Record ID: NMS-2FF8A2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring. The hoop has a D-shaped cross-section, and is inscribed on the flat internal face A vertuous wife preserveth life. The two 'v's are written as 'u's and the letters 'f' and 's' are elongated. There is a possible maker's mark in the form of a very worn stamped 'H' between the beginning and end of the inscription. External diameter 21mm, internal diameter 17.5mm, width of band 4.5mm. Weighing 3.8g. Inscriptions declaring that a virtuous wife preserved or comforted life, or banished strife, are frequently found on marriage or posy rings (Evans in R.E.S. 1933, 336) and…
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 9th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Fakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-304752
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Post Medieval scale tang knife end stop. Rectangular externally, oval internally with 'slot', split end which opens into the slot and central aperture, tiny rabbet in each corner at attachment edge, straight sides expanding slightly towards convex outside edge formed by two addorsed animal heads with prominent brow ridges and snouts, central groove on underside of the animal heads. Engraved cross-hatching at attachment edge and herringbone pattern on sides on both faces. A related end-stop on a complete knife can be seen at LON-76BB02. Dimensions 28 x 18mm, 4.5mm thick at…
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenninghall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B00E55
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Hollow, bi-convex, with a small central boss and a seam at the junction with the flat reverse. D-sectioned loop. Diameter 9mm. Weight 1.08g. 16th-early 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 12th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cawston', 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-A9CC55
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT 17th Century silver button Description Composite three-piece biconvex silver button, the underside of which is now squashed and a distorted, with a D-sectioned wire loop. Engraved decoration on the top consists of a six-petalled flower within a circle and with the spaces between the petals filled with parallel lines, all set within a band of short oblique lines between two concentric circles. There are two blow-holes on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1036F5
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt dress hook. The plate, which is cast in one, is in the form of a four petalled rosette with four conical bosses, and has a central hole where a fifth decorative element would have been held in place by a rivet, now missing. On the reverse there is a large scar where the (missing) hook was soldered into place. The transverse attachment bar, also soldered into place, is stamped with the makers mark AK. Very similar to a five petalled version in Gaimster et al (2002, 167, no.10).Measuring 16 x 15mm. 2.71g.16th century
Created on: Thursday 11th December 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7D2595
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver cufflink. Circular, with down-turned flange around the edge. Stamped with a multifoil flower within a very worn circular border. Attachment loop soldered to the reverse.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7D6271
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch or buckle. Angled sheet frame now slightly distorted, narrowed for cast pin. Stamped maker's mark on the reverse EH.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-7D7386
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of large spoon, oblique break across shallow oval bowl with the stump of a rectangular-sectioned stem that continues onto the back of the bowl as a rat-tail in the form of a rather etiolated acanthus leaf. There is a broadly similar form of stem and rat-tail, although with more elaborate decoration on the reverse of a Lobe-end spoon dated to 1679-80 in Gask (1926), plate xx, 4-5. 17th century. >39 x >40mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-925752
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete and unidentified silver gilt object, possibly a fragment of a pendant cross. There is a transverse suspension loop above a tri-lobed terminal, each lobe of which has a shallow sub-oval concavity on the front face, followed by a short section of a rectangular sectioned shaft before a break.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', 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-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-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-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-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-BE3BA7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver button. Circular, with a convex front with decoration cast in low relief consisting of a crowned female bust facing forwards, with flowing hair, a beaded necklace with a pendant and details of the collar and shoulders of a dress with a plunging neckline. The decoration, particularly the details of the face, is worn. The reverse is slightly damaged, and appears to have been hollow. The shank and loop are missing. Diameter 13mm. Thickness 3.5mm. Weight 1.0g. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldborough area', grid reference and parish protected.