Record ID: NMS-77BF92
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon cloisonné enamel gilt copper alloy disc brooch with seven lobes, each originally containing a glass sphere. Apart from these tiny missing pieces of glass, the brooch is in remarkable condition with gilding present over most of the metal surfaces, even on the edges of the cells, & the enamel cells are brightly coloured. Soldered onto the reverse are a pin lug consisting of two lugs with a wire pin looped around an copper alloy spindle held by the lugs, & a short, low catchplate. The cloisonné enamel decoration consists of four semicircular cells, two blue & two yellow, pro…
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quidenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8C3C31
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead object, possibly a mount. Crudely cast oval (24 x 62mm, 5mm thick), once bent, now straightened-out, with cross in relief and incised border, and two tiny holes at one end and slightly larger hole at other end.
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Winch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8E7FC3
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead seal matrix, flat, transverse pierced lug at upper edge on reverse decorated with central dot and dots between three concentric circles in relief. Circular, 30 mm. Octofoil. + S’ ROBERTI RIGEVARE (Seal of Robert Rigevare). The spelling of the surname may be a corruption of “Ridgeway”. It may be a version of Ridware, a Staffordshire place name. 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Winch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8EAB50
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy annular buckle (oval 42-4mm), oval-sectioned frame, solid cast collared pin with rounded rectangular section, loop butted together, length 48mm. 13th–14th century.
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8F0677
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame, oval with expanded ornate outside edge with three notches, offset narrowed bar, pin missing, 18 x 24mm. Cf. Dress Access. (1991) fig.44, no.292. 13th-14th century
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8F8641
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame, double-oval with narrowed central bar, pin missing, 29 x 23mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-90CAB7
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age incomplete copper alloy sword. Three fragments of blade were found on arable land on both sides of a stream, almost certainly as a result of spreading after dredging. Very corroded showing linear traces of vegetable matter, broken, now in three joining pieces (42 x at least 294mm), heavily notched edges to blade, slightly bent at tip. None of the breaks is recent.
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A00D87
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval, possibly a fragment of copper alloy unidentified object, hook projects from flat-sectioned transverse bar, curved at shoulders, straight outside edge, possibly cut or broken, or possibly complete and originally inserted into leather strap, 18 x 12mm.
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A03942
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy Bow-and-fantail brooch. There is a cast head loop, and short tubular wings enclose the axis bar. There is a fragment of the copper alloy pin. There are slight traces of vertical grooves on the bow which expands towards the break where most of what would have been a triangular fantail and catch-plate are missing. , 16 x 29mm. This brooch can be dated from the second half of the 1st century into the mid 2nd century.
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A06A95
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon stirrup terminal, hollow-cast with engraved details around ears, eyes and slightly hooked snout, much solder survives in hollow reverse where once attached to stirrup, length 34mm. Williams' unclassified zoomorphic type, 11th century.
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A0A7F5
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British fragment of copper alloy pendant, suspension-loop butted together on reverse, twin oblique incised lines on shoulders of heart-shaped plate, terminal missing, 22 x (at least) 28mm. Cf. Bishop and Coulston (1993), fig.112, nos.14 and 16. 3rd century AD.
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A18C35
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal, crown // 8[2?] within annulet and inscription: M · N Late 16th – 17th cent.
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Downham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A1F832
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon fragment of copper alloy Small Square-headed brooch, bow and head-plate missing, break not ancient. Short 'cross-potent' arms and foot with bordering punched dots, relief decoration comprising crude central lozenge with four asymmetrically placed dots within two concentric lozengiform mouldings, the outer decorated with median line of punched dots, 34 x at least 37mm. Of a type originating in Kent and more commonly found in southern England (MacGregor and Bolick (1993) 120). Early-mid sixth century AD.
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wretton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A24555
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval incomplete (23 x 37mm) copper alloy hooked mount from clothing or possibly sword belt, lozengiform with rectangular loop flanked by perforated lugs at one end, transverse knops flank perforated lug at other end, double knop at angle on both sides. Corroded with traces of radiating lines and pellets on face. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Downham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A3B418
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval copper alloy buckle frame, double-oval with four lobed knops, one at each corner, and broken narrowed central bar that projects beyond frame with iron corrosion, pin missing, 35 x 19mm. Cf. Whitehead (2003) no.382. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A63C64
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a late Iron Age-early Roman copper alloy Rosette or Langton Down brooch. Only part of the foot survives. It is slightly splayed and has five vertical grooves and a scar of the catch-plate on the reverse.
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A67480
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy pin which is 30mm in length and is likely to have been used in furniture upholstery. It has a globular head with a diameter of 8mm, a short sub-rectangular sectioned shank. Similar examples have been found at Colchester (Crummy 1983, fig.116).
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E4BAC8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy Annular brooch, flat-sectioned frame, decorated with four groups of three pecked concentric semi-circular lines springing from bordering line, abbreviated decoration at drilled hole with sheet pin. Diameter 17mm. Cf. broadly similar example in Dress Accessories Fig.162, no.1316. 13th-century.
Created on: Monday 2nd August 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Merton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E5D731
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon fragment (33 x 47mm) of cruciform brooch, square head-plate, upper edge broken, one damaged flaring wing survives, one missing, broken at lower end of facetted bow, foot missing, ancient breaks.
Created on: Monday 2nd August 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Merton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E5F777
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon fragment (24 x 34mm) of cruciform brooch, tiny part of head-plate, step at springing of broken facetted bow with median groove, foot missing, ancient breaks.
Created on: Monday 2nd August 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Merton', grid reference and parish protected.