Record ID: NMS-A71033
Object type: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead possible wall or ceiling mount. Six pointed star with sinuous triangular-sectioned arms all of which are now squashed and incomplete, with a casting seam and central incomplete shank on the otherwise flat reverse. Maximum surviving diameter 30mm. See NMS-382886 for a similar example. Circa 1300 - 1500.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-15A854
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead weight. Conical (sub-circular / pentagonal base), with five prominent, angled ribs from the base to the off-centre apex. Base 29 x 32mm. Height 24mm. Weighing 112.0g / 1728grains, which is slightly less than an avoirdupois ¼ pound (1750grains). 1300 - circa 1500.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-158BE7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead weight. Rectangular, flat reverse, slightly convex upper face with a crude cross in low relief. Weight 293g / 4521 grains. This is slightly under weight for 2/3rds of an avoirdupois pound. Measuring 54.5 x 47 x 14mm. 1300 - circa 1500.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-B74F61
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Papal bulla of Boniface IX (1389 - 1404). A reasonably well-preserved bulla which despite having some corrosion of the lead surface, still has enough of the original patina preserved to show the reading very clearly. The obverse reads BONI/FATIUS/•PP•VIIII. The reverse is of the normal design with the figures of SS Paul and Peter in pelleted aureoles with SPA SPE above, although the corrosion is slightly worse than on the obverse. Neither side is preserved well enough to enable any die flaws to be observed. Weight 43.206g. Diameter 37.5. Obverse sealed at 2° to the re…
Created on: Wednesday 13th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 15th August 2014
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Record ID: NMS-5CBF67
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla, rounded base, almost straight sides, the upper edge complete an crimped together, the surface worn and abraded with only very slight traces of possible decoration, now unintelligible, on one face. The stubs of the missing lugs survive on each side. Length 48mm. Width 25.5mm. Circa 1350 - 1539.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-590CCA
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead pot mend, probably medieval or post-medieval. Oval on one face, irregular with no original edge on the other. The smaller face has the impression of course cloth on the surface. Measuring 23 x 30mm. Gap for missing pot 1mm.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-BEE056
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval papal bulla of Clement V (pope 1305-14). The bulla is poorly preserved, being very worn on both obverse and reverse sides. The obverse reads CLE/MENS relatively clearly, but wear and some loss at the bottom of the bulla makes it difficult to see the numeral after the :PP. Two visible vertical strokes make this most likely to be the V typical of Clement V's bulla, as Clement II (1046 - 7) used bullae of a very different design (without the SPA SPE reverse, introduced by Gregory VII, 1073-85) and there does not appear to be space for any further vertical strokes to have been lo…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
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Record ID: NMS-02B197
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval papal bulla of uncertain date. The bulla has been worn on both faces but, sadly, most severely on the obverse, making it almost impossible to see the name of the issuing pope. The reverse design of medieval bullae remained the same from those of Paschal II (1099-1118) until Paul II (1464-71), that is depicting the heads of SS Paul and Peter within pelleted aureoles, with a cross in between and the legend SPASPE above. The reverse die was retained by successive popes, being changed only occasionally, and so it is impossible to date a bulla accurately on the basis of the revers…
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 9th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-E00DA6
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla, bent, lugs squashed against sides. On one face a scallop shell of Spencer's (1971 and 1990) Type II, and on the other a crowned reversed S. The latter device may possibly be for Our Lady of Sudbury, a minor cult (Spencer 1971, 64). Height 54mm. Width 27mm. 14th-early 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 7th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Watton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-365ED6
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lead pilgrim badge, m-shaped with small pellets around outside edge. Surviving measurements 16 x 11mm. Perhaps 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4CB4B7
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla, cut, broken and distorted, upper edge missing. Crowned W within cross-hatched field on one side, crown within cross-hatched field on the other. One squashed triangular lug survives. 14th - early 16th century. Surviving height 39mm. Width 33mm.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 13th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-251545
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete lead seal matrix, flat, slightly more than half surviving, relief fleur-de-lis with the longitudinal rib ending in a broken perforated lug at its base. Pointed oval, 21.5 x 19.5mm. Fleur-de-lis. [the initial mark comprises a vertical stroke with three cross-bars] S' hVG[.........]DONE (Seal of Hugh ?). The N is retrograde. 13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-249703
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably medieval lead spindle whorl. Flattened bi-concial with a central hole and moulded decoration in low relief on both faces, consisiting of ten radiaiting ribs on one face and radiaiting ribs with crosses between some of them on the other. Diameter 28mm. Height 11mm. Internal diameter 7mm. Weight 32.6g.
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 4th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-066085
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. Rounded lower half, only slightly waisted with flat, pointed pierced lugs to either side (one missing), and a slightly flared upper half, the mouth crimped together but damaged. Decoration in low relief consisting of a crown on one side and a shield with a chevron and in base a roundel and one bar reserved on a crosshatched field on the other. Length 47mm. Width (excluding lug) 34mm. Very similar to an example in Spencer (1971, Lincolnshire History and Archaeoloy Vol..1, no.6, A scallop-shell Ampulla from Caistor), fig. XXII, o. 13th - early16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th June 2013
Last updated: Friday 3rd January 2014
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Record ID: NMS-AE1108
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. Lower half only survives, neck and loops missing. Spencer's (1990) type 1 scallop shell on one face, an uncertain design on the other consisting of two pellets surrounded by a circular border with intersecting lines crossing the border to the edge of the ampulla. A scratched X accross the face appears deliberate. Surviving length 32mm. Surviving width 37mm. 1300 - 1530.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-5DE0D7
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat with broken loop projecting from the upper edge, outer edge chamfered on reverse. Circular, diameter 24mm. Septfoil. + SIGIL' SEGALLI (Seal of ?Segar or ?Sewall, perhaps a variant or muddled version of either, see Reaney, P.H., and Wilson, R.M. 1991 A Dictionary of English Surnames (London), pp. 389 and 401).
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 31st July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Newton with Dagworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F72E08
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. One side with Spencer (1971) type II scallop shell below pair of ribs joined by angled lines at neck, other side crowned W inside a circle with angled lines on the engled edge and pair of ribs with angled lines between at the neck. Two lugs, now squashed, at the neck. Top crimped together. The crowned W is likely to stand for Walsingham, but also could signify Virgo Virginum (Virgin of Virgins). See Spencer 1971 and Spencer 1990 for similar examples. 14th-16th century. Length 51mm. Width 30mm.
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 24th November 2016
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Record ID: NMS-15DFD3
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
11th century to post-medieval lead spindle whorl. Circular with a central hole and triangular-sectioned giving two external faces each decorated with six integrally cast ring-and-dots in low relief. Height 12mm. Diameter 23mm. Weight 20.9g. A1.
Created on: Friday 19th October 2012
Last updated: Thursday 17th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D2FA57
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post medieval lead two disc cloth seal. Shield bearing arms of England for 1400 - 1603 with a P to the top right of the shield, within a circle // blank. Measuring 23 x 20mm. A4.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-84A972
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat, pointed oval, 37mm x 24mm with (squashed) pierced lug on reverse at top of median rib flanked by stylised plant ornament in relief. Fleur-de-lis. S·SARE·HODE·CROT (Seal of Sara Hode “the clod”). Hode, or Hood, is a common surname ‘meaning maker of hoods’ (Reaney 1991, 234). Crot, which also appears as a surname Crote or Croot, is a nickname from the Middle English crut ‘lump or clod’ (ibid. 118). Thirteenth century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th September 2004
Last updated: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quidenham', grid reference and parish protected.