Record ID: NMS-A71033
Object type: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead possible wall or ceiling mount. Six pointed star with sinuous triangular-sectioned arms all of which are now squashed and incomplete, with a casting seam and central incomplete shank on the otherwise flat reverse. Maximum surviving diameter 30mm. See NMS-382886 for a similar example. Circa 1300 - 1500.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-7EE03D
Object type: MIRROR CASE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy mirror case. Slightly convex disc, recessed on one side for the (missing) mirror, with a pair of pierced lugs with copper alloy rivet on the outer edge and a single unpierced lug opposite. Decorated on the outer face with interrupted rockerarm in a line between the lugs and in four c-shapes producing the outline of a cross. There is a very slight possible trace of the cement which would have held the glass in place on the inside. Width 31mm. Length (including lugs) 42mm. See examples in Egan and Pritchard (2002, 362, fig.241, no.1714 - 1716) from 13th - 14th cent…
Created on: Monday 20th June 2016
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-7D016C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy brooch. Open square frame, each side slightly concave on the upper face, with a boss decorated with closely spaced segmented lines forming each corner. One boss is split by the constriction for the (missing) pin. Gilded. Measuring 20 x 21mm. Circa 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 20th June 2016
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-7CE589
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy enamelled mount. Lozengiform plate with central piercing and a plain border around the edge. Azure an estoile of eight points [?Or]. No trace of gilding or silvering survives. Measuring 31 x 39mm, 2.5mm thick. For similar examples see Ashley (2002, 18, fig.18, nos.168 and 169). Circa 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 20th June 2016
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-26FEF9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gold finger ring. The band is flat internally, with nine angled concave mouldings separated by segmented ribs externally. Each moulding is engraved with a floral spray consisting of either a pointed flower head on a stem with two pairs of leaves or a five petalled flower above a single pair of leaves, both types with a transverse line with radiating lines below at the base indicating the ground. The type and orientation of the flower heads are arranged (up and down being arbitrary) - pointed down, pointed up, five petals down, pointed up, pointed down, five petals up, pointed…
Created on: Thursday 16th June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 16th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Leigh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D5551A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval silver, gilded finger ring. The band is faceted externally to form concave lozengiform fields with smaller triangular fields between, rising to form a point where the corners of four fields meet. The surviving triangular fields are plain, the lozengiform fields engraved with four lines forming a border around a star or sunburst formed from radiating engraved lines. Plain internally. The surviving fragment consists of one complete lozengiform field and two incomplete. Width of band 6mm. Weight 0.6g. Not enough survives to estimate the original diameter. For b…
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-B3B940
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver, gilded finger ring. Integral bezel consisting of an octofoil with a central collet containing a blue glass cabochon. Each foil is concave on the upper face and alternately plain and engraved with splayed lines. The shallow D-sectioned band is broken on both sides of the bezel immediately after a transverse rib. Traces of gilding survive on the front and reverse of the bezel and band. Width of bezel 13.5mm. Height including glass 4mm. Weight 1.2g. Circa 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-9E218E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval silver finger ring or annular brooch. Four strands of twisted or plaited wire forming a band, slightly flattened on the inner face of the curve, with a flat-sectioned quatrefoil boss soldered to the outer face forming the bezel. Each foil of the boss is engraved to resemble a leaf with angled lines to either side of a median line. Traces of gilding survive on the wire and boss. Not enough survives to estimate the original diameter. Width of band 4mm. Width of boss 7mm. Weight 0.9g. For a twisted wire brooch see Egan and Pritchard (2002, 254, fig.164, no.1340). 13t…
Created on: Monday 16th May 2016
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-0BF886
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Three fragments of a medieval silver sheet object, possibly a scabbard chape, dating to c. AD 1200-1300. All three are decorated on one face with fields defined by engraved lines and filled with either rocker-arm engraving or niello. The other face is undecorated. The original find was too fragmentary to discern a possible pattern; the addition of two joining pieces show that there appears to be an abstract foliate design. Fragment 1: No original edge, broken across at least one rivet or attachment hole. The fragment is too small to determine what the decoration depi…
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2016
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-09B90A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval silver annular brooch, in two pieces. Rectangular-sectioned twisted frame with two mounts in the form of sexfoil flowers soldered to the upper face, each petal concave on the upper face around a central convex boss. The mounts have been trimmed to the shape of the petals. Slight traces of gilding. Not enough survives to estimate the original diameter. Diameter of bosses 9mm. Width of frame 2mm. Weight 1.0g. For a similar example see BUC-25AA82. Late 13th - early 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-78E5E4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver finger ring of the Fede type. The rectangular-sectioned band expands smoothly to form the bezel, which is crudely engraved to represent two clasped hands, with a pair of transverse lines to either side probably indicating cuffs. Now slightly squashed, cracked at the rear of the hoop, with a small part of one side of the bezel missing. Measuring 20 x 21mm. Width of bezel 5.5mm. Weight 1.58g. For examples executed in a similar style see BH-F24F68, LON-3E20A2 and HAMP-9E4BC9. Circa 1400 - 1500.
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Last updated: Thursday 16th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-CD4689
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver brooch. Annular frame, flat on the reverse and slightly convex on the upper face, engraved with four animal heads with annulets for eyes and pointed ears arranged in facing pairs either side of the constriction for the (missing) pin and transverse groove forming the pin rest. A brambled boss (multiple closely spaced annulets) separate the pairs of heads on each side of the frame. Gilded. See BH-DB9C1B and NMS-15AD60 for examples of a similar form. Diameter 14mm. Width of frame 2mm. Weight 0.37g. Circa 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-BC99D4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver annular brooch. The frame is flat on the reverse and convex on the upper face, in the form of a two snakes, the smaller snake wrapped around one half of the larger, the separate heads and a fragment of wire forming the tip of a tail soldered onto the frame so there is a head at either end of the pin when the brooch is closed. The sheet pin has a double rib before the loop. The half of the frame formed by the body of the larger snake is decorated with a zigzag triple rib with crosshatching in the resulting triangular fields to either side. The other half of the frame has…
Created on: Monday 11th April 2016
Last updated: Sunday 17th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-823D9E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, bar and pin missing, triangular outside edge with a notch to either side of a rounded apex, decorated with an engraved single line border forming a triangle either side of a central transverse band of engraved rockerarm. Surviving dimensions 21 x 45mm. See Whitehead (2003, 25, no.117) for a broadly similar example. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2016
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Record ID: NMS-049B31
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver grosso of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), Rome, 1492-1503, adapted by the cutting out of a disc from the centre of the coin. The reason for this is uncertain; annular brooches are known which have been similarly treated but they are generally over two centuries earlier in date and have a hole drilled in the perimeter to accommodate a pin. The fashion for making annular brooches out of coins seems to have died out long before the last decade of the 15th century when this grosso was struck. It is probable that another function was intended for this large silver washer but wha…
Created on: Wednesday 9th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2019
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Record ID: NMS-6FA0F0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver finger ring. The rectangular-sectioned band is inscribed externally in black letter with the names of the three kings or magi, + caspar x melchiar x baltasar. The inscription starts with a cross-corsslets and each word is separated by a small x. Black letter was used to inscribe rings from the mid 14th to 16th century (Oman, 1974, 5). For a similar but fragmentary ring see NMS-EDFA64. The names of the three kings were a popular as amuletic charms in the later medieval period. Probably 14th - 15th century. External diameter 19mm. Internal diameter 17mm. Width of band…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-245AD1
Object type: COCKSPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval silver cock-spur. Circular ring, broken across three of four attachment holes in the incomplete flanged edge, with an integral prick extending from the opposite edge. Stamped externally with a probable maker's mark in the form of a 5 with an elongated top bar crossed by two short lines. Diameter of base (reconstructed) 12mm. Length 19mm. Weight 2.0g. For a similar example see WAW-7144B1. Perhaps 1400 - 1700.
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-20EA22
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Brooch manufactured by the addition of a copper-alloy backplate and pin to a silver penny of William I. The front of the brooch (the reverse of the coin) has been gilded, and the backplate and pin mechanism is attached centrally by means of a silver rivet. The backplate is poorly preserved and incomplete, but appears to have consisted of a 4-5mm wide strip, perhaps with the edges bent up (the photograph does not include a side view and the details of the pin fixings were not noted at the time of recording). The pin has a closed loop through which a pin bar with burred-over ends surviv…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2016
Last updated: Monday 27th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-91C347
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy mount. Rectangular sheet, with a repoussé border and trefoil projection at each corner, with a central dome pierced for the missing rivet. Measuring 16.5 x 17mm. Probably 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-422A86
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Rectangular, narrowed bar with collared knop at either end, prominent ridge at either end of bar, notched lip with transverse rib to either side in centre of outside edge for cast pin. Double ridge on pin before loop, tip missing. Measuring 11 x 19mm. Circa 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-41B19A
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy book mount, a corner fitting of Howsam type B.4.1. Rectangular mount with two adjacent sides bent down and under to fit the corner of the cover, the other two edges notched and shaped with a trefoil terminal in the fourth corner. Central prominent domed boss, the edges forming a cinquefoil with stamped triangles around the edge, six stamped annulets with eight radiating petals, and a border of annulets along each straight edge. Measuring 22.5 x 22.5mm. 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
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Record ID: NMS-2BCFDE
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy mount. Domed sheet in the form of a stylised human mask with hat, notched edges forming hair and a beard, and rivets through the prominent ears (one rivet missing). Two holes form eyes, with a larger hole for the mouth, and slightly raised nose. Height 20.5mm. Width 22mm. Probably 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
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Record ID: NMS-D7BDE1
Object type: JEWELLERY
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval fragment of jewellery. Silver, gilded heart-shaped flange forming a setting for a heart-shaped rock crystal cabochon with a groove cut to form the cleft of the heart. The flange is engraved with a single line following the outer edge, within which is an inscription mery + be interspersed with simplified foliate sprigs. The collet and back-plate which form the setting for the crystal project above the flange on the reverse, with a tapering transverse scar in the gilding from a missing soldered element, perhaps a hook. The edges of the collet around the back-pl…
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2015
Last updated: Monday 31st October 2016
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Record ID: NMS-9F0438
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Unidentified silver frame, perhaps a mount or strap or chain distributor, now distorted. Circular openwork front-plate with a large octofoil aperture, the outer edge with multiple closely spaced notches forming a scalloped edge. A separate sheet soldered to the reverse at right-angles to the front-plate forms sides, with a scalloped rear edge, each foil with two longitudinal grooves, the foils separated by engraved lines. The front-plate is decorated with an engraved line, from which crosshatched triangles extend, point inwards, between each of the openwork foils. A re…
Created on: Monday 16th November 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2016
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Record ID: NMS-9AE5E7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver mount, now distorted and incomplete, the surviving part in two joining pieces. A conical faceted sexfoil, each foil with a median arris terminating in a short pointed projection at the outer edge, with an engraved line separating each foil, and a central hole in the flat apex of the cone. Height 17mm. Diameter of base (reconstructed) circa 34mm. Weight 3.3g. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 16th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-9A3F0A
Object type: EAR SCOOP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or post-medieval silver toilet article. Twisted rectangular-sectioned shaft with a shallow ear-scoop at one end and a flat-sectioned lozengiform terminal forming a toothpick at the other, broken across the tip. The lozengiform terminal is now bent almost parallel with the shaft. Length (unbent) 69mm. Width of scoop 3mm. Maximum width (of lozengiform terminal) 4.5mm. Weight 2.05g. See similar examples from London (Egan and Pritchard, 2002, 378, fig.251, nos.1758 - 1760) and SOM-B38BA2, DENO-FE6EA0, DENO-BBED67 and DENO-9EE9E7.
Created on: Monday 16th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8EADF3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold stirrup-shaped finger ring with blue sapphire or possibly glass cabochon. D-sectioned band expanding smoothly at the shoulders to form the bezel with an oval setting. Height 25mm. Width 20.5mm. Internal diameter 18mm. Weight 2.48g. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2016
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Record ID: NMS-89D04B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gros tournois of Loius IX of France, issued 1266-70, gilded on the obverse and with the remains of clasp fittings attached to the reverse. This transforming of a coin to a brooch (or clasp) was a common phenomenon in the late 13th century and a number of similar examples are known including several from Norfolk (Marsden 2014, 90-2). The adaption also means that the coin is treated as an object and, being a precious metal artefact of more than 300 years age, is thus a case of Treasure. Diameter 26mm. Weight 4.38g. Late 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-76E572
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver mount. A conical sexfoil with a central hole, now slightly squashed. Each foil has a longitudinal arris, with an engraved line terminating in a notch at the edge separating each foil. Height 9mm. Base 14 x 16mm. Weight 0.8g.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wragby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-15A854
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead weight. Conical (sub-circular / pentagonal base), with five prominent, angled ribs from the base to the off-centre apex. Base 29 x 32mm. Height 24mm. Weighing 112.0g / 1728grains, which is slightly less than an avoirdupois ¼ pound (1750grains). 1300 - circa 1500.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-158BE7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead weight. Rectangular, flat reverse, slightly convex upper face with a crude cross in low relief. Weight 293g / 4521 grains. This is slightly under weight for 2/3rds of an avoirdupois pound. Measuring 54.5 x 47 x 14mm. 1300 - circa 1500.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-00618C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy brooch. Triangular-sectioned annular frame with a pointed projection on one side and an empty collet on the other, with a constriction possibly retaining a corroded fragment of pin between. The whole surface is covered in an orange-brown deposit but is non-magnetic. Measuring 30 x 19mm. Internal diameter 13mm. For a similar example from a c.1270 - c.1350 context see Egan and Pritchard (2002, 254, fig.164, no.1335). 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 21st September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-FD9EBA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gold finger ring in very good condition. The hoop is circular, the same width throughout, and D-shaped in cross-section with decoration on the convex exterior. The decoration is incised and punched, and inlaid with black enamel. It consists of four panels of two repeated designs. Design 1 is a rectangle with one forked or swallow-tailed end and one pointed end, forming a pennant shape. The point contains oblique ridges alternating with rows of beading; the rest of the shape is filled with incised plant-like motifs made from short gr…
Created on: Monday 21st September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-1A64D8
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver toilet article earscoop / toothpick combination. Oval ear coop with a twisted stem with four concave sides each decorated with a median line of engraving, before a collar with five ribs formed by lines of transverse filing on each face which line up imperfectly, above which the stem is circular-sectioned and tapers to a point to form the toothpick. There are traces of gilding on the collar and twisted stem. The circular-sectioned end is now bent. Length 107mm. Diameter at collar 3mm. Weight 4.4g. For a similar example without a collar see LVPL-935524. Circa 14th …
Created on: Thursday 10th September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 5th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wiveton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C8AA6F
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case 2015 T575. A dispersed hoard of sterlings, probably disturbed during clearing of a drainage ditch and scattered in the surrounding area. The coins, all in relatively crisp condition, close with a few class 4b sterlings dating to the early 1280s and suggest a date of loss or deposition at some point in the early 1280s, probably around 1282 or 1283. Over half are London issues. ENGLISH ISSUES OF EDWARD I LONDON (154) Class North no. Date Weight (g) Total 1c 1012 …
Created on: Thursday 13th August 2015
Last updated: Friday 10th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haddiscoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8CA9CC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval silver, gilded finger ring. Shallow D-sectioned band with a ridge at the edge on the outer face and very worn decoration consisting of angled lines dividing the outer face into five sections, with further engraved decoration surviving only at the edges as short dashes, perhaps originally multiple stamped annulets, scales, crosshatching or similar. The butt joint has sprung apart slightly and there are traces of corrosion or solder on either side. Indentations on the inner face may be the remains of a maker's mark, now indecipherable. Only traces of gilding su…
Created on: Monday 10th August 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8BB61E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver brooch with circular, open frame, almost circular-sectioned with slight flattening on the inside, inlaid with niello in a combination of encircling and criss-crossed lines, now very worn in places. The pin is cast in the form of a sword, with a tapering lozengiform-section, upwardly curved quillons with scrolled ends, and tabs folded around the frame to form the attachment loop. All four facets of the pin are engraved with a line of rocker-arm zigzags, with a dot in each of the resulting inner triangles on the front face. The front face of the edge of the quillons is r…
Created on: Monday 10th August 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-4C1582
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late medieval or post-medieval silver, gilded brooch with open, slightly angled flat-sectioned frame. The upper face is decorated with filigree and pellets, with a line of twisted wire around the internal and external edges either side of a row of pellets each surrounded by an annulet of twisted wire with two small pellets between each of the larger pellets. The frame is pierced for a cast, D-sectioned pin with a double transverse moulding before the loop and recessed on the underside for the frame. External diameter 19mm. Internal diameter 10.5mm. Weight 1.0g. Very similar broo…
Created on: Friday 7th August 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Record ID: NMS-79CA19
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two coins of William I, a penny of the 'Bonnet' type and a cut halfpenny of the same issue. They were found close together and, given the unlikelihood of finding two strays of these rare coins, they must surely represent part of a small hoard or, given the presence of the cut half, more probably a purse loss. The coins were minted circa 1068-70 and the date of their loss or deposition is unlikely to be very many years later. We may presume a date of loss in the 1070s. Catalogue 1. William I, Bonnet type, cut halfpenny, moneyer Godefurth of Norwich, North 842, weight 0.63g. F…
Created on: Tuesday 28th July 2015
Last updated: Thursday 20th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-782F32
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late medieval or post-medieval silver, gilded incomplete mount or badge in the form of a cherubic figure standing over a probable beast, serpent or dragon. The figure's right arm is raised and broken before the elbow, the left arm by its side, possibly reaching for the beast, the head inclined slightly towards the beast, the right leg broken at the knee. The left leg is unclear and may be the head of a horse the figure is riding, or a leg straddling the beast. The mount is very worn and clearly broken around much of the edge, but the details of the figures face and hair can still be s…
Created on: Tuesday 28th July 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
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