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-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-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-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-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-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-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.

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Record ID: NMS-DCB354
Object type: POT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman greyware. One fragment of jar / bowl rim (not enough survives to estimate original diameter) and one base sherd. 37.3g. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Monday 9th September 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2014
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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-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-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-FE2CF5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Extremely worn and corroded fragemnt of copper alloy Roman bow brooch. Wings missing, reverse of head slightly concave, spring and pin missing, shallow D-sectioned bow, lower half of bow and catch-plate missing. Breaks ancient. Surviving length 22mm Probably 1st century AD.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 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-8C6931
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny, very worn fragment of copper alloy Roman bow brooch. C-sectioned wings with no original edge surviving and a short section of the D-sectioned bow now worn to a point only. Most of bow, catch-plate, spring and pin missing. 1st - 2nd century AD. Surviving length 10mm. Surviving width 13mm.
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

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-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-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-8B0FA3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular copper alloy nummus, House of Constantine, mule with an VRBS ROMA obverse, reverse Victory on prow, diameter 13mm, weight 0.69g, c.AD330-48 Finder's reference number: 11.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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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-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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