Record ID: NMS-371155
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon small-long brooch, Leeds ‘cross-potent type’, bordering line of double annulets between twin engraved lines (three lines on upper edge). 27 x >24mm. Pierced lug reverse retains corroded fragment of iron spring.
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-36E5C1
Object type: LINCH PIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age copper alloy terminal of an unusual form of linch-pin. Circular-sectioned with incised ring on upper face, broad deep groove defining end and bordering engraved line on body with opposed oval-sectioned ‘arms’ tapering to points and flanking the corroded remains of an inserted sub-rectangular/circular-sectioned iron shank. Diameter 22mm. Length 32mm. Possibly 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-36D4E2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame, double-oval with pin notch on both outside edges, narrowed central bar, pin of trapezoidal section. 24 x 19mm. 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wortwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-36C487
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat, un-pierced lug projects from upper edge. Sub-circular, 35-7mm. Fleur-de-lis. + S’ ROBERtI d’ (Seal of Robert ?Doe or ?Dod) The d’ appears rather like an 8 with an abbreviated open upper loop. 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wortwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-36B2C4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is a duplicate record. Please see NMS-51FFA7.
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 8th July 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NMS-36A7B7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval buckle plate, corroded sub-rectangular with break across pin-notch and constrictions for missing frame, outer half convex-sided and pierced by two rivet-holes and with flanking triangular lobes on both sides, the inner two formed by notches and marking the mid-point, the attachment end being rectangular with a single perforation. >45 x 26mm. cf. broadly similar type in Whitehead (2003) no.48. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3688C5
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval end-cap from scale-tang knife, sub-shield-shaped with damaged outside edge, slight bulge where a short vertical perforation is punched through from one face. 12 x 20mm. cf. Cowgill et al (1987), nos.137 and 260, for example. 14th-15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Saturday 21st March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-367774
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy vessel, heavily cast with high lead content. Thick-walled oval ‘bag-shaped body, opposed twin perforated lugs for handles at rim. The base has three tiny perforations, two in the centre with a third to one side, forming an asymmetrical triangle. Diameter 36mm. Height 54mm. Weight 66.89g. There are at least ten other examples of these vessels from Norfolk: Bacton (HER 1073), Blo Norton (HER 21118), Great Dunham (HER 45424), Hellington (HER 34929), Hockering (HER 36541), Long Stratton (HER 16111), Marsham (HER 39717), Norton Subcourse (HER 36159) and two from Whi…
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilketshall St Margaret', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-366F52
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt buckle plate, probably from harness, folded widthways with deep pin-slot and recessed for frame, secured at attachment-end by integral rivet through perforation in reverse, tiny traces of gilding and two transverse lines on face. 13 x 30mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Sunday 2nd September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horsford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-21DBD3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Romano-British copper alloy finger ring (8 x (unbent) >36mm). Finely detailed Snake-headed terminal from snake-ring, very similar to examples from the Snettisham jeweller's hoard, part of distorted oval-sectioned band decorated behind the head with small semi-circular stamps and oblique lines. cf. Johns (1996) fig.3.3. 2nd century AD.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Monday 7th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-21C662
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval/post medieval fragment of leg from vessel, probably a cauldron, heavily cast trapezoidal sectioned stump of leg with expanded three-toed foot, very sooted, 41 x >20mm.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2195F8
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval pendent-loop from bar mount for belt, circular with collared knop, 11 x 18mm. cf. Dress Accessories (1991) fig.138, no.1192. 14th century
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2182A0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval fragment of buckle frame, oval with straight outside edge that protrudes on broken sides. >16 x 45mm. cf. Dress Accessories fig.46, no.317. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-216822
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval fragment of pewter toy watch, less than half, hollow-cast with gadrooned outside edge and band of Roman numerals around surviving part of face (]… V VI VII VIII IX X …[. Diameter c.47mm. 10mm thick. cf. Egan (1996) Playthings from the Past, pages 12-13 (un-numbered). Late 17th-18th century.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-215303
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated incomplete unidentified object, comprising the broken remains of a curved (possibly originally tubular) body with a hook springing from its side. The hook is of flattened C-shaped section becoming oval sectioned towards the terminal defined by a transverse line. Possibly part of something such as a candle-snuffer.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 8th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-213C35
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age toggle, shaped rather like the head of a hammer-head shark, corroded and pitted, flattened ends, swollen in centre, back with longitudinal hollowed section with stump of narrowed longitudinal attachment bar at both ends. Length 28mm, diameter 11mm. It is likely that this toggle would have been used for fastening bags, clothes or straps. It probably dates to the Late Iron Age/Early Roman period, perhaps the first century AD.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-210332
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, very worn and corroded, sub-triangular, corroded iron rivet in rivet-hole at springing of pointed broken apex, cast twin vertical ribs between curling tendrils, shaped sides and elongated knops projecting beyond base, iron rivet in rivet-hole through right-angled flange at base retaining fragment of corroded iron sheet on reverse. 27 x 44mm. Williams's (1997) Class A, Type 7 or 8. 11th century.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-20F002
Object type: COSMETIC ARTICLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Romano-British incomplete toilet implement, rectangular-sectioned body with narrowed broken projection at one end with transverse concave moulding between four obliquely notched ribs immediately below shoulders, the other end is bent and flares slightly towards break. >9 x (unbent) >47mm. cf. Crummy (1983), fig.62.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Andrew Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-20E795
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age fragment of socketed axe, broad and narrow rib at mouth and traces of three fine longitudinal ribs on surviving face. Old breaks and both old and recent 'scuffing'. >35 x >26mm.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Andrew Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-20D560
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of medieval composite folding clasp, rectangular plate (10 x 15mm) with arched-sectioned bar mount attached with single rivet and the opposite edge curled around a separate circular-sectioned bar inserted into drilled holes in a flat-sectioned rectangular sheet frame, 17 x 17mm. cf. similar types in Dress Accessories (1991), figs.77-8. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 7th July 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Andrew Ilketshall', grid reference and parish protected.