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Record ID: SF-30C0D5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
sceatta, of Continental type attributed to first two decades of 8th century, imitating English mints but with a double-reverse and with garbled legends. The Type 8 is related to the Series D Type 2c, especially associated with finds at Domburg, a prominent trading entrepot near the former mouth of the Rhine. Whereas Type 2c (the more numerous) has a generally eastern English distribution, Type 8 (less numerous) is especially well-recorded in East Anglia, but also around the Thames and in south Yorkshire, shadowing the Type 2c distribution. Metcalf (Vol 2 p.193) suggests a mint slightly…
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Laxfield', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-323565
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Distorted bronze fragment from the foot of a florid cruciform brooch, showing the human mask with surrounding zoomorphic details. The distortion of the metal, apparently the result of heat action, suggests that like other examples from neighbouring Yaxley etc, this is probably derived from a cremation burial in which the ornament passed the fire and consquently became denatured.
The fragment is 38mm wide, 22mm high and 2.5mm thick. Although originally a flat casting, the distortion has rendered it somewhat concave on the upper surface. The reverse is plain. The fragment repres…
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-32B105
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Portion of the head and bow of an early brooch of cruciform type, which has been subject to distortion by fire, and which has been broken in antiquity. This damage strongly suggests that, as with other finds from the neighbourhood, this brooch has been a furnishing in a cremation burial and has been burnt in the funeral pyre, occasioning its damage. We have here part of the narrow plate of an early and simple cruciform brooch, a fairly thin (1mm) rectangular plate only slightly broader than the arm of the bow, and which may never have had side terminals. It is roughly square, measuring…
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-3402C7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A brooch or buckle of annular form, comprising a closed bronze ring of rod 3mm breadth and 2mm thickness, now ovate, its diameter varying between 31 and 36mm. Although the irregularities of the ring suggest that it may have been hammered from rod, the absence of any evident junction of the two ends in the circuit may indicate that it was in reality cast. The pin is of bronze of a different and darker colour, and of a different quality of manufacture. The loop around the brooch or buckle frame is neatly formed like a shepherd's crook, being 10mm diameter with a piercing of 5mm, and 2mm …
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-3463D6
Object type: BULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead papal bulla 38mm diameter and 5mm thick, with a creamy white patina stained flesh colour by soil agents. One side shows an inscription in three rows for GRE/GORIVS/PP.X., with an abbreviation mark like a 9 above the final stop. The flan edge is beaded. On the other side are the usual portraits of St Paul and St Peter in beaded cartouches, with a tall standing cross on a base between them, and the letters SPA SPE above, all within the beaded margin. Pope Gregory X reigned from 1271 to 1276 and was beatified. This find is presumably evidence that the monks of Eye received a papal d…
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Friday 22nd February 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-34E324
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy buckle with entended sheet plate and internal spacer. The buckle frame itself is oval, having a neatly-made wall only 1mm broad but 4mm thick, and slightly chamfered outside on the upper edge.
At the middle of the outer-edge is a small v-shaped notch for the pin to locate upon. The oval frame is 22mm in breadth, but 15mm from pin-bar to fore-edge. The arched sides form shoulders at either end of the pin-bar, and the plate, which is folded around the pin-bar, is recessed at either side to receive the shoulders.
The fold in fact consists of two loops each …
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-359850
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This buckle has an oval frame, 2mm wide at its arched sides which reach a total breadth of 22mm, but 6mm wide along the fore-edge where it is augmented to form two protruding lateral knobs with a sheet roller with crude longitudinal grooves between. This is 5mm thick. The pin is missing, but the distance from the pin-bar to the fore-edge of the frame is 18mm. The frame has shoulders, which the plate is recessed to admit. The plate is formed of a single sheet folded over to full length, providing a double-plate length of 42mm. The pin-bar is held by two loops of c.2mm breadth each, with…
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-366B13
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A personal lead seal matrix of the 13th-14th centuries, flat and circular, showing at the centre a star of six radiating feathers with pellets between each. There is a marginal ring containing the legend which reads S' AGNE[T]IS PA[.]V - Sigilla Agnetis Pa.v. The As are strongly barred and the Es rounded and closed at the front, tending to suggest an earlier date within the bracket. The matrix is fairly typical, 3.5mm thick by diameter c.30mm, and with an in-cast lead loop rising along one axis from the centre. It has been somewhat mangled, perhaps hit by a plough or a large stone, an…
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-3698F1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A personal 14th century seal matrix of lead, which has apparently been in contact with rusty iron in the ground and therefore has corrosion products affecting its surface. This is a circular matrix of approximately 32mm diameter and 2mm thickness, strengthened on the reverse by a central rib with a small process at one edge by which the object is grasped when in use. The die is arranged like a coin, with a circumscribed inscription. At the centre is a rosette consisting of four long slender points with four shorter leaflets between. The marginal legend is very neatly arranged, and the …
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-36E3C7
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Interesting roughly square object of lead, some 39-40mm square and about 7mm thick, cast in a square shape but with the corner hammered down and out to form slight extensions or expansions. The underside is that left raw in the casting: the cast side shows curious semi-relief ornament, possibly intentional or perhaps accidental, consisting of two pellet-like features at two opposed corners, with straight raised lines running parallel to three of the sides, and a scramble of raised forms between. None of these make very much sense, although they are clearly derived from whatever form or…
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-464B40
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast bronze buckle frame consisting of an expanding trapezoidal frame with an integrally cast plate. The frame itself is of 2mm gauge metal in thickness and breadth, and the fore-edge spanned a breadth of 18mm whereas the trailing edge of the frame itself was only 12.5mm across. The length of the buckle from pin-attachment to fore-edge was 14mm, but one side of the frame has been broken and crushed so that the position of the fore-edge is now partially compressed. The cast plate, which is 3mm thick, has a variable outline with small spurs and processes. There are two in-cast holes, o…
Created on: Wednesday 26th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-4A3262
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded and fragmentary piece of a small-long brooch, possibly of the trefoil or cruciform type. A shapeless central portion of the headplate survives, with extensions beginning to develop (i.e. mostly worn or corroded away) at either side. Where the bow joins the headplate, there is a small area where the edges of the headplate are preserved, and these rise 3mm from the bow junction before turning outwards abruptly to accommodate the 'wings' of the headplate. The height of the headplate from this junction to the surviving top (not an original edge, but a corroded surface) is 16m…
Created on: Wednesday 26th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Pettistree', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-4A8754
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A heavily fire-distorted portion of the footplate of a cruciform brooch of developed or exotic kind. Distortion is such that the entire object has melted into an asymmetrical shape. The remains of the lower part of the foot, which is hollowed longitudinally beneath, show a section about 20mm long and 10mm wide, with a central ridge, and a large protruding eye on either side rising from the upper surface like a pellet. The nose and snout, etc, are snapped off. Above the eyes are two strongly-defined collars as raised lateral ridges, the higher one having a groove along its crest, with a…
Created on: Wednesday 26th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Campsey Ash', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-4B9876
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete pair of straight-armed sheet tweezers, formed of a continuous and single piece of metal. The final 5mm of each end (as the arm-ends) is turned in at about 45 degrees to make a pincer-like junction. At the folded end, the metal is looped as if it has been rolled around a cylindrical form to give some spring to the arms, and is nipped together below this: the width is 6.5 at the loop (diameter) and the width only 3mm at the narrow point below this. The arms then fan out to a separation of 10mm before their tips turn in as described. The strip of metal is consistently 4mm broad…
Created on: Wednesday 26th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wickham Market', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-D9C388
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This appears to be part of a stirrup mount of the late Viking Age type, though it does not conform closely to any of the examples shown in Williams's typology. It is a small and (unusually) rather thin casting, roughly trapezoidal in shape. Two holes appear along one of the cast edges, a straight edge behind which the sheet or casting is folded back in the manner typical of the stirrup-mounts. Taking this as the basal edge, the right side of the object follows an irregular outline, and the left side strikes out and then tapers in towards the top. The upper edge is definitely broken, s…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 25th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Dallinghoo', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-DA8CB4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual copper alloy ornamental buckle with a double frame cast in one piece, the aperture bridged by the pin being roughly circular and the other, for the admission of the terminal of the strap to which the buckle was permanently attached, being rectangular. The circular aperture is of 12mm diameter and in the outer measurerment is 21mm in height, the frame being up to 4mm broad with a frilly or pie-crust outer contour. The metal is 1.5mm thick. The pin is of flattened wire, 1.5mm broad and 1mm thick, and is looped through a hole on the trailing edge of the circular part of the buckle…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Campsey Ash', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SF-EBABC4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper alloy cup-weight, circular in form, of outer and upper diameter 22mm and basal diameter 19mm, depth 6.5mm, hollow within and thickness of wall 1.5mm. This is one of a nest of similar weights which would be assembled within a weight box, presumably.
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: SF-EBD3B6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rimsherd of Roman greyaware pottery. This is the fragments of a decorated flange-rimmed bowl of the second half of the fourth century AD. It is a section 35mm along, the flange of the rim together with the body amounting to a total breadth of 21mm and the overall height of the sherd wall including the rim being 17mm. The outside of the sherd wall beneath the rim has a combed wavy line decoration.
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Oakley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-F132F5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lower part of the footplate of a cruciform brooch of late fifth or early sixth century type. The fragment is 48mm long and 11.5mm wide at the widest point,near the tip, where the nostrils of the terminal beast-head expand into a rounded bulb. The object is very corroded, and on the reverse is a long central ridge which represents the broken-off footings of the catchplate for the brooch pin, though the catchplate itself is lost. This ridge runs for 30mm but terminates 15mm before the foot of the brooch. On the upper side, the tip is represented by the globular nose bulb, and the elongat…
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-F17AA7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lower part of the footplate of a cruciform brooch of early type, showing an animal's head terminal with greatly expanded nostrils (as a rounded bulb), long tapering snout, raised eyes, and ornamental banding across the neck. At the broken end, there is a flat surface 10mm long and 11mm wide , beneath which part of the catchplate for the pin rise directly from the back of the brooch, and is not bent over or otherwise curved. The whole fragment is 50mm long and 14mm wide at the widest point, which is at the nose. The distance from the tip of the nose to the eyes is 23mm, and from the eye…
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.
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