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Record ID: NMS-E13029
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An amorphous clump of copper-alloy metalworking debris of an uncertain date. It is heavily pitted and has a grey-green patina.  Length: 66.4mm; Width: 45.3mm; Thickness:37.5mm; Weight: 190.81g.
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4E3DF4
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregularly shaped lump of copper alloy with a high lead content, of unknown but not recent date. The surfaces are uneven and pitted. The object appears to be of pure metal, i.e. there are no visible inclusions such as fired clay, lithic or charcoal. 59 x 46 x 14mm. Weight 154.56g.
Created on: Saturday 27th January 2024
Last updated: Saturday 27th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-31DE73
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper-alloy object of unknown age. It is sub-circular, of fairly uniform thickness and slightly dished. It appears to be complete as there is no evidence of breaks. Close to one side there is a perfectly circular area, approximately one third of the total, which is flat. Beyond this it curves concavo-convexly in all directions all the way to the edge. On the generally convex face, the flat circle is covered with multiple very fine concentric and perfectly circular grooves and ridges. The outermost ridge is wider and expanded at one point to form a wide and short triangle…
Created on: Friday 8th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-706E59
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat-headed copper-alloy nail or stud with a curved point of unknown age. The head is a plano-convex disc, with the convex face on its upper side. This may suggest it is not Roman, as Roman examples on this database tend to have domed heads. The shank is square in cross-section, tapering to a point which is missing to a worn break. Possibly a furniture fitting. Width (of head) 24.6mm, (top of shank) 7.7mm, (broken point) 4mm. Weight 17.5g.
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-B325C7
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two shapeless pieces of solidified molten copper alloy: one slightly slaggy with some reduced highly fired clay adhering, weight 47.90g, the other with a high lead content, weight 64.46g. Date unknown, but not apparently recent.
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-4C00EC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper-alloy object, possibly a short or incomplete pin, of unknown date. It has shaft of circular cross-section which tapers into a flattened (rectangular in cross-section) blunt point at the tip. At the opposite end there is a simple collar followed by a long biconical head of expanded-diameter and finally a small globular knob. The shaft is now bent nearly ninety degrees. The metal is uniformly patinated dull mid- to dark green. There are no obvious signs of breakage. Length (estimated, unbent) 64mm. Diameter (shaft): 3.5mm, (biconical head): 7.1mm, (globular knob): 2.…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 29th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-25E34A
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregularly shaped lump of copper-alloy casting waste of unknown date. It is complete, with no cuts or breaks and is patinated green all over, except for one visible small dark grey inclusion. Length: 41.7mm. width: 26.8mm. Thickness 14.7mm. Weight: 48.2g
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-2CBAA7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring, probably a finger ring, of uncertain but not recent date. It is not perfectly circular but slightly pointed on one side (like the profile of an egg). It is oval in cross-section, thickest and widest at one side and tapering in both dimensions, at first minimally and then more significantly until there is a short slightly straightened length on the pointed side, as if it had been stretched when molten. It is patinated dark green with internal pale green mottles. Diameter: 27.5mm x 25.2mm. Width: 3.8 - 5.9mm Thickness: 2.4 - 4.1mm. Weight: 8.3g
Created on: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Last updated: Saturday 15th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-059C2A
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy casting jet of unknown date. One surface is ovoid (25 x 21mm), slightly concave and rough with traces of white-metal near the edge. The other surface, convex and smooth, tapers asymmetrically to a round-sectioned sprue (diameter 5mm). Weight 10.59g.
Created on: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-25119C
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bead-like object of unknown date. It is barrel-shaped, or like a sphere with a cap cut off at each pole by a pair of parallel planes, revealing the sub-circular openings of the internal void. The void is not quite cylindrical but appears to follow the external contour to some extent, being longitudinally concave and of wider diameter in the middle. The diameter of the openings seems too large to be a bead. It may be a collar for a rod-like implement. It is patinated dark brown. Length (opening to opening): 15.1mm. External diameter: 18.2mm. Internal diameter of openings: …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-430961
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three irregularly shaped, amorphous pieces of copper alloy casting waste with green patination, small iron encrustations and dark grey inclusions, all are complete with no cuts/breaks, one found by itself, the smaller two found together, distance between the two find spots approx. 200 metres apart. The largest of the three, slightly flattened and sub-discoidal, though very irregular surfaces to both faces and edges, no indication of being an ingot of any recognisable type nor one side flatter than the other. 74 x 68 x 24.5 mm, 273g. Also very amorphous, though there is some structu…
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 20th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B5F3F7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper-alloy object of probable Bronze Age to Roman date. Perhaps it is a distorted awl. It is a rod, bent in two or three places with a total (unbent) length of 70mm. It is flatter and thinner at one end (4.5 x 1.7mm) and gradually becomes thicker and narrower, more rounded in cross-section, toward the other end, while maintaining two opposing flat or near-flat faces. This end is sub-square in cross-section, rounded at the very tip (diameter: 2.7mm) and may be a well-worn break. Two of the bends occur near the middle. Neither are very far from right-angles, one acute, one…
Created on: Tuesday 14th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B2E696
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two irregularly shaped fragments, weighing 15.91g and 7.20g, of copper alloy possible casting waste of unknown but perhaps not very recent date. The surfaces of both, dull and purplish, are similar to that of some 10th- and 11th-century objects. Although the breaks appear to be old some remain quite sharp. Finder's no. WA-4
Created on: Tuesday 27th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 27th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9535B9
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a possible spear point of uncertain date, made of an uncertain metal. Alternatively it is the tip of a railing. It is heavily corroded and abraded and is covered with rough knobbly orange-brown corrosion products, suggesting that it is made of iron, but it is not attracted to a magnet. In the small areas where these corrosion products are absent, the surface is smoother with a dark-greenish patina like that of copper-alloy. In cross-section it is circular, with pair of opposing tapering flanges or wings. Viewed from either face it is roughly triangular. At the broken e…
Created on: Friday 14th October 2022
Last updated: Friday 18th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-31A483
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval giled copper-alloy horse-harness pendant in the form of a lion passant guardant to dexter. It is flat on the reverse and convex on the front. A bar projects upward from the centre of the animal’s back and terminates in a worn break but presumably once led to a suspension loop. On the way it connects with the tail, which arches over the back and then doubles back. The head is sub-square with two large sunken rings for eyes, each containing a central pellet, and a straight horizontal groove for a mouth. There are very small knops on the top left and right for ears. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-AEAC9D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of flat copper-alloy plate, 1.3mm thick and approximately rectangular, 23 x 12 mm. One face is smooth and the other rougher. One long edge is cut into with four V-shaped notches, larger at one end and getting smaller towards the other. The other long edge has a partial circle (c. 6mm diameter) cut out of the corner closer to the smaller notches. Other edges appear to be broken (worn breaks). The zig-zag serrations are very slightly bevelled or rounded, on the smoother face only. There is a green patina and the object appears of some age, although precise date and fun…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-45A5BA
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper-alloy object of uncertain date. It has the appearance of a crude foot-and-catchplate of an Iron Age or Roman bow brooch, but it does not arch or curve in the expected way (in fact the ‘bow’ is mostly very straight) and the ‘catchplate would be too large. It might be part of an unfinished brooch.  Viewed from the front, the ’bow’ is triangular; its wide end is formed by a worn break at the top. From here it tapers in width with fairly straight edges to a point at the bottom where there is a very slight rightward curve in …
Created on: Friday 16th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9F1F6A
Object type: STUD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Disc-headed nail or stud made from copper alloy, of uncertain date but perhaps Roman to medieval. The head is flat and an irregular circular shape, 10.3-11.1mm in diameter and c. 2mm thick. The edge is perhaps damaged in places but it was originally rectilinear; the cross-section is not quite rectangular, as the reverse seems to be slightly thicker where the off-centre shaft emerges. This is roughly circular in cross-section and tapers at first gently and then more steeply to a point. It has a shiny brown patina. Total length, 9.2mm. Weight, 1.4g.
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9E59E5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of bent copper-alloy strip, roughly rectangular but tapering from 8.9 to 7.6mm in width along its length, which is c. 38mm. Both ends are probably broken, but the breaks are neat and worn. The surfaces are not flat but appear hammered. On one face, the narrower end is covered with fine parallel closely spaced oblique grooves. On the other, there is a zone of similar grooving in the centre, but here there are two orientations of grooves crossing each other; a group of closely spaced oblique lines, and over the top a few more widely spaced grooves following the same …
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A920BD
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sub-square piece of copper-alloy sheet, now bent at a slight angle across. It measures 38mm long (parallel to the bend) and at least 36.5mm wide, and has a circular hole 3.7mm in diameter at one corner. This and one adjacent corner are neat right angles, and the sides are also neat here, but two other sides are more ragged. There is no obvious decoration. The sheet is 1.2mm thick and a pale green colour with patches of a corroded surface; it weighs 9.3g. Function unknown, but likely to be of Roman to medieval date.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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