Record ID: SF7482
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead disc brooch, 28 mm in diameter. It is flat and has relief decoration of a double-strand border around a Jellinge-style animal. The animal begins with a head with a round eye and open bulbous jaws. A long double-strand tongue emerges to interlace over the body and under one leg. The animal is twisted into a reversed-S shape, with an angular junction between the long curving neck and the body which runs across the centre of the brooch; both neck and body are transversely ribbed with a contour line running along the back. From the angular junction emerges a transversely ribbed forel…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GOODERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7483
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Triangular hooked tag made from copper alloy. 16.5 mm wide at the top and 22.5 mm long, the sharp apex is turned under to form a small hook. There are two circular sewing holes set well in from the top corners. The tag is decorated with a vertical line of rectangular punchmarks, which runs right from the top between the holes down to the apex. This is crossed by a similar line across the top above the holes. Each side has two widely spaced similar lines which run up to the central vertical line. The punchmarks are all so neatly placed that it seems likely that they were made by ro…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF7469
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Four body sherds of Thetford ware, all fairly thin.
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COCKFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7450
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy object, perhaps a strap-fitting. One right-angled corner survives, with surviving dimensions of 25 x 33 mm. The two surviving edges both have angled flanges on the reverse, and also on the reverse is a chunky but broken pierced D-shaped lug. The front is corroded but many of the details of the decoration can be seen. There are three rectangular bosses, all with the remains of sheet silver covering them. The most complete area of silver retains some irregular diagonal cross-hatched grooves. The bosses sit on top of relief ribbons which curve around in a rather angular…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7419
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 two outer lobes are very small and have cut-away bases. The central lobe has a perforation to allow it to fit over the end of the iron tang, part of which survives. Where it passes through the central lobe it measures 6 x 7 mm, but at its broken end (within the hollow pommel) it measures 3 x 8 mm. Although the pommel is worn and some edges may be miss…
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK TOSTOCK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7390
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Wednesday 14th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7376
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Extremely corroded stirrup-strap mount. At the base, a small stub of surviving flange can be seen on the reverse. Above this are two circular rivet holes. From the base upwards, the sides first flare a little, then have a long concave curve up to the upper corners. The mount then tapers up to a missing apex. Few details of decoration can be seen. There appear to have been six indentations around a central lozengiform indentation. There is a diagonal crease across the centre which has caused three of the indentations, including the central one, to perforate the mount. In outline this m…
Created on: Friday 9th November 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 26th November 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HARKSTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7369
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy stirrup terminal. The upper part is a partial cylinder, open at the reverse and slightly flaring, and decorated with a wide transverse moulding between two narrower ridges. Nearly all of the upper edge is missing. Below the mouldings the terminal swells into a rounded bulb with a vertical carination down the centre, but no other decoration. At its maximum it is 16 mm wide and 17 mm thick. On the reverse the tube is closed c. 7 mm above the base, with a horizontal end into which the corner of the stirrup would have fitted. The edges of the tube run fairly straight fro…
Created on: Friday 9th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NACTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7356
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 12, now rather worn and corroded. It is pentagonal in shape, with the base narrowed and turned back almost at right angles to form a flange. In the centre of the flange is a single iron rivet. Above the base the mount tapers a little, then flares and again tapers up to a loop at the apex. There are four lozenge-shaped perforations forming a lozenge-shaped pattern. There are five small bosses, one in the centre, one at each of the two side corners, and two below the lowest perforation, one on either side. The loop at the apex is perforate…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 12th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ESSEX TOLLESHUNT MAJOR', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7292
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very worn stirrup terminal, made from copper alloy and with a fragment of the iron stirrup still adhering. A tapering tube of copper alloy, it is 10 mm in diameter at its widest point near the bottom. At this end it is slightly bulbous and with the eye of faith can be interpreted as the brow of an upward-looking animal. There are slight bumps for eyes above the brow, and then a long snout which reaches almost to the top of the terminal. It is open at the reverse for its full length, to accommodate the side of the stirrup. At the bottom there is a fragment of iron stirrup retained w…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ARWARTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7263
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Spindle whorl made from some kind of stone, probably sandstone but possibly lava. It is globular, with its widest point (35 mm in diameter) not at the midpoint but three-fifths of the way towards one end. It measures 25 mm from one end of the central circular perforation to the other, and the perforation flares from 7 mm at the more pointed end to 9 mm at the more rounded end. There are five grooves around the circumference which were probably made on a lathe. Spindle whorls are difficult to date, but most of those on middle and late Anglo-Saxon sites have lathe-turned grooved deco…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STOWUPLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7253
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of foot from a small-long brooch. At the old and worn break it is just 6 mm wide, and flat and undecorated with a worn catchplate on the reverse. At the bottom of the catchplate, the front has a raised square panel with a transverse groove across the centre. Below this the foot is again flat, and curves outwards to form a flared terminal. The sides have concave curves decorated with punched circles; the base has a convex curve 19 mm wide, and the edge is perhaps a little fragmentary with no decoration surviving. Early Anglo-Saxon, fifth or sixth century.
Created on: Monday 29th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BROMESWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7259
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object, presumably decorative; perhaps some form of mount, but with no apparent means of attachment. It is basically a long thin triangle, 14 mm in maximum width and 27 mm long. The widest end is incurved and the sides nearest this end have small incurved areas. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The front is very slightly convex, the curve running from top to bottom, and has relief interlace decoration within a relief border. The interlace is simple and perhaps not very well executed. It may represent an animal with an alpha-shaped head at the apex of the triangle…
Created on: Monday 29th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BROMESWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7235
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Domed circular openwork object, made from copper alloy but with evidence of iron fixings. Now a little crushed, it was originally about 76 mm in diameter with a flat centre about 15 mm above the rim. The flat top has a central rivet hole about 6 mm in diameter, with the remains of an iron rivet. From this extend six flat radiating bars. Three run down to the rim, tapering and then flaring again to accommodate a rivet hole (c. 5 mm diameter) just within the rim. Two of the three rivet holes have a patch of iron corrosion around them which has a noticeably straight edge halfway up the b…
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 9th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7123
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end, a rather unusual example of Thomas's Type A (the classic 9th-century Anglo-Saxon strap-end). The split end is rather long, and the reverse is missing. The end is shaped into two rounded lobes with a rivet hole in each one, and there is a narrower rounded lobe in between. From the edges of this central lobe come two vertical grooves which then curve outwards to form the trilobate motif which is standard on this type of strap-end. It is formed from an inverted Y-shape with a triangle in the angle of the Y, all outlined by grooves; the Y has a long stem and the lo…
Created on: Sunday 14th October 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 4th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7126
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
End of one arm from a pair of copper-alloy tweezers, now bent and corroded. The arm flares from about 4 mm at the upper break to about 14 mm at the lower end, which is now a little bent. Although this lower end is not certainly broken, it is missing its turned-in tip. The arm is decorated on one face with engraved border lines running down each side. Within these is a longitudinal line of ring-and-dot motifs, which run down to a bend which has removed the surface along with any decoration. Below this bend is a transverse row of five ring-and-dot motifs with the central one slightly…
Created on: Sunday 14th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NACTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7128
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small finger-ring made from copper alloy, with circular cross-section which tapers from 2.5 mm in diameter in the centre to sharply pointed overlapping ends. Both ends are now bent out of shape; there is no further decoration. The ring was probably originally about 13 mm in internal diameter and 18 mm in external diameter, which is fairly small. This shape is characteristic of Viking or Late Anglo-Saxon finger-rings.
Created on: Sunday 14th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUCKLESHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF7117
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rim sherd of Thetford-type ware.
Created on: Sunday 14th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7055
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete gilded copper-alloy side knob from a florid cruciform brooch, originally T-shaped, with Style I decoration including a human face. On the reverse are two broken pierced lugs which would originally have held one end of the iron pin bar; no trace of this now survives. The 'base' of the knob (the part closest to the headplate) is 12 mm wide, narrower than the rest of the knob, and mostly taken up with a transverse band of ribbed decoration enclosed within a raised rectilinear border. Not all of this ribbed band survives, but there is enough to suggest that it perhaps represe…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HEMINGSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7054
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strip brooch made from copper alloy. It is flat and relatively thick, lozengiform in shape with both ends are broken. At one end, the tapering point of the lozenge has just begun to flare out again at the break; this break has carried away the pin hinge or spring. The break at the other end has removed half of an off-centre catchplate; there is also a distinct thickening in the centre of this break. The brooch is decorated with a grooved border and a single line of ring-and-dot motifs, many now corroded away. The patina is a pale matt grey with many corrosion bubbles. Where the catchp…
Created on: Friday 5th October 2001
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HEMINGSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.