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Record ID: SF-7D1AB5
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A farthing trade token of copper of mid-seventeenth century type, issued by Nicholas Shepherd of Saxmundham, Draper, see Williamson's Boyne p 1097, Saxmundham, no. 288. Extremely worn.
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cransford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7CE194
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This thimble of fourteenth century type is of the 'tonsured crown' variety and is in most respects very similar to that described in record SF-7CAFE3. This example, however, is cracked and slightly crushed. The height and the diameter were probably both about 15mm. The indentations on the walls are in vertical rows, and those on the summit are in five rows horizontally around the base of the conical top. The centre is unindented except for a single indentation or possibly a very small hole at the very summit. The shown weight includes earth contained within. As on the other example ci…
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cransford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7CAFE3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This thimble, probably of the fourteenth century, shows many aspects of the earliest described types. It is 16mm in diameter at the rim, and is 14mm high. The walls taper inward slightly, and the top is conical: its centre is bare of indentations, but is pierced at the centre with a hole of c.1mm gauge. This is the so-called 'tonsured crown' type of thimble. There are five horizontal rows (not spiralled) of indentations around the outer part of the top, while the indentations on the sides rise vertically (or at an angle) and are smaller than those on the top. At the rim, which is unthi…
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cransford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7C5593
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal In the form of two large discs 29mm in diameter: the 'tongue' or rivet of one has passed through the centre of the other and has been pressed down to the level of its surface when the seal impression was stamped upon it. The seal consists of a circular frame with the letters BH within, with a tall bar, possibly the upright of a tall thin T, between. Below these letters appears a form like 'XX', though in fact this is a V with an inverted V over it, on the apex of which the tall central upright bar is standing. That is therefore probably the merchant mark. Probably 17th-…
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cransford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7C1E06
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hemispherical stud or button-front of grey copper alloy with engraved eight-leaf rosette around central circle. Probably 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 8th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stonham Aspal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7BEC31
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small strap fitting of copper alloy with silvered surface in the form of a rose. This little circular mount is 12mm in diameter and 1.5mm in thickness. On the plain back are two small parallel lugs, worn or broken down so that their meaning is unclear. At one side there is a small break at the edge of the mount, suggesting that it is incomplete. It is probably 17th century in date.
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stonham Aspal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7BAAC7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Edward I, Long cross, 1272-1302 (type not precisely definable.)
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stonham Aspal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7B08A0
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fine example of a Romano-British button and loop fastener with enamelled ornamental rectangular head. The headplate is rectangular, 21mm long by 18mm wide, and the triangular loop is 23mm long by 16mm wide. The stem of the loop rises 13mm from the back of the headplate, where its gauge is 6m. The thickness of the headplate is 2.3mm. Wild in 1970 (p141) remarked that only four with enamelled heads were then known, though others now exist (one of which is from the neighbouring parish to this, SF-1486). The headplate carries a remarkable curvilinear pattern like a large S with in-curli…
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7A9F52
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A long conical lace-tag of sheet copper-alloy, 47mm long and 4mm diameter at the tip. The gauge of the cord is difficult to estimate because the hollow tag is not circular in section despite its essentially conical construction. At present the aperture at the wider end is 16mm wide and 7mm thick. The seam where the rolled sheet of bronze has been brazed together is at the centre of the 'back' of this oval, and at the centre front near the wider end there is a quincunx group of small piercings (like the five-spot on a domino) aligned like a cross. This is probably a mediaeval clothes-fi…
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flowton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-786EA4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable threepence, of Elizabeth I, ?Third or Fourth issue, broken and worn, mms not visible
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-780690
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver sixpence of Elizabeth I, dated 1568 (Third Issue), intermediate bust with rose, coronet mms
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-77CC57
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver threepence of Elizabeth I, dated 1579 (Fourth issue), mm not visible
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-779C20
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A highly-corroded copper alloy pin head of small spherical form. The diameter of the head was c.8mm, and the gauge of the pin, which is broken off just below the head, is c.3.5mm. This dress pin was possibly Anglo-Saxon or mediaeval in date.
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-775F73
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small lead octagonal weight, probably for weighing coins or for an apothecary. It is 14mm long by 12.5mm wide, therefore sub-rectangular with the corner cut off to form an irregular or elongated octogon. Thickness 1.8mm. The edges are chamfered and the base is plain. The upper surface is divided into four quadrants, two (adjacent) containing three raised pellets and the other two containing each a single larger pellet. The resemblance to the triple pellets of the long cross coinage suggests strongly that this is a coin weight relating to coinage of the period c.1240-c.1480. Its weight …
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flowton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-76E134
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy plaque or mount 26mm square and 2mm thick with a hole at each corner for fixing screws or pins, and a central circular cruciform pattern on one side enriched with enamels. The motif consists of a central equal-armed cross, shown in red or brown enamel. This was further outlined by enamel of a second colour which has now completely degraded, leaving a recessed channel where it is lost. The missing colour not only outlined the central cross, but at the tip of each arm it splayed into three small arms or prongs, each ending with a ball or circle. As a background to this, th…
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flowton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E7DA46
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The right-hand (sinister) lobe and part of the empanelled ornamental footplate of a gilt bronze square-headed brooch of sixth century date and East Anglian manufacture, of Hines' Class XVI. The fragment is but 21mm wide, 18mm high and 2.2mm thick, but the surviving detail is sufficient for a confident attribution to that group. The outer edges of the lobe are abraded, but it was evidently raised and coated with silver sheet which is now lost from the metal surface, except for one tiny spot near the lower edge. The empanelled ornament includes the ends of two panels of guilloche which …
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'north of Ipswich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E4B5A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The head and bow of a small square-headed brooch with chip-carved ornament on the headplate. The small square headed brooches are not treated at length by Dr Hines in Corpus of the Great Square-headed brooches, though they are typologically related to them. McGregor and Bolick illustrate several (p.120-124) from the Ashmolean collections, some from the south Fen cemeteries of Cambridgeshire, though perhaps the closest to the present example are the pair from Freckenham, illustrated by West Pl II.4 and p.40, accessioned to the Cambridge archaeological departmental Museum in 1892. These…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'north of Ipswich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5594F7
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A most unusual and interesting official British cloth seal bearing the date 1670 and the royal arms, and indicating its connection with the industry of making Say cloth, which in Suffolk was concentrated in the centre south around Sudbury and Long Melford. During the second half of the 17th century the Say cloth industry was filling the void left by the decline of the broadcloth industry. 'A "SAY" was a fine durable cloth entirely of carded wool with a texture resembling serge.' (Dymond p212 note 8.) This seal is in the form of two double or figure-of-8 valves set back to back in th…
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cransford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5448B6
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead goods seal (?possibly for customs duties?) in the form of two circular valves each 1mm thick and 15mm in diameter with a very short linking strip. The outer faces of the two discs are embossed by hammering, as if in the production of a hammered coin. One side shows the portrait of Queen Anne (1702-1714) within a beaded ring, with the circumscribed legend MAG BRI REGINA. The other shows a central shield,with three lions (for England) in the dexter half and one lion rampant (for Scotland) in the sinister. There is a crown above the shield: to the left is the number 1 and to the righ…
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cransford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-5366C7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Elizabeth I, probably fifth or sixth issues, 1582-1602, Civitas London.
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cransford', grid reference and parish protected.