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Record ID: NMS-CC2A6A
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted fragment of a medieval to post-medieval copper alloy purse frame of L-shaped cross-section, with an old break at both ends. No suspension hole is present. The front face is engraved with a double-line zigzag, but no inlaid material has survived. Williams 2018 Class A1. Weight 5.26g. Extant length 43mm. Mid 15th - mid 16th century.
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CBDB02
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy padlock for use with a slide-key. All of the spring mechanism is missing apart from remains of the springs which are left within the octagonally cross-sectioned case. The bar is complete but has been distorted downwards with its point almost touching the top of the case. At one end there is a Y-shaped key aperture which continues onto the underside, and at the damaged other end an internal vertical septum is visible. The full length of the lowest side of the case is engraved with three wavy lines. Weight 9.94g. Length 29mm.…
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CB94A4
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy casket key with a part of the circular and shouldered bow missing (non-recent break). The shank is hollow-ended and on the simple bit there are two symmetrical rectangular clefts. Cf. Read 2016 no. 552.  Weight 2.72g. Extant length 29.4mm. Bit 6 x 7 x 1.5mm. Late 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CA40A4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy buckle with a missing pin: oval frame with an offset,narrowed bar, a grooved lip in the centre of the outside edge and a ridge on the exterior of the sides near the bar, length 17mm, width 17.8mm; rectangular sheet plate with frame recesses, a pin hole and a rust filled rivet hole near the inside edge, length 21.5mm, width 13.2mm (smaller rear part, 19.7 x 100.4mm). Overall length 35.5mm, weight 3.49g. 14th century:
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CA06B3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragments of five medieval copper alloy buckles, 13th - 15th century: - sheet pin hammered to a point, length 22.4mm, weight 0.77g. - one half of a rectangular folded sheet plate broken at the fold, with a pin slot, slight frame recesses, two rivet holes near the inside edge and a third, rust stained, at the centre, length and width 24 and 16.5mm, weight 1.32g. -rectangular folded sheet plate broken at the fold, with a pin slot, five rivet holes, one each corner and one in the centre, two retaining rivets, traces of white-metal coating on both faces, length and width 27.5 and 1…
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C97EF1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two medieval sheet copper alloy “shield shaped” strap-ends, both with bar-mounts of arched cross-section and with two rivets (one in both with a rectangular rove), c.1270 - c.1450 (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 156-8): - rounded inside edge, small notch in sides, 11.8 x 7.5mm. bar-mount 3.8 x 7.3mm, weight 0.47g. - in abraded condition, sides and inside edge damaged, original form uncertain, c.12 x c.8.5mm, bar-mount 4.2 x 8.6mm, weight 0.65g.
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C94321
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval tongue-shaped strap-end with a lozengiform knop, formed from two copper alloy sheet plates secured by a rivet near both edges. Decayed leather, now c.1mm thick, extends between the plates for 10mm from the attachment edge. Below this the plates are in direct contact. Weight 1.52g. Length 23.5mm. Width 8.2mm. 14th century. 
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C9094A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Front sheet copper alloy plate of a medieval strap composite strap-end of sub-circular form with a grooved round aperture between two rivet holes (one retaining a rivet) at the attachment edge, and a third hole, also with a rivet, near the straight outside edge (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 140-1). Weight 2.47g. Length 21.5mm. Width 26mm. 14th century. 
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C8170B
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap loop, rectangular with a (missing) separate internal rivet. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 1248-9. A rib runs along the top from one side to the other, cf. Read 2016, no.217. Weight 2.33g. 20.6 x 13.8mm. 17mm internally.  14th century. 
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C7F883
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy two-arched pendent mount for the suspension of a purse with a non-recent break: one arch, part of the second and a large cusp between them, cf. Egan, G. in Griffiths et al. 2007 pl. 21 cat. nos. 1280-4. Weight 4.10g. Extant length 37.5mm (restored length 55mm). 14th century.
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B594D4
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon to Late Saxon sheet copper alloy hooked tag of Read 2008 early medieval single sharp-hooked clasp Class A type 2, with a circular plate, two attachment holes, a central round perforation and four concentric, probably punched, rings. Weight 0.41g. Diameter 12mm. Length 20.9mm. Early 8th - 11th century.
Created on: Saturday 2nd December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B55FE3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn fragment of a Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end of Thomas 2003 Class A, Type uncertain, the attachment edge with two rivet holes (one incomplete). Most of the rear of the split end is missing. On the front there are faint signs of a fan-shaped field. The breaks are not recent. Weight 1.16g. Extant length 13.2mm. Width 14mm. 9th century.
Created on: Saturday 2nd December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B51962
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy pin with a biconical head, medial band and collar. Almost all of the shank is missing. Rogers, N. in Evans and Loveluck 2009, Type 330. Weight 2.91g. Extant length 13.9mm. Head diameter and length 9.5 and 9mm. Early 8th - 9th century.
Created on: Saturday 2nd December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B3916C
Object type: STUD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three Roman copper alloy studs, perhaps furniture fittings, each consisting of a flat, round head and an integral, round-sectioned, non-tapering shank with a burred-over terminal, mid 1st - 4th century: - four round perforations (diameter 3mm) cf. NMS-6ACA17, diameter 13mm, length 9.5mm, of which the head accounts for 1.3mm, weight 1.51g. - diameter 12.4mm, length 6.2mm, of which the head accounts for 1.3mm weight 1.48g. - diameter  11.4mm, length 7.5mm, of which the head accounts for 1.4mm, weight 1.20g.
Created on: Saturday 2nd December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B34BB8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy gilded oval plate brooch, with the pin and the central "gem" missing. Mackreth 2011 British Plate 3.b2. The piercing in the single pin lug is blocked with decayed iron. The front is gilt, the rear tinned. The stamped impressions in the outer zone are triangular and those in the inner are paired lozenges. Weight 8.97g. Length 31.8mm. Width 24.6mm. Thickness excluding pin fixings 4.5mm. Late 2nd - mid 3rd century.
Created on: Saturday 2nd December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B2DEF4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower part of the bow of a Roman copper alloy bow brooch with an incomplete catchplate, probably a Trumpet. The D-sectioned bow tapers from a transverse rib immediately below the non-recent break to a foot knob consisting of two rounded elements, a transverse rib and the foot itself, both of which project from the front only. Weight 1.62g. Extant length 26mm. AD c.75 - c.175.
Created on: Saturday 2nd December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B28B44
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch with the spring and the pin missing, Mackreth 2011 CD RH 3.c, similar to ibid. pl. 40 no. 13389. The catchplate is solid. Traces of white-metal coating remain on the wings. Weight 6.42g. Wingspan 28mm. Length 42.2mm. AD c.43 - c.65.
Created on: Saturday 2nd December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-732187
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two post-medieval lead two-part cloth seals, late 16th-17th century: - complete, weight 6.66g, diameter 19mm. - // - textile impression. - incomplete, weight 5.85g, diameter 18.5mm. 0 and very small fleur-de-lis in centre, no border // - rivet only.
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-72BDF2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy mount, possibly from furniture: a lozengiform frame with concave sides of trapezoidal cross-section with two opposed pointed corners on the short axis, one corner a trefoil plate with remains of an iron rivet or nail and the fourth corner missing (non-recent break). No parallel has been noted, though concave-sided  lozengiform openwork mounts with integral spikes are known, e.g. SWYOR-155062 and FAKL-E53E74. Weight 2.40g. Extant length 34mm. Width 28mm. Thickness 1.7mm. The sides are 2.5 - 2.6 wide. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7264B6
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy finger ring, a simple hoop without a bezel, of flattened D-section with a knurled groove running close to both edges. Five groups of 2, 2, 2, 4 and 6 and 8 transverse lines are engraved on the outer face, some lines so short as to be little more than dots. No butt joint is visible. Weight 2.27g. External diameters 21.8 - 22.6mm. Internal diameter 19 - 20mm. Width 3.7mm. 17th century
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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