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
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Record ID: FAHG-BD8643
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small solid circular biconvex button, apparently made from white metal (perhaps a tin alloy) but possibly made from copper alloy with a thick white-metal coating. On the reverse are two stubs from a separate copper-alloy wire loop. The button is heavy and globular, and dates from the medieval or perhaps early post-medieval period. A good parallel can be seen in Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1388, which was found in a context dating to approximately 1270-1350.
Created on: Thursday 1st April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF-F1F916
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Friday 29th August 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Preston St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-F828C3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
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-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-F5C033
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular lead seal matrix, 28 mm in diameter and 2 mm thick, with some edge damage. On the reverse is a pierced lug, now bent over. The central motif is an eight-point star made from four engraved lines crossing. The legend around reads * S’ SIMONIS D’ LAVSILL’ (Seal of Simon of Lausill). Lausill is perhaps Lawshall in Suffolk; in records of 1194 this is spelled Laweshell, but in the Lay Subsidy of 1327 it is spelled Lausele. This seal matrix dates to the 13th century.
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.

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Record ID: SF-E14316
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
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-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.