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Record ID: NMS-5767C8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver coin of Henry I, Quatrefoil with piles type, moneyer Wulfrard of Sandwich, North 863, weight 1.36g, c.1111
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-99877A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch, complete with silver pin. The frame of the brooch is circular, thick and flat to make a rectangular cross-section. The pin is held in a constriction, and has an open loop. There is a transverse double moulding at the junction of loop and shaft, below which the cross-section of the shaft is D-shaped or trapezoidal.  The frame is engraved on both faces with letters which read clockwise from the pin constriction. Because the pin has a clear front and reverse, it is possible to identify the front and reverse of the frame too; the…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-6858CD
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete silver mount or dress fastener. One half (the lower half) is flat and undecorated with a curving lower edge. The other half has decoration of two high-relief C-shaped scrolls with their backs towards the flat half and their points upwards The point of one scroll has been lost, but the surviving scroll is open at the top, and appears to be in the shape of a flat ribbon which is wound up at either end, and the inner end bound to the inner end of the other scroll. Between the two scrolls, and partly within both halves, is a sub-oval o…
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-02D016
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Late medieval gilded silver strap-end of hollow box form, decorated on both front and back. It appears to have been made from four pieces of silver soldered together, with no evidence of an internal spacer plate. The strap-end tapers slightly from the open end, and has a pair of concave curves running to a point at the closed end. There are two silver rivets at the open attachment end, The sides of the strap-end are undecorated but all surfaces (apart perhaps from the rivets) are gilded. The front is decorated with a rectangular frame made from a groove aro…
Created on: Friday 6th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roudham and Larling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F720E6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver finger-ring of 'iconographic' type, with clasped hands on the hoop. It is a fairly large ring, with the hoop generally of D-shaped cross-section. The gilding survives very well on both interior and exterior, with just a few areas (mainly around the edges) worn to show the underlying silver. The bezel is roughly triangular in cross-section, and is divided into two longitudinal concave fields with a central ridge. Each field is decorated with a crudely engraved human figure in three-quarter pose looking slightly towards the central ridge. They see…
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-5E1D57
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Medieval gilded silver seal matrix of unusual form and fine craftsmanship. It is circular, thick and flat, with a recessed reverse. The die has a complicated central motif, described from the impression. On the left is the standing figure of the Madonna or Virgin Mary, with the Christ Child held in her arms towards the centre of the matrix. She is crowned and her face is towards the viewer, with hair or a veil to the sides; her right arm is bent across her body, and she has an obliquely draped skirt. The child is held in her left arm and his head is in side view,…
Created on: Thursday 18th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-3AB171
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver cross-shaped pendant of medieval date, with AGLA inscription. It has a central thick flat circular lobe and four oval-section arms. Three of the arms end in globular knobs; the upper arm has a similar knob, but then continues to a large, probably soldered-on oval loop, pierced from side to side. The central lobe has engraved decoration on both faces, consisting of a circular border with letters within. On the front the letters read AG, with the G suffering from corrosion, and on the reverse they read LA, with the A being turned at right angles so…
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-403598
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilded copper-alloy buckle plate with worn, corroded decoration, probably of a wyvern. It is roughly square (20.8mm wide and 19.0mm long) with two projecting hinge loops, both of which are broken. The front is decorated with a bird-like animal in profile facing right (towards the attachment end) originally apparently engraved and gilded, but not enamelled. Much of the surface is now missing, but the remains of oblique or zig-zag lines can be seen at either end, probably the remains of rocker-arm engraving. The centre of the plate is filled with the bird or animal, which …
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-078751
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch. The frame is small, circular and a low D-shape in cross-section, with a constriction for the pin. It is now bent, broken across the constriction, and the pin is missing. The frame is decorated on the convex front with engraved and stamped decoration; held with the constriction at the top and reading anti-clockwise, the engraving consists of a transverse groove, then four saltires, then a half-saltire ending in a D-shaped recess. The lozenges and triangles thus formed are filled with triangular and sub-triangular punchmarks which se…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-070E37
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of medieval silver annular brooch, with a slim circular-section frame interrupted by two small irregular bosses both decorated with annulet stamps giving a 'brambled' effect. Both breaks are immediately after the boss and both are granular and unworn. The frame is now bent so that it is difficult to suggest an original diameter. Dimensions: Length of fragment, 25mm. Diameter of frame between bosses, 1.8mm. Thickness of bosses, 3-4mm. Weight 0.9g. Discussion: This type of annular brooch, with a circular wire frame interrupted by normally four bramble…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-38F2DE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Tiny silver medieval annular brooch. It has an almost circular, D-section frame with a constriction for the silver pin. Opposite this is a pin rest, and both pin constriction and pin rest are flanked by animal heads pointing towards them, perhaps intended as biting at them. Each of the four animal heads has relief ears, eyes made from annulet punches, and nostrils made from single dots. If the pin constriction is held at 12 o'clock, then at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock is a slightly expanded raised oval zone of oblique grooves wit…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7DD71B
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl, 31-32mm in diameter and 11-12mm tall. It has a flat underside, with a slight concentric groove, and a smoothly domed top which is decorated with five evenly spaced curving radial ribs or ridges, each c. 2-3mm wide. The central perforation is almost cylindrical, flaring a little from c. 9.5mm at the top to c. 10mm wide at the bottom. It weighs 57.2g.  Excavated parallels with good dates are few, but seem to centre on the late medieval period, perhaps 14th or 15th century.
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7DA399
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy medieval annular brooch, now very corroded and with much of its surface missing. The frame is 30.1mm in diameter, and was originally rectangular in cross-section, with rounded corners; where it survives best the frame measures 4.7mm wide and 3.0mm thick. It is undecorated, but has a pin constriction 3.3mm wide and a short, V-shaped nick forming a pin rest opposite this. The pin does not survive. It weighs 5.2g. It is fairly similar in proportions to a decorated copper-alloy annular brooch found in a context of c. 1270-1350 in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1313).
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-188BC9
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy book clasp of Howsam's type A.3, made from a thin strip of copper-alloy sheet mostly 14.2mm wide, with one end flaring to 15.4mm wide before being broken. The break is across the outer of two concentric grooves around a rivet hole (blocked with iron corrosion), with a second similar motif around a second rivet hole in the centre of the clasp. The other end of the clasp has a flat, slightly tapering, turned-under hook. It has further decoration of three transverse rows of fine rocker-arm ornament between the central circles and the hook, with a V shape of…
Created on: Friday 13th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EC89F6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy leg from a medieval cooking vessel. It is roughly rectangular in cross-section, 32 x 14mm at the break, with a very slight midrib down the centre. It flares smoothly to the out-turned foot, and there is no break between the two. The foot is triangular in side view, with a trapezoidal base 39mm wide at most and 22mm deep. It is 47mm long and weighs 109.5g. There is no particularly close parallel in Butler and Green 2003; it is fairly similar to one from a 14th-century context in Winchester (Biddle 1990, no. 3386).
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EC471B
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a medieval gilded copper-alloy strap fitting, probably from horse-harness. It consists of a single rectangular plate, 9mm wide and 2.5mm thick, slightly rounded on the front and flat on the reverse, with half of a rounded loop at one end which appears to have worn through. The plate has two circular rivet holes through it, one at either end. The object is very corroded, but the angle between plate and loop has preserved some surface, and there is a little around the upper rivet hole, and some on the reverse too. There are traces of gilding around the rivet hole. …
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 19th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D815F6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilded copper-alloy buckle plate, now incomplete. The flat D-shaped upper plate survives, broken at the hinge loops and now bent. It is decorated with a border of engraved ladder pattern made up of a double border with transverse lines between, forming squares. This border runs in a straight line across the plate behind the pin slot, and then hugs the curved edge. Within the border are three rivet holes, two of which retain copper-alloy rivets with slightly convex round heads. The plate has a rough brown surface with patches of green, and traces of gilding. Length c…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D6903A
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilded copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, now very worn. It is in the shape of an upside-down fleur-de-lis, with a suspension loop projecting from the top (the centre of the stem). The loop is pierced from side to side, although the small hole is now blocked with copper-alloy corrosion. The body of the pendant is thin and flat, slightly convex on the front and concave on the reverse. Much of the edge is missing, but the fleur shape, with side lobes incurved on their undersides, is clear. No decoration survives apart from small patches of gilding. Length 36.1g,…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C98E64
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of copper-alloy binding strip or mount, probably from furniture, a box or casket, or similar. It is D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat reverse and curved top. It is broken at both ends and has vaguely zoomorphic decoration. Surviving length 75mm, width of wider part 13mm, maximum thickness 5.3mm, weight 16.3g.  At one end it is broken across a circular rivet hole c. 3mm in diameter; here the break seems fairly fresh. The hole has punched dots around it and there is a trace of an oblique groove. There is then an undecorated area c. 25mm long, with a similar rivet hole ne…
Created on: Friday 16th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9E18ED
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy quillon from a knife or dagger guard, probably of medieval date. The object is cast in one piece, and is broken across the end of the hole through which the iron tang would have passed (fairly fresh break). Beyond this it turns a right angle downwards, and then there is a C-shaped curve, points upwards. The rearmost point, where it springs from the rest of the object, is a flat oval platform. The curve then acts as a neck, because the other end is shaped into an animal or possibly human head, with dots on the sides for ears, dots on the front for eyes, and a V-section…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9DAFF0
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Book clasp of Howsam's type A.3, probably 15th or 16th century, now slightly bent. It is made from two sheets of copper alloy, a front sheet with flared end and hook, and a shorter rectangular backplate, joined by a copper-alloy rivet. The front plate is mainly 9.1m wide, the flared end broken across a rivet hole which is surrounded by a groove. There is decoration of neat transverse grooves, perhaps in pairs, now hard to see; other decoration may now have vanished. The hook is 3.6mm wide. Length 44.0mm, maximum width 10.7mm, thickness of front plate 0.7mm, weight 2.4g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Friday 19th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-85E1C1
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a copper-alloy purse bar of Williams's Class J. It is broken across the hole through the undecorated central block (worn break). The bar is oval in cross-section, 5.0 x 4.3mm in the centre, and the terminal is globular, decorated with perhaps seven worn curved, twisting ridges and grooves. Total surviving length 44.2mm, block 12.1mm tall, terminal 11.5mm diameter, weight 12.5g. Late medieval or early post-medieval, c. 1450-1550 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-85810F
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. It is crescent-shaped, points downwards, with a sturdy oval suspension lug in the centre of the convex edge, pierced from side to side by a small hole and with a ridge running across the base of the lug at the front. The body of the pendant has lost either end (worn breaks) and in between has a zig-zag lower (incurved) edge. It is decorated with double parallel lines of punchmarks forming a border around the upper edge, and a zig-zag pattern springing from the base of the lug, with each of the lower points of the zig-zag join…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8488EE
Object type: MIRROR CASE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of one half of a medieval copper-alloy mirror case. It is circular, 31mm in diameter, with a flange around the edge 3.3mm thick. Within the flanged inner face is a thin grey coating, with a patch of white corrosion in one part of the angle that probably represents the cement originally holding the glass. The flat outer face is decorated with grooves made up of punched dots, although detail is unclear as the surface looks like it has been dissolved away, with bare metal in places. The grooves form a central simple cross within a circular border, with an L shape in each an…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-83C951
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring, circular (25-26mm diameter) and of hexagonal cross-section, with filemarks on the outer angles. Solidly but not particularly neatly made, perhaps a little worn on the interior edges. 3.5mm thick, 3.5 to 4.5mm wide, weighs 5.2g. These rings probably had many uses, from brooch or buckle frames to harness rings, curtain rings and so on. The filemarks on this one probably indicate a medieval date.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-708A83
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy openwork mount of medieval date. About half of a (presumably originally circular) roundel survives, with a frame c. 3-4mm wide surrounding a central motif whose surviving part consists of three arms, the central one oval and the two flanking ones narrower and curving outwards. Beyond the frame, in line with the oval arm, is a large projection in the shape of a fleur-de-lis, with a groove across the rectangular base. The mount is flat, mostly 2mm thick, but has an integral circular-section rivet on the reverse of the lis which brings the overall thickness to 5.5m…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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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
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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
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Record ID: NMS-6EB2F9
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of gilded silver pilgrim badge, now bent and cracked, showing a figure and a dragon. The fragment is cast in one piece with a flat reverse and relief-decorated front. It is L-shaped, with part of a horizontal base which the vertical figure stands on the left-hand end of. The surviving part of the base is decorated with a dragon's head in profile looking towards the figure, with a long pointed ear, rounded brow, and an open mouth from which a tongue protrudes. Beneath the head is a pair of short forelegs bent forwards. In front of the dragon, an…
Created on: Friday 30th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Topcroft', grid reference and parish protected.

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-9A9CB9
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three silver medieval coins, all halfpennies of Edward I. Catalogue: 1. Irish halfpenny of Edward I (2nd coinage) minted in Dublin. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB / CIVITAS [DVB]LINIE Diameter 14.7mm, weight 0.65g. Withers Type 1 (1a or 1c), Spink (2015) no. 6250. Date: 1280-1284. 2. Irish halfpenny of Edward I (2nd coinage) minted in Waterford. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB /  CIVITAS VATERFOR Diameter 15.03mm, weight 0.68g. Withers Type 2e, Spink (2015) no. 6254. Date: 1281-1284. 3. Halfpenny of Edward I (class 3b) minted in London. EDW R…
Created on: Tuesday 20th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2023
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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
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Record ID: NMS-9EBBDC
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy sheet fragment, possibly part of an end-cap from a late medieval knife handle. The surviving part is slightly convex and sub-rectangular, with at least two surviving corners (and possibly a third) cut off at an angle. Perhaps around half survives, with an incurved V-shaped worn break which has pitting around. This is probably simply the remains of corrosion bubbles, but it could possibly have once been decorated with punched dots. There is no trace of an original central perforation, and as the concave reverse is almost completely covered with the remains of solder, i…
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-06D11A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small fragment of copper-alloy medieval finger-ring with probable glass setting. It consists of a raised sub-conical bezel with a sub-circular sunken centre in which there is an incomplete shiny turquoise setting, probably glass. There is a broad groove or step across the bezel to either side of the setting, making a kind of shoulder, after which the hoop tapers to the breaks. The entire object, including the breaks, is worn. Surviving width from side to side, 13.0mm. Surviving length parallel to this, 6.7mm. Thickness (width of bezel) 5.1mm; depth of bezel (thickne…
Created on: Thursday 1st September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F39CB4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper-alloy medieval mount in the shape of a crowned facing head. The crown is very schematic, being a triangle with oblique grooves suggesting a central trefoil. Below this, the face is convex, rising to a central point between the eyes, and equally schematic; it consists of a pair of triangular grooves, bases facing each other, forming eyes (half-obscured by corrosion) and two diverging oblique grooves indicating the nose. Below the chin is a tiny stub of neck. The reverse is hollowed, and has a spiked rivet in the centre. Rivets on mounts such as these …
Created on: Wednesday 31st August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A9A693
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy near-complete object, probably part of a knife handle. Made from cast copper alloy, one end is a short hollow tube, retaining some of the original edge at this end. In cross-section this end is heptagonal or seven-sided, with a narrow facet at the top and sides, and a pointed base. The junction between this and the other, flatter end is marked on either side with a ridge marking out a hexagon. In the centre of this, the cross-section is angled in and the base flares out, resulting in a long cross-section the shape of a knife blade, with a narrow flat to…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-131983
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy medieval thimble, probably dating to the 14th century, with bare crown and punched dot indentations. It has a straight unthickened rim decorated with two grooves. Above this are very gently curved sides covered with a fairly neat grid of small punched indentations in vertical and horizontal rows. The indentations continue in rings around the lower part of the domed crown, but are absent from the top. In the centre is a small hole, slightly larger than the indentations. Diameter at rim, 14 to 14.5mm. Thickness at rim, 0.9mm. Height 11.6mm. Weight 1.7g.
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1198BE
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy suspension mount from a horse-harness pendant. It is T-shaped, and both bars are triangular in cross-section. The horizontal bar has an integral circular-section rivet at either end, one retaining a circular sheet copper-alloy rove. The vertical bar of the T is split, with both halves piereced to take a hinge bar. There is iron staining around this but the bar itself looks copper-alloy. The object is 19.2mm long and 18.0mm wide, with one rivet bent out slightly adding to this width. The better-preserved rivet gives a total thickness of 7.9mm. The sh…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-11573E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy annular brooch with circular frame 26mm in diameter. The frame is rectangular in cross-section, 3.1mm thick and 4.3mm wide, and is decorated on the front with a pseudo-inscription. This is divided into alternating panels with geometric grooves resembling lettering, and eight zones of fine rocker-arm engraving.  There is a narrow pin constriction in one rocker-arm panel, in which a slender copper-alloy pin survives complete. It has a loop with butt joint at the end opposite the shaft, and a tapering D-section shaft. There is a ridged collar at the juncti…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-10EB32
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy medieval horse-harness pendant, now very worn and corroded. The body of the pendant is flat and oval, 28.7mm long and 32.4mm wide.  The loop at the top brings the overall length to 37.8mm, and thickness to 6.5mm; it has a circular side-to-side perforation. The pendant is decorated on the front with an unclear asymmetric pattern of wide curves, possibly a bird or animal; compare Ashley 2002, nos. 187 and 188.
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-10AE56
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy outer plate from a large medieval composite strap-end. It is flat and sub-rectangular, with the closed end shaped into a shallow point with a small flat knop, now bent. The rectangular attachment end has the remains of a copper-alloy rivet at each corner, and a near-circular cut-out in the centre. The front has decoration, with a short groove running inwards from it (known as a grooved aperture) and the remains of rocker-arm engraving where the surface survives. Too little remains of this to be certain of the pattern. On the reverse are marks from a…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 27th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-EAFD04
Object type: CROSS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy enamelled and gilded mount from a processional cross in very good condition. It is flat and T-shaped, depicting the eagle of St John. The wider end or bar of the T is at the top, with rectangular corners to the top of the bar but rounded concave corners below, curving in to a narrower stem. Around three edges, but not the narrow base, is a border of pale blue-green enamel with inset gilded squares forming a kind of ladder pattern; within this is a very narrow gilded inner border. The base has a crescent shape of mid blue shading to white enamel, with a dark green cen…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-22C16B
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead papal bulla, probably of Gregory IX (1227-41), cut across in antiquity and very worn since. Originally circular, the bulla has been chopped horizontally just beneath the upper line of text on the obverse. There is an off-centre vertical line of bending and cracking on the obverse, and a neat groove in the corresponding position on the reverse, suggesting that the cord has been removed either by bending and cracking open the bulla, or by cutting and the bulla later bending at this weak point. On the obverse, only the worn and damaged letters G R E can be seen, within a borde…
Created on: Monday 16th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-537B2E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver annular brooch, complete with gilded silver pin. Although the brooch is small, the slightly domed frame is wide, with an inner circular aperture and an outer edge shaped into eight points with concave curves between them. The front is covered with relief decoration consisting of a beaded ridge around the inner edge, and plant decoration and pellets filling the rest of the space. Eight stems spring from the central beading and run radially towards the points; they bifurcate near the top, each half curling outwards and downwards to end in an oval flower or frui…
Created on: Friday 6th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-7CCEFB
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Probable pendant made from a gilded silver half-groat of Henry VII. The coin is a Canterbury product, King & Archbishop Morton jointly, tun initial mark, dating c.1490-1500. One edge is now slightly bent. It has been gilded on both faces and a circular hole pierced from the obverse, leaving a slight burr around the edge on the reverse. On the obverse, the hole is to the left of the king's head; on the reverse, it is at the end of one of the arms of the cross, just cutting through but largely inside the outermost beaded circle. The coin ha…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6BB3E4
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Silver seal matrix, flat and oval. The central motif is an architectural canopy or building in two storeys, with a tower to either side with a pointed roof or pinnacle, topped with a trefoil or cross. Each tower has five sets of double lines, resembling string courses, across it; one at the bottom, one at the top, and the others between, making space for four tall narrow pointed arches, perhaps niches or windows. The towers are joined at the top by an angled line with outcurved lines above looking like crockets, making a decorated pitched roof; at…
Created on: Monday 25th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 26th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Holt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-413340
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of finger-ring made from gilded silver. Less than half of the slightly tapered hoop survives, D-shaped in cross-section with a flat, heavily gilded interior. The convex exterior has very battered and worn decoration, probably originally a ridge at the wider end which then turns into a beaded line towards the narrower end. This is flanked by a concave groove to either side which has irregular depressions in the base, perhaps keying for enamel. The breaks are fairly fresh. Dimensions: Length of fragment 14.0mm. Maximum width of hoop 5.1mm, minimum wi…
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 30th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F56E67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Two gilded-silver plates from an annular brooch frame. The frame was made from silver wire, and the plates are both roughly square or lozengiform. The larger plate has a short length of frame still soldered to the reverse, consisting of a curve of slim circular-section silver wire running between opposite corners. The smaller plate has a scar from a similar soldered-on piece of frame. Both plates have identical decoration on the front, of four raised lines crossing to form an eight-point star. The lines are not evenly spaced and the effect is of a cross…
Created on: Monday 14th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F36AC6
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Silver object, probably a badge, in the shape of a large five-petalled Tudor rose, with three attachment holes. The decoration is made in the repoussé technique on thin sheet or thick foil. It is fairly coarse in style, with a central raised area, five inner petals made from outer bands around inner raised areas, and five outer petals made in the same way. All of the petals have straight or very slightly incurving outside edges. The holes are small and circular, equidistantly placed around the edge so that two are in the corners of outer petals and the thi…
Created on: Monday 14th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-BB92BD
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Openwork cross-shaped mount made from gilded copper alloy. One arm of the cross survives intact, if bent; the other arms are all broken off short (worn breaks). The surviving arm is flat, c. 14mm wide, and has a square end with a circular rivet hole 3.7mm in diameter. The rest of the arm has decorative perforations formed from double-strand interlace; this seems abstract, with no obvious naturalistic detail, just a median groove indicating which strand crosses over or under. The other three arms appear to have had similar decoration.  The centre of the cr…
Created on: Tuesday 15th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-BAB152
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy shield-shaped harness mount, probably originally enamelled. It has a straight top and sides curving to a point, and has heraldic decoration within a narrow raised border which probably served to keep the enamel in place. The heraldry is simple and consists of a cross engrailed. On the reverse, in the centre, is a stub of broken-off worn-down or ground-down integral rivet. Next to this is a secondary circular hole 3.2mm in diameter, showing repair or modification for re-use. The mount is 42.1mm long, 35.3mm wide and 2.5mm thick away from the stub of rivet. It weighs …
Created on: Tuesday 15th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D3682E
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy seal matrix with hexagonally faceted conical handle rising to a flattened rounded pierced top with no collar; height 18.7mm. Hexagonal die measuring 15.2mm edge to edge and 16.0mm corner to corner, engraved with a central motif of a six-point star made from three interlocking double-strand triangles (Star of David) orientated with each corner towards a corner of the matrix. In the centre of the star is an engraved motif which appears to be possibly a bird seen in profile right (on the impression) with its head turned to look backwards. In the angles between the corners of…
Created on: Friday 4th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-01ABE1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver coin brooch, made from a gros tournois of Floris V, Count of Holland, 1256-96; the coin was struck between 1266 and 1296.  The front of the brooch has been gilded, with extensive traces surviving especially in the centre. There is no trace of gilding to the rear, and this is unlikely to have been gilded originally. There is some delamination of the silver, with areas of the edge flaking off on both faces. There is a small part of the pin mechanism surviving, made of circular-section wire, soldered to the rear; to either side of this surviving part …
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Erpingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-583EA6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Enamelled copper-alloy circular mount or strap fitting. It is roughly 22mm in diameter and 2.7mm thick, but has a bar on the flat reverse which measures 3.75mm wide, with a broken stub projecting towards the rear at each end, suggesting that there may originally have been a rectangular strap loop on the reverse. This bar is very slightly longer than the diameter, bringing the width up to 24.3mm. The front is slightly convex, and has the remains of enamel decoration; there is a blue background around a five-lobed shape or five-petalled flower. The flower has lost its enamel, leaving a …
Created on: Monday 17th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8F5338
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy chape from a dagger sheath or sword scabbard, made from sheet rolled into a cone and the seam (up the reverse) soldered. The narrower end has been cut into triangular points or notches which have been bent in to close the end. The wider end has decoration on the front, of a horizontal groove a few millimetres from the top, with vertical closely spaced grooves above this forming a ribbed edge. Some of this decoration has broken away along the horizontal groove. The reverse is undecorated. There is a single small rivet hole on the reverse, on the side opposit…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8E5AA0
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap-end in the shape of a bird, with projecting neck and head. It is made from a cast front plate and a sheet backplate, fixed together with two small copper-alloy rivets. The cast front plate has a U-shaped body, with oblique V-shaped notches at the upper corners which define a small, V-shaped flaring tail. The rest of the body of the strap-end is a low triangle in cross-section, and is decorated with bold criss-crossing grooves which form two Xs and a V, or alternatively two lozenge shapes below a half-lozenge that includes the tail. One of the rivets is in the ce…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8DE329
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded copper-alloy buckle or brooch frame, of unusual type. The frame is circular (if now bent), with a tall rectangular cross-section. The top of the frame has decoration of a groove containing a beaded ridge, which has worn or corroded away in many places.  There is a rectangular notch or recess on the reverse at either side, to hold a now-missing separate bar. Two projections, one at either outside edge, are both bent upwards to form hooks; one is then broken (worn break) but the other is tightly bent back on itself to end in an animal head which looks back towards the…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8D6837
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring-type thimble made from copper alloy sheet, now squashed almost flat. The sides are straight and the walls are relatively thin. The upper and lower edges are unthickened, and each decorated with a single groove. In between, five groups of three parallel oblique lines and one pair of lines are set in alternating directions, forming a kind of strapwork that frames triangular panels. The lines are each made up of closely set double lines of small triangular punchmarks. The triangular panels in between are filled with hand-punched dots set in …
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-74C3D7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hollow plate from a copper-alloy buckle or strap-end. It appears to have been cast with sides, front and back all in one piece, with a single circular rivet hole piercing both front and back in the centre of the open end. The backplate is about 1.5mm thick, thinner than the sides or front which are both c. 2mm thick. The plate tapers from a maximum of 18.0mm in external width at the open end, to 15.3mm wide at the closed junction with the body of the buckle or strap-end. The end of the plate is marked on the front by a transverse ridge, beyond which the object tapers and is broken (ver…
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-64A59B
Object type: HARNESS HOOK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy harness hook. It has a low conical terminal, c. 13.5mm in maximum diameter and c. 14mm in height, and a circular-section shaft 6 to 7 mm in diameter that then curves into a hook. The hook is a faceted oval in cross-section and has a very worn break at its base. Total length 46mm, weight 17.8g. These objects are thought to have been used on medieval curb bits to attach reins ending in strap loops (see https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22017, which has been dated to the 14th century). It is possible that relatively plain ones such as this one ma…
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-5F2BDA
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat but now slightly bent so that the front is convex. Broken stub of perforated lug at the top on the reverse, and small area missing to one edge. Pointed-oval, 33.4 x 22.5mm. Simple fleur-de-lis. + S' : hVGONIS: TUkkE: (Seal of Hugh Tuck). The engraving is neat and expert, with a double-barred N and a Roman E. The thickness away from the lug is 3.3mm, and the weight is 15.8g. 13th century. The surname Tukke (now Tuck) is recorded in Norfolk in the 12th and 13th centuries (Reaney and Wilson, Dictionary of English Surnames, under Tuck) and probably…
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CF923E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold finger-ring with rectangular-section hoop. The exterior is engraved with a mix of Roman and Lombardic capital letters, reading + SALVZ DE LVI. DVNT. IO MVI. + (Greetings from he whose.....). The letters all have small serifs, and are slightly clumsy in execution. The Z is reversed (like an angular S); the As have straight bars across the top and downward-angled central bars, the E is round-backed; and both the Ds are unusually shaped. The Ts and Ms are Roman in style. Dimensions: The external diameter varies slightly, but is around 19mm.…
Created on: Thursday 11th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 28th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-04B885
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Large gilded silver stirrup-shaped finger-ring with clasped hands or fede motif. The tall triangular bezel is topped by a small rounded knop which has traces of gilding around the base, suggesting it may once have been gilded too. At the back of the hoop, opposite the bezel, is the clasped-hands motif; the hoop widens slightly to accommodate the hands. The hoop is bent here, across one of the clasped hands, and there is quite a bit of damage to the metal; but it can be seen that the hands were simply engraved with the thumb of one and fou…
Created on: Friday 8th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-47846D
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Well-preserved gilded silver openwork pilgrim badge depicting St Margaret and the dragon. The saint is wearing a flat-topped crown, below which her hair frames her face; the face has no detail except for a nose. She wears a vertically ribbed garment and holds a book in her left hand and a cross in her right (so the book is on the viewer's right and the cross is on the viewer's left). The book appears to have a clasp on one edge. The cross's shaft is thrust into the open mouth of the dragon, whose belly-up body curves round below to form the edge of the badge; M…
Created on: Wednesday 29th September 2021
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-328A7C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold finger-ring with decorated hoop, set with a green gemstone. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat interior and a curved exterior. It tapers in width very slightly from 2.2mm wide at the shoulders to 1.9mm wide at the back of the hoop, and is a consistent 1.1mm thick. The hoop is decorated on the exterior with engraved saltires alternating with overlapping punched annulets. This decoration extends from the junction of hoop and bezel to just beyond the widest point of the ring and ends with a neat transverse groove, leaving the rest of the hoop, opposite t…
Created on: Tuesday 28th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 14th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4C2A79
Object type: PROCESSIONAL CROSS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large, thick openwork mount made from gilded copper alloy, depicting a winged bull in profile looking left. It is largely circular, but the bull's head breaks the smooth curve and projects upwards slightly. The head looks forward, and has two horns pointing upwards, an ear pointing backwards, and a dished or concave nose. Behind the head, the animal's left wing extends upwards from the back; the right wing is lower, and emerges from the front of the chest, on the other side of the head. Both wings are decorated with cross-hatching. The chest is curved out i…
Created on: Tuesday 24th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-A3DE58
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver pendant in the shape of a cross. The centre is flat and basically lozenge-shaped. Extending from each corner is a short circular-section cross arm, three of which end in globular knobs; the fourth ends in a collar below a large circular suspension loop, pierced from side to side. The flatter lozengiform centre has engraved lines filled with niello inlay; on one face, four lines cross to make an eight-point radial star, with some niello missing. On the other face is a cross with triple-branching terminals. The lowest cross arm is now bent upwards a little, which has…
Created on: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 26th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3E5DB7
Object type: MACE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy mace head, now incomplete. It is a hollow cylinder, open at both ends; the complete end appears to be the top and the bottom end is missing. The circular hole in the top is c. 16mm in diameter, slightly smaller than the rest of the cylinder which is c. 22mm in diameter internally. The outside has three rows of four spikes or knops each, which take up the upper 22mm or so of the macehead. Each row is offset by ninety degrees from the adjacent row. As is usual for these mace heads (compare SF-167579, LIN-9570B5 and NARC-56B401) the upper and lower rows have spikes …
Created on: Thursday 6th May 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D8F162
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold gem-set finger-ring, now distorted and missing one of the original three stones. It has a narrow hoop with a low D-shaped cross-section, and a square central bezel with torn side walls, now missing its stone.The central bezel was conventional in manufacture, with a gold baseplate and rectangular walls soldered on to make an open-topped box. Each shoulder has a small oval secondary bezel, placed along the axis of the hoop; both are set with dark green cabochon-cut stones or domed glass settings. The surface of the settings is rough, perhaps suggest…
Created on: Wednesday 7th April 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-201612
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a large flat circular lead weight. Originally c. 58mm in diameter, just under half now survives with a maximum dimension of 55.2mm. It measures 26mm perpendicular to this and varies between c. 10 and 11mm thick. The break is worn, but appears to have been neatly cut, with oblique grooves on one arris. There are no markings. It now weighs 107.2g (3.78oz) so may be part of an 8oz weight of medieval or early post-medieval date. Compare NMGW-81D466 (which has decoration suggesting a medieval date), SWYOR-FF1D87 and CORN-F1C5D6. There are also several similar lead weights listed by…
Created on: Wednesday 17th March 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 31st August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-1FA131
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Conical lead weight. The base is flat and circular, diameter 23mm, with a lump of iron projecting from the centre and then extending to one side. The sides of the weight are straight but slope unevenly, one side being steeper than the other; the total height is 40mm. The apex has a thin projection of lead, suggesting a broken suspension loop, but there is a little iron visible here as well; a magnet is strongly attracted to this part of the object, suggesting that there is more iron inside the weight than can now be seen. It weighs 95.0g (3.35 oz). The proportions and general ap…
Created on: Wednesday 17th March 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 31st August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-E7843D
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Silver disc, probably from a hollow reliquary or box pendant. It is flat and circular, decorated on one face with a reserved black-letter inscription against a cross-hatched ground. The cross-hatching is relatively crude, and is contained within a circular grooved border about 1-1.5mm in from the edge. The inscription is fairly neat, and reads ave (Hail), the first word of the Hail Mary prayer. The a is a little larger than the other two letters, and is further from the border; the e is squashed in next to the edge. To either side of the inscriptio…
Created on: Thursday 18th February 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salthouse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-43B392
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two flat copper-alloy plates from the end of the handle of a scale-tang knife, with part of the iron tang in place in between. Each plate flares towards the end, which is slightly outcurved. Each has a grooved border with engraved decoration within; the decoration is slightly different on each plate. The sandwich is held together by a circular copper-alloy rivet, 3.1mm in diameter, that passes through the centre, near of the narrower end. The decoration has been carried across the surface of the rivet, which has now become sunken below the level of the plates as they have been pu…
Created on: Friday 29th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-425D8C
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusually well made cast copper-alloy casket key with projecting stem-tip. The bow is lozenge-shaped externally and circular internally. There is a moulding at the junction of the bow and the stem; the stem is oval in cross-section and is thicker than the bow. At the far end of the stem is a bit with a two horizontal clefts or cuts, one in the top of the front edge and the other in the lower end of the rear edge. A narrow spike projects from the end of the stem, beyond the bit. There is an abraded black coating over the whole surface. Overall length 39.4mm, width from upper corner of …
Created on: Friday 29th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2D5A23
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Abraded and worn frame from a copper-alloy medieval annular brooch. It is made from flat sheet, square externally, perhaps originally with rounded corners, and circular internally; all edges are worn. A circular pin hole in the centre of one side (at the frame's narrowest point) has broken through to the external edge. There is decoration on the upper face, with a shallow groove surrounding the internal edge. Each corner is marked off by a similar curving groove, and filled inside with a series of neat dots. No pin survives. Surviving width 17.25mm, length (parallel to lin…
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9E6D48
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of silver pendant, probably a pilgrim souvenir, of late medieval or early post-medieval date. It consists only of a fragment, with a circular suspension loop cast in one at the top, pierced from front to back. The fragment depicts a tall tower, and is D-shaped in cross-section, flat on the reverse and curved on the front. Its uppermost part is thicker, rectangular and slightly faceted, with a flat centre and sloping sides, perhaps indicating battlements. Below this is a narrow transverse moulding (like a string course) and then the upper storey of the tower has a…
Created on: Wednesday 16th December 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 20th October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0E0292
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper-alloy finger-ring. The hoop is broken across close to its widest point; it is convex internally and perhaps originally had bevelled edges externally, The shoulders flare and thicken to a raised bezel, which has a rectangular area recessed to take a gem or glass setting. The rectangular recess has five rounded scoops out of the base - one central and the others at the corners - as if there were originally five separate settings within it. The hoop's surviving external diameter is 22.8mm. The bezel is 5.9mm wide and the recess is about 9.5mm long. The bez…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-EAE967
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold finger-ring of 'stirrup-shaped' type. The hoop is rounded in cross-section, with a slight seam or crease in places along the centre of the inner surface. It flares to steep undecorated shoulders and has a solid triangular bezel set with a rectangular gem of dark colour (possibly blue) with a shiny, cabochon-cut polished convex surface. There is a slight scrape on one face of the bezel. Dimensions: External diameter (or width of ring) is 21.7mm, internal diameter is 18.2mm. Total from top of gem to exterior at back of hoop, 25.7mm. At the back of the hoop, the mi…
Created on: Friday 13th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 30th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alby with Thwaite', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E845D8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval annular brooch, made from thin silver sheet, now slightly bent.. Circular, with wide frame on a slight convex angle, decorated with nine oblique, slightly curving rows of addorsed punched triangles (also called interrupted rocker-arm). This decoration is interrupted by a circular pin hole which is flanked by a transverse row of similar punchmarks to either side. A silver sheet pin survives in the hole, with an open loop and no decoration. It is tilted at the tip to sit neatly on the frame. The reverse of the frame is concave and undecorated. Dimensions: Diam…
Created on: Friday 13th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weeting', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-191400
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny medieval annular buckle frame with fragment of wire pin. It is 18.5mm in diameter, and largely circular in cross-section with a diameter of 3.0mm. One area on the exterior is flattened, perhaps suggesting that it was cast with others in a multiple mould. It weighs 2,8g. The pin fragment is c. 15.5mm long, with one pointed end and the other broken as it seems to bend into a loop. It is also bent about halfway down as if crushed into the frame. It is a maximum of 0.9mm in diameter and does not register on the scales, suggesting it weighs less than 0.1g. Compare HAMP-D73B5…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-17A94F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy buckle in the shape of a five-petalled flower, often thought of as a Tudor rose. Two petals survive complete, with parts of two others. The two complete petals are flat, incurved externally, and are decorated with radiating grooves within a reserved border. The circular-section bar is slightly bent towards the missing part of the frame. The buckle is worn, and bent at the worn breaks. It is relatively large for a buckle of this shape, measuring 37mm wide parallel to the bar; the surviving length perpendicular to this is c. 33mm. It is a maximum of 2.3mm thick a…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
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Record ID: NMS-15D853
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy composite buckle, now very bent. The frame has been broken on one side and is now very bent out of shape. A pointed pin rest survives with a slight groove on its internal edge. There is another break at the pin constriction, with a little of one half of the forked spacer surviving, with most of the prong missing (old break). The other two breaks are not particularly worn. Measurements are hard to take due to distortion; it weighs 3.9g. 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Last updated: Saturday 26th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-158102
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gilded copper-alloy buckle plate, rectangular with five copper-alloy rivets. One end is neatly rectilinear, then it tapers very slightly to the centre, which is crossed by a fine engraved line. It then flares very slightly to two broken hinge loops; the base of the pin slot between them is clear. The rivets are all knob-headed, 3.5 to 4mm in diameter, bringing the maximum thickness to 5.7mm. The metal has corroded to a reddish brown colour with flecks of gilding. It measures 25.7mm long and 16.7mm wide, and weighs 3.3g. 13th or 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Last updated: Saturday 26th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-14FDBB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
About half of a flat circular frame, decorated on one face, probably an incomplete annular brooch. It is made from thin sheet, 0.6mm thick and 26.5mm in diameter, with a 12.5mm circular hole in the centre. The external edge is fragmentary, but appears to have had a series of small projections spaced about 2mm apart. The frame is decorated with a neat compass-drawn double-strand border around a series of oblique grooves forming a zig-zag (or triangles with the apexes outwards). The lines do not quite meet at the apexes of the triangles. Four of the triangles survive of a probable origi…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-1493F5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular bar-mount measuring 17.5 x 5.6mm. It is pentagonal in cross-section,with a flat reverse and bevelled edges on all four edges of the front. There are two copper-alloy rivets, well-concealed on the front and in countersunk holes on the reverse; the rivets each have neatly expanded ends and one is now bent. The mount is 2.8mm thick and the rivets bring the total thickness up to 5.5mm. It weighs 1.7g. Similar to Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1138, which comes from a context of c. 1270-1350.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-14706E
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat with perforated lug on reverse, above relief decoration of a vertical line with three lines branching downwards on each side. Pointed-oval, 37.1 x 22.7mm; edges bevelled on reverse.. Elaborate fleur-de lis within plain groove. + S'MARIOTE: LE MILNERE (Seal of Mariote the Miller). 13th century. The elaborate fleur-de-lis consists of a central stem running from the top downwards, with two pairs of branches curving from the stem to merge with the surrounding groove, and a final oval lobe at the bottom. The oval lobe is decorated with thr…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Last updated: Saturday 26th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-143054
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of rim from a cast copper alloy cooking vessel. Using a rim diameter chart the overall diameter of the rim appears to be c. 25cm. In cross-section the rim is thickened to 5.6mm, and out-turned with a slightly concave exterior; it then tapers to a sharp edge. A short length of the body or side wall of the vessel survives, 4.0mm thick at the break. The interior is concave in cross-section below the thickened rim. The interior is polished smooth, with a grey patina which is worn away on the thickest part of the rim. The exterior is rougher, and sooted. Length 94mm, width of frag…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-04E2E1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a chunky cast copper-alloy annular brooch (worn breaks). A bit less than a quarter of the circular frame survives, with two tall collets that occupy the whole width of the frame. Between the collets, the frame is slightly domed, a maximum of 3.5mm thick and 5.5mm wide; there is a relatively groove around the outside edge of the frame. The collets are rectangular in cross-section, and taper upwards to a top with a hollow oval cell with traces of white adhesive or cement; there were probably about eight of them originally. The collets are 8.0 and 8.5mm tall including the thi…
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-045583
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy rectangular bar-mount measuring 13.9 x 7.8mm, made from sheet 1.75mm thick. The mount is undecorated, but the front is very slightly convex and highly polished. It has two separate copper-alloy rivets, one at either end. One is incomplete and the other is bent over, bringing the thickness up to 2.7mm. It weighs 0.4g. Most of the simple bar-mounts from London are from late 13th- and early 14th-century contexts, such as Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 1132-1142.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-042E13
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy buckle frame, both breaks fairly fresh. It was originally oval, with an offset narrowed bar and a flattened, expanded outside edge which is decorated with a slightly raised triangular moulding within its width. There was probably a second identical moulding at the other side, but the buckle is broken across what is probably the centre. The apex of the triangle points inwards. The bar is missing almost completely, with just a tiny stub on the other side of the offset lobe. The internal space is quite short and the curve at the side is tight; there is an i…
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-EF4376
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Brooch made from a coin, gilded on both faces. The coin is a gros tournois of Louis IX of France, issued 1266-70, and the edge is now bent backwards in two places. Obverse: Cross pattee in the centre surrounded by the legend in two rows. Outer row reads: + BNDICTV: SIT: NOME: DHI: nRI: DEI: IhV [:] XPI (the capital Ns are horizontally barred, and the stops are a vertical line of three pellets). Inner row reads + LVDOVICVS. REX. Reverse: At centre the Chatel Tournois, surrounded by the legend + TVRONVS . [CI]VIS, which is in turn surrounded by twelve fleurs-de-li…
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2020
Last updated: Monday 19th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B32D47
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Tiny gold annular brooch with circular frame. Most of the frame is circular in cross-section, but it is interrupted by a pin constriction and by four equally spaced collars which encircle the frame and which are decorated all around with relief pellets made using an annulet punch; these are usually known as 'brambled' bosses. Pin missing. Dimensions: Maximum diameter of brooch (with bosses) 16.0mm. Diameter of frame without bosses,14.0mm. Thickness of brooch (across bosses) 2.9mm. Diameter of cross-section of frame, 1.2mm. weight 1.12g. Discussion: Brooches of t…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 28th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-49F121
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete medieval silver seal matrix, pointed-oval with a central oval intaglio, now burnt and partially melted. Originally flat, it now has a lumpy, rounded reverse with a hole revealing the back of the intaglio; there is no surviving rib or lug, and parts of the edges are missing. Despite the damage, it appears that the object was originally cast in one piece. The stone is a re-used Roman intaglio, now an opaque pale grey with several parallel cracks which may be due to heat damage. The stone is almost certainly a carnelian. It is engraved with a simply-drawn sta…
Created on: Friday 18th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F3BA7A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Hoard of five coins. Four medieval silver pennies (three of Henry II and one of John) and one cut halfpenny of John. Found within 50m of each other. Catalogue: 1) Henry II penny, class 1b, Alain of Canterbury 1180-5. 1.37g. 2) Henry II penny, class 1b, Osber of Worcester 1180-5. 1.32g. 3) Henry II penny, class 1b, Pieres of London 1180-5. 1.34g. 4) John penny, class 5, Ricard B of London 1205-10. 1.11g. 5) John cut halfpenny, class 5-6, Abel of London 1205-16. 0.69g. Discussion: There is some wear on the Henry II pennies, but little on the f…
Created on: Monday 14th September 2020
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-78A5FE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small medieval copper-alloy annular brooch with copper-alloy pin surviving. The frame is circular, 17.5mm in diameter and 2.6mm wide, and broadly triangular in cross-section, with a slightly angled reverse and faceted front. It has a pin constriction, and a grooved pin rest opposite. The two facets on the front are interrupted by six sub-square mouldings, two flanking the pin constriction and therefore close together, and the other four evenly spaced to either side of the pin. Each one has raised decoration of a six-pointed star made from three lines crossing. There is a silvery white…
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-64CE6D
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a small late medieval padlock case made from copper alloy. It consists of an originally broadly circular sheet, now missing part of the edge on one side; there is an apparently original rectangular cut-out along the opposite side. There are two small rounded projecting lugs at the top, one of which is pierced with a circular hole. Roughly in the centre is a keyhole, with rectangular base and expanded circular top. It is decorated on one face with four double rows of punched opposed triangles or interrupted rocker-arm, forming curves or oblique lines, similar to those found on …
Created on: Monday 7th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-207158
Object type: MIRROR CASE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a medieval copper-alloy mirror case. About a third of one half is missing and the surviving area has a large dent and crack. It was originally flat and circular with a small right-angled edge to hold the glass of the mirror, which is now missing. A pair of lugs survives on one side, pierced to hold a copper-alloy hinge bar.From this extends a line of double punched opposed triangles (interrupted rocker-arm) which runs to the break and probably originally went right across the object. To either side of this line are two curved lines of similar double triangles, three of which s…
Created on: Friday 4th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-1FD07A
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy suspension loop, probably from a medieval seal matrix. The broken shaft is hexagonally faceted and slightly flattened, measuring 3.5mm between the two larger faces and 4.3mm perpendicular to this close to the fresh break. This faceted area ends in a triple collar with bold central ridge flanked by a pair of slimmer ridges. Beyond this is a worn suspension loop formed from two arms rising out of the collar to form a V shape, then curving with an external step to a slimmer curved top. Surviving length 14.4mm, width of suspension loop 7.2mm, maximum thickness (at collar…
Created on: Friday 4th September 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0C15D5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy buckle frame consisting of the outside edge only. One break is worn, the other fresh. Both are across the frame where it is narrow, at top and bottom edges; the fragment then flares in width and thickness to two oval lobes at the centre. These lobes are decorated with oblique grooves which, although now worn, look as if they were designed to mimic a cord wound around the buckle. It is difficult to see if they continue to either side of the lobes, but there is a very faint transverse groove further along the more complete side which probably formed a border to …
Created on: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-7DD43E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval buckle frame and plate, both made from copper alloy. Only a fragment of the frame survives, a short length of slim curved side and the offset bar (very worn breaks). The rectangular plate survives well, made from a long piece of rectangular sheet folded in half around the bar with frame recesses and a pin slot cut into the fold and the open end secured by two rivets, one at each corner. One corner is now torn away with its rivet, but the other copper-alloy rivet survives. The plate is decorated with engraving made up of individual punch marks, There is a line across the h…
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
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