flares from a sharp point to a globular boss at the junction of shaft and loop. This boss is decorated with three rows of punched annulets, a technique often known as 'brambling'. The loop is made from two thin flat projecting areas 2mm wide, which are bent round and soldered together to form a circle. Dimensions: 27.0mm long, boss at base of loop c. 5mm in diameter, weighs 1.2g. Discussion: This is a fairly common form of decoration. Good examples of similar pins still in place on their b…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-899802
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver wire 'slip-knot' ring of early Anglo-Saxon date. It is made from a length of circular-section wire, bent into a rough circle, with the tapering ends crossed and then wrapped one turn around the hoop. Dimensions: The wire is 1.2mm in diameter in the centre and 1.4mm in diameter close to the slip-knot; the centre may have become slimmer through wear. The ring is 15.0mm wide when held with the slip-knot to the top and 16.2mm long perpendicular to this, and the knot brings the maximum thickness to 2.4mm. It weighs 0.6g. Discussion and Date: This construction …
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-895978
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval annular brooch. The frame is circular with apparently no constriction for the pin. It is trapezoidal in cross-section, with a wide flat reverse and bevelled edges leading to a narrower flat top which is decorated with closely spaced neatly punched annulets; 29 are visible but there may be a 30th concealed by the pin. The pin also survives, made of a simple narrow D-section wire wrapped neatly around the frame and now corroded in place. There is a crack on the underside of the pin. Both the frame and the pin are a dark brown colour, the pin perhaps slightly d…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-33CFE3
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post-medieval silver probable hawking or huntsman's whistle. Very neatly made, it is a very slightly flaring cylinder, the wider end with a convex cap which brings the maximum diameter up to 6.7mm. There is a groove around the circumference here which may represent a soldered join, or which may be merely decorative; there are two further circumferential grooves on the cylindrical body of the whistle. Approximately halfway up the whistle there is a D-shaped lip or sound hole, through which it is possible to see the bottom of a rectangular piece of sheet ru…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 20th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-AEB9F1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post-medieval silver strap fitting, possibly from a book, in the form of a box chape. It comprises four pieces of sheet silver, soldered together to form a hollow pentagonal box. The front edges are concave, and taper into a circular-sectioned projection, possibly a hook, which terminates in an old break. At the attachment edge of the front plate is a circular rivet hole containing a silver rivet with burred-over ends. The back plate exhibits breakages along the top edge and has lost its rivet hole, but the length of the rivet suggests that it would have originally passed…
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2018
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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