Record ID: NMS-06D263
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very unusual rectangular enamelled horse harness mount, with an integral shank on the reverse, bearing the arms: Gules a maunch ?Or/Argent. Probably for HASTINGS, the more usual tinctures of the arms Or a maunch Gules being reversed here. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Last updated: Saturday 13th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newton by Castle Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6ED271
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gilt copper alloy horse harness suspension mount, bar has solid exaggerated triangular section, rounded horizontal edge projecting forwards, flat-sectioned (probable fleur-de-lis) terminal broken across rivet-hole and perforation in flat-sectioned centre with remains of folded projections at base forming twin loops, other half of mount missing, >57 x >14mm. Cf. Keen and Hough (1993) Beeston Castle, fig.102, no.68, and examples of related bar mounts from Postwick (Norfolk HER 20434) and Colkirk (Norfolk HER 37130). 12th-century.
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 18th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-438D25
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Military harness mount, circular open work with engrailed cross and central perforation, diameter 37mm, 1.5mm thick.
Created on: Tuesday 13th April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-433476
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Military harness mount, convex hollow-backed circular head with central ring-and-dot and ten radiating grooves and tapering round-sectioned shank with integral discoidal head (diameter 10mm) on reverse. Cf. Oldenstein 1976, Taf. 46 Kat. Nr. 483-4. Diameter 21mm. Length 12mm. 2nd - 3rd century
Created on: Tuesday 13th April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-061145
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete tinned harness mount, remains of a large loop of sub-triangular section with an upright rectangular-sectioned pear-shaped projection with a vertical rib on both faces at the base, above two semicircular swellings at the junction with the rectangular plate with integral rectangular loop on reverse. Superficially similar to a terret, although the large internal projection would inhibit any use as a rein guide. >46 x >40mm. Possibly 1st century AD.
Created on: Monday 29th March 2010
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wendling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0BFEE7
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gilt horse harness mount, very worn and corroded, damaged edges, rectangular with remains of flanking rectangular perforated lugs (one broken across perforation), decorated with small stamped annulet within two concentric rectangular lines of stamped annulets which also border the outside edges of the lugs. >42 x 34mm. Cf. an example from Watlington (Norfolk HER 31072). 12th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aylsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-553F04
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Horse harness stud, shield-shaped, worn and corroded, red enamelled field with traces of an now obscure device, surface treatment of metal missing. 14 x 16mm. Integral shank on reverse, length 6mm. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2009
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swanton Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-537F55
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted and abraded harness fitting, a strap hook consisting of a long rectangular plate with four rivet holes and an integral hook at one end. One hole contains iron, one is empty and those at the opposite end to the hook have been ripped through to the edge. No extant gilding or decoration. Cf. an enamelled example from Whissonsett (HER 31879; Ashley EAA 101, fig. 24 no. 245). Length 59mm. Width 14mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2009
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sculthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3F2F77
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt horse harness suspension mount, shield-shaped with integrally cast suspension-loops at base containing corroded iron pin, integral rivet on reverse, metal worn and corroded, enamel missing. [?] A cross engrailed Or. Cf. broadly similar type with folded, rather than cast, loops at base in Ashley (2002), fig.14, no.116. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3EB884
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of gilt sheet harness mount: strip with both ends and parts of both sides missing. One attachment and part of another. Decorated with engraved lines and punched annulets leaving at least two lozengiform open fields. Perhaps originally cross-shaped like an example from Pudding Norton (Norfolk Historic Environment Record 36170). >40 x >16mm. Hole centres 35mm apart. 12th century
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2009
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Litcham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-AA89F7
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Horse harness stud, quatrefoil (23 x 23mm), integral shank bent to one side against reverse (length 20mm), metal corroded, traces of red enamel. Blazon: Gules a lion passant guardant [?Or] (on a square field from each side of which springs a fleur-de-lis [?Or] into each foil [probably originally Azure]. Allusive for ENGLAND and FRANCE. Cf. Examples of pendants of similar type in Ashley 2002, 23 and fig.21, 208-13. 14th century
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5B8217
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt copper alloy harness mount in the form of a sexfoil with a central hole for a (missing) separate rivet. The front is markedly concave, the rear convex, i.e. the object is domed in reverse. Diameter 26mm. 12th - 13th century
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2009
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spixworth', grid reference and parish protected.