Record ID: NMS-782092
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval openwork two-piece sword scabbard chape, part of one piece only. The right-hand edge and a tall upright which would have continued the left-hand edge are missing. Two rivet holes (one incomplete) out of three are extant.The openwork decoration, enhanced by quite high relief, depicts "a human figure who may represent Samson, David or even Hercules, holding the head of a lion and attempting either to mount the beast or to wrestle it to the ground" (Ashley 2016, Anglo-Norman Elite Objects from Castle and Countryside). One piece of a complete chape from London is very …
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-77D491
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy buckle plate, rectangular, with frame recesses, pin slot, four convex headed rivets and traces of aen engraved border. Broken across loops and on reverse, very corroded. Length 25mm. Width 17.5mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-77B998
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval openwork rectangular strap fitting, probably a strap end, formed from one piece of thick copper alloy sheet. Almost all of one side is missing. The openwork depicts, within a grooved frame, a lion rampant. The rear part is extremely short, hardly projecting beyond the fold. One iron rivet survives near the attachment edge near the lion's head. Length 40.5mm. Width c.44mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Length of rear part 8.5mm. 12th century. No. 3 on annotated map in file
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Monday 27th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-77AD84
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy composite strap-end of crescentic type, the front of the crescent is decorated with engraved foliate decoration and cast sub-lozengiform foliar knop with deep V-sectioned engraved grooves. Both points of the crescent are missing where broken across a rivet-hole, two further rivet-holes contain copper alloy rivets at springing of knop, and retain a scrap of the sheet back plate on reverse. Length 42.5mm. Width 30mm. Cf. Fingerlin 1971 Abb. 312-314. First half 15th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Monday 31st March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-76FAE4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual post-medieval tinned copper alloy openwork buckle frame, both sides and both outside edges comprise pairs of conjoined loops with a straight chamfered outer bar with multiple transverse grooves, twin opposed internal knops have a drilled blind hole with corroded remains of missing iron spindle. Length 34.5mm. Width 28.5mm. c.1660-c.1720.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Monday 31st March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-76EAE7
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of post-medieval tinned copper alloy clapper bell, radial moulding on everted and thickened mouth and surviving part of side. Diam.55mm. Surviving height 26mm. 2.5mm thick. Later 16th-18th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-7681B3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of Medieval/Post Medieval copper alloy drop handle from vessel, heavily cast oval-sectioned terminal collar in form of stylised lion head, incised and moulded details of eyes, ears and mouth, longitudinally pierced and containing cast copper alloy bar. Length of head 19mm, width/height 14mm. 11mm thick. Surviving length of bar 28mm. Cf. Egan (1998) fig.143, no.487. 15th-16th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-763FB5
Object type: TOILET ARTICLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy nail cleaner, probably from a toilet set, comprising a rounded broad end with circular perforation containing the remains of a copper alloy rivet, tapering to a sharp point. Bent. Length 64mm (unbent). Width of head 5.5mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-761748
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-oval frame, one loop missing, narrowed bar with transverse ridge acorss frame at either end, incomplete pin bevelled on either edge. Measuring (reconstructed) 41 x 27mm. 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 26th April 2016
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Record ID: NMS-75F7F8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy tongue-shaped strap end with full-width spacer, one sheet plates survives, damaged outer edge and attachment-end with copper alloy rivet, further rivet at terminal. Length of spacer 25mm. Width 14mm. Surviving length of plate 40mm. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-75C043
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy thimble, squashed and broken, decorated with the remains of an engraved line around base and a spiral of deeply drilled dots around sides and on dome. Height 19mm. See Egan (1998), 267, fig.206, no.830. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-759A86
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy sprung Dolphin (Colchester Derivative Rearhook) brooch, broken rearhook, pin, spring and ends of plain wings missing. Faceted oval-sectioned bow with flattened median arris, slight flange on both sides, catch-plate missing. Surviving wingspan 22.5mm. Length 44.5mm. c.43 - c.65.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-757B78
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap-end, possibly a book clasp, two sub-rectangular plates, edges damaged, secured at one edge by two copper alloy rivets and containing scrap of leather strap. Empty perforation at the opposed edge, perhaps to fit onto a peg to secure the strap. Extant length 14.5mm. Width 14mm. Thickness 3.5mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2019
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Record ID: NMS-74FC02
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a post-medieval copper alloy spur, stump of D-sectioned side with a terminal similar to those of a rowel spur from Beeston Castle (Ellis, B. in Ellis 1993, 165-6, fig. 112 no. 3). Extant length 20.5mm. Width 26mm. 3.5mm thick. c.1620 - c.1650.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-74DEF4
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a post-medieval spur, comprising a heart shaped terminal with the stump of an oval-sectioned side. Symmetrically placed attachment holes, at the base of the heart a laterally projecting collar is decorated with a groove along its length. Cf. an example from North Yorkshire (SWYOR-310253). The dimensions of the side suggest the spur was small and delicate, width of side 5mm and thickness 2.5mm. Width of terminal 14.5mm. Surviving overall length 18.5mm. Heart-shaped terminals have been associated with the period of the Civil War (Ellis, B. in Ellis 1993, 165-9, fig. 114, nos…
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-74AEC2
Object type: CROTAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy crotal bell with broken non-drilled loop, gadrooned decoration below median ridge and a bell maker's hammer and the maker's initials WG on either side of the basal cleft. Diameter 30.5mm. Height 40mm. Contains iron pea. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
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Record ID: NMS-73D0B5
Object type: CROTAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy crotal bell with non-drilled loop, gadrooned decoration above and below median ridge and the maker's initials AG at the basal cleft. Diameter c.34mm (slightly cracked and distorted). Height 42.5mm. Contains iron pea. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2014
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2014
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