Record ID: NFAHG-C241B0
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy seal matrix with socket, for producing cloth seals (alnage seals). The die itself is circular and 29mm in diameter. In side view, the matrix rises vertically from the die for about 3mm then begins to taper with a slightly concave curve to an open end 19-20mm in external diameter. The matrix is overall 14mm thick and weighs 39.0g. There are two small bumps on the outside, very close to the socket's edge, which are surrounded by iron staining and which may be the remains of iron nails fastening a wooden handle. These are not quite opposite each other; one is above the C …
Created on: Friday 2nd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-F69C04
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy double-looped strap fitting, perhaps a strap-slide (which holds down the free end of a strap). One loop is smaller and rectangular (internal measurements 15 x 5 mm). The other is roughly D-shaped, of the same width as the smaller loop but longer; the outer edge is decorated with a crowned head. The head has a three-pointed crown, a hooked nose, little chin and the top of the shoulders; there is no detail added in the form of eyes, mouth and so on. The head is set so that it is best seen when the fitting is held vertically and on edge; it would have worked very well if th…
Created on: Tuesday 5th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roudham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F5D987
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Frame and part of forked spacer plate from a composite buckle, made from greyish copper alloy. The frame is oval, 31 mm wide, and has a pointed pin rest. The pin is made from a greener copper alloy and is wrapped around a constriction between the two forks of the spacer. It has a projecting rectangular lobe at the junction of the shaft and the loop. The spacer plate is of the type illustrated in Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 325, with two steps from the pin constriction to the long forked arms. Both of the long arms are missing with only short stubs extending from the steps. There…
Created on: Tuesday 5th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roudham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E12153
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end made from a single piece of copper alloy sheet folded in half. The exterior is highly polished and has traces of linear decoration, perhaps rouletted double rows of triangles. The attachment end is closed with a single copper-alloy rivet with a neat flat head at either end. One end of the sheet is neatly rectilinear, but the other is more irregular with possibly part of a very small rivet hole. The sheet is 14 mm wide and the strap-end is 11 mm long. The decoration of rouletted double triangles is characteristically medieval, and the construction with a single well-made …
Created on: Monday 4th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Market Weston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E100E7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two copper-alloy strap links, perhaps originally swivelling. One has a neatly circular loop, 7 mm internal diameter and 11 mm external diameter. The other has a less neat loop, slightly oval and having some internal wear; it is 13 mm wide externally and measures 8 x 9 mm internally. The loops are then joined by a solid part, a varying oval in cross-section, which has a circumferential groove around it. This groove may represent a junction which has now been corroded solid. Alternatively, as the loops are at exactly right angles to each other, and as there is no swivelling pin visi…
Created on: Monday 4th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Market Weston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8D4273
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy strap-end. Only one plate survives, broken at the hinge loops; it has a pin slot and frame recesses, and is decorated with a border around three sides consisting of a rouletted double line of triangles. The attachment end has the remains of a single iron rivet. All the edges, including the broken ones, are worn. Surviving length 25 mm, width 10 mm.
Created on: Thursday 31st July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Trimley St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-79DB63
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete book clasp, made of copper alloy sheet 26 mm wide. The attachment end is missing; the surviving end is narrowed and curled over to form the hook. It is covered with stamped decoration; at the broken end is a circle surrounded by small triangles, resembling a sun pattern. Nearer the hook is a broad transverse band of decoration consisting of three ring-and-dots alternating with two small fleur-de-lis motifs, with raised dots around. This is flanked on either side by a row of beading, then on the side away from the hook there are three large triangles with their points tow…
Created on: Friday 18th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Waldingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-656295
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper-alloy strip. One end is cut straight across, and is slightly flatter and wider. The strip then has bevelled edges, and tapers slightly all the way to a slightly expanded oval terminal. This terminal has a copper-alloy rivet with a slightly rounded head and a large burred-over end; the wider end also has a rivet, with neatly concealed head and neater end. The wider end is bent outwards and then back under and up to form a drop-shaped loop which is nearly closed. The form of the rivet at the wider end suggests a medieval date (probably 14th centu…
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-652DD3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It is basically shield-shaped, with a straight top and edges gently curving to a point. It is 6mm thick, however, with a flat reverse and curved front, and has decoration which is too three-dimensional to represent an actual shield. The straight top has two grooves which run across at a slight angle, combining to form a wide depression with a central curved-top ridge. Below this, pairs of narrow grooves radiate, curving over the front and down the edges of the object. Again the decoration is asymmetrical, so that the grooves are spaced m…
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3B9CD6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end made from a single piece of copper alloy. The attachment end has two copper-alloy rivets which protrude from the surface; the end is shaped slightly around them. A shallow groove runs down the length of the strap-end from between the two rivets. The sides of the strap-end are shaped; it tapers slightly, and then has a pair of projections on each side at the terminal end. Between these projections is a third rivet, this time flush with the surface and well concealed; the groove is probably interrupted by this rivet, although as the surface is worn and corroded it is hard t…
Created on: Tuesday 15th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-283653
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Catch-piece from a dress fastener, made from copper alloy. The front edge is rectilinear, with a neatly cut rectangular slot measuring 12 x 4 mm. Behind the slot, the object has a small circular central hole; it then tapers to a point. At the point is a concave curve which looks like the remains of a second hole, in line with the first. Given this, it would seem likely that the object had broken to its present tapered shape, were it not for the fact that scoring lines can just be seen along the edge on both faces. Those on the upper face could be decoration, but as they appear on b…
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-276D56
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pair of copper-alloy tweezers made from fairly thick (1 mm) strip, with an expanded loop. The ends of the arms are both missing (fresh breaks). The loop is corrugated, with three longitudinal ridges and two grooves. The arms flare very slightly, from 3 mm wide near the loop to 4 mm wide at the breaks. They are each decorated with a fine engraved unbroken line down each edge; between these lines are irregular short longitudinal lines which do not form rows. The decoration suggests a medieval date (e.g. Egan and Pritchard 1991, 576, which is late 14th century).
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2730E2
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Neck and rowel box from a gilded copper-alloy rowel spur. The neck is broken at the start of two surviving wide rounded mouldings (old break); there is a much narrower moulding at the junction with the rowel box. The rowel box is angled and narrows sharply; it is crossed by a transverse lobe before swelling out again into rounded terminals which are pierced for the iron bar, which only survives as a stain. The whole object is covered with small punchmarks made by an annulet punch usually held at an angle to produce C-shaped marks. A close published parallel has not been found for t…
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E8F481
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Candle-socket from a branched candlestick, with the end of the branching arm. The socket is cast separately in a copper alloy which has now corroded to a very dark green. It is 35 mm tall, and is a cylindrical in shape, slightly flaring towards a maximum diameter of 21 mm at the top. It is decorated with three bands of moulding; a triple band at the top and in the middle, and a double band at the base. Below this it tapers to a projecting stub, with the underside decorated with a circular groove. The stub passes through a hole in the end of the branching arm and is hammered over t…
Created on: Friday 11th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E83DE3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy spur buckle. The frame is oval, with a projecting grooved pin rest. At the tapered junction between the frame and the plate is a circular pin hole. The plate is narrow, with a transverse ridge behind the pin hole, then a rounded lobe containing a copper-alloy rivet with separate square backplate made from copper-alloy sheet. A long narrow bar, D-shaped in cross-section, runs to a terminal lobe (this time drop-shaped) with a second similar rivet and backplate. This buckle is 13th or 14th century in date and from a spur; it is slightly curved along its length, to fit ar…
Created on: Friday 11th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-944864
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny copper-alloy key. The bow is a quatrefoil, with a small external projection in each angle. One of the lobes of the quatrefoil is blocked with either a blob of very hard corrosion or an uncleaned casting flash. The stem has a triple moulding near the bow, and has a hollow end. The bit is uncut but has some fine horizontal grooving on one face. The entire object measures only 30 mm long and may be from a box or from furniture (e.g. a desk drawer). The shape of the bow perhaps suggests a late medieval or early post-medieval date, but because of its length and delicacy of manufa…
Created on: Monday 7th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9241
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from copper alloy, in form very similar to the 'lyre-shaped' buckles used in the 15th century. It is openwork and roughly oval in outline. One end has a basically rectangular perforation and the other end has two oval perforations; these combine to form the 'lyre' shape. One of the short edges of the rectangular perforation (nearest the ovals) is incurved and has rounded corners. Beyond the two oval perforations is a terminal, now probably incomplete, formed from two back-to-back scrolls with a triangular perforation in between. There are two other areas o…
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STOCKTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9193
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pommel from a medieval sword or dagger. Viewed from the top it is slightly domed and almost circular, with seven slight facets around the edge forming a heptagon with rounded corners. The maximum 'diameter' is 29 mm. Each of the rounded corners is cut off by a broad V-shaped groove, and from either end of each one a similar groove runs at an angle to the centre. The inner facet of each of the outer grooves has a pair of short oblique lines cut into it, and some of the radiating grooves have a fine zig-zag or series of chevrons along the base. There is a space at the ce…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BLAXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9194
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy shield-shaped harness mount, now slightly bent and quite worn. The shield is 30 mm long and 24 mm wide with a straight top and sides curving to a point. Three relief lions passant guardant can just be seen on the shield (the arms of England before 1340). Although these were probably reserved and gilded against a red enamel background, none of the gilding or enamel survives. On the reverse is a large tapering integral blunt-ended spike, set at a slight upwards angle; this increases the total thickness to 22 mm. These mounts are very similar to horse-harness pendants and we…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Monday 23rd November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'AKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9195
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusual object which appears to be an annular brooch. Four sides of an originally hexagonal frame survive, with a D-shaped cross-section; internally the brooch is circular. In the centre of one side is a projecting human head modelled in the round, with hair cut in a square shape to frame the face. The features are strongly and severely modelled, with big relief eyebrows meeting the top of the flattish triangular nose, lower-relief eyes, cheeks and chin, and a line for the mouth. A short neck connects the head to the frame of the brooch, which resembles stylised shoulders and angle…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BLUNDESTON', grid reference and parish protected.