Record ID: SF8285
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular mount, with broken loop to one side. The mount is 37 mm long and has central relief-decorated rectangular panel with two shaped ends. The relief decoration appears to be symmetrical, but is rather blurred and hard to read. Each shaped end has a rivet hole and there is a third in the centre; two are blocked with iron corrosion but one of the end holes is clear. On one of the long sides of the mount are two projecting circular-section spikes, with a 13 mm gap in between. They probably represent the remains of a loop. No good parallel has been found for the form of this …
Created on: Friday 8th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WETHERINGSETT CUM BROCKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8286
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy dish-support from a chafing dish. Chafing dishes held burning charcoal and were used at table to keep food warm. The support has a flat top, so is most like Lewis's Type D, which Lewis dates to the 16th century. The metal is greyish and smoothly polished, and the dish-support is quite thick at 6 mm; but the scars at the base show the metal of the dish itself to have been remarkably thin and, presumably, fragile.
Created on: Friday 8th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WETHERINGSETT CUM BROCKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8241
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lozenge-shaped armorial shield made from a lead alloy covered with a fragmentary thin shiny sheet, perhaps made of silver. The arms are in relief and there are no colours or tinctures surviving. There appears to be some iron corrosion on the reverse but no clear means of attachment. The lozenge indicates that these are the arms of a woman, and the lack of impaling shows that the woman was unmarried. The arms are: quarterly 1 and 4: or on a pile engrailed sable, between two fountains barry wavy of six argent and azure three crosses-crosslet of the first. 2 and 3: argent on a bend sa…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORNHAM ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8246
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object made from a flat piece of copper alloy. It consists of two flaring and curving elements joined by three short struts. One flaring and curving element has a more gentle curve, and tapers from 10.5 to 7.5 mm wide. It is decorated with two longitudinal grooves with oblique grooves in between One complete hole retains a copper-alloy ?rivet; the shank of this does not project beyond the reverse of the object, and the 'head' is a flat lozenge with each corner extended into a bent-over claw. The claws may have held some kind of setting. Each end of this element has b…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as ''Badlingham'', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8248
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount in the shape of a horse's head, probably from a strap. The neck of the horse is cut off straight, and has a ridge forming the edge. A groove runs up the back of the neck delineating the start of the mane, which has low oblique ribbing. The mane tapers as it goes up the neck, and ends in a forelock which projects upwards in a curve. Below the forelock is an ear in high relief. The head is well modelled in low relief and is in a realistic, perhaps classical, style with straight nose. The front of the neck is curved outwards. The reverse is roughly cast and sligh…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8250
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny 'casket' key made from copper alloy with a shiny white-metal coating. The bow is circular and 9.5 mm in diameter, with some wear opposite the stem suggesting that it was hung from a ring. There is a double moulding at the top of the circular-section stem, and its tip is pierced. The small bit has two horizontal channels on either face. Total length 26 mm. A well-made key which is hard to date - perhaps early post-medieval?
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8225
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy end-cap from a knife handle, in the shape of a horse's hoof. At the top of the hoof, the rectangular-section iron tang can be seen which originally ran through the centre of the handle and was forged in one with the blade. The end-cap is oval in cross-section, and has a groove running around the top. It curves and is decorated with another groove, a concave moulding and a final groove around the base. The base itself has a groove down the centre dividing it into two. There are three dots on either side of the groove, representing the nails of the horseshoe. At one en…
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WICKHAM MARKET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8231
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete gold finger-ring, set with a colourless stone. The hoop is narrow and broken into two parts, with about a quarter missing. It is D-shaped in cross-section, flaring from a minimum of 1.2 mm wide and 1.4 mm thick to a maximum of 1.8 mm wide and 2 mm thick at the junction with the bezel. Although this would seem to leave little room for decoration on the shoulders, there is in fact a great deal of complicated scrolly engraving extending around half the hoop and ending with a short longitudinal groove. The bezel is 8.5 mm square, and tapers to a point underneath with a finely…
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ipswich.', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8228
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Piece of lead which has been melted onto a numismatic item, perhaps a coin or a token or a commemorative medal. The lead has covered between a quarter and a half survives, cast from a c. 25 mm diameter disc. The central motif may be two initials, of which the left-hand one (right-hand on the original item) looks like an I. The initials are contained within a circle of tiny radiating oval depressions (pellets on the original). The partial inscription around appears to read 'I. ETALG'. The style of the lettering appears late 17th or 18th century. There is a slight rim around the ed…
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WICKHAM MARKET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8230
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large gold finger-ring. The external diameter is 23.5 mm and the internal diameter is 19 mm. The hoop is 7 mm wide, and is D-shaped or very slightly biconvex in cross-section. It is 2.5 mm thick and weighs 13.69g. The exterior is completely undecorated; the interior has an engraved 'posy' between two slightly different ornamental scrolly motifs. The posy reads (in Italian, and in italic lettering) Questo ci, fa una. This can be translated as 'This to (or for) us, makes one'. A slightly freer translation might be 'This ring makes us one'. Judy Rudoe has commented that the style of the …
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2002
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8211
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8212
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8199
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two nearly-identical relief-decorated copper-alloy mounts, probably from a set. Each one is basically heart- or drop-shaped, with a small D-shaped projection in the centre of the wider end and a trefoil terminal at the narrower end. The relief decoration consists of a pellet on the D-shaped projection, then a border to the heart shape consisting of two lines scrolling inwards at the wider end and outwards at the narrow end to form the two side lobes of the trefoil. The scrolled lines enclose a rosette made up of six pellets around a central pellet, and the central lobe of the termin…
Created on: Monday 25th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DENNINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8182
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 14th February 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: SF8183
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 14th February 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: SF8184
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 14th February 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: SF8185
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 14th February 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: SF8186
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Thursday 14th February 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: SF8153
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 11th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WETHERINGSETT CUM BROCKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8149
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 11th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WETHERINGSETT CUM BROCKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.