Record ID: NMS-8B0444
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular copper alloy radiate or nummus, irregular shape, further details illegible, c.AD260-378. Finder's reference number: 15.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-8AE535
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy radiate of Victorinus, Mint I, reverse PAX AVG, mintmark V/[star over branch], AD269-71 Finder's reference number: 13.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4A7A64
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy trumpet derivative type brooch. The head, wings and pin are missing, the bow double moulded above and below an expanded rectangular plate with two deep transverse grooves between which are four rectangular cells filled alternately with red and blue enale. The expanded foot has three triangular cells, the upper cell filled with red enamel, the lower two with blue. On the reverse is an incomplete catch-plate. Surviving length 34mm. Surviving width 12mm. See an almost identical, complete example in Hattatt (2002, 330, fig.189, no.989). 1st - 2nd century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-FE8952
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy casket mount or binding strip, highly corroded. Transverse and angled mouldings at either end of a section of triangular-sectioned bar, broken accross a rivet hole at one end, with a flat-sectioned terminal with two rivet holes at the other. Slight traces of gilding survive on the otherwise corroded surface. Surviving length 65mm. Width 10mm. 12th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 8th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-FD87B3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy sprung dolphin brooch. Undecorated C-sectioned wings, triangular-sectioned bow with concve sides and flat upper face, with a median ridge at the upper end. Almost complete triangular catch-plate with triangular aperture. Blunt-ended foot. Double pierced lug retains the spring with four coils on one side and five on the other. Pin missing. 1st century AD. Length 36mm. Width 23mm.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 8th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-BFEEA4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman gold finger ring. Flat-sectioned band expanding smoothly from the rear to the bezel with a separate strip of gold soldered to form an oval setting for a cabouchon stone, probably garnet, which appears black in daylight, but red under strong light. The ring is complete but distorted. Mid - late Roman, 200 - 400 AD. Width at bezel 7.5mm. Weight 4.6g. Original external diameter (estimated) 16mm. For similar rings with flat, expanding bands and separate settings or bezels, see FAPJW-AB59E5, LIN-22EEF2 and NCL-772344.
Created on: Monday 14th October 2013
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Ellingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-070AB3
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy scabbard slide. D-sectioned bridge, slightly concave on the reverse, with narrow, damaged flange along either side and the narrow lower end, cast in a rightangle at the upper end after which the slide is broken across a narrowing. Both upper and lower terminals are missing. See James (2010, 152, fig.89, no.533 - 543 and 545) for broadly similar examples. Surviving length 65mm. Width 11mm. Thickness 5.5mm. 3rd - 4th century. Find V.
Created on: Wednesday 11th September 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-E13086
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast unidentified object, perhaps a harness fitting, shield-shaped, the short straight edge is a break across a hollow-backed longitudinal arris, the sides curve and taper to the pointed surviving end which kicks forward and has a globular knop on the terminal and an integral perforated lug on the reverse. 13 x at least 23mm.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Watton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DF3A72
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy S-shaped plate brooch, pin, spring and part of catchplate missing. The moulded terminals are filed into trefoils. Deep V-shaped notch in the base of the single pin lug. The high and short catchplate is of a type found on some Knee brooches, e.g. Hattatt nos. 1227-8, and plate brooches, e.g. ibid. nos. 1622-6. 33 x 17mm. 2nd - 3rd century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4C1700
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman, possible pendant or toilet implement (perhaps a nail cleaner), disproportional large collared loop at one end of oval-sectioned shank, splayed flat-sectioned terminal. Length 33mm. Diameter of loop 14mm.
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-4892B4
Object type: BELL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy bell with lozengiform cannon, remains of iron crown staple and seven triangular apertures in side. Slightly squashed. Cf. examples from Beachamwell (HER 25476), Bradenham (HER 31358), Great Dunham (HER 45401), and two bells dated on the PAS website to the Roman period, from Newport, Essex (ESS-954081) and Brill, Buckinghamshire (BUC-F532E5), but also to others on the website which are dated to the Late Saxon period, e.g. examples from Chippenham, Cambridgeshire (SF-2C7AE4), Barham, Suffolk (SF-4A8FA1), Paulespury, Northamptonshire (NARC-D9C172) and West Clandon, Su…
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Friday 8th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3642B6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of probably military harness pendant, upper end with rounded shoulders, face with vertical median panel decorated with engraved bordering lines and ending in twin loops at apex containing corroded iron pin for suspension, lower end missing, 17 x at least 21mm. Date uncertain.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-341287
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman - Early Saxon copper alloy propeller-shaped military belt stiffener, twin perforations in both sub-triangular ends (one contains a copper alloy rivet), oval expansion in the centre decorated with a double ring-and-dot. The outside edges are chamfered with some damage at both ends. Length 42mm. Width 18mm. 4th century (Clarke 1979, 285), but such objects occur in Early Anglo-Saxon contexts (Macgregor and Bolick 1993, 210 and 212, cat. nos. 36.8 and 9).
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-3357D5
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy key handle, broken at springing of missing tubular shank, remains of openwork quatrefoil bow with keyhole-shaped perforations radiating from the centre, outside edge of outer foil missing (worn and broken). Measuring at least 44 x 34mm. Cf. an example from North Walsham (Norfolk HER 53877) and the very similar LANCUM-182B26.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 19th July 2019
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Record ID: NMS-245A03
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy amphora-shaped military strap-end, upper end missing, broken above flanking peltate or 'kidney-shaped' handles with flanking projections above and below, which represent the crescents that usually replace handles on narrow British-made amphora types. The body is decorated on one face with a vertical median line of multiple c-shaped stamps, the other face is decorated with a fine vertical median line of incised rocker-arm that bisects three chevrons formed by flanking pairs of fine oblique rocker-arm lines. Width 19.5. Length greater than 55mm. Thickness 3mm. Cf…
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-242310
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy razor or spatula handle cast in the form of a bust of Minerva. The stylised figure wears a high Corinthian helmet with a large crest. She is depicted draped, wearing the aegis, a protective garment covering her shoulders and upper body with transverse lines and ribs on her chest and lower body above a break across the split base. 13 x at least 54mm.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 25th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Dereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-23E326
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman fragment of a handle from a folding razor, comprising a collar with perforation for missing hinge-pin and twin flanking transverse ribs, and two broken stumps at on end where the missing openwork dog seizing hare motif has been broken-off, groove in flat base for missing iron blade, at least 18 x 15mm. Cf. Gregory EAA 53, 131-2, fig.117, no.19.0 3rd-4th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-225348
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman incomplete small razor or knife, blade with curved cutting edge, point missing, straight flat-backed with regularly spaced transverse engraved lines. There are twin engraved lines on both faces of the blade bordering the straight vertical edge below springing of a sub-rectangular sectioned handle, broken before terminal and with both upper angles faceted with multiple incised oblique lines, end of handle missing. Dark green patina (pitted on both sides of the blade). Length: at least 37mm Width: 14mm Thickness of blade: 2.5mm. Cf. PAS database HAMP3381. Not closely datable.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morely', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E32FB0
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy furniture fitting. Circular, flared sides, upper face recessed around a concial central projection with blind hole in the apex. Corroded iron protrudes from the base. Diameter 26mm. Height (excluding iron) 13mm. See NMS-FE3971 for a similar example.
Created on: Friday 16th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-39A513
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Roman object, perhaps an unusual button-and-loop fastener, handle, or unidentified object. Rectangular boss, flat on the reverse, with cusped or concave sides rising to form a central rectangular socket which is now partially filled by iron corrosion. The upper edges of the socket are broken. Projecting from the side and reverse of one short edge is a short, rounded projection, perhaps broken on the underside, which may represent the remains of the shank of a button-and-loop fastener. There are no apparent breaks or scars on any of the other edges, so this does…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.