Record ID: SF5271
Object type: CATCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny copper-alloy clasp or catch, probably from a bag or box. It consists of a bar 2.5 mm wide, D-shaped in cross-section, decorated with unevenly spaced transverse grooves, with flattened circular terminals 4 mm across. One terminal is pierced, and probably revolved around a peg; the other is also pierced, but has a section of the circumference near the bar cut out to make a hook. This probably engaged with a second peg on the bag/box lid or body to fasten it. These objects are found occasionally in graves of the seventh or early eighth century AD but are exceptionally rare metal-dete…
Created on: Friday 20th April 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 31st May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3696
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver cut farthing of Harthacnut (1040-42). 
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8345
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver penny of Cnut, Short Cross type (N790),   Moneyer Hildulf, York mint.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHILTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6494
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver cut halfpenny of Cnut, Pointed Helmet issue.
Created on: Friday 20th July 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8504
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy bar from a wrist-clasp, which would originally have been soldered to a separate plate. It is oval in cross-section and one face is decorated with equally spaced grooves and ridges giving a ribbed effect. Separate bars of this kind are found on Hines's Forms B13a, B14a, B17a; they date to the late 5th or 6th century AD.
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 26th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5435
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver penny of Aethelred II, Long cross type (N774) Minted in London by Leofnoth.
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 10th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT WALDINGFIELD', 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.

Record ID: SF-E1B756
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Double-hooked clasp made from copper alloy. The central part is expanded into a thick rectangle measuring 25 x 10 mm and 4 mm thick. This has a central circular hole 3.5 mm in diameter, and is decorated with a spiral groove which travels from one end of the rectangle around both faces to the other end. Much of the centre of one face is worn, and the other face has a shallow channel running at a slight angle from one end to the other, so that the groove is incomplete on both faces. A curved hook emerges from each end and curls over in the same plane as the central rectangle so that the…
Created on: Monday 4th August 2003
Last updated: Friday 30th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roudham', 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: SF8198
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy four-way harness link. Still complete and in good condition, it is cross-shaped with four arms extending from a central boss. The boss is a truncated cone in shape, 17 mm in diameter at the base and with a flat top 9 mm in diameter; it is 15 mm tall and the reverse is slightly hollowed. Each arm is trapezoidal in cross-section, and ends in a terminal which is triangular or lozengiform externally and oval internally. The oval perforations are slightly irregular, which may indicate wear; the arms are not at perfect right angles to each other, however, and the whole object m…
Created on: Monday 25th February 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HITCHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4126
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very worn stirrup-strap mount, sub-triangular with outcurved sides. Decorated with a fleur-de-lis-type motif in a bold relief band. 2 iron rivets above the short flange retain an iron plate. Hole in rounded apex. Approximate dimensions 50 x 32 mm. NB if this is indeed a Type 1, relief decoration is rare.
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 21st May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4685
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small prick spur made from copper alloy. The sides are curved, forming less than half of a circle; they do not extend into the straight arms of a U shape like most spurs. They are D-shaped in section, with the internal straight face undecorated, and the external curved face decorated with slightly asymmetric bead-and-reel mouldings. Each side has two long curved mouldings, each with a narrow moulding at either end; but one side has the two narrow mouldings in the middle separated by a slightly wider moulding in the centre (the drawing minimises the differences). Beyond the outermost…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2001
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK GOODERSTONE', 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: SF8874
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Head and stub of bow from a copper-alloy cruciform brooch. The headplate is small, with a raised central panel and wide wings. Apart from a hint of double vertical line decoration down the outer edge of one wing, no decoration is visible on the headplate. The three half-round knobs all survive, cast in one with the headplate. They are fairly flat, and simply shaped with a narrowed waist below a rounded terminal. Each one is flat, not hollowed, on the reverse. The reverse of the headplate has a single pin bar lug with extensive remains of the iron pin bar and spring. What remains of th…
Created on: Monday 1st July 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5717
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy slide key from a tumbler lock, of Winchester type 2. The bow is lozengiform, with a little knop at the far end. The stem is very short, and is pierced at the tip. The bit is very long, and L-shaped; it has a rectangular perforation before two prongs project at right angles. The key would have been put into a long keyhole and the hollow tip engaged onto a pin projecting from the bolt. The key would then have been turned so that the prongs would have passed through a hole in the bolt and pushed a spring out of the way. Then the key and the bolt would have been slid along…
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5351
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy catch-piece from a wrist-clasp of Hines's Form C1, Fonaby type, now slightly bent. As with all C1 clasps, there is chip-carved relief decoration mainly consisting of an animal head at either end of the front edge with the long curving necks meeting in the centre. Each animal head has a round eye and a bird-of-prey-type beak curving right round to form a perforation. On top of the eye and the beak, forming either end of the catch-piece, are two squarish panels with a pointed element, perhaps an ear or a horn, behind; this forms the rear corner. Behind the headframe,…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2001
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4863
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete hook-piece from a Hines Form B18d wrist-clasp. Made of copper alloy, it was originally basically rectangular but is now very worn so that the corners are rounded. The front edge is thickened to imitate a separate bar, which although very worn has traces of broad transverse grooves. The edge of this bar is cut by three circular sewing holes; the clasp is broken across one of these (fairly fresh break). The rest of the plate is undecorated; the rear edge has three rounded cut-outs (one incomplete) forming four very worn projecting lobes (one missing). On the underside of the …
Created on: Monday 26th February 2001
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4862
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete hook-piece from a Hines Form B18d wrist-clasp. Made of copper alloy, it is basically rectangular with a thickened front edge which is decorated to imitate a separate bar, with alternating transverse narrow and broad grooves. Behind this is a longitudinal ridge, the edge of which is cut by three circular sewing holes. The rest of the plate is undecorated; the rear edge has three rounded cut-outs forming four sub-rectangular projecting lobes. On the underside of the front edge is a 4 mm wide hook. Measures 30 x 12.5 mm. Wrist-clasps were used to fasten the cuffs of early Anglo-…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2001
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAHG-123AB4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular Carolingian-style mount made of gilded silver and inlaid with niello. It has been cast in high relief, with detailed and well made leaf and flower decoration. The mount is convex, with tall sides and a hollowed, uneven reverse which bears four integrally cast attachment lugs, one at each corner and set longitudinally. Each is pierced, but the end of each lug is considerably worn, so that two of the piercings are now worn through, on diagonally opposite corners. A central boss in the shape of a four-petalled flower is inlaid with a niello line down each petal, forming a …
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 4th December 2018
No spatial data available.

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.