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Record ID: NMS-E39636
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron strip, perhaps the blade from a knife. It is 120mm long and one end is encased in delaminating corrosion. Away from this end, it is generally around 19mm wide, with one edge straight and 3mm thick, tapering to the other edge which may represent the cutting edge. The end without the corrosion layers has the cutting edge curving up to meet the back of the blade in a rounded point. The corroded end is broken and has no evidence of a whittle tang. The strip is now bent at a slight angle about halfway along its length. It weighs 45.0g. The identification as a knife is very t…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-E36935
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neatly circular iron ring, 51.5mm in diameter. In cross-section it is circular, 8mm in diameter. It weighs 31.8g. The ring was found close to several early Anglo-Saxon objects and is likely also to be of that date. It may have been used as a suspension ring.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D2C402
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
About half of the flat circular frame of an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy annular brooch, with an original diameter of c. 40mm. One break is across a neat rounded hole in the frame. This may be the pin hole, but on the reverse there is solder around the hole and it may possibly alternatively be a repair. There is also some iron corrosion on the reverse here, which could be from the pin. The frame is otherwise well preserved here, and at 6.1mm wide appears to retain its original width. The inner edge is 1.2mm thick and it tapers towards the outer edge which is 0.6mm thick. Th…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D16462
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy, probably a small piece of foot from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The fragment is C-shaped in cross-section, hollow on the reverse, and is broken at both ends (one break fairly fresh and granular, the other more worn). At one end, the front has a bold moulding, 4-5mm deep and flat-topped, which is divided into two by an off-centre transverse groove. The overall surviving length is 21.1mm, maximum width 12.8mm and maximum thickness (at moulding) 6.0mm. It weighs 4.93g. It seems likely that this is one of the mouldings at the top of a horse's …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D0E282
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and bow from an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch. The flat, apparently undecorated headplate has a sub-rectangular central panel with three flat 'knobs', all of which appear to have been mushroom-shaped, or D-shaped above narrowed waists. This shape of headplate is often known as 'trefoil'. On the reverse of the headplate is a broken pin bar lug (worn breaks) with iron staining around it. All the edges of the headplate are worn. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section, quite highly arched and simple, with a groove across the top the onl…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D0BB0C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and bow from an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch. The flat headplate is very worn and its original shape is uncertain, but it has the remains of deep U-shaped cut-outs in both its lower edge and its upper corners, forming three knobs. These may have had straight ends, as the top and one side knob each retain a straight row of crescentic stamps along their edges. On the reverse of the headplate is a large double pin bar lug, one lug incomplete and the other retaining part of an iron pin bar. There is extensive iron corrosion between the two lugs.  The bow…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D07466
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch, now in two joining parts. The head is of the 'cross potent' type, with a flat rectangular central panel c. 13 x 18mm. This has three sub-rectangular flat 'knobs' attached by narrower waists, to form a headplate in total 32.2mm wide. The surface is corroded and some is missing, but traces of double-crescent or half ring-and-dot stamps can be seen; there is a row of five on the top knob and a similar row on one side knob, each with a trace of a single groove outside the row of stamps. On the reverse of the headpla…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D012DB
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy girdle-hanger. Using Felder's terminology (2014, 35, fig. 3.1), the fragment consists of the suspension loop, shank neck and part of shank, with a granular, unworn break. The suspension loop is a narrow, rounded lobe at the top, pierced from side to side, but the perforation is now blocked with iron corrosion. The shank neck is a D-section area below the suspension loop, divided into five rounded lobes; its junction with the shank is marked with a transverse ridge. The shank itself is rectangular-section and flares very slightly …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-CF59E4
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chunky copper-alloy bar from an early Anglo-Saxon wrist-clasp, apparently of Hines Form B10 or possibly alternatively B4. The bar is cast in one piece, with three cuboidal elements, one in the centre and one at either end. These are linked by D-section areas, each one decorated with two broad U-section transverse grooves or flutes, alternating with three ridges each flanked by narrow grooves. Each of the cuboidal bosses has a substantial white-metal coating, probably of tin. On the flat reverse there are two broken pierced lugs, set transversely and pierced longitudinally. Length 40.3…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-CE5E22
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B20, in very good condition. It is largely flat, and cast in one piece, with a raised, flat-topped bar, a plate with shaped rear edge, and a complete loop. The bar is c. 6mm wide and has two zones of transverse groove decoration, not perfectly evenly spaced along its length; both consist of a wider U-section groove flanked by two similar slightly narrower grooves. The rear edge of the bar has a longitudinal step intermediate in height between the bar and the rest of the plate. The rear edge of the plate is flatte…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4A0605
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded silver pyramidal mount from a sword-scabbard, probably found around 1970. It is small and low, measuring only 11.4mm square at the base and 5.9mm tall. Part of one wall, and most of the bar on the underside, are missing, with unworn granular breaks; it weighs 1.98g. The pyramid has an empty setting on the top and relief-decorated faces with gilding and possible niello decoration; it dates to the very late 6th century or early 7th century, perhaps c. 580-640 AD. The four faces each have a sunken trapezoidal panel with gilding and relief decoration. bear two design…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-09EC59
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete long silver ingot of slightly irregular shape, but with a clear rounded top and slightly flattened underside. It has one neatly rounded end, 11mm wide and 5.8mm thick. One long edge runs roughly at right angles to this end, and the other long edge flares slightly. The maximum width of 13.5mm is close to the other end, and here there is a rounded angle, with the ingot tapering steeply to meet the other long edge in a rounded point. The ingot is sub-triangular or drop-shaped in cross-section, with the long straight edge being thicker and the top then …
Created on: Thursday 31st August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-25921E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Brooch made from a coin of Ethelred II (978-1016), small cross type, now incomplete and in two pieces. The obverse is gilded, and the reverse has two patches of solder. The coin is an example of Aethelred's first small cross type, struck by the moneyer Godman, probably of London (GODMAN MO [?}LV[...], the L being obscured by a patch of solder). North 764, c.978-9. Dimensions: approximately 20mm diameter, weight 1.21g. Discussion: Brooches made from coins are Weetch's type 2.B. This is an unusual example, as it is more common for the reverse to be used as the…
Created on: Friday 21st April 2023
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-B0FF45
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Unusual partly gilded silver and niello-inlaid mount of early-medieval date, perhaps broken and repaired. It is rectangular, thick and hollowed on the reverse, and decorated in Carolingian-style relief with openwork elements. The decoration is based around a bold raised flat-topped diagonal cross or saltire dividing the square into quarters, with  a worn boss in the centre and at the end of each arm. At the end of each arm of the saltire is a low-relief leaf motif, with a sunken, lobed centre and an outcurved leaf to either side which is inlaid with a niell…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CD6871
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Terminal from the foot of an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, now very corroded and battered about. It is broken (worn break) across some transverse grooves, and on the reverse here a line of a catchplate can be seen as a very slight raised and corroded line in the otherwise smooth brown patina. Below the grooves are two broad transverse mouldings, and then comes the simple horse-head terminal. The front of this is covered in corrosion bubbles, and very little detail can be seen, but it appears to taper slightly from where the eyes would have been, then flare out again to slim point…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 13th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-4EFB15
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy object, probably a die of Pressblech type. It is 140.1mm long and straight-sided, tapering from a maximum of 32.3mm wide at one rectangular, straight-cut end to 26mm wide just above a V-shaped pointed end. The object is not completely flat, but is gently curved along its length, with a concave reverse and a convex front. Total thickness 7.3mm, weight 186.14g. The reverse is undecorated. The front is decorated with high-relief ornament which stands up to 2.3mm proud of the base. The base varies between about 4 and 5mm thick, and extends beyond the panel of ornament to…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AB4973
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap-end of early-medieval date. Although fairly solid in feel, it is now very worn and most details have been lost. It tapers from a maximum of roughly 8.4mm wide at the split end, where some pieces of the edge have been lost. One half of the split end, apparently the front, is substantially thinner than the other half; both have a single, slightly off-centre circular rivet hole. The strap-end is oval in cross-section, with the front a little more strongly curved than the reverse. No identifiable decoration survives, but there is a very slight waist just …
Created on: Friday 20th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E9DBAE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early-medieval copper-alloy disc brooch of Kershaw's East Anglian Series, type I. It is flat and circular, now missing part of the edge, but with enough surviving to give a diameter of 28.2mm. It has cast relief decoration of a central sunken circle, surrounded by a raised double-strand concave-sided lozenge, with each of the four corners extending to form a loose clockwise knot of double-strand interlace. There is a slight raised rim around the surviving edge. On the reverse are the stubs of a double lug, perpendicular to the edge of the brooch, which formed t…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D5BD87
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy 11th-century stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 14, consisting of a cross-shaped top and a flaring triangular plate. The upper arm of the cross is short and wide, and the two side arms are long and thin, the right-hand arm (as viewed from the front) being distinctly longer and thinner. There is no surviving decoration on any of the arms, but they are very worn, so decoration may have been lost and the arms may have been damaged or modified. Where they cross is a circular rivet hole 4.1mm in diameter.  The sides of the mount then flare out to for…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Saturday 28th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-75A915
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy strap-end of early-medieval date. It is rectangular, 24.4mm wide, and at 4.8mm thick, quite solid and heavy. The attachment end is much thinner (2.2mm) and now incomplete, being broken through at least two circular attachment holes. These are towards the middle of the width, and there is room for them to have been flanked by two others, making four in total. The rest of the strap-end is complete apart from a small part of one lower corner. The front steps up to the thicker area which has relief decoration of plants, probably flowers. Three stems spring dow…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-71E134
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class B,with engraved decoration. The main part of the mount is large and rectangular with straight sides, 35.9mm wide, with an obliquely angled flange. The flange runs the full width of the mount and has a central hole with iron rivet, which retains a rectangular patch of iron corrosion around it on both front and reverse. The upper part of the mount is rounded and shaped into three concave curves or scallops on either side and one at the apex, making seven in all, and giving a roughly pentagonal shape to the mount. There is a circular…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-704044
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Attachment end from a copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon openwork strap-end, 24.5mm wide. The split end is closed down one side, so was presumably made by folding a wide strip in half. It is closed by two small copper-alloy rivets, each in an upper corner. The base of the split area is perforated by three circular holes each about 4mm in diameter, and below this there is a transverse ridge on both faces; one retains a hint of a groove along its length. Below this there are worn stubs of four vertical bars, one at either side and two in the centre, dividing the main body of the strap-en…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8F4D4A
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two silver pennies of Aethelred II (978 - 1013), both so-called Second Crux type, dating to AD 991-997 and found together. Catalogue: 1) Aethelred, 2nd Crux, moneyer Leofric of Lincoln, weight 1.52g. 2) Aethelred, 2nd Crux, moneyer Leofstan of Norwich, weight 1.61g. Discussion: They surely are part of a hoard or purse loss and entered the ground at the same time. Thus they represent a case of Treasure, as groups of two or more coins of precious metal and over 300 years old at the time of finding qualify as potential Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Monday 7th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-5A6F3E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy cruciform brooch of Martin (2015) type 1, narrow in shape but large and chunky. The headplate is small, almost square and undecorated, without wings and with sharply right-angled side edges giving a rectangular cross-section 3.4mm thick. Above is a large full-round integral top knob, with a circular base decorated with a circumferential groove, a concave waist above, and then a faceted dome. This has a lower half with eight triangular facets, alternately apex-up and apex-down, and an upper half that is a square-based pyramid. On the reverse of the headplate is a singl…
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-56A0CE
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold pierced imitation coin of early-medieval date, probably early 9th century; probably intended as a pendant. Description: A gold disc, struck with a design on both faces. Each face has a beaded border, originally very neatly placed around the edge, but in places now worn to a plain ridge. Within this is an imitation inscription mainly consisting of radial raised strokes, virtually all of which have raised dots at either end.  The centre of the design consists essentially of three horizontal rows of short vertical strokes on the obverse, and five …
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-1CC76D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of copper-alloy strip, flat and rectangular in cross-section, decorated on one face with a row of small stamped annulets, c. 1mm in diameter. They are evenly spaced, about 1.5mm apart, and flanked by a shallow border groove down one edge of the strip. At one end, the strip is bent forward and broken; the other end may be original. There is damage to the surface about halfway along, suggesting further front-to back bending has taken place. The strip curves very slightly to one side (so that the grooved border is along the convex curve) but this appears to be an original featu…
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E05328
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bow of a worn copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon brooch, probably a cruciform but alternatively perhaps a small-long brooch, dating to c. 450-550 AD.  It measures 21.0mm long, weighs 5.2g, and tapers from 11.0mm in the centre to 10.0mm wide at one end and 9.2mm wide at the other. The wider end has a very short flat panel that is probably also the broken springing of the bow, and the narrower end has a longer flat panel that is decorated with three transverse grooves. In between, the body of the bow is arched so that it is 9.1mm thick. It has a flat band down the centre…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DF6845
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of the head of a small copper-alloy cruciform brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date, probably of Martin's type 2 (c. 475 to c. 550 AD). A small fragment of headplate survives, with part of a central raised panel; no decoration survives. It has an integrally cast half-round top knob, now rather worn, with a base that projects in front of the headplate and is decorated with two grooves. Above this is a broad waist, then a high, rounded dome (rather more than half round) with a groove around the bottom. On the reverse of the headplate is a single pin bar lug. The breaks are quite worn…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DF3D67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head of tiny cruciform or small-long brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date (c. 450-550 AD), made from copper alloy. The headplate is rectangular (14 x 11mm), and has a raised trapezoidal panel in the centre which flares from the top to the bottom. This panel is decorated with a vertical row of three deeply drilled dots which each have a faint ring around them. Three integrally cast knobs survive around the headplate, all half-round, narrow, tapering and undecorated. The top knob is slightly larger than the side knobs, and has a raised ridge at its junction with the headplate. The bow is bro…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A83C31
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of decorated copper-alloy sheet, probably part of a buckle plate. It is sub-square, 17.6mm wide and 15.9mm long, and made from sheet just 0.6mm thick; it weighs 0.6g. One face is decorated with about eight ring-and-dot motifs, and there is a circular rivet hole in the best-surviving corner. Roughly in the centre of the opposite side is a rectangular slot 2.2mm wide, which could be a pin slot. It is hard to know if any edge is completely original, but it is currently approximately the right size and shape to be a plate from a small early Anglo-Saxon buckle. Compare, for exam…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A5B284
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy buckle plate made from a single piece of sheet folded in half to form a sub-triangular shape, with a gap at the fold for the frame and a rectangular slot cut for the pin. The slot is 4.6mm wide, and is placed off centre; the smaller hinge loop is now broken (worn break). The plate is long, tapering from the fold and rounded at the apex where there is a single corroded iron rivet. It has a pale green surface and no decoration. Length 23.6mm, width 12.0mm, weight 1.7g. Such a simple buckle plate is difficult to date, but the lack of frame recesses may in…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A54B1C
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy ring. It is corroded, 22mm in diameter externally and 13.7mm internally, with an oval cross-section which tapers from a maximum of 4.5mm wide x 3.9mm thick to a minimum of 3.5mm wide x 3.7mm thick opposite this. It weighs 4.8g and has a grey smooth surface in patches beneath pale green hard, rough corrosion.  It appears similar in character to hanging-bowl mounts NMS-938FA7 and NMS-20B3C6, found close by, and could have come from the same bowl, but plain rings have a variety of possible uses and this is conjectural. A date in the 7th century is possibl…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A4099C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small oval copper-alloy buckle frame, probably of 7th-century date, complete with pin. The frame measures 17.8mm wide and 9.2mm long, and most of it has a circular or oval cross-section. This is thickest in the centre of the outside edge, where it brings the maximum thickness to 3.3mm. It then tapers smoothly to the top and bottom before stepping down on one face only to a much thinner oval-section bar, just 1.7mm thick. On this bar is a copper-alloy pin, one end wrapped into a tight loop and the other curved to drape neatly over the outside edge. The cross-section of the pin at the l…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A2F957
Object type: CATCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy catch from a box or bag, of 7th-century date. It is now incomplete, but would originally have been symmetrical, with a rounded lobe at either end (one now missing). The surviving rounded end is 6.4mm in diameter and flat, 1.4mm thick, pierced to take a separate copper-alloy rivet which has a large, low-domed head and circular-section shaft (total length of rivet 7.2mm). In between, the rest of the object is T-shaped in section, with a rib down the centre bringing the maximum thickness of the plate to 3.5mm. All three edges (the two sides and the top of the …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9412B2
Object type: CHAIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy figure-8 chain link with traces of iron in each link, of 7th-century date. It is apparently cast in one piece, with each half being drop-shaped and joined at the points. The cross-section is rounded, and there is iron staining at either end and, on the reverse, in the centre. Length 20.5mm, width of loops 8.1 and 7.5mm, thickness 3.0mm (without iron corrosion) to 5.1mm (with iron); weight 1.4g. Solid cast chain links in a figure-of-eight shape are known from 7th-century Anglo-Saxon chatelaines and 'workboxes', such as that from Didcot grave 12 (Boyle et al 1995, 2…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-938FA7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Openwork hook-escutcheon from an early-medieval hanging bowl. Made from cast copper alloy, it consists of the hook and a fragment of plate. The plate was originally oval in shape with a central bar. The central bar is trapezoidal in cross-section, 3.8mm wide and 3.0mm thick at the break, with median groove. It runs up straight from the unworn break to a junction with the hook and a curving outer frame. One side of this frame is almost completely missing (an older break) but the other is trapezoidal in cross-section (4.6 x 2.9mm at the break) and also has a central longi…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-2753D1
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Flat fragment of gold bracteate which has been made by hammering thin sheet gold over a die. It was originally circular, c. 39mm in diameter, but now only about a quarter of the circumference survives with edges that are a little longer than the radius. The curved edge has a short fragment of D-section plain wire frame surviving, soldered on for a short length and then bent over to the reverse; it looks as if the flat face of the wire was soldered to the edge of the disc. Inside the framing wire, the bracteate has an undecorated zone around 3-4mm wide, then a ring of punch…
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FC71D1
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chunky copper-alloy bar from a wrist-clasp of early Anglo-Saxon date. It is of the 'applied bar' type, cast in one piece. There are three square or rectangular bosses, interspersed with two areas of D-shaped section.. The bosses, one at each end and one in the centre, are all rectangular in cross-section; they decrease in thickness from one end to the other, and are also all of slightly different lengths. The two D-section areas are identical, each consisting of two broad transverse U-shaped grooves or flutes, with two narrow grooves between them and to either si…
Created on: Tuesday 26th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E85D63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete gilded silver disc brooch of  middle Anglo-Saxon date. About a quarter of the flat plate is now missing, but the surviving part includes the pin fixings, and part of the silver pin also survives. The front is gilded and has low-relief decoration now a little obscured by hard soil deposits, best described with the pin running horizontally and the missing area to bottom left. The design appears to be based on a cross, with four drop-shaped panels (at top left, top right, bottom right and the missing one at bottom left) each with its point towards the edge. T…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-372508
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Penannular finger-ring of late early-medieval date. It is made from a piece of circular-section copper alloy, maximum diameter in the centre 3mm and smoothly tapering to sharply pointed ends. This is bent into a circle, with the ends c. 12mm apart. It has a rough, green-brown patina and measures 22mm across externally and 18.7mm internally; it weighs 1.7g. Compare an example from Thetford; Goodall in Rogerson and Dallas 1984, fig. 110, nos. 17-21. They are Anglo-Scandinavian in style and date to the 10th to mid 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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