Record ID: NMS-865B3E
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Four base silver radiates fused together in a pile. Given this feature they clearly entered the ground in a similar position and, since they are of base silver, they furnish a case of Treasure. The only legible portions are provided by the face visible at each end of the pile, an obverse of Postumus from his Principal Mint and another of Gallienus from the Gallic Mint operating in the late 250s (with a GALLIENVS.P.F.AVG legend, radiate and cuirassed bust right). Both coins are in sharp condition with little wear and the loss or deposition most probably occurred in the 260s. Three m…
Created on: Wednesday 11th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-5BFD70
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Upper Palaeolithic long blade which appears to be struck with a soft hammer from a single platform core. Flake directions are difficult to observe as the piece is heavily patinated white with some small areas of spotty iron staining. The proximal end is missing, broken recently and revealing unpatinated black flint. One lateral edge has been steeply retouched along its length at a later date, perhaps during the Neolithic or Bronze Age and has a light grey patination. Such re-use is uncommon, but not unknown. It shows that this piece had been lost or discarded and found several th…
Created on: Monday 9th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-5BDEDC
Object type: POLISHED AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic broken part-polished axe of unpatinated mottled grey flint with some small areas of spotty iron staining, approximately half survives. The butt was broken off in antiquity by a transverse bending fracture which has plunged over on to one face removing a large flake. Reconstructed length around 180mm. 92 x 70 x 32mm.
Created on: Monday 9th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-5BC395
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic broken unpolished axe head butt end, broken in antiquity by a transverse bending fracture. It is of mottled grey lightly patinated flint with spotty iron staining and a patch of cortex survives on one face where the axe is constricting towards the ( now missing) cutting edge. Reconstructed length around 125mm. 99 x 43 x 25.5mm.
Created on: Monday 9th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanhoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EFE4B4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver knob from a radiate-headed brooch of early-medieval date. It is roughly D- or U-shaped, with a straight edge where it would have been attached to the headplate. It has cast relief Style I decoration consisting of a raised border inlaid with a longitudinal niello stripe at the attachment edge, conjoined brows also inlaid with a niello stripe, deep pointed-oval eye sockets with raised central pointed-oval pupils each of which has a tiny blind hole, and a worn pellet-like nose from which extends a median rib which divides a second pair of circular eyes or nostrils. Th…
Created on: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 18th May 2018
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Record ID: NMS-EF2EF9
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal. Two discs, now folded in half, the rivet missing. Visible area blank // indecipherable within a beaded border. Diameter 22mm. 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 5th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-DEB91E
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver, gilded belt mount in the form of a conical sexfoil with a slightly flared base and a hole in the apex. The edge of the base has been carefully shaped with a small notch in the centre of each foil with a convex edge to either side and a slightly projecting triangular point between each foil to either side of which the edge is slightly concave. The sides are divided into six vertical facets, each decorated with a median panel of gilded crosshatching which tapers towards the apex and forms a point which meets the notch in the centre of each edge at the base. Diameter …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2016
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Record ID: NMS-DDEE86
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible gold strap-end, buckle-plate or fragment of unidentified object, perhaps a back-plate. Description: Triangular gold sheet with a straight short edge, one slightly curved long edge and one straight long edge. There are two empty holes punched through from one face at the short edge, and two punched through from the opposite face near the rounded point, one of which is through the long straight edge. The slightly asymmetric shape and incomplete hole suggest the object was originally shield-shaped and has been cut longitudinally. One face has peeled back at the right-angle…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
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Record ID: NMS-D8C40D
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A group of four Icenian staters found scattered but in close proximity. All are of the Snettisham or early Freckenham types, suggesting a date of deposition in the late 1st century BC or very early 1st century AD. Catalogue: 1) Freckenham type, so-called Cross, Triad issue, see Rudd ABC 1420, weight 5.14g. 2) Snettisham type, so-called Rings issue, see Rudd 1411, weight 5.36g. 3) Freckenham type, so-called Cross, Triad issue, see Rudd ABC 1420, weight 5.11g 4) Freckenham type, so-called Cross, Triad issue, see Rudd ABC 1420, weight 5.48g.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Runhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C7F92B
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or Post-medieval silver, gilded pendant. Cast in the form of stylised hanging flower in the round, or possible in two halves soldered together with a separate attachment loop, the seam or join partially visible around the edge. Below the rectangular-sectioned suspension loop tendrils or ribs in low relief radiate, separating one pair of smaller and one pair of larger apertures, and projecting as grooves and ribs around the edge. An elongated blunt-pointed terminal with deep angled grooves projects from the lower edge, perhaps forming part of a flower head. The terminal and…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2016
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Record ID: NMS-C3580F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval gold iconographic finger ring. The flat-sectioned hoop, now squashed, has zigzag edges and deep transverse grooves giving the impression of two flat bands twisted around each other, which meet the elongated hexagonal bezel without forming shoulders. The bezel is engraved within a single line border around a nimbed saint wearing a v-necked, belted robe with elbow length sleeves, one hand raised in blessing, the other holding a book or box on which sits the Lamb of God looking over its shoulder at a cross emerging from its back. No seals hang from the book. The sai…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8A5B6D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of the hoop and shoulder of a medieval silver finger ring. Flat-sectioned, expanding smoothly from a break at the side of the hoop to a break probably at the change of angle for the shoulder or at the (missing) bezel. The outer face of the hoop is decorated with alternating angled lines of pellets and ribs, with engraved foliate decoration either side of the final line of pellets which change angle to form a median longitudinal rib forming the start of an originally bi-concave shoulder or bezel. There are slight traces of gilding on the outer face. Surviving length 15mm. Wi…
Created on: Friday 30th May 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holme Hale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7517F1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age hoard described by the finder as being found in an area 'the size of a table top'. Although the patination (darker green with little or no corrosion) and breaks of objects Nos. 1 - 3 are very similar, they do not re-fit. 1. A fragment from the mouth of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe head with a shallow and not well defined moulding at the rim and broken across a second shallow moulding. The breaks are irregular and unabraded but not recent. Now separate, but within socket of another axe (No. 4) when found. It has not been possible to assign the axe to a typological …
Created on: Thursday 29th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-61462C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably the arched bow-section of a Roman crossbow brooch. Consisting of a triangular-sectioned curved copper alloy bar with the flat edge on the outside of the curve and the inner edge slightly rounded. There are ancient transverse breaks at both ends, one of which narrows from the outer face in a sharp curve before the break. Surviving length 48mm. Thickness 7mm. Width of bar 12.5mm. 3rd-4th century AD.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 13th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5FC732
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy prick spur. Central flat, hexagonal boss from the centre of which a short, rectangular-sectioned and pointed integral spike projects. One sub-triangular sectioned arm is complete, the flat surface inwards, angled from the central boss but straight rather than curved to form a once side of a U-shape. There is a very narrow transverse rib before the expanded, faceted terminal which is concave sided and tapers in thickness to the rounded end with two rivet holes one of which retains a copper alloy rivet. The other arm is incomplete and may have been repaired, with a rivet ho…
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5EBEC6
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, Williams Class A, Type 1. Sub-triangular or pentagonal, with an angled flange retaining two corroded iron rivets, two rounded knops on either side, with two more flanking the rounded apex loop. The engraved decoration is a highly simplified version of two addorsed beasts, although the design is so debased the features can no longer be seen. Length 50mm. Width 32mm. 11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5E41D1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy oval buckle frame with internally offset bar with sub rectangular-sectioned copper alloy pin recessed for the frame at the tip. Marzinzik 2003 Type 1.9. Similar to Dover Buckland Grave 156.3 (Evison 1987, fig. 61). Length 10mm. Width 18.5mm. Weighs 1.5g. c.500 - c.675. See NMS-CA3665 (Norfolk HER 30690).
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5DF599
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite strap-end. Rectangular front and back-plates with single rivet at attachment edge, full width sheet spacer, with a small groove on each edge before the terminal which consists of an oval lobe followed by a lozengiform lobe with a second rivet before a trefoil knop at the end. Length 59mm. Width 11.5mm. Circa 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5CBF67
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla, rounded base, almost straight sides, the upper edge complete an crimped together, the surface worn and abraded with only very slight traces of possible decoration, now unintelligible, on one face. The stubs of the missing lugs survive on each side. Length 48mm. Width 25.5mm. Circa 1350 - 1539.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-5C56F1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable bucket mount. Thin rectangular copper alloy sheet with repoussé dots forming a border around the edge and a median longitudinal line, with a piercing in the centre of each short edge. One corner, broken across one of the piercings, is missing and there is possible sooting on the reverse. Length 34mm. Width 12mm. Circa 6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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