Record ID: NMS-A5FA4D
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon harness link consisting of a D-sectioned shank with collared central boss and a knopped oval loop at both ends. See broadly similar type in Williams (2007) fig. 6a. Width of loop 24mm. Length 73mm. 7mm thick. Weighs 24.10g. 11th century.
Created on: Friday 24th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-A5298C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an Early Saxon copper alloy Small-long brooch of Leeds square-head (plain) type, the headplate and a stump of the bow only, with a single pin lug amongst the remains of the iron spring on the reverse. The front of the headplate is featureless, though a small lobe projects from the centre of the slightly concave top edge. Extant length 20mm. Width 21mm. c.480 - c.530.
Created on: Friday 24th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-A4A751
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four sherds of Late Saxon Thetford-type pottery, two jar rim and two body (one sandwich fired), weight 26g, c.850 - c.1100.
Created on: Friday 24th October 2014
Last updated: Sunday 1st February 2015
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Record ID: NMS-A41C4B
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon bridle side-link from horse harness, knopped lozengiform terminal loops (one broken and missing one side and end), D-sectioned bar with central boss with flanking knops and traces of a large engraved ring-and-dot. Extant length 53mm. Width (at loop) 28.5mm. Weight 10.58g. 11th century.
Created on: Friday 24th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-A3AC66
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy tongue-shaped strap-end (Thomas Class E, Type 1), in very abraded condition, attachment-end missing. The alloy is purplish on the surface. There are the remains of nine openwork apertures (upper two broken), set symmetrically around a central calyx with curled tendrils in debased Winchester style. Extant length 34mm. Width 18mm. Weighs 4.23g. 10th-11th century.
Created on: Friday 24th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th January 2021
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Record ID: SUR-A393CC
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete circular gold and garnet cloisonné setting, probably once part of a larger composite object. The gold base-plate is circular and plain on the reverse. In the centre is a circular depression and the remains of a rivet shank. Blobs of gold close to the rivet most probably represent the remnants of a gold tube forming the means of attachment to another object (see Discussion). The setting has a thick, triple frame consisting of a thick band of twisted, gold beaded wire between two rings of single, untwisted gold beaded wire. The outermost ring of beaded wire has a sl…
Created on: Friday 24th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A2EF54
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch, in very abraded and corroded condition, with no trace of decoration surviving on the convex face. On the concave reverse there is the stump of a single perforated pin lug aligned with the outside edge and containing a corroded remains of the iron pin. The transverse catchplate has been squashed outwards to project slightly beyond the outside edge (probably in antiquity). An Anglo-Scandinavian hybrid arrangment, see Kershaw 2013, figs. 2.1 and 2.2. Diam. 23mm. 1.5mm thick. Weight 4.18g. 10th-century.
Created on: Friday 24th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-A17E1D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval copper alloy disc brooch, with cast Borre-style decoration comprising a concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double-strand knots. The front is very worn, and part of the edge is missing. On the reverse there are the stumps of a transverse pin lug aligned with the edge within iron corrosion from the missing pin and a broken transverse catchplate. Diameter 29mm. Weighs 5.27g. A common 10th-century type in East Anglia carrying a design based on a Scandinavian prototype, see West 1998, fig. 134.8, Margeson 1997, fig. 28, an…
Created on: Friday 24th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th January 2021
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