Record ID: NMS-5EF670
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unglazed earthenware medieval pottery cooking pot or jar, apparently wheel-thrown, with developed rim and sagging base, complete apart from three small chips missing from the exterior of the rim and a small hole in the base. There are slight exterior indications of knife trimming at the base of the neck, and some thickening at the junction of base and wall. The fabric is slightly sandy and the surface is reduced pale grey with darker patches. The rim damage shows that the majority of the core is oxidised, but nowhere does the surface appear red. In the basal fracture only reduction is …
Created on: Tuesday 22nd January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Howe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7EF821
Object type: LAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This lamp was originally described on this database as: "Romano-British Moulded ceramic lamp with lug in buff fabric with traces of red slip. Decorated with cable mouldings, dots in annulets and a ring of dots. Of Wheeler's (1930) Type IIIB, known as a 'factory lamp' or firmalampe. Some external sooting near nozzle. In abraded condition. Length 98mm. Width 53mm. Height 23mm, including lug 40mm. Probably made in Gaul or Germany. 2nd or 3rd century." Recent online comments have made it quite clear that this identification is incorrect and that the object was made not earlier than …
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Hunstanton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F6ABA2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of Medieval pottery jug handle of twisted round section, in unglazed, reduced, hard fired, slightly sandy ware. The underside of the handle and the interior of the neck adherent at one end are part-oxidised dark buff. In very fresh condition. Weighing 51g. Cf. Jennings EAA 13, 48-9, no.318. 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 20th July 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 8th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Felthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-33C437
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British Tubular sherd in micaceous greyware. One end is rounded, the other broken. A median pre-firing perforation is 7mm diameter at the latter and 3mm diameter at the former. Length 34mm, diameter 18mm increasing to 22mm at the break. Of what sort of vessel or object this is a part is unknown. It is surely not a spout (12g).
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wighton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-090DE0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A body sherd of Roman decorated Southern Gaulish samian ware. It weighs 6g.
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wighton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E26703
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Romano-British T-shaped sawfish brooch, chain-loop missing, semi-circular closed wings without perforated lug and containing fragment of copper alloy axis bar, wings decorated with oblique knurled ribs forming chevron, pin missing, broken bow with incised lines forming chevron above pointed oval moulding, stylised dogs head. Multiple lugs along both sides of bow, median vertical line of seven square cells comprising four red cells alternating with three empty cells (originally of a different colour enamel), four horizontal grooves on base of forward-facing foot, broken catch-plate on …
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 18th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swanton Morley', grid reference and parish protected.