Record ID: SF3599
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Knotenfibel, complete except for the foot and part of the catchplate. The name Knotenfibel has no good English equivalent; it refers to a Late Iron Age one-piece brooch with a moulding on the bow derived from the returned foot of a La Tene II brooch. This example has a bent but complete pin, and a spring made up of two wide coils to either side of the pin and a chord running under the top of the bow. Below, an expanded flat-section bow tapers to a circular-section moulding. The moulding is decorated with fine cross-hatching all around its circumference, and has a groove and a narro…
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF4913
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 1st March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LAKENHEATH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3422
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy object. Circular (16 mm diameter) and plano-convex (4 mm thick), it has a central circular perforation 4 mm in diameter with rounded corners at either end. The low rounded face is badly pitted and corroded. The matt pale green patina and chunky proportions would not be out of place in the Roman period, or earlier, but no close parallel has been found.
Created on: Monday 11th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK EDWARDSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3888
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Probable bead made from copper alloy. 12 mm in maximum diameter and with a straight-sided 6 mm diameter perforation, the sides curve parallel to the perforation ('barrel-shaped') with a very slight angle in the centre. The bead varies from 7 to 8 mm thick and is very similar to an ancient glass bead. It is very hard to date - perhaps Iron Age or Roman.
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2000
Last updated: Monday 21st July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STUSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF3915
Object type: TOGGLE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy toggle consisting of two lobes each with a waisted centre and rounded ends, joined longitudinally with a circular loop (now broken) across the join. Old break. About 20-25 mm long and perhaps 7 mm diameter (dimensions not recorded; estimate from sketch).
Created on: Friday 17th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4164
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy brooch, Colchester type, missing its spring, pin, foot and most of catchplate. Bent and corroded. Undecorated flat arms. Oval-section undecorated bow. Edge of ?rectangular hole visible in catchplate. Width of arms 17 mm, surviving length 55 mm. Dimensions of top of bow 5.5 x 3.5 mm.
Created on: Friday 8th December 2000
Last updated: Friday 3rd February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4165
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy brooch, of Rosette type (leontomorphe or lion bow sub-group). Upper part only, missing pin. The spring is enclosed in an undecorated cylindrical spring case, curved around the spring. The upper bow is a very stylised lion shape, terminating in two very angular 'paws', and with a rectangular rivet projecting behind which would have held the plate and lower bow. There are angled lines on the back of the head representing the mane. Width 19 mm, surviving length 19 mm. Similar to Hacheston no. 56, but this lacks the mane decoration. Similar to Hattatt no. 281.
Created on: Friday 8th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4257
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4529
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Friday 26th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT CORNARD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4607
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large and particularly beautiful La Téne I type brooch, complete except for pin and part of spring. Two (left) coils of the spring survive, originally wrapped around an iron axis bar which now only survives as corrosion. The presence of a separate axis bar hints that the brooch may originally have been of the 'mock-spring' type (see Hattatt 1987, no. 724) but as the head is incomplete this is uncertain. The use of iron is unusual. The bow arches upwards and swells to a section 5.5 mm wide by 3.5 mm thick. It is decorated with a broad longitudinal groove with small transverse nic…
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2001
Last updated: Friday 5th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4662
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Northern bronze of Cunobelin.
Created on: Monday 5th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4692
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK MERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4703
Object type: BOW BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin from a bow brooch, with half or less (three coils) of its spring. They are made from circular-section wire (2 mm diameter) and the spring is apparently coiled around a corroded iron axis bar. Quite large (length 46 mm, diameter of spring 8-9 mm) which perhaps argues for a date early in the range.
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK MERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4715
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete three-link (also called 'double-jointed') bit, made of copper alloy and iron, in a very corroded and worn condition. The central element and one of the outer links survive, along with a small fragment of the other outer link. The complete outer link is 74 mm long, consists of an outer iron boss, then a transversely set loop which would have held a separate rein ring, then a double 'baluster' moulding, and lastly a ring which is linked to the central element. The iron boss survives surprisingly well. It is made from a washer 11 mm thick and 22 mm in diameter, with rounded…
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK TUNSTALL', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF4816
Object type: ROTARY QUERN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of rotary quern made from puddingstone. Plano-convex, less than a quarter survives with no trace of the central hole. Probably an upper stone, although there is also no trace of a hole in the outside for a turning stick, or of iron bands to hold a handle for turning. Rounded orange or occasionally orange/red inclusions. Original diameter approx. 320 mm, height 90 mm, too heavy to weigh with a conventional balance. The stone for these querns comes from Hertfordshire and the centre for their manufacture may have been the Verulamium area.
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CREETING ST PETER OR WEST CREETING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4884
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just under half of a large bead made from translucent deep blue glass with a rather carelessly inlaid trail of twisted cable. The cable appears to have been made from white, dark blue and a slightly lighter blue, and is 3 mm wide. The surviving inlay makes one complete and half of a second swag, with the cable being stretched out and crumpled at the bottom of the complete swag. Original diameter c. 25 mm, diameter of perforation c. 4 mm. Twist-decorated beads are known from the late Iron Age/early Roman period and the early Anglo-Saxon period (7th century). There are good parallel…
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK EDWARDSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF4972
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two body sherds of grass-tempered pottery, one rather abraded and the other less so. The abraded sherd varies in thickness from 8 to 12 mm and weighs 28.19g. The less abraded sherd is 10 mm thick and weighs 20.89g. Both have voids where organic temper has burnt out, and inclusions of flint and quartz. They may date to the Iron Age, or to the early Anglo-Saxon period (6th or 7th century AD). Without more diagnostic parts of the vessel(s) (e.g. rim, decorated parts) it is impossible to tell the difference!
Created on: Friday 9th March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STUTTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF4980
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Wednesday 14th March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF4981
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Wednesday 14th March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF5084
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of probable Iron Age pottery, flint-tempered. Very abraded - almost all surface lost on one face.
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CLOPTON', grid reference and parish protected.