Record ID: PUBLIC-B2B2B9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver, medieval long cross penny of Edward I. Probably class 3cd. Circa AD1280. Diameter 19.3mm, weight 1.35g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7102EB
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded, copper-alloy, post-medieval unattributed farthing Trader's token of Kings Lynn. Obverse: OF LIN REGES/ Grocers Arms. Reverse: IN NORFOLKE// /W/N. R. Williamson 102. Circa AD1650-1672. Diameter 15.3mm, weight 0.89g.
Created on: Sunday 17th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-33995D
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Slightly damaged lead alloy Medieval ampulla. The ampulla is a bag or flask shape that is waisted towards the middle. There are triangular lug handles to either side, set where the more bulbous body joins the narrower tapering neck. The handles are not quite laterally aligned with one positioned lower than the other.  The top is damaged and is split and lipped over to one face, probably as a result of post-depositional impact damage rather than any contemporary attempt to force it open or shut. The iconographic decoration is raised and bifacial, with one face consis…
Created on: Saturday 2nd March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D08755
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object, possibly the goad terminal of a Medieval prick spur. The terminal end has a flat-tipped pyramidal shape with a circular recess at the apex. At the base angle of the pyramid, there is an angular bevel on three of the four sides. From the slightly rectangular flat base a circular stub projects with a distorted broken, or possibly even cut end, which is possibly the remnant of the neck. There is an overall green colouration with patches of dark brown patina. The surface has no trace of iron corrosion and the object does not react to a magnet. Simi…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CFD2A9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bent medieval silver long cross crockard sterling penny of John II D'Avesnes; Lord of Hainaut. Mons mint. Obverse; Facing bust, crowned with a chaplet of roses. I COMES HANONIE. Reverse; Long cross with three pellets in each quadrant. MON/ETA/MON/TES. Mayhew 34. Circa AD1290-1298.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-275037
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete late Medieval copper alloy purse hanger frame with niello inlay decoration. From the base of a narrow rectangular strap loop a semi-oval loop projects down and forwards curving back on itself towards the base of the strap loop from which it sprung. Just short of the return to the strap loop it bifurcates into two arms. One arm juts downwards in a short tapering projection to restrict the upper part of the semi-oval loop. The other arm continues the frame and turns abruptly to run upwards slightly obliquely to the plane of the loop. Just beyond the terminal end of the…
Created on: Sunday 18th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-28305F
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, post-medieval, worn, and corroded copper-alloy farthing trade token; issued by John Moyes in Wisbech. Obv: (mullet) IOHN.MOYES.1664, Grocer's Arms. Rev: (mullet) IN.WISBECH around a cabled inner circle, M over I E triad of initials. Williamson, Vol. 1. 209. Dimensions; Diameter 15.3mm, weight 0.35g.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2AAE58
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy 'disc-on-pin' buckle frame. The annular frame is divided in half by a non-integral narrower bar let into the reverse of the frame. The frame is pinched over the bar retaining it flush with the lower edge of the frame. The frame has a wide 'brooch-like' pin restriction, set such that the line of the missing pin would run perpendicular to the bar. The configuration is that of a disc-on-pin buckle but the lack of a surviving pin precludes any further classification. Circa AD1250-1500. Dimensions; Diameter 24mm, weight 4.67g.
Created on: Monday 1st January 2024
Last updated: Saturday 17th February 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-284A7A
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy horse harness pendant hanger. T-shaped in plan with a transverse rectangular strap attachment bar of triangular cross-section. On the reverse of each wing of the bar is a thick integral rivet with an upset end. In the centre of the lower edge of the bar, projecting perpendicularly is an integral bifurcated hanger, which also initially has a triangular cross-section before it splits into two pierced hanger arm loops that would have suspended the pendant from an iron pin passing transversely between them. B…
Created on: Monday 1st January 2024
Last updated: Saturday 17th February 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-C01161
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Simple and crude small copper alloy finger ring. The ring is made from a 0.9mm thick, rectangular cross-section, copper alloy strip; 5mm wide at its centre, that tapers linearly in width, narrowing to a point at either end. The strip is formed into an approximate 14mm diameter circle to create the hoop of the finger ring with the overlapping pointed terminal ends meeting opposite the widest part of the hoop. There is no discernable decoration. Rings of this most basic form are commonly of Roman to late Early Medieval date. Some Roman examples hav…
Created on: Wednesday 27th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 1st January 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-75F2E9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman Aesica rearhook type brooch of Mackreth class 2.a1. Eroded extremities with missing spring and pin. Commensurate with the rearhook spring configuration the reverse of the left hand wing (as viewed from the front) shows a slight solder witness mark, that would have attached the spring to the underside of the wing. The curving head is decorated with central and border grooves, and the fantail foot has the remains of a grooved border with a central downward-pointing chevron. The central penannular raised decoration has slightly oblique tran…
Created on: Saturday 23rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 24th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-00E1E3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Damaged and distorted copper-alloy Medieval thimble. Dome-shaped top with slightly tapering sides to the body, with a plain basal band. The lack of raised distortion around the rows of hand-made circular indentations suggests they are drilled rather than punched. When viewed from the base the indentations travel in a left-hand spiral direction up towards the top. The base is split and distorted, but there is no sign of a seam. Circa AD 1350-1500. Dimensions; Height 20mm, estimated basal diameter 19mm, weight 9.83g.
Created on: Monday 18th December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 23rd December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B51AFC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, worn and corroded copper-alloy Roman Colchester Derivative Rear Hook brooch. Mackreth 2011, probably class 3b. One wing, the bow, and the majority of the catchplate are extant. One of the C-shape cross-sectioned wings survives only as a stump, but the whole of the remaining spring housing has vestiges of the retaining solder that held the spring. The upper surface of the wings appear to be decorated with partial mouldings with a bead adjacent to the end of the wing and worn evidence of reels inboard of this. The forward part of the head has the…
Created on: Thursday 14th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 15th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-439C1C
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval lead alloy, uniface, circular, probable coin weight. One face is marked in the upper half with a W, with the roman numerals XXXVI or XXVII below. The other face is blank apart from a central pimple. A coin weight for a Noble is shown on p24 of Withers, P & B, Lions Ships and Angels that is marked with an XXXVI value in roman numerals. At 4.37g (67.4gn) the weight of this object would approximate to a half noble. It is not clear what the W indicates. On this basis, it is likely this is an unofficial coin weight. Circa 1351…
Created on: Saturday 9th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-35C697
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Finger ring dating to the late 19th or early 20th century, made from silver or another white metal with enamelled decoration. Although now incomplete and bent, it was clearly originally very small and quite flimsy. The hoop is missing a small part at its narrowest part, where it is 2.5mm wide and nor more than 0.8mm thick; the breaks appear fairly fresh. The hoop then flares gently in width to the shoulders, which expand and flatten to form a flat shield-shaped bezel. This is decorated with a shield of arms comprising three diagonal cells part-filled with decayed enamel, with an&…
Created on: Friday 8th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-183BED
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distal terminal-end fragment of a copper alloy early Saxon girdle hanger. A significant part of the central lower shank survives, flanked by a complete prong to one side, with the formerly symmetrical stub on the other side which is now entirely missing from an old break. The undamaged prong terminates in an outward canted rounded end. One face of the fragment has the entire border decorated with continuous rows of spaced punched dots. The rear face is undecorated. Brown patina over most of the surface. Circa AD460-550. Extant length 46mm, thick…
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-08A7D1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and worn copper alloy Post-Medieval gilded and enamelled strap mount. The central body is pirifom-shaped with a debased acorn knop extending at each end, with the tip of one knop missing from an old break. In cross-section the mount is flat on the reverse with rounded sides to the top face. The back had two square section sharp prongs located at either end, but only one survives, bent outwards to retain it on the original strap. There are incuse circular decorations on the face which towards the centre look like a flower with surroundi…
Created on: Friday 24th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-94C249
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Medieval three-part folding clasp with attached plate. Trapezoidal frame with upright rectangular cross-section strip and transverse rotating end plate. The bar mount attached to the folding end plate is missing. The non-recessed undecorated clasp plate is folded back on itself laterally around the frame. Contained within the two faces of the plate are the remnants of the fabric strap that have been preserved, presumably by the copper corrosion compounds from the plate. The attachment copper alloy end-rivet also remains within the fabric. The nature of the f…
Created on: Saturday 18th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st December 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-67A8B8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval to early Post-Medieval copper alloy punched letter strap mount. The mount is in the form of a crowned lombardic letter M probably citing the virgin Mary (See- Medieval Chic in Metal: Decorative mounts on belts and purses from the Low Countries, 1300-1600, page 126). On the reverse is the remains of a centrally located circular fixing pin or rivet. Circa AD1400-1530. Dimensions; Height 15.7mm, width 12.5, weight 0.7g
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2023
Last updated: Saturday 18th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-63F554
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Medieval short cross penny of Henry III. Class 7b. Moneyer ADAM, mint London. North Vol I. No.979. Circa AD1222-1236 Dia. 17.9mm, Weight 1.38g.
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2023
Last updated: Saturday 18th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-CA11E6
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distal terminal-end fragment of a copper alloy early Saxon girdle hanger. A small part of the central lower shank survives, flanked by a complete prong to one side, and a broken formerly symmetrical stub on the other. The complete lingulate-shaped prong has a surviving outward projecting tab positioned just short of its end. The basal terminal edge of the hanger spanning the width across both prongs has three spaced crenels. One face of the fragment has a decorated border consisting of irregularly spaced lines of punched dots and ring-a…
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2023
Last updated: Saturday 18th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BF00E6
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn, cast copper alloy late Early Medieval zoomorphic stirrup terminal, of the Anglo-Scandinavian period. The upper part of the terminal is a hollow U-shaped triangle, one return of which is missing from an old worn break. The U-section tapers to an internal ledge on which the iron footrest of the stirrup would have been located and soldered. An internal cusp leads to a solid triangular projection the outside face of which is moulded, probably representing a zoomorphic beast's head, but is now far too worn and eroded to be resolvable as such. The form of…
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4FF766
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded copper-alloy Roman radiate coin. Obverse; probable radiate bust facing right. Reverse; standing figure. No further details are legible.  Circa AD 275-296. Diameter 29.5mm, weight 4.06g.
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2023
Last updated: Saturday 18th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4FA955
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and incomplete copper-alloy Roman radiate. Obverse; radiate bust facing right. Further details are illegible.  Circa AD 275-296. Diameter 17mm, weight 1.57g.
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2023
Last updated: Saturday 18th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2BEB61
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman champlevé enamelled British, Plate brooch. Mackreth class 2b. The edge-damaged circular plate is decorated with a central dot around which is hexagon with concave sides and rounded knops at each cusp. The interior of the hexagon is filled with red enamel and the exterior background is filled with blue enamel, of which only minute traces remain. The reverse is undecorated and has two perpendicular eroded lugs positioned at diametrically opposite ends of the plate; one is the pin-lug and is broken across the central piercing…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-77858E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy Post-Medieval probable weight or token. The object is flat (1.5mm thick) and sub-square (20mm x 22mm) with an image cast in relief decorating one side. The design is not easily recognisable as a letter or digit, nor any easily discernable symbol. A straight line, close and broadly parallel to one edge has two separate approximately one-third-spaced, down-curving crescents, that spring across the front face and meet close to the opposite edge. Perhaps the most likely interpretation is that of a letter D. The mass is 6.95g, which is just…
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Last updated: Saturday 18th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6927DE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and poorly struck silver Post-Medieval penny of Charles I. Offstruck reverse. Circa 1634-1640. Diameter 14.0mm, weight 0.46g
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-520E18
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Medieval short cross cut halfpenny of KIng John. London mint, Moneyer probably WILLELM [...] Circa 1204-1218. Diameter 19.5, weight 2.0g
Created on: Sunday 22nd October 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-51B7A4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Post-Medieval asymmetrical buckle frame. On one side of the central strap bar is a trapezoidal loop, and the other semi-circular side extends on its extremity to a scallop-shaped knop. The strap bar itself extends in a triangular knop to either side of the frame and is entirely encrusted with iron rust. See Whitehead No. 583.  Circa 1575-1700. Length 23.4mm, width 15mm, weight 2.0g
Created on: Sunday 22nd October 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4E01F3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy early Post-Medieval sharp single hook clasp. Circular body with a cross fleuretty at its centre and openwork apertures between each lis. Sub-rectangular attachment loop with a slender double-collared sharp hook diametrically opposite; the return end of which is missing. The front face of the clasp is moulded whilst the reverse is flat. Dark brown patina. A similar example is shown in Read, B, Hooks Clasps and Eyes; p.97 No.360. Circa 1500-1625. Length 30mm, width 19mm, weight 1.89g
Created on: Sunday 22nd October 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-42926B
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Medieval to Post Medieval spur fragment. The fragment has broken away from the heel of the spur and consists of the neck and rowel box. The neck drops down from the fractured end and is separated from the forked rowel box by a raised collar that extends for 180 degrees on the inner side of the angle. The axle end of the rowel box arms have circular terminals with vestiges of the central axle spindle projecting on both inner faces. Dark brown lustrous patina. Circa 1400-1600. Length 32mm, weight 6.87
Created on: Saturday 21st October 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-3DFD57
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Sterling imitation long cross penny of William I, Count of Namur. Obverse; +GUILELMUS COMES. Reverse; NAM/VRC/ENS/IS+. Mayhew No. 361. Circa 1337-1391.
Created on: Saturday 21st October 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-2B5A91
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy single loop Medieval rectangular buckle frame. Rectangular cross-section with a central chevron-moulded pin-groove on a double-cusped outside edge, both sides with a pair of oblique lines near the outside edge and a pair of transverse lines near the narrowed and lowered pin bar. The original iron pin is missing. See broadly related types in Whitehead (2003), nos. 128 and 175. Also NMS-ADF6ED on the PAS database. Circa AD1300-1500. Length 20.0mm. Width 22mm. Weight 3.91g.
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 20th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-28EF29
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete catch-piece from a cast copper-alloy sleeve clasp of Hines form B12, dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 450-600 AD. It is broken across the middle catch slot and represents about half of the complete object. The bar is laterally extended by the broken slot into a trapezoidal shape, continuing via three groups of transversely grooved, waisted rectangles to a square terminal end with a T-shaped sewing projection.  Extant length 26mm, width 14.5mm, weight 2.88g
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 20th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-271F68
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Front half of a decorated Medieval folded buckle plate. The plate has fractured transversely across the double loops flanking the central pin aperture. There are small circular rivet holes in each of the two attachment end corners. The decoration is in shallow relief and consists of a left-facing, segreant-rampant griffin-like beast with a raised tail and folded feathered wings. The recessed field surrounding the griffin is filled with small regularly spaced raised squares, but there is no trace of extant enamel. Significant gilding survives on the front face. Circa AD1150-13…
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 20th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BE58BE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Clipped silver Medieval long cross halfpenny of Edward III. Star-marked coinage. North 1102. Circa 1335-1343.
Created on: Sunday 15th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BE1AB4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Edge-eroded copper alloy Iron Age so-called Thurrock type potin of the Cantiaci, Kent. Cast in high relief (greatest thickness 4mm), one side has an irresolvable prominent moulded shape along its centre, surely a miscast head of Apollo, and the other face has an exergue line surmounted by a bull butting right with a raised foreleg. Above the bull's head is a series of intersecting straight chevron lines, the last of which is crossed and resembles the letter A. The surviving patina is a dark lustrous brown. See Rudd, Ancient British Coinage (ABC) 120. D…
Created on: Sunday 15th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BDD4A3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn Medieval silver long cross penny. Probably class 10cf2 of Edward I. Canterbury Mint. North 1041. Circa 1306-1307
Created on: Sunday 15th October 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-832BE7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Heavily bent Medieval silver short cross cut halfpenny. In its bent and worn condition insufficient detail is visible for further classification. Circa 1180-1247.
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-80B657
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval short cross silver penny of Henry III. Class 7b. Moneyer, Roger of R. MInt, Canterbury. North Vol 1 No. 979. Circa 1222-1236
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 12th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-097876
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval silver threepence of Elizabeth I. Initial mark plain cross, Tower mint. Dated 1578. North Vol II (1975), p 111, No 1998.
Created on: Saturday 7th October 2023
Last updated: Sunday 8th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-056614
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy post-medieval strap fitting. The fitting comprises two separate elements consisting of a separate roughly finished circular suspension ring and a sub-triangular hooked attachment plate. The plate is in the form of a triangle, the top of which dips slightly in the centre, forming a wide chevron shape. The end of the plate has a transverse groove, from which point it tapers to form a narrow hook that curves rearwards from the plate and retains a separate circular ring with an external diameter of 11mm. T…
Created on: Friday 6th October 2023
Last updated: Saturday 7th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-859518
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Eroded head fragment of a copper alloy Iron Age to Roman birdlip-type brooch. The spring, pin, most of the bow and catchplate are all missing from the fragment The upper head is oval with a trumpet brooch-like shape, the underside of which is deeply concave and probably originally housed the emerging pin. Where the head turns sharply down towards the bow there is a large moulded decoration with two collars that converge through the thickness of the moulding. On the front face, the collars are vertically separated by an axially aligned vulvate-shaped mouldi…
Created on: Saturday 30th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 6th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-3EA2A6
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded 17th C trade token of William Pearson of Litcham. Obverse; * WILLIAM PEARSON/The Grocers' Arms. Reverse; GROSER OF LITCHAM/ W.P. Die axis 6 o'clock. Williamson 60. Diameter 16mm, weight 0.96g.
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 6th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-3E27BE
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded 17th C trade token of William Pearson of Litcham. Obverse; * WILLIAM PEARSON/The Grocers' Arms. Reverse; GROSER OF LITCHAM/ W.P. Die axis 6 o'clock. Williamson 60. Diameter 15.3mm, weight 0.83g.
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 6th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EA9CEE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn, clipped and pierced silver Medieval penny of Henry VI. Pinecone-mascle issue of Durham mint. North 1467. The coin is pierced with a 1mm circular hole punched through from the obverse to the reverse. The hole is placed at the 10 o'clock position on the obverse to the inside of the inner circle, which registers on the reverse slightly off-line with the arm of the long cross at the end of the CIVI legend quadrant. AD 1430-1434 Diameter 17.8mm, weight 0.75g.
Created on: Saturday 23rd September 2023
Last updated: Saturday 23rd September 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6E8EE1
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy late Medieval to early Post Medieval candle holder. The holder consists of a solid 72mm long, 11mm cylindrical cross-section rod, broken at one end with a collared expanded faceted terminal at the other. The facets shape the expanded end cross-section to that of a crude hexagon. The expanded terminal end has an axial 12mm deep circular hole. At a point 41mm from the expanded end there is a 16mm diameter bi-convex flange with two sections of its circular periphery missing from old breaks. The object has a uniform dark brown patina. …
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-741F97
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, heavily corroded, and eroded copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook type brooch. The brooch is missing the foot of the bow, catchplate, spring, and pin. The wings are eroded at the edges and have a shallow C-shaped cross-section, there is a tiny trace of solder to the underside of the left (as viewed from above) wing. The rearhook is reduced to a stub from which the bow forms a raised mid-rib that runs medially down its surviving length. Any decoration on the bow is obscured by pitting corrosion. The bow terminates in an abrupt bend, after…
Created on: Saturday 12th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 14th August 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8F8AB6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Medieval to Post Medieval groat of Henry VII. Initial mark anchor, Mint London. Circa AD 1499-1502. North 1705 Class III(c) Dimensions; Diameter 26mm, weight 2.48 (38.8 grains)
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8B3188
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large gilded copper alloy single oval loop Medieval buckle with integral plate. The outside edge of the oval buckle frame loop is expanded into a slender trapezoidal shape with a central pin recess. Where the curving loop meets the integral plate there is a moulded triangular cusp at each junction. The plate tapers linearly from its narrowest width where it joins the loop to the wider attachment end, terminating in a shallow convex shape with a lobe to both corners of the plate. There is a large medial circular hole in the plate nearest the loop that would have accommodated t…
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BFD9B3
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small, lead alloy, uniface Medieval to Post Medieval initialed disc. It is circular with a grained peripheral flange and is marked on the front face with a closed letter E in relief set within a circular border. Its purpose is unknown but use as a token or weight is probably the most likely application. The object would be small in diameter for a token, but token sizes can sometimes be deliberately paralleled by the denomination that is being represented; - ie at this diameter a silver halfpenny or farthing coin. Initialled leaden token…
Created on: Saturday 22nd July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BC414C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy foot fragment of a Roman hinged pin fantail foot brooch. Probably Mackreth type 7.b3. Triangular in shape broken across the top and eroded at one of the basal angles. The front face is bordered and decorated in relief with a pelta shape below a lozenge. The reserved area around the relief decoration would have contained enamel, but no colour now survives. The catchplate on the reverse of the brooch fragment projects perpendicularly, with its end hooked over to the right as viewed from the front. A brooch with an almost identically shaped foot and decora…
Created on: Saturday 22nd July 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th July 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7E85E9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Post Medieval sixpence of Elizabeth I. London (tower) mint, initial mark pheon. Obverse; Crowned bust facing left, with rose behind head, ELIZABETH D G [...] ET HB REGINA. Reverse; Royal shield over long cross fourche, with the date 1561 above, POSVI DEV' ADIVTOREM MEV. North 1997. Dimensions; Diameter 24.4mm, thickness 0.7mm, weight 2.60g.
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 4th August 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-7DE522
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Heavily worn and corroded copper-alloy Roman sestertius coin, possibly of the emperor Hadrian. Right-facing bust, but all further details are illegible. Circa AD 117-138. Dimensions; Diameter 31mm, thickness 3.9mm, weight 15.60g.
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd September 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-115DA1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy medieval to post-medieval quatrefoil mount. The mount is flat and has four lobes, each of which has a degraded nib at the end. At its centre is a circular hole, across which is a cross formed by two linear chisel cuts that align with the nibs at the end of the quatrefoils. The forward face has significant traces of file marks on the surface. The reverse is plain. Other than the central hole there is no visible means of attachment. The mount is probably for a strap, casket, or book and is medieval to post-medieval in date. Circa AD 13…
Created on: Friday 14th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th July 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BC022C
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper alloy early Saxon sleeve clasp of Hines type B12. The square terminal end of the bar survives, with the narrowed and tightly cross-banded decorated strip below. The fragment is fractured transversely across the base of the banding and the centre of the adjoining attachment loop. This fragmented example falls into Hines’ B12 category, very similar in form to one illustrated in Hines 1993: 47, fig. 90a. Related and more complete examples are recorded on the PAS database under LEIC-C9DCA0 and NLM-F3880E. Circa AD&nbs…
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-81E826
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy asymmetrical late Medieval buckle with missing pin. It consists of an oval looped frame, with five knops symmetrically arranged around the outside edge. The forward-facing and two side knops are triangular and if the sides were extrapolated would form a square, whilst the two flanking the forward knop are sub-semi-circular, both with blind holes set on their upper moulded face. There is an integral but smaller rectangular framed loop on the attachment side of the larger oval frame. The transverse strip between the loops has dou…
Created on: Friday 7th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-10543C
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Medieval enameled harness pendant. Upper oval-shaped loop set at ninety degrees to the plane of the square body with corroded remains of the iron pin extant. The body is decorated with a raised sexfoil border with small traces of red enamel within. Circa 1150-1350AD. Compare PAS numbers SWYOR-916416, IOW-A92B71 and YORYM-D12216. See also Ashley, S. Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 101, 2002. figs 8 & 9.  Height 21.3mm, width 13mm, weight 1.76g.
Created on: Friday 26th May 2023
Last updated: Saturday 27th May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B2BC67
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper-alloy nummus coin of the House of Constantine. Twin tower camp gate reverse. Circa 324-330. Reece period 16 Weight 1.30g. dia 14.5mm. 
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-3C0571
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver short cross penny of King John. Class 5b. Mint Rochester, moneyer hVNFREI. Circa 1205-1207. Weight 1.31g. dia 18.0. 
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E49D77
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver long cross heavily clipped Medieval penny. The extent of clipping and wear precludes reliable identification, but the coin is possibly a Continental imitation. Circa 14th C. Weight 0.46g. dia 15.7. 
Created on: Friday 12th May 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E3D0A8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy terminal fragment of a narrow rectangular Medieval composite strap end. Only the central spacer and the front plate survive the reverse plate having broken away from behind the terminal knop. From the broken attachment end the straight sides continue gently towards the knopped terminal-end; past two pairs of symmetrical and lateral opposed cut-outs; the first being semi-circular and the second rectangular. The end-knop is reel-and-bobbin-shaped with the front plate having a cleft and engraved end, creating a foliate terminal. The terminal…
Created on: Friday 12th May 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DFF77D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Medieval long cross halfpenny of Richard II. London mint. Circa 1377-1399
Created on: Friday 12th May 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6830C7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Medieval strap loop or slider. Trapezoidal frame with two triangular internal projections at the narrower end of the frame. The front of the wider end has an oval-shaped central bezel. Circa AD1200-1400. Length 16mm, width 18mm, thickness 3mm, weight 1.43g. Similar strap loops are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (2002); p234, No 1259 is a close parallel. A strap loop would be used on a belt, fitted perpendicular to the strap, to secure the tail of a belt once it has passed through the buckle.
Created on: Saturday 6th May 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4C0CFB
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Medieval domed-top type thimble. Anticlockwise drilled pits on the sub-conical crown with a reserved tonsured top and a single-blind pit at the apex. Drilled pits are arranged in columns on the sloping sides with a circumferential double-grooved basal band. A section of basal band and side missing through damage. See Reed, B. p24. Nos 78 and 79 for close parallels. Circa AD1330-1400.  Diameter; 19mm at base, height 17mm, weight 3.43g.
Created on: Friday 5th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4A7535
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy French Medieval feudal jetton of the mid-14th century. Evreux/Navarre type. Obverse; Shield of Evreux/Navarre within a six-arched tressure, with pellets in spandrels. +POVR. LA .CONTOISSE DEVRES Reverse; Straight cross fleuretty within four arched tressure, trefoil in spandrels. +CESSONT (fleur de lis) LCS (fleur de lis) GETORRS: See Mitchener p166. Nos.411-414. Apart from some fine edge abrasion, the condition is very fine. Circa 1349-1404. Diameter; 26.5mm, weight 2.95g.
Created on: Friday 5th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8559CC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A group of nine very worn and corroded Roman copper alloy coins. Four can be identified as radiates, three as nummi, and two as radiates or nummi. The poor condition precludes further identification. Circa AD 260-400.
Created on: Saturday 1st April 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-82499C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Head fragment of a Colchester derivative Hinged pin Roman brooch. The fragment consists of a perpendicular collared head-loop, below which the head of the incurving tapering D-shaped cross-section bow springs. The arching bow fractures transversely after a short distance across a line of raised decoration. A short tubular wing casing encloses the iron axis bar for the hinged pin which is let into a central slot in the casing. Only a stub of the rectangular-section pin remains. Dimensions: Extant length 19mm, width 12mm. weight 3.87g.
Created on: Saturday 1st April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0C2689
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Neat fragment of Post Medieval jetton. Approximately one-quarter of the full flan remains, with the possibility that the edges have been cut rather than broken. One side of the jetton fragment is blank, the other has vestiges of a 'four lis in a lozenge' design. Circa AD 1488-1586.  Metrics - Length 13mm, width 14.5mm, weight 0.41g
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0940F8
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bent and damaged copper-alloy Post-Medieval Nuremberg Ship-penny Jetton. Ship obverse (no G above yard arm) and four lis in a lozenge reverse. A very similar jetton is shown in Mitchiner, M. Jetons Medalets, and tokens. The Medieval period and Nuremberg. p372. No. 1169. Circa AD 1490-1550.  Metrics - Diameter 26mm, weight 1.64g
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-034425
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn, corroded, and damaged copper-alloy Post-Medieval Nuremberg rose-and-orb type jetton of Hanns Krauwinkel II. Circa AD 1586-1635.  Metrics - Diameter 21mm, weight 0.96g
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-02D023
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and corroded copper-alloy Post-Medieval Nuremberg rose-and-orb type jetton. Probably an anonymous stock type. Circa AD 1490-1585.  Metrics - Diameter 24mm, weight 1.41g
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-F6E8F9
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy hand-punched Medieval ring-type seamless thimble. The thimble tapers outwards from the 15mm diameter open top to the 17.2mm plain base. The sloping sides have four circumferential rows of punched pits that range from circular to slightly oval. Overall deep greenish-brown lustrous patina. Similar ring-type thimbles are illustrated in Read, B. Metal Sewing Thimbles Found in Britain, dating to the 14-15th century. Circa  AD1300-1500.  Metrics: Height 11.1m, diameter 17.2mm, weight 4.66g  
Created on: Monday 13th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-F634E7
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small and delicate copper alloy Post-Medieval double oval-loop buckle. The middle outside edge of one loop has an extended rectangular grooved knop on its upper surface to act as a pin rest. The rectangular cross-section pin is complete and wraps around the strap bar. This buckle would probably have had a very specific low-strain application as its delicate construction would not have enabled it to be used otherwise. Circa  AD1500-1650.  Metrics: Length 17mm, width 12.5mm, weight 0.80g  
Created on: Monday 13th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-F4CD81
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Post-Medieval strap loop or slider. The symmetrical plate is sub-rectangular with two pairs of opposed semi-circular removals from the long sides, thus forming three segments divided by two waists. The sides have a saw-tooth perimeter with two teeth on the end segments and three on the middle. The two ends of the plate are notched with three triangular file cuts. Both ends of the reverse have a perpendicular rectangular prong that would have curved back around the sides of the original strap. For parallels see: DOR-9791B2; SUR-CDCA76; NLM-A66E41; NARC-35B773…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DF2111
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval to Early Post-Medieval copper alloy strap hanger. The fitting consists of a sub-triangular body with an integral lower hook. In plan, the body has a damaged inward-facing chevron shape at the wider attachment end, and a transverse extended bar narrowing to a rectangular backward-looping blunt hook at the other. The main body has two medial circular rivet holes with traces of iron attachment rivets extant.  Metrics; Length 30mm, width 14mm, weight 3.51g Strap fittings/belt hangers of this style are typically considered to be p…
Created on: Sunday 12th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DBE14A
Object type: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, distorted, and crudely cast lead alloy openwork object. A central openwork cruciform lattice shape is set within an octagon with incurving sides. The cross-section of the tracery is lozenge-shaped with concave sides. Similar openwork lead objects are often identified as window ventilation panels, especially on medieval religious sites, but also on farmhouses up to the 17th century (ref. Finds Research Group 700-1700 datasheet 2: Some Ecclesiastical and Monastic finds, Cherry, J). They are also sometimes identified as brick or wall vents and ascribed…
Created on: Sunday 12th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BA7629
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy flat annular ring with extensive filing marks on both sides. Simple plain rings similar to this have served a multitude of purposes from the Bronze Age to the present day and without archaeological context, they are very difficult to assign a purpose and date. However, the form of this example suggests it is most probably a suspension loop, or strap distributor and most likely dates from the medieval to the post-medieval period.  Metrics: Diameter 24mm, annulus width 3.3mm, thickness 1.8mm, weight 2.23g.
Created on: Friday 10th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B3B925
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and damaged copper alloy Post-Medieval Nuremberg rose-and-orb type jetton. Indecipherable legend and unknown jetton master. Circa AD 1550-1650.  Metrics - Diameter 24mm, weight 1.38g
Created on: Friday 10th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-B11B05
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy fragment from a Post Medieval cloth seal. The fragment is sub-discoidal (as flattened by the alnage seal matrix) with a short flat tab projecting to one side. The seal depicts a crenelated castle wall with an arched entrance gateway; above the wall part of an arcing beaded border can be seen. Cloth seals depicting images of castles are commonplace in Norfolk, as a lion surmounted by a castle is the arms of Norwich. No lion is evident on this partial impression and insufficient survives to be definitive, especially since many other non-Norwich seals depicting c…
Created on: Friday 10th March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-AF81CE
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to Post Medieval lead alloy pendant weight. The body of the weight is an elongated ovoid shape and is cast in-the-round with a suspension loop uppermost. The loop has been struck on one side and is now distorted. The convex moulded body has grooves to either side that follow the curving shape of the sides in the centre of which the profile rises to form a medial arris. There is a transverse groove around the base of the weight that acts as a stopping point for the contoured decoration. These types of weight are poorly understood. There are many with the sa…
Created on: Friday 10th March 2023
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-54ACA3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable medieval book or strap fitting. Comprising a 23mm x 13.3mm rectangular plate with a central 3.5mm, slightly ovalled hole. There is a medial rivet hole at each end, with vestiges of the copper alloy rivets extant. The front surface is decorated with an outer border within which a lozenge-shaped decoration brackets the central hole. The spandrels between the lozenge and border are filled with rocker arm decoration. The object has a heavy mid-green patina. Similar mounts are shown in Egan & Pritchard. Dress Accessories 1150-1450 …
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-5394C2
Object type: SWORD BELT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy fitting from a post-medieval sword belt. The fitting consists of an incomplete foliate-decorated hanger plate with two extant rounded loops attached to the lower edge, and two fragments of foliate-decorated suspension links attached to these loops by closed hooks. The hanger plate was originally symmetrical but now has only one trifoliate terminal-end remaining. Located at either end of the plate there are small attachment holes remaining on the hanger plate with associated traces of iron corrosion and rivet. The reverses …
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-1EF0FB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded Roman copper alloy nummus, from the House of Constantine dynasty. FEL TEMP REPARATIO reverse type, depicting a soldier going right and looking back left dragging a small figure from a wooden hut. [...]RS in exergue, probably mint of Trier. Most of the original dark brown patina has corroded away to a lighter green corrosion product, degrading the detail of the strike. Circa AD 348-350. Reece Period 18. Diameter: 21mm; weight 3.91g.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2022
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-0B9E8D
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass Post-Medieval rose and orb Nuremberg jetton of Hans Krauwinckel II. Obverse; (Rose Initial Mark) HANS KRAVWINCKEL IN NVR. Three crowns alternating with three lis, arranged centrifugally around a rose formed of five bilobed petals. Reverse; GOTES SEGEN MACHT REICH – God’s blessing maketh rich (from Proverbs 10, 22). Orb within a double tressure of three arches. A very small amount of the flan edge is missing. Mitchiner 1553. Circa AD1586-1635. Diameter: 21mm; weight 0.85g.
Created on: Monday 19th December 2022
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-483FB3
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Heavily corroded copper-alloy, Medieval, Williams type III cheekpiece fragment. The object is comprised of a sub-square loop connected by an integral narrower trapezoidal cross-section bar to a wider iron-encrusted central boss with a raised, possibly double-oval border. A similar narrow bar continues on the other side of the boss terminating in an old break just beyond a raised transverse twin collar on the front and sides of the bar. The sides of the square looped end are decorated with a series of transverse grooves around the forward edges.Related examples can b…
Created on: Saturday 10th December 2022
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-45ED07
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Medieval shield-shaped horse harness pendant. Half of the suspension loop is missing from old breaks. A substantial amount of gilding is extant on the front face with the possibility of some armorial features underlying, although these cannot be resolved. Circa AD1250-1400. Dimensions: Extant length 38mm. width 26.5mm, weight 5.05g.
Created on: Saturday 10th December 2022
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-45690B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Medieval short cross penny of Henry III. Obverse; hENRICVS R/EX. Crowned bust facing holding sceptre. Reverse; ROGER ON CANTE, voided short cross with saltire cross pommee in each quadrant. Canterbury mInt , moneyer, Roger. Class 7(a)(D), die axis 9 o'clock. North 978. AD1217-1222.
Created on: Saturday 10th December 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E2E61D
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible fragment of a cast copper alloy Bronze Age blade. The fragment consists of a short tapering full-width segment, broken transversely at either end. There is no mid-rib and its small size is more suggestive of a smaller weapon such as a dagger, but this does rather depend on how far down the blade the section belongs. Other than its classic lenticular cross-section, and patina commensurate with the possible age, it lacks all of its diagnostic features; consequently, the classification cannot be further confirmed or refined. Rough mi…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-DDDB46
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy, Roman, Colchester-Derivative, Rearhook type brooch. The fragment consists of the head, eroded wings, and the upper part of the tapering D-cross section bow. The wings have a C-shaped section and are decorated with remnants of reel and bead moulding. The bow joins the wings in a rising moulded diagonal with the remains of the central chord hook projecting forward at the head. From the line of the hook, a centreline ridge flanked by a groove to either side runs back down the remaining length of the arching bow. The centre of the underside of t…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D52C72
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Thomas Class E, type 4, Anglo Scandinavian strap end. Rectangular with a recessed attachment end, with both end corners missing, having fractured across the holes for the attachment rivets. The front face is decorated in heavy relief with an insular Borre style ‘vertebral ring-chain’ motif running down the centre. The decoration appears to terminate prematurely at the end, where although the metal is regular and symmetrical in form it is probably broken and originally continued further, possibly into a zoomorphic head.…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BF1137
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bifacially struck flint tool, probably abandoned before completion. Struck on a lingulate-shaped secondary flint with a strip of cortex remaining down the length of the dorsal face. There are multiple lateral strikes on both faces but only the dorsal face has been struck with removals at the distal end. Several of the lateral strikes on the ventral face have terminated prematurely in hinge and step fractures which in all likelihood made the intended tool unrecoverable. Probably intended to be a knife. Most likely Neolithic in date.  Length 95mm, width 29m…
Created on: Monday 21st November 2022
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A46C6D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified and Incomplete copper-alloy, possibly Roman or Iron Age object. Sub-crescentic in plan, the curving outer edge has a shallow downward-sloping bevel creating a lunate-shaped border. At the mid-point of the sloping face are two 5mm diameter adjacent recessed circular cells, each with a central pit, that originally probably contained a decorative embellishment such as enamel. From the upper inner curve of the bevel the object dishes down in a smooth concave recess where a surviving ridge at the extremity se…
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2022
Last updated: Sunday 21st May 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6DF96B
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of middle Bronze Age side-looped socketed spearhead. The object was discovered in three fragments, relatively close together in the same field, by separate finders. It has broken in the ground, post-deposition; as a result of corrosion and cultivation damage. The major fragment and adjoining blade fragment are recorded here, however, the blade point was discovered by another finder and is recorded as NMS-62FDF7.  The missing mid-ribbed blade-tip has broken transversely, whilst the remainder has fractured longitudinally along its length expos…
Created on: Monday 24th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-5C68C7
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete set of copper alloy, probably Roman tweezers. The tweezers consist of a narrow and thin, parallel strip of copper alloy. that has been bent back on itself through a 180-degree expanded loop at one end. There is no decoration visible. The terminal end of one arm is missing from an old break, and the other is end-damaged to one side. The field on which the tweezers were found has produced almost entirely Roman artefacts, so the date probability given is quite high. Circa AD43-409. Dimensions: length 44.5mm, width 3.3mm, thickness 1.1mm, weight 1.9g.
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-308FA8
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman vulvate or coffee-bean mount. It consists of an oval-shaped plate with erosion damage to its edges, and a central raised oval boss which is decorated with a v-shaped groove running longitudinally down its centre. These grooved raised bosses are typically interpreted as stylised vulvae. In the centre of the reverse there is a concave depression that contours the back of the boss, at either end of which an integral perpendicular incomplete rivet projects. The surface of the metal is green with mottled corrosion. Mounts of th…
Created on: Sunday 9th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-28886C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead or lead alloy 1 pound steelyard weight with axial remains of an iron suspension insert. The weight is bi-conical with a flattened equator. At the apex of the upper cone, there is the remains of an iron insert, probably a loop or hook for suspension. The iron insert does not protrude through to the opposite side of the weight. The surface of the weight is heavily corroded to a whitish-grey colour, and is very scratched and pockmarked through interaction with the soil. The bi-conical form and iron suspension loop are typically Roman, as is the predomina…
Created on: Sunday 9th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 10th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-133AF8
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of thin gold sheet or foil, from an object of indeterminate use and date. The artefact comprises a flat, roughly D-shaped sheet, with a single neat straight edge. A crease follows the line of the straight edge about 2-3mm from it, forming a slight  groove or ridge along the edge. The rest of the object has hammer marks, probably from being beaten into its flat sheet form. Although the straight edge appears to have been neatly cut (or scored and folded until it broke), it is not clear if the straight edge is part of the form of the …
Created on: Saturday 8th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-300068
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silver Roman denarius of Hadrian. Obverse; HADRIAN/AVG[...]II PP, bust of Hadrian facing right  Reverse; FORTUNAE [...]VCI,  Fortuna holding rudder and cornucopiae. Rome mint. RIC  II 247. AD 134-138. Reece period 6. Dimensions: diameter 19mm, weight 2.49g
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 6th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D7188A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Roman denarius of Faustina senior, Issued under Antoninus Pius after her death and deification. Obverse; DIVA FAV/STINA, draped bust of Faustina facing right  Reverse; AUGV/STA, Vesta, veiled, standing facing left holding simpulum in right hand, and palladium in left. RIC Vol III p71, 368. Rome mint. Circa AD 141-160. Reece period 7. Dimensions: diameter 17.8mm, weight 2.65g
Created on: Friday 23rd September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2022
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