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    • Created: Friday 27th June 2014
    • Primary material:Copper alloy

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Record ID: PUBLIC-DEA167
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Complete post-Medieval cast copper-alloy double-looped buckle (c.1500-1650). The frame is convex at the front and concave at the rear. Each loop is oval in plan and similar in size. On the upper face both loops exhibit a pin rest. The narrowed central bar is sub-triangular in cross-section, flat at the rear, and has a small pointed projection at each end. The frame has a powdery green patina with areas of corrosion. A copper alloy pin fashioned from sheet is present on the pin bar.
Created on: Saturday 28th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 9th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: PUBLIC-DDCB81
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
A corroded Medieval copper-alloy strap loop. It consists of a sub rectangular loop and integral circular rivet centrally placed on one of the larger outward facing edges. The frame is of an uneven sub rectangular cross section. The surface has a dark green patina which is abraded on high spots from contact with the soil. It measures 18.66 mm long , is 20.29 mm wide and 3.85 mm thick. It weighs 3.26 grammes and dates from 1250-1400 AD.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 9th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: PUBLIC-DD410A
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published Find published
A post-medieval copper-alloy Nuremberg jetton of anonymous issuer. 'Lion of Saint Mark' type with fictitious legend dating to c. 1500-c. 1570. Minted at Nuremberg. See Mitchiner (1988, 362-363). It measures 26.66mm in diameter, 0.92mm in thickness and weighs 3.08g
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 27th October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: PUBLIC-DCE628
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy belt or strap mount of Post-Medieval date. It has an openwork plate that is sub-triangular in form with a central triangular aperture. The tip of the triangular plate is elongated with projecting semi-circular knops to each side and an acorn shaped knop at the base. At the top of the plate is a central lozenge shaped projecting knop. The front face of the mount is slightly worn with moulded relief decoration comprising grooved borders and diagonal cross banding. The back face is concave and undecorated, with remains of centrally placed integral cast rivets or lugs …
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 9th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-DA1B94
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Just over half of a post-medieval copper alloy sub-rectangular shoe buckle frame with the ends of an iron spindle in housings. Unusually the decoration is not moulded. Six deeply punched ring-and-dots cover the centre of the edge. On both rounded corners there are seven V-sectioned radial grooves, and on the sides cross-hatched filed grooves. Estimated length 28mm. Width 23mm. c.1660 - c.1720.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 20th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-D9EC7B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy oval buckle frame with an offset, narrowed bar (broken near one end and worn by the missing pin in the centre. On the straight outside edge two knops flank a constriction in which there is a sheet roller. Unusually, this is decorated with oblique engraved grooves. Length 19mm. Width 23mm. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 298, 301 and 317. c.1270 - c.1400.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D9CA91
Object type: MIRROR CASE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
One half of a medieval copper alloy mirror case decorated on the outer face with double lines of finely executed interrupted rocker-arm engraving giving the appearance of tiny addorsed triangles and forming a "crude, rounded, open cross". A double lug is pierced and retains a rivet or spindle, and the incomplete single one is unpierced. A deposit of white material (calcium carbonate) on the inside around the edge is the cement that would have secured the glass. The form of the object, its method of closure and its decoration are all extremely standardised, despite the labour-intensive…
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th June 2014
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Record ID: BM-D8F24E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Copper alloy nummus of the 1st Tetrarchy (AD 294-305), dating to AD 296-7 (Reece Period 15), GENIO POPVLI ROMANI. Mint of Trier. c.f. RIC VI, p. 181-3
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D8AF23
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Radiate (1) 1) Irregular radiate, reverse garbled figure, weight xx, c.AD275-86 Siliquae (3) 2) Roma left holding Victory, clipped and fragmentary, 3) Magnus Maximus, VIRTVS ROMANORVM, clipped and further details illegible, AD383-88 4) Arcadius, Trier, VIRTVS ROMANORVM, Roma seated left holding Victory, Nummi 5) House of Constantine, irregular issue, GLORIA EXERCITVS 2 standard prototype, broken fragment, c.AD330-48 6) Valentinian I, Arles or Lyons, GLORIA ROMANORVM, mintmark OF/II//[...], 367-75 7) Valentinian I, Siscia, SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE, mintmark R ov…
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 5th June 2015
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Record ID: NMS-D84CC3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Fragment of a post-medieval copper alloy buckle frame, one triangular and chamfered edge with stumps of the sides. The complete object was probably double-looped, with both trapezoidal, cf. Whitehead 2003, nos. 510-5, though rather narrower than normal, width 21mm. c.1620 - c.1680.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D81ED5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval copper alloy strap end, a rectangular piece of sheet, broken at one end and with a single rivet hole near the other. One face is partly covered with silvery solder. Extant length 21.5mm. Width 10..8mm. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D811C2
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy harness pendant in the form of a stylised scallop shell with five radial grooves. A very small example. Cf. a pendant from a context of the late 1140s or 1150s at Castle Acre Castle, Norfolk (Goodall, A.R. in Coad and Streeten 1982, 238-9, fig. 44 no. 36). Height 17.5mm. Width 8.8mm. 12th century.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Saturday 28th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D7F53D
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy rivet, dome-headed, in broken scrap of sheet plate and with a circular rove. Length 4mm. Diam. 6mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D7D6D8
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval or post-medieval cast copper alloy scale from the handle of a scale-tang knife, transverse break across oblique cross-hatching and perforation containing a corroded iron rivet at broken end, the other surviving original end with slightly rounded angles. The reverse with traces iron corrosion and solder. Surviving length 14mm. Width at break 9mm, at terminal 8.5mm. Thickness 1mm. Perhaps 16th-17th century.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D7D497
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Fragment of a Roman copper alloy bracelet, both ends missing. Decoration consists of a repeated stamped S motif between engraved lines running parallel to the sides. Width 5.3mm. Thickness 0.7mm. Extant length as curved 25mm. Cf. Crummy 1983, no. 1705. 3rd - 4th century.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Saturday 16th August 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D7A737
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age copper alloy awl with rectangular-sectioned tapering tang and blade, the latter becoming round-sectioned towards the point. Length 64.4mm. Width and thickness at centre 5 and 4mm. Weight 6.39g. c.1000 - c.701 BC
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D79182
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
A copper alloy radiate of Gallienus (sole reign, AD 260-68) (Reece Period 13), VICTORIA AET, Victory standing left holding wreath and palm. Cunetio, p. 117, no. 1240.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 30th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Hill', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-D7286C
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy hooked book clasp in abraded condition, with two rivets through the fishtail terminal, three ring-and-dots nearby (two with dots as holes), a centrally placed larger ring and dot, and an iron-filled rivet hole near the hook.There is much iron staining on the reverse. The sides are parallel. Length 73mm. Width 16.5mm (21mm at the terminal). 16th century.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D72131
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Tiny medieval copper alloy oval buckle frame, worn flat-sectioned, offset narrowed bar, pin missing. Length 9mm. Width 10mm. 1mm thick. c.1250 - c.1500.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D6F946
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Rather abraded medieval copper alloy annular buckle frame with a central bar, very similar to Whitehead 2003, nos. 272-4. There is a transverse groove between each "petal" but no other decoration has survived. 30 x 29mm. c.1450 - c.1540.
Created on: Friday 27th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th June 2014
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