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Record ID: NMS-BA0D2D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of gold sheet, probably of the Anglo-Saxon period. The bend is almost at right angles. To one side of the angle, one face is decorated; a triplet of straight grooved lines, the central one minimally wider, starts close to a finished straight edge and runs to a break. The lines are flanked on either side by a scatter of punched annulets (about 1mm in diameter), part-annulets and large dots.
On the other side of the angle, the sheet is undecorated, although it has bends which may have formed a loose corrugation. It has a short length of original edge which mee…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-D4A66D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval gold finger ring, complete, slightly distorted and sprung apart at a soldered butt joint. The plain hoop is of circular cross-section with no discernible flattening of the inner surface. Probably 18th century but not closely datable and without diagnostic features to suggest that it may be more than 300 years old. A very flimsy piece. Diameter 18 - 18.8mm. Diameter of cross-section 1mm. Weight 0.56g.
Finder's no. POD 9/6
Created on: Tuesday 24th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-CB2CBE
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval gold seal matrix, oval with a centrally set oval stone intaglio and on the reverse a partly squashed sheet gold loop, probably attached with solder. The stone, probably carnelian but with slight banding, is engraved with an elephant in profile walking right (on the impression), with a castle or howdah on its back; it is the right way up when the matrix is held with the loop to the left and the start of the inscription below.
The animal has four thick legs with flared feet, well modelled joints (hip and shoulder) and a tail with a rounded expanded end. The he…
Created on: Wednesday 1st July 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 14th September 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Near King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-E2FB41
Object type: TORC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fourteen fragments of gold alloy (electrum) twisted round-sectioned wire. All, apart from three single pieces, consist of two twisted wires. All are broken at both ends into lengths between 10mm and 29.5mm. Diameter of cross-section 1.5 - 1.7mm. Weight 12.97g.
The findspot is close to an area in which 148 very similar fragments were recovered by the same finder between 1987 and 1996 (BM acc nos. 1989, 1201.1-2; 1990, 0304.1-135; 1991, 0602.1-7; 1997, 0901.1-3). On the reverses of two buffer terminals of a Late Iron Age torc found in 1985 (BM acc. nos. 1985, 1204.1-2) are the stum…
Created on: Saturday 22nd December 2018
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Near Kings Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-B071CD
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case 2017 T446:
Description: Complete medieval or post medieval gold finger ring comprising three pairs of moulded hearts joined at the base alternating with three pointed ovals, each bearing a black-letter inscription, possibly ru or rn reserved on a cross-hatched ground. One of the three is to be viewed with the ring turned through 180 degrees. The meaning of these letters, if any, is unknown. The interior of the hoop is undecorated. The hoop is now distorted out of shape.
Dimensions: External diameter: 23.8mm, internal diameter: 20.1mm, width: 6.2mm, thickness: 2.5mm…
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-A7B226
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold finger ring comprising a plain rectangular-sectioned hoop without a bezel. There are subtle indications of a hammered overlapped joint at the start of the engraved inscription. This, retaining some niello inlay and covering the whole of the outer face, reads:
+ Ð E B A L H G V Ð Ð A N I A E N
The letter A has an angled crossbar and a top bar. The letter D with a crossbar on the vertical is the Old English eth.
There is a slight degree of distortion. External diameter c.18.5mm. Width 4mm. Thickness of hoop 1mm. Weight 3.51g. Late 11th -13th century.
Dr Malc…
Created on: Thursday 15th September 2016
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-B61D01
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted Scandinavian gold sheet finger ring of the Late Saxon period, with a flat lozengiform bezel and a hoop tapering to missing ends which would have been wound around each other. Punched decoration over all the surviving surface comprises overlapping triangles each containing three pellets and, predominantly in spaces between the triangles, groups of dots. Cf. an examples from Thetford (Goodall, A. R. in Rogerson and Dallas 1984, fig. 110 no. 12) and Beachamwell, Norfolk (Ager, B. in Treasure Annual Report 2004, 67-8, no. 86). Typical of the Middle Viking period (Graham-Campbell…
Created on: Saturday 23rd April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-7A2A3F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger-ring formed from two strands of intertwined and hammered wire. One butt joint is visible. The object has been squashed so that small parts of the inner face are touching.
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Last updated: Saturday 23rd September 2017
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Record ID: NMS-DA0078
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hoard of twenty-four Late Iron Age coins, twenty staters and four silver units. The coins were found scattered over a small area; they comprise a mixture of Gallo-Belgic staters, early Norfolk wolf staters of high-purity gold and Bury type silver units. These last two coin types are the earliest of Icenian coins, probably produced in the third quarter of the first century BC and a few years either side of it. We might postulate a date of deposition c.30-0BC
1) Gallo-Belgic uniface stater, weight 6.16g
2) Gallo-Belgic uniface stater, weight 6.21g
3) Gallo-Belgic uniface …
Created on: Monday 9th March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Near Fakenham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-D931D4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval gold finger ring comprising an uninscribed and undecorated D-sectioned hoop. External diameter 17.8 - 19.1mm. Thickness 0.8mm. Width 2.2mm. Weight 2.21g. Not securely datable to 1715 or earlier. Probably 17th or 18th century.
Created on: Monday 9th March 2015
Last updated: Friday 27th January 2017
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Record ID: NMS-D8493A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Composite medieval gold iconographic finger ring with an oval bezel and a D-sectioned hoop comprised of an inner and an outer band. These have sprung apart in two places because of distortion. The bezel is engraved with the figure of St George standing on the Dragon, with a spear held almost vertically in his right hand and thrust down the monster's throat, and with a shield in his left hand bearing his cross. He wears a pointed bascinet, mail coif and plate armour, with the breastplate also bearing his cross.
Very few examples of medieval finger rings depicting St George and the D…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-E95041
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An assemblage of artefacts from an early Anglo-Saxon female furnished burial. Each object is discussed in turn below.
1. Merovingian coin pendant with (detached) gold suspension loop
Pale gold solidus of Sigebert III (634-56), minted in Marseille, pierced in order to be riveted to a suspension loop, now detached. The suspension loop comprises a rectangular strip of ribbed gold sheet with one terminal curved over into a loop. The strip has a small circular perforation at the other terminal for a lost rivet that would have fixed it to the coin. The loop is apparently of higher qua…
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2015
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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This findspot is known as 'SOUTH NORFOLK', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NMS-5C5EF7
Object type: OFFCUT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small tabular piece of gold with all five edges cut or chopped. 9.4 x 7 x 1.5mm. Weight 1.72g. Undatable but probably not recent.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 16th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-8D82BB
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold pendent cross with a ribbed suspension loop and with similar decoration on both faces. Each arm consists of four twisted rods and ends in a trefoil and at the crossing there is a pellet in each angle.
Discussion: Barry Ager has noted that the object "belongs to a type associated with Greek Orthodoxy in the Eastern Baltic region and is connected with the spread of Christianity there in the Middle Ages. A very similar example, also with a ribbed loop, twisted rod arms, four pellets at the crossing and trefoil terminals is illustrated in Austin and Alcock (eds.) 1990, …
Created on: Wednesday 30th July 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 16th November 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Holt', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-DACA64
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold finger ring consisting of an undecorated D-sectioned hoop without a bezel. On the flat inner face a stamped maker's mark JF.
18th century.
Dimensions: External diameter 20.5mm. Internal diameter 19.5mm. Width 2mm. Weight 1.68g.
The maker's mark is not identifiable with those published in the standard sources, but the closest comparisons suggest a date after 1713.
The ring probably dates to later than 1713 and as such falls outside the provisions of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Monday 11th March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 10th September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-7E5746
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold annular framed brooch with pin set within a constriction and set at right angles to a projection in the form of clasped hands, On the front of the round-sectioned frame on either side of the springing of the hands there is a set of four transverse grooves. The D-sectioned pin is triangular. It tapers, from a brambled collar on the convex front face next to the loop, with straight sides to a point. One hand is badly cracked across the wrist. Length 16.7mm. Diameter 9.4mm. Diameter of cross-section 1.2mm. Weight 1.04g. 13th century - early 14th century.
Slightly larger …
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 21st July 2014
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Record ID: NMS-AEC678
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Biconical gold bead: sheet bead of biconical profile and annular form, probably cast. The wall is of constant thickness and slightly rough inner face. No join is visible to the naked eye. Weight: 0.74g; Diameter: 10.5mm; Internal diameter: 5mm; Width: 6.5mm
Created on: Monday 7th January 2013
Last updated: Sunday 3rd March 2024
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