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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Unique ID: NMS212
Object type certainty: Certain
Unusual gilded AE unidentified object. Domed (diam.21mm, height 10.5mm), with open-work decoration filled with blue glass paste. Slightly squashed and incomplete. The open-work motifs consist of a circle at the apex, then four equal-sized ovoids above four equal-sized sub-rectangles. The lower edges of the latter are serrated. Where the glass has survived (in about one third of the underside of the dome-of the surviving part of the glass filling, the material adjacent to the metal is darkish blue translucent while that towards the centre is paler blue and opaque- it lies tight up against the edges of the apertures, indicating that it was inserted in a molten state. The apical round opening is now largely open but small fragments of glass around the edges show that it was once so filled and had not held some form of attachment stud or rivet. Thick gilding covers the whole of the exterior surface including parts of the underside of the rim, but is absent from the inside. There is no sign of any means of attachment, but the object, obviously decorative and non-functional, might be described as a mount from some unknown article.
Notes:
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Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: AD 1066
Date to: AD 1540
Dimensions and weight
Diameter: 21 mm
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Incomplete [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Surface Treatment: Gilded [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: East
County: Norfolk
District: Breckland
To be known as: NORFOLK QUIDENHAM
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth greater than 0.25m [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2000
Personal details
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Recorded by: Ms Katie Hinds
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Identified by: Andrew Rogerson - [view all attributed records]
Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 29675
References cited
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Audit data
Created:
Thursday 22nd March 2001
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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