Record ID: NMS-4592D7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy buckle. D-shaped frame, pin slightly narrowed after attachment to bar, and recessed on the underside at the tip to fit the outside edge. Measuring 9 x 16mm. Pin 11mm long.Marzinzik (2003) Typegroup I.10.
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.

Record ID: NMS-4534D2
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant. Originally circular, almost all of the original edge is missing. Central dome with a six-pointed star reserved on a field of closley spaced stamped annulets. A single rivet survives. Gilded. Maximum surviving diameter 36mm. See Ashley (2002, 6, no.11 and 12). 12th - early 13th 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.

Record ID: NMS-451697
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap-clasp plate or strap-end. Rectangular sheet folded widthways, the end looped but not recessed for a frame. The long edges on the front-plate are bevelled with two notches at either end. There is a trefoil aperture with slight notch, and rivet to either side, at the attachment end. The remains of a leather strap survive between the plates. Length 43mm. Width 25mm. 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.

Record ID: NMS-433813
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval-frame, off-set narrowed bar, thickened outside edge angled up-wards with notch for (missing) pin. Rectangular plate, recessed for frame, slot for pin, folded widthways with a single, large rivet. Two engraved transverse lines across and imediately behind the pin slot. Traces of gilding survive on the frame and plate. Buckle 25 x 28mm. Plate 33 x 20mm. The frame and plate are of unusually substantial construction. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 21st June 2013
Last updated: Monday 20th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-18F985
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of uncertain Plantagenet king, short cross type, mangled and abraded, further details illegible, AD1180-1247
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-18EBF4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut halfpenny of Henry III, voided long cross class 3, moneyer Lucas of either Gloucester or Northampton, AD1248-50
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-18E587
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of uncertain Antonine emperor, very corroded and further details illegible, diameter 27.5mm, AD138-92.
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-18DBD4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Quarter thistle merk (eighth) of James VI of Scotland, appears tinned or silvered on a copper alloy core, diameter 21mm, 1601-4.
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-178A75
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval lead weight. Discoidal, although now damaged or distorted. Decoration on one face in low relief, worn and damaged, consisting of a rectangular field within a circle with possibly foliate motifs and a transverse bar with flared ends (not apparently a cross). Perhaps a complex 'floriated cross' design (Biggs, 1992, 40 - 41). Diameter 23mm. Thickness 5mm. Weight 20.4.
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-06FC96
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame with off-set, narrowed bar with a tiny amount of sheet pin looped around bar surviving. The outside edge of the frame is hollow-backed, bi-concave on the internal face, with a notch for the pin. Measuring 23 x 34mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th June 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-066085
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. Rounded lower half, only slightly waisted with flat, pointed pierced lugs to either side (one missing), and a slightly flared upper half, the mouth crimped together but damaged. Decoration in low relief consisting of a crown on one side and a shield with a chevron and in base a roundel and one bar reserved on a crosshatched field on the other. Length 47mm. Width (excluding lug) 34mm. Very similar to an example in Spencer (1971, Lincolnshire History and Archaeoloy Vol..1, no.6, A scallop-shell Ampulla from Caistor), fig. XXII, o. 13th - early16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th June 2013
Last updated: Friday 3rd January 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-AF9FC0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver mount. Originally faceted and conical with six faces, each decorated with a central panel of engraved crosshatching on which traces of gilding survive. There are multiple notches around the edge of the plate and a central hole, these notches may originally have been lobes or petals. Now squashed flat and slightly damaged. For two similar but less distorted examples see NMS-2701D2 and NMS-81E804, both dated 13th-15th centuries, see also Egan and Pritchard (2002, 189, fig.119, no.952, 959 and 990). Radius 10.5mm. Weight 0.5g. 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 14th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 30th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-AE0D46
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or post-medieval silver couching needle or 'lawyers bodkin'. Three grooves form a beaded head at one end, the circular-sectioned shank becoming wider and flatter at the other for the oval eye with deep pointed groove above and below on both faces, beyond which there may be a very worn break, or a rounded end if not broken. The eye on a couching needle and lawyers bodkin is positioned just before the point, and not at the head end of the needle as with normal sewing needles, as the stitch used does not involve the needle passing completely through the cloth. This stitc…
Created on: Friday 14th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6E1D71
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Twenty fragments of a Middle or Late Bronze Age copper alloy cauldron, consisting of at least two cast staples and one or two ring handles. Recovered in four groups (items 1 - 10, 11 - 16, 17 - 19 & 20 - 21) with NGRs recorded for each find spot, but association between NGR and individual objects not retained except for nos. 1, 15 and 16. All the fragments are highly corroded. Handle 1: Three re-fitting fragments of cast copper alloy ring (two fragments from group 11 - 14, one fragment from group 2 - 10). The section varies from circular (9mm diameter) to oval (12 x 11 mm). Origina…
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0A5296
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy plate brooch. Oval plate with an inner and outer raised rib around a central setting containing a pointed oval dark brown or black glass stone, the glass cracked and with a chip missing. The fields between the ribs are filled with pairs of tiny stamped lines with an annulet at each end. On the reverse is a broken pin-lug and complete but squashed rectangular catch-plate. The pin is missing. The front of the brooch is gilded and the reverse tinned. Length 33mm. Width 26mm. Height (including glass but excluding pin-lug and catch-plate 8mm. For similar examples see…
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-09ED76
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age copper alloy spear. Broken accross circular socket in lozengiform rib. Edges of blade badley damaged, cutting edge and tip completely missing. Surviving length 75mm. Maximum surviving width 19mm. Maximum surviving thickness 11mm.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2013
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-099203
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval rectangular lead weight. One one face an incised arrow with flights and a looped symbol also incised with chevrons along it's length similar to the arrow flights, perhaps intended to be 91 or 16. Measuriong 24 x 22mm. 4mm thick. Weight 18.3g.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0714B5
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy pin. Bi-conical either side of narrow straight sided median band, with narrow collar before broken circular-sectioned shank. Diameter 9.5mm. Height of head 10mm.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-06D957
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy cruciform brooch. Only the bow survives. Slightly hollow on the reverse, deeply convex on the front, with a rectangular panel at either end forming triangular facets to each side. Corroded, breaks ancient. Length 29mm. Width 15mm. Late 5th - 6th century.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F58DE1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap-end. Trapezoidal, with separate front-plate, back-plate and side and end strips. The narrower attachment end is bi-convex with a central notch and goove on the front and back, with two copper alloy rivets. A fragment of the probably leather strap is preserved in the socket. See Egan and Pritchard (2002) 139, fig.90, no.642 for an example from a late 14th century context, and an example from the collections of the Museum of London. Length 34mm. Width 21mm. Thickness 4mm.
Created on: Wednesday 5th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CB4EF3
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness suspension mount. Rectangular plate with empty rivet hole in each corner and folded tab for suspension of (missing) pendant projecting from one long edge.The front of the plate is decorated with a sexfoil reserved on a field of closley spaced pellets. Gilding survives over most of the front face. Width 36mm. Length (including tab) 32mm (excluding tab) 25mm.Late 12th - 13th century. See NMS-6A8637 for a more elaborate pendant and suspension mount with similar decoration.
Created on: Monday 3rd June 2013
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6228C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver annular brooch or buckle. Slightly angled sheet frame with a narrow rib on the inner and outer edge of the frame (convex on the front, concave on the reverse) with a circular piercing for the pin. A maker's mark GG is stamped on th upper face of the pin. There is a stamped hallmark on the reverse of the frame, consisting of three stamps, an unidentified stamp (perhaps a bust, but very worn), a standard mark consisting lion passant guardant within a frame with angled upper corners and a bi-concave lower edge, and a date letter t within an oval. External diamet…
Created on: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 20th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-60EEA3
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval silver bell. Composite, the hollow upper and lower halves origianlly soldered together and now broken at the median rib with only a fragment of the lower half surviving. Multiple median concave mouldings radiate from the base of the separate, soldered wire suspension loop which is partially covered in copper corrosion. The surviving part of the bell is squashed and broken. There are no surviving marks. Original diameter (reconstructed) circa 30mm. Surviving height 13mm. Small bells similar to this were in use from the 16th century as dress accessories and h…
Created on: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cantley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4C9651
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Transect 3/4. Two Mesolithic - Neolithic flint bladelets, 30 and 32mm long. One Mesolithic - Neolithic twisted blade with heavy retouch along one edge forming a concave side scraper / notch. 44 x 16 x 4mm. Three large, tertiary Neolithic flakes (one broken), with some retouch / use wear or damage. The largest 78 x 47 x 10mm. Eleven Neolithic - Bronze Age flint flakes, some with use wear / damage. One Early Bronze Age unfinished barbed and tanged arrowhead. Sub-triangular flake with invasive pressure flaking scars around edges. 36 x 33.5 x 5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 28th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-487D63
Object type: AXEHEAD ROUGHOUT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic - Neolithic flint axehead roughout (failed). 124 x 43 x 31mm.
Created on: Tuesday 28th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CCB647
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver, gilded annular brooch. Rectangular-sectioned frame twisted to form a spiral with two rows of stamped dashes along each face. Narrowed slightly to a circular-section for the (missing) pin. External diameter 19mm. Internal diameter 15mm. Weight 0.9g. Similar to brooches from 13th and 14th century contexts in London (Egan and Pritchard, 2008, 249, fig.160, no.1310 and 253, fig.163, no.1331).
Created on: Wednesday 22nd May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wantage', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B54E54
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Neolithic projectile point or leaf shaped arrowhead constructed on a tertiary flake with minimal pressure flaking. Pale brown, unpatinated flint. Green (1980, 72, fig.29) type 4. Length 32mm. Width 20mm. Thickness 4.5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 21st May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A1B392
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Bronze Age composite penannular gold ring, now almost straightened, comprising two ribs formed from separate c-sectioned bars with convex upper faces and hollow on the reverse, joined longitudinally. One end is complete and unbroken, the other slightly distorted, the join between the two ribs separated at the terminal, but either cut very neatly or also complete. Penannular rings with c-sectioned ribs are a well-known Middle Bronze Age artefact type. For similar rings see LIN-D7E6D1 and ESS-E9CCB4 (two ribs), BERK-A5FFE5 and HER43133, Norfolk (multiple linked rings), ESS-CB3683…
Created on: Monday 20th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-638554
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete early-medieval Carolingian-style silver mount or strap slide, with foliate decoration cast in low relief, partially gilded and inlaid with niello. The mount is sub-rectangular with one complete and two partial original edges surviving and a transverse break which is unworn but not very recent. The complete end of the plate is slightly thickened and surmounted by three leaf-shaped mouldings, the middle of which forms a trefoil. These rise from a sharp transverse recess, beyond which the sides of the plate are convex and the upper face rises to a transverse ar…
Created on: Friday 17th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-504C06
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Anglo-Saxon incomplete gilded copper alloy brooch or possibly mount. Originally circular, about a quarter survives, broken accross the edge of a central circular setting or field with a broad band of triple and double-strand Style II interlace in low relief which fills the area btween the central setting and the edge of the disc with no surviving outer border apparent. On the reverse is a squashed single pin-lug or possibly the stub of an integral rivet with a very small amount of iron corrosion to either side. Pin missing. Original diameter (reconstructed) circa 32mm. Thi…
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 13th October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4EE2C2
Object type: EAR SCOOP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy ear scoop. Flat-sectioned, expanded at the upper end and pierced to form a suspension loop. The upper part of the shank is engraved with transverse lines on one side and crosshatching on the other before a central flat oval boss, below which is more crosshatching on one face and possibly transverse engraved lines on the other although now very worn, before expanding slightly to form an oval, flat scoop. The scoop is now bent almost in half. Length (unbent) 67mm. Width of suspension loop 6mm. Width of central boss 9mm. Maximum width of scoop 5mm. No very clos…
Created on: Thursday 16th May 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-4E9186
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon incomplete copper alloy small long brooch. Incomplete head-plate with slightly raised central rectangular panel, most of original edge missing and single pin-lug filled with iron corrosion from (missing) pin on reverse. Triangular-sectioned bow broken before lower part of brooch. End of bow and foot-plate missing. Surviving width of head-plate 17mm. Surviving length of head-plate 16mm. Total surviving length 28.5mm. Late 5th - early 6th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 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-4E6B92
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy ansate brooch with tri-lobed terminals and a triple transverse rib at the apex of the bow. The single rectangular pin-lug filled with iron corrosion from the (missing) pin and a scar only from the missing catch-plate, survive on the reverse. Very worn. Length 34mm. Width 7mm. Thörle (2001) Gruppe XII A 1. See NMS-780DA4 and NMS-6B7F41 for similar examples. 8th - 9th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 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-4DF290
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy Middle Saxon ansate brooch. Oval terminal decorated with eight disconnected straight lines forming a cross within a lozenge. Stub of triangular-sectioned bow almost all of which is missing. Bent, rectangular catch-plate on reverse, pin missing. Surviving length 14mm. Surviving width 11mm. Width of bow at break 4.5mm. For a similar, almost complete example, see NMS-1A06F2. Thörle (2001) Gruppe II A1c.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Sunday 24th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4DBCD1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon incomplete lead disc brooch. Less than a quarter of the original edge survies. The decoration, which covers all of the survivining surface, comprises at least 7 closley spaced concentric beaded rings. There may originally have been a central device but no trace of it ow survives. On the reverse is a folded catch-plate, now squashed, at right-angles to the edge of the plate. Pin missing. Original diameter (recomnstructed) circa 40mm. Thickness 2mm. For a similar brooch see NMS-109141. Circa 10th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 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-4D5EC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch. Extremely worn with cast backward facing beast in low relief just discernible on the front face, all of the edge and the originally segmented border missing. Single broken pin-lug paralelle with edge and very worn catch-plate at right-angles to edge on reverse. Pin missing. Maximum surviving diameter 22mm. Weight 2.1g. 10th - early 11th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 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-4B8A35
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy finger ring. Flat-sectioned sheet metal band expanding smoothly from a break at the rear to form an oval bezel decorated with multiple closely spaced stamped ring-and-dots. Width at bezel 14mm. Width of band at rear 3.5mm. 9th - 10th century. For similar examples, see NMS-CCD822 and SF-E58167.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4B7F74
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper-alloy Roman bracelet. Two strands of wire twisted around each other, then flattened on the internal, upper and lower faces to give an almost square overall section. Broken at both ends, curved. Section 2 x 2mm.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 10th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4B1C86
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable Roman copper alloy steelyard weight. Cast, incomplete, hollow pear-shaped casing with two opposed, flattened sides and a collared opening at the apex. About half missing, with ancient, irregular breaks. If a weight, it would originally have been filled with lead, but no trace of a lead survives, even around the internal flashing. Height 57mm. Width (flat side to flat side) 45mm. For similar examples containg lead see NMS-503D97 and NMS-D60A95.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 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-4A5A18
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy Winchester Style strap-end, Thomas's (2004) Class E, Type 1. Recessed attachment end with separate rectangular sheet on front edge secured by two rivets. Tongue-shaped plate with deeply cast decoration on the front face only consisting of a transverse rib before symmetrical stylised foliage in the form of loops and scrolls eminating from a central stem which projects slightly beyond the end of the plate forming a terminal knop. Length 58mm. Width 25mm. Late 9th - early 11th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-49CDD7
Object type: CRUCIFIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy mount, probably from a crucifix. The surviving part is rectangular with angled upper edges either side of the broken edge, the intact sides angled downwards. The surviving part of the mount depicts two engraved bare feet through each of which is a large, circular rivet hole, and between which are two triangular fields separated by a vertical rib and retaining traces of blue enamel. Traces of blue enamel also survive below the toes of one foot with decayed enamel below the other, and gilding survives on the feet and angled sides of the mount. Gi…
Created on: Thursday 16th May 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-3AF2F5
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy disc-shaped plate brooch. About a quarter of the edge is missing. The front of the plate retains solder from a missing, separate element (see for example Mackreth, 2011, vol.2, pl.104 for examples retaining thier separate decorative elements). On the reverse is a double pin-lug retaining a short copper alloy bar surrounded by iron corrosion fromt the (missing) pin. The incomplete catch-plate is broken at the fold. Diameter 29mm. 2nd - 4th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-39BEC1
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, Type 5. Damaged and incomplete split-end with the remains of two rivets, slightly convex sides, very worn en-face animal head terminal with prominent ears. The plate is decorated with a symetrical design consisting of three sets of opposed spirals eminating and comma-shaped fields eminating from a central branch. Wear and corrosion makes the exact eliments of the design difficult to decipher, but inlaid silver wire and probably niello (now missing) have been used. 9th - 10th century. Length 47mm. Width 12mm.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Saturday 29th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3692B7
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite rumbler bell. Sheet metal upper and lower half soldered to form a prominent median rib, with separate inserted and soldered rectangular strip forming a loop. Round ended slot in base. Iron pea. Diameter 19mm. Height 22mm. Late 13th - early 15th century (Egan and Pritchard, 2002, 338 - 9, fig.221, no.1644, 1645 and 1666).
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3540D7
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy rowel from spur with 24 radiating arms, each of which is rectangular-sectioned with bevelled edges, expanding slightly to pointed terminals. The arms are conjoined for about half thier length with a central, sub-oval hole, possibly of irregular shape as a result of wear. Traces of tinning survive on both faces. Maximum diameter 73.5mm. Thickness 4mm. Similar, multi-pointed, large rowels became popular from the later 14th century (Clark, 1995, The Medieval Horse and It's Equipment, 29 and 148, fig.106, no.361 and 362), and other similar examples are reco…
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 18th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-346B31
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy stud with a flat, shield-shaped head and integral sub-circular rivet on reverse. The front of the shield was probably originally enamelled, silvered or gilded (see for example similar but better preserved examples from Norfolk NMS-C41D72, NMS-3AA0F7 and NMS-01EE00) but no trace of decoration now survives. Head 15 x 13mm. Length 9mm. Rivet length 6mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-242791
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy jetton of Hans Krauwinckel II, reverse HANNS KRAVWINCKEL IN NV:, Mitchiner 1504 (same dies), 1586-1635.
Created on: Tuesday 14th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd January 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-90B133
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age coin hoard consisting of two gold staters. Both are Norfolk wolf staters, so-called JB types with a left facing wolf (Cottam et al 2010, Ancient British Coinage, p.78, no.1399). The two coins were found approximately 40 yards apart and they must represent part of a dispersed coin hoard. The larger, paler example weighs 5.14g, the smaller, darker coin 5.27g. The coins were made between about 50-20 BC. Date of loss of deposition will have been in the closing decades of the first century BC, c.30-10BC
Created on: Thursday 25th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wighton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-901446
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to early post-medieval silver annular buckle. Circular-sectioned frame with soldered but joint, no constriction and undecorated. The pin is rectangular-sectioned, with a slightly raised moulding incised or stamped with a tiny cross at the base, beyond which the upper face of the pin is bevelled on both edges. External diameter 20mm. Internal diameter 13mm. Thickness 3mm. Weight 4.0g. 13th - 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Walsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6501E3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval gold posy ring. Shallow D-sectioned band now very squashed and distorted, inscribed internally in italics True to thee I [ll ] ever be followed by a stamped maker's mark possibly EBA (?) in low relief within a rectangle. Italics were commonly used for inscriptions in posy rings from circa 1625 to the 19th century (Oman, 1974, 41). Width of band 3.5mm. Thickness of band 1mm. Weight 3.5g.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-50C8A6
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Bronze Age (Beaker period) flint dagger. Tip missing, some minor damage to edges, possible opposed single notches 2/3rds along length from tip. Butt damaged by a transverse bending fracture. Soft hammer struck and pressure flaked around edges. Light grey flint with some spotty iron staining. 2300 - 1700 BC. A more complete but un-notched example was found at Feltwell, Norfolk in 1962 (HER 5163). See http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF5163-Beaker-period-dagger-and-prehistoric-axehead&Index=2&RecordCount=1&SessionID=300e56ec-3abe-4725-9425-990f8d8…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 5th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dickleburgh and Rushall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF3667
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead 4 ounce weight. Disc, stamped in low relief with a crown above C(possibly) R within a circle and the arms of Norwich (a castle with a lion below) within a square. Deeply overstamped with a large A for Averdepois. If the very worn letter below the crown is a C, this is CR for Charles I, 1625 - 1649. Diameter 46mm. Thickness 7mm. Weight 108.5g.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-FE98A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age or Roman copper alloy Colchester one piece type brooch. Oval-sectioned bow broken accross the wings at the head, pin and spring missing, almost all of catch-plate missing, terminating in a blunt point. Surviving length 43mm. Maximum width 8mm. c. 20 - 60 AD.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-FD7136
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy mount. Circular, with cast decoration in high relief consisting of a beaded border around the flanged edge and a central hexagonal boss with a hexagonal pellet at the apex. The reverse is hollow with a central, integral, rectangular-sectioned attachment spike now bent over to touch the side. Diameter 31mm. Height (excluding spike) 8mm. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-EB1082
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy purse frame fragment with high white metal content and / or coating. Sub-circular-sectioned frame with irregular filed facets, with five projecting pierced lugs fopr attachmet. Flattened at one end and bent at right-angles before a break accross a piercing for attachmetn to the (missing) bar. Curved but distorted. Late medieval or early post-medieval, c. 1450 - 1550. Diameter of section of frame 5mm. Surviving length 140mm.
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E503C5
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified object probably from horse harness. The surviving part of the plate is circular and decorated with an engraved octofoil, before a constriction after which the plate expands slightly before a break. Traces of gilding survive in the engraved lines. A rectangular lug terminating in an integral rivet projects down from the edge of the plate on the reverse, with a similar lug without integral rivet or any evidence of a break projecting from the reverse of the constricted part of the plate. When attached the lugs would have ensured a gap was left between the plate and the surfa…
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Runhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D5F811
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Anglo-Saxon copper alloy cruciform brooch.Rectangular head-plate with traces of stamped dots along either edge, rectangular wings on either side, the edges very worn and side knops missing. At the top of the plate is an integral spike which secures a separate half-round, waisted knop with an aperture in the reverse through which the spike can be seen. There is a rectangular panel at each end of the D-sectioned bow creating triangular facets to either side, below which are transverse mouldings and lines before the elongated animal-head terminal, which has prominent pellet eyes an…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D5A0C4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead weight. Disc, now slightly bent, with the highly simplified arms of the commonwealth within a circle on one face. Weighing 14.0g (half an ounce). Diameter 22mm. Thickness 5mm. 1653 - 1659.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Friday 17th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-D52921
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy strap-mounted and skirted terret ring. The oval-sectioned loop is broken with just under half surviving, above a collar before a lozengiform skirt with rounded knops at each corner. The skirt is angled down at the front and back, and up at each side, partially concealing an oval-sectioned, curved attachment loop. One side of the skirt is missing. Other terrets of this type are known from Norfolk, e.g. from Newton FLotman (NMS-DCB9F2, HER40445). Protected loop terrets are usually considered to be Roman, dating to the late first and second centuries AD. Maximum …
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 9th January 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-4256B5
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic prismatic single platform core, mottled grey flint, recent damage to platform and on one face. Some cortex remaining. Height 46mm. Diameter 39 - 44mm.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-424A83
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint axehead, lenticular in section, part polished, damaged in antiquity, cutting edge missing. Some minor damage to the edges. Some cortex remaining on butt. Length 153mm. Width 46mm. Maximum thickness (in centre) 22mm.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-284913
Object type: JEWELLERY FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold jewellery fitting from a composite piece of jewellery. A gold disc back-plate, the reverse flat with a central integral rivet surrounded by file marks, with a gold setting on the front formed from four cusped sides which rise to form a rectangular collet. The collet holds a rectangular purple stone with a flat or nearly flat upper face, almost certainly amethyst, now pushed back into the setting. The join between the sides of the collet and the back-plate can be seen as a faint line around the edge. The fitting is extremely similar although slightly smaller, to one at…
Created on: Monday 8th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-ED74C3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold finger ring. Rectangular-sectioned band inscribed externally +JESVS : EST : AMOR : MEVS (Jesus is my love). There are tiny dots stamped in the internal angles of the initial cross and above and below the central bar of the letter E's. The letters E and U (V) are in Lombardic style while the rest of the inscription is in Roman capitals. The relatively modern letter J (rather than I) is also used. There are traces of black enamel or niello in some of the letters. Similar rings are known from the 13th and 14th century (Oman, 1974, pl.55E and F and pl.57A with bezels, and…
Created on: Friday 5th April 2013
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AE6B96
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Composite silver button. Circular, flat back-plate with two widely spaced holes, perhaps blow holes or for the (missing) inserted wire loop. There is no other trace of a loop or shank on the reverse. The front-plate has a central dome (now squashed) surrounded by a beaded border, moulding (now concave but perhaps originally convex) and an outer beaded border around the edge. Similar to an example from Oxfordshire decorated with the bust of Charles II (BERK-4B7D02) which also has a beaded border. See also a copper alloy and iron example from a 15th century context in Read (2005, 27, no…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-ADCA16
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Rectangular Carolingian-style silver mount, partly gilded and inlaid with niello, and decorated with Carolingian-style plant ornament. The front of the mount, which has high, curved sides, is decorated in relief, the higher-relief sections of the design inlaid with niello and the lower-relief sections gilded. The selective gilding appears to be deliberate, rather than the result of wear on the higher relief elements of the design. The design is centred around an X-shaped cross in high relief, with the arms curving inwards to form two back-to-back C shapes (when the mount …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-ADBBD3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver thimble or possibly whistle or unidentified object. Fragment of silver sheet with no original edge surviving, engraved or stamped on one face with crescent-shaped fields filled with short transverse lines, forming a 'fish-scale' pattern reserved on a field of staggered crosshatching (brickwork pattern). Weight 0.4g. The pattern is a more complicated version of that found on a 16th century thimble from Kent (SUR-B665D3). Probably 16th - 17th century. Q1
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-ADAAF6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver annular brooch. Circular sectioned frame, now slightly distorted, with four equally spaced and separately made knops each of which encloses the frame and is decorated with closely spaced and overlapping stamped annulets. A similar knop surrounds the shank of the pin next to the loop. See Dress Accessories (2002) fig. 163 no. 1330 and 1333. 13th - early 14th century. Diameter 26mm. Weight 3.5g. Q13
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C7EEF3
Object type: DIRK
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age ceremonial dirk, the second recorded from Norfolk. The first was recovered from Oxborough in 1988 found point down in peaty deposits (Needham 1990; Collins 2013, 52). The landowner was said to have observed the second dirk being ploughed up, it then remained in the farm office for some years, occasionally being used to prop the door open. It was suggested that the object could be old and was then bought to Gressenhall for identification, causing more than a little surprise to the FLO and other staff of the finds department. Remarkably, the provenances of th…
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Rudham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C48116
Object type: HASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon or early medieval copper alloy incomplete cast trapezoidal openwork hasp tapering from the complete end to towards an ancient transverse break. Very worn, with small bosses around the outside edge and along the edges on both faces. At least 14 irregular sub-oval apertures in the plate. Surviving length 36mm. Maximum surviving width 22mm. Surviving thickness 3mm. 11th century. For similar examples see NMS-89FF52, NMS-E92912, NMS-DCB008 and a complete example, NMS-B85577. A1.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C33794
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy bow brooch, either a small long or cruciform brooch. Rectangular head-plate with a row of > shaped stamps along each long edge, narrow rectangular wings, integral slightly hollow-backed half-round knops with double concave mouldings, the upper knop broken near the join with the head-plate, the terminal of one side knop missing.Triangular facets at the springing of the shallow D-sectioned bow. Faint transverse lines on surviving part of foot-plate before transverse break across incomplete catch-plate and foot. Double-pierced lugs on reverse of head-plate betwee…
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C1F9D5
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval incomplete copper alloy purse frame. D-sectioned, decorated with deeply incised crosshatching on the convex face which was probably originally filled with niello although none survives, with a wide flat-sectioned flange at rightangles with four piercings for attachment. Broken accross looped terminal for attachment to (missing) bar. Broken and distorted. Surviving length at least 88mm. Width of frame 8mm.Late 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-B2F6B2
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy unidentified object D-sectioned, slightly irregular ring with butt joint not very neatly finished. Traces of gilding survivie. Width of band 6mm. External diameter 15 - 16mm. Internal diameter 9 - 10mm. Probably medieval.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-AFCFE7
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy plate for strap-fitting or clasp, or strap-end. Rectangular plate folded widthways to form looped end with no recess for a frame or slot or hole for a pin. Five rivet holes, two retaining rivets at attchment edge, with a pair of parallel lines forming a border around the edge on both faces. Measuring 34 x 13mm. 12th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-AF31B5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-loopped frame with rounded projection on frame at either end of narrowed bar, angled corners and large scallop shell-shaped knop in centre of each outside edge. \traces of tinning. Pin missing. Measuring 49 x 28mm. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-AE1108
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. Lower half only survives, neck and loops missing. Spencer's (1990) type 1 scallop shell on one face, an uncertain design on the other consisting of two pellets surrounded by a circular border with intersecting lines crossing the border to the edge of the ampulla. A scratched X accross the face appears deliberate. Surviving length 32mm. Surviving width 37mm. 1300 - 1530.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-ADD998
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post medieval copper alloy spoon. Round or slightly oval bowl, now bent and torn at the edges, with no visible marks. The stem is rectangular-sectioned as it tapers from the bowl, becoming narrower and more oval-sectioned towards the simplified and elongated acorn knop. Width of bowl at least 49mm. Length of bowl (reconstructed) circa 60mm. Length of stem 122mm. 14th - 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-73CD11
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete Borre-style composite openwork gold lozengiform brooch of the late Anglo-Saxon period, now in four joining pieces, with some distortion and damage to the broken edges and one terminal missing. The front-plate is convex with a sheet back-plate producing a hollow brooch, with slightly concave sides, each corner rounded, with originally four small, circular holes arranged in a central square. Across one terminal on the reverse is an incomplete rectangular gold strip originally folded in the centre and now broken flush with the reverse of the brooch, probably origi…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-730A92
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver ingot. Irregular rectangular-section (each face is a different width), with an ancient break at one end and one side curving inwards towards the unbroken end. Three faces are stamped with pairs of opposed, single-pelleted triangles or angular figures-of-eight; 5 broken across a 6th on one face, 2, and 6 possibly broken across a 7th. Worn transverse lines or notches on one edge are too slight to be certainly deliberate and there are no hammer marks. The stamp is a decorative motif and typically occurs on jewellery of the Viking period, e.g. a fragment of a silver arm-ring and…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Downham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-730206
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver thimble. Domed top only, slightly distorted, decorated with a single line around the edge and four concentric rings of stamped dots around a central stamped dot. Original diameter circa 13mm.Weight 0.9g. Probably 17th century.
Created on: Monday 18th March 2013
Last updated: Monday 10th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-72F717
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver cuff-link. Two discs, each with a down-turned edge and narrow flange, with a central flower in low relief, and soldered wire loop on the reverse connected by an oval wire loop. Diameter of discs 9mm. Weight 1.0g. Early 18th century or later.
Created on: Monday 18th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 18th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-72D5C4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval silver gilt finger ring. Triangular-sectioned bezel forming two rectangular concave faces, the shoulders and surviving hoop faceted to form lozengiform fields with triangular facets to either side. The rear of the hoop and most of the sides are missing. The two halves of the bezel are engraved alike with a sinuous foliate motif within a single line border, the triangular facets at the shoulders with radiating lines, and the surviving lozengiform facet with a stylised leaf. The decoration on the other surviving facets is worn. Each of the facets is gilded with a nar…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Norwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0638A8
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Palaeolithic flint handaxe. Measuring 210 x 115 x 37mm. This is a very large handaxe, probably one of the largest ever recorded from Norfolk. Although long and wide, the handaxe is relatively slim and has a profile that suggests that it may have been made on an enormous primary flake, or more likely a large, flat nodule of flint. It is finished by large invasive flake removals around the whole perimeter except at the point, where the flake scars are relatively small. Heavily patinated, weathered cortex remains to one face where the flake scars failed to overlap, a couple of …
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 5th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pentney area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-725AC5
Object type: MODEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon lead object, either a strap-end or model for a trefoil brooch. Slightly asymetrical tongue-shape with a transverse break at the upper edge, plain rasied border around cast asymetrical decoration in low relief consisithng of double-ribbed foliate tendrils with the body of a bird or beast within them.One tendril may extend over the border, but wear and damage make this uncertain. Apart from slight damage, the reverse is plain. Length 34.5mm. Width 31mm. Maximum thickness 4mm.
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 23rd March 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-70E306
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy key. Rectangular-sectioned flat oval bow, expanded at either end with a notch above and below, before a pierced lug terminal for suspension or attachment at one end and the short circular-sectioned stem at the other. There are three transverse grooves on the stem at the join with the bow and two around the hollow terminal. Rectangular wedge-shaped bit with single cleft on front edge. There are multiple ring-and-dots on both faces of the bow, and one ring-and-dot on each face of the bit. The key is completely unworn. Total length 41mm. Bow (excluding suspension lug) 18 …
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2013
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6FEB42
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy dress hook, Read (2008) Class D, type 1. Flat-sectioned, oval plate with two pierced attachment knops to either side of a short triangular projection on the upper edge. A complete sharp hook extends from the lower edge. The plate is decorated with a central motif filled with degraded niello consisting of an oval line around short, radiating lines, with an outer incised border consisting of two concentric ovals connected by short transverse lines forming a ladder pattern. Width 17mm. Length 25mm. For a very similar example see Read (2008, 28, no.114).
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 18th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-609458
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman pin. Circular-sectioned shank tapering from the head and becoming rectangular-sectioned shortly before the break. The Head is formed from a tapering reel surmounded bya smaller bead. Surviving length 62mm. Maximum diameter 5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 31st July 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-606591
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant. Suspension mount broken across two rivet holes at upper edge, the upper half wedge-shaped, the side edges on the lower half triple-lobed either side of a trefoil field, now empty, with a rivet below. Double pierced lugs project from the lower edge retaining an axis bar from which langs a lozengiform pendant from a transverse-pierced lug, with rounded lobes projecting from each side of the lozenge, two of which survive. There is a blue enamelled quatrefoil at the centre of the pendant. For a similar pendant see NMS-0121D4 and NMS-6F9874. Mount …
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-5FBDB6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle apparently made from a strap-slide. Rectangular frame with convex sides, outside edge and attachment edge. There are two short internal projections. The outside edge is cast in the form of a stylised king's head longitudinally set with triple-lobed crown and large, angular nose. Sub-rectangular sheet plate with hole for large sheet pin, broken just past fold, front-plate missing, with a single copper alloy rivet at attachment end. The internal projections may be the remains of a broken transverse bar, the breaks made smooth as part of the repair, or …
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-5DE0D7
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat with broken loop projecting from the upper edge, outer edge chamfered on reverse. Circular, diameter 24mm. Septfoil. + SIGIL' SEGALLI (Seal of ?Segar or ?Sewall, perhaps a variant or muddled version of either, see Reaney, P.H., and Wilson, R.M. 1991 A Dictionary of English Surnames (London), pp. 389 and 401).
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 31st July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Newton with Dagworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5D8763
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle-plate. Rectangular, recessed for (missing) frame, slot for (missing) pin, broken at transverse fold, back-plate missing. Two rivet holes at attachment end retain corroded iron rivets. Plate decorated with a raised border around a highly stylised bird or wyvern in very low relief facing right, perghaps originally reserved on a field of enamel, now missing. The neck, body and tail of the bird are covered by rows of pecking in which gilding survives. There are further traces of gilding on the border. Length 36mm. Width 21mm. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Saturday 20th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5C2104
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Early Post Medieval copper alloy sword or dagger pommel. Cast domed head with deeply grooved cross between four projecting petal-like lobes from each of which multiple short radiating incised lines project inwards. Shallow or very worn incised cross-hatching on the angled sides and a rib around the mouth with angled grooves suggesting cabling. A perforation in the centre of the dome is filled and surrounded by corroded iron, more of which can be seen on the hollow reverse. Diameter 30mm. Height 19mm. Very similar to examples from Herefordshire (BH-D71644), Norfolk (NMS-…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4CEB66
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment, of Roman lead vessel, perhaps a font. Now sub-rectangular, with two intersecting moulded cabled ribs and an area of roughly crosshatched scratched lines and small patches of iron corrosion on one face. The inner face is plain. There is no original edge, and although three sides have been fairly neatly cut, one is irregular with multiple cut and hack marks. For similar vessels see LIN-E8F806, WMID-7FF438. Surviving dimensions 150 x 95mm. Thickness7mm.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 31st July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thompson', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4BE9F1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead mount or unidentified object. A stylised or simplified male figure cast in low relief wearing a hat with plume, ruff, and 17th century style jerkin, with hands on hips and broken at the waist. Surviving length 79mm. Width 48mm. Maximum thickness 9mm.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 31st July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thompson', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4BC706
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper alloy Roman spoon. Pear-shaped bowl of Crummy Type 2, A short section of flat-sectioned off-set handle only survives. Traces of tinning. Width of bowl 27mm. Length of bowl 49mm.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thompson', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0B5BB1
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver circular disc, probably a bezel from a finger ring. The disc features a diademed head engraved in intaglio facing to the right. Encircling this is the retrograde and somewhat garbled legend ANTONI VIVAS IN DEO. Several of the letters are back-to-front but the meaning is relatively clear. The formula VIVAS IN DEO is a Christian one, the translation of this inscription being 'Antonius, may you live in God'. The fact that the letters are retrograde and engraved in intaglio would have made the bezel suited for use as a signet. Two strikingly similar silver bezels (both 10mm i…
Created on: Friday 1st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 24th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Swaffham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-083330
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two silver groats of Henry VII, both struck at London between 1507 and 1509. Both have little wear and were found within 15 feet of one another. These coins are uncommon as stray finds and the presence of two so close together surely indicates that they comprise part of a hoard lost or deposited in the area and subsequently dispersed by agricultural activity. The lack of wear suggests that loss or deposition took place not many years after the coins were struck, probably circa 1510-25. Catalogue Henry VII, groat, Tower, pheon initial mark (North 1747), 1507-9, weight 2.95g Henry…
Created on: Friday 1st March 2013
Last updated: Friday 24th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F72E08
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. One side with Spencer (1971) type II scallop shell below pair of ribs joined by angled lines at neck, other side crowned W inside a circle with angled lines on the engled edge and pair of ribs with angled lines between at the neck. Two lugs, now squashed, at the neck. Top crimped together. The crowned W is likely to stand for Walsingham, but also could signify Virgo Virginum (Virgin of Virgins). See Spencer 1971 and Spencer 1990 for similar examples. 14th-16th century. Length 51mm. Width 30mm.
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 24th November 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F68A66
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead unidentified object. Sub-rectangular-sectioned, one end rounded and the other cut or chopped. Stamped on one face with a square with crenelated edges with a central, low-relief capital P. Possibly a test piece for the stamp on a piece of scrap lead. Length 22mm, width 18mm, weight 13.32g.
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F54822
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper alloy object. Disc with five perforations, each filled with the corroded remains of iron rivets, with a rectangular-sectioned integral projecting arm with a transverse hole and broken across a longitudinal socket.There are file-marks on either side of the arm. Diameter of disc 12mm. Thickness 3mm. Length (of disc and surviving arm) 25mm. Probably post-medieval but function and date unknown.
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F52502
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy thimble. Domed top and slightly angled sides covered with multiple closely spaced stamped triangles. A border around the base consists of a double rib at the rim, an otherwise plain band with four stamped stars with a single rib above. Diameter at base 18mm. Height 23mm.16th - 17th century. See LIN-7B5382 for a broadly similar example.
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
Spatial data recorded.