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Record ID: NMS-E39636
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Iron strip, perhaps the blade from a knife. It is 120mm long and one end is encased in delaminating corrosion. Away from this end, it is generally around 19mm wide, with one edge straight and 3mm thick, tapering to the other edge which may represent the cutting edge. The end without the corrosion layers has the cutting edge curving up to meet the back of the blade in a rounded point. The corroded end is broken and has no evidence of a whittle tang. The strip is now bent at a slight angle about halfway along its length. It weighs 45.0g. The identification as a knife is very t…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-E36935
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Neatly circular iron ring, 51.5mm in diameter. In cross-section it is circular, 8mm in diameter. It weighs 31.8g. The ring was found close to several early Anglo-Saxon objects and is likely also to be of that date. It may have been used as a suspension ring.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D2C402
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
About half of the flat circular frame of an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy annular brooch, with an original diameter of c. 40mm. One break is across a neat rounded hole in the frame. This may be the pin hole, but on the reverse there is solder around the hole and it may possibly alternatively be a repair. There is also some iron corrosion on the reverse here, which could be from the pin. The frame is otherwise well preserved here, and at 6.1mm wide appears to retain its original width. The inner edge is 1.2mm thick and it tapers towards the outer edge which is 0.6mm thick. Th…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D16462
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy, probably a small piece of foot from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The fragment is C-shaped in cross-section, hollow on the reverse, and is broken at both ends (one break fairly fresh and granular, the other more worn). At one end, the front has a bold moulding, 4-5mm deep and flat-topped, which is divided into two by an off-centre transverse groove. The overall surviving length is 21.1mm, maximum width 12.8mm and maximum thickness (at moulding) 6.0mm. It weighs 4.93g. It seems likely that this is one of the mouldings at the top of a horse's …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D0E282
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Head and bow from an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch. The flat, apparently undecorated headplate has a sub-rectangular central panel with three flat 'knobs', all of which appear to have been mushroom-shaped, or D-shaped above narrowed waists. This shape of headplate is often known as 'trefoil'. On the reverse of the headplate is a broken pin bar lug (worn breaks) with iron staining around it. All the edges of the headplate are worn. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section, quite highly arched and simple, with a groove across the top the onl…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D0BB0C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Head and bow from an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch. The flat headplate is very worn and its original shape is uncertain, but it has the remains of deep U-shaped cut-outs in both its lower edge and its upper corners, forming three knobs. These may have had straight ends, as the top and one side knob each retain a straight row of crescentic stamps along their edges. On the reverse of the headplate is a large double pin bar lug, one lug incomplete and the other retaining part of an iron pin bar. There is extensive iron corrosion between the two lugs.  The bow…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D07466
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Complete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch, now in two joining parts. The head is of the 'cross potent' type, with a flat rectangular central panel c. 13 x 18mm. This has three sub-rectangular flat 'knobs' attached by narrower waists, to form a headplate in total 32.2mm wide. The surface is corroded and some is missing, but traces of double-crescent or half ring-and-dot stamps can be seen; there is a row of five on the top knob and a similar row on one side knob, each with a trace of a single groove outside the row of stamps. On the reverse of the headpla…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D012DB
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Fragment of early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy girdle-hanger. Using Felder's terminology (2014, 35, fig. 3.1), the fragment consists of the suspension loop, shank neck and part of shank, with a granular, unworn break. The suspension loop is a narrow, rounded lobe at the top, pierced from side to side, but the perforation is now blocked with iron corrosion. The shank neck is a D-section area below the suspension loop, divided into five rounded lobes; its junction with the shank is marked with a transverse ridge. The shank itself is rectangular-section and flares very slightly …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-CF59E4
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Chunky copper-alloy bar from an early Anglo-Saxon wrist-clasp, apparently of Hines Form B10 or possibly alternatively B4. The bar is cast in one piece, with three cuboidal elements, one in the centre and one at either end. These are linked by D-section areas, each one decorated with two broad U-section transverse grooves or flutes, alternating with three ridges each flanked by narrow grooves. Each of the cuboidal bosses has a substantial white-metal coating, probably of tin. On the flat reverse there are two broken pierced lugs, set transversely and pierced longitudinally. Length 40.3…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-CE5E22
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B20, in very good condition. It is largely flat, and cast in one piece, with a raised, flat-topped bar, a plate with shaped rear edge, and a complete loop. The bar is c. 6mm wide and has two zones of transverse groove decoration, not perfectly evenly spaced along its length; both consist of a wider U-section groove flanked by two similar slightly narrower grooves. The rear edge of the bar has a longitudinal step intermediate in height between the bar and the rest of the plate. The rear edge of the plate is flatte…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4A0605
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Gilded silver pyramidal mount from a sword-scabbard, probably found around 1970. It is small and low, measuring only 11.4mm square at the base and 5.9mm tall. Part of one wall, and most of the bar on the underside, are missing, with unworn granular breaks; it weighs 1.98g. The pyramid has an empty setting on the top and relief-decorated faces with gilding and possible niello decoration; it dates to the very late 6th century or early 7th century, perhaps c. 580-640 AD. The four faces each have a sunken trapezoidal panel with gilding and relief decoration. bear two design…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-09EC59
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Complete long silver ingot of slightly irregular shape, but with a clear rounded top and slightly flattened underside. It has one neatly rounded end, 11mm wide and 5.8mm thick. One long edge runs roughly at right angles to this end, and the other long edge flares slightly. The maximum width of 13.5mm is close to the other end, and here there is a rounded angle, with the ingot tapering steeply to meet the other long edge in a rounded point. The ingot is sub-triangular or drop-shaped in cross-section, with the long straight edge being thicker and the top then …
Created on: Thursday 31st August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-25921E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Description: Brooch made from a coin of Ethelred II (978-1016), small cross type, now incomplete and in two pieces. The obverse is gilded, and the reverse has two patches of solder. The coin is an example of Aethelred's first small cross type, struck by the moneyer Godman, probably of London (GODMAN MO [?}LV[...], the L being obscured by a patch of solder). North 764, c.978-9. Dimensions: approximately 20mm diameter, weight 1.21g. Discussion: Brooches made from coins are Weetch's type 2.B. This is an unusual example, as it is more common for the reverse to be used as the…
Created on: Friday 21st April 2023
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-B0FF45
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Description: Unusual partly gilded silver and niello-inlaid mount of early-medieval date, perhaps broken and repaired. It is rectangular, thick and hollowed on the reverse, and decorated in Carolingian-style relief with openwork elements. The decoration is based around a bold raised flat-topped diagonal cross or saltire dividing the square into quarters, with  a worn boss in the centre and at the end of each arm. At the end of each arm of the saltire is a low-relief leaf motif, with a sunken, lobed centre and an outcurved leaf to either side which is inlaid with a niell…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CD6871
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Terminal from the foot of an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, now very corroded and battered about. It is broken (worn break) across some transverse grooves, and on the reverse here a line of a catchplate can be seen as a very slight raised and corroded line in the otherwise smooth brown patina. Below the grooves are two broad transverse mouldings, and then comes the simple horse-head terminal. The front of this is covered in corrosion bubbles, and very little detail can be seen, but it appears to taper slightly from where the eyes would have been, then flare out again to slim point…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 13th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-4EFB15
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Copper-alloy object, probably a die of Pressblech type. It is 140.1mm long and straight-sided, tapering from a maximum of 32.3mm wide at one rectangular, straight-cut end to 26mm wide just above a V-shaped pointed end. The object is not completely flat, but is gently curved along its length, with a concave reverse and a convex front. Total thickness 7.3mm, weight 186.14g. The reverse is undecorated. The front is decorated with high-relief ornament which stands up to 2.3mm proud of the base. The base varies between about 4 and 5mm thick, and extends beyond the panel of ornament to…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AB4973
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap-end of early-medieval date. Although fairly solid in feel, it is now very worn and most details have been lost. It tapers from a maximum of roughly 8.4mm wide at the split end, where some pieces of the edge have been lost. One half of the split end, apparently the front, is substantially thinner than the other half; both have a single, slightly off-centre circular rivet hole. The strap-end is oval in cross-section, with the front a little more strongly curved than the reverse. No identifiable decoration survives, but there is a very slight waist just …
Created on: Friday 20th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E9DBAE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Early-medieval copper-alloy disc brooch of Kershaw's East Anglian Series, type I. It is flat and circular, now missing part of the edge, but with enough surviving to give a diameter of 28.2mm. It has cast relief decoration of a central sunken circle, surrounded by a raised double-strand concave-sided lozenge, with each of the four corners extending to form a loose clockwise knot of double-strand interlace. There is a slight raised rim around the surviving edge. On the reverse are the stubs of a double lug, perpendicular to the edge of the brooch, which formed t…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D5BD87
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy 11th-century stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 14, consisting of a cross-shaped top and a flaring triangular plate. The upper arm of the cross is short and wide, and the two side arms are long and thin, the right-hand arm (as viewed from the front) being distinctly longer and thinner. There is no surviving decoration on any of the arms, but they are very worn, so decoration may have been lost and the arms may have been damaged or modified. Where they cross is a circular rivet hole 4.1mm in diameter.  The sides of the mount then flare out to for…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Saturday 28th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-75A915
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy strap-end of early-medieval date. It is rectangular, 24.4mm wide, and at 4.8mm thick, quite solid and heavy. The attachment end is much thinner (2.2mm) and now incomplete, being broken through at least two circular attachment holes. These are towards the middle of the width, and there is room for them to have been flanked by two others, making four in total. The rest of the strap-end is complete apart from a small part of one lower corner. The front steps up to the thicker area which has relief decoration of plants, probably flowers. Three stems spring dow…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-71E134
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class B,with engraved decoration. The main part of the mount is large and rectangular with straight sides, 35.9mm wide, with an obliquely angled flange. The flange runs the full width of the mount and has a central hole with iron rivet, which retains a rectangular patch of iron corrosion around it on both front and reverse. The upper part of the mount is rounded and shaped into three concave curves or scallops on either side and one at the apex, making seven in all, and giving a roughly pentagonal shape to the mount. There is a circular…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-704044
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Attachment end from a copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon openwork strap-end, 24.5mm wide. The split end is closed down one side, so was presumably made by folding a wide strip in half. It is closed by two small copper-alloy rivets, each in an upper corner. The base of the split area is perforated by three circular holes each about 4mm in diameter, and below this there is a transverse ridge on both faces; one retains a hint of a groove along its length. Below this there are worn stubs of four vertical bars, one at either side and two in the centre, dividing the main body of the strap-en…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8F4D4A
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Two silver pennies of Aethelred II (978 - 1013), both so-called Second Crux type, dating to AD 991-997 and found together. Catalogue: 1) Aethelred, 2nd Crux, moneyer Leofric of Lincoln, weight 1.52g. 2) Aethelred, 2nd Crux, moneyer Leofstan of Norwich, weight 1.61g. Discussion: They surely are part of a hoard or purse loss and entered the ground at the same time. Thus they represent a case of Treasure, as groups of two or more coins of precious metal and over 300 years old at the time of finding qualify as potential Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Monday 7th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-5A6F3E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy cruciform brooch of Martin (2015) type 1, narrow in shape but large and chunky. The headplate is small, almost square and undecorated, without wings and with sharply right-angled side edges giving a rectangular cross-section 3.4mm thick. Above is a large full-round integral top knob, with a circular base decorated with a circumferential groove, a concave waist above, and then a faceted dome. This has a lower half with eight triangular facets, alternately apex-up and apex-down, and an upper half that is a square-based pyramid. On the reverse of the headplate is a singl…
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-56A0CE
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Gold pierced imitation coin of early-medieval date, probably early 9th century; probably intended as a pendant. Description: A gold disc, struck with a design on both faces. Each face has a beaded border, originally very neatly placed around the edge, but in places now worn to a plain ridge. Within this is an imitation inscription mainly consisting of radial raised strokes, virtually all of which have raised dots at either end.  The centre of the design consists essentially of three horizontal rows of short vertical strokes on the obverse, and five …
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-1CC76D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Piece of copper-alloy strip, flat and rectangular in cross-section, decorated on one face with a row of small stamped annulets, c. 1mm in diameter. They are evenly spaced, about 1.5mm apart, and flanked by a shallow border groove down one edge of the strip. At one end, the strip is bent forward and broken; the other end may be original. There is damage to the surface about halfway along, suggesting further front-to back bending has taken place. The strip curves very slightly to one side (so that the grooved border is along the convex curve) but this appears to be an original featu…
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E05328
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Bow of a worn copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon brooch, probably a cruciform but alternatively perhaps a small-long brooch, dating to c. 450-550 AD.  It measures 21.0mm long, weighs 5.2g, and tapers from 11.0mm in the centre to 10.0mm wide at one end and 9.2mm wide at the other. The wider end has a very short flat panel that is probably also the broken springing of the bow, and the narrower end has a longer flat panel that is decorated with three transverse grooves. In between, the body of the bow is arched so that it is 9.1mm thick. It has a flat band down the centre…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DF6845
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Part of the head of a small copper-alloy cruciform brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date, probably of Martin's type 2 (c. 475 to c. 550 AD). A small fragment of headplate survives, with part of a central raised panel; no decoration survives. It has an integrally cast half-round top knob, now rather worn, with a base that projects in front of the headplate and is decorated with two grooves. Above this is a broad waist, then a high, rounded dome (rather more than half round) with a groove around the bottom. On the reverse of the headplate is a single pin bar lug. The breaks are quite worn…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DF3D67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Head of tiny cruciform or small-long brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date (c. 450-550 AD), made from copper alloy. The headplate is rectangular (14 x 11mm), and has a raised trapezoidal panel in the centre which flares from the top to the bottom. This panel is decorated with a vertical row of three deeply drilled dots which each have a faint ring around them. Three integrally cast knobs survive around the headplate, all half-round, narrow, tapering and undecorated. The top knob is slightly larger than the side knobs, and has a raised ridge at its junction with the headplate. The bow is bro…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A83C31
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Piece of decorated copper-alloy sheet, probably part of a buckle plate. It is sub-square, 17.6mm wide and 15.9mm long, and made from sheet just 0.6mm thick; it weighs 0.6g. One face is decorated with about eight ring-and-dot motifs, and there is a circular rivet hole in the best-surviving corner. Roughly in the centre of the opposite side is a rectangular slot 2.2mm wide, which could be a pin slot. It is hard to know if any edge is completely original, but it is currently approximately the right size and shape to be a plate from a small early Anglo-Saxon buckle. Compare, for exam…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A5B284
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy buckle plate made from a single piece of sheet folded in half to form a sub-triangular shape, with a gap at the fold for the frame and a rectangular slot cut for the pin. The slot is 4.6mm wide, and is placed off centre; the smaller hinge loop is now broken (worn break). The plate is long, tapering from the fold and rounded at the apex where there is a single corroded iron rivet. It has a pale green surface and no decoration. Length 23.6mm, width 12.0mm, weight 1.7g. Such a simple buckle plate is difficult to date, but the lack of frame recesses may in…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A54B1C
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy ring. It is corroded, 22mm in diameter externally and 13.7mm internally, with an oval cross-section which tapers from a maximum of 4.5mm wide x 3.9mm thick to a minimum of 3.5mm wide x 3.7mm thick opposite this. It weighs 4.8g and has a grey smooth surface in patches beneath pale green hard, rough corrosion.  It appears similar in character to hanging-bowl mounts NMS-938FA7 and NMS-20B3C6, found close by, and could have come from the same bowl, but plain rings have a variety of possible uses and this is conjectural. A date in the 7th century is possibl…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A4099C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Small oval copper-alloy buckle frame, probably of 7th-century date, complete with pin. The frame measures 17.8mm wide and 9.2mm long, and most of it has a circular or oval cross-section. This is thickest in the centre of the outside edge, where it brings the maximum thickness to 3.3mm. It then tapers smoothly to the top and bottom before stepping down on one face only to a much thinner oval-section bar, just 1.7mm thick. On this bar is a copper-alloy pin, one end wrapped into a tight loop and the other curved to drape neatly over the outside edge. The cross-section of the pin at the l…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A2F957
Object type: CATCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy catch from a box or bag, of 7th-century date. It is now incomplete, but would originally have been symmetrical, with a rounded lobe at either end (one now missing). The surviving rounded end is 6.4mm in diameter and flat, 1.4mm thick, pierced to take a separate copper-alloy rivet which has a large, low-domed head and circular-section shaft (total length of rivet 7.2mm). In between, the rest of the object is T-shaped in section, with a rib down the centre bringing the maximum thickness of the plate to 3.5mm. All three edges (the two sides and the top of the …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9412B2
Object type: CHAIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy figure-8 chain link with traces of iron in each link, of 7th-century date. It is apparently cast in one piece, with each half being drop-shaped and joined at the points. The cross-section is rounded, and there is iron staining at either end and, on the reverse, in the centre. Length 20.5mm, width of loops 8.1 and 7.5mm, thickness 3.0mm (without iron corrosion) to 5.1mm (with iron); weight 1.4g. Solid cast chain links in a figure-of-eight shape are known from 7th-century Anglo-Saxon chatelaines and 'workboxes', such as that from Didcot grave 12 (Boyle et al 1995, 2…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-938FA7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Openwork hook-escutcheon from an early-medieval hanging bowl. Made from cast copper alloy, it consists of the hook and a fragment of plate. The plate was originally oval in shape with a central bar. The central bar is trapezoidal in cross-section, 3.8mm wide and 3.0mm thick at the break, with median groove. It runs up straight from the unworn break to a junction with the hook and a curving outer frame. One side of this frame is almost completely missing (an older break) but the other is trapezoidal in cross-section (4.6 x 2.9mm at the break) and also has a central longi…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-2753D1
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Description: Flat fragment of gold bracteate which has been made by hammering thin sheet gold over a die. It was originally circular, c. 39mm in diameter, but now only about a quarter of the circumference survives with edges that are a little longer than the radius. The curved edge has a short fragment of D-section plain wire frame surviving, soldered on for a short length and then bent over to the reverse; it looks as if the flat face of the wire was soldered to the edge of the disc. Inside the framing wire, the bracteate has an undecorated zone around 3-4mm wide, then a ring of punch…
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FC71D1
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Chunky copper-alloy bar from a wrist-clasp of early Anglo-Saxon date. It is of the 'applied bar' type, cast in one piece. There are three square or rectangular bosses, interspersed with two areas of D-shaped section.. The bosses, one at each end and one in the centre, are all rectangular in cross-section; they decrease in thickness from one end to the other, and are also all of slightly different lengths. The two D-section areas are identical, each consisting of two broad transverse U-shaped grooves or flutes, with two narrow grooves between them and to either si…
Created on: Tuesday 26th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E85D63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Incomplete gilded silver disc brooch of  middle Anglo-Saxon date. About a quarter of the flat plate is now missing, but the surviving part includes the pin fixings, and part of the silver pin also survives. The front is gilded and has low-relief decoration now a little obscured by hard soil deposits, best described with the pin running horizontally and the missing area to bottom left. The design appears to be based on a cross, with four drop-shaped panels (at top left, top right, bottom right and the missing one at bottom left) each with its point towards the edge. T…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-372508
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Penannular finger-ring of late early-medieval date. It is made from a piece of circular-section copper alloy, maximum diameter in the centre 3mm and smoothly tapering to sharply pointed ends. This is bent into a circle, with the ends c. 12mm apart. It has a rough, green-brown patina and measures 22mm across externally and 18.7mm internally; it weighs 1.7g. Compare an example from Thetford; Goodall in Rogerson and Dallas 1984, fig. 110, nos. 17-21. They are Anglo-Scandinavian in style and date to the 10th to mid 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B88A6E
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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-24BD8C
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find 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-D4A253
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Foot of an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch, now very worn. The fragment is broken at the bottom of the bow (very worn break) and consists of the flat panel and terminal. The flat panel is 8.1mm at the top and tapers slightly downwards. It has narrow bevelled edges and the remains of a high polish, but no discernable decoration except for a fine transverse groove at the top, at the junction with the missing bow. On the reverse is a catchplate, now missing its curl but set slightly to the right (as viewed from the reverse) to allow for a left-hand curl. There is iron co…
Created on: Friday 4th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FE0563
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Circular gold stud or mount, inlaid with cloisonné garnets with curved tops to form a hemispherical domed boss. There are also detached fragments of garnet and gold foil, bagged separately. The object was originally built up on a gold sheet backplate, but this is now largely missing apart from a narrow strip around the edge. Onto this was fixed the cell walls, made from thin gold sheet, which form a central cross with a stepped or T-shaped cell at the end of each arm. There are therefore eight cells, one at the end of each arm and one in each of the …
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norwich area', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-9433CA
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Small silver hooked tag of early-medieval date. It has a circular plate, two incomplete flat lugs near the top pierced for sewing, and a complete sharp hook at the bottom. The plate has an undecorated border, within which is a sunken panel containing a reserved Trewhiddle-style animal in profile left, with its head turned to look over its tail. The decoration is at an unusual angle; the animal is the right way up when the object is held with the hook to the upper left and the sewing lugs to the lower right. The animal has a large head with rounded brow, drilled …
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-70C554
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Early-medieval copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas's class A, type 1. Long and narrow, with very slightly curving sides, its split end is roughly shaped around two rivet holes that retain their copper-alloy rivets. Below this is a drop-shaped panel of ornament, the point of the drop shape just under the rivets, containing three lines crossing to make a six-point star. There are traces of an inner border as well, but the panel appears worn. The split end and drop-shaped upper panel take up about a third of the strap-end's length. Below are hints of extremely worn re…
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-7093CB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy brooch with traces of partial white-metal coating, probably tinning. The brooch is in the shape of a cross, with the angles between the arms almost circular and the end of each arm bifurcated with a central fork. Each arm is decorated with a flat-topped ridge along the centre and around either edge, and these areas are tinned. In between, each arm has decoration of a pair of transversely ribbed ridges. Finally, running out from the centre to meet the cut-outs between the arms are four pairs of ridges each separated by a groove and forming the arms of a diago…
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-703064
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Early-medieval copper-alloy strap-end of uncertain Thomas class A. It is long and narrow, with slightly outcurved sides and an animal-head terminal. At the top is a short split end which is shaped around two small circular rivet holes. Below this is a rounded area of unclear decoration, with an undecorated frame around it. Then comes a long main panel of decoration, again within an undecorated frame; the upper edge of this panel is incurved to fit around the upper rounded panel. Although the upper panel's ornament is difficult to decode, the main panel is fllled with…
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DF6591
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description:  Gold A-bracteate, consisting of a thin gold disc, stamped with a design and with a suspension loop added. The design consists of a human head in profile looking left, with a hand in front of the chin holding a spray of flowers, and shoulders turned to face the viewer. The head has fine parallel grooves indicating hair, running from the crown to a fringe above the eyes, and interrupted by a double scallop-edged line (like two lines of flat beading) forming a headband or 'diadem' running around the forehead just above the eyes. The top and back …
Created on: Monday 6th December 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-64EF08
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy bit link. It has an oval loop at one end (17.1mm in width) which is very worn towards the end. Where this meets the central shaft, there is a squarish boss with a hollowed reverse; the boss is 6.0mm thick. The central shaft is trapezoidal in cross-section, and ends in the worn stubs of another loop. Total surviving length 37.1mm, weight 6.7g. These items were used in the 11th century to attach the bit to the rein (Williams 2007, fig. 2, p. 4).
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-BBC400
Object type: INSCRIBED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Fragment of sub-rectangular lead sheet inscribed with runes. There are two clear rows of runes, one above the other, each bordered above and below by a groove similar to those making up the runes. There are small gaps between the rows; each gap is about half the height of the runes. The central line is the clearest, with at least seven readable runes, most contained within  rectangular panels, so divided from each other by pairs of vertical lines. The upper line has about five readable runes. There is space for part of a lower, third line in the acute-angled corner…
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-486001
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Fragment of silver finger-ring, consisting of the bezel and both shoulders. The hoop is thin, flat and narrow at the breaks, which look fairly fresh. The shoulders flare to a pointed-oval bezel which curves around the finger, and is decorated with fairly crude engraved Trewhiddle-style decoration. The central motif is symmetrical and looks abstract, although it may have been intended as a plant or animal. It has a V-shaped element filling the point at either end, with double nicks in each arm of the V; then a transverse pointed-oval shape in the centre embellished with fo…
Created on: Wednesday 29th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 5th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-636BF3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy 9th-century Carolingian-style mount, now worn and perhaps incomplete, with a possibly secondary iron rivet. It is nearly flat, slightly convex on the front and slightly concave on the reverse, and sub-rectangular in shape, measuring 30.1mm long, 28.9mm wide in the centre and 26.5mm wide at each end. It is approximately 4.5mm thick and weighs 13.9g. It is decorated on the front with cast relief ornament. The design comprises a radiating pattern which fills most of the available space, and a distinct convex strip along one long edge which is separated from the radiatin…
Created on: Wednesday 25th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 2nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-FC1F13
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Unidentified object made from silver, partly gilded and inlaid with niello. It has a flat circular top and short straight or slightly convex sides forming a hollow cylinder; the underneath and inside are undecorated and ungilded. One side is now bent inwards, and a deep crack has resulted. The top is decorated with a reserved flat ungilded animal in profile, whose legs and tail dissolve into chip-carved interlace with plant elements. The animal is turned to the left, but the head is looking back over the shoulder to the right. The head has a sub-rectangular…
Created on: Friday 20th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EC10C3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Description: Hoard of three silver ingots or hacksilver fragments. 1. Long, slim rectangular ingot, all faces fairly flat but slightly undulating. It is rectangular in cross-section, and has a dark grey patina with hints of green corrosion. There are no nicks or testing marks. Two of the long arrises are slightly rounded and may be hammered, although it is also possible that the ingot has become worn and battered after deposition. It narrows at one end (which appears to be original) measuring 7.0 x 4.9mm in cross-section. The other end is more granular, and (a…
Created on: Monday 26th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 20th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7680BE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Silver finger-ring made from a single piece of silver.The narrow hoop expands in the centre to a flat lozengiform or pointed-oval bezel. This has a cross pattern engraved on it and inlaid with niello, some of which is now missing; the surviving niello has decomposed to a silvery colour. The cross is made up of two lines which run across the short axis but are not neatly central to it. They diverge at either end to make a flared shape. Further lines emerge to either side (as if from below the shorter arms) to form the longer arms of the cross, again diverging at either end…
Created on: Monday 14th June 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3B5DA9
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Gold ring or oval loop, now squashed flat in the centre, but probably originally roughly circular. Each end has a slightly concave exterior, but the rest of the hoop is rectangular in cross-section. The top and bottom faces of the hoop have fine oblique scratches, probably from finishing with a file; the interior also has less tidy longitudinal striations. The exterior has an irregular central line of scattered indentations, probably peck marks, running along either main face; one edge has two cut marks and two possible peck marks, and the oth…
Created on: Thursday 6th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-81FAC8
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Gold sword pyramid, square-based and low in height. Each of the four sides is inlaid with three cloisonné garnets in two designs, matching on opposing sides. Design 1 has a T-shaped cell at the top which is probably best described as a truncated triangle with a stepped-out base, like an arrow or Christmas tree shape. This is above two symmetrical garnets divided by a vertical cell wall, both garnets therefore L-shaped. The other, Design 2, is more unusual, with the lower left-hand garnet having a stepped boundary with the other two, whi…
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-3EDFC3
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object with ring-and-dot decoration, probably a fragment of pin. It consists of part of the flat head, of uncertain shape, with four very worn small ring-and-dot motifs on one face set in a lozenge shape. Above this the object is creased and broken. The two sides appear to possibly each have a rounded projection just below the break (more complete on the left side than the right) and then to taper in towards a gradual junction with the circular-section shaft. A short length of this survives and ends in a worn break; it measures 1.5mm in diameter just above the break. …
Created on: Friday 29th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-6D8084
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Silver and garnet-inlaid pyramidal mount from a sword-scabbard. It has four main faces, each drop-shaped, with a curved base tapering to a truncated point. Each of the faces has identical cloisonné decoration consisting of a central mushroom-shaped cell surrounded by four other garnets. There is a vertical cell wall running from the central mushroom above and below, and a zig-zag cell wall to either side continuing the stepped shape of the mushroom. Most of the garnets in the main faces survive, but on each face one or more have been lost. The sq…
Created on: Thursday 7th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-0CEED0
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper alloy 'socketed hook' strap fitting of late early-medieval date. Almost complete, it has a hook at one end which curves up and round to the reverse to form almost a complete circle or loop, 12.4mm in external diameter from front to back. The cross-section tapers throughout the curve of the hook to a minimum of 2.5 x 4.4mm. It has internal wear towards the top and slightly to the rear. Below the hook, the object has a short solid rectangular-section area which flares slightly downwards and is decorated with a groove above a moulding on each side, and a pair of grooves on th…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-3CDCC4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Rectangular gilded copper-alloy object, probably a brooch, with relief decoration of a Mammen-style bird. It is flat and slightly bent, with much of one edge missing. The front of the object has a lot of well-preserved gilding. The edge has a double-ridged frame, both ridges retaining some beading in places. Within this border is a single bird in profile, the body made from an outer beaded border filled with fine transverse ribbing, the leg similar but without the beaded border, and the tendril-like wings and tail made from grooves outlined with beading. The bird has its head to…
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2B52F4
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete unidentified object. It is a short length of copper-alloy rod, broken at one end where the rectangular cross-section measures 5.4mm wide and 3.0mm thick. It then tapers in width and thickness to 4.4mm wide and 1.4mm thick, and is gently curved along its length, although this may not be original. Close to the broken end it is decorated on both larger faces with transverse grooves; one face (the convex face) has at least three neatly parallel grooves, and perhaps more now obscured by corrosion. The other (concave) face has perhaps two grooves, and they look worn Surviving le…
Created on: Wednesday 4th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-163D74
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy full-round side knob from a cruciform brooch, with full-length iron pin bar passing through it. The dome is slightly more than hemispherical, with the widest point just above a pair of neat fine grooves around the base of the dome. A concave narrowed waist is below, with a minimum diameter of 5.5mm. Below this is a base 3mm deep, decorated around its circumference with three slightly wider and more carelessly applied grooves, which here appear lathe-turned. A tab projects from the base; this is curved in cross-section and has an incomplete lower edge. Behind the tab are t…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 31st August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-F0CE0A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas class A, type 1, with outcurved long sides, now bent slightly convex from one end to the other. It has relatively crude decoration, described with the attachment end uppermost. The attachment end is split to take the strap, and is shaped around two circular rivet holes. Below is the vestige of a 'fan-shaped' motif, comprising an inverted V-shaped groove above a curved groove; the curved line extends beyond the V on one side, but not the other. The main panel of decoration is roughly rectangular, with both long edges straight. The uppermost sh…
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-DCC1ED
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Fragment of gilded silver buckle, probably of 11th- or 12th-century date. The bar survives complete, with some casting flaws producing cavities. It is oval in cross-section, 3mm thick and 4mm wide in the centre but 5mm wide at either end. Two stubs of the relief-decorated frame survive, both curving, implying that the frame was oval. They are also wider and a little flatter than the bar. The decoration seems to show animal heads biting the ends of the bar. What appears to be the upper jaw, on the exterior of the buckle frame, has a squared-off end decorated with a pa…
Created on: Wednesday 7th October 2020
Last updated: Friday 21st January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B63A45
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Fragment of gilded silver wide equal-arm brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date. It is thick, flat and roughly triangular, with one long straight edge, a complete corner, and the other original edge having a slight S curve which runs down to a tiny fragment of forward-projecting bow. This surviving part represents about half of the headplate of the brooch, and its front is decorated with a deeply engraved pattern which partly consists of a Greek key pattern, an angular interlace of interlocking squares. Gilding survives in the grooves. As the o…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4D6BA7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Gilded silver object with niello inlay and Salin's Style I decoration dating it to the early Anglo-Saxon period. It is a heavy, three-dimensional object cast in one piece, perhaps imitating a buckle frame and pin, or alternatively a sword-ring. The object is largely circular in shape, thick and tapering upwards to form a truncated cone which has a sunken centre devoid of decoration. This is crossed by a bar which drapes across the slopes of the cone, dipping down into the centre where it is crossed by a second shorter bar at right angles. The sides of the cone ar…
Created on: Friday 18th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-4C320F
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Five fragments from an early Anglo-Saxon silver wire wrist-clasp of Hines Class A, together with a sixth silver fragment, probably from a different object. Fragment 1: One spiral terminal survives complete, with two full turns of the spiral, The inner tip is pointed and coiled more tightly; this tight loop or coil is on the inner side, close to the hook or catch. Just beyond the tip, the wire is beaded, or ribbed, for a short distance (about a quarter of a turn). This beading is crisp on one face and worn on the other, suggesting that the unworn face was next to the …
Created on: Friday 18th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 14th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-6553F3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy disc brooch of Kershaw's East Anglian series, of late early-medieval date. It is flat and was originally circular, now 28.9mm in diameter but very worn. An area is missing from the edge, with a worn right-angled break. The brooch is decorated with the characteristic ornament of a central sunken circle surrounded by a raised double-strand concave-sided lozenge, the corners of which are extended into double-strand ribbons which are loosely knotted. The ends of each strand curl to give a clockwise feel to the ornament. On the reverse is a broken pin lug, para…
Created on: Monday 7th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-11D5B8
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Tiny copper-alloy hooked tag of early-medieval date, Read's Class A, Type 2. The thin plate was probably originally circular, as part of a compass-drawn border circle can be seen at the junction of hook and plate, but now quite a bit of the edge has worn or been broken away to make it oval or sub-triangular. It has a central circular hole (c. 1.1mm in diameter) outlined with a similar groove, and a very faint second circle outside this. There are two similarly sized circular sewing holes above, one of which has broken through to the edge; they are separated by a ring-and-dot motif. Th…
Created on: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-E49F9B
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Gold pendant set with cabochon-cut gem, probably a garnet. The gem is smoothly polished, but is now cracked across its lower right-hand edge. It is placed on a gold backplate and surrounded with a gold strip collar, slightly curved transversely to fit around the stone; this is now cracked in places. The join between backplate and collar is covered with two layers of beaded gold wire filigree, now very worn, especially to either side of the suspension loop. The suspension loop is formed out of a projection integral to the backplate, which is now broken just above the body …
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-7D1514
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas's class E, type 4. The attachment end is rectangular and has a pair of dark metal rivets, one at each corner. The metal is uncertain but is probably a different copper alloy to the rest of the strap-end. This end is split for a short distance and the back half is missing; the front of the split area is undecorated. The body of the strap-end tapers very slightly and is filled with a rectangular panel of decoration, now very worn, outlined by a groove. Faint traces of Borre-style interlace can be seen within, with an angle at the top …
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7BF911
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap end with niello inlay, probably of Thomas's Class K. It is broken at the split end, with the front plate broken across the attachment holes and the back plate missing from the base of the split. There is iron corrosion behind the front plate. The split end has curved sides and narrows to the base of the split, then the strap-end flares out again gently and then curves in again to form a drop shape. This has a reserved strip down the centre, with a niello-inlaid panel to either side. The niello has now decomposed to a silvery colour, but it is possible t…
Created on: Thursday 27th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E83F16
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy brooch of 'cogwheel' type. It is circular and openwork, 30.2mm in diameter, and has a central convex lozenge surrounded by a groove. Beyond the groove are four slightly curved relief lines, one along each side of the lozenge, with each line ending in a flat disc. There are thus two flat discs at either corner of the lozenge, forming a cross shape. The ends of the cross are joined by a ring of copper alloy, leaving four roughly D-shaped holes in the brooch. A groove runs around the centre of the outer ring, and the exterior is shaped into 18 teeth, small rectangular projec…
Created on: Thursday 20th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-801E78
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Gilded silver object, probably an edge binding from an early Anglo-Saxon scabbard. It consists of a piece of silver sheet curled into an open tube, a shallow U-shape in cross-section. Both ends are broken; the breaks are not particularly worn. Both long edges are straight and there is no reason to think that they are not original. In the centre of each straight edge is a small circular attachment hole c. 1.5mm in diameter; these holes line up neatly with each other. One is empty and the other blocked with a hard grey-white unidentified material. From one side of the holes…
Created on: Monday 3rd August 2020
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7E9A0D
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Incomplete silver object, a probable ingot of late early-medieval date. It is long, narrow and flat, with one end complete and rounded and the other cut or broken straight across. The larger top and bottom faces are flat; the sides are very slightly bevelled or convex, with a just-visible central angle along the centre of each side. The long edges are parallel and the object increases in thickness from the rounded end to just before the break, where there is an angle across one face (perhaps the underside) and a steep slope to the break. This slope could be the start…
Created on: Monday 3rd August 2020
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-EC2F91
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Description: Gold finger-ring set with a flat-cut stone, probably a carnelian. The hoop is a narrow rectangular-section strip which does not flare to the shoulders, but widens and flattens slightly right at the slightly rounded ends, which are soldered to the reverse of the bezel a short distance apart. The bezel is almost circular, and has a gold backplate to which the ends of the hoop are soldered. The edge of the front of the backplate is covered by a plain wire, with a slightly smaller circle of two-ply twisted wire soldered on its top. The next layer, again sli…
Created on: Monday 27th July 2020
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-3A5AC6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object, probably a mount and probably of 11th-century date. It is square or lozengiform, all edges slightly outcurved, and with a projecting pierced lug at each corner. The lugs have straight sides and a pointed top and the perforation is circular and 1.8mm in diameter. The body of the mount is thick and slightly convex; it is pierced by a small circular central hole (diameter 1.9mm) which is surrounded by four larger circular holes, one in the centre of each side of the square or lozenge. Three are 2.9mm in diameter and the fourth is 3.1mm in diameter. Each of the …
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 27th October 2020
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Record ID: NMS-340E02
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Headplate, top knob and fragment of bow from a small early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The headplate consists of a central rectangular panel which is raised slightly above the wings; the panel is 10.3mm wide at the top and 10.9mm wide at the bottom. The wings are incomplete, missing three of the four corners and most of their long edges. The surviving corner suggests that the wings may have flared outwards, with a concave curve; the surviving area of edge suggests that the wings were 7mm wide and the side knobs were made separately. There is no decoration on either central panel or …
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 4th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-BBC41B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Silver penannular finger-ring of late early-medieval date. Circular in cross-section, it tapers evenly from the centre to a point at either end. The ends do not meet, and one appears to be bent out a little. The surface is scratched, and there is no decoration. Dimensions: Maximum diameter of cross-section, 2.5mm. Width across the hoop 22.5mm, from front to the bent-out end 24mm, from front to the more original-looking end 21.5mm, weight 3.38g.  Discussion: Similar silver finger-rings have been found in Norfolk, NMS-5D264A (2015T972) and&nbs…
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B69527
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of 11th-century date, now very worn and missing its apex. It is sub-triangular and flat, with curved long sides and two little flat projections at each of the lower corners, where there are holes through the mount from front to back filled with iron rivets. One of the projections on either corner is to the side, the other diagonal. On the reverse, between the two diagonal projections, there is a right-angled flange bringing the maximum thickness of the copper-alloy mount to 4mm; the iron rivets increase the maximum thickness overall to 8.5mm. …
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-910152
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy openwork strap-end of late Anglo-Saxon date and Thomas class E, type 1. The attachment end is missing and some of the other edges have also gone; the breaks are old and worn. There is relief decoration on both faces, around a symmetrical pattern of rounded perforations. At the top are the remains of four perforations, two larger in the centre and two smaller, one at each side. Below this is a central larger perforation flanked by two pairs of smaller holes. There are two larger perforations below this row of five, then a row of three, all incomplete. …
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-90822E
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Flat trilobate form of 11th-century stirrup terminal. Cast in one piece from copper alloy, it has a rectangular-section top, open at the back and U-shaped internally to take the iron stirrup. There is a ridge across each side close to the top, but the front is flat. The front flares out from 9.6mm wide at the top, downwards to the three lobes, the central one semi-circular and the two sides lobes more pointed; the maximum width at the bottom is 20.3mm. There is no decoration on the flat front. On the reverse, two ridges run down defining the channel in which the iron stirrup woul…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8D6673
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy flat disc brooch of Kershaw's East Anglian Series, late 9th or 10th century. A little less than half of the brooch survives, with half of the central recessed circle, within a double-strand lozenge whose corners are extended into loose double-strand knots. The decoration is corroded and worn. On the reverse is a lug parallel to the edge (perpendicular to the line of the pin); this is shaped like a thorn, with one edge vertical and the other sloping, then both curling over to a point. It is probably the catchplate rather than the pin lug. This is a small e…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8CCFAE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy relief-decorated fragment cast in one piece, probably from an early Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch. One end is narrower and thicker, circular in shape (13mm diameter) and D-shaped in cross-section with a flat reverse. The object then flares and flattens to an oval area 3.6mm thick, with relief Style I decoration, now very worn, depicting a human face. Two pellet eyes can be seen within grooved rings. Above them is a ridged brow which continues between the eyes as a narrow ridge, then flares out into a wide rectangular nose. To either end of the nose is an upward-curl…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-79B0CD
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Description: Incomplete gold pendant of 7th-century date. Probably originally mushroom-shaped or pelta-shaped, about two-thirds now survives; the missing third includes the suspension loop. It consists of a thin flat backplate with beaded wires soldered to it. The original edge has a very worn beaded wire, and the centre point is marked by a loose anti-clockwise spiral beaded wire. This is flanked by a pair of lines making an inverted V shape; each line is made up of a thicker central beaded wire leading from the border wire andsurrounded by a long U of thinner beaded wi…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-747ACC
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object, possibly an early Anglo-Saxon weight. It is an irregular oval, 15.2mm long and 10.0mm wide, and flat, tapering very slightly from 3.8mm thick at one end to 3.3mm at the other. One face is decorated with seven dots set in a cross, again slightly irregular. The other face is smoothly polished and undecorated. It weighs 2.85g. It is similar in size to an object from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site of Ozengell but now lost, thought to be a weight; another from the same site has five dots perhaps corresponding to a weight-standard of 2 tremisses (Scull 1990, f…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-F7B35C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy brooch of late early-medieval date, of Kershaw's East Anglian Series. It was originally flat and circular, but now all of the edges are missing and the brooch is corroded. The relief decoration is unworn, and consists of a central double-strand concave-sided lozenge, with a central sunken circle; each corner is extended to form double-strand interlace of loose knots which wrap underneath the lozenge's corners. On the reverse is an incomplete transverse pin lug, broken across the perforation, and a stub of catchplate. The surviving diameter parallel to thes…
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9408B9
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Part of a copper-alloy wrist-clasp of early Anglo-Saxon date, probably of Hines Form B19. It consists of a cast rectangular plate, one face undecorated but with a thick white-metal coating, and the other face with relief decoration. One short edge is broken (worn break) and the other has a circular sewing hole 2.5mm in diameter. No hook or catch survives. The decorated face has a bold flat-topped ridge running down its long axis, about a third of the way in; there are faint traces of fine grooves across the ridge. The narrower space to one side (the front edge) is undecorated. Th…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-BB9D8E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy brooch of back-turned animal type, Weetch type 1, dating to the 10th century. It is now bent, but otherwise in relatively good unworn condition, albeit with the rough green-brown corroded surface most of these brooches share. Around the edge is a narrow undecorated rim, then a ring of probably 28 rectangular or trapezoidal pellets or bosses (perhaps two are obscured by the bend). Within this is the animal in relief, seen in profile facing left with its head turned backwards. The head is trapezoidal, with an open mouth but no added eye and no obvious ear; it …
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-AC26F4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy zoomorphic or horse-head terminal from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch of Martin's type 3, late 5th or early 6th century AD. It is broken just above three moulded ridges that separate it from the rest of the foot (worn break). There is a short transversely rounded brow beneath these mouldings, then the head becomes more trapezoidal in cross-section and here the large pellet eyes are set, right on the edge of the brooch. Below these the nose flattens and softens to become more rounded again in cross-section, although this may be the result of wear. The nose tapers an…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-AAD5B3
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy and iron stirrup-strap mount of 11th-century date, now worn. It is basically pentagonal and largely flat, with a rounded apex below which are two small rounded projections. The apex is pierced with a circular hole. The mount then has straight edges flaring to its widest point, 28mm wide; below this are short incurves making a waist, with a small sideways projection at the bottom. Below this are straight edges slightly tapering to a base which is 25mm wide. On the reverse, the straight base turns a right angle to form a flange which is probably not full-width, but detail h…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-5326CB
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams class A, type 11C, of 11th-century date, now corroded and worn. It is triangular, with slightly outcurved sides and a rounded apex pierced with a circular hole; below the apex, in line with the hole, are a pair of tiny projections, one to either side. The whole of the rest of the mount is taken up with a sunken panel within a raised border which is the same width all around the mount. Within is relief ornament, which is blurred, but which can be seen to be a lion in profile facing left, with head raised and mouth open. The nose is …
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 22nd September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-14CFAA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. It is missing part of the headplate, side knobs, and the terminal of the foot. The surface is quite corroded and the breaks all appear old and worn. The small top knob is cast in one piece with the headplate. It is oval in cross-section, only 6mm wide and 5mm thick. It was probably originally full-round but flattened, and is now worn. It has a deep waist so that the entire knob is relatively long. Below the waist is a half-round base which projects forwards from the flat headplate; the base is 5mm from front to back. The headpla…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2F649A
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Unusual lead object, probably an early-medieval gaming piece. It is circular, slightly concave on the bottom and more steeply domed on top, with three circular-section projections or knobs on top. These are set in a neat triangle, but the group is off centre so that two are closer to the edge than the third. 21mm in diameter, 6mm thick away from the projections, 7-8mm thick with projections; it weighs 13.68g. It is difficult to precisely parallel this object from the PAS database. There are several early-medieval gaming pieces with three projections (e.g. SF-1CB627 and NCL-FC8D3…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-02A495
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Fragment of early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, part of the foot. The upper break is patinated but relatively unworn. It occurs at the top of the catchplate, on the reverse, but any moulding on the front at the junction of bow and foot is missing. The whole of the fragment has a marked curve from side to side and is hollow on the reverse, so C-shaped in cross-section. The rest of the flat panel consists of an area about 13mm long which is decorated down each edge with a row of worn tiny double-crescent stamps, with the open ends of the crescents towards the edge. This area ends w…
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1AE62F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
About half of a copper-alloy ansate brooch of early-medieval date, Weetch's type II, with circular terminals. One terminal survives, with a little missing, and about half the bow; the breaks are slightly worn. The terminal is flat and sub-circular, 17mm across, and decorated with four pointed-oval, V-section depressions forming a cross. Four further similar depressions are placed between the ends of the cross arms to form a lozenge, and an edge of the terminal has broken away along one of these grooves. The bow is 11mm wide and fairly flat with a slight arris in the centre. …
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C55F0D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Very worn fragment of openwork early-medieval strap-end of Thomas's Class E. Parts of both long edges survive, and they taper very slightly. There is a central spine with three surviving complete branches, showing that it was originally symmetrical and in Winchester style. Parts of another three branches survive, together with one complete perforation and parts of six others. There is very little evidence to go on, but the holes appear to grow in size from the wider to the narrower end. Surviving length 28mm, surviving width 24mm, weight 3.77g. Broadly 10th century.
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-5F9A2E
Object type: HANGING BOWL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Decorative enamelled copper-alloy mount from a hanging bowl of 7th-century date, with secondary perforation. It is flat and basically semi-circular, with one long edge outcurved and the other with two small incurves leading to a central rectangular projection. It could alternatively be called pelta-shaped or crescentic, or even mushroom-shaped. There is a reserved border running nearly all the way round, mostly around 2mm wide but narrower along the incurved edges. This border appears to have broken off the centre of the outcurved edge (very worn break). The rectangular projectio…
Created on: Wednesday 8th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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