Record ID: NMS-105B02
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy key, with the bit set at right angles to the bow. The bow is oval and has a small rounded knop opposite the circular-section stem. The stem has a double-ridged collar at the top, and tapers slightly to a pierced end. This end appears incomplete, and it is possible that some of the bit is missing too; it appears to have a cleft at the top of the rear edge and the bottom of the front edge. Grey-green patina. Length 34mm, width of bow 11mm, thickness including bit 9mm, weight 5.69g. The grey-green patina, and the orientation of the bit, extending from the side of…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Monday 9th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-90F486
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold finger-ring with bezel set with a dark red intaglio gemstone. The gemstone is complete, and although the gold components are now broken and crushed, they are also largely complete. The hoop is made from three strands of beaded wire arranged to form a triangular cross-section, with two strands side by side forming the inner surface and the third strand added in the centre. The third strand, standing proud on the outer surface, is now very worn. At the shoulders, the three strands flatten out and spread, with the central strand butting up…
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2024
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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-7B3A48
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold finger-ring with posy inscription. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section, with a groove around top and bottom. Between the grooves, the surface of the ring has an evenly hammered surface, as if it has not been polished after construction. The flat interior has an inscription in lower-case italic script, reading If this then me. The engraving of the inscription is black in colour, probably inlaid with enamel, although the actual substance of the inlay is hard to see except on the e of me, where it appears to survive as a bubbly matt substance. Dimensio…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Costessey area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-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-C3FEF2
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete gold ingot, long with rounded ends and oval cross-section. One surface is smooth with a few large dents; the other is pitted with very many small dents. One end is slightly wider and substantially thicker due to a rise in the pitted surface; the smoother surface is fairly flat. The colour is very slightly pale, suggesting a relatively impure gold. Dimensions: Length, 40.9mm. Maximum width, 13.3mm. Maximum thickness, 8.8mm. Weight 37.39g.  Discussion: This ingot is quite distinctive; it is long, with rounded ends and cross-section, o…
Created on: Thursday 24th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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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-A017A6
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
18th-century silver cufflink element. It is octagonal, flat with a down-turned rim, and has engraved decoration. This consists of a double incurved line along each side, and a four-petalled flower or quatrefoil in the centre. Each of the petals is emphasised with a short curved groove just inside each outer edge, and there is a small secondary petal or sepal peeping out from behind in the angle between each petal. The centre has a circle filled with cross-hatching. On the concave reverse is a D-shaped loop with some internal wear. It measures 11.7mm square and is 4.8mm thick incl…
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-735932
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of partly gilded silver, with ornament in a chip-carved style, made by using a range of stamps or punches. It is flat and sub-rectangular, with one straight original long edge which is smooth and rounded in cross-section. The other edges are all rougher and more right-angled in cross-section; the remaining long edge is nearly straight, and the short edges are V-shaped and nearly parallel to each other. Under magnification it can be seen that most of the other edges are cut; the only broken edge appears to be part of the angled-in short edge (the upper part on…
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2022
Last updated: Saturday 25th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Diss', grid reference and parish protected.

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-BA656C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper-alloy asymmetric double-loop buckle frame with much iron corrosion, probably from a plate. One loop is rectangular, the other D-shaped. From what can be seen through the iron corrosion, the rectangular loop has slim edges, and at least the outside edge is decorated with a median groove, with short transverse grooves running outwards to the edge, forming a ladder pattern or sequence of squares. The D-shaped loop has thicker edges, with a relatively small D-shaped hole. The outside edge extends to form a long triangular projection with three neat circular perforatio…
Created on: Tuesday 15th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B9F566
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy Roman mount. It is basically drop-shaped, with the rounded end torn and incomplete, although relatively little seems to be missing. There is an almost spherical knob at the pointed end; this knob has a small flattened area on the reverse. The rest of the mount is convex and hollow-backed, with an integral rivet ending in a neat transverse rectangular rove. It measures 23.0mm in surviving length, 13.0mm in maximum width and 10.6mm in thickness including the rivet; it weighs 2.5g. There is a good parallel at BH-D710F4, which also has the T-shaped rivet. As both also h…
Created on: Tuesday 15th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B88A6E
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy cheekpiece of late early-medieval date, now in three pieces. The plate is lozengiform, with an incurved lower edge and a central circular perforation c. 11mm in diameter across which the cheekpiece is broken. There is one arm, with a prominent squarish boss; the arm has a sub-square end with a D-shaped perforation forming a loop with a small triangular solid area at each upper corner. There are two side projections, each long and tapering with low rounded bosses half way along and at the rounded ends. The reverse is flat. The surface is now a rough brown and…
Created on: Tuesday 15th February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B821E8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy headstud brooch of Roman date, with hinged pin and enamel inlay. It is now corroded, but the details are reasonably clear. The wings are short and rectangular; they are worn and incomplete, but two vertical (transverse) ridges remain on the right-hand wing as viewed from the front. On the reverse of the wings there is a tube holding a copper-alloy axis bar, and the stub of a copper-alloy pin hinges in a slot in the centre of the tube. On top of the head is a circular chain loop, now broken. The bow tapers smoothly to the bottom, where there is a footknob. At the top…
Created on: Tuesday 15th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-24BD8C
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified object made from at least partly gilded copper alloy, with decoration characteristic of the 8th century AD. The object is a truncated cone, now bent out of shape at the open base and with part of the base missing (slightly worn break). It tapers from an original c. 20mm diameter to a flat closed top c. 15-16mm in diameter, and is 25.5mm tall. The top has a circular hole c. 4mm in diameter set slightly off centre. The dimensions at the base, as now bent, are 23.0mm from the outside of the loop to the side opposite (17mm excluding the loop), and 27mm perpendic…
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2022
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D53905
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold ring, probably a finger-ring of unknown date. It is made from thin gold strip, consistently 4.3-4.5mm wide and 0.6mm thick. It is flat on both faces, but more polished or worn on the exterior. There is no obvious seam but there is a slight tear on the inside in one place which might indicate a point of weakness at a join. When found, it was flattened, but has since been bent out to its present irregular shape. It fits neatly and comfortably on a finger, and is approximately 20mm in external diameter. It weighs 2.3g. The ring does not obviously appear modern but there is no e…
Created on: Friday 4th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D4F278
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap-end of unusual form. It consists of a rounded or heart-shaped plate which is split for almost all its length to hold the strap. One half is missing (old break) but the other, probably the front, survives complete. It has low-relief openwork decoration with minute traces of gilding in the recesses. The design is symmetrical, with an outer frame containing six central rounded lobes (two vertical rows of three each). The central lobes each have a pair of tendrils or spokes emerging from them to join the outer frame, forming three holes down either side. The top pair ma…
Created on: Friday 4th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
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