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Record ID: NMS-CE78B5
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button comprising a solid bi-convex head and an integral non-drilled loop. Diameter 11mm. Length 15mm. 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-CE6D4F
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval tin-coated copper alloy spoon, with most of the oval-sectioned stem and parts of the bowl missing. The bowl is oval with a rat tail on the underside. Extant length 40mm. Bowl 31.5 x 17.4mm. Extant length of rat tail 20mm. Cross-section of stem at junction with bowl 3.5 x 2.3mm. c.1660 - c.1750.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-CE5785
Object type: JEWS HARP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted and abraded post-medieval copper alloy jew's harp with traces of a rabbet for an iron tongue. Length c.46mm, width 23mm, thickness 3mm. Not closely datable, but 16th cent. or later.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-CE4673
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two post-medieval copper alloy harness mounts, both almost flat, 17th century: - asymmetrical with the stumps of two integral round-sectioned attachment spikes on the reverse. One terminal is a fleur-de-lis, the other a small lobe. Counter-relief decoration on the gilt front comprises details of the fleur, scrolls and pellets. The form is broadly comparable with that of NMS-F2396F. Length and width 31.3 and 13.2mm. - in the form of an acorn, rather abraded, with two integral round sectionedattachment spikes on the reverse, one a stump only. Length 20.5mm. Width 9mm.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-CDF9D2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Dish-support integral with a rim sherd of a medieval copper alloy chafing dish. Though the support is blunt-ended rather than pointed the vessel was of Lewis 1973, Type A. External length of support 28mm. Width 12.5mm. Diameter of dish not accurately measurable. Weight 23.51g. c.1475 - c.1540.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Sunday 9th June 2019
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Record ID: NMS-CDC586
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two small rim sherds of medieval to post-medieval cast copper alloy cooking vessels, both everted and thickened, with external sooting, diameters not measurable, weight 10.00g. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-CDB51A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a medieval sheet copper alloy strap-end made from one rectangular piece folded widthways and broken at the fold, with a single rivet hole near the attachment edge. Thin lines of solder on the inner face along the sides would have retained triangular strips, cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 598-601. 21.5mm. Width 15.4mm. Second half 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-CDA1BF
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy contemporary copy of a radiate of the deified Claudius II (Divo Claudio) dating to the period c. AD 275 - 285. Copying CONSECRATIO reverse type depicting an altar.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 7th August 2020
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Record ID: NLM-CD891D
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy book clasp of Howsam type A.9.2. Cast hollow sub-rectangular box-type plate, with a solid pointed rhomboid terminal with a more regular rhomboid panel on its upper surface. Part of the plate is lost, and the terminal at the closed end is missing. Gilding traces are retained in angles and on the sides of the terminal. A peg hole of diameter 3mm appears centrally on the back of the terminal. Length: 48.2mm, Width: 23.5mm,Thickness (at terminal): 7.7mm, Weight: 11.56g. These are dated broadly to the 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunham-on-Trent', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-CD8267
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn Roman copper alloy nummus of Constantine i dating to the period AD 330 - 335 (Reece Period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting two soldiers and two standards. Uncertain mint.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Record ID: NLM-CD7DDA
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount. Cast discoid plate with a central hemispherical concavo-convex or hollow boss and a broad flat rim. The rim bears features in three concentric orders. The outermost is a juxtaposed series of flat circular stamps which overlie a continuous moulded pattern made up of five fine concentric strands. The median order comprises juxtaposed stamped rectangular panels. The innermost order is made of triple finely moulded circumferential lines divided into small [length 1.5mm] segments by grooves. This decoration retains extensive white metal plating, which extends onto the l…
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunham-on-Trent', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-CD6690
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. Cast narrow zoomorphic strap end with a split end with paired stitching holes of diameter 1.7mm, a central bordered panel of angular interlace ornament and a beast head terminal, Thomas Class A Type 2. The ornament comprises paired chevrons at the inner end, a central saltire and rhomboid juxtaposed with a pair of drilled pits or ring and dot in the latter; and further paired longitudinal lines confined by another pair of chevrons. These details appear incised rather than moulded. Beyond this, a pair of flattened moulded ears are divided from the pointed termi…
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunham on Trent', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-CD5536
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sheet copper alloy shield-shaped strap end with concave sides, perforation at the damaged pointed end with rivet, further rivet secures a C-sectioned bar-mount with convex face, both rivets with circular copper alloy rove on reverse and retaining scrap of cloth. Egan and Pritchard (1991), fig.103, no.732. Length 15.5mm. Width 11.5mm. Bar-mount 4 x 11.5mm. c.1270 - c.1450.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
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Record ID: NLM-CD496E
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end fragment. Cast tongue-shaped strap end with a central longitudinal rib on its display face and a pair of stitching holes of diameter 2mm at its indented inner end, each hole with a slightly raised border; Thomas Class E Type 3. The inner end was split, though now missing its inner leaf. The outer end is lost. This type of strap ends are especially common in the eastern Danelaw and the Irish Sea region. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 875-1100. Length: 29.8mm, Width: 19.5mm, Thickness (at rib): 3.7mm, Weight: 7.40gms
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunham-on-Trent', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-CD13D6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn Roman copper alloy nummus of the House of Constantine dating to the period AD 330 - 335 (Reece Period 17). GLORIA EXERCITVS reverse type depicting two soldiers and two standards. Uncertain mint.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-CCFFD9
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sheet copper alloy shield-shaped strap end with concave sides, perforation at the rounded end with rivet, further rivet secures a C-sectioned bar-mount with convex face and rectanglar cut-out in inner side, both rivets with rectangular copper alloy rove on reverse. Egan and Pritchard (1991), fig.103, no.732. Length 17.5mm. Width 15mm. Bar-mount 6.5 x 15.5mm. c.1270 - c.1450.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
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Record ID: YORYM-CCFC8E
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy prick or 'rivet' spur of Roman date, c.AD 300 - 410. The object comprises a rectangular central plate from which D-sectioned arms extend to either side. The central plate has moulded bifurcated decoration to either end following three transverse grooves. A separate goad with acorn-style terminal is riveted through the plate. Two integral plates project, one above and one below the goad, both of which are incomplete due to worn breaks. Both appear to have been sub-ovate with two parallel perforations. The arms extend from the central plate, curving …
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th November 2020
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Record ID: BUC-CCF2CB
Object type: NAIL CLEANER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete but broken Roman nail cleaner with a swollen blade (Group) dating from the late 1st to 4th century AD. The cleaner is a flat sheet. There is a large circular suspension loop which now has a worn break at the top of the loop, and is distorted. This then narrows into the neck of the cleaner, before widening out into the rounded body. This then narrows again into the shaft of the cleaner, before widening into the two pronged terminal. The terminal is rounded, with central v cut out of the end to create the prongs. There is a central recess in between the prongs, which …
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 5th August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-CCE65A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the front part of a medieval gilt copper alloy rectangular buckle plate, broken at both ends. The face is decorated with a lion passant in relief surrounded by fine punched impressions and a broad undecorated border. Related to a common type, e.g. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 111-2, fig. 72 no. 500. Many similar similar plates, showing a lion passant, either guardant or reguardant, are known, e.g. from Lakenheath, Suffolk (SF-2EBEB3) and Stapleton, North Yorks (SWYOR-524CC3, with references to others by the PAS). Extant length 15.5mm. Width 16mm. 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
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Record ID: NLM-CCD98D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy and iron brooch. Cast hinged Colchester derivative brooch, Mackreth 2011, Chapter 3, Part 4, type H 4.a., plain tubular wings with a single sunken moulding at either end retain an iron axis bar and the stub of a hinged pin. They are clasped by a bow of sub-rectangular section with a plain longitudinal central ridge flanked by gutters running from crest to [probably] its plain foot. There is no trace of catch plate on what remains of the lower bow. Suggested date: Early Roman, 50-125. Length: 32.0mm, Width: 26.2mm, Thickness (crest of bow): 6.5mm, Weight: 10.76gms
Created on: Tuesday 10th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 22nd June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunham-on-Trent', grid reference and parish protected.