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Record ID: NMS-3491A7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead alloy button, plano-convex with central nipple, shank ending in loop on reverse. Diam.14mm. Length 16.5mm. See Read 2005, 58, no.217. Late 17th-early 18th century.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2013
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-E67628
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy, circular, plano-convex undecorated cast spindle whorl. The central circular perforation tapers slightly, either by design or wear, from 9.2mm diameter uppermost to 10.1mm at the base. 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, but in metal are more typically Early Medieval to Post Medieval. The hand spindle on which they were used continued in use at least until the 16th century in Norfolk (Mar…
Created on: Saturday 6th February 2021
Last updated: Friday 6th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-FA9372
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead alloy seal matrix, broken and incomplete, almost all of the outside edge is missing, flat, stump of unpierced lug at upper edge. Circular, extant diameter 26mm, 2.5mm thick. Cross with barbed ends on a saltire. Inscription illegible. 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-7CAB74
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete lead alloy spoon handle of post medieval date. Rectangular in shape with a break at either end, it expands slightly towards one end just beore the break. It exhibits a longitudinal casting seam down each side and a moulded central ridge on one face.
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 14th March 2017
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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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