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: NMS-A13EDD
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon gold C-bracteate. The repoussé decoration depicts a highly stylised horse and over-large bearded male head in profile facing right with four pellets below his triangular nose, a round eye with two lines indicating the lower eyelid and a hairstyle ending with a round coil and tail at the back and a triangle with a spiral in the front. The horse has a triangular ear, gaping mouth and small eye. Between the broad neck and the lower trunk are two dots. Above the large round hip and tail are two further dots. One short hindleg ends in a broad foot. The front legs are detached …
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lessingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F32792
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circumstances: Found while searching with a metal detector. Found at some time between 1992 and 2005. The object was not previously reported and was found in the finder's "junk" drawer during 2007. Finds made by M. Slaven, who has carried out metal detecting wholly within Norfolk, occur on 32 sites recorded with the Norfolk Historc Environment Record. Of these 28 are located in the parish of Sporle with Palgrave, one is a single Norfolk no provenance object, one is located on Mundesley beach and two lie in the parish of Newton by Castle Acre, which marches with Sporle wit…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NMS-F0D5E7
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete early Anglo-Saxon C-bracteate in good condition. Circular gold sheet bracteate with repoussé design with a slightly left of centre anthropomorphic bearded face, with hooded eyes and cowled head. Curving around the head to the right (as viewed) is a zoomorphic sinuous beast with a long curving neck or body and crest-like lines going to the edge of the bracteate. The beast's head is in profile with a single eye and long gaping mouth or beak. In front of the face appears to be an animal head with two pointed elements, possibly ears, and a la…
Created on: Thursday 10th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Brooke', 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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2753D1
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Flat fragment of gold bracteate which has been made by hammering thin sheet gold over a die. It was originally circular, c. 39mm in diameter, but now only about a quarter of the circumference survives with edges that are a little longer than the radius. The curved edge has a short fragment of D-section plain wire frame surviving, soldered on for a short length and then bent over to the reverse; it looks as if the flat face of the wire was soldered to the edge of the disc. Inside the framing wire, the bracteate has an undecorated zone around 3-4mm wide, then a ring of punch…
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Spatial data recorded.