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Record ID: NMS-9C8167
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy rotary key for a casket with a circular bow, a hollow-ended oval-sectioned shank and a simple bit with two symmetrical small V-shaped clefts. Length 35mm. Width of bow 13mm. Bit 7 x 7 x 2.5mm. Mid 12th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Saturday 10th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9C662C
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Elongated rectangular sheet copper alloy end cap from a medieval iron knife, with rounded ends and with a central hole filled with the end of a scale-tang, cf. Cowgill et al. 1987, nos. 119-23. Length 25.8mm. Width 5.9mm. Mid 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Saturday 10th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9C308B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy flat-backed mount: a fleur-de-lis with a round hole, perhaps for attachment, in the central petal, sits above a rectangular boss. Below this the object widens, with two half-round cut-outs in the upper edge, and the sides descend in parallel past a central iron-filled attachment hole to an old transverse break. The divisions between the petals on the lis are emphasised by two V-sectioned filed grooves. Only a few specks of gilding have survived. Extant length 46mm. Width 21.6mm. Thickness 2 - 2.5mm. Thickness at boss 5mm. 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 18th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9BE016
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy mount for the suspension of a horse harness pendant: domed, circular with an incomplete integral round-sectioned attachment shank on the reverse and a suspension loop broken across one spindle hole. The loop is solid and not folded. A commonly occurring type e.g. Ashley 2002, nos.38 & 84-5). Width 10mm. Height 19.7mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9B5737
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy hooked strap fitting of Medieval to Post Medieval date. The fitting consists of a narrow rectangular plano-convex body with two robust and integral rivets on the reverse. The body extends to a substantial rearward facing hook that tapers to a semi-circular blunt point. The robust construction of the fitting is perhaps more suggestive of a harness application. Circa AD1300-1600.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9B54ED
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two incomplete medieval sheet copper alloy lace chapes, both with the narrow end is missing and an edge-to-edge seam (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 281-90) 14th - 15th century: - rivet hole near the broad end. Extant length 25.4mm. Diameter 2.3 - 3.1mm. - extant length 24.7mm. Diameter 1.8 - 2.5mm.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Sunday 11th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9B319A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sheet copper alloy 'shield-shaped' strap end with a rounded notch on each side, two rivets and circular roves and a bar-mount of arched cross-section (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 156-8). The rounded inside edge may have lost a point. Decayed leather survives around the shanks of the rivets. Length 15mm. Width 11mm. Bar-mount 5.4 x 11mm. c.1270 - c.1450.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Saturday 24th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9B1A32
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite tongue-shaped strap end, two sheet plates with a point at the outside edge and a rivet near the concave attachment edge, and a forked spacer, cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 659. Length 23.8mm. Width 7.4mm. Length of spacer 22mm. 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Saturday 10th July 2021
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Record ID: LANCUM-9ABDE5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval to Modern white metal pot mend from a large metal or ceramic vessel. It is sub-triangular in plan. In profile and section there is a noticeable rounded stepped lip on the smoother side. The other side has a roughly cast semi-circular ridge approximately 9mm high and 9mm wide. This produces a concavity that partially contains a circular perforation. This perforation (diameter 3mm) passes through the thinner part of the object at an angle. There are scoured lines that run the length of the perforation. The object has been very roughly cast in sand than roughly dressed with…
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Sunday 3rd April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Silloth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9A2592
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy button. It is circular in plan, domed in section, with a concave inner face. The outer face is decorated with radiating, curving lines from the centre to the edge. In the centre of the innerface is the stub of the missing attachment loop. Dates to between c1700 and c1850 AD. Diameter 31mm, thickness 8mm, weight 12.81g.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Friday 16th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cambridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-99D859
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval copper alloy spectacle or figure of 8 buckle frame. The frame is undecorated and the pin is absent. A close parallel is Whitehead 1996, number 294. Dates from c1350 to c1650 AD. The length is 24mm, width 20mm, thickness 3mm, and the weight is 3.47g.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cambridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-99CC50
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval copper alloy spectacle or figure of 8 buckle frame. The frame is undecorated and the pin is absent. A close parallel is Whitehead 1996, number 291. Dates from c1350 to c1650 AD. The length is 30mm, width 25mm, thickness 3mm, and the weight is 4.43g.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cambridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-99C84A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval tin-coated copper alloy brooch, part of a frame with a bird's head facing right and projecting between a pair of splayed wings decorated on the front face with lines of finely executed interrupted rocker-arm engraving giving the appearance of tiny addorsed triangles. A pin constriction beneath a wing is truncated by one of two non-recent breaks. The bird's eye is an inlaid green glass ball. The pin is missing. Very similar to Norfolk examples with teardrop-shaped frames from Burnham Market (NMS-536BF6) and Sedgeford (NMS-541E5F), both complete apart from pin and gl…
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 18th August 2021
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Record ID: LANCUM-98F8EB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Early Medieval to early Medieval copper alloy strap end, possibly a form of Thomas Class E Type 3. It is undecorated on one face. On the other it is decorated with two central parallel ridges along its length. There are four annulets in line either side of these ridges. Dates to between c850 and c1100 AD. The length is 31mm, width 15mm, thickness 3mm, and the weight is 3.40g. Objects with some similarity on the database include YORYM-F353E7, GLO-C1A050, and CAM-7F732C.
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Friday 16th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cambridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-93C2FF
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, worn and corroded copper alloy Post Medieval decorative strap fitting or mount, cast in the form of a petalled rose. Several petals have their outside edges eroded away. On the reverse vestiges of small attachment prongs remain. Read, B. illustrates similar single stud and double pronged mounts on p32 to 34 of Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom,(2001). Circa AD1600-1700. 
Created on: Saturday 10th July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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