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Record ID: NMS-9AC40C
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: 17th-century silver cufflink element decorated with crowned hearts, together with the oval wire loop that originally joined it to the other element. It is circular, originally with a flat centre and a shallow downturned rim with an out-turned edge. The rim is now bent and cracked.
The flat area has a recessed centre enclosed within a raised edge. The centre has a stippled background, a pair of counter-relief heart shapes, one next to the other, and a crown over both. The crown is neatly made, with a wide lower band decorated with four dots, a…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-99877A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch, complete with silver pin. The frame of the brooch is circular, thick and flat to make a rectangular cross-section. The pin is held in a constriction, and has an open loop. There is a transverse double moulding at the junction of loop and shaft, below which the cross-section of the shaft is D-shaped or trapezoidal.
The frame is engraved on both faces with letters which read clockwise from the pin constriction. Because the pin has a clear front and reverse, it is possible to identify the front and reverse of the frame too; the…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-EFEE71
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small flat silver book-clasp of post-medieval date. It is neatly made from thick silver sheet, rounded at both ends and with a concave waist in between. A flat turned-under hook has been broken at one end, which has shoulders curving down into the waist. There is a tiny pointed angle between the waist and the other rounded end, which is oval, slightly larger, and set transversely. This end has a hole, neatly lozengiform on the front and circular on the reverse, presumably for attachment to a strap. The hole is now filled with greenish corrosion on …
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-5DCF04
Object type: NEEDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete post-medieval silver needle or bodkin with one pointed end and one pierced end. It has a circular cross-section for most of its length, and then flattens and widens at the top to a round-cornered rectangle through which a hole has been made. The top of the hole is rounded, mirroring the top of the needle, but the lower end of the hole tapers to a point.
The needle is decorated with two sets of double grooves around the entire circumference, one near the pointed tip and one about halfway up the shaft. Just below the hole, where the shaft begins to flatt…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-BA0D2D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of gold sheet, probably of the Anglo-Saxon period. The bend is almost at right angles. To one side of the angle, one face is decorated; a triplet of straight grooved lines, the central one minimally wider, starts close to a finished straight edge and runs to a break. The lines are flanked on either side by a scatter of punched annulets (about 1mm in diameter), part-annulets and large dots.
On the other side of the angle, the sheet is undecorated, although it has bends which may have formed a loose corrugation. It has a short length of original edge which mee…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-B86FFC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch with the spring, the pin and the curled over part of the solid catchplate missing.On both wings there are two vertical engraved grooves and one diagonal. On the D-sectioned bow a median groove and a row of closely spaced transverse engraved lines run the full length between grooves or offsets along both sides. Mackreth 2011 CD RH 4.f. Weight 9.83g. Wingspan 27.3mm. Length 39.2mm. AD c.43 - c.65.
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B80AE5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete, abraded and distorted Roman copper alloy Hod Hill brooch in two pieces, with an old break across the bow. Most of the pin, almost all of the catchplateand the foot are missing. Iron axis bar. Mackreth HOD HILL 1.a. Weight 2.72g. Width of head 13.5mm. c.43 - c.75
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A52A1D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of a small gilded silver flat openwork mount, probably Roman in date, perhaps a rectangular fitting for belt or strap. It is sharply rectangular in cross-section, with parallel, straight sides and both ends broken. Two triangular apertures are present, along with one crescentic, and part of another. The reserved bars have a scrolly appearance, ending in roundels. No means of attachment has survived. One break is recent but the other is not, being covered in a ferrous deposit that has afflicted many metal objects on this site. Patches …
Created on: Sunday 19th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NMS-8BF812
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Abraded fragment of a Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy terret with old breaks. Lewis 2015 Simple type. What remains of the apparently undecorated loop is very badly distorted. Its size is unknown and its shape may have been either circular or D-shaped. Its cross-section is oval (7.7 x 6.3mm) at the base and narrows upwards to be sub-circular (diameter 5.5mm) at the break. The collar is oval (14.8 x 13.6mm) and the stump of the strap bar is rectangular-sectioned (8 x 4.5mm and set vertically). Weight 15.12g. 1st century BC - 1st…
Created on: Saturday 18th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-6858CD
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete silver mount or dress fastener. One half (the lower half) is flat and undecorated with a curving lower edge. The other half has decoration of two high-relief C-shaped scrolls with their backs towards the flat half and their points upwards The point of one scroll has been lost, but the surviving scroll is open at the top, and appears to be in the shape of a flat ribbon which is wound up at either end, and the inner end bound to the inner end of the other scroll.
Between the two scrolls, and partly within both halves, is a sub-oval o…
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D5565B
Object type: TORC
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Piece of gold rod, probably a small fragment of a flange-twisted or bar-twisted torc with three flanges, now bent into a spiral of two full turns. One end is original, with a rounded tip and neat triangular cross-section. From the rounded tip, the terminal flares slightly for c. 10mm and runs straight, before starting to coil. As it starts to curve, each face becomes concave so that the cross-section is Y-shaped, and the rod is then neatly twisted as well as bent into a coil. After two full turns the rod is apparently cut or broken. It is…
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 23rd November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-09EC59
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete long silver ingot of slightly irregular shape, but with a clear rounded top and slightly flattened underside. It has one neatly rounded end, 11mm wide and 5.8mm thick. One long edge runs roughly at right angles to this end, and the other long edge flares slightly. The maximum width of 13.5mm is close to the other end, and here there is a rounded angle, with the ingot tapering steeply to meet the other long edge in a rounded point. The ingot is sub-triangular or drop-shaped in cross-section, with the long straight edge being thicker and the top then …
Created on: Thursday 31st August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F720E6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver finger-ring of 'iconographic' type, with clasped hands on the hoop. It is a fairly large ring, with the hoop generally of D-shaped cross-section. The gilding survives very well on both interior and exterior, with just a few areas (mainly around the edges) worn to show the underlying silver.
The bezel is roughly triangular in cross-section, and is divided into two longitudinal concave fields with a central ridge. Each field is decorated with a crudely engraved human figure in three-quarter pose looking slightly towards the central ridge. They see…
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-FD6E6B
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Late Iron Age to Early Roman Roman copper alloy terret of Lewis 2015 Simple type, consisting of one collar between a small part of the loop and the strap bar which survives only as a stump, the breaks being old. The collar is circular but straightened on its inner edge. Around the curving edge a short length of shallow groove remains, the rest possibly removed by wear. The cross-section of the loop is round as it springs from the collar but before the break it becomes D-shaped with a flat inner face. The stu…
Created on: Sunday 6th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 7th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FCA781
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Roman white-metal coated copper alloy Aucissa brooch, Mackreth 2011 AUCISSA 2.x 'oddity': a rolled over head containing remains of an iron axis bar and merging without any transverse moulding into a parallel-sided and flat bow decorated with two engraved saltires, the lower one truncated by a non-recent break, cf. NMS-1C7020, a Hod Hill with saltires inlaid with niello on the bow. Weight 1.31g. Extant length 14.5mm. Width of head 13mm, of bow 7mm. AD c.43 - c.75.
Created on: Sunday 6th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 7th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FC3D50
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragments of two Colchester Derivative Harlow brooches with old breaks, lower parts of bows, both with a pin slot in the catchplate, Mackreth 2011 CD Ha, AD c.43 - c.75:
- median rib flanked by concavities on bow, weight 1.79g, extant length 28mm, width 4.7mm.
- two round perforations in the catchplate are blocked with dark grey material, probably fired clay, foot missing, bow with convex front and slightly concave reverse, weight 1.31g, extant length 19mm, width 3.1mm.
Created on: Sunday 6th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 7th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-3C59A3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver snake's head terminal from a Roman penannular finger-ring. It is oval and plano-convex, with the decoration all on one face; the reverse is undecorated and slightly curved to fit around the finger.
The design of the snake's head has probably been stamped into the silver (or into a mould for casting the silver), as there is a narrow undecorated rim along part of one edge where the die has been applied off centre. The rest of the edge is formed from a beaded border to the head. Within this border is a solid domed area with unclear lengthways ri…
Created on: Friday 28th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-019E8E
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete post-medieval silver cufflink of Lewis's Form 1, Type A, consisting of two circular elements joined by a loop. The two circular elements are identical, both decorated with a crown above two hearts on a stippled background within a raised rim. Each crown has a wide curved base with four dots along it; there are two arches above, each with jagged tops, alternating with three projecting fleurs. The hearts are side by side below, and are undecorated. All three elements fit the space tightly.
The edges of the circular elements have down-turne…
Created on: Thursday 13th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-81F1EB
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy terret. It is oval in cross-section, curved along its length (probably originally oval or circular) and terminating at both ends in a worn break. It expands very slightly in cross-sectional diameter from one end to the other. At the thicker end there is a triple-lipped moulding: three closely-spaced expanded disc-like ridges projecting outward and slightly laterally, diverging from each other at an acute angle. The central one is smaller and thinner than the flanking ones. An example of a similar and complete terret, albeit with only double…
Created on: Friday 7th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-1C4C6F
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post-medieval gilded silver dress hook, probably a hat-hook, with a plate in the shape of an openwork portcullis. Three sides of the central lattice survive, with five vertical bars and four horizontal bars divided by small, roughly square holes.Two of the vertical bars have an expanded, arrowhead-shaped point at one end (the base of the portcullis); there are fairly fresh scars from two missing points and a worn break where the fifth is missing. At the other end of the plate (the top of the portcullis) the outer four vertical bars also …
Created on: Thursday 8th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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