Record ID: NMS-816A96
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle with oval frame, integral plate and strip pin. The front of the plate is gilt and there are traces of gilding on the pin. The rear of the frame is white-metal coated. On the reverse of the plate there are the stubs of two integral and two separate rivets. The rectangular pin hole lies between two transverse grooves and is flanked by multiple oblique grooves. A central rectangular motif and a pentagonal aperture lie between a pair of confronting bird heads that meet at the inside edge. Marzinzik (2003) Type II.24c. See ibid. 54, pl. 149.4, Speake 1980 pl. 2b, and al…
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stow Bedon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-80F154
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete tongue-shaped openwork copper alloy strap-end of Thomas 2004 Class E, but of uncertain type. Split attachment end with two rivet holes, one side of the split missing. Asymmetrical arrangement of apertures, shallow counter-relief mouldings on both faces, punched annulets on one face only. Length >32.5mm. Width 23mm. 10th - 11th century
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 5th August 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-80B6A5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap-end of Thomas 2003 Class B Type 1. Straight attachment edge, one rivet, eleven transverse grooves and a short length of longitudinal groove, animal head with deeply grooved saltire on top, blind-drilled eyes and mouth depicted by groove on sides and around outside edge. The split end is of rectangular cross-section and the main part of ovoid section. Length 43.5mm. Width 8.5mm. Late 8th - 9th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7FFC95
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy D-shaped buckle frame with single lobe at both ends of narrowed bar, at junctions of sides and outside edge, tri-lobed knop in centre of outside edge, and nine stamped ring-and-dots. Cf. an example from Norwich (HER 156, Margeson 1993, no. 128). Many other frames quite close in form have been recorded. Near parallels have been found in Norfolk at Horsham St Faith (HER 50700) and Southrepps (HER 51114). 26.5 x 29.5mm. 11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-7FDED4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy disc brooch of Kershaw's East Anglian Series, concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double contoured knots, circular sunken field in centre, Borre style. On reverse stubs of single pin lug with traces of iron pin and catchplate, both set transversely to the pin (parallel to the edge of the brooch). Cf. West, 1998, fig. 134.8. Diameter 28.5mm. 10th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7FB6C3
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper-alloy bridle cheekpiece decorated with Ringerike-style engraved animal. Broken at both ends. Parts of the two perforation are extant. Surviving length 39mm. Thickness 4mm. 11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7F9C15
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy D-shaped buckle frame with narrowed bar. Decorated with seven blind drilled holes and single external projections at junctions of sides and outside edge and three in the centre of the outside edge. 23 x 29.5mm. A well-known type, cf. examples from Colkirk (Norwich HER 30867), Corpusty (Norwich HER 33872) and Norwich (Norwich Households no. 128). 11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6DE1C5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast buckle pin with trapezoidal tongue shield. The curved pin is decorated with sets of transverse grooves, three, three and five, and the inside edge of the tongue shield with tiny longitudinal grooves. On the reverse an iron-stained blind hole would have held a loop for attachment to the bar of the frame. There is a casting defect, a blow hole, on one side of the shield. Length 34mm. Width of shield 12.5mm, of pin 4mm. Cf. Marzinzik 2003 plate 16.2. Late 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6C58B7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Footplate of cruciform brooch, break across junction with bow not ancient: near top pair of opposed side notches and some recent damage above a single transverse groove, then very oddly a chamfer along one side only, ending at a transverse ribbed moulding. An elongated horse-head terminal with saltire at the top. The upper end of the catchplate lies just below the base of the bow and the lower end dies gently into the reverse above the base of the terminal. Length >34. Width 6.5mm. Reichstein 1975 Typ Witmarsum. Mid 5th century.
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6BC004
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete strap-end of Thomas 2004 Class G. The lower part is missing, with an ancient break across an openwork aperture. The front face of the split end is decorated with two engraved lines. Single rivet. 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Saturday 11th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6AD964
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hooked tag of Read 2008 early medieval Class D Type 4, asymmetrical with three attachment loops. Engraved decoration, not interlace as in Read's example, but a saltire within radial lines. 22 x 11mm. 8th - 11th century
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6AA561
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of sheet strip, one end broken, the other rounded and next to a double perforation, probably the result of the repair or replacement of a rivet. Decorated with a row of crescentic stamped impressions along both sides. Probably the inside edge of a buckle plate (cf. EAA 36 Morning Thorpe Grave 397 Pi) or the terminal of a belt mount (cf. ibid. Piii). Length >17.5mm. Width 11.5mm. 6th century .
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-59AC43
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower part of one arm of a pair of Middle Saxon copper alloy tweezers. Below the break the sides are chamfered and near the centre there is a line of punched dots. Below this an engraved saltire between two horizontal pairs of transverse lines. The next part is undecorated although the sides are chamfered. Below another pair of transverse lines the wide expansion to the inturned blade is decorated with a cross formed from eight punched ring-and-dots. Length >32mm. Width at break 3.5mm, at blade 13.5mm. 8th - 9th century.
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Saturday 29th November 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-598A33
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Highly stylised animal-head terminal of strap-end of Thomas 2003 Class A Type 2. On the main part two rows of punched crescents are separated by a discontinuously engraved median line which ends in a chevron. The animal head lacks features and is little more than a blunt spike. 9th century.
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 19th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-591463
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap-end formed from cut and folded sheet and secured by a single rivet through an incomplete rounded lobe at the attachment edge. From this edge the sides diverge before narrowing to the outside edge. Some hard brown, possibly organic, material remains within the fold. See G. Thomas' recent discussion of the large series of Saxon sheet strap-ends from Flixborough (Evans and Loveluck 2009, 9-10). 24.5 x 7.5mm
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Sunday 30th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-58F021
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of base ring from hanging bowl: flat curving bar, one end broken, the other neatly chopped, decorated with a herringbone pattern on an enamelled ground. A small amount of dull pinkish enamel, probably once red, is extant. Very close to the vertical strips on the Faversham bowl (Brenan 1991, 210-11). Width 8mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Diameter 95mm. 7th century.
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-58B750
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small-long brooch of Leeds 1945 square-head (plain) type. Parts of the edges of the headplate and the lower footplate are missing. The headplate is punctured by a small hole. Incomplete single pin lug and catchplate on reverse. A ring-and-dot is visible near the two more intact corners of the headplate. D-sectioned bow with rectangular panels forming facets at top and base. Single transverse groove above side chafers on footplate. Ancient breaks. Length >39mm. Width >22.5mm. 6th century.
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-588C50
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower part of girdle hanger decorated on the front face with lines of punched crescents along both sides of the shank and the wards. Abrasion has removed all surface detail from the lower part of the front face. Ancient break. Length >46mm. Width 39.5mm. Thickness 2mm. Felder 2009 Type A2c. Late 5th -6th century
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-585EA1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Outside edge of openwork tongue-shaped strap-end. What remains of the symmetrical design is very close to that of a strap-end of found at North Creake in 1992 (Norfolk HER 11707). This example has additional detail engraved on one face only. Length >18mm. Width >4.8mm. 10th - 11th century
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-56CCE8
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Book fitting or furniture fitting in the form of a highly stylised animal head with an iron-filled socket. The mouth of the socket is sub-rectangular. On the underside just beyond the mouth a large gap has left the iron filling exposed, a deliberately formed opening. The animal has protruding ears, no eyes and a long triangular-sectioned snout decorated on the front two faces with transversely engraved lines. The reverse of the upturned end of the snout is flat, and a spot of iron staining within it probably marks the end of the iron object. The object bears some resemblance to a Late…
Created on: Monday 26th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.