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Record ID: NMS-DC8805
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy dress hook. Rectangular attachment loop, Circular openwork plate, now damaged, in the form of a cabled border around three or four flowers cast in low relief, complete sharp-pointed hook. Distorted. Length 33mm. Width 17mm. See Read (2008), 100, no.375. 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 4th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 4th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7F66D0
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver dress pin of the bodkin type, bent several times throughout the length. The shank is of flattened hexagonal section and is engraved on both broad faces towards the upper end with a foliar motif within an elongated triangle. Above this the cross-section becomes rectangular and then two pairs of grooves flank a engraved saltire with central annulet on both broad faces and a rounded profile on the barrow sides. Above this a standard rectangular slot lies below another pair of grooves. Then a round aperture, probably for attachment, is surrounded by sets of radial gro…
Created on: Friday 14th October 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bodham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-248F38
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description of objects Hoard of Iron Age metalwork 1st century BC - mid 1st century AD. 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 …
Created on: Thursday 20th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-27F534
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Barbed and tanged arrowhead. Sutton type, with pointed barbs and rounded tang, the point is intact. Large area on each face of original flake from which it was formed, both lateral edges flaked bifacially. Thickness 4mm. Probably a hunting loss as this is an arrowhead intended for use. Early Bronze Age.
Created on: Thursday 20th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F6F473
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Polished Axe, dimensions: 169 x 61 x 34mm. Highly ground and polished all over, with only a few faint flake scars visible at the lateral edges and rounded butt: the sides are ground round rather than flat. The curved cutting edge is sharp with only one ancient chip, while a recent small chip reveals pale grey flint. The axe is patinated light brown with some buff areas. Found in the 1960's and subsequently used as a paperweight. Neolithic (4,000 to 2,350BC)
Created on: Friday 11th April 2008
Last updated: Friday 31st August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wretton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-102E38
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Miniature copper alloy terret ring (harness fitting). D-shaped section which thins and narrows slightly towards the top, rectangular sectioned attachment bar with moulded ridge at either end. Slightly pitted surface. Internal measurements 21 x 17mm, external measurements 31 x 27mm. Cf. Hutcheson, 2004, 131, no.85 and 88. Late Iron Age.
Created on: Thursday 12th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Snoring', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7F01C7
Object type: COMB
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a double-sided composite antler comb, comprising most of a complete end-plate with two original edges. The end-plate has the remains of broken teeth on both sides, with a broad end and single rivet-hole. The teeth on both sides are evenly set 2.5 mm apart. The end-plate measures 25 x 41mm. The comb is early-medieval and although it is not impossible that it is late in this period, it is more likely to date from the fifth to eighth centuries (MacGregor 1985, 92-95).
Created on: Thursday 4th June 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-262A62
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age, 1400-1200 BC. Measuring >30 x >113mm. Fragment of copper alloy rapier. The blade is broken at both ends with the remains of two rivet-holes in the hafting-plate. There is a flat median rib and the edges are damaged. A palstave (without loop, with a shield pattern on the blade which is defined on the sides by shoulders, measuring 135mm long, blade width 64mm, max. width of butt 22mm. Cf. Savory, 1980, 169, fig.21, no.148 for a similar example) was found at the same site in 1990, and it is therefore possible that these two items are part of a hoard.
Created on: Friday 12th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 24th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hockering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-27D9C2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sword fragment - Tip of blade with very straight sides and flattened oval in section. Bevelled for the cutting edge, which is slightly damaged along both sides. Light brown patination, except near the break where the blade is slightly bent and the surface green and slightly corroded. Width at break 35mm, length at least 117mm. Spear - Tip of socketed spear, broken before base of socket. The median rib is prominent and the edges bevelled. The tip is bent sideways in a slight curve. Most of the surface is covered with orange-brown patination or corrosion, which also covered the break.
Created on: Friday 12th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2011
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Record ID: NMS-768695
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold signet ring with a D-sectioned hoop, the shoulders decorated with engraved foliar motifs and an oval bezel with an owl displayed a crescent moon in dexter base, within a pelleted border. 15th - early 16th century. Bezel 18 x 13.5mm. Minimum width of hoop 3.5mm. Internal diameter 19.5 - 22mm. Weight 15.06g.
Created on: Tuesday 16th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 20th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swannington', grid reference and parish protected.