Record ID: NLM-B03A74
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible brooch fragment. Cast terminal with a collared ball end set above or at one end of a slotted bar of width 8.2mm, the slot being 3mm wide. This resembles a side or top knob from a later Roman crossbow brooch or an early medieval cruciform brooch; in either case the slot on this object would be unexplained. The slotted bar continued for an uncertain further length; fiercely abraded. Helen Geake kindly suggests an alternative identification as an early Anglo-Saxon scabbard chape, commenting as follows: 'Is it one of these scabbard chapes of early AS date? common sha…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 11th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-585C3E
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Disc 2 or 3 from a four-part lead cloth seal, diameter 17.3mm, in rather worn condition. Rectangular structure surmounted by a smaller, domed object and supported on four pillars with a cross between the central pair. CAN[ around. This may be a Canterbury seal depicting the shrine of St Thomas (destroyed in 1538). No similar piece was noted by Egan 1987 and none occurs on this database. 15th - early 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-CE1C82
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver pin of uncertain (Roman or early-medieval) date. It has a biconical head and a plain shaft of circular cross-section, which has been bent in two places. The shaft is probably incomplete; the tip is blunt and worn but has a slight curve, suggesting that it broke at another bend. Both parts have a uniform dull grey patina. Some of the outer surface has been cracked and lost at the bends, exposing a rougher surface of the same colour underneath. This stress to the metal may suggest that the bends are post-depositional, whereas the break at the tip appears ancient. …
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-846BBA
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver thimble of two-piece construction, relatively short and now crushed. The sides are made from a single piece of silver, 13mm tall, with a vertical seam. The rim is unthickened and undecorated; above this is a single row of pellets forming a line of beading. Above this, the sides are.covered with seven or eight rows of small raised rings or annulets, forming circular indentations alternating with lozenges. In the most badly crushed area there appears to be a rectangular undecorated area (a 'cartouche') with a bird in relief filling the left-hand side,, then two lette…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 26th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-845199
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver lace-tag, also known as an aiglet or aglet. A long thin hollow cylindrical tube, with a longitudinal seam and a pair of tiny opposed rivet holes. One end has a groove above a small spherical terminal; the open end is cut into four V shapes or petal shapes which are bent slightly inwards to grip the lace or cord. Dimensions: Length 46.0mm. Maximum diameter 3.5mm, diameter just above terminal 3.3mm. Weight 2.2g. Discussion: The seam is butted and there are rivet holes, features consistent with Livings type 1 (Livings 2017, 18-21). The best parallel on the …
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 26th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-83843A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver finger-ring of 16th-century date. The hoop is a low D shape in cross-section, and is gilded on both the flat interior and the curved exterior. The exterior is decorated all the way around the hoop with a series of discontinuous broad oblique grooves, each flanked by a narrow groove to either side, forming a zig-zag. The spaces above and below are filled with closely spaced and very neat rows of pellets, giving an effect often known as 'brambled'; the rows are set parallel to the oblique grooves. The decoration is all contained within a grooved border to eith…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 26th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-819C6E
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of shaft from a silver head-dress pin, often called a bodkin. It is rectangular in cross-section but with slightly rounded sides. The lower part with point is broken off (fresh break), as is the upper part (older, more worn break) from the base of the vertical slot, which is just visible. Below the slot, two sets of transverse lines are engraved on each of the larger faces, enclosing a small area which appears to be engraved or stamped with four annulets set out as the corners of a square; there are hints of other lines and this motif is probably to be interprete…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 26th August 2021
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Record ID: NLM-09A322
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible weight. Cast discoid weight with a small [length 10mm] lug projecting from one side close to its edge. Patinated. The mass might suggest this to have represented ten units of 4.43gms, as used for Viking-Age transactions in silver bullion in Norse contexts such as Dublin. Lindsey fell under Viking rule based at York, which was a counterpart trading hub to Dublin. The lug might commend an alternative identification as a medieval seal matrix blank, though it is massier than the run of cheaper lead matrices. This latter suggestion is supported by Helen Geake. Suggested date:…
Created on: Monday 21st December 2020
Last updated: Friday 30th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F7910D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger-ring. Oval colourless translucent flat-topped glass within a raised box-setting surrounded by a roped flange. Flat hoop of constant width, with two twisted roped wires applied to it and bordered on each edge by finely milled wires. Two globules at junction of hoop and bezel on each side. 4th century. The oval box setting is oriented longitudinally to form the bezel of the finger-ring. It is formed from a strip of gold bent to fit closely around the slightly irregular piece of glass. The 'roped flange' is a piece of twisted gold wire around the base of the box setting.…
Created on: Tuesday 8th December 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 8th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-4FDBDA
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Part of silver circular composite button, the front only surviving. Hollow domed convex face with small central circular boss, also hollow on the reverse. This sits at the centre of an elaborate octagonal engraved flower, covered with irregular radial grooves which mostly do not run the full radius of the flower. This is set inside a double-groove lozenge with slightly concave sides; the double grooves form strapwork and the points of the lozenge are filled with closely set transverse grooves. The four semi-circles outside the strapwork lozenge each contain a tripartite m…
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th June 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-02103B
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval lead-alloy non-heraldic personal seal matrix, dating to AD 1200 - 1400. The matrix is circular in plan. The die face is decorated with a cross and simplified fleur-de-lis, this is surrounded with the legend which reads + S' MATILD: VXOR' ROB . FIL. WAL (Matilda, wife of Rob, son of Walter). The rear of the matrix has a similar decoration to the die face. Diameter: 25.18 mm Weight: 11.95 g
Created on: Monday 2nd November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th December 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-00D37F
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy ball headed pin probably of Early Medieval date, about AD 700 - 900. The large head is polyhedral in shape; a cube with the corners cut off leaving 14 faces. The head is hollow, and has the remains of a separate iron shaft passing through it. At the base is a projecting socket for the shaft, with a collar on the opening, and iron corrosion is also visible in the centre of the top face. The pin head is decorated with glass settings. There are 17 projecting collets, some with coloured glass settings surviving, at least partially. There are some of blue glass and some…
Created on: Monday 2nd November 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 9th March 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-973195
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy sleeve clasp, dating to AD 500 - 600. Hines class B14 The clasp is sub rectangular. One of the longer sides has a scalloped edge. Within two of the raised scallops are circular sewing holes, one in the lower left corner, another is incomplete at the opposing end where the clasp terminates in an old break. The clasp is decorated with two verical rows of chevrons. This clasp possibly once had a rectangular catch hole. The underside is undecorated. Length: 19.21 mm Width: 14.11 Thickness: 0.78 mm Weight: 0.9 g A sleeve clasp of si…
Created on: Friday 16th October 2020
Last updated: Monday 14th December 2020
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Record ID: WMID-49CC51
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy early-medieval disc brooch with concentric circle decoration, of Weetch's Type 5. or 'nummular brooch' of Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date, circa AD 900-1000. The object is circular in form and has a circular pellet in low relief at its centre. Surrounding the circular pellet is a circular recess. The surface is then raised slightly to a concentric band formed of small circular pellets. Beyond this extending to the outer edge are five concentric ridged rings. Each ring has a number of unevenly spaced circular pellets placed on the band. The reverse is undecorated an…
Created on: Friday 18th September 2020
Last updated: Friday 25th September 2020
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Record ID: NMS-9A83FA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Incomplete post-medieval shoe or knee buckle, now in two pieces. It consists of a sub-rectangular silver frame, a silver plate which has lost its attachment edge (recent break), a copper alloy pin and an iron bar. The bar passes through drilled holes in the frame, but is now broken so that the frame is no longer attached to the plate and pin. The frame has rounded corners, and each side is slightly incurved internally. There is an incomplete hallmark on the reverse of one of the short sides, a lion passant guardant within a sunken area (as below). The plate has a tub…
Created on: Saturday 11th July 2020
Last updated: Friday 1st April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-5CA83B
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy late Early Medieval to early Medieval key. A flat section 11mm wide, 3mm thick rectangular body extends to a lozenge-shaped openwork frame with a circular knop at each of the three corners. Each of the knops is pierced by a circular hole. The knop opposite the body is larger than the flanking two with a larger diameter hole. One of the flanking holes appears to show signs of internal wear, although this may just be a function of manufacture. The body is decorated in-the-round by a series of moulded transverse parallel grooves running towards a broken forked attachment en…
Created on: Friday 26th June 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-849919
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy wrist or sleeve clasp of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 450 - 570. Hines Form B13. The sleeve clasp comprises a simple flat rectangular plate with one complete and one partial circular apertures, or sewing holes, in two corners and a thin sheet hook extending to the opposite edge. The plate is flat and undecorated on both sides. The metal has a dark green patina and is worn. The clasp is 45.4mm long, 17.6mm wide, 1mm thick and weighs 4g. Helen Geake comments that the line of solder from a missing bar, suggests this is a Hines Form B13. Hines (1993,…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 15th December 2020
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Record ID: CAM-4A09B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Early-Medieval cruciform bow brooch. Only the head and bow survive on this example giving an incomplete length of 61.6mm and weight of 14.40g. The headplate has a maximum width of 29.1mm and accounts for 18.8mm of the artefact's length. The thicker raised central panel has a sub-rectangular shape, its width measuring 13.4mm at the top and accounting for 17.5mm of the headplate's width at the distal end. At the approximate centre, slightly off of true centre, of the central panel there is a dot and circle decorative motif. This motif was formed by use of…
Created on: Friday 20th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 27th September 2021
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Record ID: NLM-E9B77D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle pin. Pin from a disc-on-pin buckle, as kindly identified by Helen Geake. A small cast double-ended hook with a central rounded plate with recessed centre; one end retains a sharp bend, the other is probably straightened. The object retains a coppery tint. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1400 Length: 23mm, Width: 10mm, Thickness: 2.0mm, Weight: 1.19gms
Created on: Thursday 20th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8C9DA3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of a gilded silver late Medieval iconographic finger-ring. The fragment consists of the bezel only; it has two shallow transverse parallel concave panels bordered and separated by ridges. Within the panels there are engraved iconographic images of nimbate robed standing figures; these are saints, but there is not enough detail to allow the precise saint to be identified. The bezel is approximately square, and is flanked by further undecorated concave panels; at the end of these panels, the ring is broken. The breaks are fairly fresh. The reverse is gilded but oth…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.