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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.

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Record ID: NMS-391024
Object type: ROWEL SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy spur fragment. Oval-sectioned bar broken either side of the neck, with a shallow groove following the upper external edge, which is pointed above the neck. The down-tured neck consists of a globular moulding and double grooves before the incomplete rowel box which is broken before the attachment for the (missing) rowel. Surviving wdth 46mm. Surviving length of rowel box 11mm. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-370B37
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy dress hook. Rectangular attachmnt loop below which the plate is decorated with two groups of four symetrically placed openwork apertures separated by a worn, moulded element above a V-shaped rib in low relief, the point of which terminates at the springing of the incomplete collared hook. The decoration is worn but very similar to better preserved examples recorded on the PAS database, including LIN-E98142, LIN-6900E0 and LVPL-702595. See also Read (2008), 104, no.402 - 404. Surviving length 30mm. Width 16mm.16th - 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 6th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-36F133
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy dress hook eye-plate. Oval plate with rectangular loop, three pierced and two ornaental lobes around the edge, worn decoration cast in low relief consisting of a folaite or abstract design within a double-ribbed border. Length 37mm, width 22mm. Read's Class A, Type 8 (2008, 175, extremely similar to number.664).16th - 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', 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.

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Record ID: NMS-3639A7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-oval frame, triangular-sectioned with curved upper face, narrowed bar, slight traces of iron corrosion probably from missing pin. Measuring 21 x 17mm.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-363016
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-oval frame, curved upper face, narrowed bar, pin missing. Measuring 21 x 17mm.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-35F4E3
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy spur terminal. Oval-sectioned side with two circular, off-set apertures for (missing) spur leathers at the terminal, the pierced lobes defined by deep transverse grooves. Surviving length 58mm. Width at break 9mm. Broadly similar to other examples recorded on the PAS database, including SUR-D07192, SWYOR-A2ED76 and NMS-24EA74. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2013
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.