Record ID: NMS-A92457
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete probably Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy strap fitting or buckle plate, a D-sectioned bar with two iron rivets, one through an ovoid terminal and the other before a bifurcation. Between the two the convex front is decorated with moulded chevrons that may constitite a stylised animal head. Beyond the bifurcation both incomplete narrow arms are decorated with three slight moulded swellings. There is some resemblance to buckle plates or strap fittings with zoomorphic decoration from two Norfolk sites, Sedgeford (HER 51077, NMS-3712D7) and Bracon Ash (HER 35891, NMS-…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-A99842
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual form of Late Saxon stirrup-strap mount, the upper part comprising a cinquefoil with perforated central upper foil, and each of the five foils with incised rocker arm lines containing tinning, now upstanding from the surrounding decayed surface. The double-concentric lines echo the form of each foil, with an adittional line forming a chevron at the junction between the foils and bordering the rectangular lower part of the mount before the obliquely-angled perforated flange at the base. The perforation contains a copper alloy rivet. The outer edge of the lower foil on the left h…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Friday 31st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-AA1811
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd of a Late Saxon Thetford-type ware pottery jar, diameter 140mm, weight 46g, c.850 - c.1100 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Sunday 8th March 2015
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Record ID: NMS-AA9604
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon tin-coated copper alloy disc brooch depicting a backward-turning beast. About half of the edge is missing. Tinning survives patchily on the front face. Set within a circle of pellets, the beast, with all four legs three-toed, turns to regard its upturned tail. Its eye is indicated by a punched ring-and-dot. On the reverse the incomplete pin lug lies parallel with the edge but the catchplate is missing. Diameter 27.5mm. 10th century. The type is characteristic of East Anglia (Wilson 1964, 36-7, 177-8, cat. no. 84; Smedley and Owles 1965; Hinton 1974, 19-20, cat. n…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 6th November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-AE9251
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon copper alloy Small-long brooch of Leeds 1945 cross pattee derivative type. The upper angles between the arms are round holes while the lower are notches. A pair of parallel engraved grooves marks the end of each arm. At the top and the base of the D-sectioned bow a rectangular panel forms facets. Both are decorated with a pair of transverse grooves. The upper part of the footplate tapers past another pair of grooves. The half-round moulding consists of two broad ribbed mouldings, the upper one with two more grooves which have been largely lost to wear. There is …
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 12th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-AEFB95
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy openwork disc brooch of "cogwheel" type with eighteen teeth around the border. On the reverse a single pin lug with some staining from the missing iron pin and an incomplete catchplate are both set parallel with the edge. A concavity lies behind the central boss. This is of a well-known type of Continental origin, with one example found in a context of c.800 at Everswinkel, Germany (Youngs, S. in Wallis 2004, 40, fig. 35, SF 390). Many have been recorded in East Anglia (e.g. Hinton, 1974, 21, cat. no. 14; Geake, H. in Emery, P. 2007, 193-4, fig.…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 12th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-AF5773
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete late early-medieval copper alloy Borre-style disc brooch of Kershaw 2013 East Anglian Series Type I, in rather abraded condition and with most of the edge missing. There are amorphous scars of the pin lug and catchplate on the reverse. Diameter c.30mm. 10th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
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