Record ID: NMS-D593CC
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval heraldic stud or mount, the front plate now distorted; - of green and brown/purple patination with large projecting square sectioned spike mounted slightly off-centre on the reverse, the face is shield shaped, Or (guilded field, now only patchily gilded) an eagle displayed, neatly engraved but now missing its enamel infill, likely to have been Sable (black), perhaps indicating the arms for Richard, Earl of Cornwall and Poitou, younger brother of Henry III, after his election as King of the Romans in 1257 (Or a double-headed eagle displayed Sable) (d.1272) or of his son Edmund,…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-448764
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy small long/cruciform brooch dating to circa AD 450-570. The extant element is virtually complete save for the apex of the head and the lower foot, terminal and pin. The head plate is flat and rectangular. It terminates in old breaks on each of its edges and it is, therefore, unclear whether there would have been attached any side knops or integrally cast elements. The headplate is undecorated. The bow emerges from the lower edge of the headplate. It is curved in profile and plano-convex in section. Running down the centre is a lo…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4343DA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Medieval copper-alloy cruciform brooch dating to circa AD 475-550. The extant piece consists of a side knop which would have been attached to the headplate of the brooch.. It is dumbbell shaped in plan and plano-convex in section, with a flat reverse. The front face consists of two lobes joined by a constricted mid-setion. Each lobe is decorated with three incised transverse grooves. At the efge of one of the lobes is a shall median rectangular groove which would have facilitated attachment to the brooch. It is now covered with iron staining.  Half-rou…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-40477C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval copper-alloy Medieval buckle dating to circa AD 1250-1350. It is a comprised of a single rectangular looped frame. The frame is rectangular sectioned. The outer edge carries a separately made copper alloy roller in which the externally made pin rests. The pin is wrapped around the bar and tapers into a point. It is rectangular sectioned. The buckle is consistent with Meols Type 12 (Griffiths, Philpott and Egan 2006). Length: 16.5mm; Width: 17.4mm; Thickness: 5.3mm; Weight: 3.88g.
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 1st April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-2C2E87
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper-alloy French jetton issued by Charles VI dating to circa AD 1380-1422. Shield of French type. As Mitchiner 1988: nos 440-459. Obv: Shield of France modern. [] Rev: Triple standard cross flouretty within 4 arched tressure. []
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-2BEB91
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Medieval copper-alloy harness pendant dating to circa AD 1200-1400. Plano-convex in section, the piece consists of five - broadly tear-shaped - lobes representing petals arranged in a 2-2-1 formation. At the apex is a transverse projecting collar set below a D-shaped suspension lug. The reverse is plain. The front face retains significant traces of gilding. It has a brown-green patina.  No precise parallel can be found on the database. The gilding would suggest a Medieval date although the patina could potentially suggest a Post Medieval date.  Length: 30.9m…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-2B2BA7
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval copper-alloy hooked tag (dress fastener) dating to circa AD 1550-1650. The whole piece is plano-convex in section. It is comprised of a rectangular apex loop. The body is sub-circular and openwork. Carrying a symmetrical design, it has two rows of circular openwork elements on each upper flank arranged in a 2-2 formation. In the centre is circular element comprised of circular pellets. The lower element of the front face is decorated with a moulded raised chevron. The hook is now survived only by a short stump. It is consistent with Read 2008: pg …
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-2AF164
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval copper-alloy hooked tag (dress fastener) dating to circa AD 1550-1650. It is comprisedof a trapezoidal apex loop which is plano-convex in section. The body is circular with a convex front face and concave reverse. The front face is decorated with a moulded floriate design which is now so heavily worn that it cannot easily be distinguished. Projecting from the lower edge is a plano-convex in section rear facing hook.  It is consistent with Read's 2008 Class E Type 3 dating to the early part of the Post Medieval period.  Length: 19.2mm; …
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-2A0167
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy buckle dating to circa AD 1200-1400. The extant piece consists of the plate, surviving in two parts, now separated. The plates is formed of two sheets of copper alloy which would have been joined together by rivets. Two circular-sectioned rivets survive on the interior face of the front plate and slot through two circular rivet holes on the other plate, although now are no longer joined due to surrounding breaks. Surrounding the rivet holes on the interior face is organic material which would have formed the strap. The exterior face of one of the pla…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-29D636
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy buckle dating to circa AD 1350-1500. It is a single D-shaped buckle with integral forked spacer. The piece is complete save for the missing, externally made, sheet metal plate and pin, the latter of which is survived by a rectangular-sectioned loop wrapped around the bar. The frame is plano-convex in section with a median knop projecting from the outer edge. The knop is positioned in front a triangular V-shaped groove in which the pin would have rested. The bar has a raised transverse collar with a median constricted section aroun…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D6E50E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted fragment of a large medieval copper alloy buckle frame, a straight outside edge of almost flat cross-section with a small part of both sides. On the gently convex front face there is a pin groove and, near both junctions with the sides beyond which the edge projects very slightly, there is a pair of narrow grooves, It is uncertain whether the buckle was single-looped (cf. NMS-3CAD39) or double-looped (cf. NMS-886894). Weight 5.81g. Width and thickness of edge 39mm and 2 - 2.4mm. Extant length 18mm, of which the edge accounts for 9.5mm. Mid 14th - mid 15th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D60F63
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval copper-alloy strap end dating circa AD 1200-1400. A one piece strap end, it is broadly trapezoidal in plan tapering from its widest extent at the attachment end into the terminal. Projecting from the terminal edge is a triangular knop. The plate has a split end and is undecorated on either face. Two rivet holes positioned centrally at the terminal and attachment end, remain in sity. Similar examples are depicted in Egan and Pritchard 2002: pg 144.  Length: 28.5mm; Width: 9mm; Thickness: 3.8mm; Weight: 3.05g.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D5B0BB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy ansate brooch dating to circa AD 700-1000. Cast in one piece it consists of two flat discoidal terminals at either end. One terminal appears to have been slightly miscast with a circular protrusion projecting from one edge. The bow has a triangular-section and is curved in profile. The terminals and bow are undecorated. Projecting from the reverse of one of the terminals is a heavily corroded lug which would have held the now missing pin. There is now no trace of a catchplate projecting from the reverse of the other terminal. The brooch is con…
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C67C49
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Hod Hill brooch, missing hinged pin mechanism and catch-plate, the latter remains as a linier stump on the reverse, the bow has been partially flattened, probably from agricultural machinery passing over the top of the soil. The metal is now a bright green with light brown patination to the lower parts of the decoration, the upper end of the brooch is bifurcated with a slot for the pin, now incomplete, the bow has a medial ridge/moulding with both lateral edges/wings broken in antiquity, the bow is truncated at the lower end of the bow by a double transverse moulding wi…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C61971
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount with zoomorphic design of later Early Medieval (Late Saxon), 11th century date, of sub-trapezoidal shape, the upper and (the usually angled) lower edges now missing including a break through one openwork perforation at the lower edge, the upper edge is also truncated through an perforation. The main decoration is roughly incised (either in the model/mould or finished casting) to form a forward-facing beast mask, two eyes, rabbit-like ears and a triangular snout are quite clear, though the piece has lost much of its original surface as…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C33869
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval buckle dating to circa AD 1200-1400. The extant element consists of  the plate. The plate is rectangular, comprised of a single sheet of copper alloy folded and joined together by two separetely made rivets, only one of which now survives. At the frame end is a rectangular voided which the axis bar of the frame would have slotted through. Much of the plate on the reverse has now broken away. At the attachment end of the surviving plate are two opposed circular rivet holes. The front face of the plate is decorated with incised cross hatching.  A similar…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C301C6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval buckle dating to circa AD 1200-1400. The extant element consists of a the plate. The frame is missing. Part of the axis bar, however, remains. It is circular-sectioned and positioned btween two folded elements. The plate would have comprised a single sheet of copper alloy folded and joined together by externally made rivets. However, much of the reverse plate has now broken away. The front face of the buckle has four circular rivet holes arranged in a 2-2 formation. One copper alloy rivet survives intact. It is circular-sectioned with a mushroom shaped head. The …
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C2139C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy strap end dating to circa AD 1200-1400. Part of a composite strap end, the piece comprised of one plate. It is rectangular in plan with a shield shaped terminal from which projects an incomplete trefoil or triangular knop. Now heavily abraded and scarred, an intact separately made copper alloy rivet is positioned centrally towards the attachment end.  Similar examples are recorded in Egan and Pritchard 2002: 125-161. Length: 39.8mm; Width: 14.6mm; Thickness: 2.7mm; Weight: 8.61g.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9C2DE7
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval hooked tag (dress fastener) dating to circa AD 1550-150. It consists of a sub-oval plate carrying moulded floriate decoration.  At the apex is a rectangular suspension loop. Emerging from the lower edge is a reverted hook. The piece is plano-convex in section. It is consistent with Read's Class E, Type 3 group with a very similar example illustrated in 2008: pg 103, no 400.  Length 36.1mm; Width 20.4mm, Thickness 2.2mm, Weight 4.09g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9C07B6
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe dating to circa 1000-800 BC. The extant portion consists of a small part of the socket mouth. It has a double moulded rim and is curved in profile. It terminates in worn breaks along along the body.  It has a dark green patina. Length: 30.1mm; Width: 21.5mm; Thickness: 5.4mm; Weight: 10.78g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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