Record ID: NMS-7C7611
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Basal mount with two (distorted) rectangular strap loops and Y-shaped upright rotating stem for the suspension of two horse harness pendants. An unusual feature is the bifurcation near the top of the stem, just above which the two parts split into two round-ended pierced arms. Normally the stem holds a banner or a single pendant set sideways at the top (N. Griffiths FRG Datasheet 5 (1986) figs .22-3) or multiple arms (normally four) spring from a rotating sphere (ibid. figs. 24-5). Loops c.15 x 6mm internally. Length c.57mm. Height 43mm. Late 13th -14th century
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 1st December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-725FA8
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy seal matrix, flat with pierced lug on reverse. Pointed oval, 39 x 24mm. St Margaret of Antioch, under a church-like canopy, holding a cross-shaped staff and standing on a dragon. S’ PRIOR’ FRM PENIE Ih’V XPI LENIE (Seal of the Prior of the Brothers of Penitence of Jesus Christ of Lynn). There are contractions marks above M, IE, P and EN. The N’s are retrograde. The house of the Friars of the Sack or De Penitentia in Lynn had been founded by 1272(Emery 1943; 325) and was suppressed in or before 1307.
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 14th October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kings Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-FA1BF1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast copper alloy everted vessel rim, 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-30EE65
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pilgrim badge. Poorly cast copper alloy depicting the Virgin and Child within the horns of a crescent. The Virgin is shown from the waist up, her head surrounded by a glory, her right hand is raised in blessing, her hair falls over her left shoulder and she is possibly holding a sceptre. An integral shank on the reverse has been bent over to form a loop. Measuring 25 x 23mm. Cf. Spencer, 1990, 74, fig. 46. 15th - early 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quidenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A995A0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT Medieval to Post-medieval silver finger ring. Circumstance of discovery Found while searching with a metal detector in Wereham, Norfolk. Description Silver finger-ring consisting of simple undecorated hoop with soldered butt joint. Slight hammer marks are visible over all the outer surface. Possibly late medieval or post-medieval, although there are no diagnostic features. Although this ring may be as early as late-medieval or post-medieval in date, the absence of any diagnostic features prevents that…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A9AC37
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT A 15th - 16th century lace tag. Circumstance of Discovery Found while searching with a metal detector, in Description Incomplete silver lace tag or chape. The terminal, probably made from filed and tooled thick wire, is in the form of a stylised, elongated and collared acorn above a slightly swollen shaft engraved with cross-hatching. The tubular socketed part, into the top of which the terminal is inserted, is missing its base. It is of sheet bent into a tube with straight butt seam, and is decorated at the top with two encircling engraved lin…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C378D2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT Incomplete 13th Century silver finger ring. Circumstance of Discovery Found while searching with a metal detector. Description The oval bezel has a rebate at the shoulders, with a missing stone or glass setting. There is a fragmentary Anglo-Norman inscription around the broken flat-sectioned band (back part missing): + EOAIM[.........]ALMENT (I Love ?..., the incomplete final word is likely to be an adverb although alment alone means step or walk). The letters M and E are ligatured. Conclusion The age and precious metal content of …
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9F99E1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silver belt mount with an integral rivet on the reverse. Flat with bevelled edges and tapering gently from a complete end to a break across a rounded aperture. On the front a lower case black-letter a is reserved on a cross-hatched ground. 15th century.
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9FB324
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded silver, flat, rectangular bar-mount, with four rivet holes (one incomplete). Gilding is confined to one face. 13th - 14th century
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DA1837
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two joining fragments comprising one quarter of a silver finger-ring with a flat-sectioned hoop. The breaks are not recent. An inscription in French on the outer face beginning with a foliar sprig reads: ICI[················]N (Here.........). 15th century. External diameter 21mm. Width 5.5mm. Thickness 1mm. Weight 1.18g.
Created on: Monday 26th January 2009
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2F6746
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Report from Dr. A. B. Marsden: Seven pennies, all of Henry II's 'Tealby' type. These were somewhat scattered but clearly represent part of a hoard dispersed at some point in the past. Given the small number of coins this was probably lost in the form of a purse rather than deposited deliberately. The coins, like most Tealby issues, are very badly produced. Details of moneyers and mints, such as they are legible, are: GODEFRE[...]LVN (Godefrei of London) [...]PI[...] (uncertain) [...]A[h]AN:O[...] (uncertain, Bust F) N[...]IPE[..] (Nicole of Ipswich) [...]VL:ON:[...]…
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 15th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4152E3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold Medieval finger ring. Triangular sectioned band (point inwards, convex outer edge) becoming lozengiform at shoulders, triangular collet now empty, with engraved line around outer edge. For similar examples see Oman, 1993, plate XI, 255 and 256. Date: 13th century. Dimensions: Internal diameter 19mm, external diameter 22mm, bezel 6 x 5mm, height 5mm.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Raveningham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EA1E81
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold finger ring, stirrup shaped, with a slight oval depression on the bezel not large enough to hold a stone. Flat sectioned band inscribed externally +DEV:MEDOINST : IOIE : DEMAMOR: (God gives me the joy of love). The band is now slightly distorted. Date: c.14th century.
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 17th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hopton on Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-63AB93
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete oval, concave-sided, hollow, composite silver seal matrix. The reverse is broken with a joining fragment with a separately cast and applied decorative trefoil sprig. The central setting (probably an intaglio) is missing. There is a separate ribbed loop at upper edge. The inscription reads * : FEMME : SANZ : LOYAVTE (Woman without loyalty). 13th-14th century. Measuring 22 x 20mm, empty bezel 14 x 12mm.
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stratton Strawless', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FA2190
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval gilded silver annular brooch. The openwork frame is flat sectioned, consisting of an internal ring with sixteen conjoined scallop-shell or fan-shaped projections (eleven of which survive) around the outer edge with a small circular hole between each one. One of these holes is expanded and the internal ring narrowed to hold the (missing) pin. The internal ring is decorated with an incised single line border around the inner and outer edge with angled grooves between, within which traces of niello survive. Although still in one piece, the frame is broken across its full width…
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 20th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elm', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-41BB71
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval or early post-medieval copper alloy locking arm buckle. Rectangular frame with rectangular-sectioned sides drilled for separate spindle and (broken) locking arm. Cast pin with transverse pierced oval-sectioned lug to attach to bar. The outside edge of the larger loop has a transverse flange, the upper edges of the frame concave with a notch at either end. Measuring 29 x 17mm (excluding arm). Width 32 including arm. See similar examples in Whitehead (2003, 89, no.552 - 4). This type of buckle is now thought to date from c. 1500 AD.
Created on: Monday 14th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C20698
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver tongue-shaped composite strap-end. The outer sheet plates are soldered to the spacer, which terminates in an acorn knop, the cup of which is decorated with (rather abraded) stamped annulets. One prong of the spacer is now detached, and there is some damage to the sides of the plates, which taper in straight lines towards the knop. The attachment edge is missing, but enough is extant to indicate a grooved round aperture in the centre. Almost identical engraved decoration on both plates near the attachment edge consists of a pear-shaped fruit between two curving stems ending in…
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-66F9A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A heavily clipped denier of Conrad, bishop of Utrecht (1076-99). There are four piercings near the edge of the coin, arranged roughly as the spots on the face of a die. One of these is now empty, the other three still contain small silver rivets. Two of these rivets secure a catchplate formed of a silver strip; a pin attachment would doubtless have been secured by the other two rivets, one now missing. Thus, this coin has been adapted as a small disc brooch. The exterior face is gilded and depicts a façade within a beaded border. The interior face is not gilded and figures a male hea…
Created on: Thursday 24th February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-7A4396
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy ferrule or unidentified object. Shallow D-sectioned ring with three paralelle grooves around the outside. Gilded. Uncertain if complete or broken edges. External diameter 10mm. Internal diameter 7mm. Height 5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-B18F57
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame with notched lip in centre of outside edge, off-set bar obscured by broken fragment of folded buckle-plate with hole for (missing) pin. 14 x 15mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
Spatial data recorded.