Record ID: NMS-9F34F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a composite silver disc brooch of rosette shape, with inlaid garnets and silver filigree ornament; it dates to the early part of the early-medieval period and is perhaps of Frankish manufacture. Six of twelve trapezoidal cells around the edge are extant, each with a convex outer edge and set with a cloisonné garnet on pointillé gold foil. These radiate from a circle containing two elliptical cells set with cloisonné garnets and a central panel with silver wire spirals on a silver backplate. Where the radiating cells have been broken, reddish brown material can be s…
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9F99E1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silver belt mount with an integral rivet on the reverse. Flat with bevelled edges and tapering gently from a complete end to a break across a rounded aperture. On the front a lower case black-letter a is reserved on a cross-hatched ground. 15th century.
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9FB324
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded silver, flat, rectangular bar-mount, with four rivet holes (one incomplete). Gilding is confined to one face. 13th - 14th century
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DA1837
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two joining fragments comprising one quarter of a silver finger-ring with a flat-sectioned hoop. The breaks are not recent. An inscription in French on the outer face beginning with a foliar sprig reads: ICI[················]N (Here.........). 15th century. External diameter 21mm. Width 5.5mm. Thickness 1mm. Weight 1.18g.
Created on: Monday 26th January 2009
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DA5243
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Less than one third of a Kentish silver jewelled disc brooch, rim missing. The central cell is empty. Three outer cells are extant, one circular filled with decayed blue glass paste, one D-shaped filled with similar but paler material and another circular, empty and distorted. Style I zoomorphic motifs fill the spaces between the outer cells and a pelleted circle surrounds the central cell. On the reverse there are the crushed remains of a double pin lug. Much of the surfaces are obscured by adherent soil. Avent (1975) Class 7.4. Early Saxon. Mid to late 6th century. >25 x >16.5mm. We…
Created on: Monday 26th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', 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-9B39B7
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt dress hook. Sub-triangular back-plate which is cusped around the edge. The front plate consists of three domed bosses, a central pellet and three further pellets, one between each boss. On the reverse is a separate soldered hook and solder scars from the missing loop. Similar to a Class D, type 6 example in Read, (2008, 77, no.254). 16th century. Plate 15 x 15.5mm, total length including hook 24mm. Weight 3.23g. 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wormegay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C6DFC1
Object type: TORC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold rotating dorsal muff from a torc. A composite ring constructed of six components comprising two broad semi-circular-sectioned concentric hollow ribs (or tubes) between three narrow twisted wires (probably square-sectioned) soldered to a sheet inner part. The twisted wires appear very worn. The surface of the inner sheet has concentric wear and scratches where the separate parts of the torc were twisted together. External diameter 24mm. Internal diameter19mm. Weight 10.94g. 84-87% gold, 10-12% silver and the remainder being copper
Created on: Friday 6th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-013F85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver gilt knob from a radiate-headed brooch, with a hollow underside and perforated ends. The front is decorated with a mask comprising eyebrows, a nasal ridge between the eyes within pairs of concentric ribs, and nostrils. Cf. Ashley et al (1990), fig.1, no.3, and other knobs from Fransham and Marham.
Created on: Monday 9th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Hunstanton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2B9B83
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver finger ring. Shallow 'D' sectioned band expanding smoothly to rectangular bezel consisting of a central lozengiform panel engraved AI surrounded by four triangular facets each engraved with a triangle filled with horizontal lines. The shoulders are engraved with lozengiform fans. 18th century The style of the lettering and the shape of the bezel are more consistent with a dating to 18th century. In the absence of any marks or other distinguishing features, this ring is not classed as Treasure. External diameter 20mm, internal diameter 18mm. Weighing 2.12g.
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2C1204
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver hawk-ring or vervel. Annular and flat-sectioned with an engraved inscription around one face: ·m' Come·buck of Chichly (there is an additional small nick above the initial m). Chicheley is in Buckinghamshire. Found very close to a silver bell, also reported as Treasure. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2C9E06
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
17th Century gold posy ring. Band consisting externally of ten circular bosses with corded borders. Between each boss on both sides of the band are smaller round knops. The flat internal surface is inscribed 'God gives in crease to Loue and peace'. The 's' of crease is very elongated and almost in the form of an f missing the cross bar. The tail of the letter 'p' extends backwards to underline the last two letters of 'and'. See Oman (1974, plate 58 c) for a very similar example with a different inscription. The style of the lettering is consistent for the 17th century. The British Mus…
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Last updated: Monday 20th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2F6746
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Report from Dr. A. B. Marsden: Seven pennies, all of Henry II's 'Tealby' type. These were somewhat scattered but clearly represent part of a hoard dispersed at some point in the past. Given the small number of coins this was probably lost in the form of a purse rather than deposited deliberately. The coins, like most Tealby issues, are very badly produced. Details of moneyers and mints, such as they are legible, are: GODEFRE[...]LVN (Godefrei of London) [...]PI[...] (uncertain) [...]A[h]AN:O[...] (uncertain, Bust F) N[...]IPE[..] (Nicole of Ipswich) [...]VL:ON:[...]…
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 15th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-40F587
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Made in two halves and soldered together, now squashed almost flat and broken. Separate soldered wire loop in upper half, two holes in lower half near join, across one of which the break runs. Surface gilded and covered in closely spaced repoussé pellets. 16th- 17th century. Present measurements; height 23mm, width 19mm. Weighing 4.1g.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-411415
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Enamelled gold finger-ring in the form of a belt and buckle inscribed on the inner face TOVT + PAR + AMOVR + ("all through love") The slightly distorted hoop, i.e. the belt, is formed from two strips and is decorated with running vine scroll, except beyond the buckle where four pin holes are represented by double concentric rings separated by transverse lines. The buckle is shown as double-looped with pointed outside edges and large lobes at both ends of the bar. The belt, having passed through the buckle, is folded over and tucked under itself. The rounded end is decorated with a mot…
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edgefield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-412F26
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a silver ansate brooch. Flat terminal in the form of a rectangular, moulded, 12-petalled flower. Slightly narrowed rectangular-sectioned bow broken across beginning of expansion, probably remains of a central decorative rectangle matching the terminal. Incomplete narrow catch-plate on reverse of terminal. Length at least 20mm, width of terminal 13mm, width of bow 11mm, weighing 4.28g. Of Weetch's type XII.B, possibly similar to an example in Thörle, 2001, Taf. 57, 4. 8th or 9th century.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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.

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Record ID: NMS-41A985
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1. Linch pin head. Stub of corroded rectangular sectioned iron shank protruding from a rectangular socket at the base of the copper alloy head. Above the socket is a circular moulding at the base of a globular body which is waisted before large flat circular top. The body is pierced by a transverse hole the ends of which are defined by circular mouldings, there are two circular cells filled with red enamel between the openings on one side only. The upper surface is recessed in the centre, the rim decorated with three evenly spaced circular cells, one of which contains traces of red ena…
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BE02A4
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of gold sheet strip, one straight end complete, the other missing. Throughout its length one long edge is folded over by 1 - 1.5mm. Eight longitudinal grooves cover the remainder of the object apart from a narrow strip along the other edge, which was probably once also folded over. Possibly Bronze Age.
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swaffham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BE3EB3
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CURATOR'S REPORT Late 6th to early 7th-century sword pommel cap.Description of find Silver gilt sword pommel cap, ovoid in plan, hemispherical in elevation, and hollow on the underside, with a perforation in the top for the tang, and two small holes on both faces, one of which is filled with hard grey material. Zoomorphic relief decoration, entirely removed through wear from the top and almost all of one face, is in Style II. On the better preserved face two interlacing beasts, with one head and one tail at both ends, form an arch over a semicircular border framing a space around the s…
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mileham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E7BE60
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An ingot, analysed and found to be a high-tin pewter. Cast metal bar, one end rounded, the other distorted and broken. The section is plano-convex, tending to trapezoidal near the broken end. The surface of the curved face is uneven with numerous longitudinal striations, that of the straight face smooth. Near the very rough fracture the object has been bent, and there is transverse concavity, probably caused by pressure on the convex face. Small cracks on the convex surface are probably the result of post-depositional damage.The ingot weighs 113.62g. Analysis: Non-de…
Created on: Friday 20th February 2009
Last updated: Friday 3rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E6C671
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver thimble. Two part construction consisting of a domed top and separate sheet for the sides, the join between which can just be seen. The edge to edge join of the side sheet is now partially separated. There is a border around the base consisting of two lines of caballing with a plain space between. There are two ovals positioned on opposite sides of the thimble, one containing a worn crowned female bust facing left with a K to the right, the other a crowned male bust facing left with C to one side and R to the other. The rest of the surface is covered with closely spaced annulet…
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilney St Lawrence', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EA1E81
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold finger ring, stirrup shaped, with a slight oval depression on the bezel not large enough to hold a stone. Flat sectioned band inscribed externally +DEV:MEDOINST : IOIE : DEMAMOR: (God gives me the joy of love). The band is now slightly distorted. Date: c.14th century.
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 17th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hopton on Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EB9E31
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silver cuff-link, one fastener missing and single-looped ovoid link broken at one end through wear. The circular fastener, with integral undrilled shank on hollow reverse, is decorated in counter-relief with a pair of conjoined hearts beneath a crown on a stippled ground.
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenninghall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7B86F1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilt copper alloy mount, openwork, cast in the form of a fish caught between two confronted birds. The head of the fish is flanked by the beak of both birds, each with legs raised and holding the sides of the fish. There are two vertically aligned pierced lugs on the reverse, one at the upper edge and one at the lower edge (both project c.5mm), and have corroded iron in the perforations. Measuring 28 x 32mm. Late 6th–early 7th century AD. A pendant with very similar decoration was found at Coddenham in Suffolk in 1999 (Martin et al 2000, 500, fig. 154C). The Gunthorpe mount and t…
Created on: Thursday 4th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Holt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7F01C7
Object type: COMB
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a double-sided composite antler comb, comprising most of a complete end-plate with two original edges. The end-plate has the remains of broken teeth on both sides, with a broad end and single rivet-hole. The teeth on both sides are evenly set 2.5 mm apart. The end-plate measures 25 x 41mm. The comb is early-medieval and although it is not impossible that it is late in this period, it is more likely to date from the fifth to eighth centuries (MacGregor 1985, 92-95).
Created on: Thursday 4th June 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FC7553
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five silver denarii and one silver radiate, found in a close area and running in a straight line as if scattered by the plough. One, a coin of Vespasian, is heavily worn whilst the others, coins of Septimius Severus and his family, were relatively crisp. They form a discrete group in terms of date and denomination and there seems no doubt that they represent part of a dispersed hoard. Catalogue: 1) Vespasian, denarius, perhaps RIC 10, AD 69-71 2) Caracalla, denarius, RIC 10 or 11, AD 196-8 3) Caracalla, denarius, RIC 65, AD 202 4) Septimius Severus, denarius, RIC 266, AD 202-10 5…
Created on: Wednesday 10th June 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-262A62
Object type: RAPIER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age, 1400-1200 BC. Measuring >30 x >113mm. Fragment of copper alloy rapier. The blade is broken at both ends with the remains of two rivet-holes in the hafting-plate. There is a flat median rib and the edges are damaged. A palstave (without loop, with a shield pattern on the blade which is defined on the sides by shoulders, measuring 135mm long, blade width 64mm, max. width of butt 22mm. Cf. Savory, 1980, 169, fig.21, no.148 for a similar example) was found at the same site in 1990, and it is therefore possible that these two items are part of a hoard.
Created on: Friday 12th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 24th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hockering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-27D9C2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sword fragment - Tip of blade with very straight sides and flattened oval in section. Bevelled for the cutting edge, which is slightly damaged along both sides. Light brown patination, except near the break where the blade is slightly bent and the surface green and slightly corroded. Width at break 35mm, length at least 117mm. Spear - Tip of socketed spear, broken before base of socket. The median rib is prominent and the edges bevelled. The tip is bent sideways in a slight curve. Most of the surface is covered with orange-brown patination or corrosion, which also covered the break.
Created on: Friday 12th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2011
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Record ID: NMS-62D0F5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This group comprises fifteen Iron Age coins and twenty-three Roman coins. All of the Iron Age coins belong to the East Anglian regional series which is usually associated with the Iceni, a people thought to have inhabited modern Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire in the century or so before the Roman conquest. The types represented here were struck between about 20 BC and AD 50. There are thirteen Roman Republican issues, the earliest struck by the magistrate P Maenius in 132 BC. The remaining ten coins are Roman Imperial issues, ranging from those of the first emperor, Au…
Created on: Monday 15th June 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-768695
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold signet ring with a D-sectioned hoop, the shoulders decorated with engraved foliar motifs and an oval bezel with an owl displayed a crescent moon in dexter base, within a pelleted border. 15th - early 16th century. Bezel 18 x 13.5mm. Minimum width of hoop 3.5mm. Internal diameter 19.5 - 22mm. Weight 15.06g.
Created on: Tuesday 16th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 20th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swannington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-76B9B2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Bi-convex, hollow, the two halves soldered together with two holes in the reverese and a separate soldered D-sectioned loop. There are traces of decoration on the upper half in the form of worn semicircles which may originally have been annulets. Cf. Read, 2005, no.355 - 358 for similar copper alloy examples. c. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 16th June 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1DEFA8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver signet ring with only a short length of the flat D-sectioned hoop extant. An inscription encircles round the sloping edge of the transversely set oval bezel and surrounds an antique oval carnelian intaglio engraved with the figure of Fides, standing and holding corn ears and a basket of fruit. A collar at the junction of hoop and bezel is stamped with ten tiny triangles, and the hoop is decorated with a transverse groove and a saltire between the arms of which are two single and two triplets of pellets. The inscription reads: + SIGNVO SFCRF TIC ELA The N is retrograd…
Created on: Wednesday 24th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 15th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langley with Hardley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1E3865
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Silver knob, probably from a radiate-headed brooch, with hollow underside and front decorated with a mask consisting of two pairs of eyes in counter relief, and ribbed eyebrows. There is a protruding ledge at the back on the flat end of the object and its underside is hollow. It is difficult to see how this could have been attached to the headplate, in the absence of a rivet hole in the flat end. Dimensions: Length 14.5mm. Width 9.5mm. Thickness 6mm. Weight 1.99g. Discussion: Barry Ager has commented "there are knobs with that sort of brow on some Lombardic broo…
Created on: Wednesday 24th June 2009
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1E6A46
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CURATOR'S REPORT Description 1. Socketed axe - South-eastern type. Sub-rectangular double mouth moulding of which the upper moulding is prominent whilst the lower gives rise to the loop on the side of the body. The body is plain and undecorated with relatively few pits running down to a flared blade. One blade corner has broken and corroded away. The patina is light brown with light green corrosion L: 99.0mm; W: 39.0-48.0mm; Wt: 331.1g (with earth remaining in the socket) 2. Bronze plano-convex ingot fragment. Curving cast surface. Dark green patina with green corrosion wi…
Created on: Wednesday 24th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 30th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1E9786
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver pendant shield with an integral loop at the apex, probably a vervel of Lewis and Richardson type C.iii. The shield is engraved on both faces: Fr Man / nock of / giffardes / hall // in Stoke / in Suf. / esquire . Two similar objects are illustrated in the Treasure Annual Report 2004 nos.319-320. The better parallel of the two, no.320 (from Suffolk), is described as being 'possibly from horse harness' which is most unlikely. Edward Martin has kindly supplied the following genealogical data: Francis Mannock Esq. succeeded his father William at Gifford's Hall, Stoke by Nayland, in …
Created on: Wednesday 24th June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 16th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1CC4D6
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of mouth of socket of spearhead, broken across a peg hole. The fractures are not ancient. This object is number 41 of a hoard reported as Treasure Case 2008 T95. Late Bronze Age. Length 24.5mm. External diameter 24mm. Weight. 4.63g. For other objects in the hoard see NMS-EE8264 (nos. 1-40) and NMS-CA57D7 (nos. 42-5).
Created on: Monday 6th July 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-364AB6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny silver brooch. Open, lozengiform frame, flat backed with convex front. Seven circular bosses decorate the frame, three undecorated in the corners and four decorated with rows of pellets in the centre of the sides. The fourth corner is restricted for the (missing) pin with a ridge to either side to hold it in place. Gilding survives on the front and reverse. For a similar example with pin cf. Portable Antiquities Scheme database number SUSS-240A66. Date: Circa 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 7th July 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-87AFC5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a shoe buckle. A silver stud chape, bent, the loops broken. c.1660-1720. Measuring (unbent) 19 x 10mm.
Created on: Thursday 23rd July 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E67851
Object type: SPANGLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon gold composite spangles or pendant: a square sheet plate is set lozenge-wise and pierced for suspension at one corner, the top of the perforation is almost worn through. Wire rings with wound ends hang from the other three corners, each holding a smaller square sheet plate pierced for suspension in one corner. There is a repoussé boss in the centre of all four plates. A horseshoe-shaped stamp consisting of ten trapezoidal impressions has been struck four times on the larger plate, while the smaller ones are decorated with punched dots. Small parts of two smaller plates ar…
Created on: Friday 21st August 2009
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Loddon', grid reference and parish protected.