Record ID: PUBLIC-183BED
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distal terminal-end fragment of a copper alloy early Saxon girdle hanger. A significant part of the central lower shank survives, flanked by a complete prong to one side, with the formerly symmetrical stub on the other side which is now entirely missing from an old break. The undamaged prong terminates in an outward canted rounded end. One face of the fragment has the entire border decorated with continuous rows of spaced punched dots. The rear face is undecorated. Brown patina over most of the surface. Circa AD460-550. Extant length 46mm, thick…
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CA11E6
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distal terminal-end fragment of a copper alloy early Saxon girdle hanger. A small part of the central lower shank survives, flanked by a complete prong to one side, and a broken formerly symmetrical stub on the other. The complete lingulate-shaped prong has a surviving outward projecting tab positioned just short of its end. The basal terminal edge of the hanger spanning the width across both prongs has three spaced crenels. One face of the fragment has a decorated border consisting of irregularly spaced lines of punched dots and ring-a…
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2023
Last updated: Saturday 18th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BF00E6
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn, cast copper alloy late Early Medieval zoomorphic stirrup terminal, of the Anglo-Scandinavian period. The upper part of the terminal is a hollow U-shaped triangle, one return of which is missing from an old worn break. The U-section tapers to an internal ledge on which the iron footrest of the stirrup would have been located and soldered. An internal cusp leads to a solid triangular projection the outside face of which is moulded, probably representing a zoomorphic beast's head, but is now far too worn and eroded to be resolvable as such. The form of…
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-28EF29
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete catch-piece from a cast copper-alloy sleeve clasp of Hines form B12, dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 450-600 AD. It is broken across the middle catch slot and represents about half of the complete object. The bar is laterally extended by the broken slot into a trapezoidal shape, continuing via three groups of transversely grooved, waisted rectangles to a square terminal end with a T-shaped sewing projection.  Extant length 26mm, width 14.5mm, weight 2.88g
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 20th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BC022C
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper alloy early Saxon sleeve clasp of Hines type B12. The square terminal end of the bar survives, with the narrowed and tightly cross-banded decorated strip below. The fragment is fractured transversely across the base of the banding and the centre of the adjoining attachment loop. This fragmented example falls into Hines’ B12 category, very similar in form to one illustrated in Hines 1993: 47, fig. 90a. Related and more complete examples are recorded on the PAS database under LEIC-C9DCA0 and NLM-F3880E. Circa AD&nbs…
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D52C72
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Thomas Class E, type 4, Anglo Scandinavian strap end. Rectangular with a recessed attachment end, with both end corners missing, having fractured across the holes for the attachment rivets. The front face is decorated in heavy relief with an insular Borre style ‘vertebral ring-chain’ motif running down the centre. The decoration appears to terminate prematurely at the end, where although the metal is regular and symmetrical in form it is probably broken and originally continued further, possibly into a zoomorphic head.…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-489389
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy early Saxon cast Cruciform brooch. The headplate, knob/s, pin, and spring are all missing, but otherwise, the brooch is complete. The steeply arched bow widens slightly in the centre, and has a medial arris along its length,  with a transverse moulded triangular decorative bar feature at either end. The lower bow transitions into the panel of the upper foot, with the perpendicular catchplate on the reverse (when viewed from the reverse, the catchplate curls to the left). The front of the panel …
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-09B634
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Solid copper alloy side knob from an early Saxon cruciform brooch. The domed knob is fully round with facetted sides to the terminal end, leading via a waisted section to a twin-grooved collar with a flat end, in which there is a linear slot.  A small circular axial hole runs through the entire body from end to end. Circa AD 475-550.  Length 10.9mm, diameter 9.0mm, weight 2.73g
Created on: Saturday 20th August 2022
Last updated: Saturday 20th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E9B48B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of solid copper alloy side knob from an early Saxon cruciform brooch. The body is flat on the reverse and comprises a semi-cylindrical attachment end with a waisted middle section, leading to a half-round terminal knob.  A rectangular break to the upper side of the attachment end suggests a missing tab at this point. There is grooved circumferential decoration running around both end sections. A small circular axial hole runs through the entire body from end to end. Circa AD 475-550.  Length 17.5mm, width 9.5mm, thickness 7.5mm, weight 5.40g
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 18th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CFE890
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy side knob from an early Saxon cruciform brooch. The body is hollow on the reverse and comprises a rectangular block, flanked at one end by a narrowed trapezoidal tab projecting from its lower inner edge, then via with a waisted section leads to a half-round terminal knob on the other. A remnant of the iron pin axis bar runs axially along the reverse, through entry holes in the hollow rectangular section and the end knob. Circa AD 475-550.  Length 21.4mm, width 10mm, thickness 6mm, weight 9.53g
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2022
Last updated: Saturday 3rd September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-7028DB
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of a gilded silver Middle Saxon pin head. Flat and originally circular, around  half survives; the breaks are patinated but not very worn. A small rectangular tab, the same thickness as the rest of the head, projects from the side and in the centre of this another rectangular-section projection emerges and is quickly broken; this is the remains of the shaft. The front of the pin head is decorated in low relief with a cross made up of a narrow reserved undecorated strip, extending to a circular ridged border. Oddly, the cross arm that lead…
Created on: Thursday 7th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CDE248
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy chip-carved and gilded early Saxon mount, probably from horse harness. The body is flat and pelta-shaped (sometimes referred to as axe-shaped) with one of the side-tips from the crescentic end tips missing from an old break. The front face is bordered and filled with interlacing scrolls of triple strand style II ribbon decoration. It is possible that in the out-curving corners of the crescent end, the scrolls resolve into eye shaped features, perhaps as serpent or birds heads which are recurring icons on such mounts. Unfortunately this area of the mount is the most degrad…
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-21939C
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a gilded copper alloy Early Saxon chip-carved sleeve clasp. The fragment is lingulate in plan, thin (1.2mm), and slightly curved in both flat dimensions. All edges are broken, one of which bisects a circular attachment hole. The chip-carved decoration consists of a square or rectangular panel that probably bordered the clasp, from which there are two branching scrolls (only a small part of the second one remains) with parallel scrolling strands within, that terminate at the centre in an animal head motif, possibly a bird. In the triangular spandrel between the two scrolls …
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2022
Last updated: Sunday 10th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-5D8B3F
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Anglo Scandinavian strap end, decorated in the Urnes Style of Thomas' (2004) class G. Narrow trapezoidal transversely-split attachment end with circular hole at the upper end. One arm of the split end is missing from an old break. Asymmetrical interlaced openwork body depicting a sinuous beast. See WILT-85FC50 for a similar example. Circa AD1000-1100.
Created on: Sunday 12th June 2022
Last updated: Saturday 16th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7F474D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded Early Medieval chip-carved copper alloy octofoil mount, possibly from harness or furniture. The foils at the four cardinal points are larger than the intermediate diagonal foils. See SUR-D59AA0 for a similar shaped mount. There is a round rivet hole at the tip of each cardinal foil and another in the centre of the mount, all of which have traces of iron corrosion present. The surface decoration is very intricate but unfortunately the pattern detail is masked by extensive degradation of the metal surface, making resolving the symmetry and establishing a date by d…
Created on: Friday 20th May 2022
Last updated: Saturday 8th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-6B6114
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy early Saxon small long brooch. Spring and pin mechanism are missing and the headplate and foot eroded at the extremities. The sub-square headplate is undecorated with a D to slightly C-shaped cross section bow that springs upward from its lower edge. The tapering bow has an undecorated slight arris and a sub-rectangular cross-sectioned moulding at the junction of both headplate and foot. The foot section tapers via a flat panel to two raised transverse bars, before flaring out widthwise to a flat lozenge-shaped terminal with damaged end. The reverse of the head…
Created on: Saturday 7th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-6B4BF2
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy openwork Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup mount of Williams Class A, Type 12. Openwork lozenge shape with a pierced attachment loop at the top and a rear facing straight and flat flange at the base. Four sub-circular holes in the main body create a saltire cross, with moulded raised knops around the frame and in the centre. The pierced attachment loop is blocked with iron corrosion with further iron concretion around a circular rivet hole through the flange Circa AD1000-1150.
Created on: Saturday 7th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3E8EBC
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a flimsy thin sheet copper alloy probable Saxon hooked tag. Probably originally a sub-triangular body shape (Read class A) but now with the shoulders eroded through damage, possibly around attachment holes. A hole in the centre of the body remains complete, surrounding which, concentric ringed decoration can be seen. The body tapers sharply towards the bottom end to such an extent that the hooked end has disintegrated, and is no longer extant. See Read, B, Hooks Clasps and Eyes (2008) p.7-37 for similar examples. Circa 7th-10th century.
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2022
Last updated: Saturday 18th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-3D1807
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of small copper-alloy early Saxon bow brooch. The fragment consists of a much broken undecorated flat head plate with single longitudinally aligned pin lug on the reverse. The lug has broken across the central circular hole; no trace of iron can be seen around the lug. A fragment of incurved edge survives on the headplate, next to the top of the bow; from one edge of the headplate the bow rises abruptly in a curve, but terminates quickly at an old transverse break. The fragment is likely to be from a small long brooch dating to c. 450-550 AD.
Created on: Thursday 5th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-13BB27
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper alloy Anglo-Scandinavian four-way harness link or strap distributor. Equal-armed symmetrical cruciform shape with high central boss from which four arms of equal size and form emanate. Each arm has an arched cross-section and terminates in an expanded lozenge-shaped loop formed around an oval aperture. The end loops have a knob at each of their three external junctions. The boss is hollow on the underside. A similar link is illustrated in FRG AD700-1700, Datasheet 39, Williams, D. Anglo-Scandinavian Horse Harness Fittings (2007) fig 6.(f). A number of similar examples…
Created on: Thursday 21st April 2022
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
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