Record ID: SF9116
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Forked spacer from a composite strap-end. Both arms are now broken, and one is bent as well, but the width at the shoulder seems to be c. 19 mm. A flattish terminal in the form of a collared stylised acorn survives. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9117
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-fitting, perhaps a strap-end, made from a piece of copper-alloy sheet folded in half and secured by two rivets. One rivet is now missing and that corner is bent and damaged; the other rivet is made from copper alloy. A line made from very neat rouletted squares runs outside the rivets and up either side, but does not continue beyond the fold. There is a slight gap at the fold, as if to accommodate a bar, and a very slight taper as if to accommodate a frame. The object is not neatly square; the corners are not at right angles. As it stands, a use as a strap-end would be perfe…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9118
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy Late Tournai jetton dating to the period c. 1497-1521. V monogram type inscribed SIT NOMEN BOMINI. Minted at Tournai. See Mitchiner (1988, 240) nos. 732-734.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 22nd January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BURROUGH GREEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9104
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One shoulder and most of bezel from a copper-alloy finger-ring. The hoop flares gradually from 2 mm wide at the old and worn break, to a maximum of 10 mm wide in the centre of the oval bezel. The bezel is flat and has an engraved fleur-de-lis set longitudinally. The shape of this ring, with steeply sloping shoulders and a flat bezel, indicates a 15th- to 17th-century date.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANTHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9107
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end, now consisting of two pieces of copper-alloy sheet held together by a single separate copper-alloy rivet at one end. One piece is broken off at 22.5 mm long; it is decorated with a line of rocker-arm engraving down each long edge, and an irregular central longitudinal grooved zig-zag made up of punchmarks. In each of the angles of the zig-zag is a short longitudinal groove, similarly made up of punchmarks. The other piece of copper alloy is also probably broken, but survives to 35.5 mm long; it is undecorated. The maximum width, at the attachment end, is 8.5 mm; this tap…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9108
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end consisting of two pieces of copper-alloy sheet now held together by a single separate copper-alloy rivet at one end. One plate is more highly polished and is decorated with a saltire of rocker-arm engraving at the attachment edge. The strap-end tapers from 10 mm wide at the attachment edge to 8 mm wide just before a series of cut-outs herald the start of the terminal. This is broken at a second rivet hole but was probably originally quite long and elaborate. There appears to be a scrap of textile retained between the plates at the attachment end. Total surviving length 48.5 …
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9109
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One plate from a composite strap-end, made from copper alloy. It tapers from 20 mm wide at the attachment end to 15 mm wide just before a terminal which is now simply rounded but which may originally have been pointed. The attachment end has two separate but well-concealed copper-alloy rivets each 4 mm long, and is slightly incurved with a central semi-circular cut-out. A groove runs a little way up the strap-end from the cut-out. The plate is pitted with corrosion and no decoration is visible, but despite this the presence of the groove indicates that it was the upper plate. On th…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9100
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy leg from a cooking vessel, now incomplete. The top survives, with a smooth curved surface which could be soldered to the body of the vessel. The reverse is flat, but the front is lumpy and it is hard to see any deliberate design features. There is some sooting on all surfaces including the top. The break is old and worn.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9101
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of body from a cast copper-alloy vessel. All edges are broken, but are now fairly smooth and corroded. The metal is a very dark brown, almost black, and the exterior is rougher and less highly finished than the interior.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9102
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Conical rivet made from rolled-up copper-alloy sheet. The wider end has been hammered to give a slightly burred-over end, and the tip is corroded and blunt and may be incomplete. Diameter at head, 8-9 mm; length, 22 mm. This type of rivet appears to have been used on medieval and early post-medieval kitchen utensils such as cooking vessels and strainers.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9103
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy oval disc, now very corroded, measuring 39 x 35 mm. Very slightly convex, it is decorated on the outer face with a border of circular stamps, running all of the way around the edge and enclosing seven transverse rows of similar stamps. There are no stamps at the top - at least one if not two rows are missing - and here there is a roughly cut, or perhaps worn, oblique oval hole. This seems to have neater edges on the reverse, and so may have been cut from this side. The decoration dates it to the medieval period. This object is about the right size for a horse-h…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9081
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead pot mend, neat and sub-circular (19 mm diameter) on one face and large, lumpy and crude on the other. A fragment of pot wall survives in the narrow waist between the two halves; this is probably medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DALLINGHOO', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9082
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Pin from an annular brooch, made from cast copper alloy. It is sub-rectangular in cross-section, with rounded corners, measuring 3.5 mm wide and 4 mm thick. The loop is open and measures 10.5 mm across. There is a vague hint of a moulding at the junction of loop and shaft, but the pin is quite corroded and it is hard to tell if it was always so faint as to be hardly visible. The tip is tilted up and the underside is cut or worn away so that it can sit nicely on the frame. Total length 43 mm.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9083
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular frame made from copper alloy, from a buckle or from a strap clasp. The bar is rectangular in section with visible filemarks. The sides are thickened with a transverse moulding at either end. The outer edge is narrowed with the remains of a separate sheet roller (if a buckle) or rotating end (if a clasp).
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9084
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy buckle plate, now bent in half. Originally it was rectangular, with a surviving unbent length of c. 32 mm, and tapering from 14 mm wide at the broken hinge loops to 13 mm wide at the attachment end. There is a pin slot and frame recesses, and just behind these are two separate copper-alloy rivets with knobbed heads. There are two further rivet holes at the attachment end (one now incomplete). The plate is worn and corroded, but some decoration can be made out; there appear to be curving double chevrons, each with a row of circular punchmarks between the two line…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9086
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Double-looped copper-alloy buckle frame, both loops oval with pointed outer edges. The buckle is angled about the bar and there is iron corrosion on the bar and on one outer edge. In other places there are patches of dark grey patina, perhaps from a white-metal coating. At one end of the bar, the buckle frame has split through its thickness and one loop has broken. This is an odd place to split and perhaps indicates a point of weakness due to the construction method.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9087
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy key, missing its bit. The bow is circular internally, but externally is decorated with a pair of stylised three-dimensional animal heads, one on each side, which appear to be gripping the far end of the bow in their mouths. The stem is octagonally facetted. It begins with a short rounded section, which is divided from the rest of the stem by a ridge. Beyond this, about 15 mm of the stem is solid, and then it has an off-centre longitudinal hole which has broken through on one side. Total surviving length 56.5 mm. The metal is a very pale, but apparently stable, grey-green.…
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9088
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy ring 28 mm in diameter, with an oval or slightly facetted hexagonal cross-section measuring about 1-1.5 x 2 mm. With a dark brown patina, it looks fairly old but is not more closely datable than medieval or post-medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9089
Object type: RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy ring, a slightly uneven 23-4 mm in diameter. In cross-section it is oval or slightly facetted hexagonally, with one face being much flatter than the other; the cross-section measures about 1 x 2 mm. There are many uncleaned casting flashes around both internal and external edges. With a corroded green patina, it looks fairly old but is not more closely datable than medieval or post-medieval.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9090
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy seal matrix. The die is shield-shaped, measuring 14 x 13 mm, with a straight top and convex sides meeting at a point; on the reverse there is a hexagonally facetted conical handle which rises to the stubs of a broken-off perforated terminal. The surviving height is 13 mm. The die is very battered and it is hard to make out the engraved design. It appears to have a chief with a design which is hard to make out; it appears to be a finely engraved frieze but there are occasional shield-shaped seal matrices which have a short inscription here. Below, the main part of the …
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.