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Record ID: NMS-7CCEFB
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Probable pendant made from a gilded silver half-groat of Henry VII. The coin is a Canterbury product, King & Archbishop Morton jointly, tun initial mark, dating c.1490-1500. One edge is now slightly bent.
It has been gilded on both faces and a circular hole pierced from the obverse, leaving a slight burr around the edge on the reverse. On the obverse, the hole is to the left of the king's head; on the reverse, it is at the end of one of the arms of the cross, just cutting through but largely inside the outermost beaded circle.
The coin ha…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EE0799
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver pendant made from a pierced siliqua of Julian as Augustus, mint of Arles. Obverse: [...]ANVS P F AVG, diademed and draped bust right. Reverse: VOT/ X/ MVLT/ XX in wreath (eagle within wreath), mintmark illegible. Cf RIC VIII 309–11, AD 363. The coin has some wear and accretion.
A neat circular hole (2.5mm diameter) has been drilled at approximately 12 o'clock on the obverse (6 o'clock on the reverse) for use as a pendant or similar, transforming this item from a coin into a item of jewellery. There is a slight burr around the edges of the hole on both faces.…
Created on: Wednesday 13th January 2021
Last updated: Friday 14th May 2021
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This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-415C35
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold pendant, of roughly circular shape, made from small pieces of gold sheet soldered together. The centre is formed of a square foil collet set set upon a base of spiral-coiled gold wire and set with a stone, probably a rock crystal. Around this were originally four similar rectangular collets set with what are probably garnets, forming a cross shape. One collet is missing entirely, another is missing its setting, but two adjacent collets survive complete.
In the angles of these collets are elaborate fleurs-de-lis manufactured from strips of sheet gold set on edge,…
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-2E2768
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A silver penny of Alexander III of Scotland which has been converted into a piece of jewellery, probably a pendant. The obverse of the coin is gilded and the reverse is mounted with 4 collets, one at the end of each arm of the cross, so that the reverse of the penny forms the front of the modified object. The collets are all soldered on. Two hold gems which appear dark, perhaps red, and which have dull convex surfaces; they are probably red glass paste. The central part of the front of the object (the reverse of the coin) is mounted with two curved strips of metal which r…
Created on: Friday 25th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 15th April 2021
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Record ID: NMS-EB4A16
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon gold pendant mounted with a gold solidus of Justinian, struck at Constantinople (4th workshop of the mint) between 527 and 538.
The coin: Obverse D N IVSTINI_ANVS P P [AVG], helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, shield on left shoulder, right hand holding cross on globe, reverse [VICTORI]_A AVGGG [delta], Victory standing facing holding long cross and globe, mintmark CONOB, weight 5.78g.
The setting: The coin has been mounted within a circular frame made from very heavily worn beaded wire. The effect is of a plain wire with an interior border formed of many small t…
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 27th April 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Old Buckenham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-CBD31A
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Broken fragment of a silver counter or jetton, probably by Simon de Passe. On one side [...]ROPH[...], bearded facing portrait, presumably of an Old Testament Prophet. On the other [...]ROY D ANG[...] a male facing bust (beardless), wearing a ruff, perhaps a portrait of Edward VI. There is the remains of a circular piercing, demonstrating that this piece had been drilled for reuse as a pendant or medallion. Although they appear engraved, most specialists believe them to have been struck using a coin press.
Dimensions: Length: 23mm, width: 17mm, thickness: 1mm, weight…
Created on: Monday 17th July 2017
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-4743EC
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable pendant made from a copper alloy nummus of Constantius I, reverse illegible but presumably a GENIO POPVLI ROMANI type. A small and neatly drilled hole (approximately 1.5mm diameter) near the edge at 2 o'clock (obverse) makes it likely that this coin was reused as a pendant, a supposition strangthened by the fact that the reverse is worn almost smooth whilst the obverse is also heavily worn, most of the facial details being worn flat, further details illegible, diameter 24mm, weight 6.58g, c.AD296-305. Obverse details (in as much as they are legible) are [...]NTIVS[...]ES, …
Created on: Monday 2nd March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 15th March 2023
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This findspot is known as 'SOUTH NORFOLK', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-03F3CA
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Silver Hiberno-Norse penny of Sihtric 'Silkbeard' Olafsson of Dublin (989-1036, uncertain Dublin moneyer, Phase I, imitating Last Small Cross type of Ethelred II of England (978-1016), with two piercings near edge at approximately 5 o'clock and 7 o'clock, probably minted c. 1009-1030
+ SIHTRC R[EXD]YFL[I]
+____NIN MO DYF[E?]LI
Date: Circa 1009-1030.
Dimensions: Weight 0.66g.
Usually single coins do not qualify as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996. However, as this coin appears to have been modified into an object by piercing…
Created on: Thursday 5th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2016
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Record ID: NMS-EA1AF2
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Henry VI, York, uncertain mascle issue, clipped and pierced twice by neck presumably for use as a pendant, issued 1427-35
Created on: Wednesday 16th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th May 2014
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This findspot is known as 'Horsham St. Faith and Newton St. Faith', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-98E733
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A pendant made from an imitation of a gold solidus of Maurice Tiberius (582-602), a suspension loop with three longitudinal ribs having been soldered to the edge of the coin immediately above the emperor's head. The coin description is as follows:
Obverse: [...]AVRC TIb P P AVG, helmeted, cuirassed bust facing, shield on left shoulder, spear over right
Reverse: VICTORIA AVGGV, long cross on steps above globe, M-A/V_RI in fields
Mintmark CONOB in exegue
The piece is of uncertain origin but is almost certainly a garbled Western copy of originals struck in Constantinople. Obv…
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th September 2014
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This findspot is known as 'North Elmham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-30F472
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver threepence of Charles I minted at York in 1643-4. This has been pierced with a wide hole at the 12 o'clock position on the obverse. Clearly the intention was that the coin might serve as a pendant. This adaptation of the coin would, in all probability, have been carried out shortly after its issue. The display of the king's head in this way may well also have had an ideological element, especially given that this pendant would have been worn during the Civil War and possibly the Commonwealth that followed (1649-60). Other, specially manufactured, Royalist tokens showing the h…
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 28th April 2014
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This findspot is known as 'St Andrews Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-F323B7
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A gros tournois of Louis IX of France which has been gilded and is now slightly distorted. The original coin will be of good silver, over 90% fine metal. Although there is no evidence of a means of attachment the fact that the coin was gilded shows that it was modified for use as an artefact, probably as a coin brooch, pendant or other form of jewellery. Gros tournois of the later 13th century French kings converted into jewellery in this way are now a well-recorded phenomenon as English finds from the decades around 1300.
Date: This coin was introduced in 1266 and is likely to hav…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 15th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-541A06
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A gold solidus of the emperor Theodosius I struck at Milan between 378 and 387 (Roman Imperial Coinage vol. IX, no. 5f or 8b). The coin has been fitted with a ribbed suspension loop, also of gold, at the 12 o'clock position on the obverse (6 o'clock on the reverse) in order for it to serve as a pendant. This process is well known from the early Saxon period when many Roman gold coins were thus treated.
Coin dated to 378-87, suspension loop added from the fifth to early seventh century.
Obv. D N THEODO - SIVS P F AVG; Pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed right
Rev. VICTOR - IA…
Created on: Monday 8th March 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Swaffham', grid reference and parish protected.
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