Record ID: NMS-8643B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an Early Saxon copper alloy Small-long brooch probably of Leeds' (!945) trefoil-headed type, the battered headplate with only one small length of original edge extant, on the top of the top arm or foil. Little remains of the other arms. None of the edges appear to have broken in antiquity, and parts of the surface have been lost through lamination. The top edge of the extant arm is bifid (cf. ibid. fig.5 d). There is a panel formed by three (possibly one four) lines of punched crescents and dots, and there is an arc of similar stamps on the arm. There is an incomplete sing…
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 14th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-862428
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
2 medieval to post-medieval copper alloy vessel rim sherds, both distorted, one lathe-turned, with two internal grooves, the other probably hand raised. On the latter there are delicate file marks on the inner surface below the top. Diameters not measurable. Weights 10g and 11g. c.1400 - c.1700
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-85FD12
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon to post-medieval lead spindle whorl, slightly tapering cylindrical with convex top. Height / thickness 19mm. Diameter 24mm. Hole diameter 9 - 11.5mm. Weight 59.95g / 2.1145oz avoirdupois / 1.9275oz troy.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-85CF97
Object type: ROWEL SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete elaborate openwork terminal of a post-medieval copper alloy spur, almost certainly a rowel spur. At the inner end there is the stump of a narrow D-sectioned side but the outer end, with its attachment holes, is missing. Very similar to an example from Exeter (Ellis, B. in Allan 1984, 341, fig. 193 no. 145. Length more than 30mm. Width 14mm. Second half 17th century.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-85A9D2
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button with an integral drilled loop: biconical, hollow openwork head with a small central nipple and engraved lines between six triangular perforations on the front face, and with six similar perforations on the rear face. Comparable with Baart et al. 1977, 185, no.235, Margeson 1993, 20-2, fig. 11 no.102 and Read 2005, 30, no. 93. Diameter 10.5mm. Length 18mm. 16th century.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 3rd February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-859975
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy button with solid deep plano-convex almost globular head and incomplete undrilled loop. Diameter 12mm. 16th century.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-857AB7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval tin-coated copper alloy buckle with double-looped frame and tapering D-sectioned pin. There is a slight lobe at both ends of the bar. The frame is angled around the bar. 28.5 x 21mm. c.1450 - c.1550.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-854F31
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three sherds of Late Saxon Thetford-type pottery, one jar rim and two body, weight 26g. c.850 - c.1100.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-853C55
Object type: POT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six sherds of medieval pottery, 1100 - 1400: 5 unglazed, three body, one everted rim in form as Early Medieval Ware but in grey reduced fabrc, and one probably bowl rim, inner face missing, weight 16g. 1 Grimston ware body with external lead glaze and iron-rich slip blob, weight 6g.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2013
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Record ID: IOW-8513A5
Object type: SCRAPER (TOOL)
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint side-end scraper (2500 BC-1500 BC). The scraper is manufactured on a tertiary flake, although small areas of cortex are present. The dorsal face has a median arris throughout its length. It has been worked all around the edge and has short removals. These are semi-abrupt and parallel along the sides, abrupt and parallel at the distal end. There are tiny patches of buff cortex on the median arris and at the distal end. The ventral face is smooth and shiny and has a bulb of percussion at the proximal end. It has been worked along par…
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-850BB6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very roughly made, approximately circular, plano-convex lead weight. On the flat surface twenty-seven impressions were probably made with a bone or stick when the metal was molten. Their purpose is uncertain. They may have been crudely decorative rather than indicative of the weight measurement. Weighing 178.42g / 5.736oz troy, so probably 4.4% underweight for ½ pound (i.e. 6oz) troy. Diameter 44-49mm. Height / thickness 15mm. perhaps medieval, c.1100 - c.1300, but not closely datable.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-84A787
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of probably Late Saxon buckle frame, a bar with stubs of the narrow sides and of two wider projections continuing the sides. These latter features were probably Borre-style animal heads although no decorative detail remains, and the missing frame may have been D-shaped with a third animal head at the centre of the outside edge. Cf. examples from Bracon Ash, Norfolk (NMS-35B8F3) and Cherwell, Oxfordshire (BERK-0BE984). Width 33mm. 10th - 11th century
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 14th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-847068
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy padlock case of square cross-section. A vertical septum indicates that there were two spring strips in the mechanism. Almost all of the key aperture end is missing. There is no sign of decoration. Length 36mm. Width / thickness 11.5mm. c.1150 - c.1300
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 17th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-842A53
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy frame, approximately square with a central bar, about one half surviving, with one edge, half of one side, most of the other and about one third of the bar extant. The front of the edge is engraved with three groups of four oblique lines within borders and the sides with a median line. There are also two transverse grooves on the bar. Frames of this type normally have oblique lines on both the sides and edges, e.g. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 97-9, fig. 62 nos. 447-50 and Whitehead 2003, 78, no. 479. 43mm (estimated) x 41mm. c.1350 - c.1450. Another wa…
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
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Record ID: NMS-83C0D4
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy harness pendant in very abraded condition with much of the surface lost. The object was triangular with concave sides, the incomplete suspension loop being at the apex, and was almost certainly gilt, though no gilding is extant. There are faint indications of an engraved line running parallel to all three sides on the front face. The lower corners are missing, so it is unknown whether they continued as roundels in the way some examples do. See a list of Norfolk parallels under a pendant from Morley (HER 28498, NMS-1664A2). See also one from South Yorks…
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-837B31
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pentagonal fragment of Early Saxon copper alloy Saucer brooch in abraded condition, the central part with a ring-and-dot surrounded by five spirals. All the edges are ancient breaks. Whether these were deliberately formed for some secondary use is uncertain. Width more than 13mm. Thickness 2mm. In a Norfolk context this type of saucer brooch belongs to the late 5th century, although production and use continued in parts of England until the early 7th (MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 42).
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 14th January 2013
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Record ID: NMS-82ED04
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Saxon lead tongue shaped strap end in abraded condition, the split end with two rivet holes a small part of the main body. The full width is extant only at the attachment edge. The counter-relief decoration, on one face and now very obscure, comprises a median rib flanked by foliar motifs (visible on one side only). Thomas' (2004) Class E, perhaps a variation on Type 3. Length more than 23mm. Width 23mm. Length of split socket for strap 14mm. 10th - 11th century.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 25th March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-826725
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Saxon gilt copper alloy Florid cruciform brooch, the centre of the headplate and the upper half of the bow only, with an incomplete single pin lug on the reverse. All breaks are old. On the headplate a square framed panel contains a Style I animal and a motif of concentric square grooves in an incomplete panel on the bow. Length 43.5mm. Width more than 26.5mm. Width of bow 21mm. Leeds' Group V (i) (Leeds and Pocock 1971, 19-20). Cf. an example from Folkingham, Lincolnshire (LIN-1CE356). c.540 - c.570.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 23rd January 2015
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Record ID: NMS-81C556
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy T-shape brooch, hinged pin, most of the chain loop and all the mid-bow button knop. The tubular wings are plain. The somewhat decayed enamel in triangular and lozengiform cells on the upper bow appears to be red. The hollow-backed knop is similar to that of Hattatt 2000, fig. 189 no. 1531, and the overall form is very close to idib. fig. 162 no. 387 and Mackreth 2011, plate 67, no. 12141. Mackreth's CD H/PH 1.a, the distribution of which is predominantly in Somerset (ibid., 101). Wingspan 22mm. Length more than 25.5mm. Late1st - 2nd century.
Created on: Saturday 5th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 16th January 2014
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