Record ID: NMS-FA03A1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete mount, chamfered, flat-backed, sub-crescentic central part (one point missing, the other damaged), with projection from both curved angles on outside edge comprising narrowed arms continuing the more gentle curve of the inner section, one a stump only, the other ending in a knop with the stump of a possible obliquely-angled return. Metal looks ancient. 41 x >79mm.
Created on: Monday 21st December 2009
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-54AAB3
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap-slide from a harness with an irregular sub-circular plate (diameter 22mm)and a central flattened globular boss. The edge is damaged. There is a rectangular-sectioned frame on reverse (18 x 9mm, with a 7mm gap between the plate and the frame)
Created on: Monday 9th March 2009
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DB8DD3
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy centre-looped cosmetic mortar, central section only, both ends missing, shallow, broad U-shaped groove, on both faces above surviving stumps of loop is a red enamelled triangular cell between two white triangular cells. Cf. Jackson (1985), fig.8, nos.73 and 76. Length >34mm, weight 6.18g. 1st-2nd century AD
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-014B17
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of openwork military buckle plate, part of one side only. One hinge loop survives with four grooves around it. Immediately next to the loop is a small circular rivet hole. The surviving edge of the buckle plate is set in from (narrower than) the loop area and is bevelled, with three rectangular projections. It is broken across a large circular perforation at both ends of a large central rectangular perforation. Surviving dimensions 37 x 12mm. Cf. Hawkes and Dunning (1961) fig.17, g, e and l. Type II A. 4th-5th century
Created on: Thursday 22nd April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shouldham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-571E31
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knife handle with ram's head terminal. The slightly damaged octagonal-sectioned socket is decorated with two encircling engraved lines near the open end and a collar of two moulded ribs around the ram's neck. The details of the head are moulded, apart from the eyes which are punched. Length 43mm. Maximum width 12mm. Socket 8 x 6mm internally. Perhaps 2nd 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-576D06
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible harness pendant consisting of circular sheet with central domed boss and (partly damaged) edges obliquely cut into twenty-three serrations, and a tapering strip with round perforation at its broad end and a hook at the other, which is attached with solder to the underside of the boss. Tinning survives on the front face. Height 32.5mm. Width/diameter 24.5mm. Thickness at centre through boss and hook 7.5mm. No good parallel noted
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-59BE96
Object type: BELL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Slightly more than one third of a white-metal bell with sub-lozengiform cannon, remains of iron crown staple and triangular apertures (two complete and parts of two others) in side. Cf. examples with six pertures from Bradenham (Norfolk HER 31358), Great Dunham (Norfolk HER 45401), Barsham, Suffolk and two bells dated to the Roman period, from Newport, Essex (PAS ESS-954081) and Brill, Buckinghamshire (PAS no number), but also to two others considered to be Late Saxon, from Paulespury, Northamptonshire (PAS NARC-D9C172) and West Clandon, Surrey (PAS SUR-B48E74). Height 23mm. Diameter 21mm
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-6ACA17
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable furniture fitting: stud with flat circular head with four round perforations and round-sectioned shank. Length 8.5mm. Diameter 16.5mm. Perforations diameter 4.5mm.
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-6DBE91
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete probable furniture fitting in lead alloy: stud with flat circular head (about half extant) decorated around the edge with a cable moulding and with two concentric ribs around a central bezel containing a glass pellet of uncertain colour. The short tapering round-sectioned shank is probably incomplete. Diameter 23mm. Length >10mm.
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-6EB882
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy wing-and-fanbow variant brooch, spring, pin and half of the fan missing. Wings decorated with oblique moulded flutes flanked by engraved lines and with single vertical lines at the outer ends. Transverse mouldings on front of rear hook. Rectangular-sectioned bow with two vertical engraved lines and a transverse moulded rib at the base. The fan is decorated with a median engraved line meeting one extant oblique line at the base. The unusual variant feature consists of a pair of (incomplete) integral loops flanking the fan and surrounding probably pointed oval apertures. Wi…
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6EF8E5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy headstud brooch, hinged pin, rear part of head, riveted headstud and small parts of the catchplate missing. Top of crest or rib above head decorated with engraved ladder pattern. On both wings three lozengiform cells of blue enamel between two sets of four triangular cells of red enamel. The D-sectioned bow is similarly decorated with fourteen lozenges and two rows of fifteen triangles. The foot consists of transverse mouldings with a row of fine vertical engraved lines. Enamel inlay on the underside of the foot is missing. Wingspan 17.5mm. Length 38mm. c.75 - c.200 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Congham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6F16E1
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy sword scabbard chape, the lower part of the front face in delicate condition with parts of the surface covered by adherent soil. Decoration consists of a median rib and an offset running parallel to the circular base and edge. Closely paralleled by finds from the German limes (Oldenstein 1976 Taf. 19 and 20). See also an apparently smaller example without stated provenance, which is decorated, as the German chapes, in its upper part with two pelta-shaped openings (Appels and Laycock 2007, 49 figs. AA5.31-2) for a spatha, a long, two-edged cavalry sword without …
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 15th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6F31F7
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy possible furniture fitting: object in the form of an elaborately abstracted acorn with hole in base filled with a round-sectioned rod secured by silvery solder. Most of the rod is missing. Perhaps the terminal of a drop handle, cf. a cast in one example from Verulamium (Waugh and Goodburn in Frere 1972, fig. 38 no. 113). 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 10th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6FC436
Object type: LETTER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
White-metal coated letter S, one end missing (recent damage), the extant end seriffed. One integral attachment rivet on reverse. A white-metal coated letter L found in an 18th / 19th-century context in Colchester was considered to be "possibly post-Roman". Height >48.5mm. Width >28mm. Thickness 2.5mm. Length and diameter of rivet 4.5 and 3mm. 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 21st October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton Bendish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-702E42
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
T-shape brooch, part of integral chain-loop, and lower bow missing. Wings decorated with single flute or broad moulded groove. One wing is a cast tube into which the axis bar has been inserted, while the other has been curled around the axis bar with a butt joint or seam. The end of the two-coil spring, visible in a gap at the rear, is lodged in a slot at the base of the gap. The pin is complete but distorted. On the front of the top of the bow a moulded triangle, apex downwards, is decorated with transverse slightly curved grooves. Later 1st - 2nd century.
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 21st October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton Bendish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-811895
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular enamelled copper alloy strap fitting of Boucher's type A2a, flat with four peripheral lobes (one largely missing), a central round perforation that probably once held a separate stud, and two integral T-shaped attachment lugs on the reverse. On a blue enamel ground five reversed roundels are filled with red enamel. Diameter 19.5mm (25mm across the lugs). Gap between reverse and cross-bar of lug 4mm. 2nd century. In terms of the attachment rivets, this artefact is related to similar enamelled strap fittings, most commonly circular in form and a number of which have been rec…
Created on: Wednesday 28th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 28th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heacham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A84965
Object type: SURGICAL INSTRUMENT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Handle of a tool with remains of iron in the incomplete split end. At both ends the cross-section is lozengiform and then rectangular but for most of its length it is twisted. Possibly a medical implement such as a scalpel. Length >45mm. Width/breadth 5 x 7mm. Length of blade socket >5mm. Gap for blade 2mm. Ralph Jackson comments "probably Roman, possibly medical".
Created on: Monday 23rd November 2009
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5353C4
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy end-loop cosmetic mortar. Length 57.5mm. Width 10mm. Weight 15.7g. 1st - 2nd century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2009
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-53C1D4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sprung Dolphin brooch, spring, pin and part of catchplate missing. Near the end of both wings a pair of vertical engraved lines are crossed by many short transverse lines. D-sectioned bow with shallow moulded grooves following edges. Other decoration consists of fine engraving. Two lines start on the sides of the rear hook and curve towards each other before diverging towards the foot. Between these are curving transverse lines which are longer at the top and become shorter as the enclosing lines near each other, and then lengthen once again towards the foot. On one face …
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2009
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-556026
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of harness pendant, Roman military equipment, knopped terminal of elongated pointed leaf-shape. >17 x >27mm. Cf. Oldenstein (1976), Tafels 29-30. 2nd-3rd century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roudham', grid reference and parish protected.