Record ID: NMS-DC1E9D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy trefoil-shaped buckle plate, folded widthways and narrowed and shortened on reverse, with recessed sides, pin slot and four rivet holes, one in the centre of each foil, the larger with a dome-headed copper alloy rivet and a smaller, possibly secondary, rivet offset to one side. A sub-triangular panel with incised foliate decoration separates the foils. Both loops have three engraved longitudinal linesand a transverse bordering line at the junction with the plate. Length 39mm. Width 31.5mm. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-DB82AC
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded medieval to post-medieval copper alloy purse bar, undecorated rectangular boss with vertical break along the perforated for the missing loop, two joining halves, bar with wrythen decorated terminals, of LMMC Type B3. Length 24mm. Height of boss 10mm, width 12mm, thickness 7.5mm. c.1500 - c.1550.
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-DB50BB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval white-metal coated strap-end consisting of socket, waist and "lyre-shaped" openwork main part. On the front of the socket a black-letter a is picked out by engraved lines on a transversely engraved ground, to be viewed with the main part pointing downwards. There are two copper alloy rivets at the top of the inscription. In the centre of the "lyre" element the figure of St Christopher holding the Boy Jesus on his shoulders stands between two apertures. His feet are missing. Perforated moulded roundels and scrolls flank the sides. Cf. two examples, from Kidwelly Cas…
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-D8B7F7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy oval buckle frame, straight outside edge is recessed for a sheet roller with median pin groove, sides broken, offset pin bar missing. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 288, 298, 301 and 317. Extant length 17mm. Width 25mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-D8A105
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small medieval copper alloy buckle frame, oval with twin knops forming pin rest on outside edge, offset narrowed bar, wire pin. Length 11mm. Width 15mm. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-D8678D
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy hook attachment for spur leathers. The rectangular plate of flattened D-section (16mm x 8.5mm) has slightly convex sides with oblique notches within bordering lines, both ends hooked in opposed directions. Length 30mm. Probably late 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-D83F0D
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy open-topped thimble or sewing ring, decorated with a deep groove around the mouth and a spiral of punched dots on the sides. Diameter 21mm. Height 16mm. 15th-16th century.
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-C6229D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval gilt copper alloy oval buckle frame: just under half of a broad angled openwork outside edge with one wyvern from a pair of confronted beasts, employed in a proto-heraldic manner, sides and offset bar missing. Extant length 22mm. Extant width 20mm. Cf. Ashley (2016), fig. 18.7, no. 42. Late 12th-mid 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-C5969C
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy binding strip from a casket, D-sectioned with opposed cusps before perforated circular terminal with elongated projecting lobe, the other end broken across a perforated slight expansion. Extant length 36.5mm. Width 8mm. 2mm thick. Cf. similar mounts/strips in Goodall in Coad (1982) fig.43 and Barker (2000), nos.118-122. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-C571D3
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval miscast or partly molten fragment of possible barrel padlock, incomplete sub-oval end plate, broken across two perforations and with short projecting stump of possible missing loop. Diam. 29mm. 14th-15th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-C5390D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle: oval frame with outside edge and deep rectangular-sectioned sides and a separate bar set in holes in the ends; broken flat-sectioned pin; rectangular sheet plate with pin slot, frame recesses and breaks across twin rivet-holes at attachment-end. Frame 23 x 27.5mm. Plate, extant length 29mm, width 20.5mm. Overall length 47mm. Post-Roman buckle frames with separate bars are uncommon. Cf. a large flimsy example from a mid 14th-century context in York (Ottaway and Rogers 2002, 2893-4, fig. 1469 no. 14099). Probably 14th or 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-C2DE0F
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval lead weight, crude plano-convex, iron-staining within perforation, weighs 198g. 12th - 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Sunday 21st January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C29604
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, worn and corroded medieval gilt copper alloy buckle plate, rectangular, corroded, broken across loops where folded widthways with pin-slot and recessed for frame, back part missing, pierced at attachment end by two rivet-holes. Plate decorated with a probable wyvern to sinister, possibly originally reserved on an enamelled field, enamel missing. Extant length 26mm. Width 18mm. 0.5mm thick. See Egan and Prichard 1991, 13-4, fig.73, no.530. 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 13th July 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B1BC6E
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite tongue-shaped strap end with a full-width spacer, two copper alloy rivets, small trefoil knop and an engraved rocker-arm saltire on the front sheet plate near the attachment edge. Textile remains between the plates. Length 40mm. Width at the (sprung and broken) attachment edge 12mm, width before knop 10mm. Length of spacer 30mm. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B10DB7
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval/post medieval purse frame, broken, angular C-sectioned bar, broken at both ends. Convex face with part of curvilinear foliate motif and remains of inscription: ]T[ (probably originally inlaid with niello). Extant length 49.5mm. Width 8mm. Thickness 6.5mm at flange. 15th-16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B0D9B4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded medieval copper alloy D-shaped buckle with a collared knop on the outside edge, similar to Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 421, with traces of external ridges. Rectangular-sectioned bar, bent wire pin. Length 22mm. Width 14.5mm. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B08662
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval two part strap-end, rectangular, narrowed notched terminal, broken across rivet-hole, possibly originally cruciform. The upper end of the face is decorated with six engraved transverse lines and secured by a copper alloy rivet. Extant length (unbent) 31mm. Width 11mm. Terminal 2mm thick. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B0601F
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite folding clasp, deep cut-sheet rectangular frame (length 14mm, width 15.5mm), separate narrow copper alloy bar with folding end (length 9.5mm, width 15.5mm), decorated with two incised saltires within bordering lines and short transverse lines on fold. The frame is recessed for the rectangular plate (length 15.5mm, width 13mm), also recessed and with single copper alloy rivet at sprung attachment-end. Combined length 27mm. See Egan and Pritchard 1991, fig.78, nos. 564-6. Later 13th-14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-AFF925
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy annular framed brooch. The cast pin, with a square collar and seam where the loop is butted together, sits within a constriction in the undecorated triangular-sectioned frame. External and internal diameters 35mm and 26mm. Thickness 4mm. Late 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-AFBE29
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete worn and corroded gilt copper-alloy buckle plate, D-shaped with pin slot, small opposed triangular lobes at frame recesses, three rivet holes, each retaining a dome-headed rivet with remains of rove retaining a scrap of leather on the reverse . Traces of engraved rocker-arm longitudinal lines within a semi-circle at the pin-slot. Broken across loops, back part missing. Extant length 34mm. Width 32.5mm. Late 12th- 13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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