Record ID: NMS-F11966
Object type: WASTE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably Roman fragment of blown glass working waste, perhaps 3rd - 4th century based on colour alone.
Created on: Monday 16th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke Holy Cross', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-998996
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Openwork cube, the edges formed from lengths of beaded wire with each face divided into four triangular apertures by two pieces of beaded wire connecting opposing corners. In the centre of each face where the wire crosses is a single granular pellet (two of which are missing), with three pellets at each corner of the cube, except at one where over three quarters of a beaded wire loop, broken at the apex on the outside of the cube, survives, presumeably the remains of a suspension loop. A straight, longitudinal indented line or seam can be seen on several lengths of wire a…
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 11th August 2016
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Record ID: NMS-88DBA4
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Described from photographs. Elaborate cast looped handle attachment for a vessel: a female bust in high relief with centre-parted hairstyle with grooves and / or ribs indicating the hair, and simple facial features consisting of oval eyes (possibly with pellets), raised nose, and a single groove forming the smiling mouth. A collar or ruff with a zig-zag line runs under the chin and meets the hair on either side. Above the head is a loop for the handle, and to either side a convex, pointed projection. Below the collar is a large flange formed from 9 foils separated by grooves. The f…
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-6D5203
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic - Early Bronze Age flint scraper on a tertiary flake with a double bulb of persussion, and steep retuouch around two thirds of the edge. Length 36mm. Width 41mm. Thickness 14mm. 3000 BC - 1501 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-F3CCB7
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix, flat with median rib and pierced lug on reverse. Pointed oval, 44 x 27.5mm. Thickness 3mm (at lug 9mm). Weight 19.28g. Bishop facing left and holding a crozier, with a star above a fleur-de-lis in front and a sprig behind. The lug is considerably worn. + S' OFFICIALITATIS : HERFORDENSIS The literal translation is "Seal of the Herefordian Officiality" The Official (Officialis) was a legal officer of the Bishop, and his office was called the Officiality (Officialitas). 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 4th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 24th March 2014
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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
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Record ID: NMS-8B9A42
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated lead weight. Circular, flat back, convex front, central hole. Diameter 30.5mm. Height 12mm. Weight 44.5g. Although undateable, the smooth, uncorroded surface suggests this is not a very ancient weight. Finder's reference number: 18.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 2nd December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-8B7975
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman - medieval lead pot mend. Smaller, thicker side 22 x 22mm, thinner, larger side 28 x 33mm. To hold pot 2 - 3mm thick, only a tiny fragment of which survives, not enough to date.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-8B0FA3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular copper alloy nummus, House of Constantine, mule with an VRBS ROMA obverse, reverse Victory on prow, diameter 13mm, weight 0.69g, c.AD330-48 Finder's reference number: 11.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-8B0444
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular copper alloy radiate or nummus, irregular shape, further details illegible, c.AD260-378. Finder's reference number: 15.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-8AFF26
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy cast bronze unit of Massilia (Marseilles), obverse head of Apollo, reverse Bull butting right, weight 4.27g, Rudd ABC 115, 2nd century BC Finder's reference number: 10.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-8AE535
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy radiate of Victorinus, Mint I, reverse PAX AVG, mintmark V/[star over branch], AD269-71 Finder's reference number: 13.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-880314
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double looped rectangular frame, triangular-sectined with a hollowed back, slightly narrowed bar, pin missing. Measuring 41 x 30mm. 13th - 16th century. Finder's referecne number: 8.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-87D3A4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame with a rounded knop on either side of drilled holes for (missing) separate spindle, two large circular apertures in outside edges. Similar to an example in Whitehead (2003, 98, no.613). Measuring 33 x 20mm. Finder's reference: 7.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-879523
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy farthing of Charles I. Finder's reference: 6.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-878193
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy quatrefoil sheet mount, tinned or silvered on one face, pierced at the edge of two foils, rivets missing. Measuring 17 x 17mm. 14th century. See NMS-CCCC56. Finder's referecne number: 5.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-873215
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy thimble. Three shallow notches on the lower edge, with an irregular single engraved line border before closley spaced rows of round indentations covering the sides and domed crown. Diameter 18mm. Height 14.5mm. 14th - 15th century. Finder's refernce number: 2.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-86C3E8
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated copper alloy metal-working debris, possibly cake or ingot. Irregular, with a high copper alloy content, and very slight patches of possible slag, or of slaggy appearance. Measuring 79 x 63 x 105mm. Weight 1220g. Undated, Bronze Age to post-medieval. Finder's reference number: 1.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-616124
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy William III 1/2 d token. 1695 - 1701.
Created on: Wednesday 27th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-4A7A64
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy trumpet derivative type brooch. The head, wings and pin are missing, the bow double moulded above and below an expanded rectangular plate with two deep transverse grooves between which are four rectangular cells filled alternately with red and blue enale. The expanded foot has three triangular cells, the upper cell filled with red enamel, the lower two with blue. On the reverse is an incomplete catch-plate. Surviving length 34mm. Surviving width 12mm. See an almost identical, complete example in Hattatt (2002, 330, fig.189, no.989). 1st - 2nd century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-48B706
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Terminal from an incomplete medieval silver book clasp of Howsam type A.9.2. Box-like lozenge-shaped composite element formed from an front-plate, back-plate and separate sides, with four radiating engraved notches on the upper face, one in the centre of each edge, and four concave grooves, one across each corner. At one corner is a break and solder where the terminal would have been attached to the (missing) plates or socket for the strap, at the other there is a stylised animal-head terminal with pointed ears emphasised by notches on the sides and engraved dashes on the upper face (…
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
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Record ID: NMS-481693
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or post-medieval silver probable couching needle, 'lawyers bodkin' or perhaps a dress pin with a slightly pointed terminal of sub-triangular-section with a short longitudinal groove on each face and a narrow collar before a twisted, triple ribbed shank. The shank, which is now bent, terminates in a flat head with rounded end and sub-triangular eye (rounded at one end and pointed at the other). 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. The eye on this example…
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-46A3C8
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or post-medieval silver, gilded dress hook. Lozengiform plate with trefoil knops formed from pellets at each corner, with a fourth pellet surviving on two terminals on top of the three forming the trefoil, and a single pellet in the centre of each edge. The plate is divided into four crosshatched lozengiform fields by a saltire cross formed from a large central pellet, double-ribbed arms with trefoil terminals, and a smaller pellet in each internal angle. On the reverse an incomplete circular-sectioned hook, broken at the bend, is soldered to the plate, with scars from the mi…
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 7th August 2015
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Record ID: NMS-35FF06
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably post-medieval lead candle holder or unidentified object, now damaged and distorted. Hollow rectangular base with a groove defining a rib around the lower edge, with two ribs defined by grooves stepped inwards at the upper edge before a central shaft or socket, now damaged and distorted with a torn upper edge. There is very faint possible decorative line around the surviving part of the socket. A large dent in the base makes it uncertain if it was originally flat. Measuring 46 x 46mm. Surviving height 40mm. Approximate internal width of socket 21mm.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 13th January 2014
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Record ID: NMS-35D5D2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button. Solid hemispherical head with integral pierced shank on reverse (now bent). Diameter 10mm. Height (unbent) 10mm.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-35BE42
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-oval looped frame with transverse ridge on sides at either end of narrowed bar. Corroded remains of iron pin. Measuring 22 x 17mm. 15th - 17th century.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-3587E6
Object type: CROTAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval crotal bell. Rectangular loop with cast hole, two large holes in the upper half, prominant, narrow median rib, round-ended slot in base, corroded iron pea. Very worn cast decoration is visible on the lower half only in the form of a sunburst or gadrooning, with initials (H and a possible I) within a semicircular field to one side of the slot. Diameter 28mm. Height 35mm. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-3528D3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Asymetric double looped frame, one loop D-shaped witha large 'fan-shaped' knop on the outside edge, one loop trapezoidal. Flat-backed, bevelled edges, transverse ridge forming a small knop on the sides at either end of the bar. The bar is completely concealed by the iron pin and corrosion. Measuring 24 x 15mm. For similar examples see Whitehead (2003, 92, no.583 - 585). c. 1575 - 1700.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-315BD5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-oval frame, flat-backed, bevelled on the inner and outer edges on the front face, narrowed bar with copper alloy sheet pin. The bar contincues across and slightly beyond the side of the frame as a transverse rib. On each outside edge is a pair of cusped mouldings. Measuring 31 x 27mm. Circa 15th - 17th century. Although clearly not a die-duplicate, the cusped mouldings are similar to those on another buckle from Norfolk (NMS-F22F27 / NHER36793).
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2014
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Record ID: NMS-313280
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy strap mount. Convex-sided plate with sub-triangular terminal at either end, each with radiating engraved lines. Slightly hollow-backed with two integral, circular-sectioned attachment spikes on the reverse, both broken near the base. Length 45.5mm. Width 24mm. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 20th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-F7A7F4
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible fragment of purse bar or unidentified object. A rectangular-sectioned bar with rounded corners with an integrally cast globular terminal with two sides flattened in the same plane as the bar. The broken end of the bar has cut or chop marks and the bar is slightly curved. Globular terminal 10 x 10.5mm. Length 8mm. Bar 5 x 6mm. Total surviving length including terminal 30mm.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2016
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Record ID: NMS-F737B3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, off-set, narrowed bar, shallow notch for sheet pin with a transverse groove to either side. Rectangular plate tapering slightly towards attachment edge, recessed for frame, slot for pin, folded widthways, the much smaller back-plate secured by two rivets behind and to either side of the pin slot. Near the attachment edge are two more rivet holes through which a loop of fine wire has been wound with three and a half turns. The front-plate is decorated with a single line border around a foliate stem springing from the pin end, with two trefoil l…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2016
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Record ID: NMS-F62796
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Asymetric double-looped frame, one loop rectangular with a circular-sectioned outside edge, the other D-shaped, with a pointed, flat-sectioned outside edge. The sides are rectangular-sectioned with a raised transverse rib which continues beyond the edge of the frame at either end of the bar to form short, blunt projections. Corroded iron pin. The whole frame is decorated on the front face with stamped annulets and traces of gilding. Measuring 34 x 32mm. Similar to an example in Whitehead (2003, 91, no.567) but probably slightly ea…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F5E6B5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-looped rectangular frame only one loop of which survivies. Pin missing. Measuring (reconstructed)18 x 19.5mm.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F5C1B4
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy sword belt fitting. Plate with a straight terminal with engraved lines forming a notched rib, a single rivet hole blocked by corrosion from the (missing) iron rivet, a central circular aperture, notched and cusped sides and a further transverse engraved line before a rounded terminal. Length 27mm. Width 12mm. See Read (2008, 209, no.757). 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F4C757
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite strap-end. Circular spacer with acorn-knop terminal, broken across forked projections. Silver-coloured solder and file marks on both faces. Front and back-plate missing. Length 34mm. Width 20mm. See Egan and Pritchard (2002, 141, fig.92, no.650). 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F403C3
Object type: APOTHECARY WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy apothecary weight. Rectangular, with slightly convex, filed sides, engraved with the symbol for two drachms. Measuring 15 x 15 x 5mm. Weight 7.3g. 17th - 19th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F3E244
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval half-ounce lead weight. Discodal, with a crown above C II R (for Charles II) within a cabled border cast in low relief, with semicircular impression through the side of the crown. Diameter 22.5mm. Thickness 4mm. Weight 13.8g / 0.48oz. 1660 - 1685.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F3D321
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval one ounce lead weight. Discodal, with a crown above C II R (for Charles II) within a cabled bordeer cast in low relief, with a deep round impression (signifying 1 ounce) through the crown. Diameter 28mm. Thickness 5mm. Weight 27.4g / 0.96oz. 1660 - 1685.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F3BD24
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button. Convex front, concave reverse with broken, pierced rectangular shank. Very worn engraved and stamped decoration in the form of radiating petals with lines of anulets, similar to examples in Read (2008, 41 0 43, nos.138 - 150). Diameter 26mm. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F2EFD1
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy composite button with the arms of the Board of Ordnance, which were granted in 1806 and confirmed in 1823, stamped on the upper face - three field-pieces in pale, three cannon-balls in chief. Convex upper part soldered to flat lower part with one blow hole and separate inserted wire loop. Diameter 14mm. Height 10.5mm. 1806 - 1900.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2014
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Record ID: NMS-F2D655
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval - post-medieval copper alloy composite button. Hollow, domed upper part soldered to convex lower part, two blow holes and separate inserted wire shank in the reverse. Diameter 16mm. Height 18mm.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F2C075
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval buckle. Asymetric double-looped, rectangular-sectioned frame with one oval and one trapezoidal loop. Small, rounded knop on edge at either end of bar. INcomplete and corroded iron pin. Heavily tinned. Measuring 29 x 21mm. See Whitehead (2003, 91, no.564). Late 16th - 17th centiry.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F22F27
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-oval frame, flat-backed, bevelled on the inner and outer edges on the front face, narrowed bar with corroded iron pin. On each outside edge is a pair of cusped mouldings between which the frame is wider. Very slight traces of gilding. Measuring 28 x 25mm. Circa 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Monday 6th January 2014
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Record ID: NMS-F1E5F4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle frame. Double-oval loop, flat back, convex front, pin missing. Measuring 22 x 18mm. 14th - 16th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2013
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-DEE1B5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age or Early Roman copper alloy strap-slide. Circular openwork plate consisting of an oval-sectioned frame with two conjoined roundels forming a bar across the centre with pelta-shaped apertures to either side. There is an engraved line around the outer edge of the frame, which is slightly damaged and corroded in places. Each roundel has a central round cell filled with well-preserved yellow enamel surrounded by a circular cell retaining corroded red enamel. On the revers in line with the roundels is a rectangular, D-sectioned loop, the flat face inwards. Diameter 30.5mm.…
Created on: Thursday 21st November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-CA9968
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Seven Post-medieval silver coins found in a small area. They form a closely-dated group, ranging from a groat of Mary I (1553-4) to a sixpence of Elizabeth I (1575). It is difficult to see this group as anything other than a dispersed hoard, most likely the contents of a lost purse. Wear patterns are generally consistent with such an interpretation, the older coins showing more signs of wear than the later ones. The groat of Mary has seen little wear, probably the result of it having not spent much of its life (before loss) in circulation. The coins are (all Tower mint, London): …
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 3rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-B91335
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Early Neolithic leaf-shaped arrow head, of poor workmanship, formed on a secondary flake, with steep retouch, the bulb removed. Unpatinated dark brown flint. Length 35mm. Width 38mm. Thickness 5.5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-B8E901
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two primary flint flakes, one missing distal end. Length 41 and 36mm. Undatable Late Prehistoric.
Created on: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-B3C5E2
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two flint flakes. Median section of a secondary flake, broken at both ends. Length 27mm. Secondary flake with later damage. Length 63mm. Late Prehistoric (Neolithic - Bronze Age).
Created on: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-399617
Object type: BRASS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval fragment of monumental brass. Broken across a black letter inscription, now indecipherable as only the upper part of four or five letters survives. One original edge angled towards the reverse, two long edges broken along deep cast grooves with a third groove surviving between which would have acted as keying to help secure the plate to a wall. Surviving dimensions 50 x 17.5mm. Thickness 3mm. Weight 16.2g. 14th - early 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 14th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burnham Norton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-33C6F1
Object type: LOCKET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete heart-shaped silver, gilded and enamelled pendant locket with filigree decoration. Openwork front-plate with ten small circular holes between cells outlined in twisted wire consisting of a large elongated trefoil formed from three cells which taper to meet at a trefoil cell with rounded foils, two quatrefoils, and two annulets which contain white enamel. All the cells probably originally contained enamel, now missing. Two strands of wire, an inner straight strand and an outer twisted strand, form a border around the edge. The side of the pendant is formed from a separa…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burnham Norton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-20BF31
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six coins, found in a very small area. All are sterling issues of Edward I and II, together with a sterling of Robert of Bethune. Given the fact that these coins were found so close together and are similar in date, it seems likely that they represent a purse loss at some stage in the third or fourth decade of the 14th century. Wear patterns are broadly consistent with this explanation. Edward I, penny, London, class 2a, North 1014, weight 1.18g, 1280 (no. 1) Edward I, penny, London, class 4b, North 1024, weight 0.95g, 1282-9 (no. 2) Edward I, penny, Canterbury, class 10cf3a,…
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CF0A11
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments of Late Bronze Age objects found 10 meters apart and probably forming part of a dispersed hoard. 1. Fragment of socketed axe head. A tiny section of the moulded mouth with a narrow moulding below, D-sectioned loop and broken, irregular part of one side and face. Internal casting seam on one face and external casting seam above loop. Breaks irregular, ancient and quite worn. Surviving length 41mm. Surviving width 35mm. Weight 27.0g. 2. Possible fragment from an axe head or other copper alloy object, consistent with bronze objects of a similar date to No. 1. Wedge-sh…
Created on: Friday 8th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
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Record ID: NMS-A233A7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two undated lead weights. Circularm with convex sides and a large central hole. Diameter 17mm. Height 10mm. Weight 12.2g. Conical, irregular off-centre hole in base, impressed / incised cross at apex. Height 31mm. Diameter 16 - 19mm. Weight 35.7g.
Created on: Wednesday 6th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 6th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-A20842
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy mount. Central lozengiform plate with lozengiform aperture and flange around the edge, broken at one end, with an openwork figure-of-eight and pointed terminal at the other. On the reverse of the pointed terminal is the stub of an integral attachment spike. Surviving length 39mm (56mm reconstructed if symetrical), width 17mm. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 6th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 6th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-A0C9D3
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness pendant and suspension unit. Sheet suspension unit with rounded ends folded widthways across a slot to hold a copper alloy axis bar which passes through the transverse pierced suspension lug of the pendant. Hollow-backed, equal-armed cruciform pendant, each arm with a median arris and straight terminals, with a central perforation probably for a separate decorative rivet or stud, now missing. Very slight traces of gilding on the pendant. Pendant 37 x 26mm. Suspension unit 19 x 11mm. 12th century.
Created on: Wednesday 6th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2017
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Record ID: NMS-91F3E0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval incomplete copper alloy buckle. Broken across narrowed D-sectioned bar, large transverse ridge across frame at end of bar further deffined by filed grooves to either side, with only very short lengths of two sides of the D-sectioned double-looped frame surviving. \Pin, end of bar and most of frame missing. Although only a fragment survives, this would of an originally have been a very large example of a relatively common form. Measuring at least 40 x 43mm. For smaller but similar examples see Egan and Pritchard (2002, 88, fig.54, no.380 and 386). 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 6th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-91CBE2
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval handle from furniture. Baluster-shaped either side of a central moulding flanked on either side by a pair of narrow collars. Broken at both ends. Late 16th - 18th century, probably later in this range. Length 73mm. Maximum diameter 9mm.
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 5th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-90D105
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two non-joining fragments of Medieval or Post-medieval copper alloy cooking pots. One fragment of everted and thickened rim, not enough surviving to estimate diameter. One cast, worn and damaged vessel foot with sub-triangular section and traces of sooting. Foot measures 59mm x 37mm. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 5th November 2013
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Record ID: NMS-8C8BC5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle plate. Rectangular plate, folded widthways, recessed for the frame, the back-plate much smaller than the front plate and secured by two of the originally five rivets through the front-plate, the central one of which is now missing. There are slight traces of gilding and an engraved zig-zag line behind the bar. Pin and most of frame missing, circular-sectioned bar surviving. Length 38mm. Width 28mm. 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-8C6931
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny, very worn fragment of copper alloy Roman bow brooch. C-sectioned wings with no original edge surviving and a short section of the D-sectioned bow now worn to a point only. Most of bow, catch-plate, spring and pin missing. 1st - 2nd century AD. Surviving length 10mm. Surviving width 13mm.
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-37F7D3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age hoard consisting of 17 objects or fragments of objects discovered during metal-detecting in an area "8 paces by 10 paces" in plough soil. None of the fragments join and none seem likely to be parts of the same object. It is highly likely that two socketed axe heads previously recorded from the same area in 1988 and 1955 also formed part of this hoard, and also possible that a palstave axe head found in the same area in 1969 formed part of the original deposit. All the aforementioned finds are recorded on Norfolk County Council Historic Environment Record (No. 24951).…
Created on: Friday 1st November 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-243882
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver eyelet dress fastener. Cast on low relief in the form of a bearded face with two curved triangular projections to either side, perhaps representing long hair. There are two integrally cast circular loops, one to either side of the chin and a larger loop above the head. The reverse is flat and there is no trace of gilding. Measuring 13 x 13mm, 2mm thick and weighing 1.1g. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 31st October 2013
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cantley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E68F23
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified silver object, probably openwork and perhaps a frame. Flat-sectioned, curved bar broken at one end, expanding at the other to form an openwork circular aperture across which is a further break. There are two breaks on opposite edges, one near the circular aperture and one next to the transverse break, flush with the surface. Both faces are endgraved with a border of stamped triangles along either edge and a single line around the circular aperture,. On one face there is a stamped maker's mark ST within a rectangle before an engraved inscription DEO R[ and on the opposite …
Created on: Monday 28th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 17th December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-7CD950
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Neolithic tertiary flint flake, pale mottled grey, some slight retouch. Length 86mm. Width 45mm.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holme Hale', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-664F26
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular secondary flint flake with possible retouch. Undateable prehistoric. Length 54mm Width 76mm.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd October 2013
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Record ID: NMS-65F0C1
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval lead cloth seal. Two of originally four discs. Possible star or sun // illegible. Diameter of surviving disc 15mm. 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd October 2013
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Record ID: NMS-651A18
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy plate probably from buckle or strap-end. Rectangular, transverse break at both ends one across a rivet hole, with an engraved zig-zag line along each surviving original edge. Surviving length 27mm. Width 21mm. Thickness 1mm.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd October 2013
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Record ID: NMS-5322B4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead weight. Discoidal, with a very worn crown in low relief overstamped with a cross formed from four semicircular impressions. The letters below the crown are now too worn to read. Diameter 27mm. Thickness 5.5mm. Weight 25.8g / 0.9oz. Probably 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Monday 21st October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2016
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Record ID: NMS-531041
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy key. Oval bow, perhaps with two internal projections now obscured by corrosion, collared oval-sectioned shank with narrowed pin projecting beyond simple rectangular bit. Length 34mm. Bow 16 x 12mm. Bit 8 x 6 x 3mm.
Created on: Monday 21st October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2016
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Record ID: NMS-527424
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy shield-shaped strap-end with C-sectioned transverse bar at attachment edge secured by two rivets with circular roves on the reverse. Concave constrictions on either side before rounded end. There is a single rivet without head or roves near the terminal. Length 21.5mm. Width 17mm. See Egan and Pritchard (2002, 157, fig.103, nos.735 and 737) for similar examples. Probably for use with a folding strap-clasp. c. 14th century.
Created on: Monday 21st October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-5128E1Z
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval cast, copper alloy vessel foot. Triangular-sectioned with slight transverse swelling on front faces before slightly expanded foot. Surviving length 35mm. Width 20mm. Depth 12mm. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Monday 21st October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2016
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Record ID: NMS-11C9B2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Circular with flat-back, convex front and central hole. Diameter 26mm. Height 10mm. Weight 30.2g (10.6oz, 0.97ozt).
Created on: Friday 18th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 18th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1164D7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Triangular plate with slightly curved projection on either side before hooked terminal, the tip of which is missing. The plate is drilled for the separate iron spindle with a slot for the pin, which is filled with iron corrosion from the spindle and possibly from the corroded remains of an iron pin. Length 30mm. Width 15mm. See Whitehead (2003, 92 - 93, no.578, 588 - 590 and 592) for buckles with hooked plates. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 18th October 2013
Last updated: Saturday 19th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-113435
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible lace tag or chape. Cone of rolled copper alloy with overlapping seam and open end. Length 25mm. Medieval - post-medieval.
Created on: Friday 18th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 18th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-111E07
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Two non-joining outside edges apparently from the same double-looped frame; triangular, with a transverse groove for the pin rest and a rounded knop at either end. Most of the sides, bar and pin missing. See Whitehead (2003, 83, no.522) for a complete example. Width 43mm.
Created on: Friday 18th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 18th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-10ED56
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Rectangular frame with thickened outside edge. Measuring 15 x 16mm. See Egan and Pritchard (2002, 96, fig.61, no.434 - 439). c. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 18th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 18th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-10D9E5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-oval frame, ridge on frame at either end of bar, flat back, convex front. Sheet pin with bevelled edges and sharp point. Measuring 32 x 24mm. See Whitehead (2003, 54, no.303, 304 and 307). 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Friday 18th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 18th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-FFFFF4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy double oval buckle frame. One loop complete but broken. The outside edge is segmented by transverse grooves. Pin missing. Measuring 28 x 25mm.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-FF24C3
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy purse bar. Circular-sectioned bar, the terminals missing, with central sub-rectangular boss engraved on one face with five splayed lines and pierced vertically for the shank of the suspension loop. Almost all of the suspension loop is missing, the shank terminating in a rove with angled sides. Surviving width 72mm. Surviving height 27mm. Thickness (of boss) 9mm. Very similar to an example from Gloucestershire (SUR-F3BDB8).
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
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Record ID: NMS-FE8952
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy casket mount or binding strip, highly corroded. Transverse and angled mouldings at either end of a section of triangular-sectioned bar, broken accross a rivet hole at one end, with a flat-sectioned terminal with two rivet holes at the other. Slight traces of gilding survive on the otherwise corroded surface. Surviving length 65mm. Width 10mm. 12th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 8th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-FE2CF5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Extremely worn and corroded fragemnt of copper alloy Roman bow brooch. Wings missing, reverse of head slightly concave, spring and pin missing, shallow D-sectioned bow, lower half of bow and catch-plate missing. Breaks ancient. Surviving length 22mm Probably 1st century AD.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
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Record ID: NMS-FE1FA4
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval escutcheon plate for drop-handle. Sexfoil with rounded projection at the terminal of each foil, domed towards the centre with slightly irregular central hole surrounded by traces of iron corrosion. Diameter 36mm. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
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Record ID: NMS-FD87B3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy sprung dolphin brooch. Undecorated C-sectioned wings, triangular-sectioned bow with concve sides and flat upper face, with a median ridge at the upper end. Almost complete triangular catch-plate with triangular aperture. Blunt-ended foot. Double pierced lug retains the spring with four coils on one side and five on the other. Pin missing. 1st century AD. Length 36mm. Width 23mm.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 8th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-FC8143
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded and distorted medieval copper alloy key. Hollow-ended shank, incomplete simple wedge-shaped bit, oval-sectioned shank collared before lozengiform bow with circular aperture and collared knops projecting from each corner. 1200 - 1500. Length 41mm. Bow at least 18 x 19mm. Bit at least 6 x 8mm.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C179C1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon silver tongue-shaped strap-end of Thomas's Class E, Type 5, apparently re-used as a brooch. The attachment edge is recessed on the front, with a separate rectangular front-plate to secure the (missing) strap. It is attached with four rivets with rounded heads (one head missing), each surrounded by an annulet made from twisted silver wire. The plate is cast in low relief within a border following the edge consisting of a pair of ridges separated by a groove; a small length of niello survives in the groove, in the centre at the top. Within this border is a sunken field f…
Created on: Monday 14th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 12th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tharston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C0DF91
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver hooked tag of middle or late Anglo-Saxon date. The plate is circular with two circular piercings for attachment close together towards the top. The hook is short and rectangular-sectioned, with the tip missing. The plate is decorated with a central repoussé boss (hollow on the reverse) with an engraved line around it partly filled with niello inlay. From this radiate six engraved lines, again partly filled with niello, which join an outer engraved circle. These lines were probably intended as pairs forming the lower and two side arms of a cross; where the upper ar…
Created on: Monday 14th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 24th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BFEEA4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman gold finger ring. Flat-sectioned band expanding smoothly from the rear to the bezel with a separate strip of gold soldered to form an oval setting for a cabouchon stone, probably garnet, which appears black in daylight, but red under strong light. The ring is complete but distorted. Mid - late Roman, 200 - 400 AD. Width at bezel 7.5mm. Weight 4.6g. Original external diameter (estimated) 16mm. For similar rings with flat, expanding bands and separate settings or bezels, see FAPJW-AB59E5, LIN-22EEF2 and NCL-772344.
Created on: Monday 14th October 2013
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Ellingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BF8406
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of medieval silver finger ring. Only the bezel survives, narrowing from the centre to the breaks at either side. Engraved with clasped hands with traces of gilding on the outer face, and slight traces at the edge of the inner face. Original external diameter (estimated) 15mm. Width 7.5mm. Weight 0.7g. Late medieval, 1300 - 1500.
Created on: Monday 14th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roudham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BD3138
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver, gilded pin. Globular head decorated with a large central pellet and four twisted wire annulets with central pellets in the upper half, a median band of two strands of twisted wire, and four wire annulets each containing a smaller wire annulet around the broken circular-sectioned shank in the lower half. Gilding survives on the head and possibly the shank. 16th century. A very small example of this type of pin. Diameter of head 5mm. Height of head 7mm. Diameter of shank 1mm. Weight 0.4g. TL field
Created on: Monday 14th October 2013
Last updated: Monday 16th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2E7826
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver, gilded dress fastener hook or eye plate. Sub-triangular plate with one long, straight edge which projects slightly beyond the shorter sides at either end, and four projecting pierced lugs for attachment. The plate is slightly concave on the reverse and convex on the front. Decoration consists of a line of pellets and twisted wire along the straight edge, a twisted wire annulet around each piercing, and a double strand of twisted wire forming a heart around three smaller hearts with a larger pellet at their conjoined points in the centre of the plate. A pair …
Created on: Monday 7th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-8125B4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy double-oval buckle frame, one loop almost completely missing. Rectangular sheet plate folded widthways with slot for pin and two rivet holes, one retaining a copper alloy rivet, at attachment edge. Iron staining on bar and outside edge probably from missing pin. Frame (reconstructed ) 30 x 26mm. Plate 23 x 16.5mm. 13th - 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th September 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 17th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-32AF17
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver finger ring. Very slender D-sectioned band expanding only slightly before narrow transverse ribs forming shoulders either side of a collet retaining a cabochon, probably amethyst or perhaps glass. Faint traces of gilding around the shoulders and bezel. Height 23mm. Width 21mm. Internal width 18mm. Weight 0.9g. For similar examples see KENT-56F957 and NMS-F2F921. c. 13th century.
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 30th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3260F5
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a silver cuff-link. Distorted disc with down-turned edges and separate soldered wire loop and a stamped maker's mark, now very work and uncertain on the reverse. Weight: 1.6 g Diameter: 21 mm
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-31D763
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver pin from brooch or buckle. Cast, oval-sectioned, the point now bent over and recessed on the reverse for the (missing) frame, collar covered with multiple overlapping stamped annulets before loop. Length 22mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stradsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-310732
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver ferrule, now broken and folded. Straight upper edge with short alternating angled lines above a single line border, with a second single line before the lower scalloped edge. Between the borders the initials J • H followed by a decorative serife are pecked out in multiple dots.17th - 18th century. Width 16.5mm. Thickness less than 1mm. Weight 6.2g.
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-305676
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a post-medieval silver cuff-link. Disc with clasped hands, a pair of hearts below and a crown above, in very low relief reserved on a stippled field, within a multifoil border which forms a narrow flange, the outer edge of which is damaged. Separate soldered wire loop on the reverse. Diameter 14mm. Weight 0.77g.
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2F65A0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late medieval or post-medieval silver finger ring, broken at both ends and partially straightened, with traces of pale gilding surviving on one face, probably the internal face. Inscribed ]*GOD * IS * A[ on probably the internal face, and ]T E * I * H O[ on the probably external face, which is worn and damaged with multiple scratch marks. An English inscription in roman capitals suggests a 16th or 17th century date. Width of band 5.5mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Weight 1.8g.
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lingwood and Burlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2F0775
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold finger ring. Flat-sectioned band inscribed externally in black letter: + tut * dys * en * ioye The cross may mark the start of the inscription, with an eight petalled flower or star separating the other words. There is no trace of enamel or niello surviving. External diameter 19mm. Internal diameter 18mm. Width of band 5mm. Weight 2.8g. For similar rings with engraved stars, flowers or sunbursts and black letter inscription see WAW-70FD41, DUR-FA3454, LANCUM-082840, and also ESS-FA2D57 which has a possibly similar internal inscription. Late 14th - 15th cen…
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foxley', grid reference and parish protected.