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Record ID: NMS-EDFA64
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver finger ring, additional to a fragment discovered 02/04/07 (Treasure case 2007 T219). Rectangular sectioned band broken at one end (where the upper part of the break joins the previous fragment), cut diagonally at the other. Inscribed externally: 'ias---' and 'melchiar'. Both fragments together comprise about 1/3rd of the band. The full inscription would have spelt the names of the three magi, Jasper, Balthazar and Melchior. The names of the magi were a popular amuletic charm in the Middle Ages. 15th century. Band width 5mm, thickness 1.5mm, original diameter c. 20mm.…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 18th August 2010
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-EFFB63
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver bodkin or headdress pin. Rectangular section with slightly pointed sides, tapering slightly from break across start of slot at one end towards break at other end. Decorated alike on both sides with two transverse engraved lines below the slot, a quatrefoil flower, two further transverse lines with short closely spaced longitudinal lines below and short angled lines at one edge, three lines forming a longitudinal zigzag with short transverse lines emphasising the inward curves and a longitudinal line to either side coming together in a point after the zigzag ends. The…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Thursday 28th October 2010
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'SURLINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-F02A67
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver finger ring, just over half of which survives. Oval sectioned band. The bezel, which curves smoothly in line with the band, is in the form of two clasped hands with the details of the fingers continuing on the inside of the ring, the shoulders decorated with closely spaced transverse incised lines possibly representing cuffs. Cf. A very similar example from Hampshire recorded as HAMP-9B0B21 on the PAS database, and other examples with clasped hands in Oman, 1974, pl. 54. c. 15th century. Internal diameter 20mm. External diameter 23mm. Width of band at break 3.5mm. Wi…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Thursday 28th October 2010
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'RUNCTON HOLME', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-F03CB2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Three part construction, hollow. Flat, circular front engraved with a W. Convex reverse with separate inserted and soldered shank of sub-triangular section. Probably 17th - 18th century. Diameter 16mm, height 11.5mm. Weight 3.1g.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd November 2010
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-F33515
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver gilt dress hook. Sub-circular sheet silver backplate onto which has been soldered an octagonal frame. Each side of the frame is concave, with an external knop decorated with four pellets at the junctions between each side, and a short projection with a single pellet at the end in the centre of each side. There is a central rivet through the packplate with a large domed head decorated with crosshatching, which may originally have secured another decorative element, now missing.
There are traces of solder on the reverse showing the position of the now missing attachm…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: NMS-F30EE3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold posy ring. D-shaped band which is now squashed to an oval and highly abraded externally. Inscribed internally Magnes amaris amor 1634 (Love is the magnet of love) followed by a makers mark of two conjoined letters Gp, within a shield. The makers mark is the same as that on one in the collections of the British Museum, registration 1961, 1202.245 (J. Rudoe pers. com).
Date: 1634
Dimensions: Now measuring 25 x 20 externally, 20 x 14mm internally. Width of band 5mm. Weighing 8.4g.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: NMS-7C2D74
Object type: DIE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bone die measuring 7 x 8 x 6.5mm. Numbers indicated by ring and dots, some of which are very worn, and except for the central dots of the 1, 3 and 5 are all at the very edge or corners of the faces. Opposing faces marked 4 / 3, 5 / 2, 6 (very worn, traces of three ring and dots only survive) / 1 (survives as central dot only), Biddle (1990, 693) type Ai. Weighing 0.75g.
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Brancaster', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-7CB3C4
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy pin or hairpin with simple flat-topped head consisting of a gentle conical expansion of the shank. There are faint indications of an encircling groove just below the top. Very slightly curved along the length. Cool 1990 Group 24. Length 116.5mm. Maximum diameter 6mm. Weight 7.56g. Not closely datable but most likely 2nd century.
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-B00E55
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Hollow, bi-convex, with a small central boss and a seam at the junction with the flat reverse. D-sectioned loop. Diameter 9mm. Weight 1.08g. 16th-early 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 12th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Cawston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-A995A0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT
Medieval to Post-medieval silver finger ring.
Circumstance of discovery
Found while searching with a metal detector in Wereham, Norfolk.
Description
Silver finger-ring consisting of simple undecorated hoop with soldered butt joint. Slight hammer marks are visible over all the outer surface. Possibly late medieval or post-medieval, although there are no diagnostic features.
Although this ring may be as early as late-medieval or post-medieval in date, the absence of any diagnostic features prevents that…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-A9AC37
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT
A 15th - 16th century lace tag.
Circumstance of Discovery
Found while searching with a metal detector, in Description Incomplete silver lace tag or chape. The terminal, probably made from filed and tooled thick wire, is in the form of a stylised, elongated and collared acorn above a slightly swollen shaft engraved with cross-hatching. The tubular socketed part, into the top of which the terminal is inserted, is missing its base. It is of sheet bent into a tube with straight butt seam, and is decorated at the top with two encircling engraved lin…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-A9CC55
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT
17th Century silver button
Description
Composite three-piece biconvex silver button, the underside of which is now squashed and a distorted, with a D-sectioned wire loop. Engraved decoration on the top consists of a six-petalled flower within a circle and with the spaces between the petals filled with parallel lines, all set within a band of short oblique lines between two concentric circles. There are two blow-holes on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-C378D2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT
Incomplete 13th Century silver finger ring.
Circumstance of Discovery
Found while searching with a metal detector.
Description
The oval bezel has a rebate at the shoulders, with a missing stone or glass setting. There is a fragmentary Anglo-Norman inscription around the broken flat-sectioned band (back part missing): + EOAIM[.........]ALMENT (I Love ?..., the incomplete final word is likely to be an adverb although alment alone means step or walk). The letters M and E are ligatured.
Conclusion
The age and precious metal content of …
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Thorpe Market', 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-7D6271
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch or buckle. Angled sheet frame now slightly distorted, narrowed for cast pin. Stamped maker's mark on the reverse EH.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NMS-7D7386
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of large spoon, oblique break across shallow oval bowl with the stump of a rectangular-sectioned stem that continues onto the back of the bowl as a rat-tail in the form of a rather etiolated acanthus leaf. There is a broadly similar form of stem and rat-tail, although with more elaborate decoration on the reverse of a Lobe-end spoon dated to 1679-80 in Gask (1926), plate xx, 4-5. 17th century. >39 x >40mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-925752
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete and unidentified silver gilt object, possibly a fragment of a pendant cross. There is a transverse suspension loop above a tri-lobed terminal, each lobe of which has a shallow sub-oval concavity on the front face, followed by a short section of a rectangular sectioned shaft before a break.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NMS-41A985
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1. Linch pin head. Stub of corroded rectangular sectioned iron shank protruding from a rectangular socket at the base of the copper alloy head. Above the socket is a circular moulding at the base of a globular body which is waisted before large flat circular top. The body is pierced by a transverse hole the ends of which are defined by circular mouldings, there are two circular cells filled with red enamel between the openings on one side only. The upper surface is recessed in the centre, the rim decorated with three evenly spaced circular cells, one of which contains traces of red ena…
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', 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.
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