Record ID: NMS-AC6495
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold finger-ring with enamelled decoration on the outside and posy inscription on the inside. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section, rounded on the outside and flat or very slightly convex on the inside; it has a consistent width. On the inside is an inscription in italic lettering reading Yours', with a tail after the s which looks like an apostrophe. On the outside is engraved decoration filled with opaque white, translucent green and translucent yellow enamel. The exterior decoration consists of alternating green motifs and white or yellow flow…
Created on: Friday 21st January 2022
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-538775
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Part of a Roman gold earring with relief decoration. It is circular in shape and made from two thicknesses of sheet cut to shape, with a D-shaped projection at the bottom which has been pierced to form a suspension loop. The decoration is in relief on both faces, and there is a rim around the perforation on both faces, making it difficult to know which face is the front. Part of what would have been the upper edge has been torn away and the whole pendant is crumpled. There was surely another hole in this missing portion of the disc, to a…
Created on: Monday 17th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 17th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F9E01F
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold Medieval quarter noble of Edward III. Treaty series, London mint. North 1243, c AD1363-1369. Obverse description: Shield quartered with arms of England and France, within a double-stranded tressure of eight arches, lis in each internal angle of the tressure. All within an inner circle. Obverse inscription: EDWARD DEI GRA REX ANGL (double saltire stops). Reverse description: Floriated cross with a lis at the end of each limb, a lion passant guardant above a lis in each angle of the cross and a lis at the centre of the cross. All within a double stranded tressure of eight arches co…
Created on: Saturday 1st January 2022
Last updated: Saturday 1st January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Swaffham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DF6591
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  Gold A-bracteate, consisting of a thin gold disc, stamped with a design and with a suspension loop added. The design consists of a human head in profile looking left, with a hand in front of the chin holding a spray of flowers, and shoulders turned to face the viewer. The head has fine parallel grooves indicating hair, running from the crown to a fringe above the eyes, and interrupted by a double scallop-edged line (like two lines of flat beading) forming a headband or 'diadem' running around the forehead just above the eyes. The top and back …
Created on: Monday 6th December 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-2867A9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold finger-ring with enamelled decoration on the exterior and an inscription on the interior. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section and consistent in width. with a slim, flat border around either edge, which has broken away in places. The convex exterior is decorated with a design in panels, each filled with a reserved gold design against a background of black enamel; much of the enamel is now missing. The panels are separated by five slightly taller S-shaped motifs, set transversely so that they interrupt the flat border around each edge. Each&…
Created on: Monday 15th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CF923E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold finger-ring with rectangular-section hoop. The exterior is engraved with a mix of Roman and Lombardic capital letters, reading + SALVZ DE LVI. DVNT. IO MVI. + (Greetings from he whose.....). The letters all have small serifs, and are slightly clumsy in execution. The Z is reversed (like an angular S); the As have straight bars across the top and downward-angled central bars, the E is round-backed; and both the Ds are unusually shaped. The Ts and Ms are Roman in style. Dimensions: The external diameter varies slightly, but is around 19mm.…
Created on: Thursday 11th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 28th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-81CA76
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Rectangular piece of gold sheet with repoussé and punched decoration, of early to middle Bronze Age date. The decoration consists of three longitudinal panels, each one made from a pair of relief lines or creases with  corresponding grooves on the reverse, so either pushed out from the reverse (the repoussé technique) or hammered over a shaped former or patrix. The effect is to give the two undecorated strips a slightly raised feel. Each of the three decorated panels is filled with two longitudinal rows of pun…
Created on: Sunday 7th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-40E56D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base gold stater of the Iceni, so-called Norfolk Wolf type (uninscribed Series JB) with debased head of Apollo/Wolf left, struck in a very pale, silvery coloured alloy, c.50-20BC
Created on: Monday 11th October 2021
Last updated: Sunday 17th October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B04606
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two gold aurei of Augustus, addenda to a hoard now numbering eleven coins. Coin 10 was found on 8th August 2021; coin 11 was found on 29th January 2022. Catalogue: 10. Gaius and Lucius type, reverse showing the emperor's two grandsons who predeceased him (RIC I, no. 206, mint of Lyons). Weight 7.80g, date 2 BC to AD 4. This coin has a similar peck to the obverse field in front of the emperor's face to the other nine coins, surely a check mark to ascertain it was not a copy.   11. Augustus, aureus, reverse showing eagle grasping wreath (RIC I, no…
Created on: Monday 4th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'The Broads Hoard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-328A7C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold finger-ring with decorated hoop, set with a green gemstone. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat interior and a curved exterior. It tapers in width very slightly from 2.2mm wide at the shoulders to 1.9mm wide at the back of the hoop, and is a consistent 1.1mm thick. The hoop is decorated on the exterior with engraved saltires alternating with overlapping punched annulets. This decoration extends from the junction of hoop and bezel to just beyond the widest point of the ring and ends with a neat transverse groove, leaving the rest of the hoop, opposite t…
Created on: Tuesday 28th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 14th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-888EA0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Eastern British Iron Age gold stater of Cunobelin, minted at Colchester (type: ABC 2786 / BMC 1809). Obverse: CA_MV flanking corn ears. Reverse: Horse leaping right over CVNO. Neatly pierced with an oval perforation measuring c. 2 x 2.4mm, placed at approximately 4 o'clock (obverse) and 9 o'clock (reverse). Another failed attempt at piercing from the obverse is visible slightly below and to the left of the hole. It is a coppery or pale yellow colour, suggesting a gold of relatively low purity (although still in excess of the 10% required to qual…
Created on: Wednesday 8th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 26th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6FB5EE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold quarter stater of the Iceni, Snettisham type, appears to be a pale, rather debased gold although at present (20/7/2021) only images have been seen, c.10BC-42AD
Created on: Tuesday 20th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 22nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9E37B2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold noble, probably of Henry V, fragmentary, scuffed, torn and bent, the only letters legible are on the obverse [...]nC?[...]B Z AQ, matching nobles of either Henry IV or V, weight 4.03g, 1413-22.
Created on: Monday 28th June 2021
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-771AA7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold finger-ring with narrow rectangular-section hoop, undecorated on the exterior. The ring is now bent. At one point on the hoop there appears to be a scar or crack, with a small extra strip of gold soldered on to the interior, perhaps a repair. To one side of this and perhaps slightly obscured by it is a crudely scratched inscription in hard-to-read letters that run the full width of the hoop. It may start with a cross (emerging from under the solder) and then read K M C S (the C looking like a reversed D). There is then a short gap, then two more letters, C I and perh…
Created on: Monday 14th June 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A03A04
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small hemispherical or plano-convex gold button, now incomplete. The circular front is domed and has a few shallow dents, showing that the button is hollow. The back was flat, but is now slightly concave; a soldered seam is visible in a few places around the edge. Two stubs of a loop survive in the centre of the back, with a crack around them suggesting that the broken loop has been pushed a little way into the hollow interior. Dimensions: Diameter 11.8mm, thickness of button without loop c. 5.0mm, height with remains of loop 5.4mm. Weight 1.60g. Discussion: This is…
Created on: Friday 4th June 2021
Last updated: Thursday 8th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A58368
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold quarter stater, Icenian, Rudd's so-called Irstead Dubno type, Ancient British Coinage 1471, Talbot Made for Trade p.186 where it is styled a Boar Horse B type, weight 1.01g, c.30BC-AD10
Created on: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 16th November 2021
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Record ID: NMS-3B5DA9
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold ring or oval loop, now squashed flat in the centre, but probably originally roughly circular. Each end has a slightly concave exterior, but the rest of the hoop is rectangular in cross-section. The top and bottom faces of the hoop have fine oblique scratches, probably from finishing with a file; the interior also has less tidy longitudinal striations. The exterior has an irregular central line of scattered indentations, probably peck marks, running along either main face; one edge has two cut marks and two possible peck marks, and the oth…
Created on: Thursday 6th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-81FAC8
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold sword pyramid, square-based and low in height. Each of the four sides is inlaid with three cloisonné garnets in two designs, matching on opposing sides. Design 1 has a T-shaped cell at the top which is probably best described as a truncated triangle with a stepped-out base, like an arrow or Christmas tree shape. This is above two symmetrical garnets divided by a vertical cell wall, both garnets therefore L-shaped. The other, Design 2, is more unusual, with the lower left-hand garnet having a stepped boundary with the other two, whi…
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D8F162
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold gem-set finger-ring, now distorted and missing one of the original three stones. It has a narrow hoop with a low D-shaped cross-section, and a square central bezel with torn side walls, now missing its stone.The central bezel was conventional in manufacture, with a gold baseplate and rectangular walls soldered on to make an open-topped box. Each shoulder has a small oval secondary bezel, placed along the axis of the hoop; both are set with dark green cabochon-cut stones or domed glass settings. The surface of the settings is rough, perhaps suggest…
Created on: Wednesday 7th April 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E6ED94
Object type: JEWELLERY
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold element from jewellery, set with a blue cabochon gemstone. It is an irregular oval or sub-triangle, made to accommodate an uncut gem. It consists of a flat backplate with a central circular scar, and an upright plain collar which curves very slightly inwards to fit over the lower part of the gem, holding it in place. The polished, translucent stone is slightly domed in cross-section, curving to a flat top; it may be a sapphire. The overall cross-section is largely rectangular. Dimensions: Length 9.2mm, width 7.8mm, th…
Created on: Thursday 18th February 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Holt', grid reference and parish protected.