Record ID: NMS-82AD63
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post medieval silver hawking vervel of Lewis and Richardson type C.ii. It has a D-sectioned ring, the flat outer face of the band inscribed Henrye Prince *. The ends of the band are butted together and soldered onto the reverse of a shield-shaped plate aligned longitudinally with the band. The face of the shield is engraved with the badge of the Prince of Wales, three ostrich feathers enfiled by a coronet and passing through a scroll bearing the words ICH DIEN. Internal diameter of band 8 mm. External diameter of band 10.5 mm. Width of band 3mm. Height of shield 10 mm. Width of s…
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 16th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cley next the Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-071682
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Duplicate record. See NMS-1EEF52 for details of this object.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 8th July 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NMS-840EB5
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon incomplete bridle mount or cheek piece decorated with engraved Ringerike style ornament. A terminal loop joins a D-section shank on which there is a small boss before an expansion with moulded sides. An arm projecting at right angles from the junction is also moulded and has engraved decoration. It is pierced near the end by a rectangular hole that is round and countersunk on the reverse, and is surrounded by a small amount of iron staining. The junction is pierced by a similar rectangular hole slightly off-centre. The reverse of the junction is very roughly finished and th…
Created on: Wednesday 15th September 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quidenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-218170
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Arms: Despenser (possibly) Medieval copper alloy incomplete possible horse harness mount, bent and broken thin (c. 0.5mm) circular sheet plate much of outside edge missing, diameter greater than 26mm. The plate is engraved with a shield bearing Quarterly 2 and 3 fretty overall a bend. Although the tinctures are absent the arms depicted are most likely to be those of DESPENSER (Quarterly Argent and Gules fretty Or overall a bend Sable), Cf. Wagner (1972) 50 and Plate VII, no.31. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-30B786
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The original find of the Bawdeswell hoard, consisting of a socketed knife and two socketed axes, all of late Bronze Age date. 1. Fragment of socketed knife. Rectangular sectioned socket with very slightly concave sides and broken across a hole in either face for hafting. The lower edge of the socket is concave on either face where it joins the pointed oval sectioned blade. The edges of the blade are damaged and the blade is broken transversely. All the breaks are ancient. Total length at least 40mm. Socket length least 22mm, width 27mm, thickness 10mm. Length of blade at lea…
Created on: Thursday 5th November 2009
Last updated: Thursday 8th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawdeswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-102704
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Summary: Solidi: Constantius II AD 337-61, 4 (2 x Trier, 1x Aquileia, 1 x Thessalonica); Constans AD 337-50, 1 (Thessalonica); Decentius AD 351-3, 1 (Trier); Jovian AD 363-4, 1 (Constantinople); Valentinian I, joint reign with Valens, AD 364-7, 1 (Sirmium). Siliquae: Constantius II AD 337-61, 40 (19 x Lyon, 20 x Arles, 1 x irregular); Julian Caesar AD 355-60, 8 (Arles); Julian Augustus AD 360-3, 79 (13 x Trier, 23 x Lyon, 29 x Arles, 14 x irregular); Valens, joint reign with Valentinian I AD 364-7, 1 (Lyon) CATALOGUE Solidi (9) Trier (3) 1. Decentius, reverse VICTORIA CAES LIB ROMAN…
Created on: Wednesday 28th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 22nd March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-33EB96
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Livery badge, the face is very worn, cast in the form of a crest: an (possibly) Englishman's (or 'savage's') head affronty wreathed and cooped beneath the shoulders wearing toga-like dress secured by a trefoil clasp on the sinister shoulder, on a torse or crest wreath. The reverse is hollow and has traces of solder at the top and on both sides at the base for separate wire loops or spikes for attachment. 27 x 39mm. 16th-18th century. Compare LANCUM-61F133 and NMS-A14532, both of which are perhaps slightly earlier than this example.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

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-CAD201
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified medieval silver object, perhaps part of a reliquary pendant. Sub-oval sheet, pointed at one end and rounded at the other forming a teardrop-shape. On one face within a narrow plain border the letters Ihc in black letter are reserved on a crosshatched ground. The letters are those of the sacred trigram, representing the name of Jesus, and probably relate to the Cult of the Holy Name of Jesus, which was popular in the 15th and early 16th century. On the reverse are possible traces of solder and a scar from a missing diagonally placed element. 15th - 16th century. Measu…
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sculthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-178AE0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age socketed terminal mount in the form of a bull's head. Circular-sectioned socket filled with orange-stained soil, perhaps from iron corrosion, with four evenly spaced rivet holes between two very fine engraved lines around the edge. One of the rivet holes is broken through and there is a ragged crack extending 11mm from the edge, possibly caused by internal corrosion forcing the socket apart. The socket tapers smoothly from the opening, curving at the end to form a narrow neck before the stylised bull's head. This is cast in the round, with horizontal horns which bend sha…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 16th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scarning', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3AB323
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete post-medieval silver seal matrix. Hexagonally facetted conical handle, now bent, collard before broken openwork trefoil terminal. Oval, 14 x 16mm. Lamb and flag (Agnus Dei), lamb statant sinister. c. 1650 - 1700. 14 x 16mm. Weighing 4.5g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tacolneston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3C11C7
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver cuff-link. Circular, with angled flange, crown above two hearts in low relief reserved on a stippled field. Separate loop soldered to reverse. Diameter 13mm. Weight 0.6g. A well known type, see similar examples recorded on the PAS database including SUSS-E88264, SWYOR-52C053, and NMS-BE7442. The crowned hearts may refer to the marriage of Charles II to Catherine of Braganza in 1662.
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shropham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3B4582
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete late Medieval silver finger ring. D-sectioned band with raised edges externally, decorated with three deep, oblique, u-profile grooves between which are multiple closely spaced stamped annulets or crescents arranged in angled rows, giving the impression of scales. Gilding survives on the internal and external face. The band has been neatly cut and the two ends pushed close together, making the original diameter or proportion of the ring surviving impossible to estimate. 15th - 16th century. For a similar example with a slightly different arrangement of grooves and…
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tacolneston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1D8A18
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two fragments of non-joining silver probable ingots; rectangular-sectioned, the reverse and one side flat, the other side and upper face particularly irregular with hammer marks. Both ends appear to have been partially cut into on the upper face and then broken. Breaks not recent. Surviving maximum dimensions 17 x 4.5 x 3.5m. Weight 1.7g (27gn). rectangular section with the corners cut off (bevelled on each long edge), complete and blunt at one end, the other end cut into on all four sides and then broken in in centre. Breaks not recent. A few possible hammer marks. Survi…
Created on: Wednesday 5th August 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walsingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2A1F33
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness fitting or possible chape. Triangular lower half, semi-circular in section with a fully rounded discoidal terminal at the point. From the upper, straight edge a thinner slightly domed sectioned projects decorated with transverse lines connected by off-set longitudinal lines imitating a brickwork pattern, with a rounded end, and a large central hole for a (missing) rivet. Substantial traces of gilding survive over the whole front face and discoidal terminal. Length 48.5mm. Maximum surviving width 21mm. Maximum thickness 10mm.
Created on: Tuesday 30th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burnham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EDAEB2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
SF4. Context 1046. Silver-gilt dress fastener. Length 13mm. Width 8mm. Weight 0.6g. Dress fastener consisting of a single piece of circular sectioned wire formed into a spiral 'figure of eight' which would have been sewn onto a garment, ending in a hook with a rounded end. The hook is applied to an incomplete decorative plate, upon which there is partly visible some filigree work. This type of dress hook is classified as a Read (2008) Class B Type 2, 3 or 4 (unknown which type as plate is incomplete; nos. 597-605). Early post-medieval. Read, B. 2008. Hooked-Cl…
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2016
Last updated: Thursday 17th December 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-449552
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring consisting of a sub-circular sectioned hoop without bezel. There is no decoration, inscription, maker's mark or hall mark. Cf. an example from Suffolk (PAS SF-FCF822). With such a lack of diagnostic features the object cannot be dated more closely than to the Roman period or any time thereafter. External diameter 23mm. Internal diameter 19mm. Thickness 2.5mm. Weighing 5.38g.
Created on: Monday 18th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7C7611
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Basal mount with two (distorted) rectangular strap loops and Y-shaped upright rotating stem for the suspension of two horse harness pendants. An unusual feature is the bifurcation near the top of the stem, just above which the two parts split into two round-ended pierced arms. Normally the stem holds a banner or a single pendant set sideways at the top (N. Griffiths FRG Datasheet 5 (1986) figs .22-3) or multiple arms (normally four) spring from a rotating sphere (ibid. figs. 24-5). Loops c.15 x 6mm internally. Length c.57mm. Height 43mm. Late 13th -14th century
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 1st December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-01860E
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy harness fitting. Two rectangular strap loops connected at the lower edge by a convex sided central pierced bar. Broken across one of the loops. Gilded. Surviving length 47mm. Height 13mm. Width at connecting bar 9.5mm. For a similar, complete example see NMS-665801 (HER56826, Somerton, Norfolk) and Griffiths (1986 figs. 22-4).13th - 14th Century.
Created on: Thursday 4th June 2015
Last updated: Saturday 21st November 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-174194
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silvered copper alloy horse harness suspension mount, T-shaped, bent and broken 95 (reconstructed) x 17mm, triangular-sectioned horizontal bar with slightly hollowed back, double-cusped mouldings at lobed pierced terminals and perforated square central boss decorated with engraved lozengiform cross-hatching, from which projects a slotted projection bent backward onto reverse to form twin suspension-loops. Suspension-loops contain copper-alloy pin and fragment of pendant (5 x 18mm) with flat perforated loop and slotted part of rectangular-sectioned frame broken across transverse perfor…
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2004
Last updated: Friday 20th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.