Record ID: NMS-D01204
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Upper Palaeolithic tertiary flint blade, soft hammer struck from an opposed platform core. Now patinated mottled grey, slight recent damage. Measuring 93 x 33 x 8.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 6th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-D00029
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mesolithic reworked flint axehead. Butt end recently damaged, less than half survives, fully bifacially worked, with a tranchet blow forming the cutting edge. Heavily patinated brown mottled, the damaged areas showing mid grey flint. Measuring 72 x 49 x 21mm.
Created on: Wednesday 6th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-CFEDAA
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neolithic crude flint adze, made on a thermal fracture flake with part of the natural surace remaining on both faces. Partially polished at the cutting edge on both faces, cutting edge partially damaged. Originally grey flint now patinated mottled grey and white. with spotty iron stainaing. Measuring 143 x 49 x 23mm.
Created on: Wednesday 6th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-BEEC3F
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy bell. Separate inserted sheet loop, upper and lower half soldered together at well-defined median rib, round-ended slot in base, containing corroded remains of iron pea. Now squashed almost flat. Original height circa 30mm. See Egan and Pritchard (2002, 339, fig.221, no.1645 and 1666). 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-BDDCDD
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead ampulla. Fragment from one side of the lower part of the flask with a Spencer (1971) type 2 scallop shell on one side and crosshatching within a double ribbed border on the other. Length at least 33mm. Circa 1350 - 1539.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-BDC58A
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap-fitting. Sub-rectangular sheet, folded widthways, with two slots, two rivet holes, front-plate broken transversely, gilded, one transverse engraved line on front-plate. Two slots suggests a buckle with two pins or some other type of fitting, perhaps a folding strap-clasp. Measuring 14 x 25mm. 13th - 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-BD91C7
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval lead button. Solid domed head with central pellet and six radiating ribs. Remains of broken loop on the reverse. Diameter 12mm. Height excluding remains of loop 9mm. 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-BD80DC
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy button. Solid circular plano-convex head with central pellet, and drilled loop on the reverse. Diameter 12mm. Height 14mm. 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-BD5E2F
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy crotal bell. Rectangular suspension lug with convex lower edge, two holes in upper half, well defined median rib, round ended slot in base, iron pea. There are faint traces of very worn radiating decoration on the upper and lower halves, with a semi-circular field to one side of the slot containing a letter T. Diameter 28mm. Height 34mm. Late 16th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-BD1D3B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-looped rectangular frame, rounded knop on sides at either end of narrowed bar, triangular outside edges, bevelled edges. Pin missing. Measuring 41 x 22mm. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-BD0A1A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Only the triangular outside edge with a single engraved line border on one face, survives. Measuring at least 11 x 30mm. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-BA3A09
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy buckle. Double-oval frame, narrowed bar with transverse ridge at either end of bar, traces of white-metal coating, pin missing. Measuring 33 x 23mm. Circa 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-B9D53E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, off-set narrowed bar, large knop at either end of outside edge with three transverse grooves between, pin missing. See Egan and Pritchard (2002, 77, fig.46, no. 312 and 314). Measuring 22 x 17mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-B9A014
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy buckle. Oval frame, off-set narrowed bar, notched lip in centre of outside edge, the loop of the sheet pin surviving around the bar. Measuring 15 x 18.5mm. Circa 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-B8C3A7
Object type: POT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd. Reduced fabric, lead glazed on internal and external surface, no original edge. Weight 8.8g. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-B8B507
Object type: POT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three abraded body sherds, probably of medieval unglazed ware. Weight 14.2g. 12th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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Record ID: NMS-AA4562
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd of Thetford Type Wear bowl. Not enough survives to estimate original diameter. Weight 30.6g. 10th - 11th century.
Created on: Monday 4th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2016
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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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Record ID: NMS-927DD3
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy pin of Rogers Type 331 (Rogers, 2009, 44 and 57, fig.1.25, no.407 and 409). Bi-conical with a median band, collared, circular-sectioned shank with a faintly engraved spiral starting just before the ancient break. Diameter of head 8mm. Height of head including collar 10.5mm. Total surviving length 50mm.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-9235D7
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of post-medieval copper alloy furniture fitting, probably an escutcheon plate. Trefoil terminal of an elaborately shaped plate, with empty rivet hole, plate engraved and stamped. Measuring at least 26.5 x 25mm. 1mm thick. Probably 17th - 18th century. Similar to NMS-38DD61.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd December 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd December 2015
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