Record ID: NMS-934673
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
The 'West Norfolk' hoard of 132 early-medieval gold coins and 4 early-medieval gold objects. One coin (no. 117) was found in 1990 and is not part of Treasure case 2015T231, which covers all the rest of the coins and objects. Coin no. 120 is still missing, and coin no. 67 is listed here out of sequence due to a revised identification. Catalogue of coins [AP]: The numbering follows that in Marsden and Pol 2020, 405-7. A question mark implies a degree of uncertainty. ‘Fineness’ is an approximate percentage of gold in the alloy, established by specific gravity. Minted i…
Created on: Monday 30th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 1st December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D18CC1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
The hoard has been fully published (Behr and Pestell 2014) and a summary can be found at https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-binham-hoard Silver sheet, probably an equal-armed brooch or perhaps a mount. The curved bow is flat-backed with raised edges on the front face and otherwise plain, straight sided except at either end where it flares sharply before originally wide triangular terminals at either end, three corners of which are missing, the fourth detached and held in place by a small piece of clear plastic tape. There are stamps consisting of two concentric rings arou…
Created on: Thursday 2nd October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 6th June 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8381A4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Near Holt, Norfolk: Two Anglo-Saxon gold bracteates (2011T657) Discovery: The B-bracteate was found on 31st August 2011 and the folded A-bracteate on 16th September 2011, both while metal-detecting on ploughed land. Both bracteates were found on the same field in close proximity to each other and to the findspots of two earlier bracteate finds in 2004 and in 2009, a B-bracteate (2004T297) (TAR 2004, fig. 109) and an A-bracteate (LVPL-43ADD1, 2009T657) known as Near Holt (Behr 2010, 56ff., 81). B-bracteate Description: The central image of the B-bracteate (IK 604,2) is die-…
Created on: Friday 14th October 2011
Last updated: Thursday 16th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Holt', grid reference and parish protected.