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-D7FAFE
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy clothing fastener, 'eye' from hook and eye fastening, oval loop with trefoil projection, the two outer foils comprise attachment loops with a small lobe-like central foil. Length 25mm. Width 20.5mm. Cf. Baart (1977), pp.160-1. 16th/17th century.
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-C6C318
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an unusual form of Late Saxon strap-end, probably a variation of Thomas' Class G (2004) FRG Datasheet 33, fig. 5 nos. 36-7. The upper part of the splayed split attachment-end is missing, with only a groove representing the base of the split surviving. Below the split, the plate is flat-sectioned with engraved bordering lines and a stylised animal head in high relief at the mid-point. The lower part begins to splay gently before the break, lower end missing. Extant length 27.5mm. Extant width 10.5mm. Thickness, at upper end 3mm, at head 5mm. 11th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 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-C5BD23
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy harness mount, flat with two broken integral attachment spikes bent inward on the reverse. In the centre of the front in counter relief the bust of a putto is depicted, 'with a notched projection above and a large half flower below. Loops, emanating from the chin and the top of the head join at the side of the head as swags, forming four apertures.' It is perhaps from the same mould as mounts from Binham, Norfolk (HER 53786, NMS-A2EBD6) and Flitcham with Appleton (HER52539, NMS-229707). Examples from Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk (HER 58662, LVPL-604BC3) and …
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 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-C52A78
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy hinged Colchester Derivative brooch, twin engraved vertical lines on both enclosed wings, broken axis bar, pin missing. D-sectioned bow with engraved oblique lines on sides. Broken catchplate on reverse. Wingspan 26.5mm. Length 38mm. c.55 - c.80.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-C3918F
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper-alloy tongue-shaped openwork strap-end with rebate at the attachment edge on one face for the missing separate sheet bar, originally secured by two rivets, surviving rivet-holes broken, rivets missing. The decoration consists entirely of sinuous foliage intertwined with gripping animals. Rather more emphasis is placed on the zoomorphic element. A complete example (with additional ring-and-dot) was found in Hillington (NMS-AC3D21, HER 39307) and a similar piece but more abraded was found in North Creake in 1992 (HER 11707) and fragmentary finds, of the atta…
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Saturday 9th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C2F255
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy pendent leaf from sword belt hanger, trefoil terminal, deeply engraved detail and corroded iron rivets in rivet-holes, hooked loop missing. Extant length 36mm. Width 18mm. Cf. Read (2001), fig.26, no.373. Late 16th-17th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 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-C22D14
Object type: STUD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy dome-headed stud, square-sectioned integral spike with bent point. Diameter 22mm. Length 15mm. Perhaps 16th-17th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-C21BD7
Object type: STUD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy dome-headed stud, stump of missing square-sectioned integral spike. Diameter 24mm. Perhaps 16th-17th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B24F14
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead cloth seal, illegible inscription/device // blank. Diam. 18mm. 4mm thick. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-B223D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy two-piece Colchester-type brooch (i.e. with Harlow-type spring mechanism). Mackreth's (2011) CD Ha. Chord and axis in double perforated lug, eight-loops of broken spring survive, pin missing, undecorated wings, D-sectioned bow with flanking narrow flanges, triangular catchplate. Wingspan 19mm. Length 34mm. AD43-80.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th June 2021
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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-B1A632
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy knife end stop, cast in the form of a trefoil, with corroded remains of iron scale tang in slot. Length (excluding tang) 17mm, width 16mm, thickness 9mm. Similar to Read 2001, no.656, but without the perforation. Close to an example from West Acre (NMS-0EDEE5). 16th 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-B0EC3A
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button comprising a solid bi-convex head and an integral non-drilled loop. Diameter 11.5mm. Length 15mm. 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-B038EC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Roman tinned copper alloy hinged Colchester Derivative brooch, twin knurled vertical ribs alternating with broad grooves on both enclosed wings, copper alloy axis bar and pin. Stump of D-sectioned bow with knurled median rib with broad flanking grooves. Lower part missing. Extant wingspan 41mm. Extant length 10mm. c.55 - c.80.
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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Record ID: NMS-AE5E41
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, corroded and bent medieval copper alloy composite tongue-shaped strap end, comprising a full-width spacer, and one outer broken plate with part of the attachment-end with a single rivet-hole between two notches. Pointed knop at terminal. Length of spacer 14mm. Length of plate (unbent) 30mm. Width 15mm. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-AE05EB
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sheet plate from a medieval buckle or strap clasp, rectangular, broken along the folded end which has slightly recessed sides, attachment end with two rivet-holes. Width 16mm. Length 31mm. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-AD64B6
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button comprising a solid plano-convex head decorated with a central pellet and fifteen curving radial grooves (a clockwise impeller), and an integral drilled loop. Diameter 11mm. Length 17mm. 16th century. (Finder's number JW.Rs 759)
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-AD4105
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead or lead alloy button comprising a solid conical head and an integral cast loop. The head is decorated with multiple radial grooves around a nipple. Broadly similar form to Read 2005, no. 95, although different metal, more ribs (24) and less prominent nipple. Diameter 14mm. Length 20mm. 16th century. (Finder's number JW.Rs 760)
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Sunday 16th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-AC6AD9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded medieval copper alloy buckle frame, oval with offset, narrowed bar, pin missing. No traces of decoration survive on the broad outside edge, which is set at an angle. Length 17mm. Width 20mm. Mid 12th - 13th century. (Finder's number JW.Rs 761)
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9C9B14
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy possible openwork scabbard chape, comprising one curving flat sectioned arm broken beyond a perforated oval expansion at one (containing copper alloy rivet) end, the other end broken just beyond one of three short rectangular projections on the convex outside edge, between which are multiple engraved transverse grooves. Probably later 11th- or 12th-century and from a sword scabbard. It bears some resemblance to an example from Sporle with Palgrave (HER 1058, NMS-F59326 ). Extant length 29mm. Width 5mm. 1.2mm thick. (Finder's number JW.Rs 762)
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
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Record ID: NMS-9BD66C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon to Late Saxon tinned copper alloy strap end, bent in two, broken split attachment end, across rivet-hole in back part, front part missing. Panel of face with foliar motif damaged and obscured by the bend, no trace of inlay. Worn animal-head terminal with large ears. Thomas Class A, probably Type 2. Length (unbent) 60mm. Width 14mm. 9th century. (Finder's number DW7-255)
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
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