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Record ID: NMS-522CD9
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Early Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet pendant, oval and slightly narrower at the apex than at the base. The sheet back-plate is rolled forward at the upper end to make a suspension loop with four longitudinal ribs. The setting comprises a dark red cabochon stone, presumably a garnet, with an off-centre angled polished face, set within a plain collar formed from a strip of gold sheet, the join clearly visible. This is surrounded by an outer border of two plain narrow ribs either side of a beaded wire rib.
Dimensions: Length (including suspension loop) 19mm. Maximum width 10.5m…
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2016
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
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This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-51C218
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon silver strap-end of Thomas' (2003) Class B, Type 1. Broken across the base of a wedge-shaped rectangular-sectioned split end, below which the body is oval-sectioned, becoming circular-sectioned as it tapers to a blunt point. The body is decorated with three groups of three encircling transverse grooves, with a transverse groove on each face of the surviving split end. The surface is damaged in places including the tip, and the body is bent at about 130 degrees just below the mid-point.
Surviving length 41mm. Maximum surviving width 7.5mm. Surviving thickness 5…
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2016
Last updated: Friday 1st October 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-AA2195
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon or early medieval object, possibly a bracelet or mount. Bar of shallow D-shaped section expanding very slightly from a break to a moulded animal head with pointed ears and slightly up-turned snout with a tapering D-sectioned projection extending from the mouth, probably intended to represent a long tongue, the tip of which is missing. Surviving length 48mm. Maximum width 7mm. Maximum thickness 5mm. The surface is corroded.
No very close parallel has been found but Late Saxon bracelets with stylistically similar animal head terminals have been recorded including NMS-E90A2…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-A848F9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lead-alloy disc brooch. Broken across a domed centre and part of the flange around the edge, with an incomplete catch-plate on the reverse of the surviving part of the flange. The dome is decorated with two bisecting ribs forming a low relief cross. Almost all the original edge, pin and catch-plate are missing. Surviving length 20mm. Height (excluding pin-lug) 6mm. Original estimated diameter 28mm. Probably Late Saxon. Although no very close parallel has been found Late Saxon lead disc brooches are a well-known type. See for example SWYOR-939E21, LEIC-A2A4A2 and SF-120845.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-D8E460
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable silver ingot. Rectangular-sectioned with irregular but unbroken terminals and multiple shallow transverse hammer marks on the long faces. Measuring 13 x 6 x 5mm. Weight 1.77g / 27.4 grains.
The weight of 27.4 grains corresponds very closely with 1 avoirdupois dram (27.3grains) although this is probably a coincidence. The hammer marks may indicate a Late Saxon date.
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2017
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Record ID: NMS-9D4408
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Anglo-Saxon silver and copper-alloy boss from unidentified object. Domed, formed from three layers; an upper silver decorated dome over a layer of corroded copper alloy before a further silver layer. Parts of the edge of the upper silver dome may be original, but the lower two layers have no original surviving edge. Decorated with a triquetra in very low relief within a border defined by engraved lines, with gilding surviving between the raised lines.
Dimensions: Surviving diameter 14-16mm. Height at least 9mm. Weight 5.2g.
Discussion: The function and identity …
Created on: Monday 16th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-6D5379
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver wire suspension ring. Circular-sectioned with the slightly thinner ends overlapping and wrapped around the ring in the form of a slip-knot. The ring is cracked in several places and part of the 'knot' is missing with four relatively fresh breaks. Maximum diameter of the wire 3mm. With of ring 28mm. Height of ring 28mm. Weight 3.3g.
For similar examples see a copper alloy suspension ring attached to a pin or toilet article from Heacham, Norfolk (NMS-CCD5C0), attached to tweezers from Methwold, Norfolk (HER 4780, NMS-E44625), and to a Late Saxon key (KENT-998C0D). See also sim…
Created on: Saturday 14th May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-927DD3
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy pin of Rogers Type 331 (Rogers, 2009, 44 and 57, fig.1.25, no.407 and 409). Bi-conical with a median band, collared, circular-sectioned shank with a faintly engraved spiral starting just before the ancient break. Diameter of head 8mm. Height of head including collar 10.5mm. Total surviving length 50mm.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-29DE2D
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle to Late Saxon copper alloy hooked tag. Lewis and Naylor (2003) type A1.c.iii. Circular plate pierced twice at upper edge, engraved saltire, the arms meeting the outer edge, with a transverse engraved line on each arm. Short complete or near complete hook. No trace of niello. Length 23mm. Width 14mm. Circa 700 - 1100.
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
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Record ID: NMS-29A852
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon pin. Of Rogers Type 230. Polyhedral head of square-section, flat top, two ring-and-dots on each of the four rectangular sides, slight collar, incomplete circular-sectioned shank. Head 9 x 3 x 4mm. Surviving length 25mm. Head similar to examples of Rogers Type 231 and 232 (2009, 52, fig.1.24, no.338 and 342).
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
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Record ID: NMS-0085D1
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Probably Late Saxon silver hooked tag of Lewis and Naylor (2013) type A1.c.iii. (circular plate, linear cruciform decoration). Circular plate with two attachment holes at the upper edge, engraved with a single line border around the edge from which four evenly spaced engraved H-shapes extend, the inner arms splayed towards each other but not joined, to form the arms of a cross around a central irregular reverse S. No trace of niello survives in the engraved lines. There is a short complete or near complete integral sharp hook extending from the lower edge. Length 21mm. Width 13mm. Wei…
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Binham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-DA7C1E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon silver, gilded buckle pin. D-sectioned pin, recessed on the underside for the (missing) frame, the broken loop emerging from the mouth of a stylised animal head with small round ears, shallow brow ridge, dots for eyes and a slightly up-turned snout. The loop is rectangular-sectioned, curved internally, and flattened on the base externally before the break. Only the animal head has been gilded.
Length 23mm. Thickness 4mm. Weight 3.1g. No very close parallel has been found. Circa 550 - 700 (Andrew Rogerson pers. com.).
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-45FA09
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Anglo-Saxon or modern copper alloy chain and pendant or spangle. Cruciform pendant created by cutting a triangular notch in the centre of each edge of a rectangular sheet with rounded corners, slightly domed, with a repoussé dot in the centre and in each arm of the cross. One arm is pierced near the edge for an S-shaped wire link attached to a register chain of eleven wire links. Pendant 21 x 21.5mm. Total length of chain including S link 171mm. Single link 17 x 9mm.
The surface is a pale yellow brassy colour with no green patination, and only a trace of possible corrosion p…
Created on: Wednesday 19th August 2015
Last updated: Thursday 20th August 2015
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Record ID: NMS-1D8A18
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments of non-joining silver probable ingots;
rectangular-sectioned, the reverse and one side flat, the other side and upper face particularly irregular with hammer marks. Both ends appear to have been partially cut into on the upper face and then broken. Breaks not recent. Surviving maximum dimensions 17 x 4.5 x 3.5m. Weight 1.7g (27gn).
rectangular section with the corners cut off (bevelled on each long edge), complete and blunt at one end, the other end cut into on all four sides and then broken in in centre. Breaks not recent. A few possible hammer marks. Survi…
Created on: Wednesday 5th August 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Walsingham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-EDBCD6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy Ansate brooch of Thörle's (2001) Group X C. D-sectioned, with a transverse rib at each end of the head- and foot-plates, at either end of the bow and at the apex of the bow, the sides of each resulting section slightly convex. Broken catch-plate and broken double-pierced pin lugs on the reverse. Pin missing. Length 43mm. Maximum width at centre of bow 9mm. Circa 650 - 800 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2015
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-EC685C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of side lobe from an Early Saxon great square headed brooch. Very little original edge surviving, inner panel decorated with engraved lines and ring-and-dot with one ring-and-dot decorated lobe projecting from the edge. The plain side lobe is separated from the engraved inner panel by a curved line. Gilding survives in the engraved lines. Hines (1997) Group XVI or XVII. Circa 525 - 575.
Surviving dimensions 17 x 22mm, thickness 1.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-6FBC80
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two Late Saxon pennies found 30m apart. Both are PAX type pennies of Harold II Godwinson dating to 1066 and both are, furthermore, struck from the same pair of dies. The moneyer is Godric of Thetford. It is inconceivable that two coins of this period struck from the same pair of dies could have come to be lost separately so closely together and we are surely dealing with part of a group of coins that went into the ground together. Such a group, of two silver coins or more and of more than 300 years age, qualifies as Treasure.
The coins are rather flat-struck but have seen little …
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 11th October 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-22CE27
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Unidentified silver object, possibly a mount, complete but in two refitting pieces. The object is cruciform in shape, comprising a central rectangular panel from which project four animal-heads, forming the arms of the cross. One animal-head has broken off at the neck and is now separate; two are bent inwards at 90 degrees to the central panel, and the fourth is almost straight with a slight inward curve. The reverse of the object is plain and slightly hollowed, and the central plate is slightly convex.
The upper surface of the object is decorated in low relief. The …
Created on: Thursday 30th April 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-B81F01
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver hooked tag of probable late Anglo-Saxon date. The plate is circular with two circular perforations at one end, for attachment to clothing by sewing. At the other end is a complete rearward-facing hook, curving back beneath the object and ending in a sharp point.
The front of the plate is decorated with a nielloed cruciform motif set within a circular border. The design has been engraved and followed by very fine pecking, created by repeatedly tapping, punching or rocking an engraving tool. The design is slightly worn in places. The back of the plate is plain but he…
Created on: Monday 13th April 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Haveringland', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-934673
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
The 'West Norfolk' hoard of 132 early-medieval gold coins and 4 early-medieval gold objects. One coin (no. 117) was found in 1990 and is not part of Treasure case 2015T231, which covers all the rest of the coins and objects. Coin no. 120 is still missing, and coin no. 67 is listed here out of sequence due to a revised identification.
Catalogue of coins [AP]:
The numbering follows that in Marsden and Pol 2020, 405-7. A question mark implies a degree of uncertainty. ‘Fineness’ is an approximate percentage of gold in the alloy, established by specific gravity.
Minted i…
Created on: Monday 30th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 1st December 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-2A8C26
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Later Anglo-Saxon copper alloy strap-end of Thomas' Class A, Type 1, Trewhiddle style. Very large, slightly convex-sided strap-end with three silver rivets at the split attachment end, a central rectangular panel decorated with silver sheet depicting complex interlaced beasts with at least six heads visible, with further silver sheet over the circular ears and over the forehead of the animal head terminal. The animal head has oval eyes, one of which retains of probable glass pellet, and a short, blunt snout with engraved nostrils. The split end is filled with corrosion and on the reve…
Created on: Tuesday 30th December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 13th January 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'North Pickenham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-293A9A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end of Thomas' Class A, Type 5. Split end broken across one of the two pierced attachment lobes, with a semi-circular field below. The edges are scalloped (four on each side) either side of a central rectangular panel, below which is the animal head terminal. The semi-circular field contains a chevron and triangle in low relief probably originally reserved on a niello field, now missing. In the centre of the rectangular panel is a niello field with scrolls of silver wire inlay. The animal head terminal has circular ears, lentoid eyes with a cent…
Created on: Tuesday 30th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 23rd February 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Burnham Market', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-DB43C1
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle or Late Anglo-Saxon silver hooked tag, Read (2008) Class A, Type 2 / Lewis and Naylor (2013) A3.ciii. Octofoil plate with three attachment holes, one in each of the upper three foils, with a short, sharp hook springing from the lower foil. The surface is engraved and inlaid with niello to form a cruciform motif formed from four arches or C-shapes with two connecting transverse lines between each arm, leaving a central cruciform field or cell. Very similar to SF-1EFD68 and 2004T372 (Read, 2008, 17, nos.74 and 75).
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
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Record ID: NMS-DAA7DB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Late Anglo-Saxon silver strap-end of Thomas' Class A, Type 1 with Trewhiddle-style decoration. Only the middle section survives, broken across the decorative field at both ends; the attachment end and terminal are both missing. The sides are convex and have a double-ribbed border; the outer rib is decorated with angled transverse grooves while the inner rib is plain. The central field is decorated in low relief with a sinuous, backward-looking beast among looping interlace, one strand of which pierces the beast's body. The creature's body fills the middle of the survivin…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bressingham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-A13EDD
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon gold C-bracteate. The repoussé decoration depicts a highly stylised horse and over-large bearded male head in profile facing right with four pellets below his triangular nose, a round eye with two lines indicating the lower eyelid and a hairstyle ending with a round coil and tail at the back and a triangle with a spiral in the front. The horse has a triangular ear, gaping mouth and small eye. Between the broad neck and the lower trunk are two dots. Above the large round hip and tail are two further dots. One short hindleg ends in a broad foot. The front legs are detached …
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Lessingham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-F8458C
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of a Middle Anglo-Saxon silver pin, comprising a polyhedral pinhead and stub of the shaft. The surviving part of the shaft is circular in section. The pin-head is in the form of a cube with the corners cut off, creating lozengiform and triangular facets. Each facet (except for the base from which the broken shaft projects), is deeply engraved with a single-line border, with additional engraved decoration within this border on some facets. The engraved lines are mostly empty, but some traces of niello survive.
The uppermost lozengiform field has a short line pr…
Created on: Tuesday 28th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-D33088
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams' (1997) Class A, Type 8. Triangular, with two circular attachment holes above a right-angled stepped flange, with a worn and debased animal head projecting from each end of the lower edge and a larger worn and debased animal head projecting at the apex. Below the apex projection is a slightly larger hole from which very worn ribs or loops in low relief emanate. Length 51mm. Width 31mm. Weight 22.1g.
Created on: Tuesday 14th October 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-D18CC1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
The hoard has been fully published (Behr and Pestell 2014) and a summary can be found at https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-binham-hoard
Silver sheet, probably an equal-armed brooch or perhaps a mount.
The curved bow is flat-backed with raised edges on the front face and otherwise plain, straight sided except at either end where it flares sharply before originally wide triangular terminals at either end, three corners of which are missing, the fourth detached and held in place by a small piece of clear plastic tape. There are stamps consisting of two concentric rings arou…
Created on: Thursday 2nd October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 6th June 2019
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Record ID: NMS-197839
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon Cloisonné enamel disc brooch. The brooch is composite, with a slightly convex central enamelled field within a vertical collet surrounded by a flange in the form of a double moulded, cabled border imitating a double band of twisted wire. On the reverse of the separate back-plate is a scar from a soldered catch-plate and the broken and corroded remains of the soldered pin lug. The pin is missing.
The translucent cloisonné enamel decoration consists of a central circular cell filled with white enamel surrounded by four circular cells filled with blue enamel, with four ci…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Last updated: Friday 31st March 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Great Witchingham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-B27BE9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete Early Saxon small-long brooch, now in two pieces broken at the lower end of the bow. Rectangular head-plate with thirteen circular perforations along sides and top edge with a groove connecting each of the complete perforations with the edge of the head-plate. The edge is broken through seven of the perforations. There is an internal border of eleven stamped reverse S-shaped scrolls following the edge of the plate. The D-sectioned bow has side facets between one fine transverse groove at the top and one at the base, broken possibly along the line of a transverse groove…
Created on: Wednesday 13th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2015
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-800D3E
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams' (1997) Class B, Type 4, now very worn. Fully modelled mask with pointed ears between which is the apex loop, large round eyes with central blind holes forming pupils, and a prominent, slightly up-turned nose. No details of the mouth or chin are visible. Angled flange with single hole filled with corroded iron. Hollow-backed. The edge of the plate is irregularly scalloped. Height 44mm. Width 27mm.Circa 11th - early 12th century.
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-2CA622
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon incomplete copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams' (1997) Class A, Type 12. Lozengiform plate with four lozengiform apertures formed by a diagonal cross with round bosses in very low relief at the centre of the cross, the corners of the lozengiform frame and to either side of the flat base. The mount is otherwise plain. Broken across the upper aperture, the apex loop missing. Right-angle flange with single rivet hole filled with the remains of the corroded iron rivet. Surviving height 27mm. Width 31mm. 1000 AD - circa 1100.
Created on: Thursday 19th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-EFE4B4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver knob from a radiate-headed brooch of early-medieval date. It is roughly D- or U-shaped, with a straight edge where it would have been attached to the headplate. It has cast relief Style I decoration consisting of a raised border inlaid with a longitudinal niello stripe at the attachment edge, conjoined brows also inlaid with a niello stripe, deep pointed-oval eye sockets with raised central pointed-oval pupils each of which has a tiny blind hole, and a worn pellet-like nose from which extends a median rib which divides a second pair of circular eyes or nostrils. Th…
Created on: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 18th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-DDEE86
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible gold strap-end, buckle-plate or fragment of unidentified object, perhaps a back-plate.
Description: Triangular gold sheet with a straight short edge, one slightly curved long edge and one straight long edge. There are two empty holes punched through from one face at the short edge, and two punched through from the opposite face near the rounded point, one of which is through the long straight edge.
The slightly asymmetric shape and incomplete hole suggest the object was originally shield-shaped and has been cut longitudinally. One face has peeled back at the right-angle…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-5FC732
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy prick spur. Central flat, hexagonal boss from the centre of which a short, rectangular-sectioned and pointed integral spike projects. One sub-triangular sectioned arm is complete, the flat surface inwards, angled from the central boss but straight rather than curved to form a once side of a U-shape. There is a very narrow transverse rib before the expanded, faceted terminal which is concave sided and tapers in thickness to the rounded end with two rivet holes one of which retains a copper alloy rivet. The other arm is incomplete and may have been repaired, with a rivet ho…
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-5EBEC6
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, Williams Class A, Type 1. Sub-triangular or pentagonal, with an angled flange retaining two corroded iron rivets, two rounded knops on either side, with two more flanking the rounded apex loop. The engraved decoration is a highly simplified version of two addorsed beasts, although the design is so debased the features can no longer be seen. Length 50mm. Width 32mm. 11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-5E41D1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy oval buckle frame with internally offset bar with sub rectangular-sectioned copper alloy pin recessed for the frame at the tip. Marzinzik 2003 Type 1.9. Similar to Dover Buckland Grave 156.3 (Evison 1987, fig. 61). Length 10mm. Width 18.5mm. Weighs 1.5g. c.500 - c.675.
See NMS-CA3665 (Norfolk HER 30690).
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-5C56F1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable bucket mount. Thin rectangular copper alloy sheet with repoussé dots forming a border around the edge and a median longitudinal line, with a piercing in the centre of each short edge. One corner, broken across one of the piercings, is missing and there is possible sooting on the reverse. Length 34mm. Width 12mm. Circa 6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-455CF7
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount. Triangular, broken across the apex loop, angled flange with a single empty rivet hole and iron staining on the reverse. Very worn decoration cast in low relief comprising an interlaced animal, seen from above with head at the apex, with very worn animal-head terminals projecting from the lower corners of the mount. Williams (1997) Class A, Type 10C.
Surviving length 53mm. Width 31.5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 27th May 2014
Last updated: Friday 1st November 2019
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-3643E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of Middle or Late Anglo-Saxon silver brooch with none of the original outer edge surviving. The plate is in the form of a cross with a separate central decorative silver dome-headed rivet. Each arm of the cross is decorated with a panel of similar but different geometric, perhaps interlaced, decoration reserved on a field of niello, much of which is missing. The quality of the engraving is not high. Each panel is edged with a reserved border, and the central rivet is also surrounded by a reserved border. The arms of the cross flare towards the breaks, and the plat…
Created on: Wednesday 14th May 2014
Last updated: Saturday 9th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-22D466
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A fragment of a Middle or Late Anglo-Saxon silver brooch. Originally cross-shaped, the fragment consists of the splayed or pelta-shaped terminal of one arm, with just over one coil of an incomplete integral spring projecting from the edge and coiling under the plate. The plate is broken along the straight edge of a further panel forming the arm of the cross or perhaps the centre of the brooch.
The terminal probably originally joined the terminals of the neighbouring arms to form apertures in the internal angles of the cross, across which the plate is now broken. The termi…
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-040A25
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy cheek-piece. Oval loop, short rectangular-sectioned arm expanding before a break across a cental hole, with one surviving projection in the form of a stylised dragon head with projecting four pointed crest, a large annulet for the eye and an open mouth with projecting tongue. Surviving length 56mm. Width (reconstructed) circa 84mm. Thickness 5mm. The breaks are ancient.
Williams (2007) Type 1, similar examples in Pedersen 1998, fig.2. Late 10th-11th century. See also NMS-275D22, NMS-FABB83.
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Saturday 15th July 2017
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Record ID: NMS-024171
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end. Probably Thomas' (2003) Class A, Type 1 (Trewhiddle style). Broken across the split end, almost straight sides tapering slightly to the terminal, bent, with very worn decoration containing traces of white inlay, probably decayed niello or possibly enamel, with an animal head terminal with round ears and a double chevron across the forehead. Length 29mm. Width 10mm. AD 850 - 1000.
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-C4F923
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy buckle with integral plate. Oval frame, rectangular plate with hole for cast pin with downturned end and pair of median transverse grooves. The plate is slightly curved longitudinally with a central band of six closely spaced transverse grooves, with two rivet holes before a transverse break. One rivet hole is blocked by corrosion. The other contains the corroded remains of an iron rivet.
Length 25mm. Width of frame 13mm. Width of plate 9.5mm.
See NMS-822DE5, which although extremely similar, does not join this fragment.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 19th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-C4A9F4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval copper alloy disc brooch with cast Borre style decoration, now almost completely indecipherable from wear but apparently comprising a central rectangular boss surrounded by interlaced knots. Most of the edge missing and worn. On the reverse the stub of a catch-plate and pin lug, one at right angles and one parallel to the edge. Measuring 19 x 24mm. Weight 3.0g.
A common 10th-century type in East Anglia carrying a design based on a Scandinavian prototype, see West 1998, 252, fig. 134.8, Margeson 1997, 23, fig. 28 and Margeson and Williams in Ayers 1985, 28, fig. …
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-C46A75
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end. Attachment end missing with ragged, ancient transverse break, very worn indistint decoration with worn animal head terminal on which no details survive. On the reverse is a large patch of silvery solder. Surviving length 20mm. Width 10mm. Late 8th - 10th century.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 19th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-C2DC24
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end. Split end broken across one rivet hole, convex sides, with traces of decoration within a panel or two panels on the body, and very slight details of animal head terminal with ears. Very worn. Length 25mm. Width 8.5mm. Late 8th - 10th century.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 19th March 2015
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Record ID: NMS-C2C624
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end. Split end broken across two rivet holes, convex sides tapering to a point with no trace of animal head terminal. Decorated with a longitudinal line of 6 stamped dots, with two additional dots to each side. Very worn and distorted. Length 39mm. Width 11.5mm. Late 8th - 10th century.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 19th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-BFA911
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete probably Early Saxon tweezers, broken at the loop, one arm missing. Tapering in a smooth line from the inturned blade to the loop. The only decoration consists of a fine engraved line near each edge of the upper part of the arm. Width of blade 12mm. Width of loop 3mm. Length 60mm. Perhaps c. 450 - 600 AD.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-B1C407
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Saxon cast disc brooch with a backward-looking beast within a raised border, originally segmented but now worn smooth. Any detail on the beast (eye, mane) have also been worn smooth. On the reverse are the remains of a catch-plate positioned directly behind the beast's rear end and set at right angles to the outside edge of the brooch. The perforated pin lug which retains corroded iron from the pin is set parallel with the opposite edge of the brooch. Diameter 23mm. Weight 4.4g.
10th - 11th century.
Created on: Thursday 20th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-6F4832
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Ball-headed pin head made from gold with filigree wire and pellet decoration. The pin head is hollow and globular, with a circular hole at each end surrounded by an annulet of beaded wire; the upper and lower half are separated by a border of a line of beaded wire either side of what appears now to be a plain wire, but on closer inspection is actually a beaded wire worn down so that the beads have almost disappeared. This triple-strand border probably conceals a soldered join.
Both halves are decorated alike, with two-ply twisted wire forming three pairs of opposed S- …
Created on: Wednesday 5th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Sedgeford', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-274C44
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Early Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet cloisonné circular domed object, perhaps a scabbard-button, or mount or stud from an unidentified object. It consists of a circular sheet back-plate with an outer border on the upper face formed from a single piece of thick, neatly beaded wire, within which a gold sheet, the lower part vertical before curving inwards, forms the edge of the originally domed upper face. Originally twelve cells were formed within the encircling gold sheet. A central quatrefoil tube is divided internally into four cells by vertical gold partitions (one of wh…
Created on: Friday 24th January 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-582531
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Anglo-Saxon silver pin with polyhedral head in the form of a cube with the corners cut off creating lozengiform and triangular facets, except around the base where the corner facets are lozengiform and extend to the point where the collared, circular-sectioned shaft extends from the head. The facets are undecorated with some file marks.
The surviving shaft is straight and of consistent diameter along the whole length before an irregular, granular break.
Surviving length 48mm. Length of head 7mm. Width 6.25 x 7mm. Weight 2.6g.
There are many examples of middle Anglo-Sax…
Created on: Thursday 2nd January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 11th August 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-1AF0F4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon or medieval copper alloy openwork mount. Two original edges at right-angles, with a pierced projecting lug in the coner, flat on the reverse, the decoration in low very relief on front including a raised oval over the edge of the frame perhaps a head or hand gripping the frame. Three complete apertures, broken acorss thee or four more.Very worn.
Measuring at least 37 x 30mm. Maximum thickness 5mm. Circa 1000 - 1200.
Perhaps a stirrup-strap mount similar to examples in Williams (1997, 86, fig.54, no.395 or106, fig.65, no.12). Potentailly similar medieval mounts are re…
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 19th December 2013
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-C179C1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon silver tongue-shaped strap-end of Thomas's Class E, Type 5, apparently re-used as a brooch. The attachment edge is recessed on the front, with a separate rectangular front-plate to secure the (missing) strap. It is attached with four rivets with rounded heads (one head missing), each surrounded by an annulet made from twisted silver wire.
The plate is cast in low relief within a border following the edge consisting of a pair of ridges separated by a groove; a small length of niello survives in the groove, in the centre at the top. Within this border is a sunken field f…
Created on: Monday 14th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 12th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Tharston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-C0DF91
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver hooked tag of middle or late Anglo-Saxon date. The plate is circular with two circular piercings for attachment close together towards the top. The hook is short and rectangular-sectioned, with the tip missing. The plate is decorated with a central repoussé boss (hollow on the reverse) with an engraved line around it partly filled with niello inlay. From this radiate six engraved lines, again partly filled with niello, which join an outer engraved circle. These lines were probably intended as pairs forming the lower and two side arms of a cross; where the upper ar…
Created on: Monday 14th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 24th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-027251
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy cruciform brooch. Fully rounded, waisted, integral top knop with one groove above the waist and two below. Narrow, well defined rectangular head-plate with stamped pairs of semi-circles along either edge. The wings are narrow, rectangular, undecorated and curved downwards, with a small amount of iron corrosion on the front of one. There are rectangular panels with two transverse grooves at either end of the triangular-sectioned bow forming facets. The foot-plate has two transverse grooves before bevelled edges accross which the plate is broken, the terminal mi…
Created on: Wednesday 11th September 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-E14455
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Late Saxon ingot of flat ovoid form, i.e. with almost parallel straight sides, rounded ends and two broad faces. Of the latter one is almost level but with slight signs of transverse hammering, and the other is very slightly concave. Length 46.5mm. Width 20.5mm. Thickness 5.5mm. Weight 33.90g. It has been suggested that copper alloy ingots from Norfolk of bar-like form and with transverse hammering may belong to the Viking period (Geake, H. Medieval Archaeol. 2001, 242-3). This example bears no obvious relationship with the 25g/26g unit suggested from Viking-Age silver ingots…
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-E124A2
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted fragment of an unidentified object, possibly either a brooch or a bracelet, broken at both ends, curved and slightly hollowed with chamfered sides and worn and corroded moulded decoration on the face comprising a transverse rib between remains of interlace. Length at least 13mm. Width 20mm. Thickness 5mm. Probably Continental, possibly Carolingian. 8th century.
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.
Record ID: NMS-E00012
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy cast discoidal un-inscribed weight, convex sided ('truncated sphere'). Diameter 22mm, thickness 13mm. Weighing 44.25 g, 1.5610 oz, 682.8 grains. Some slight damage to surface.
The weight may (although slightly underweight) represent 2 of the postulated Scandinavian units of 24.4 ±0.8g (Kruse 1992), i.e. 47.2g to 50.4g.
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.
Record ID: NMS-DFB8F0
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy censer-cover re-used as a weight, Winchester-style house-shaped decorated with cast openwork in four lozenge-shaped fields above, and the four sides below. The openwork body is filled with lead. Knob on top and smaller knop on each angle with the exception of the four angles at base, each of which has a projecting perforated lug (one broken). S and reversed S-shaped tendrils alternate on the four lozengiform fields. Three of the four sides are decorated with four curled tendrils and one has a five-branched frond (one branch is obscured by the lead filling). Hei…
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Watton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-DF4F20
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy fragment of cast probable harness link, sub-rectangular sectioned bar with collared terminal and three worn transverse grooves, other end broken across offset internally worn loop, rectangular boss on stump of narrow rectangular side of loop, other side obliquely-angled and oval-sectioned. Measuring at least 37 x at least 13mm. A possible variant of a type illustrated in Williams 2007 fig. 3e. 11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 8th January 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Sandringham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-DF05C2
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy wrist-clasp eye-plate of Hines 1993 form B12 with three pierced lugs on rear edge and white-metal coating on front face. The central flat boss is square and larger than the other two rectangular ones, and one grooved bar between the bosses is much wider (7mm) than the other (5.5mm). 17 x 37.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-4D89C3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very unusual silver hooked strap-end or socketed hooked tag, shield-shaped plate with split attachment end with two silver rivets, integral hook springs from solid base. 14 x 16mm. Weighs 2.40g. 8th-11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-4CF142
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy wrist-clasp hook-plate of Hines' form C3. The outer part of the hooked projection is missing. On the rear edge there is a break across one of two perforations for attachment and a central heart-shaped motif. On the front chip-carved ornament consists of two symmetrically arranged Style I animals between scroll motifs near the sides. In the centre a large mask motif faces to the rear. Half of a large roundel survives in front of the head, the rest having been lost with the hook element. This circle would have been the central motif of the complete clasp, i.e. wh…
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wretton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-4BB9C5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Small-long brooch, Leeds cross potent Type, head-plate with notches at base of semi-circular arms, stump of missing bow, perforated lug on reverse within iron corrosion and remains of iron pin. 34 x at least 26mm. Late 5th-6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-471D68
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Suspension-unit probably from a censer or perhaps a balance, comprising a short conical, round-sectioned spike and radiating from below its base three concave-sided arched flat-sectioned arms with perforated ring-and-dot on splayed terminals.
There is some broad similarity to a more commonly found medieval type of suspension-unit for a lamp or censer (e.g. the example illustrated in EAA 32, fig.50, no.2), and a pre-Conquest balance suspension-unit from York, see Mainman and Rogers (2000), Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York (2000), 2559-2561, no.10413. However, the piece described h…
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Friday 7th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-3862C6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight, disc with convex sides and slightly abraded angles between faces and sides, 8.5mm thick, diameter 15mm. Weighing 11.98 g, 0.4225 oz, 185.0 grains. The weight of this piece is just under half of the suggested weight unit of 26.6 g for around 200 Hiberno-Norse finds from Dublin (Kruse 1992, 86).
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Holme Hale', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-372630
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Heavily molten fragment of an unidentified object. On one face a rib is overlain by a blob-like projection and there is a suggestion of a curving moulding. 28 x 22mm. Perhaps 5th - 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'East Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-371D86
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete small-long brooch, most of footplate missing. Leeds 1945 cross potent type. Entirely plain headplate. Rectangular panel forming facets at top and base of hollow-backed bow, both panels with a single transverse groove. Single median groove on bow. Single transverse groove at top of footplate. On reverse a widely spaced double pin lug with remains of iron pin bar and spring, and stub of catchplate. The break across the upper end of the footplate is not ancient, and cuts through the footplate stub. Length at least 46mm. Width 26mm. Late 5th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-370E34
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete small-long brooch, all edges of the headplate and all below the lower part of the bow missing. The two perforations in the headplate suggest a place in Leeds 1945 cross pattee derivative group e (i). Lines of fine punched dots follow the edge of the basal notches, extend up to and around and then link the two perforations. A rectangular panel forming facets is extant at the top of the hollow-backed bow. It is decorated with two transverse grooves and a parallel line of punched dots. There is a concentration of dots at the top of the bow. Further lines of dots follow its edg…
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'East Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-36FAE4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy mount with flat gilt front face and two integral attachment shanks on reverse. The main part is subtly reverse S-shaped in outline, with the edges followed by a pair of parallel grooves on the front. Just below the top of the S the lines join in a spiral which may be intended to represent a bird's eye. A sinuous band along the centre is edged by grooves and contains a line of pellets in counter relief. The band ends in a point from which a groove extends the short distance to the bird's eye. At the base of the S a single groove parallel with a transverse rebate…
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'East Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-36E1B6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of bow brooch: headplate with most of wings missing, and with stubs of cast-in-one half-round top knob and of bow, and slightly raised trapezoidal panel emphasised by fine engraved line down both sides. Either a cruciform or a small-long with cruciform headplate. Single pin lug and remains of iron pin bar and spring on reverse.Surviving dimensions; length 19mm, width 21mm. Late 5th - early 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'East Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-36ACA3
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable horse harness pendant, flat-sectioned sub-triangular openwork plate, trapezoidal loop in same plane at apex with circular lobe on both upper angles at ends of narrowed bar, triangular projections flank junction with plate which is pierced by six large perforations (reading down: 1, 2, 3), animal-head profiles on angles flank projecting pointed lobe at base. The face is decorated with lines of stamped annulets around perforations and outer edge. 45 x 58mm. 3mm thick.
This piece can also be found illustrated in Rogerson and Ashley (2010, 129; fig. 7.49), and com…
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-365184
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy long brooch, head missing, arched flat-sectioned bow with traces of engraved longitudinal grooved lines, semi-circular cut-outs flank remains of damaged slightly flaring and possibly rounded foot with remains of catch-plate on reverse. Measuring at least 10 x at least 40mm. Probably an armbrustfibel, cf. an example from Oxborough (HER 2634). Early to mid 5th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-363494
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete small-long brooch, Leeds 1945 square-head type, the head-plate has the stump of the missing bow on the lower edge. Single lug with remains of decayed iron pin on reverse. The break across the bow is ancient. Length at least 19mm. Width 19mm. Late 5th century.
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-362CC7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete small-long brooch, Leeds 1945 cross pattee derivative type, all below the lower part of the bow missing. The head-plate has notches at the angles in the upper edge and flanking the springing of the bow in the lower edge. Lines of fine punched annulets follow the edge of the notches. A rectangular panel forming facets is extant at the top of the D-sectioned bow. It is decorated with the remains of a transverse groove. Twin pin lugs with remains of decayed iron pin on reverse. The break across the bow is ancient. Length at least 30mm. Width 18mm. Late 5th century.
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-361E63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head-plate and bow of a tinned Cruciform brooch: cast-in-one top knob, trapezoidal central panel, incomplete flaring wings, rectangular panel forming facets and decorated with twin horizontal lines at top and base of hollow-backed bow. Lug on reverse contains corroded remains of iron pin. There is no stamped decoration. Ancient breaks. Width at least 27mm. Length at least 52mm. Early to mid 6th century.
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-360DF6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy tinned weight, polyhedral, rectangular-sectioned square with corners cut-off (13 x 13mm, 11mm thick), engraved bordering lines on each of the facets, opposed larger faces with tapering perforation, single dot on each of the remaining facets. Weighing 13.32g / 205.2 grains. This weight is less than 0.01% overweight for three of one of the three postulated weight units (4.43g) of the Late Saxon period. (Kruse 1992, 80).
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Morton on the Hill', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-354115
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Footplate side lobe from a gilt great square-headed brooch, extant lobe, silver sheet appliqué missing, with stumps of openwork footplate inner border and inner panel frame with cable moulding. Measuring at least 26 x at least 23mm. The breaks are not recent. Hines 1997 Group XVI. Mid 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Morton on the Hill', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-352C35
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilt wrist-clasp, cast zoomorphic decoration consisting of two opposed curving necks with transverse notches and beaked heads, Hines Form C1, short bordering band of beading between two broken pierced projecting lugs on rear edge, damaged hook, ancient breaks, measuring at least 21 x 33mm. Cf. examples from Colkirk (HER 41350), Framingham Earl (HER 31192), West Rudham (HER 32133) and Scole (HER 53857). 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 3rd April 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Morton on the Hill', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-350FB0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small flat copper alloy fragment, all edges broken, the front face gilt and with "chip carved" face decoration consisting of a row of short grooved ribs and part of a probable frame of animal ornament. The rear face is plain and badly pock-marked. Probably part of a brooch, either a Great Square-headed or a Florid Cruciform. Surviving dimensions 15 x 11mm. Thickness 2.5mm. 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-34E108
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of bridle cheek piece, both ends broken, one immediately beyond a rectangular boss, and the other across a probably round aperture. On the front face there is geometric engraved ornament and the reverse is marked with a series of broad moulded grooves that are not decorative. Probably of Williams 2007 Type 2. Measuring at least 31 x at least 23mm. Thickness 4mm, at boss 6.5mm. 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Saturday 15th July 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-34B2F2
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower part of an anthropomorphic stirrup terminal with traces of iron adhering to the interior. Length at least 16mm. 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Sunday 27th April 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Scole', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-32D6E3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete copper-alloy cruciform brooch of Martin's type 1.1.2 and Åberg Group I. It has a fully-round top knob, detachable side knobs missing, pitted head-plate with central panel and narrow wings gently angled backwards. Rectangular panel decorated with transverse grooves at top and base form facets on bow with median groove. Traces of engraved transverse lines on rectangular panel at top of footplate, then simple half-round moulding with transverse groove above an elongated narrowed animal-head terminal with protruding eyes, tapering to a crescentic expansion forming nostril…
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 24th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-227D43
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cruciform brooch of Åberg / Leeds Group IVa. Headplate and upper part of the bow are missing, remains of facetted bow with shallow hollow on the reverse. The footplate begins as a flat trapezium between remains of two lappets, the almost complete one with a highly simplified downward-pointing beaked head. The half-round moulding comprises a groove between two broad ribs. The animal-head terminal is broken beneath a pair of protruding eyes, terminal missing. Broken catch-plate on reverse. Ancient breaks. Length grater than 60mm, width at broken lappets greater than 29mm. 6t…
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-2217D2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast discoidal weight, flat face with nineteen ring-and-dots arranged in the form of a cross potent, rounded chamfer around edge on base. A small almost central perforation in the face splays on the reverse and contains the remains of a plug comprising decayed pale grey/whitish material, probably lead. Diameter 14mm, thickness 4mm. Weighing 53.6 grains, 3.48 g.
This weight bears resemblance to some Early Anglo-Saxon weights and may relate to a weight system based on a unit of c. 3.1 g (Scull 1990, 187). However if the plug were intact the difference in weight would be even greater.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-216812
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval incomplete disc brooch, damaged outside edge, very worn concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double contoured knots, circular sunken field in centre, Borre style. On reverse worn stubs of single pin lug and catch-plate, both aligned with outside edge. Cf. West, 1998, fig. 134.8. Diameter 28mm. 10th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-E2C653
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, oval-sectioned, narrowed bar, cast pin with transverse ridge and end curved to fit frame. Measuring 9.5 x 17mm.
Created on: Friday 16th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-BA23F4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end of Thomas' Class A, Type 5. Double-notched upper edge, split-end, the front part now missing, and two attachment holes (one broken).There is a casting flaw in the form of a sub-circular blind hole in the centre of the back-plate revealed by the missing front-plate. The sides of the plate taper slightly to an animal-head terminal with circular ears, each with an indented dot and crescent, and bulging eliptical eyes either side of the narrowed, blunt-ended snout. Decoration of the plate consists of a beaded borer on either edge with a blind ho…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-371453
Object type: HANGING BOWL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early or Middle Saxon copper alloy mount, probably from a hanging bowl. Flat-sectioned strip, slightly curved, with the edges beveled on the underside only. The front of the strip is silvered and decorated with open-line, ribbon-style interlace, reserved on a decayed enameled field now a pale buff colour. Broken at both ends and partially obscured by copper corrosion.
Surviving length 25mm. Width 8.5mm. Thickness 2mm.Not enough survives to estimate the original diameter, if forming part of a circular mount.
A similar strip thought to form part of a basal ring or …
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2013
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-366C26
Object type: HANGING BOWL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early or Middle Saxon copper alloy mount from a hanging bowl. Triple-armed spiral motife reserved on a field of decayed enamel, now a pale buff colour. No original edge survives. 7th century.
Surviving dimensions 16.5 x 15.5mm, 1mm thick.
See also NMS-371453.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 2nd May 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-262D73
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end, Thomas' (2003) Class A. Split-end, convex sides, probably originally with an animal head terminal although now too worn and damaged to discern the features. A rectangular panel on the plate may depict a beast originally reserved on an inlaid field. The attachment edge is also damaged although it may be broken across a single rivet hole. Length 24mm. Width12.5mm. Circa 9th century.
The strap-end is very small for the type, and unfortunately damaged and corroded, making the features difficult to discern.
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Last updated: Saturday 29th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-A901E1
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon (Viking period) gold finger ring. Three quarters of the band is formed from plaited wire, beaten into a rectangular-sectioned bar at the back of the hoop. The wire section of the band is of even thickness throughout and does not swell at the centre or taper towards the rear of the band except where beaten together.
External height 22mm. External width 24mm. Internal measurements 18 x 19mm. Width of band at front of hoop 3mm, thickness 2.5mm. Wdth of rectangular section at rear of hoop 2.5mm, thickness 1.5mm. Weight 3.3g.
See similar 10th - 11th century examples in the…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2013
Last updated: Thursday 10th September 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Cromer', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-AF32C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Saxon copper alloy probably small-long brooch. One corner of the incomplete head-plate with straight upper edge and rounded projection with single stamped ring-and-dot on one surviving angled side. Single pierced lug for the (missing) pin on the reverse. Break across the base and side not recent but not very worn. Surviving length 15mm. Surviving width 15mm. Original width (assuming symmetrical, and centrally placed pin-lug) 18mm.
The surviving fragment does not compare well with other known types of head-plate.
Created on: Wednesday 26th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-873F43
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy, probably Late Saxon object. A pendant, harness pendant or possibly a finial or terminal, in the form of an equal-armed cross with expanded ends, rectangular-sectioned and wedge-shaped in profile. Beyond the end of the thickest arm there is a short, narrowed rectangular-sectioned continuation before a break, perhaps the base of a suspension loop, although there is no sign of the section changing to accommodate a transverse loop.
Decorated alike on both faces with a central dot surounded by two rings and a border following the edge of the cross partially filled with dec…
Created on: Monday 24th June 2013
Last updated: Monday 24th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-870EB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch. Extremely worn, slightly convex fron decorated with a narrow border around extremely worn Jellinge-style animal ornament in low relief around a central pellet or boss, the details of which are uncertain. Flat reverse with remains of double pin lug, worn loop at right angles to the edge opf the plate and slight raied scar from catch-plate. Pin missing.
Diameter 25mm. 10th century.
Of Jansson's type I E (Kershaw 2013, 114-116).
Created on: Monday 24th June 2013
Last updated: Monday 5th March 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-8635A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy ansate brooch. Almost triangular-sectioned bow with flattened top and median longitudinal groove worn away at the apex. Flat terminals with concave sides and tri-lobed terminals with three grooves retaining traces of decayed pale material. Incomplete catch-plate broken at the fold and double lugs filled with iron corrosion from the (missing) pin. Length 41mm. Width of terminal 11mm.
Created on: Monday 24th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-822DE5
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon incomplete copper alloy prick spur. Almost flat-sectioned smoothly curving bar with slightly convex upper face decorated to one side of the short, conical integral goad with two groups of four transverse grooves and broken across a third group of grooves. Immediately to the other side of the goad two rivets secure two now rectangular fragments of sheet of which no original edge seems to survive, one on the front and one on the reverse, before a blunt terminal. This is probably a repair as similar spurs have symmetrical arms, although the terminal of the arm does n…
Created on: Monday 24th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-46FE86
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup strap mount. Pentagonal plate, broken across apex loop, small rounded knop at angle on either side, animal head terminals projecting beyond the base , two empty circular attachment holes above a right angle flange on the reverse. Cast decoration in low relief of uincertain form. Williams' (1997) Class A, uncertain type.
Height 32mm. Width 25mm.
Created on: Friday 21st June 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 8th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
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