Record ID: NMS-09EC59
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: 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-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
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

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-E85D63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-FE0563
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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.

Record ID: NMS-9433CA
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-DF6591
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-486001
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-FC1F13
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-7680BE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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
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
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.

Record ID: NMS-6D8084
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-DCC1ED
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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
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
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.

Record ID: NMS-4C320F
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-E49F9B
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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-801E78
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: 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
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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