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Record ID: NMS-F597B6
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Romano-British copper alloy protected-loop terret. Just over half of the circular-sectioned ring, which springs from a collar with a deep groove on each long face, is missing. Almost all of the original edge of the skirt is missing, the one short section of surviving edge possibly suggesting a multifoil form, with a curved, round-sectioned attachment loop benieth. The surviving part of the ring, which does not appear to be distorted, shows the loop was a shallow oval. Surviving height 32mm. Surviving length and width of skirt 32mm and 24mm. Late 1st century.
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2018
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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-E5D314
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy prick spur with a high tin content and tin enriched surface giving silvered appearance. It is a 'rivet-spur' type with a heel-plate containing the corroded remains of iron goad. The point is missing, and it has a slightly domed head on reverse. The object is rectangular-sectioned with a broken hook above and bifurcated decorative lobe below. The sides are chamfered and triangular sectioned, with rectangular sectioned grooved transverse bar at both juntions, with flat-sectioned perforated discoidal terminals, one of which retains the corroded remains of a large circular he…
Created on: Friday 4th January 2008
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F1A8E7
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold pendant. Sub-triangular, hollow, originally rectangular sectioned but now concave on both faces. The front and back plate and double ribbed suspension loop are formed from the same piece of metal sheet folded over, with a separate double ribbed repoussé sheet forming the sides, the ends of which join under the loop. Filigree decoration in the form of six closely spaced 'S' shaped scrolls not arranged symmetrically, and a length of wire following the edge of the pendant with inward curled ends near the top, is fused to the surface. Similar S-shaped filigree scrolls can be seen on…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Dersingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1CD0DD
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy cosmetic mortar. Circilar end loop, plain bow with slightly concave upper face, with a shallow, U-shaped groove and collared knobbed terminal. Length 50mm. Width 10mm. Maximum depth of bow 14mm. Weight 18.6g. For a similar broadly example see NMS-6AD275. Circa 43 - 300AD.
Created on: Wednesday 18th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018
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Record ID: NMS-1A8CC2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, off-set narrowed bar, pin missing. The surface is grey with file marks on the bar and is either white metal coated or has a high white metal content. There is a deep grooved casting flaw around part of the inside of the outside edge and a casting seam around most of the outside edge. Possibly unfinished. Measuring 14 x 15mm. 12th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 18th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018
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Record ID: NMS-1A3DF2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, off-set narrowed bar, flat-sectioned outside edge decorated with two pairs of opposed spirals or scrolls. Rectangular plate folded widthways, recessed for the frame, slot for the sheet pin, the back-plate smaller than the front-plate with two rivets at the attachment edge. The plate is decorated with a lion passant guardant in low relief on a stippled ground. The surface is very corroded but gilding survives on the frame and plate. Late 12th - 13th century. Frame measuring 13 x 17mm. Plate 20 x 13mm. Combined length 30mm.
Created on: Wednesday 18th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018
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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-1AE5DC
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness suspension mount. Domed quatrefoil with circular-sectioned rivet on the reverse and a broken and unfolded loop below, originally bent to hold an axis bar (now missing) from which a pendant would have been suspended. Width 17mm Surviving length 33mm. For a more elaborate and better preserved sexfoil example see NMS-B80A63, and a circular example NMS-DC0E95. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 18th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 22nd March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-236202
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver hawking vervel. D-sectioned band, the convex face inwards, engraved externally BILNGFORD IN NOR presumably for Billingford. There is a faint transverse line between the G and E indicating the join in the ring, and the remains of a very worn and now indecipherable mark between the R and B, perhaps a maker's mark. External diameter 11mm. Internal diameter 9mm. Width of band 2.5mm. Weight 0.57g. Circa 17th century. Discussion: Vervels were fixed to the leather jesses on the feet of birds of prey and may have served as points of attachment for the leash. They often…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2016
Last updated: Friday 16th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-870EB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch. Extremely worn, slightly convex fron decorated with a narrow border around extremely worn Jellinge-style animal ornament in low relief around a central pellet or boss, the details of which are uncertain. Flat reverse with remains of double pin lug, worn loop at right angles to the edge opf the plate and slight raied scar from catch-plate. Pin missing. Diameter 25mm. 10th century. Of Jansson's type I E (Kershaw 2013, 114-116).
Created on: Monday 24th June 2013
Last updated: Monday 5th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-92F628
Object type: AXE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Polished axe in dark grey mottled glossy flint with negligible patination. Polished extensively on one face from the broad blade up the central area to the square butt and with one lateral edge rounded slightly along its whole length, the other only toward the butt. The opposed face is only polished at the extreme edge of the cutting edge and is otherwise neatly finished by shallow re-touch flaking. The elegant shape suggests that this is a flint copy of an Early Bronze Age flat axe, and the shallow invasive flaking is also typical of this transitional period. Almost certainly Late Ne…
Created on: Thursday 29th January 2004
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Briston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6C4A15
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Iron Age copper alloy socketed leather-working knife. The socket tapers towards a pair of transverse mouldings before flaring for the widley splayed blade, which thins towards the missing cutting edge. The upper part of the socket, and the cutting edge are missing, with irregular breaks. There is an orange / brown patina over the surface. Length at least 45mm. Width of cutting edge at least 35mm. Length of blade at least 26mm. Length of socket at least 19mm. Maximum surviving external diameter of socket 12mm. Cf. Savory (1980, fig.45, no.3 - 6).
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2011
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-73CD11
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete Borre-style composite openwork gold lozengiform brooch of the late Anglo-Saxon period, now in four joining pieces, with some distortion and damage to the broken edges and one terminal missing. The front-plate is convex with a sheet back-plate producing a hollow brooch, with slightly concave sides, each corner rounded, with originally four small, circular holes arranged in a central square. Across one terminal on the reverse is an incomplete rectangular gold strip originally folded in the centre and now broken flush with the reverse of the brooch, probably origi…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-139107
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two pennies, both smaller profile/ cross and annulets types of Henry I Henry I penny, smaller profile/cross and annulets type, obverse hENRICVS, bust left crowned, rosette in left field, reverse STANNARD:ON:NO, moneyer Stannard of Norwich, North 868, weight 1.38g, c.1119. Henry I penny, smaller profile/cross and annulets type, obverse [...]E[...]RICVS[...], bust left crowned, rosette in left field, reverse ALVARD :[ON:T]E, moneyer Alvard of Thetford, North 868, weight 0.74g, c.1119 The coins were found close together and it is almost certain that they represent part of a disp…
Created on: Monday 16th November 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A3D843
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lower Palaeolithic flint hand axe in mottled brown flint. Plano-convex, heavy butted, pointed tip missing, the break patinated light brown. Fresh, unrolled condition with only slight damage to edges. Surviving length 152mm. Maximum width 90mm. Maximum thickness 38mm.
Created on: Monday 21st November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-5BF55E
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
'Handaxe' Dimensions 102 x 62 x 56mm. In blackish flint and of roughly plano-convex section, this biface can be considered as having a rounded butt end and an opposed pointed end, It has a small area of thin weathered cortex on the narrow crest but is otherwise flaked overall. With the pointed end away from the observer, the right side face is formed by two large flake removals and two smaller, the left face by one large removal and several smaller ones. The 'base' has a number of smaller removals and a line of battering along its length The condition is rolled except for the po…
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-39110C
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lower Palaeolithic handaxe of type D (Wymer 1968, 1999.) Hard hammer struck from a suitable flat and slightly irregular nodule of mottled grey and black flint, now unpatinated; both faces have a patch of cortex extant, one appearing as a hollow where the flake removals did not succeed in being deep enough to level the concavity. All the edges and high points of the flake scars are heavily rolled. 143.5 x 80 x 37 mm. Weight: 432g. Found on beach. Recorded and sketched by the late Tony Gregory in 1975.
Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-DF1F07
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy swivel for the attachment of a leash consisting of two rings, both with moulded animal heads clasping a boss. One of these, slightly flatter at the rear, has an integral shank on which the other turns. The two elements still swivel freely. Zoomorphic terminals are quite typical: a recent survey of medieval swivels from Norfolk indicated that twenty-four out of thirty-four examples were so decorated. Such objects were probably used with hounds (Ashley 2006, 105, fig. 1 no.2). Length 46mm. Width 26mm. Internal diameter 16-16.5mm. 12th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B7FBC7
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age razor, probably of Piggott 1946 Class I. Very flat eliptical section with slightly bevelled edges, rounded end and transverse break. None of the original cutting edge survives, the edges of the blade very thin and damaged. Surviving length 31mm. Width at break 28mm. Maximum surviving thickness 2mm.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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