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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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-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-F6980E
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy flanged axehead of early Bronze Age date, Needham 1983, class 5db. It has low flanges, with a very smoothly polished green surface between. Most of the edges (butt, cutting edge, much of the flanges) are fragmentary. It is smaller than usual, with a length of 65mm, width at corroded cutting edge of 32mm, maximum thickness 13mm. Weight 77.40g. This type of flanged axehead is uncommon. Compare a larger example found in a hoard and recorded at NMGW-0B9997.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 4th January 2021
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