Record ID: NMS-174194
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silvered copper alloy horse harness suspension mount, T-shaped, bent and broken 95 (reconstructed) x 17mm, triangular-sectioned horizontal bar with slightly hollowed back, double-cusped mouldings at lobed pierced terminals and perforated square central boss decorated with engraved lozengiform cross-hatching, from which projects a slotted projection bent backward onto reverse to form twin suspension-loops. Suspension-loops contain copper-alloy pin and fragment of pendant (5 x 18mm) with flat perforated loop and slotted part of rectangular-sectioned frame broken across transverse perfor…
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2004
Last updated: Friday 20th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-177C87
Object type: HARNESS RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete (53 x 28mm) with upper part of the ring missing, rectangular sectioned attachment bar, flanked on either side with collared mouldings. 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2004
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1795A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete oval open loop, oval-sectioned, tapering towards both missing terminals, 36 x 26mm.
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2004
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-17B313
Object type: CLEAVER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strongly convex blade which is wide in proportion to its length, with an almost straight back which continues the line of the socket and begins to curve upwards towards the missing point. The socket is almost closed and is broken across the nail-hole. Manning (1985, 120-2, plte 57) Type 1b, The form of the cleaver is closest to Q96. The majoity of these cleavers were used for butchering meat and intended for chopping rather than slicing.
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 24th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8F0722
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mid - Late Saxon hooked tag. Circular, flat-sectioned, with two projecting perforated lugs for attachment at upper edge (one broken), and shouldered hook at foot, 18 x 30mm. 8th-11th century.
Created on: Saturday 15th January 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 24th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cantley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-205F63
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite strap-end. Rectangular, full width sheet spacer, back-plate broken, with cruciform terminal. Single rivet hole at attachment edge and through terminal. Front-plate decorated with faint transverse lines at either end with an X formed from double rows of punched dots between. Length 51mm. Width 12mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 7th December 2012
Last updated: Friday 7th December 2012
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-210354
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Saxon copper alloy harness link. D-sectioned projecting arm with two rectangular bosses, expanding at one end to form a broken plate. Similar to WMID-010C96 and NMS-840EB5. Surviving length 48mm. 11th century.
Created on: Friday 7th December 2012
Last updated: Monday 29th April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-FEA645
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Seal matrix copper alloy, flat with cast pin from buckle soldered onto reverse to act as median rib ending in pierced lug, traces of solder visible. Pointed oval, 39 x 25 mm. Two lions addorsed reguardant. + SIGILL’ ROBTI · DE BOTEMT’ (Seal of Robert Butement/Bootman. From Le Boutimont (Pas-de-Calais), or Boutement (Calvados), Reaney and Wilson 1991, 76).
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FEEA57
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval oval buckle with offset narrowed bar, 17 x 21mm, pin missing, three incised lines on outside edge, traces of gilding. Similar to undecorated examples in Dress. Access. No.271 and 274. Egan and Pritchard suggest buckles of this type ceased to be gilded in the 13th century (1991, 42).
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-FF0803
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval strap end. Shield shaped plate pierced at pointed end for (missing) rivet, scar in corrosion shows position of missing bar mount, iron corrosion in the centre of blunt end suggests iron rivet. Surface corroded. Similar examples in Dress. Access. 1991, fig. 103, although these have a notch on either side of the plate before the bar mount.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF1DB5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval oval buckle frame with integral plate. Two rounded knops where frame joins plate, plate tapers to a small triangular knop on either side and then expands slightly to rounded end. Hole for missing pin, two rivet holes, traces of gilding, 46 (12 excluding plate) x 22mm. Plate 8mm wide at narrowest point.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF2E53
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval annular brooch with six lobes. Two opposing lobes pierced, remains of wire pin between two un-pierced lobes. External diameter 17mm, internal diameter 10mm.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF35E1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval three part circular strap end, forked spacer with collard acorn knop, egg shaped grooved aperture, three sheet rivets (one either side of aperture, one above knop) possibly later repairs. 42mm long, 28 – 29mm diameter. Similar examples in Dress. Access. (1991), fig 92, no: 648 and 649.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF4190
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval incomplete single loop buckle frame with narrowed central bar, slightly more than ¼ remains, 58 (reconstructed) x at least 35mm. Four broad, flat, chamfered notches alternately on the inside and outside of the frame. Tinned or silvered.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF4AA3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
MED copper alloy latch key. Very slightly longitudinally bowed oval-sectioned shank, transverse rib and triangular step down to flat-sectioned openwork mushroom-shape, very small short stem with narrow mushroom-shaped projection at one end, other end steps down to flat-sectioned perforated terminal, 52 x 15mm. Flat on reverse. An similar example on the Portable Antiquities Database (from Owslebury, Hampshire) is described as an Early Medieval key, the reference cited for this identification is G. Baily (2002) Detector Finds 5, p.48. Two similar keys were found at Norton Subcourse and …
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF60D1
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval sub-rectangular corner mount from book (book fitting). Central circular repousse boss (worn through) surrounded by 13 stamps, some overlapping. Stamp consists of circle surrounded by a ring of trapezoidal cells. Three rivet holes, one edge of plate bent round to attach plate to book cover, other attachment edge missing. At maximum 31 (unbent) x 33mm. Surface corroded and worn. Similar in Margeson (EAA 58) 1993, fig 40, no 456.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FFC864
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval / early post-medieval type B purse bar (LMMC, 1940, 158 – 71). Short bar (55mm long, unbent, including terminals), with moulded terminals. Hexagonal sectioned central boss from which broken circular sectioned shank protrudes, pendant loop missing.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FFEE84
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval / early post-medieval projecting lug for attaching handle to vessel. Rectangular sheet folded widthways, irregular hole 6 – 8 mm diameter through middle for handle to pass through, projection from unfolded end with copper alloy rivet for attachment to vessel. Corners at folded end folded over again. Sooting on both sides. 33 x at least 31mm.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F16E70
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neck of Frechen stoneware Bartmann (beard man) or Bellarmine jug with mask (broken across chin) with one raised eyebrow, handle broken off, salt glazed. External diameter at mouth 39mm, weighing 185g. Late 16th – 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 1st December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-01D7D8
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age razor, incomplete, probably originally crescent shaped. Blade tapers towards corroded cutting edge, broken at both ends, at least 5 (two complete) open-work triangles at top of body in line with concave back. Corrosion pattern on top of razor back suggest further projections, now missing. At least 32 x 39mm.
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.