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Record ID: NMS4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman gold solidus of Gratian.
Created on: Friday 13th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK SOUTHERY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS43
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold posy ring, inscribed 'remember mee'. There are traces of black enamel left in the inscription. It is a very charming piece being so small in size, but as it is otherwise plain and bears no assay marks, it is very difficult to date with any accuracy. There is certainly no evidence to date it pre-1700, and it is most likely to be 18th century. It does not therefore fall within the Treasure remit.
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK GRIMSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS64
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular sheet of gold with a projection to one side decorated with four longitudinal grooves. Opposite the projection the sheet appears to have punchmarks or crimping around part of the circumference. There are quite a few accidental indentations which have all been made from the undecorated face, leaving bumps on the decorated face. I suspect that this object may be the back plate from a cabochon pendant, perhaps at an early stage of manufacture or perhaps never made well and later damaged. If I am right, the 'crimping' around the circumference would be to hold a beaded wire border …
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK BEACHAMWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS69
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Neither terminal looks broken - thus object is complete. Ribbon is extremely tangled, but it would seem that intermediate narrowing is roughly central. The 'bar' thus created is currently tightly curved but may not have originally been so. Terminal 2 has flat section leading straight out of ribbon; no.1 is more rectangular and involves a half twist, its faces having sprung from the sides of the ribbon! No real sign of original twisting of ribbon - despite the extensive buckling there seems to be no 'extra-length' along the edges relative to the centre-line. Probably a bracelet, given …
Created on: Friday 10th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK FELTWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS106
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger-ring, complete but bent. The slender hoop (2mm wide) is triangular in section, and each of the upper faces is engraved with lettering between four square bosses; the least worn of these has engraved decoration of a quatrefoil with a central circle. It is possible that the lettering should be read along one face to the boss, then back along the other face, and so there are 5 words or phrases. Only those on the shoulders are clear enough to read; one seems to say +AV [boss] MIE and the other +AM [boss] IA. James Robinson has seen the ring and feels that the lettering was pro…
Created on: Friday 5th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEYBOURNE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS177
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman openwork gold finger-ring, now flattened, but not otherwise damaged. The hoop consists of two square-sectioned wires giving a width of 6-7mm, joined with a series of tightly-coiled C-shaped volutes also in square wire. There are ten of these, facing inward at the bezel from the centre back. The bezel is backed with a rather rough square of gold sheet and is virtually circular; there are four small gold grains where the hoop wires are attached. The setting is about 7mm in diameter, and contains a cabochon-cut garnet with an almost flat surface. The ring appears to be late Roman, …
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK CAWSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS246
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and sapphire medieval finger-ring. Oval bezel, flat at back, with milled border. Central raised sub-oval collet with pale to mid blue stone still in place (termed 'sapphire' in the Treasure Annual Report, so perhaps analysed at the British Museum). Bezel of a noticeably redder gold than hoop. Plain slender flat-section hoop which appears to be soldered to the bezel at the shoulders. Height 23mm max. Width 18mm max. Probably 13th century.
Created on: Friday 8th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WIVETON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS247
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring. Central lonzengiform collet with four claws. Rounded bumps at base of both lateral claws. Stone missing. Scalloped shoulders. Heavy moulded cable hoop, tapering slightly to base. Immediately below both shoulders the cabling is decorated with two moulded oak leaves. H. 26mm. W. 24mm max. cf. Oman 523. Probably 15th C.+
Created on: Friday 8th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 25th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK REEPHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS261
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
D-section gold finger-ring, inscribed on inner face with Rather die then faith denie x. Traces of black enamel in the inscription. Internal diameter 18mm. Weight 7.86g (0.253 troy ounce). On examination at the British Museum it was found to be 18th century, and thus not treasure.
Created on: Thursday 21st June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK SHIPDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS931
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Edward III quarter noble, Transitional period 1361-63
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BILLINGFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1467
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post medieval gold mourning ring, flattened D-sectioned hoop, internal dia.17mm, engraved stylised skull with small fragment of black enamel, within the hoop an engraved inscription reads: J Keen Serjt. At Law. ob 23 June 703 æt 55 (J Keen Sergeant at Law. Died 23rd June 1703 aged 55). Mourning rings, often of gold with black enamel inlay, were distributed as memento mori to funeral guests. Four similar examples from Norfolk have been published recently in Norfolk Archaeology (Ashley and Rogerson 1996, 42, 385-6 and Gurney 2001, 43, 707). Ident. S.J.A. 13.ix.02. The deceased must be …
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 9th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH TUDDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS1607
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Ornamental gold finger-ring with a thin hoop with deeply engraved foliate ornament on the shoulders, once filled with enamel, and a deep rectangular box bezel with arcade pattern all round containing remains of pale blue enamel. The stone is missing and the hoop has been squashed out of shape. It weighs 1.85g. There are very close parallels for both shape and decoration among the mourning rings of the 1660s and 1670s in the British Museum. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BAWBURGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1611
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold post-medieval posy finger-ring, broad plain band (width 7mm, internal diam.19mm) with inscription around the inner face: Rather dye then fayth denye * Weighs 9.04g, 0.32oz. The inscription, with variant spellings, is recorded by Joan Evans (English Posies and Posy Rings, Oxford, 1931, p. 90) in a manuscript of 1596 and in Loves Garland, a compilation of posies published in 1624. Early 17th century. Compare NMS261.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK NORTH ELMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS2259
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A 6th century gold bracteate, found whilst searching with a metal-detector as part of an archaeological investigation. The bracteate is made of gold. The central design is carried out in well-executed pressblech technique, and is of an animal in Style I, a basic ribbon-shaped animal with the eye close to the loop, but with limbs nearly unidentifiable, around a central 'dimple' (seen on some other bracteates). The central design is enclosed within three concentric rings of punched decoration. The outer ring is on the edge of the disc and gives the impression of a bead rim. These i…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 7th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CLEY NEXT THE SEA', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS1380
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
?LBA/ BA incomplete penannular gold ring, made of gold sheet surrounding a core of an unknown material. One end is sealed while the other (broken) shows the section of gold sheet surrounding the core. Weighs 3.22g, diam. 15mm, diam of core 4mm.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SKEYTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS2465
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late 15th or early 16th-century gold finger ring with traces of white and possibly pink enamelling, and ?red stain on a cross-hatched background. Four claws would have held the (now missing) stone in place. Diameter 19mm. Weighs 2.27g. Ident. K. Hinds 13.3.03
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORWICH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS560
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold posy finger-ring, D-sectioned, bent, original internal diameter 17mm. Inscription around inside reads: 'Knitt [n']one by god alone Stamped B, Goldsmith's mark ?17th century
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK BURNHAM MARKET', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS570
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Heavy gold finger ring. Plain hoop with 'D' shaped section. Unmarked. 21mm diameter. Possibly late medieval 15th / 16th C.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 25th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BLAKENEY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS571
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger-ring, broken, hollow-cast, beading around outside edge of oval setting for glass intaglio engraved with bird (?hawk) displayed, on grass knoll, pale green colouring behind intaglio, most of loop missing, late 18th/ early 19th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WIVETON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS610
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
?BA gold finger-ring. The ring is plain though decorated with a pinched midrib running around its circumference. The midrib is beaten flat in some places, and in others has formed a break. The surface is not smooth although the quality of the metal is very good. Diam 20mm. Thickness less than 0.5mm. Width of band 7-8mm. Weighs 2.08g. The ring was squashed when found, and was taken to a jeweller who is responsible for its present circular shape. The jeweller perfomed the acid test and determined the ring is 24ct.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SHIPDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.