Record ID: NMS-9DAFF0
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Book clasp of Howsam's type A.3, probably 15th or 16th century, now slightly bent. It is made from two sheets of copper alloy, a front sheet with flared end and hook, and a shorter rectangular backplate, joined by a copper-alloy rivet. The front plate is mainly 9.1m wide, the flared end broken across a rivet hole which is surrounded by a groove. There is decoration of neat transverse grooves, perhaps in pairs, now hard to see; other decoration may now have vanished. The hook is 3.6mm wide. Length 44.0mm, maximum width 10.7mm, thickness of front plate 0.7mm, weight 2.4g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9D7BFC
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Globular knob handle from furniture, made from copper alloy, now very corroded. It is basically spherical, 25.0mm in diameter, with one end tapering into a waist and then flaring out again into a cone. This then steps in to form a blunt-ended attachment shaft c. 4.5mm square in cross-section. The opposite end probably has a small boss, but this is covered with bubbly corrosion. There are small patches of smooth surface visible, mostly green or grey-green. These handles are found in both the Roman and post-medieval periods, but the patina suggests a Roman d…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-99D011
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval dagger guard made from copper alloy, consisting of a central block with a quillon to either side. The block is flat, 6.5mm thick, with a rectangular hole measuring 9 x 6mm through its centre to accommodate the tang of the dagger. Viewed from the top or bottom the block is hexagonal, and viewed from the side each face has a central vertical ridge with another at either end where the block meets the quillons. These three ridges on either side divide the block into two panels, decorated in mirror-image with two central longitudinal dashes (short grooves) with pairs…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-85E1C1
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a copper-alloy purse bar of Williams's Class J. It is broken across the hole through the undecorated central block (worn break). The bar is oval in cross-section, 5.0 x 4.3mm in the centre, and the terminal is globular, decorated with perhaps seven worn curved, twisting ridges and grooves. Total surviving length 44.2mm, block 12.1mm tall, terminal 11.5mm diameter, weight 12.5g. Late medieval or early post-medieval, c. 1450-1550 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-85810F
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper-alloy horse-harness pendant. It is crescent-shaped, points downwards, with a sturdy oval suspension lug in the centre of the convex edge, pierced from side to side by a small hole and with a ridge running across the base of the lug at the front. The body of the pendant has lost either end (worn breaks) and in between has a zig-zag lower (incurved) edge. It is decorated with double parallel lines of punchmarks forming a border around the upper edge, and a zig-zag pattern springing from the base of the lug, with each of the lower points of the zig-zag join…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-84FA3A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman headstud brooch, now in poor condition having lost all its surface back to bare metal. The rectangular swept-back wings each retain a patch of blue enamel at their ends and a patch of red enamel further forward. On the reverse, the head is deeply hollowed in the centre, and has a long (but spindly) pierced lug or loop to hold the axis bar or tube around which the spring was coiled. On top of the head is a crest with a central hole that has worn through to the exterior, which would originally have held the chord of the spring. At the end of this, at the top of the…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8488EE
Object type: MIRROR CASE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of one half of a medieval copper-alloy mirror case. It is circular, 31mm in diameter, with a flange around the edge 3.3mm thick. Within the flanged inner face is a thin grey coating, with a patch of white corrosion in one part of the angle that probably represents the cement originally holding the glass. The flat outer face is decorated with grooves made up of punched dots, although detail is unclear as the surface looks like it has been dissolved away, with bare metal in places. The grooves form a central simple cross within a circular border, with an L shape in each an…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-84154F
Object type: COSMETIC MORTAR
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy centre-looped cosmetic mortar dating to the late Iron Age or Roman period (50 BC to 200 AD). It is smoothly curved along its length with slightly thickened rounded terminals. The U-section groove retains a shiny green patina, but this is missing over most of the rest of the surface meaning that the decorative details have been lost. The loop is simple, with an internal diameter of 6.8mm and a surviving external diameter of 15mm. Traces of a slight groove or flute can be seen along the exterior, just above the loop. Length 53.1mm, height from base of loop to …
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-83C951
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring, circular (25-26mm diameter) and of hexagonal cross-section, with filemarks on the outer angles. Solidly but not particularly neatly made, perhaps a little worn on the interior edges. 3.5mm thick, 3.5 to 4.5mm wide, weighs 5.2g. These rings probably had many uses, from brooch or buckle frames to harness rings, curtain rings and so on. The filemarks on this one probably indicate a medieval date.
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-75F0B1
Object type: SADDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy saddle pommel of post-medieval date (c. 1500-1700). It was apparently made in two halves which have been brazed together at a raised seam. Six further slightly lower ribs, each flanked by grooves, radiate from the midpoint of the seam, converging at a point which has a circular attachment hole just to one side. To either side of the point, both wings are lost (fairly old breaks) before there is another original curving edge at the back. It is 71mm tall, a maximum of 40mm in diameter, and weighs 116.1g. Compare LANCUM-CE4675 and YORYM-E3E676, which have …
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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