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
Spatial data recorded. 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
Spatial data recorded. 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
Spatial data recorded. 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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Record ID: NMS-7F1646
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Frame oval internally with trapezoidal outside edge, off-set, narrowed bar, sheet pin. The outside edge of the frame is extended to form an elongated notch with small rounded knops to either side of the blunt terminal, with a bordering line of finely executed interrupted rocker-arm engraving giving the appearance of tiny addorsed dots around the edge of each half of the frame and at least one end of the bar. Rectangular plate, recessed for the frame, with a slot for the pin, folded widthways, with two large ball-headed rivets at the attachment edge. Th…
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
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Record ID: NMS-433813
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval-frame, off-set narrowed bar, thickened outside edge angled up-wards with notch for (missing) pin. Rectangular plate, recessed for frame, slot for pin, folded widthways with a single, large rivet. Two engraved transverse lines across and imediately behind the pin slot. Traces of gilding survive on the frame and plate. Buckle 25 x 28mm. Plate 33 x 20mm. The frame and plate are of unusually substantial construction. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 21st June 2013
Last updated: Monday 20th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-4E0C74
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle, asymmetric double looped frame , as Whitehead (2003, 87, no.538). Measuring 25 x 26mmc. 1350 - 1450.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 8th August 2018
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Record ID: NMS-1A8CC2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, off-set narrowed bar, pin missing. The surface is grey with file marks on the bar and is either white metal coated or has a high white metal content. There is a deep grooved casting flaw around part of the inside of the outside edge and a casting seam around most of the outside edge. Possibly unfinished. Measuring 14 x 15mm. 12th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 18th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018
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Record ID: NMS-1A3DF2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, off-set narrowed bar, flat-sectioned outside edge decorated with two pairs of opposed spirals or scrolls. Rectangular plate folded widthways, recessed for the frame, slot for the sheet pin, the back-plate smaller than the front-plate with two rivets at the attachment edge. The plate is decorated with a lion passant guardant in low relief on a stippled ground. The surface is very corroded but gilding survives on the frame and plate. Late 12th - 13th century. Frame measuring 13 x 17mm. Plate 20 x 13mm. Combined length 30mm.
Created on: Wednesday 18th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 24th May 2018
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Record ID: NMS-A98034
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Asymmetric frame with one larger oval and one smaller rectangular loop, the bar recessed for the (missing) pin, slight depression on the oval outside edge for the pin rest. Measuring 27.5 x 33mm. Width of rectangular loop 20mm. Probably 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2017
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Record ID: NMS-422A86
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Rectangular, narrowed bar with collared knop at either end, prominent ridge at either end of bar, notched lip with transverse rib to either side in centre of outside edge for cast pin. Double ridge on pin before loop, tip missing. Measuring 11 x 19mm. Circa 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-819797
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, off-set, narrowed bar, pin missing, expanded angled outside edge engraved with an opposed spiral / scroll design. Measuring 22 x 29mm. See Whitehead (2003, 20, no.66) for a similar example. 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2016
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Record ID: NMS-823D9E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval gilt copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, bar and pin missing, triangular outside edge with a notch to either side of a rounded apex, decorated with an engraved single line border forming a triangle either side of a central transverse band of engraved rockerarm. Surviving dimensions 21 x 45mm. See Whitehead (2003, 25, no.117) for a broadly similar example. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2016
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Record ID: NMS-8288CD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-oval frame with narrowed bar with a short projection at either end of each concave side. Pin missing. Measuring 34 x 31mm. Circa 1500 - 1650.
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2016
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