Record ID: NMS-0134FD
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy furniture fitting, perhaps a casket or box mount. Hollow backed, circular stud with the lion's face in high relief, with grooves defining the mouth and snout, and details of the eyes. The outer flange is engraved with radiating lines representing the mane around rounded ears. The reverse of the mount is filled with white metal and a central corroded iron shank. Diameter 25mm. Height 13mm. For similar examples see NMS-DB80B4, and an example from Skeleton Green, Hertfordshire (Partridge, 1981, 314, fig.119a). Circa 43 - 150 AD.
Created on: Monday 21st September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scarning', 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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.