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Record ID: NMS-05CF93
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval ammunition. A lead ball, 16mm diameter.
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 17th December 2013
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Record ID: NMS-1CA3F3
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two lead musket balls. Diameter 11 and 12mm.
Created on: Wednesday 19th December 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2012
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Record ID: NMS-EF7E31
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Seven post-medieval lead balls, probably ammunition. Measurment is diameter; 10mm. 11mm. 12mm, with casting seam. 13mm, with casting seam and sprue scar. 14mm, with casting seam and sprue scar. 16mm. 17mm.
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-EF8582
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead ball with casting seam and central hole.Diameter 15mm.
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-B84F45
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two lead balls, the smaller with a casting seam. Diameter 12.5mm and 11.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 13th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 13th August 2014
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Record ID: NMS-EDEFE4
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six lead balls, possibly ammunitian. Diameters; 13mm, 13mm, 14mm, 14mm, 15mm, 16mm.
Created on: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-6BAEC7
Object type: AMMUNITION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead ball with casting seam and sprue. Diameter 17mm.
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 17th March 2014
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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-D53341
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. Straight top crimped together, very slightly wasted with remains of broken loops to either side, Spencer (1990, 59) type 2 scallop shell on one face, ribbed border around a now unidentifiable design within a circle on the other. 1300 - 1530. A2.
Created on: Monday 21st January 2013
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2013
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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-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-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-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-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-BDDCDD
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. Fragment from one side of the lower part of the flask with a Spencer (1971) type 2 scallop shell on one side and crosshatching within a double ribbed border on the other. Length at least 33mm. Circa 1350 - 1539.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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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-4DBCD1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon incomplete lead disc brooch. Less than a quarter of the original edge survies. The decoration, which covers all of the survivining surface, comprises at least 7 closley spaced concentric beaded rings. There may originally have been a central device but no trace of it ow survives. On the reverse is a folded catch-plate, now squashed, at right-angles to the edge of the plate. Pin missing. Original diameter (recomnstructed) circa 40mm. Thickness 2mm. For a similar brooch see NMS-109141. Circa 10th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A848F9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lead-alloy disc brooch. Broken across a domed centre and part of the flange around the edge, with an incomplete catch-plate on the reverse of the surviving part of the flange. The dome is decorated with two bisecting ribs forming a low relief cross. Almost all the original edge, pin and catch-plate are missing. Surviving length 20mm. Height (excluding pin-lug) 6mm. Original estimated diameter 28mm. Probably Late Saxon. Although no very close parallel has been found Late Saxon lead disc brooches are a well-known type. See for example SWYOR-939E21, LEIC-A2A4A2 and SF-120845.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 27th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-090A85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon lead nummular brooch, cast pattern in relief on face, unusual arrangement for attachment on reverse comprising opposed twin lugs on outside edges with transverse perforations linked by groove with raised sides, diameter 41mm. Pattern derived from penny of Cnut (pointed helmet type), North no.787, pl.13, 1024-30. There is no other English coin with this design.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Felixstowe', grid reference and parish protected.

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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