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Record ID: NMS-C14D27
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment, of a Roman copper-alloy bracelet. It consists of a narrow near-rectangular strip which tapers in width and thickness only to the very slightest degree from one end to the other. There is a worn break at the narrower end while the wider end appears likely to be an original terminal, although it may have lost a tiny fragment from the tip.
It is decorated on one face with three transverse grooves at the wider end and a central longitudinal groove running from the innermost of the transverse grooves to a few millimetres before the break. Alongside this, on each of the long…
Created on: Thursday 5th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 5th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-C0AFDD
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman copper-alloy bracelet. It consists of a narrow rectangular strip with worn breaks at either end and decorated on one face with a repeating pattern (now quite worn) of moulded or punched circles and transverse bars. There are three circles arranged in series and depicted low relief, each in a separate rectangular counter-relief field. Their diameters are slightly longer than the width of the bracelet, so they are truncated slightly. Each circle contains a smaller concentric circle defined by a circular groove and a central recessed dot. Between each of the rectangul…
Created on: Thursday 5th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 5th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-BF9653
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and slightly distorted medieval copper-alloy buckle frame with an expanded outside edge and a central constriction for a missing sheet-metal roller. Similar to Egan and Pritchard (2002), No. 317. The outside edge, including the constriction, is sub-oval in cross-section: flat on the reverse and convex on the external edge and front face.
The narrower shoulders of the frame commence parallel to and inward of the non-constricted ends of the outside edge. A short straight groove divides and distinguishes these at each end and on both faces. One of the shoulders extends o…
Created on: Thursday 5th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 5th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-BB629A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman bow brooch, perhaps a Colchester Derivative, consisting of the foot of the bow and the catchplate. The bow is bi-convex in cross-section. Viewed from the front, it has straight, or very marginally convex sides, and tapers very slightly in width from the worn break at the top to the tip of the foot. Viewed from the side, the front surface curves very gently rearwards from top to bottom, while the reverse arches more steeply rearwards to form the top of the catchplate.
The catchplate is sub-triangular with a single sub-triangular perforation. Its rearward edge,…
Created on: Thursday 5th August 2021
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-BADD89
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy ‘seal top’ spoon handle terminal. Bowl and most of the stem missing at a worn break. Baluster mouldings, oval, near-circular in cross-section, with a discoid terminal. Light green patina all over. Mid 16th to mid 17th century.
Length: 25.0mm. Width/thickness (discoid terminal): 12.0mm x 11.5mm, (stem): 2.8 x 2.2mm. Weight: 5.1g
Created on: Thursday 5th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 5th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-A9C9C3
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Biconical lead steelyard weight, of probable Roman date, with an embedded U-shaped, circular cross-sectioned copper-alloy loop at the top. Another copper-alloy loop, also circular in cross-section, is linked to the first one. This is teardrop shaped, with one terminal coiled three times into a now vacant tube and the other terminating close to the tube’s lower-side opening. The coiled terminal seems likely to be broken and missing further coils if it was to suspend the weight securely. If this is the case, the break is worn.
The upper and lower ‘halves’ of the weight are of…
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-A714FB
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy Roman or perhaps early-medieval pin. It has a globular head, which is wider and thicker than it is tall, with a flattened top. The shaft survives to a length of forty millimetres and terminates in a worn break. It is unbent, circular in cross-section, and tapers uniformly from the base of the head to the break. At the top of the shaft is a narrow collar, which is no thicker than the shaft but is defined by a circumferential groove above and below. A trace of white-metal coating survives on the head. Elsewhere the metal is patinated mid- and dark green. Similar …
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-97017C
Object type: PENANNULAR RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy penannular ring of uncertain date. The hoop is sub-triangular in cross-section, having a wider flat internal face and two equally narrower and concave external faces. The terminals are fairly rounded by wear. There is no trace of the gold coating that is normal in Middle to Late Bronze Age rings. The metal is patinated pale green, with an overlying layer of pale yellowish green. Similarly shaped rings in copper-alloy on this database, also of uncertain date, include BUC-251D11 and SF-2A1951. Gold or gold-covered Bronze Age examples include SUR-EFB639 and SUSS-5EA230.
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Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-808179
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Polyhedral head of a middle-Saxon pin with a short extant length of collared shaft. The head is like a cuboid with each of the four corners of each face cut off, not particularly symmetrically. The theoretical cuboid would have two near-square faces and four rectangular faces, just over half as wide as they are long, with the pin emerging from the centre of one of the rectangular faces. The central and largest facet on each the broad (‘square’) faces is irregularly lozenge-shaped, or near-lozenge-shaped hexagonal. These are each decorated with four punched or negatively-mou…
Created on: Monday 2nd August 2021
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-42EEDE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age to early Roman copper-alloy Colchester brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type 2.a or 2.b (the standard British type with a catchplate pierced by fretwork or square holes). It is largely complete except for the catchplate, which survives only as a series of stubs between incomplete openwork voids, and the shaft of the pin, approximately a third of which is missing from the tip.
The head consists of a pair of short flat wings and an integral spring that emerges from between them on the lower side of the reverse. The spring coils up and around a separate axis bar three time…
Created on: Friday 30th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-2D41E9
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small fragment of an unidentified object made of sheet copper alloy and decorated with punched dots. Irregular in shape, with three edges that are probably original and a fourth which is an old break. The first original edge is the longest and is mildly convex. At about ninety degrees to this and adjoining it, the second original edge is the shortest and also mildly convex. The third begins where the second ends and is mildly and then steeply concave. It begins doubling back in the general direction of the first edge, diverging from it only slightly at first and then exponentially. Th…
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2021
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-2AE10B
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, probably early-medieval pin, with a globular head, flattened on top, and a short length of slender shaft extant. The top of the head is marked with an equal-armed cross formed of two simple grooves intersecting at ninety degrees. The bottom of the head seamlessly tapers into the top of the shaft. The shaft is circular in cross-section and continues to taper over about one half of its extant length before becoming parallel-sided, finally terminating in an old break. The pin is not collared but the slender shaft suggests that it is not Romano-British. Probably 5th to 9th cen…
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 29th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-25F5CA
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small fragment of an unidentified object of uncertain but probably Roman to early-medieval date, made of sheet copper-alloy and decorated on one face with stamped or punched ring-and-dot motifs. It is roughly trapezoidal, with two long tapering edges, a straight edge joining these at the narrow end and an irregularly-shaped edge, which is more clearly an old break, at the wide end. It has become slightly bent along a transverse line near the middle, and a strip of surface metal has been lost along that line on both faces.
The ring-and-dots seem to be randomly placed, although th…
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-038B83
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete long and narrow medieval object, possibly part of a buckle pin, with an animal-head terminal at one end and a worn break at the other. It is generally rectangular in cross-section, but bevelled on both sides of the front face for most of its length. The front is one of the broader faces and the only one that bears surface decoration.
Viewed from the front or rear, the long edges are straight and parallel, and the non-broken (zoomorphic) end may have been relatively straight and perpendicular but is now rounded. Viewed from the side, the long edges are curved and nearly…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-FF443F
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable fragment of a late Roman copper-alloy amphora-shaped strap end, with punched ring-and-dot decoration on one face. Two incomplete curved amphora handles, the top of the neck in between these, and two very short stubs of an attachment loop are extant, all terminating in worn breaks. The edge between the two stubs is straight, and one of the stubs is curved (the other is too small to be certain), which suggests that the attachment loop was oval with straight sides when complete. Ring-and-dot decoration covers the neck and handles but is absent from a strip of about one and a hal…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-598C53
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman copper-alloy spoon consisting of a short length of the stem and a tiny fragment of the bowl, connected at an offset junction. The stem is rectangular, nearly square, in cross-section. When considered from the side, with the concave face of the bowl facing upwards, the stem can be said to taper gently in thickness and expand abruptly in width as it develops into the junction. On the top there is step-up of about a millimetre, and then another, followed by a low rectangular slot or notch, and then arguably two step-downs, now very rounded by wear. At the bottom, the …
Created on: Monday 19th July 2021
Last updated: Friday 24th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-56D4C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Romano-British copper-alloy Colchester Ddrivative Harlow Brooch of Mackreth 2011, 4.a.. Only the head of the bow, the wings and the double-pierced lug on the reverse are extant. The wings are plain, C-shaped in cross-section and taper in width from centre to tip. One is slightly thicker than the other, probably due to wear. The bow projects forward from the centre of the wings a very short distance then terminates in a worn break. The pierced lug develops into a crest which continues along the front of the bow to the break as a concave-sided median rib. The lug is shaped…
Created on: Monday 19th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1AEDF9
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon or early medieval openwork stirrup-strap mount of Williams’ (1997) Class A Type 12. It is lozenge-shaped with a circular apex loop and a parallel-sided base with a ‘common right angle’ flange (Williams’ flange type A). Viewed from the side the mount is gently curved (concave at the rear). The lozenge contains four lozenge-shaped openwork voids separated from each other by a saltire. The front face bears seven bosses, one in the centre, one at the four junctions of the saltire with the outer frame, and one each at the left and rightmost corners of the frame.
Th…
Created on: Friday 16th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-18BE10
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper-alloy Langton Down brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) Type 2.b1. Only the bow and the cylindrical spring case containing the coiled spring and a very short length of the pin are extant. The spring case appears to be mostly complete, apart from some minor fragmentation and loss of metal along the seam on the reverse. It is decorated with a straight longitudinal groove on the top, running very nearly from tip to tip and divided in half by the pin slot. There is also a short transverse groove very close to each tip on the front. The pin slot is quite wide at approximat…
Created on: Friday 16th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-659451
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy object, possibly a Roman buckle plate or strap end. Formed from thin plate; at one end there are four (only two are complete) laterally aligned prongs that curve back 180 degrees in an open loop. From this point towards the main body the width narrows to a symmetrical neck with three deep cusps on each side. Beyond this the object widens to an amphora-shaped body with the end missing at an oblique break. The amphora-shaped body is very reminiscent of nail cleaners of the period, but there is no evidence of a central cleft and the means of suspension would ordin…
Created on: Thursday 20th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 4th January 2022
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