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Record ID: NMS-37C257
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy buckle frame of extraordinary form, corroded and broken, trapezoidal, with the outside edge consisting of a huge animal head with a longitudinal oval aperture formed by the open mouth, one bent obliquely angled oval-sectioned side with engraved transverse grooves survives, the other side and the straight narrowed bar are missing. There is a rounded sub-triangular perforation in the base of the animal-head near the inner edge forming a pin-bar, pin missing. The animal head carries elaborate cast moulded detail; both sides with a long vertical ear with transverse …
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4D0A63
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete gilt spur buckle, bent oval frame, integral plate with engraved oblique lines forming chevronny pattern at rectangular cut-out and slot forming narrowed bar for missing pin, transverse oval expansion at springing of missing hook, perforation contains rivet integral with remains of large strap-loop, now a squashed separate joining fragment. Measuring at least 58 x 44mm. Cf. Whitehead (2003), no.181. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Friday 1st October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-DA3D34
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle, in two pieces, half of one loop missing. Double-oval frame, flat on the reverse, with deep, slightly angled transverse grooves on the front face. Narrowed bar with very slight traces of iron corrosion from the (missing) pin. Measuring 40 x 33mm.
For a similar example with less well defined grooves see Egan and Pritchard (2002, 83, pl .50, no.342), from an early 15th century context.
Created on: Tuesday 4th June 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th August 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NMS-10B892
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Angled oval frame with trasnverse ridge before integral plate with hole for (missing) pin and single rivet hole before transverse break accross two probably originally rectangular apertures. Frame 14 x 17mm. Plate at least 7 x 12mm. Similar elements to buckles in WHitehead (2003, 35, no.202 and 205). 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 24th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-41BB71
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval or early post-medieval copper alloy locking arm buckle. Rectangular frame with rectangular-sectioned sides drilled for separate spindle and (broken) locking arm. Cast pin with transverse pierced oval-sectioned lug to attach to bar. The outside edge of the larger loop has a transverse flange, the upper edges of the frame concave with a notch at either end.
Measuring 29 x 17mm (excluding arm). Width 32 including arm.
See similar examples in Whitehead (2003, 89, no.552 - 4). This type of buckle is now thought to date from c. 1500 AD.
Created on: Monday 14th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-30B4C1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Robust oval frame, 'D' shaped in section, slightly narrowed bar, outside edge has central internal swelling and cast notch for pin. Measuring 17 x 26mm, weighing 7.83g. 5th - 8th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Kenninghall', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-8DD724
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Incomplete chape tapering towards break before missing button or anchor-shaped terminal, with incomplete pin broken across aperture or base of double'pronged terminal. Iron corrosion from separate spindle. Stamped maker's mark on chape WH within a rectangle with serrated edges, possibly with a third letter before the W although corrosion obscures the surface. Width 17mm. Surviving length of chape 21mm. Surviving length of pin 12mm. Late 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 29th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-AC6854
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy buckle. Oval-sectioned, oval frame with narrowed bar. Pin missing. Measuring 9 x 18mm. Marzinzik (2003) Type I.5b. Late 5th - 6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 26th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-5F9413
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilded copper alloy buckle plate. Rectangular, recessed for the (missing) frame, slot for (missing) pin, broken at the fold, with two dome headed rivets at the attachment end. On the front of the plate is a lion passant reguardant to sinister in low relief on a field of closely spaced punched dots. The lion's head is below the pin slot and the feet at the attachment edge, to be viewed with the buckle pin pointing upwards.
Surviving length 19mm. Width 18mm. Late 12th - 13th century.
See NMS-501773 (HER 18111) and NMS-F372E3 for buckle plates depicting similar lions on st…
Created on: Thursday 20th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2018
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Record ID: NMS-05C726
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. A trapezoidal frame with a curved outside edge with a shallow central notch, and an integral plate which tapers in line with the sides of the frame. There is one integral rivet in the plate, and a hole for the (missing) pin filled with corroded iron. There are traces of gilding on the plate and the frame. Frame 15 x 13mm. Length of frame and plate 30mm. Cf. Whitehead (2003, 33, no.187). c. 1250 - 1400.
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
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