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-36CA14
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of gilt copper alloy mount, apparently flat, with one curved edge original, the others broken. A large oval collet, now empty, rises from the decorated face. Engraved decoration consists of a band of foliar ornament of tendrils and spirals next to the curved edge, and around the base of the collet of a zig-zag pattern formed from closely spaced chevrons. The original shape of the object is uncertain. Possibly a book mount, but rather too thick and heavy duty. Surviving dimensions 31.5 x 28.5mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Collet 22.5 x 15mm, height 4.5mm. Perhaps 12th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

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-366EC7
Object type: BRASS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of monumental brass, one original slightly concave edge survives, angled chop on opposite edge, other sides broken, one across rivet-hole, deeply incised foliate decoration (possible mantling?) and multiple oblique lines bordering the surviving edge. Surviving dimensions 46 x 44mm, 2mm thick. Late 15th-early 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-365ED6
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lead pilgrim badge, m-shaped with small pellets around outside edge. Surviving measurements 16 x 11mm. Perhaps 15th 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-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-3642B6
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of probably military harness pendant, upper end with rounded shoulders, face with vertical median panel decorated with engraved bordering lines and ending in twin loops at apex containing corroded iron pin for suspension, lower end missing, 17 x at least 21mm. Date uncertain.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-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-34F626
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable folding strap clasp with only the bar of the frame extant. Most of both sides of the rectangular sheet plate are missing as a result of scuffing, while all of the attachment edge has been lost. A large V-shaped cut-out appears to consist mostly of damage, but was probably once an aperture. The front face is decorated with a probably abstract pattern of oblique, transverse and longitudinal lines, some closely spaced. Plate measures at least 23 x at least 16.5mm. 14th - 15th 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-349E56
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very abraded fragment of mouth of socketed axehead. Measuring at least 19 x 18mm. Weighing 5.4g. c.1000 - c.701 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scole', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-346E78
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete unusual openwork buckle plate, slightly trapezoidal, recessed with pin-slot, broken across loops, back-part missing, pierced by twin rivet-holes (one with copper alloy rivet) near loops and large D-shaped perforation with border of engraved rocker-arm, also around outside edge. 23 x 17mm. 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-346185
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Asymmetrical copper alloy buckle frame, one loop trapezoidal, the other D-shaped, with narrow rib or lobe at both ends of bar, filed pin notch and two pairs of oblique groves on straight outside edge and very elaborate openwork inside edge. In outline this is heart-shaped with an ovoid knop at the base (i.e. the terminal) and three apertures, one large and heart-shaped between two smaller and round. Very finely engraved radial lines on the knop may have been intended to depict a scallop shell. Closely related to less intricate frames such as Whitehead 2003 nos. 583-5, 591 and 593. 35 …
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-341287
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman - Early Saxon copper alloy propeller-shaped military belt stiffener, twin perforations in both sub-triangular ends (one contains a copper alloy rivet), oval expansion in the centre decorated with a double ring-and-dot. The outside edges are chamfered with some damage at both ends. Length 42mm. Width 18mm. 4th century (Clarke 1979, 285), but such objects occur in Early Anglo-Saxon contexts (Macgregor and Bolick 1993, 210 and 212, cat. nos. 36.8 and 9).
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-33EB96
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Livery badge, the face is very worn, cast in the form of a crest: an (possibly) Englishman's (or 'savage's') head affronty wreathed and cooped beneath the shoulders wearing toga-like dress secured by a trefoil clasp on the sinister shoulder, on a torse or crest wreath. The reverse is hollow and has traces of solder at the top and on both sides at the base for separate wire loops or spikes for attachment. 27 x 39mm. 16th-18th century. Compare LANCUM-61F133 and NMS-A14532, both of which are perhaps slightly earlier than this example.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-3357D5
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy key handle, broken at springing of missing tubular shank, remains of openwork quatrefoil bow with keyhole-shaped perforations radiating from the centre, outside edge of outer foil missing (worn and broken). Measuring at least 44 x 34mm. Cf. an example from North Walsham (Norfolk HER 53877) and the very similar LANCUM-182B26.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 19th July 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-334577
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal, fragment of possible privy mark? // illegible.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-333107
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal, fragment of monogram // (incised) 23
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

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-3260A8
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
POst-medieval lead cloth seal illegible inscription // (scratched) 2 ½.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-245A03
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy amphora-shaped military strap-end, upper end missing, broken above flanking peltate or 'kidney-shaped' handles with flanking projections above and below, which represent the crescents that usually replace handles on narrow British-made amphora types. The body is decorated on one face with a vertical median line of multiple c-shaped stamps, the other face is decorated with a fine vertical median line of incised rocker-arm that bisects three chevrons formed by flanking pairs of fine oblique rocker-arm lines. Width 19.5. Length greater than 55mm. Thickness 3mm. Cf…
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-242310
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy razor or spatula handle cast in the form of a bust of Minerva. The stylised figure wears a high Corinthian helmet with a large crest. She is depicted draped, wearing the aegis, a protective garment covering her shoulders and upper body with transverse lines and ribs on her chest and lower body above a break across the split base. 13 x at least 54mm.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 25th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Dereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-23E326
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman fragment of a handle from a folding razor, comprising a collar with perforation for missing hinge-pin and twin flanking transverse ribs, and two broken stumps at on end where the missing openwork dog seizing hare motif has been broken-off, groove in flat base for missing iron blade, at least 18 x 15mm. Cf. Gregory EAA 53, 131-2, fig.117, no.19.0 3rd-4th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-23D2C6
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete padlock (48 x 25mm), octagonal-sectioned hollow rectangular case, T-shaped opening for key in end with vertical perforated oval-sectioned arm and bent parallel bar, other end with remains of separate sliding lock inserted into hole, vertical arm missing, perforated with rivet retaining separate swivelling loop (9 x 9mm). Each face of the three (damaged) basal facets is decorated with a longitudinal wavy line of addorsed triangles or interrupted rocker-arm. Cf. Egan (1998), fig.66, no.244 and Hen Domen (2000), nos.111-112. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-23A607
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt buckle plate, rectangular, folded widthways with pin slot and recessed for frame, back part narrowed and shortened, face with engraved lines bordering loops that contain the narrowed bar from the missing frame, plate pierced by five rivet-holes three of which retain flattened globular heads, the larger central one with cast concentric lines of multiple pellets. 24 x 22mm. Late 12th-13th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-238944
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness stud, shield-shaped, tapering integral shank (projects 15mm) on reverse, gilding or silvering missing, enamel survives: Gules an eagle displayed [?Or/Argent] overall on a fess Azure three cinquefoils [?Or/Argent]. 26 x 33mm. Possibly for Southille? William de Southille bore Gules an eagle displayed Argent overall a fess Azure (DBA (1996), p. 157, Brault (1997) II, p. 395). 14th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-236FF4
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper alloy possible ingot, very corroded with much of surface missing, rectangular-sectioned with obliquely-angled ends, hammer marks on sides. Ancient although undatable. Length 42mm. Width 6mm. Thickness 6mm. Weight 101.6 grains / 6.59g.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-232F66
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval belt mount, cast in the form of a crown with engraved detail, pierced by two rivet-holes with copper alloy rivets (length 3mm). 16 x 10mm. Cf. related types in Dress. Access. figs.126-7. 15th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-22D097
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy book mount, hexagonal hollow-backed boss with broken flange, remains of four rivet holes at angles leaving two opposed angles un-perforated, irregular perforation in centre of boss with radiating arrises, 31 (reconstructed) x 34mm. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, fig.119. 14th-15th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 28th January 2019
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-2266C8
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy gilt horse harness suspension mount, corroded,- sub-lozengiform with engraved quatrefoil, perforated at bent apex and at base (containing domed copper alloy rivet), slotted projection from base folded onto reverse to form twin loops containing copper alloy pin for missing pendant, 22 x 31mm (unbent). Cf. broadly similar type in Ashley (2002), fig.5, no.8. Late 12th-13th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-225348
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman incomplete small razor or knife, blade with curved cutting edge, point missing, straight flat-backed with regularly spaced transverse engraved lines. There are twin engraved lines on both faces of the blade bordering the straight vertical edge below springing of a sub-rectangular sectioned handle, broken before terminal and with both upper angles faceted with multiple incised oblique lines, end of handle missing. Dark green patina (pitted on both sides of the blade). Length: at least 37mm Width: 14mm Thickness of blade: 2.5mm. Cf. PAS database HAMP3381. Not closely datable.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morely', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-224306
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal, one-part customs seal for a bale of exported silk with a shield on both faces: lion rampant in chief three fleurs-de-lis // lion rampant on a chief LYON. Cf. Egan (1994) nos.299-300. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

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-21E7E5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval incomplete unidentified object, hollow-cast hexagonally facetted possible handle, tapers from break to terminal with projecting knop and casting seam. Measuring at least 36 x 14mm.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-21DC80
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal, privy mark comprising 4 at top of central stem crossed by an S above AEVAR (ligatured) above an annulet at base (edges cut-down and chamfered).
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-21D343
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal, bird with wings addorsed (taken from the arms of the Norwich weavers, cf. Egan, 1994, nos.91-2) // ...R / T F . 17th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-21B713
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt belt mount, sheet cut in the form of a crown, repoussé dot in both upper arched angles, twin perforations in base, 17 x 15mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-21A002
Object type: STAMP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible medieval patrix, solid cast disc with trapezoidal handle, with its terminal thickened on reverse as if rolled-over. The face of the disc carries an octofoil matrix within a bordering line. 26 x 45mm. Weighs 36.69 g.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-218170
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Arms: Despenser (possibly) Medieval copper alloy incomplete possible horse harness mount, bent and broken thin (c. 0.5mm) circular sheet plate much of outside edge missing, diameter greater than 26mm. The plate is engraved with a shield bearing Quarterly 2 and 3 fretty overall a bend. Although the tinctures are absent the arms depicted are most likely to be those of DESPENSER (Quarterly Argent and Gules fretty Or overall a bend Sable), Cf. Wagner (1972) 50 and Plate VII, no.31. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
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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
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Record ID: NMS-2143A3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy unusual elaborate belt fitting: bar mount, large central openwork quatrefoil with two opposed projecting bars (one slightly bent) with perforated foliate terminal lobes. 17 x (unbent) 45mm. Cf. less elaborate types in Dress Access. fig.134. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-1EFAE4
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age very unusual and simple arrowhead, with tang but no barbs, apparently made on a fortuitously shaped flake fragment which only required bilateral and bifacial retouch at one end to form a sharp point. Unpatinated. Probably Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, when barbed and tanged arrowheads were in use.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-E32FB0
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy furniture fitting. Circular, flared sides, upper face recessed around a concial central projection with blind hole in the apex. Corroded iron protrudes from the base. Diameter 26mm. Height (excluding iron) 13mm. See NMS-FE3971 for a similar example.
Created on: Friday 16th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th June 2014
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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
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Record ID: NMS-E297E8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy mount, or unidentified object cast in low relied and consisiting of eight conjoined bosses arranged in a circle alternating between a smaller leaf or tree conected to the centre of the mount by a short stem and slightly larger cherubic human masks joined to the centre at the chin, with a resulting trinagular or teardrop-shaped aperture between each boss. There is a central, sub-oval hole. Each of the bosses is slightly hollow-backed, but there is no visible means of attachment, except for the central hole. Measuring 34 x 35mm, 3mm thick. For a similar, …
Created on: Friday 16th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th June 2014
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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
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Record ID: NMS-B7FBC7
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age razor, probably of Piggott 1946 Class I. Very flat eliptical section with slightly bevelled edges, rounded end and transverse break. None of the original cutting edge survives, the edges of the blade very thin and damaged. Surviving length 31mm. Width at break 28mm. Maximum surviving thickness 2mm.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A3F0A4
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic or Neolithic flint axehead. Curved cutting edge, tapering through elongated S-curved profile and sides to butt. Sub-trinagular or D-shaped section, the apex changing from one face to the other with the S-curve. Poor quality, pale grey patinated flint. Maximum width 45mm. Maximum thickness 22mm. Length 161mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2013
Last updated: Thursday 5th September 2013
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Record ID: NMS-A3B083
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic flint axe, found around 1952 - 56, of elongated, narrow-butted form, and of lenticular section with straight lateral edges tapering immediately from the cutting edge, all of the larger knapping scars are completely ground and polished out over the whole surface, with particularly fine polishing around the gently curved cutting edge. It is of patinated pale mottled grey flint, with some rusty scrapes from iron agricultural implements. Maximum width (at cutting edge) 48mm. Maximum thickness 16mm. Length 203mm. Similar elongated axeheads with narrow butts have been found …
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2013
Last updated: Sunday 30th September 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A07012
Object type: BOTTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval applied circular glass bottle seal with fragment of body attached; T / G]...[nham / Thetford / 1766. Diameter 46mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 13th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-8EF7D0
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant, oval, with a hollow-backed central boss surounded by stamped annulets, probably originally forming a field for a six pointed star although corrosion and wear now obscure the design. There is a rivet-hole below the transversely pierced suspension loop. Four lobes around the damaged outside edge, one of which is missing. Length 44.5mm, width 42mm. See Ashley 2002, fig. 6, nos. 10-12, NMS-BFD6E0 and NMS-5CC297. 12th century.
Created on: Monday 12th August 2013
Last updated: Thursday 5th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-8ED0A7
Object type: CANDLESTICK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval or early post-medieval copper alloy candlestick. Cylindricle socket with slight moulding near upper edge and at least three pairs of incised grooves, tapering sharply at the base to form a circular-sectioned stem with two moulded triangular-sectioned ribs, flaring slightly at the base before the narrowed, socketed end to fit the (missing) separate base. Diameter of socket 24mm. Total height 142mm. 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Monday 12th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 13th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-8E99C5
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Globular amber bead with off-centre, oval hole. Maximum diameter 19mm. Thickness 15mm
Created on: Monday 12th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 13th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-8E3531
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible whetstone. Shield-shaped, ractangular-sectioned, with angled, off-centre hole near flat top edge. Length 34mm. Width 23mm.Thickness 16mm. Undated, but probably Roman - Medieval, if a whetstone.
Created on: Monday 12th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 13th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-8C7353
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle-plate. Rectangular plate, cast, broken across slot for (missing) pin. Openwork plate with 9 circular holes and engraved details depicting a dragon-like beast with head at the attachment end. Gilded. Mid 12th - 13th century. Length 26mm. Width 9mm.
Created on: Monday 12th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 13th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-4F6121
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix: hexagonally faceted handle with a triple-collared quatrefoil terminal with four blind holes on one face (the quatrefoil may have been intended as openwork but is unfinished), surmounted by a small perforated circular lobe forming a suspension loop. There are three incised lines forming a six-pointed star at the upper edge to indicate orientation. The circular bezel (diam.28mm) carries a shield bearing Three flasks (or costrels), with two foliate sprigs above forming the initial mark and others used as spacers within the remains of a worn and damaged …
Created on: Friday 9th August 2013
Last updated: Thursday 26th September 2013
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Record ID: NMS-4CC246
Object type: BRASS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval monumental brass, letter A with broken bar. Height 36mm (Main Group Size III). Width 34mm. Thickness 3mm. 14th century, probably lost during the Reformation.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-4CB4B7
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla, cut, broken and distorted, upper edge missing. Crowned W within cross-hatched field on one side, crown within cross-hatched field on the other. One squashed triangular lug survives. 14th - early 16th century. Surviving height 39mm. Width 33mm.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 13th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-3A6C42
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and unidentified object. Copper alloy casing, broken across a circular hole at one end from which the casing expands to form at least three surviving foils or 'toes'. The casing is filled with lead, and if originally circular, about half survives. The angle of the casing suggests a foot for a small vessel. Surviving diameter / width 23mm. Height 10mm.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3A1048
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap-fitting. Rectangular-sectioned plate with two grooved notches in the rear edge, bevelled sides on the upper face, a transverse ridge before an oval frame with transverse ridge on either edge before a rounded knop terminal and double-lobed (almost keyhole-shaped) aperture. There are two iron rivets in the plate and tinning on the plate and frame. See NMS-462CA4 for a very similar example. Perhaps a form of clasp, similar to the female part of the fitting in Read (2008, 225, no.807). Length 49.5mm. Width 11mm.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-39A513
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Roman object, perhaps an unusual button-and-loop fastener, handle, or unidentified object. Rectangular boss, flat on the reverse, with cusped or concave sides rising to form a central rectangular socket which is now partially filled by iron corrosion. The upper edges of the socket are broken. Projecting from the side and reverse of one short edge is a short, rounded projection, perhaps broken on the underside, which may represent the remains of the shank of a button-and-loop fastener. There are no apparent breaks or scars on any of the other edges, so this does…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

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-34DE95
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Late Roman unusual amphora-shaped strap-end, or unidentified object. Consisting of a flat-sectioned plate (now triangular) with a straight, original edge uppermost, and a single circular piercing (probably a rivet hole) at the point of the triangle, after which the plate begins to expand shortly before a transverse break (at the neck, if a strap-end). To either side of the plate there are projections forming a triangular aperture above an oval or circular aperture or loop, all of which are broken. The more complete loop or projection terminates in, or is broken accross, a pos…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2013
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-259E87
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap-end with cast front-plate and sheet back-plate with a single rivet at the attachment end, which retains a fragment of the leather strap. The sides are concave, the attachment edge and terminal straight. The front-plate is decorated with a sub-rectangular panel within which is a now indistinct beast or dragon reserved on a field of blue and possibly red enamel, now missing and decayed. Gilded. Probably 12th century. Length 34mm. Width13mm.
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 14th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-251545
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete lead seal matrix, flat, slightly more than half surviving, relief fleur-de-lis with the longitudinal rib ending in a broken perforated lug at its base. Pointed oval, 21.5 x 19.5mm. Fleur-de-lis. [the initial mark comprises a vertical stroke with three cross-bars] S' hVG[.........]DONE (Seal of Hugh ?). The N is retrograde. 13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-249703
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably medieval lead spindle whorl. Flattened bi-concial with a central hole and moulded decoration in low relief on both faces, consisiting of ten radiaiting ribs on one face and radiaiting ribs with crosses between some of them on the other. Diameter 28mm. Height 11mm. Internal diameter 7mm. Weight 32.6g.
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 4th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FD09E0
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unfinished neolithic flint axehead, or possibly a fabricator. Bi-facially worked dark grey flint, patinated pale grey over about half the surface, triangular-sectioned, with an unworked, blunt edge at the slightly wider end where the cutting edge would be expected. Slightly narrowed butt end. Length 109mm. Maximum width 41.5mm. Maximum thickness 23mm.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 7th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-A6C433
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of elaborate silver head-dress pin of the bodkin type, or unidentified object. Rectangular-sectioned, comprising a break across a piercing or slot, rectangular collar with three horizontal ribs on each face below an openwork lozengiform quatrefoil each foil separated by a rib radiating from a central blind hole with a circular hole in each foil (one blind) and an external transverse rib on the edge of each side foil, surmounted by a standing bird with engraved eyes and folded wings. Surviving length 24mm. Maximum surviving width 9mm. Weight 1.8g. An almost identical lozengif…
Created on: Thursday 1st August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A62056
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button. Composite, with domed front soldered to almost flat reverse, with separate soldered D-sectioned strip forming loop. Undecorated. Slightly dented. Diameter 9mm. Height 12mm. Weight 0.7g. 17th century. SB
Created on: Thursday 1st August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-6A9C46
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle-plate. Rectangular plate with a narrowed slotted projection folded to form the recess for the (missing) frame and slot for (missing) pin, the rounded end riveted to the front-plate with a single dome-headed rivet. There is a second dome-headed rivet through a multifoil terminal at the attachment end, perhaps intended to be a fleur-de-lis. The rectangular plate is decorated with an engraved rectangular field of lozenges, each with a short line eminating from one angle. Gilded. Length 37.5mm. Width 16mm. Similar to a an example from Norwich (Margeson, 199…
Created on: Wednesday 17th July 2013
Last updated: Monday 16th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6A3B21
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy brooch. Hexagonal frame with concave sides, flat-sectioned, restriction for (missing) pin on outside edge in the centre of one side. The upper face of each side is decorated with a shallow crescent-shaped depression filled with a line of tiny pellets in very low relief. The brooch does not appear overly worn but the decoration is only just discernable. Maximum external width 24mm. Maximum internal width 15mm. Thickness 1mm. See Egan and Pritchard (2002, 258, no.1346) for a pewter brooch with hexagonal frame decorated with pellets from a late 14th century context.
Created on: Wednesday 17th July 2013
Last updated: Monday 16th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-415FD1
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible key handle or unidentified object. Circular frame of irregular rounded-rectangular-section as if worn at some points, with two opposed external projections, one small and pointed, the other larger and rectangular. The rectangular projection may be broken and the break very worn. Perhaps part of an unusual Roman key handle. Length 33mm. Width 25mm. Maximum thickness (of rectangular projection) 5.5mm.
Created on: Monday 15th July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2015
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Record ID: NMS-407D98
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle or Late Bronze Age blade, perhaps from rapier. Pointed oval section with barely defined central rib which flattens at the thicker end. Broken at both ends. Surviving length 59mm. Maximum width 20mm. Maximum thickness 3mm.
Created on: Monday 15th July 2013
Last updated: Thursday 3rd July 2014
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Record ID: NMS-FC6A81
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval gold finger ring. Almost flat-sectioned band with very slightly convex outer face engraved externally with flowers and leaves. Engraved internally with an inscription Tho far a part yet neare in ♥ followed by a stamped maker's mark, probably SD. Now partially crumpled. Weight 2.6g. Original external diameter circa 20mm. Width of band 4.5mm. Thickness of band 0.5mm. There is an undecorated 17th - 18th century finger ring with a similar inscription (Far apart yet nigh in ♥) in the collections of the British Museum (museum number 1961,1202.221).
Created on: Friday 12th July 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 24th July 2013
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Record ID: NMS-EB64B8
Object type: NECKLACE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman flat, gold openwork link or part of clasp, probably from a necklace or similar item of jewellery. Formed from rectangular-sectioned cut strips of gold, an originally oval or circular frame around three pelta-shaped strips arranged with curved backs meeting in the centre and spiralled ends touching the frame. There is a circular suspension loop on the outside of the frame at one end retaining a fragment of knotted circular-sectioned wire, and a broken loop at the opposite end. Surviving length 17mm. Surviving width 10mm. Thickness 1mm. Weight 0.6g. See a rectangular lin…
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 29th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E97505
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval gold finger ring. D-sectioned band, plain externally, inscribed internally ∙ I ∙ LIVE ∙ IN ∙ HOPE ∙ with no maker's mark. External measurements 19 x 20mm. Internal measurements 16 x 17.5mm. Width of band 4mm. Thickness of band 1mm. Weight 3.1g. Very similar to a 17th - 18th century finger ring in the collections of the British Museum (Museum Number 1961,1202.410), with the same inscription, the words of the inscription separated by stars. English inscriptions in roman capitals became more common from the mid 16th century and many examples are known. M…
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
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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-692273
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete butt end of a Neolithic flint axehead or adze. Mottled pale grey lightly patinated flint with some spotty iron staining. Breaks may have occurred during manufacture or use. Length 100mm. 44mm Wide. 25.5mm thick.
Created on: Friday 5th July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 17th September 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-3EF493
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Marham, Norfolk (also see summary of the hoard at IARCH-677D3D). This record covers 14 copper alloy radiates of Carausius (7) and Allectus (7) discovered in 2013 (2013T420) and a further 8 coins discovered in 2014 (2014T836). The latest addition has been recorded separately at NMS-F5793C (2016T821) and brings the total number of coins up to 27. Catalogue: Carausius IMP CARAV[...], Radiate, cuirassed bust right. Reverse [...], female, perhaps Pax with transverse sceptre, left. Mintmark and further details illegible, weight 2.07g IMP C CARAVSIVS P F AVG, Radiate…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AF5CB8
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: MODERN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified fragment of metal-working debris or slag. Molten surface with mutiple bubbles, silvery and brassy yellow in colour, and uncorroded except for two tiny patches of iron corrosion. Non-magnetic. Probably modern. Weight
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-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-96FCA0
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper alloy object or button. Rectangular head, rectangular-sectioned, with off-centre integral flat-sectioned rectangular shank or tab on the reverse, possibly broken across a piercing. The reverse is heavily pitted, the sides slightly pitted, the front face heavily silvered or tinned with a central lozengiform cell filled with decayed enamel or opaque glass, now pale buff coloured, with 8 tiny black pieces of glass arranged in a central cheuquered pattern. Measuring 12 x 12mm. Thickness 3mm. Height (including tab) 7mm. No close paralell has been found. Similar to l…
Created on: Tuesday 25th 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.

Record ID: NMS-462CA4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap-fitting. D-sectioned bar with stylised pointed animal head terminal at one end consisting of a ridge to either side indicating ears and concave mouldings defining the snout. There is a rivet through the animal head terminal and another at the other end before a transverse ridge beyond which the plate expands to form an oval frame with rounded knop terminal and double-lobed (almost keyhole-shaped) aperture. Perhaps a form of clasp, similar to the female part of the fitting in Read (2008, 225, no.807). Length 52mm. Maximum width 11mm.12th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 21st June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 8th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-45D848
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy probable spur buckle. Integral cast plate with trefoil terminal the outer two foils of which have shallow concave mouldings on the upper face. There is a oncave moulding on each edge and two empty holes (one rivet and one for missing pin). Broken across the end of a rectangular frame. Surviving length 24mm. Width 15mm. Thickness 3.5mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 21st June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.