Record ID: NMS-76C268
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Bronze Age flat axehead. Butt end missing, narrow, rectangular-sectioned body expanding sharply for crescentic cutting edge. Surface pitted and corroded, particularly at blade. Survivng width of cutting edge 38mm. Surviving length 40mm. Body 20 x 8mm at break.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-73FE82
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of butt end of probable Middle Bronze Age palstave or flanged axehead. Rectangular-sectioned, thickening slightly to transverse break, parallel sides, the flanges damaged and incomplete. Surviving width 25mm. Surviving length 20mm. Surviving maximum thickness 8mm. Breaks ancient and worn.
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D4B883
Object type: CORE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic or Early Bronze discoidal core of unpatinated grey flint, both faces covered in flake scars, with one small patch of cortex remaining. Length 53mm, width 51mm, thickness 25mm.
Created on: Tuesday 14th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 8th December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-B3D123
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of socketed axe. Slightly curved blade (48mm wide), possibly rectangular body at least 32mm long, at least 13.5mm wide. Ancient breaks, dark brown patina flaking off in places, original cutting edge missing. Weighing 54.34g.
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2006
Last updated: Saturday 3rd December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Diss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FEB8BF
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gold sheet object, comprising two joining fragments, probably an earring of Roman date. It is in the shape of a round-shouldered or 'kite-shaped' shield, bent (and probably folded and then unfolded), with three vertical creases and broken along two probable horizontal creases. There is a small perforated lug in the same plane at the apex. The pointed lower end of the shield is missing, and approximately just over half survives. The original edges have a border, perhaps added to reinforce the flimsy sheet. Traces of the damaged repoussé decoration on the …
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leaden Roding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CF8A96
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold mourning ring. D-sectioned band decorated externally with a shallow rib at either edge, between which four oval cells alternate with five quatrefoil cells (resulting in two quatrefoils next to each other). The oval cells contain a raised quatrefoil and the quatrefoil cells a raised pellet, originally reserved on a field of white enamel only traces of which now survive. Each cell is connected to the next by a median rib with two pellets to either side which were also probably reserved on an enamelled field, possible tiny black traces of which survive. The internal Lat…
Created on: Friday 9th May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 1st September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-96AD87
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy bar from an early Anglo-Saxon sleeve-clasp. In the centre are two pairs of transverse grooves with a pair of semi-circular indentations ('notches') in between, together forming a square panel. Above and below this there are rectangular panels with bevelled edges, running to square panels at the terminals. Each of these has traces of transverse lines obscured by a corroded iron rivet. The plate is missing. 7 x 35mm. Although there is no close parallel in Hines's catalogue (1993), the size of the bar, and its division into five panels, closely conforms to the st…
Created on: Friday 11th June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 26th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breckland, Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A13EDD
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon gold C-bracteate. The repoussé decoration depicts a highly stylised horse and over-large bearded male head in profile facing right with four pellets below his triangular nose, a round eye with two lines indicating the lower eyelid and a hairstyle ending with a round coil and tail at the back and a triangle with a spiral in the front. The horse has a triangular ear, gaping mouth and small eye. Between the broad neck and the lower trunk are two dots. Above the large round hip and tail are two further dots. One short hindleg ends in a broad foot. The front legs are detached …
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lessingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A9E816
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT Late 9th - 10th century silver pendant. Description Undecorated silver Thor's hammer pendant, the suspension loop missing. For discussions of this class of Viking object see Treasure Annual Report 2002 no. 44 and Treasure Annual Report 2003, no. 98.
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-35FDF0
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure report from Dr. A. Rogerson: Silver Thor's hammer pendant, suspension loop missing and "handle" slightly bent. There is no decoration and a shallow groove along one side of the "head" is a casting mark. See discussion of such objects and description of another example from this parish by B. Ager in Treasure Annual Report 2003 (2005), 74-5, no.98. Late 9th - 10th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Holt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2266C8
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy gilt horse harness suspension mount, corroded,- sub-lozengiform with engraved quatrefoil, perforated at bent apex and at base (containing domed copper alloy rivet), slotted projection from base folded onto reverse to form twin loops containing copper alloy pin for missing pendant, 22 x 31mm (unbent). Cf. broadly similar type in Ashley (2002), fig.5, no.8. Late 12th-13th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3737F3
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Harness mount, gilt shield-shaped stud with integral round-sectioned shank on reverse, rather poor enamelled decoration consists of Azure a lion passant in front of a tree Or, cf. a pendant from Shouldham (Ashley EAA 101, fig. 17 no. 153). 17 x 14mm. Length of shank 8mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CB4EF3
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness suspension mount. Rectangular plate with empty rivet hole in each corner and folded tab for suspension of (missing) pendant projecting from one long edge.The front of the plate is decorated with a sexfoil reserved on a field of closley spaced pellets. Gilding survives over most of the front face. Width 36mm. Length (including tab) 32mm (excluding tab) 25mm.Late 12th - 13th century. See NMS-6A8637 for a more elaborate pendant and suspension mount with similar decoration.
Created on: Monday 3rd June 2013
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0758A5
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt horse harness suspension stud, circular, domed with integral shank on hollow reverse, slotted projection at base folded onto reverse to form suspension-loops containing fragments of iron pin, 14 x 25mm. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2004
Last updated: Friday 20th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-8DD6B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy annular brooch. Less than a quarter of the circular-sectioned frame with deep angled grooves on both faces giving the appearance of cord. Broken across the constriction for the (missing) pin. Width of frame 5mm. Original external diameter circa 50mm.13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 12th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8DF043
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy reversable annular brooch. Less than a quarter of the D-sectioned frame with pairs of lightly engraved transvers lines forming ribs with a pair of opposed angled dashes between on half the surviving upper face, and pairs of transverse lines formed from a series of short dashes on the opposite half on the flat underside. Broken across the constriction for the (missing) pin. Width of frame 5mm. Original external diameter circa 32mm.13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 12th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4BE6A1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval annular brooch; flattened triangular section, constriction for missing pin, four rectangular cut-outs on inside edge, probably for missing bars, perhaps forming a saltire? Diameter 43-4mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-6DAFAC
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dispersed late Bronze Age hoard of copper-alloy objects, consisting of: 1. Socketed axehead. Slightly miscast sub-rectangular mouth with a prominent moulding above a shallow moulding, D-sectioned side loop, rectangular-sectioned body flaring slightly to the curved cutting edge which has slight but probably not very ancient damage. Cast decoration in the form of six vertical lines terminating in pellets on each face. Casting seam more prominent on the loop and near the mount. Fragments of organic material, probably wood, survive in the socket. Length 116mm. Mouth 40 x 41mm. Cuttin…
Created on: Saturday 14th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-834325
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late palaeolithic double-ended scraper. Segment of a large blade with a single crest in a chocolate brown stained flint. Both ends appear to have been steeply retouched to give a double ended scraper but both have suffered ancient damage. The distal edge has small neat retouch scars at both ends but the central part of the edge has two larger scars with evidence of crushing on the ventral side. The proximal end appears to have been damaged by the loss of a large chip and shows slight evidence of crushing on the ventral edge. The find spot is near one of the head ways of the River Wens…
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B9A004
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Thin gold sheet disc, now distorted, with repoussé decoration consisting of a central eye surrounded by (clockwise) a horse / winged horse or lion, phallus, crab, phallus, snake or tendril with leaf-shaped terminal, scorpion, an arrow, and a bow and arrow. There is a border around the edge of the disc consisting of an outer cable-like line and an inner beaded line, through which are two circular piercings about one third of the circumference apart.. Compare a similar but un-perforated repoussé gold disc with a winged phallus and a cantharus flanked by winged griffins from Colch…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Keswick', grid reference and parish protected.