Record ID: NMS-C6249B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval tinned or silvered copper alloy one-piece rectangular socketed strap end with two rivet holes.The front face is decorated with four roundels in counter-relief, each gently concave and engraved with a trefoil on a hatched ground and set within a circle. The trefoils are to be viewed with the attachment edge uppermost. White-metal coating is extant on the front face only. This piece is broadly related to a small class of rather more heavy-duty 12th-century strap ends with thickened transverse mouldings at the outside edge (Ashley 2016, fig. 18.8 nos. 50-1; NMS-86F6F5, NMS-38ED0…
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 29th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C5A335
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead cloth seal, two-part, sub-circular. The matrix employed was too large for the blank, and as a result the outer part of some of the peripheral legend is missing. I · V and pellets with TAVN[TO]N SEARGE : around and between two circles of pellets // (rivet only) part of uncertain motif with ...IOH... around. Diameter 22.5 - 26mm. The Taunton textile industry was dominant in Somerset from the middle of the 17th century (Egan 1994, 50-1). See NMS-907FE8, a Taunton cloth seal found at Postwick, Norfolk (HER 34967).
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C52055
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy toy musket with the stock and most of the trigger guard missing. Forsyth with Egan 2005, Type 6. Extant length 55.5mm. c.1600 - c.1640.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C4DB73
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy hinged book clasp. One end is missing and at the other there is a single hinge loop. The sides are shaped with a series of moulded cut-outs.and decoration comprises longitudinal, oblique and transverse engraved lines. A similar but much more elaborately decorated example was found at Quidenham, Norfolk (HER 37284, NMS-047F04). Extant length 46mm. Width 19mm. 16th century.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C46169
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy seal matrix with a conical openwork handle with four apertures. Oval, depicting a stylised mask of a lion. 14 x 11.5mm. Height 25.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2015
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Record ID: NMS-C3E229
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two post-medieval copper alloy buttons, both consisting of a solid plano-convex head and an integral undrilled loop. Diameters and lengths 12 and 14.7mm and 10 and 11.7mm. 16th century.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C3B3F4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy shoe buckle with an incomplete chape and an iron spindle. The sub-rectangular frame is undecorated apart from a pir of longitudinal grooves in front of both spindle housings. The chape, which has lost its inside edge, carries a maker's stamp TER above an illegible letter or symbol. Length and width of frame 28.8 and 18.1mm. c.1660 - c.1720.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C36EA9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy double-looped buckle frame, both loops oval, with a wire pin and a very slight lobe at the ends of the bar. 23 x 17.5mm. 15th - early 16th century.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C3562A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sheet copper alloy rectangular buckle plate with pin slot, frame recesses, two rivet holes (one rivet) near the inside edge and apparently foliar repoussé decoration in which there is a pronounced median rib. The inside edge is distorted. Width 11mm. Extant length 25.2mm. The rear part is 3mm shorter. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C333D9
Object type: DIE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy die-stamp or patrix, comprising a cast disc with a secondary perforation for suspension. The face of the disc is engraved. The decription is that of the impression taken from the patrix: A bird (probably a dove) statant reguardant, with its sinister wing elevated and inverted, with pecked dots on the neck and throat and engraved lines on the body and wings representing feathers. There is an elaborate curled foliate sprig rising behind the tail. The bird is set within a beaded outer border which is interrupted by the perforation, positioned above the central devic…
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-C287DE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Hinged brooch, with almost all of the pin, a small part of the outer end of one wing and the catchplate and the lower end of the bow missing. There is a single groove at the outer end of both wing(s) and a median rib on the D-sectioned bow. Mackreth 2011, CD H 4.c. Extant wingspan and length 29 and 30.5mm. c.55 - c.100 AD.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Saturday 26th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C23F02
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval lead weight for 1 oz Avoirdupois, discoidal, two secondary perforations, diameter 31mm, 4mm thick. Weighs 25.35g, 391.2 grains (1 oz Avoirdupois = 437.5 grains). c.14th-c.17th century.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C2288B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead weight, conical with central perforation, height 12mm, diameter 16.5mm, with central perforation, weighing 15.48g / 0.5465 oz / 239.2 grains. For 1/2 oz Troy (= 240 grains). Perhaps 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C206BD
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button with an integral drilled loop: biconical, hollow openwork head with a small central nipple and six triangular perforations on the front face, and with six perforations on the rear face. Comparable with Baart et al. 1977, 185, no.235, Margeson 1993, 20-2, fig. 11 no.102 and Read 2005, 30, no. 93. Diameter 11mm. Length 17.5mm. 16th century.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C1E8D1
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
5 medieval or post-medieval lead weights: 3 tubular weighing 49.97g, 75.72g and 102.07g; 1 plano-convex with large central perforation weighing 18.25g; 1 irregular flattish section with large perforation weighing15.53g. 14th-17th century.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C1BFD1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat with an unpierced lug at the top. Circular, diameter 30mm. Thickness 4.4mm. On the reverse there is an engraved equal-armed cross immediately below the lug. A fleur-de-lis. + S' hENRICII . FILII . ALANII (Seal of Henry son of Alan). The letters L lack basal cross-bars and are indistinguishable from the letter I, though longer. 13th century.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C192FA
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd (measuring c.90 x c.70mm) of hand-built pottery in quite fresh condition, reduced with ill-sorted sparse white (chalk) inclusions, the largest 6mm across. There are a few rounded voids on the inner surface, the largest 5mm across. Both surface are smoothed. Slightly less than half of the break is quite recent. Thickness 9 - 13.5mm. Weight 111g. Early Saxon or possibly Middle Saxon. c.430 - c.725.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C18B3C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Front part of a medieval rectangular gilt copper alloy buckle plate broken across the fold, with pin slot, frame recesses and slight triangular attachment end, three rivet-holes. Extant length 26.5mm. Width 12.5mm. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C0D83C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Henry II, short cross class 1b, moneyer Iefrei of London, 1180-5
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C0CA66
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut halfpenny of Henry II, short cross class 1, uncertain mint and moneyer, 1180-9
Created on: Friday 19th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th September 2014
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