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Record ID: NMS-144706
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete worn and corroded small Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rear Hook brooch (Mackreth, 2011, type CD RH). broken C-sectioned wings, both with vertical groove, stump of rear hook, tapering oval-sectioned bow. Solder where spring and pin missing, catchplate missing. Extant wingspan 15.5mm. Length 30mm. Weight 3.87g. AD 43 - 60.
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-142323
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Medieval to post-medieval copper alloy purse bar, rectangular central boss (31 x 17mm, 9.5mm thick) with vertical perforation containing a swivelling bar at the end of a broken suspension-loop with an oval rove at the foot (extant height 28mm), both faces of the boss have an engraved line bordering the sides and upper edge, flanked by and two triangular cut-outs in base. Stumps of a narrow integral bar project from both sides of the boss (diameters 3mm). Extant length 40mm. Weighs 27.97g. Cf. Ward Perkins 1940, Fig.52, Type B6. c. AD 1500-1550.
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-13B384
Object type: BELL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual Roman hollow-cast copper alloy bell, squashed and distorted, globular or sub-oval with an integral suspension loop and a stepped rectangular basal knop. The body is cracked and distorted where the corroded iron pea has erupted-out. Height 28mm. Diameter c. 21mm. Weight 14.79g. AD 43-409.
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-139742
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy mount, posibly from furniture or harness, cast in the form of a stylised possible wyvern. The monster has a small head with stylised features of mouth, snout, ears. Its elongated narrowed neck springs from ahollow-backed oval body containing traces of possible solder. The upper face has two short and assymetrical possible wings moulded in relief, and further moulded detail which is hardc to interpret due to wear and corrosion, but includes a tranverse rib before the mount becomes flat-sectioned, is bent and broke (old break) wher…
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-12A545
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy mount, probably from a strap, comprising a rectangular plate with an offset narrowed flange with projecting tapering arm at one narrow end. The other end appears to be missing where slightly bent and broken. the projecting arm expands slightly to a rounded perforated terminal. The plate is pierced by two rivet-holes and has an engraved rocker-arm border. Extant length 43mm. Width 17mm. Weight 3.85g. 13th century 
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FDF9D7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Saxon copper alloy small-long brooch with a damaged head-plate of uncertain form, all of the original edge is missing, and with the remains of two bordering vertical lines of C-shaped stamps (one stamp on the left and three stamps on the right). D-sectioned bow with chamfered panel at both ends, the lower one broken where the foot is missing. On the reverse of the head-plate is a broken single pin lug within some iron-staining. Extant length/height 32mm. Extant width 22mm. Weighs 6.50g. c.480-530.
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FD66DE
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, worn and corroded Medieval copper alloy composite tongue-shaped strap-end, with a full-width spacer, and two rivets, one near the attachment edge and near the shaped lower end. The straight sides taper gently towards the knop past two pairs of rounded lateral cut-outs. The front and back sheet plates survive as scraps. There is a break across a possible perforation at the terminal where it begins to expand to a possible composite knop. Cf. Margeson 1993, no. 234 and Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 703. Weight 2.65g. Extant length 39.5mm. Width 7.5mm. T…
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FC443E
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an Early Saxon copper alloy pair of tweezers. Decoration on the outer face of the surviving upper part of the tapering arm comprises two sets of three transverse grooves, both ends of the arm are broken and much of the surface and the outer edge are missing. Extant length 45mm. Width 4.5 - 6.5mm. 1.5mm thick. Weighs 1.72g. c. AD 480-550.
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-EA0D48
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead 4 oz Troy trade weight, shield-shaped with damaged lion rampant in relief, small perforation through the head of the lion. Incised oblique lines on boredering flange. Length 49mm. Width 34mm. 10mm thick (6mm at flange). weighs 1707.0 grains, 110.61g, 3.902oz, 3.5565oz Troy. Cf. Biggs (1992), 42-3. A mercantile pound of 16oz Troy was in use during the 14th and 15th centuries (Biddle 1990, 911 Table 91 f.n.2).
Created on: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E9735C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy annular flat-sectioned framed brooch with a wire pin set in a constriction half way between an (empty) collet and a projecting stylised animal head with drilled blind holes for eyes which may have originally contained stone settings. The face of the frame is decorated with a line of multiple counter-relief pellets. Cf. a rather more basic version in Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1335. Length 26mm. Width 16mm. Weighs 1.63g. c.1270 - c.1350.
Created on: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E8E83A
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat with small notch in both ends, no trace of lug or handle. Pointed oval, 39 x 23mm. 3mm thick. Weighs 14.39g. Fleur-de-lis. + SIGILL · hAMONIS · FILII : PEtRI (Seal of Haimo, son of Peter). 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D494EA
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified heavily cast copper-alloy object, which resembles part of the lower horizontal bar from a massive drop handle, with a prominent transverse moulding formed from a large square-sectioned rib (15 x 15mm) flanked by two smaller ribs. Broken on one side, the other sides/arm tapering to a short upright, which is a convex-sided blunt point (apparently unbroken, height 10.5mm). Extant length 55.5mm. Weighs 45.31g. Perhaps 14th-15th century.
Created on: Monday 17th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D4082F
Object type: AMULET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete possible Roman amulet or charm in the form of a D-sectioned curved and pointed tusk, broken at the oval, collared, broad end where there is a very worn possible stump of a loop for suspension. Extant length 55mm.Width and thickness at broad end 10.5 x 10mm. Weighs 15.81g. Compare with an amulet from Uttlesford in Essex (ESS-B4BC67), for which Ralph Jackson provided the following discussion: 'The boar had particular significance to both the Late Iron Age and Roman peoples. Real boar tusks were often suspended around the neck as amulets and were though…
Created on: Monday 17th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D39354
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval annular brooch, broken, approx half survives, one end with sub-lozengiform plate with drilled perforation for the missing pin, the other end broken before the probable pin rest, the surviving triangular-sectioned side has a single projecting collet which is empty. Diameter c. 31mm (excluding projecting plate). Weight 2.55g. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 17th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D32324
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon to Late Saxon tinned sheet copper alloy sub-circular hooked tag with tip of the hook distorted and straightened-out, There are two attachment holes. Read 2008 Class A, Type 2. Undecorated. Weight 0.47g. Length 19mm. Width 11.5mm. 0.4mm thick. 8th - mid 11th century.
Created on: Monday 17th October 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D2B852
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny early-medieval copper-alloy hooked tag of Read's Class A, Type 2. Circular plate (diam. 12mm) has a compass-drawn border, a central circular hole (c. 1.4mm in diameter) outlined with a similar groove, two similarly sized and outlined circular sewing holes above, separated by a ring-and-dot, and another, perforated, ring-and-dot below. There is also a tiny perforated ring-and-dot filling the slightly expanded upper end of the tapering hook. Length 19mm. 0.5mm thick. Weight 0.51g.  Hooked tags were in use from the mid 7th century until the 11t…
Created on: Monday 17th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-821A63
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy pendent loop from a bar mount from a belt, quatrefoil with a narrowed offset bar on the upper foil. Length 14mm. Width 16mm. 1.5mm thick. Weighs 1.48g. See Egan and Pritchard 1991, 138, no.1189. Second half of 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-81F1C1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval strap-end made from a strip of copper-alloy sheet folded in half (broken along fold), with a single rivet hole with copper alloy rivet (length 4mm) at the open end. The strip tapers very slightly from 7.5mm wide at the folded lower end to 6mm at the attachment end, which has twin notches in the upper edge of the face. Length 22mm. Weighs 1.15g. 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-7F8ABD
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap mount, two rectangular sheets with copper rivet at both ends. Length 26.5mm. Width 10.5mm. 3mm thick, gap for strap 2.3mm. Weighs 2.66g. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 2002, fig.141, no.1206. 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-7E6562
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Everted and slightly thickened rim sherd from a medieval to post-medieval cast copper alloy cooking vessel with sooting over all, including part of the break. Diameter not accurately measurable. Weight 64.47g. 14th - 17th century. 
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
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