Record ID: NMS-354115
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Footplate side lobe from a gilt great square-headed brooch, extant lobe, silver sheet appliqué missing, with stumps of openwork footplate inner border and inner panel frame with cable moulding. Measuring at least 26 x at least 23mm. The breaks are not recent. Hines 1997 Group XVI. Mid 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morton on the Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EC685C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of side lobe from an Early Saxon great square headed brooch. Very little original edge surviving, inner panel decorated with engraved lines and ring-and-dot with one ring-and-dot decorated lobe projecting from the edge. The plain side lobe is separated from the engraved inner panel by a curved line. Gilding survives in the engraved lines. Hines (1997) Group XVI or XVII. Circa 525 - 575. Surviving dimensions 17 x 22mm, thickness 1.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-4D5EC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch. Extremely worn with cast backward facing beast in low relief just discernible on the front face, all of the edge and the originally segmented border missing. Single broken pin-lug paralelle with edge and very worn catch-plate at right-angles to edge on reverse. Pin missing. Maximum surviving diameter 22mm. Weight 2.1g. 10th - early 11th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-822DE5
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon incomplete copper alloy prick spur. Almost flat-sectioned smoothly curving bar with slightly convex upper face decorated to one side of the short, conical integral goad with two groups of four transverse grooves and broken across a third group of grooves. Immediately to the other side of the goad two rivets secure two now rectangular fragments of sheet of which no original edge seems to survive, one on the front and one on the reverse, before a blunt terminal. This is probably a repair as similar spurs have symmetrical arms, although the terminal of the arm does n…
Created on: Monday 24th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-AC6854
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy buckle. Oval-sectioned, oval frame with narrowed bar. Pin missing. Measuring 9 x 18mm. Marzinzik (2003) Type I.5b. Late 5th - 6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 26th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F8E362
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon tinned or silvered fragment (19 x 9mm) of hanging bowl escutcheon, animal-head terminal from hook with prominent ears and open mouth to grip bowl rim (width 2mm). Cf. examples nos.32, 65 in Brenan (1991).
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2004
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Barningham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5C56F1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable bucket mount. Thin rectangular copper alloy sheet with repoussé dots forming a border around the edge and a median longitudinal line, with a piercing in the centre of each short edge. One corner, broken across one of the piercings, is missing and there is possible sooting on the reverse. Length 34mm. Width 12mm. Circa 6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-4DF290
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy Middle Saxon ansate brooch. Oval terminal decorated with eight disconnected straight lines forming a cross within a lozenge. Stub of triangular-sectioned bow almost all of which is missing. Bent, rectangular catch-plate on reverse, pin missing. Surviving length 14mm. Surviving width 11mm. Width of bow at break 4.5mm. For a similar, almost complete example, see NMS-1A06F2. Thörle (2001) Gruppe II A1c.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Sunday 24th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-293A9A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end of Thomas' Class A, Type 5. Split end broken across one of the two pierced attachment lobes, with a semi-circular field below. The edges are scalloped (four on each side) either side of a central rectangular panel, below which is the animal head terminal. The semi-circular field contains a chevron and triangle in low relief probably originally reserved on a niello field, now missing. In the centre of the rectangular panel is a niello field with scrolls of silver wire inlay. The animal head terminal has circular ears, lentoid eyes with a cent…
Created on: Tuesday 30th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 23rd February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burnham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-50BD37
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy sleeve clasp of Hines form B12. Just over half survives. Copper alloy bar, slightly curved transversely, with transverse grooves and three rectangular bosses slightly wider than the bar, two of which survive. Next to each boss is a n integrally cast pierced lug for attachment. Broken across the integrally cast loop. Surviving length 25mm. Original length (reconstructed) 34mm. Surviving width 15mm. Late 5th - 6th century. ES1.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C525F1
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete wrist clasp. Rectangular flat sectioned bar with two grooves each flanked on either side by a pair of engraved lines. Rivet at either end secures bar to metal sheet which has no surviving original edge and is now the same size and shape as the bar. At least 36 x 7mm. Separate bars are known from Hines forms B13, B14 and B17.
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breckland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-77BF92
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon cloisonné enamel gilt copper alloy disc brooch with seven lobes, each originally containing a glass sphere. Apart from these tiny missing pieces of glass, the brooch is in remarkable condition with gilding present over most of the metal surfaces, even on the edges of the cells, & the enamel cells are brightly coloured. Soldered onto the reverse are a pin lug consisting of two lugs with a wire pin looped around an copper alloy spindle held by the lugs, & a short, low catchplate. The cloisonné enamel decoration consists of four semicircular cells, two blue & two yellow, pro…
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quidenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-930565
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy sleeve clasp of Hines form B18c. Rectangular bar with five wide transverse grooves dividing it into six rectangular bosses five of which have three incised transverse lines and one which has two transverse lines. The rear edge is slightly recessed, and shaped to form three conjoined semi-circles divided from each other by circular piercings behind the bar and v-shaped notches along the rear edge. Each semi-circle is decorated with two pairs of lightly incised lines forming a chevron. There is a complete blunt hook on the reverse of the bar and traces of fabric…
Created on: Wednesday 30th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 15th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-29DE2D
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle to Late Saxon copper alloy hooked tag. Lewis and Naylor (2003) type A1.c.iii. Circular plate pierced twice at upper edge, engraved saltire, the arms meeting the outer edge, with a transverse engraved line on each arm. Short complete or near complete hook. No trace of niello. Length 23mm. Width 14mm. Circa 700 - 1100.
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-29A852
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon pin. Of Rogers Type 230. Polyhedral head of square-section, flat top, two ring-and-dots on each of the four rectangular sides, slight collar, incomplete circular-sectioned shank. Head 9 x 3 x 4mm. Surviving length 25mm. Head similar to examples of Rogers Type 231 and 232 (2009, 52, fig.1.24, no.338 and 342).
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-4501C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval copper alloy disc brooch of Jansson type II A, very worn, domed with remains of cast Borre-style decoration of three inward-facing cat-like animals between the lobes of a trefoil, on the reverse is a broken pierced lug and catch-plate, there is no loop for chain or pendant so probably of native rather than Scandinavian origin, diameter 22mm. Cf. Margeson 1997, 20-1, fig.22. 10th century
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton Subcourse', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-216812
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval incomplete disc brooch, damaged outside edge, very worn concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double contoured knots, circular sunken field in centre, Borre style. On reverse worn stubs of single pin lug and catch-plate, both aligned with outside edge. Cf. West, 1998, fig. 134.8. Diameter 28mm. 10th century.
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C4A9F4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval copper alloy disc brooch with cast Borre style decoration, now almost completely indecipherable from wear but apparently comprising a central rectangular boss surrounded by interlaced knots. Most of the edge missing and worn. On the reverse the stub of a catch-plate and pin lug, one at right angles and one parallel to the edge. Measuring 19 x 24mm. Weight 3.0g. A common 10th-century type in East Anglia carrying a design based on a Scandinavian prototype, see West 1998, 252, fig. 134.8, Margeson 1997, 23, fig. 28 and Margeson and Williams in Ayers 1985, 28, fig. …
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-CCAA43
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a silver pin consisting of the upper end of a round-sectioned shank and the lower part of a discoidal or shield-shaped head. The front face of the head, the only gilt surface, is decorated within a frame with chip-carved interlace, the thicker strands of which are punched with tiny triangular impressions. Length at least 19.5mm. Width at least 15.5mm. Diameter of shank 1.8mm. Thickness of head 0.7mm. Weight 0.74g. Second half 8th century.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Narborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-54E325
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle or Late Saxon openwork disc or "cogwheel" brooch in the form of an expanding armed cross with a central boss and median groove on each arm, within a circle with eighteen small external lobes. The central boss is concave on the reverse, with a single transverse pin lug filled with iron corrosion from the (missing) pin and the short transverse catchplate. Measuring 26 x 30mm. 9th century. A7. Similar examples have been found in Norfolk at Colkirk (Norfolk Historic Environment Record 37128), Fincham (NHER 33011), Gillingham (NHER 31343), Great Dunham (NHER 45424), Morton-on-t…
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.