Record ID: NMS-30B4C1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Robust oval frame, 'D' shaped in section, slightly narrowed bar, outside edge has central internal swelling and cast notch for pin. Measuring 17 x 26mm, weighing 7.83g. 5th - 8th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenninghall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A9E816
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT Late 9th - 10th century silver pendant. Description Undecorated silver Thor's hammer pendant, the suspension loop missing. For discussions of this class of Viking object see Treasure Annual Report 2002 no. 44 and Treasure Annual Report 2003, no. 98.
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AA0858
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT A 6th - 7th century fish shaped mount. Circumstance of Discovery Found while searching with a metal detector in East Walton, Norfolk. Description Silver gilt mount in the form of a fish and made from a thick piece of sheet folded lengthways and hammered together at the tail. A gap or socket runs along the rest of the underside as far as the head. The tail and the head, which has suffered slight damage and distortion, are cut to shape and gilded, and both are edged on both faces with an engraved groove. Black niello remains in a small part of the groove near …
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FCF465
Object type: SHIELD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Highly corroded disc head from iron rivet with silver sheet. Probably originally from a shield. For a similar example on a shield boss see Green, Rogerson and White (1987, 197, fig.294, Ci).Diameter 18mm. Thickness 5.5mm. Weight 2.68g. Early Saxon.
Created on: Wednesday 10th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9F34F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a composite silver disc brooch of rosette shape, with inlaid garnets and silver filigree ornament; it dates to the early part of the early-medieval period and is perhaps of Frankish manufacture. Six of twelve trapezoidal cells around the edge are extant, each with a convex outer edge and set with a cloisonné garnet on pointillé gold foil. These radiate from a circle containing two elliptical cells set with cloisonné garnets and a central panel with silver wire spirals on a silver backplate. Where the radiating cells have been broken, reddish brown material can be s…
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DA5243
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Less than one third of a Kentish silver jewelled disc brooch, rim missing. The central cell is empty. Three outer cells are extant, one circular filled with decayed blue glass paste, one D-shaped filled with similar but paler material and another circular, empty and distorted. Style I zoomorphic motifs fill the spaces between the outer cells and a pelleted circle surrounds the central cell. On the reverse there are the crushed remains of a double pin lug. Much of the surfaces are obscured by adherent soil. Avent (1975) Class 7.4. Early Saxon. Mid to late 6th century. >25 x >16.5mm. We…
Created on: Monday 26th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-013F85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver gilt knob from a radiate-headed brooch, with a hollow underside and perforated ends. The front is decorated with a mask comprising eyebrows, a nasal ridge between the eyes within pairs of concentric ribs, and nostrils. Cf. Ashley et al (1990), fig.1, no.3, and other knobs from Fransham and Marham.
Created on: Monday 9th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Hunstanton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-412F26
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a silver ansate brooch. Flat terminal in the form of a rectangular, moulded, 12-petalled flower. Slightly narrowed rectangular-sectioned bow broken across beginning of expansion, probably remains of a central decorative rectangle matching the terminal. Incomplete narrow catch-plate on reverse of terminal. Length at least 20mm, width of terminal 13mm, width of bow 11mm, weighing 4.28g. Of Weetch's type XII.B, possibly similar to an example in Thörle, 2001, Taf. 57, 4. 8th or 9th century.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7B86F1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilt copper alloy mount, openwork, cast in the form of a fish caught between two confronted birds. The head of the fish is flanked by the beak of both birds, each with legs raised and holding the sides of the fish. There are two vertically aligned pierced lugs on the reverse, one at the upper edge and one at the lower edge (both project c.5mm), and have corroded iron in the perforations. Measuring 28 x 32mm. Late 6th–early 7th century AD. A pendant with very similar decoration was found at Coddenham in Suffolk in 1999 (Martin et al 2000, 500, fig. 154C). The Gunthorpe mount and t…
Created on: Thursday 4th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Holt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EBAB46
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A possibly Middle or Late Saxon object. A trapezoidal fragment of silver sheet with engraved and niello-inlaid decoration on one face. One edge, which is followed by a line of fine hatching and an engraved line (forming a kind of ladder pattern), may be original, while of two others cutting across the decoration, one (longer and at right angles to the ladder pattern) is clearly chopped. There is a single off-centre circular hole (diameter 2 mm) pushed through from the reverse. The nature of the decoration is uncertain. There appear to be two fields bounded by straight lines enclo…
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9E71B5
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Merovingian tremissis of hitherto unknown type with a fragment of either another tremissis or decorated gold sheet adhering to it. The obverse depicts a diademed bust facing right with the retrograde legend BASOI FIT BH, the reverse probably a long-cross on globe, flanked by the letters AB (B retrograde) and the legend, VNE[...]S[..]X[..]S. This type is not recorded in any of the standard reference works. Adhering to it is a small fragment, probably of another coin, with what appear to be the letters ON (or NO). Late 6th or early 7th century AD. A single gold coin would no…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Swaffham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FE0C90
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Silver strap-end of Thomas 2003 Class A Type 1. The attachment edge missing and it is broken across two rivet holes at the split end. The decoration on the front face was once inlaid with niello of which none survives. At the upper end a fan-shaped field contains a palmette motif. On the main part, between billeted sides, a central lozenge containing a cross and with a D-shaped field at each corner, is surrounded by four fields each containing a Trewhiddle style animal. An animal-head terminal at the lower end has rounded ears, eyes that were once inlaid probably with glass pellets,…
Created on: Friday 28th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 25th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Fakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CCAA43
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a silver pin consisting of the upper end of a round-sectioned shank and the lower part of a discoidal or shield-shaped head. The front face of the head, the only gilt surface, is decorated within a frame with chip-carved interlace, the thicker strands of which are punched with tiny triangular impressions. Length at least 19.5mm. Width at least 15.5mm. Diameter of shank 1.8mm. Thickness of head 0.7mm. Weight 0.74g. Second half 8th century.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Narborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EE4F04
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of worn and corroded copper alloy Class A (Thomas, 2003, 2) strap end. Split end with two large silver disc headed rivets, below which the object is broken. The decoration consists of traces of engraved lines around the rivets and a fragment of niello. The silver rivets comprise at least 10% of the surviving object. Late Saxon. Length at least 11.5mm, width at least 15.5mm, thickness 4.5mm, weight 1.87g.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EE5E11
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver pin head. Shield-shaped with an irregular broken upper edge from which a crack extends. Decorated with worn engraved design consisting of two birds back to back, with overlapping wings and tails and curved beaks which touch their breasts, undecorated reverse. The point of the 'shield' terminates in a possible pointed knop with slight bulges to either side which may be the eyes of a worn and stylised animal head. The fragment of surviving copper alloy shank is attached to the back of the head with two silver rivets, and is broken across one rivet hole. There is a third rivet hol…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 18th August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fring', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F1A8E7
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold pendant. Sub-triangular, hollow, originally rectangular sectioned but now concave on both faces. The front and back plate and double ribbed suspension loop are formed from the same piece of metal sheet folded over, with a separate double ribbed repoussé sheet forming the sides, the ends of which join under the loop. Filigree decoration in the form of six closely spaced 'S' shaped scrolls not arranged symmetrically, and a length of wire following the edge of the pendant with inward curled ends near the top, is fused to the surface. Similar S-shaped filigree scrolls can be seen on…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Dersingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F29BC1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Footplate of incomplete gilded silver great square-headed brooch, which joins a fragment discovered 15/11/08, reported as case 2008T14 and recorded as NMS-750C07; see this for more detail on the brooch as a whole. The fragment is decorated with gilt 'chip-carved' Style I ornament with a human-like mask in the lower centre, within an outer band of niello with a silver zigzag line which follows the concave edges except where interrupted by the side and terminal lobes. The brooch is broken across the lappets. The footplate side lobes consist of a concave moulding with two transverse b…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F30042
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Fragment of a silver gilt Anglo Saxon disc brooch. No original edge survives. About half of one, a quarter of another and a fragment of the border of a third gilded lentoid field with beaded borders around a foliate design flank a central panel containing silver foliate decoration emerging from a field containing traces of niello. The brooch is broken across a rivet hole at the junction between two of the lentoid fields. From photographs, this fragment appears to join another discovered in 2001 and reported as Treasure Case 2001 T31, described in the 2001 Treasure Re…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldborough area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-340221
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat object made from a piece of sheet silver, with gold foil applied to one face. It is approximately triangular, with a wide lozengiform terminal at the apex; just below this, at the narrowest point, it has been bent and re-straightened, causing stress to the metal which has resulted in the loss of some gold foil from the front and some grey surface from the reverse. The base of the triangle is curved and has a ridge (hollow on the reverse) following this curve just above the edge; it looks as if it was designed to fit around a circular central plate or boss. The gilding continues r…
Created on: Wednesday 29th September 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Ellingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0D94F3
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver hooked tag of Read's (2008) Class A, Type 2 (early-medieval circular plates). The circular plate has engraved decoration with an engraved diagonal cross pattée, with concave-sided and convex-ended arms. Each arm has two curved transverse lines which are concentric to an encircling line around the whole cross. Within each field created by the engraved decoration are further, lightly engraved lines which loosely follow the edge of the field. There is no evidence for any inlay in the engraved lines. The upper half of the plate, with the two upper arms of the diagona…
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2011
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Swaffham', grid reference and parish protected.