Record ID: BM-4C2F48
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy buckle frame dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century AD. The frame is oval in plan with an offset bar and ornate outer edge and separate sheet roller. It measures 20.4mm in length, 20mm in width and 6mm in thickness and weighs 4.9g. For parallels see examples from London published in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 72-74), particularly No. 298.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2019
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Record ID: NMS-565C7C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and distorted front part of a medieval gilt sheet copper alloy trapezoidal buckle plate broken at the fold, with a pin slot, frame recesses, four rivet holes, three with cylindrical headed rivets and, following both sides and both edges, lines of finely executed interrupted rocker-arm engraving giving the appearance of tiny addorsed triangles. Length 34.5mm. Width at the fold 15mm, at the inside edge c.11mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 20th December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-5675F1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete front part of a medieval sheet copper alloy rectangular buckle plate broken across the fold, with a pin slot, frame recess(es), two rivets near the inside edge, a pair of engraved lines following the sides, and a single line along the inside edge. Length 32mm. Width 11.5mm. 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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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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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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