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Record ID: NMS-3F764C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small body sherd of Roman grey ware, 25 x 21mm, thickness 5mm, weight 4g.
Created on: Wednesday 12th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 13th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-3F5D28
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of early-medieval or medieval iron padlock case with brazed copper-alloy coating on the exterior. The fragment is small (28 x 24mm) and flat so it is difficult to work out which part of the padlock it comes from. Across one end of the fragment is a broad low ridge of copper alloy, possibly a reinforcement around one end. There is a second similar ridge running at an angle to this. These padlocks appear to date from the late 10th century to at least the mid 13th century. Maximum thickness 4mm, weight 5.76g.
Created on: Wednesday 12th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2C2D8A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded copper-alloy buckle plate of medieval date. It is rectangular and small, just 15mm wide. It is broken at two hinge loops (worn breaks) and the surviving length is 20mm. It weighs 1.2g. There is a rivet hole at each corner, all now empty. Gilding survives around the rivet holes, suggesting that the surface here was once protected by large rivet heads. There is also gilding on the more complete stub of hinge loop. A groove divides the hinge loops from the rest of the plate, but there is no other engraved decoration that survives. The reverse is undecorated. It is likely to b…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2B395F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy plate from a 14th-century composite buckle. Sturdy and well-made, it is 36.5mm long and almost rectangular, flaring from 18mm wide at the frame end to 19mm at the attachment end. The attachment end is incurved, and at its centre has a circular cut-out which breaks the edge and has a tapering groove running a short way into the middle of the plate. This is known as a 'grooved aperture'. To either side of the aperture is a separate copper-alloy rivet, each 4mm long. The other end is cut straight across to accommodate the start of the buckle's frame. The upper surface o…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2AF4DE
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small conical lead spindle whorl of early-medieval or medieval date, circular with flat base and top, and almost straight sides. It is 17-18mm diameter at the base and about 12mm in diameter at the top. with a central cylindrical perforation 7-8mm in diameter. It is 8mm tall and weighs 12.2g. Lead spindle whorls seem to have been in use from the 10th to 14th centuries, c. 900-1400 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2AD12E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thick flat circular 2oz lead weight. It is crudely made and not quite circular, about 36mm in diameter, and 5mm thick. One face is undecorated, and the other has two circular indentations 3-4mm in diameter. Below these, roughly in the centre of the weight, are the highly simplified arms of the Commonwealth; two conjoined shields with straight tops and rounded bases, one with a cross and the other apparently blank, within a circle. These arms were in use between 1649 and 1653 and may have been used up to 1660. It weighs 53.3g (1.88oz).
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2A8EBE
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy thimble of 15th-century date, made of thin sheet. The rim is straight and unthickened, with no decoration. It has two cracks and is slightly bent in on one side. The straight sides taper slightly to a curved top, and are covered with a left-hand spiral of small punched dots. The layout of the dots is a little haphazard, with slightly wobbly rows. The spiral continues onto the top; it ends before the very centre with a tiny bare patch which is marked in the middle with a single dot. The rim is no longer perfectly circular and measures about 16-17mm across. It is 13.5m…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2A4E47
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl of early-medieval or medieval date, circular and plano-convex with flat base and rounded top. It is neatly made, 21-22mm in diameter and 10mm thick, with a central circular perforation which tapers from 11-11.5mm diameter at the base to 9mm diameter at the top. On the top, one side of the perforation has been scraped and crushed. On the base there is a groove around the perforation. It weighs 23.9g. Lead spindle whorls seem to have been in use from the 10th to 14th centuries, c. 900-1400 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-26F8F3
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete lead cloth seal of post-medieval date. Part of Disc 1 survives, with stamps visible on both faces. On the larger flat face it is stamped XXV, perhaps within a circle; on the rivet face it is stamped with XX above TH or perhaps IH. If IH, this stamp could be read the other way up, as HI above XX. The letters are neat and have small serifs. The die-axis is about 2 o'clock; the seal is oval, about 15 x 13mm at most, and is 3mm thick. It weighs 2.7g. It is just possible that the IH XX face may be stamped with a merchant's mark or privy mark similar to that on LON-A51F…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-26ABF5
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Shield-shaped copper-alloy medieval harness mount. The shield has a straight top and sides curving to a point; it is now slightly bent but measures 16mm across the top and 17.5mm in length. Surface treatment of metal and enamel missing. Blazon: Two trumpets pilewise between three crosses paty. Probably an abbreviated version of the arms of TRUMPINGTON, Azure crusily and two trumpets pilewise Or, either for Roger, a knight of John de Vescy, 1280, d.1289, or his s. and h. Giles (who bore the same arms), summoned to serve against the Scots, 1298 and 1301, living in 1324 (Brault 1997, vol…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-17FFFC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy Roman brooch. Flat and probably originally circular, it is now oval, It is decorated with what at first sight appear to be ring-and-dot motifs, but which are actually blind-drilled depressions with a small deep centre and two distinct steps of larger shallower concentric circles. There are four of these motifs, set unevenly; one almost in front of the pin lugs, another close by on the other side of the lugs, but the other two more widely spaced and two-thirds of the way to the catchplate. All are near what are now the edges, although no part of the origina…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-16CE14
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilded copper-alloy suspension mount for a horse-harness pendant, cast in one piece. It is essentially T-shaped, the horizontal part being rectangular, short and wide with a triangular cross-section; there are two sturdy integral circular-section rivets on the flat reverse and tiny traces of gilding on the front. Projecting from the centre of one long edge is a triangular-section bar which quickly divides into two round-ended D-section lugs, both pierced from side to side to take a (now missing) hinge bar. 20mm long, 20mm wide, 5mm thick at the lugs, 7mm thick at the rivets. …
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-16A686
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead 4oz weight, probably of 16th- or 17th-century date. It is thick, flat and circular, 32mm in diameter and 13.5mm thick. The sides are slightly convex. One face is very slightly recessed within a raised border; the other face is decorated with four irregular, almost quarter-circle depressions, whose outer edges make an approximate off-centre circle. Weighs 110.5g (3.9oz). The closest parallel on the PAS database is probably LEIC-5C6B33, which also has four rounded depressions, but on both faces. There are many other weights with the four depressions but with official stamps of…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-1618AC
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat circular medieval lead seal matrix, 25mm in diameter. Neatly made with rounded edges, 3.5mm thick at most. The central motif is a small neat equal-armed cross, deeply engraved, with slight serifs. The inscription is set between neat, perhaps compass-drawn, grooves, and consists of neat, widely spaced letters. It reads + S ADE: BETE (Seal of Adam Beater, perhaps). A chunk is missing from the edge, and has carried away parts of two letters, the S and A, and any apostrophe or stop between them. The break is patinated. The reverse is slightly dished, and there is a low, unpierce…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-14CFAA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. It is missing part of the headplate, side knobs, and the terminal of the foot. The surface is quite corroded and the breaks all appear old and worn. The small top knob is cast in one piece with the headplate. It is oval in cross-section, only 6mm wide and 5mm thick. It was probably originally full-round but flattened, and is now worn. It has a deep waist so that the entire knob is relatively long. Below the waist is a half-round base which projects forwards from the flat headplate; the base is 5mm from front to back. The headpla…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-13ADF8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast copper-alloy leg and foot from a medieval or early post-medieval cooking vessel. The fragment is relatively thin at the worn break, largely rectangular in cross-section but with a slight midrib. It thickens towards the base and then widens and turns out, flaring in cross-section with a slight concave curve towards the front, to form a minimal foot. The reverse and underside are flat. All faces apart from the break are sooted. The cross-section at the top is 30mm wide and 5-7mm thick. The foot is 35mm wide and 13mm thick. It is 32mm long at most, and weighs 47.8g.…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-137C4E
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Well-made copper-alloy button of 16th-century date. It is solid and globular, cast in one piece, 11mm in diameter but slightly flattened front to back. There is a central boss or pellet on the front, with lathe-turning marks around it, which brings the thickness of the button's head to 10mm. On the reverse is an integral drop-shaped lug with a circular hole. Total thickness 18mm, weight 5.2g. Similar to PUBLIC-8E4A11 and SOM-A11BC3.
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-135107
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thick flat circular lead weight, perhaps for half an ounce, marked with the highly simplified arms of the Commonwealth (1649-1653 or perhaps as late as 1660). These are slightly off centre on one face, and consist of two conjoined shields with straight tops and rounded points.The left-hand one has a cross and the right-hand one has a shield-shaped inner border intended as a harp. Both shields are within a circular band. Above this is a stamped crescent or part-circle, points or open side upwards. The other face is unmarked. Diameter 25mm, thickness 3mm, weight 15.2g (0.54oz). Similar …
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-1241A7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chunky copper-alloy bar-mount with integral forward-facing hook, of medieval date. The bar-mount is 10mm wide and a low triangle in cross-section, 4mm thick. It has possible traces of gilding. At its base is a transverse ridge, then the object narrows into the start of the hook. This is rectangular in cross-section, and tapers gradually both in width and thickness until it curves forward in a U shape and then expands into a trapezoidal terminal, tapering upwards. This is decorated with a small groove running up from either side of the hook's shaft as it meets the terminal. On the…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D7ABDC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of copper-alloy spacer plate from a 14th- or early 15th-century composite strap-end. It consists of a curving C shape, at least one end broken (worn break) with a large integral acorn-shaped knop at what was originally the centre. The C shape is 4mm wide by the knop and tapers to the ends; it is 2mm thick. The knop is decorated on all sides, and starts with a ridged collar below a cross-hatched area that represents the acorn's cup. Above this, a slightly narrower D-shaped area represents the acorn's kernel. The whole object is corroded and detail is hard to see. It is a maxi…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D7511B
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thin flat circular lead disc, an inner disc (Disc 2 or Disc 3) from a four-disc cloth seal of post-medieval date. It is 16mm in diameter, bearing the arms of London on a straight-topped shield (a double-strand cross with an upright sword in the top left corner). Around the shield is an inscription, now only partially legible as the stamp is a little off the flan. It reads CIVITATIS LON... Weight 1.2g. Compare SOM-CE2E79, DOR-5498F7, SOM-170440, BERK-D86A4E. Probably 17th or early 18th century.
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D6FB48
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy swivel made from three components, each cast in one piece, still attached to each other. In the centre is a hollow globular component, now damaged and incomplete, with all breaks very worn. It has a circular hole at either end, each of which retains another component. These have shafts that pass through the holes and end in circular roves inside; the roves are quite thick, and are D-shaped in cross-section. The other end of the shaft has an encircling ridged collar below a rounded loop with a circular hole 4mm in diameter. Both of these holes are blocked, one by …
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D68917
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy pin, now very corroded but with fragments of patinated surface surviving. The head is 6mm square in cross-section, and 5mm long with a domed top and flat underside. The shaft is 15mm long and circular in cross-section, tapering smoothly from 3mm in diameter at the junction with the head to 1mm just above the point. Total length 20mm, weight 1.5g.
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D56442
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Suspension lug from a medieval to early post-medieval vessel, made from copper-alloy sheet folded in half and secured by a single rivet made from rolled copper-alloy sheet. The lug is trapezoidal, flaring from a narrow base 20mm wide to a maximum of 33mm wide just below the fold. The corners of the fold are cut off at an angle making the fold 25mm wide. At the widest point, an oval hole has been pushed through both halves leaving a burr of bent-over sheet fragments on one side. The hole measures 10mm tall by 7mm wide. The lug is 6mm thick at the open end and 3mm thick at the fold. The…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 13th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-D4F2F8
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix. Flat and pointed-oval, now incomplete, with just under half missing (fresh breaks and an unstable, corroding edge). The part that is missing seems to be the top half, as there is no lug or any other feature on the reverse. The central motif is very difficult to make out but it may be the bottom half of a fleur-de-lis, with a triangle for a stem and the base of two curling side leaves. The inscription is set between two plain grooves, and the surviving part reads ... BEAT RICI... (probably originally Seal of Beatrice). The letters are well spaced, partic…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D4A118
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix. Flat and circular, now incomplete, with about a third of the inscription missing (both fresh and older breaks). The central motif is a quatrefoil of four long oval leaves, with a rounded flower on a stem in each angle; the stems radiate from the centre. The inscription around is separated from the central motif by a plain groove, and reads + S'. - AL - - IDI. FIL' R. DE. SM (probably Seal of Geoffrey son of R. of Sm...). It is neatly engraved, but the M lacks its second stroke and the missing letters make it hard to read; the first missing letter is probabl…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D46BAE
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very tiny medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. It is shield-shaped, with an almost straight top (slightly outcurved) and sides curving to a rounded point. The shield is relatively long (15mm) compared to its width (11mm). In the centre of the top is a projecting suspension lug, pierced from side to side but now incomplete, broken through the hole. This brings the surviving length up to 20mm and the thickness at the broken lug is 3mm. The hole can have been no more than 1mm or so in diameter. It weighs 1.6g. The front of the shield is decorated with a wide, neatly made cro…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D40525
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small Hod Hill brooch of Roman date, c. 43-70 AD. Most of the head is missing but the base of the central slot for the pin can be seen. Below this the upper bow has a single transverse (horizontal) ridge between two broad grooves or flutes, with traces of white-metal coating in the upper one. The centre of the bow has longitudinal (vertical) ridges and broad grooves; three ridges survive with the stubs of side knobs beyond. There is more white-metal coating here. The lower bow has four transverse ridges with flutes between before ending in a footknob. On the reverse of the lower bow a…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D39FAC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified lead object, cast in one piece, now incomplete. It has a flat base, probably originally roughly circular, but much of this is now missing; what remains is variable in thickness, at most 3mm thick. The reverse is flat and featureless, but the upper surface has the remains of four ribs arranged in a cross shape. These are D-shaped in cross-section, and two survive well, one badly and one not at all. There is a rounded boss in the centre of the cross, c. 4mm in diameter, which brings the maximum thickness of the object to 7.5mm. At the end of the three surviving cross arms a…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-C48145
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large lead pot mend or vessel repair. One face is lumpy and sub-oval, about 34 x 38mm at most. The other face is sub-rectangular and smooth, about 14 x 22mm. The groove in between the two faces is very narrow, perhaps crushed. The overall thickness is 6.5mm and the object weighs 35.83g. Possibly Roman, probably medieval.
Created on: Thursday 6th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 13th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C4659F
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very small Roman copper-alloy pin. It is corroded and worn so that any surface detail has been lost; it has a smooth brown patina. The head and shaft are both circular in cross-section, the head a maximum of 3mm in diameter. The head starts at the top with a long narrow round-ended element which tapers into a larger rounded moulding. Below this is a slim ridge between two narrowed waists; below the lower waist, the shaft begins with a diameter of 3mm before tapering to a right-angled bend around 35mm from the top of the head, and then a sharp point. Some of the shaft is probably missi…
Created on: Thursday 6th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-963FC6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual medieval copper-alloy trefoil mount still in place on a fragment of copper-alloy backplate. The mount is basically lozengiform, with three lozenge-shaped leaves and a slender flaring stalk, all divided by V-shaped grooves, radiating from a centre which is pierced to hold a separate copper-alloy rivet. This rivet fixes the mount to a thin backplate whose edges may be all broken, but which now echoes the shape of the mount in that it has a square cut-out (or break) at each of the mount's corners (the outer point of each leaf). This gives it a rough cross shape, and outside …
Created on: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-959102
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy hollow openwork button of late 15th- or 16th-century date. Cast in one piece and globular, the front has a small central boss with six sub-triangular perforations radiating from it. The back has six more sub-triangular perforations and a central lug with a rounded end, pierced with a circular hole. Diameter 10mm, length 17mm, weight 1.2g. Similar to HAMP-B924A7 and ESS-7048E3, and Read (2005) no.93. Excavated parallels include Baart et al. (1977) no.235, from a 16th-century context. An example from Norwich was residual in an 18th- or 19th-century context (Margeson 19…
Created on: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-843DE0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman brooch of Colchester derivative type. It is either a Polden Hill or a Rearhook, but it is missing the ends of the wings (which define a Polden Hill) and it is also missing any rear-facing hook in the centre of the wings. All breaks are worn. The wings are semi-cylindrical in cross-section, open at the reverse. The ends are missing, but a transverse moulding or ridge survives running across each wing at its junction with the bow. This moulding is delicately ribbed with tiny grooves running across the moulding and survives well on either side. There is little to no…
Created on: Monday 3rd February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-82F388
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual copper-alloy medieval strap-end. It is sub-circular, made from a piece of figure-of-eight shaped strip folded in half and secured by a neatly made and well concealed separate circular-section copper-alloy rivet. There is no decoration on either face. The edges are irregular in many places due to damage, but it is hard to tell exactly which edges are original and which not. The surviving width (parallel to the fold) is 16.5mm; the fold is 7mm long. The length is 17mm, thickness at rivet 4mm, weight 2.0g. Similar to the slightly bigger NMS-F68AA7. As it says in that record,…
Created on: Monday 3rd February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-44F995
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Decorated copper-alloy object of unknown function. It is currently almost square, 18.5mm wide by 17mm long; the decoration suggests that three edges may be original and one longer edge broken. It is decorated with what may be stamps or fine engraving, not very neatly done. It is best described by holding the apparently complete longer edge downwards. This has decoration along it of a broad groove (perhaps 2mm wide) filled with small transverse ridges. Above this is a row of three feather or Christmas-tree shapes. with a vertical tapering trunk or shaft and many upward-pointing branche…
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-448837
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead musket ball, nearly spherical. It 13mm in diameter at most, around a slight circumferential ridge, and 11.5mm perpendicular to this. It weighs 9.96g. Most lead shot found in England is likely to date from the 17th century.
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-44321B
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular copper-alloy button, cast in one piece and probably of 16th-century date. The head is 12mm in diameter, plano-convex and solid; it is 5mm thick. A short rounded lug on the back has a central circular perforation; it brings the total length up to 11mm. It weighs 2.89g. Similar to NLM-6FC63D and NARC-12DD84.
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-43D4E9
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular copper-alloy button, cast in one piece and probably of 16th-century date. The head is 11mm in diameter, solid and decorated with a central boss and eight radiating curved ridges. The back is flat, and the head is 4mm thick. In the centre of the reverse is a long lug with a circular hole at its far rounded end. The lug brings the total length up to 15mm. It weighs 2.85g. As Read 2005, no. 97. A close parallel on the PAS database is HAMP-576311.
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-435F88
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Ornate outside edge from a medieval copper-alloy buckle frame. Two stubs remain of the oval loop, with worn breaks. The outside edge is only 2mm thick, and 7mm wide in the centre, where there is a rectangular panel with a grooved pin rest and two crude diagonal grooves. To either side are short panels with bevelled edges, then the fragment ends in two more rectangular-section panels, perhaps once rectangular in shape but now worn. These are both decorated with short grooves which run perpendicular to the axis of the outside edge. The reverse is flat. The outside edge is 28mm long and …
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-41DBB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Roman brooch of Mackreth's Aesica rearhook type, and Hattatt's reversed fantail type. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open at the back where there is a strip of dark grey patina, possibly solder, but also seen on other areas of the brooch. The wings are incomplete but one oblique groove can be seen on the left-hand wing (when viewed from the front). There is a stub of rear-facing hook on the top. The upper bow has two main facets with a central arris, and two smaller side facets that make the cross-section essentially pentagonal. Again almost no decoration survives apart f…
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-41684C
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy spur, probably of early 17th-century date. Both terminals are missing. The undecorated sides are almost straight, curving very slightly. In cross-section they are D-shaped, flat on the inside (where there are file marks) and convex on the outer face. They are slender, being just 2mm thick for most of their surviving length, and a maximum of 10mm wide at the back. This is where the neck projects, which has three facets on the underside and a gentle concave curve on the top. A grooved and ridged collar separates the neck from the rowel box, which is relatively lo…
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-306206
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded copper-alloy buckle plate of medieval date. It is rectangular, 22.5mm wide by 29mm long, and has a narrower projection folded under with a pin slot cut. The short narrow underplate is fixed in place with two copper-alloy rivets with domed heads, set quite close to each other one to either side of the pin slot. Behind these is another similar rivet with slightly larger head, in the centre of the plate. Two further rivet holes are set close to each other at the attachment end. The front is decorated with a line of rocker-arm engraving across the width of the plate just befo…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-3027C4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three linked elements once attached to a sword belt, a three-looped mount and two hooked mounts. The three-looped mount is symmetrical about the centre, with a trefoil terminal at either end. Each half of this element then flares towards the centre, with a loop projecting downwards from the widest point on each half. The mount then narrows before flaring again to a point at the centre; the third loop projects downwards from the centre. There is an iron rivet in each terminal, and an empty rivet hole in the centre. This mount is covered with neatly made decoration of engraving around a…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2FBA2B
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified and incomplete copper-alloy object of probable late medieval or early post-medieval date. It is thick and flat, and can be reconstructed to resemble a five-petalled flower or cinquefoil with a circular perforation. Only two of the petals now survive. They are almost identical, both being short and rounded with an engraved line running from the centre close to the edge, then turning a rounded obtuse angle to meet the circular perforation at an acute angle. Each is surrounded by three dots, one at the end of the engraved line near the edge of the petal and the others flanki…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2F649A
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual lead object, probably an early-medieval gaming piece. It is circular, slightly concave on the bottom and more steeply domed on top, with three circular-section projections or knobs on top. These are set in a neat triangle, but the group is off centre so that two are closer to the edge than the third. 21mm in diameter, 6mm thick away from the projections, 7-8mm thick with projections; it weighs 13.68g. It is difficult to precisely parallel this object from the PAS database. There are several early-medieval gaming pieces with three projections (e.g. SF-1CB627 and NCL-FC8D3…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2F196B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Standing lead weight with rectangular base measuring 15 x 12.5mm, and bevelled corners rising to a height of 32mm. The very top is flattened front to back, and irregularly rounded, and pierced between the wider faces with a circular hole. Neatly made, it weighs 35.56g (one and a quarter ounces). Compare the larger SWYOR-05FF1A and CORN-C10729. These weights are very difficult to date.
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2B3E1A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy buckle frame and plate. The frame is oval with a thickened centre to its outside edge and a narrowed bar which has now cracked in the centre. There is a grooved pin rest with a strip of tiny double punchmarks (interrupted rocker-arm) flanking it to either side. The frame is 26mm wide and c. 19mm long, and 2.5mm thick. The plate is rectangular and now crumpled, but 18mm wide and perhaps originally about 33mm long. It is made from a strip of metal folded about a quarter of the way along its length, and has a pin slot and frame recesses cut into the fold. The t…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2A6CA8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead pot mend or vessel repair. One face is smaller, smoother and sub-triangular; the other face is larger, flatter and irregular. There is very little remaining of any groove in which part of the ceramic pot could survive. Overall dimensions about 29 x 21mm and about 6mm thick; it weighs 14.06g. Probably medieval.
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 13th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-0385C4
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular lead spindle whorl. In shape it is almost globular, 18mm in diameter, with top and bottom slightly flattened. They are not parallel but at a slight angle, so the whorl is 14mm thick at most and 11mm at least. The sides are convex and the central perforation tapers slightly from 6mm to 4mm in diameter It weighs 25.4g. In general lead spindle whorls are found from the 10th to the 14th century, c. 900-1400 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Saturday 25th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-02F7E3
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular lead spindle whorl. In shape it is a thick disc, with top and bottom similar and flat, but curving gently into the convex sides. The central perforation is cylindrical, c. 7mm in diameter at both ends. It is 17-19mm in diameter and 10mm thick, and weighs 18.9g. In general lead spindle whorls are found from the 10th to the 14th century, c. 900-1400 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-02A495
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, part of the foot. The upper break is patinated but relatively unworn. It occurs at the top of the catchplate, on the reverse, but any moulding on the front at the junction of bow and foot is missing. The whole of the fragment has a marked curve from side to side and is hollow on the reverse, so C-shaped in cross-section. The rest of the flat panel consists of an area about 13mm long which is decorated down each edge with a row of worn tiny double-crescent stamps, with the open ends of the crescents towards the edge. This area ends w…
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-0050A5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy sword-belt fitting of post-medieval date, now very corroded. It has a triangular plate with straight top at a slight angle, two rivet holes set longitudinally, the upper one (nearer the wider end) filled with iron corrosion and the lower one empty. At the narrower end there are a pair of triangular projections, then a narrowed hook projects and turns backwards and under and is now corroded into a closed loop. This retains a circular copper-alloy ring 10mm in diameter. Plate, hook and ring are all a low D shape in cross-section, flat on the reverse. Length of plate and hook…
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 25th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-00231D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular copper-alloy plate, decorated on both faces, which falls into Egan and Pritchard's category of strap-ends made from folded sheeting, with wide gaps at the fold; it may be from a medieval strap clasp. It measures 38mm long by 15mm wide, and is made from a single piece of rectangular strip folded in half with a wide gap at the fold. The two halves are fixed together by five rivets, one at each corner and one in the middle. Two copper-alloy rivets survive complete, at the corners closest to the fold; they have small neat domed heads. The shafts of two other copper-alloy rivet…
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-B0C7AA
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy palstave of type Carleton, middle Bronze Age date, Taunton phase (c. 1400-1100 BC), complete except for much of the cutting edge. When viewed from the side, the flanges are rounded. Down one side is a narrow casting seam with hammer marks across it; in the centre of the opposite side is a side-loop. Viewed from the front or back, the butt and the septum are rectangular. One face has a small casting flaw, a hole in one side of the septum by the stop.On both of the main faces there is a trident moulding just below the stop; this consists of thr…
Created on: Friday 24th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-ADBE79
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large copper-alloy pin from a medieval buckle, now incomplete, corroded and worn. The loop is incomplete, surviving as a thinner curved end with worn break. There is no division between loop and shaft; one runs smoothly into the other. The shaft is sub-rectangular in cross-section, a maximum of 5 x 4mm, and it tapers to a point. There is a sudden taper just above the tip as if worn by the outside edge of the buckle. 46mm in surviving length, weight 4.04g. There is very little to help narrow down a date; it is likely to be 13th to 15th century.
Created on: Friday 24th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-ACC312
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late medieval or early post-medieval copper-alloy purse bar, central block and part of the frame. The block is rectangular, 15 x 13mm and 8mm thick, and is decorated on one of the larger faces with three engraved lines, a central vertical line running parallel to its perforation and two oblique lines. The other large face is apparently undecorated. The central perforation is circular and runs vertically. It is 6.5mm in diameter at one end and is blocked by corrosion or by a fragment of broken shank at the other. It is possible to hold the block either way up, but more compl…
Created on: Friday 24th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9AA487
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny copper-alloy book clasp of Howsam type A.1.3. The cast pierced element survives, together with a separate copper-alloy hinge bar. The pierced element is D-shaped, thick but flat with a small central circular perforation 2.5mm in diameter. There is a slight thickening along the straight edge, and at either corner there is a rearwards projection; one is broken off (worn break) and one survives complete. It is perforated from side to side and the hole retains a fragment of slim hinge bar, now broken and bent. At the other end of the book clasp is a central projection, originall…
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Monday 17th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-9A208B
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy palm guard (also called a palm iron). It has a circular centre, 32mm in diameter, with a smooth convex reverse. The dished front has large square round-based indentations, seven or eight across the centre. The edge has three D-shaped lugs each with a circular perforation, which bring the maximum dimensions up to 38 x 40mm. It is 6mm thick and weighs 15.9g. Read dates these to c. 1650 to the present day. There are not many recorded on the PAS database at present; compare SWYOR-438A46 and, PUBLIC-A6D670.
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-993DA5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy Roman brooch of Harlow type, head and upper bow only. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open at the back, and undecorated. In the centre of the reverse of the wings is a lug, pierced above for the chord and below for the axis bar. The copper-alloy axis bar and spring both survive, together with part of the chord, made from copper-alloy wire of a slightly different colour to the rest of the brooch. When viewed from the reverse, there are three-and-a-half coils to the left of the lug and four-and-a-half to the right. The turns to the chord are both missing, but th…
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-991191
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy composite strap-end of 14th-century date. It consists of three components, a cast spacer with a thin outer plate soldered on to either face to give a sub-circular strap-end with knop. The spacer is very short, no more than a flat curved bar with a large acorn-shaped knop projecting from the centre of its convex edge. The knop has a double-ridged collar below a flaring part (representing the acorn cup) which has engraved cross-hatching; the kernel of the acorn is a rounded bump above the cup, probably worn. The maximum width of the knop, at the collar, is 8.5mm;…
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Saturday 24th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-98C51B
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a lead-alloy toy of 16th- to 19th-century date, apparently originally a female figure with a wheel rather than feet. Only the skirt of the figure survives, with curved sides and a straight hem. This is seen in profile, and is two sheets thick as if made as a cone and then squashed flat. It is decorated on both faces and is slightly asymmetric. The rear of the woman's skirt is more strongly curved (as if over a bustle) and is decorated with vertical ridges representing pleats. The front falls almost straight from the waist and is at firsrt sight undecorated. A ridged line …
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-98569E
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very neatly made copper-alloy post-medieval sword-belt fitting. The plate is drop-shaped, with the apex thickened into a small knop. At the other (wider) end, in the centre a projection or collar of three ribs extends into a large circular loop which is pierced from side to side; the loop measures 4.5mm internally and 9mm in diameter externally. Between knop and loop, the drop-shaped plate is convex on the front and concave on the reverse. The front is shaped into four slight longitudinal facets, and the central arris between the facets is cut through near the knop by a small circular…
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-98195F
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Drop-shaped copper-alloy pendant with white-metal coating. It has a flat reverse, convex front, and is a solid D-shape in cross-section with a narrow flange or flat border running around the edge. Much of this flat edge is broken, and the pendant now appears almost oval. The pointed apex of the drop shape is extended into a suspension loop which is pierced from side to side with a small circular hole. Viewed from the side, this loop is rectangular, and is the thickest part of the pendant at 4.5mm thick. The loop is decorated with two grooves across its base at the front only. …
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-72E1E5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn fragment of flat book clasp of Howsam's type A.3, late medieval or early post-medieval. It was originally rectangular, with two largely broken ends and two worn but original sides. One end has a small projection at the corner which is all that survives of a flared attachment end. The other broken end is torn and cracked. The clasp is decorated on one face with double-strand curves and circles. Two double- or triple-strand circles occupy the attachment end, and have dots in the centre which have broken through the metal. Between these is a slightly larger rivet hole. In th…
Created on: Tuesday 21st January 2020
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-6FB233
Object type: AWL
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age awl. One end is flat in cross-section, and gradually thickens to a circular cross-section of diameter 3mm about halfway down the object. It is slightly bent here, causing stress to the metal and loss of the surface. From here it tapers to a point. Where the surface is lost, the colour is a matt green; where the surface survives it is a polished dark brown. Length (as bent) 52mm, maximum width (at flat end) 5mm, maximum thickness 3mm, weight 3.17g. Similar awls were made throughout the middle and late Bronze Age, but the dark brown patina suggests a middle Bronze Age da…
Created on: Tuesday 21st January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1DFBB4
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy hooked tag of Read's class E, type 3. It is made in one piece, with a trapezoidal attachment loop, a circular plate and a long hook. The loop and hook are both trapezoidal in cross-section; the hook is complete, but bent to one side, and has a rectangular moulding at the top which brings the maximum thickness up to 2.5mm.. The plate measures 17mm in width and has relief decoration on the front consisting of a central bearded human face with hair in a heavy fringe and side locks, looking straight at the viewer. The head appears to be backed by a concave circle, so the whol…
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1DBD41
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy composite strap-end of 14th-century date. It is corroded, so that details are unclear. It seems to consist of a short spacer plate, possibly made from two plates sandwiched together, with longer plates on top and bottom held together by a single copper-alloy rivet at the open end and another in the centre of the object. The open end is fragmentary but was probably rectangular, 11mm wide, and the long straight edges continue for over half the object's length before curving inwards in a concave curve and then out again to a point at either side. Another narrowed waist separ…
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1CDA55
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny medieval copper-alloy buckle frame, oval with narrowed bar and ornate outside edge. The outside edge is flat and expands slightly in both width and length to form two pointed corners with a straight edge between. This solid widened outside edge is ribbed with three wide transverse grooves. It is 16.5mm wide and 14mm long, a maximum of 2mm thick, and weighs 1.52g. 
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 25th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1B8345
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object shaped like a reel. It is almost complete, with two circular ends, flat on both sides; both ends are 31-32mm in diameter and 2.5-2.5mm thick. One is missing a small portion and the break is a little worn. Both end discs have squared-off edges covered with closely spaced transverse grooves giving a ribbed effect. The grooves have been added by hand and are not all completely straight; in places there are groups where the orientation has become a bit oblique. The end discs are joined together by a short hollow cylindrical tube, bringing the overall length (or thickne…
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1AE62F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
About half of a copper-alloy ansate brooch of early-medieval date, Weetch's type II, with circular terminals. One terminal survives, with a little missing, and about half the bow; the breaks are slightly worn. The terminal is flat and sub-circular, 17mm across, and decorated with four pointed-oval, V-section depressions forming a cross. Four further similar depressions are placed between the ends of the cross arms to form a lozenge, and an edge of the terminal has broken away along one of these grooves. The bow is 11mm wide and fairly flat with a slight arris in the centre. …
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-194822
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy shield-shaped hook from a post-medieval sword-belt, with relief decoration on the plate. When held with the hook at the bottom, the plate has a straight top, incurved side edges and an outcurved base. The centre of the base extends into a circular-section hook, 4mm wide, which curves backwards then forwards to end butted up against itself making a circular loop. The flat plate is decorated with symmetrical plant decoration in low relief, all within a low raised border. There is a pair of trefoils at the top, perhaps flowers, each on a stem; the stems are bound together at…
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-0C4C12
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Openwork copper-alloy mount of post-medieval date, 16th or 17th century. It is roughly circular, with the edge cut into twelve rounded points. Within this there are four quarter-circle perforations making a reserved cross. On the reverse are one bent-over spike (bent outwards) and one shorter straighter spike which may be incomplete (but if so, it is a worn break). The spikes are located towards the end of two cross arms, and in this direction the mount measures 19mm long; at right angles to this it measures 18mm wide. The spikes bring the total thickness to 6mm. It weighs 1.9g. Compa…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 25th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-079CAA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete plate brooch which imitates the sole of a shoe or sandal. One half survives, the toe end, with the pin lug on the reverse. It is pointed rather than rounded at the end and has no loop. Just in from the edge is a border groove, and there may be two very tiny stamped annulets set evenly across the centre, but corrosion makes it hard to be certain. It does not appear to be recessed enough in the centre to have been enamelled. On the reverse, what seems to be a single pin lug survives, broken through the off-centre circular perforation. The pin lug is now a slim, long, low…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 17th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-0732E5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A neatly made copper-alloy circular buckle frame with central bar and copper-alloy pin, of medieval date. It measures 23.5mm wide and 23mm long. The frame is slender, measuring just 1.5mm wide. The front has a bevelled external edge; the reverse is flat and has visible oblique filemarks. The pin is made from a flat strip, of a greener metal than the frame. It is wrapped around the bar (one and a half turns) and then tapers evenly to a point. The buckle weighs 3.3g. It is similar to, but more neatly made than, WILT-AA518E. Another of similar proportions is shown in Whitehead 2003,…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-06FB48
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just under half of a medieval finger-ring of 'stirrup-shaped' form, originally set with a gem (now missing). The breaks are old, and from these the ring flares in thickness to 4mm at the bezel. The bezel is quite tall, measuring 5mm from the interior to the top of the bezel, and the surviving external diameter, which cannot be far off the original diameter, is 21mm. There are small patches of shiny black coating on the ring, possibly a black lacquer. The setting is circular, 2mm in diameter, and is filled with a white adhesive or cement. It weighs 2.0g. Similar to SWYOR-B0BF1B…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Saturday 24th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-0599E2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hook-piece from a copper-alloy blunt-hooked fastener of post-medieval date. It has an oval plate with relief decoration of a stylised face set within an oval made up of two swags of drapery. There are possible flowers or plant stems curling to either side. This is all set in a double ridged frame, with a broad groove between the ridges. The design is the right way up when the object is held with the hook to the right; the hook bends slightly backwards and then forwards, and is then broken (slightly worn break); it is 6mm wide at the break. There is a circular loop for attach…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-0558CE
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy medieval globular bell, probably from horse-harness, with incomplete copper-alloy suspension mount. The bell's globular end has four petal shapes bent in to hold two peas, one of which appears to be a small copper-alloy sphere, the other perhaps an irregular lump of iron. The four-petal construction results in a square bell with slightly curved sides, 17mm square. It has a long stem, pierced at the end to make a loop, which brings the length up to 26mm. There is a separate copper-alloy bar, now bent, passing through the loop and through two holes in the suspension mo…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-044FE0
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy book-clasp of Howsam type A.3, of late medieval or early post-medieval date. It retains a large part of the front plate and a fragment of backplate. The front plate has an incomplete hook 6mm wide; behind this it steps out to a square panel 15mm wide, decorated with widely cross-hatched grooves forming a series of lozenges set between two pairs of transverse engraved lines. The main body of the book clasp is rectangular, 12.5mm wide. Short longitudinal grooves extend from the rearmost transverse line, and then the rest of this part of the book clasp is decorate…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-041B1E
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy medieval mount in the shape of a shell. It has a projecting base 7mm wide and 3mm thick (the thickest part of the object) decorated with two grooves in a V shape, apex upwards. The base of the triangle is formed by a step to a flatter area. The rest of the shell is semi-circular, 13.5mm wide, and decorated with six radiating grooves. In the centre is a circular rivet hole. All of the grooves taper and do not quite meet the hole. The reverse is concave. Total length 14mm, weight 1.5g. This is a very neatly made example. It is similar to Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 10…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-03D4E8
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete lead cloth seal, just Disc 1 surviving. The front is stamped with upper-case seriffed initials in lines: BH / BCL / CL or GL. There is almost certainly an indistinct initial before BCL, perhaps a G. The reverse has a ridge running across and a flattened rivet in the centre. A trace of a stamp survives on the rivet, probably another initial. 17.5mm x 18mm, weight 2.7g. This is a Norwich Weavers' Company seal, with the initials those of the twelve wardens of the year; compare Egan 1994, no. 82. Egan dated these seals to c. 1650-1705 (1994, 46) and the precise year …
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-037906
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete lead cloth seal consisting of two discs linked by a connecting strip. Disc 1 (the circular disc with the rivet on the reverse) is stamped with a series of seriffed upper-case initials in four lines: NS / MSW / GCG / C. This disc is well preserved and the initials are very clear. Disc 2 (the annular disc around the rivet) has similar but larger initials in three lines: NO / RWI / C. The lowest line is partly off the disc and the right-hand side is hard to read; the final H is missing completely. Length including connecting strip, 24.5mm. Width 20mm, thickness 2.5mm, …
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-CA4579
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal of 'worsted reformed' type. Only Disc 1 survives, with the seriffed letters ...FORM... on the flattened rivet, and the number 2.7 with curlicue below and to the side on the other, flat face. The die-axis is about 1 o'clock and the disc is irregular, perhaps about 17 x 19mm. It weighs 3.58g. The 2.7 face is identical to Egan (1994) no. 89. The other face is paralleled at BH-F0D748, but the vast majority of Worsted Reformed seals have the line break before the M. They date to the late 17th century.
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 21st May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-CA053E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy composite buckle with forked spacer. It is made up of several elements, all of copper alloy; the frame and integral forked spacer plate, a sheet soldered to either side, a pin and two tiny rivets. The frame is oval with a pointed pin rest, 20mm wide. The plate is rectangular and 15mm wide. It starts with a broad ridge, in the centre of which is a pin hole or slot. The forks of the spacer extend right to the end of the sheet plates, which are complete but poorly preserved, with what appears to be iron staining. They both have a U-shaped cut-out in the centre of the attachm…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C9C85D
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy flat pointed-oval seal matrix. It is 29mm long and 18mm wide, and the die is at most 3mm thick. There is a faint midrib on the reverse, with at the top a D-shaped lug, pierced from side to side to make a suspension loop. The lug brings the total thickness up to 6.5mm, and the matrix weighs 7.02g. The central motif is a pair of addorsed birds with crests and long tails, perhaps peacocks, looking over their shoulders at each other. In between them is a line topped with a fleur-de-lis, perhaps a staff. The inscription is set between finely beaded lines, and reads * SIGILLVM …
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C9A50C
Object type: DIE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small lead throwing die. It is not perfectly cubic, as the sides vary between 9.5 and 10mm. Each face has a number of dots, and all the readable faces are laid out in the modern fashion. 1 is opposite 2, 3 is opposite 4, and 5 is opposite a face whose dots cannot now be made out but which is clearly 6. The layout of faces is Winchester type Bii (if 6 is held with 4 above and 3 below, 2 is next to 6 to the right, then 5, then 1). It weighs 9.65g. Brown comments in the Winchester report that nearly all of the Type B dice come from contexts of the 13th to 16th centuries, whereas di…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C92EE6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of large but very corroded Roman brooch, made from copper alloy. Because the breaks are worn and there is no decoration, it is hard to tell what type it is. The head is largely missing, but it has a large stub on the reverse which looks more like the remains of a single central lug (as on, for example, a trumpet brooch of Mackreth's type 1) than a rear-facing hook. It is possible that semi-cylindrical wings may have broken away, or that a trumpet-like head has broken away. The bow is triangular in cross-section, narrow and tall with a steep angle and prominent arris. There is…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C8BFB8
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead token, with relief designs on both faces (biface). On one face there are the initials W W between raised horizontal lines, one of which divides the token in half. Below the central line are markings which may be four numbers,perhaps (from parallels) a date. On the other face is what appears to be a four-legged animal, perhaps a sheep, in profile facing left. There seems to be something above the animal, but it is difficult to work out what. It is oval, 17 x 19mm, and weighs 3.96g. It is unclear exactly which Powell type it belongs to, as it has initials (type 2) and numbers …
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C7EB39
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of unusual medieval horse-harness pendant. The fragment is now roughly square, of side 15mm, with a projecting suspension loop which takes the total length to 24.5mm.The loop is pierced from side to side with a hole which is now oval, probably very worn, and the line of it continues down the reverse as a ridge or rib. All the edges of the body of the pendant are broken so the original shape cannot now be reconstructed. It is decorated on the front with a separate silver sheet or foil, too thin and flimsy to survive if detached. The silver foil has grooves on it, but it…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C77FEB
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular end-plate from an iron padlock case with no obvious coating of copper alloy. It is the end-plate from the bolt, 36mm in diameter and 5-6mm thick. Two spines are fixed through this end-plate, each about 6mm square, close to one edge of the end-plate. These protrude about 7mm from one face and are visible as bumps on the other. The total length of the longest spine is 13.5mm. It weighs 28.77g. These padlocks appear to date from c. 950-c. 1250 AD.
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C75260
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and worn copper-alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative rearhook type. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open at the reverse for the spring, In the centre at the top is the stub of a rear-facing hook, and below this on the reverse the middle of the wings has a deep hollow. The front of the wings are decorated with transverse (vertical) ribbing, a shallow version of bead-and-reel; there is a groove right next to the bow, then another groove then hints of a broad groove (or flute) and at least one other conventional groove. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section, flat on the …
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C6FB8A
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy three-part strap-clasp of medieval date. It is small but well-preserved and nearly complete. The plate is made from a piece of rectangular sheet folded in half and with frame recesses cut. It measures 7mm in width at the open end and 8mm wide at the fold, and half of the front is missing. The surviving part of the front is decorated with rather crude geometric engraving forming rectangular panels. Two survive complete next to the fold, with an engraved saltire within each panel. The next two survive incomplete, with oblique grooves. The backplate is complete, 23mm long, a…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C6A634
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy blade, perhaps a small knife (as SOM-BCDC68) or possibly a fragment of rapier. It is very worn and corroded, with all edges worn away and a lot of corrosion bubbles on the pitted surface. It is a long oval in shape, with both ends broken and/or worn so that they run straight across. The cross-section is pointed-oval, a maximum of 3.5mm thick in the centre where there is a very slight bulge to a barely-visible midrib. It flattens away from the centre, with one end 3mm thick and the other 2.5mm thick. The surviving width, with all edges worn, is 14mm and the surviving…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C5F27A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded copper-alloy object, probably of 12th- or 13th century date. It consists of a cast front plate and a fragmentary sheet backplate, held together by two copper-alloy rivets. The cast front is basically U-shaped with parallel long sides and a lot of surviving gilding. Along the length of the U it is perforated by two complete neat circular holes, each 10mm in diameter. A third similar hole is cut across by a straight edge which is at a slight angle to the long edges; it is difficult to tell whether this edge is complete or very neatly broken and smoothly worn. The two rivets are i…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C55F0D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn fragment of openwork early-medieval strap-end of Thomas's Class E. Parts of both long edges survive, and they taper very slightly. There is a central spine with three surviving complete branches, showing that it was originally symmetrical and in Winchester style. Parts of another three branches survive, together with one complete perforation and parts of six others. There is very little evidence to go on, but the holes appear to grow in size from the wider to the narrower end. Surviving length 28mm, surviving width 24mm, weight 3.77g. Broadly 10th century.
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8AEC09
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base of small cast copper-alloy leg from a medieval or post-medieval cooking vessel. At the break it is D-shaped or sub-oval in cross-section, 20 x 7mm. It is 23mm long and has very slightly flaring sides, to a base which turns out to make a foot; this flares to a maximum of 24.5mm wide. The foot has a flat base and brings the total thickness to 14mm. It weighs 28.4g.
Created on: Friday 10th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8AD6CE
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy leg from a cooking vessel. At the top it retains some of the integrally cast body of the vessel. The leg itself is D-shaped in cross-section with a prominent midrib which runs the full length of the leg and up onto the body of the vessel. It tapers from about 34mm wide where it joins the body, to 20mm wide at the base; the sides are straight. About 15mm above the base there is a transverse moulding which runs over, but does not interrupt, the midrib. The flat reverse retains sooting. Total length including some of vessel body, 90mm. Maximum width with vessel body, 43…
Created on: Friday 10th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-89A175
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete medieval lead ampulla. It has almost parallel sides which taper very slightly before flaring very slightly out and curving to form a rounded base. There is a triangular handle on either side, just above the narrowest area. The top is straight and the edges are pressed together. The base is the thickest part of the ampulla, with the edges bevelled to meet at an angle. One face is decorated with a broad double-strand arrow with a single-line shaft that runs right up to the top; there is no obvious fletching. There are faint hints of oblique ribbing around this, on the beve…
Created on: Friday 10th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-88C606
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy suspension mount for a medieval horse-harness pendant, now very worn. It consists of a rectangular plate, 34mm long and 15mm wide, with a circular hole at each corner. One of the two lower holes (on the viewer's left) is blocked with iron corrosion. The other holes are 3-4mm in diameter. In the centre of one long edge are two projecting stubs which are the remains of a hinge. No decoration survives. It weighs 8.0g. No precise parallel has been found. SWYOR-348117 and IOW-AE3ECE are fairly close, but smaller and with only two rivet holes.
Created on: Friday 10th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-888945
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy book clasp of Howsam's type A.1.3. The plate is 18mm square at most, and has a raised border around a lower, thinner centre, sunken on one side, which has worn away completely in places. The border has traces of beading and the plate has a flat reverse. In the centre is a circular hole, 3mm in diameter, which would have fitted around a peg on the opposite cover of the book. The plate tapers very slightly to 16mm wide at one end, which has a projecting terminal. This is pierced from side to side and is a simple oval in shape, looking very like a suspension loop. It would p…
Created on: Friday 10th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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