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Record ID: NMS-2C1204
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver hawk-ring or vervel. Annular and flat-sectioned with an engraved inscription around one face: ·m' Come·buck of Chichly (there is an additional small nick above the initial m). Chicheley is in Buckinghamshire. Found very close to a silver bell, also reported as Treasure. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-040A25
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy cheek-piece. Oval loop, short rectangular-sectioned arm expanding before a break across a cental hole, with one surviving projection in the form of a stylised dragon head with projecting four pointed crest, a large annulet for the eye and an open mouth with projecting tongue. Surviving length 56mm. Width (reconstructed) circa 84mm. Thickness 5mm. The breaks are ancient.
Williams (2007) Type 1, similar examples in Pedersen 1998, fig.2. Late 10th-11th century. See also NMS-275D22, NMS-FABB83.
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Saturday 15th July 2017
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Record ID: NMS-34E108
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of bridle cheek piece, both ends broken, one immediately beyond a rectangular boss, and the other across a probably round aperture. On the front face there is geometric engraved ornament and the reverse is marked with a series of broad moulded grooves that are not decorative. Probably of Williams 2007 Type 2. Measuring at least 31 x at least 23mm. Thickness 4mm, at boss 6.5mm. 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Saturday 15th July 2017
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Record ID: NMS-017135
Object type: POWDER MEASURE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead powder change cap. Flat, sub-circular top with pierced lugs and straight sides with a vertical seam. Lugs and sides now distorted. Diameter of top (without lugs) 20mm. Height 19.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2017
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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-636C58
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a silver halfcrown of Charles I. The obverse has been filed smooth and the border containing the reverse legend has been removed, leaving a round garnished shield containing the arms of Great Britain. The resulting disc has been pierced centrally for use as a mount of some sort. This re-use has presumably not occurred very many years after the use of the original as a coin and probably belongs to the second half of the 17th century. Date: 1625-1649 Dimensions: Diameter 25mm. Weight 3.31g. Owing to the adaptation described above this coin is now classified as an object; t…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 6th July 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Whissonsett', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-2AE576
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver hawking vervel of ring type. D-sectioned band, flat externally and curved internally, with an engraved external inscription in roman capitals +HADLYGE • IN • SVF', probably referring to Hadleigh, Suffolk. A pair of faintly engraved guide lines are visible between the inscribed letters, and a faint X behind the initial cross.
External diameter 9mm. Internal diameter 6mm. Width of band 2.5mm. Weight 0.6g.
Discussion: For similar examples see: KENT-C245C7 (2007 T378), YORYM-2FB222 (2007 T183), BH-01EC33 (2007 T24) and BERK-6BD475 (2011 T461). Vervels were used in falconr…
Created on: Friday 11th September 2015
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Wiveton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-AA0079
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver, gilded cap hook with circular-sectioned S-shaped hook soldered to the reverse, broken next to the edge of the plate and now separate but joining. Discoidal plate with grooves around the edge creating segmented sides and border around a slightly recessed front face which has in low relief ihc within a circular cell at the centre of a rose formed from five inner and five outer petal cells. The cells are keyed and gilded, the raised divisions between the cells, segmented border, sides, reverse and pin were either not gilded or the gilding has worn away. The cells ar…
Created on: Friday 10th June 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-D5551A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval silver, gilded finger ring. The band is faceted externally to form concave lozengiform fields with smaller triangular fields between, rising to form a point where the corners of four fields meet. The surviving triangular fields are plain, the lozengiform fields engraved with four lines forming a border around a star or sunburst formed from radiating engraved lines. Plain internally. The surviving fragment consists of one complete lozengiform field and two incomplete.
Width of band 6mm. Weight 0.6g. Not enough survives to estimate the original diameter.
For b…
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-704263
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval or post-medieval silver button or cuff-link. Circular, the upper face originally slightly domed although now crushed flat, soldered to the flat back-plate in which there is at least one hole, broken across a probable second. No trace of an attachment loop survives, but this may have been soldered or inserted through the missing part. There is a faint stamped maker's mark, perhaps SN, SM, or WS, although neither letter is clear. The front face is decorated in repoussé with a beaded border around a crowned female bust with long flowing hair, beaded necklace with pendant a…
Created on: Tuesday 9th June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-B3B940
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver, gilded finger ring. Integral bezel consisting of an octofoil with a central collet containing a blue glass cabochon. Each foil is concave on the upper face and alternately plain and engraved with splayed lines. The shallow D-sectioned band is broken on both sides of the bezel immediately after a transverse rib. Traces of gilding survive on the front and reverse of the bezel and band.
Width of bezel 13.5mm. Height including glass 4mm. Weight 1.2g. Circa 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-A07C7B
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver possible whistle, rattle or handle. Sheet-metal tube open at one end, now broken and distorted, inserted into a separate rounded terminal with a triple moulded collar and terminating in a loop across which it is now broken. There is engraved decoration before the terminal in the form of zigzag lines with multiple closely spaced vertical lines between and crosshatched lozenges between each 'peak'. A separate circular silver plate with an off-centre hole and a scar from possible solder may originally have been attached to the open end. Three links of a copper alloy …
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-0B22DB
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver eye-plate from a dress fastener. The flat-sectioned plate is in the form of a large lobe forming the main part of the plate, with a smaller oval lobe with a transverse rectangular slot forming the eye at one end and three small pierced lobes for attachment arranged one on either side and one at the rear. Engraved decoration consists of a single line following the edge around a central stem with four leaves and a trefoil flower. The reverse is engraved AC.
Length 28mm. Width 16.5mm. Thickness less than 1mm. Weight 1.68g.
For broadly similar objects with simil…
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-09B90A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval silver annular brooch, in two pieces. Rectangular-sectioned twisted frame with two mounts in the form of sexfoil flowers soldered to the upper face, each petal concave on the upper face around a central convex boss. The mounts have been trimmed to the shape of the petals. Slight traces of gilding. Not enough survives to estimate the original diameter. Diameter of bosses 9mm. Width of frame 2mm. Weight 1.0g.
For a similar example see BUC-25AA82. Late 13th - early 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-CD4689
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver brooch. Annular frame, flat on the reverse and slightly convex on the upper face, engraved with four animal heads with annulets for eyes and pointed ears arranged in facing pairs either side of the constriction for the (missing) pin and transverse groove forming the pin rest. A brambled boss (multiple closely spaced annulets) separate the pairs of heads on each side of the frame. Gilded. See BH-DB9C1B and NMS-15AD60 for examples of a similar form.
Diameter 14mm. Width of frame 2mm. Weight 0.37g.
Circa 13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-CF4D93
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver cuff-link of Lewis' (2013) Type B. Two sheet discs with a downturned flange around the edge and separate soldered wire loop on the reverse connected by an oval wire loop which is stamped with an indecipherable maker's mark. Both discs decorated alike with a flaming heart pierced by two arrows with four droplets below reserved on a stippled field. One disc is incomplete with the only surviving part of the flange now separate from the disc.
Diameter of complete disc 16.5mm. Weight 1.69g.
17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-6FA0F0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver finger ring. The rectangular-sectioned band is inscribed externally in black letter with the names of the three kings or magi, + caspar x melchiar x baltasar. The inscription starts with a cross-corsslets and each word is separated by a small x. Black letter was used to inscribe rings from the mid 14th to 16th century (Oman, 1974, 5). For a similar but fragmentary ring see NMS-EDFA64. The names of the three kings were a popular as amuletic charms in the later medieval period. Probably 14th - 15th century.
External diameter 19mm. Internal diameter 17mm. Width of band…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-245AD1
Object type: COCKSPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval silver cock-spur. Circular ring, broken across three of four attachment holes in the incomplete flanged edge, with an integral prick extending from the opposite edge. Stamped externally with a probable maker's mark in the form of a 5 with an elongated top bar crossed by two short lines. Diameter of base (reconstructed) 12mm. Length 19mm. Weight 2.0g. For a similar example see WAW-7144B1. Perhaps 1400 - 1700.
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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Record ID: NMS-23D3E9
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated but ancient octagonal-sectioned gold bar, very slightly expanded at the complete blunt end, irregular at the other end as if cut several times and then broken, the break partially granular and unworn. Surviving length 20mm. Maximum diameter at the complete end 7mm. Weight 8.9g. Perhaps Bronze Age. See NMS-CE16B3 for similar undated gold fragments which were found at a nearby site.
Finder's ref: AB337
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-953302
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval or post-medieval silver spoon. Incomplete handle of slightly flattened hexagonal section with very short triangular moulding on the reverse of the bowl. The surviving shoulders of the bowl are fairly straight and at a narrow angle of slightly less than 90 degrees to each other but not enough survives to suggest a bowl shape. There is a stamped G in low relief on the inside of the bowl at the base of the stem, to be read stem-down. The surface is pitted with beading suggesting it has been partially molten at some point, and has been distorted. Maximum surviving wid…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2017
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