Record ID: NMS-30AC24
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
This group of three later Iron Age copper alloy objects recovered from near King's Lynn, Norfolk comprises two enamelled flat-ring terrets and a miscellaneous flat ring terret. The terrets are of the same type, however, one is in relatively good condition, being nearly complete and the other is in three pieces with a part missing. The complete terret has a rectangular sectioned attachment bar that is flanked on either end with moulded collars each decorated with a median groove. The flattened ring of the terret, which gives the type its name, provides a large area for decoration. This…
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Kings Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-FEA645
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Seal matrix copper alloy, flat with cast pin from buckle soldered onto reverse to act as median rib ending in pierced lug, traces of solder visible. Pointed oval, 39 x 25 mm. Two lions addorsed reguardant. + SIGILL’ ROBTI · DE BOTEMT’ (Seal of Robert Butement/Bootman. From Le Boutimont (Pas-de-Calais), or Boutement (Calvados), Reaney and Wilson 1991, 76).
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FEEA57
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval oval buckle with offset narrowed bar, 17 x 21mm, pin missing, three incised lines on outside edge, traces of gilding. Similar to undecorated examples in Dress. Access. No.271 and 274. Egan and Pritchard suggest buckles of this type ceased to be gilded in the 13th century (1991, 42).
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-FF0803
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval strap end. Shield shaped plate pierced at pointed end for (missing) rivet, scar in corrosion shows position of missing bar mount, iron corrosion in the centre of blunt end suggests iron rivet. Surface corroded. Similar examples in Dress. Access. 1991, fig. 103, although these have a notch on either side of the plate before the bar mount.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF1DB5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval oval buckle frame with integral plate. Two rounded knops where frame joins plate, plate tapers to a small triangular knop on either side and then expands slightly to rounded end. Hole for missing pin, two rivet holes, traces of gilding, 46 (12 excluding plate) x 22mm. Plate 8mm wide at narrowest point.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF2E53
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval annular brooch with six lobes. Two opposing lobes pierced, remains of wire pin between two un-pierced lobes. External diameter 17mm, internal diameter 10mm.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF35E1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval three part circular strap end, forked spacer with collard acorn knop, egg shaped grooved aperture, three sheet rivets (one either side of aperture, one above knop) possibly later repairs. 42mm long, 28 – 29mm diameter. Similar examples in Dress. Access. (1991), fig 92, no: 648 and 649.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF4190
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval incomplete single loop buckle frame with narrowed central bar, slightly more than ¼ remains, 58 (reconstructed) x at least 35mm. Four broad, flat, chamfered notches alternately on the inside and outside of the frame. Tinned or silvered.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF4AA3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
MED copper alloy latch key. Very slightly longitudinally bowed oval-sectioned shank, transverse rib and triangular step down to flat-sectioned openwork mushroom-shape, very small short stem with narrow mushroom-shaped projection at one end, other end steps down to flat-sectioned perforated terminal, 52 x 15mm. Flat on reverse. An similar example on the Portable Antiquities Database (from Owslebury, Hampshire) is described as an Early Medieval key, the reference cited for this identification is G. Baily (2002) Detector Finds 5, p.48. Two similar keys were found at Norton Subcourse and …
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF60D1
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-medieval sub-rectangular corner mount from book (book fitting). Central circular repousse boss (worn through) surrounded by 13 stamps, some overlapping. Stamp consists of circle surrounded by a ring of trapezoidal cells. Three rivet holes, one edge of plate bent round to attach plate to book cover, other attachment edge missing. At maximum 31 (unbent) x 33mm. Surface corroded and worn. Similar in Margeson (EAA 58) 1993, fig 40, no 456.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FFC864
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval / early post-medieval type B purse bar (LMMC, 1940, 158 – 71). Short bar (55mm long, unbent, including terminals), with moulded terminals. Hexagonal sectioned central boss from which broken circular sectioned shank protrudes, pendant loop missing.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FFEE84
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval / early post-medieval projecting lug for attaching handle to vessel. Rectangular sheet folded widthways, irregular hole 6 – 8 mm diameter through middle for handle to pass through, projection from unfolded end with copper alloy rivet for attachment to vessel. Corners at folded end folded over again. Sooting on both sides. 33 x at least 31mm.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F16E70
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neck of Frechen stoneware Bartmann (beard man) or Bellarmine jug with mask (broken across chin) with one raised eyebrow, handle broken off, salt glazed. External diameter at mouth 39mm, weighing 185g. Late 16th – 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 1st December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-01D7D8
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age razor, incomplete, probably originally crescent shaped. Blade tapers towards corroded cutting edge, broken at both ends, at least 5 (two complete) open-work triangles at top of body in line with concave back. Corrosion pattern on top of razor back suggest further projections, now missing. At least 32 x 39mm.
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-571693
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post-medieval copper alloy ring, flat irregular section, traces of file marks, 1 – 2.5mm thick, 2.5 – 3mm wide, external diameter 32 – 34mm.
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5743C6
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval crotal bell, rectangular perforated loop for suspension, two large perforations in upper half, pronounced median ridge, lower half with very faint traces of engraved decoration, slot with circular terminals now damaged, contains copper alloy pea, diameter 30mm.
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-575926
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieva / Post-medieval 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 6th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5769F4
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval / post-medieval purse bar. Round sectioned bar with rounded terminal knop divided into four by spiral mouldings. Similar to example B3 in LMMC, 1967, 167 fig.52. Bar at least 30mm long, total length at least 41mm, diameter of knopp 12mm.
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 5th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-804B86
Object type: CASKET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval strap type casket mount. Triangular sectioned bar broken at one end, collard at other before flat, pierced fleur d’ lis terminal. Very similar to a 13th century example from London (Egan, 1998, 73, fig. 50, no. 147). At least 67mm long, bar width 9mm, maximum terminal width 17mm.
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-807444
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Key (locking), probably for casket. Similar to smaller example in EAA 58, 1993, 162, fig.120. no. 1311 but with slightly more elaborate bit. Traces of tinning or silvering. Circular bow with central groove on one side, moulded step to oval sectioned stem. Stem thins and projects 8mm beyond bit. External diameter of bow 12mm, total length 53mm, bit 11 x 11mm. 13th – 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.