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Record ID: NMS-E39636
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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
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-E3383A
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late Iron Age copper-alloy D-shaped terret, now very corroded but perhaps originally enamelled. It has a sub-circular or slightly oval upright collar terminal 13.7mm wide, 12.1mm tall and 4.8mm thick. From one side of this projects a triangular-section upper ring, with a flat inner and an angled outer. On the other side of the collar, at its base, is a stub of the attachment bar which shows that this was rectangular-section, 6.5 x 3.4mm, and set vertically. The overall length is 21.0mm and it weighs 7.34g. All surfaces of the fragment, including the breaks,&…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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-5767C8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver coin of Henry I, Quatrefoil with piles type, moneyer Wulfrard of Sandwich, North 863, weight 1.36g, c.1111
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-FDD7E8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
 Gold mourning ring dated 23 September 1805. The ring has a wide hoop, of even width throughout but now crumpled in one place. It is decorated on the exterior with a beaded ridge to top and bottom, two plain ridges within this, and a central band of relief lettering reading ELIZ: SHERMAN. DIED. 23. SEP: 1805. AGED. 81 The stops vary, sometimes colons but mostly central pellets. There is a space-filling motif, probably a rosette or flower, between the start and end of the inscription. Although the lettering is very neat, the workmanship is untidy, with lots of engraving scrat…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1C4BD7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Fragment of Roman silver finger-ring, bezel and shoulders only. The bezel is oval or lozengiform, with a raised solid roundel in the centre. This central flat-topped boss is engraved with a cross within four oblique lines making up a lozenge. There is a narrowed waist between the bezel and each shoulder, below which the shoulders are triangular, tapering into the hoop. They are each decorated at the top with a transverse line of ladder pattern, which is almost worn away on one shoulder. The edges of the shoulder, as they taper into the hoop, a…
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spooner Row', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9AC40C
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: 17th-century silver cufflink element decorated with crowned hearts, together with the oval wire loop that originally joined it to the other element. It is circular, originally with a flat centre and a shallow downturned rim with an out-turned edge. The rim is now bent and cracked. The flat area has a recessed centre enclosed within a raised edge. The centre has a stippled background, a pair of counter-relief heart shapes, one next to the other, and a crown over both. The crown is neatly made, with a wide lower band decorated with four dots, a…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-99877A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch, complete with silver pin. The frame of the brooch is circular, thick and flat to make a rectangular cross-section. The pin is held in a constriction, and has an open loop. There is a transverse double moulding at the junction of loop and shaft, below which the cross-section of the shaft is D-shaped or trapezoidal.  The frame is engraved on both faces with letters which read clockwise from the pin constriction. Because the pin has a clear front and reverse, it is possible to identify the front and reverse of the frame too; the…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-EFEE71
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small flat silver book-clasp of post-medieval date. It is neatly made from thick silver sheet, rounded at both ends and with a concave waist in between. A flat turned-under hook has been broken at one end, which has shoulders curving down into the waist. There is a tiny pointed angle between the waist and the other rounded end, which is oval, slightly larger, and set transversely. This end has a hole, neatly lozengiform on the front and circular on the reverse, presumably for attachment to a strap. The hole is now filled with greenish corrosion on …
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-5DCF04
Object type: NEEDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete post-medieval silver needle or bodkin with one pointed end and one pierced end. It has a circular cross-section for most of its length, and then flattens and widens at the top to a round-cornered rectangle through which a hole has been made. The top of the hole is rounded, mirroring the top of the needle, but the lower end of the hole tapers to a point.  The needle is decorated with two sets of double grooves around the entire circumference, one near the pointed tip and one about halfway up the shaft. Just below the hole, where the shaft begins to flatt…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-6858CD
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete silver mount or dress fastener. One half (the lower half) is flat and undecorated with a curving lower edge. The other half has decoration of two high-relief C-shaped scrolls with their backs towards the flat half and their points upwards The point of one scroll has been lost, but the surviving scroll is open at the top, and appears to be in the shape of a flat ribbon which is wound up at either end, and the inner end bound to the inner end of the other scroll. Between the two scrolls, and partly within both halves, is a sub-oval o…
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-02D016
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Late medieval gilded silver strap-end of hollow box form, decorated on both front and back. It appears to have been made from four pieces of silver soldered together, with no evidence of an internal spacer plate. The strap-end tapers slightly from the open end, and has a pair of concave curves running to a point at the closed end. There are two silver rivets at the open attachment end, The sides of the strap-end are undecorated but all surfaces (apart perhaps from the rivets) are gilded. The front is decorated with a rectangular frame made from a groove aro…
Created on: Friday 6th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roudham and Larling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D5565B
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Piece of gold rod, probably a small fragment of a flange-twisted or bar-twisted torc with three flanges, now bent into a spiral of two full turns. One end is original, with a rounded tip and neat triangular cross-section. From the rounded tip, the terminal flares slightly for c. 10mm and runs straight, before starting to coil. As it starts to curve, each face becomes concave so that the cross-section is Y-shaped, and the rod is then neatly twisted as well as bent into a coil. After two full turns the rod is apparently cut or broken. It is…
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 23rd November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F720E6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver finger-ring of 'iconographic' type, with clasped hands on the hoop. It is a fairly large ring, with the hoop generally of D-shaped cross-section. The gilding survives very well on both interior and exterior, with just a few areas (mainly around the edges) worn to show the underlying silver. The bezel is roughly triangular in cross-section, and is divided into two longitudinal concave fields with a central ridge. Each field is decorated with a crudely engraved human figure in three-quarter pose looking slightly towards the central ridge. They see…
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-019E8E
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete post-medieval silver cufflink of Lewis's Form 1, Type A, consisting of two circular elements joined by a loop. The two circular elements are identical, both decorated with a crown above two hearts on a stippled background within a raised rim. Each crown has a wide curved base with four dots along it; there are two arches above, each with jagged tops, alternating with three projecting fleurs. The hearts are side by side below, and are undecorated. All three elements fit the space tightly.   The edges of the circular elements have down-turne…
Created on: Thursday 13th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-301849
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Gold posy ring. The hoop is of even width and D-shaped cross-section throughout, although with some wear. The curved exterior is undecorated, and worn to a matt finish. The flat interior is more glossy, and has the inscription in neat lower-case italic letters: Let vertue be thy guide.  At the end of the inscription is a stamped maker's mark reading SL within an oval cartouche; it has been stamped so that it is the right way up when the inscription is upside down. The thicker parts of both letters are double-stranded, and there are two small points on the re…
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 27th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-2EEA77
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver pendant, probably of early post-medieval date, with a domed setting of unknown material, perhaps a toadstone. The silver element consists of a sheet backplate, now crumpled and crushed, with an upright wall or collar c. 3mm tall soldered to it; this soldered seam has come apart over much of its length. The collar still retains a domed setting of dull pale grey material with a very slight sheen, which has a hole in the centre filled with silver. Both the setting and the silver have polishing scratches across them.  On the reverse, at th…
Created on: Friday 9th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1C4C6F
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post-medieval gilded silver dress hook, probably a hat-hook, with a plate in the shape of an openwork portcullis. Three sides of the central lattice survive, with five vertical bars and four horizontal bars divided by small, roughly square holes.Two of the vertical bars have an expanded, arrowhead-shaped point at one end (the base of the portcullis); there are fairly fresh scars from two missing points and a worn break where the fifth is missing. At the other end of the plate (the top of the portcullis) the outer four vertical bars also …
Created on: Thursday 8th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-DA80F9
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver bodkin or head-dress pin, almost complete but now sharply bent and broken into two (joining) pieces. At the top is an oval scoop 7.8mm wide, set above a narrowed waist. Below this, the bodkin is rectangular in cross-section and tapers in both width and thickness. Below the decorated panels it gradually becomes hexagonal in cross-section, with bevelled sides, and finally ends in another fresh break which has removed the very tip of the object. Below the narrowed waist is a circular hole, 1.8mm in diameter; below this is a pair of bold transverse …
Created on: Monday 5th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cawston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-77D855
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver ball-headed pin of early post-medieval date. The head is spherical and decorated with filigree circles and pellets. There is a twisted wire around the circumference, probably two-ply, with three circles of finer twisted wire above and three below. Each circle has three smaller annulets of similarly fine twisted wire within, with a pellet in the centre between the three annulets. In the triangular spandrels between the larger circles are firstly two larger pellets, one above the other, each tightly surrounded with a ring of twisted wire; and secondl…
Created on: Friday 19th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-5E1D57
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Medieval gilded silver seal matrix of unusual form and fine craftsmanship. It is circular, thick and flat, with a recessed reverse. The die has a complicated central motif, described from the impression. On the left is the standing figure of the Madonna or Virgin Mary, with the Christ Child held in her arms towards the centre of the matrix. She is crowned and her face is towards the viewer, with hair or a veil to the sides; her right arm is bent across her body, and she has an obliquely draped skirt. The child is held in her left arm and his head is in side view,…
Created on: Thursday 18th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-3AB171
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver cross-shaped pendant of medieval date, with AGLA inscription. It has a central thick flat circular lobe and four oval-section arms. Three of the arms end in globular knobs; the upper arm has a similar knob, but then continues to a large, probably soldered-on oval loop, pierced from side to side. The central lobe has engraved decoration on both faces, consisting of a circular border with letters within. On the front the letters read AG, with the G suffering from corrosion, and on the reverse they read LA, with the A being turned at right angles so…
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-25921E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-927536
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two Icenian silver units, additions to a hoard of 18 coins found in 2015 (2015T546, NMS-79D400) with a further five found in 2017 (2017T1080, NMS-2E6730). The numbering follows on from these two finds. Catalogue: 24) ANTED type Pattern-Horse silver unit, ABC 1642/1645. Weight 0.88g. c.AD10-42. Finder's reference N004.CGI.0024. 25) Pattern-Horse type, the copper alloy core of a silver plated silver unit, a little plating remaining on the obverse. Weight 0.66g. c.AD10-42. Finder's reference N004.CGI.0025. Discussion: All of the 25 …
Created on: Friday 14th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-6E0D9C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy late Iron Age or early Roman Langton Down brooch, with the outer ends of the spring, most of the pin, the lower part of the bow and all of the catchplate missing. The wings consist of a thin undecorated sheet cylinder with a seam along the reverse and a slot in the centre for the copper-alloy circular-section pin. The broad bow springs from the centre of the wings, with a faint curved ridge running round the top and grazing the edge of the pin slot. The bow is thin and C-shaped in cross-section, with remains of very worn vertic…
Created on: Friday 31st March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-403598
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilded copper-alloy buckle plate with worn, corroded decoration, probably of a wyvern. It is roughly square (20.8mm wide and 19.0mm long) with two projecting hinge loops, both of which are broken. The front is decorated with a bird-like animal in profile facing right (towards the attachment end) originally apparently engraved and gilded, but not enamelled. Much of the surface is now missing, but the remains of oblique or zig-zag lines can be seen at either end, probably the remains of rocker-arm engraving. The centre of the plate is filled with the bird or animal, which …
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B0FF45
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
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: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-84BB97
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hoard of four Iron Age gold coins. Coins 2, 3 and 4 were found within 10m of each other, and coin 1 was found 30m further to the south. Catalogue: 1. Stater, Corieltavi, North East Coast, Rudd's so-called Right type, ABC1716, 6.33g, c.50-1 BC 2. Stater, Corieltavi, North East Coast, Rudd's so-called Right type, ABC1716, 6.26g, c.50-1 BC 3. Stater, Corieltavi, North East Coast, Rudd's so-called Right type, ABC1716, 6.25g, c.50-1 BC 4. Quarter stater, Corieltavi, Rudd's so-called Lindsey scyphate type, ABC 1767, weight 1.42g, c.60-2…
Created on: Monday 20th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-72428F
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular piece of silver sheet, perhaps an unfinished thimble. It measures 69.5mm in length and 20.8mm tall, and the sheet is 0.2-0.3mm thick. It is very gently curved along its length, and the convex outer has an extra strip along one long edge, probably soldered on. This is 3.0mm wide and decorated with two parallel grooves; it brings the thickness of the object up to 0.5mm. It weighs 3.4g. One short edge is very neatly cut and there is no gap between the extra strip and the rest of the sheet. The other end is more irregular and appears perhaps torn; the sheet and the s…
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-078751
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch. The frame is small, circular and a low D-shape in cross-section, with a constriction for the pin. It is now bent, broken across the constriction, and the pin is missing. The frame is decorated on the convex front with engraved and stamped decoration; held with the constriction at the top and reading anti-clockwise, the engraving consists of a transverse groove, then four saltires, then a half-saltire ending in a D-shaped recess. The lozenges and triangles thus formed are filled with triangular and sub-triangular punchmarks which se…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-070E37
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of medieval silver annular brooch, with a slim circular-section frame interrupted by two small irregular bosses both decorated with annulet stamps giving a 'brambled' effect. Both breaks are immediately after the boss and both are granular and unworn. The frame is now bent so that it is difficult to suggest an original diameter. Dimensions: Length of fragment, 25mm. Diameter of frame between bosses, 1.8mm. Thickness of bosses, 3-4mm. Weight 0.9g. Discussion: This type of annular brooch, with a circular wire frame interrupted by normally four bramble…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CD6871
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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
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-38F2DE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Tiny silver medieval annular brooch. It has an almost circular, D-section frame with a constriction for the silver pin. Opposite this is a pin rest, and both pin constriction and pin rest are flanked by animal heads pointing towards them, perhaps intended as biting at them. Each of the four animal heads has relief ears, eyes made from annulet punches, and nostrils made from single dots. If the pin constriction is held at 12 o'clock, then at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock is a slightly expanded raised oval zone of oblique grooves wit…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-38706A
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of mouth from a large socketed axe of late Bronze Age date (c. 1000 to 800 BC). About half survives, with one angle between front and side, showing that (when viewed from the top) the mouth was originally sub-square or sub-rectangular, with convex sides. One filed-down oval bump on the top,  near the break at the side, is probably the remains of a casting runner stub. Viewed from the front, the moulding around the mouth droops outwards with a bevelled edge. Immediately below this there is a clear, neat vertical ridge running down the centre of the side for the …
Created on: Wednesday 8th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-37CA51
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost-complete copper-alloy unlooped palstave of middle Bronze Age date (c. 1600-1400 BC), in very good condition. The blade is broadly sub-triangular, with relatively straight flaring sides which then curve sharply out to a curved convex cutting edge. One corner of this is squared off, apparently an original feature, but the other corner is missing (a very fresh, recent break). The two faces of the axe are identical. There are three very neat breaks of slope towards the cutting edge and running parallel to it. The upper half of the slope, like the …
Created on: Wednesday 8th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7E0297
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular lead weight, 24mm in diameter, 7mm thick and with a rectangular cross-section. One face is decorated with a pair of concentric ridges within which is a relief design which is probably a rose, although now damaged and unclear; it has a central boss within what may be a ring of broad petals. The other face is flat and undecorated. It weighs 26.9g, which is 0.95oz, so it is likely to have been a 1-ounce weight. There are several lead weights recorded on the database with rose decoration, none particularly like this example; they were probably locally made informal weights of the…
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7DD71B
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl, 31-32mm in diameter and 11-12mm tall. It has a flat underside, with a slight concentric groove, and a smoothly domed top which is decorated with five evenly spaced curving radial ribs or ridges, each c. 2-3mm wide. The central perforation is almost cylindrical, flaring a little from c. 9.5mm at the top to c. 10mm wide at the bottom. It weighs 57.2g.  Excavated parallels with good dates are few, but seem to centre on the late medieval period, perhaps 14th or 15th century.
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7DA399
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy medieval annular brooch, now very corroded and with much of its surface missing. The frame is 30.1mm in diameter, and was originally rectangular in cross-section, with rounded corners; where it survives best the frame measures 4.7mm wide and 3.0mm thick. It is undecorated, but has a pin constriction 3.3mm wide and a short, V-shaped nick forming a pin rest opposite this. The pin does not survive. It weighs 5.2g. It is fairly similar in proportions to a decorated copper-alloy annular brooch found in a context of c. 1270-1350 in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1313).
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7D7C83
Object type: PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and part of shaft from a copper-alloy pin. The head is circular, 14.3mm in diameter and with a rounded edge. The top has a groove around the edge and is convex within this. The edge is rounded, and the head is about 7mm thick. The underside tapers into a circular-section shaft 6.9mm in diameter, which then steps down to 5.0mm in diameter before a worn break. Total surviving length 17.5mm long, weight 8.6g. It is somewhat like DOR-B177D4 and WILT-45E175, which have been dated to the early or middle Iron Age (500 to 200 BC), although this example has a lower central …
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7D0591
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age brooch made from a single piece of copper alloy. The spring is large, with two coils on either side of the pin joined by an external chord running across the top of the spring. About half of the pin is missing, with a fairly fresh break across an oval cross-section. The bow flattens and widens from the spring to a maximum of 11mm wide, then tapers with straight edges to the foot. The upper part of the bow is flat, decorated with two median longitudinal ridges and a border groove, worn away over much of one edge, which all run down to a central D-section area whi…
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-28D354
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver object of post-medieval date. It is a cylindrical tube, with a closed undecorated base with a central scar as if a loop has been torn away. The base projects to form a rim about 2mm deep, which has an obliquely beaded edge (resembling cabling) which is now very worn. Above, the sides are of thin sheet, with the top cut into a zig-zag of eight V-shaped cut-outs and eight projecting points which are now mostly bent inwards. A crack runs from the base of one of the cut-outs to just above the base. The sides are decorated with a engraved zig-zag border just below the top edge, then …
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AB83CA
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chunky lead figurine, showing a woman and child. The woman is sitting on a low seat, concealed by her long skirt, with her legs stretched out to the viewer's left; her right (upper) knee appears bent and from the reverse can be seen within the skirt. Her left arm is around a small standing child with rounded head and bare legs, who is facing left (from the viewer's point of view). The child has its head against the woman's shoulder and chest, but there is a scrape down the centre of the woman's body, just in front of the child, so details here have been lost. The woman&…
Created on: Friday 20th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AB4973
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-AA47D1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Tiny post-medieval silver seal matrix. The die is circular, and decorated with a beaded border a little way in from the edge. Within this is a motif of an acorn; an oval with a small boss or knop at the top, a large cup made up of ten punched dots at the base, with a curving stem and a pair of schematic leaves (not obviously oak leaves) below. There is no inscription.  The matrix has a hexagonally faceted conical handle which rises, tapers to a waist and then flares slightly before ending in a rectangular-section trefoil openwork handle. There is a faint gr…
Created on: Friday 20th January 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-188BC9
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy book clasp of Howsam's type A.3, made from a thin strip of copper-alloy sheet mostly 14.2mm wide, with one end flaring to 15.4mm wide before being broken. The break is across the outer of two concentric grooves around a rivet hole (blocked with iron corrosion), with a second similar motif around a second rivet hole in the centre of the clasp. The other end of the clasp has a flat, slightly tapering, turned-under hook. It has further decoration of three transverse rows of fine rocker-arm ornament between the central circles and the hook, with a V shape of…
Created on: Friday 13th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EC89F6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy leg from a medieval cooking vessel. It is roughly rectangular in cross-section, 32 x 14mm at the break, with a very slight midrib down the centre. It flares smoothly to the out-turned foot, and there is no break between the two. The foot is triangular in side view, with a trapezoidal base 39mm wide at most and 22mm deep. It is 47mm long and weighs 109.5g. There is no particularly close parallel in Butler and Green 2003; it is fairly similar to one from a 14th-century context in Winchester (Biddle 1990, no. 3386).
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EC471B
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a medieval gilded copper-alloy strap fitting, probably from horse-harness. It consists of a single rectangular plate, 9mm wide and 2.5mm thick, slightly rounded on the front and flat on the reverse, with half of a rounded loop at one end which appears to have worn through. The plate has two circular rivet holes through it, one at either end. The object is very corroded, but the angle between plate and loop has preserved some surface, and there is a little around the upper rivet hole, and some on the reverse too. There are traces of gilding around the rivet hole. …
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 19th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EBCACA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded copper-alloy Roman plate brooch of dished cone type, with white-metal coating on the reverse. Originally circular, all edges are now broken and worn. It has concentric decoration around a concave-sided cone in the centre, which is broken or badly worn on top so that any detail is now lost. The lower part of the central cone is more straight-sided, and around it is a concave dished ring. Beyond this is a circular ridge, and then a flat outer zone which is decorated with U-shaped or crescentic stamps, the points outermost. Apart from the top of the central cone, all parts of …
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E9DBAE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-D815F6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilded copper-alloy buckle plate, now incomplete. The flat D-shaped upper plate survives, broken at the hinge loops and now bent. It is decorated with a border of engraved ladder pattern made up of a double border with transverse lines between, forming squares. This border runs in a straight line across the plate behind the pin slot, and then hugs the curved edge. Within the border are three rivet holes, two of which retain copper-alloy rivets with slightly convex round heads. The plate has a rough brown surface with patches of green, and traces of gilding. Length c…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D7D2A9
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast copper-alloy spearhead of Middle or Late Bronze Age date (c. 1600-800 BC). It has a circular-section socket which survives to c. 9mm deep; the line of the socket then forms a wide, thick solid midrib running all the way to the point. There is a flat wing to either side of the midrib, each tapering with straight edges towards the point. The very tip of the point has broken off (worn break). The wings and socket are broken (worn breaks) part of the way along the spearhead's outward flare, so it is not easy to tell the original size of the object. Both …
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D6903A
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilded copper-alloy horse-harness pendant, now very worn. It is in the shape of an upside-down fleur-de-lis, with a suspension loop projecting from the top (the centre of the stem). The loop is pierced from side to side, although the small hole is now blocked with copper-alloy corrosion. The body of the pendant is thin and flat, slightly convex on the front and concave on the reverse. Much of the edge is missing, but the fleur shape, with side lobes incurved on their undersides, is clear. No decoration survives apart from small patches of gilding. Length 36.1g,…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D5BD87
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-54BB84
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Heavy but small gold finger-ring set with an intaglio engraved with a horse facing right (left in impression). The ring is of Guiraud's type 2c and Henig's type II. The hoop is biconvex in cross-section, flaring from a minimum of 2.6mm wide and 2.2mm thick at the point furthest from the bezel into smooth, undecorated shoulders which in turn swell into the oval bezel. The oval intaglio is pale brown in colour. It is raised from the surface of the bezel and its sides are sloped and rounded, exploiting the layered nature of the stone so that the horse is cut ag…
Created on: Wednesday 4th January 2023
Last updated: Sunday 31st March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C98E64
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of copper-alloy binding strip or mount, probably from furniture, a box or casket, or similar. It is D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat reverse and curved top. It is broken at both ends and has vaguely zoomorphic decoration. Surviving length 75mm, width of wider part 13mm, maximum thickness 5.3mm, weight 16.3g.  At one end it is broken across a circular rivet hole c. 3mm in diameter; here the break seems fairly fresh. The hole has punched dots around it and there is a trace of an oblique groove. There is then an undecorated area c. 25mm long, with a similar rivet hole ne…
Created on: Friday 16th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9E18ED
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy quillon from a knife or dagger guard, probably of medieval date. The object is cast in one piece, and is broken across the end of the hole through which the iron tang would have passed (fairly fresh break). Beyond this it turns a right angle downwards, and then there is a C-shaped curve, points upwards. The rearmost point, where it springs from the rest of the object, is a flat oval platform. The curve then acts as a neck, because the other end is shaped into an animal or possibly human head, with dots on the sides for ears, dots on the front for eyes, and a V-section…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9DAFF0
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Book clasp of Howsam's type A.3, probably 15th or 16th century, now slightly bent. It is made from two sheets of copper alloy, a front sheet with flared end and hook, and a shorter rectangular backplate, joined by a copper-alloy rivet. The front plate is mainly 9.1m wide, the flared end broken across a rivet hole which is surrounded by a groove. There is decoration of neat transverse grooves, perhaps in pairs, now hard to see; other decoration may now have vanished. The hook is 3.6mm wide. Length 44.0mm, maximum width 10.7mm, thickness of front plate 0.7mm, weight 2.4g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Friday 19th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9D7BFC
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Globular knob handle from furniture, made from copper alloy, now very corroded. It is basically spherical, 25.0mm in diameter, with one end tapering into a waist and then flaring out again into a cone. This then steps in to form a blunt-ended attachment shaft c. 4.5mm square in cross-section. The opposite end probably has a small boss, but this is covered with bubbly corrosion. There are small patches of smooth surface visible, mostly green or grey-green. These handles are found in both the Roman and post-medieval periods, but the patina suggests a Roman d…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-99D011
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval dagger guard made from copper alloy, consisting of a central block with a quillon to either side. The block is flat, 6.5mm thick, with a rectangular hole measuring 9 x 6mm through its centre to accommodate the tang of the dagger. Viewed from the top or bottom the block is hexagonal, and viewed from the side each face has a central vertical ridge with another at either end where the block meets the quillons. These three ridges on either side divide the block into two panels, decorated in mirror-image with two central longitudinal dashes (short grooves) with pairs…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-85E1C1
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a copper-alloy purse bar of Williams's Class J. It is broken across the hole through the undecorated central block (worn break). The bar is oval in cross-section, 5.0 x 4.3mm in the centre, and the terminal is globular, decorated with perhaps seven worn curved, twisting ridges and grooves. Total surviving length 44.2mm, block 12.1mm tall, terminal 11.5mm diameter, weight 12.5g. Late medieval or early post-medieval, c. 1450-1550 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-85810F
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. It is crescent-shaped, points downwards, with a sturdy oval suspension lug in the centre of the convex edge, pierced from side to side by a small hole and with a ridge running across the base of the lug at the front. The body of the pendant has lost either end (worn breaks) and in between has a zig-zag lower (incurved) edge. It is decorated with double parallel lines of punchmarks forming a border around the upper edge, and a zig-zag pattern springing from the base of the lug, with each of the lower points of the zig-zag join…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-84FA3A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman headstud brooch, now in poor condition having lost all its surface back to bare metal. The rectangular swept-back wings each retain a patch of blue enamel at their ends and a patch of red enamel further forward. On the reverse, the head is deeply hollowed in the centre, and has a long (but spindly) pierced lug or loop to hold the axis bar or tube around which the spring was coiled. On top of the head is a crest with a central hole that has worn through to the exterior, which would originally have held the chord of the spring. At the end of this, at the top of the…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8488EE
Object type: MIRROR CASE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of one half of a medieval copper-alloy mirror case. It is circular, 31mm in diameter, with a flange around the edge 3.3mm thick. Within the flanged inner face is a thin grey coating, with a patch of white corrosion in one part of the angle that probably represents the cement originally holding the glass. The flat outer face is decorated with grooves made up of punched dots, although detail is unclear as the surface looks like it has been dissolved away, with bare metal in places. The grooves form a central simple cross within a circular border, with an L shape in each an…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-84154F
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy centre-looped cosmetic mortar dating to the late Iron Age or Roman period (50 BC to 200 AD). It is smoothly curved along its length with slightly thickened rounded terminals. The U-section groove retains a shiny green patina, but this is missing over most of the rest of the surface meaning that the decorative details have been lost. The loop is simple, with an internal diameter of 6.8mm and a surviving external diameter of 15mm. Traces of a slight groove or flute can be seen along the exterior, just above the loop. Length 53.1mm, height from base of loop to …
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-83C951
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring, circular (25-26mm diameter) and of hexagonal cross-section, with filemarks on the outer angles. Solidly but not particularly neatly made, perhaps a little worn on the interior edges. 3.5mm thick, 3.5 to 4.5mm wide, weighs 5.2g. These rings probably had many uses, from brooch or buckle frames to harness rings, curtain rings and so on. The filemarks on this one probably indicate a medieval date.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-75F0B1
Object type: SADDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy saddle pommel of post-medieval date (c. 1500-1700). It was apparently made in two halves which have been brazed together at a raised seam. Six further slightly lower ribs, each flanked by grooves, radiate from the midpoint of the seam, converging at a point which has a circular attachment hole just to one side. To either side of the point, both wings are lost (fairly old breaks) before there is another original curving edge at the back. It is 71mm tall, a maximum of 40mm in diameter, and weighs 116.1g. Compare LANCUM-CE4675 and YORYM-E3E676, which have …
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-75A915
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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
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-7125D5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusual copper-alloy buckle frame, probably early post-medieval in date. It is square, 27.5mm wide, with a roughly trapezoidal bar. The sides (or top and bottom edges) are a curved in cross-section, forming a quarter-circle, hollow on the reverse. They are decorated with a ridge across the ends close to the bar. The outside edge is semi-circular in cross-section, also hollow on the reverse, with bevelled ends; it is decorated with a ridge across each long edge. The outside edge has a notch on its inner edge for a pin rest, and on its outer edge is a hollow-b…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-708A83
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy openwork mount of medieval date. About half of a (presumably originally circular) roundel survives, with a frame c. 3-4mm wide surrounding a central motif whose surviving part consists of three arms, the central one oval and the two flanking ones narrower and curving outwards. Beyond the frame, in line with the oval arm, is a large projection in the shape of a fleur-de-lis, with a groove across the rectangular base. The mount is flat, mostly 2mm thick, but has an integral circular-section rivet on the reverse of the lis which brings the overall thickness to 5.5m…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-704044
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-4D5537
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cufflink element, missing all of its edge. What survives is the flat centre, decorated in the middle with a crudely engraved hexagon, with very short lines radiating inwards from its concave edges. In the centre is a circle with even shorter, finer lines radiating outwards; the two sets of short lines do not meet. The circle has another circle, or possibly heart shape, within it which is filled with parallel grooves.  Surrounding the concave-sided hexagon are hints of eight dished areas, one of which retains a tiny fragment of original edge. This is straight, suggesting th…
Created on: Monday 28th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 13th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CDAFBE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Large gold finger-ring with internal posy inscription and external decoration. The hoop is of even width throughout, and the exterior has a bold groove around either edge, with a convex surface in between. This is decorated with neatly engraved ornament, worn in places, consisting of oblique reserved strips (strapwork) between engraved lozenges each containing a five-petalled flower or rose in the centre, with stems and leaves filling the narrower corners. The diagonal lines give a twisted or cabled effect to the outside. The flatter (but still slightly convex) …
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D0E063
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver asymmetric double-loop buckle frame, perhaps from a shoe or spur. One loop is rectangular and the other is D-shaped, with a pointed outside edge. The frame is D-shaped in cross-section, and the only decoration is an oblique groove at either outer corner of the rectangular loop; one of these grooves is now worn away at its outer end. The frame is thickened in the centre where it is drilled to take a separate bar, and the buckle is now bent up on either side of this hole, which is broken through to the reverse with the bar missing. The pin is also missi…
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CED7ED
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold and gem finger-ring, the gemstone held in place by four claws. The circular-section hoop is slender, generally 1.4mm in diameter. It flares upwards and flattens in thickness to a tall stirrup-shaped bezel which is just 0.9mm thick. This has a rounded cut-out at the top which wraps around the gemstone at little to form a pair of claws. At right angles to these are two more claws which are apparently integrally cast with the rest of the hoop. When viewed from the underside, there is no back to the bezel nor any kind of collet wrapped around the stone; the two …
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A203FE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold posy ring. The hoop is of even width and D-shaped cross-section throughout, although with some wear. The curved exterior is undecorated, and worn to a matt finish. The flat interior is more glossy, and has the inscription in neat seriffed capitals BE. FAYTHFVL. TO. THY. FREND. The two final letters are ligated.  Dimensions: Exterior diameter, 20.5mm. Width of hoop, 5.1mm (worn in some places to 5.0mm). Thickness of hoop, 1.5mm (worn in some places down to 1.2mm). Weight, 5.5g.  Discussion: This is a fairly small but relatively wide…
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8F4D4A
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-3A75F4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Group of six silver coins, all groats or double patards (or fragments thereof). Catalogue: 1) Richard III, fragment (about half) of a groat, London, initial mark & type illegible, 1.52g, 1483-5. 2) Henry VII or VIII, small fragment of a groat, further details illegible, 0.30g, c.1500-44. 3) Henry VIII, groat, London, rose initial mark, North 1797, 2.32g (missing a piece), 1526-9. 4) Henry VIII, groat, London, lis initial mark, uncertain letter forms of F and M, 2.52g, 1526-44. 5) Henry VIII, groat, London, lis initial mark, uncertain letter forms of F and M, 2.66g, 1526-44. …
Created on: Thursday 3rd November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-2623F1
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver vervel or hawking ring of Lewis and Richardson type C.iii (flat shield shape, cast in one piece). It is thin and flat, and the shield is quite angular, with a point at the base; much of the straight top is taken up with the ring.  It is engraved on one face with italic lettering reading Lestr / ange / Morda / nt (Lestrange Mordant). The top of the long s, and the L, are both off the edge of the shield, as if the hole in the ring was cut through after engraving. The other face has a lightly engraved heraldic crest. This consists o…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-81D353
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper-alloy finger-ring of Guiraud's type 1b. The hoop is largely missing, with breaks worn down to points. What survives of the shoulders rises steeply to a thick oval bezel, measuring 14 x 9.5mm at the top, and a minimum of 5.3mm thick at the centre. It has an oval setting of uncertain material, now much decayed. In the centre is a flat, shiny, glassy, purplish circle sitting on the base of the cell, flanked by a thicker dull brownish material. Perhaps it was originally a glass or enamel. Total surviving width, 19.4mm; total length from top o…
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8188B9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy Roman plate brooch of umbonate or domed boss type. The circular boss has a empty sunken dot in the centre, surrounded by a single ring of 12 small triangular champlevé cells (apex inwards) which are inlaid alternately with red and with blue enamel. These cover the dome, and around it is a deep, wide groove, then a flat ring forming a border which now has a fragmentary worn edge. Two flat triangular projections from this border survive, one wide and shallow with the double hinge lug on the reverse and the other (longer and more tri…
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-5A6F3E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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
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-D9E26D
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver cufflink element. It is circular, pressed into a hollow shape with flat top, down-turned wall and out-turned rim. The flat top has a raised rim, and the sunken centre within is decorated with a counter-relief heart over two crossed arrows (heads downwards) with a flame above. The reverse has an attachment loop made from round-section wire, now bent.  Dimensions: Diameter 14.mm, overall thickness including loop 5.0mm, weight 1.0g. Discussion: This is Lewis's type B, flaming heart with two arrows, a fairly common type; see NMS-499371 for a co…
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6EB2F9
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of gilded silver pilgrim badge, now bent and cracked, showing a figure and a dragon. The fragment is cast in one piece with a flat reverse and relief-decorated front. It is L-shaped, with part of a horizontal base which the vertical figure stands on the left-hand end of. The surviving part of the base is decorated with a dragon's head in profile looking towards the figure, with a long pointed ear, rounded brow, and an open mouth from which a tongue protrudes. Beneath the head is a pair of short forelegs bent forwards. In front of the dragon, an…
Created on: Friday 30th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Topcroft', grid reference and parish protected.

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

Record ID: NMS-AEAC9D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of flat copper-alloy plate, 1.3mm thick and approximately rectangular, 23 x 12 mm. One face is smooth and the other rougher. One long edge is cut into with four V-shaped notches, larger at one end and getting smaller towards the other. The other long edge has a partial circle (c. 6mm diameter) cut out of the corner closer to the smaller notches. Other edges appear to be broken (worn breaks). The zig-zag serrations are very slightly bevelled or rounded, on the smoother face only. There is a green patina and the object appears of some age, although precise date and fun…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-AE3E72
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy fragment, probably part of a late Roman bracelet (late 3rd or 4th century) with hook-and-eye fastening. Both ends are broken; the wider end is pointed-oval in cross-section, 8.1 x 4.9mm, with the outer surface faceted or strongly curved and the inner more gently curved. The break here is fresh. The fragment then tapers to a point, and flattens before thickening again at the point. In side view, the point is broken across a side-to-side perforation or possible hook; the breaks here are very worn, making it hard to distinguish between a break and an origi…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-ADCD92
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Probable bracelet fragment consisting of a piece of curved copper-alloy rod. It tapers from 6.6mm wide at an original squared-off end to 3.6mm wide at a fairly fresh break, and increases in thickness from 1.4mm at the original end to 3.4mm at the break. It is therefore sub-circular in cross-section at the break, but for most of its length the fragment is D-section with a flat inner surface. The slightly convex outer surface has traces of possible decoration, including areas with bevelled edges, but it is worn and there is a casting flaw (a rounded depression) which makes the original i…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AD8C38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late Iron Age or early Roman copper-alloy brooch, probably a Nauheim or Nauheim derivative. It consists of a flat, triangular bow, now a little bent, tapering from 7.5mm wide at the top with straight sides to a pointed tip with a tiny upturned bump. There is a groove down the centre and either edge; all the grooves peter out before the end of the brooch, and the side grooves have hints of ribbing or beading or punched decoration. Although the foot of the brooch appears complete, as there is absolutely no hint of a catchplate on the smooth reverse, it may be broken and …
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9A9CB9
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three silver medieval coins, all halfpennies of Edward I. Catalogue: 1. Irish halfpenny of Edward I (2nd coinage) minted in Dublin. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB / CIVITAS [DVB]LINIE Diameter 14.7mm, weight 0.65g. Withers Type 1 (1a or 1c), Spink (2015) no. 6250. Date: 1280-1284. 2. Irish halfpenny of Edward I (2nd coinage) minted in Waterford. EDW R ANGL DNS HYB /  CIVITAS VATERFOR Diameter 15.03mm, weight 0.68g. Withers Type 2e, Spink (2015) no. 6254. Date: 1281-1284. 3. Halfpenny of Edward I (class 3b) minted in London. EDW R…
Created on: Tuesday 20th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2023
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