Record ID: NMS-3260F5
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a silver cuff-link. Distorted disc with down-turned edges and separate soldered wire loop and a stamped maker's mark, now very work and uncertain on the reverse. Weight: 1.6 g Diameter: 21 mm
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-31D763
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver pin from brooch or buckle. Cast, oval-sectioned, the point now bent over and recessed on the reverse for the (missing) frame, collar covered with multiple overlapping stamped annulets before loop. Length 22mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stradsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-310732
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver ferrule, now broken and folded. Straight upper edge with short alternating angled lines above a single line border, with a second single line before the lower scalloped edge. Between the borders the initials J • H followed by a decorative serife are pecked out in multiple dots.17th - 18th century. Width 16.5mm. Thickness less than 1mm. Weight 6.2g.
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-305676
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a post-medieval silver cuff-link. Disc with clasped hands, a pair of hearts below and a crown above, in very low relief reserved on a stippled field, within a multifoil border which forms a narrow flange, the outer edge of which is damaged. Separate soldered wire loop on the reverse. Diameter 14mm. Weight 0.77g.
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2013
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Record ID: NMS-2F65A0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late medieval or post-medieval silver finger ring, broken at both ends and partially straightened, with traces of pale gilding surviving on one face, probably the internal face. Inscribed ]*GOD * IS * A[ on probably the internal face, and ]T E * I * H O[ on the probably external face, which is worn and damaged with multiple scratch marks. An English inscription in roman capitals suggests a 16th or 17th century date. Width of band 5.5mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Weight 1.8g.
Created on: Friday 13th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lingwood and Burlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4D89C3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very unusual silver hooked strap-end or socketed hooked tag, shield-shaped plate with split attachment end with two silver rivets, integral hook springs from solid base. 14 x 16mm. Weighs 2.40g. 8th-11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-A6C433
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of elaborate silver head-dress pin of the bodkin type, or unidentified object. Rectangular-sectioned, comprising a break across a piercing or slot, rectangular collar with three horizontal ribs on each face below an openwork lozengiform quatrefoil each foil separated by a rib radiating from a central blind hole with a circular hole in each foil (one blind) and an external transverse rib on the edge of each side foil, surmounted by a standing bird with engraved eyes and folded wings. Surviving length 24mm. Maximum surviving width 9mm. Weight 1.8g. An almost identical lozengif…
Created on: Thursday 1st August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-A62056
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver button. Composite, with domed front soldered to almost flat reverse, with separate soldered D-sectioned strip forming loop. Undecorated. Slightly dented. Diameter 9mm. Height 12mm. Weight 0.7g. 17th century. SB
Created on: Thursday 1st August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-18F985
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of uncertain Plantagenet king, short cross type, mangled and abraded, further details illegible, AD1180-1247
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
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Record ID: NMS-18EBF4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut halfpenny of Henry III, voided long cross class 3, moneyer Lucas of either Gloucester or Northampton, AD1248-50
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2013
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Record ID: NMS-AF9FC0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver mount. Originally faceted and conical with six faces, each decorated with a central panel of engraved crosshatching on which traces of gilding survive. There are multiple notches around the edge of the plate and a central hole, these notches may originally have been lobes or petals. Now squashed flat and slightly damaged. For two similar but less distorted examples see NMS-2701D2 and NMS-81E804, both dated 13th-15th centuries, see also Egan and Pritchard (2002, 189, fig.119, no.952, 959 and 990). Radius 10.5mm. Weight 0.5g. 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 14th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 30th January 2014
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Record ID: NMS-AE0D46
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or post-medieval silver couching needle or 'lawyers bodkin'. Three grooves form a beaded head at one end, the circular-sectioned shank becoming wider and flatter at the other for the oval eye with deep pointed groove above and below on both faces, beyond which there may be a very worn break, or a rounded end if not broken. The eye on a couching needle and lawyers bodkin is positioned just before the point, and not at the head end of the needle as with normal sewing needles, as the stitch used does not involve the needle passing completely through the cloth. This stitc…
Created on: Friday 14th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6228C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver annular brooch or buckle. Slightly angled sheet frame with a narrow rib on the inner and outer edge of the frame (convex on the front, concave on the reverse) with a circular piercing for the pin. A maker's mark GG is stamped on th upper face of the pin. There is a stamped hallmark on the reverse of the frame, consisting of three stamps, an unidentified stamp (perhaps a bust, but very worn), a standard mark consisting lion passant guardant within a frame with angled upper corners and a bi-concave lower edge, and a date letter t within an oval. External diamet…
Created on: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 20th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fincham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-60EEA3
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval silver bell. Composite, the hollow upper and lower halves origianlly soldered together and now broken at the median rib with only a fragment of the lower half surviving. Multiple median concave mouldings radiate from the base of the separate, soldered wire suspension loop which is partially covered in copper corrosion. The surviving part of the bell is squashed and broken. There are no surviving marks. Original diameter (reconstructed) circa 30mm. Surviving height 13mm. Small bells similar to this were in use from the 16th century as dress accessories and h…
Created on: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cantley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CCB647
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver, gilded annular brooch. Rectangular-sectioned frame twisted to form a spiral with two rows of stamped dashes along each face. Narrowed slightly to a circular-section for the (missing) pin. External diameter 19mm. Internal diameter 15mm. Weight 0.9g. Similar to brooches from 13th and 14th century contexts in London (Egan and Pritchard, 2008, 249, fig.160, no.1310 and 253, fig.163, no.1331).
Created on: Wednesday 22nd May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wantage', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-638554
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete early-medieval Carolingian-style silver mount or strap slide, with foliate decoration cast in low relief, partially gilded and inlaid with niello. The mount is sub-rectangular with one complete and two partial original edges surviving and a transverse break which is unworn but not very recent. The complete end of the plate is slightly thickened and surmounted by three leaf-shaped mouldings, the middle of which forms a trefoil. These rise from a sharp transverse recess, beyond which the sides of the plate are convex and the upper face rises to a transverse ar…
Created on: Friday 17th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-901446
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to early post-medieval silver annular buckle. Circular-sectioned frame with soldered but joint, no constriction and undecorated. The pin is rectangular-sectioned, with a slightly raised moulding incised or stamped with a tiny cross at the base, beyond which the upper face of the pin is bevelled on both edges. External diameter 20mm. Internal diameter 13mm. Thickness 3mm. Weight 4.0g. 13th - 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Walsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AE6B96
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Composite silver button. Circular, flat back-plate with two widely spaced holes, perhaps blow holes or for the (missing) inserted wire loop. There is no other trace of a loop or shank on the reverse. The front-plate has a central dome (now squashed) surrounded by a beaded border, moulding (now concave but perhaps originally convex) and an outer beaded border around the edge. Similar to an example from Oxfordshire decorated with the bust of Charles II (BERK-4B7D02) which also has a beaded border. See also a copper alloy and iron example from a 15th century context in Read (2005, 27, no…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-ADCA16
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Rectangular Carolingian-style silver mount, partly gilded and inlaid with niello, and decorated with Carolingian-style plant ornament. The front of the mount, which has high, curved sides, is decorated in relief, the higher-relief sections of the design inlaid with niello and the lower-relief sections gilded. The selective gilding appears to be deliberate, rather than the result of wear on the higher relief elements of the design. The design is centred around an X-shaped cross in high relief, with the arms curving inwards to form two back-to-back C shapes (when the mount …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-ADBBD3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver thimble or possibly whistle or unidentified object. Fragment of silver sheet with no original edge surviving, engraved or stamped on one face with crescent-shaped fields filled with short transverse lines, forming a 'fish-scale' pattern reserved on a field of staggered crosshatching (brickwork pattern). Weight 0.4g. The pattern is a more complicated version of that found on a 16th century thimble from Kent (SUR-B665D3). Probably 16th - 17th century. Q1
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
Spatial data recorded.