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Record ID: NMS-C89762
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy furniture handle back-plate, a faceted sexfoil with knop-ended foils, and a sub-rectangular perforation (5.5 x 3.5mm) through the slightly domed centre. Cf. Margeson 1993, nos. 487-8. One foil is missing through fairly recent damage. Weight 3.86g. Diameter 32.5 - 33mm. Late 17th - early 18th century.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 15th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F551F1
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval copper alloy binding strip from a box or casket, of flat D-section with wavy edges and three oval perforations. Both ends were broken not recently. The slightly convex upper surface is gilded. Bindings of this type have been recovered on many of excavated Anglo-Norman castles and high status secular sites. Cf. Goodall, A.R. in Coad and Streeten 1982, 235-6, fig. 43 nos. 1-5; Goodall, A.R. in Beresford 1987, 173-4 nos. 18-27, fig. 154; HESH-AD4D2F. Weight 1.68g. Extant length 28.3mm. Width 7mm. Thickness 2.1mm. 12th century
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-DAC2D5
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy furniture fitting, round in cross-section with a concave top, a narrow waist and a slightly convex base in which is embedded remains of an iron square-sectioned shank. Weight 3.29g. Length excluding shank 9mm. Diameter 12.4mm, at waist c.4mm, at base 8.7mm. Width of shank c.3mm. Mid 1st – 4th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd September 2023
Last updated: Friday 22nd September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6153DB
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy object in very battered condition, perhaps part of a binding strip from a casket. At one apparently intact end the strip expands into a flat rectangle with a central attachment hole. At the other it expands again into an uncertain shape, with a jagged old break truncating an attachment hole. Terminals of such casket mounts are not normally rectangular, cf. a more robust example from Meols (Egan, G. in Griffiths et al. 2007, cat. no. 2099). Weight 2.01g. Extant length 39mm. Width 4.5 - 8.6mm. Thickness 1.8mm. …
Created on: Monday 4th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-69DDEB
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy decorative knob from furniture: a circular head with a concave top and a short tapering around a hole into which a round sectioned iron shank is set. Weight 5.45g. Diameter 16.8mm. Length 12.1mm. Shank diameter 6-8 - 5.4mm. Iron shank diameter c.3.3mm.
Created on: Sunday 30th July 2023
Last updated: Sunday 30th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-4DAD4B
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very small fragment of a post-medieval copper alloy probable furniture mount, a trefoil with two curving leaves flanking a much smaller central leaf, decorated with punched part-annular impressions on one face. One of the curving leaves, perhaps more apparent than real, may be the remains of the surround of an attachment hole. Weight 0.77g. 19.2 x 8mm. Thickness 1.3mm. late 17th - early 18th century.
Created on: Saturday 29th July 2023
Last updated: Saturday 29th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-2671D2
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete probably medieval copper alloy hinge from the lid of a box or casket: two plates joined by a spindle, the first with two two pivot loops formed by folding, the second with one. The first, with two specks of gilding and two transverse ribs and engarved grooves on the front face and one attachment hole, is rectangular and arched, probably by design rather than distortion, at an angle of c.45 degrees from the horizontal. The second is D-shaped with one transverse rib and groove and one attachment hole. From the centre of the end of both plates an i…
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-74A5F2
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two post-medieval copper alloy furniture fittings, both probably handle escutcheons, mid 17th - mid 18th century: - Circular and cast in the from of an elaborate sexfoil, with rust concealing much of the surfaces and filling the central perforation, a small version of DOR-443F31 and KENT-BD42E7. Weight 3.72g. Diameter 25mm. Thickness 2mm. - About one half of a sheet mount which was almost certainly cruciform, cf. NMS-FC4734 and NMS-0EF5C3, but has been broken fairly recently along a diagonal. Part of the central perforation is present and there are many punched arc-shaped i…
Created on: Monday 12th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 13th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-1DFFC4
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted fragment of a medieval copper alloy furniture fitting, a binding strip from a box or casket. Of flat V-shaped section, i.e. with a hollow underside and a median arris, it is broken at both ends. Both breaks are not recent and one is adjacent to an opposed pair of spiked lateral lobes that may suggests that there was a fleur-de-lis terminal, cf. HAMP-79B664, NMS-412F95 and NMS-BD86A9. Weight 4.80g. Extant length 43mm. Width 12mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Saturday 27th May 2023
Last updated: Saturday 27th May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CDF82E
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy furniture fitting with, at the base, a short round-sectioned shank above which a collar with a fine encircling groove around its upper face near the edge tapers to a waist before expanding to a globular doorknob-like terminal. A dot in the centre of the terminal within a large circular groove and the groove on the collar indicate the object was finished on a lathe. The short and round shank cannot have been very firmly attached to a chest or box. This suggests the object is perhaps a decorative mount rather than a functioning handle. Weight 18.29g…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-26AEBB
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two post-medieval copper alloy furniture fittings, elaborate sexfoil handle escutcheons with a central perforation, late 17th - 18th century: - very similar to KENT-BD42A7, CORN-C88450 and IOW-99C633, sub-rectangular perforation, 5 x 4mm, weight 8.57g, diameter 35mm. - smaller, with radial grooves on the outer petals and seven pellets surrounding the round 4mm-diameter perforation, weight 7.27g, diameter 29.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-94B167
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval copper alloy C-sectioned binding strip from a casket, one end broken, the other ending in point. There has been a little distortion. There is one attachment hole and part of another is truncated by the break. Similar to examples from Norwich (Margeson 1993, nos. 473-6) but without decoration. Weight 1.10g. Extant length 24.7mm. Width 9 - 9.9mm. Thickness 2.8 - 3.4mm. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 26th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A0276B
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, flat but distorted post-medieval copper alloy furniture fitting with non-recent breaks, decorated with a large flower and leaves motif in curving engraved lines and punched crescentic impressions, an upper border of oblique dashes within an engraved line and with groups of closely spaced crescentic impressions. The edges are chamfered. There is a countersunk attachment hole in the centre of the trefoil base. One side is completely lost but the other survives in part: it was probably of the same form as the base and is broken across a round perforation. This h…
Created on: Saturday 25th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-52B973
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval gilt copper alloy probable furniture fitting, a badly abraded, narrow bar, probably D-sectioned and wavy edged, broken at one end far from recently and expanding into a flat oval lobe pierced by a copper alloy rivet at the other. Similar objects have been recovered during the excavation of Anglo-Norman high-status sites, e.g. Castle Acre castle, where they comprised a large percentage of the copper alloy finds (Goodall, A. R.  in Coad and Streeten 1982, fig.43, nos.1-17). Weight 1.13g. Extant length 28mm. Width at…
Created on: Saturday 28th January 2023
Last updated: Saturday 28th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8AFA61
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy circular, domed lion-headed stud from a box or casket, in rather worn condition and with part of the edge missing (an old break). See Borrill, H. in Partdrige 1981, 315-16. The mane is composed of engraved radial lines and other scarcely visible facial features are moulded. Rust on the rather roughly finished interior is evidence of an embedded iron shank.A small hole driven through the centre from the outside is either from repair or deliberate damage. Diameter 20.5mm, height/thickness 8mm. AD c.60 - c.200. Finder's number FCH7-15
Created on: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-CDBB7E
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy furniture fitting: an elaborate sexfoil handle escutcheon with a central sub-rectangular perforation (5 x 4mm). The moulded design is a more complex version of that on Read 2001 nos. 271-2, and is very close to that on CORN-C88450 and IOW-99C633. Diameter 33.5mm. Thickness 2mm. Later 17th - 18th century. Finder's number SL/11
Created on: Sunday 5th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E480EF
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment, broken at both ends, of a mount probably from a casket, a bar of D-shaped cross-section with a highly stylised animal head moulded and engraved on the convex front. One break truncates an attachment hole and the thickness is reduced abruptly just before the other as the width begins to increase. Similar to Read 2016, no. 168 and to many others, e.g. NLM-8D7983, NLM-D1B84C and NMS-D957F6. Weight 8.1g. Extant length 33mm. Width 11 - 12mm. Thickness 1.8 - 4mm. 13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-BD65A8
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy furniture mount, a knob of round cross-section with remains of an iron shank in the flat base. The top is convex with a central hollow-topped nipple. Below this there is a narrow waist. Weight 3.3g. Height (excluding shank) 13mm. Diameter of top 9.2mm, of waist 4mm, of base 7.6mm. See NNMS-1C1913 for a list of other examples. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Saturday 14th May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-18E6A1
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Heavy duty copper alloy drop handle, probably from furniture, with both terminals turned outwards and pointed. The rounded sides curve inwards, bearing some resemblance to the hind legs of a frog, and on the exterior at their junction there is a large grooved knop of lozengiform cross-section. No close parallel has been noted, but a late medieval or early post-medieval date seems likely. Weight 38.7mm. Length 54.6mm. Width 45.5mm. Thickness at the knop 9.6mm. 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Saturday 9th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
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Record ID: NMS-0651F3
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a post-medieval copper alloy probable furniture fitting, one trifid corner of a possibly lozengiform mount with one fixing hole close by and part of another small hole at the break. On the front face there is rather worn low moulded decoration and the reverse in flat. Extant length and width 22.8 x 18.5mm Thickness 1.8mm. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Friday 8th April 2022
Last updated: Friday 8th April 2022
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