Record ID: NMS-E1CA88
Object type: BRASS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy medieval/post medieval monumental brass fragment. The sides are straight and parallel with a transverse break at one end and a 45 degree angled break at the other. The angled break is cut mid length by the semi circular remnant of a circular attachment hole. The front face has two letters of a black letter inscription probably an O followed by an N or rotated through 180 degree a U followed by an O. Both letters are picked out in a black tenacious material, whilst the front and rear surfaces of the brass have a thin terracotta coloured coating, the origin of wh…
Created on: Friday 9th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
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Record ID: NMS-F6BB84
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Medieval silver long cross cut halfpenny of Henry III (1216-1272), minted at London. Class 5, 1251-1272 (North 1994: 227, ref: 991-999). Obverse: [hE]NRICVS RE[X III]; Crowned bust facing, holding sceptre left. Reverse: [ ]/[ ]/ONL/VND (ND ligated, pelleted bar in N); Voided long cross with three pellets in each quadrant. Diameter: 18.0mm. Weight: 0.63g. North, J.J. 1994. English Hammered Coinage, Volume I, Early Anglo Saxon to Henry III, c. 600-1272. Spink & Son, London.
Created on: Monday 29th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-EEE943
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval cast copper-alloy rotary key, probably for use with a casket lock. The key has an oval bow with a circular aperture. The shank has a sub-oval cross section with a hollow recessed end. The bit extends perpendicularly in an inverted T-shape below the shank. A number of similar rotary keys are published by Egan (1998 , pp. 111-119) who suggests a broad ranging date from AD 1100-1300.
Created on: Monday 29th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-AA4C9D
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete gilded silver post-medieval hooked tag. The plate is rectangular, with six hemispherical knops protruding outwards from the edge, one at each of the four corners and one in the middle of each of the two long sides. There is an area of damage in the middle of the short top edge, suggesting this might be the location of a further knop which is now missing. On the back of the attachment end corner knops there are two old breaks indicating where a transverse attachment loop was originally located. The central area of the front has a broad groove around the out…
Created on: Monday 1st January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
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