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Record ID: NMS-5DCF04
Object type: NEEDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete post-medieval silver needle or bodkin with one pointed end and one pierced end. It has a circular cross-section for most of its length, and then flattens and widens at the top to a round-cornered rectangle through which a hole has been made. The top of the hole is rounded, mirroring the top of the needle, but the lower end of the hole tapers to a point.
The needle is decorated with two sets of double grooves around the entire circumference, one near the pointed tip and one about halfway up the shaft. Just below the hole, where the shaft begins to flatt…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-EFEE71
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small flat silver book-clasp of post-medieval date. It is neatly made from thick silver sheet, rounded at both ends and with a concave waist in between. A flat turned-under hook has been broken at one end, which has shoulders curving down into the waist. There is a tiny pointed angle between the waist and the other rounded end, which is oval, slightly larger, and set transversely. This end has a hole, neatly lozengiform on the front and circular on the reverse, presumably for attachment to a strap. The hole is now filled with greenish corrosion on …
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-019E8E
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete post-medieval silver cufflink of Lewis's Form 1, Type A, consisting of two circular elements joined by a loop. The two circular elements are identical, both decorated with a crown above two hearts on a stippled background within a raised rim. Each crown has a wide curved base with four dots along it; there are two arches above, each with jagged tops, alternating with three projecting fleurs. The hearts are side by side below, and are undecorated. All three elements fit the space tightly.
The edges of the circular elements have down-turne…
Created on: Thursday 13th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1C4C6F
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post-medieval gilded silver dress hook, probably a hat-hook, with a plate in the shape of an openwork portcullis. Three sides of the central lattice survive, with five vertical bars and four horizontal bars divided by small, roughly square holes.Two of the vertical bars have an expanded, arrowhead-shaped point at one end (the base of the portcullis); there are fairly fresh scars from two missing points and a worn break where the fifth is missing. At the other end of the plate (the top of the portcullis) the outer four vertical bars also …
Created on: Thursday 8th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9AC40C
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: 17th-century silver cufflink element decorated with crowned hearts, together with the oval wire loop that originally joined it to the other element. It is circular, originally with a flat centre and a shallow downturned rim with an out-turned edge. The rim is now bent and cracked.
The flat area has a recessed centre enclosed within a raised edge. The centre has a stippled background, a pair of counter-relief heart shapes, one next to the other, and a crown over both. The crown is neatly made, with a wide lower band decorated with four dots, a…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-2623F1
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver vervel or hawking ring of Lewis and Richardson type C.iii (flat shield shape, cast in one piece). It is thin and flat, and the shield is quite angular, with a point at the base; much of the straight top is taken up with the ring.
It is engraved on one face with italic lettering reading Lestr / ange / Morda / nt (Lestrange Mordant). The top of the long s, and the L, are both off the edge of the shield, as if the hole in the ring was cut through after engraving.
The other face has a lightly engraved heraldic crest. This consists o…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-71554C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold signet finger-ring of early post-medieval date. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section, with the interior flat or very slightly convex and the exterior more strongly convex. It flares from a minimum of 2.85mm wide and 1.4mm thick at the back of the hoop, to vertical shoulders.
The bezel is oval and flat, making the ring D-shaped in side view, and is set longitudinally, The arms are quartered and the blazon is: Quarterly, (1) A fess engrailed between three fleurs-de-lis, (2) on a fess between two chevrons a crescent, (3) a chevron between thre…
Created on: Wednesday 14th October 2020
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-0050A5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy sword-belt fitting of post-medieval date, now very corroded. It has a triangular plate with straight top at a slight angle, two rivet holes set longitudinally, the upper one (nearer the wider end) filled with iron corrosion and the lower one empty. At the narrower end there are a pair of triangular projections, then a narrowed hook projects and turns backwards and under and is now corroded into a closed loop. This retains a circular copper-alloy ring 10mm in diameter. Plate, hook and ring are all a low D shape in cross-section, flat on the reverse. Length of plate and hook…
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 25th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-0C4C12
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Openwork copper-alloy mount of post-medieval date, 16th or 17th century. It is roughly circular, with the edge cut into twelve rounded points. Within this there are four quarter-circle perforations making a reserved cross. On the reverse are one bent-over spike (bent outwards) and one shorter straighter spike which may be incomplete (but if so, it is a worn break). The spikes are located towards the end of two cross arms, and in this direction the mount measures 19mm long; at right angles to this it measures 18mm wide. The spikes bring the total thickness to 6mm. It weighs 1.9g.
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Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 25th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-ACC312
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late medieval or early post-medieval copper-alloy purse bar, central block and part of the frame. The block is rectangular, 15 x 13mm and 8mm thick, and is decorated on one of the larger faces with three engraved lines, a central vertical line running parallel to its perforation and two oblique lines. The other large face is apparently undecorated. The central perforation is circular and runs vertically. It is 6.5mm in diameter at one end and is blocked by corrosion or by a fragment of broken shank at the other. It is possible to hold the block either way up, but more compl…
Created on: Friday 24th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4875A5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Gold mourning ring. A simple D-section hoop of consistent width throughout, with engraved decoration in one place on the convex outer face forming a stylised skull bezel seen in a three-quarter view looking to the viewer's left.
The edges of the skull are each formed from a bold V-section curved cut which bites deeply into the metal. The face is made up of two roughly round dots for eyes, and an inverted V-shaped nose between; this is all set off centre, towards the left-hand cut, giving the impression of the three-quarter view. Below are the teeth…
Created on: Friday 16th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-FDD7E8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold mourning ring dated 23 September 1805. The ring has a wide hoop, of even width throughout but now crumpled in one place. It is decorated on the exterior with a beaded ridge to top and bottom, two plain ridges within this, and a central band of relief lettering reading ELIZ: SHERMAN. DIED. 23. SEP: 1805. AGED. 81
The stops vary, sometimes colons but mostly central pellets. There is a space-filling motif, probably a rosette or flower, between the start and end of the inscription. Although the lettering is very neat, the workmanship is untidy, with lots of engraving scrat…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: SF8008
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
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This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BARKING', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-F38112
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three silver coins found within a metre of each other, almost certainly part of a dispersed purse loss.
Catalogue:
1) Groat of Mary, North 1960, 1553-4 (extremely worn). 1.65g.
2) Groat of Elizabeth, North 1986, initial mark cross crosslet, 1560-1 (very worn). 1.66g.
3) Sixpence of Elizabeth I, North 1997, initial mark eglantine, 1575 (some wear). 2.58g.
Date: The coins were minted between 1553 and 1575, and the date of deposition is probably not very much later, c.1580-1600.
Created on: Monday 14th September 2020
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-77D855
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver ball-headed pin of early post-medieval date. The head is spherical and decorated with filigree circles and pellets. There is a twisted wire around the circumference, probably two-ply, with three circles of finer twisted wire above and three below. Each circle has three smaller annulets of similarly fine twisted wire within, with a pellet in the centre between the three annulets.
In the triangular spandrels between the larger circles are firstly two larger pellets, one above the other, each tightly surrounded with a ring of twisted wire; and secondl…
Created on: Friday 19th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A9000C
Object type: FERRULE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small conical object made from copper-alloy sheet, probably a post-medieval chape or ferrule. Now squashed flat, it has a burst soldered seam down one side and a separately soldered-in domed base. It is decorated with two pairs of circumferential grooves, one near the top and one about halfway down. There is no obvious means of attachment, but the inside retains some dark material, possibly leather. Length 25.8mm, width as squashed 11.4mm, maximum thickness (near closed end) 4.5mm, weight with retained soil 1.7g.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Sunday 17th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AA47D1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Tiny post-medieval silver seal matrix. The die is circular, and decorated with a beaded border a little way in from the edge. Within this is a motif of an acorn; an oval with a small boss or knop at the top, a large cup made up of ten punched dots at the base, with a curving stem and a pair of schematic leaves (not obviously oak leaves) below. There is no inscription.
The matrix has a hexagonally faceted conical handle which rises, tapers to a waist and then flares slightly before ending in a rectangular-section trefoil openwork handle. There is a faint gr…
Created on: Friday 20th January 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-72428F
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular piece of silver sheet, perhaps an unfinished thimble. It measures 69.5mm in length and 20.8mm tall, and the sheet is 0.2-0.3mm thick. It is very gently curved along its length, and the convex outer has an extra strip along one long edge, probably soldered on. This is 3.0mm wide and decorated with two parallel grooves; it brings the thickness of the object up to 0.5mm. It weighs 3.4g.
One short edge is very neatly cut and there is no gap between the extra strip and the rest of the sheet. The other end is more irregular and appears perhaps torn; the sheet and the s…
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-DA80F9
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver bodkin or head-dress pin, almost complete but now sharply bent and broken into two (joining) pieces. At the top is an oval scoop 7.8mm wide, set above a narrowed waist. Below this, the bodkin is rectangular in cross-section and tapers in both width and thickness. Below the decorated panels it gradually becomes hexagonal in cross-section, with bevelled sides, and finally ends in another fresh break which has removed the very tip of the object.
Below the narrowed waist is a circular hole, 1.8mm in diameter; below this is a pair of bold transverse …
Created on: Monday 5th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 30th October 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Cawston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-AC6495
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold finger-ring with enamelled decoration on the outside and posy inscription on the inside. The hoop is D-shaped in cross-section, rounded on the outside and flat or very slightly convex on the inside; it has a consistent width. On the inside is an inscription in italic lettering reading Yours', with a tail after the s which looks like an apostrophe. On the outside is engraved decoration filled with opaque white, translucent green and translucent yellow enamel.
The exterior decoration consists of alternating green motifs and white or yellow flow…
Created on: Friday 21st January 2022
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2023
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