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Record ID: NMS-FDF930
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy pin with globular head and an integral collared shaft. The shaft is bent once (around 70-80 degrees) and may be complete. It measures approximately 42mm from the collar at base of the head to the tapering but blunt tip. The head is almost entirely covered with punched ring-and-dot impressions. There are four on the upper hemisphere, surrounding a small slightly-flattened area directly on top (opposite the shaft), seven around the middle, and six surrounding the shaft on the underside, none of which are particularly regularly-spaced.  The shaft is …
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D07466
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch, now in two joining parts. The head is of the 'cross potent' type, with a flat rectangular central panel c. 13 x 18mm. This has three sub-rectangular flat 'knobs' attached by narrower waists, to form a headplate in total 32.2mm wide. The surface is corroded and some is missing, but traces of double-crescent or half ring-and-dot stamps can be seen; there is a row of five on the top knob and a similar row on one side knob, each with a trace of a single groove outside the row of stamps. On the reverse of the headpla…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-50C7F5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Abraded and incomplete medieval to post-medieval hooked and straight-sided book clasp of Howsam 2016 Type A.3.1. The fishtail terminal has been lost but the diverging sides indicate that it was once present. Near the jagged and non-recent break a rivet hole lies in the centre of a punched double concentric ring. In the central area a V-shaped punched impression of closely-spaced lines lies next to an iron rivet which secures a rectangular sheet spring on the reverse. Close by there is a single small notch on each side. Immediately before the hook a diagonal lattice withi…
Created on: Saturday 27th January 2024
Last updated: Saturday 27th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-13AB08
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval copper alloy book fitting, a hooked clasp with sides which diverge gently from the hook before expanding to a fishtail terminal, Howsam 2016 Type A.3.1. Two small holes are aligned transversely between the terminal and a parallel row of three others. In the same area there are numerous, probably punched, longitudinal lines. Towards the centre a punched ring-and-dot has penetrated the metal at the dot. Nearer the hook a slightly larger hole, for a rivet, lies close to another set of longitudinal lines. Immediately before the hook there …
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1814BD
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment, with old breaks, of a medieval sheet copper alloy thimble with the top missing. Six vertical rows, each of nine or more small round indentations, survive above an engraved line near the base. Weight 0.39g. Diameter not accurately measurable. 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-DC939F
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small silver shield-shaped flat mount with two holes, probably for separate rivets, one in the centre near the top and the other near the base. There are two incurved scallops on the top edge, with a point in the centre, and the front face is decorated along all three edges with a row of hand-punched dots. Weight 0.21g. Height 10mm. Width 9mm. Thickness 0.5mm.  Despite the handmade decoration, shields of this shape (with a double incurve to the top) are only found in the post-medieval period, most commonly from the 18th century onwards, and so this mount is likely to be 18th…
Created on: Saturday 16th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F1CE4D
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle to Late Saxon sheet copper alloy triangular hooked tag with two attachment holes, Read 2008 early medieval single sharp-hooked clasp Class A, Type 1. Decoration on the front face comprises three rows of punched dots, one median and two running close to the sides from the top corners to the springimg of the hook. Weight 2.29g. Length 34.1mm. Width 18.5mm. Early 8th - 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-476B7E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular copper alloy trade weight, time of Elizabeth I, diameter approximately 38mm, weight 24.41g, three stamps on one side, a crowned EL, a ewer (or so-called coffee pot) and a dagger, presumably slightly underweight for one ounce, 1558-1603
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C98209
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy bow brooch, perhaps a cruciform of Martin’s (2015) type 3. The headplate is roughly rectangular, although all of its edges are now heavily abraded and some parts are certainly worn breaks. There is a flat square panel on the front (raised a fraction of a millimetre), slightly wider than the bow and aligned with the lower edge of the headplate. The panel is decorated along the top and one lateral edge with a line of punched crescent-shaped marks. None are visible on the opposite edge, where the surface of the metal is more corroded.  …
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-BA0D2D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of gold sheet, probably of the Anglo-Saxon period. The bend is almost at right angles. To one side of the angle, one face is decorated; a triplet of straight grooved lines, the central one minimally wider, starts close to a finished straight edge and runs to a break. The lines are flanked on either side by a scatter of punched annulets (about 1mm in diameter), part-annulets and large dots. On the other side of the angle, the sheet is undecorated, although it has bends which may have formed a loose corrugation. It has a short length of original edge which mee…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-68165D
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead trade weight, circular and uniface, of James I, with two punched designs, a crowned cipher IR and a raised cross within a deep circular cartouche, for one ounce, weight 26.07g, 1603-25
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-680C8C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead trade weight, circular and uniface, of James I, with three punched designs, a crowned cipher IR, the Arms of Norwich and what looks like a raised H within a circular cartouche, for one ounce, weight 26.12g, 1603-25
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-DA0CF9
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy hooked tag, Read 2008 early post-medieval single sharp-hooked clasp Class E Type 3, very close to ibid. no. 350, although wear prevents the "tiny pellets in the interstices" being convincingly visible and the hook of the present example is very much longer. Weight 2.12g. Length 33.9mm. Width 13mm. 16th century.
Created on: Friday 22nd September 2023
Last updated: Friday 22nd September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D8F011
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Partly squashed medieval copper alloy domed thimble with, above a plain basal band, the sides and most of the dome covered by a continuous spiral of closely spaced round indentations. Stamped or cast, no central hole, no definite folding and no notches at the base, cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 827-8. A bald patch, diameter 6mm, has been left at the top. Weight 5.57g. Height 19mm. Diameter c.18mm. Mid 14th - 15th century
Created on: Friday 22nd September 2023
Last updated: Friday 22nd September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-AD2B2E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stud chape from a post-medieval shoe buckle with a maker's stamp in two lines on the front face: S / COOK. Weight 7.87g. Length 34.9mm. Width 21.5mm. c.1660 - c.1720. Similar S / COOK stamps have been recorded on shoe buckles with both stud and "cooking pot" chapes in Norfolk at Attleborough (NMS-51AEA7), Gressenhall (NMS-8F54D1), Kempstone (NMS- 4A0012), Langham (NMS-3B83D9) and Swanton Morley (NMS-FB6291). Other counties have also produced examples: Cheshire East (LVPL-7E7042), Dorset (PUBLIC-3DE282, PUBLIC-F07365, DOR-3B1FF2, DOR-3095A3, DOR-3088C7, …
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F5EF23
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch. The head and bow are mostly extant, but the foot and pin are missing. The head appears to have been cruciform, or rectangular with four cut-outs: one at each of the top corners and two on the underside, one on each side of the bow. The top edge and one of the lateral edges are original, but they are missing a small fragment from each end. There are two incomplete circular perforations near the top. They are both open to the potential corner cut-outs, while one is additionally truncated by a vertical break, from which the orig…
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B77915
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two medieval copper alloy domed thimbles, both with many vertical rows of punched dots on the sides and concentric rings of similar dots surrounding a small area left plain at the top, no evidence of folding, c.1330 - c.1400: - slightly distorted, with a plain band around the base, average of nine dots in vertical rows, three rings, weight 2.52g, diameter c.16mm, height c.14.5mm. - badly distorted, encircling groove around base part of which is missing, average of seven dots in vertical rows, four rings, hole in centre of top, weight 2.67g, diameter and …
Created on: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B54F4A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular fragment of copper alloy sheet broken at one end and with a rivet hole at the other which has removed part of the edge of one in a median row of three punched ring-and-dot impressions. Probable part of the front plate of a medieval composite strap-end, cf. SF-E94F47. Weight 0.48g. Extant length 20.5mm. Width 11mm. Thickness 0.5mm. 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F8FB6E
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon to Late Saxon sheet copper alloy hooked tag. The front of the circular plate carries simple punched decoration: a contour ring, three ring-and-dots below two attachment holes set in the centre of rings of a larger diameter, and a smaller central hole within two concentric rings, the inner one of the same size as those around the attachment holes.  Read 2008 early medieval single sharp-hooked clasp Class A Type 2. Weight 0.53g. Length 18.6mm. Width 12.7mm. Early 8th - 11th century.
Created on: Sunday 6th August 2023
Last updated: Sunday 6th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B8E59D
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a post-medieval copper alloy probable thimble, almost flat and rectangular with one long edge and both ends broken (not recently). The unbroken edge is probably the base. Overall die-stamped decoration consists of a band of Greek key pattern separated by a horizontal groove from a band of running vine scroll above. Weight 1.66g. Length as unrolled 23.5mm. Height 12.7mm. 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
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