Record ID: NMS-A9D8A6
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval lead seal matrix, flat. Pointed oval or shield-shaped, extant dimensions 25 x 20mm. Simple merchant's mark in shield-shaped frame. + · S' RI........ (Seal of RI...?). 13th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A9B068
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and badly distorted medieval giltcopper alloy unidentified object, a parallel-sided strip, one end broken across a rivet or attachment hole, with another hole near the other end. Both holes are set off-centre and nearer to the same edge, with centres c.57mm apart. Length 62mm. Width 15.7mm. A few specks of gilding are extant, on one face only. Perhaps 13th or 14th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A98831
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon to post-medieval lead plano-convex spindle whorl. Diameter 25.5mm. Thickness 6.4mm. Hole diameter 8.5 - 9mm. Weight 28.88g. c.1000 - c.1600.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A94071
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two sherds of Late Saxon Thetford-type ware pottery, jar rim, diameter 160mm and sagging basal, weight 63g, c.850 - c.1100. Found <1m apart.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Sunday 8th March 2015
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Record ID: NMS-A91A05
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bowl rim sherd of Late Saxon Grimston Thetford ware pottery. Clarke 1970, Type 1/6. Weight 37g. c.1000 - c.1100.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A8F2D6
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Jar rim sherd of Middle Saxon pimply Ipswich ware pottery. West 1963 Group I Type C. Weight 16g. c.720 - c.850 AD.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A8B8D0
Object type: POT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fourteen sherds of Roman pottery, weight 370g, mid 1st - 4th century: - nine greyware, storage jar rim, six jar rim and two basal. - jar rim, oxidised with reduced core. - basal, buff oxidised. - three body Nene Valley colour coated, 3rd - 4th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A89FB5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy plate from a medieval composite strap end of circular form. The plate is circular but with an angular outside edge opposite a small lozengiform projection pierced by a single rivet hole. On the reverse all of the edge, apart from the pierced projection and a short length on either side of it, is followed by a thick deposit of grey solder.This would have secured a forked spacer (cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 648-52). Length 27.5mm. Width 23mm. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A7F7B8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Venetian type 3 soldino of Doge Leonardo Loredan. Obverse; L [...]S[..]//[...], Doge holding banner and kneeling before St Mark. Reverse; LAVS TIBI SOLI (Praise To Thee Alone), standing figure of Christ facing, haloed and holding cross. Circa 1501-1521 AD
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A7F134
Object type: ROWEL SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy rowel spur, the rowel and half of one D-sectioned side with the terminal missing (recent break). On the other, which is distorted, the symmetrically set figure-of-eight terminal lies beyond an opposed pair of lateral cusped crescentic projections. The neck begins with a lozengiform moulding and continues with a sub-square moulding, a wide rounded rib and a narrow rib, The rowel box droops slightly. Length of neck and box 22mm. Width of junction of arms 11mm
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A7AFB6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy bar-mount with terminal and central lobes. Both the former are pierced by holes countersunk on the rear and containing a rivet. The latter, which is larger and hollow-backed, is decorated with a small and rather roughly made central hole, six longitudinal filed grooves and many shallow transverse grooves. 8.7 x 19.8mm. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A7A582
Object type: JEWS HARP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy jew's harp with a rabbet containing a corroded scrap of the missing iron tongue. Length 50mm. Width 24.5mm. Not closely datable, but 16th century or later.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A78483
Object type: POT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd of Roman greyware, dark, sandy, probably Nar Valley ware, diameter not measurable, weight 25g, 3rd - 4th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A759F6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy sub-rectangular shoe buckle frame with remains of an iron spindle. The sides and edges are decorated with groups of closely spaced oblique filed grooves, and all four corners with groups of three wide moulded grooves. 34.3 x 28.8mm. c.1690 - c.1720.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A73766
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy openwork hooked tag, very similar to Read 2008, no. 398, but with minor variations due to differential fettling. 31.8 x 15.6mm. 16th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 25th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A70E25
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd of a medieval to post-medieval cast copper alloy cooking vessel, weight 30g, 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A6AFA7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy composite harness pendant, a sexfoil, with a centrally placed separate riveted stud, swinging on a copper alloy spindle within a sexfoil frame. A frequently encountered type, e.g. an example from Norwich on which the small projections on the outer edge of the frame are more pronounced (Huddle, J. in Emery 2007, 203-4, fig. 5.93 SF 81). Height 42.5mm. Width 24.5mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A687B3
Object type: POWDER FLASK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead powder flask nozzle, flattened, stumps of missing attachment loops, circular stump of runner and vertical seam on face. Distorted dimensions: width 31mm, height 33mm. Cf. Keen and Hough 1993, Beeston Castle, Cheshire, fig.109, nos.38 and 39. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A664B5
Object type: POT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four sherds of medieval pottery, one jar rim unglazed Grimston ware, one body local unglazed, two body Grimston ware with external lead glaze, weight 40g, mid 12th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A65574
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead token, cast, maximum diameter 20mm, 2mm thick, crude interlaced 8-pointed star on face, obscure cross-hatched motif on the face. 17th-18th century
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A64E65
Object type: POT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Foot-ring sherd of Roman samian ware pottery with internal rouletting, probably form 18/31R. Weight 11g. Central Gaulish, Les Martres-de-Veyre. c.100 - c.125 AD.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A63DC4
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, bent and distorted post-medieval lead four-part cloth seal, Stuart Royal arms // NI[ / DR...[ / RI[ / 7[ : privy mark (elongated 4 between IW) / 43 . Distorted length 22mm. 1603-88.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A615C1
Object type: POT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd of Iron Age hand-built pottery, everted and slightly thickened, probably a jar, reduced with pale brown exterior, fairly sparse flint grits maximum 1.5mm across. Diameter uncertain. Weight 21g. c.800 BC - c.42 AD.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A5FFF2
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval Russian lead bale seal, side broken, inscription: SR[?H] / FWAI / 181[5? or 9?] // Л:Д / ИMБУ / ШEB / .......... Perforation for missing chord. Diameter 13mm. 4.5mm thick.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A5D0B1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Less than one half of a post-medieval gilt copper alloy buckle frame, the edge and most of both sides of one oval loop. The cup of a large acorn knop in the centre of the edge is engraved with cross-hatching. All of the reverse is hollowed. The complete object would have been double-looped, both loops oval, with four similar knops (one at both ends of the narrowed bar), cf. Whitehead 2003, no. 406. Extant length and width 32 and 47.5mm. c.1550 - c.1650. Copper alloy buckles were very uncommonly gilded at this period.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A5A8A6
Object type: CROTAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy crotal bell, inserted loop missing, worn remains of engraved gadroon ornament on the lower half, engraved maker's initials WG and bell founder's hammer on either side of the cleft, and an iron pea. Surviving height 39mm. Diameter 41mm. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 13th December 2017
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Record ID: NMS-A5A126
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval discoidal lead weight, probably for ½ ounce troy, with a highly stylised human figure in counter relief on one face and an uncertain motif including radial lines on the other. Diameter 18mm. Thickness 3.5mm. Weight 8.07g / 0.2595oz. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A550A0
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval cylindrical lead weight with median hole. Length 29mm. Diameter 12 - 15.5mm. Hole diameter 5mm. Weight 39g. Probably for ue with a net or line. 13th - 17th century
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A55026
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy crotal bell with broken drilled loop, iron pea, cast gadroon ornament on the upper half, median ridge, scale decoration on lower half with a cast possible bust next to the basal cleft with circular terminals. Surviving height 29mm. Diameter 26mm. Mid 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 18th October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-A53470
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval cast copper alloy vessel leg, probably from a ewer, of pentagonal cross-section, slightly hollowed and rough reverse, straight-chamfered sides and median frontal arris, tapering from the top to a transverse rib at the junction with a splayed, chamfered forward projecting foot. Rough and slightly hollowed at the top of the leg, miscast. Length 68mm. Width 16 - 7.5mm. Thickness 20 - 11mm. Weighs 62.56g. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A527F4
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon to post-medieval lead spindle whorl, truncated sub-biconical. Diameter 21mm. Thickness 17mm. Weight 33.29g. Hole diameter 7mm. 11th - 16th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A4EF84
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix with hexagonal faceted handle rising to a pierced terminal. Circular, diameter 17.5mm. Height 19mm. Crossed hands below a bird holding in its beak a sprig acting as a filler at the end of the legend. * PRIVE SV (I am private). 14th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A41F43
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval lead figurine probably depicting the crucified Christ, the lower part missing. The reverse is flat and the front face almost so. Both arms are raised in a position suggestive of crucifixion rather than of prayer, though the hands, with fingers indicated by fine engraving, are not pierced. The nimbed head is ovoid and the eyes, nose and mouth are engraved in a somewhat rudimentary manner. Further lines on the torso suggest a garment. A small attachment hole is placed centrally just above the break. Height 39.7mm. Width 35.4mm. Thickness 3.7mm. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A3BE37
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy rotary key, bow, end of hollow, drilled shank and half of elaborate asymmetrical bit missing. The shank, whose hollow is filled with ferrous concreted soil, is of sub-square cross-section and collared. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 313. Extant length 65mm. The bit projects 15mm from the shank. Late 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A3BDA5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver denarius of Marcus Furius Philus, Rome, obverse [...], Janiform head, reverse [...], Roma standing left crowning trophy, Crawford 281/1, weight 3.66g, 119BC
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 28th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A37896
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut farthing of Richard I or John, short cross class 3-4, moneyer uncertain, perhaps Willelm of uncertain mint, c.1190-1204
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A36002
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragmentary silver penny of Edward III, florin coinage of London, North 1114, 1344-51
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A30AA0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Torn and broken fragment of a double patard of Philip the Fair of Burgundy, Flanders, Gelder and Hoc 61-5, weight 0.77g, 1485
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A2C3C6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Torn and broken fragment of a silver coin, worn almost smooth and illegible, does not appear English, perhaps a half real of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, in which case 1497-1537
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A2C1E2
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy harness mount with twin spikes bent outward on the reverse. Form and decoration as Read 2001, no. 308. Length 42mm. Width 21mm. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A2B880
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken fragment of a silver groat or sixpence, worn almost smooth and illegible, period of Mary to Elizabeth, 1553-1603
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A2AC30
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead token, cast, maximum diameter 15mm, crude 8-pointed star on one side, cross hatching on the other, probably 17th-18th century
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A29E34
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy rotary key with twin internal projections in the kidney-shaped bow, a triple ribbed moulding at the top of the solid shank, and a simple bit. Cf. Read 2001, 67, fig.47, nos. 564-6. Length 38mm. Width of bow 17.5mm. c.1550 - c.1700 AD.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A26572
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy annular framed brooch, just over half survives. The frame is of a flat cross-section and decorated with an outer bordering lines of couter-relief pellets, with arched double lines of pellets on the inner part. External diameter 24.2mm. Internal diameter 14. Thickness 1mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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