Record ID: NMS-4CB3F1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy oval buckle frame, one side and almost all of the offset and narrowed bar missing. The extant end of the bar protrudes at the side. In the centre of the sub-triangular outside edge a pin notch extends to an elaborate knop with engraved chevrons between lateral scrolls. The two halves of the edge are framed by lines of finely executed interrupted rocker-arm engraving giving the appearance of tiny addorsed triangles and within both frames are six short oblique lines of the same. Estimated length and width 24 and 38mm. c.1250 - c.1350 AD.
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-4E6515
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon copper alloy Cruciform brooch of Åberg 1926, Group I, lower part of the footplate missing. The fully round top knob is cast separately and presumably attached with solder. It is waisted, decorated with three encircling grooves below and above the waist, and ends in a tab projecting in front of the headplate. This is decorated along both lateral edges with a (probably punched) broad groove containing a row of pellets. The D-sectioned bow tapers from top to base, at both of which is a rectangular panel forming facets. There is a similar transverse groove with pel…
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-4DE062
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, probably medieval, copper alloy flat mount with a pair of integral square-sectioned attachment shanks on the reverse, probably rectangular, one narrow edge missing. There are two square notches in each of the three surviving sides. A thin deposit of pale grey material on the front face may be tinning or solder. No parallel noted. Extant length 15mm. Width 8mm. Thickness 4.5mm (including shank, length 3.5mm). Perhaps 12th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-512165
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman Colchester copper alloy steelyard weight, a case or shell only, lacking its lead core and iron suspension loop, pear-shaped, round-sectioned with a round opening in the casing at the top and base, the former within a collar. Decoration consists of circumferential grooves, three near the base, three just below the widest part, three more nearer the top and one beneath the collar. The object is abraded and damage has casued dents and two holes. Height 54.5mm. Diameter 45.5mm. c.43 - c.410 AD. Similar to examples from Barnham Broom, Norfolk (HER 28370, NMS-4B1C86), Re…
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th May 2015
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Record ID: NMS-5164B3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Slightly distorted medieval copper alloy oval buckle frame with incomplete strip pin, offset, narrowed bar, and wide outside edge. The latter is decorated with a symmetrical scrolled motif in counter-relief and was once inlaid with enamel. One speck of blue enamel remains. Probably a Limoges product. 23 x 38mm. First half 13th century.
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 12th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-50FCA2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Hinged brooch with an iron axis bar, and with most of the pin and the lower end of the bow and catchplate missing. Mackreth 2011, CD H 4.c. Decoration comprises a pair of engraved grooves near the outer end of the wings and a median rib on the round-sectioned bow. Wingspan 35mm. Extant length 39.5mm. c.55 - c.80 AD.
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 22nd May 2014
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Record ID: CORN-56F841
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Nuremburg jetton of the 'French shield' type, anonymous stock, dating from c.AD 1500-1525. Obverse: (Ficitious legend) BEOLE:AVE:VBOLEN:VBOLE, Shield of France charged with three lis around central pellet, surmounted by a crown that interrupts the legend, with pellets and fleurets either side of the shield and within an inner circle. Reverse: (Fictitious legend) BEOLENEOBVNEOBVNEOBVNEO, An Imperial orb surmounted by a cross pattee within a double stranded trefoil, all within an inner circle. Mitchiner, 1988: nos.1085-6.
Created on: Sunday 4th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
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Record ID: NMS-518FC3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and very abraded copper alloy Roman Colchester brooch, stumps only of the wings, forward facing hook and spring. The bow ends in a spike and has lost the catchplate. Length 18.9mm. Mackreth 2011, Colchester type 7.aa. Late in the sequence of Colchesters, c.50 - c.70 AD.
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4F4043
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval tin-coated copper alloy strap mount with two iron rivets, a sexfoil with a domed centre. Finished as Egan and Pritchard 1991, fig. 118 A. Diameter 24.5mm. Height 4.5mm. c.1350 - c.1450.
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Saturday 3rd May 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4F1901
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button with flat head and integral drilled loop. In the centre of the head a blind hole sits within a finely incised concentric circle. Diameter 19.5mm. Length 12mm. 17th - early 18th century.
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Saturday 3rd May 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4ECC46
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated copper alloy ring of variable cross-section, D-shaped to ovoid. External and internal diameter 14.5 and 9mm. Width 3.2 - 4.4mm. Thickness 1.8 - 2.6mm. Weight 2.33g. Perhaps Roman or earlier.
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Saturday 3rd May 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4D5D45
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd of a post-medieval cast copper alloy bowl, comprising about 1/12th of the circumference. The wall rises to a plain rim of pointed cross-section. Diameter 230mm. Extant height 26mm. Thickness 1 - 2mm. Weight 47.49g. Perhaps 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Saturday 3rd May 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4D1885
Object type: HARNESS HOOK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy harness mount, a bar with one end broken. At the other end an elongated lobe lies next to a rivet hole around which the front face is entirely obscured by corroded iron. The remainder consists of three rectangular bosses, their flat tops decorated with cross-hatched engraving, and of two short lengths of triangular section with a chamfered apex. Cf. SF-B7F806 and NMS-9E1DA7. A few specks of gilding survive. Extant length 40.5mm. Width 9.5mm. Thickness 2.8mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Saturday 3rd May 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4CCD41
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval tin-coated copper alloy oval buckle frame with an offset, narrowed bar and a convex outside edge. 11.8 x 13.3mm. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 274. c.1270 - c.1300.
Created on: Saturday 3rd May 2014
Last updated: Saturday 3rd May 2014
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