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Record ID: SF9226
Object type: QUERN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a 'mustard' quern made from imported Rhenish lava. About a quarter survives; its diameter is c. 170 mm, it is c. 35 mm thick, and its central hole has a diameter of c. 40 mm. Probably an upper stone, its grinding surface is harp-dressed and the other surface is roughly pecked. 'Mustard' querns are mentioned in inventories and wills from the 17th century onwards and it is thought that these small querns are the ones referred to.
Created on: Thursday 29th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9216
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two rim sherds of Glazed Red Earthenware, 16th to 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THELNETHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9205
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pottery disc, 24 mm in diameter and 5 mm thick, perhaps a counter or playing piece. One face has a large incuse letter D, with VIII in smaller lettering below. The fabric is a fine red earthenware with ferrous inclusions; this type of fabric could have been made almost anywhere in England, so gives little help in identification. The inscription could be deciphered as eight pennyweight, but in fact the disc weighs 4.47g, which is 2.87 dwt. Probably post-medieval.
Created on: Friday 23rd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WITHERSFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9198
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COPDOCK AND WASHBROOK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9199
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from bone, ivory or antler, with ring-and-dot decoration. It is biconvex in cross-section, with one face being slightly more curved than the other. One end is basically rectangular, 32.5 x 27 mm, and each long side of this rectangle has a central V-shaped cut-out flanked by semi-circular cut-outs. Each face is decorated with 19-20 unevenly spaced ring-and-dot motifs. One corner is certainly complete; from this, a long rod extends parallel to the long edge of the rectangle, increasing the length of the object to 85 mm. The rod is 6 mm wide, and is mainly pa…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'STONHAM ASPAL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9200
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy globular openwork button. 11 mm in diameter, both front and back have six triangular perforations leading to a hollow centre. In the middle of the front is a small raised boss, and there are traces of a black coating around. In the middle of the back is an integral pierced lug. Total length 17 mm. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9202
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead cloth seal
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9182
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small earthenware pot. It is c. 75 mm high and has a base diameter of 38 mm, flaring to a cordon two-thirds of the way up (diameter here 64 mm) and then curving inwards again to the rim (diameter 29 mm). The fabric is brown-black and sandy with occasional granitic inclusions (gold mica and felspar) and small black pieces. Possibly an inkwell or paint pot; possibly 'art pottery' of the early 20th century, or a Spanish or Portuguese import of uncertain (but probably post-medieval) date.
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOMERSHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9176
Object type: DIE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Asymmetric lead die. None of the faces is quite square, and each has a number of dots from one to six, marked by the use of small dots close to the edges of the faces. The dots are arranged on the faces as on modern dice, except that the 2 face has the dots parallel to one edge instead of being set diagonally. The faces are as follows (dimensions are maximums): 6, 7.3 x 6.5 mm; 5, 7.5 x 6.4 mm; 4, 6.5 x 6.5 mm; 3, 6.5 x 6.2 mm; 2, 6 x 5.5 mm; 1, 6 x 6 mm. The opposite faces do not add up to seven as on Roman, some medieval and post-medieval, and modern dice (Winchester die type A); …
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CAMBRIDGESHIRE FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9178
Object type: FURNITURE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Openwork relief-decorated mount made from copper alloy. It is in the shape of an eight-pointed star, with four leaves radiating to form a square of side 21 mm, alternating with four radiating heads which form curves in the centre of each side of the square. There is a hole in the centre, then a ring of eight holes formed by the spaces between the necks and the stems of the leaves. In between the central holes and the eight smaller holes is a double-strand lozenge, from the corners of which the stems of the leaves spring. The mount is slightly convex and the heads are hollowed on th…
Created on: Friday 16th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9170
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded silver pin with hollow spherical filigree-decorated head. The head is now incomplete, but can be seen to have been made in two halves with a horizontal soldered seam. The diameter at the seam is 7 mm. Each half is decorated with three pellets, each set within a collar of beaded wire and then surrounded by an outer circle of beaded wire. In between these circles are further single pellets. At the very top there would probably have been another pellet, and in the centre of the lower half the shaft emerges. Most of the top half is missing (fresh breaks), showing that the sha…
Created on: Thursday 15th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9127
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Body sherd of Glazed Red Earthenware.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9080
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One arm from a copper-alloy purse bar of LMMC Types B6-8, Williams Class H1. In the centre is a small rectangular block with a circular perforation through it; this is now broken across the perforation. The surviving arm is circular in cross-section (just over 3 mm in diameter) and quite short; it ends in a conical boss 11 mm in diameter. Total surviving length 33 mm. Types B6-8 are thought to date to the early to mid 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 8th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DALLINGHOO', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9085
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Double-looped copper-alloy buckle frame, both loops oval. The bar projects beyond the frame, and each outer edge is pointed externally to accommodate what ought to be a relief rosette; the rosette is in fact so simplified that it is just a grooved oval. The bar is bent and worn in the centre.
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: SF9093
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lozenge-shaped relief-decorated openwork mount made from copper alloy. The design consists of a central cross made up of five large pellets, surrounded by a ring of smaller pellets with perforations in the angles of the cross. To either side a single large pellet projects, and to either end is a trefoil of large pellets. On the reverse are two bent-over attachment spikes. It is corroded to a rough purple-brown. This type of mount is superficially quite similar to a type of lozengiform openwork late Anglo-Saxon brooch, and together with ball-headed pins and hooked tags forms a clas…
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: SF9069
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an early post-medieval cast copper-alloy toggle-clasp: the toggle-end dating to c. 16th - c.17th century AD. The fragment consists of a raised and protruding toggle bar at one end, at the end of a plate decorated with symmetrically cast bifurcated knops on both sides of a small circular rivet hole, through which the object has broken. The toggle bar is a lunate bar mount, seemingly integral. A similar example can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 209; ref. 754). Read has identified this type as an 'Early post-medieval, Type 1' toggle-clasp, although he mentions th…
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9050
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy mount, probably from horse-harness. 41 mm long and 11 mm wide, it has no decoration but is cut into a decorative symmetrical shape. There is a central oval lobe and two terminal lobes with rounded ends and incurved sides. On the reverse of each of these is a rectangular-section bent-over attachment spike, which would have passed through leather 5-6 mm thick. The shape of the mount seems rather classical in inspiration; it is 16th century or later, perhaps as late as 18th century.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9028
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy mount, perhaps from a belt or from horse-harness. It is in the shape of an elongated shield, with the top shaped into two incurves; the point in between develops into a a trefoil or fleur-de-lis terminal, and there is a rounded terminal at the bottom. The shield-shape and the trefoil terminal share a raised border and unclear relief decoration, probably a plant motif. The lower terminal is a simple circular slightly convex disc. On the reverse are two integral rivets or spikes.
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CAMPSEY ASH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9032
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Padlock case and bolt, complete except for the backplate. All of the case and the mechanism is made from copper alloy. The case is roughly circular, 23-24 mm in diameter, and has a curved, almost comma-like, keyhole on the right-hand side. The rest of the circular part is decorated with seven unevenly spaced ring-and-dot motifs. The case is of uneven thickness, being 5 mm thick at the bottom and 9 mm thick at the top. The top is probably deeper to accommodate two additional elements here. First is a longitudinally set loop, and second is a rectangular collar. These serve to hold…
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BENTLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9021
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Catch-piece from a dress fastener. The plate is a tapering oval, with a slightly expanded rounded terminal at the apex which has relief decoration and a projecting pierced circular sewing lug. At the wider end is another transverse band of relief decoration, with a similar sewing lug at either end. In between, the plate is slightly convex and has a hollowed reverse. There is then a narrowed waist between the plate and the rectangular loop, which is now incomplete (old and worn breaks). 17th century. Although it is much more sophisticated in its design and construction than the us…
Created on: Tuesday 30th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.