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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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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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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-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-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-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-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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