Record ID: NMS-522CD9
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Early Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet pendant, oval and slightly narrower at the apex than at the base. The sheet back-plate is rolled forward at the upper end to make a suspension loop with four longitudinal ribs. The setting comprises a dark red cabochon stone, presumably a garnet, with an off-centre angled polished face, set within a plain collar formed from a strip of gold sheet, the join clearly visible. This is surrounded by an outer border of two plain narrow ribs either side of a beaded wire rib. Dimensions: Length (including suspension loop) 19mm. Maximum width 10.5m…
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2016
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-26FEF9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gold finger ring. The band is flat internally, with nine angled concave mouldings separated by segmented ribs externally. Each moulding is engraved with a floral spray consisting of either a pointed flower head on a stem with two pairs of leaves or a five petalled flower above a single pair of leaves, both types with a transverse line with radiating lines below at the base indicating the ground. The type and orientation of the flower heads are arranged (up and down being arbitrary) - pointed down, pointed up, five petals down, pointed up, pointed down, five petals up, pointed…
Created on: Thursday 16th June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 16th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Leigh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2DDFC8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval or early post-medieval gold posy ring. Very shallow D-sectioned band decorated externally with three rows of stamped square cells leaving a grid pattern in low relief. There is no trace of inlay surviving in the cells. Inscribed internally in roman capitals CONTINV x CONSTANT x. A small worn mark at the beginning of the inscription is probably another x. The ring is now bent out of shape and damaged in several places. Both the external decoration and internal inscription have several parallels including LON-DD00A6 and IOW-1C6D62. Width of band 3mm. Now measuring 24 …
Created on: Friday 11th March 2016
Last updated: Friday 17th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-23D3E9
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated but ancient octagonal-sectioned gold bar, very slightly expanded at the complete blunt end, irregular at the other end as if cut several times and then broken, the break partially granular and unworn. Surviving length 20mm. Maximum diameter at the complete end 7mm. Weight 8.9g. Perhaps Bronze Age. See NMS-CE16B3 for similar undated gold fragments which were found at a nearby site. Finder's ref: AB337
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-21BDCB
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Undated gold finger ring. Sheet band with median repoussé rib. There are at least two transverse creases which may indicate a join but the ring is slightly distorted, making this uncertain. Dimensions: External diameter 20mm. Width of band 7.5mm. Weight 2.29g. Discussion: Images of the ring have been seen by British Museum curators including Gillian Varndell, Neil Wilkin, Richard Hobbs and Barry Ager, and they have concluded that it cannot securely be dated to any particular period. It must therefore remain undated, and so does not fall under the provisions of …
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 4th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-FEB8BF
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gold sheet object, comprising two joining fragments, probably an earring of Roman date. It is in the shape of a round-shouldered or 'kite-shaped' shield, bent (and probably folded and then unfolded), with three vertical creases and broken along two probable horizontal creases. There is a small perforated lug in the same plane at the apex. The pointed lower end of the shield is missing, and approximately just over half survives. The original edges have a border, perhaps added to reinforce the flimsy sheet. Traces of the damaged repoussé decoration on the …
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leaden Roding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EDDA0C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring. D-sectioned band now slightly distorted, plain internally and externally. Measuring (external) 17.5 x 20mm, (internal) 17 x 15mm. Width of band 2mm. Weight 1.7g. Undated but probably post-medieval or modern.
Created on: Monday 14th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-01B386
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Undated but probably ancient (over 300 years old) gold ingot or coin blank. Flat-sectioned, sub-oval, with hammer marks around the edge and faint hammer marks on the flat faces. Measuring 11 x 9mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Weight 1.97g.
Created on: Thursday 3rd December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8EADF3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold stirrup-shaped finger ring with blue sapphire or possibly glass cabochon. D-sectioned band expanding smoothly at the shoulders to form the bezel with an oval setting. Height 25mm. Width 20.5mm. Internal diameter 18mm. Weight 2.48g. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-7AFB36
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Probable ingot. Gold bar, with irregular, sub-triangular section, pitted on two faces and smooth on the convex third, rounded at one end, shallow angled cuts on the opposing pitted faces before a granular break at the other. Surviving length 50mm. Section 6 x 7mm. Weight 21.1g. Undated but very probably ancient (over 300 years old).
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-7ACEC5
Object type: TORC
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment, probably from an Iron Age torc or bracelet, or a Roman bracelet. Two circular-sectioned strands of gold, each tapering slightly from one cut end to the other, twisted around each other. Total length 39mm. Diameter of strands at narrow end circa 2.5mm, diameter at the thicker end circa 3.5 - 4mm. Weight 7.5g. For potentially similar examples see PAS-845331 (Iron Age torc), SWYOR-CFE7F7 (Iron Age bracelet) and a 3rd-century bracelet in the collections of the British Museum (museum number 1883,1213.375).
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-797A7A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold finger ring. D-sectioned band inscribed internally in italics Tis your consent is my content followed by a partially worn and completely illegible stamped maker's mark. The S of 'consent' is elongated, and the 'e' following it only partially engraved. Width of band 3mm. External diameter 19mm. Internal diameter 16.5mm. Weight 1.8g. There are several similar examples in the collections of the British Museum, including Museum Number 1961,1202.82. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-FD9EBA
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gold finger ring in very good condition. The hoop is circular, the same width throughout, and D-shaped in cross-section with decoration on the convex exterior. The decoration is incised and punched, and inlaid with black enamel. It consists of four panels of two repeated designs. Design 1 is a rectangle with one forked or swallow-tailed end and one pointed end, forming a pennant shape. The point contains oblique ridges alternating with rows of beading; the rest of the shape is filled with incised plant-like motifs made from short gr…
Created on: Monday 21st September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-0E8E47
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold signet ring. The band is flat internally with three external facets, expanding smoothly through the shoulders before a flat, octagonal bezel. The bezel is deeply engraved with a beaded border around a shield bearing A lion rampant, the helm is unusually small and is crowned with a ducal coronet above which the crest comprises A boar's head couped. There is elaborate scrolled mantling to either side of the helm and shield. On the reverse of the bezel at one edge is a stamped maker's mark: F within a triangle. The hoop is now slightly distorted. Height 20mm. Width 22m…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-B4E184
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gold finger ring. The bezel is in the form of an irregular pentagonal collet retaining a pale grey chalking substance at the base, but no stone. The plain, pointed oval-sectioned band, now distorted, tapers slightly from the collet to the rear. There are no marks. Width of bezel 11.5mm x 10mm. Height 7mm. External diameter of ring (reconstructed) circa 20mm. Weight 3.2g. For similar examples see Oman (1974) pl.14, A and B, and pl.18, A, B and C. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 7th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scarning', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-788C89
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of gold sheet from an unidentified object. The sheet is folded forming a front and back-plate the edges of which are torn, except for the lower edge of the back-plate which appears neatly cut, and the straight folded edge. The front-plate is decorated with a row of stamped dots above a row of repoussé pellets parallel with the folded edge, the lower edge possibly torn along a third row of pellets or dots. Surviving dimensions 12 x 7mm. Weight 0.4g. Although ancient (over 300 years old) the decoration would be consistent with a Bronze Age, Roman or Early Medieval date, and…
Created on: Friday 10th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D0B0FF
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold finger ring. Flat-sectioned circular band, with ten opposed concave scallops on each edge creating ten lozengiform panels each of which is engraved externally with a single black letter or star probably reading in French * e n * b o n * a n which may be translated as 'a good year'. External diameter 18mm. Width of band 5mm. Weight 1.42g. 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 2nd April 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haveringland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-934673
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
The 'West Norfolk' hoard of 132 early-medieval gold coins and 4 early-medieval gold objects. One coin (no. 117) was found in 1990 and is not part of Treasure case 2015T231, which covers all the rest of the coins and objects. Coin no. 120 is still missing, and coin no. 67 is listed here out of sequence due to a revised identification. Catalogue of coins [AP]: The numbering follows that in Marsden and Pol 2020, 405-7. A question mark implies a degree of uncertainty. ‘Fineness’ is an approximate percentage of gold in the alloy, established by specific gravity. Minted i…
Created on: Monday 30th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 1st December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CBDF6C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold finger ring. D-sectioned band, plain externally, engraved internally in italic script In thy sight is my delight followed by a stamped maker's mark consisting of a low relief M within a square punch. External diameter 20mm. Internal diameter 17mm. Width of band 3mm.Weight 1.6g. 1615 - 19th century. Seventeenth to 18th examples with similar inscriptions are represented in the collections of the British Museum (museum numbers AF.1301, AF.1302) but neither with the same maker's mark, while examples with M as a maker's mark but different inscriptions include AF.1280,…
Created on: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A13EDD
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon gold C-bracteate. The repoussé decoration depicts a highly stylised horse and over-large bearded male head in profile facing right with four pellets below his triangular nose, a round eye with two lines indicating the lower eyelid and a hairstyle ending with a round coil and tail at the back and a triangle with a spiral in the front. The horse has a triangular ear, gaping mouth and small eye. Between the broad neck and the lower trunk are two dots. Above the large round hip and tail are two further dots. One short hindleg ends in a broad foot. The front legs are detached …
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lessingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-115435
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold finger ring. Elliptical-sectioned band expanding very slightly from the rear to the bezel which is formed from a D-shaped collet with bi-concave sides, now slightly damaged and empty. The hoop is decorated externally with a zigzag line with multiple stamped annulets filling the resulting triangular fields, separated at either end from the plain rear of the hoop by two transverse lines. The hoop is slightly distorted. Bezel 11 x 8mm. Thickness of bezel 5.5mm. Height of ring 23mm. 12th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 17th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-D18CC1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
The hoard has been fully published (Behr and Pestell 2014) and a summary can be found at https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-binham-hoard Silver sheet, probably an equal-armed brooch or perhaps a mount. The curved bow is flat-backed with raised edges on the front face and otherwise plain, straight sided except at either end where it flares sharply before originally wide triangular terminals at either end, three corners of which are missing, the fourth detached and held in place by a small piece of clear plastic tape. There are stamps consisting of two concentric rings arou…
Created on: Thursday 2nd October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 6th June 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-FFED42
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold finger ring. D-sectioned band, plain externally, engraved internally Continew Constant. There is no maker's mark. External diameter 18mm. Internal diameter 16mm. Width of band 4mm. Weight 2.6g. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Monday 22nd September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickmere', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-80160D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold finger ring. D-sectioned band, plain externally, engraved internally MD in irregular or poorly executed roman capitals, with a stamped maker's mark consisting of two worn letters in Black Letter within an oval, T followed by an uncertain letter, perhaps E or D. External diameter 22mm. Internal diameter 18.5mm. Width of band 4.5mm. Weight 5.9g. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 16th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-DDEE86
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible gold strap-end, buckle-plate or fragment of unidentified object, perhaps a back-plate. Description: Triangular gold sheet with a straight short edge, one slightly curved long edge and one straight long edge. There are two empty holes punched through from one face at the short edge, and two punched through from the opposite face near the rounded point, one of which is through the long straight edge. The slightly asymmetric shape and incomplete hole suggest the object was originally shield-shaped and has been cut longitudinally. One face has peeled back at the right-angle…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-D8C40D
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A group of four Icenian staters found scattered but in close proximity. All are of the Snettisham or early Freckenham types, suggesting a date of deposition in the late 1st century BC or very early 1st century AD. Catalogue: 1) Freckenham type, so-called Cross, Triad issue, see Rudd ABC 1420, weight 5.14g. 2) Snettisham type, so-called Rings issue, see Rudd 1411, weight 5.36g. 3) Freckenham type, so-called Cross, Triad issue, see Rudd ABC 1420, weight 5.11g 4) Freckenham type, so-called Cross, Triad issue, see Rudd ABC 1420, weight 5.48g.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Runhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C3580F
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval gold iconographic finger ring. The flat-sectioned hoop, now squashed, has zigzag edges and deep transverse grooves giving the impression of two flat bands twisted around each other, which meet the elongated hexagonal bezel without forming shoulders. The bezel is engraved within a single line border around a nimbed saint wearing a v-necked, belted robe with elbow length sleeves, one hand raised in blessing, the other holding a book or box on which sits the Lamb of God looking over its shoulder at a cross emerging from its back. No seals hang from the book. The sai…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6201FE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold finger ring. D-sectioned band, plain externally, engraved internally in italics In thee my choyc'e I doe rejoyc'e followed by a stamped maker's mark of a Q in low relief within a shield. External diameter 23mm. Internal diameter 19mm. Width of band 4.5mm. Weight 6.6g. A 17th - 18th century posy ring with an internal inscription in similar italics in the collections of the British Museum (museum number AF.1197) has a similar stamped maker's mark, which does not appear in any standard work of reference and is therefore not identifiable.
Created on: Friday 16th May 2014
Last updated: Friday 17th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-0D2960
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval to post-medieval gold finger ring. The oval-sectioned band expands smoothly from the rear to shoulders which flair before narrowing sharply to join the bezel. The shoulders are engraved to leave a foliate design in low relief, perhaps originally reserved on an inlayed field, although no inlay survives. The bezel is in the form of a high quatrefoil collet with scalloped sides set with a pink or red table cut stone (perhaps a ruby). Dimensions: Height 19mm. Width 17mm. Internal measurements 12 x 14mm. Width at bezel 7mm. Weight 2.7g. Discussion: For simil…
Created on: Monday 12th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 6th October 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CFF3F5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold posy ring. D-sectioned band decorated externally with a foliate design consisting of two stems each with two pairs of leaves before a flower, originally reserved on an enamelled field of which only a tiny pink trace of which survives. Inscribed internally in lombardic script +CAVE+CVI+CREDAS (be careful who you trust) followed by a foliate sprig. Date: c. early 16th century. Dimensions: External diameter 21mm. Internal diameter 17mm. Width of band 4.5mm. Weight 3.7g.
Created on: Friday 9th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CF8A96
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gold mourning ring. D-sectioned band decorated externally with a shallow rib at either edge, between which four oval cells alternate with five quatrefoil cells (resulting in two quatrefoils next to each other). The oval cells contain a raised quatrefoil and the quatrefoil cells a raised pellet, originally reserved on a field of white enamel only traces of which now survive. Each cell is connected to the next by a median rib with two pellets to either side which were also probably reserved on an enamelled field, possible tiny black traces of which survive. The internal Lat…
Created on: Friday 9th May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 1st September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CE74F5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late medieval or early post-medieval gold mourning ring. D-sectioned band in the form of nine lozengiform panels separated by angled grooves, decorated alternately with reverse S-shapes and angled ribs probably reserved on a field of black enamel or niello, now missing. There are two reverse S-shape panels next to each other. Inscribed internally in Roman capitals * * MEMEN+TOMORI followed by a foliate sprig. Date: The use of Roman capitals for inscriptions on rings was usual in the 16th - 17th century (Oman, 1974, 40 - 41). Dimensions: Width of band 3mm. External …
Created on: Friday 9th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A85804
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete medieval gold finger ring. An oval collet forms a bezel, the upper half with sloping, concave sides, the lower half with flat sloping sides. The narrow, broken and slightly distorted hoop is oval-sectioned, expanding slightly at the shoulders to small triangular bosses at the join between the hoop and the bezel. There is no trace of engraved decoration and the rear of the hoop is missing. When found, the collet contained a red or pink stone, presumebaly glass, which had sunk into the collect. The stone was accidentally damaged and the fragments lost during examination. …
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-065376
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman 'Brancaster type' gold finger ring. Flattened D-sectioned band expanding smoothly to two integral transverse projections which support the separate soldered, engraved rectangular bezel, leaving a transverse rectangular aperture below. The bezel is now slightly distorted at an angle to the band. Internal diameter 13 - 15mm. External width 19mm. Height 18mm. Bezel 7 x 7mm. Weight 3.7g. 4th - early 5th century AD. The intaglio inscription, in three lines, reads (in impression) DOM/NICA/VIVA[S], translating as 'Long life to you, Domnica (or Dominica)'. The name Domnica is atte…
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Fakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F42931
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval gold annular brooch. Flat-sectioned frame with two opposed oval collets which taper towards the top, one containing a purple cabochon stone, probably amethyst or garnet, the other a blue cabochon, perhaps a sapphire. There is a flanged transverse ridge on the upper face at either side of the narrowing for the cast pin. The pin is D-sectioned, with a half round segmented collar next to the loop. The pin rest is formed from a separate lozengiform plate soldered to the frame and decorated with an engraved star formed from eight radiating grooves. Separate soldered arms spring fr…
Created on: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6F4832
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Ball-headed pin head made from gold with filigree wire and pellet decoration. The pin head is hollow and globular, with a circular hole at each end surrounded by an annulet of beaded wire; the upper and lower half are separated by a border of a line of beaded wire either side of what appears now to be a plain wire, but on closer inspection is actually a beaded wire worn down so that the beads have almost disappeared. This triple-strand border probably conceals a soldered join. Both halves are decorated alike, with two-ply twisted wire forming three pairs of opposed S- …
Created on: Wednesday 5th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sedgeford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-274C44
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Early Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet cloisonné circular domed object, perhaps a scabbard-button, or mount or stud from an unidentified object. It consists of a circular sheet back-plate with an outer border on the upper face formed from a single piece of thick, neatly beaded wire, within which a gold sheet, the lower part vertical before curving inwards, forms the edge of the originally domed upper face. Originally twelve cells were formed within the encircling gold sheet. A central quatrefoil tube is divided internally into four cells by vertical gold partitions (one of wh…
Created on: Friday 24th January 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-ACBFA4
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Slightly distorted Middle Bronze Age gold penannular composite ring formed from three D-sectioned strips of gold probably soldered together and now separating at several points, with straight, blunt terminals. Each of the D-sectioned strips has slightly raised edges internally. Width of band 8.5mm. Thickness 1.5mm. External measurement of ring 15 x 14mm. Weight 3.8g. Composite penannular rings formed from C-sectioned, D-sectioned or sub-circular strips or bars, are a well known Middle Bronze Age artefact type as single finds or forming part of sets of linked rings. See for example NM…
Created on: Monday 6th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6E2A74
Object type: RIBBON
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of probable Middle or Late Bronze Age gold sheet strip or ribbon ornament decorated on one face with eleven longitudinal grooves. One end has been cut transversely or broken neatly, while the other convex end is apparently complete although crumpled and split across a single piercing. Width 10mm. Thickness less than 1mm. Length (unbent) c. 48mm. Weight 3.1g. For notes on Bronze Age ribbon ornaments see Treasure Annual Report 2007 47-8, nos. 38 and 39. c.1300 - c.800 BC. For similar examples see NMS-46A4D6, ESS-C13B97, PAS-E9E2A1.
Created on: Friday 3rd January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6AA818
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post-medieval gold mourning ring. D-sectioned band inscribed internally H. Awdeley. ob. 15. nou. 1662 followed by a stamped maker's mark in the form of a low relief W with another smaller letter, possibly an R, above it within a shield. Two shallow parallel lines behind the text may be guidelines for the engraving. Externally the band is engraved with a stylised skull, either side of which is a single line border at either edge between which is crosshatching with a short dash in one corner of each resulting lozengiform field. Black enamel survives in almost all of the …
Created on: Friday 3rd January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 5th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.