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Record ID: NMS-E13029
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An amorphous clump of copper-alloy metalworking debris of an uncertain date. It is heavily pitted and has a grey-green patina.  Length: 66.4mm; Width: 45.3mm; Thickness:37.5mm; Weight: 190.81g.
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4E3DF4
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregularly shaped lump of copper alloy with a high lead content, of unknown but not recent date. The surfaces are uneven and pitted. The object appears to be of pure metal, i.e. there are no visible inclusions such as fired clay, lithic or charcoal. 59 x 46 x 14mm. Weight 154.56g.
Created on: Saturday 27th January 2024
Last updated: Saturday 27th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-31DE73
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper-alloy object of unknown age. It is sub-circular, of fairly uniform thickness and slightly dished. It appears to be complete as there is no evidence of breaks. Close to one side there is a perfectly circular area, approximately one third of the total, which is flat. Beyond this it curves concavo-convexly in all directions all the way to the edge. On the generally convex face, the flat circle is covered with multiple very fine concentric and perfectly circular grooves and ridges. The outermost ridge is wider and expanded at one point to form a wide and short triangle…
Created on: Friday 8th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-706E59
Object type: NAIL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat-headed copper-alloy nail or stud with a curved point of unknown age. The head is a plano-convex disc, with the convex face on its upper side. This may suggest it is not Roman, as Roman examples on this database tend to have domed heads. The shank is square in cross-section, tapering to a point which is missing to a worn break. Possibly a furniture fitting. Width (of head) 24.6mm, (top of shank) 7.7mm, (broken point) 4mm. Weight 17.5g.
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C2C4E1
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman to post-medieval steelyard weight, made of lead with an iron core. It is sub-conical (not perfectly circular or oval). The iron core projects from the apex as an incomplete loop (now a mere pair of stumps terminating in worn breaks) and from the base, off-centre, as a small hemispherical protrusion. Not closely datable. 1st to 18th century. Diameter (at base): 38.4 x 34.9mm. Height: 36.6mm. Weight 130.4g
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-5672C4
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and neck of an animal figurine, apparently a dog, of unknown date. It is made of lead and may be a model for a finished version in a more durable material. It begins with a worn transverse break across the neck, which is oval (near circular) in cross-section. It soon expands in thickness and nearly twice as much in width to form the head. The head is long and sleek, with prominent cheekbones and triangular outward- and rearward-pointing ears. The top of the cranium is vaguely lozenge-shaped and the eyes are suggested by hollows between the forward end of this and the cheekbones. T…
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B325C7
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two shapeless pieces of solidified molten copper alloy: one slightly slaggy with some reduced highly fired clay adhering, weight 47.90g, the other with a high lead content, weight 64.46g. Date unknown, but not apparently recent.
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-4C00EC
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper-alloy object, possibly a short or incomplete pin, of unknown date. It has shaft of circular cross-section which tapers into a flattened (rectangular in cross-section) blunt point at the tip. At the opposite end there is a simple collar followed by a long biconical head of expanded-diameter and finally a small globular knob. The shaft is now bent nearly ninety degrees. The metal is uniformly patinated dull mid- to dark green. There are no obvious signs of breakage. Length (estimated, unbent) 64mm. Diameter (shaft): 3.5mm, (biconical head): 7.1mm, (globular knob): 2.…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 29th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-25E34A
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Irregularly shaped lump of copper-alloy casting waste of unknown date. It is complete, with no cuts or breaks and is patinated green all over, except for one visible small dark grey inclusion. Length: 41.7mm. width: 26.8mm. Thickness 14.7mm. Weight: 48.2g
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D432F7
Object type: TALLY
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
“Tally stone”, marked on a water worn pebble of mid-grey slightly banded, fine grained siltstone, in good sunlight, very, very fine specks of mica are visible within the stone. The twenty tallies are cut in to the lateral edge on the straighter of the two sides, they are a V cut with either a file (or similar) or cut with a sharp blade, the edges of which have rounded off slightly over the years and they appear to be a non-recent addition to the surface of the stone. The uppermost incision is 2.31 mm apart (measured from the deepest part of the cut to the next dee…
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-2CBAA7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring, probably a finger ring, of uncertain but not recent date. It is not perfectly circular but slightly pointed on one side (like the profile of an egg). It is oval in cross-section, thickest and widest at one side and tapering in both dimensions, at first minimally and then more significantly until there is a short slightly straightened length on the pointed side, as if it had been stretched when molten. It is patinated dark green with internal pale green mottles. Diameter: 27.5mm x 25.2mm. Width: 3.8 - 5.9mm Thickness: 2.4 - 4.1mm. Weight: 8.3g
Created on: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Last updated: Saturday 15th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-059C2A
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy casting jet of unknown date. One surface is ovoid (25 x 21mm), slightly concave and rough with traces of white-metal near the edge. The other surface, convex and smooth, tapers asymmetrically to a round-sectioned sprue (diameter 5mm). Weight 10.59g.
Created on: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8EDD62
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Shapeless blob of molten silver with pitting of the surfaces not resulting from deliberate pecking. Date unknown. Weight 3.38g. 14.2 x 11 x 4.7mm. Finder's number RW-2
Created on: Saturday 20th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CF30E4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small lead weight of uncertain but probably Roman to medieval date. It is nearly a cube: one face is slightly longer than the others, rendering an adjacent face oblique. It is pierced all the way through, from an off-centre point on the longer face to the centre of the opposite face. The hole is sub-square, and appears to be of relatively constant size throughout. Length: 13.3mm. Width: 11.6mm. Thickness: 11.5mm. Weight: 12.7g / 0.48oz
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-25119C
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bead-like object of unknown date. It is barrel-shaped, or like a sphere with a cap cut off at each pole by a pair of parallel planes, revealing the sub-circular openings of the internal void. The void is not quite cylindrical but appears to follow the external contour to some extent, being longitudinally concave and of wider diameter in the middle. The diameter of the openings seems too large to be a bead. It may be a collar for a rod-like implement. It is patinated dark brown. Length (opening to opening): 15.1mm. External diameter: 18.2mm. Internal diameter of openings: …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C2C3CC
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of lava quern of unknown date, with apparently no original edge present. One face is rough and the other worn smooth with the tooled grooves scarcely visible. Thickness 35 – 40mm, weight 744g. Roman or Middle Saxon to medieval. Find spot falls with Square B5 of gridded survey of Hill Field conducted in 1990 and 2004-5, see file in HER.
Created on: Sunday 16th April 2023
Last updated: Sunday 16th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-430961
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three irregularly shaped, amorphous pieces of copper alloy casting waste with green patination, small iron encrustations and dark grey inclusions, all are complete with no cuts/breaks, one found by itself, the smaller two found together, distance between the two find spots approx. 200 metres apart. The largest of the three, slightly flattened and sub-discoidal, though very irregular surfaces to both faces and edges, no indication of being an ingot of any recognisable type nor one side flatter than the other. 74 x 68 x 24.5 mm, 273g. Also very amorphous, though there is some structu…
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 20th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B5F3F7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper-alloy object of probable Bronze Age to Roman date. Perhaps it is a distorted awl. It is a rod, bent in two or three places with a total (unbent) length of 70mm. It is flatter and thinner at one end (4.5 x 1.7mm) and gradually becomes thicker and narrower, more rounded in cross-section, toward the other end, while maintaining two opposing flat or near-flat faces. This end is sub-square in cross-section, rounded at the very tip (diameter: 2.7mm) and may be a well-worn break. Two of the bends occur near the middle. Neither are very far from right-angles, one acute, one…
Created on: Tuesday 14th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B2E696
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two irregularly shaped fragments, weighing 15.91g and 7.20g, of copper alloy possible casting waste of unknown but perhaps not very recent date. The surfaces of both, dull and purplish, are similar to that of some 10th- and 11th-century objects. Although the breaks appear to be old some remain quite sharp. Finder's no. WA-4
Created on: Tuesday 27th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 27th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-FC3DB5
Object type: WHETSTONE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An elongated whetstone, of sub-square section with both ends either broken or left unworked from the natural piece of slightly banded schist stone this was ground from, all four sides appear to have been used to sharpen knives, sickles etc. and are quite smooth to the touch. There are rusty iron scrapes to the surfaces from contact with agricultural machinery and recent surface losses in places, now showing a lighter colour to the original surfaces.    The age of this is whetstone is difficult to establish, schist has been used at least since the Early Saxon period, most not…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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