Record ID: NMS-76E572
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver mount. A conical sexfoil with a central hole, now slightly squashed. Each foil has a longitudinal arris, with an engraved line terminating in a notch at the edge separating each foil. Height 9mm. Base 14 x 16mm. Weight 0.8g.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wragby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-76701D
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver thimble. Separate soldered crown missing, vertical butt join now separated, two lines of engraved rocker-arm around the lower edge between which is a stamped maker's mark H, and IW in lightly pecked dots. The I is partially obscured by scratches and may possibly be T or L. The rest of the sides are covered in closely spaced low relief stamped annulets. Surviving height 17mm. Diameter at base circa 16mm. Weight 4.8g. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2016
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Record ID: NMS-7B4782
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval lead weight. Discoidal with three circular blind holes near the edge on one face. Diameter 36mm. Thickness 7mm. Weight 104.0g / 1606gn. Probably circa 1400 - 1700.
Created on: Friday 9th October 2015
Last updated: Friday 9th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-7A20F3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead 'standing' weight. Square-sectioned, flat base, tapering slightly from th base to an integral pierced tab at the apex forming a suspension loop. Each face is slightly concave. Base 12.5 x 13mm. Height 33mm. Weight 35.3g / 545gn.
Created on: Friday 9th October 2015
Last updated: Friday 9th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-3E4889
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button. Circular, with downturned edges, broken integral pierced lug on reverse. Decorated on the front face with large and small stamped annulets forming a seven pointed star around a circle around a probably floral motif. Diameter 27mm. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-3E1165
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-oval frame, one loop surviving, narrowed bar with grooved moulding at either end, pointed and grooved moulding in centre of outside edge. Reverse of mouldings slightly hollowed. Iron staining on bar from (missing) pin. Measuring (reconstructed) 50 x 26.5mm. See Whitehead (2003, 65, no.401), circa 1550 - 1650.
Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-3DBD3C
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval button. Circular plano-convex head with high white metal content, separate inserted copper alloy loop. Undecorated. Diameter 12mm. Length 9mm.
Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-3DAE74
Object type: ANIMAL BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lower half of crotal bell with worn cast decoration, now indecipherable.
Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-3D9C7E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Rectangular-sectioned, oval frame (straight bar and outside edge, convex sides), off-set narrowed bar, thickened outside edge with a transverse groove at each end and in the centre forming a pin rest for the (missing) pin. Measuring 15 x 20mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-39110C
Object type: HANDAXE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lower Palaeolithic handaxe of type D (Wymer 1968, 1999.) Hard hammer struck from a suitable flat and slightly irregular nodule of mottled grey and black flint, now unpatinated; both faces have a patch of cortex extant, one appearing as a hollow where the flake removals did not succeed in being deep enough to level the concavity. All the edges and high points of the flake scars are heavily rolled. 143.5 x 80 x 37 mm. Weight: 432g. Found on beach. Recorded and sketched by the late Tony Gregory in 1975.
Created on: Tuesday 6th October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
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Record ID: NMS-2A0819
Object type: COMBINATION TOOL
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic tertiary hard hammer struck flake with steep irregular retouch. Length 47mm. Width 24.5mm. Maximum thickness 6mm.
Created on: Monday 5th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 19th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-178AE0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age socketed terminal mount in the form of a bull's head. Circular-sectioned socket filled with orange-stained soil, perhaps from iron corrosion, with four evenly spaced rivet holes between two very fine engraved lines around the edge. One of the rivet holes is broken through and there is a ragged crack extending 11mm from the edge, possibly caused by internal corrosion forcing the socket apart. The socket tapers smoothly from the opening, curving at the end to form a narrow neck before the stylised bull's head. This is cast in the round, with horizontal horns which bend sha…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 16th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scarning', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-177775
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button. Conical hollow head, soldered loop on the reverse. Corroded. Diameter of head 14mm. Height excluding loop 13mm. Height including loop 17mm. 1500 - 1800.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-1718A5
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval - post-medieval seal or unidentified object. Possibly a cloth seal. Lead disc with the arms of Norwich (castle above a lion) within a cabled border in low relief, with a recess around the edge separating the upper disc from a lower disc or flange from which two loops or tabs project. At least two further broken shank-like projections emanate from the edge of the upper disc. If a cloth seal then the usual arrangement of rivets and tabs connecting discs has not been used. Diameter 15mm. Circa 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-166996
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval - post-medieval lead cloth seal. Four discs blank // RS within a circle // illegible within a border // blank . Diameter 11mm. Circa 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-165B8F
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval - post-medieval lead cloth seal. Two discs XXVI // folded and mostly obscured, probable portcullis. Diameter 16mm. Circa 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-164BE8
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval - post-medieval lead cloth seal. Fragment of one disc ]T I[ // blank. Diameter at least 17mm. Circa 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-1641A2
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval - post-medieval lead cloth seal. Two of four surviving discs. Shield bearing a cross with a pellet to either side within a beaded circular border // IOC surrounded by + D ]?[ A O ]?[. Diameter 12mm. Circa 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-161C4F
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two medieval - post-medieval lead cloth seals. Two discs: blank // blank or illegible. Diameter 13mm. Two discs, one surviving as rivet only: 12 // * and indecipherable marks. Diameter 17mm. Circa 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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Record ID: NMS-15A854
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead weight. Conical (sub-circular / pentagonal base), with five prominent, angled ribs from the base to the off-centre apex. Base 29 x 32mm. Height 24mm. Weighing 112.0g / 1728grains, which is slightly less than an avoirdupois ¼ pound (1750grains). 1300 - circa 1500.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
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