Record ID: NMS-E26174
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Completely corroded Roman coin, probably originally an as or dupondius of the late 1st or 2nd century AD although a large reformed nummus of c.297-305, is possible, diameter 26mm thickness 1.5mm, weight 4.8g,
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-E24355
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Georgian or 19th century button cover, central domed boss surrounded by a flange decorated with an outer row of (machine?) stamped circles and an inner row of possible stamped rectangles leaving a ridge between each stamp. The flange is broken in two places with just under a quarter missing in total. Traces of white metal coating survive on the upper face. Diameter 16mm. Height 5mm. Weight 1.3g. *Edit, formerly identified as an Early Saxon sheet copper alloy scutiform (shield-shaped) pendant 6th century, now updated for reference.
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E204A3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy casket key. Circular bow, oval-sectioned shank, simple rectangular it, narrowed projecting pin. Length 37mm. Bow 12.5 x 12.5mm Bit 6 x 7mm. Circa 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-E1DED4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle with integral plate. Flat-sectioned, broken across a loop at either end, with a narrow bar between, which is expanded immediately behind the smaller loop for an empty piercing for a rivet or the (missing) pin. Surviving length 25mm. Maximum surviving width 11mm. Width of bar 4mm. See Whitehead (2003, 33, no.190, 34, no.201 and 35, nos.207 - 8) for potentially similar buckles. The small size of this example makes it rather fragile, and it could only have been used for a very narrow strap with didn't take much weight.
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-E1AEBE
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated but ancient copper alloy ingot. Slightly irregular rectangular-sectioned bar with chamfered corners (forming an octagonal-section with alternate wide and very narrow faces), cut at one end, with a more recent granular break at the other. There are file marks over most of the surface and cut end, but no hammer marks. Surviving length 17.5mm, width 7 x 7mm. Weight 6.6g (102.2gn).
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-E1903D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy probable strap fitting. Irregularly faceted-sectioned bar with straight outside edge, the ends bent at right-angles to form straight sides which expand slightly to the transversely pierced terminals. There are file marks over much of the surface with traces of white metal coating, probably tinning. Measuring 10.5 x 31mm. Thickness of bar 3mm. Perhaps a composite strap loop, buckle or pendant loop with unusual attachment (see Egan and Pritchard, 2002, 235. Fig.150, nos.1266 and 1267 for strap loops, and 223, fig.140 for pendant loops). Circa 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-E0981A
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy sheet, probably originally lozengiform, two surviving corners. One corner retains a copper alloy rolled sheet rivet, the other has broken across one rivet hole, with a second replacement hole punched through further into the plate. Traces of sooting. Probably part of a cooking pot, perhaps forming part of the attachment for the handle. Surviving dimensions 41 x 32mm. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-E0308C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval or modern button. Hollow, bi-convex, upper and lower half soldered together, with two holes and a separate inserted loop on the reverse. Diameter of head 15mm. Height (excluding bent loop) 7mm.
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-E016F8
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three medieval - post-medieval copper alloy rings, 14th - 16th century; Irregular, worn, faceted section, bent. External diameter 25 - 28mm. Internal diameter 18 - 21mm. Thickness 2.5mm. Flattened oval-section. External diameter 26.5mm. Internal diameter 20mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Flat-sectioned, traces of casting flash. External diameter 23mm. Internal diameter 16mm. Thickness 1.5mm.
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-DFAE5B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated lead weight, probably Roman - Post-medieval. Oval-sectioned, tapering slightly towards the irregular, broken upper end from which a small corroded iron fragment protrudes. Height 20mm. Base 14 x 16.5mm. Weight 21.4g (0.75oz).
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-DF9738
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated lead weight, probably medieval or post-medieval. Conical with central hole, with seven short, closely spaced transverse scratched lines in a column on the outer face. Diameter 21mm. Height 10mm. Diameter of hole 8 - 9mm. Weight 17.8g (0.62oz).
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-D0558E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three undated lead weights, probably post-medieval or modern. Sub-discoidal and unmarked. Diameter 35mm. Thickness 7mm. Weight 55.9g (1.97oz). Diameter 29mm. Thicknessa3mm. Weight 17.2g (0.6oz). Diameter 35mm. Thickness 5mm. Weight 50.3g (1.7oz).
Created on: Monday 20th July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-6687AD
Object type: DISCOIDAL KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age discoidal knife fragment of glossy dark brown flint now lightly patinated orange. Invasively bifacialy flaked and broken by transverse bending fracture. Less than half survives. Measuring 62.5 x 26 x 12mm.
Created on: Wednesday 15th July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-A5EBF2
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver spoon handle, bowl missing. D-sectioned at break, expanding smoothly and becoming flat-sectioned before rounded turned up end. Engraved M•B on the front at the terminal, the first down strokes of both letters filled with angled lines, with stamped marks before the break the only legible one of which is a lion passant with front paw raised. Circa late 17th - 18th century. Weight 3.8g. Surviving length 60mm. Maximum surviving width 10mm.
Created on: Monday 6th July 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
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Record ID: NMS-A4A4EB
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Undecorated domed front, now dented, flat back with two holes, a separate soldered loop and an illegible stamped mark. Circa 17th century. Diameter 14mm. Height of head at least 5mm. Length of loop 4.5mm. Weight 1.3g.
Created on: Monday 6th July 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
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Record ID: NMS-A3B8C4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete medieval annular brooch, perhaps half surviving, now in two pieces (break occurred at or just after discovery), bent and distorted. Ancient breaks across the constriction for the (missing) pin and across the flat-sectioned frame. Engraved with an outer border of two fine engraved lines with closely spaced angled lines between, with an inner inscription in Lombardic script between two more deeply engraved lines, beginning from the pin constriction with a rectangular quatrefoil S ]?[ O E ∙ [. The second letter falls on the break, and the brooch is bent through the O making …
Created on: Monday 6th July 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
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Record ID: NMS-295F67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy Trumpet brooch (Mackreth 2011 type TR). Single loop broken, pin and spring missing, sub-oval-sectioned bow with half-round moulding, broken before catch-plate. Extremely worn and bent. Surviving length 32mm. 1st - 2nd century.
Created on: Tuesday 30th June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Record ID: NMS-284753
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rear Hook brooch (Mackreth 2011 type CD RH). C-sectioned wings, broken rear hook, slight crest at top of D-sectioned bow with a groove along each edge fading before the break. Spring, pin, and lower part of bow missing. Width 22mm. Surviving length 25mm.
Created on: Tuesday 30th June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Record ID: NMS-27F398
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy dress hook. Openwork plate in the form of a cabled trefoil knot, trapezoidal attachment loop, broken hook. Read Class E Type 5 (2008, 110, nos.436 - 439). Length 28mm. Width 20mm. 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 30th June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Record ID: NMS-27DC83
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy purse bar. Just over half survives. Central plain rectangular boss with vertical hole, oval-sectioned arms, globular terminal with encircling rib and transverse groove at the end. Suspension loop and frame missing. Length (reconstructed) 110mm. Boss 8 x 8 x 13mm. Diameter of globular terminal 11mm. Late 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 30th June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2015
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