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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: 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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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-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-552C0D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Post Medieval finger ring. The expanded flat-topped bezel is in the style of a signet ring with the very worn and corroded remnants of a design; possibly a cross pattee within a circle. The 'D' cross section hoop tapers to either side of the bezel before truncating at old breaks. Circa 16th-17th century AD.
Created on: Saturday 20th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 25th December 2014
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