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Record ID: NMS-D013E4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete gilt copper alloy supporting-arm brooch, with the footplate missing. The iron spring is held by three pierced lugs above each of which there is an animal-head lobe on the front face. A similar animal head projects from both ends of the headplate and a finely beaded rib runs between them. Both angles between the headplate and the bow are edged by elaborately moulded animals. A pair of median grooves on the tapering D-sectioned bow extends down to a pair of transverse grooves just above the (not recent) break. Below the animals a row of billet moulding flanks the median groov…
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-CE9D8D
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy pin with polyhedral head, collar and shank swollen towards tip. The head is of rectangular cross-section and decorated with punched ring-and-dots, sixteen in all, one on each of the eight chamfered corners and on both of the short faces, and three on both long faces. The top face has been unadorned. At less than one third of the way down its length the shank has been bent through c.130 degrees. Rogers N. in Evans and Loveluck 2009, Type 232. Riddler, I. in Tester et al. 2014, sub-type 2. Head width 7.5mm, thickness 5.5mm, length above collar 10mm. Overal len…
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-CD6009
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup mount, comprising a collar at the upper end of the worn cast semi-circular sheath in the form of an animal-head terminal, blind hole in both moulded ears, semi-circular mouldings form brows, short slightly thickened snout. Broken projections for missing jaw or mouth. Worn and corroded purplish metal. Corroded solder on the hollow reverse. Length 26.5mm. Width 10mm. (Williams' provisional Unclassified Zoomorphic Class). 11th century.
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-CCF84D
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Jar rim of Late Saxon Thetford-type ware pottery jar, diameter 150mm, weight 9g, c.850 - c.1100.
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Sunday 1st February 2015
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Record ID: NMS-CC7155
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval Scandinavian cast copper alloy Borre-style convex disc brooch of Jansson's Type II A, with three inward-looking Borre style animal heads separated by the lobes of a double-contoured trefoil (cf. Kershaw 2013, p.50, fig. 3.7). On the reverse, a Scandinavian arrangement for attachment comprising a double pin-lug (with iron corrosion in perforations), a catch-plate set at right-angles to the edge and the stumps of a similarly set loop for a chain or pendant. Diameter 25.5mm. Height, excluding fittings on reverse, 5mm. Weight 7.79g. 10th century.
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
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Record ID: GLO-CBE696
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end that is made from a long and thick, oval cross-section rod. The main body is undecorated, the forward edge is decorated with an animal facemask with a double collar behind. The attachment end is slotted for the strap, there is a single copper alloy rivet in place. This is a Thomas class B type 1 which dates it to the late 8th early 11th century.
Thomas G, 2005, Late Anglo-Saxon & Viking Strap-ends 750-1100 Finds Research Group AD700-1700 Datasheet 32.
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 16th January 2015
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Record ID: HAMP-CB8EC5
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Early-Medieval (1000-1100) copper alloy stirrup strap mount with white-metal (probably silver) inlay, of Williams Class A Type 1, with additional decoration belonging to Type 5. It has some damage to the flange which is of Type A (Common right angle) and 7.03mm deep and retains two corroded iron rivets. A corroded iron rivet also remains in the pierced apex.
The mount is pentagonal in shape and depicts a pair of Scandinavian-inspired beasts, both with a pointed oval eye, facing downwards with a single tendril between them and joined by a single union knot (Williams…
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 1st April 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Fittleworth', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NMS-CA6D2D
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two body sherds of Early Saxon pottery, both dark reduced, one possibly basal, with an oxidised patch on the exterior, sandy, the other finer, with red inclusions and with smoothed surfaces. Weight 14g. Mid 5th - 7th century.
Found close to findspot of bracteate die (NMS-25CDD3).
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 7th November 2014
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This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NMS-CA1141
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd of a small Late Saxon to medieval pottery, an Early Medieval Sandwich Ware bowl, diameter c.150mm, cf. Jennings 1981, no. 190, weight 11g. Far from a common form in this fabric. c.1000 - c.1200.
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 7th November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C98E27
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Saxon bridle side-link from horse harness, incomplete knopped oval terminal loop with part of one side and one knop (of three) is missing. Broken D-sectioned bar with engraved transverse lines on face and slightly hollowed reverse. Extant length 35.5mm. Extant width (at loop) 16mm. 6mm thick. Weight 7.47g. 11th century.
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 7th November 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-C98B8B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (Late Anglo-Saxon) copper alloy strap-end of late 8th to 11th century date
The strap-end is of Thomas' (2003, p 4)[1] Class B, Type 1 and is complete but is slightly distorted (with a length of 37.5mm and a weight of 3.4g). The strap-end is widest at the split attachment end (at 8.5mm wide and 4.3mm deep), which is near-straight and the two attachment rivets remain in place. The sides of the strap-end converge towards the terminal (to a minimum width of 5.5mm where it has a thickness of 1.6mm). The shaft is mostly undecorated but had three sets of parallel incised li…
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 7th November 2014
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Record ID: IOW-C8E077
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver-gilt great square-headed brooch (c. 410-650). Treasure case 2014 T811 (addenda to 2003 T208).
This foot-plate fragment is part the inner foot-plate panel with a central concave-sided lozenge shaped cell. The cell has a voided border of inner pellets and outer zigzags which follow the outline of the cell. Small triangular recesses created by the zigzag motifs may have been filled with niello. The rear face is flat and has the remains of a catch-plate.
The design is very similar to the foot-plate inner panels on a trio of brooch…
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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