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Record ID: NMS-01DCA5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gilt copper alloy buckle plate, trefoil sheet front part with three rivet holes (two with copper alloy rivets), broken across the fold and pin slot. Engraved decoration consists of rocker-arm lines bordering and separating the foils. Cf. a broadly related type in Whitehead 2003, no. 48. Extant length 16mm. Width 21mm. 13th century. (F29, Field: 4 hours, flattened stubble)
Created on: Monday 22nd September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-1E1195
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy double-loop annular buckle frame, serrated outside edge, concentric rib around inner edge, narrowed central bar, pin missing. Diam.44mm. See Whitehead 2003, 47, no.270. c. 1400-1500.
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-2EA5F6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
3 fragments of post-medieval copper alloy spurs, (1) short D-sectioned fragment broken at both ends, decorated with incised and stamped foliate decoration, length 25mm, width 11.5mm; (2) broken D-sectioned side with transversely set figure-of-eight terminal, length 36.5mm, width 14mm; (3) broken D-sectioned angled side with broken perforated angled terminal, length 45mm, width 12mm, see an example from Beeston Castle, Cheshire which was dated to c. 1620- c. 1646 (Ellis, B. in Ellis, P. 1993, 165, fig. 112 no. 2).. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2013
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-30B347
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval gilt copper alloy buckle frame: five-sided frame with double-concave outside edge and concave sides, perforation in central expansion and both angles on outside edge each contain a decorative dome-headed copper alloy rivet, stumps of missing offset narrowed bar. Length 23mm, width 33mm. See Whitehead (2003), no.110. c. 1250-1400.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2013
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-2D5F8A
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy strap mount. Broken oval mount with front and back plates originally connected by a narrowed loop (broken) secured by a separate single rivet. The front plate has engraved notches radiating from the central rivet. Length 16mm. Width 7mm. 5.5mm thick. Cf. related types in Egan and Pritchard (2002) 221, fig.138. 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th December 2015
Last updated: Friday 18th December 2015
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Record ID: NMS-CAEA03
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval lace chape, slightly tapering rolled sheet with vertical seam, open mouth, damaged terminal. Length 42mm. Width 8mm. See Egan and Pritchard 1991, 288, fig.188. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 3rd June 2013
Last updated: Monday 3rd June 2013
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Record ID: NMS-80AB4B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy locking buckle, complete apart from the curved part of the locking arm. Cf. Ward Perkins 1940, pl. LXXVII, nos. 11 and 12. Frame length 29.5mm, width 17mm. Mid 14th - 15th century, but examples have been found in 16th-century contexts in London (Egan 2005, 37-8, nos. 116-7). Such buckles were probably used for suspension of purses.
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2015
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2015
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Record ID: NMS-49A2A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Roman tinned copper alloy Colchester derivative brooch, Triple Hook type, hooks broken, spring missing, wings triple ribs between hooke, stump of broken sub rectangular-sectioned bow, lower part and foot missing. Surviving length 12mm. Width at wings 29mm. See Mackreth 2011, vol.1, 68-9, vol.2, 46, plate 43. c.120-150 AD.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2013
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Record ID: NMS-74F5B8
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy strap mount, rectangular sheet front and back plates with copper alloy rivet in rivet-hole at both ends, central perforation in front plate and traces o9f gilding. Length 23mm (back-plate 24mm). Width 10mm. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 2002, fig.141, no.1209. 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-C7FAE0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just over half of a post-medieval double-looped tinned copper alloy buckle frame, both loops trapezoidal, surviving loop with pin groove, pin missing. Similar to Whitehead 2003, nos. 523-4. Extant length 25mm. Width 24mm. c.1620 - c.1680. (Finder's number AC 307)
Created on: Wednesday 16th November 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 16th November 2016
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Record ID: NMS-C81513
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just over half a post-medieval tin-coated copper alloy double-looped buckle frame, surviving loop trapezoidal. There is a small lobe at the ends of the (bent) bar, pin missing. Cf. Whitehead 2003, no. 507. Width 26mm. Extant length 18mm. c.1570- c.1700. (Finder's number AC 305)
Created on: Wednesday 16th November 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 16th November 2016
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Record ID: NMS-2D0F54
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy bar mount from harness, transversely opposed projections in centre, oval lobe at each end, twin integral spikes on reverse, bent inward to hold thickness of 8-9mm. Width 8mm. Length 20mm. See Read (2001), fig.21, no.310. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KESWICK', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-A6DD9E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval lead weight, discoidal, flat-sectioned, part of edge missing. Diam.29mm. 6mm thick. Weighing 545.6 grains, 1.2470 oz, 35.35 g. Perhaps 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 30th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A8D45E
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age copper alloy palstave. Straight-sided, damaged wedge-shaped butt end, with side flanges rising to form a stop-ridge with a small loop on one side. Very slightly waisted before expanding with almost straight sides to the slightly curved, damaged and corroded cutting edge. Below the stop-ridge on both faces is a slight longitudinal arris which dies out towards the blade. The casting seams are visible on both sides and most of the edges are damaged and corroded. Length 156mm. Width of cutting edge 57mm. Maximum thickness 35mm.
Created on: Friday 7th December 2018
Last updated: Monday 6th July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-698616
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval lead weight, crude tubular, weighs 22.75 g. Not closely datable, perhaps 15th-16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2013
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Record ID: NMS-426CC6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead pot-mend, irregular oval. Length 20mm. Width 12mm. 7mm thick. 12th-mid 15th century.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2012
Last updated: Friday 21st December 2012
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Record ID: NMS-D2F355
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy hooked tag, rectangular loop, circular openwork body with a tiny central boss in centre of four radiating fleurs-de-lis, beaded border and hook at base. Length 36mm. Width 18mm. See Read 2008, no. 370. Read early post-medieval Class E, Type 3. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SNETTERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-D53FB8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester-type two-piece brooch (i.e. with Harlow-type double pierced lug), pin missing, with six-coil spring, undecorated wings, median rib on broken D-sectioned bow, foot missing. Wingspan 18mm. Length >14mm. c.43-c.80
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRESSINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-D34771
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy book clasp: blunt hook, plate with three engraved ring-and-dots, that at the hooked end with a copper alloy rivet retaining a corroded fragment of iron on the reverse, and that at the triple-notched splayed end with a rivet-hole containing the corroded remains of an iron rivet. Length 31mm. Width 14mm. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2012
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Record ID: NMS-72A335
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle frame, angled double-oval with worn cast vine-scroll ornament, narrowed central bar, pin missing. Length 30mm. Width 19.5mm. Cf. Whitehead (2003), no.425. 16th century. (Finder's number PW-C 341)
Created on: Friday 21st August 2015
Last updated: Friday 21st August 2015
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