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Record ID: NMS-1011A5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper-alloy strap fitting with loop and probably originally with hook, but now incomplete. In the centre is a flat oval plate, undecorated except for a small notch cut into each long edge, one apparently larger than the other; it is possible that the smaller notch is more worn. At one end of the plate is a projecting transverse rectangular lobe, decorated with a groove, and then the stubs of a circular loop (worn breaks). At the other end is a broken stub which preserves a short length of another decorative groove, probably originally another transverse projecting lobe.…
Created on: Friday 29th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-0F4A0B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny medieval copper-alloy buckle with integral plate, probably from a spur. Most of the frame and the other end of the plate are missing (worn breaks). The small part of the frame that survives is curved, and there is a circular pin hole close to it. Level with the rear edge of the pin hole is a pair of projections which recall the lobes at either end of the bar on buckles with separate plates. Behind these, the plate begins with a rectangular area 9 mm wide with bevelled edges and a central circular rivet hole. Behind this is a narrower longer area, 5mm wide, also with bevelled edge…
Created on: Friday 29th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-EA3F21
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tip of a late early-medieval copper-alloy openwork strap-end of Thomas's Class E, some breaks worn and others fresher, with another break and bend on one side. It is cast with roughly circular holes, three of about 4mm diameter set two above and one below. The lower one is in the curve of the end of the strap-end, and to either side of it are much smaller circular holes. It is through one of these, on the left-hand side when viewed from the front, that the strap-end is broken and bent. Above the upper pair of larger holes is a slightly upcurving line of five circular holes, that in th…
Created on: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-E8F505
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy book mount of late medieval or early post-medieval date. It is now rather crumpled but was originally c. 30mm square, with a shallow incurve cut out of the centre of each edge. Each corner has a small rivet hole around which are two or three concentric engraved rings. In the centre there is a circular boss with a large (7mm diameter) circular hole in the centre; the edges of the hole are worn and appear complete, but as most parallels have unbroken domes in the centre it is possible that the hole is due to wear. Around the hole is a ring of crescentic stamps, the point…
Created on: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-E82A27
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight, probably a spindle whorl. It is crudely made and irregular, perhaps crushed, with an oval base with a slight thickening around it; total measurements are 22 x 18mm. The sides are straight, tapering to a flat top that is more drop-shaped when viewed from above; it measures 15 x 17mm. The central perforation is also oval, 6 x 8mm at the top and 4 x 8mm at the base. The height is 17mm and it weighs 37.8g. Most lead spindle whorls probably date to c. 900-1400 AD.
Created on: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-BF6E10
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy banner, part of an elaborate set of harness fittings. The main part is flat and rectangular, 26mm long by 18mm wide and 2mm thick. It is cast in one piece with a hollow cylindrical tube down one long edge; this would have fitted over a separate stem like a flagpole, around which it would have rotated. The main rectangular area is decorated on both faces with a chequerboard design. The alternating squares have minute traces of blue enamel or are covered with rocker-arm engraving and gilded; each is around 4mm square, and there are four across the width and six down the len…
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 5th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-BE9CE9
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy post-medieval mount. It is essentially circular and 15mm in diameter, with a flat outer and a domed centre which is hollow on the reverse. Four tiny projections around the edge bring the maximum dimensions to 17 x 17mm. On the reverse of the flat outer are the remains of two attachment spikes. It is 4.5mm in thickness away from the spikes, and weighs 1.65g. It has a grey patina on both faces. 16h or 17th century. Compare SWYOR-547066.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-BE7CB7
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small medieval ring-type thimble made from thin copper alloy. It is 16mm in diameter at the lower rim and tapers to 14mm at the upper rim. Both are decorated with short lengths of circumferential grooving, but these disappear off the edge in places and it may be that both edges, although fairly straight and worn, are incomplete. Between the grooves are 21 vertical lines of punched dots, six or seven in each line. The thimble is 11mm tall and weighs 2.43g. This type of thimble dates to the 13th to early 15th century.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BE5107
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame, complete with separate iron bar on which are corroded a pin and a tiny incomplete plate, both of copper alloy. The frame has incurved top and bottom edges, both decorated with a pair of transverse grooves to either side of the end of the bar. The outside edges are both outcurved and both decorated with more crudely made transverse and oblique grooves. the frame curves as if around a shoe. The pin appears to be cast and the loop drilled; the shaft is D-shaped in cross-section. The plate is triangular, tapering to a broken point, and also …
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BDECB8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a copper-alloy strap-end of 'crescentic' type, of 15th-century date. Only the crescentic attachment end survives, without its sheet backplate; the terminal, probably shaped like a tree or bush, is missing (worn break). The crescent shape is decorated on the front with the letters ihc (an abbreviation for Jesus Christ) in black-letter script, on a background of closely spaced sets of parallel engraved lines. The letters are the right way up when the strap-end is held with the points of the crescent upwards and the broken-off terminal downwards. To either side, the ends of the c…
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BDAC63
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 8, of 11th-century date. The very top of the apex is missing (worn break) but part of the animal head that decorated it survives, looking upwards and with two round-ended hollow-centred ears. Between and below the ears is a circular hole 4mm in diameter, and below this is a transverse ridge making a double incurve which follows the line of the ears. The centre of the mount is undecorated, but the edges and lower corners are each filled with a motif which may also be an animal head, perhaps in profile. These each have a drop-sh…
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-BD48C6
Object type: HINGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and bent copper-alloy hinge, probably of medieval date. It is roughly rectangular, tapering from 14mm wide at one end to 11mm wide at the other; the long edges are irregular, not straight. There are three circular holes, c. 3mm in diameter, pushed through from front to back; one is complete and close to the wider end but off centre, another is partially cut through the wider end, and the third is closer to the narrower end but again off centre, close to one long edge. The narrower end has one of an original two hinge loops which curls up and back towards the front. There is…
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-BD0C9B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Domed or conical medieval sexfoil mount made from thin copper alloy. It is complete, although slightly distorted, and almost circular, with tiny notches between the foils. Each of the six foils or facets is flat, and slopes up to a rounded apex. Two opposing foils have small circular rivet holes near their edges. Compare an almost identical example from a context of c.1270-1350 in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 959). 19mm in diameter, 6mm high, 0.83g. Probably from a belt or girdle.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-BC6172
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete lead cloth seal. Part of both discs survive, together with the connecting strip. Disc 1 is stamped with a crown over a double rose; the stamp on Disc 2 is now illegible, but may once have been a series of initials. The fragment measures 16mm from top to bottom and 17.5mm from side to side, is 2mm thick and weighs 3.21g. It is probably a 17th-century alnage seal.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BC214B
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete four-disc lead cloth seal. Disc 1, with the rivet on the reverse, is stamped with the number 59 in relief. Disc 2 has relief letters stamped on it, some of which are illegible. The visible letters read SVF / -OLK / - E * Disc 3 is stamped with the royal arms of the house of Stuart with CR above, all within a beaded circle, probably for Charles I but possibly for Charles II. Disc 4 is just a flat ring, and has no surviving stamp. Discs 1 and 3 are both 17.5mm in diameter, and the cloth seal weighs 9.39g. The royal initials date it to 1625-1649 or 1660-1685. Other four-pa…
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BBB237
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete post-medieval lead cloth seal. The discs are 22mm in diameter and the connecting strip is 3mm wide; it weighs 9.70g. Disc 2 is stamped with what may be a merchant's mark. It resembles an orb with a cross on top, but the 'orb' appears to be drop-shaped and has a central horizontal line with perhaps the letter R above and some indistinct markings below. This is set within a beaded circle, with perhaps part of an inscription around at the lower left-hand side. No stamp survives on Disc 1. It probably dates to the 16th or 17th century.
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BB6D03
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early 17th-century lead cloth seal. Disc 1 survives, apparently complete at 15mm diameter, with the flattened remains of the rivet on the reverse. The stamp on the front appears to have been much larger than the seal, so only the central part of the design survives. This shows a building with ashlar blocks outlined and a round arch or gateway; there is a plinth or steps across the base of building and arch. There also appears to be something within the arch, with a pair of oblique lines diverging and running across the steps, then a vertical line from where they join upwards. The top …
Created on: Monday 25th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-80E8F1
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy pommel, perhaps from a sword or dagger. Viewed from above it is oval, 37 x 31mm; viewed from the side it is biconvex and 20mm thick. There is a clear seam running around the circumference and it seems likely that the pommel was made in two halves soldered together. It is hollow, and there is a small circular perforation at the centre of one half, 9mm in diameter; this is likely to be the top. In the centre of the other half is a larger hole, the edge of which is now bent and perhaps incomplete. This may also have been circular, c. 13-14mm in diameter. It weighs 23.02g. Th…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Friday 17th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-808DD4
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy purse bar and part of loop, of late-medieval or early post-medieval date. The central block is smoothly rounded on the sides, and flat on top and bottom; it is undecorated. To either side is a complete arm, decorated with three encircling ridges next to the block and then with a step down to a short narrowed area where the frame would have been attached. At the end of these short arms are simple rounded terminals which seem to have been made separately, as the hammered-over end of a narrowed shaft is visible at their ends. The central block has a hole which runs from top …
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-801B67
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular lead seal matrix of medieval date. It is flat and 25mm in diameter, with the stubs of a broken-off pierced lug on the reverse; the remains of the side-to-side hole can be seen. The central motif is an eight-petalled flower with a pellet in the centre. The surrounding inscription is set within beaded borders, and reads + S'. RIC[AR]DI MORIS: (Seal of Richard Morris). A small area of the inscription is missing due to damage and corrosion. It is 3mm thick without the lug, and weighs 12.08g. 13th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-7FDAFE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy oval buckle frame with offset narrowed bar and outside edge thickened to form a large roll-moulding, which has been constricted in the centre to accommodate a separate sheet roller. This does not now roll, but is fixed around the outside edge with a butted seam on the reverse. The roller is 5mm wide, and is impressed with a ribbed design. The buckle is 19mm wide, 18mm long and 5mm thick, and weighs 3.05g. It dates to c. 1200-1400 AD. Similar to DOR-768F92 and KENT-8F7F47.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7FBE1E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy buckle frame with rectangular frame and integrally cast plate. The frame is a long rectangle, now with slightly incurved top and bottom edges and an outcurved outside edge. The curves are very symmetrical and it seems that this was the original shape. The pin hole is in the centre of the inside edge and is now blocked with iron corrosion. Behind this is a narrower transverse moulding and then the rest of the short plate is made up of three long straight relief fronds. The central one is lozengiform and ends in a small boss; the most complete side one is narrow and long an…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7F6C44
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame, both loops identical. Both are oval internally and have outside edges expanding to a point. The bar projects slightly beyond the frame. The reverse is slightly hollowed. A copper-alloy pin of a different, more greenish colour survives on the bar; this is D-shaped in cross-section and has an open loop and a tapering shaft. The frame measures 47mm long and 29mm wide; the pin is 22.5mm long. It weighs 9.09g and dates to the 16th or early 17th century. Similar to OXON-D0F92E.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7F357B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy double-loop buckle of post-medieval date. The frame is basically rectangular, with the top and bottom edges both incurved. Both outside edges are straight internally, but externally the more elaborate is shaped externally into four rather irregular slight lobes and has its corners expanded into outward-curling scrolls that end in large flat circular discs. The less elaborate outside edge is outcurved externallhy with a tiny notch in the centre, and has smaller expanded rounded corners. Length of frame 34mm, width 49mm. On the bar a copper-alloy pin survives. …
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7EE8A9
Object type: MIRROR CASE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy mirror case. It is circular, 30mm in diameter, with an unpierced lug projecting from one side and a single broken stub of another lug, possibly from a hinge, projecting from the opposite edge. The lugs increase the surviving length to 38mm. The edge is turned down to form short flanges 2.5mm deep. The case is now a little bent and cracked, and decorated with double lines of small rectangular punchmarks, probably interrupted rocker-arm. One double line runs straight from lug to lug and another runs at right angles to this, forming a cross. Four other curved lines are arran…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-7EAC08
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular mount or book clasp made from copper alloy. It is large (40 x 25mm) and well made, with a separate copper-alloy rivet in each corner. There is a central circular perforation 6.5mm in diameter, and each short end is decoratively shaped into a deep central trefoil with an incurve on the remaining edge to either side. A short shallow groove runs from the centre of the trefoil towards the central perforation. The long edges are decorated with a pair of short grooves running from the edge towards the rivets at either corner. It weighs 7.21g. The rivets are short (surviving l…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-7E508D
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy book-clasp of Howsam's type A.1, complete with plate and cast element that would have fitted over a peg. The clasp is now bent upwards about the hinge. The plate is made from a piece of copper-alloy sheet folded in half and secured by two copper-alloy rivets at the attachment end, both of which survive. The attachment end is incurved on both halves of the plate but is undecorated. Each corner of the folded end is cut into a recess so that the narrowed fold can fit between two projections from the cast element. These are both pierced to take a copper-alloy hinge b…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7DFA29
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late Bronze Age copper-alloy tapering blade, perhaps a rapier, spearhead or arrowhead. The lower break is across a rounded oval midrib measuring perhaps 5 x 5.5mm in cross-section. The midrib then runs up the fragment and is flanked by incomplete cutting edges. All breaks are worn. Surviving length 27.5mm, surviving width 13mm, weight 4.7g.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-7DD2C1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy pin from a large medieval annular buckle, now corroded to a rough surface. The loop is open and appears slightly distorted. There is a slight moulding or collar at the junction of loops and shaft. The shaft is sub-circular in cross-section and tapers gently along its length from 4.5mm diameter at most. At the end, the underside slopes up to a blunt point. Total length 45mm, loop perhaps 10 x 13mm externally, thickness from side to side 5mm. It weighs 5.19g. These buckles appear to date to the 14th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7DAF67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper-alloy Roman brooch of umbonate form. It has a small central boss with cast oval cells for enamel around; three survive, and from their spacing there were probably originally five forming a five-petalled flower. The spandrels between the petals, two of which survive, are filled with red enamel. Around all of this is a reserved ring of copper alloy, then a broad concentric groove. Outside this is another ring of cast cells, probably originally filled with enamel; they are worn and very unclear but may be triangular or oval cells set in a band of reserved metal, with s…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7D05FC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large copper-alloy medieval composite strap-end with cast forked spacer and two sheet plates. The attachment end is very slightly incurved, and here the front plate has a longitudinal groove in the centre which crosses a circular aperture. Decayed textile can be seen within the aperture. There is no other decoration on the front plate, which tapers from 18.5mm wide at the attachment end to 16mm at the rounded closed end. This has a projecting terminal which only survives on the front plate. The backplate has a similar circular aperture but no groove, and is similarly undecorated. The …
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-7CA449
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and incomplete small copper-alloy early Roman brooch, probably of rearhook type. It has semi-cylindrical wings, curved in cross-section and open at the reverse. Both appear incomplete, the right (when viewed from the front) being more worn than the left; no decoration survives on either. The stub of a rear-facing hook survives in the centre. Surviving width across wings 19mm. The bow tapers from its junction with the wings, and is oval in cross-section; it measures 5mm wide and 3mm thick at the junction with the wings. No decoration survives on the bow, which is broken towards th…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-5652BC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame, both loops identical. The frame is wide and flat, and has a central bar. Internally each loop has a double incurve at the outside edge, and externally each pin rest has three projecting lobes, each slightly hollowed in the centre. The line of the bar is continued across the frame at top and bottom as a ridge, flanked by a pair of similar lobes with hollowed or fluted centres, each projecting slightly beyond the rest of the frame. The buckle is flat on the reverse, and is angled slightly upwards to either side of the bar. Length 48mm…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 19th December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-55EDFC
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small medieval copper-alloy seal matrix. It has a hexagonally faceted conical handle rising and tapering to a waist and then flaring again to a flat top out of which emerges a rounded suspension loop pierced with a circular hole. The total height is 18mm and the matrix weighs 6.83g. The die is circular, 16mm in diameter, and engraved with a bird in profile standing right (on the impression) and looking back over its shoulder. The beak is curving, indicating a bird of prey such as a hawk or eagle; the legs are widely spread and end in toed feet which cut across the beaded circle enclos…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-555F55
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small medieval copper-alloy seal matrix. It is a low cone tapering and then flaring again to a flat top out of which a broken rounded suspension loop emerges; the breaks are fresh and the surviving height is 14.5mm; it weighs 5.58g. The die is circular, 15mm in diameter, and engraved with the central motif of a hare in profile looking right (on the impression), with two long ears, prominent round eyes, a short tail, and four legs with long feet turned at right angles. There is some detail on the body, particularly on the rear quarters, possibly intended to indicate fur. The inscriptio…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 25th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-5501D3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small casket key, quite flat and carelessly made. The bow is circular, with a casting flaw leading to an internal thickening opposite the stem. The stem has a collar at the junction with the bow; the bow is oval-section and the pointed tip projects beyond the bit. The bit is rectangular and flat, and has a square cleft cut into the rear edge and two similar clefts cut into the leading edge. 45mm long, bow 15.5mm in diameter, 3mm thick at most. It weighs 5.61g and probably dates to the medieval period.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-54E13B
Object type: RING
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring with dark green polished surface. It is 20mm in diameter externally and with a central hole 11mm in diameter. The ring is 5mm thick where best preserved; in other places, corrosion has removed some of the surface. In cross-section it is kite-shaped, with an acutely pointed arris around the exterior and a more gentle angle in the central hole. It weighs 6.21g. Rings of these proportions have been dated to the late Bronze Age (e.g. WILT-7BCF7B, with references), or Iron Age to Roman periods (e.g. SOM-7EDF21, WILT-CDE753, HAMP-E3F5BC).
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-54A298
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny strap-end of 14th-century date, made from two pieces of copper-alloy sheet. One is shorter than the other and is smoothly polished; the other is much rougher and may have been a central spacer plate rather than a backplate. It is bent and one end is broken. The surviving end is cut into curved shoulders and then a relatively long terminal ending in a quatrefoil. The sheets are joined by a copper-alloy rivet through the quatrefoil. Surviving length 26mm, width 7mm, weight 0.57g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-54405B
Object type: SPANGLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy object, possibly an early Anglo-Saxon spangle. It is made from thin sheet and essentially triangular, with two complete edges meeting at an apex which has an irregular hole pushed through from front to back, measuring around 2mm across. These complete edges are both neatly 'pinked' or cut into a tiny zig-zag, and the centre of the object is convex on the front, concave on the reverse. The broken edge is ragged and it is hard to tell how large the object might have been originally. Surviving length from apex to broken edge, 17mm; width 18mm; thickness 0.5mm; wei…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-541E8A
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Narrow strip of copper alloy, pointed-oval in cross-section and a maximum of 4.5mm wide. It tapers gently to either end, both of which are broken. One face is highly polished, with many irregular longitudinal scratches. The other is rougher, but has four transverse grooves at one end and is broken at what may be a fifth. Length 61mm, thickness 1mm, weight 1.89g. Date and function unknown.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-540265
Object type: MIRROR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible fragment of Roman copper-alloy mirror. It is a dark colour with a high polish on both faces. One face is slightly pitted by corrosion, and the other has faint traces on concentric rings, probably polishing marks. Both faces are absolutely flat, and the thickness is extremely consistent over the fragment, between 1.3 and 1.4mm. The fragment is approximately sub-rectangular, but no edge is certainly original. It measures approximately 21mm x 14mm and weighs 2.96g. Compare SF-518E1E, SF-76FD9B, etc.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 7th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-53D3E6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular copper-alloy sheet with one face covered in what appears to be solder, probably a detached plate from a 14th- or early 15th-century composite buckle. There is no obvious decoration on the front (without the solder) and there is no obvious scar from a cast spacer on the soldered face. Three edges (two long and one short) are unbroken, and form a neat rectangle 18mm wide; the fourth edge is bent and slightly more irregular, may be broken off short, although the break (if it is one) is worn. There are no surviving holes for attachment. Current length 31mm, weight 2.15g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-52F3BA
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Roman furniture knob. It consists of a globular head 12mm in diameter, with the corroded remains of an iron shaft protruding from one side which brings the overall length up to 14mm. It weighs 7.06g. The patina is dark grey-green and quite shiny. It can be compared with SF-365DD1, LIN-146752, SUR-E8FC02, SUR-B519D6 and SUR-2309BF.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-52A722
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame, both loops oval and angled slightly upwards about the bar. The bar continues as a slight moulding across the top and bottom edges of the frame. One loop is slightly bigger than the other. Late medieval or early post-medieval, 15th or 16th century.18mm wide, 22.5mm long, the frame a maximum of 2mm thick, weight 1.80g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-523892
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny copper-alloy buckle, probably from a shoe or spur. It is almost circular, 15mm wide and 15.5mm long, and is angled upwards slightly about the central bar. The frame is of even width all the way round, about 2mm wide. The front has all edges bevelled, even on the bar, but the reverse is less well finished. Quite grey and shiny, it probably has a white-metal coating. It is a millimetre or so thick and weighs just 0.93g. A similar copper-alloy buckle was found in a context of c. 1350-1400 in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 214) and it is suggested there that it may be from …
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-5203E7
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy pin head and fragment of shaft, probably of Roman date, now very worn. The head is biconical, but the upper half might also be described as pyramidal, as it is irregular in shape when viewed from above, measuring about 7 x 6mm. It has the hint of a tiny boss in the centre of the top and there are faint traces of lines radiating from the boss over the upper half. There is no obvious collar between head and shaft. The shaft appears almost rectangular in cross-section, measuring 3 x 2 mm. The break is worn. The head makes up about half of the fragment, the shaft the other ha…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-51C906
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant with incomplete loop. It is shield-shaped, with a straight top and sides curving to a point; the corners are now all worn and rounded. The shield (without loop) now measures 29mm long by 26mm wide. The loop is angled slightly forwards, flat on the reverse, and is pierced from side to side with a circular hole; it is now broken through this hole. No trace of any decoration survives on the shield, which is now only 1.5mm thick at most. The surviving total length is 35.5mm and the maximum width, at the broken loop, is 5mm. It weighs 5.58g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-51A14D
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late medieval or early post-medieval copper-alloy purse frame, now very worn. It is L-shaped in cross-section, with one arm of the L being D-shaped in cross-section and thicker and wider, and the other slimmer and trapezoidal in cross-section, tapering away from the junction with the other arm. The fragment is broken across a circular hole at either end; both holes are in the thinner, narrower part of the frame. The convex outer face of the chunkier arm is decorated with very worn engraving which would originally probably have been filled with niello; the design is of repe…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-51652C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost-complete late Iron Age or early Roman copper-alloy Nauheim derivative brooch, with half of the spring, the pin and part of the catchplate missing. The bow is a maximum of 3.5mm wide and is biconvex in cross-section, the reverse being flatter than the front. It is undecorated, and tapers towards a pointed foot with the unperforated catchplate on the reverse. A stub of the return of the catchplate survives, and shows that it turned to the left (when viewed from the reverse). The very bottom of foot and catchplate is bent upwards and may be incomplete. At the top of the bow, it…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-EE0583
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded late 11th- or 12th-century copper-alloy mount, probably from horse-harness. It is basically a short, wide rectangle with geometric decoration consisting of three wide flat-topped transverse (vertical) ridges dividing the mount into four gilded fields. These are decorated with closely spaced shallowly oblique grooves, alternating in direction field by field. Hints of grooves and gilding on the edges of the ridges suggest that both types of decoration carried on over them. The edges and corners of the rectangle are now worn and rounded. It is 28.5mm wide, a maximum of 16mm tall a…
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-EDA14D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower bow and foot from a Roman brooch of Hod Hill type, c. 43-70 AD. It is broken at a narrowed waist with two transverse flutes across just below the break, the upper one slightly wider than the lower one. Here the cross-section is a very flat D-shape, but the lower bow is a long and very flat-section triangle, tapering downwards and decorated with a fine groove down either long edge. The wider upper edge has a beaded ridge across it, and the foot ends at the base in another transverse ridge, this time unbeaded, with a broad transverse groove or flute below and a moulding to finish,…
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-ED4D80
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn copper-alloy buckle of 15th- or 16th-century date. It is shaped like a five-petalled rose, with five long lobes separated by indentations forming a flattish circular frame. It has a central circular-section bar, and the lobes are arranged so that one forms the centre of one outside edge and the opposite outside edge has two meeting at its centre. Brown patina. Width 29mm, length 30mm, thickness of frame 1mm, weight 4.4g.
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-ED09F2
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's form B20, made from a bar and fragmentary plate cast in one piece. The narrow rectangular bar is now very worn, but can be seen to be decorated with four groups of two or three transverse grooves, one set at either end and the others fairly equally spaced in the centre. There also appears to be a row of tiny annulet or crescent stamps running down either long edge. The bar measures 41mm long and 4mm wide. Part of the plate survives, with similar tiny annulet stamps along the edge by the bar and along the surviving edg…
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-EC76E1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy 16th-century mount. It is flat and 19mm long. One end is wider (10.5mm wide) and shaped into two rounded lobes. The sides are incurved, making the centre gently waisted, and the other end is shaped into a point and is a maximum of 6.5mm wide. Although pitted, the surface does not appear to have any coherent decoration. On the reverse are two bent-over attachment spikes, the longest of which brings the thickness up to 6mm. It weighs 1.1g. Very similar to LEIC-D44F6D and IOW-260FFF, it might (like them) have been intended as phallic.
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Friday 15th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-EC52C3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A short copper-alloy thimble, much of the surface corroded away. The rim is 17mm in diameter, and unthickened. The straight sides are covered with vertical rows of tiny circular indentations and the domed (or even conical) top appears to have converging rows of similar dots. The very top is solid but corroded, so it is uncertain whether the indentations continued, or whether there was a bare crown. The thimble is 13.5mm tall and made from thin metal. It weighs 3.1g. Thin sheet thimbles of low proportions with vertical rows of dots are generally considered to belong to the 14th cent…
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-EC470E
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete chunky small copper-alloy key. The bow (or handle) is solid and turned at right angles to the bit, suggesting a Roman date. The centre of the bit is rectangular, with a step cut out of the lower corners closest to the stem. The centre of the edge furthest from the stem has a D-shaped lobe, pierced with a circular hole 4mm in diameter; there is a smaller projecting lobe beyond this. Each face has a small diagonal groove engraved at each corner; the lower pair are where the bow meets the stem and running a short distance towards the centre of the bow, and the upper pair are whe…
Created on: Friday 15th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 7th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C338BA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap-end of 14th-century date, made from two sheets of metal, now with fragmentary edges, joined by a copper-alloy rivet at either end. It tapers from a maximum width of 9mm at the attachment end, where the underplate has sprung away from the rivet, to the other end, which has a small and probably incomplete flat trefoil terminal. The upper plate is decorated with rocker-arm engraving, where the turn of the rocker has produced an effect very like punch marks. It is set in what may be a broad zig-zag, perhaps with other short lengths of rocker-arm in between, but it is ha…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C2E7E0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame, both loops rectangular. Both outside edges are baluster-shaped, meaning that they are oval in cross-section and gently taper and flare to form a concave moulding both above and below the pin rest. The pin rest itself (the centre of each outside edge) is shaped into another, shorter concave moulding, and the three concave mouldings on each outside edge are divided from each other by transverse grooves. The top and bottom edges are shaped in side view, flat on the reverse but thickening on the front to accommodate the bar; there is a crack in one e…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C26B2C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy oval buckle frame of 13th-century date. With short offset narrowed bar, the rest of the frame swells gently both in width and thickness. An area c. 6mm wide at the pin rest is undecorated, but the rest of the frame (apart from the bar) is covered with neat transverse ribbing. The reverse is flatter and undecorated. Width 20mm, length 13mm, thickness 4mm, weight 2.22g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C24EFB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy buckle frame of late medieval or early post-medieval date, both loops oval, one largely missing. The buckle is small and distinctly flat. The breaks are neither particularly worn nor particularly fresh. It measures 19mm in width, has a surviving length of 20mm (probably originally c. 22mm) and is 2mm thick. It weighs 1.90g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-C20171
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame with copper-alloy pin, of late medieval or early post-medieval date. Both loops are oval and the outer edges are slightly widened and tilted. The bar projects very slightly beyond the frame as a moulding. The pin is made from a browner metal and is very corroded; it seems to be made from a piece of wire wrapped around the bar with an open loop. The pin is 12mm long, and the frame is 17.5mm wide and 23mm long. It weighs 1.72g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-C1EA07
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame of late medieval or early post-medieval date, both loops oval and very slightly angled up about the bar. The top and bottom edges are straight and the buckle is not particularly well made. 23mm wide, 27mm long, 3.01g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-C1DAE6
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy hooked tag of post-medieval date. The plate is shield-shaped, with a straight top and sides curving to a point. Above is a rectangular loop which at 8.5mm wide is considerably narrower than the rest of the plate. The decoration is in relief, occasionally broken through to the reverse; there is a pelleted border around a double ridge, then inside the shield are three fleurs-de-lis. The plate is 20mm long and 15.5mm wide. A transverse ridge divides the D-section sharp hook from the plate. The hook is complete and curves backwards, bringing the total length to 33…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-C1A5AA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Well-preserved copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas's Class A, Type 5. At the top, the split end is shaped around the two copper-alloy rivets, both of which survive, with a small point in the split end between them. There is no motif between the rivets and the central field, which is two panels of niello (now decomposed to a silvery colour) set with silver wire scrolls that survive well. One panel has two S-shaped scrolls, one above the other, and the other has mirror-image reversed-S scrolls. All four S shapes either have bifurcated double-scrolling ends, or a separate scroll in the spac…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-C15EFC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy cross-shaped brooch of Weetch's type 28, dating to c. 750-900 AD. Each arm of the cross is identical, with an expanded lozenge-shaped end and decoration of a border groove. The edges of the expanded arms do not meet and their junctions (or armpits) are rounded. In the centre, where the arms meet, is a small boss which is now worn and corroded, with a corresponding hollow on the reverse. On the reverse, the centre of one cross arm terminal has a double pin lug, the halves of which are parallel to the line of the pin and blocked with iron corrosion from the pin …
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-C116F5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete but worn Anglo-Scandinavian copper-alloy flat disc brooch of Kershaw's East Anglian series, dating to c. 850-1000 AD. It has relief decoration often known as 'lozenge-and-knots', consisting of a central sunken circle within a lozenge; the corners of the lozenge are extended into loose knots.The knots seem to turn clockwise, with the end of the knot to the right of the corner. The whole design is surrounded by a raised border. On the reverse is a pin lug which is parallel to the edge of the brooch; this is filled with iron corrosion from the pin. Opposite this is a catchpla…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-C0C02F
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy hooked tag of late early-medieval date, Read's class A type 1. The plate is trapezoidal, 18.5mm wide at most and 11.5mm at the base; the plate is 14mm long. It has two circular holes of about 1mm diameter through the upper half of the plate, not particularly near to the corners; there are traces of dots forming a square, possibly the remains of setting-out dots or lines, around the holes. The plate is decorated with a border of double punchmarks right across the top; then there is a similar line down each side, beneath the top line. The punchmarks then form an inverted V …
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-C06B46
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper-alloy mount, perhaps from horse harness. One end is a bar with a raised rectangular lobe in the centre, and a U-shaped end pierced with a hole for attachment, which has a long narrow projecting terminal. The other end is broken at a curved, probably circular, element, the worn break crossing two rounded recesses which could once have contained enamel. Little of the design survives, but it could be reconstructed as a cross. Surviving length 30mm, surviving width of disc 15.5mm, width of bar 8mm, maximum thickness 2mm, weight 2.25g. The whole mount is fairl…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-C029EA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Oval copper-alloy buckle frame of medieval date (13th or 14th century). The bar is ofset and narrowed, and squarish in cross-section. The rest of the frame swells gently to the pin rest in both dimensions, although the reverse is flat. The front and sides are decorated with fine ribbing, transverse on the outside edge and more oblique on the top and bottom edges. 19mm in external width, 12.5mm long, a maximum of 3.5mm thick. It weighs 2.62g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BF62AC
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy button cast in one piece, of late medieval or early post-medieval date. The head is lozenge-shaped, a low solid pyramid with a flat reverse. The front is decorated with a relief design of a central cross running from corner to corner, dividing the button into four triangular fields. Each is filled with a trefoil, now rather worn but with each foil having a pointed end and separated from its neighbour by a V. There is probably a lower border to each triangular field, but this edge is now very worn. The back of the button has a long irregular lug attached by a waist and …
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BF3F19
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy button cast in one piece, of late medieval or early post-medieval date. The head is circular, solid and slightly domed on the front with a flat reverse. The front is decorated with a relief design of a central pellet and what Read (2005, no. 112) calls an 'eight-bladed impeller', i.e. eight radiating ridges turning into anti-clockwise scrolls towards the edge of the button. This is within a ridged border with oblique grooves giving a cabled effect. The back of the button has a lug attached by a waist and pierced with a circular hole. The front is 13mm in diameter and from…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BEC994
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One sheet from a copper-alloy strap-end of 14th-century date. It is almost rectangular, a maximum of 9mm wide, and bent in half from an approximate straightened length of 33mm; length as bent, 20mm. The wider end appears broken. It tapers slightly to 8mm just before an elaborate terminal, whcih has a rounded base and a trefoil end to give a shape rather like a pineapple. There is an iron rivet through the rounded part. The sheet is less than 0.5mm thick and the object weighs 1.44g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BEA04E
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
14th-century strap-end made from two pieces of copper-alloy sheet, one a little thicker than the other. Both measure 11mm wide at most, where they are broken, leaving the surviving length 26.5mm. At the other end both sheets are shaped into a shallow point which ends in a projecting V-shaped terminal. There is a well-concealed copper-alloy rivet just before the terminal. No decoration survives. Thickness 3.5mm, weight 2.32g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BE48A8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small 14th-century copper-alloy strap-end made from two sheets held together with a copper-alloy rivet at the open end and a second well-concealed rivet just before the terminal. Both sheets are the same size, and taper from 7mm wide at the open end to 6mm just before the decoratively cut terminal. The upper sheet is decorated with a single row of rocker-arm engraving consisting of very wide curves. Length 38mm, thickness 2mm, weight 1.89g.
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-BE1027
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Forked spacer plate from a composite strap-end of 14th-century date. Made from copper alloy, it has traces of solder on both faces. The whole object is rectangular in cross-section and of uniform thickness, both the tapering arms and the quatrefoil terminal. The arms are short, and may be incomplete, but both survive to the same length. One is a little wider than the other. The terminal is set on a short stem which has a groove across either side edge. It is cross-shaped, with the lower arm flaring, the side arms square-ended and the upper arm (furthest from the rest of the strap-end)…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-991A38
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy thimble of 16th- or early 17th-century date, in good condition. The rim is unthickened and decorated with a slim groove. The straight sides rise to a flattish domed top. Rectangular or oval indentations cover all but the lowest 3mm or so, in a spiral that leads to the right when the thimble is held with the rim downwards. Similar but perhaps more rounded indentations cover the top. The spiral of indentations starts at the bottom with a maker's mark, which appears to be an unbarred A within a shield, all set on its side (so it is the right way up when the top is held to…
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-98E943
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy Roman brooch of trumpet derivative type. Now very worn, it is missing its head but retains a flat plate in the centre of the bow and its foot. The flat plate is circular, set vertically so that one edge is extended out to the broken-off head (very worn break) and the opposite edge has a narrow foot emerging from it. The plate has what appears to be a separate domed element in the centre, decorated with six radiating ridges; on the reverse there is an oval bump with a groove across the centre, looking very like a rivet shaft that has been split and the two halve…
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-9884B4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Roman brooch of rearhook type. The wings and upper bow survive, in worn condition. The wings are semi-cylindrical and narrow; no decoration survives. A rough grey lump on the open reverse of the wings may be the remains of solder. There is a stub of rear-facing hook in the centre, the line of which continues over the top of the brooch and down the centre of the bow as a ridge. There is also a slight groove down either side of the bow. The breaks are worn. 19mm in surviving length, 24.5mm wide, c. 10mm thick, 4.08g. First century, 40-70 AD.
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-983AA8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of post-medieval copper-alloy buckle frame. Semi-circular in cross-section, it swells slightly to the pin rest, which is decorated with three grooves and two ridges. Surviving length c.20mm, width 26mm, thickness 3mm, weight 3.02g. One break has bent the metal, the other has not. Similar to Whitehead 2005, no. 360, which is dated to c. 1550-1650.
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-9811FB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just over half of a post-medieval copper-alloy buckle frame, with copper-alloy pin in place on the bar. The surviving loop is D-shaped and the frame is a quarter-circle in cross-section. There is a lozengiform knop at the centre of the outside edge which retains traces of a groove across the middle, with cross-hatched grooves on the inner half; it is probably a stylised acorn. This knop is hollow on the reverse. The bar has a lozengiform lobe at either end, also slightly hollow on the reverse, but there is no decoration apparent on these. The pin is a tapering strip, semi-circular in …
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Friday 22nd May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-977211
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy post-medieval double-loop buckle frame, 28.5mm wide. Both loops are oval with moulded rosettes at the centre of the outside edges; the recesses retain a black coating, which is also visible around the projecting ends of the bar, and on quite a bit of the reverse. The loops are bent sharply upwards about the bar so that the length is hard to measure precisely; if unbent, it would be c. 42mm long. It is generally about 2.5mm thick, and weighs 7.59g. A similar buckle was found on the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545 (Gardiner ed. 2005: 104, ref. 82A5069).
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-974A29
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny copper-alloy medieval double-loop buckle, both loops oval with pointed outside edges, and bent up slightly about the bar. 15mm wide, 24mm long, 1mm thick, 0.83g. Of similar proportions to, but slightly larger than, Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 380, which is from a context of c. 1270-1350 AD.
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-972862
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper-alloy double-loop buckle, both loops identical and almost rectangular. The frame is chunky, with straight top and bottom edges each decorated with a C-shaped moulding or ridge either side of a central transverse ridge. The outside edges are gently outcurved externally, and each decorated with a pair of trumpet-shaped mouldings that meet at a central grooved pin rest. The bar is obscured by a large patch of iron corrosion, perhaps from a plate; there is no evidence for a separate iron bar. 30mm long, 20 mm wide, 4mm thick, 8.63g 17th century. The decoration is s…
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-96D8A8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy buckle frame of medieval date. The frame is thick and oval in cross-section, 3 x 4mm at the centre, and tapers very slightly to tight curves at the top and bottom edges. There is a lobe at either end of the narrowed bar; the lobe is separated from the rest of the frame by grooves on both faces; otherwise there is no decoration. The buckle frame is 31.5mm wide, 15mm long and 3mm thick; it weighs 4g exactly. Probably 13th or 14th century.
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-96BDFD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy medieval buckle frame and integral plate, probably from a spur. The frame is triangular or D-shaped, with a straight outside edge. There are some transverse grooves on the frame, possibly decoration; three on the straight edge and one more on each curved side. There is a small lobe projecting into the interior of the frame, and this has a small pin hole. The integral plate is narrow and tapering, and has a rounded lobe at either end. It is covered in hard corrosion and there is no decoration visible. There is probably a rivet hole in the terminal lobe, but again if …
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-967879
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy buckle plate, 12th or 13th century. One end is narrow and folded round, with a pin slot in the centre; there are no rivet holes here. The centre of the plate is wider, and has aridge in front of a slightly lower area which is decorated with an uneven zig-zag of interrupted rocker-arm. A second ridge divides this from two arms which project rearwards and have bevelled edges. Each one ends in a circular terminal which is pierced with a small rivet hole; a copper-alloy rivet survives in each. 28.5 long, 21mm wide. 5mm thick at the fold. Weight 5.11g. Compare S…
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-9628A9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy medieval buckle frame with ornate outside edge. Most of the bar and one side are missing, and the surviving side is sharply bent. There is a lobe at the surviving end of the bar. The outside edge has a large moulding, decorated on both sides with three grooves on either side of a central grooved pin rest; one face has this ribbing more worn than the other. The corners of the outside edge are extended into large rounded knobs. surviving width 23mm, surviving length 13.5mm, thickness 5mm, weight 4.20g. 13th or 14th century.
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-96018D
Object type: HASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of openwork copper-alloy hasp dating to the late early-medieval period, 10th or 11th century. The fragment is L-shaped, but the hasp was originally trapezoidal in shape, tapering from a maximum width of 31.5mm; parts of three original edges survive. It is 28mm in surviving length, 5mm thick at most and weighs 8.77g. It is decorated on both faces with a slightly thickened frame around the unbroken edges on both faces; this is embellished with small, low knobs. In between these there are more knobs down the sides; two of these, in the centre of the wider end, seem a little l…
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-955F36
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Double-loop 17th-century buckle frame made from copper alloy with a white-metal coating on all surfaces. One loop is rectangular and the other has an outcurved outside edge. The top and bottom edges are slightly incurved. The rectangular loop has an outside edge with a groove along it, and an exterior shaped into two incurves; the D-shaped loop is incurved internally, and has a step down to a flatter strip along its exterior. 23mm long by 17mm wide, 2.5mm thick. It weighs 3.02g. Similar to SUSS-79F389, NARC-8EA352, etc.
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-94FEB5
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete rivet made from thin copper-alloy sheet, of the type known as a paper-clip rivet. Roughly rectangular, one end is folded back in on itself and then out again. This type of rivet was used as a vessel mend or patch on medieval and post-medieval metal vessels. Both outer surfaces are quite grey, as if the repair was reinforced with solder. It measures 16.5mm parallel to the folds and 11mm perpendicular to them, and is in total about 2mm thick across all three folds. It weighs 0.55g.
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 11th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-94685C
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded copper-alloy medieval figure of the crucified Christ. It is well made and solidly cast, modelled in three dimensions. The hands are missing (worn breaks) and the arms are thin and straight. The head droops to the figure's right (the viewer's left) and has long hair, the grooves of which survive on the figure's right shoulder and the back of the head. The top of the head and the face are worn and no details survive, but there is a slight thickening on the brow which suggests a crown of thorns. The chest is bare. There is an inverted V at the waist and some grooving on the si…
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-93AD0F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete but tiny gilded copper-alloy medieval buckle frame, dating to the 13th century. It is oval, with an expanded outside edge tilted at an angle and decorated with a symmetrical design either side of a central pin rest. The decoration is unclear but appears to be made up of curving lines which retain gilding; border grooves making two drop-shaped fields, filled with what may be oblique lines. The bar is centrally narrowed, with a square lobe at either end which retains a lot of gilding. Gilding also continues all over the reverse of the buckle frame and over all surfaces of the b…
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-937FC9
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete copper-alloy swivel of medieval date. Both halves survive, each one with a D-shaped loop ending in an animal head at either end. All four animal heads are similar. A transverse ridge across the back of the head forms the ears, and is cut through by a longitudinal groove which runs up the neck and over the top of the head, stopping at the angle of the brow. The head has a concave curve from the brow towards the nose; there are no added details such as eyes or nostrils. The rest of the D-shaped loops, formed from the necks of the animals, are undecorated and semi-circular o…
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 16th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-599D31
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Foot and fragment of bow from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch of Martin's type 3.0.2, partly covered on both faces with iron corrosion. The bow is broken just above the lower rectangular-section part (worn break). The top of the foot has a pair of lappets, which have no obvious decoration, and damaged edges; their form cannot be certainly reconstructed, but both step inwards at the lower edge. Any decoration on the flat panel between is obscured by the iron corrosion. On the reverse is a catchplate, now incomplete but clearly curled to the left (when viewed from the reverse). …
Created on: Friday 8th November 2019
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-592975
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost-complete copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas class E, type 1, with openwork decoration, now very worn and corroded. It has a straight top with three small rivet holes for attachment, the side two of which are broken and incomplete. On one side there is a slight ridge between the attachment end and the openwork panel. The main panel has a symmetrical design of two profile animals or birds, with chests touching and heads at the top looking outwards. The bodies have a general S-shaped curve, but the precise arrangement of bodies, any wings and legs is hard to work out, especially as …
Created on: Friday 8th November 2019
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-58D0B0
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy stirrup terminal, trilobate and of 'foot-like form' (Williams 1997, fig. 5). It is large and heavy, of U-shaped cross-section and with extensive traces of solder inside. One end is open, and emphasised by a pair of circumferential ridges.The terminal then flares to the closed end, which has a pentagonal base with three rounded knobs projecting. The terminal is 27mm long, 12mm wide at the top and 17mm wide at the base without the knobs; the knobs bring the full width up to 27mm. It is 10mm from front to back at the top, 14mm from front to back at the base without …
Created on: Friday 8th November 2019
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-587D9C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and very worn copper-alloy early Roman Aesica brooch, lower bow and foot missing. The wings are semi-cylindrical and worn to a point at either end; no decoration survives. There is a barely perceptible stub of a rear-facing hook in the centre. The upper bow curves forward and flares to 21mm wide before tapering again, forming a lozenge shape with a broad flute down the centre. The centre of the lower edge of the wings continues down to form a U-shaped backplate which meets the lower corner of the lozenge bow. The edge of the backplate is followed by a separate three-dime…
Created on: Friday 8th November 2019
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-5767FC
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 11A dating to the 11th century. It is corroded, with all its surface lost, but complete and with clear decoration. The mount is basically triangular, with gently outcurving sides leading to a trefoil terminal with the central lobe pierced (now broken through). There are traces of engraved outward-facing scrolls on the other two lobes. There is a narrow reserved border down either side, within which is a sunken panel with a low-relief animal (almost certainly a lion). This is in profile facing right, with its left foreleg rai…
Created on: Friday 8th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-572295
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy medieval annular brooch, probably 13th or 14th century. The frame is square or lozenge-shaped, with each side slightly angled inwards at the centre and one corner extended into a pair of lugs. The centre of each side has an oval collet, set longitudinally, with one opposing pair filled with a white material (probably an adhesive) and the other opposing pair empty. The rest of the frame is triangular in cross-section with a flat reverse. One corner has a pair of lugs projecting beyond, with the frame continuing between the lugs. Their ends are pierced to hold a copper-…
Created on: Friday 8th November 2019
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-56AEF1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end of medieval date with terminal in the shape of a wyvern or dragon. The attachment end is a trapezoidal box, 8mm wide at the open end and about 6mm long. It was probably made by casting the front and sides in one piece and soldering on a backplate. Much of the backplate is now missing, but a single copper-alloy rivet remains in place. The attachment end tapers to a narrower end which is held in the wide open mouth of a cast three-dimensional wyvern, or dragon, which is seen from above. The head is large compared to the body, but little detail survives. It has a p…
Created on: Friday 8th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th May 2020
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