Record ID: SF3396
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a cast copper-alloy harness link. The centre has a circular boss decorated with two concentric grooves, and two short side projections. The top and bottom are extended into two D-section arms which narrow at a step and are then broken (old breaks). Corroded to a rough matt green with brown rubbed patches, and rather worn. Surviving length 31 mm; maximum width 19 mm.
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2000
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3397
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete copper-alloy stirrup terminal, U-shaped in section. The exterior has relief and engraved decoration consisting of a broad transverse above an animal head. The head has triangular relief ears and two pairs of concentric engraved drop shapes forming the eyes. The snout forms the lower end of the terminal and is slightly upturned. The reverse of the terminal is not closed at the lower end, and is filled with the remains of the corner of the iron stirrup. Both arms of the iron stirrup are oval in section. The terminal is 27 mm long and 12 mm wide at most; the iron projects …
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CAMPSEY ASH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3470
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy finger-ring made from two pieces of wire c. 2 mm thick, twisted together to make a hoop c. 3 mm in diameter and then ?hammered to give a fairly smooth finish. The ends are missing (old breaks). Maximum width, or diameter, is 22 mm.
Created on: Friday 15th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEETING WITH BROOMHILL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3483
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end. The attachment end is split and has two rivet holes, one retaining a copper-alloy rivet. Below is the 'trilobate' or 'fan-shaped' motif, consisting of a raised band curving around each rivet, a raised pelta shape in the centre, and a longer band curving around all below. Most of the strap-end is taken up with a symmetrical abstract design in inlaid niello, now mineralised and silvery. The design consists of triangles and circles and gently curving lines, and runs right up to the edges of the strap-end and down to the animal-head terminal with no borders. The an…
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 16th March 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SF3484
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Triangular fragment of gilded copper-alloy mount or buckle plate, 25 mm long. The apex has a circular ?setting 8 mm in external diameter, surrounded by a raised border, with a perforated lug, now broken, on the reverse. The triangle then flares to 12 mm wide and is decorated with an interlaced ribbon-like animal made up of two raised lines flanking a row of raised dots. If the mount/buckle is held with the apex to the right, some features of the animal may be tentatively discerned. At one point a dot is enclosed within a sub-circular ring which interrupts one of the lines; this may …
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SF3485
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas's Class G, missing part of its terminal. The attachment end is narrow (5 mm wide) and split and has a single copper-alloy rivet. At the base of the split is a transverse moulding which runs around the sides and front, and below this is a moulded animal head, now rather worn but apparently never very well modelled, with just a groove on the moulding separating the 'ears' and a pointed upturned snout. The jaws grip an 8.5 mm wide openwork plate which perhaps originally took the form of an asymmetric interlaced animal; there are four complete p…
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2000
Last updated: Saturday 11th January 2014
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SF3518
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very unusual rectangular copper-alloy buckle frame. The 3 mm thick bar is inset a little way, not at a perfect right angle to the sides, and is rather crudely formed. The top and bottom sides of the buckle frame are triangular, running between the bar and the expanded angled outer edge. This outer edge is rectangular (26 x 10 mm) and set at a sharp angle, with three projecting knobs down each short edge. There is a small notch in the centre of one long side forming the pin rest. The knobs and the inset bar seem best paralleled among later Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Scandinavian material…
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BARTON MILLS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3519
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Made from a piece of thin copper-alloy sheet, less than a millimetre thick, cut into a sub-triangular or truncated oval shape with a 4 mm wide projection in the centre of the short straight edge. The projection is folded over with a wide gap at the fold, presumably for a hinge bar, and then widens out again into a sub-rectangular under-plate. The two halves are held together by a single copper alloy rivet and the underplate is then crudely cut off in three short snips. The upper plate has a ring-and-dot either side of the rivet, then another transverse row of three ring-and-dots. B…
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BARTON MILLS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3553
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Single-looped buckle frame made of copper alloy. The outer edge is D-shaped in section with rounded edges, and ends in an animal head at each end of the narrowed circular-section bar. The animal heads are small but neatly modelled; each has triangular ears pressed back against the frame, and a long rounded snout, perhaps slightly upturned. There are traces of possible oblique grooves on the frame. 20 x 22 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ST MARY SOUTH ELMHAM OTHERWISE HOMERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3594
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete ansate brooch, with one terminal missing (old break). The bow is narrow (6.5 mm wide), U-shaped in section, and has a smooth steep curve. The terminal is flat in section and flares to 13 mm wide. The bow is decorated with three longitudinal rows of ring-and dot, and the terminal has five further ring-and-dot motifs. On the reverse of the terminal is a transverse pin lug with a little iron staining from the pin. Surviving length 34 mm; probable original length c. 48 mm. Although this type is dated on the Continent to the late sixth century onwards, it seems more likely that …
Created on: Friday 29th September 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LITTLE BLAKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3603
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 12. The mount is lozengiform with four lozengiform perforations; one is broken through so that the apex is missing (fairly fresh breaks). In the centre and at each side corner are small bosses. At the base, the mount expands slightly just above the right-angled flange to accommodate two substantial iron rivets which still retain a fragment of iron strap. Width 27 mm, surviving length 30 mm.
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 22nd December 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SOMERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3606
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper-alloy ansate brooch of rather unusual type. It is straight-sided and decorated with rectangular panels of ornament, each with a raised border around a low-relief panel of transverse lines. One of these panels forms the top of the bow, and one on either side form the slopes of the bow. One of these sloping panels is broken (neither a particularly fresh nor particularly old break) and the other runs down to just beyond the angle with the terminal. Here it either ends or has a very old break, presumably at a point of weakness just beyond the raised border. On the rever…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK NETTLESTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3629
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount, of Williams' Class A, Type 6 (cf. Williams 1997, 43; ref. 105). One corner is missing, along with the fixing hole. Approximate dimensions (taken from Polaroid) are 50 x 32 mm.
Created on: Friday 6th October 2000
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ST ANDREW ILKETSHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3633
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Double-hooked clasp missing the end of one of its hooks. The central plate is a long sub-oval, 23 x 9 mm and rectangular in section, with a 4 mm diameter circular hole through the middle of the larger faces. The long sides are slightly curved around the hole, and the rest of the plate is then made up of three transverse mouldings on either side. These run all the way around the plate, so it was presumably designed to be seen from both faces. At one end of the plate, a tapering curved hook survives complete and is bent a little out of shape; this has caused no stress to the metal and m…
Created on: Monday 9th October 2000
Last updated: Friday 30th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK NETTLESTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF3648
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of Ipswich ware (probably), gritty fabric
Created on: Monday 9th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HORHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3658
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular copper-alloy strap-end made from a piece of strip folded in half. The upper sheet has a slightly incurved attachment end and is decorated with an engraved rectangular panel. Inside this is a reserved stylised symmetrical plant motif on either side of a narrow longitudinal central band. Each half of the plant motif consists of five curving stems each ending in a rounded lobe. There are two rivet holes, one blocked with copper-alloy corrosion, nearly halfway down the strap-end. The underplate is broken at these rivet holes. Gabor Thomas comments that the ornament is derived …
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEETING WITH BROOMHILL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3659
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Sub-rectangular copper-alloy mount with openwork Urnes-style decoration of an interlacing animal. There is a diagonal break towards one end (neither particularly old nor particularly new) but at the surviving corners are small circular rivet holes. The decoration is hard to decipher - a large patch of corrosion adds to the problems - but a large pointed-oval eye can be seen and a thicker ?body which interlaces with thinner thread-like ?limbs, tail etc. Surviving length 42 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEETING WITH BROOMHILL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3664
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy pommel, probably from a sword but possibly from a seax (a small single-edged sword or large hunting knife). The base of the pommel is curved and it has five curved lobes, increasing in height towards the centre. The central lobe has a sub-circular perforation with a collar around. On one face this collar is incomplete. It could have been made like this, or the collar could have been broken and the break worn smooth. On the same face, the centre of the base has a small area missing (much fresher break). The hole in the central lobe is presumably to allow the tan…
Created on: Friday 13th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ALL SAINTS AND ST NICHOLAS SOUTH ELMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3665
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end. The finder reported that when found, the terminal was missing; he ground down the broken edge which has resulted in the destruction of a considerable amount of important detail. The attachment end is split and shaped into two lobes, each with a rivet hole. One copper-alloy rivet survives; the other hole is obscured by hard soil encrustations. There does not appear to be a 'fan-shaped' motif below the rivet holes; instead, a broad central groove starts immediately below and runs down to the ground edge. To either side are silver wire scrolls set into a dark …
Created on: Friday 13th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK NEWMARKET', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF3691
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRUNDISH', grid reference and parish protected.