Record ID: PUBLIC-8AA151
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman Q-Radiate of Allectus (AD 293-296), dating to AD 293-6 (Reece Period 14). Reverse: VIRTVS AVG, boat to left with mast, two steering oars and five oars; five rowers (head and shoulders); waves. Mint of London. RIC V, pt 2, p. 563, no. 55. The coins is broken in two places, missing letters of the obverse legend, reverse legend and mintmark. Style of ship enables attribution to London. Die axis : 11.45. This coin is included in Sam Moorhead's corpus for RIC.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanstead Abbotts', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-87FFE3
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal, two-part, circular, diameter 18.5mm. BB / BIWI / WR.. / CF.. // largely illegible [NO]RW[ICH]. The initials are those of the twelve wardens of the Norwich Weavers' Company for one year between 1650 and 1705 (Egan 1994, 46). Examples of this seal, for one of the years for which there is no surviving list, were recorded by Egan (1987, 192, 352 and 358). The non-recorded years were 1660-4, 1678 and 1686.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd July 2019
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Record ID: NMS-87CE65
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete lower end of one sheet copper alloy arm of a pair of Middle Saxon tweezers, bent and abraded, the blade itself missing. One punched ring-and-dot is visible. Extant length 10mm. Width 5.5 - 10.3mm.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-87B2B1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval sheet copper alloy strap plate, one end missing, two sheets secured by two rivets. It is likely that very little is missing. Cf. Read 2001, no. 188mm. Extant length 21mm. Width 8mm. Width of the gap 2.5mm. Mid 14th - mid 15th century.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-878ED1
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the cutting edge of a Bronze Age cast copper alloy axehead of uncertain type, with ancient breaks and recent scuffing. Extant length, width and thickness 10.5, 29.5 and 5.7mm. Weight 5.41g. c.2350 - c.701 BC.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 26th March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-8767C8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sherd of medieval to post-medieval cast copper alloy vessel leg, both ends broken, one very jaggedly. There is sooting on all surfaces including the breaks. The cross-section is D-shaped. Width 32mm. Thickness 15mm. Weight 123g. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-875056
Object type: POT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six body sherds of medieval pottery, five local unglazed and one Grimston ware with external lead glaze and brown slip trail, weight 16g, c.1100 - c.1400.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-873493
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fourteen sherds of Thetford-type pottery, five jar rim, one bowl rim (probably Clarke 1970 Type 1/4), one body with diamond rouletting, seven other body, weight 125g, c.850 - c.1100.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Sunday 8th March 2015
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Record ID: NMS-869C85
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper alloy handle of a Roman knife or other implement with the embedded remains of a whittle tang which has partly erupted, leaving the copper alloy distorted and causing the loss of the distal end. The rectangular cross-section expands gently from a hemispherical knob at the proximal end. All four sides are decorated with two groups of close-set transverse ribs. Extant length 52mm. Maximum width and thickness 8 and 4mm. No close parallel noted. c.43 - c.410. .
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 13th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-864203
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead cloth seal, two-part, circular, diameter 20mm. Privy mark within a beaded frame. I o O o O / HS ligatured // rivet only. The reading of the upper line is uncertain. Late 16th - early 18th century. .
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 24th March 2014
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Record ID: SF-8625C2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Medieval French denier of Philip II, c.1180-1223 AD. Minted at Laon, with reverse type of Roger de Rosay, Bishop of Laon (1174-1201 AD).
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 7th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stow cum Quy', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-85FCF6
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy knife handle cover formed from sheet folded over into a hexagon with a soldered butt-joint. The whole, now somewhat squashed, widens towards the (missing) separate end plate. A fragment of the iron whittle tang remains within. The four narrow sides are decorated with rows of oblique lines. To judge from better preserved examples the wider sides may have been decorated with figures, but though they are a little worn they seem to have always been plain. Decorated examples are quite common, e.g. one from Hainford, Norfolk (HER 50072, NMS-C8E681), and for example BH-…
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2013
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Record ID: LANCUM-85C3E5
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Light grey stone tool, made from chert. Neolithic, possibly early Bronze Age. Dorsal ridge extending to a snapped off point at distal end, with additional flaking on both sides of ridge. Flakes removed from ventral side and some minimal flaking to both edges of ventral side. Flat proximal end. Length 43mm, Width 35mm, Thickness 12mm, Weight 18 g.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holymoorside', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-85A5D5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a post-medieval tin-coated copper alloy double-looped buckle frame with openwork decoration, only one edge extant. The loops would have been rectangular, cf. Whitehead 2003 nos. 495-500, though the detail of the (poorly fettled) openwork decoration of this example is different. When viewed pointing upwards there is a considerable resemblance to a crown. Extant length and width 23 and 42mm. c.1620 - c.1690.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 24th March 2014
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Record ID: LANCUM-858FF3
Object type: DEBITAGE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medium brown flint flake, probably Bronze Age. An irregular shaped flake showing pronounced bulb of percussion and conchoidal ripples. No flaking to edges but some secondary flaking on ventral side. Notch in centre of distal end. Some lighter brown and some pale grey inclusions. This appears to be a waste flake from a manufacturing process Length 50mm, Width 23mm, Thickness 8mm, Weight 12g.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holymoorside', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-857D02
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Edward I, Class 9b, probably 9b2, c.1300-1302 AD. As Withers and Withers, 2006: pp. 34-35.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stow cum Quy', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-856835
Object type: CROTAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy crotal bell with drilled loop, iron pea, engraved gadroon decoration on both halves, a heart in relief on both sides of the cleft and a group of twelve transverse engraved grooves on the circumferential rib. Diameter 36mm. Height 42.8mm. Mid 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-854655
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy harness mount with convex front and the stumps of two D-sectioned attachment spikes on the hollow reverse. The form is very close to that of Read 2001 no. 305 (which is smaller and has three spikes). 49 x 22.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-852883
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy harness mount in the form of a quatrefoil, flat with the stumps of a pair of integral oval-sectioned attachment spikes on the reverse. Cf. Read 2001 nos. 278-9. 20 x 20mm. Thickness excluding spikes 1.2mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-850A65
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy double-looped buckle frame with traces of black-lacquer coating, both loops oval, with a crudely moulded oval rosette in the centre of the edges. There is a very slight lobe at one end of the bar, and no lobe at the other. A much more common form does have lobes there, e.g. Margeson 1993, fig. 17, no. 174. 44.4 x 26.5mm. c.1550 - c.1650.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2013
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