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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-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-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-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-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-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: LANCUM-A45E02
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Probable enamelled copper alloy mount or stud, possibly late Iron Age. The artefact has been affected by corrosion and on the undecorated face this corrosion may have removed all trace of any mounting that may originally have been there. The decorated face consists of a raised eight rayed cross, star, or flower, within a raised circular border. The rays are grouped crudely into pairs and the resultant cells were originally flooded with enamel, the residue of which is present in the form of a dull orange deposit. Hard to date with any certainty but likely to have been produced between …
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 23rd August 2018
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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-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-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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