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Record ID: NMS-E39636
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron strip, perhaps the blade from a knife. It is 120mm long and one end is encased in delaminating corrosion. Away from this end, it is generally around 19mm wide, with one edge straight and 3mm thick, tapering to the other edge which may represent the cutting edge. The end without the corrosion layers has the cutting edge curving up to meet the back of the blade in a rounded point. The corroded end is broken and has no evidence of a whittle tang. The strip is now bent at a slight angle about halfway along its length. It weighs 45.0g. The identification as a knife is very t…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-E36935
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neatly circular iron ring, 51.5mm in diameter. In cross-section it is circular, 8mm in diameter. It weighs 31.8g. The ring was found close to several early Anglo-Saxon objects and is likely also to be of that date. It may have been used as a suspension ring.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-AA4DC8
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete spring mechanism of a medieval to post-medieval iron padlock, circular end-plate (5mm thick) with remains of two strips set at 90 degrees to each other. Two projections on the outside of the end-plate may be the stumps of a loop handle but are probably the ends of the strips. No brazing is visible. Weight 88.70g. Diameter 36.5mm. Extant length 49mm. 13th - 17th century
Created on: Thursday 27th April 2023
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-249047
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very large Roman iron nail with a probably square head (obscured by corrosion) and a square-sectioned non-bent shank. This would have had a structural function. Length 220mm. Weight 178g. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-246951
Object type: NEEDLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron netting needle or pin with a sub-circular-sectioned shank and a head curled over to form an eye or loop, in a similar form to that of a modern garden skewer. Length 87mm, width of head 10mm, weight 7g. No parallel has been noted, but the context suggests the object is Roman, mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EFAB28
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Leg and foot of a post-medieval cast iron cooking vessel, probably a cauldron. The cross-section is pentagonal with the two outward facing sides being narrower than the others. The width and thickness taper in a straight line from the top to the ankle and then widen to the base. Height 115mm. Width and thickness at top 42.5 and 48.5mm, at the ankle 21 and 20mm. Footprint 27 x 32mm. Weight 491g. Probably 18th - 19th century.
Created on: Sunday 19th June 2022
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-EF2E21
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval spherical cast iron shot with no evidence of impact. Diameter c.40mm. Weight 226g / 8.0 ounces Avoirdupois. Perhaps for a Robinet cannon, see SOM-A0A8A2. 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 19th June 2022
Last updated: Saturday 27th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4BB75A
Object type: HORSESHOE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a medieval to post-medieval wrought iron horseshoe with a calkin at the heel. No nails or nail holes are visible. Type uncertian. Length c.105mm. Estimated width c.110mm. Width of the web 35mm. Perhaps 15th - 17th century Finder's number POD15/17
Created on: Saturday 11th June 2022
Last updated: Saturday 11th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4B0D14
Object type: HORSESHOE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval to post-medieval wrought iron horseshoe, one branch missing along with part of the outer edge of the web. There is no calkin on the surviving heel. One nail is visible and one nail is truncated by a break. Type uncertain. Perhaps 15th - 17th century. Finder's number POD15/14
Created on: Saturday 11th June 2022
Last updated: Saturday 11th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4AC5D4
Object type: HORSESHOE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval to post-medieval wrought iron horseshoe, one heel missing. There is no calkin on the surviving narrow heel but it is slightly thickened. Nails and nail holes are not visible. Width of the web c.27mm. Overall length c.110mm. Estimated width c.105mm. Clark 1995 Type 4. 15th - 16th century. Finder's number POD15/10
Created on: Saturday 11th June 2022
Last updated: Saturday 11th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E73E87
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small fragment, broken on all edges and with no discernible curvature, of the exterior of a medieval brazed iron padlock case. Little of the iron survives. A narrow and irregular ridge runs across the brazed surface. Weight 1.7g. 17 x 17mm. 13th - 16th century.
Created on: Friday 13th May 2022
Last updated: Saturday 14th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-AB2759
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five pieces of iron smelting slag, probably Roman, weight 434g, mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-AAEF1D
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two very small fragments of iron, probably of medieval to post-medieval cylindrical padlock cases, both with traces of brazing. No dimension accurately measurable. Weight 11.7g. 13th - 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-AA79FA
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three pieces of iron slag, 2 smelting (weight 70g), 1 smithing (weight 79g). Their findspot suggest they are probably Roman.
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-0026B6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval iron double-looped buckle frame, both loops oval, with a rectangular plate of folded iron sheet and an incomplete iron pin on the bar. Frame length and width 47 and 41mm. Plate length and width c.29 and c.20mm.  Details of the plate, rivet(s) and pin slot / hole are not visible). For the frame cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 346-9. An unusual find to occur outside formal archaeological circumstances. Early 13th - 15th century. Field PFN
Created on: Sunday 6th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8E1C0C
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small iron tanged axehead with a rounded proximal end and an asymmetrically set crescentic blade, rusty and showing signs of imminent lamination. The object type of a similar but slightly larger example, also from Norfolk, was given as a chisel, and it was of unknown date, Roman or later but probably post-medieval to modern (SF-1C5CB6). No other parallel has been noted. Length 108mm. Width 45mmm. Thickness 9mm. Weight 89g.
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 16th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9FA953
Object type: HORSESHOE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval wrought iron horseshoe. The shoe is 93mm wide by 100mm long. There are three nail holes visible on each branch of the shoe, all blocked by corrosion on one branch, the other branch with two nail holes retaining a rectangular-headed iron rivet and one empty rectangular perforation where the nail is missing. The narrowed heels lack calkins but thicken slightly. The width of the web is 25mm. The metal is spalled and corroded. Cf. Clark, J. The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, p.120-123, Type 4. AD14-15th century.
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 16th September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0413D5
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Heavily corroded iron rotary key of Medieval to Post Medieval date. The finer detail of the key is somewhat obscured by extensive corrosion and active spalling of the surface, but it remains complete. The bow is an open D-shape with a slightly angled outside loop. The solid shank tapers out perpendicularly from the centre edge of the bow's straight loop. The rectangular bit is positioned flush with the end of the shank and in the same plane as the bow. It has two extant wards on the front edge although a third may have been lost to corrosion; with a further three let into the bottom e…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 20th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-F03EC4
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval iron whittle-tang knife blade with an incomplete tang. The back is flat, and the former cutting edge tends to taper gently and generally in a straight line, disregarding several irregular serrations, from the hilt to about ten millimetres before the extant tip. From there it tapers more steeply and convexly to meet the back edge. The serrations seem to be a consequence of corrosion and fragmentation rather than an intentional feature. The tang is broadly rectangular in cross-section and projects from the blade close to the back edge. It tapers in width a…
Created on: Wednesday 14th July 2021
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-6344B7
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Heavily corroded forged wrought iron Medieval stirrup. The frame is approximately 126mm tall by 100mm wide and is in the shape of a convex-sided triangle with the apex at its attachment end. The straight tread-plate is inset by around 14mm up from the base. The sides are approximately 11mm wide and expand at the basal end via a linear taper just before the tread-plate to form 26mm wide rectangular side-plates. The tread-plate is the same width as the side-plates. The suspension loop attached to the neck at the apex has entirely corroded away. There is a dearth of information available…
Created on: Wednesday 24th February 2021
Last updated: Thursday 7th October 2021
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