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Record ID: NMS-4D1658
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon fragment of copper alloy bird-shaped brooch, broken openwork with remains of S-shaped bird in Ringerike/Urnes-style, remains of pierced lug on reverse. Cf. Pedersen (1999) figs.1-3. Second half of the 11th century. Other examples of this type of bird brooch on the PAS database include NLM5638, SUSS-44F203, SF-7B3CA5, SF-BCC403, BERK-5DED86, NMS-E7F720, KENT-9F6987, BERK-CEBC67 and SF-AD5FA7.
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2003
Last updated: Friday 24th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Topcroft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-92F628
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Polished axe in dark grey mottled glossy flint with negligible patination. Polished extensively on one face from the broad blade up the central area to the square butt and with one lateral edge rounded slightly along its whole length, the other only toward the butt. The opposed face is only polished at the extreme edge of the cutting edge and is otherwise neatly finished by shallow re-touch flaking. The elegant shape suggests that this is a flint copy of an Early Bronze Age flat axe, and the shallow invasive flaking is also typical of this transitional period. Almost certainly Late Ne…
Created on: Thursday 29th January 2004
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Briston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-06C4D1
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Gilt horse harness pendant, circular, cast with head of a lion affronté in high relief within two concentric pelleted lines, slight damage to lower edge, 21 x 29mm. 13th century.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2004
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0758A5
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt horse harness suspension stud, circular, domed with integral shank on hollow reverse, slotted projection at base folded onto reverse to form suspension-loops containing fragments of iron pin, 14 x 25mm. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2004
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

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-094805
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon incomplete copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, oval frame, apex broken, loop missing, decorated with clear representation of obscure mask-like design, flange with single rivet-hole with dome-headed iron and part of iron strap on reverse, 26 x (at least) 38mm. Cf. Williams (1997) fig.26, closest to nos.79 and 82, Class A, Type 4. 11th century. PHOTO
Created on: Friday 4th June 2004
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-44AC47
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap-end, rectangular sheet folded widthways (fold with loop-like ridge on reverse), decorated with tiny punched triangular stamps forming double border within which is an elaborate fleur-de-lis with curling tendrils and central foil ending in a cross potent, two dome-headed rivets at attachment end, edge damaged, 25 x 20mm. Late 12th-13th century
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton Subcourse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4501C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval copper alloy disc brooch of Jansson type II A, very worn, domed with remains of cast Borre-style decoration of three inward-facing cat-like animals between the lobes of a trefoil, on the reverse is a broken pierced lug and catch-plate, there is no loop for chain or pendant so probably of native rather than Scandinavian origin, diameter 22mm. Cf. Margeson 1997, 20-1, fig.22. 10th century
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton Subcourse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4693A3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval fragment (46 x 26mm) of copper alloy key, small piece of broken collared oval-sectioned shank, lozengiform bow, side angles with rectangular knop and traces of double vertical grooves, oval knop at terminal. Cf. LMMC, 135, 138-40, Fig.42, Type V. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heckingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-46C327
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval dress hook, rectangular loop above two inward-curling scrolls, horizontal groove and hook, 12 x 23mm. 16th/early 17th century.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton Subcourse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-472332
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval copper alloy buckle frame, angled double-oval with fleur-de-lis moulding on both outside edges, narrowed central bar projects beyond frame, pin missing, 43 x 24mm. Cf. Whitehead (2003), no.393. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton Subcourse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-474405
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead seal matrix, flat. Approximately quarter surviving with small fragment of outside edge. Circular, approximately 32 mm (reconstructed). Cross-crosslet between four radiating crosses (reconstructed). ][?G] · W[ (Seal of ?).
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ormesby St Margaret with Scatby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-476F72
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead seal matrix, flat with vertical median rib ending in short backward projecting lug at upper edge on reverse. Circular, 26 mm. Quatrefoil between four pellets. S’ WALTERI · PIGV (Seal of Walter Pig).
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-47A370
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead seal matrix, flat with perforated lug projecting from top of outside edge. Circular, 25 mm. Fleur-de-lis. S’ GOSCEL’ FIL’ WILL’ · (Seal of Joselyn son of William).
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-488881
Object type: RETOUCHED FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late prehistoric notched flake. Small secondary flake from pebble of blackish flint with a shallow notch on the left edge formed by ventral retouch wear at distal edge. Unpatinated.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-48DB77
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval incomplete copper alloy horse harness suspension mount, horizontal bar, rivet hole at both ends, broken across one, the other with copper alloy rivet and pointed terminal, twin suspension-loops project from lower edge containing copper alloy pin and fragment of pendant suspension-loop, 40 (reconstructed) x 12mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-965231
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small late prehistoric blade in dark brown flint, unpatinated, with extensive random edge damage (probably accidental).
Created on: Friday 11th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-967E13
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, worn and corroded, oval with trilobate apex pierced by across rivet-hole, two further rivet-holes in expanded base, cast with a possible hirsute human mask with symmetrical looping shapes possibly representing hair, angled flange at base, 28 x 55mm. Cf. Williams 1997, Class A, Type 4, closest to no.81. 11th century
Created on: Friday 11th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashby with Oby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-96AD87
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy bar from an early Anglo-Saxon sleeve-clasp. In the centre are two pairs of transverse grooves with a pair of semi-circular indentations ('notches') in between, together forming a square panel. Above and below this there are rectangular panels with bevelled edges, running to square panels at the terminals. Each of these has traces of transverse lines obscured by a corroded iron rivet. The plate is missing. 7 x 35mm. Although there is no close parallel in Hines's catalogue (1993), the size of the bar, and its division into five panels, closely conforms to the st…
Created on: Friday 11th June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 26th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breckland, Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-96F717
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy cruciform brooch, worn and corroded, plain head-plate and wings with integral half-round knobs, single perforated lug on reverse, facetted bow with transverse lines at both ends and on damaged panel, ancient break, terminal missing.
Created on: Friday 11th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breckland, Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.