Record ID: NMS-3CB713
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Post Medieval goldsmiths troy weight. Rectangular in plan and square in cross-section with annulets in two opposed corners of one end and a third in the centre. The annulets indicate the weight to be of three pennyweight value. A square cartouche in the centre of the opposite corners contains an unofficial lion mark. The marks are present on both faces of the weight and are in the same configuration. A similar weight is shown in Biggs, N. Antique Weights (1998) p.18. Circa AD 1780-1850.
Created on: Tuesday 16th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Record ID: NMS-13E5F1
Object type: SADDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete broken and distorted Post-Medieval copper-alloy saddle pommel, dating to the 16th or 17th centuries. The pommel is cast in two separate equal halves which were found independantly a week apart and separated by roughly 10 metres distance. Recombined, they form a bell-shaped body with a split small knob at each apex. Each half is decorated with a grooved border with the body divided into segments by twin parallel lines. The object has a medium brown colouration with a rough surface. Similar examples can be found at SOM-F96BB3, SOM-7D382C and SUR-764DF7 on the PAS database. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th November 2021
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Record ID: NMS-73882E
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Post Medieval rotary key. Oval bow with double internal projections where it meets the shank. The sub oval cross-section shank tapers slightly via a triple collar arrangement to a perpendicular plain rectangular bit. Circa 17th-19th century.
Created on: Tuesday 26th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
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Record ID: NMS-84BCA8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Post Medieval double oval loop buckle. One loop is missing from old breaks to one side of the strap bar. Rosette-like features embellish the frame at either end of the narrowed strap bar and in the centre of the surviving loop. The pin is missing. Circa AD 1550-1650.
Created on: Thursday 14th October 2021
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-1DDCDC
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast copper alloy asymmetrical strap mount. Piriform shaped convex body with similarly convex moulded knops to either end, one of which is slightly larger and more circular than the other and is slightly damaged at the end. The reverse is concave with the stubs of two integral rivets, one at either end. A similar strap fitting can be seen on the PAS database reference WAW-7ADAF1. Such fittings are often associated with harness decorations and are dated to the 17th century. Circa AD 1600- 1700. Dimensions; 36mm long, 15.5mm wide, 3mm thick, weight 4.07g.
Created on: Saturday 9th October 2021
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-059FBE
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Crudely cast and damaged lead alloy Post Medieval trade weight. Sub-circular in plan and plano-convex in section with an off-centre low-relief impression of two conjoined shields in a circle, one with a discernable St Georges cross, probably representing the arms of the Commonwealth period. Similarly marked lead weights have been found and are recorded on the PAS database; - see. NMS-135107 and NMS-D5A0C4. The reverse of the weight is plain. There is slight damage to the surface in one area causing the flan to thin and the edge to lip. Circa AD 1649-1660. Dimensions; 28.6mm long, 26mm…
Created on: Friday 8th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 14th December 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B52C7B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy single piece Post Medieval double loop cast buckle, with missing pin. Sub-oval loops with kidney-shaped interiors. Narrowed integral strap bar moulded across into the frame which has flanking cusps to either side. Circa AD 1600-1650.
Created on: Monday 4th October 2021
Last updated: Sunday 17th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6E1F83
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Crudely made copper alloy coin with a cut polygonal flan. The patina has been stripped in-the-ground and hardly any detail remains of the design. What survives on both obverse and reverse could possibly be a capitalised R or perhaps shield and crown motifs. Several of these motifs taken together with the polygonal flan are features of post medieval cob coins, which frequently have a variety of revaluing countermark strikings. As such the coin is possibly a Spanish Post Medieval eight maravedis 'resellado' of Philip III (1598-1621) or Philip IV (1621-1665), These coins were often reva…
Created on: Friday 1st October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 4th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-5A1ECE
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper alloy Post Medieval crotal bell with extant internal iron pea. Integral suspension loop with ovalled hole. The bell is gadrooned on the bottom half only with a T or hammer shaped foundry mark adjacent to one side of the sound slit. There is a sound hole on each side of the upper half, with an additional hole, probably a casting defect, adjacent to one side of the suspension loop. Circa AD1600-1700.
Created on: Thursday 30th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 30th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-58F7B8
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Slightly oblique vertical half of a Post Medieval crotal bell. Integrally cast suspension loop with sub circular hole offset to one side. The upper hemisphere is gadrooned whilst the lower half, surviving up to the sound slit, has fish scale decoration. Lustrous brown-grey patina. Circa AD1500-1700.
Created on: Thursday 30th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 30th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-57E403
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of worn copper alloy openwork latticed decoration. In cross-section the strands are D-shaped with flat backs; this, and the fact that on the reverse there is a substantial perpendicular broken rectangular stub projecting from a junction point, suggests it is probably a surface mount from horse harness, furniture or a box. The non-interlacing lattice of strands forming the openwork do not provide any obvious plane of symmetry to help establish a shape or orientation, but they are moulded and appear to be floral in design. The extent of erosion also makes it difficult to determ…
Created on: Thursday 30th September 2021
Last updated: Saturday 2nd October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-31FBB5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete double oval loop copper alloy Medieval to Post Medieval plain buckle. The second loop is missing from old breaks to the frame, just short of the strap bar. The flat section tapering triangular pin is extant and remains looped around the strap bar. Circa AD 1350-1720.
Created on: Tuesday 28th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 28th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2FB75A
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Post Medieval rowel spur fragment. The fragment consists of the rowel box and one tapering arm of the spur which is bent in multiple places and missing its attachment end. The rowel box projects perpendicularly via a bead and twin collar from the heel of the spur and turns down at the terminal end where the axle passes through the end of the rowel slot, to a semi-circular curved end. The rowel slot is blocked with the corroded remains of the iron rowel, and there is active bright green bronze disease at the heel of the arm. Similar rowel spurs were found in contexts dated…
Created on: Tuesday 28th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 28th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-BAF95B
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Post Medieval sword belt hooked fitting. A standard type of the period; rectangular in section with a sub-rectangular body, curved corners and slightly waisted towards the attachment end (narrowed shield shape). The non-attachment end tapers symmetrically in from both sides to form a narrow forward facing hook. There is a single rivet hole blocked with iron corrosion at either end, and the front face is decorated with a foliate or floral motif consisting of a central sprig branching out to both sides. Read (2008: 219-220, nos 790-792) il…
Created on: Thursday 23rd September 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-99DF69
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable tin-lead alloy Unidentified fragment, consisting of three branched arms of varying length, all broken in antiquity, The unbroken surfaces are regular and contour smoothly into one another, but the object overall lacks a meaningful plane of symmetry to help fix the shape. The object is a grey colour with a spalling cracked surface and a grey lustre in places, typical of some tin alloys. The high density also suggests a significant amount of lead in the alloy. There are no green copper alloy corrosion products. One of the curving arms looks like the heel contour of a spur or pe…
Created on: Tuesday 21st September 2021
Last updated: Sunday 26th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-784529
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and incomplete copper alloy early Post Medieval thimble. Tapering sides leading to a slightly flattened crown. Plain basal band with regular circumferential layers of triangular (apex uppermost) pits around the sides. The pits change to a circular shape from the shoulder of the crown to the tip. All but half of the thimble base is missing from old damage, but the remnant of the basal band appears to have a stamped maker's mark - possibly a flower or a sun. Circa AD1520-1600.
Created on: Sunday 19th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 21st September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-70603A
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn or eroded fragment of lead alloy alnage cloth seal. It is sub-circular and is in all likelihood the rivet end of the seal that has been squashed flat by the matrix. Visible on the outside face of the seal is a chained portcullis design that was popular from the late Elizabethan period. The portcullis was an emblem of the Tudor dynasty and was stipulated by Elizabeth I to be stamped on cloth seals (S, Elton. Cloth seals, an illustrated reference guide to the identification of lead seals attached to cloth. page 218). Circa AD1570-1700.
Created on: Sunday 19th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 14th December 2021
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Record ID: NMS-64BE54
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Post Medieval knife stop or end cap. Two rust encrusted suboval plates with straight basal ends, sandwich the scale-tang end remnant of an iron knife handle. Both plates have a crude scratched design on their forward faces, but unfortunately it is not clear what they represent - perhaps a helmeted head on one side and a figure brandishing a sword on the other. The patina is largely stripped to reveal a purplish colour to the metal with light green corrosion patches. Knife stops of this form are generally dated to the 16th century. A similar example from the PAS database (…
Created on: Saturday 18th September 2021
Last updated: Sunday 19th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-477FE1
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy asymmetrically moulded probable harness or strap mount in the form of a six-lobed oak leaf. The largest endmost lobe has been decorated as an acorn with a double collar and a small end knop. The opposite smallest triangular-shaped knop together with the two flanking it are joined with a transverse moulding line and decorated as a crown. At both ends of the reverse are the short stubs of rectangular cross-section attachment prongs. Circa AD1660-1700.
Created on: Friday 17th September 2021
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-46BF6B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy double loop asymmetrical buckle of post-medieval date, missing its pin and perhaps chape. The buckle frame has one rectangular loop and second with a D-shaped loop (slightly flanged outside loop) with kidney-shaped interior. The strap bar is narrowed and set low in the frame. With the exception of the trapezoidal-section strap bar the frame has a D-shaped cross-section. The object has a rough green-brown patina. It is 40mm in length, 28.4mm in width and 3mm in thickness. It weighs 8.15g. Similar examples can be found in Whitehead, R. (2016) Buckles, p.9…
Created on: Friday 17th September 2021
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2023
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