Record ID: NMS-8123E0
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable Medieval lead alloy token or perhaps weight. Discoidal with radiused upper corner to the cross-section. There is a short flat area to the outside circle with a likely break. This may have been the location of a linking strip to say a bag seal, or perhaps the waste sprue removal on a multiple casting tree. One side of the object has a very crude facing crowned head cast in relief, which despite the lack of legend is reminiscent of coinage and early jettons from the medieval period. There is some other imagery on the flan such as two parallel lines to the right of the head (as…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-71E1F8
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete lead seal matrix. Discoidal body with projecting tabular loop projecting from the upper edge. Diameter - 34.5mm, thickness 7.5mm, weight 33.28g. An eagle displayed head to sinister.  + SIGILL' ADE FIL [      ]D...cLC  (Seal of Adam son of ?). 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-39CD13
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, pierced lug projects from top. Circular, 27mm, thickness 5.2mm, weight 17.84g. Fleur-de-lis.  + SIGILL' IACOBI · WYTE (Seal of James White). 13th century.
Created on: Saturday 23rd April 2022
Last updated: Sunday 17th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D56B5A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy fragment of a Medieval to Post Medieval unidentified object. The metal is a grey-green colour, heavy for its size and as such is probably a leaded bronze, from which many medieval to post medieval vessels are cast. Viewed from the side it has a flange-like flat top (or base) that is vaulted on its underside similar to the everted rim of a vessel, vessel foot or candle holder fragment. The inside is the original smooth hollowed surface and is radiused against the flat flanged surface (estimated diameter of hole 29mm). Too little survives for mo…
Created on: Monday 18th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-BEC74B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Medieval single piece buckle plate. The plate has been made from a rectangular sheet folded back transversely on itself through 180 degrees. The folded end has a central rectangular slot and two corners at the fold removed to accommodate the pin and missing buckle frame. The pin slot is now encrusted with iron corrosion from remnants of the same. The front plate is shorter than the rear but may have broken along a raised line of transverse decoration; there is transverse wriggle work creating a straight-line chevron pattern running across the width. The part o…
Created on: Sunday 17th April 2022
Last updated: Sunday 17th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-83295E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy Medieval buckle frame with decorated integral composite plate. Only a stump of one side of the buckle loop remains which curves around to join integrally with the rectangular shaped plate. On the plate adjacent to the missing frame is a circular hole with a short remnant of a closed wrap-around pin still in situ. On the reverse the integral plate has a thickened border creating a flat central recess to the plate with a small circular rivet inset at each corner. The recess was probably designed to accommodated the strap with a backplate to form a narrow box cha…
Created on: Thursday 14th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 15th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-821AEF
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy, plain, Medieval to Post Medieval double oval loop buckle frame with missing pin. D-shaped cross-section to the frame with narrowed strap bar Circa AD 1350-1700.
Created on: Thursday 14th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-805718
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy Medieval composite buckle frame. Most of the buckle frame and the two integral forked spacer arms are missing from old breaks. Similar composite buckle frames are shown in Egan, G. Dress Accessories c.1150-1450 (2002). p78-81. Circa 1350-1450.
Created on: Thursday 14th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-7E51FA
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Buckled and incomplete copper alloy Medieval horse harness pendant. Cast in the shape of an elaborate quatrefoil with a circular suspension loop uppermost, which is turned through 90 degrees to the plane of the pendant. Around 5% of the whole is missing from old damage to the lower body. There is a cross cast in relief on the body of the pendant. The surface has a reddish to green corrosion layer with a tiny fleck of gilding observed adjacent to the suspension loop, the enamelled field is missing. Blazon: [?] A cross engrailed ?Or/?Argent. See Ashley (2002) p. 22, fig.22, no.220. Late…
Created on: Thursday 14th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 27th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-AF6C48
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Extremely worn silver coin probably a Medieval long cross halfpenny. Several pellets can be seen on one face with a possible vestige of a long cross, but all other detailis are missing. Circa AD 1279-1509.
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-AEDCCC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A double rectangular loop cast copper alloy buckle dating from the late Medieval to Post-Medieval period. In plan the frame is rectangular with bevelled outer edges with one loop having a central recessed pin rest. The pin is missing, but witness corrosion marks on the central strap bar and the pin rest indicate it was iron. The frame shows significant remains of a whitemetal coating, probably tinning. Whitehead (2003) states that this design of buckle was widely used in this period and was produced in various sizes. The majority date from the late sixteenth and seventeenth century. T…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A9AFC4
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to early Post Medieval lead ampulla, Made in the shape of a hollow flask (or drawstring purse) with a slightly narrowing trapezoidal neck that waists and then expands to a purse, or scallop-shaped body. The rectangular open mouth is un-crimped and both side lugs that flank the neck at the waist are damaged. The waist has twin transverse bands around the full circumference that are filled with diagonal-line decoration. On one face below the waist is a scallop shell of Spencer Type II with a scrolled 'B' or upright crown motif on the neck. The other face has a downward-pointing…
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-56A419
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy, circular (30mm diameter) spindle whorl. Bi-conical with slightly concave sloping faces. The periphery is squared with remnants of radial line decoration cast in relief on one of the sloping sides. Central 11mm circular perforation tapering to 10mm at the non decorated side. Spindle whorls are very much utility devices providing a simple spinning-inertia function when manually turning fibres into yarn. Their use spans the Iron Age, Roman, Early-Medieval, Medieval and early Post-Medieval periods. The hand spindle on which they were used continued in use at least until the 16…
Created on: Thursday 31st March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C2BF8E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large lead weight of probable Medieval date. The weight is sub-square with a sub-rectangular cross-section. On the obverse face, crudely cast in heavy relief is an equal-armed plain cross. The reverse is undecorated. Lead weights were cast locally from the Roman period onwards, and without context can be difficult to date precisely; although most tend to be attributed to the late medieval-post medieval period. Crosses are common motifs on weights and feature on large, small, square, circular, and shield-shaped examples of the period, perhaps through religious reference the cros…
Created on: Thursday 24th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 21st April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8EE033
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper alloy Medieval open-top or ring-type thimble with longitudinal overlapped un-scarfed seam.The thimble has near vertical sides with hand-punched pits crudely set in columns. Narrow plain bands top and bottom, delineated by circumferential grooves. Adjacent to the seam is a faint trace of surface whitemetal colouration, possibly suggesting the seam was originally soldered. Similar thimbles can be seen in Read, B. Metal Sewing-Thimbles Found in Britain (2018) p8-p11. Circa early 13th- mid 15th C.
Created on: Monday 21st March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-211F72
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount, cast as a U-shaped blunt hook. The tapering circular cross-section hook springs at right angles from a wider flat topped 5mm thick head. The sub-triangular-shaped head (in plan) has a double lip to the sides, as if it originally attached or expanded into the body of a thin-walled vessel, such as a dish, bowl or similar. A similar shaped hook can be seen at SWYOR-F7C241 albeit the method of attachment appears to differ. Probably date is medieval, circa AD1000-1500.
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Last updated: Sunday 20th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1F8C9D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy late Medieval to Post Medieval double oval loop plain buckle. Trapezoidal cross section. Heavily corroded iron pin. Circa AD1450-1650.
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1D11C4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded silver Medieval short cross penny probably of king John. Class 6. Moneyer ILGER, Mint LVND (London). Circa AD1209-1216.
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CB30A3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Medieval clipped half-groat of Edward III. Pre-treaty issue, London mint. Impact damaged right crown and forehead on the obverse. Circa AD1351-1361.
Created on: Saturday 12th March 2022
Last updated: Saturday 12th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-12E57D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and worn silver long cross farthing. London mint but monarch unknown. Further details illegible. Circa AD 1327-1509.
Created on: Saturday 19th February 2022
Last updated: Saturday 19th February 2022
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