Record ID: NMS-B37008
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and badly distorted medieval copper alloy pendent loop of L- or C-shaped cross-section with a broken terminal loop, and the other end missing. There are three extant attachment holes. Rather extraordinarily, over its full extant length including the terminal loop the object is made from two separate pieces secured by solder. The line of the joint is clearly visible and there is a thin deposit of solder over much of the rear face. Decoration on the front face consists engraved zig-zag in which there is no sign of any inlay. That the decoration was carried out after the solde…
Created on: Saturday 6th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-B2DC7A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete flat, tapering sheet, both ends missing (one broken, the other chopped) with one rivet hole. Decoration comprises lines of finely executed interrupted rocker-arm engraving giving the appearance of tiny addorsed triangles and running parallel to the sides and two punched rings, one with a central dot and one enclosing the rivet hole. Probably part of a medieval buckle plate but perhaps of a strap end. Extant length 23.5mm. Width 9 - 10.8mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 6th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 16th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-B2B3D9
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sheet copper alloy shield-shaped strap end with a notch in both sides, inside edge consisting of three straight lengths, two rivets, and a bar-mount of arched section with a median arris. On the rivet securing the bar-mount there are two rectangular roves, one the other one square. Length 15mm. Width 9.3mm. Mount 4.5 x 9.4mm. c.1270 - c.1450.
Created on: Saturday 6th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 16th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-B2799E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy circular buckle with a tapering strip pin on the central bar which is recessed slightly from the front face. Probably a shoe buckle, cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 216 (a lead alloy example). External diameter 21.5mm. Internal diameter 17.5mm. 15th century.
Created on: Saturday 6th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 16th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-B24481
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy trapezoidal buckle frame with narrowed bar and a sheet roller within a constriction on the straight outside edge. Length 16mm. Width 21.5mm (width of roller 17mm). Similar to an example from Meols (Egan, G. in Griffiths et al. 2007, no. 693). 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 6th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 16th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-B22177
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted medieval copper alloy oval buckle frame with incomplete strip pin, offset, narrowqed bar and a sheet roller within a constriction on the convex outside edge. The roller with its median engraved groove, may be a replacement for it is considerably narrower (5mm) than the constriction (6.5mm). Length c.18mm. Width c.27mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 6th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 16th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-B2037E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle, pin missing: oval frame with offset, narrowed bar and three longitudinal grooves on the straight outside edge; rectangular sheet plate with frame recesses, pin hole and one rivet. Frame 14.9 x 17.6mm. Plate 15 x 8.5mm (rear part narrower, 5.2mm). Overall length 27.5mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 6th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 16th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-B1D24B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle, pin and part of the sheet plate missing: oval frame with offset, narrowed bar and a convex outside edge; distorted rectangular plate with frame recesses, pin slot next to a transverse engraved groove, two rivet holes and a side-to-side engraved line near the missing inside edge. Frame 10 x 13mm. Estimated length of plate 26mm. Width 10mm. The rear part is complete but 1.5 - 3mm narrower. Estimated overall length 39mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 6th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 16th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-B195F8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy buckle, pin and parts of the sheet plate missing: oval frame with offset, narrowed bar and a broad and shallow moulded pin notch or rest flanked by a pair of narrow ribs in the centre of the straight outside edge; rectangular plate with slight frame recesses, pin slot, an engraved groove parallel with both sides, two dome-headed rivets and a hole for a third rivet truncated by a break (one part of the fold and the inside edge missing). Frame 12.5 x 15mm. Extant length of plate 19mm. Width 10mm. Extant overall length 30mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 6th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 16th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-B162BB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy oval buckle frame with a fragment of the sheet plate on the distorted bar which has been pushed inwards. The surfaces are parly covered in corrosion products. Extant length 7.7mm. Width 17.3mm Marzinzik 2003, Typegroup II.z. c.450 - c.650.
Created on: Saturday 6th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-AD3C24
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Norwich farthing token. Obverse; A NORWICH FARTHING 1667. Reverse; Lion facing left surmounted by castle tower contained within flat-topped shield.
Created on: Saturday 6th September 2014
Last updated: Saturday 11th July 2015
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