Record ID: NMS-C23572
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sword or dagger pommel of 'scent-stopper' form (Ward Perkins 1940, 43 and fig.9, no.11). The convex top is moulded into eight triangular petals, their apices surrounding a central hole now blocked by the remains of an iron tang. Each triangle is separated from its neighbours by deep grooves containing lines of rocker-arm engraving, and curving grooves at the base of each also contain the same. The surface of each is engraved with four radial dashes. On the underside thirty-eight radial grooves around a collar on which there is a group of five grooves. Diameter 34mm. Length or…
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-C1CFF2
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy tailor's thimble or sewing ring (now in two pieces). On the sides between an encircling engraved line near the base and the top are thirteen widely and evenly spaced vertical lines of seven tiny round indentations. Height 13.2mm. Diameter c.16mm. 14th - mid 15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C1AA95
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy domed thimble with one circumferential engraved line near the base, forty-five vertical rows of six tiny round punched indentations, and eight concentric rings of the same below the conical top which is left plain. There is a single notch in the base. Parts of the outer surface are obscured by ferrous corrosion. Cf. Egan 1998, nos. 821-5. Height 13.5mm. Diameter c.16mm. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C171A9
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Abraded medieval copper alloy rectangular harness pendant. Small patches of gilding survive on the front face around two round holes which would have held riveted studs, but no other surface treatment is extant. Width 36mm. Height 22mm. Height including suspension loop 31mm. Thickness excluding loop 1mm. 12th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 13th November 2020
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Record ID: BERK-C14FE1
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy token of William Buckoke (AD1667) Obv. WILL[I]AM [BUCK]OKE]. Hat. Flower initial mark. Rev. OF W[ATFOR]D 1667. Circle around 'His Halfe Penny with pellets and flower. Flower initial mark. Date 1667 See https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1993-0422-187
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 25th November 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-C13E49
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman sestertius of Hadrian (AD 117-138), dating to the period AD 121-123 (Reece Period 6). P M TR P COS III // VIRT AVG / S C (in field) reverse type, depicting Virtus standing left, resting foot on helmet, holding parazonium and spear. Mint of Rome. RIC II, Part 3 (second edition) Hadrian 652.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C137B2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragmentary and very abraded medieval sheet copper alloy flat mount, probably rectangular and from a strap. At the one intact end a rounded lobe is pierced by a cylindrical-headed rivet. The other end is missing as is almost all of one long side. On the gilt front face a faintly visible quatrefoil is outlined by engraved lines on a field of punched annulets. There is some resemblance to a less incomplete object from Norfolk (NMS-F52D86). Extant length 27mm. Width 19.2mm. Thickness 0.8mm. Length of rivet c.8mm, of which c.4mm project from the reverse. 12th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-C0D52F
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy dome thimble with a spiral of circular pits rising to a bare tonsured crown. The basal rim is undecorated.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C0CA4B
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy probable badge, a circular sheet with eleven scallops around the edge, two wire loops attached to the reverse and a central convex-headed rivet which holds in place an incomplete, possibly once circular, piece of white laminated material which is almost certainly shell. The rivet's head is round, but a group of five minute grooves near the edge might perhaps have been intended to represent a scallop shell. A scar on the reverse of one scallop may suggest an attachment of some sort has been lost. No good parallel has been noted. Diameter 16.5mm. Length of rivet 4.…
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-C0B497
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver washed copper-alloy Roman nummus of Constantine I (AD 306-331) dating to the period AD 313-315 (Reece period 17). SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI reverse depicting Sol with chlamys spread, short rays on his radiate crown, standing slightly right, head left, holding globe and raising right hand. T-F across fields. Mint of Trier. As RIC VII Trier 47.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 12th November 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-C0A02E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A worn copper-alloy Roman radiate of Carausius (AD 286-293) dating to the period 286-293 (Reece Period 14), Probably LAETITIA AVG or similar, Galley right. Probably Unattributed Mint. Sam Moorhead has recorded a number of similar pieces in corpus for the new RIC volume. This coin is not from the Rouen / Rotomagus mint, but was struck in Britain in the early years of Carausius' reign.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 16th November 2020
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Record ID: HAMP-C09DF2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An uninscribed Iron Age copper alloy unit of the South Western Region / Durotriges dating to c. 50 BC - c. AD 40 (Hod Hill Type). Obverse: Wreath, cloak and crescents. Reverse: Disjointed horse left, rectangular head, body of crescents, four vertical legs, pellet below, many pellets above. As ABC 2175, VA 1290, BMC 2790-2859.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 12th November 2020
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Record ID: BH-C06801
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Post Medieval trade token of uncertain attribution dating to the seventeenth century. Illegible obverse and reverse. The token measures 15.5mm diameter and weighs 0.66 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 20th November 2020
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Record ID: LEIC-C06634
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Post Medieval button, dating to c. AD 1500 - 1700. The button front is solid and domed. It is undecorated. The integral attachment loop is a sub-circular loop with a central perforation. Reference: Read (2005) Height: 11.01 mm Diameter: 11.11 mm Thickness: 5.48 mm Weight: 2.9 g
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 16th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C05749
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix with a hexagonally faceted handle with pierced terminal. Shield-shaped, length 14.2mm, width 12mm, height 17.2mm. Weight 4.24g. Within a border of pecked dots a hare running right beneath two fronds. SOhOV (a hunting cry). Quite similar to SF-7DEBC7 but very close to WILT-8F981D. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: SF-C03CB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy horse and rider plate brooch dating to circa AD 200-400. The brooch missing its catchplate and pin, and the horse's head and chest missing. The extant element consists of the rider's head, containing notched coiffure. The horse's rump contains a jagged notch on the top from which a now missing tail likely projected. The majority of its rear legs are also missing, containing only a short stump. The horse's body contains the visible remains of three blue-enamelled cells, with a hook-shaped cell on the horse's rump, characteristic of all British horse and…
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 24th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-BFBED5
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy pilgrim badge of St Barbara standing next to a tower and holding a palm branch in her left hand and a small, rectangular, book-like object in her right, with a wire loop embedded on the reverse. A well-known type, see HAMP-B9815C for background information and a list of parallels. The position of the loop coincides with the rectangular object on the front where there is a slight extra thickness. Height 24mm. Width 19.5mm. Thickness excluding loop 3mm. Weight 2.60g. 15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 16th June 2023
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Record ID: BH-BF9C5C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman nummus, contemporary copy, of the House of Valentinian (AD 364-378) dating to the period AD 364-378 (Reece period 19). GLORIA ROM[ANORVM] reverse type depicting the emperor advancing right holding a standard an dragging a captive. Unclear mint.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 20th November 2020
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Record ID: BH-BF84EE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman nummus of the House of Constantine (AD 307-361) dating to the period AD 330-340 (Reece Period 17). [CONSTANTINOPOLIS] obverse; reverse type depicting Victory left on prow holding spear and shield. Mint unclear.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 20th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-BF7E95
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap fitting, a bar-mount with terminal and central lobes, the former with rivets in holes countersunk at the rear and the latter domed, and decorated with three longitudinal filed grooves and many shallow transverse grooves. Length and width 8.8 and 15.7mm. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th November 2020
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