Record ID: SF-A677E6
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment of an Anglo-Saxon girdle hanger dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 500-600 AD, probably corresponding to a Felder shank/neck type IIIa. The fragment consists the upper portion of the shaft and suspension lug, with the rest of the object having broken away in old damage.The suspension lug itself is broadly circular in plan and turned at a plane of 90 degrees to the rest of the girdle hanger, while the upper portion of the shaft itself on its outer face is decorated with a series of transverse collars that transition to a triangular moulded …
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Poslingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7EE63C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment originating from a probable Martin group 2 cruciform type brooch of probable Anglo-Saxon attribution, dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 450-480 AD. Only the terminal and lower bow survive, the rest of the object having broken away in old damage. The upper edge of the surviving bow is truncated, curving slightly in profile before straightening and transitioning into the terminal, which takes the form of a horse's head with bulging eyes, an elongated snout and flared nostrils, preceded by two very prominent transverse grooves. From the rear…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 7th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drinkstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C6BC76
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver sceatta of Abramson's secondary series B1b, type 27b, dating c. 700-750 AD. See Abramson p. 49, cat. B350. This coin has been recorded on the EMC as 2018.0085
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 22nd March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pakenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3DA973
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Scandinavian zoomorphic stirrup side-terminal dating to the late Early Medieval period, c. 1000-1100. It is broadly rectangular in plan, with a hemi-spherically shaped section that gives the back of the object an open or socketed appearance, in which apparent traces of solder are visible. The outer surface of the terminal demonstrates moulded zoomorphic decoration in the shape of a snarling animal head, with a prominent pair of ears, brow, and elongated oval eyes, with the snout of the animal flaring out above the inwardly-projecting basal ledge that…
Created on: Wednesday 28th December 2016
Last updated: Friday 20th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3E1A57
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Scandinavian zoomorphic stirrup side terminal dating to the late Early Medieval period, c. 1000-1100. It is sub-triangular in plan and hemi-spherical in section, with a broadly sub-triangular profile and open back that demonstrates copious traces of solder. The terminal has been decorated on its outer face with moulded zoomorphic decoration in the form of a stylised animal head, probably originally depicting a snarling beast with prominent ears, though this is now almost completely worn away. The inner surface towards the base of the terminal demo…
Created on: Wednesday 28th December 2016
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2DB3AB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver hammered penny of Aethelred II, dating c. 1003-1009. 'Helmet' type, moneyer Godman at the mint of Canterbury. North 775.
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemingstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-71C487
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle dating to the late Early Medieval period (Late Saxon), c. 1000-1100. Only the frame survives, the accompanying pin and plate missing in old damage. It is 'D' shaped in plan, demonstrating an offset thinned strap bar and a heavily thickened outer edge to the frame, which thins at its shoulders. Where the sides of the frame join with the strap bar, it posesses zoomorphic terminals in the form of devolved animal heads. The shoulders and the front edge of the frame itself are decorated with closely spaced repeating transverse grooves, though this is …
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nowton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-896633
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy knob from an early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) cruciform brooch. It is semi-circular in cross-section with a rounded outer face and a flat reverse. The outer end is hemispherical with a small knop in the centre of its outer face. Behind this there is a deep groove followed by a semi-circular section, rectangular in cross-section. Across the inner end of this section is a shallow transverse groove that would have facilitated attachment to the head of the brooch at the top or the side of top of the head plate. The metal survives in fairly good condition with a shiny dark…
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 26th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fakenham Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8968B5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) cruciform brooch. Only the bow survives. This is curved in profile and D-shaped in cross-section with a rounded outer face and flat reverse. Each corner of the outer face is raised and angular and divided from the rest of the face by a diagonal groove. A raised square projects from the centre of the outer face. There is a rough, fresh break across either end. This fragment appears to fit the lower edge of a cruciform brooch also recorded from this site: PAS record SF-AB964A. This has been identified as a Martin (2015) …
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 26th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fakenham Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-896D22
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) cruciform brooch. Only the foot of the brooch survives. At the upper end of this there is a trapezoidal flat panel, tapering very slightly towards its lower end, its outer face decorated with a central incised ring-and-dot. To the reverse of this section there is the remains of a small catch-plate covered with iron corrosion. To either side a moulded lappet projects featuring an elaborate Style I helmeted profile motif. Below this there is a raised rectangular panel, its outer face decorated with a single narrow transverse …
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 26th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fakenham Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-898BF0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) wide equal-armed brooch. Each outer terminal is a sub-triangular, flaring 'spatula' shape. Their inner ends are joined by a short, narrow bow, slightly humped and D-shaped in cross-section with a rounded outer face and flattened reverse. The outer face of each terminal is bordered with a line of stamped semi-circles. To the reverse of one terminal there is the remains of a single lug pin fitting and to the reverse of the other a small rectangular catch-plate with hooked outer edge. The surface of the metal is corroded, ther…
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 26th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fakenham Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-89900B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch. The head, bow and upper part of the foot survive. The head is sub-rectangular in shape. There is considerable damage around its edges and its outer face is corroded and so no decoration can be seen. To its reverse there is a single pin lug still holding a coopper alloy axis bar and the remains of a corroded iron pin. The bow is sub-triangular in shape, narrowing slightly towards its lower end and is D-shaped in cross-section with a rounded outer face. A V-shaped notch has been removed from either side of …
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 26th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fakenham Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8997B7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) brooch. It has a flattened, rectangular cross-section with a narrowing strip projecting from one end, which is the remains of a pin slot. A band of fine transverse grooves is visible on one face just behind this slot. No other decoration is visible, but both surfaces are covered with corrosion. In the small areas without corrosion patches of white metal coating are visible. The breaks are well worn. Penn and Brugmann (2007, 25) found little chronological variation in the different types of annular brooch with the onl…
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fakenham Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-899B17
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) brooch. It has a flattened, rectangular cross-section with a narrowing at one end, which might be part of a pin slot or just a break. A line of small incised dots is visible along each edge of one section of the outer face, but any decoration on the remainder of the hoop is obscured by corrosion. There is surface corrosion in places, a little damage along both sides and the breaks are well worn. However, traces of a bright, shiny green patina remain in places. Penn and Brugmann (2007, 25) found little chronological v…
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fakenham Magna', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9B5723
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy hooked tag of Read's Early Medieval class D, type 1, dating c. 800-1100 AD. The fastener demonstrates a circular body, from the front edge of which would have originally projected two circular sewing lugs. From the rear of the body projects a thin rectangular-sectioned hook that curves strongly in profile and tapers to a sharp point. At the junction between the plate and hook is a double transverse moulding. The upper surface of the body is decorated with ornate engraved decoration consisting a central tribrach (three-armed) motif and ridged outer borde…
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horringer', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-097EC5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon brooch of small-long type dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 450-480 AD. Only the pin and terminal are missing, with the rest of the object preserved intact. It has a broadly rectangular head decorated on three sides with incised lines and demonstrating two small notches on its lower edge which flank the junction between it and the bow. On the rear face of the head, a single protruding hemispherical lug that originally would have served to hinge an iron pin (now missing but visible in the presence of ferrous corrosion producs adhering t…
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2018
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rickinghall Inferior', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-2E9CC2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) finger ring or ear-ring, dating c. 800-1100. It is penannular in plan, formed from a single piece of circular-sectioned wire and tapering to a point at either end. Preserved in fair condition with an even greenish patina, it measures 23.93mm in diameter, 3.34mm thick at its midpoint, and weighs 2.83g. A number of similar rings have been found during excavations, e.g. Elveden (West 1998, 26, no.24.7) and Thetford (Goodall 1984, 69, fig.110, nos.17-20) and and recorded with the PAS in Suffolk (e.g. SF-1114A6, SF-07FB63, SF-450B65 …
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 2nd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemingstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8561C5
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early Medieval hooked tag of Read's Class A, type 2, dating c. 800-1100. Only the body and part of the hook survive-the body being sub-circular in plan and decorated on its upper surface with two circular apertures at its front edge and a further example at its midpoint, the latter surrounded by three smaller apertures arranged in a triangle. From the rear face of the body, the tapering remains of the hook project, truncating in an old break. Preserved in rather poor condition with a coarse brownish patina, it survives to a length of 16.06mm, 10.27mm wi…
Created on: Monday 6th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hinderclay', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DA79AA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver hammered penny of Harold I (1035-1040) dating c. 1038-1040. 'Fleur de lis' type, moneyer Leofwig at the mint of Lincoln, North 803. Obverse: helmeted and armoured bust left holding sceptre, +hAR-OLD REX. Reverse: voided long cross with limbs united at their bases by a circle enclosing a pellet, in each angle of the cross a lis between two pellets, +LE:/OFP/IG O/N LINC. This coin has been recorded on the EMC as EMC 2018.0411.
Created on: Friday 10th August 2018
Last updated: Friday 23rd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ubbeston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2D50F7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy gilt mount of probable Anglo-Saxon derivation dating to the Early Medieval period (c. AD 500-600). It is square in plan and section, its upper face demonstrating a rectangular recessed inner panel decorated with chip-carved Salin Style 1 decoration consisting a curled animal with a thin tail and a pellet (?) eye. In the recesses of this design, gilding is almost perfectly preserved. At each corner of the mount's upper edge is a circular aperture, while at the midpoint of the lower edge is a third example-all of the latter presumably intended to allow the m…
Created on: Tuesday 14th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 1st October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tostock', grid reference and parish protected.