Record ID: NMS-59B829
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy furniture fitting or possibly a lock pin. A corroded and broken rectangular-sectioned shank with a circular-sectioned terminal consisting of a double-moulded collar, before tapering towards a collared, rounded knop at the apex. Total surviving length 41mm. Terminal length 22mm, diameter 9mm. Shank at most complete point 5 x 8mm. For more complete and possibly similar objects see Crummy (1983, 125, fig.137, no.4142 and 4143). For similar terminals see IOW-FE3FC4 and NMS-999FA6 / HER58008.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-592B4D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy bow brooch. Extremely worn and corroded fragment of sprung brooch consisting of one short, pointed wing concave of the reverse and the upper part of the D-sectioned bow. Spring, pin, one wing and lower part of bow missing. Width (reconstructed) at least 26mm. 1st century AD.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 28th May 2014
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Record ID: NMS-66B9D2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Langton Down type brooch. Cylindrical wings enclose the remains of the spring with slot for (missing) pin. The upper part of the bow at the join with the wings is convex. Bow decorated with multiple longitudinal grooves and ribs. Lower half of bow and catch-plate missing. Surviving width 24mm. Surviving length 31mm. See Hattatt (2000, 306, fig.165, nos.269, 770 and 769) for similar examples.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D6A1E6
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Scottow addenda, Norfolk, 52 copper alloy Roman coins (aes sestertii and where noted lower denominations of dupondii and asses; dp and as) additional to 2012 T217. Summary: Trajan AD 98-117, 4 (dp/as); Hadrian AD117-38, 2 (dp); Antoninus Pius AD 138-61, 1; Diva Faustina I, 2; Marcus Aurelius AD 161-80, 10 (9 x sest, 1 x dp); Faustina II, 1; Commodus AD 180-92, 1; Uncertain Antonine, 2 (1 x sest, 1 x dp); Uncertain Antonine empress, 1; Caracalla, AD 211-7, 1 (irregular cast copy of an as); Gordian III AD 238-44, 1 (as); Philip I AD 244-9, 2 (asses); illegible, 24 (15 x sest…
Created on: Thursday 3rd April 2014
Last updated: Friday 3rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scottow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-065376
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman 'Brancaster type' gold finger ring. Flattened D-sectioned band expanding smoothly to two integral transverse projections which support the separate soldered, engraved rectangular bezel, leaving a transverse rectangular aperture below. The bezel is now slightly distorted at an angle to the band. Internal diameter 13 - 15mm. External width 19mm. Height 18mm. Bezel 7 x 7mm. Weight 3.7g. 4th - early 5th century AD. The intaglio inscription, in three lines, reads (in impression) DOM/NICA/VIVA[S], translating as 'Long life to you, Domnica (or Dominica)'. The name Domnica is atte…
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Fakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-04B7F4
Object type: STUD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post-medieval copper alloy stud or mount. Domed, with six pointed foils separated by deep grooves and an integral rectangular-sectioned attachmetn spike on the reverse. Diameter 24mm. Height (excluding spike) 7mm. Including spike 15.5mm. c.1300 - 1700. See KENT-24E093 and aIOW-1F5D54 for broadly similar examples.
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 24th March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C12188
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman nail cleaner. Leaf-shaped blade tapering gradually to points, with a suspension loop in the same plane as the blade. Flat-sectioned and undecorated. Length 50.5mm. Maximum width 7mm. Thicknes 2mm.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C027E4
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an unidentified copper alloy Roman object. Rectangular-sectioned trefoil projection (one small central foil with a longer, downward curving foil to either side) on the outside of an originally circular frame almost all of which is missing. For a more complete but still unidentified example, see BH-88BC87. Perhaps part of an elaborate key handle. Width (from outside edge of projection to inside edge of frame) 18mm. Thickness 4mm. Width of projection (tip to tip of side foils) 17mm.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-5F5130
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified Roman copper alloy object, possibly a furniture fitting, mount or brooch. Now sub-circular, the edges damaged with probably no original edge surviving, slightly convex on the reverse with a central shallow blind hole. On the front face is a circular rib in high relief, the surface concave internally, with a large central pellet. Maximum surviving diameter 32mm. Thickness 6mm.
Created on: Thursday 20th February 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-91E7A6
Object type: POT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two very worn body sherds of Roman pottery, one Greyware and one buff coloured with small sparse orange / red inclusions. 10g. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Wednesday 29th January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2014
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