Record ID: NMS-9C2DD7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy horse harness suspension mount and pendant. The mount is incomplete with the upper part missing, broken across the stump of a narrowed vertical bar with a base which expands, and is slotted and folded onto reverse to form twin-suspension loops, these contain a copper alloy pin or spindle from which is suspended the pendant. The face of the mount is bordered with incised lines. The pendant is lozengiform with chamfered sides and a knop at each angle. There are incised bordering lines on the sides and face, pairs of oblique li…
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-3C2B85
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval buckle frame, trapezoidal, four oblique filed grooves on outside edge (two pairs flanking centre), narrowed bar, pin missing. 12 x 20.5mm. Weighs 1.55g. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 29th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3C0D9A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, off-set, narrowed bar, convex sides, expanded outside edge with  corroded remains of sheet roller and large knop at either end. Measuring 18 x 21mm. Weighs 2.96g. See Egan and Pritchard (2002, 73, 289). 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 29th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3BEEB4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap clasp, bent and distorted, trapezoidal, slight indents on both sides corresponding with the twin internal projections, c.17 x c.15mm. Weighs 1.54g. Cf. Dress Access (1991), a trapezoidal version of fig.149, no.1262. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Friday 29th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3BBEB6
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy book clasp, worn, corroded, and slightly bent, with blunt hooked end and splayed notched terminal. Traces of decoration comprise a multiple longitudinal lines at the hooked end and the attachment end. Three rivet-holes, one near the mid-point with remains of iron rivet, another within an engraved ring-and-dot towards attachment end (also containing remains of iron rivet), and another within ring-and-dot at the splayed attachment-end (rivet missing). Length 40.5mm. Width 11.5mm. Weighs 1.64g. Later 16th-17th century.
Created on: Friday 29th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-28CA97
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and distorted medieval gilt copper alloy stud or mount, probably from harness. The flat face is decorated with a plain border, within which, reserved on the remains of a field of decayed greenish enamel, is a central quatrefoil set within four elaborate foils. Specks of guilding survive on the face. The reverse has a central integral sub-circular-sectioned rivet with pointed terminal. Diameter c. 36mm. Length/thickness, including rivet, 11mm (rivet only 9.7mm). Weighs 6.67g. c.1250 - 1400.
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-268221
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy finger ring. Broken and distorted integral rectangular band forming a hoop of flattened D-section (width 3.5mm, 2mm thick). The circular bezel (16.5mm) has worn traces of engraving in intaglio; the device is weak but study of an impression suggests that it may represent a standing figure. Later Roman Empire; the engraved metal bezel rather than an intaglio setting probably belongs to the late 4th century. It is paralleled by a series of rings in gold and silver, some with Christian legends and imagery. The ring weighs 4.19g.
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-264FBE
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably miscast fragment of a possible Late Roman copper alloy buckle frame (25 x 15mm, 2mm thick. Weighs 2.62g), broad flat-sectioned fragment of the possible shoulder of a frame with a horses head in profile projecting from the outside edge. Parts of the possible breaks are smooth. An engraved line defines the division of neck and mane on one face. See Hawkes and Dunning (1963). c. AD 250-409.
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-25C700
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon bridle side link, short D-sectioned bar (longitudinal groove on reverse), lozengiform terminal with slight knop at three outer angles and oval perforation, bar expands slightly with transverse rib before break. Extant length 36mm. Width 20.5mm. Weighs 4.27g. 11th century.
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-11C258
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy continental plate brooch. Cast crescentic plate, the curved sides of which terminate in worn breaks. Edge slightly damaged, no attachment loop. The front of the brooch is decorated with alternating narrow rectangular cells and lozengiform cells containing traces of red enamel. The back of the brooch has a pair of semi-circular lugs with copper alloy spindle (which would have held the now missing pin), the stump of the catchplate, and some iron staining. Extant length 20mm. Width 25mm Weight: 4.09g. c.AD 100 - 200
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-106E97
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy seal matrix, hexagonally faceted conical handle with broken pierced terminal. Oval, 17 x 14mm. Weight 3.99g. Head of a stag with a cross between its antlers. * TIMETE DEVM (Fear God). 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-6F90FE
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy rectangular bar-mount, pentagonal cross-section, with a flat reverse and bevelled edges on all four edges of the front. There are two rivet-holes, one with a copper-alloy rivet, the holes are slightly countersunk on the reverse. The extant rivet has expanded ends and is now bent (length 4.5mm). The mount is 16mm long, 4mm wide, 1.2mm thick, and weighs 0.51g. Similar to Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1138, which comes from a context of c. 1270-1350.
Created on: Monday 13th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 13th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3AD0B9
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken, bent and corroded medieval copper alloy strap plate, rectangular, flat-sectioned with the remains of three of four copper alloy rivets, one at each angle, one angle broken, rivet missing, and a central perforation. Length (unbent) 30mm. Width 14.5mm. Thickness 1mm. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 225-6, fig. 141 no. 1207. Late 14th - early 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A70DDF
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and corroded unusual gilt copper alloy harness fitting, now in two parts. It comprises two hemispheres, originally joined to form a hollow, slightly flattened bi-conical sphere, (diameter 26-7mm, 16mm thick). The sphere has a vertical central circular perforation through both parts (diameter 7mm). The lower contains a fragment of the corroded upright stem would have passed through the central perforation, allowing the sphere itself to freely rotate around the stem. Projecting from the top face of the sphere there are the bent and distorted remai…
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2022
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FEC6BA
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat with crudely incised letter E on reverse, no lug or handle. Circular, 35mm. Crook-like scrolling foliate sprig. + S’ AGNETE : WRME : (Seal of Agnes Worm). 13th century.
Created on: Friday 21st February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-186308
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete late medieval copper alloy mount comprising a sub-rectangular sheet plate stamped in the form of a lozenge with a large semi-circular lobe projecting from each side, each with elaborate geometric decoration comprising curved lines and pellets, and with a quatrefoil central boss. The two undamaged lobes have at rivet-hole at the outside edge, one retaining its copper alloy rivet. 22 x (extant) 20.5mm. 0.3mm thick. Perhaps later 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2019
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Record ID: NMS-17E6B4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval sheet copper alloy buckle plate, front part only, broken across pin slot and frame recesses and before the missing attachment end and pierced by two surviving rivet holes both with a dome-headed copper alloy rivet. Traces of engraved interrupted rocker-arm bordering plates and loops, two small opposed lobes where waisted near mid-point. Extant length 25mm. Width 13.5mm. Cf. Whitehead 2003, no. 48. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2019
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Record ID: NMS-055C38
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and bent medieval cast copper-alloy key, probably for a casket, oval bow with a vestigial collar on both edges, broken across oval aperture, shank of sub-oval section, broken projecting pin and simple bit with remains of two notches in outside edge. Extant length (unbent) 39mm. Extant width of bow 14mm. Cf. Egan (1998), pp. 111-119, who suggests a broad date range of 1100-1300.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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Record ID: NMS-0512C4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval tinned copper alloy three-part strap-end, tongue-shaped sheet plates, copper alloy rivet at upper end, forked spacer, terminal knop. Length 28mm. Width 9.5mm. 3mm thick. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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Record ID: NMS-04F4FA
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame, oval, elaborate straight outside edge with four filed transverse grooves, convex sides, slightly offset narrowed bar with constriction for missing pin. Length 16mm. Width 17mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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