Record ID: NMS-8B9210
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval incomplete gilt furniture fitting, strap mount, bent almost double, with both ends broken across a rivet hole. Counter-relief decoration on front face consists of quatrefoils alternating with S-shaped double-leaved plant motifs. There are only tiny flecks of gilding extant, and there is no evidence of enamel. Length >58mm. Width 7mm. 12th – 13th century.
Created on: Monday 30th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E4B9E6
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British furniture fitting: very robust stud with solid, roughly hemispherical head and incomplete integral sub-square sectioned shank on flat underside. The front is decorated with four wide flutes running from the base to the apex, each flanked by a pair of engraved lines. Diameter 15mm. Height 9.5mm. Weight 8.18g. No good parallel noted.
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D2D667
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British furniture fitting: "bell-shaped" knob with remains of square-sectioned iron shank embedded in underside, with a separate piece of copper alloy sheet rammed into the edge of the socket as a wedge to tighten the fix. The concave top, in very fresh condition, shows concentric turning marks around a central dimple-topped nipple. Diameter 25mm, thickness (excluding shank and sheet) 12.5mm. cf. Allason-Jones and Miket 1984, 3.889 - 3.935
Created on: Monday 9th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CE6C41
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of strip with unusual engraved decoration, probably a medieval casket mount, one end missing, the other with a rivet hole. Overall ornament, set within border lines, consists of superimposed groups of three to six parallel arcs, giving a scale effect. Length >41mm. Width 6mm. Probably 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Monday 9th June 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 12th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-653648
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval furniture fitting, rectangular hinge plate of thick folded sheet, gilt on the front, the rear part being very much shorter and with a gently scalloped attachment edge. Three holes for attachment, only one through the rear part. Copper alloy spindle (now partly missing) and three pivot loops, the central being much wider (17mm) than the others (6.5mm). The front is decorated with three longitudinal engraved lines, one central and one along both sides, and with nine transverse, the area between the pivots being left plain. 34 x 37mm. The gap between the front and rear has been …
Created on: Wednesday 4th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-153664
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval gilt mount, possibly from harness, with irregular broken asymmetrical outside edge with remains of at least three curved trapezoidal notches, face decorated with a complex asymmetrical arrangement of groups of curved engraved rocker-arm lines, stump of rectangular-sectioned lug on reverse. >52 x >44mm. Possibly 12th-13th century.
Created on: Monday 19th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-152291
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval furniture fitting, handle escutcheon plate, cast, circular with central perforation within eight radiating rays with a pellet between each. Diameter 22mm. Possibly 17th century.
Created on: Monday 19th May 2008
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-088BE5
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval/post medieval furniture fitting, incomplete hinge with iron spindle, for a box or casket. The element with a double pivot loop would have been attached to the lid by means of three iron rivets, one in the centre near the pivot and the two set in lobes near the ends of curving arms. Between the arms there is a pair of three-quarter round moulded cut-outs flanking a trefoil projection. The part with the single pivot loop is attached by a centrally placed iron rivet to an incomplete sheet strip spring on the reverse, and has scalloped sides. Its end is missing. This part must ha…
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 2nd June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langley with Hardley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-049663
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt decorative medieval copper alloy stud from furniture, head cast in the form of a scallop shell, spike projects from oval-sectioned base. 10 x 21mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 24th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CA6CD4
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British furniture mount, cast asymmetrical spool with inserted central iron rivet. Length 11mm. Broad end, diameter 15mm; narrow end, diameter 11mm. Cf. larger bell-shaped examples in South Shields 1984, nos.3.889-910.
Created on: Monday 21st April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pentney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C804E8
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval decorative copper alloy stud, possibly a furniture fitting, very corroded, conical with incised cross on the broad outer face, long (22mm) integral shank projects from other end, burred-over at terminal. Diameter 12mm. Length 35mm. 12th century.
Created on: Wednesday 9th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shotesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7094D4
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval zoomorphic probable binding strip from furniture, bent narrowed thin-sectioned bar projects from the snout of a cast animal head that is highly stylised and angular with crudely modelled ears, eyes and mouth. The snout is pierced by a rivet-hole containing a copper alloy rivet. The bar continues as a bent D-sectioned shank pierced by a further copper alloy rivet and is broken across third rivet-hole. 8 x >110mm (unbent). Cf. Coad (1982) fig.43 and a hollow-backed example in Margeson (1993) fig.43, no.473. 12th-early 13th century.
Created on: Monday 4th February 2008
Last updated: Thursday 8th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stokesby with Herringby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2E5FE6
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of possible medieval furniture fitting: mount, C-sectioned bar, broken at both ends. No rivet hole extant. >72 x 10mm.
Created on: Friday 1st February 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holme Hale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2DE433
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of post medieval furniture fitting: escutcheon plate from decorated with stamped annulets. >26 x >19mm.
Created on: Friday 1st February 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5FF7C4
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval furniture fitting, binding strip form casket or box. D-section, both ends broken. Two rows of ring-and-dots end at transverse mouldings which are pierced by an iron filled rivet hole. Beyond these the strip narrows and is hooked. Length >33mm. Width 4 - 5mm. Thickness 2mm. Perhaps 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd January 2008
Last updated: Friday 6th August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southrepps', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-38DD61
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Furniture fitting: fragment of sheet mount, probably a handle escutcheon, with part circular stamps and trefoil lobe. Edges chamfered on the underside. >26 x >24mm. 17th - 18th cent.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langley with Hardley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-38A3D1
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt furniture fitting: terminal fragment of D-section binding strip from casket. broken at one end across an attachment hole. Before the pointed terminal the strip widens to a flat rectangular pierced boss. Length >35mm. Width 5.5mm, boss 7mm. 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langley with Hardley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3F7092
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British furniture fitting: stud, in appearance rather like a pawn from a standard chess set, with discoidal apex, concave-sided shank and broad slightly stepped foot with remains of rectangular-sectioned iron shank inserted into flat base. Length 22mm. Diameter 18mm.
Created on: Wednesday 21st November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-835263
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a heavy post medieval openwork mount, perhaps a furniture fitting, depicting a boar’s head within vine scroll, the front face carrying a mass of intense engraving, especially on the boar’s head. The edge in front of the boar is complete as is the straight (now distorted) base. The top edge is missing one short length of plant while the edge behind the boar is broken, with an uncertain amount missing. On the reverse an incomplete projection from the base is broken across a round aperture. 43 x >41mm. Thickness 2 – 2.5mm. 17th – 18th century.
Created on: Monday 12th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-825B36
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British furniture fitting, plano-convex head with incomplete rectangular sectioned projection on underside containing remains of an iron shank. Head diameter 16mm, thickness 8mm. Total length 19mm.
Created on: Monday 12th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.