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Record ID: NMS-D80212
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd of a medieval Grimston ware pottery bowl, reduced, with external lead glaze, weight 2g, 14th century - 15th century..
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D7E350
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd of a post-medieval Glazed Red Earthenware pottery bowl, with internal and external lead glaze, and some external sooting, diameter not accurately measurable, weight 10g, mid 16th century - 17th century..
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D79CE5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Twisted rod handle sherd of a medieval to post-medieval Late Medieval and Transitional pottery jug (Jennings 1981, 61-2), pale reduced with pinkish surfaces and copper glaze, weight 82g, diameter of cross-section c.26mm, mid 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D76F0B
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd of medieval to post-medieval Late Medieval and Transitional pottery (Jennings 1981, 61-2), pale reduced with pinkish surfaces and external copper glaze, weight 6g, mid 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-052BEC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an early-medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) cruciform brooch. The object consists of the zoomorphic foot below two transverse moulded ribs. Immediately above the ribs is a worn transverse break. The creature is heavily stylised, moulded pellets for eyes below two thin incised grooves representing brows. The face flattens before opening out into two flat and semi-circular nostrils which are wider than the rest of the head. The nostrils are separated by a ridge - the snout - which begins at the midpoint between the eyes and runs longitudinally, before terminating in a bifurcat…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-03E593
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete unlooped copper-alloy Middle to Late Bronze Age palstave axehead. The H-shaped hafting channels at the butt are in good condition, with most of the original edges surviving on all four flanges. The butt narrows before a worn transverse break. The (abraded) stop ridge is slightly higher than the flanges. The septum is 57.1mm long. Beneath the stop ridge on both faces is a moulded shield-shaped pattern, bisected by a prominent longitudinal ridge creating a trident pattern. The ridges fade before the cutting edge. The crescentic cutting edge is jagged and abraded. There are no ca…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-E1BD3B
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval lead-alloy Papal bulla of Pope Boniface VIII dating to AD 1294-1303. It is discoidal in plan with straight edges. The obverse carries a border of pellets situated in which is an inscription in three lines reading BONI/FATIVS/P.P. VIII. The reverse bears the standard images of the faces of St. Paul and St. Peter each surrounded by an aureole of pellets, with a cross in between them and the inscription SPASPE above. The die axis is 12 o'clock.  Diameter: 33.4mm. Thickness 5mm; Weight. 40.68g.
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-31DE73
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper-alloy object of unknown age. It is sub-circular, of fairly uniform thickness and slightly dished. It appears to be complete as there is no evidence of breaks. Close to one side there is a perfectly circular area, approximately one third of the total, which is flat. Beyond this it curves concavo-convexly in all directions all the way to the edge. On the generally convex face, the flat circle is covered with multiple very fine concentric and perfectly circular grooves and ridges. The outermost ridge is wider and expanded at one point to form a wide and short triangle…
Created on: Friday 8th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-DFF43A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object the shape of a human head with an integral rivet or attachment stud on the reverse, probably a Roman military belt fitting. It is heavily abraded and has lost most of its original surface. The head is oval when viewed face-on, tapering slightly asymmetrically in the lower half; the upper jawline from the ear to the chin is straight on one side and convex on the other.  It is plano-convex in cross-section; with the exception of the stud it is broadly flat on the reverse.  The eyes survive as two oval or sub-circular areas of the metal that have a slightly …
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D538FC
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Semi-hard hammer struck, sub-triangular sectioned tertiary small blade, of glossy black flint, both lateral edges are irregularly damaged. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D4898A
Object type: FLAKE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thick, tertiary hard hammer struck flake, of unpatinated mottled grey flint, no obvious retouch. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D0E4DD
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy jetton, small Nuremberg rose-orb type of Hans Krauwinckel II, reverse GOTT ALLEIN DIE EER ESEI, 1586-1635
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D0D69B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy nummus, House of Constantine, VRBS ROMA Wolf and twins type, Trier, mintmark [wreath]//TRP, AD330-5
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D0C7E2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver denarius of Antoninus Pius, Rome, obverse ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS[III?], laureate head right, reverse ANNONA AVG, modius with corn ears, RIC III, 62c(?), worn, AD140-3
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D0636B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver half real of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, very worn, torn and further details illegible, c.1497-1537
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-518A8F
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tertiary, hard hammer struck flake with semi-steep retouch to the dorsal face of the distal end to form an elongated (possibly hafted?) end scraper, of unpatinated slightly mottled dark grey flint, both lateral edges are unretouched and left sharp near to the platform. Neolithic to Bronze Age, 4,000 to 700 BC.
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C2C4E1
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman to post-medieval steelyard weight, made of lead with an iron core. It is sub-conical (not perfectly circular or oval). The iron core projects from the apex as an incomplete loop (now a mere pair of stumps terminating in worn breaks) and from the base, off-centre, as a small hemispherical protrusion. Not closely datable. 1st to 18th century. Diameter (at base): 38.4 x 34.9mm. Height: 36.6mm. Weight 130.4g
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-5672C4
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and neck of an animal figurine, apparently a dog, of unknown date. It is made of lead and may be a model for a finished version in a more durable material. It begins with a worn transverse break across the neck, which is oval (near circular) in cross-section. It soon expands in thickness and nearly twice as much in width to form the head. The head is long and sleek, with prominent cheekbones and triangular outward- and rearward-pointing ears. The top of the cranium is vaguely lozenge-shaped and the eyes are suggested by hollows between the forward end of this and the cheekbones. T…
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-54D07E
Object type: APOTHECARY WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small rectangular lead weight, probably an apothecary’s weight. The front bears a moulded design of five wedge-shaped ridges radiating from an off-centre point to meet a rectangular ridged frame at the edges, expanding in width as they go. Each ridge is of a different length and they are unequally spaced. The reverse is undecorated. No close parallels yet noted, but it's comparable to NMS-3F0FCA and NMS-3EED0D. 14th to 16th century. Length: 14.3mm. Width: 10.9mm. Thickness: 2.1mm. 2.27g, or approximately 35 apothecaries’ grains.
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9A24E4
Object type: HARNESS HOOK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper-alloy hooked mount from a harness. It is a once flat but now slightly bent vertical bar with a narrowed and pointed rearward curving hook at the bottom. For the most part it has parallel sides and is rectangular in cross-section. The hook is oval in cross-section. At opposite end there is a double-cusp moulding (two opposing V or U-shaped depressions) followed by an incomplete rounded lobe terminating in a worn transverse break that truncates a rivet hole. There is a second, complete rivet hole at two thirds of the distance from the cusps to the hook. The met…
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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