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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-5672C4
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and neck of an animal figurine, apparently a dog, of unknown date. It is made of lead and may be a model for a finished version in a more durable material. It begins with a worn transverse break across the neck, which is oval (near circular) in cross-section. It soon expands in thickness and nearly twice as much in width to form the head. The head is long and sleek, with prominent cheekbones and triangular outward- and rearward-pointing ears. The top of the cranium is vaguely lozenge-shaped and the eyes are suggested by hollows between the forward end of this and the cheekbones. T…
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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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-D432F7
Object type: TALLY
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
“Tally stone”, marked on a water worn pebble of mid-grey slightly banded, fine grained siltstone, in good sunlight, very, very fine specks of mica are visible within the stone. The twenty tallies are cut in to the lateral edge on the straighter of the two sides, they are a V cut with either a file (or similar) or cut with a sharp blade, the edges of which have rounded off slightly over the years and they appear to be a non-recent addition to the surface of the stone. The uppermost incision is 2.31 mm apart (measured from the deepest part of the cut to the next dee…
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th 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-8EDD62
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Shapeless blob of molten silver with pitting of the surfaces not resulting from deliberate pecking. Date unknown. Weight 3.38g. 14.2 x 11 x 4.7mm. Finder's number RW-2
Created on: Saturday 20th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C2C3CC
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lava quern of unknown date, with apparently no original edge present. One face is rough and the other worn smooth with the tooled grooves scarcely visible. Thickness 35 – 40mm, weight 744g. Roman or Middle Saxon to medieval. Find spot falls with Square B5 of gridded survey of Hill Field conducted in 1990 and 2004-5, see file in HER.
Created on: Sunday 16th April 2023
Last updated: Sunday 16th April 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-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-FC3DB5
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An elongated whetstone, of sub-square section with both ends either broken or left unworked from the natural piece of slightly banded schist stone this was ground from, all four sides appear to have been used to sharpen knives, sickles etc. and are quite smooth to the touch. There are rusty iron scrapes to the surfaces from contact with agricultural machinery and recent surface losses in places, now showing a lighter colour to the original surfaces.    The age of this is whetstone is difficult to establish, schist has been used at least since the Early Saxon period, most not…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-133AF8
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of thin gold sheet or foil, from an object of indeterminate use and date. The artefact comprises a flat, roughly D-shaped sheet, with a single neat straight edge. A crease follows the line of the straight edge about 2-3mm from it, forming a slight  groove or ridge along the edge. The rest of the object has hammer marks, probably from being beaten into its flat sheet form. Although the straight edge appears to have been neatly cut (or scored and folded until it broke), it is not clear if the straight edge is part of the form of the …
Created on: Saturday 8th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
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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-DE8E86
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Near spherical bead of unknown date, probably made of stone. It has a circular perforation passing through it with straight tapering sides and a larger opening at one end than the other. The stone is pale yellowish-brown with patches of darker yellowish-brown. Undecorated beads are difficult to date. It is probably not prehistoric as those tend to have a perforation that is hourglass-shaped in profile. Length (measured along perforation): 14.9mm. Diameter (perpendicular to perforation): 14.7mm. Diameter of perforation (large end): 5.2mm, (small end): 4.1mm. Weight. 3.8g  
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 5th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-81BCDA
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregular lump of molten copper alloy casting waste. Undated but probably ancient. c. 34 x 18 x 15mm. Weighs 16.55g.
Created on: Friday 8th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 8th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4A1FB2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead probable bead of unknown but clearly not recent date, roughly circular but so unevenly surfaced through weathering that its original form is uncertain. Weight 3.8g. Diameter c.10.5 - 12mm. Thickness c.5.5mm. Hole diameter 4mm. Finder's number POD15/4
Created on: Saturday 11th June 2022
Last updated: Saturday 11th June 2022
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