Record ID: NMS-8F7C42
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular domed mount 13mm diameter, 3mm high. Integral 8mm long attachment spike projects from back of one edge, bent over to hold a thickness of 3mm. Opposing attachment spike broken off.
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8FF451
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Ansate brooch of Weetch's type XI.A. Rectangular and flat, with fifteen deep transverse filed grooves. Double pin lug on reverse partly obscured by iron corrosion from (missing) pin, complete tongue shaped catchplate. Cast, not well finished on reverse. Measuring 41 x 9mm. 9th or 10th century.
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2006
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burnham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9008D3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete openwork strap end, probably Winchester type. Sides expand beyond split end with two rivets, broken and very worn. Thomas class E, type 1 (Finds Research Group Datasheet 33). Measuring at least 34.5 x 23mm
Created on: Tuesday 28th March 2006
Last updated: Saturday 22nd March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burnham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A4C401
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy seal box. Oval, pointed at both ends. Lid decorated with raised central ring and dot surrounded by eight smaller raised rings on a blue enamel field, remains of red enamel between central dot and ring, orange enamel fills one of the outer rings. Broken pierced lug above hinge, lug to locate lid at opposite end to hinge has indent at top and slight projection at bottom, corresponding lug in box base is pierced. Four circular holes in base of box, channel for string on either side. The hinge has been bent so the two halves of the box no longer line up when closed. Measuring…
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2006
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A4F8A2
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Horse harness pendant, trefoil, very corroded, remains of blue enamelling survive, 34 x 44mm. Azure three crowns (2:1)the lower transfixed by an arrow palewise with points downward [?Or/ Argent]. Probably relating to the arms of Bury Abbey, Suffolk. Cf. pendants of similar form in Ashley (2002), fig.21, nos.197-8.
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A51432
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Awl. Slightly curved, pointed and circular sectioned at one end, thickening towards centre, clearly defined change to rectangular section, tapering to narrow chisel-like end. Length 57mm, maximum thickness 6.7mm, width of chisel end 2mm. Similar examples from Flag Fen (Coombs in Pryor, 2001, 266, fig. 10.6, no. 65 – 68).
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2006
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A55674
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Wing-and-fanbow brooch. Spring and pin missing. Moulded ‘c’ sectioned arms, incomplete loop for pin, sharply angled head, flat bow with engraved line along either edge and median groove with engraved line either side, sheet catchplate on reverse. Measuring 26 x 39mm. c. 40 – 55 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A5B1F0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four armed plate brooch. Central sub-lozengiform panel with eight opposed stamped triangles two of which contain traces of turquoise enamel, collared knop on one side, broken on other. Traces of tinning, two faint curved engraved lines on foot. Broken at head and foot. Pin, catchplate and pin lug missing. Measuring at least 26 x 25mm. Similar to an example in Hattatt (2000, fig 201, no. 1584). Mid – late 1st century AD.
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A5CE41
Object type: MIRROR CASE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete half of mirror case. Disc, originally with a pair of pierced lugs (one of which is now missing), lines of worn stamped decoration form a cross, traces of white material on inside may be remains of lead backing for glass. Very similar to more complete examples from London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991, fig. 241, no. 1715 and 1716). Diameter c. 31mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2006
Last updated: Sunday 26th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F92EB4
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Alabaster figure of a knight, carved in the round, broken and incomplete, comprising eight joining fragments. The knight is missing most of one ear, one elbow, his hands and most of his legs. He has ring-and-dots for eyes, exaggeratedly large perforated ears, protruding lips and a beard around his cheeks and chin but no moustache. He wears a conical helmet with nasal (nose-guard) and a long-sleeved mail hauberk under his surcoat. His lower arms are obliquely angled upward to where his hands were once clasped together, perhaps in prayer (or holding the reins of a horse?). His legs are s…
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breckland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-06C4D1
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Gilt horse harness pendant, circular, cast with head of a lion affronté in high relief within two concentric pelleted lines, slight damage to lower edge, 21 x 29mm. 13th century.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2004
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Witton', 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.

Record ID: NMS-094805
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon incomplete copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, oval frame, apex broken, loop missing, decorated with clear representation of obscure mask-like design, flange with single rivet-hole with dome-headed iron and part of iron strap on reverse, 26 x (at least) 38mm. Cf. Williams (1997) fig.26, closest to nos.79 and 82, Class A, Type 4. 11th century. PHOTO
Created on: Friday 4th June 2004
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-44AC47
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap-end, rectangular sheet folded widthways (fold with loop-like ridge on reverse), decorated with tiny punched triangular stamps forming double border within which is an elaborate fleur-de-lis with curling tendrils and central foil ending in a cross potent, two dome-headed rivets at attachment end, edge damaged, 25 x 20mm. Late 12th-13th century
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton Subcourse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4501C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval copper alloy disc brooch of Jansson type II A, very worn, domed with remains of cast Borre-style decoration of three inward-facing cat-like animals between the lobes of a trefoil, on the reverse is a broken pierced lug and catch-plate, there is no loop for chain or pendant so probably of native rather than Scandinavian origin, diameter 22mm. Cf. Margeson 1997, 20-1, fig.22. 10th century
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton Subcourse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4693A3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval fragment (46 x 26mm) of copper alloy key, small piece of broken collared oval-sectioned shank, lozengiform bow, side angles with rectangular knop and traces of double vertical grooves, oval knop at terminal. Cf. LMMC, 135, 138-40, Fig.42, Type V. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heckingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-46C327
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval dress hook, rectangular loop above two inward-curling scrolls, horizontal groove and hook, 12 x 23mm. 16th/early 17th century.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton Subcourse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-472332
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval copper alloy buckle frame, angled double-oval with fleur-de-lis moulding on both outside edges, narrowed central bar projects beyond frame, pin missing, 43 x 24mm. Cf. Whitehead (2003), no.393. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton Subcourse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-474405
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead seal matrix, flat. Approximately quarter surviving with small fragment of outside edge. Circular, approximately 32 mm (reconstructed). Cross-crosslet between four radiating crosses (reconstructed). ][?G] · W[ (Seal of ?).
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ormesby St Margaret with Scatby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-476F72
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead seal matrix, flat with vertical median rib ending in short backward projecting lug at upper edge on reverse. Circular, 26 mm. Quatrefoil between four pellets. S’ WALTERI · PIGV (Seal of Walter Pig).
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.