Record ID: SF-C0BB08
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flat disc lead seal matrix of Medieval date, missing a suspension loop. The outer face/die is decorated with the central design of a a flower, flaring at it's lower end into a triangular shape, with three curving leaf-like motifs. This is surrounded by a solid line inner circle followed by the inscription +S IOIH' hENR'  FIL ALEXAVD, perhaps reading Seal of John Henry Son of Alexander? The simple motif and personalised legend suggests a 13th century date (Harvey & McGuiness 1996, 87-8).  Diameter: 30.47mm Weight: 28.52g
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Merton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1AAF86
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval lead seal matrix dating to c.1200-1350 AD of a circular flat design, with a pierced lug on the reverse. It is a personal seal matrix for a woman. The central design is of a human face with a branch to the right side of the face. The face appears to be of a female. The inscription reads S': MIRIEL : TOPIS, which could be another form of the femine name Muriel, and Jopis a surname of Isreali origin.  This is a non-heraldic personal seal for the named individual. The use of circular lead seals in this manner is noted by Harvey and McGuinness (1…
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holme Hale', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-AF2ACD
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead trade weight, circular and uniface, bearing on the upper face a puncheon displaying the Arms of the Commonwealth, a shield with the cross of St. George and another with a harp, an annulet punched into the area above, weight 14.15g so presumably for half an ounce, 1649-60 
Created on: Friday 8th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 8th 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: NMS-C7996C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead trade weight, traces of one punched design, perhaps the castle and lion of the city of Norwich, now flattened, two deep rectangular punches into the central area of the weight, one of which has pierced through the weight entirely, late 16th to 17th century. It weighs 100.99g so presumably for four ounces.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4A85CB
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular lead trade weight, uniface with a large crowned IR puncheon centrally and an uncertain punch mark above it. The weight of 24.68g suggests that this is somewhat underweight for an ounce. Period of James I, 1603-25.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-51BFC8
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead pot mend, one plate teardrop-shaped, 52.6 x 41mm, the other ovoid, 42.7 x 28mm, thickness 8mm, thickness of cleft c.3mm, weight 84.62g. A large example, with the larger plate almost completely flat, very slightly curved at one end. 12th - 15th century.
Created on: Saturday 27th January 2024
Last updated: Saturday 27th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-40110C
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval to post-medieval writing lead, bent into a gentle curve, square-sectioned, and flattened and splayed at the proximal end. The distal end is damaged and the point is missing. Weight 27.93g. Extant length 66mm. 7.3 x 7.2mm in cross-section at mid-point. Width at splayed end 12.5mm. Biddle 1990, 735-8 and 744-6, Class III. 12th - 16th century. Writing leads like this follow the traditional shape of the earlier writing tablet styli, although it is unclear how effective a lead stylus would be for inscribing wax, and it seems more likely that they were used to …
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Saturday 27th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3D80C1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead pot mend, one plate irregular, 24 x 11mm, the other ovoid, 17 x 11mm, thickness 8mm, thickness of cleft c.3mm, weight 11.23g. 12th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-3B6863
Object type: CAME
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small fragment of a medieval lead window came junction. The flanges are of uncertain width and the hearts are c.3mm thick. Knight Type C (King, D.J. in Rogerson et al. 1987, 39). Weight 3.77g. Thickness 6mm. 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 26th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-E980F7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or possibly post-medieval lead standing weight of sub-rectangular cross-section which tapers up to a pierced terminal with a rounded top. The central part of all four faces is recessed. Height 18.8mm. Base 16.4 x 11.2mm. Weight 23.95g / 0.845oz avoirdupois / 0.770oz troy. Perhaps 1.03% overweight for ¾ ounce troy. 13th - 16th century. Finder's no. CF4/F2
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-55C30F
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
 A complete lead-alloy weight dating from the Roman to Post Medieval period (43-1800 AD). In plan the weight is broadly trapezoidal with concave top and bottom to the weight, the sides are incised with two lines following the outer (long) edges, the outer parts obscured, rectangular in section, two holes are included in the cast, probably to facilitate suspension, one at each end. Weight equates to 7 3/4 ounces, probably intended as an 8 oz weight. Cf. WREX-F979D1 for a broadly similar but lighter example.
Created on: Monday 15th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Holt', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-054012
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete sub-conical medieval to post-medieval lead weight. The lower half of the object is flattened. It is undecorated, with no evidence of a suspension hook. Similar to LIN-79328D. Length 25.9mm, width 13.9mm. Weight 18.2g.
Created on: Monday 18th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-053121
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval cast lead cylinder, possibly a weight. The ends are flat, and the object is undecorated. Similar to LVPL-10B98E, which speculates that these objects might have been used as a supplementary load for a 17th-century smoothbore muzzle-loading firearm. Length 15.8mm, diameter 17.8mm. Weight 33.3g
Created on: Monday 18th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-0514C9
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete early-medieval or medieval lead spindle whorl. It is sub-cylindrical, and undecorated. 10th-14th century. Diameter 20.3mm, thickness 11.1mm. Diameter of perforation (top) 9.3mm, (bottom) 13.2mm. Weight 22.6g.
Created on: Monday 18th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-04B739
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early-medieval or medieval lead spindle whorl. It is undecorated and appears to have been originally sub-conical, although the top has broken off. It is flattened on the base. Lead spindle whorls seem to have been in use from the 10th to 14th centuries. Diameter 22.7mm, thickness 21.2mm. Diameter of perforation (extant top) 7.1mm, (bottom) 6.5mm. Weight 36.5g  
Created on: Monday 18th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F05B57
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and abraded medieval to post-medieval lead biface token. On one face some possible blundered lettering and part of an asymmetrically arranged pattern of oblique lines on the other. The break is old. Weight 5.14g. Diameter 18.5mm. Thickness 3mm. 15th - 18th century.
Created on: Sunday 17th December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 17th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C8C496
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon to post-medieval plano-convex lead spindle whorl in very battered and abraded condition with parts of the lower edge and the edge of the upper end of the hole missing. Weight 42.97g. Diameter c.30mm, thickness 12.5mm, hole diameter c.9 - 12mm. 11th - 16th century.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 15th December 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-70B061
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead pot mend of uncertain Roman to Post-Medieval date from around AD 43 to 1700. The mend is formed from a two broadly flat but irregularly shaped (sub-oval) faces connected by a projecting stem that extends from the centre of each panel's inner face. No surviving pottery surrounds the stem making it impossible to date. It has a typical off white/cream colour with traces of brown concretion around the stem. Measurements are; length 30.8mm, width 18.3mm, thickness 10.7mm and weight 35.44g. Pot mends of this form are found in both Roman and Medieval peri…
Created on: Monday 11th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-6E6BE6
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead seal matrix, flat, small bent fragment of outer edge. Circular, c. 26mm. Central device missing.  ]S’ IVO[  (?). Weighs 2.24g. 13th century.
Created on: Monday 11th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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