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Record ID: NMS-40110C
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval to post-medieval writing lead, bent into a gentle curve, square-sectioned, and flattened and splayed at the proximal end. The distal end is damaged and the point is missing. Weight 27.93g. Extant length 66mm. 7.3 x 7.2mm in cross-section at mid-point. Width at splayed end 12.5mm. Biddle 1990, 735-8 and 744-6, Class III. 12th - 16th century. Writing leads like this follow the traditional shape of the earlier writing tablet styli, although it is unclear how effective a lead stylus would be for inscribing wax, and it seems more likely that they were used to …
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Saturday 27th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3F2E29
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Ten sherds of Roman pottery, body unless otherwise stated, weight 112g, mid 1st - 4th century: - 9 greyware including four jar or bowl rim and one basal. - 1 Oxfordshire-type red-slipped basal with foot-ring..
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3F17C8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five sherds of medieval pottery, body unless otherwise stated, weight 40g, 13th - 14th century: - 2 local unglazed including bowl or jar rim. - 3 Grimston ware with external lead glaze including basal with stacking scar from the rim of another vessel.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3EE5EB
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval ceramic roof tile with one edge unbroken, reduced with pinkish surfaces and soft yellow inclusions. Weight 19g. Thickness 12.5mm. Mid 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3E4800
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button with a solid white-metal coated plano-convex head. An embedded wire loop has been lost. Similar to Read 2010 nos. 400-1. Weight 4.24g. Diameter 16.2mm. Thickness 4.3mm. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3D80C1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead pot mend, one plate irregular, 24 x 11mm, the other ovoid, 17 x 11mm, thickness 8mm, thickness of cleft c.3mm, weight 11.23g. 12th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3D3AE7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval composite two-piece button of copper alloy with a high-tin content. The loop, once embedded in a thickening at the centre of the concave reverse, has been lost. The front rises as a low cone. Weight 1.38g. Diameter 13mm. Thickness 3.5mm. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3B6863
Object type: CAME
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small fragment of a medieval lead window came junction. The flanges are of uncertain width and the hearts are c.3mm thick. Knight Type C (King, D.J. in Rogerson et al. 1987, 39). Weight 3.77g. Thickness 6mm. 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3B1BA6
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button consisting of an incomplete integral drilled loop and a solid sub-rectangular head of plano-convex section. The moulded elaborate quatrefoil decoration is extremely worn. The break is not recent. Weight 2.25g. Head 14.8mm x 6.5 x 4.5mm. See NMS-FB64E2 for a list of other examples from Norfolk (+ NMS-A0DFD9). A very similar button from the Thames foreshore was thought to be from a 15th-century context (Read 2005, 14, no. 41; Read 2010, 18, no. 51). See also LON-0ACE69, with a list of other examples on this database. Perhaps a date in 16th or early …
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3AF0D5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just over half of a post-medieval copper alloy double-looped asymmetrical buckle frame. The extant loop is trapezoidal with an offset along its straight edge and a small pin notch in the centre. The sides taper past the non-recessed bar to non-recent breaks. Weight 1.76g. Extant length 13.7mm. Width 16.8mm. c.1575 - c.1700.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3ABEC9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy double-looped buckle frame, both loops oval. Very similar to Whitehead 2003, no. 360. One loop is distorted. Weight 7.31g. Length c.41mm. Width 27.6mm. c.1550 - c.1650.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3A94F4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Over half of a post-medieval white-metal coated copper alloy double-looped buckle frame, both loops trapezoidal. The breaks are not recent. Cf. Whitehead 2003, nos. 512-3. Weight 3.37g. Estimated length 39mm. Width 22.7mm. c.1620 - c.1680.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3A2845
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three fragments of a post-medieval clapper bell in pale grey copper alloy with a drilled hole in a trapezoidal peg argent, remains of an iron crown staple and ribbed and grooves mouldings above the flaring mouth. Slightly less than half survives. The two larger pieces join (non-recent break) and give a complete profile. The third, part of the mouth, does not join but is undoubtedly part of the same object. They were found within 30m of each other. Height 81mm. Diameter at top 38mm, at mouth 72mm. Weight 114.82g. Mid 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-141AED
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy asymmetrical flat mount with two round-sectioned integral attachment spikes on the reverse. Similar in form to many examples, e.g. SUR-2822FC, LIN-81712E and BH-B115A9, the latter with a list of others, but differing in one small detail: there are two small notches, rather than one, in the centre of the heart-shaped end. Both spikes, complete and not bent, taper along their length to a point and would not have been attached to leather with any confidence. Weight 1.52g. Length 19mm. Width 11.7mm. Thickness without spikes 1.2mm. Length of spikes 7.2mm. 16t…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-13AB08
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval copper alloy book fitting, a hooked clasp with sides which diverge gently from the hook before expanding to a fishtail terminal, Howsam 2016 Type A.3.1. Two small holes are aligned transversely between the terminal and a parallel row of three others. In the same area there are numerous, probably punched, longitudinal lines. Towards the centre a punched ring-and-dot has penetrated the metal at the dot. Nearer the hook a slightly larger hole, for a rivet, lies close to another set of longitudinal lines. Immediately before the hook there …
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-134E0A
Object type: ROOF TILE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval ceramic peg tile, pale reduced with yellowish surfaces with pink patches, thickness 11mm, weight 53g. Mid 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-131933
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Seven sherds of post-medieval pottery, body unless otherwise stated, weight 45g, mid 16th - 17th century: - 6 Glazed Red Earthenware including one base and one >bowl rim, weight 35g. - 1 salt-glazed stonware basal, weight 10g. From spoilheaps of drainage work.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-12E4FA
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fifty-four sherds of medieval pottery, body unless otherwise stated, weight 277g, 12th - 15th century: - 34 local unglazed including one jar rim and one basal, weight 159g. - 20 Grimston ware including two jug rim, one basal and one strap handle all with external lead glaze apart from one body with internal glaze and two glazed on both surfaces, weight 118g From spoilheaps of drainage work.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-12AA9C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Twenty-one sherds of Late Saxon Thetford-type pottery, three jar rim, one bowl rim, two sagging basal, and fifteen body including one with thumb applied strip, weight 206g, c.851 - c.110 From spoilheaps of drainage work.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1283B2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three sherds of Middle Saxon pottery, two body and one jar rim (West 1963 Group I E), fine sandy, weight 45g, c.720 - c.850. From spoilheaps of drainage work.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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