Record ID: HESH-5ACDF4
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lilly Chitty Collection An Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead (2,500 to 1,500 BC), light grey in colour. This piece is sub-triangular in plan and sub-rectilinear in section. A comparatively coarsely-made piece to the other of these 10 (of which this is the last, with the number "10" written in biro on the ventral face), this piece is probably of the Beaker period, spanning the first few centuries of the Bronze Age. The one edge has been ripple-flaked quite neatly, whereas the other has not been - this could have been a utilised flake. The better-worked edge has a neate…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'The Llan', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-5ABF89
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy casting jet of ovoid cross-section. The runner or runners have been lost. Weight 16.14g. Date unknown.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 20th December 2014
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Record ID: HESH-5ABDE1
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lilly Chitty Collection A Late Neolithic oblique arrowhead (3,200 to 2,500 BC), grey in colour with some small lighter inclusions. This piece is sub-triangular in plan and sub-rectilinear in section. The ninth of 10 pieces, the number "9" has been written in biro on the dorsal face. This arrowhead has been bifacially worked on all sides from a flake, with the tip missing, most likely broken off during its period in the soil as it is not a clean break. The thickness at the proximal end suggests that this end was hafted into the end of an arrow, with the distal end providing the p…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'The Llan', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-5AAC63
Object type: THUMB NAIL SCRAPER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lilly Chitty Collection A Bronze Age thumbnail scraper (2,500 to 800 BC), black in colour. This piece is sub-circular in plan and sub-triangular in section. The eighth of 10 pieces, this piece has the number "8" written in biro on a label stuck to the ventral face. This small scraper, made of high quality black flint, has been subjected to a substantial amount of weathering, and was probably found within the vicinity of a paleochannel, as it looks and feels water-worn. Despite this wear, some rings of percussion are still visible on the dorsal face where flakes have been removed…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'The Llan', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-5A8A39
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval writing lead, round-sectioned at the pointed end, square sectioned near the centre and flattened and widened at the other. Biddle 1990, Class II or III. Length 50mm. Maximum width 8mm. 12th - 16th century. Writing leads like this follow the traditional shape of the earlier writing tablet styli, although it is unclear how effective a lead stylus would be for inscribing wax, and it seems more likely that they were used to make grey marks, as pencils. They are difficult to date as they have a long lifespan and examples of similar writing leads from Winchest…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-5A62B9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just over half of a post-medieval double-looped buckle frame, both loops B-shaped, in a grey copper alloy. The form is as larger frames Whitehead 2003, nos. 440-1, with a groove on both sides next to the narrow bar. Estimated length 35mm. Width 23.5mm. c.1600 - c.1720.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 20th December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-5A4535
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy tailor's thimble or sewing ring squashed completely flat, with the sides covered by a spiral of rectangular indentations. Height 10mm. Diameter c.15mm. 16th century.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 31st March 2015
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Record ID: NMS-5A295A
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy rectangular, gently bowed front plate of a medieval or post-medieval box padlock, one corner missing and with about one half of the keyhole extant. There are three rivet holes, one retaining part of a rivet. On the inside two short, straight 5mm-high projections are fixed into slots. They touch and lie in a T-shaped formation. A piece of sheet is ffixed to the rear of one and there is a square aperture in the other. Height 38.2mm. Width estimated on the assumption that the keyhole is central 52mm (extant width 26mm). Thickness 1mm. Height of keyhole 12mm. 13th …
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-59CC0A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy sheet with two small paperclip rivets lying 40mm from each other, perhaps a vessel repair, although now almost flat. Sooted on one face (that opposite the rivet heads). 55 x more than 20mm. Rivets 6 x 6mm and 9 x 6mm. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 20th December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-59B3B8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Everted and slightly thickened rim sherd of a medieval to post-medieval cast copper alloy cooking vessel with external sooting, diameter not accurately measurable, weight 8.11g, 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 9th January 2015
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Record ID: NMS-599AC0
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Nail or unused rivet of rolled and folded copper alloy sheet. The flat head is irregularly pointed oval and the shank round-sectioned and tapering to a spike. A void runs from the head almost to the poinnt. Length 41.6mm. Head 21.3 x 14.5mm. Perhaps medieval, cf. HESH-B555C3.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 20th December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-597BD4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron rod encased in a tube of copper alloy sheet with a butt joint and a deeply engraved zig-zag line. Probably a roller from the inside edge of a medieval composite buckle, cf. NMS-447206 and NMS-C75B57. Similar examples from London have been dated to the 15th century (Fingerlin 1971, Abb. 324-5, Kat. Nr. 229 and 192). Length (or width if part of a buckle) 24.5mm. Diameter 4mm.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 20th December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-592982
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Central element of a medieval copper alloy two-way strap distributor, a rectangular frame with convex long sides and two recessed short sides. Very close parallels from Wiltshire (WILT-D61BF2) and Norfolk (NMS-51ABF8) include two loops or strap ends folded around the recessed sides. 16.5 x 12.5mm. Thickness 3.7mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-58FDEA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small fragment of a medieval copper alloy tongue-shaped composite strap end, part of an outer sheet plate broken at both ends, at one a probably lozengiform knop. Extant length 16mm. Width 9.7mm. 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 20th December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-58EA02
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap fitting, a bar-mount with two rivets, of rectangular cross-section but with a slightly convex front face, cut from a longer bar, cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1138. 5.2 x 17.8 x 1.4mm. Length of rivets 4.1mm. c.1270 - c.1400.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 20th December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-58C739
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy folding strap clasp comprising a composite trapezoidal frame, a folding end with no bar-mount and a rectangular plate with one rivet. The edge of the folding end is concave with a central triangular projection. All elements are sheet metal aprt from the frame's roller and the rivet. Frame 11 x 12.8 - 14.7. Plate 15.9 x 9.5mm. Overall length 25mm. Mid 14th - mid 15th century.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 20th December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-5844CB
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon or Middle Saxon gilt copper alloy mount, perhaps from a strap, comprising two square terminals with three slightly concave sides, both decorated with a quatrefoil in counter-relief, each leaf a pointed oval, and a central bar with a broad moulded groove at its centre, to one side of which there is a small patch of applied silver sheet. On the reverse of both terminals a pierced lug is set transversely. A very close parallel has been recorded from Mid Suffolk, but is in much less fresh condition and has round-sectioned projections on the reverse (SF-0D0A46). Length 32mm. Wi…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 8th September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-5739B6
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete very large decorated copper alloy bar from an Early Saxon wrist clasp of Hines 1993 Form B13, B14 or B17. All is missing from one side of a central rectangular (an ancient break). On the other side a D-sectioned length is interrupted by two transverse ribs, both with median groove, and ends in an apparently plain, square, rectangular-sectioned boss. The central boss carries a Style I motif in counter-relief. Most of the surfaces are covered in a dark material, which on the reverse and sides is quite uneven, almost lumpy, and perhaps the result of burning. There is no visibl…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-56DACB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval tin-coated copper alloy spur buckle, with the pin and the inside edge of the integral plate missing. The frame is almost circular. The plate is of trapezoidal cross-section, i.e. it is thick, wider at the rear and with chamfered sides. Transverse ribs on the sides flank the pin hole. From here the plate tapers past an off-centre rivet hole to a transverse rib beyond which is a slight swelling and then another rib next to the break. Extant length 31mm. Width of frame 14.5mm. Width of plate 9 - 7mm. Thickness 2.3mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 20th December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-56B908
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval rectangular buckle plate of gilt, thick copper alloy sheet with most of the round-section bar of the frame within the fold, with a pin slot and frame recesses. There are three convex-headed rivets in a transverse row surrounded by an engraved rectangle which lies within a pair of die-stamped concentric rectangular grooves, the largest of which covers the complete front face, and each of which is entirely filled with densely packed oblique grooves. A single engraved groove runs from the pin slot to the frame recesses. Gilding is restricted to the front. Length and width 19 and…
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
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