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Record ID: NMS-B49ED2
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy ring, flat-sectioned with filed face and faceted edges. Irregular, external diameter 22.5-24.5mm. 1.5mm thick. Not closely datable, perhaps 14th-16th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B48AE5
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy thimble, decorated with twin incised lines around the mouth, vertical lines of multiple tiny dots on sides and three concentric lines of dots on the pointed dome leaving a blank upper part with central perforation. Diam. 16.5mm. Height 15mm. See Egan (1998), fig. 206, no. 824. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B454A3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy composite strap-end of crescentic type, broken across one of four rivet-holes with copper alloy rivets, point missing. Sheet backplate. Foliar decoration comprises a large moulded sub-lozengiform knop with deep V-section grooves and engraving on the front of the crescent. Cf. Fingerlin 1971 Abb. 312-314. Length 43.5mm. Width 29.5mm. Thickness 3mm. First half 15th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 10th August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-B38434
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Roman snake bracelet, flat-sectioned band with notched rib bordering sides and triangular head, convex flanged outside edges, decorated with incised notches. The body of the snake with incised median line between flanking multiple short nicks. Width of head 14mm, width of body 11mm. Maximum thickness 2.5mm. Flattened, extant length 46.5mm (diameter unknown). 2nd-3rd century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 10th August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-B332CE
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy strap-hook, cast plate with an elongated hook (end missing) springing from and bent behind the top of a bearded head of a long-haired man (or lion?), with curvilinear moulding on the body and arms forming loops, twin transversely-set perforations, broken across large laterally-set terminal loop, lower part missing. Extant length 65mm. Width 25mm. As Read 2008, 233, no.831. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B28FC4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hooked copper alloy dress fastener, Read 2008 early post-medieval blunt-hooked and eye clasp Class A, Type 1, close to no. 581. Length 20mm. Width 14.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B234F7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy bar mount from a strap, both terminal lobes perforated and containing a copper alloy rivet with discoidal head, hollow-backed central lobe with band of incised cross-hatching on face. Extant length 18.5mm. Width 10.5mm. 4mm thick. See Egan and Pritchard 1991, fig.134, nos.1160-1. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B13B11
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and distorted post-medieval gilt copper alloy circular mount, possibly from a mazer, the face depicting the quartered Stuart royal arms in counter-relief. Just under half is missing with an obliqe break which has removed the first quarter and parts of the second and third quarters, a thistle survives in relief to the sinister side of the shield. Specs of blue and red enamel survive on the arms and traces of black enamel on the circular outer field. There is no surviving evidence for the method of attachment. Diameter 29mm. Thickness 1.2mm. 1603 - 1688.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 10th August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-AF37EB
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval seal matrix, copper alloy, hexagonally faceted handle with collared and perforated trefoil terminal. Oval, 14.5 x 13mm. Height 28.5mm. Confronted female and male heads with clasped hands in base, a tree with bifurcated branches between the heads and a bird above. No legend. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9F50E2
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy possible horse harness pendant in the form of an inverted fleur-de-lis. Fragments of gilding now stand slightly proud of the abraded surface. The suspension loop and part of one side are missing. Extant height 17.5mm. Extant width 11mm. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9F08B3
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Uniface lead alloy token or weight. The front face has raised W. Diameter 15.5mm. 1.5mm thick. Weight 3.06g. Circa 1500-1700 AD.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9EE6AC
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy shield-shaped strap-end. Straight attachment edge, with one small and one concave notch on either side of the plate before the C-sectioned transverse mount which has a rectangular recess on the inner edge, the other edge broken. Single rivet through the mount with rectangular rove on the reverse. Extant length 20mm. Width 14mm. See Egan and Pritchard (2002, 157, fig.103) for similar examples. Circa 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9EA8D4
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval gilt copper alloy page-holder, terminal comprising a trapezoidal plate (width 28, length 23mm, 1.5mm thick) with its outer face decorated with multiple punched dots. Page-holders were used to hold several leaves of vellum together. They occur on both lay and ecclesiastical sites (Biddle 1990, 756). 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 20th August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-9E6486
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval lead four-part cloth seal, circular, diameter c.14mm. - // illegible // crown over harp, 1/4 to one side, within beaded border // blank. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9E3960
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gilt medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant, circular, worn, bent and broken across the twisted suspension-loop and at base. Specks of red enamel in field, treatment of metal missing. Blazon: Gules a cross of Toulouse Or voided Gules (on a circular field). Extant length/height 38.5mm. Width 41mm. Cf. Ashley (2002) fig.19, no. 184. 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-9AE2D9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy buckle plate, rectangular, broken where folded widthways, pin-slot, two rivet-holes, both with dome-headed copper alloy rivet. Face decorated with stamped pelleted border. Extant length 12mm. Width 19mm. Later 12th-13th century.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9A9577
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Hinged T-shaped brooch, broken copper alloy pin with an iron axis bar. Worn and corroded, traces of transverse moldings on both wings and broken D-sectioned bow, lower part missing. Wingspan 33.5mm. Extant length 20.5mm. c.55 - c.100.
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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Record ID: NMS-8A41BD
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy harness mount in the form of an openwork fleur-de-lis with a pair of integral, round-sectioned attachment spikes bent outward on the reverse. A transverse groove is engraved below two round holes. Similar to Read 2016, no. 336. Extant length 30mm. Width 19.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-8A27A7
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy tailor's thimble or sewing ring, sprung soldered overlapping vertical seam, face decorated with oblique rows of multiple oval indentations between incised bordering lines. Diameter c.17mm. Height 8.5mm. 14th-15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-8936FD
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy, hexagonally faceted handle broken across perforation, terminal missing. In very abraded condition with small parts of the edge missing. Circular, 16mm. Extant height 15mm. A hare sejant to dexter. Legend illegible. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 20th August 2020
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