Record ID: NMS-66F9A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A heavily clipped denier of Conrad, bishop of Utrecht (1076-99). There are four piercings near the edge of the coin, arranged roughly as the spots on the face of a die. One of these is now empty, the other three still contain small silver rivets. Two of these rivets secure a catchplate formed of a silver strip; a pin attachment would doubtless have been secured by the other two rivets, one now missing. Thus, this coin has been adapted as a small disc brooch. The exterior face is gilded and depicts a façade within a beaded border. The interior face is not gilded and figures a male hea…
Created on: Thursday 24th February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D09F51
Object type: PATEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a small Norwich silver plate which may have been a paten. The assay marks on the reverse in the middle of the item comprise two shield-shaped stamps. The first shield has a rounded base and bears the arms of Norwich (a triple-towered castle in chief a lion passant guardant in base). The second shield is broken across the base and bears an orb, the makers mark for William Cobbold. This is Cobbold's second mark; the first being an orb on a lozenge. There are multiple straight cut marks on the face of plate where the priest has divided the Host, 'a clear indication of its use a…
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 14th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cranworth', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-7A4396
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy ferrule or unidentified object. Shallow D-sectioned ring with three paralelle grooves around the outside. Gilded. Uncertain if complete or broken edges. External diameter 10mm. Internal diameter 7mm. Height 5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-B18F57
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame with notched lip in centre of outside edge, off-set bar obscured by broken fragment of folded buckle-plate with hole for (missing) pin. 14 x 15mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-9E71B5
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Merovingian tremissis of hitherto unknown type with a fragment of either another tremissis or decorated gold sheet adhering to it. The obverse depicts a diademed bust facing right with the retrograde legend BASOI FIT BH, the reverse probably a long-cross on globe, flanked by the letters AB (B retrograde) and the legend, VNE[...]S[..]X[..]S. This type is not recorded in any of the standard reference works. Adhering to it is a small fragment, probably of another coin, with what appear to be the letters ON (or NO). Late 6th or early 7th century AD. A single gold coin would no…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Swaffham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C23755
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Twenty gold coins ranging in date from a Unite of Charles I to a Half Sovereign of Victoria. These were found together in a fist-sized clump beneath a jar lid. Catalogue: Charles I, Unite (Briot's coinage), 1631-2 Charles II, Five Guineas, 1684 William and Mary, Half Guinea, 1694 George II, Five Guineas, 1746 George III, Half Guinea, 1790 George III, Guinea, 1793 George III, Guinea, 1798 George III, Half Guinea, 1801 George III, Third Guinea, 1804 George III, Half Guinea, 1804 George III, Half Guinea, 1806 George III, Sovereign, 1820 George III, Half Sovere…
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walsoken', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C872E4
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A gold posy ring with a shallow D-sectioned band which is undecorated externally, and inscribed internally In thy sight is my delight followed by a stamped maker's mark within a square, possibly JD. The D is clear, but the first letter of the maker's mark is less certain. The band is now distorted, and slightly damaged at points along the edges. The inscription can be found in the British Museum collections, AF.1301, dated 17th-18th Century. The maker's mark does not appear in any of the standard resources. 17th - 18th century. Width of band 4mm. Weight 2.89g. Original diameter …
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wattisfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-126827
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Summary: Bronze Age hoard consisting of 191 objects including wood and cloth. The finds were found with a metal detector in the ploughsoil over an area at least 30ft. across, and the site was subsequently excavated by Andrew Rogerson. The site was ridged for asparagus immediately prior to the first discovery. During excavation, the surface was removed to reveal an almost square pit (300 x 300mm) cut into natural orange clay to a depth of 90mm. The very clearly defined edges of the cut indicate that the pit was not left open for a great length of time. The upper surface was ba…
Created on: Monday 17th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 11th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-9D43A6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Rectangular frame, narrowed bar with rounded projections beyond frame at either end, triangular outside edges, pin missing. Tinned, with file marks on surface. and bevelled edges. Measuring 39 x 23mm. See Whitehead (2003, 82, no.513). 17th centiry.
Created on: Friday 8th March 2013
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-3587E6
Object type: CROTAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval crotal bell. Rectangular loop with cast hole, two large holes in the upper half, prominant, narrow median rib, round-ended slot in base, corroded iron pea. Very worn cast decoration is visible on the lower half only in the form of a sunburst or gadrooning, with initials (H and a possible I) within a semicircular field to one side of the slot. Diameter 28mm. Height 35mm. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 25th November 2013
Spatial data recorded.