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
Spatial data recorded.

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-3EF493
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Marham, Norfolk (also see summary of the hoard at IARCH-677D3D). This record covers 14 copper alloy radiates of Carausius (7) and Allectus (7) discovered in 2013 (2013T420) and a further 8 coins discovered in 2014 (2014T836). The latest addition has been recorded separately at NMS-F5793C (2016T821) and brings the total number of coins up to 27. Catalogue: Carausius IMP CARAV[...], Radiate, cuirassed bust right. Reverse [...], female, perhaps Pax with transverse sceptre, left. Mintmark and further details illegible, weight 2.07g IMP C CARAVSIVS P F AVG, Radiate…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4F31C2
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified and undated object, possibly an ingot. Silver bar with shallow D-shaped section, complete and rounded at one end, bent and broken at the other with a possible cut mark next to the break on the reverse. The broken surface is granular. Surviving dimensions: length 32.5mm, width 9.5mm, thickness 4mm. Weight 8.73g.
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2016
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-0BF886
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Three fragments of a medieval silver sheet object, possibly a scabbard chape, dating to c. AD 1200-1300. All three are decorated on one face with fields defined by engraved lines and filled with either rocker-arm engraving or niello. The other face is undecorated. The original find was too fragmentary to discern a possible pattern; the addition of two joining pieces show that there appears to be an abstract foliate design. Fragment 1: No original edge, broken across at least one rivet or attachment hole. The fragment is too small to determine what the decoration depi…
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2016
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-76E572
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver mount. A conical sexfoil with a central hole, now slightly squashed. Each foil has a longitudinal arris, with an engraved line terminating in a notch at the edge separating each foil. Height 9mm. Base 14 x 16mm. Weight 0.8g.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wragby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-828E17
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of decorated silver sheet, tapering, broken across one end and convex at the other, with both long sides missing. The object is now quite flat but four pairs of longitudinal engraved lines mark what would have been the edges of facets of a tube of polygonal section, probably the handle cover of a whittle-tang knife. Only a very small part of one facet survives. The central extant facet is engraved with scroll work along its full length. This issues from the open mouth of a wolf-like head at the convex end, and other foliage continues onto the adjacent parts of the flanking …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Saturday 6th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-21BDCB
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Undated gold finger ring. Sheet band with median repoussé rib. There are at least two transverse creases which may indicate a join but the ring is slightly distorted, making this uncertain. Dimensions: External diameter 20mm. Width of band 7.5mm. Weight 2.29g. Discussion: Images of the ring have been seen by British Museum curators including Gillian Varndell, Neil Wilkin, Richard Hobbs and Barry Ager, and they have concluded that it cannot securely be dated to any particular period. It must therefore remain undated, and so does not fall under the provisions of …
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 4th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A00F04
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
59 silver denarii ranging in date from issues of the Roman Republic to those of Tiberius. The coins were found scattered over a relatively small area and clearly represent part of a hoard scattered by agricultural activity. Wear patterns are consistent with this, the older coins generally being the most worn. Dating is difficult and one's initial reaction is to connect this hoard to the Roman invasion of AD43. However, the latest coins, those of Tiberius, still show some wear and had plainly circulated for a number of years. It seems more likely, on the balance of probabilities, that …
Created on: Monday 19th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C46BC8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman silver penannular snake-headed finger ring, less than half survives. Oval snake head, convex on the upper face with moulded ridges and grooves indicating stylized features, and a slight flange around the edge. The sub-rectangular-sectioned band narrows slightly towards the break. Johns (1996, 45, fig.3.3) Type Bii. Roman. Probably 1st - 2nd century. Weight 2.1g. Width of head 9mm..
Created on: Wednesday 3rd October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9F99E1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silver belt mount with an integral rivet on the reverse. Flat with bevelled edges and tapering gently from a complete end to a break across a rounded aperture. On the front a lower case black-letter a is reserved on a cross-hatched ground. 15th century.
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9FB324
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded silver, flat, rectangular bar-mount, with four rivet holes (one incomplete). Gilding is confined to one face. 13th - 14th century
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4B14D5
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver-gilt cap-hook. Circular back-plate with separate soldered domed front decorated with twisted filigree wire and pellets. Three large circles of wire, each containing a central pellet (one surviving) with wire annulet, surrounded by six (in one circle) and seven (in two) further wire annulets. Around the edge between each of the large wire circles is a pellet surrounded by a wire annulet with three pellets around the edge. There is a large central pellet at the apex of the domed front-plate. On the reverse is a separate soldered circular-sectioned hook, now bro…
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2012
Last updated: Sunday 31st May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tacolneston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9D4408
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Anglo-Saxon silver and copper-alloy boss from unidentified object. Domed, formed from three layers; an upper silver decorated dome over a layer of corroded copper alloy before a further silver layer. Parts of the edge of the upper silver dome may be original, but the lower two layers have no original surviving edge. Decorated with a triquetra in very low relief within a border defined by engraved lines, with gilding surviving between the raised lines. Dimensions: Surviving diameter 14-16mm. Height at least 9mm. Weight 5.2g. Discussion: The function and identity …
Created on: Monday 16th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 28th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6228C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver annular brooch or buckle. Slightly angled sheet frame with a narrow rib on the inner and outer edge of the frame (convex on the front, concave on the reverse) with a circular piercing for the pin. A maker's mark GG is stamped on th upper face of the pin. There is a stamped hallmark on the reverse of the frame, consisting of three stamps, an unidentified stamp (perhaps a bust, but very worn), a standard mark consisting lion passant guardant within a frame with angled upper corners and a bi-concave lower edge, and a date letter t within an oval. External diamet…
Created on: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 20th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

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

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

Record ID: NMS-EB64B8
Object type: NECKLACE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman flat, gold openwork link or part of clasp, probably from a necklace or similar item of jewellery. Formed from rectangular-sectioned cut strips of gold, an originally oval or circular frame around three pelta-shaped strips arranged with curved backs meeting in the centre and spiralled ends touching the frame. There is a circular suspension loop on the outside of the frame at one end retaining a fragment of knotted circular-sectioned wire, and a broken loop at the opposite end. Surviving length 17mm. Surviving width 10mm. Thickness 1mm. Weight 0.6g. See a rectangular lin…
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 29th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E97505
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval gold finger ring. D-sectioned band, plain externally, inscribed internally ∙ I ∙ LIVE ∙ IN ∙ HOPE ∙ with no maker's mark. External measurements 19 x 20mm. Internal measurements 16 x 17.5mm. Width of band 4mm. Thickness of band 1mm. Weight 3.1g. Very similar to a 17th - 18th century finger ring in the collections of the British Museum (Museum Number 1961,1202.410), with the same inscription, the words of the inscription separated by stars. English inscriptions in roman capitals became more common from the mid 16th century and many examples are known. M…
Created on: Thursday 11th July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-90B133
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age coin hoard consisting of two gold staters. Both are Norfolk wolf staters, so-called JB types with a left facing wolf (Cottam et al 2010, Ancient British Coinage, p.78, no.1399). The two coins were found approximately 40 yards apart and they must represent part of a dispersed coin hoard. The larger, paler example weighs 5.14g, the smaller, darker coin 5.27g. The coins were made between about 50-20 BC. Date of loss of deposition will have been in the closing decades of the first century BC, c.30-10BC
Created on: Thursday 25th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wighton', grid reference and parish protected.