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Record ID: NMS-B9986F
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large cast copper-alloy leg from a post-medieval cooking vessel, rounded on the front and hollowed on the reverse. The front is decorated below the break with three ribs (little of this area survives) then it has a transverse ridge with oblique grooves on it giving the impression of a twisted cable. Below this the leg flares and is decorated with five longitudinal ribs. All surfaces except for the break are sooted. It measures 49mm long, 36mm wide and 18mm thick at the base, 25mm wide and 11mm thick at the break, and weighs 116.47g.
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 13th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-B96BCC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy double-loop buckle, both loops oval. The frame is convex on the front and concave on the reverse, and is angled slightly downwards about the bar. It is 22mm long and 18mm wide, and weighs 1.93g. 15th or 16th century.
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 13th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-B95829
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring, hexagonal in cross-section, 26mm in diameter and 2.5mm thick. Neatly made, it weighs 4.58g. Rings such as these are very common and date to the medieval or possibly early post-medieval period; they may have been used in harness, or on curtains, etc.
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 13th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-B94127
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded copper-alloy strap-end made from a piece of tapering rectangular strip, 12mm wide at one end and 8.5mm wide at the other. The strip is folded in half widthways just off centre, and secured by a single large rivet, c. 3mm in diameter. The rivet is apparently made in one piece with the wider end of the strip (presumably the front of the object), but clearly passes through the narrower end (presumably the reverse). At the rivet the strap-end is 6mm thick, at the fold it is 3mm thick. There is a patch of gilding towards the narrower end, so on the reverse. Length on the front 24.5m…
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B8F4F2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Well-preserved copper-alloy double-loop buckle of 17th-century date. Both loops are identically shaped. The frame is flat with bevelled edges. The outside edges are outcurved externally and curve internally to a central point. The top and bottom edges are both incurved externally, the curves extended to form knops at the corners with small grooves or notches dividing them from the outside edge. The bar is narrower than the frame, and its line is continued onto the frame by a pair of grooves at either end that run the full width of the frame. 41mm long, 27.5mm wide, weight 8.60g. Simil…
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 13th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-B8CF14
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead pot mend, one face larger, flatter and sub-triangular, the other smaller, lumpier and D-shaped. The larger face measures 21 x 23mm and has concentric wrinkles, probably caused by shrinkage on cooling. The smaller face measures 17 x 13mm. The total thickness is 8mm and the object weighs 15.72g. Probably medieval, possibly Roman.
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 13th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-B835EC
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Oval lead pot mend, both faces of similar size and relatively smooth. One face is 26 x 22mm, thicker with rounded edges; the other is 25x 22mm and thinner. The space in between is narrow but may have been flattened. No obvious pottery survives. It is c. 8mm thick at most, and weighs 25.96g. Probably medieval, possibly Roman.
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 13th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-B7BF2A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver medieval bar-mount. It consists of a D-section bar which flares towards a central circular lobe with large circular perforation. The narrower ends of the bar each have a small circular lobe pierced to take a rivet; both rivets are missing. Each half of the bar is divided from the central and terminal lobes by transverse ridges. The reverse of the bar is flat, but each lobe has a hollowed reverse. Dimensions: It is 22mm long, and 6mm wide and 1mm thick at the central lobe. It weighs 0.53g. Discussion: Bar-mounts of this type are very common in the medieval…
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B72619
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and upper bow of a copper-alloy Roman brooch, of Colchester derivative hinged type. The wings are tubular, bent over to enclose a copper-alloy axis bar and butted together at the back; they have a slot in the centre for the missing pin.  Decoration on the wings is hard to see, as one has lost its end and the other has corrosion bubbles, but may have a transverse broad groove or flute towards the end. This wing is 12mm long, and 4mm in diameter as it leaves the bow, tapering to perhaps 2mm diameter at the end. The bow is similarly small and …
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B69527
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of 11th-century date, now very worn and missing its apex. It is sub-triangular and flat, with curved long sides and two little flat projections at each of the lower corners, where there are holes through the mount from front to back filled with iron rivets. One of the projections on either corner is to the side, the other diagonal. On the reverse, between the two diagonal projections, there is a right-angled flange bringing the maximum thickness of the copper-alloy mount to 4mm; the iron rivets increase the maximum thickness overall to 8.5mm. …
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-910152
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy openwork strap-end of late Anglo-Saxon date and Thomas class E, type 1. The attachment end is missing and some of the other edges have also gone; the breaks are old and worn. There is relief decoration on both faces, around a symmetrical pattern of rounded perforations. At the top are the remains of four perforations, two larger in the centre and two smaller, one at each side. Below this is a central larger perforation flanked by two pairs of smaller holes. There are two larger perforations below this row of five, then a row of three, all incomplete. …
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-90822E
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat trilobate form of 11th-century stirrup terminal. Cast in one piece from copper alloy, it has a rectangular-section top, open at the back and U-shaped internally to take the iron stirrup. There is a ridge across each side close to the top, but the front is flat. The front flares out from 9.6mm wide at the top, downwards to the three lobes, the central one semi-circular and the two sides lobes more pointed; the maximum width at the bottom is 20.3mm. There is no decoration on the flat front. On the reverse, two ridges run down defining the channel in which the iron stirrup woul…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8FEAA7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy 17th-century trefoil junction-attachment from a sword-belt fitting. The object is complete, cast in one piece, with two circular lobes with circular perforations and a longer drop-shaped lobe with a circular perforation at its end. Between the two circular lobes is a small pointed projection with traces of a black coating on its edges. In the centre of the object, both faces have decoration of two grooves which cross saltire-wise between the two circular lobes. 23.2mm long between longer lobe and pointed projection; 21.6mm wide between circular lobes; 3.8mm thick; 5.…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8FAD4B
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of bar and part of loop from a late medieval or early post-medieval purse, of Williams class C. The loop has lost its upper half (fresh break) and the sides converge to a narrow base. Projecting from this is a shank with moulded collar above the part that passes through the block; at the bottom of the shank is s separate conical rove. The block is rectangular, with a thick rectangular cross-section; it is decorated on one face with an eight-pointed star made from four crossing lines, each inlaid with niello. The other face may have been decorated, but is now too corroded to …
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8F8707
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat copper-alloy post-medieval mount, square with rounded corners and a little projection in the centre of each edge. White-metal coating on the front, stubs of two attachment spikes on the reverse. 16mm square, 1.7mm thick without spikes, 4.5mm with spikes. It weighs 2.0g. Similar to LANCUM-C15926 and DOR-6FD65E.
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 12th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8F5A6D
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One arm from a purse bar of Williams class J. The arm is slender, 4mm in diameter, and is bent close to the fresh break. The terminal is globular, 11mm in diameter, and decorated with oblique grooves. It is 34mm long and weighs 6.8g. Class J purses appear to date from the 16th century; three were found in the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545.
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 12th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8F2253
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy purse frame of late 15th- or 16th-century date. One rounded end survives, with a broken circular loop (worn breaks) for attachment to the bar. It is rectangular in cross-section here, but then turns an angle and gains in thickness with a groove on one side that broadens out to result in an L-shaped cross-section which runs to a fresh break. 6.4 x 5.5mm in cross-section at the break; the fragment is c. 45mm long and weighs 5.6g.
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8F06BF
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring-type post-medieval thimble. It is thin and lightweight. 0.9mm thick at the base and 0.7mm thick at the top. The base has a straight lower rim without decoration, and there is a right-hand spiral of small oval indentations running up to and then off the top. It is a maximum of 17.5mm in diameter and 8.6mm tall; it weighs 1.9g. Right-hand spirals were used in the second half of the 16th century. It is similar to IOW-1DEFBC, IOW-F4934B, WMID-085505, BH-97327D, etc.
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8EC929
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy double-loop 17th-century buckle, both loops the same. Each one is trapezoidal, flaring towards the outside edge, which is wider and decoratively shaped with a knop at each corner and a point at the pin rest. There is a grooved pin rest and a longitudinal groove on each outside edge. The bar projects slightly beyond the frame. The whole buckle is flat, just 2mm thick, and has a black coating on both front and reverse. It is slightly slanted, so when held with the bar vertical, the right-hand loop slants upwards and the left-hand loop slants downwards. 34.0mm long, maximum …
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8E3680
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Openwork terminal and part of side from a 17th-century spur. The end of the terminal is shell-shaped, semi-circular with short radial grooves running in from the edge. It has two side-by-side circular perforations, one blocked with iron corrosion and the other worn to an oval. Next to this terminal is a pair of round-ended projections, then the apex of an openwork triangle which flares to the maximum width of the object, 16.0mm. The next element is a pair of circular perforations with a dot in between and small knops at the corners. A narrow D-section (5 x 2.5mm) spur side then projec…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8E069B
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy post-medieval hooked tag of Read's class E, type 5. The lower part of the plate and the hook are missing (worn breaks). The hook is of openwork trefoil type, cast in one piece but in the form of a knot with a beaded surface to the strands. Above there are two pellets and a bar, forming an attachment loop. Width 17.6mm, surviving length 16.3mm, maximum thickness 2mm, weight 1.1g. Similar to Read 2008, no. 436.
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8DE94A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval buckle plate consisting of a single copper-alloy sheet. Originally rectangular, with five rivets arranged in a quincunx (one at each corner and one in the centre), it is now broken on all sides but one. Stubs of both of the hinge loops survive, with a line of interrupted rocker-arm engraving (a double line of triangular punchmarks) dividing the hinge loops from the rest of the plate. Traces of gilding can be seen here. There also seems to be a row of similar punchmarks or engraving along the best-preserved edge, at the bottom when held with the hinge loops to the l…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8D6673
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy flat disc brooch of Kershaw's East Anglian Series, late 9th or 10th century. A little less than half of the brooch survives, with half of the central recessed circle, within a double-strand lozenge whose corners are extended into loose double-strand knots. The decoration is corroded and worn. On the reverse is a lug parallel to the edge (perpendicular to the line of the pin); this is shaped like a thorn, with one edge vertical and the other sloping, then both curling over to a point. It is probably the catchplate rather than the pin lug. This is a small e…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8D38FA
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy hollow openwork biconical button of early post-medieval date, cast in one piece. When viewed from the front it is hexagonal, with a pellet at the centre and six triangular perforations. There is a groove between each of the perforations, all radiating from the centre. The back has six triangular depressions, three perforated but three not. In the centre is a flaring round-ended lug with a circular perforation at the wider end. 17.1mm long, 16.4mm wide between straight sides and 16.8mm between angles, 2.2g. Similar to SF-B423BC and BH-FB8D50, and Read (2005) no. …
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8CCFAE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy relief-decorated fragment cast in one piece, probably from an early Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch. One end is narrower and thicker, circular in shape (13mm diameter) and D-shaped in cross-section with a flat reverse. The object then flares and flattens to an oval area 3.6mm thick, with relief Style I decoration, now very worn, depicting a human face. Two pellet eyes can be seen within grooved rings. Above them is a ridged brow which continues between the eyes as a narrow ridge, then flares out into a wide rectangular nose. To either end of the nose is an upward-curl…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8C4C7D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large and heavy cast copper-alloy Roman brooch, of Hod Hill type. It is missing the head (patinated but not worn break) and some of the catchplate but is otherwise complete. The surviving part of the bow consists of a rectangular panel 23mm long, which tapers slightly downwards from 14mm wide at the top to 10.5mm wide at the bottom. It is decorated with a central vertical line and at least five horizontal or slightly sloping lines to either side (the slope is in a variety of directions). These lines are inlaid in places with a shiny grey material, either decomposed niello or silv…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-79B0CD
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete gold pendant of 7th-century date. Probably originally mushroom-shaped or pelta-shaped, about two-thirds now survives; the missing third includes the suspension loop. It consists of a thin flat backplate with beaded wires soldered to it. The original edge has a very worn beaded wire, and the centre point is marked by a loose anti-clockwise spiral beaded wire. This is flanked by a pair of lines making an inverted V shape; each line is made up of a thicker central beaded wire leading from the border wire andsurrounded by a long U of thinner beaded wi…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-77C603
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, 25mm in diameter. The base is flat and the sides curve; the whorl is low, just 7mm thick. The central hole is large, a neat circle 12mm in diameter at the base tapering to a more irregular hole 11mm at most at the top. It weighs 24.22g. Lead spindle whorls seem to have been in use from the 10th to 14th centuries, c. 900-1400 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 10th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-775AAE
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete late Bronze Age socketed axehead. About half survives, now squashed flat. There is a crack down both sides, and the axe has apparently been deliberately hammered flat, although there are no visible hammer marks. The break across the centre is old and worn. It measures 30.5mm across the broken edge, and 45mm wide at most. The fragment is 49mm long and a maximum of 11mm thick, and weighs 72.37g.
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-773D34
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame of late medieval or post-medieval date, both loops D-shaped and relatively long for their width. Both outside edges have rounded upper surfaces and flat reverses, but one has a projecting square grooved pin rest. The bar extends out onto the frame as a moulding, clear at one end and barely perceptible at the other. A copper-alloy pin survives on the bar, D-shaped in cross-section and 18mm long. The buckle is 37mm long and 20mm wide, and weighs 5.37g.
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-76F6BE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy double-loop buckle of 15th- or 16th-century date. A copper-alloy pin survives on the bar; this is D-shaped in cross-section and neatly made, with a loop wrapped around the bar. Width 25mm, length of pin 20mm, surviving length of buckle 24mm, weight 3.96g.
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 10th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-76E0E5
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy and iron unidentified object. It is irregular in shape, sub-square or sub-oval; it measures about 20 x 21mm between edges, or 24 x 20mm between angles. It is a maximum of 15mm thick and weighs 28.40g. One face appears to have a copper-alloy border around square hollow in the centre filled with iron corrosion; the other face has iron corrosion all over it but with a strip of copper alloy running from one edge into the centre, and two corners of copper alloy. The sides appear to be largely copper alloy with a surface spread of iron corrosion. There cannot be much of an iron…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-747ACC
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy object, possibly an early Anglo-Saxon weight. It is an irregular oval, 15.2mm long and 10.0mm wide, and flat, tapering very slightly from 3.8mm thick at one end to 3.3mm at the other. One face is decorated with seven dots set in a cross, again slightly irregular. The other face is smoothly polished and undecorated. It weighs 2.85g. It is similar in size to an object from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site of Ozengell but now lost, thought to be a weight; another from the same site has five dots perhaps corresponding to a weight-standard of 2 tremisses (Scull 1990, f…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-68D48B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval copper-alloy buckle frame and integral plate. The plate flares from the break, and the incomplete frame continues this line before turning a right angle to form a basically rectangular shape. Less than half of the outside edge now survives. The internal length is 9mm and the original external width was probably about 22mm. The plate has a large circular pin hole, 4.9mm in diameter. There is a groove made up of punchmarks or zig-zags, perhaps rocker-arm, running parallel to the edge about halfway between the pin hole and the edge. Just behind the pin hole is a…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-67C498
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper-alloy scabbard chape, originally with two similar halves which meet at a fold. It was probably cast in this shape, as the metal at the fold is c. 3mm thick, compared to about 1.8mm thick elsewhere. The best-surviving half is trapezoidal, flaring from 17.3mm wide at the fold to a maximum of 20.1mm at the broken top. Both faces have a ridge up either side, and this face is decorated with horizontal ridges within this border. There is a U-shaped cut-out in the upper edge. The other face is less complete, but there are traces of a diagonal groove across fr…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-677D7C
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Four pieces of casting waste, all solid, green and smoothly rounded droplets. All approximately the same size, at 15.7g, 14.5g, 9.3g and 7.3g. Total weight 46.8g.
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-673677
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy bow from a key. Half of an oval frame survives, circular in cross-section at one break (5mm diameter) and oval at the other (5.5 x 6.1mm) where the stem of the key is likely to have joined. Both breaks are worn. About halfway between the breaks there are two mouldings, perhaps representing an animal's head; one that swells out gently before ending in a sharp brow, the other angling steeply upwards to form a pointed muzzle or beak. The circular-section frame continues on the line of a lower jaw. It measures 25mm across the breaks, which may be the original leng…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-66EF91
Object type: STAPLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy staple, perhaps of medieval date, made from sheet 1.1mm thick. It is 24.6mm long, one edge slightly outcurving and the other angled out near one end. It is 6.4mm wide at most. Either pointed end is bent down at right angles, and the maximum thickness is 6mm. It weighs 0.9g. Two similar examples were found in contexts of 1100-1400 in Norwich, but they are so simple in design that they may also have been used later. Compare NMS-0402C2, NLM-74496B, etc.
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-66B72E
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very corroded copper-alloy 13th- or 14th-century horse-harness pendant. It has a circular centre with six rounded knops around the circumference. The upper one ends in a long projection which is pierced from side to side, but now broken; half of the loop is missing. The lower knop is perforated from front to back. Gilding survives between the knops. There was clearly some relief decoration on the front of the pendant, but little survives to help identify it. Surviving length 31.0mm, width 18.0mm, thickness in centre 3.7mm, weight 5.7g. The length of the loop suggests that this pe…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-665E0C
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy rowel from a medieval or post-medieval spur. It has six well separated oval-section points, and an off-centre circular perforation at the centre containing a little iron corrosion. It measures between 29.7mm and 31.6mm in diameter between points, and is 3.4mm thick. It weighs 4.6g. Detached rowels are difficult to date. Rowel spurs are common from the 14th century onwards.
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-6644DF
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy buckle frame, oval with partly missing central bar, late 17th or early 18th century. The frame is decorated with six raised rectangular panels, with D-section ribbed areas in between. There is a rectangular panel at either end of the bar, and the other four are spaced evenly between. The frame is very slightly curved on the underside. The bar appears to be a slender iron rod passing through drilled holes. It retains a copper-alloy tube on part of this, probably one hinge loop from a small plate. Just over half the bar is now missing. 22mm long and 19.8mm wide, 3.8mm …
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-66196F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame, both loops oval and with pin rests expanded to accommodate a relief rosette. The bar and one rosette are iron-stained; the bar projects beyond the frame. It is 40mm long and 23mm wide, and weighs 5.4g. Similar to Whitehead (2003) nos. 407 and 408, which Whitehead dates to the late 16th or early 17th century.
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-6605D9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy trapezoidal buckle frame with surviving pin, dating to the 15th or early 16th century. The frame is 24.6mm wide at the bar, flaring to 29.9mm wide at the outside edge. The corners are rounded here and 5.2mm thick; the outside edge in between is pushed in and slightly twisted back to flatten the outside edge and give an elegant incurve. Here the frame is polished smooth, although there are hints of transverse groove decoration in the centre. The top and bottom edges are decorated with curved grooves made up of punchmarks. The frame is 24.2mm long and the metal is a dark gr…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-65B84B
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small lead spindle-whorl of early-medieval or medieval date. It is circular, 21mm in diameter and plano-convex with a flat base and sides sloping to a maximum height of 8mm. It has been damaged on one side. The central perforation tapers from 9.6 x 10.7mm at the base to 9mm diameter at the top. It weighs 14.9g. Lead spindle whorls seem to have been in use from the 10th to 14th centuries, c. 900-1400 AD.
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-65A688
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small lead spindle whorl, sub-circular and plano-convex. It has been damaged on one side, but the original diameter must have been c. 20mm and the base flat, with sloping sides rising to an overall thickness of up to 7.5mm. The central circular perforation tapers from c. 10mm diameter at the base, to c. 7mm diameter at the top. It weighs 10.7g. Lead spindle whorls seem to have been in use from the 10th to 14th centuries, c. 900-1400 AD.
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-65113A
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy purse bar and loop, with fragment of frame, of late medieval or early post-medieval date. The loop is an inverted drop shape, D-shaped in cross-section with flat interior and curved exterior. It is cast in one with a circular-section shank which is narrowed to pass through the block, and then has a thick circular-section rove attached to the base. The rove has traces of a black coating, but the rest of the loop and shank are a mid green colour. Length of loop and shank 49.1mm, width of loop 16.9mm, thickness at base of loop 5.5mm. The bar has a rounded central block,…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-27C878
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, now incomplete (worn breaks), together with the copper-alloy pin. One loop and a stub of the other survives. Both were oval with a white-metal coating on all sides. The surviving loop is D-shaped in cross-section, flaring slightly to the outside edge which is 4.3mm wide and 2.6mm thick. The whole frame is 22.5mm wide and 19.2mm long including the bar. The pin survives in place on the bar. It is D-shaped in cross-section and 17.8mm long, with a large loop bringing its thickness to 6.3mm. Survi…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 6th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-27A3DD
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring of medieval or early post-medieval date. It is oval, 24.4 x 27.6mm, probably originally hexagonal in cross-section but is now worn. It is bent slightly about its narrower axis. Maximum thickness 3.3mm, weight 4.8g.
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 13th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-278D72
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two pieces of copper-alloy casting waste. Both are blobby droplets; one weighs 7.3g and is green with a smooth surface, the other weighs 10.6g and is grey-green, shiny in places and with a wrinkled surface implying shrinkage on cooling. Total weight 18.0g; undatable.
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 6th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-275F3D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded copper-alloy object which could be an unusual buckle plate. It consists of an oval frame, 14.5mm wide and longer than it is wide. It has a circular rivet hole at the outside edge; the frame is shaped around this hole both internally and externally. At the opposite edge of the frame is another hole, and again the interior of the frame is shaped around it. On the exterior here there are two projections which form small round-ended lugs, bringing the total length of the object to 25.3mm and the thickness to 4.5mm. The lugs are both pierced from side to side but the holes are now b…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-26E97D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy unidentified object. It is flat and basically triangular, with two original edges joining at a right angle. The third edge is irregular and most of it is probably broken. The right angle is rounded, and decorated on one face with a stamped circle right at the tip flanked by two others; all three circles are off the object to some extent. Behind and between is a groove which runs to the centre of the irregular edge; its base is polished, as if by wear. There is a hint of a low ridge along both the original edges, and this extends a little beyond the broken edge at one corn…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-26ADB5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late medieval or early post-medieval copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame. Part of one loop and a tiny stub of the other loop and the bar survive; breaks are unworn. The surviving loop is oval, with slender side surviving which is just 2mm wide and 3mm thick. The side curves to the shorter bar, which does not project beyond the frame. The centre of the outside edge is expanded to a point, but wear makes it hard to reconstruct the details. There appears to be a groove between the line of the frame and the projecting point, retaining traces of gilding. Beyond this there may…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-266757
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy ring of medieval or early post-medieval date. It is hexagonal in cross-section, with the angle surviving sharp on the exterior but rubbed smooth in places on the interior. It is 26.5mm in diameter around most of its circumference, but in two places (not quite opposite each other) the exterior is flattened as if the casting of several rings was done together and they were broken or cut apart here. Thickness 3.0mm, weight 5.6g.
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 6th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-264D75
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy composite buckle of 14th- or early 15th-century date. A tiny stub of one side of the frame survives, of slender proportions. The bar is constricted to take the pin, and the fragment is broken across this constriction, so about half the width (or a little more) survives. The constriction steps out in two steps to the forked spacer, one arm of which survives. This has traces of a shiny solder on both faces, and the very tip of the arm has broken off (unworn break). The surviving length is 40.5mm, and from the far side of the bar to the end of the spacer is 36mm.…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 6th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-261BB2
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Solid cast copper-alloy leg from a vessel. It is D-shaped in cross-section with a flat reverse, and has a ridge across it a little over halfway down. Above the ridge the leg has a central ridge flanked by two grooves and two further ridges, making three parallel ribs; below, the foot flares and thickens, and consists of five ribs. The top of the leg is broken straight across and the break is fairly worn. The base of the foot is slightly rounded and slanted, so that the leg would flare out from the vessel, and the reverse is flat. It is 48mm long, 18.6mm wide and 8.6mm thick at th…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 6th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-25C9FB
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Standing conical lead weight, probably of medieval or early post-medieval date. The base is circular, 16-16.5mm in diameter, and flat but slightly slanting so that the weight does not stand perfectly upright. The sides taper to a rectangular cross-section, approximately 12 x 5mm where there is a circular perforation 3.5mm in diameter. This runs between the larger faces; the sides each have a small groove at the level of the bottom of the perforation. The top of the weight has rounded corners. It is 36mm tall and weighs 47.1g. Similar in shape and proportion to KENT-453AC2 and SUS…
Created on: Friday 6th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 6th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-12AB41
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy medieval mount in the form of a crowned head. The crown is very schematic, consisting of a large central lobe with a pair of flanking projections on each side. The face is equally stylised, with oval eyes with a groove across each, a three-dimensional pointed nose, and a horizontal groove for the mouth. There is a clear rivet hole in the centre of the forehead, across the junction between face and crown, blocked with hard corrosion; it is difficult to see on the concave reverse. 16mm long, 12mm wide, 4mm thick, 1.53g. Similar to NMS-971F06.
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-127DF6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Standing weight made from lead, probably of medieval or early post-medieval date. It has a circular base, roughly made and concave, 17-18mm in diameter. Straight sides then rise to a step about halfway up, above which the weight has a flattened rectangular cross-section 14mm wide at the top. This is pierced with a circular hole 4.5mm in diameter. Total height 28mm. Weight 40.55g. Similar to DEV-929808, NARC-B33227, SUSS-3E99D3 and IOW-85E6A2.
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-10D7DC
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap-slide of medieval date. It consists of a D-shaped frame which is also D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat interior and bevelled edges externally. There is a small circular rivet hole in the centre of the straighter edge, which is in fact slightly bent about the centre. This bar is 15mm long and the whole object is a maximum of 16mm wide; it is 15mm long and 3mm thick, and weighs 1.43g. Similar to HAMP-6DA702 and BH-FDCB55.
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-10B386
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy double-loop buckle frame of late medieval or early post-medieval date. Both loops are oval internally, and the top and bottom edges are almost straight; one is neatly perpendicular to the bar, but the other is at an angle and is very square in cross-section, suggesting that here another casting has been cut off. The outside edges are curved and bevelled on the front, and the entire buckle is flat on the reverse. It is 36mm long and a maximum of 30mm wide; it weighs 7.79g. Similar to Whitehead 2005, no. 317; Whitehead comments that the straight edges are due to cuttin…
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1090EB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of outside edge from a copper-alloy rectangular double-loop buckle frame of late-medieval or early post-medieval date. It is flat and rectangular, broken at both ends; it is 47mm in surviving length and 7mm wide. It is decorated on one face with an engraved border, within which is an engraved zig-zag with two short dashes (like an equals sign) in each angle. One cut-off corner survives. The fragment weighs 5.11g. The whole buckle can be reconstructed as WILT-A428F6.
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-0FF802
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy buckle frame of 'locking' type, originally used with a pin and swivelling arm, both now missing. These buckles date to the late 15th and 16th century. The frame is rectangular, with tall top and bottom edges curved over a large circular perforation which would originally have held the swivelling arm. Each of these curves is notched just in front of the perforation, which is set towards the inside edge of the frame, where the strap would have been fixed. . The outside edge is L-shaped in cross-section, with a flat outer flange; it has a grooved pin rest on its thicker part…
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 4th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-0FC221
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual form of late 17th-century copper-alloy buckle, probably from a shoe. The frame is rectangular with incurved outside edges and slightly outcurved top and bottom edges. At the centre of each top and bottom edge (the long edges) there is a low ridged ring around a flat-topped circular boss. There is a separate iron bar, which retains a small triangular plate which has lost its apex, and a pin which tapers strongly to a point. The entire object is strongly curved to fit around the foot. It is 24mm long and 20mm wide at the bar., and the curve takes the overall thickness to 6mm. It…
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0F9219
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap-slide, now bent. It is nearly rectangular, with the bar measuring 20.5mm wide and other long edge 23mm, and shorter sides 16mm long externally. There is a pair of internal projections close to the bar; the other long edge has a small knop at each corner and a larger central knop, which is oval or sub-rectangular and which brings the overall length to 18mm and the thickness to 4mm. Otherwise the object is quite thin, in most places less than a millimetre thick. Strap-slides were used for holding down the free end of a strap. This one is similar to several found …
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-FA5517
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, of Williams type A. The central block survives together with part of one arm, cast in one piece. The central block is rectangular, about 19.5mm long and 17mm high, with the lower corners slightly rounded; any decoration is difficult to see, but there is a small shiny raised patch on one face which looks like decomposed niello. It has a circular-section hole running from top to bottom, now blocked with iron corrosion. There is a rectangular strip of iron staining on one face, with a thin ridge of iron down the cen…
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 10th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-F974C9
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Solid copper-alloy button of early post-medieval date. Cast in one piece, the front is circular, 13.5mm in diameter, and plano-convex. It is decorated with a beaded border around a relief design of a central pellet and eight radial ridges, each curving left (anti-clockwise) to a rounded end. The flat back has a projecting lug which flares slightly away from the head of the button, and has a rounded end; there is a circular hole through the centre rather than the end of this lug, 2.2mm in diameter. It is a total of 14.7mm thick and weighs 3.7g. Similar to BH-B5BE24.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-F81CE5
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring of late medieval or early post-medieval date. It has a hexagonal cross-section, with flat faces on the front and back, and angles (in some places rounded off) on the inside and outside. On two places on the outside edge there are slightly raised marks from where a series of these rings was cast together and then broken apart. Each of these scars is c. 9mm long. As filemarks survive in many places elsewhere on the ring, it is odd that the casting marks have not been cleaned off. The ring measures 36.8mm in diameter between the casting scars, and 36.5mm perpe…
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-F7EE4A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy composite buckle, of 14th- or early 15th-century date. Cast in one piece, part of the frame and most of the forked spacer survive, together with the loop of a copper-alloy pin still in place on the bar. Not enough of the frame survives to reconstruct its shape; the breaks are worn, and the stubs bring the maximum width of the object up to 18.7mm. The bar is relatively chunky, and this area of the buckle is 15.7mm wide and 3.4mm thick. There is a central constriction around which the pin loop is wrapped. The spacer is slightly flatter and there are traces …
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-F7B35C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy brooch of late early-medieval date, of Kershaw's East Anglian Series. It was originally flat and circular, but now all of the edges are missing and the brooch is corroded. The relief decoration is unworn, and consists of a central double-strand concave-sided lozenge, with a central sunken circle; each corner is extended to form double-strand interlace of loose knots which wrap underneath the lozenge's corners. On the reverse is an incomplete transverse pin lug, broken across the perforation, and a stub of catchplate. The surviving diameter parallel to thes…
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-E7BBAE
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post-medieval silver head-dress pin, often called a bodkin. The shaft survives, a flattened hexagon in cross-section, tapering gently to a point; it is now bent. The pin is broken across the rectangular perforation, of which only a little survives (unworn break). The pin is decorated with engraving on its two main faces. Each has a pair of transverse grooves across the end of the perforation, then below this a star or sun made up of a reserved circular area in the centre with four bold grooves radiating to form a cross, and slimmer shorter radial grooves fillin…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 13th October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9408B9
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a copper-alloy wrist-clasp of early Anglo-Saxon date, probably of Hines Form B19. It consists of a cast rectangular plate, one face undecorated but with a thick white-metal coating, and the other face with relief decoration. One short edge is broken (worn break) and the other has a circular sewing hole 2.5mm in diameter. No hook or catch survives. The decorated face has a bold flat-topped ridge running down its long axis, about a third of the way in; there are faint traces of fine grooves across the ridge. The narrower space to one side (the front edge) is undecorated. Th…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-932C79
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead papal bulla, now worn, damaged and distorted. It is circular, c. 38mm in diameter, and 5.2mm thick. It weighs 54.1g. There is no obvious cord hole and the die-axis is about 1o'clock (see below for Tim Pestell's comment on the die-axis). The obverse has relief lettering that is now very difficult to read. The letters GRE can just be seen at the top, then GOR on the second line, then PP on the third. The issuing pope was therefore one of the Gregorys. The reverse is much clearer. It has a beaded border, and within are the letters SPA SPE at the top; the S has a crossbar a…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 22nd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9244DE
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of post-medieval copper-alloy sword-belt fitting, a relief-decorated mount with suspension loop. The mount is flat and sub-rectangular, with the complete end shaped into a double incurve and the object then tapering and flaring to a wide rounded area after which it is broken (unworn break). On one side, the narrowest part accommodates a rounded lug which is pierced by a circular suspension hole 6.5mm in diameter. This lug flares in thickness away from the plate to a maximum of 3.3mm. It is decorated with a narrow reserved border around a slightly sunken central panel fil…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-91D1FD
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified form of strap-fitting, perhaps a strap-end or possibly a buckle plate. It is rectangular, made from an undecorated piece of copper-alloy sheet folded in half, with a wide gap at the fold taking the maximum width to 4.2mm. It is 21mm long and 8.8mm wide, and the open end has a relatively neat copper-alloy rivet which travels through both sheets and then ends in a separate sub-square rove. In the centre of the object is a second copper-alloy rivet, less neat and with no rove. At the folded end there is some iron corrosion which may come from a third rivet, or which may…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-91735C
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small book clasp of Howsam type A.8.1. It is made from a single piece of undecorated copper-alloy sheet folded in half. The open end is 13.6mm wide, and it then tapers to 12.4mm wide before the corners at the fold are trimmed to form a rectangular projection. This has a wide gap at the fold taking the thickness to 4mm and providing the side-to-side perforation common to type A book clasps. The attachment end is secured by a single rather clumsy copper-alloy rivet, and between this and the fold is a central circular perforation 2.8mm in diameter. The total length is 21.3mm and it weig…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8F767D
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 are oval. The pin is missing but there is iron staining on the bar, suggesting that the pin was of iron. The buckle is 22mm long, 17mm wide, 2.2mm thick at most and weighs 1.8g. Similar to SUR-7A0783.
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8F6178
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One loop from a tiny little late medieval or early post-medieval copper-alloy double-loop buckle, with constriction for the pin and a separate sheet roller. The second loop survives only as short stubs but the copper-alloy pin is still in place on the bar, between expanded stops that prevent the sideways movement of the pin. The pin is 11mm long, D-shaped in cross-section and neatly but simply made with an unclosed loop. The surviving loop is rectangular at the outside edge, but curves in to a shorter bar. The outside edge is 16.6mm wide and accommodates a sheet roller 8.6mm long…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8F0426
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper-alloy buckle frame with ornate outside edge. The oval frame is small, thin and flimsy, and missing most of its offset bar (fresh breaks). The outside edge is extended into a flattish rectangular area, convex on the upper face and decorated with transverse ribbing consisting of seven grooves and eight ridges. It measures 19.8mm in surviving width and 16.8mm in length, and the outside edge is 5.5mm wide and 2.7mm thick. It weighs 1.7g. It is fairly close to an example found in a context of 1270-1350 in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 294) and to WILT…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-8ED2C6
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy hooked tag of early post-medieval date. The plate is circular, 14.2mm in diameter and slightly convex. It has relief decoration of a rose, made up of a central boss in the shape of a flower, and two concentric rings of small relief C-shapes representing five double petals in each ring; all is within a finely beaded border. The loop above is trapezoidal; the hook below is now straightened and has lost its tip (worn break). Both loop and hook are trapezoidal in cross-section. Total length 33.7mm, width of loop 13.1mm, thickness of plate 3.1mm, weight 2.5g. Similar to, …
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-65AB83
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Tiny partly gilded silver insect brooch of Roman date. The brooch is flat and sub-triangular, and represents an insect (perhaps a fly or cicada) seen from above. The apex is shaped into a three-dimensional head, globular with a slightly raised large circular eye to either side. The triangular space between the eyes is gilded but the eyes are apparently not. Behind the head is a ridged collar, and then the wings and body form the rest of the triangle. Each wing is flat and triangular, the apex towards the head; the wings are gilded and covered with rows of dots which follo…
Created on: Wednesday 26th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 15th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-51E974
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chunky cast copper-alloy object of unknown date and function. It is largely rectangular, 35mm long and 24mm wide at the best-preserved short end. One long edge is 9mm thick, neatly right-angled and appears original. One face curves slightly from this long edge to the other, and the other curves much more strongly so that the whole object tapers in side view to a thin edge along the other long side. This may also be an original edge, or may be broken but worn; one corner is certainly damaged but very worn. Across the centre of the object, between the long edges, runs a 9mm wide ba…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D42B2D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy zoomorphic unidentified object in the shape of an animal head, perhaps a dog. The animal's head is at the end of a tapering conical socket, now slightly distorted but originally c. 14mm in diameter, with a single circular rivet or nail hole in one side (the right when the animal head is in front). The socket is 12mm deep and the rest of the shaft is solid, a total of c. 37mm long and tapering to 10mm in diameter. The tapering shaft forms the neck of the animal and the object then flares out to form the head. This is well modelled and naturalistic, with long conical s…
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 24th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-BCCD84
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy dropped-bar terret of early Roman date, c. 50-150 AD (Lewis 2015, 76, 84, fig. 4.1 xix). It consists of a main ring and an attachment loop, with a small knob at the apex of the main ring. The main ring is oval both externally and internally, and is oval in cross-section. It is bottom-heavy, so is wider and thicker in cross-section towards the base (the junction with the attachment loop). It has a maximum thickness of 11mm at the base but is 8mm thick at the top; the internal dimensions are 17 x 14mm and it is 34mm wide externally. At the top it has a ci…
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-BB9D8E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy brooch of back-turned animal type, Weetch type 1, dating to the 10th century. It is now bent, but otherwise in relatively good unworn condition, albeit with the rough green-brown corroded surface most of these brooches share. Around the edge is a narrow undecorated rim, then a ring of probably 28 rectangular or trapezoidal pellets or bosses (perhaps two are obscured by the bend). Within this is the animal in relief, seen in profile facing left with its head turned backwards. The head is trapezoidal, with an open mouth but no added eye and no obvious ear; it …
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-BB42DC
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat circular 13th-century lead seal matrix. The central motif is a hammer and tongs; on the impression, the hammer is longer and on the left, the head with one blunt and one pointed end. There is a dot between the two tools. The tongs are shown by two curved intersecting lines, longer and straighter for the handles and shorter and more strongly curved for the gripping arms. There is another dot between the gripping arms. The motif is enclosed in a plain circular groove with the inscription outside reading + S'. WILL'I FABRI. FIL'. ADE. (Seal of William Faber son of Adam). The le…
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-AC26F4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy zoomorphic or horse-head terminal from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch of Martin's type 3, late 5th or early 6th century AD. It is broken just above three moulded ridges that separate it from the rest of the foot (worn break). There is a short transversely rounded brow beneath these mouldings, then the head becomes more trapezoidal in cross-section and here the large pellet eyes are set, right on the edge of the brooch. Below these the nose flattens and softens to become more rounded again in cross-section, although this may be the result of wear. The nose tapers an…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-ABAE64
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy annular brooch of 13th- or 14th-century date, now very worn. The frame is sub-circular or sub-hexagonal, 24mm between corners and 22mm between edges, originally set with two stones at opposite corners. The cells for the settings are circular and both have traces of white adhesive or cement; the base of one has worn so much that it has perforated through to the reverse. These cells are not raised above the frame but rather sunk into it, so are not really collets. There is a constriction on which the pin would have swivelled, exactly halfway between the settings. The r…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-AB4F59
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Solid copper-alloy button of 15th- or 16th-century date. The head is circular, 12mm in diameter and 8.5mm thick, and biconvex or flattened globular. There is no decoration and there is no sharp carination between front and back; the whole of the button is softly rounded. In the centre of the back is a loop, cast in one piece with the head; this is drop-shaped, circular in cross-section and with a drop-shaped perforation. Total length 17mm, weight 5.9g. Compare SF7798, LVPL-C7AF45 and DOR-82351E.
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 17th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-AB2265
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval scabbard chape. It is made from a single piece of copper alloy folded in half; each half is identical, or nearly so. The fold is 13mm wide and the chape then flares out to 22mm wide. Here there is a straight edge across, forming a trapezoidal shape, with one half having a circular cut-out close to this edge with decorative notches to either side, and the other half having a similar cut-out but this time breaking the edge. The line of the flaring sides then continues up on one side to form a pair of arms; the complete one has a rounded end, pierced but the hole now b…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Sunday 10th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AAD5B3
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy and iron stirrup-strap mount of 11th-century date, now worn. It is basically pentagonal and largely flat, with a rounded apex below which are two small rounded projections. The apex is pierced with a circular hole. The mount then has straight edges flaring to its widest point, 28mm wide; below this are short incurves making a waist, with a small sideways projection at the bottom. Below this are straight edges slightly tapering to a base which is 25mm wide. On the reverse, the straight base turns a right angle to form a flange which is probably not full-width, but detail h…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-AAA531
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete vessel leg from a cast copper-alloy ewer or possibly a cooking vessel, either made separately from the rest of the vessel and soldered on, or a repair. The leg is a tall D shape in cross-section, flat on the reverse and curved at the front, and tapers from 17mm wide and 18mm thick at the top to 11.5mm wide and 14.5mm thick close to the bottom. Here it turns a sharp angle and continues to taper, forming a foot with a flat base and a rounded toe. The foot is 22mm long. At the top of the leg there is a small sub-circular area of vessel wall cast in one with the leg. This is cove…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AA4DA3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy mount or strap-end with bar-mount attached, probably for use with a strap-clasp. It is made from a piece of sheet, probably originally of 'shield-shaped' form with one curving end, one straight end and a narrowed central waist; it is now broken on most edges with just a scrap of semi-circular cut-out on one side. It has two copper-alloy rivets, one at each end; at the straight end, the rivet retains a bar-mount made from thicker copper-alloy sheet curved in cross-section. This has a small rectangular notch cut out of the centre of one long edge, on the rear side. Survivin…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 17th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-53DDDE
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy strap-end of 14th-century date, made from two pieces of sheet. Both are cut into an almost-rectangular shape, 10.5mm wide at the attachment end (which is bent and incomplete) and tapering to 9mm wide at the other end, just before it sharply tapers and then ends in a long flat pointed terminal. The total surviving length is 30mm. There is a separate copper-alloy rivet joining the two sheets at the closed end, and there was probably a second rivet at the open end but this area is now missing. It weighs 1.84g. Similar to Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 696 and 698. …
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 17th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-535838
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle-whorl of early-medieval or medieval date. It is circular, 20mm in diameter, and only 7mm thick, with slightly curving sides. The central perforation is relatively large, 11mm in diameter at the top and 12mm at the flat base, where there is a slight groove around the perforation. It weighs 11.57g.
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 13th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-5326CB
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams class A, type 11C, of 11th-century date, now corroded and worn. It is triangular, with slightly outcurved sides and a rounded apex pierced with a circular hole; below the apex, in line with the hole, are a pair of tiny projections, one to either side. The whole of the rest of the mount is taken up with a sunken panel within a raised border which is the same width all around the mount. Within is relief ornament, which is blurred, but which can be seen to be a lion in profile facing left, with head raised and mouth open. The nose is …
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 22nd September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-424F53
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small cast copper-alloy leg from a cooking vessel of medieval or post-medieval date. It is triangular in cross-section, 17mm wide and 11mm thick at the break, flaring to 19 x 15mm wide at the base. The edges and arrises are all rounded and the flat base is set at an angle; there are traces of sooting. It is 24mm long and weighs 25.95g.
Created on: Wednesday 12th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-423493
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy loop from a late medieval or early post-medieval purse. It is small, rounded at the top and rectilinear at the bottom, only 10.5mm wide but 7mm thick from front to back. In cross-section the loop is a long thin biconvex shape. At the base of the loop a shank projects, with a thickened collar at the top; it ends in a spike rather than a rove. The surface is corroded and rough. The total length is 31mm and it weighs 4.42g. This form of loop was used on many different classes of purse.
Created on: Wednesday 12th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-41CDAF
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy and iron object, probably a Roman furniture knob. The copper-alloy part is spherical, 15.5mm in diameter, and now smooth and featureless. The surface is a corroded brown with patches of bright green. From one edge projects a mass of corroded iron, probably a means of fixing it to the furniture. This brings the total length up to 21.5mm. It weighs 11.24g.
Created on: Wednesday 12th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-4174BD
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of circular lead bridle boss with relief decoration. Originally c. 80mm in diameter, less than a quarter of it survives. The flat rim is about 10mm wide, at an angle to the centre, and is decorated with a group of four pellets within an oval border, separated from two other similar motifs by groups of three radial ridges. Within this, the base of what is probably the domed centre is a zone of about the same width which is decorated with closely spaced radial ridges, outside a ring of pellets, and then inside there are similar ridges but at an angle, not neatly radial. On the …
Created on: Wednesday 12th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-407B4D
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a handle lug from a medieval or post-medieval copper-alloy cooking vessel, circular in cross-section. About half survives, running from one end which is wider (a maximum of 22mm across) and whose very end retains the very smooth interior surface of the vessel; this is at right angles to the edges of the lug. It then has a faint hint of a circumferential moulding, and tapers to 17mm diameter. At the other end, it is broken across the corner, which appears to have been angled. The break is worn and sooted; there is sooting on all surfaces, apparently including the scrap of inter…
Created on: Wednesday 12th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 13th July 2021
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