Record ID: NMS-5C2B71
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic flint axe head with a rounded butt, expanding slightly to an ancient break. The cutting edge is completely missing. Almost lozengiform in section. Patinated white on one face and white and dark brown on the other. Polished over all. There has been an unsuccesful attempt to re-sahape the cutting edge after breakage. The flint is poor quality with multiple flaws. Surviving length 160mm. Maximum surviving width 79mm. Maximum thickness 54mm.
Created on: Friday 30th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-98E0F0
Object type: PIPE TAMPER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object, probably a pipe tamper in the form of a seated figure, perhaps intended to be a medieval king, on a half round fluted bracket. The reverse is hollow, except for the flat topped head, which is cast in the round. Length 69mm. width 20mm. c. 1700 - 1900.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whaplode', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C10BB2
Object type: POT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two body sherds of Glazed Red Earthenware from different vessels. Weighing 5.8g.
Created on: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Toft Monks', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C16512
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Sub-rectangular with a central circular hole, flat base and top, convex sides and a rib at each corner which projects beyond the upper face as short blunt points, now bent inwards. There are two irregular parallel lines around the lower half of the weight, very faint in places. For a similar weight, see record NMS-A229B1, Norfolk HER number 51756. Weight 114.2g. Height (including projections) 24.5mm, (excluding projections) 20.5mm. Width 25 x 25mm. DIGIT.
Created on: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Toft Monks', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C2CD93
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon mount. Slightly domed copper alloy disc, becoming thinner towards the edge, with four evenly spaced sub-triangular apertures disclosing an equal-armed cross within a circle, and a central blind hole on the convex face. Part of the edge is missing. Very worn, and corroded. There are traces of an unidentified white substance on all four arms of the cross on the reverse, perhaps solder, but no other trace of fittings or means of attachment. Perhaps a large brooch, the originally soldered catch-plate and pin-lug now missing. Not substantial enough to be a strap-distributor. Pro…
Created on: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Toft Monks', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C61AE3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Circular frame with narrowed central bar. One side of the frame has transverse grooves, the other side has a cusp to either side of the bar, with multiple, shallower, more closely spaced grooves between. Iron staining on the frame probably from the missing pin. Very similar to an example in Whitehead (2003, 46, no.266). c. 1400 - 1500. Measuring 32 x 32mm.
Created on: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Toft Monks', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BF0E41
Object type: GUNFLINT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gunflint. Dark brown, rectangular, measuring 20.2 x 15.7mm, 5.6mm thick. Mid 16th - 19th century. Described from photographs and measurements provided by the finder.
Created on: Monday 16th April 2012
Last updated: Monday 16th April 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-FDA113
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two joining fragments of silver annular brooch. Three-quarters of the flat-sectioned frame survives, with a transverse ridge next to the narrowing for the (missing) pin, across which the frame is broken. There are file marks on the reverse, and a stamped makers mark, probably AS or SV. Diameter 26mm. Width of frame 4mm. Weight 2.0g. Similar to examples from the Isle of Wight (PAS database number IOW-18A1E4) and Holt, Norfolk (HER41116, NMS-A29A38). Possibly16th century or later. Commonly brooches of this type are attributed to the 14th/15th century but the maker's mark may indica…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 9th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fleggburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FEEBD2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver finger ring. Band slightly convex externally, flat internally, now distorted and very worn. Inscribed externally in Lombardic script + I h Є S V S, the letters evenly spaced around the circumference of the band. Width of band 3mm. Original external diameter circa 19mm. Weight 2.0g. Circa 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 30th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-515C15
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Sheet and filigree wire disc pendant made from pale gold. Circular sheet with a border of applied beaded wire around the edge, now broken in several places and with a short length missing. There is a large central circular setting, now empty, made from an upright strip of gold which has been very neatly soldered to the circular backplate. From this extend four small, evenly spaced U-shaped pieces of beaded wire, alternating with four large U-shaped pieces of beaded wire which extend from the outer edge of the pendant to the edge of the central setting, thus creating a cru…
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2012
Last updated: Monday 7th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oxborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-972E58
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hoard of 23 coins, four silver brooches and two silver strap-ends. Coins: Twenty three silver pennies of Eadmund of East Anglia, covering most of the types known for this king. They were found close together and clearly represent a dispersed hoard. The lack of any later coins is compelling evidence for the deposition of this hoard being intimately connected to the invasion of the Danish Great Army into East Anglia in 869 and the succeeding murder of king Eadmund in the same year. 1) North 456, moneyer Baeghelm (fragment, weight 0.35g) 2) North 456, moneyer Bea[...], probably …
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 11th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AAFFC2
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete and squashed post-medieval silver thimble. A vertical butt-seam has sprung apart and the separately made dome is missing. The letters KW, possibly the owners initials, are engraved within a plain band around the base defined by two encircling lines. A narrower band is left plain at the top. The sides are covered with waffle-like indentations on which are reserved three squares, each joined to the next and to the upper and lower plain bands by short plain strips. This style of decoration, on two-piece silver thimbles of this method construction, is now quite frequently encou…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tacolneston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A64323
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A group of 39 sestertii dupondii and asses, the latest legible specimen of which dates to the reign of Gordian III. Although the date range spreads over more than a century, they form a compact group and their wear patterns are consistent with coins lost or buried together, the earlier coins generally showing more wear than the later ones. These coins were all found in a relatively small area and undoubtedly represent a dispersed hoard. Catalogue Trajan, sestertius, reverse illegible, 98-117 (JO1) Trajan, dupondius, reverse illegible, 98-117 (MB1) Trajan, dupondius, revers…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scottow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B7AF84
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone axehead. Pointed oval section, rounded butt expanding with slightly convex sides to a curved cutting edge from which a large recent chip is missing. Polished over most of the surface, large chip / damage on one face at butt end. Length 192mm. Maximum width 79.5mm. Maximum thickness 46mm. From photographs, John Williams, National Museum Wales, comments "I'm pretty certain it is a Graig Lwyd Group VII axe - the patina looks the type and more important the fresh scalp has the white speckle on a blue-grey matrix that is typical of the rock type. Confirmation would have to be by …
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pentraeth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CD62D4
Object type: PICK
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Neolithic flint pick. Dimensions 416 x 66 x 49mm. Brown staining over dark grey / black flint. Rhombic section with sharp ridge on one face, largely formed by a natural cleavage plane (ancient frost fracture), the other face flaked entirely with a more rounded medial ridge. The dark brown patination suggests a probable peaty deposition, there is a trace of concretion on one face, most likely an accumulation of iron oxides and grit. All flake scars appear to be fairly hard hammer struck with some removals exhibiting a deep negative bulbs of percussion. At one end an impact ha…
Created on: Friday 11th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 29th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CBC8B0
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval sheet silver cuff link element with down-turned edge and wire loop attached with solder. The front is decorated in counter-relief with a four-looped knot and four hearts. Diameter 15.5mm. Weight 0.86g. Very close to an example from Corsham, Wiltshire (PAS WILT-7D0B06). 17th - early 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CC10A2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Saxon gilt copper alloy rectangular sword-belt mount. The scalloped sides, the ends and especially the corners are worn, and there are no extant fixing holes. A centrally placed transverse row of four silver rivets with convex heads and copper alloy washers divides two areas of deep "chip carved" Tassilo style zoomorphic ornament. Very similar to a mount from Tacolneston (HER 23698, Gurney 2003, 365, fig. 5D) and comparable with examples from Germany (Eggenstein et al. 2008, 194-8, Kat. Nr. 40.2, 40.6 and 42.1), and certainly of Continental manufacture. Late 8th - early 9t…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-61F8C7
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two late Roman silver siliquae, both rather heavily clipped, one of Theodosius and the other of Honorius. The coins have a little wear but not much. The phenomenon of clipping siliquae seems to belong to the very last years of the 4th century and the early years of the 5th. The latest coin was struck between 395 and 402, suggesting a date of loss or deposition in the early years of the 5th century. Catalogue: Theodosius, siliqua, heavily clipped, reverse VOT/X/MVLT/XX in wreath, further details illegible, weight 0.70g, AD383-95 Honorius, siliqua, heavily clipped, reverse VIRTVS ROMA…
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 17th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gressenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-07ABE7
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic polished flint axehead. Lenticular in section, polished overall but with a few flake scars still visible. Cutting edge curved and sharp, sides tapering towards narrow, straight butt. There is relatively fresh damage in the form of a large natural flake at the cutting edge on one face, and a small flake at the butt end revealing pale yellow-brown flint. The surface of the flint is patinated pale grey with few iron stains. Length 203mm, width 76mm, thickness 55mm. Weight 968g. Similar to NHER 56013 and also PAS (NMS-4C43C4). 3000-2351 BC.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 31st August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-0A0E22
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Twelve sceattas all of the so-called Porcupine type; these small silver coins represent the earliest form of penny and circulated in England from circa 675 to the middle of the eighth century. These examples were scattered over a relatively large area, about 150m by 180m, and, despite being found over such a wide area, would appear to represent a hoard or part of a hoard dispersed at some point in the past rather than stray losses over time. Porcupine sceattas are generally Continental in origin, being struck in the Frisia area; the only possible exception is the Aethiliraed example a…
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 7th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Downham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1CD553
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Eleven sterling long cross pennies of Edward I and II. These were found in a very small area and undoubtedly represent the contents (or, more likely, part of the contents) of a buried hoard or a lost purse dispersed in the ploughsoil at some point in the past. Catalogue: Edward I, class 3d, London, North 1019, 1280-1 Edward I, class 9b, London, North 1037/1, 1299-1301 Edward I, class 10ab2, London, North 1038/1, 1302-3 Edward I, class 10cf1 (early issue with EDWAR R ANG), Bury, North 1040, 1305-6 Edward I, class 10cf1, London, North 1040, 1305-6 Edward I, class 10…
Created on: Friday 8th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 28th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hanworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1D4E24
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three pennies of Henry III, all voided long cross issues. These were found close together and are all in good condition. Each belongs to class 5g and, on the balance of probabilities, they represent part of either a deposited hoard or a lost purse. Catalogue: Class 5a3, moneyer Ricard of London RIC ARD ONL VND 1.34g Class 5b2, moneyer Ion of Canterbury ION ON CAN [TE]R 1.35g Class 5b2, moneyer Davi of London DAV ION LVN DEN 1.27g Date: The condition of the coins suggests they were lost or deposited in the mid 1250s. They would certainly not have been in circulation afte…
Created on: Friday 8th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodbastwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5D0C86
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy and gold penannular ring or 'ring money'. Sub-circular cross section slightly flattened on the outside edge and either side, with flat terminals. The outer banded gold sheath is slightly damaged and split around the terminals, revealing the copper alloy core, with green corrosion stains around the inside of the ring. Gold and silver coloured transverse banding is visible over the whole surface, but is particularly clear near the terminals. Width 18mm. Length (from back of hoop to front of terminals) 17mm. Thickness 6mm. Distance between terminals approximately 1.5mm. Weig…
Created on: Monday 11th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thompson', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5F4C05
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete and distorted silver 'stirrup-shaped' finger ring. The flat-sectioned hoop, back missing, expands slightly from the breaks, through the shoulders, to the bezel with an oval recess with keying in the base for a (missing) stone. There is a cast or engraved 'X' on each shoulder, and very worn traces of further possible decoration, now indecipherable, on one side of the surviving part of the hoop. Very slight traces of gilding. 13th - 16th century. Original external diameter (estimated) 19mm. Width at bezel 4mm. Weight 0.7g. Perhaps similar to a better preserved exampl…
Created on: Monday 11th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8B3A40
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Material: Garnet Height: 20mm, width: 17mm, weight: 14.5g Condition: Fracture on the dome of the head with several cracks and small chips. Chipped at the neck on the right. The short neck is polished with a shallow line engraved at the front. This was probably already cut down from a longer neck in Antiquity when it was most likely inserted into a bust made of another precious material. Description: A miniature head of Socrates. He is shown bearded, with a bald pate and with long hair at the back. He has a round face with characteristically prominent cheekbones and brow, and wit…
Created on: Wednesday 13th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-46A4D6
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of probable Middle or Late Bronze Age gold sheet strip or ribbon ornament decorated on one face with nine longitudinal grooves. One end has been chopped obliquely, while the other is apparently complete and slightly convex. Length at least 16mm. Width 8.5 - 9mm. Thickness 0.4mm. Weight 0.86g. For notes on Bronze Age ribbon ornaments see Treasure Annual Report 2007 47-8, nos. 38 and 39. c.1300 - c.800 BC.
Created on: Friday 22nd June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4829F3
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hollow head of a Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon gilded silver ball-headed pin, with thirteen bosses containing colourless glass pellets (five missing, others incomplete). Each boss has a filigree collar of plain twisted wire between plain wire rings, and in the spaces between the bosses there are smaller plain wire rings or annulets. At the base there is a roughly circular hole where the shaft has been torn away. The breaks are corroded, so are not recent, but are also crisp and unworn; perhaps the bosses projecting around the hole protected the breaks, or alternatively they may be ancien…
Created on: Friday 22nd June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 14th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Grimston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-81B363
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, crescentic cutting edge with end of socket. The inner face and parts of the fracture are sooted. The wall is very much thicker (4mm) on one side of the socket than on the other (1.5mm). Length 21mm. Width 50.5mm. Thickness 11mm. Weight 41.73g. Additional to a scattered hoard reported as 2008 T454.
Created on: Monday 25th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-872C21
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold finger ring. The hollow hoop, formed from folded sheet, is slightly distorted. An opaque pale blue gemstone en cabochon, perhaps a turquoise, is held within an oval collet by eight small rounded claws projecting from a separate oval rim. The shoulders, the lower ends of which are defined by a chevron of punched dots, are decorated with very finely engraved cross hatching and applied flowers consisting of a sexfoil on a curving stem flanked by two leaves with engraved details. The petals of the flowers are a pinker shade of gold than the rest of the ring. Early 19…
Created on: Monday 25th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-874D33
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver buckle consisting of an oval lipped frame, composite hollow rigid plate, and cast pin with a transverse ridge and side flanges next to the loop. The plate consists of a forked spacer and separate sheets, and there are two convex-headed rivets near the concave inside edge. Leather is preserved within the plate. Length 30mm. Width of frame 16.5mm. Width of plate at inside edge 13mm, at junction with frame 12mm. Weight 3.51g. The form and method of construction are the same as those of copper alloy examples, well dated in London to c.1350 - c.1450 (Egan and Pritchard 1991…
Created on: Monday 25th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 7th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-98E733
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A pendant made from an imitation of a gold solidus of Maurice Tiberius (582-602), a suspension loop with three longitudinal ribs having been soldered to the edge of the coin immediately above the emperor's head. The coin description is as follows: Obverse: [...]AVRC TIb P P AVG, helmeted, cuirassed bust facing, shield on left shoulder, spear over right Reverse: VICTORIA AVGGV, long cross on steps above globe, M-A/V_RI in fields Mintmark CONOB in exegue The piece is of uncertain origin but is almost certainly a garbled Western copy of originals struck in Constantinople. Obv…
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Elmham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D84CF2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch. Rectangular sectioned frame cast to appear twisted, each face slightly concave with a central row of closely spaced pellets. Restriction for the pin, which has two transverse ridges next to the frame. Cf. a similar, but larger examples from London (Egan and Pritchard, 2002, 253, fig.163, no.1334), Staffordshire (PAS database number WMID-46E157, 2007 T326) and Langley with Hardley, Norfolk (PAS database number NMS-49D2C5, HER 45418, 2006 T296). See also Treasure Annual Report 2000, fig. 134, M&ME267) Date: 13th - 14th century. Dime…
Created on: Friday 29th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-25CDD3
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon die or matrix for the production of a C-bracteate, comprising a cast copper alloy circular-sectioned block (weighing 113.84 g), with a design in intaglio on the upper face (diameter 28.5 mm). The slightly larger base (diameter 31-2 mm) is undecorated, as are the slightly concave sides (height 22mm). There are some areas of corrosion and slight pitting on the sides and base and a recent scrape on the side. The decoration on the upper face is rather worn. It bears some resemblance to decoration on a bracteate from Market Overton, with triple-strand limbs and beaked heads, …
Created on: Wednesday 8th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3D0A47
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded silver sheet hilt plate and hilt band from whittle tang knife. Circular plate with narrow triangular hole for (missing) tang, partially filled with and surrounded by iron corrosion on both sides. The band, slightly less than half of which is missing, is soldered to the plate, with engraved decoration consisting of alternating trefoils and fronds reserved on a field of keying, perhaps for enamel or niello (now missing) between a cabled border on one edge and a thin plain border on the other. Diameter 13mm. Length 6.5mm. Weight 0.8g. C. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2012
Last updated: Monday 19th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenninghall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5124F4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon copper alloy annular brooch. About one quarter survives. Flat-sectioned frame decorated on one face only with a row of stamped annulets along either edge. Width of frame 10.5mm. Thickness 2mm. Original external diameter (reconstructed) circa 60mm.
Created on: Friday 10th August 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickmere', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8D6C56
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Upper part of a beehive rotary quern in coarse grained sandstone. Sub-circular, with wide off-centre hopper tapering slightly towards the base, circular handle-slot in side which penetrates through to the hopper. On the upper edge there is a wedge-shaped groove with a u-shaped profile, 40mm long and 20mm wide at maximum. Diameter at base 240 - 255mm. Height 145mm. Behive querns were in use over a long period and are not very closely dateable. They are known from Iron Age and Roman contexts.
Created on: Monday 13th August 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brinton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BB9328
Object type: POT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One body sherd, probably Roman greyware. 11g.
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Toft Monks', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BBA923
Object type: POT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One body sherd and one non-joining rim sherd from jar or bowl or oxidized, lead glazed pottery, probably Grimston Ware. 18g.
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Toft Monks', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BBB510
Object type: POT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four non-joining body sherds and one lid sherd Glazed Red Earthenware. 93g. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Toft Monks', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3924D6
Object type: SHACKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman iron shackle of Manning's (1985, 82-4, fig.23, no.7.) Type 7: comprising a bent curved broad C-sectioned bar (diameter 140mm, width 35mm) with loops or 'eyes' at both ends, one broken, the other holding a long curved ovoid loop. Measuring 70 x 163mm.
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 21st August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4AC5F5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring. The flat-sectioned hoop expands smoothly to form shallow D-sectioned shoulders and an oval bezel with concave moulding, set with a cabochon garnet or amethyst. The edges of the inside of the hoop under the bezel and bevelled. Height 27mm. Width 20.5mm. Internal measurements 19.5 x 18.5mm. Width of hoop at bezel 8.5mm. Weight 2.7g. 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2012
Last updated: Monday 19th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pulham St. Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5C7847
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver finger ring. Slender hoop, D-sectioned at the back, expanding very slightly and becoming rectangular-sectioned with a v-shaped groove on the outer face before a constriction to either side of the oval bezel with setting for a missing stone. Traces of gilding. Height 20mm. Width 19mm. Internal diameter 17mm. Width at bezel 2.5mm. Weight 0.5g. Circa 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 27th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Ellingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-888D34
Object type: SPANGLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Triangular sheet silver pendant, pierced to form a suspension loop which is now broken. The front is engraved with a line of rocker arm along each long edge, and a median rib (convex on the front, concave on the reverse) which has almost rectangular ends as if formed by pressing the sheet over a short rectangular bar. No close parallel has been found, but there is some similarity with a copper alloy Roman or Early Medieval pendant from Wiltshire (WILT-D93245), although a more convincing identification is that of spangle, perhaps similar to two undecorated Early Saxon examples from …
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sedgeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DF72E6
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold dress fastener. Sub-rectangular plate with slightly convex upper edge and slightly concave sides, stepped inwards before short, narrowed, rearward facing hook. There is a sub-rectangular attachment hole at the upper edge with irregular tool-marked edges. There is no trace of any decoration or attachment for additional decorative elements. c. 16th century. Length 20mm. Width 14mm. Thickness of plate 1mm. Weight 2.3g. The lack or decoration and the irregular edge of the attachment hole suggests it is unfinished. The overall construction, apart from the lack o…
Created on: Monday 10th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 8th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DFA0E5
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver seal matrix, flat with cuboid boss and pierced lug on end of median rib on reverse. Pointed oval, 22.5 x 13.5mm. Weighing 3.38g. Hawking lure in the form of a bird with featureless head and loop and line near neck. + SIGILVM SECRETI · (Secret seal). 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 10th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 8th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sustead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EFD014
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver finger ring. Flat-sectioned hoop expanding smoothly from the back through the shoulders and bezel. Decoration consists of a double transverse line of pecked dots followed by diagonal lines on the shoulders, now very faint, the bezel decorated with three engraved rectangles with a double transverse line of pecked dots to either side of each one and separated from each other by a blank space. The central rectangle is filled with four small quatrefoils, the outer two with one large quatrefoil each. There is no trace of niello. The hoop is now squashed and distorted. Width…
Created on: Tuesday 11th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blakeney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F53081
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or post-medieval gold finger ring. Hollow, D-sectioned hoop expanding slightly from the rear through the shoulders to an oval bezel with setting for (missing) stone held by four claws, three of which partially survive. The sides and shoulders have an external black-letter inscription, reserved on a field keyed for enamel or niello, now missing. It reads en. bon on one shoulder and ectein on the other. There may be a line indicating a ligated e after the bon. The hoop is now slightly distorted, with several small holes, and damage to the edge of the setting. Height 21mm. Widt…
Created on: Tuesday 11th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 21st October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corpusty', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F60A83
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver letter 'A', probably a mount. Flat-sectioned, stamped with three quatrefoils each with a tail, and retaining traces of gilding. On the reverse of the crossbar there is a possible patch of solder which is the only visible surviving means of attachment. Height 33mm. Width 37mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Weight 4.9g. Similar in form to letter A's on some 13th - 14th century seals (Kingsford, 1929, 166), with a short top bar, broken (v-shaped) cross bar, bi-concave outer edge to the slightly longer left leg and curved ceriph across base of both legs
Created on: Tuesday 11th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 8th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Witchingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-353268
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete post-medieval silver posy ring. Flat-sectioned band broken at both ends, engraved internally in roman capitals ]REMEMBER M[. Externally the band is divided into multiple cells for enamel, now almost completely missing, consisting of originally four quatrefoils with curved cells containing a row of pellets to either side, divided from each other by chequering. One curved cell retains a small amount of green enamel on which the pellets are reserved, and one chequered cell is still partially filled with pale enamel, either yellow or white. Gilded. Width of band 4.5mm. Thick…
Created on: Friday 14th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 27th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wreningham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-71DA12
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy signet ring. Narrow, distorted round-sectioned hoop soldered to either edge of a flat-sectioned oval bezel engraved H A with knotwork between. Bezel 12 x 15mm. Original external diameter of hoop circa 25mm. Similar to an example from Upwell, Norfolk (NMS-C213B1), NHER 41359.
Created on: Monday 17th September 2012
Last updated: Monday 17th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horningtoft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9A2C60
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete and distorted silver thimble missing the separately soldered top and separated at the side seam. There is a border around the base consisting of an undecorated edge and a line of cabling above which a rectangular panel reserved on a field of closely spaced stamped annulets, which contains very faint traces of possible engraved initials, now illegible, and a stamped makers mark - I within a rectangle. Surviving height 13mm. Original diameter circa 16mm. Weight 2.5g. 17th century. This is perhaps the lower half of the top part of a thimble reported as 2011 T908 / NMS-9F7EB…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wreningham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-023634
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy button. Solid, circular, bi-convex head with integral shank. Diameter 11mm. Height 15.5mm.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-025B04
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy button. Solid, circular, convex front, flat back, with integral loop on reverse. Diameter 11mm. Height 11.5mm.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-026B74
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy openwork belt mount in the form of a fleur-de-lis, flat-sectioned, with two integral circular sectioned attachment spikes on the reverse, bent outwards to hold a thickness of circa 2.5mm. Measuring 21 x 17mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-028E14
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval probable dress pin of the bodkin type. Rectangular-sectioned, tapering to a blunt point. Undecorated, no marks, and thickly silvered. Now slightly bent. Surviving length (unbent) 62mm. Maximum dimensions at break 4 x 5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Sunday 5th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-03B051
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy incomplete belt mount or belt stiffener. Rectangular sheet plate with one rivet hole, broken across a larger, perhaps originally central hole. Decorated with an engraved line around the edge, with a triangular field in each corner filled with rocker-arm. Gilded. Surviving length 25mm. Width 14mm. For a very similar example see Egan and Pritchard (2002, 196, no.1054).
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-03E3B7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle with integral plate. Oval frame, hole for incomplete sheet pin. Plate concave sided with median arris and two rivets, with lobed terminal. Similar to examples in Whitehead (2003, 34, no.195, 196 and 197). c. 1250 - 1400. Frame 10 x 12mm. Plate 21 x 9mm. Total length 31mm.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-054717
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval lead weigh. Disc, stamped on one face with a circle above a crowned CR (Charles I). Diameter 28mm. Thickness 5mm. Weight 26.5g / 0.93oz. 1625 - 1649.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 28th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0665E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy Colchester derivative rear hook bow brooch. C-sectioned wings decorated with a pair of transverse lines with a zig-zag line between at each end. Three rearward facing hooks, with a hollow on the inside of the wings below the central hook and corrosion or possibly the remains of solder under the left hand hook. Trapezoidal-sectioned bow with a crest with six transverse grooves at the upper end, becoming a rib with a median groove which terminates at the foot in two transverse grooves. Complete or near complete solid triangular catch-plate on the reverse. The bow a…
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Monday 21st October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-06B955
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy belt or strap mount. Sheet plate with concave sides and bi-convex ends. The plate is engraved with a single line border around the edge and cross dividing the plate into four fields, two diagonally opposite of which are filled with rocker arm. There are two rivet holes filled with the remains of corroded iron rivets and traces of tinning or silvering on the front and rear of the plate. Length 29mm. Width 17mm.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0732D4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy bar mount. Rectangular, with four transverse engraved lines on the front face, with an angled recess on each edge between them. Blunt at one end, short rectangular projection with longitudinal engraved lines at the other. Two copper alloy rivets. Central transverse engraved line on reverse. Length 17mm. Width 7mm.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-079C65
Object type: BOW BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy Colchester type one piece brooch. Wings missing, upper edge damaged. Flat-sectioned bow tapering slightly towards blunt terminal. Bow decorated with a median longitudinal rib with stamped blind holes along it's length. Incomplete triangular catch-plate with engraved rocker-arm on both faces. Pin and spring missing. Surviving length 49mm. Circa 20 - 60 AD.
Created on: Monday 24th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-197ED5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead weight for four ounces. Disc, stamped on one face with four circles, a crowned IR (James I) and a triple-towered domed castle above a lion passant guardant (Arms of Norwich). Diameter 40mm. Thickness 9mm. Weight 110g / 3.88oz. 1603 - 1625.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 28th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1ACAF1
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button. Solid plano-convex head with integral loop on reverse. Diameter 10.5mm. Height 10mm.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 28th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1AF661
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button. Solid lozengiform head with pyramidal front divided into four triangular fields each with indistinct decoration in low relief. Integral sub-rectangular loop on reverse. Head 9 x 9.5mm. Height 14mm. For a similar example see Read (2005, 33, no.110).
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1B0D07
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Sub-circular frame cast in the form of a five petaled flower with narrowed central bar retaining sheet pin. Measuring 40 x 37mm.. Similar to an example in Whitehead (2003, 47, no.272). c. 1450 - 1550.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 28th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1BBBC2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double oval frame with transverse ridges across sides at either end of narrowed bar. Outside edges triangular externally and bi-concave internally. Pin missing. Measuring 49 x 31mm. For a similar example see Whitehead (2003, 61, no.365). c. 1550 - 1650.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 28th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1C0543
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle plate. Rectangular, folded width ways, back-plate narrower and shorter than front-plate, hole for (missing) pin, slightly recessed for (missing) frame. Decorated with opposed stamped triangles forming a border around the edge and a median zig-zag line. Two copper alloy rivets secure the back-plate at the attachment edge. Length 22.5mm. Width 13mm. c. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 28th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2E1E91
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy incomplete blank for a Colchester Derivative type brooch. Lower part of bow, catch-plate and sprue attached at the foot survive, the upper part of the bow and wings are missing.The bow has a prominant median rib. Surviving length 61mm. Breaks ancient and worn. Very similar to examples from the same site in Bayley, MacKreth and Wallis (2001, 106, nos.SF60 and SF61).
Created on: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Last updated: Monday 28th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Buckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C3CF63
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman silver penannular snake-headed finger ring. Oval snake head, convex on the upper face with a flange around the edge and worn almost completely smooth. The sub-rectangular-sectioned band narrows towards a twisted break. Johns' (1996, 45, fig.3.3) Type Bii. Roman. Probably 1st - 2nd century. Weight 1.8g. Width of head 8.5mm. Approximate external width (reconstructed) 34mm.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd October 2012
Last updated: Friday 30th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scarning', 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-D800E4
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button. Hollow, hemispherical head with two blow holes, a scar from the (missing) soldered loop and a stamped makers mark, II within a heart, on the reverse. The upper face is engraved with two concentric circles, the inner one crosshatched, surrounded by six alternately lozengiform and bi-lozengiform petals or spokes filled with closely spaced transverse lines. c. 17th century. Weight 1.0g. Diameter 13mm. Height 6mm.
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 30th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Runhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D90CF7
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of medieval or post-medieval silver whistle. Distorted, damaged and incomplete half of the originally spherical sheet body or buoy with octofoil design in low relief. For similar examples see TAR 2002 (101, no.125), and SWYOR-F07E07 (a near complete example with very similar decoration). Another similar whistle made of lead / tin alloy in the collections of the Museum of London (96.24/2) is illustrated in Egan (2005, 124, fig.118a). Medieval or post-medieval, 15th - 16th century. Weight 1.6g.Original diameter greater than 22mm.
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 30th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Finningham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-27D291
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
11th century - post-medieval lead spindle whorl. D-shaped in section with five external lozengiform bosses reserved on a field of closely spaced ribs. There is a median casting seam. Large central circular hole. Height 15mm. Diameter 25mm. Weigt 39.8g.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 24th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SCOULTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-27EB80
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup terminal containing corroded remains of iron stirrup. Openwork Ringerike style head of a beast or monster is seen in profile with a crest at the back of the head, looking up towards the top of the stirrup. Engraved lines defineing the detail of the crest are now very worn. 11th century, Williams' provisional Class A. Height 47mm. Width 34mm. Thickness 13mm.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SCOULTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2B7842
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete post-medieval hollow hemispherical silver cuff-link, . Undecorated convex front soldered to separate back which has two blow holes and a stamped maker's mark, now partially worn, perhaps an H or I. A separate soldered loop retains a broken length of silver wire which would have been connected to the other half of the cuff-link, now missing. Circa 17th century. Weight 1.3g. Diameter 13mm. Height (excluding loop and link) 5mm.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 27th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gosberton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2CB928
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver medieval annular brooch. Less than a quarter of the flat-sectioned frame survives, decorated on the upper face with raised circles with central pellets with a pair of pellets between each circle and a raised internal and external single line border. Gilding survives on both faces. Pin missing. The decoration is similar to lead / tin alloy examples from 13th - 14th century contexts in London (Egan and Pritchard, 2002, 253, fig.163, nos.1323, 1328 and 1332) and to a more elaborate c. 15th century example decorated with filigree from Barton Bendish, Norfolk (NMS-F…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2EACE1
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded silver pin of probable middle Anglo-Saxon date. Solid globular head, slightly flattened on top, with a large, uneven, separately applied collar made from rectangular-sectioned wire wrapped around the top of the incomplete circular-sectioned shaft. The head and collar are both gilded. Diameter 8mm. Height of head and collar together, but excluding remains of shaft, 7mm. Diameter of shaft at break 1mm. Weight 2.7g. Although it is likely from its form that this pin dates to the middle Anglo-Saxon period (8th or 9th century), it is unusual in two respects. Firstly, although m…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 8th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scoulton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4198A8
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Early Anglo-Saxon gold disc pendant made from a relatively thick back-plate onto which are soldered all the other components. In the centre is a collar formed from a vertical strip of sheet gold, retaining a shiny translucent orange/brown cabochon containing air bubbles, identified by Raman spectroscopy (see below) as glass. The collar is now cracked and has a lumpy appearance, possibly some gold solder acting as a repair. Arranged around the setting are ten beaded-wire heart shapes, either touching each other or nearly so; the points touch the collar and the inward-sp…
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-595A05
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button. Hollow, hemispherical head. Convex front soldered to flat back with undrilled wire loop soldered to the centre of the back-plate. Diameter of head 10mm. Height (unbent) 12mm. Weight 1.0g. c. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 26th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6D1F68
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Saxon silver pin with polyhedral head in the form of a cube with the corners cut off creating triangular and lozengiform facets. The triangular facets are plain, but the lozengiform facets decorated. The upper and one side facet are engraved with a lozengiform border with a straight line emanating inwards from the centre of each side creating a lozengiform quatrefoil, the remaining sides with a lozengiform border with straight lines emanating inwards from each corner, a lozengiform border divided into four by a saltire, and a lozengiform border filled by off-set oblique hatchin…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-8062E5
Object type: POT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two body sherds salt glazed stoneware. Weighing 29.3g. 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Friday 12th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 12th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringstead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-808C31
Object type: POT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Frilled rim sherd from jar, medieval unglazed ware. Late 12th - 13th century. Weight 14.8g.
Created on: Friday 12th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 12th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringstead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-8091D4
Object type: POT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Abraded body sherd of Roman greyware. Weighing 3.9g.
Created on: Friday 12th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 12th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringstead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-80C893
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified object, perhaps a floor tile or wet stone. Sandstone or quartzite, rectangular-sectioned, two long sides forming a right-angle, two short (and perhaps broken) sides, the fifth side deeply concave. The concave edge and one face are very smooth as if worn. Broken relatively recently, now in two conjoining pieces. Despite the suggestive shape it seems unlikely to be a tile cut to fit around a curved edge as the edge is so well smoothed. Measuring 95 x 95mm. 18mm thick at maximum.
Created on: Friday 12th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 12th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringstead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BD2A70
Object type: POT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval brown and cream slip glazed red earthenware body sherd. 15.4g. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BD5E81
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
11th century - post-medieval lead spindle whorl. D-shaped in section with five external lozengiform bosses reserved on a field of closley spaced ribs. There is a median casting seam. Large central circular hole. Height 15mm. Diameter 27mm. Weight 36.7g.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BDCC81
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Bronze Age copper alloy sprue or casting jet froma two-part mould. Sub-rectangular in plan, triangular-sectioned, with casting seam on either side. Perhaps from a palstave or knife. Height 18mm. Length 24mm. Width 22mm. Weight 35.3g.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BDEC06
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, off-set narrowed bar, notch for (missing) pin flanked by a transverse groove to either side. Measuring 16 x 20.5mm. See similar examples in Dress Accessories (Egan and Pritchard, 2002, 70, fig.42, nos.271 and 274). 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BE0ED4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy double-looped buckle with high white metal content. Openwork frame, oval externally with multifoil knops, rectangular internally with central bar. Pin missing. For very similar examples see Whitehead (2003, 80, no.498 and 499). c. 1620 - 1690. Measuring 50 x 34mm.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BE2401
Object type: CROTAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy crotal bell. Fragment of lower half only. Semicircular field containing o W o to one side of round-ended slot, with lines radiating from the semicircle in groups of three. Original diameter in excess of surviving measurement of 41mm.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BE7185
Object type: POT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One jar rim sherd, one base sherd and one body sherd of Roman greyware. Non-joining, abraded. 35.3g.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BEB195
Object type: POT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two body sherds and one base sherd of post-medieval glazed red earthenware. Non-joining. 59.0g. 17th - 18th century. A8.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BEC7F2
Object type: CROTAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lower half of post medieval copper alloy crotal bell. Cast grooves radiate from edge of slot. Original diameter in excess of surviving measurement of 23mm. 16th - 18th century. A8.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C01C76
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy button. Solid hemispherical head with central pellet, integral attachment loop on reverse. Diameter 10mm. Height 13mm. Similar to an example in Read (2005, 55, no.189). A8.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C04864
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy button. Solid hemispherical head with integral attachment loop on reverse. Diameter 11mm. Height 10.5mm. Similar to an example in Read (2005, 55, no.190). A8.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C058C7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy button. Solid hemispherical head with integral attachment loop on reverse, now bent. Diameter 10mm. Height 10mm. Similar to an example in Read (2005, 55, no.190). A8.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C076C7
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of post medieval copper alloy spur. Figure-of-eight terminal with short section of D-sectioned side. Surviving width of terminal 14mm. Surviving length 31mm. Width of side at break 4.5mm. 17th - 18th century. A1.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C0A395
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle plate. Rectangular plate folded widthways, recessed for (missing) frame, slot for (missing) pin, two copper alloy rivets at attachment edge. Front-plate divided into five cells, one saltire and four triangles, retaining tiny traces of possible enamel of an indeterminate colour. Measuring 30 x 22mm. 13th - 14th century. A5.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C0C474
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy cast buckle pin. Circular sectioned, pointed tip, ridged grip on upper face next to broken loop. Length 50mm. Similar examples in Egan and Pritchard (2002, 115, fig.75, nos.541, 547 and 549).13th - 14th century. A3.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.