Record ID: NMS-7B5EC2
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Circular silver object, probably a cufflink element but possibly a button. It is flat with a slightly down-turned edge. The front has a repoussé profile bust of Queen Anne looking left, wearing drapery around the shoulders fastened by a six-lobed brooch. The hair is gathered up but the details are unclear; she may be wearing an ear-ring and perhaps a comb with a circular loop. An inscription around the edge reads (in front of the head) ANNA.DE and (behind the head) GRA. (Anne by the Grace of God). The bust and inscription are contained within a plain ridged border with w…
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E9B616
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Roman silver finger-ring of Henig type II and Guiraud type 2c, with an oval setting of glass or enamel. The hoop is markedly wide and oval, and is sub-oval or biconvex in cross-section. There is some iron corrosion internally so the precise internal dimensions are hard to measure. The hoop widens and thickens steadily as it curves smoothly into the bezel.The bezel has an oval depression about 10mm long and 7.5mm wide, in line with the hoop, which is filled with a rough orange-brown substance very like the iron corrosion on the interior of the back of the hoop. Dimens…
Created on: Friday 15th May 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E93EBA
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Penannular ring of probable Bronze Age date, probably from a composite (multiple strand) ring. It is C-shaped in cross-section, with a convex outer and a concave interior. The width of the ring is very consistent but the two ends do not sit quite in line, as if the ring has been slightly bent out of shape. There is a c. 1.5mm gap between the two ends, one of which is slightly incurved and the other slightly outcurved, as if they once joined. The top and bottom edges are neat and parallel, but one is more highly polished than the other, which has a narrow roughened str…
Created on: Friday 15th May 2020
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-E81EBC
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post-medieval incomplete silver seal matrix. The die is octagonal, slightly longer than broad, and fairly low. It rises to a conical handle with a double ridged collar at the top, above which is a broken, probably originally trefoil, openwork handle. The die is engraved with a beaded border around an African head facing left (on the impression). The figure is wearing drapery around the neck, an earring, and a beaded headband or diadem diagonally around the head and tied in a bow at the back. The hair, if any, is short.  Both long edges of the back of the die are mar…
Created on: Friday 15th May 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AB3A70
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post-medieval gilded silver dress fastener made in two parts soldered together. The plate is circular, slightly convex on the front, with the edge 'pinked' or cut into several small convex rounded scallops. This edge is interrupted in three places, each a quarter-way round the circle, for projecting lugs pierced with circular sewing holes; two have broken away and one is complete. Within this edge is a circular filigree border made from twisted wire; within this is a ring of 15 pellets, each one surrounded by a tiny collar of twisted wire. Next comes another circle of twi…
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3FF8BF
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold finger-ring with posy inscription. The hoop is now bent slightly out of shape but was originally circular; there are a couple of nicks on the edge. It is a low D-shape in cross-section, with a slightly curved outer face and a flat inner face. There is no decoration on the outside. The inscription takes up just over half of the inner face, and reads in seriffed Roman capitals, FEARE x GOD x Dimensions: The hoop measures c. 20 x 22mm and was probably 21mm in original diameter (around 18mm internal diameter). It is 4.5mm wide and 1.3mm thick, and weighs 4.6g. …
Created on: Thursday 7th May 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 15th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-3FDFEB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver medieval annular brooch with pin. The frame is circular, D-shaped in cross-section, and decorated in the shape of two wyverns in profile. The heads meet at a pin constriction, and have open jaws, long ridges for eyes, and round ears. Behind the heads are ridged shoulders which extend down to form forelegs; these bend forwards at an elbow and end in slightly rounded paws.Behind the shoulders are small wings, decorated with longitudinal grooves, which lie flat along the animals' backs. Beneath the wings, the bodies are decorated wit…
Created on: Thursday 7th May 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-3E5C7E
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age hoard of four copper-alloy objects, comprising a pair of strap-mounts, a binding strip and a ring. 1. First of a pair of cast copper-alloy strap mounts. Description: The mount takes the form of a looped drop-shaped openwork frame, of D-shaped cross-section (flat on the reverse),with the ends of the loop cast as if butted together before curling outward to form supports for two conjoined roundels at the terminal. A third roundel is contained within the loop, attached to the inner sides where they narrow towards the terminal. Each of these roundels has a slightly offs…
Created on: Thursday 7th May 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C8D60B
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post-medieval silver cufflink made from two circular hollow sheet elements joined by an oval silver wire link. Each element has a slightly domed front made from pressed sheet, with a beaded border of short radial ridges and a central facing bust with long curly hair, prominent facial features and a large crown. One of the fronts is dented. Each element also retains a separate flat sheet backplate, with an integral central loop flanked by a pair of small circular perforations. The two loops are linked by an oval silver wire link which is almost long enough to allow them to…
Created on: Thursday 26th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 10th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C8363C
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver pendant set with jet, probably a pilgrim souvenir. It is broadly drop-shaped, but with a wider lower rounded part and a longer narrower upper part. The silver backplate is flat, with a pinked edge with many small V-shaped cuts separated by short lengths of straight edge. Just inside this edge is a tall silver collar or wall, probably soldered to the backplate, which also has a pinked top, although here the pinking cuts are closer together forming a zig-zag edge. This collar encloses the jet setting. A circular silver suspension loop appears to be made from wire sol…
Created on: Thursday 26th March 2020
Last updated: Sunday 6th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-BBABD0
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Top of a gilded silver spoon of seal top type. It swells gently from a break into a rounded drop-shaped element which is decorated with engraving. As it tapers around the top of the drop-shaped element it flares and tapers again to form an undecorated concave waist or 'reel'. Above this is a flattened rounded element, decorated with eight vertical grooves. A narrowed area separates this from the flat circular top, which has two steps up to it. The flat top is decorated with punched dots forming an inscription reading HN 1637 MB. More dots are placed in groups of four to e…
Created on: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B81F81
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver thimble with no obvious seams, so presumably made in one piece. The rim is straight with no thickening, and there are two circumferential grooves above it defining an undecorated zone. Above this is a zone of very regularly grid-set square indentations, which is bordered at the top by another circumferential groove. The indentations respect a 'strapwork' design, a zig-zag band free of indentations and outlined by a groove to either side. Four points of the zig-zag touch the groove forming the lower border to the zone of indentations, four points touch the groove fo…
Created on: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B78C93
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver hooked tag of early post-medieval date. It appears to be made in one piece, but may have been made from separate elements soldered together. It has a sub-triangular three-dimensional plate consisting of three rounded bosses. Each boss is decorated with three circles made from plain ridges or possibly plain soldered-on wire, with a granule or pellet at the centre. The bosses alternate with three similar granules set near the edge of the plate. The edge is scalloped; shaped around the bosses and granules, curved around each granule and with three…
Created on: Wednesday 25th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-BBC41B
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver penannular finger-ring of late early-medieval date. Circular in cross-section, it tapers evenly from the centre to a point at either end. The ends do not meet, and one appears to be bent out a little. The surface is scratched, and there is no decoration. Dimensions: Maximum diameter of cross-section, 2.5mm. Width across the hoop 22.5mm, from front to the bent-out end 24mm, from front to the more original-looking end 21.5mm, weight 3.38g.  Discussion: Similar silver finger-rings have been found in Norfolk, NMS-5D264A (2015T972) and&nbs…
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B7BF2A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver medieval bar-mount. It consists of a D-section bar which flares towards a central circular lobe with large circular perforation. The narrower ends of the bar each have a small circular lobe pierced to take a rivet; both rivets are missing. Each half of the bar is divided from the central and terminal lobes by transverse ridges. The reverse of the bar is flat, but each lobe has a hollowed reverse. Dimensions: It is 22mm long, and 6mm wide and 1mm thick at the central lobe. It weighs 0.53g. Discussion: Bar-mounts of this type are very common in the medieval…
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-79B0CD
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete gold pendant of 7th-century date. Probably originally mushroom-shaped or pelta-shaped, about two-thirds now survives; the missing third includes the suspension loop. It consists of a thin flat backplate with beaded wires soldered to it. The original edge has a very worn beaded wire, and the centre point is marked by a loose anti-clockwise spiral beaded wire. This is flanked by a pair of lines making an inverted V shape; each line is made up of a thicker central beaded wire leading from the border wire andsurrounded by a long U of thinner beaded wi…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-E7BBAE
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post-medieval silver head-dress pin, often called a bodkin. The shaft survives, a flattened hexagon in cross-section, tapering gently to a point; it is now bent. The pin is broken across the rectangular perforation, of which only a little survives (unworn break). The pin is decorated with engraving on its two main faces. Each has a pair of transverse grooves across the end of the perforation, then below this a star or sun made up of a reserved circular area in the centre with four bold grooves radiating to form a cross, and slimmer shorter radial grooves fillin…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 13th October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-65AB83
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Tiny partly gilded silver insect brooch of Roman date. The brooch is flat and sub-triangular, and represents an insect (perhaps a fly or cicada) seen from above. The apex is shaped into a three-dimensional head, globular with a slightly raised large circular eye to either side. The triangular space between the eyes is gilded but the eyes are apparently not. Behind the head is a ridged collar, and then the wings and body form the rest of the triangle. Each wing is flat and triangular, the apex towards the head; the wings are gilded and covered with rows of dots which follo…
Created on: Wednesday 26th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 15th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-079CAA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete plate brooch which imitates the sole of a shoe or sandal. One half survives, the toe end, with the pin lug on the reverse. It is pointed rather than rounded at the end and has no loop. Just in from the edge is a border groove, and there may be two very tiny stamped annulets set evenly across the centre, but corrosion makes it hard to be certain. It does not appear to be recessed enough in the centre to have been enamelled. On the reverse, what seems to be a single pin lug survives, broken through the off-centre circular perforation. The pin lug is now a slim, long, low…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 17th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C6FB8A
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy three-part strap-clasp of medieval date. It is small but well-preserved and nearly complete. The plate is made from a piece of rectangular sheet folded in half and with frame recesses cut. It measures 7mm in width at the open end and 8mm wide at the fold, and half of the front is missing. The surviving part of the front is decorated with rather crude geometric engraving forming rectangular panels. Two survive complete next to the fold, with an engraved saltire within each panel. The next two survive incomplete, with oblique grooves. The backplate is complete, 23mm long, a…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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