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Record ID: NMS-2FF8A2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring. The hoop has a D-shaped cross-section, and is inscribed on the flat internal face A vertuous wife preserveth life. The two 'v's are written as 'u's and the letters 'f' and 's' are elongated. There is a possible maker's mark in the form of a very worn stamped 'H' between the beginning and end of the inscription. External diameter 21mm, internal diameter 17.5mm, width of band 4.5mm. Weighing 3.8g.
Inscriptions declaring that a virtuous wife preserved or comforted life, or banished strife, are frequently found on marriage or posy rings (Evans in R.E.S. 1933, 336) and…
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 9th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'near Fakenham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-304752
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Post Medieval scale tang knife end stop. Rectangular externally, oval internally with 'slot', split end which opens into the slot and central aperture, tiny rabbet in each corner at attachment edge, straight sides expanding slightly towards convex outside edge formed by two addorsed animal heads with prominent brow ridges and snouts, central groove on underside of the animal heads. Engraved cross-hatching at attachment edge and herringbone pattern on sides on both faces. A related end-stop on a complete knife can be seen at LON-76BB02. Dimensions 28 x 18mm, 4.5mm thick at…
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-B00E55
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver button. Hollow, bi-convex, with a small central boss and a seam at the junction with the flat reverse. D-sectioned loop. Diameter 9mm. Weight 1.08g. 16th-early 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 12th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Cawston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-A95326
Object type: VERVEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT
A late 16th - 17th century silver hawking vervel.
Circumstance of Discovery
Found while searching with a metal detector in Wereham, Norfolk
Description
Incomplete silver hawking vervel: a small shield-shaped plate with the scar of a missing ring on the reverse. The top is scalloped and the base pointed. Engraved decoration on the front consists of a contour line and a cross. For a short discussion of vervels see Treasure Annual Report 2004, no. 345.
The age and precious metal content of this item therefore qualify it as treasure under the stipulations of …
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Friday 4th November 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-A9CC55
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT
17th Century silver button
Description
Composite three-piece biconvex silver button, the underside of which is now squashed and a distorted, with a D-sectioned wire loop. Engraved decoration on the top consists of a six-petalled flower within a circle and with the spaces between the petals filled with parallel lines, all set within a band of short oblique lines between two concentric circles. There are two blow-holes on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-1036F5
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt dress hook. The plate, which is cast in one, is in the form of a four petalled rosette with four conical bosses, and has a central hole where a fifth decorative element would have been held in place by a rivet, now missing. On the reverse there is a large scar where the (missing) hook was soldered into place. The transverse attachment bar, also soldered into place, is stamped with the makers mark AK. Very similar to a five petalled version in Gaimster et al (2002, 167, no.10).Measuring 16 x 15mm. 2.71g.16th century
Created on: Thursday 11th December 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-7D2595
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver cufflink. Circular, with down-turned flange around the edge. Stamped with a multifoil flower within a very worn circular border. Attachment loop soldered to the reverse.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-7D6271
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch or buckle. Angled sheet frame now slightly distorted, narrowed for cast pin. Stamped maker's mark on the reverse EH.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: NMS-7D7386
Object type: SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of large spoon, oblique break across shallow oval bowl with the stump of a rectangular-sectioned stem that continues onto the back of the bowl as a rat-tail in the form of a rather etiolated acanthus leaf. There is a broadly similar form of stem and rat-tail, although with more elaborate decoration on the reverse of a Lobe-end spoon dated to 1679-80 in Gask (1926), plate xx, 4-5. 17th century. >39 x >40mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMS-925752
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete and unidentified silver gilt object, possibly a fragment of a pendant cross. There is a transverse suspension loop above a tri-lobed terminal, each lobe of which has a shallow sub-oval concavity on the front face, followed by a short section of a rectangular sectioned shaft before a break.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.
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