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Record ID: NMS-C93A25
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Gold ring, probably a large and heavy finger-ring. It is a plain hoop without a bezel, oval or D-shaped in cross-section with rounded edges; the outer face is more rounded, and the inner face gently convex. The surface is uneven with slight facets, and has some small pits; it may have been cast and hammered to shape. Dimensions: External diameter 25.8 - 26.1mm. Internal diameter 19.9 - 20mm. Thickness 3.6 - 3.8mm. Weight 7.81g. Discussion: The object appears hand made. There are several parallels on the PAS database, all of si…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-54BB84
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Description: Heavy but small gold finger-ring set with an intaglio engraved with a horse facing right (left in impression). The ring is of Guiraud's type 2c and Henig's type II. The hoop is biconvex in cross-section, flaring from a minimum of 2.6mm wide and 2.2mm thick at the point furthest from the bezel into smooth, undecorated shoulders which in turn swell into the oval bezel. The oval intaglio is pale brown in colour. It is raised from the surface of the bezel and its sides are sloped and rounded, exploiting the layered nature of the stone so that the horse is cut ag…
Created on: Wednesday 4th January 2023
Last updated: Sunday 31st March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-90F486
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Gold finger-ring with bezel set with a dark red intaglio gemstone. The gemstone is complete, and although the gold components are now broken and crushed, they are also largely complete. The hoop is made from three strands of beaded wire arranged to form a triangular cross-section, with two strands side by side forming the inner surface and the third strand added in the centre. The third strand, standing proud on the outer surface, is now very worn. At the shoulders, the three strands flatten out and spread, with the central strand butting up…
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-538775
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find 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-F06C53
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Gold earring of Roman date, probably of Allason-Jones's type 11. It appears to consist of two layers of thin circular sheet backplate, both now crumpled but originally 14mm in diameter. In the centre of the front is a smaller circular sheet element which may once have been three-dimensional but is now crushed flat. A circular-section wire hook emerges from the reverse. It tapers as it curves out and around to form an apparently well-preserved hook in the shape of an open loop; the wire has a blunt end which is slightly recurved. Dimensions:&nb…
Created on: Wednesday 13th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F7910D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find 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-8FC367
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Crumpled and perhaps incomplete piece of gold sheet. It appears roughly circular in shape, but has one original straight side with a slightly burred thickened edge. This edge was c. 23mm long but is now bent about halfway along, with one half irregularly folded back on itself. The disc has a straight, slightly raised repoussé band parallel to the straight side and probably at the object's widest point; the band is about 3.5mm wide. Between this band and the straight edge are four rounded repoussé bosses which look like deliberate decoration, and seem too regular to be c…
Created on: Thursday 4th June 2020
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Holme Hale', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-453EDD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
A gold Roman solidus of Magnentius (AD 351-353), dating to the period c.AD 351 (Reece period 18). VICTORIA AVG LIB ROMANOR• reverse type depicting Victory right holding palm over left shoulder, Libertas standing left holding transverse sceptre, both of them holding the shaft of a trophy between them. Mint of Aquileia. As RIC VIII, p. 327, no. 137. Weight 4.27g.
Created on: Friday 2nd August 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-F56DAE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: A cut half of a gold semissis of Constantius II (AD 323-361), dating to the period c. AD 340-350 (Reece period 18). Reverse type GAVDIVM POPVLI ROMANI, depicting the legend SIC/V/SIC/X within a wreath. Mint of Arles. The coin has been deliberately cut across the centre, with a single cut creating a neat vertical edge with transverse striations. Dimensions: Length along cut edge 16mm. Width perpendicular to cut edge 8mm. Weight 1.14g. Discussion: A semissis of this type is listed in RIC VIII, p. 207, no. 61, for Constans, with a solidus in the same series for Constantius …
Created on: Friday 5th July 2019
Last updated: Sunday 14th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-6C0C82
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
A gold Roman aureus of Faustina II (AD 147-175) struck under Antoninus Pius, dating to the period c. AD 145-161 (Reece Period 7). CONCORDIA reverse type depicting a dove right. Mint of Rome. As RIC Vol. III, p. 94, no. 503b.
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-601732
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Incomplete Roman gold finger ring of keeled type. It has a plain, flat circular bezel with the shoulders tapering to either side. Both shoulders are flat and have moulded scrollwork decoration. At the tip of each shoulder the loop becomes D-shaped in cross-section, decorated on either side with three radiating lines. The loop terminates in an old break on either side. One long edge is squashed and abraded. Dimensions: Length (bent) 31mm, maximum width 8.5mm, minimum width 2mm, maximum thickness 2.5mm, minimum thickness 0.9mm, weight 3.8g. Discussion: This fing…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2020
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Record ID: NMS-24C88E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Fragment of a Roman gold finger ring of Guiraud's (1989) Type 4g. The bezel is missing. The remaining portion of the D-sectioned loop exhibits an old break at either end and has been flattened out. One end remains slightly hooked. At the shoulder are two applied oval knops which would have flanked the bezel on either side. Date: c. AD 43 - 409. Dimensions:Length: 26.9mm maximum width: 6.3mm, minimum width: 3.1mm, thickness (including shank): 2.5mm, weight: 2.4g. Discussion: Similar examples reported as Treasure and recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme databas…
Created on: Friday 7th September 2018
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-7D2DB6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Gold aureus of Hadrian (AD 117-38), dating to AD 119-22. Obverse: IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Reverse: P M TR P COS III, Roma / Virtus standing left with spear and parazonium. Mint of Rome. RIC II, p. 348, no. 66. Weight 6.07g. Field AS1
Created on: Wednesday 7th June 2017
Last updated: Monday 26th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-7EB9E8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
A gold Roman aureus of Vespasian (AD 69-79), dating to the period c.AD 70-71 (Reece period 4). [FORTVNA]-AVGVST reverse type depicting Fortuna standing left with rudder and cornucopiae. Mint of Lyon. As RIC II (2nd ed.), p. 140, no. 1116.
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-FEB8BF
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete gold sheet object, comprising two joining fragments, probably an earring of Roman date. It is in the shape of a round-shouldered or 'kite-shaped' shield, bent (and probably folded and then unfolded), with three vertical creases and broken along two probable horizontal creases. There is a small perforated lug in the same plane at the apex. The pointed lower end of the shield is missing, and approximately just over half survives. The original edges have a border, perhaps added to reinforce the flimsy sheet. Traces of the damaged repoussé decoration on the …
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leaden Roding', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-788C89
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Fragment of gold sheet from an unidentified object. The sheet is folded forming a front and back-plate the edges of which are torn, except for the lower edge of the back-plate which appears neatly cut, and the straight folded edge. The front-plate is decorated with a row of stamped dots above a row of repoussé pellets parallel with the folded edge, the lower edge possibly torn along a third row of pellets or dots. Surviving dimensions 12 x 7mm. Weight 0.4g. Although ancient (over 300 years old) the decoration would be consistent with a Bronze Age, Roman or Early Medieval date, and…
Created on: Friday 10th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-065376
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Roman 'Brancaster type' gold finger ring. Flattened D-sectioned band expanding smoothly to two integral transverse projections which support the separate soldered, engraved rectangular bezel, leaving a transverse rectangular aperture below. The bezel is now slightly distorted at an angle to the band. Internal diameter 13 - 15mm. External width 19mm. Height 18mm. Bezel 7 x 7mm. Weight 3.7g. 4th - early 5th century AD. The intaglio inscription, in three lines, reads (in impression) DOM/NICA/VIVA[S], translating as 'Long life to you, Domnica (or Dominica)'. The name Domnica is atte…
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Fakenham', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-BFEEA4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Roman gold finger ring. Flat-sectioned band expanding smoothly from the rear to the bezel with a separate strip of gold soldered to form an oval setting for a cabouchon stone, probably garnet, which appears black in daylight, but red under strong light. The ring is complete but distorted. Mid - late Roman, 200 - 400 AD. Width at bezel 7.5mm. Weight 4.6g. Original external diameter (estimated) 16mm. For similar rings with flat, expanding bands and separate settings or bezels, see FAPJW-AB59E5, LIN-22EEF2 and NCL-772344.
Created on: Monday 14th October 2013
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Ellingham', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-EB64B8
Object type: NECKLACE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Roman flat, gold openwork link or part of clasp, probably from a necklace or similar item of jewellery. Formed from rectangular-sectioned cut strips of gold, an originally oval or circular frame around three pelta-shaped strips arranged with curved backs meeting in the centre and spiralled ends touching the frame. There is a circular suspension loop on the outside of the frame at one end retaining a fragment of knotted circular-sectioned wire, and a broken loop at the opposite end. Surviving length 17mm. Surviving width 10mm. Thickness 1mm. Weight 0.6g. See a rectangular lin…
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 29th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-47DCF4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
A single Roman gold coin, a solidus of Arcadius, found in exactly the same area as a hoard of 26 late Roman gold solidi and 4 silver siliquae discovered in 1993. This coin is plainly part of the same hoard, missed during the 1993 excavations. It was struck in 394-5, a date that exactly accords with the latest coins in the hoard and its crisp, almost mint state, similar to that of the other coins of this date present, suggests that it had not been in circulation long when the hoard was buried. Arcadius, solidus, mint of Milan, Roman Imperial Coinage volume IX, 35b (September 6, 394 t…
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Hingham', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-B9A004
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Thin gold sheet disc, now distorted, with repoussé decoration consisting of a central eye surrounded by (clockwise) a horse / winged horse or lion, phallus, crab, phallus, snake or tendril with leaf-shaped terminal, scorpion, an arrow, and a bow and arrow. There is a border around the edge of the disc consisting of an outer cable-like line and an inner beaded line, through which are two circular piercings about one third of the circumference apart.. Compare a similar but un-perforated repoussé gold disc with a winged phallus and a cantharus flanked by winged griffins from Colch…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Keswick', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-8B1007
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Roman gold finger-ring with red glass convex fronted setting in an oval collet surrounded by a scalloped collar. The hoop is a narrow strip that widens into sub-triangular shoulders with scalloped edges and two pairs of oblique grooves. External diameter 18.5mm. Internal diameter17.5mm. Collet 12.5 x 10.5mm. Weight 2.65g. 3rd - 4th century.
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sedgeford', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-CCD9E2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Gold aureus of Nero, Rome, obverse NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS, laureate head right, reverse CONCORDIA AVGVSTA, Concordia seated left, RIC I, no. 48, AD64-5
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 13th March 2012
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Record ID: NMS-03E2C3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
A gold finger ring, now distorted, with a flat-sectioned hoop with an overlapping soldered join. The hoop is decorated externally with unevenly spaced transverse hammered depressions, which are very worn in one area. There is a crack across the hoop, possibly across an old break which, in antiquity, has been mended internally with gold solder. There are no internal marks. Width of hoop 3mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Original external diameter c. 22mm. Similar to an example in Crummy (1983, 48, fig.50, no1770). Probably Roman.
Created on: Thursday 21st April 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pulham Market', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-94CA46
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
A gold pendant in the shape of a phallus. Straight, oval sectioned, hollow, formed from sheet metal soldered together lengthways, rounded at the terminal with a small aperture left open at either end. A separate transverse loop formed from triple ribbed sheet is soldered into position at the top, with separately applied solid globular testicles to either side. Separately applied wire with irregular transverse grooves on the underside (perhaps to act as keying for the solder) defines the edge of the foreskin. Length (including loop) 21.5mm. Width at testicles 10mm. Width 3.5 x 4.5mm. W…
Created on: Monday 14th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hillington', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-AF4E73
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Fragment (about a quarter) of a gold 'Brancaster-type' finger ring with a wide hoop, flat on the reverse and very slightly convex on the outer face. The hoop expands very slightly before the raised rectangular bezel, which is engraved with a bird standing on the ground, holding a leafy branch in its beak, with its head turned to face its tail. The band is broken to either side of the bezel. A small part of one break has been polished by the finder to test the quality of the metal. Roman. Late 4th - beginning of 5th century. Bezel 7 x 7mm. Band 5mm wide at break. Weight 2.11g.. I…
Created on: Monday 10th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gosberton', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-541A06
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find 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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Record ID: NMS-CBBA11
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Gold fragment, probably of a late Roman finger ring. A lozengiform setting, now empty, with a border of gold pellets around the outer edge, with clusters of projecting pellets at intervals. The backplate has been cut to fit the projecting pellets, except where it extends slightly beyond the setting at one corner of the lozenge, which may have been part of the shoulder of the ring, and at the opposite corner, where the breaks are ragged. Granulation as a decorative technique became more popular in the fourth century, although this trend began in the third (Johns, 1996, 50). 3rd - 4th c…
Created on: Friday 27th March 2009
Last updated: Monday 7th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pulham Market', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-E9F975
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Description of find Tiny gold Roman finger ring, probably for a child. Damaged along the edges. Faceted band divided into nine oval segments, each with a median arris. At seven of the constrictions between segments are two transverse engraved lines, presumably missing from the other two due to wear. Additional Measurements Internal diameter 11.5mm, external diameter 15mm, Band width c. 4mm. Weighing 1.4g.
Created on: Friday 20th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 5th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with bittering', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-E7D6B7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Incomplete gold crossbow brooch with a sheath foot, crossbar and pin missing. The top of the trapezoidal-sectioned, highly arched bow broadens to a bifurcation, beyond which both arms are distorted and broken; they appear originally to have curved around the missing crossbar. On both sides of the split there is chip-carved decoration, with three V-sectioned notches on both edges, and between them an engraved saltire and single horizontal line. The base of the bow is decorated with several transverse engraved lines on the front face. There are three faintly engraved longit…
Created on: Friday 20th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-BA3386
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Gold aureus of Tiberius, mint of Lyons, 14-37
Created on: Friday 22nd June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMS-ED43
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Gold aureus of Trajan (AD 98-117), COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, Rome, AD 103-111
Created on: Monday 19th March 2007
Last updated: Thursday 16th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-7BEED8
Object type: AMULET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
A Roman gold amulet or talisman, comprising a rectangular plaque (lamella) of thin gold sheet, lightly incised with a text in a mixture of Greek and Latin characters and magical symbols. There appear to be nine lines of text across the short axis of the plaque and two additional marginal lines on the right side of the long axis. Creasing of the soft metal of the plaque (there are seven 'fold' lines) shows that it was originally rolled into a tube, with the text on the inner face. It was unrolled by the finder. Such amulets, inscribed with secret formulae, were worn as a protectio…
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 31st May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK BILLINGFORD', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS901
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Gold Roman finger-ring, two transverse incised lines define flat rectangular bezel, rounded shoulders on either side taper to very narrow back of hoop (now bent and distorted, internal width 17mm, weight 2.79g)
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUXTON WITH LAMMAS', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS177
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find 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: NMS4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find 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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