Record ID: NMS-30DCC6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sprung copper alloy Dolphin brooch. Hexagonal sectioned bow with a pair of median grooves along its back from the head to foot, tapering slightly towards foot which has a flat, blunt terminal, most of catch-plate survives. 'C' sectioned wings with one transverse and one diagonal line on each, hook and part of wings filled with iron corrosion from (missing) pin. Length 35mm, width 16mm. 1st century AD.
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-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.

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-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-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-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-FA2190
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval gilded silver annular brooch. The openwork frame is flat sectioned, consisting of an internal ring with sixteen conjoined scallop-shell or fan-shaped projections (eleven of which survive) around the outer edge with a small circular hole between each one. One of these holes is expanded and the internal ring narrowed to hold the (missing) pin. The internal ring is decorated with an incised single line border around the inner and outer edge with angled grooves between, within which traces of niello survive. Although still in one piece, the frame is broken across its full width…
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 20th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elm', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-66F9A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A heavily clipped denier of Conrad, bishop of Utrecht (1076-99). There are four piercings near the edge of the coin, arranged roughly as the spots on the face of a die. One of these is now empty, the other three still contain small silver rivets. Two of these rivets secure a catchplate formed of a silver strip; a pin attachment would doubtless have been secured by the other two rivets, one now missing. Thus, this coin has been adapted as a small disc brooch. The exterior face is gilded and depicts a façade within a beaded border. The interior face is not gilded and figures a male hea…
Created on: Thursday 24th February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F021F1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch with traces of gilding. Flat sectioned with constriction for missing pin. Engraved on one face with a sinlge line border at each edge with pointed quatrefoils between, and inscribed on the other face IESVS NAZARENV (M. Jones pers.comm.) also between single lines following either edge. Cf. Egan and Pritchard, 2002, fig.164 no.1336 and 1337. 13th - 14th century. External diameter 20mm, internal diameter 12mm.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F0E038
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
The object is a silver grosso issued by the Italian city of Bergamo (ref: CNI IV, 45/138). The coin has the image and name of the Emperor Frederick II, king of Sicily, and dates to the mid decades of the 13th century - c. 1250s-60s. The coin would have been produced to a good standard of metal, certainly over 90% fine silver. Its current weight is 1.49g, which is probably about a gram less than its original weight. Bergamese grossi would not have been current in 13th century England and I know of no other example found here. It has in any case been substantially altered and it coul…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F23695
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete and distorted silver annular brooch. Circular sectioned frame now broken, straightened and bent in half. One silver gilt lozenge impressed with 12 radiating 'petals' around a central pellet is soldered to the frame, scars from solder at two points on the frame and either side of the break show where three more lozenges were attached, two of which survive detached. The two broken ends of the frame probably join. Pin missing. Late13th - early 14th century. Weight 7.65g. Length (unbent) of surviving frame c. 115mm.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 12th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F29BC1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Footplate of incomplete gilded silver great square-headed brooch, which joins a fragment discovered 15/11/08, reported as case 2008T14 and recorded as NMS-750C07; see this for more detail on the brooch as a whole. The fragment is decorated with gilt 'chip-carved' Style I ornament with a human-like mask in the lower centre, within an outer band of niello with a silver zigzag line which follows the concave edges except where interrupted by the side and terminal lobes. The brooch is broken across the lappets. The footplate side lobes consist of a concave moulding with two transverse b…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F30042
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Fragment of a silver gilt Anglo Saxon disc brooch. No original edge survives. About half of one, a quarter of another and a fragment of the border of a third gilded lentoid field with beaded borders around a foliate design flank a central panel containing silver foliate decoration emerging from a field containing traces of niello. The brooch is broken across a rivet hole at the junction between two of the lentoid fields. From photographs, this fragment appears to join another discovered in 2001 and reported as Treasure Case 2001 T31, described in the 2001 Treasure Re…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldborough area', 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-0D4020
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch. The circular frame is in the form of two snakes which overlap at their necks, the heads pointing away from the frame. Each elongated head has a pointed muzzle, small projecting ears, and a line forming the closed mouth. One pellet eye survives on each head. One half of the frame is flat sectioned with a pair of median engraved lines along the back, and pairs on tiny pecked notches to either side, possibly representing scales. It narrows towards the rear, then becomes circular sectioned and wrapped in silver wire, leaving a gap for the pin, for the other half. Th…
Created on: Thursday 10th December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-618414
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver annular brooch. A circular sectioned frame with four knops around the frame, each decorated with stamped annulets. There is a constriction for the cast pin which has a further knop, also decorated with stamped annulets, forming a collar next to the frame. Similar to an example in the Treasure Annual Report 2005/6 (347, fig.333). 13th - 14th century. Diameter (including knops) 21mm, diameter (excluding knops) 19mm. Weighing 1.3g.
Created on: Monday 14th December 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horningtoft', 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-547243
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Less than half of the frame of a silver sheet annular brooch or buckle, badly distorted and broken at both ends. One break cuts across a maker's mark ]WE The reading of the first letter is uncertain. The frame was probably angled in the same way as that of an example NMS-7D6271, which was stamped on the underside. Late 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 19th November 2009
Last updated: Monday 23rd May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-F17A11
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman Colchester two-piece type brooch. Undecorated C-sectioned wings, double pierced lug retaining axial bar and spring with eight coils, pin missing. Bow with prominant median longitudinal rib with wide flange to either side tapering only slightly to blunt-ended foot with complete triangular catch-plate on reverse.1st century AD. Width 18mm. Length 35mm.
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 5th December 2012
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-F1BCD7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman Langton Down brooch. Broken cylindrical spring cover completely filled with corroded iron, incomplete trinagular-sectioned bow with median longitudinal rib, foot, catch-plate and spring missing. Surviving width 25mm. Length 29mm. 1st century AD.
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2012
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2013
Spatial data recorded.