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Record ID: NMS-9D76B6
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gilded copper alloy object of probable Late Saxon date (c. AD 851 - 1065). A sheet rectangular plate with an old break at one end, tapering to a pointed terminal at the other end. One face exhibits an engraved interlace design whcih retains traces of gilding within the recesses. The other face is flat and undecorated. Both long edges exhibit evidence of old breaks.
Probably a fragment from a strap end. See: WREX-E4B61E.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9C9B14
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy possible openwork scabbard chape, comprising one curving flat sectioned arm broken beyond a perforated oval expansion at one (containing copper alloy rivet) end, the other end broken just beyond one of three short rectangular projections on the convex outside edge, between which are multiple engraved transverse grooves. Probably later 11th- or 12th-century and from a sword scabbard. It bears some resemblance to an example from Sporle with Palgrave (HER 1058, NMS-F59326 ). Extant length 29mm. Width 5mm. 1.2mm thick.
(Finder's number JW.Rs 762)
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9BD66C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon to Late Saxon tinned copper alloy strap end, bent in two, broken split attachment end, across rivet-hole in back part, front part missing. Panel of face with foliar motif damaged and obscured by the bend, no trace of inlay. Worn animal-head terminal with large ears. Thomas Class A, probably Type 2. Length (unbent) 60mm. Width 14mm. 9th century.
(Finder's number DW7-255)
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9B9BAE
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon stirrup strap mount of Williams' (1997) Class A Type 1 dating to the period c. AD 950 - 1100. A pentagonal plate with pierced semi-circular knop at the apex filled with the corroded remains of an iron rivet. The front exhibits an engraved curvelinear symmetrical design, the bottom part of which is partially obscured by iron corrosion product from two further rivets. On the back is a flange projecting at a right angle from the bottom edge and terminating in an old break.
See: Williams, D.F, 1997, p. 26 & 33, fig. 20, nos. 58 - 60, all of whcih are from East Ang…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-9B9076
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver, early medieval, cut half penny of Edward the Confessor (AD. 1042 - 1066) AD. 1050 - 1053. Expanding cross type 820 - 823.
Obverse, bust of king left, holding sceptre in front, D REX
Reverse, short cross, voided, with expanding limbs, central pellet within concentric circles IC ON D[IN?]
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9B4944
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle - Late Saxon copper alloy strap end of Thomas Class A dating to the period c. AD 750 - 900. It commences in an old break just above the zoomorphic terminal consisiting of an animal's head with elongated teardrop-shaped ears. The snout is missing due to an old break.
See: Thomas, 2003, p. 2 - 3.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9ADB0B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper alloy Early Saxon cruciform brooch, probably Martin Type 1, dating to the period c. AD 420 - 500. It commences in an old break at the junction between the bow and the catchplate. A transverse collar is visible along the line of the break. The the junction between the catchplate and foot is a moulded triple collar below which projects the moulded zoomorphic foot in the form of an animal's head. It exhibits bulbous eyes set either side of a long triangular-sectioned head and bulbous flared nostrils.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-9A0687
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late early-medieval, Anglo-Scandinavian (1000-1100) simple zoomorphic stirrup terminal of Williams Group 4 (1997), retaining part of the iron stirrup enclosed within it.
The main shaft of the stirrup terminal is semi-circular in cross-section, being flat and undecorated to the reverse. The front has moulded decoration, at the open top of the shaft two bands with c.8 vertical mouldings between, their cross-section a pronounced convex at this point. Below, and at the opposite end, is a beast's head, his snout forming the pointed terminal beyond the cross-bar of the stirrup. The brow …
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2019
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