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Record ID: NMS-6F177B
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix, flat with shallow median rib ending in a perforated lug at the upper end. Oval, 23 x 17mm. An eagle displayed. * SIGILLVM ……LLVM TALe (Seal of ). There is a sprig as a filler at the end of the inscription. 14th century.
Created on: Monday 11th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-6E6BE6
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat, small bent fragment of outer edge. Circular, c. 26mm. Central device missing. ]S’ IVO[ (?). Weighs 2.24g. 13th century.
Created on: Monday 11th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-8C5C28
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy seal matrix, flat with short median rib ending in a broken perforated lug at the upper end. Shield-shaped, 26.5 x 22mm. A lion rampant. · S’ RADVL’ · FIL : PETRI SEVALE (Seal of Ralph son of Peter Sewall). 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-8A713E
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead seal matrix, flat with inverted fleur-de-lis with broken perforated lug projecting from upper edge, transverse break across mid-point. Pointed oval, 36 x 17mm. Inverted fleur-de-lis. +………OIANE · WALIO……… (?) The N is retrograde. 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-4283CD
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval seal matrix, lead, flat with irregular oblique transverse break and remains of fleur-de-lis in relief on reverse, upper end and possible lug or handle missing. Pointed oval, >19.5 x >18.5mm. Incomplete small star or multifoil. ?O]RIS · TANY[ (? Uncertain). 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-1624CE
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval seal matrix, copper alloy, flat with shallow median rib ending in a broken perforated lug at the upper end. Oval, 20.5 x 19.5mm. A crescent pendent (points downward) above a six-pointed star. * S’ heNRICI DL[for E?] NEWODE (Seal of Henry de Newood). The N is retrograde. 14th century.
Created on: Monday 25th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D1756C
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval seal matrix, lead, flat with irregular oblique transverse break and remains of shallow median rib, upper end and possible lug or handle missing. Pointed oval, >26 x >26mm. Weight 6.09g. Elaborate quatrefoil. ]RD FIL’ FILIB[ (? Son of Filibert). 13th century.
Created on: Friday 3rd February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FEEBE7
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval seal matrix, lead, convex reverse with centre raised to form a crude shallow lug with transverse perforation. Pointed oval, 27.5 x 17.2mm. Height/thickness 9mm. Weight 14.46g. Unintelligible decoration comprised of lines and pellets, some of which form three probable crosses. 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FECF38
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval seal matrix, copper alloy, hexagonally facetted conical handle broken above a knop or collar, terminal missing (extant height 12.5mm), damaged outer edge. Circular, 16mm. Weight 4.62g. Hare riding a hound to sinister and holding a hawk. Inscription illegible. 14th century
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-69C0DA
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval hooked gilt copper alloy mount comprising four annulets around a square central perforation, and with projecting fillets in the interstices defined by cast and/or engraved lines, two oblique opposed examples of which are pierced (one broken) for missing rivets. The stump of a broken probable hook projects from the outer edge of one annulet. The face is moulded, the reverse is flat. Extant length 42mm. Width 35.5mm. 1mm thick, 2.2mm at broken projection. Weight 0.148g. c. 13th-16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-69870D
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval whittle-tang knife end-cap of sheet folded, butt-jointed and soldered into a sub-rectangular sectioned tube, the convex broad faces have engraved scrolling foliate decoration framed by longitudinal bordering lines. One end of the tube flares outwards and would have been closed by an additional sheet, now missing. Similar objects have been recorded by the PAS: Englefield, Berkshire (BERK-D63307), Cerne Abbas, Dorset (SOMDOR-B64288 in lead alloy), and two from the City of London (LON-D11F23, and LON-AA1F08, lead alloy). A rather more elaborate example on a whittle…
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-69654A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame, angled double-oval with narrowed central bar continued as moulding that projects beyond sides , D-sectioned copper alloy pin. Broad D-sectioned outside edges with filed chamfer at outer edge, both with notch on inner edge for pin. Length 22mm. Width 17.5mm. Weight 0.116. 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-694267
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval buckle, oval frame with grooved triangular lip (14 x 15mm), offset narrowed bar retains corroded fragment of iron pin, rectangular plate folded widthways (narrowed on reverse) with pin-slot and recessed for frame, sides slightly chamfered, rivet-hole with copper alloy rivet at sprung attachment end (16 x 11.5mm). Combined length 27mm. Weight 0.102g. Cf. Egan and Pritchard (1991), fig.45, nos.308-9. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-691C22
Object type: LEASH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a Medieval copper alloy swivel for a leash: a D-shaped loop with a perforated expansion for the missing probable loop with integral rivet. Length 22mm. Width 13mm Weight 0.036g. 12th- 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-68EBDC
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sheet copper alloy shield-shaped strap end, two rivets (one with lozengiform rove), straight sides tapering to angled inside edge, bar-mount of arched section, 17.2 x 11mm, bar-mount 4 x 10mm. Weight 0.053g. See Egan and Pritchard 1991, 156-8. c.1270 - c.1450.
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Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-68B1AF
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy sub-circular/oval hooked tag with two pierced attachment lugs (one broken), Read 2008 Class D, Type 1. The front is stamped with seven crescentic stamps forming a sexfoil (one stamp in centre) within an engraved oval frame. Weight 0.028g. Length 27mm. Extant width 14mm. 8th - 10th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-14B513
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite rumbler bell. Sheet metal upper and lower halves soldered to form a prominent median rib, with separate inserted and soldered rectangular strip forming a flattened loop. Round ended slot in base. Iron pea. Diameter 18mm. Height 23mm. Weight 0.281g. Late 13th - early 15th century. See Egan and Pritchard (2002), 338 - 9, fig.221, no.1644, 1645 and 1666.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-14734B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval buckle plate, rectangular sheet, two rivet-holes at attachment end, other end broken, traces of engraved bordering line on face. Extant length 19mm. Width 17mm. 0.3mm thick. Weighs 0.025g. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 13th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-144BBC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small Medieval spacer from a three-part strap-end, tongue-shaped with a projecting narrow elongated point with slight lozengiform terminal. Both faces covered with remains of solder, single copper-alloy rivet above springing of point. Length 23mm. Width 8.5mm. 0.70mm thick. Weighs 0.028g. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-13D806
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval spacer from a three-part strap-end, tongue-shaped with notched cruciform terminal. Both faces with remains of solder, no rivet-holes, irregular notch in one side near mid-point. Length 33mm. Width 10mm. 1mm thick. Weighs 0.077g. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-13A1CE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval double-looped buckle frame, both loops oval. Narrowed bar, pin missing. 25.5 x 22mm. 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 13th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 13th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FF7EC6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval gilt copper alloy mount, probably from a strap, comprising a flat-backed central annulet flanked by two smaller lobes with rivet-holes, one of which is broken (rivets missing). Thick guilding survives on the convex face of the mount. Extant length 16mm (estimated original length 17mm). Width 9mm. 1.5mm thick. Weight 0.025mm. 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FF4289
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Medieval copper alloy strap loop, one end of frame only, broken at springing of sides and with a separate internal rivet. Extant width 51.5mm Depth of flat-sectioned frame 4mm, thickness 1.5mm. Length of rivet 3.7mm. Weight 0.034g. Second half 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FF19FA
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval bar mount, D-sectioned, rivet-hole at both ends, one with copper alloy rivet. Length 28mm. Width 3mm - 3.5mm (at terminals). 1mm thick. Weight 0.027g. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FEFEED
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete corroded Medieval gilt copper alloy binding strip from a box or casket, comprising a bent rectangular-sectioned strip, broken across one end which is narrowed and slightly thickened (width 2.3mm, thickness 2mm), and the other end which is thinner and beginning to expand (extant width 4.5mm, thickness 1mm). Offset from the mid-point is a hollow backed oval boss with small perforation at edge (damage) (height 2.5mm). Extant length (unbent) 55mm. Width of strip 1.90mm, width across boss 7mm. Weight 0.045g. Bindings of this type have been recovered on a numb…
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FEBAAD
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Medieval composite copper alloy folding clasp, folding end only, one end rolled for missing spindle, the other end with small tab projecting beyond a separate arch-section bar-mount, secured by a copper alloy rivet. Frame and plate missing. Length 12mm. Width 20mm. Weight 0.087g. See Egan and Pritchard (1991), fig.77, no.555. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FE63C2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy shield-shaped strap-end. Straight attachment edge, with opposed points and concave notches on the sides of the plate before a separate C-sectioned transverse mount with a rectangular cut-out on the inner edge. There are two rivets, one through the mount and one at the curved edge, both with a rectangular rove on the reverse. Length 20mm. Width 16mm. Weight 0.086g. See Egan and Pritchard (2002), 157, fig.103 for similar examples. c. 1300-1400.
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E8C11B
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and distorted Roman copper alloy penannular bracelet. Tapering band of flattened D-shaped section, broken at both ends. The front face is decorated. From the break at the narrowed end: a transverse line, notches and a dot and ring-and-dot, five transverse lines, two dots between notches, five transverse lines, two dots between notches, five transverse lines, two dots between notches, five transverse lines, an undecorated band before the break. The diameter of the complete object cannot be estimated because of distortion (straightened surviving l…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-BFE6AC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete forked spacer from a composite strap-end, circular with a flaring upper part, both forks broken, and traces of solder on both faces. Collared acorn knop terminal. Extant length 36.5mm. Width 17mm. Weighs 0.080g. See Egan and Pritchard (2002), fig.92, no.650. 14th century.
Created on: Monday 9th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-BFBE72
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval copper-alloy spur buckle with integral plate. D-shaped frame with straight outside edge with slight knop at both angles and shallow pin groove. The remains of the are broken across a perforation for the missing pin. Broadly similar to Whitehead (2003), no. 193. Extant length: 24mm. Width: 15.5mm. Thickness 1mm. Weight: 0.39g. Mid-13th to 14th century.
Created on: Monday 9th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-BF8E39
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame, oval with an offset, narrowed bar, pin missing. Length 13mm. Width 15.5mm. Weight 0.043g. Later 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Monday 9th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 9th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-BF704D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and very corroded Medieval gilt copper alloy buckle frame, oval, bar and pin missing, triangular outside edge, traces of engraved rocker-arm decoration either side of the pin groove. Length 16mm. Width 23.5mm. Weight 0.047g. See Whitehead (2003), 25, nos.109 and 114 for broadly similar examples. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 9th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-BF457A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and distorted Medieval buckle frame, oval, heavily cast projecting sub-rectangular ornate outside edge recessed for sheet roller with engraved horizontal lines, one side with broken and squashed remains of offset narrowed bar, the other broken. Extant length (distorted) 27.5mm. Width 40mm. Late 12th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 9th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-BED61D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy buckle plate, rectangular plate folded widthways, recessed for the frame and with pin-slot, the back-plate narrower than the front-plate with two rivet-holes at the attachment edge, one with copper-alloy rivet. The plate has counter-relief decoration of a scrolling tendril on a stippled ground within a broad outer border. Length 30mm. Width 14mm. Weight 0.171g. Late 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Monday 9th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6EC83B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval double-looped buckle frame, both loops oval. Narrowed bar, pin missing. 18 x 13.5mm. 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 5th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6EA032
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval/Post-medieval angled double-looped buckle frame, both loops oval, with a slight lobe at the ends of the bar. D-sectioned copper alloy pin. 34.5 x 25.5mm. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 5th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6C1966
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval strap clasp, trapezoidal, twin internal projections and sub-rectangular knop in middle of tops, 25 x 18mm. Weight 0.083g. See Egan and Pritchard (1991), fig.149, no.1256. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6BA9DB
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible furniture fitting, probably Roman heavily-cast copper alloy hollow hemispherical mount or stud, with large integral internal rivet which projects less than 2mm beyond the sides. Diameter 27.5mm. Height 15mm. Thickness of sides 3-4mm. Weight 1.276g. c. AD 43-409.
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6AE74A
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible Roman cast copper alloy furniture fitting. Circular disc with a raised border, broad concentric concave groove and central raised conical boss with a flat top with a small central depression. The reverse has an outer flange or rim and raised circular central moulding with the stump of a square-sectioned iron shank inserted into a socket partly obscured by much iron corrosion. Diameter 25mm. 18mm thick (excluding iron shank). Weight 0.642g. See a similar example from East Tuddenham (HER 25965, NMS-36BB07) related forms of bell-shaped mounts and …
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-56D5B5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval three-part strap-end, tongue-shaped, full-width spacer, narrowed projection with notched cruciform terminal. Undecorated. Both ends are pierced for a copper alloy rivet, the upper one is missing. Length 50mm. Width 12.5mm. Terminal 2.5mm thick. Weighs 4.12g. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 4th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B3D2E8
Object type: CROSS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead pendant, trapezoidal/rectangular sectioned. Crudely cast with upper arm pierced through face for suspension. Height 31mm. Width 26mm. Thickness 6mm. Weighs 13.85g. 12th-15th century.
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B38BB2
Object type: PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval dress or hair pin, with round-section shank and separate plano-convex head secured through a central perforation. The lower (apparently broken) end of the pin is contained within a tubular sheet ferrule with a longitudinal seam, the edges butted-together. Extant length of pin 63mm, diameter 3mm. Length of ferrule 60mm, diameter 4.5-5mm. Combined length 90mm. Weighs 5.90g. Perhaps 13th-15th century.
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B0E529
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy circular mount, possibly from the centre of the base of a bowl or mazer (drinking vessel) or from a casket. The flat circular plaque (diameter 39mm) has a face which is decorated with a seven-branched bush or plant springing from a small mound, five of the branches of which end in a lobed leaf, and the two that flank the central branch end in a flower. The figure was originally reserved on an enamelled field, although no enamel now survives. Engraved detail depicts the veins on the leaves and detail on the flower h…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2022
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9C2DD7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy horse harness suspension mount and pendant. The mount is incomplete with the upper part missing, broken across the stump of a narrowed vertical bar with a base which expands, and is slotted and folded onto reverse to form twin-suspension loops, these contain a copper alloy pin or spindle from which is suspended the pendant. The face of the mount is bordered with incised lines. The pendant is lozengiform with chamfered sides and a knop at each angle. There are incised bordering lines on the sides and face, pairs of oblique li…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9B4E3A
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy composite horse harness pendant comprising an elaborate quatrefoil outer frame with four fillets projecting saltire-wise from the interstices of the quatrefoil. There is a broken suspension-loop at the apex of a vertical slotted projection with a transverse perforation containing a copper-alloy pin which supports a separate swinging fleur-de-lis pendant. The pendant has a central perforation containing a dome-headed copper alloy rivet. Extant height 34.5mm. Width 19mm. Weight 5.57g. See Griffiths (1986), no.18 and also …
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-722AB0
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat (now bent) with pierced lozengiform lug projecting from the upper end. Pointed oval, 52 (56 including lug) x 35mm, 3mm thick, weighs 36.53g. Inverted fleur-de-lis. + SIGILL’ ERNALD FIL’ MAD (Seal of Arnald son of ?). 13th century..
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-07555B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval lead weight, probably originally plano-convex but much of the lower part is missing, small central perforation (diameter 4mm). Extant diameter 23mm. Extant thickness 10mm. Weighs 18.02g. c 1200-1400.
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2022
Last updated: Sunday 11th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-073C09
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead weight/possible spindle whorl, flat with rounded outer edge, central perforation (diameter 7.5mm) with straight sides. Diameter 16mm. 5mm thick. Weighs 7.12g.
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-06C231
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of probable Medieval gilt copper alloy buckle plate, rectangular, inner end with vertical break across two rivet-holes and horizontal break along one side. The face has traces of gilding and an engraved bordering line. Extant length 14.8mm. Width 19.5mm. 0.7mm thick. Weighs 1.00g. c. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-06310C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead pot-mend. One plate irregular, the other sub-lozengiform (26 x 20mm). The cleft is c. 3mm wide. Thickness 10mm. Weight 27.22g. Probably 12th to 15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F29974
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Post Medieval rowel spur, part of one D-section side and elaborate terminal with three perforations (the examples listed below have two perforations, this example has an additional intermediate perforation). Extant length 41mm. Weight 6.85g. This distinctive terminal is paralleled by an example from Swannington (NMS-BFC970). Also see another from North Elmham (HER 1013, EAA 9 fig.264 no.60). For a discussion of this and other examples, which may have been made at one place and date to c.1620 – c.1645, see B. Ellis in Keen and Hough Beeston Castle (1993)…
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2022
Last updated: Sunday 11th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F22349
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of post-medieval copper alloy toy musket barrel, terminal with broken loop for ramrod, other end broken. Extant length 41mm. Diameter of barrel 7-8mm. Bore 4.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 6th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F13D63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester derivative rear hook bow brooch. C-sectioned wings decorated with two pairs of broad vertical grooves. Three broken rearward facing hooks, with the inside of the wings containing corroded remains of solder, spring missing. Flattened D-sectioned bow with three vertical grooves below short rib for the central rear hook. Stump of missing catch-plate on the reverse. Length 41mm Wingspan 22mm. Weighs 5.78g. 1st - early 2nd century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DE2495
Object type: VOTIVE MODEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible votive antler or part of a mount or figurine of a stag or stag's head. Single branch with five points, the attachment end has a straight worn break or terminal. Length (or extant length) 37mm. Width 12mm. Weighs 8.19g. Cf. a stag's head from Bramton (mount, and another from Attleborough (staff terminal), both illustrated in Marsden (2014), fig. 5.33 and fig. 7.49. The stag is associated with Silvanus, the Romano-Celtic hunter, and with the Celtic god Cernunnos (Green (1976), p. 33).
Created on: Monday 5th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DD651B
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon bridle side-link from horse harness, knopped lozengiform terminal loops (one broken and mostly missing), trapezoidal-sectioned bar with central boss with flanking knops and traces of a large engraved ring-and-dot. Extant length 57mm. Width (at loop) 27mm. Thickness (at central boss) 10mm. Weight 21.74g. 11th century.
Created on: Monday 5th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DD3935
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and worn Late Saxon strirrup-strap mount of Williams 1997, Class A, Type 1 with the apex missing, an old oblique break across the fixing hole. Two iron rivets and the remains of an iron strap lie above an obliquely-angled flange. Iron corrosion on the reverse. The complex and somewhat debased engraved decoration on the face comprises angular pseudo-interlace. Weight 12.21g. Extant height 35mm. Width 31mm. 11th century.
Created on: Monday 5th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-DCD173
Object type: PROCESSIONAL CROSS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper-alloy figurine, part of a group from a processional cross. It comprises the solid cast naturalistic figure. The back of the figure is undecorated. The figure is wearing a cloak or mantle that covers the head, and much of the body and feet. The face is oval, with worn details of eyes nose and mouth. The cloak is open slightly at the front revealing a horizontal possible tie and the draped folds of the lower part of the undergarment. Both of the arms are close to the body, and bent at the elbow, the right hand appears to be cradling a book, the le…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2022
Last updated: Sunday 28th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-CB5E37
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and very corroded Medieval gilt copper alloy annular framed brooch. The convex face of the D-sectioned frame is segmented by eight transverse grooves forming four broad and four narrow alternating sections, the broad ones with traces of decorative 'brambling' (created by multiple punched circles), and has the remains of a collared gilt copper alloy pin (most of shank missing) in the constriction in the frame. Weight 2.11g. Outer and inner diameters 17 and 9mm. Thickness 2mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CB079C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval copper-alloy 1/4 oz nested cup-weight. Circular, with a flat base and obliquely angled sides. Multiple punched dots around the top of the rim. Similar to NMS-66A9A3 and NMS-046A1A. External diameter (at rim): 16.5mm, (at base): 14mm. Thickness of sides: c. 2.8mm. Height: 6.2mm. Weight: 7.16g / 0.253oz. 15th - early 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CACF9F
Object type: SIEVE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval/Post-Medieval fragment of incomplete skimmer or sieve, irregular sub triangular (extant dimensions 28 x 33mm) perforated sheet with on curved side possibly representing part of original outside edge, pierced by closely-spaced small, sub-oval perforations, mostly approximately 2.5 x 2mm, although with some variation). 0.5mm thick. Weighs 1.88g. Cf. Margeson (1993), fig.84, nos. 743 and 745. c. 1400-1600.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CA9119
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy horse harness pendant, circular, with a broken suspension-loop, traces of gilding and green and white enamel survive. The decoration could be blazoned as A three branched tree vert with an owl passant guardant close over all, although the decoration is probably decorative rather than armorial. Extant height 32mm. Width 24.5mm. Weighs 6.96g. The owl is similar to that found on a circular pendant from Costessey (HER 33294) shown in Ashley (2002), no.187. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C9D544
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame, one loop D-shaped with groove for pin rest, the other loop slightly pointed on the outside edge. Both have D-shaped sections, the face with an external chamfer, the reverse with an internal chamfer. The bar extends out onto the frame as a moulding. Pin missing. Length 21.5mm. Width 16.5mm. Weighs 1.79g. c. 1450-1650.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C9B629
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame, both loops are D-shaped (one with break across outside edge) and have D-shaped sections. The bar extends out ontoand slightly beyond the frame as a moulding. A flat-sectioned copper-alloy pin survives on the bar. The buckle is 31mm long and 22mm wide, and weighs 3.48g. c. 1450-1650.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C98F8F
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Medieval copper alloy harness pendant, broken suspension loop and upper part of a probably oval or pear-shaped body with an irregular break where the lower part is missing. Worn and corroded, no surviving decoration. Extant length 27mm. Extant width 14mm. Weighs 1.76g. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B5CF07
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy attachment for spur leather, rectangular plate with narrowed bar springing from straight edge and looped-over and secured though a perforated lozengiform terminal by an integral rivet on reverse of the plate (26 x 15mm), and retains a scrap of leather strap. Loop retains a separate copper alloy ring (diameter 15.5mm) and bent looped staple (13 x 41.5mm). Combined length c. 67mm. Weighs 17.49g. Cf. examples in Clarke 1995, fig.97, no.327 and 329. 14th century.
Created on: Monday 21st November 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B57CD5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy finger ring, oval bezel (15 x 11mm, 7mm thick), the face is concave around the raised oval setting with white fixative for missing glass or stone, and a broad chamfer around the reverse. Narrow stepped shoulders, with single groove, stumps of narrow D-sectioned hoop. Weighs 4.46g. 3rd - 4th century.
Created on: Monday 21st November 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B54606
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Post-Medieval copper alloy spoon handle, oval terminal, slightly thickened on the reverse at the upper edge, with stepped sides where it expands slightly before tapering to a break, lower part missing. An engraved transverse line corresponds with the stepped sides and forms the top of and engraved head, with multiple short vertical lines for the hair, circular eyes, horizontal lines for the nose and mouth and oblique lines at the break representing a beard. Extant length 23mm. Width 12mm. Weighs 2.63g. c. AD 1500 - 1600.
Created on: Monday 21st November 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B4C325
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy harness pendant, iron corrosion on suspension loop, square body (23 x 23mm) comprising a domed four side pyramid with a central perforation at its apex within a bordering flange (one upper angle broken) decorated with multiple stamped annulets. height/length with loop 32mm. Weighs 5.96g. Cf. a mount from Litcham (NMS-A5F441), and other Norfolk examples such as a harness pendant and mount from Ryston (HER 31096), a mount from Deopham (HER 41108) and a harness pendant from Mautby (HER 36646). 12th-13th…
Created on: Monday 21st November 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-64EEBE
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A set of three post-medieval gilt copper alloy mounts; two square (or lozengiform) examples, both with a pair of integral oval-sectioned attachment spikes at obliquely opposed anges on the reverse and a raised central boss with five stamped annulets and with a line of multiple stamped annulets on the surruonding flange. Both 15 x 15mm. Weight (one with inturned spikes) 2.45g and 2.24g (with stumps of missing spikes); The third mount has a central boss which matches the two mounts, and one surviving of two opposed arms.The surviving arm, a pointed oval tapering to a …
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-638D6A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval copper alloy composite tongue-shaped strap end with a full-width sheet spacer, a back plate (probably, as undecorated) and the terminal only of the front plate. Rectangular with two pairs of opposed rounded cut-outs and narrowed before an oval expansion with a tiny trefoil trefoil knop. Length 55mm. Length of spacer is 40mm. Width 19.5mm. Weighs 4.77g. 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Costessey', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-61D504
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval gilt copper alloy buckle plate, sub-triangular, broken across springing of loops for missing frame (possibly recessed), and pin-slot, originally folded widthways. Face with three dome-headed copper alloy rivets and traces of two engraved bordering rocker-arm lines, and patches of gilding surviving around the domed heads of the rivets. Extant length 24mm. Width 13mm. Weighs 1.89g. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-3925D4
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon to Late Saxon sheet copper alloy single sharp hooked tag with triangular plate and single attachment hole, Read 2008, Class A, Type 1. The face is decorated with two engraved transverse lines bordering the upper edge, and two lines at the springing of the hook, also, single lines border the sides of the head. Cf. ibid. pp. 7-10 although no close parallel. Length 20mm. Width 7.5mm. Thickness 0.7mm. Weighs 0.49g. 8th - 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-38E72B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman copper alloy bow brooch, probably a Colchester derivative, The head, pin, wings and upper bow are missing. The bow is bent at the worn transverse break. It then tapers to the foot. Undecorated. A triangular openwork catchplate projects from the reverse, with a pin groove at the fold. Extant length (unbent) c. 30mm. Weighs 1.99g. c. AD 43 - 120.
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-38A565
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval key for casket, formed from cut and folded sheet, with an oblique break across the perforation in the lozengiform bow, simple bit and hollow shank. Extant length 36mm. Bit 6.5 x 7.5mm. Weighs 2.52g. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-388B48
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame, rectangular double-loop of with deep oblique grooves on both outside edges, narrowed central bar, pin missing. 22.2 x 22mm. 2mm thick. Weighs 3.92g. 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-37D6C7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy bar mount from a folding clasp, rectangular (13 x 4.5mm), C-shaped section, copper alloy rivet in centre (length 4.5mm). Weighs 0.66g. See Egan & Pritchard, 2002, p. 116, fig. 76. c. AD 1270 - 1450.
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-37B3BB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy oval buckle frame, offset narrowed bar with deep notch for missing pin, straight (or 'ornate') outside edge. Length 20mm. Width 14mm. Weighs 1.44mm. Cf. related types in Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 294. Late 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-379152
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval rectangular copper alloy strap-plate consisting of two sheets (0.6mm thick) secured by four copper alloy rivets. 18 x 10mm. 2.5mm gap for the leather strap (fragment survives between plates). Weighs 1.34g. 14th – first half 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-374D2A
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval copper alloy probable folding strap clasp, with a folded sheet plate secured by a single rivet at the attachment-end, narrowed bar and stumps of sides of frame only. The long sides of the plate are bordered with an incised rocker-arm lines and frame an engraved saltire between four short horizontal lines. Length of plate 35mm. Width of plate 14.5-15mm. Weighs 5.42g. See Egan and Pritchard 1991, 116-20. c.1270-c.1450.
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-365287
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame, bent, annular, flat backed and bevelled internally, with a narrower, recessed, slightly bent, central bar of sub-triangular cross-section, pin missing. Cf. Whitehead 2003, nos. 251-4. Weight 5.11g. Diameter c. 29-30mm. Mid 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 15th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-361CCE
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably medieval lead pot-mend. Both plates are sub-circular and of similar size. The cleft is c. 7mm wide. Diameter c. 20mm. Thickness 9mm. Weight 16.45g. Probably 12th to 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 15th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-263CC2
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early-medieval or medieval lead spindle whorl. Crude, conical, larger at the base than at the top. Off-centre vertical perforation. Diameter at base c. 25-26mm. Height 13mm. Diameter of perforation at top c. 7-8mm, at base 10-11mm. Weight 33.76g. 10th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 14th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 14th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-25F0BD
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy pointed-oval plate with both slightly convex faces filed and faceted. Pierced by one large circular central perforion, between two smaller circular perorations. Length 30mm. Width 12.5mm. 3mm thick. Weighs 4.14g.
Created on: Monday 14th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-25B0E9
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably Medieval flat-sectioned sheet plate tapering and bent to form a sharp hook, possibly part of a composite hooked strap-end. Single rivet hole filled with corrosion near straight-cut upper end of plate. Traces of solder on both faces to a line c. 9-10mm from upper edge. Length 29mm. Width 7.1mm. Weight 3.00 g. See Ottaway and Rogers (2002), fig.1474, no.15197 and Hare (1985) Battle Abbey, fig.51, nos.70-1, and NMS-160A78. 14th century.
Created on: Monday 14th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-2542C8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy buckle plate, D-shaped, folded widthways with a pin slot and recessed for frame, narrowed and shortened on the reverse. Engraved transverse line at the loops for the missing frame, the face pierced by three rivet-holes, two with a copper alloy dome-headed rivet. Length 27.5mm. Width 21mm. Weight 3.23g. Late 12th-13th century.
Created on: Monday 14th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D1CDC2
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post-Medieval copper alloy hooked tag, narrow rectangular loop, circular openwork body with a central boss between of four radiating fleurs-de-lis, pelleted border, stump of missing hook at base. Length 21.5mm. Width 16mm. See Read 2008, no. 370. Read early post-medieval Class E, Type 3. Later 16th-17th century.
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D199DB
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval sheet copper alloy possible lace chape with a butted-together seam. The upper end is open, bent and distorted, the lower end is broken and open. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 284-90, nos. 1437-49. Extant (straightened) length c. 43mm. Lower end, width 5mm, thickness 4mm. Weight 2.63. c.1230 - c.1400.
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D160E7
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small tinned copper-alloy chape from a dagger sheath or sword scabbard, made from sheet rolled into a cone, the seam is open on the reverse, but would have overlapped and probably have been soldered. The narrower end has been cut into four triangular points or notches which have been bent in to close the end. There are twin lines forming the ghost of a probable separately-applied band in the traces of tinning and possible solder towards the mouth of the chape (see two 14th-15th century examples in de Reuck, p. 15). Maximum length 48mm.Width at top 21mm. Maximum…
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D0C5B2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Early Medieval copper alloy strap mount or belt stiffener, sub-rectangular with convex face. Both ends expand slightly into oval lobes and and are pierced by a rivet-hole. No close parallel noted. Length 28.5mm. Width 6.2mm. Thickness 2.2mm. Weighs 2.09g. 5th - 8th century AD.
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CE324A
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy harness mount, cast pelta-shaped body, with the base curling round on both sides towards the splayed central projection, which is bent and damaged (notch in one side). Twin vertically aligned integral rivets (projecting 2mm and 3mm) with bent and slightly burred-over terminals on the reverse. Length 20.2mm. Width 20.5mm. Weighs 2.78g. For a similar example Cf. Oldenstein 1976, Tafel 53, nos. 622-6. 2nd-3rd century..
Created on: Thursday 10th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B87137
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a Medieval gilt copper alloy composite harness pendant comprising a tiny cast sexfoil with broken suspension-loop, which would originally been suspended within an elaborate sexfoil frame. A common type, see two complete examples excavated in Norwich (Emery 2007, fig. 5.93 and pl. 5.12, SF 81 and SF 609). Extant height 20mm. Width 13mm. Weighs 1.46g. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 9th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A79BA2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval kidney-shaped copper alloy sheet buckle frame. The sides are hammered and flat, the face (width 7mm, 0.7mm thick) angled outwards with oblique lines of engraved rocker-arm, forming a V in the centre, and their tapered ends are curled over to hold the ends of a missing (probably iron) bar. Now very distorted- length 53mm. Weighs 2.54mm. See examples in a hoard from Blossom's Inn, Cheapside, London (Margeson 1993, 25, plate IX). 15th-16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 25th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A3E247
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Medieval/Post-Medieval double-looped copper alloy buckle frame, one loop missing, narrowed central bar, pin missing. Extant length 15mm. Width 25mm. 14th – 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A3A068
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and distorted copper alloy medieval/post-medieval dress hook. Attachment loop missing, circular hollow-backed plate decorated in relief with multiple pellets, distorted hook, now straightened. Read (1998) Class E type 3. Measuring 28 (distorted and unbent) x c.14mm (unbent). 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8F99C7
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat, with a bent, tapering unpierced lug towards the upper edge on reverse. Circular, 29mm. Quatrefoil. + : hENRICVS · BAN (Seal of Henry Bann). See Reaney and Wilson 1991, 26. 13th century.
Created on: Monday 7th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th December 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-8F7778
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat, with no trace of lug or handle. Shield-shaped, 20 x 17mm. 3mm thick. Weighs 5.79g. A fleur-de-lis ensigned with a crown and with a small fleur-de-lis in sinister chief. 13th century.
Created on: Monday 7th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th December 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-27CB48
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat, median rib ending in a flattened perforated lug at upper edge on reverse. Circular, 27mm. Octofoil. + S’ thVrSTAN : D’. SOW: (Seal of Thurstan de Sow). The N is retrograde. 13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-2627C4
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or Post-Medieval copper-alloy ring of uncertain use, crudely cast in the manner of drape rings, of flattened oval section, but with mutiple oblique notched cut into one face. Internal diameter 13mm. External diameter 20mm. Weighs 2.00g. Thickness 3.5mm. 14th - 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
Last updated: Sunday 28th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-24A5B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete worn and corroded Roman tiny copper alloy Colchester two-piece brooch, broken pierced lug retains fragment of chord, semi-circular wings, lower part of bow and catch-plate missing. Extant length 16mm. Extant width 12.5mm. AD 43-65.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-244B84
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and worn copper-alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative rearhook type. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open at the reverse for the spring, In the centre at the top is the stub of a rear-facing hook, and below this on the reverse the middle of the wings has a deep hollow containing iron corrosion at one end. The front of the wings are decorated with a reel. The sub-rectangular bow is flat-sectioned with a slightly convex reverse, and the face is decorated with widely spaced vertical twin knurled ribs and at the lower end projects transversely with a pair of…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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