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Record ID: NMS-A9A693
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy near-complete object, probably part of a knife handle. Made from cast copper alloy, one end is a short hollow tube, retaining some of the original edge at this end. In cross-section this end is heptagonal or seven-sided, with a narrow facet at the top and sides, and a pointed base. The junction between this and the other, flatter end is marked on either side with a ridge marking out a hexagon. In the centre of this, the cross-section is angled in and the base flares out, resulting in a long cross-section the shape of a knife blade, with a narrow flat to…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 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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Record ID: NMS-A9000C
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small conical object made from copper-alloy sheet, probably a post-medieval chape or ferrule. Now squashed flat, it has a burst soldered seam down one side and a separately soldered-in domed base. It is decorated with two pairs of circumferential grooves, one near the top and one about halfway down. There is no obvious means of attachment, but the inside retains some dark material, possibly leather. Length 25.8mm, width as squashed 11.4mm, maximum thickness (near closed end) 4.5mm, weight with retained soil 1.7g.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Sunday 17th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A85BCA
Object type: ROVE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small square piece of copper-alloy sheet, probably a rove. It measures 9.7 x 7.9mm, and varies in thickness from 0.7mm at one edge to 0.5mm at others; it weighs 0.3g. There is an off-centre circular hole, 1.6mm in diameter, which has been pushed through from the slightly concave front to the slightly convex reverse. There is no decoration. It could be a fragment of a larger object, but is quite neatly shaped, so may be a complete rove from a rivet. Separate sheet roves are commonest in the medieval period, but are used from Roman times onwards.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A83C31
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of decorated copper-alloy sheet, probably part of a buckle plate. It is sub-square, 17.6mm wide and 15.9mm long, and made from sheet just 0.6mm thick; it weighs 0.6g. One face is decorated with about eight ring-and-dot motifs, and there is a circular rivet hole in the best-surviving corner. Roughly in the centre of the opposite side is a rectangular slot 2.2mm wide, which could be a pin slot.
It is hard to know if any edge is completely original, but it is currently approximately the right size and shape to be a plate from a small early Anglo-Saxon buckle. Compare, for exam…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A7F711
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy handle from an iron knife, razor or spatula. One end is sub-rectangular, 20.0mm wide, 8.8mm long and 5.5mm thick. There is a groove along the outer edge on both faces, but any other decoration is obscured by a lot of pitting where a corroded surface has been lost. The far side of the object has a scar from the iron blade; there is a tiny stub at each end, and a slim rectangular scar between measuring about 13mm long and 2mm thick. The iron is not obvious, but a magnet is attracted to the entire object, particularly at this end.
The …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A5D7A9
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible strap-fitting made from a strip of copper-alloy sheet folded in half, with a single rivet hole (diameter 2.4mm) at the open end. The strip tapers very slightly from 10.2mm wide at the open end, where it is c. 3mm thick, to 8.7mm at the closed end, which has a wide, rounded fold bringing the thickness to 5.7mm. It weighs 3.6g.
There is no obvious decoration, although there is a roughly circular patch of corrosion around the rivet hole on one face. It has a dark grey patina underlying a mottled dark green surface.
This cannot be a conventional buckle plate because there i…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A5B284
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy buckle plate made from a single piece of sheet folded in half to form a sub-triangular shape, with a gap at the fold for the frame and a rectangular slot cut for the pin. The slot is 4.6mm wide, and is placed off centre; the smaller hinge loop is now broken (worn break). The plate is long, tapering from the fold and rounded at the apex where there is a single corroded iron rivet. It has a pale green surface and no decoration. Length 23.6mm, width 12.0mm, weight 1.7g.
Such a simple buckle plate is difficult to date, but the lack of frame recesses may in…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A57DE1
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neatly made copper-alloy ring. The ring has a circular cross-section, 2.6mm diameter around most of the circumference, but has an internal notch at two points opposite each other, taking the thickness of the ring here down to 1.4mm. The notches may be due to wear, but are neat and the ring may have been intentionally made with them. One has a pair of tiny nicks next to it on the external surface. There is a grey, polished surface obscured in places by pale green corrosion and brown iron staining.
It measures 20.8mm externally between the narrower areas and&nbs…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A54B1C
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy ring. It is corroded, 22mm in diameter externally and 13.7mm internally, with an oval cross-section which tapers from a maximum of 4.5mm wide x 3.9mm thick to a minimum of 3.5mm wide x 3.7mm thick opposite this. It weighs 4.8g and has a grey smooth surface in patches beneath pale green hard, rough corrosion.
It appears similar in character to hanging-bowl mounts NMS-938FA7 and NMS-20B3C6, found close by, and could have come from the same bowl, but plain rings have a variety of possible uses and this is conjectural. A date in the 7th century is possibl…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A4D828
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy Roman brooch of headstud type, now bent and very worn, of late 1st- or 2nd-century date. The rectangular-section wings are short and stubby, and taper to worn, broken ends; they have some vertical grooved or stepped decoration on the front, and a slim tube on the reverse which retains the copper-alloy axis bar. A fragment of copper-alloy pin loop survives in an off-centre slot.
On top of the wings is a long rectangular moulding, probably the worn remains of a chain loop, and below this the bow emerges, rectangular in cross-section at first but quickly tapering and ro…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A48FB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Foot from a copper-alloy Roman brooch, 33.0mm long. It is pointed-oval in cross-section, and tapers from 6.1mm wide and 2.9mm thick at the break (neither worn nor very fresh) to 3.5mm wide just above the bottom, and then tapers more steeply to a point. The front is decorated with three longitudinal grooves, one in the centre (which peters out about two-thirds of the way down) and one at either edge. On the reverse, at the bottom, is a solid triangular plate, the remains of the catchplate; the curled-over return is missing, but what survives brings the total thickness up to 8.…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A4099C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small oval copper-alloy buckle frame, probably of 7th-century date, complete with pin. The frame measures 17.8mm wide and 9.2mm long, and most of it has a circular or oval cross-section. This is thickest in the centre of the outside edge, where it brings the maximum thickness to 3.3mm. It then tapers smoothly to the top and bottom before stepping down on one face only to a much thinner oval-section bar, just 1.7mm thick.
On this bar is a copper-alloy pin, one end wrapped into a tight loop and the other curved to drape neatly over the outside edge. The cross-section of the pin at the l…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A2F957
Object type: CATCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy catch from a box or bag, of 7th-century date. It is now incomplete, but would originally have been symmetrical, with a rounded lobe at either end (one now missing). The surviving rounded end is 6.4mm in diameter and flat, 1.4mm thick, pierced to take a separate copper-alloy rivet which has a large, low-domed head and circular-section shaft (total length of rivet 7.2mm). In between, the rest of the object is T-shaped in section, with a rib down the centre bringing the maximum thickness of the plate to 3.5mm. All three edges (the two sides and the top of the …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9412B2
Object type: CHAIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy figure-8 chain link with traces of iron in each link, of 7th-century date. It is apparently cast in one piece, with each half being drop-shaped and joined at the points. The cross-section is rounded, and there is iron staining at either end and, on the reverse, in the centre. Length 20.5mm, width of loops 8.1 and 7.5mm, thickness 3.0mm (without iron corrosion) to 5.1mm (with iron); weight 1.4g.
Solid cast chain links in a figure-of-eight shape are known from 7th-century Anglo-Saxon chatelaines and 'workboxes', such as that from Didcot grave 12 (Boyle et al 1995, 2…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-938FA7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Openwork hook-escutcheon from an early-medieval hanging bowl. Made from cast copper alloy, it consists of the hook and a fragment of plate. The plate was originally oval in shape with a central bar. The central bar is trapezoidal in cross-section, 3.8mm wide and 3.0mm thick at the break, with median groove. It runs up straight from the unworn break to a junction with the hook and a curving outer frame.
One side of this frame is almost completely missing (an older break) but the other is trapezoidal in cross-section (4.6 x 2.9mm at the break) and also has a central longi…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-2753D1
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Flat fragment of gold bracteate which has been made by hammering thin sheet gold over a die. It was originally circular, c. 39mm in diameter, but now only about a quarter of the circumference survives with edges that are a little longer than the radius. The curved edge has a short fragment of D-section plain wire frame surviving, soldered on for a short length and then bent over to the reverse; it looks as if the flat face of the wire was soldered to the edge of the disc. Inside the framing wire, the bracteate has an undecorated zone around 3-4mm wide, then a ring of punch…
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-14243D
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small, short, and stout flat axehead, of Needham. S, (2017) class 4E or F, most of the flat rectangular butt survives, curving out very slightly to a thicker centre section which has very slight flanges to both sides on both faces. The axe then curves out sharply to a wide cutting edge, most of which is now missing due to corrosion, the smooth olive-green polished surface is what remains of the original surfaces, largely corroded and pitted, mostly to one face and the extremities of the axe. Cf. NMS-6620F2 for a similar axe.
Length 76.0mm, maximum surviving width 44.7mm, max…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-13EEBE
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead circular uniface token of post-medieval date. One face has a partial raised rim around the relief letters R:E, the E round-backed. 21.5mm diameter, 1.4mm thick, weight 5.2g.
Tokens with initials fall into Powell's type 2. This one probably dates to the 16th or 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-138068
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight or token, probably of 16th- or 17th-century date. It is flat and roughly square, 13.6 x 14.4mm, cast with a flat reverse and a relief capital A on the front. The A has a straight bar across the top and horizontal serifs at the base of each leg. It is 2.4mm thick in total and weighs 2.2g.
This object may be an apothecary's weight (compare NMS-ECE01E, SUR-EB3067) or some kind of token (compare SOM-C04C49, DUR-0EE3FD, NCL-2F2207, HAMP-100287). The weight of 2.2g corresponds to 34 grains, which does not correspond to a round number of scruples (one scr…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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