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Record ID: NMS-51BBF7
Object type: POT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd of medieval Grimston ware pottery, reduced with quite thick external lead glaze, weight 11g. Later 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-51ABFB
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy strap fitting, a two-way distributor or link consisting of three elements, a rectangular frame with two loops or strap ends folded around two opposed and recessed short sides. The loops are secured by an integral rivet which springs from the rear of the rectangular front part. The rear part is slightly narrower and is rounded at the attachment edge. Gilding remains only on the fold of the loops. Cf. a rather more elaborate example from Wiltshire (WILT-D61BF2). Frame 13.6 x 8.2mm. Loops 19 and 18.2 x 5.7mm. Overall length 42.5mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-516BD2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and abraded medieval gilt sheet copper alloy strap fitting, a probably square domed mount with a central rivet hole and an engraved quatrefoil, set saltire-wise. Parts of all the edges are missing. One speck of gilding remains. 8.7mm x probably 8.7mm. Height or thickness 4mm. 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-515116
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy buckle or strap fitting, double looped with one loop D-shaped and the other rectangular. The latter is partly missing. The outside edge is plain, though other examples of this enigmatic type are sometines decorated, cf. Ivens et al. 1995, fig. 156, no. 112 and Egan in Griffiths et al. 2007, cat. nos. 636-41. Length 19.5mm. Width 17.3mm. 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-511D21
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and badly distorted elaborate medieval gilt sheet copper alloy oval buckle plate, parts of the attachment edge of the front part missing (c. 13-14th century). The two parts have been bent almost straight. There are frame recesses, a pin slot, and three rivet holes (one inferred).The attachment edge appears to have been scalloped at the centre and to have had a trefoil projection in both corners. There are traces of rocker-arm engraving. The rear part is triangular and with one rivet hole, in which the rivet remains and is bent around a square rove. Length c.28mm. Width c…
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Friday 5th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-50EDD0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy oval buckle frame with a strip pin, offset, narrowed bar and a grooved lip on the outside edge. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 279 and 306-11. Length 10.5mm. Width 13.7mm. 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-50B971
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two pieces of undatable but not recent copper alloy casting waste, weight 31.97g: - rounded jet with one runner. - formless lump with several blind round holes and three round perforations.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-50A2EE
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to recent copper alloy wire blunt-hooked clasp of Read 2008 Class A, Type I. 20 x 18mm. Mid 15th - 20th century.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-507DB8
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman lead steelyard weight, biconical with an embedded iron wire suspension loop projecting from both ends, one loop broken. Diameter 28 - 29mm. Height 46mm (without loops 27mm). Weight 102g. c.43 - c.409.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-502632
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Iron Age or Roman copper alloy Colchester or Colchester Derivative brooch, the lower end of the bow with a solid catchplate. The undecorated bow tapers to a possibly moulded broad transverse groove above a slightly projecting or "kicked forward" terminal. Extant length 26mm. c.20 - c.100 AD
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4F32BD
Object type: COMB
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, possibly Late Saxon or medieval copper alloy comb. The upper part is largely taken up with an elongated, probably oval aperture which is truncated by the break. At the intact end this part oversails the lower, and near the end a small triangular lug projects from the top. An offset runs long the full extant length and on both faces so that the upper part is thicker than the lower, the offset being much more pronounced on one face. A short length of the lower part has been left blank. Five sawn teeth are intact and eleven more survive as stumps. The length of the teeth, i.e…
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-4F08E4
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Saxon to medieval sheet copper alloy circular hooked tag, parts of the edge and the tip of the hook missing. A central round hole is within a punched ring which is surrounded by four much smaller ring-and-dots, all within a linear border. Length 12.5mm. Diameter 9mm. Read 2008 early medieval single sharp-hooked clasp Class A, Type 2. 8th - 11th century.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4EDAD2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy finger ring, cast in the form of double-strand rounded-sectioned twisted rods, and tapering to both breaks. Finger ring of plaited rods, both real and casted to appear as such, are a Scandinavian type, as are larger types of ring, "Viking Period finger-rings are characteristically........smaller versions of standard types of arm-ring and neck-ring." (Graham-Campbell 1980, 65, cat. no. 238). See LVPL-CB0EBF and SF-16B905. External diameter 26.5 - 27mm. c.850 - c.1100.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-4E7124
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
About one half of a Middle Saxon copper alloy Ansate brooch in rather battered condition, with an incomplete catchplate on the reverse. The sub-circular terminal is decorated with an engraved single-line cross with a punched ring-and-dot in each angle. On the flat-sectioned bow another ring-and-dot lies between two longitudinal lines. Estimated length c.41mm. Width 11mm. Thörle 2001, Gruppe II C 2a. c.720 - c.800.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-4D7A69
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Polden Hill brooch, most of the pin and part of the solid catchplate missing. The wings are moulded with a reel between two beaded ribs. The D-sectioned bow tapers to apoint and is decorated with a median sunken beaded ridge. Mackreth 2011, CD PH 6.a3. The arrangement of the fitting of the spring into the rear of the head is similar to that of ibid. plate 51 no.21115. Wingspan 26.2mm. Length 50.2mm. c.43 - c.100 AD.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-4D6921
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Everted rim sherd of a medieval to post-medieval cast copper alloy cooking vessel with sooting on the outer face. Diameter c.190mm. Weight 16.01g. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4D4FFE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just over half of a medieval to post-medieval tin-coated copper alloy double-looped buckle frame, both loops oval with a slight lobe at the ends of the bar, and with the loop and part of the D-sectioned shank of the pin. Estimated length 32mm. Width 21.5mm. c.1450 - c.1550.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4D1F6E
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval copper alloy rotary key for a casket, incomplete hollow-ended shank and a simple bit with a symmetrical pair of rounded clefts. Extant length 18mm. Bit 6.5 x 6.5.x 2.5mm. c.1150 - c.1350.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4C3AD7
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon copper alloy figurine of a probably male figure in the round standing "to attention" with arms held down straight by the sides. The lower part is missing, a non-recent break cutting across the hands and through a cast transverse round hole. Facial features are absent, perhaps through wear, apart from drilled eyes. Two incomplete curving horn-like features of flat rectangular cross-section project upwards from the sides of the head. The front faces of both are decorated with three lines of pecked dots, and the most complete horn is broken across a round perforati…
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 6th August 2015
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Record ID: NMS-4BC0B2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval conical lead weight. Basal diameter 18.6 - 19.5mm. Height 19mm. Weight 27.15g / 0.9575oz Avoirdupois. Probably for 1 ounce. c.1300 - c.1700.
Created on: Saturday 1st November 2014
Last updated: Saturday 1st November 2014
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