Record ID: NMS-37C257
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy buckle frame of extraordinary form, corroded and broken, trapezoidal, with the outside edge consisting of a huge animal head with a longitudinal oval aperture formed by the open mouth, one bent obliquely angled oval-sectioned side with engraved transverse grooves survives, the other side and the straight narrowed bar are missing. There is a rounded sub-triangular perforation in the base of the animal-head near the inner edge forming a pin-bar, pin missing. The animal head carries elaborate cast moulded detail; both sides with a long vertical ear with transverse …
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-85D343
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A miscast and unfinished Dolphin brooch with undecorated shallow 'C' sectioned wings which are partially filled with miscast metal, with the stub of a possible hook at the top where there is a further miscast protrusion. The D-sectioned bow is decorated with a median longitudinal groove with raised sides, the lower half of the bow has an irregular surface, again due to miscasting. There is a complete trapezoidal catchplate on the reverse which has not been hammered out and bent over. The pin was never attached. Width 27mm. Length 51mm.
Created on: Thursday 22nd July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Methwold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C4BC01
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age copper alloy flat axehead. Rectangular sectioned, tapering in thickness in a smooth curve from the centre to the curved cutting edge and the straight butt end, and expanding widthways from the butt end to the slightlly flared corners of the cutting edge. The whole surface is covered in shallow pitting and there is no trace of decoration. Length 100mm. Width of cutting edge 66.5mm. Maximum thickness 12mm.
Created on: Monday 2nd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-090A85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon lead nummular brooch, cast pattern in relief on face, unusual arrangement for attachment on reverse comprising opposed twin lugs on outside edges with transverse perforations linked by groove with raised sides, diameter 41mm. Pattern derived from penny of Cnut (pointed helmet type), North no.787, pl.13, 1024-30. There is no other English coin with this design.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Felixstowe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-01E153
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval gold finger ring or posy ring. D-sectioned band, now distorted, engraved internally with an open hand and heart before the inscription More loue cannot giue (i.e. 'More love cannot give') and a stamped maker's mark, G within a rectangle. Width of band 4mm. External measurements 23 x 15mm. Weight 2.59g. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1C0B02
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible broken end of flint blade. Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. Surviving length 34mm.
Created on: Friday 7th June 2013
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2DFC87
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy openwork mount, furniture fitting or decorative grille made from thin sheet. Broken, now triangular with two surviving sides set at slightly wider than 90 degrees, slightly raised plain repoussé border and elaborate openwork in a D-shaped panel in the surviving corner and broken across a curved panel, perhaps circular when complete. Three empty attachment holes at the edge, one in the surviving complete corner and one next to each break. The surface is mostly a bright gold colour and uncorroded as it was found in waterlogged conditions. Surviving dimensions 54…
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-5CF2D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy disc, the edge damaged, with a central sub-rectangular scar with traces of solder on the reverse from a missing fitting, presumeably to allow the disc to be worn as a brooch. The front is engraved with an inscription around the edge within an inner and outer border of two pairs of concentric circles +ALIVA hI MVN CVR A around the lamb of god with one front leg bent, looking back over its shoulder at a flag. The design strongly resembles a seal matrix, although the inscription is not reversed. Two seal matrices recorded on this database bear a very similar inscription:&nbs…
Created on: Thursday 20th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9E218E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval silver finger ring or annular brooch. Four strands of twisted or plaited wire forming a band, slightly flattened on the inner face of the curve, with a flat-sectioned quatrefoil boss soldered to the outer face forming the bezel. Each foil of the boss is engraved to resemble a leaf with angled lines to either side of a median line. Traces of gilding survive on the wire and boss. Not enough survives to estimate the original diameter. Width of band 4mm. Width of boss 7mm. Weight 0.9g. For a twisted wire brooch see Egan and Pritchard (2002, 254, fig.164, no.1340). 13t…
Created on: Monday 16th May 2016
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E204C6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure report by Adrian Marsden: A hoard of cu alloy objects found in close association with one another and very close to a radiate imitation manufacturer's hoard found in November 2004 (see file). These comprise two RB bracelets and 10 sestertii of the second century. The coins, where condition at deposition can be ascertained, were all heavily worn, suggesting a mid-third century date. This suggests that both bracelets and coins were intended for melting down to produce radiate imitations, a theory made more likely by the fact that one sestertius appears to have had pieces cut…
Created on: Friday 4th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 14th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Winch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BC99D4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver annular brooch. The frame is flat on the reverse and convex on the upper face, in the form of a two snakes, the smaller snake wrapped around one half of the larger, the separate heads and a fragment of wire forming the tip of a tail soldered onto the frame so there is a head at either end of the pin when the brooch is closed. The sheet pin has a double rib before the loop. The half of the frame formed by the body of the larger snake is decorated with a zigzag triple rib with crosshatching in the resulting triangular fields to either side. The other half of the frame has…
Created on: Monday 11th April 2016
Last updated: Sunday 17th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-9018C6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast, slightly trapezoidal, one piece socketed strap end. Attachment edge broken and abraded with only a fragment of the original edge surviving. Two rivet holes close to centre of attachment edge, outside edge consisting of a transverse roll moulding that projects slightly beyond the sides. Decorated on both faces with two opposed engraved swirls, engraved swirls on each side and on outside edge. A similar example was found at Attleborough, Norfolk (HER 36681). Measuring 22mm long, 27mm wide at attachment edge, 28mm wide at outside edge, 3.5mm thick at attachment edge, 6mm thick at ro…
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2006
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burnham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E24355
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Georgian or 19th century button cover, central domed boss surrounded by a flange decorated with an outer row of (machine?) stamped circles and an inner row of possible stamped rectangles leaving a ridge between each stamp. The flange is broken in two places with just under a quarter missing in total. Traces of white metal coating survive on the upper face. Diameter 16mm. Height 5mm. Weight 1.3g. *Edit, formerly identified as an Early Saxon sheet copper alloy scutiform (shield-shaped) pendant 6th century, now updated for reference.
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E7DE23
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
24 short cross pennies found dispersed over a small area. They belong in the main to Henry III's reign with a few earlier coins being present and almost certainly represent a part of a hoard which has been scattered at some time in the past. A very few other medieval coins were found but these were clearly not associated with this group. Catalogue Henry II, class 1b, Adam of Winchester, 1.16g Richard I, class 4a, Ulard of Canterbury, 1.19g Richard I, class 4a, Fuke (sic) of London, 1.02g John, class 5c, Willelm B of London, 1.34g John, class 5c, Abel of London, 1.32g John, c…
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-814C72
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five medieval coins were found in the area. Four are short cross pennies, all of the London mint whilst the fifth coin is a cut short cross halfpenny, also of London. All the pennies are in crisp, barely-circulated condition; apparent wear on a couple of coins being due to areas of flat striking. Three of the pennies are of the moneyer Abel, the other two coins of Ricard. All the pennies are class 5 or 6 issues of John whilst the cut halfpenny is a class 3 or 4 issue of Richard I or John. The similarities of condition, date of striking not to mention the fact that all coins are of Lond…
Created on: Monday 9th November 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walsoken', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-62D0F5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This group comprises fifteen Iron Age coins and twenty-three Roman coins. All of the Iron Age coins belong to the East Anglian regional series which is usually associated with the Iceni, a people thought to have inhabited modern Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire in the century or so before the Roman conquest. The types represented here were struck between about 20 BC and AD 50. There are thirteen Roman Republican issues, the earliest struck by the magistrate P Maenius in 132 BC. The remaining ten coins are Roman Imperial issues, ranging from those of the first emperor, Au…
Created on: Monday 15th June 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FC7553
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five silver denarii and one silver radiate, found in a close area and running in a straight line as if scattered by the plough. One, a coin of Vespasian, is heavily worn whilst the others, coins of Septimius Severus and his family, were relatively crisp. They form a discrete group in terms of date and denomination and there seems no doubt that they represent part of a dispersed hoard. Catalogue: 1) Vespasian, denarius, perhaps RIC 10, AD 69-71 2) Caracalla, denarius, RIC 10 or 11, AD 196-8 3) Caracalla, denarius, RIC 65, AD 202 4) Septimius Severus, denarius, RIC 266, AD 202-10 5…
Created on: Wednesday 10th June 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-DCA196
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
17 bronze socketed axes, 7 socketed axe fragments, two sheet fragments, one blade fragment, one knife and one winged axe fragment were found whilst metal-detecting in August 2006. 1070 Socketed Axe - Southern English Ribbed Type Complete socketed axe, sub-square mouth with double mouth moulding from which loop springs, four ribs on each face, edges to face sharply defined by a rib extending part way down blade, sides slightly concave before expanding out to asymmetrically curved sharpened blade edge, several very small holes in surface of faces (possibly casting flaws), casting flash…
Created on: Wednesday 24th February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-79D400
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
18 silver Iron Age coins, all silver units of the Iceni. Found scattered over a small area, one (no. 15 in the catalogue) found some 70m from the main body has clearly travelled due to agricultural action. They clearly represent a scattered hoard which went into the ground together in the late Iron Age or early Roman period. Often these hoards are associated with the Boudiccan revolt of AD60. 1-4) Four coins stuck together an ECEN type (obverse visible) and a Late Face Horse ('Norfolk God') type, total weight 1.77g, the other two (in the middle of the pile) unidentified (refer…
Created on: Tuesday 28th July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-210703
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle or Late Bronze Age socketed and looped spear. Broken leaf-shaped blade with rounded mid-rib expanding to form shaft before irregular break across two side-loops and base of socket. Surviving length 37mm. Width of blade 17mm. Breaks ancient. For a very similar Late Bronze Age example see Hawkes (1955, GB.6, no1).
Created on: Monday 18th February 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Methwold', grid reference and parish protected.