Record ID: NMS-2E0E7D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete gilded silver finger-ring. The bezel is divided into three concave panels by four transverse ridges. The central panel has a cross-hatched design within a line border. The panel on either side has a quatrefoil motif. The shoulders have engraved geometric design and both terminate in an old break. Dimensions: Extant diameter: 17.5mm, width: 7.1mm, maximum thickness: 2.5mm, minimum thickness: 1.1mm, weight: 1.5g. Discussion: Rings of this form are closely related to iconographic rings bearing images of saints of the same date. Oman (1974, 22) proposes t…
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1B4EBA
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post medieval silver cuff link or button element. A circular disc with a down-turned edge, now bent out of shape in places. The obverse exhibits a stamped repoussé design of two hearts surmounted by a crown on a stippled background (Lewis, 2013, Type A). The reverse of the disc exhibits an integrally cast attachment loop. Dimensions: Diameter: 16mm, thickness (including loop): 5.5mm, weight: 0.9g. Date: c. AD 1660 - 1714. Discussion: This motif, commonly found on 17th-century cuff-links and buttons, may have celebrated the marriage of Charles II and Cat…
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2018
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2020
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Record ID: NMS-71339B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver penny of Edward I dating to the period AD 1282 - 1289. Class 4a. Mint of London. See: North, Vol. II, p. 23, no. 1023.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-615D66
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cut farthing of Henry III dating to the period c. AD 1242 - 1247. Class 8iic. Uncertain moneyer. Mint of London. See: North, Vol. I, p. 181, no. 982.
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2018
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-60E245
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver penny of Richard I dating to the period AD 1192 - 1194. Class 3b. Moneyer: Stivene. Mint of London. See: North, Vol.I, p. 178,no. 967/2.
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2018
Last updated: Friday 24th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-5BABAB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver penny of Edward I dating to the period AD 1292 - 1296. Class 6b. Mint of Canterbury. See: North, Vol. II p. 23.no. 1031.
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-1CAE04
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver penny of Henry III dating to the period AD 1251 - 1272. Class 5f. Moneyer: Ioh S. Mint of London. See: North, Vol. II, p. 183, no. 996.
Created on: Friday 19th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-0CC02D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver penny of John dating to the period AD 1194 - 1205. Class 4. Moneyer Wilelm. Uncertain mint. See: North, Vol. I, p. 178, no. 968.
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-0BC472
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver halfgroat of Henry VII dating to the period c. AD 1490 - 1500. Class IIIc. Mint of Canterbury under the king and Archbishop Morton jointly. See: North, Vol. II, p. 84, no. 1712. Clipped.
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-0B50A2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver penny of Edward I dating to the period AD 1307 - 1309. Class 10cf3. Mint of Canterbury. See: North, Vol. II, p. 25,no. 1042. Heavily clipped.
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-F1FC40
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post-medieval partly gilded silver hooked tag of Read’s (2008) Class D, Type 3, made from several composite elements. The gilded lozenge-shaped backplate has a rounded, slightly concave knop at each corner with a smaller spherical knop at the midpoint between each. Above this is an ungilded silver element consisting of four three-dimensional trefoils extending from the centre to form a cross, now slightly out of line with the lozenge backplate. Both backplate and cross of trefoils are held in place by a central dome-headed split-pin; on the reverse, the two h…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 9th July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-DF7D2C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post medieval gilded silver bi-convex button. It consists of two sheet silver hemispheres soldered together and with a visible circumferential join. The upper hemisphere exhibits two dents and a small perforation. All probably the result of post-depositional damage. The lower hemisphere exhibits a D-sectioned looped shank soldered to the base. Dimensions: Diameter: 9.1mm, length (including shank): 12mm, width of shank: 2mm. Discussion: Buttons of this form are difficult to date, but appear to have been in use over a long period of time. Read (2005, 2…
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C753F4
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post medieval silver shilling, modified to form a probable gaming piece. The shilling is of Edward VI, dating to the period AD 1550 - 1551, mint of London, initial mark: Y. The coin is heavily worn, particularly on the obverse. The reverse exhibits an engraved and hatched letter A without a crossbar in the top right quarter to the right of the shield. Four narrow crescentic apertures have been made around the centre of the coin, following the lines of the inner border; the gaps between each aperture respect the lines of the cross on the reverse. In addition, the coin…
Created on: Monday 15th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8DABD1
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete medieval gilded silver stirrup-shaped finger ring. The tall, pyramidal bezel has a square top which has a punched quatrefoil with an engraved line running from either side, between the petals. Two of these short lines run down the tall sides of the bezel and the other two run down the sloping edges towards the hoop. The hoop consists of a series of square bosses, each decorated with a similar quatrefoil (including the lines) and divided from its neighbour by two transverse ridges. The hoop ends in an old break on either side, and perhaps just under half of the …
Created on: Friday 12th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
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