Record ID: NMS-674FF0
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon thick discoidal weight with two double concentric half-annular stamped impressions on one face. Diameter 12mm. Thickness 4.5mm. Weighing 3.95g / 61.2 grains.
Created on: Monday 16th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-673BC1
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete pair of tweezers, lower parts of arms missing, arms expanding very slightly from loop. Width 6 - 6.5mm. Length >38mm. With no distinguishing features this may be either Romano-British or Early Anglo-Saxon.
Created on: Monday 16th 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-672FF7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon buckle frame, oval with narrowed bar and five finely engraved lines in centre of outside edge. The sides and edge are D-sectioned and slightly hollow on the underside. 11 x 23mm. Mid 5th - 7th century.
Created on: Monday 16th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-671484
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon detachable fully-round side knob of cruciform brooch with iron pin bar in median hole, groove in flat end, deep waist and nipple at rounded end. Length 14mm. Diameter 11mm. Mid to late 5th century.
Created on: Monday 16th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-66E386
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon wrist-clasp eye-plate of Hines (1993) Form B7. No decoration, but the front face is tinned or silvered. Minor damage near corners on rear edge. 30 x 16mm. 6th century.
Created on: Monday 16th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-645111
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Middle Bronze Age incomplete socketed cast unidentified object, open end missing, broken end squashed. Apparently similar to two "hollow conical terminals" from Bath (Monkswood) hoard with attachment or peg hoes at the open ends (Inventaria Archaeologica (1959) GB. 24. 2(1) 17 and 18. Length >43mm.
Created on: Monday 16th 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-640970
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon buckle, pin missing. Very flimsy oval frame, bar broken. Sheet plate with pin slot, narrowing towards rounded attachment edge, one rivet. Frame 7 x 17mm. Plate 19.5 x 11.5mm. Mid 5th - 7th century.
Created on: Monday 16th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E83AF6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval buckle frame and plate with folding sheet plate in place of a pin. Oval frame with offset bar. Incomplete elongated rectangular sheet plate with "pin" slot and slight frame recesses, rear part mostly missing, attachment end of front part missing, engraved line parallel with both sides, one rivet hole next to a large circular or part circular cut-out that has been truncated by the break. The folding sheet plate, which is reminiscent of those found on strap clasps, is trapezoidal and decorated with a single transverse engraved line. When in a resting position it covers only hal…
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 12th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton Bendish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E82F20
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Romano-British non-enamelled Trumpet brooch in closed position (pin lodged in catchplate). Six-coiled spring. Axis bar / chain-loop held by lug on rear of head. A collar is folded around the waist of the chain-loop and a tab which rises from the top of lug. Half-round "acanthus" moulding on bow between two knurled reel mouldings. Another knurled reel surmounts the circular flat-based foot. Length including chain-loop 53mm. Width/diameter of head 12.5mm. Late 1st - 2nd century.
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton Bendish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E81522
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British sub-triangular mount, possibly from a vessel, with hollowed reverse, a bird's head in the round at the apex and attachment hole near the lower edge. The object has been wrenched off its parent, with the result that the centre is dented, the lower edge badly distorted, the hole widened and the area around it cracked. Details of the bird's eyes and feathers are carefully engraved and two long curving feathers are engraved below the neck.
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton Bendish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E7F720
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon copper-alloy bird brooch in two pieces (recent break across neck). Missing parts include the pin, part of the double pin lug, the flap of the catchplate, the beak and both feet. The bird has a triangular tail with a wide transverse moulding at the junction of tail and body, a triangular wing projecting above the back, an aperture between the legs which probably rested on a "perch". There are three rounded coxcomb projections from the top of the head. No decoration is visible, although the front surface is moulded rather than flat. The reverse has the double pin lug at the e…
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E5AB56
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilded copper-alloy buckle, oval frame with offset narrowed bar, D-sectioned pin with blunt point curved over outside edge and rocker-arm engraving on transverse thickening near loop, plate with pin slot, tiny lateral projections near frame recesses, two rivet holes, engraved perimeter line, elongated attachment edge in the form of an animal head, and very much shorter rear part. Frame 13 x 22mm. Plate 37 x 15.5mm (rear part 13 x 14mm). 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 12th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E567C8
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Iron Age or Romano-British openwork unidentified object. At one end a spherical lobe with round recess partly filled with white material, possibly fixative for a missing setting, the other end is broken at a bifurcation or channel, which lines up with a small groove in lobe. In the centre a curved aperture is similar to those in a scabbard chape from Brough, Westmorland (MacGregor 1976 cat. no. 165.)
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-E56040
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British unidentified object: straight and parallel sided cast bar narrowing with concave sides at both ends to a break. Near one end a triangular projection on both sides marks the start of the narrowing. Decoration on both faces consists of a row of six ring-and-dots, and a triplet of transversely engraved lines with single lines following the concave sides at one end. In addition there is a single transverse line on one face only. Probably the handle of a some sort of toll or implement. Length >54mm. Width 9mm. Width across projections 11.5mm. Thickness 2mm.
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-E55452
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle/Late Saxon hooked tag, triangular sheet plate with three perforations, each surrounded by a punched ring. Decorated with two concentric triangles of punched impressions, tiny slightly curved transverse dashes. An unusually squat examples. Length 12mm. Width 14mm. 8th - 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2008
Last updated: Friday 1st May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E543F1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval buckle, rectangular plate broken at fold, with slightly concave sides and attachment edge, pin slot, frame recesses, two rivet holes (one iron filled), double row of punched addorsed triangles around perimeter, very stylised lion passant guardant reserved on an enamelled ground. Most of the enamel has been lost and what survives is stained green. 34 x 16mm. 2mm thick. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 12th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E52C90
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Romano-British cast handle of patera, both ends broken, probably from the near the proximal end, looped end. The sides flair outward to a curving, concave break. The front is decorated with two grooves running parallel to both sides and a triangular arrangement of six deeply impressed annulets. Width 21-8mm. Thickness 3mm. Length 16mm.
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-E511C6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age or Romano-British spherical mount (personal ornament) with iron shank embedded in centre of slight moulded collar and five other blind holes, three filled with almost black material, probably fixative. Perhaps related to examples with enamel inlay from Holme Hale (HER 44072), Grimston (HER 11789) and Ashill (HER 8712).
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-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-E4A131
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval small cast four-toed copper-alloy foot of vessel, casket or candlestick with deep transverse groove just above the toes. Flat base 10 x 7mm. At the break the lower leg is 3.5mm across. Surviving height 12mm.
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 12th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.