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Record ID: NMS-5A4418
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, worn and corroded Iron Age-Roman copper alloy Colchester type one-piece brooch, with forward-facing hook, spring, pin and foot missing. Short undecorated wings (one broken), tapering oval-sectioned bow with traces of median groove. Extant length 50.5mm. Extant wingspan 10mm. c.20-c.75 AD.
Created on: Friday 10th November 2017
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2017
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Record ID: NMS-6E8A47
Object type: LEASH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a medieval cast copper alloy swivel, for use with a leash, comprising a loop with moulded stylised animal-head terminals, confronting an integral transversely set perforated oval, the central perforation of which would have contained a rivet, either integral with the missing half, or separate, on which both halves would have rotated. Length 27mm. Width 22mm. Weighs 5.30g. Swivels are likely to have had a number of related uses: for example, on the leashes of hunting dogs or lapdogs, with the smaller examples perhaps being used on straps for raptors when hawking. See Ashley…
Created on: Friday 17th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 12th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-AADE92
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval copper alloy tongue-shaped composite strap end: bent and broken forked spacer, part of one fork missing, with a flattish stylised acorn knop. Length (unbent) 57mm. Extant width 19mm. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, fig.94. c.1350-c.1450. …
Created on: Friday 11th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 14th December 2015
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Record ID: NMS-9AA8C2
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy ring, crudely cast, flat-sectioned with filed faceted edges, file marks on faces. Diam. 28mm. 1.5mm thick. Not closely datable, perhaps 14th-16th century.
Created on: Friday 4th September 2015
Last updated: Friday 4th September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-9A907C
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy thimble. Above a narrow plain band and engraved line around the base the slightly squashed sides and flattened dome are covered with a spiral of dots. Height 21mm. Diameter c.19mm. 14th-15th century.
Created on: Friday 4th September 2015
Last updated: Friday 4th September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-9A6D06
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval pewter spoon, rectangular-sectioned stem, terminal broken, damaged ovoid bowl and short rat-tail, six crude punched rectangles in the position usually occupied by a maker's mark. Extant length 61mm. Extant width 52.5mm. See Homer 1975. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Friday 4th September 2015
Last updated: Friday 4th September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-DCD9DD
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval or post-medieval iron rim and scrap of body with copper alloy brazing, probably from a medieval to post-medieval cylindrical padlock. Diameter c.50mm. Extant length 29mm. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-DCA87C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy sprung Dolphin brooch (Colchester Derivative rear hook) spring and pin missing. Vertical groove at the end of both wings. D-sectioned bow, triangular catchplate on reverse. Wingspan 27mm. Length 31mm. c.43 - c.65
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-DC67EC
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of solidified molten copper alloy, shapeless but of flattish cross-section. Date unknown but probably far from recent. Weight 11.73g.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
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Record ID: NMS-DB3F71
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman copper alloy finger ring, oval bezel with stumps of the hoop. Two circular cells, enamel missing, traces of engraved line around outer edge. Width of bezel 10mm. Length of bezel 14.5mm. 2nd - 3rd century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Friday 18th September 2020
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Record ID: NMS-DA5034
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Roman oval buckle frame of Hawkes and Dunning (1961) type IA. Just over half of the outside edge and part of one side survives. D-sectioned. Outside edge broken across the pin rest, originally between two confronting dolphins, one survives with a crest an open mouth defined by engraved oblique lines, ring-and-dot for the eye. Extant length 14mm. Extant width 16mm. This type belongs to the late 4th century (Clarke Lankhills 1979, 275).
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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Record ID: NMS-05A3F1
Object type: STUD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval cast copper alloy nail or stud, from furniture or harness, head cast in the form of a multifoil (12 radiating foils, diam.25.5mm) with sharply defined grooves, bent square-sectioned spike on reverse (length unbent 28mm, 32mm including head). 17th century.
Created on: Friday 29th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th August 2014
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Record ID: NMS-0414E5
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Less than half of a post-medieval copper alloy Crotal bell with vertical break across perforations for missing loop and along basal slot, one surviving perforation in upper half, gadrooning below median ridge, with G between two stars of five points within a semi-circle at remains of basal slot with circular terminals. Diam.42mm. 18th century.
Created on: Friday 29th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: NMS-039F6A
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy Crotal bell, perforated rectangular loop, two perforations in upper half, traces of gadrooning below median ridge, basal slot with circular terminals, bell-maker's hammer below. Diam.27mm. Height 34mm. Contains iron pea. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 29th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 13th January 2015
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Record ID: NMS-DE75CD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy double-looped buckle frame, both loops oval or B-shaped (i.e. the edges expand inwards), with multiple incised lines on both outside edges, iron staining from missing plate and/or pin on the narrowed bar and incised lines in a V - shaped on frame at both ends of bar. The form is similar to that of Whitehead 2003, no. 447. Length 35mm. Width 20mm. c.1600 - c.1720.
Created on: Wednesday 27th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Record ID: NMS-DE3D7A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle frame, rectangular with chamfered sides and edges and profuse file marks, blind hole (casting fault) on one face. Pin missing. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 425. Length 21.5mm. Width 31mm. 2mm thick. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 27th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Record ID: NMS-AB53E4
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy harness mount with a pair of integral round-sectioned attachment spikes on the reverse. Very similar to Read 2001, no. 328. Length 21mm. Width 17.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-AAF104
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy belt or strap mount, quatrefoil, formed from four repousse bosses angled forward, flattened perforated centre. Measuring 25.5mm x 27mm. 14th century
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-FEE4C0
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead weight, cast squat cone with small central perforation within four prominant radiating ribs, and a large groove where damaged. Diam.32mm. Height 16mm. Weighs 1.7820 oz, 779.4 grains, 50.54 g. c.1100-c.1400.
Created on: Friday 10th January 2014
Last updated: Friday 10th January 2014
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Record ID: NMS-FE7A48
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and very distorted Late Saxon/medieval gilt unidentified buckle, ring with opposed projections on outside edge, one with animal-head terminal, the other missing, both originally bent inward to form hook. Opposed notches on reverse set at right-angles to projections contain a separate bar. Distorted 27mm x 19mm. See an example from London (F. Pritchard in Vince (ed.) Aspects of Saxo-Norman London: II (1991) 151-2, fig.3.34 no.107). Other related examples, brooches, 'mounts' and buckles, have been recorded in Norfolk, including from Beeston with Bittering (HER 4084), Coltisha…
Created on: Friday 10th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th March 2014
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