Record ID: NMS-AEAC9D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of flat copper-alloy plate, 1.3mm thick and approximately rectangular, 23 x 12 mm. One face is smooth and the other rougher. One long edge is cut into with four V-shaped notches, larger at one end and getting smaller towards the other. The other long edge has a partial circle (c. 6mm diameter) cut out of the corner closer to the smaller notches. Other edges appear to be broken (worn breaks). The zig-zag serrations are very slightly bevelled or rounded, on the smoother face only. There is a green patina and the object appears of some age, although precise date and fun…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-9E59E5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of bent copper-alloy strip, roughly rectangular but tapering from 8.9 to 7.6mm in width along its length, which is c. 38mm. Both ends are probably broken, but the breaks are neat and worn. The surfaces are not flat but appear hammered. On one face, the narrower end is covered with fine parallel closely spaced oblique grooves. On the other, there is a zone of similar grooving in the centre, but here there are two orientations of grooves crossing each other; a group of closely spaced oblique lines, and over the top a few more widely spaced grooves following the same …
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A920BD
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sub-square piece of copper-alloy sheet, now bent at a slight angle across. It measures 38mm long (parallel to the bend) and at least 36.5mm wide, and has a circular hole 3.7mm in diameter at one corner. This and one adjacent corner are neat right angles, and the sides are also neat here, but two other sides are more ragged. There is no obvious decoration. The sheet is 1.2mm thick and a pale green colour with patches of a corroded surface; it weighs 9.3g. Function unknown, but likely to be of Roman to medieval date.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-751047
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object consisting of a circular-section rod c. 7mm in diameter, with worn ends which appear to originally have been squared off, not broken. One end might have been cut or otherwise shaped into three facets. It is shaped into a loose ring, originally perhaps c. 50-60mm in external diameter, but one end (the one with three possible facets) has been bent backwards to wrench the ring out of shape. Its unbent length is c. 200mm and it weighs 48.9g. This object was found on the same field as a small hoard of Bronze Age items (2021T771) but it cannot be positively identifi…
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-823EA1
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy unidentified object, of unknown date. It has one broken or possibly cut end, which is a flat hexagon or oval in cross-section. The other end is bifurcated, with each arm D-shaped in cross-section and tapering. The end of each arm is slightly expanded into an oval, rounded on the outside and flat on the inner face. Both ovals are pierced, and the holes are now blocked with hard soil, probably with some iron corrosion. The arms are not precisely symmetrical and at least one might have been bent outwards a little. Each arm is c. 16mm long and the total surviving length is 25…
Created on: Monday 1st February 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F9589D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cruciform or cross-shaped object made from copper alloy and now corroded. Three arms survive, all tapering from the centre both in width and thickness, and with D-shaped cross-sections. Two opposing arms are longer, giving a total length of 33.3mm. They appear to be broken at their ends (worn breaks. The shorter arm is definitely incomplete although the break is again worn; the missing arm has an unworn break. The upper face of the object is slightly convex, the underside slightly concave, with an equal curve to all the arms. There is no decoration, but there is an off-cent…
Created on: Monday 14th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-EA2D3C
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pointed object or fragment of object of cast copper alloy. The broken end is concave and although now worn, looks as if it was broken at a time when the metal was not brittle. It is pentagonal in cross-section at the break, with rounded angles; these facets run to the point, tapering gently and first and then more sharply, although with no obvious break of curve. There are longitudinal grooves on the more steeply tapering area which are irregular and appear more due to wear than to deliberate manufacture. Length 38.5mm, maximum cross-section c. 10mm across, weight 12.6g.
Created on: Thursday 20th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-76E0E5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy and iron unidentified object. It is irregular in shape, sub-square or sub-oval; it measures about 20 x 21mm between edges, or 24 x 20mm between angles. It is a maximum of 15mm thick and weighs 28.40g. One face appears to have a copper-alloy border around square hollow in the centre filled with iron corrosion; the other face has iron corrosion all over it but with a strip of copper alloy running from one edge into the centre, and two corners of copper alloy. The sides appear to be largely copper alloy with a surface spread of iron corrosion. There cannot be much of an iron…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-26E97D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy unidentified object. It is flat and basically triangular, with two original edges joining at a right angle. The third edge is irregular and most of it is probably broken. The right angle is rounded, and decorated on one face with a stamped circle right at the tip flanked by two others; all three circles are off the object to some extent. Behind and between is a groove which runs to the centre of the irregular edge; its base is polished, as if by wear. There is a hint of a low ridge along both the original edges, and this extends a little beyond the broken edge at one corn…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-51E974
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chunky cast copper-alloy object of unknown date and function. It is largely rectangular, 35mm long and 24mm wide at the best-preserved short end. One long edge is 9mm thick, neatly right-angled and appears original. One face curves slightly from this long edge to the other, and the other curves much more strongly so that the whole object tapers in side view to a thin edge along the other long side. This may also be an original edge, or may be broken but worn; one corner is certainly damaged but very worn. Across the centre of the object, between the long edges, runs a 9mm wide ba…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-541E8A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Narrow strip of copper alloy, pointed-oval in cross-section and a maximum of 4.5mm wide. It tapers gently to either end, both of which are broken. One face is highly polished, with many irregular longitudinal scratches. The other is rougher, but has four transverse grooves at one end and is broken at what may be a fifth. Length 61mm, thickness 1mm, weight 1.89g. Date and function unknown.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF9119
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper alloy. The fragment is curved, with two parallel bands of rounded convex moulding on the exterior; both bands have damage to them (hammer marks) and between these the metal is rough. The interior has a series of parallel flat facets, striations and hollows, set perpendicular to the mouldings on the exterior. All the edges have fresh unworn breaks, indicating that the metal is quite brittle. The metal is patinated a dark green all over, including the breaks. Length perpendicular to mouldings, 7 mm. Width parallel to mouldings, 28 mm. Thickness 4 mm. It is …
Created on: Monday 12th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8997
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An unidentified object made from lead. The base is rectangular (20 x 13 mm) with a rectangular projection at each corner bringing the maximum dimensions up to 23 x 17 mm; it is 10-11 mm thick. The rectangular projections continue up the base on the long edges but not on the short edges, giving a tapering effect. The underside of the base has a series of scratched lines forming a rough ziz-zag of perhaps five points, with a line beneath them; the lines are patinated and look as if they might be original. On the top of the base are two tall cones which bend slightly towards each ot…
Created on: Thursday 25th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ORFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8524
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two pieces of copper-alloy strip, 13 mm wide, each broken at a rivet hole at both ends. The holes are circular and 4 mm in diameter. The strips are each decorated with a row of punched circles nearly 2 mm in diameter which run down each long edge. The punch has a slightly straighter edge along one side of the circle, and these straight edges are lined up on one side along the edge, and on the other side towards the middle, giving a neat appearance. At one end of one strip the punch has been held at an angle so that a crescent rather than a circle results. The strips are corroded to a …
Created on: Tuesday 7th May 2002
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6871
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy and lead. Rectangular, flat and thick, it has six faces; two large front and back faces, two sides, and a top and bottom. One of the larger faces, both sides, certainly the top and also perhaps the bottom appear to have been made from a single piece of dark grey cast copper alloy which increases in thickness slightly from one short edge to the other. The other large face is made from a separate sheet of green copper alloy. There is an oval hole in the centre of this showing that the centre of the object is filled with lead. The hole ext…
Created on: Monday 24th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK THORPE MORIEUX', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6787
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made out of copper-alloy sheet. It consists of a rectangular plate, 12 x 21 mm, and a broken projection which extends from the centre of one of the long edges. The plate is undecorated and curved slightly along the long axis. It has two empty rivet holes in the corners of the long edge opposite the projection, and a third rivet hole blocked with iron just by the base of the projection. On the concave face each hole has a surrounding patch of iron corrosion. The projection tapers from 5 mm wide as it emerges from the plate to 4 mm wide at the break. It is bent,…
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6291
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from cast copper alloy. It consists of a central stem and three side branches; the stem has a central rib on one face and has a fragment of a projecting corner at the base on the other face. The break here is old. The lowest side branch extends upwards and away from the stem in a straight line; the next one is on the other side, and is similar but longer and at a less acute angle. The third is back on the first side and is short and curved. The stem then ends in a point. The object has a hand-made look and a grey, surface-enriched or white-metal coated surface…
Created on: Monday 9th July 2001
Last updated: Monday 21st July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5660
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a thin copper-alloy disc with unclear decoration on one face. There is a wide grooved border around worn relief decoration. The breaks are old and the reverse is undecorated. Original diameter c. 25-30 mm. Date and function unknown.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2001
Last updated: Monday 29th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WITHERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5463
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Chunky copper-alloy unidentified object. At one end is a flattened globular terminal 16 mm wide by 13 mm deep and 13 mm tall, with a side-to-side perforation. This ends in a narrow neck, and below the object flares out again and splits into a front and back plate, each about 4 mm thick and with bevelled edges. Each plate is slightly concave, and they come closest to each other In the centre where each plate has a perforation. Between the plates is iron corrosion and it seems possible that the plates could have been pulled together by an iron rivet passing through the central perforati…
Created on: Friday 4th May 2001
Last updated: Monday 8th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT WALDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5371
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made of lead alloy, flat and oval with relief decoration on one face. The decoration is now hard to read, but appears to be relief lines making up a square divided unevenly into four, with blobs in some of the quarters. Unknown date and function.
Created on: Monday 30th April 2001
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.