Record ID: NMS-56ED55
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lead medieval ampulla, broken and distorted, upper part and side lugs missing, split obscuring possible ?lily pot within circular bordering line and oblique lines around outside edge of base on one side, remains of broad-bladed downward-pointing arrow on the other. >22 x >32mm. The lily pot is an emblem of Our Lady and may refer to the Holy House of Our Lady at Walsingham (Spencer 1980, 16, no.39). c.1350 - c.1530.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2008
Last updated: Saturday 31st December 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-52BFE4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval lead-alloy probable belt mount, cast hollow-backed trefoil with undecorated short convex arms and sub-triangular moulding in centre, the elongated ends of which form dividing ribs. Stump of integral spike in centre of hollow reverse. 21 x 20mm. Cf. a slightly smaller but otherwise very similar piece from Sandringham (NMS-E4735) which was tentatively dated to the 10th century on the grounds of similarity to trefoil brooches.
Created on: Thursday 22nd May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Dereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F6E2C7
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval lead ampulla, transversely chopped, upper part missing, one side decorated with a compass-drawn sexfoil in relief, the other side cast in the form of a scallop. 39 x >39mm.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd April 2008
Last updated: Saturday 31st December 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sustead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B4EBB2
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a lead-alloy top locket from a scabbard, consisting of a flat plate, broken so that it is now sub-triangular. A small lobe projects from the edges near the rounded apex. On the underside, an integral pierced lug projects from a median rib that runs as far as the break; this lug would have been used to attach the scabbard to the belt. On the front, decoration consists of a median engraved line and a row of rocker-arm along both edges. Just before the break, the edges are angled upwards and form corners with short ribs aligned towards the centre. Surviving length 36mm. Width…
Created on: Tuesday 8th April 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F49461
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla, top open, lugs squashed. On one face a quatrefoil on a cross-hatched ground. On the other a heart within a circle and containing a bar, diagonal from lower left to upper right. Height 45mm. Width across lower part 31mm. 14th - early 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2008
Last updated: Saturday 31st December 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southrepps', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2553F4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead weight, conical, longitudinal perforation splayed towards base, containing corroded fragments of iron bar, perhaps for suspension. Weighing 46.77g.
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FAD464
Object type: POWDER FLASK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval lead alloy powder flask nozzle, basal rim missing. No attachment loop present. Any such may have been situated at the base. Length >45mm. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 4th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gayton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-38F614
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead alloy spindle whorl, plano-convex. Diameter 30mm. Height 13mm. Perforation diameter 9mm. Weighing 45.63g.
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Runhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-86F6A1
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a lead possibly satirical Medieval secular badge, of a type related to pilgrim badges, with a headless standing figure in a flaring skirt holding an obliquely-angled staff within fragments of two sides of a rectangular frame, vertical casting seam and large lozengiform-sectioned spike on reverse. >23 x >28mm. Possibly part of a variant on propagandist badges depicting Queen Isabella as a domineering queen, produced by factions in opposition to her and her lover, Roger Mortimer probably during the period of their rule in place of her son, Edward III, between 1327-1330. Cf. …
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2007
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Rudham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-13E493
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval lead alloy button with flat head and (bent) integral loop. Diameter 15mm. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 14th December 2006
Last updated: Monday 14th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bunwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F08A15
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead ampulla, with closed mouth and one triangular side lug bent inward, one face decorated with a lily pot enclosed by crescent filled with oblique hatching and with oblique hatching around base, the other face with an arrow with broad point in base, 34 (lug unbent) x 46mm. The crescent and lily pot are emblems of Our Lady and the retrograde R probably refers to Richelde, founder of the Holy House of Our Lady of Walsingham (Spencer 1980, 16).
Created on: Monday 6th November 2006
Last updated: Monday 13th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4CAD44
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead ampulla, damaged mouth and lugs, one side lug with traces of now obscure decoration, the other with an elaborate fleur-de-lis with a small cross paty at its apex from which a vertical line projects upwards ending in a cruciform terminal. >32 x >42mm. The fleur-de-lys or lily is an emblem of Our Lady and may refer to the Holy House of Our Lady at Walsingham (Spencer 1980, 16, no.39).
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2006
Last updated: Monday 13th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rollesby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EA03F7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval/Post Medieval Lead alloy finger-ring with flat circular bezel decorated with central pellet and three concentric circles enclosing eleven radial lines between the inner two and a band of zig-zag between the outer two. The bezel has been distorted and now lies flat with the hoop. This is oval and carries casting seams around the inner and outer edge, which suggest the object unfinished. There is a diametric casting seam on the reverse of the bezel. Internal diameter 15 - 20mm. Bezel diameter 15mm. 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 11th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brancaster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CAB5A7
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval lead-alloy spoon, flat, leaf-shaped bowl with cast geometric decoration and fragments (one dislodged) of twisted stem. Bowl 42 x 28mm. Stem >59mm This spoon appears to be mould identical to an example illustrated in Biddle. M., Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester (1990) 832-4, fig.248, no.2625 and others from West Walton (HER 25853) and Narford (HER 40016). Probably 12th/13th century.
Created on: Monday 24th April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 13th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snettisham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-140576
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman globular lead alloy steelyard weight with a copper- alloy suspension loop set into centre. The metal of the weight, which has a diameter of 22mm, has deteriorated badly and has cracked, with small parts of the surface missing. The object weighs 32g.
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-552096
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Fragment of lead pilgrim badge, lower part of robed figure, vertical folds of robes and detail of out-turned seam, crosshatched band at foot. Broken at both ends, vertical casting seam on reverse, >16 x 20mm.
Created on: Monday 12th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elm', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C710A5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval pewter buckle, oval (15 x 14mm) with fragment of iron pin on circular-sectioned (diameter 3mm) frame. See Egan and Pritchard 1991, 57-65. 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 19th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 17th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corpusty', grid reference and parish protected.