Record ID: NMS-17A6B8
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper seal matrix with most of the hexagonally faceted handle missing. Circular, diameter 22.5mm. A merchant's mark. * ˑ S' IOhIS ˑ CATFELT ˑ (Seal of John Catfield). 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2021
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Record ID: SF-172585
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) button brooch. It is a flat circular plate with the front face decorated with a frontal helmeted face encircled by an incised line. The details of the face such as the eys, the mouth and the edge of the helmet are realised with incised lines. All the lines have traces of gilding. The back face is plain with a slighlty thickening at one edge. Around the edge of the plate there are several breaks now worn. It is an unusual find in East Anglia while the type is normally found in Kent, see Suzuki (2009, p. 55). It is dated to AD 4…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-1723F4
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button comprising a flat head decorated in punched annulets and chevrons with an elaborate sexfoil within an engraved border, and an integral drilled loop. Cf. Read 2005, nos. 120-2. Length 9mm (of which the head accounts for 2mm). Diameter 15mm. 17th - early 18th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-16EFCD
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button consisting of an almost flat head and an integral drilled loop set off-centre. The slightly convex front is decorated with a rectangular grid of closely spaced pellets. Cf. SUR-41B3A4, IOW-1D4735, DENO-A66E6 and YORYM- F6AB63. Diameter 12.5 - 13mm. Length 15mm. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-16B904
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy Ansate brooch dating to the period c. AD 800 - 910. Cast sub rectangular-sectioned with moulded counter-relief decoration comprising a voided cross paty between four pellets on the flattened centre of the bow and forming the surviving terminal. The surviving end of the bow comprises an angled rectangular panel with engraved bordering groove and four pecked dots. The brooch terminates in a worn transverse break running across the edge of the central bow. Twin pierced lugs containing corroded remains of iron axis bar on reverse. Length …
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 31st October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-16B88C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button consisting of a solid plano-convex head and an integral non-drilled loop. Diameter 12mm. Length 15mm. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-16A86D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One leg integral with part of the base of a medieval to post-medieval cast copper alloy cooking vessel, a thick, stubby and gently tapering example without a separately defined foot. The cross-section is sub-triangular with a median concavity on the inner face (or base of the triangle) and a median rib between slight grooves on the outer face (or apex). External and internal length 65 and 52mm. Width 55 - 49mm. Weight 347g. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-168797
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy object, possibly a book or buckle fitting, dating to the period c. AD 1100 - 1250. Rectangular plate with flat back and a single rivet hole in one corner. This corner has now curled upwards, probably due to post-depositional damage. It exhibts two very straight break lines and appears to have been deliberately broken from a larger object. The front exhibits a moulded relief design of a wyvern, head turned to look back, one front leg raised. Behind it appears to be a larger curved object with moulded annulet decoration. The two surviving original edges e…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-164D36
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy thimble with two notches in the base. Above a plain band the sides carry thirty-six roughly vertical lines of six to eight small round indentations. On the upper part of the sides and on the dome there are six rings of similar marks which become increasingly irregular towards the top. Diameter 15.3mm. Height 13.6mm. c.1330 - c.1450
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-164670
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper nummus, House of Valentinian, Arles, reverse GLORIA ROMANORVM type, mintmark [..]CON, AD367-75
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-163B8B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper nummus of Theodora, Trier, reverse PIETAS ROMANA type, mintmark and further details illegible, AD337-41
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-1631EB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper nummus, House of Constantine, reverse GLORIA EXERCITVS 1 standard type, mintmark and further details illegible, AD337-41
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-162E1E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman contemporary copy of a nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-337), dating to the period AD 321-323 (Reece period 16). EATA[...]QVILLITAS reverse type depicting a globe on an altar inscribed [V]O/[TI]S/[X]X, three stars above. Prototype of the mint of Trier. Cf. RIC VII, p. 191, no. 316 for the prototype.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-16248B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper nummus, House of Constantine, Lyons, VRBS ROMA Wolf and twins type, mintmark SLG, AD330-5
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-161679
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper nummus, House of Constantine, CONSTANTINOPOLIS Victory on prow, mintmark and further details illegible, AD330-5
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-161619
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval to early post medieval copper alloy thimble dating to the period c. AD 1300 - 1550. It is formed of a single piece of copper alloy, cylindrical with a domed, closed top. The body is covered in a series of circular hand-punched pits with a small, plain tonsured area left at the apex. There are two concentric grooves running around the mouth. The thimble has been distorted and is missing a small section on one side. Similar thimbles have been dated to the later part of the medieval period (c. AD 1400-1550) by Edwin Holmes (Sewing Thimbles FRG Datasheet 9) and are common…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 19th March 2018
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Record ID: SF-15EE8A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy unidentified object of an uncertain period. It consists of a head narrowing in a shaft. The head is sub-cylindrical but with attempts of facetting on the sides; on the lower face it narrows continuing with a short hexagonal cross-sectioned shank (15.79 mm long), which tapers towards the break. On the upper face of the head there are traces of other metallic parts soldered and gradually broken off. It is dated to AD 1066-1800. Length: 24.43 mm Width: 14.69 mm Thickness: 8.02 mm Weight: 15.27 g
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eyke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-15C2DA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman bow and fantail brooch (AD c. 50 - c. 150). The brooch is missing pin and catchplate. The wings are cylindrical and the corroded stubs of the spring coil seem to be in situ. The bow is decorated with incised horizontal grooves. The bow tapers to a waist, 6 mm, also decorated with grooves, then widens to form the fan. The fan has a D-shaped cross section at the terminus, 9.6 mm wide, and a central ridge flanked by two sub-rectangular cells. The closest illustration in Hattat (1989) is fig 173, p 314. Overall length 41.7 mm, width 21.9 mm, wei…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 12th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-15B9C7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn post medieval copper alloy farthing token of Charles I dating to the period AD 1625 - 1634. Richmond "rounds" type.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: BUC-15A755
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete but broken copper alloy early medieval small-long brooch, dating from the early 5th to 6th century AD. The brooch is now in two pieces, and missing the pin. The brooch has a rectangular head-plate, with an arched bow extending out from the longer edge. Either side of the arch is a slight raised collar. There are scratches in the centre of the bow, which are possibly decoration. The bow then starts to widen out to the lozenge shaped foot, this is where the worn break occurs. At the terminal end of the foot the lozenge shape tapers into a rounded knop, with a raised c…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th March 2018
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