Record ID: NMS-DC24D2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base gold stater of the Iceni, so-called Freckenham or Boar Horse B type, obverse back-to-back crescents, reverse a horse right, annult below muzzle, star below and beaded circle behind head, weight 5.22g, c.10BC-AD42
Created on: Monday 6th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th June 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6C0C82
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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.

Record ID: NMS-D53905
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold ring, probably a finger-ring of unknown date. It is made from thin gold strip, consistently 4.3-4.5mm wide and 0.6mm thick. It is flat on both faces, but more polished or worn on the exterior. There is no obvious seam but there is a slight tear on the inside in one place which might indicate a point of weakness at a join. When found, it was flattened, but has since been bent out to its present irregular shape. It fits neatly and comfortably on a finger, and is approximately 20mm in external diameter. It weighs 2.3g. The ring does not obviously appear modern but there is no e…
Created on: Friday 4th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
Spatial data recorded.

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-79B0CD
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete gold pendant of 7th-century date. Probably originally mushroom-shaped or pelta-shaped, about two-thirds now survives; the missing third includes the suspension loop. It consists of a thin flat backplate with beaded wires soldered to it. The original edge has a very worn beaded wire, and the centre point is marked by a loose anti-clockwise spiral beaded wire. This is flanked by a pair of lines making an inverted V shape; each line is made up of a thicker central beaded wire leading from the border wire andsurrounded by a long U of thinner beaded wi…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-24C88E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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.

Record ID: NMS-271181
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold stater of the Iceni, Boar-Horse C type, Talbot die group 2, appears to be combination F6, weight 4.58g, struck in what is clearly a debased gold, c.30-10BC
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 3rd November 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS743
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold short length of oval-sectioned bar, hammered broad sides, longitudinal striations on curved short sides, granular breaks. Bronze Age or Iron Age.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'TROWSE WITH NEWTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS901
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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.

Record ID: NMS1608
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate gold content of 79%. The ingot weighs 58.2 grams. The ingot is in the form of a narrow bar of flattened oval section with roughly rounded ends; length, 76 mm; width, 10 mm; thickness 6 mm. It is fairly smooth on one side and pitted on the other, especially along one edge. The form is typical of gold and silver ingots of varying sizes of the Early Medieval period found in both the British Isles, on the Continent and in Scandinavia, although gold examples are far less common. They were cast in simple, o…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 11th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST DEREHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-77149D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold post-medieval posy ring. Plain 3.8mm wide D-shaped cross-section band. Internal inscription in Roman capitalised text reads; + LOVE * AND * FEARE * GOD *. The posy has a cross potent initial mark and the individual letters are separated by six-pointed stars. No maker's mark. Dimensions: Diameter 22.0 mm, Weight 3.9g. Discussion: As the ring is plain and has no maker's mark the dating evidence is largely restricted to the posy and its form. The inscription is in capitalised Roman script and there is good evidence for this style on posy rings in the early pos…
Created on: Friday 5th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 6th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-06E591
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description Orthodox-cross-shaped early Medieval gold pendant. The pendant has an upper suspension loop fashioned from a four ribbed strip, formed into a circle and soldered across the top of a three-layered cross made from twisted wire. At the terminal end of each arm of the cross the middle layer of twisted wire is worked into an open trefoil arrangement. On each face of the cross a small spherical pellet of gold is affixed to the central interstice of each trefoil foil. One foil of the trefoil, at the end of the longest arm of the cross, is missing. On the rear face, at the in…
Created on: Friday 12th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CF8A96
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold mourning ring. D-sectioned band decorated externally with a shallow rib at either edge, between which four oval cells alternate with five quatrefoil cells (resulting in two quatrefoils next to each other). The oval cells contain a raised quatrefoil and the quatrefoil cells a raised pellet, originally reserved on a field of white enamel only traces of which now survive. Each cell is connected to the next by a median rib with two pellets to either side which were also probably reserved on an enamelled field, possible tiny black traces of which survive. The internal Lat…
Created on: Friday 9th May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 1st September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-64E70B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold post-medieval posy finger ring, now bent into a sub-rectangular or trapezoidal shape. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section, curved on the exterior with no decoration. It is engraved on the inside, in flowing italic script, Love is the bond of peace. After this is a stamped maker's mark, a rectangular cartouche with widely seriffed capitals reading I K, with a dot between the letters and a small cross after the K, both stops set at a central height. The distortion of the hoop is relatively neat and regular, and appears to have been done …
Created on: Saturday 19th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F06C53
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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
Spatial data recorded.

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.

Record ID: NMS-174AB2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold fragment of a half noble of Edward III, further details illegible, very worn,1351-77.
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-ED1887
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold Iron Age stater of the Catuvellauni tribe, Rudd's so-called Ingoldisthorpe ZigZag type, ABC 2424, Talbot's Ingoldisthorpe stater die combination 6C, c.50 BC.
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2023
Last updated: Sunday 5th February 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A015C6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age gold stater of the East Anglian Region / Iceni, c.50-20 BC, 'Norfolk Wolf' type. Obverse: wreath, cloak and crescents. Reverse: Wolf facing left with bird on back and pellets above, pellet below. As ABC, p. 78, no. 1396-9.
Created on: Friday 21st April 2017
Last updated: Friday 21st April 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-76BB6C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold Iron Age Gallo-Belgic Morini boat-tree type quarter stater. Obverse; possible boat with two occupants. Reverse; tree-like object. Circa 80-60 BC. ABC 40. Diameter 11.8mm, thickness 1.6mm, weight 1.51g.
Created on: Monday 1st May 2017
Last updated: Monday 27th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wood Dalling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-33009A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold quarter stater of the Iceni, Snettisham type, weight 1.03g, dies do not seem to be represented in Talbot, c.40-20BC
Created on: Tuesday 1st October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 3rd October 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-30E3B9
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two gold coins found c. 150m apart. Both are early issues of Edward III, a leopard issued in 1344 and a noble issued in 1351-2. Catalogue 1. Gold leopard (half-florin) of Edward III, third coinage period, issued Jan to July 1344. North 1106. Found doubled (folded in half). Weight 3.51g. 2. Gold noble of Edward III, fourth coinage, pre-Treaty Series C, issued 1351-2. North 1144. Found doubled (folded in half). Weight 7.69g. Discussion: Both coins were found folded in half, so not all their details are visible. Neither have much wear, apart from some scuffing ca…
Created on: Friday 25th October 2019
Last updated: Friday 22nd April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'REEPHAM AREA', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-714884
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold stater of the Iceni tribe, uninscribed right-facing Norfolk Wolf JA type. ABC 1393. Some wear, c.60-50 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-02404B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold quarter noble of Edward III, Treaty series, London mint, annulet before EDWARD, little wear, North 1244,1363-9.
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F870EA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Gold post-medieval mourning ring. The hoop is simple and parallel-sided, but is now bent out of shape. It is a thin, low D-shape in cross-section, with flat interior and slightly curved exterior. The exterior  is decorated with a single engraved skull. The flat inner face exhibits the inscription: “In mem of S A ob 20 Apr 80” followed by the stamped maker’s mark S H. The inscription is in Italic script. The inscription reads upside down when the skull is the right way up. Dimensions: Diameter: 21.2mm (internal diameter: 19.2mm), width: 3.4mm, t…
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2016
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-133AF8
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of thin gold sheet or foil, from an object of indeterminate use and date. The artefact comprises a flat, roughly D-shaped sheet, with a single neat straight edge. A crease follows the line of the straight edge about 2-3mm from it, forming a slight  groove or ridge along the edge. The rest of the object has hammer marks, probably from being beaten into its flat sheet form. Although the straight edge appears to have been neatly cut (or scored and folded until it broke), it is not clear if the straight edge is part of the form of the …
Created on: Saturday 8th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-553AC3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:  Composite gold object with glass and possibly gem settings. It comprises a rectangular strip of gold bent into a loop with a visible joining seam, now partially split. The loop is now squashed out of shape. The band exhibits a vertical seam approximately 10.8mm along its length, visible on both exterior and interior faces, although largely obscured by applied decoration on the exterior; the decorative scheme clearly designed to disguise the join (see below). On one side of the seam is a second vertical join, visible only on the inside of the strip, possibly indi…
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Aldborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F42719
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold stater, Gallo Belgic E type with blank obverse and reverse with horse right, weight 6.21g, c.55-50BC
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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-8BC638
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A gold finger-ring of the type known as a puzzle ring. It consists of three interlinking gold hoops, each with a sub-square cross-section with rounded angles. The hoops are now bent and mis-shapen. One has tightly spaced transverse grooves around all faces, now worn smooth in small areas; the other two are undecorated. The gold is deep yellow, suggesting it is relatively pure. Dimensions: Each hoop has a cross-section of c. 1.5mm square, and was originally c. 20mm in diameter. The entire puzzle-ring weighs 4.3g. Discussion and Date: Similar puzzle-rings ha…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Friday 24th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Newton Flotman', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0F87A2
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tremissis or pseudo-tremissis of the 7th century, which has been pierced and gilded for use as a pendant. The tremissis is a coin type widely issued by the Merovingian Franks in this period, but also produced by the Anglo-Saxons and Frisians. Such coins were produced in fairly good gold at the beginning of the century, but with the gold contained declining as the century progressed, with the gold increasingly replaced by silver. The design on this example is relatively crude, and could represent either a Merovingian coin or an imitation produced elsewhere. Its gold content is c. 41-4…
Created on: Thursday 10th June 2010
Last updated: Monday 20th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crimplesham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-F45BD5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward I, class 10cf3a, Canterbury, North 1042/1, very worn, c.1307-9
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-84B4AC
Object type: ROD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Length of thick gold wire of circular cross-section, with a fresh granular break at one end and roughly rounded at the other (possibly an old break). It is curved along its length, forming about half of a circle about 35mm in diameter. The outer surface of the curve is smooth but the inner has slight longitudinal facets, as if hammered to shape.  It is slightly crushed and bent at the rounded end, and the damage has caused cracking to the metal here. Dimensions: Unbent length 50mm, bent into half-circle measuring 32.1 x 37.9mm. Diameter of rod 4.1…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 26th August 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-7B3A48
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold finger-ring with posy inscription. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section, with a groove around top and bottom. Between the grooves, the surface of the ring has an evenly hammered surface, as if it has not been polished after construction. The flat interior has an inscription in lower-case italic script, reading If this then me. The engraving of the inscription is black in colour, probably inlaid with enamel, although the actual substance of the inlay is hard to see except on the e of me, where it appears to survive as a bubbly matt substance. Dimensio…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Costessey area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CED7ED
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold and gem finger-ring, the gemstone held in place by four claws. The circular-section hoop is slender, generally 1.4mm in diameter. It flares upwards and flattens in thickness to a tall stirrup-shaped bezel which is just 0.9mm thick. This has a rounded cut-out at the top which wraps around the gemstone at little to form a pair of claws. At right angles to these are two more claws which are apparently integrally cast with the rest of the hoop. When viewed from the underside, there is no back to the bezel nor any kind of collet wrapped around the stone; the two …
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-281204
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold tremissis of Quentovic, moneyer Dutta, obverse VVICCO FIT, diademed bust right, reverse DVTTA mONET, Cross on steps, diameter 14mm, weight 1.34g, Prou 1125/1126, of quite a pale gold suggesting a date in the first half of the 7th century
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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-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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-775561
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Penannular circular ring of late Bronze Age date, apparently made of gold throughout. The ring is almost circular in cross-section, with a flat facet around the interior. The ends are cleanly made across the thickness, forming a straight narrow gap 1.8mm wide at most. The ends are neat and flat, but cracked slightly implying that the gold may be a thick plating over a core of different material. The ring flares slightly in thickness, from 4.2mm wide and 4.8mm thick at the ends to 4.6mm wide and 5.1mm thick in the centre. The gold is an even co…
Created on: Friday 18th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 23rd March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-FD9EBA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gold finger ring in very good condition. The hoop is circular, the same width throughout, and D-shaped in cross-section with decoration on the convex exterior. The decoration is incised and punched, and inlaid with black enamel. It consists of four panels of two repeated designs. Design 1 is a rectangle with one forked or swallow-tailed end and one pointed end, forming a pennant shape. The point contains oblique ridges alternating with rows of beading; the rest of the shape is filled with incised plant-like motifs made from short gr…
Created on: Monday 21st September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-56A0CE
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold pierced imitation coin of early-medieval date, probably early 9th century; probably intended as a pendant. Description: A gold disc, struck with a design on both faces. Each face has a beaded border, originally very neatly placed around the edge, but in places now worn to a plain ridge. Within this is an imitation inscription mainly consisting of radial raised strokes, virtually all of which have raised dots at either end.  The centre of the design consists essentially of three horizontal rows of short vertical strokes on the obverse, and five …
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-522CD9
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Early Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet pendant, oval and slightly narrower at the apex than at the base. The sheet back-plate is rolled forward at the upper end to make a suspension loop with four longitudinal ribs. The setting comprises a dark red cabochon stone, presumably a garnet, with an off-centre angled polished face, set within a plain collar formed from a strip of gold sheet, the join clearly visible. This is surrounded by an outer border of two plain narrow ribs either side of a beaded wire rib. Dimensions: Length (including suspension loop) 19mm. Maximum width 10.5m…
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2016
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

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-A203FE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold posy ring. The hoop is of even width and D-shaped cross-section throughout, although with some wear. The curved exterior is undecorated, and worn to a matt finish. The flat interior is more glossy, and has the inscription in neat seriffed capitals BE. FAYTHFVL. TO. THY. FREND. The two final letters are ligated.  Dimensions: Exterior diameter, 20.5mm. Width of hoop, 5.1mm (worn in some places to 5.0mm). Thickness of hoop, 1.5mm (worn in some places down to 1.2mm). Weight, 5.5g.  Discussion: This is a fairly small but relatively wide…
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-D5565B
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Piece of gold rod, probably a small fragment of a flange-twisted or bar-twisted torc with three flanges, now bent into a spiral of two full turns. One end is original, with a rounded tip and neat triangular cross-section. From the rounded tip, the terminal flares slightly for c. 10mm and runs straight, before starting to coil. As it starts to curve, each face becomes concave so that the cross-section is Y-shaped, and the rod is then neatly twisted as well as bent into a coil. After two full turns the rod is apparently cut or broken. It is…
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-075348
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold annular brooch of medieval date, with inscription. The frame is circular with a triangular cross-section, flat and undecorated on the reverse. The inner angle of the front  is decorated with a groove within which is a line of fine, neat beading; under a lens it can be seen that this has been stamped, as each bead is surrounded by a slight upstanding circle. The outer angle has an inscription in seriffed capitals which is not immediately readable, and is discussed below. The frame is interrupted by a constriction for the pin. The gold pin survives…
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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-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
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.

Record ID: NMS-E95041
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An assemblage of artefacts from an early Anglo-Saxon female furnished burial. Each object is discussed in turn below. 1. Merovingian coin pendant with (detached) gold suspension loop Pale gold solidus of Sigebert III (634-56), minted in Marseille, pierced in order to be riveted to a suspension loop, now detached. The suspension loop comprises a rectangular strip of ribbed gold sheet with one terminal curved over into a loop. The strip has a small circular perforation at the other terminal for a lost rivet that would have fixed it to the coin. The loop is apparently of higher qua…
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2015
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH NORFOLK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-342C53
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
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.  Each of the panels is filled with two longitudinal rows of punched dots, some set in pairs and others offset to give a zig-zag effect. The punch…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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-EC2F91
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Gold finger-ring set with a flat-cut stone, probably a carnelian. The hoop is a narrow rectangular-section strip which does not flare to the shoulders, but widens and flattens slightly right at the slightly rounded ends, which are soldered to the reverse of the bezel a short distance apart. The bezel is almost circular, and has a gold backplate to which the ends of the hoop are soldered. The edge of the front of the backplate is covered by a plain wire, with a slightly smaller circle of two-ply twisted wire soldered on its top. The next layer, again sli…
Created on: Monday 27th July 2020
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-0B9111
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger ring with a narrow D-sectioned band, now slightly distorted, which expands and thickens slightly before the bezel which is formed from four rectangular collects arranged around a central, slightly larger rectangular collet to form a cross. Three of the four outer collets retain table cut stones, the central collet a point cut stone, identified as diamonds. The rim of each of the four outer collets is defined by engraved lines with angled engraved lines between on one edge of one collet, forming a border. The edge of each face of the outer collets is further defined by an …
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Banningham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CDAFBE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Large gold finger-ring with internal posy inscription and external decoration. The hoop is of even width throughout, and the exterior has a bold groove around either edge, with a convex surface in between. This is decorated with neatly engraved ornament, worn in places, consisting of oblique reserved strips (strapwork) between engraved lozenges each containing a five-petalled flower or rose in the centre, with stems and leaves filling the narrower corners. The diagonal lines give a twisted or cabled effect to the outside. The flatter (but still slightly convex) …
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th 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.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-15F76C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold mourning ring of late 17th- or early 18th-century date. The hoop is of even width throughout, and is D-shaped in cross-section. It is decorated on the outer curved face in one place only, forming a bezel, where a simplified skull motif has been added by engraving. The skull is turned in a three-quarter pose, with each side made from a V-section groove which runs across the outside of the hoop in a curve. The face is made up of two hemispherical depressions for rounded eyes, a triangular nose between, and a short oblique groove above the nose. Below the…
Created on: Wednesday 29th July 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-3B67FB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold quarter stater of the Iceni, Snettisham type, weight 1.11g, c.50BC-AD42
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 2020
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-301849
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Gold posy ring. The hoop is of even width and D-shaped cross-section throughout, although with some wear. The curved exterior is undecorated, and worn to a matt finish. The flat interior is more glossy, and has the inscription in neat lower-case italic letters: Let vertue be thy guide.  At the end of the inscription is a stamped maker's mark reading SL within an oval cartouche; it has been stamped so that it is the right way up when the inscription is upside down. The thicker parts of both letters are double-stranded, and there are two small points on the re…
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-BF5C43
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale gold Freckenham type stater, Talbot's Boar Horse B with crescents on obverse and a horse on the reverse, Talbot's die combination D6, weight 5.07g, c.20BC-AD20
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2E07D4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of punched gold sheet, comprising a flat, pointed oval piece with a jagged transverse break at either end. One face is decorated all over with punched annulets, and the other side is undecorated. Both faces are heavily scratched. Dimensions: Length: 19mm, maximum width: 12mm, minimum width: 4.2mm, thickness: 1mm, weight: 1.2g. Discussion: This fragment is of uncertain function, but feasibly could be from the bezel of an early medieval gold finger-ring. Sheet metal finger-rings with wide bezels decorated with punches are typical of the ninth to tenth centuries in…
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2018
Last updated: Sunday 10th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CFF3F5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold posy ring. D-sectioned band decorated externally with a foliate design consisting of two stems each with two pairs of leaves before a flower, originally reserved on an enamelled field of which only a tiny pink trace of which survives. Inscribed internally in lombardic script +CAVE+CVI+CREDAS (be careful who you trust) followed by a foliate sprig. Date: c. early 16th century. Dimensions: External diameter 21mm. Internal diameter 17mm. Width of band 4.5mm. Weight 3.7g.
Created on: Friday 9th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2EAB72
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold Gallo-Belgic quarter stater, weight 1.44g, devolved designs on both sides, c.60-50BC
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-AF2E74
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold quarter stater of the Iceni, Irstead type with reverse horse left, weight 1.07g, c.30BC-AD10
Created on: Tuesday 27th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 21st August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2656E9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold halfcrown of Henry VIII, uncertain initial mark with HR and crowned rose, curled over into a tubular shape and hence most details illegible, 1526-47 
Created on: Monday 16th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-ACE619
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
One Roman gold aureus, addendum to a hoard now numbering nine coins. Six aurei (coins 1-6) were reported as 2017T827 (NMS-297275), and two more (coins 7-8) as 2020T277 (NMS-0D30F3). This single coin (coin 9) brings the total to nine. All were declared Treasure in Norwich on 5th Feb 2021. Description: A Roman gold aureus of Augustus (31 BC-AD 14), dating to the period c.2 BC-AD 4 (Reece period 1). C L CAESARES (in exergue), AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT reverse type depicting Gaius and Lucius Caesar facing resting hands on shield, behind each shield a spear, abov…
Created on: Friday 24th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'The Broads Hoard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-297275
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
"Near Norwich", Norfolk hoard. This case covered six aurei, with two further batches containing a further three coins, making a total of nine aurei in this hoard (2020T277, two coins; 2020T84, one coin). All were declared Treasure in Norwich on 5th Feb 2021. 2017T827 Description: A hoard of six gold aurei of Augustus, all minted at Lugdunum (Lyon).   Catalogue: No. Obv. Rev. Mint RIC (Vol I) Die axis Weight (g) 1. AVGVSTVS DIVI F; Laureate head right …
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'The Broads Hoard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F3A5F9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Quarter stater of the Iceni, Irstead type, struck in a typical somewhat debased gold, weight 1.11g, c.20BC-AD10. 
Created on: Thursday 25th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-0D30F3
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Two aurei of Augustus found in the same area as six other coins recovered previously (2017T827, NMS-297275) and representing an addendum to that group. Each carries a peck mark on the obverse, similar to the peck marks noted on the other coins. The pecking would have been carried out to check that the coins were of gold and not plated forgeries. Date: The lack of any coins of Tiberius implies that this hoard was assembled in the early 1st century AD, probably in the first two decades of the century, in the late Iron Age, and well before the Roman Invasion of AD43. Late Ir…
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THE BROADS HOARD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C2FF83
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete gold artefact of possible middle to late Bronze Age date. It comprises a strip of sheet gold with worn transverse breaks at either end. Now bent approximately mid-way along its length at an obtuse angle, probably after deposition; the bend shows stress marks and there is a small tear at the apex. Both surfaces have traces of hammer marks, indicating that it was hammered flat from a thicker wire or bar. Dimensions: Length (bent): 49.5mm, approximate unbent length: 66.7 maximum width: 11.8mm, minimum width: 8.5mm, thickness: 0.8mm, weight: 3.8g. Discussio…
Created on: Friday 2nd November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-5B55DC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post-medieval gold finger-ring with posy inscription. The exterior of the hoop consists of a central D-sectioned strip bordered above and below by a narrow groove, each in turn bordered by a D-sectioned ridge. The hoop is now distorted out of shape, with a number of nicks and dents around both edges. There is no maker’s mark. The inscription on the inside reads, in seriffed Roman capitals, NOT x THIS x BVT x ME. Dimensions: Extant diameter 23mm, width of band 8mm, thickness 1.5mm, weight 5.0g. Discussion: Oman (1974, 40-41), notes tha…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5C0A89
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval gold finger-ring with a pseudo-inscription on the exterior face. Narrow circular loop with plain flat inner surface, the flat outer surface engraved with a pseudo-inscription containing a combination of lettering travelling in a combination of conventional and retrograde, the S lying on its side, presumably to fit the width of the hoop. The letter forms appear to vary between Roman and Lombardic styles. Dimensions: Diameter 19mm (internal diameter 17.2mm), width 2.8mm, thickness 0.8mm, weight 1.1g. Discussion: Artefacts such as fi…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8B955E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Iron Age gold stater of the East Anglian Region / Iceni, c.50-20 BC, 'Norfolk Wolf' type. Obverse: wreath, cloak and crescents. Reverse: Wolf facing left with bird on back and pellets above, pellet below. As ABC, p. 78, no. 1399; BMC nos. 218-278.
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-4875A5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Gold mourning ring. A simple D-section hoop of consistent width throughout, with engraved decoration in one place on the convex outer face forming a stylised skull bezel seen in a three-quarter view looking to the viewer's left. The edges of the skull are each formed from a bold V-section curved cut which bites deeply into the metal. The face is made up of two roughly round dots for eyes, and an inverted V-shaped nose between; this is all set off centre, towards the left-hand cut, giving the impression of the three-quarter view. Below are the teeth…
Created on: Friday 16th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6E9398
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold annular brooch with pin constriction and projecting clasped hands. The circular frame is mainly triangular in cross-section, but this is interrupted by the pin constriction at 12 o'clock, the clasped hands at 3 o'clock, and two quatrefoil flower bosses at 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock. The pin constriction has a tiny transverse ridge to either side. The clasped hands have the thumbs uppermost, and the fingers above the thumbs are very slightly separated, but not apparently enough to hold something like a bead. The space in between has some hard so…
Created on: Friday 30th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cawston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2F9812
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold ANTED type stater
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E37992
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold stater of the Corieltauvi, 'Kite' type, Van Arsdell 825-1, weight 5.09g, c.50-30BC
Created on: Thursday 23rd May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-71554C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold signet finger-ring of early post-medieval date. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section, with the interior flat or very slightly convex and the exterior more strongly convex. It flares from a minimum of 2.85mm wide and 1.4mm thick at the back of the hoop, to vertical shoulders. The bezel is oval and flat, making the ring D-shaped in side view, and is set longitudinally, The arms are quartered and the blazon is: Quarterly, (1) A fess engrailed between three fleurs-de-lis, (2) on a fess between two chevrons a crescent, (3) a chevron between thre…
Created on: Wednesday 14th October 2020
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-AEC678
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Biconical gold bead: sheet bead of biconical profile and annular form, probably cast. The wall is of constant thickness and slightly rough inner face. No join is visible to the naked eye. Weight: 0.74g; Diameter: 10.5mm; Internal diameter: 5mm; Width: 6.5mm
Created on: Monday 7th January 2013
Last updated: Sunday 3rd March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-BA0D2D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of gold sheet, probably of the Anglo-Saxon period. The bend is almost at right angles. To one side of the angle, one face is decorated; a triplet of straight grooved lines, the central one minimally wider, starts close to a finished straight edge and runs to a break. The lines are flanked on either side by a scatter of punched annulets (about 1mm in diameter), part-annulets and large dots. On the other side of the angle, the sheet is undecorated, although it has bends which may have formed a loose corrugation. It has a short length of original edge which mee…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FE0563
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Circular gold stud or mount, inlaid with cloisonné garnets with curved tops to form a hemispherical domed boss. There are also detached fragments of garnet and gold foil, bagged separately. The object was originally built up on a gold sheet backplate, but this is now largely missing apart from a narrow strip around the edge. Onto this was fixed the cell walls, made from thin gold sheet, which form a central cross with a stepped or T-shaped cell at the end of each arm. There are therefore eight cells, one at the end of each arm and one in each of the …
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norwich area', grid reference and parish protected.

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-FDD7E8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
 Gold mourning ring dated 23 September 1805. The ring has a wide hoop, of even width throughout but now crumpled in one place. It is decorated on the exterior with a beaded ridge to top and bottom, two plain ridges within this, and a central band of relief lettering reading ELIZ: SHERMAN. DIED. 23. SEP: 1805. AGED. 81 The stops vary, sometimes colons but mostly central pellets. There is a space-filling motif, probably a rosette or flower, between the start and end of the inscription. Although the lettering is very neat, the workmanship is untidy, with lots of engraving scrat…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C3580F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval gold iconographic finger ring. The flat-sectioned hoop, now squashed, has zigzag edges and deep transverse grooves giving the impression of two flat bands twisted around each other, which meet the elongated hexagonal bezel without forming shoulders. The bezel is engraved within a single line border around a nimbed saint wearing a v-necked, belted robe with elbow length sleeves, one hand raised in blessing, the other holding a book or box on which sits the Lamb of God looking over its shoulder at a cross emerging from its back. No seals hang from the book. The sai…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FEB8BF
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: 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.

Record ID: NMS-7EE0BD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold quarter noble of Edward III, London, fourth coinage, Pre-Treaty, Series G, North 1191, very worn, 1356-61
Created on: Saturday 10th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 10th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-90F486
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E04116
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete medieval to post-medieval gold finger ring. The bezel is oval, mimicking the shape of the stone. The upper half forms a collet with concave sides, open at the top to house an oval gem, constructed in a so called 'pie-dish' style - popular in the thirteenth century. The mouth is now bent out of shape in places. The lower face is divided from the upper by a circumferential ridge, the edges crimped (a feature characteristic of rings from the later 14th century) and has tapering sides and a flat bottom. The setting is a dark pink-red cabochon gem, possi…
Created on: Friday 29th March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-01E153
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval gold finger ring or posy ring. D-sectioned band, now distorted, engraved internally with an open hand and heart before the inscription More loue cannot giue (i.e. 'More love cannot give') and a stamped maker's mark, G within a rectangle. Width of band 4mm. External measurements 23 x 15mm. Weight 2.59g. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A1B392
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age composite penannular gold ring, now almost straightened, comprising two ribs formed from separate c-sectioned bars with convex upper faces and hollow on the reverse, joined longitudinally. One end is complete and unbroken, the other slightly distorted, the join between the two ribs separated at the terminal, but either cut very neatly or also complete. Penannular rings with c-sectioned ribs are a well-known Middle Bronze Age artefact type. For similar rings see LIN-D7E6D1 and ESS-E9CCB4 (two ribs), BERK-A5FFE5 and HER43133, Norfolk (multiple linked rings), ESS-CB3683…
Created on: Monday 20th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-ACBFA4
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Slightly distorted Middle Bronze Age gold penannular composite ring formed from three D-sectioned strips of gold probably soldered together and now separating at several points, with straight, blunt terminals. Each of the D-sectioned strips has slightly raised edges internally. Width of band 8.5mm. Thickness 1.5mm. External measurement of ring 15 x 14mm. Weight 3.8g. Composite penannular rings formed from C-sectioned, D-sectioned or sub-circular strips or bars, are a well known Middle Bronze Age artefact type as single finds or forming part of sets of linked rings. See for example NM…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E93EBA
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Penannular ring of probable Bronze Age date, probably from a composite (multiple strand) ring. It is C-shaped in cross-section, with a convex outer and a concave interior. The width of the ring is very consistent but the two ends do not sit quite in line, as if the ring has been slightly bent out of shape. There is a c. 1.5mm gap between the two ends, one of which is slightly incurved and the other slightly outcurved, as if they once joined. The top and bottom edges are neat and parallel, but one is more highly polished than the other, which has a narrow roughened str…
Created on: Friday 15th May 2020
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-80A21B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold stater unit of the Iceni, Norfolk Wolf type, obverse wreath, cloak & crescents, reverse wolf right, bird on back & pellets above, weight 6.1g, ABC 1393, c.50-20 BC. Field BR
Created on: Wednesday 7th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C3FEF2
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete gold ingot, long with rounded ends and oval cross-section. One surface is smooth with a few large dents; the other is pitted with very many small dents. One end is slightly wider and substantially thicker due to a rise in the pitted surface; the smoother surface is fairly flat. The colour is very slightly pale, suggesting a relatively impure gold. Dimensions: Length, 40.9mm. Maximum width, 13.3mm. Maximum thickness, 8.8mm. Weight 37.39g.  Discussion: This ingot is quite distinctive; it is long, with rounded ends and cross-section, o…
Created on: Thursday 24th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.