Record ID: NMS-4152E3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold Medieval finger ring. Triangular sectioned band (point inwards, convex outer edge) becoming lozengiform at shoulders, triangular collet now empty, with engraved line around outer edge. For similar examples see Oman, 1993, plate XI, 255 and 256. Date: 13th century. Dimensions: Internal diameter 19mm, external diameter 22mm, bezel 6 x 5mm, height 5mm.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Raveningham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-36DAE7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold Serjeants-at-Law finger ring. Rectangular sectioned, now squashed, engraved with a cross paté followed by . These rings were distributed by people joining the Order of Serjeants-at-Law. Rings distributed at the same call all had the same motto whether an individual or several people were joining the order. The motto 'LEX VITA REGVM' was used on rings of the general call of April 1567 when seven people became Serjeants-at-Law. However, the list of mottos and the years in which they were used is incomplete and it is possible that this motto was used more than once (G. Holborn, p…
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Friday 19th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East of Norwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3A5B84
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver Roman finger ring, broken across flat possibly oval bezel, engraved double chevron on damaged shoulder, small part of broken D-sectioned band with twin engraved lines. This ring was reported as possible treasure under the Treasure Act 1996 and subsequently returned to the finder after being disclaimed as treasure.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashwellthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-25B0D0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a silver Roman finger ring, bezel missing, broken against transverse knurled rib on shoulder, flattened D-sectioned band tapers to break at centre of base. This object was reported as possible treasure under the Treasure Act 1996 and subsequently returned to the finder after being disclaimed as treasure.
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colkirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3A8E05
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver finger-ring partly encrusted in ferrous concretion, with flat apparently undecorated square bezel. The surface of the metal is very pitted where exposed on the bezel, but quite smooth near the narrowest part of the hoop. This ring was reported as possible treasure under the Treasure Act 1996 and subsequently returned to the finder after being disclaimed as treasure.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Feltwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CF7725
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver finger ring. Most of D-sectioned (3 x 1mm), parallel-sided hoop is missing. The circular bezel (diameter 6.5mm) is cast integrally with, but is set on the outer surface of, the hoop. Its surface is flat and undecorated apart from a number of randomly distributed pecked impressions. On both sides of the bezel the hoop is decorated with three moulded grooves (3mm in length). Internal diameter c. 20mm, weighing 1.3g. This ring was reported as possible treasure under the Treasure Act 1996 and subsquently returned to the finder after being disclaimed as treasure.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-21A737
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver finger ring. D-sectioned hoop expanding slightly to the shoulder with two cast indentations creating slightly hunched shoulder. A fragment of the round or oval bezel inset for a (missing) stone survives. Bezel 10mm wide.
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Thetford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5FE794
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval furniture fitting. An incomplete cast copper alloy drop handle with a trapezoidal suspension / attachment loop, with short spiked projections to either side above a constriction before expanding to a rectangular plate which is decorated with a slightly raised triangular panel. The plate terminates in an irregular transverse break. Surviving length 36mm. Width 16mm. For similar examples see Read (1995, 162, no.1086) and Macquoid and Edwards (1954, vol.II, 303, fig.16a), c. 1660 - 1710.
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 7th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gayton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CC9E93
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver gilt annular brooch. Part of circular-sectioned frame (length 27mm) with separate soldered lozenge with ribs radiating from small central boss, 9 x 10mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Monday 19th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AA0858
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT A 6th - 7th century fish shaped mount. Circumstance of Discovery Found while searching with a metal detector in East Walton, Norfolk. Description Silver gilt mount in the form of a fish and made from a thick piece of sheet folded lengthways and hammered together at the tail. A gap or socket runs along the rest of the underside as far as the head. The tail and the head, which has suffered slight damage and distortion, are cut to shape and gilded, and both are edged on both faces with an engraved groove. Black niello remains in a small part of the groove near …
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-973788
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat, silver, angular shield-shaped object inscribed WC 1643, the date and the owner's initials, within an engraved linear border with multiple transverse lines. The heads of two separate silver rivets are flush with the front face and their shanks bent over onto the reverse. Probably part of a hawking vervel, although normally the shield-shaped plate and the ring are joined with solder. 1643 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2009
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spixworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A95326
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT A late 16th - 17th century silver hawking vervel. Circumstance of Discovery Found while searching with a metal detector in Wereham, Norfolk Description Incomplete silver hawking vervel: a small shield-shaped plate with the scar of a missing ring on the reverse. The top is scalloped and the base pointed. Engraved decoration on the front consists of a contour line and a cross. For a short discussion of vervels see Treasure Annual Report 2004, no. 345. The age and precious metal content of this item therefore qualify it as treasure under the stipulations of …
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Friday 4th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DA3315
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Leaf Arrowhead (incomplete) Dimensions 36 x 25 x 4.6mm. A broad based, thin leaf arrowhead, recently snapped transversely with loss of the point. Finished overall on both faces by peripheral shallow pressure flaking, with complete removal of the surface of the blank. Both faces show signs of incipient patination, which has not affected the break surface. Leaf Arrowheads are a defining artefact of the Neolithic (especially the Early Neolithic Period, 4000-3000BC).
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-EBF253
Object type: BOTTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late 17th to later 18th century dark green glass wine bottle, probably mid 18th century. Onion or mallet shaped with applied rim below the lip. Almost complete, one small sherd missing from side. Maximum diameter 135mm. Height 200mm.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2160F3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete but squashed silver sheet finger-ring. The hoop tapers to pointed ends which are wound around each other, and expands to a flat lozengiform bezel. This is decorated with stamped impressions of two designs, a reversed S distributed along the edges and a circle with raised diametric line punched in pairs and short alignments of four. Stamped finger-rings, in gold, silver and copper alloy, are characteristic of the late 9th and 10th centuries (Treasure Annual Report 2001, p. 34, no.45, from Bolton, E. Yorkshire (PAS-D64713); E Anglian Archaeol. 22, 68, fig. 110, nos.12 and …
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Seething', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-4D1658
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon fragment of copper alloy bird-shaped brooch, broken openwork with remains of S-shaped bird in Ringerike/Urnes-style, remains of pierced lug on reverse. Cf. Pedersen (1999) figs.1-3. Second half of the 11th century. Other examples of this type of bird brooch on the PAS database include NLM5638, SUSS-44F203, SF-7B3CA5, SF-BCC403, BERK-5DED86, NMS-E7F720, KENT-9F6987, BERK-CEBC67 and SF-AD5FA7.
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2003
Last updated: Friday 24th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Topcroft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B7E374
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver gilt dress fastener with a lozengiform plate, cast in low relief, with a cusped flange around the edge. The inner part of the plate is decorated with a slightly raised edge and pellets arranged in a lozenge around a central quatrefoil flower with a central pellet. Soldered to the reverse are a rectangular transverse bar for attachment and a sharp rearward facing hook. Gilding survives on the plate. Cf. Gaimster et al (2002, 165, fig.8). 16th century. 20Length 24.5mm, width 18mm. Weight 4.14g.
Created on: Thursday 25th March 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 29th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Runton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F8C4F1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Bronze Age hoard consisting of; A copper alloy Socketed chisel with a circular-sectioned socketed end, becoming rectangular-sectioned where solid and tapering to a blunt end. There is corroded casting flaw protruding from the internal face of the socket which would have prevented the handle from being inserted below this point. Measuring 18 x 133mm. Weighing 90.43g. Cf. an example from the Burton Upon Stather hoard illustrated in Inventoria Archaeologia, GB.23, 3 (3), no.14. c.1000 - c.700 BC. A copper alloy socketed axe head. Moulded at the sub-rectangular mouth, with a second,…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2009
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-ABEC90
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver buckle. An oval frame, triangular sectioned, with a pointed notch for the pin. Off-set, narrowed bar, with a lozengiform sectioned pin with a large, rectangular collar before the loop attaching it to the bar. The rectangular plate is folded widthways, is recessed for the frame and expands slightly towards the concave attachment end where there are two round-headed rivets. There are separate side strips. No spacer is visible. The joins between the side strips and faces of the plate, and between the frame and the plate are so well finished they are almost invisible. Similar to …
Created on: Monday 23rd November 2009
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8400C3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast silver belt mount in the form of a sexfoil, flat with a central round aperture and two integral rivets on the reverse. Sexfoil mounts were commonly made in copper and lead/tin alloys (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 186-92), but rarely in silver. Date: 14th - 15th century. The age and precious metal content of this item therefore qualify it as treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Monday 9th November 2009
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grimston', grid reference and parish protected.