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Record ID: NMS-2D5A23
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Abraded and worn frame from a copper-alloy medieval annular brooch. It is made from flat sheet, square externally, perhaps originally with rounded corners, and circular internally; all edges are worn. A circular pin hole in the centre of one side (at the frame's narrowest point) has broken through to the external edge.
There is decoration on the upper face, with a shallow groove surrounding the internal edge. Each corner is marked off by a similar curving groove, and filled inside with a series of neat dots. No pin survives.
Surviving width 17.25mm, length (parallel to lin…
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2C93D3
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable rivet, or rivet head, made from a piece of copper-alloy rod rolled up clockwise and flattened. The underside is smooth and slightly concave; the upper side is more strongly convex, and more lumpy and three-dimensional. The underside also has a greyish matt patina, whereas the upper side is blacker and more polished. It measures c. 25 x 22mm and is 4.5mm thick. It weighs 5.8mm.
Perhaps the head from a longer rivet of the type recorded at NLM-4E3881, SOM-E51AF9, etc. These are thought to be late 15th- or early 16th-ce…
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2021
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-1A3DD7
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of silver droplet or metalworking debris. It is flat, 3.3mm thick, and oval with one rounded end. The edges are also rounded, except for the end opposite the rounded end which is irregular and indented with sharp edges, probably caused by breakage at a bubble. All edges and faces have smaller sharp-edged depressions and indentations, probably caused by gas bubbles when molten.
Both faces have small green patches as well as a silvery surface. It measures 13.7mm x 9.9mm and weighs 2.2g. Undatable.
Created on: Friday 15th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-F06C53
Object type: EAR RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold earring of Roman date, probably of Allason-Jones's type 11. It appears to consist of two layers of thin circular sheet backplate, both now crumpled but originally 14mm in diameter. In the centre of the front is a smaller circular sheet element which may once have been three-dimensional but is now crushed flat. A circular-section wire hook emerges from the reverse. It tapers as it curves out and around to form an apparently well-preserved hook in the shape of an open loop; the wire has a blunt end which is slightly recurved.
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Created on: Wednesday 13th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DC3BDB
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver eye or catchpiece from a dress fastener, cast in one piece. The solid centre is triangular, with a raised (perhaps plain wire) border and sunken centre; this is filled with three raised or plain wire circles around a central pellet. At each corner is a partial rosette or trefoil, with a central pellet and three petals with sunken centres; where the fourth petal would be is taken up by the corner of the triangle. In the centre of one of the triangle's edges is a large loop forming the eye; this is D-shaped externally and almost circular internall…
Created on: Tuesday 12th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-6D8084
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver and garnet-inlaid pyramidal mount from a sword-scabbard. It has four main faces, each drop-shaped, with a curved base tapering to a truncated point. Each of the faces has identical cloisonné decoration consisting of a central mushroom-shaped cell surrounded by four other garnets. There is a vertical cell wall running from the central mushroom above and below, and a zig-zag cell wall to either side continuing the stepped shape of the mushroom. Most of the garnets in the main faces survive, but on each face one or more have been lost. The sq…
Created on: Thursday 7th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9E6D48
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of silver pendant, probably a pilgrim souvenir, of late medieval or early post-medieval date. It consists only of a fragment, with a circular suspension loop cast in one at the top, pierced from front to back. The fragment depicts a tall tower, and is D-shaped in cross-section, flat on the reverse and curved on the front. Its uppermost part is thicker, rectangular and slightly faceted, with a flat centre and sloping sides, perhaps indicating battlements. Below this is a narrow transverse moulding (like a string course) and then the upper storey of the tower has a…
Created on: Wednesday 16th December 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 20th October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-777696
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment from a horse bridle bit, of late Iron Age or early Roman date, 1st century BC or 1st century AD. The object is a short cylindrical tube of cast copper alloy, decorated on the outside with cast grooves.At one point on the exterior is an oval-section scar from a broken-off bar, measuring 10.5 x 9mm in cross-section. This has a bold ridge around the base before the break, which increases the cross-section to 15.5 x 13 mm. The break is slightly worn and possibly iron-stained. The grooves emerge from either side of the oval-section stub and diverge to run around the outside of the…
Created on: Monday 14th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-249EFC
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Saddle quern made from fine-grained hard stone with few visible inclusions, likely to be a glacial erratic. It has an evenly rounded base and wide, gently sloped-out or bevelled edges around an oval hollow or concave area in the centre measuring 200 x 280mm. No part of the wide edge survives complete; there is much relatively recent damage, with conchoidal fractures.
The maximum surviving width of the sloping edge, at one end, is about 90mm, and the whole of the edge at the other end has broken away. The maximum depth of the concave hollow is c. 27mm in the centre, and it gently …
Created on: Thursday 10th December 2020
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0F4D69
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy button-and-loop fastener of Wild's Class III. Its head is solid, plano-convex and almost circular, with a central circular low domed boss surrounded by a deep groove. Outside the groove is a ring with a convex upper surface, with a small area extended to form a slight point, making the head drop-shaped. There is a ridge running across the outer ring to the point. Opposite the point, a thick shaft extends from the very slightly concave reverse, quickly turns a right angle and then forks to form a loop; both halves of the fork are broken and most of the loop is m…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0EE53D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman 'chatelaine' brooch, made from copper alloy and enamelled. On the reverse are the remains of a short pin lug and a longer catchplate, allowing the brooch to be described the right way up with (unusually) the pin lug at the bottom.
The centre is circular and domed, hollow on the reverse. This has a small central boss with six triangular cells around it, with traces of decayed enamel which may originally have been red. Between these cells there is more enamel, now a dark green colour. A ridge forms the edge of the domed centre, with a deep groove outside it and th…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0E0292
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper-alloy finger-ring. The hoop is broken across close to its widest point; it is convex internally and perhaps originally had bevelled edges externally, The shoulders flare and thicken to a raised bezel, which has a rectangular area recessed to take a gem or glass setting. The rectangular recess has five rounded scoops out of the base - one central and the others at the corners - as if there were originally five separate settings within it.
The hoop's surviving external diameter is 22.8mm. The bezel is 5.9mm wide and the recess is about 9.5mm long. The bez…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0CEED0
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy 'socketed hook' strap fitting of late early-medieval date. Almost complete, it has a hook at one end which curves up and round to the reverse to form almost a complete circle or loop, 12.4mm in external diameter from front to back. The cross-section tapers throughout the curve of the hook to a minimum of 2.5 x 4.4mm. It has internal wear towards the top and slightly to the rear.
Below the hook, the object has a short solid rectangular-section area which flares slightly downwards and is decorated with a groove above a moulding on each side, and a pair of grooves on th…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-F7910D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger-ring. Oval colourless translucent flat-topped glass within a raised box-setting surrounded by a roped flange. Flat hoop of constant width, with two twisted roped wires applied to it and bordered on each edge by finely milled wires. Two globules at junction of hoop and bezel on each side. 4th century.
The oval box setting is oriented longitudinally to form the bezel of the finger-ring. It is formed from a strip of gold bent to fit closely around the slightly irregular piece of glass. The 'roped flange' is a piece of twisted gold wire around the base of the box setting.…
Created on: Tuesday 8th December 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 8th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-FB9AE3
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of silver bodkin or head-dress pin. One end survives, with a small rounded scoop; apart from the scoop, the pin or bodkin is rectangular in cross-section. It narrows to a waist below the scoop, then flares out again to a D-shaped area pierced with a small circular hole c. 2mm in diameter. Below this is a collar of two transverse grooves which run right around the object, There is then a short undecorated area, then the bodkin is decorated on both the larger faces with identical decoration. There is a series of nine longitudinal grooves running up towards the …
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-3D0CDA
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Palstave axe of Middle Bronze Age date (c. 1,600 to 1,400 BC), of typical non side-looped form with a "shield" shaped moulding immediately below the stop ridge. The H shaped hafting channels at the butt are well developed with high side flanges to support the split wood handle, the end of the butt terminates in an oblique angle, this is most likely due to a casting flaw at the top of the mould, it looks unlikely that this is post-depositional damage. The axe is complete, though there are small losses to the thin cutting edge. Most of the surfaces are patinated dark brown, indicative …
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 8th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-3CDCC4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular gilded copper-alloy object, probably a brooch, with relief decoration of a Mammen-style bird. It is flat and slightly bent, with much of one edge missing. The front of the object has a lot of well-preserved gilding. The edge has a double-ridged frame, both ridges retaining some beading in places. Within this border is a single bird in profile, the body made from an outer beaded border filled with fine transverse ribbing, the leg similar but without the beaded border, and the tendril-like wings and tail made from grooves outlined with beading.
The bird has its head to…
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-EAE967
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold finger-ring of 'stirrup-shaped' type. The hoop is rounded in cross-section, with a slight seam or crease in places along the centre of the inner surface. It flares to steep undecorated shoulders and has a solid triangular bezel set with a rectangular gem of dark colour (possibly blue) with a shiny, cabochon-cut polished convex surface. There is a slight scrape on one face of the bezel.
Dimensions: External diameter (or width of ring) is 21.7mm, internal diameter is 18.2mm. Total from top of gem to exterior at back of hoop, 25.7mm. At the back of the hoop, the mi…
Created on: Friday 13th November 2020
Last updated: Friday 30th April 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Alby with Thwaite', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-E8AA82
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete silver cufflink consisting of two circular button-like elements joined with an oval silver link made from circular-section wire with no obvious seam. Each of the circular elements is flat, with a down-turned edge; on the reverse of each one is a D-shaped loop made from circular-section silver. They have identical decoration of a sunken stippled background, with a repoussé heart reserved in the centre over two crossed arrows (points downwards, and a rectangle of fletching uppermost). A drop-shaped reserved element with three curved grooves in its upper, narrower …
Created on: Friday 13th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Weeting', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-E845D8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval annular brooch, made from thin silver sheet, now slightly bent.. Circular, with wide frame on a slight convex angle, decorated with nine oblique, slightly curving rows of addorsed punched triangles (also called interrupted rocker-arm). This decoration is interrupted by a circular pin hole which is flanked by a transverse row of similar punchmarks to either side. A silver sheet pin survives in the hole, with an open loop and no decoration. It is tilted at the tip to sit neatly on the frame. The reverse of the frame is concave and undecorated.
Dimensions: Diam…
Created on: Friday 13th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Weeting', grid reference and parish protected.
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