Record ID: PUBLIC-F37867
Object type: TOBACCO HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead-alloy lid handle from a tobacco box or jar of post-medieval date (c.1650-1800). Description: The handle is sub-oval and floral in design, having eight 'petals' with a central raised boss. A collared fixing shank, circular in section, for attaching the handle to the lid protrudes from the bottom. Measurements: Height 20.8mm; width 24.6 mm and weight 22.4g. Discussion: Similar examples are illustrated in G Bailey's 'Finds identified', 2000, page 62, which he dates to the middle of the 17th century and states that the lead boxes were used to keep moist tobacco …
Created on: Saturday 9th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-EC5395
Object type: POT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two sherds of post-medieval pottery, Glazed Red Earthenware body and salt-glazed stoneware basal, weight 69g, mid 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Saturday 9th February 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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Record ID: NMS-EC28AA
Object type: POT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Eighteen sherds of medieval pottery, body unless otherwise stated, weight 248g, 12th - 15th century: - inturned bowl rim unglazed Grimston ware. - six local unglazed including bowl rim. - eleven Grimston ware with external lead glaze including three basal (one finger-pressed), one oval-sectioned handle and one C-sectioned (i.e. hollow backed) handle.
Created on: Saturday 9th February 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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Record ID: NMS-EC05E8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two sherds of Late Saxon Thetford-type pottery, jar rim, and body from large vessel (thickness 14mm) with small fragment of applied strip, weight 20g, mid 9th - 11th century.
Created on: Saturday 9th February 2019
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2019
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Record ID: NMS-EBEB89
Object type: POT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six sherds of Roman pottery, weight 78g, mid 1st - 4th century: - two greyware body. - one basal, probably greyware but burnt and part oxidised. - two Nar Valley reduced coarse ware, body and beaker or small jar rim. - large jar rim, reduced with oxidised surfaces.
Created on: Saturday 9th February 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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Record ID: NMS-EB180E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two medieval to post-medieval lead weights with median holes, perhaps for use with a line or net, 13th - 18th century: - cast, cylindrical with convex sides, length 27mm, diameter 13 - 18.5mm, hole diameter 7mm, weight 56g. - made from rolled and compressed sheet, globular with flattened poles, diameter c.17mm, thickness/height 11.5mm, hole diameter c.3mm, weight 16g.
Created on: Saturday 9th February 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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Record ID: NMS-EAE442
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two Late Saxon to post-medieval lead spindle whorls, 11th - 16th century: - truncated conical, diameter 23mm, thickness 13.5mm, hole diameter 9 - 10.5mm, weight 34g. - plano-convex, diameter 23mm, thickness 6.3mm, hole diameter 8 - 9.5mm, weight 19g.
Created on: Saturday 9th February 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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Record ID: NMS-EAA079
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy belt or strap mount in rather abraded condition, circular with a central rivet hole, concave reverse and engraved lozengiform cross-hatching on the front. The sole close parallel noted was found in the same field (NMS-8D9F72). Diameter 10 - 11mm. Thickness 3.5mm. 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 9th February 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2020
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