Record ID: NMS-954C64
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon silver gilt wrist-clasp hook-plate of Hines form C3. The hook itself is missing. Its scar at the break, flush with the front edge, is rather smooth, and may have been deliberately filed flat. On the rear edge two T-shaped spigots served to attach the clasp to the garment. On the front chip-carved ornament consists of two symmetrically arranged Style I animals between scroll motifs near the sides. A small roundel lies just in front of both spigots. In the centre a large mask motif faces to the rear. About half a larger but less prominent roundel survives in front of the hea…
Created on: Wednesday 21st June 2006
Last updated: Friday 1st October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quidenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-CC6D54
Object type: CRUCIFIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of silver gilt crucifix, well modelled, emaciated and contorted figure of Christ, feet missing, with a fragment of plain trapezoidal-sectioned vertical shaft of cross attached to reverse and traces of solder on back of Christ's hands. Measuring 22 x 30mm. 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Knapton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CC9E93
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver gilt annular brooch. Part of circular-sectioned frame (length 27mm) with separate soldered lozenge with ribs radiating from small central boss, 9 x 10mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Monday 19th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-CCBD86
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt finger ring with double facetted bezel and hoop. Cracked across bezel, hoop broken and partly straightened out. The bezel is decorated with incised oblique lines, the pattern now worn, damaged and rather obscure. Incised lines in a chevron pattern on both shoulders. Internal diameter apprximately 15mm. 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-CCE047
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silver finger ring with deep purpleish red, opaque glass "cabochon" setting in a transverse oval bezel between shoulders decorated with short engraved lines. The dostorted hoop, part of which is missing, widens slightly to the shoulders. It is flattened on the reverse and convex on the front while one edge is straight sided. Orriginal diameter uncertain. Bezel is 16 x 12mm. 14th century. Oman (1993) 67, cat. no. 258.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Friday 14th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cranwich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CEA310
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver gilt finger ring. The ring is made with a narrow band supposrting a square, lightly curved bezel that is decorated with Style 1 ornament within a simple border. The ornament is cryptic and composed of a 'helmeted' hip and two highly stylised legs associated with an unintelligible body. This runs obliquely across the field in the form of a double band that is broken by a single strand placed at right-angles across it. There also is a short, separate fragment of the loop.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CED6E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of P-shaped or crossbow brooch. Broken at both ends. Lower bow of flat 'D' section ending with a single engraved transverse line above a pair of side notches, the footplate decorated with a pair of side notches, transverse line and another pair of side notches at the break. The catchplate does not survive. It is evidenced by a small broken backwards projection on the footplate, below which all of that side of the plate is missing. A rather flimsy example. Length 19mm, width 4mm. Weight 0.62g. 3rd - 4th century.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-CF2976
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Sub-triangular flat silver object of uncertain date and function. Three cast-in-one roundels, with openwork apertures and sub-rectangular hole driven through the centre. The space between two roundels consists of a straight ribbed bar, whereas the other two links are undecorated and rounded on the outside edge. The area in the centre is decorated with cast cross-hatching. Measuring 20 x 20mm, maximum thickness 1mm, weighing 1.98g.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 14th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CF7725
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver finger ring. Most of D-sectioned (3 x 1mm), parallel-sided hoop is missing. The circular bezel (diameter 6.5mm) is cast integrally with, but is set on the outer surface of, the hoop. Its surface is flat and undecorated apart from a number of randomly distributed pecked impressions. On both sides of the bezel the hoop is decorated with three moulded grooves (3mm in length). Internal diameter c. 20mm, weighing 1.3g. This ring was reported as possible treasure under the Treasure Act 1996 and subsquently returned to the finder after being disclaimed as treasure.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-CF9985
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver spoon with slip top terminal, hexagonal sectioned stem and pear shaped bowl. Next to a short triangular tail on the reverse of the bowl there is a stamped maker's mark AH on the end of the stem. There are no other marks. The bowl, crumpled when found, has been partly opened, and all the surfaces carry many scratches. Length 128mm (stem 75mm, bowl 53mm). Weight 18.03g / 0.636oz. Slip top spoons were current throughout the 16th century and went out of fashion in the middle of the 17th century. This example dates towards the end of this period.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 14th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D0DF75
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silver dress hook. Openwork trefoil plate, each foil is bordered with twisted wire and has a triangular arrangement of three perforations outlined with twisted wire, each with a single pellet between (two pellets missing). There is a broken integral loop at the apex and the stump of an integral hook at the base. Measuring 16 x at least 18mm. Cf. More complete examples in Gaimster et al, 2002, fig. 1 and 2. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 11th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D15F32
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver hawk ring or vervel of Lewis and Richardson type C.i, narrow D-sectioned band applied with shield (10 x 13mm) bearing engraved gryphon sejant to dexter on a crest wreath. The band is bent up towards the top of the shield and bears an inscription around the flat outer face: *W / Sydnor'. Internal diameter of band approximately 6mm. Weight 1.55g. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 16th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colney', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-E25BF2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver finger ring. The hoop is crumpled with a transverse cut. Decorated with elaborate linear and pelleted geometric design forming cells, perhaps once enamelled. An inscription around the inner face reads I + WISH + YOU + WELL + + Weighing 1.53g. Hoop width 4mm, internal diameter approximately 19mm. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 4th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 14th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E441F0
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast silver ? object, possibly a bullion or apothecaries' weight, square with humorous male human bust in high relief in the centre of one face. The bust has suggestions of a mouth, bulging cheeks, prominent nose, slightly protruding eyes, a rounded protrusion on both sides and a small pellet in the centre of the crown probably indicating hair. The side edges are straight, the top concave and the base a little irregular. 11mm x 11mm, thickness 0.5mm, increasing to 2.5mm at the nose). Weighing 16 grains / 1.04g. Sixteen grains = two-thirds of a pennyweight / one thirtieth of…
Created on: Friday 4th January 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 9th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E48FB4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver with "chip carved" Style I decoration. Breaks are ancient, no sign of damage by cremation. The rounded form and arrangement of decoration are reminiscent of the footplate and side lobes of a great square-headed brooch, in particular of a Hines' group IV example from Rothley, Leicestershire (Hines, 1997, 338, fig.27, pl.17b). Weighing 2.58g, measuring 17 x 15mm. Early 6th century.
Created on: Friday 4th January 2008
Last updated: Saturday 26th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-E65B35
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Slightly crumpled, hollow, biconvex (diameter 13mm) with median seam around outside edge. Face engraved with a seeded rose with central perforation. D-sectioned wire loop between two circular perforations and very worn (illegible) rectangular maker's mark on reverse. Weight 1.23g. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 4th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 14th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-209F83
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Discoidal silver ingot with rather poorly defined facets on parts of side as a result of hammering. There are a pair of small hollows near one edge of one face and short radial and oblique grooves at the edge of the other. The latter were probably cut to test the quality of the metal. The form, however, is quite unlike bar ingots that were the norm in the late 9th century. Possibly Late Saxon. Diameter 15 - 16mm, thickness 3 - 3.5mm, weighing 6.18g / 95.4grains, perhaps for a 1/4 of an eyrir, the Viking-Age unit of weight of 25g/26g.
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 1st June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-20C7A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of headplate and bow of a gilt silver long brooch, probably a miniature square-headed. One lower corner of the headplate is extant. One rather indistinct stamped impression near the edge lies next to a pair of vertical grooves flanked by a ladder of transverse ribs in counter relief. Part of a central panel contains Style I animal ornament consisting of an eye and a limb. The stub of the bow is undecorated at the top, but pairs of longitudinal grooves on both sides of a low central rib begin just befor the break. There is an incomplete single pin lug on the reverse of the hea…
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 30th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hindringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2160F3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete but squashed silver sheet finger-ring. The hoop tapers to pointed ends which are wound around each other, and expands to a flat lozengiform bezel. This is decorated with stamped impressions of two designs, a reversed S distributed along the edges and a circle with raised diametric line punched in pairs and short alignments of four. Stamped finger-rings, in gold, silver and copper alloy, are characteristic of the late 9th and 10th centuries (Treasure Annual Report 2001, p. 34, no.45, from Bolton, E. Yorkshire (PAS-D64713); E Anglian Archaeol. 22, 68, fig. 110, nos.12 and …
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Seething', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-21A737
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver finger ring. D-sectioned hoop expanding slightly to the shoulder with two cast indentations creating slightly hunched shoulder. A fragment of the round or oval bezel inset for a (missing) stone survives. Bezel 10mm wide.
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Thetford', grid reference and parish protected.