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Record ID: NMS-ECFA21
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame with off-set, narrowed bar, slightly pointed outside edge with notch for sheet pin. Measuring 18 x 24mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-48B706
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Terminal from an incomplete medieval silver book clasp of Howsam type A.9.2. Box-like lozenge-shaped composite element formed from an front-plate, back-plate and separate sides, with four radiating engraved notches on the upper face, one in the centre of each edge, and four concave grooves, one across each corner. At one corner is a break and solder where the terminal would have been attached to the (missing) plates or socket for the strap, at the other there is a stylised animal-head terminal with pointed ears emphasised by notches on the sides and engraved dashes on the upper face (…
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
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Record ID: NMS-FC8143
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded and distorted medieval copper alloy key. Hollow-ended shank, incomplete simple wedge-shaped bit, oval-sectioned shank collared before lozengiform bow with circular aperture and collared knops projecting from each corner. 1200 - 1500. Length 41mm. Bow at least 18 x 19mm. Bit at least 6 x 8mm.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3692B7
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite rumbler bell. Sheet metal upper and lower half soldered to form a prominent median rib, with separate inserted and soldered rectangular strip forming a loop. Round ended slot in base. Iron pea. Diameter 19mm. Height 22mm. Late 13th - early 15th century (Egan and Pritchard, 2002, 338 - 9, fig.221, no.1644, 1645 and 1666).
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-366351
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy shield-shaped strap-end. Waisted plate with almost all of original edge missing, with separate rectangular, bar mount of arched section at attachment edge. Two rivets, one through plate and one securing bar mount, both with incomplete rectangular roves on the reverse to hold a thickness of circa 1.5mm. Length 15mm. Width 13mm. See Egan and Pritchard (2002, 157, no.735) for a similar example. Late 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3540D7
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy rowel from spur with 24 radiating arms, each of which is rectangular-sectioned with bevelled edges, expanding slightly to pointed terminals. The arms are conjoined for about half thier length with a central, sub-oval hole, possibly of irregular shape as a result of wear. Traces of tinning survive on both faces. Maximum diameter 73.5mm. Thickness 4mm. Similar, multi-pointed, large rowels became popular from the later 14th century (Clark, 1995, The Medieval Horse and It's Equipment, 29 and 148, fig.106, no.361 and 362), and other similar examples are reco…
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 18th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AE1108
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. Lower half only survives, neck and loops missing. Spencer's (1990) type 1 scallop shell on one face, an uncertain design on the other consisting of two pellets surrounded by a circular border with intersecting lines crossing the border to the edge of the ampulla. A scratched X accross the face appears deliberate. Surviving length 32mm. Surviving width 37mm. 1300 - 1530.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-AD4236
Object type: POT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One jar or bowl rim and two body sherds of abraded and slightly micaceous medieval unglazed ware. Weighing 21.2g. 13th - 14th century. Not enough of rim survives to estimate diameter.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2013
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-5DE0D7
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat with broken loop projecting from the upper edge, outer edge chamfered on reverse. Circular, diameter 24mm. Septfoil. + SIGIL' SEGALLI (Seal of ?Segar or ?Sewall, perhaps a variant or muddled version of either, see Reaney, P.H., and Wilson, R.M. 1991 A Dictionary of English Surnames (London), pp. 389 and 401).
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 31st July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Newton with Dagworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B903F7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete medieval silver annular brooch. Broken circular sectioned frame with two (probably of originally four) knops around the frame, each decorated with multiple stamped annulets but now worn smooth over much of the surface. Tiny traces of gilding survive on the knops. There is a long patch of solder on the frame between the two surviving knops indicating an unknown missing element. Pin missing. Perhaps half the frame survives, but distorted, so original diameter uncertain. Weight 2.1g. Diameter of frame 2mm. Diameter of knops 5mm. A well known type. For similar, comple…
Created on: Monday 25th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-DB8944
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval fragment of copper alloy strap-end, lower end of front and back plates, angled to cruciform terminal, two copper alloy rivets, 15 x (at least) 28mm.
Created on: Tuesday 7th September 2004
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horringer', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D95E82
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle, with two oval loops (one bent) with straight outer edges which project at each side, integral bevelled plate between with much iron corrosion, perforation for iron pin (fragment survives) and two dome-headed iron rivets, 51 x 19mm. Cf. iron version of same in Dress Access. (1991) fig.70, no.491. Late 13th-14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 7th September 2004
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horringer', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-48DB77
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval incomplete copper alloy horse harness suspension mount, horizontal bar, rivet hole at both ends, broken across one, the other with copper alloy rivet and pointed terminal, twin suspension-loops project from lower edge containing copper alloy pin and fragment of pendant suspension-loop, 40 (reconstructed) x 12mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 21st September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-47A370
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead seal matrix, flat with perforated lug projecting from top of outside edge. Circular, 25 mm. Fleur-de-lis. S’ GOSCEL’ FIL’ WILL’ · (Seal of Joselyn son of William).
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-476F72
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead seal matrix, flat with vertical median rib ending in short backward projecting lug at upper edge on reverse. Circular, 26 mm. Quatrefoil between four pellets. S’ WALTERI · PIGV (Seal of Walter Pig).
Created on: Monday 7th June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.