Record ID: NMS-35C242
Object type: WIRE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A piece of gold wire made from four strands twisted. The wire was made from 4 smaller wires (diameter c. 2.4 mm) twisted together in a clockwise spiral giving an overall diameter for the twisted wire of 5 mm. The wire piece weighs 7.24g and is 20mm long (unstraightened). The fragment appears to have been cut from a larger piece of wire at one end, although the other end appears to be a break. Analysis shows these wires are made of over 80% gold.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gayton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C5DCDC
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete post-medieval silver huntsman's whistle. Silver sheet rolled and soldered to form a tube which tapers very slightly from the open, multiply notched foot to the D-shaped mouth-piece with concave, slightly lipped underside, and triangular aperture on the upper face outlined by a faintly engraved line. There are two encircling triple ribbed bands with faint longitudinal engraved lines of varying length pointing towards the centre of the body, and further lines emanating from the rear of the second band towards the foot. On the underside next to the first band are two scars fro…
Created on: Monday 1st June 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-38A197
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy whistle tapering from a broad mouthpiece to a D-shaped sound-hole beyond which it is of consistent diameter as far as the distal end. This is now open but would have been blocked by a stopper of some sort. Decoration around the mouthpiece consists of a band of fine tendril ornament. This is separated from a field of fine pellets by a low rib. The pellets extend to the distal edge of the sound hole. A casting seam extends the full length along both sides. Length 26mm. Mouthpiece 9.5 x 6mm externally. Other end 4.5 x 4mm. Perhaps 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-D90CF7
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of medieval or post-medieval silver whistle. Distorted, damaged and incomplete half of the originally spherical sheet body or buoy with octofoil design in low relief. For similar examples see TAR 2002 (101, no.125), and SWYOR-F07E07 (a near complete example with very similar decoration). Another similar whistle made of lead / tin alloy in the collections of the Museum of London (96.24/2) is illustrated in Egan (2005, 124, fig.118a). Medieval or post-medieval, 15th - 16th century. Weight 1.6g.Original diameter greater than 22mm.
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 30th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Finningham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A07C7B
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver possible whistle, rattle or handle. Sheet-metal tube open at one end, now broken and distorted, inserted into a separate rounded terminal with a triple moulded collar and terminating in a loop across which it is now broken. There is engraved decoration before the terminal in the form of zigzag lines with multiple closely spaced vertical lines between and crosshatched lozenges between each 'peak'. A separate circular silver plate with an off-centre hole and a scar from possible solder may originally have been attached to the open end. Three links of a copper alloy …
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8E3531
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible whetstone. Shield-shaped, ractangular-sectioned, with angled, off-centre hole near flat top edge. Length 34mm. Width 23mm.Thickness 16mm. Undated, but probably Roman - Medieval, if a whetstone.
Created on: Monday 12th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 13th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-C01ED7
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roughly rectangular sandstone pebble, fairly flat on both faces, broken at one end, the long edges worn smooth from use as a whetstone. Surviving dimensions 135 x 82 x 34mm. Undateable, but unlikely to be prehistoric and probably Early Medieval, medieval or post-medieval.
Created on: Monday 14th April 2014
Last updated: Sunday 15th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C406B6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Half an eight pointed star in shape, corroded iron loop extending from flat side, points of star slightly irregular, one broken. Iron corrosion on end of broken point and between two others. 57 x 49mm (71mm including loop), 20mm thick. Weighing 266g / 9⅜oz. Either post-medieval or possibly Roman.
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C4CEA7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible lead weight. Flat sectioned square with rounded corners. Measuring 20 x 20mm, 3mm thick, weighing 13.36g / 0.471oz.
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breckland', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-DFAE5B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated lead weight, probably Roman - Post-medieval. Oval-sectioned, tapering slightly towards the irregular, broken upper end from which a small corroded iron fragment protrudes. Height 20mm. Base 14 x 16.5mm. Weight 21.4g (0.75oz).
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Spatial data recorded.