Record ID: SF-5782E3
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead post-medieval two-part cloth seal. Parts of both discs survive, but it is very damaged, corroded and bent out of shape. Part of a raised monogram design is visible on the outer face, but the details are unclear. The style of lettering suggests a 16th or 17th century date. Egan writes 'stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile industry during the late-medieval/early-modern period. They were attached to individual cloths as part of a system of industrial regulation and quality control. In England seals of this type were current from at lea…
Created on: Thursday 31st March 2022
Last updated: Monday 11th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-576E4A
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead post-medieval probable cloth seal. Only one disc survives with another smaller flattened disc attached to the reverse suggesting that it is part of a larger cloth seal. The outer face is decorated with several small unclear letters around the edge and a pellet inner circle. The style of lettering suggests a 16th or 17th century date. Egan writes 'stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile industry during the late-medieval/early-modern period. They were attached to individual cloths as part of a system of industrial regulation and quality …
Created on: Thursday 31st March 2022
Last updated: Monday 11th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-576561
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
11 x post-medieval lead cloth seals. The form and style of lettering on each suggests a 19th century date. Egan writes 'stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile industry during the late-medieval/early-modern period. They were attached to individual cloths as part of a system of industrial regulation and quality control. In England seals of this type were current from at least the late fourteeth to the early nineteenth centuries (1995, vii).'
Created on: Thursday 31st March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-575BCE
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy purse frame of late medieval to post-medieval date. It consists of a strip of metal folded along its centre into a u-shape in cross-section. There are three small circular holes through the one face where the fabric of the purse would have been held in place. The other face is decorated with double zigzag engraved lines. There are rough breaks at each end and the fragment is slightly distorted. Without the purse bar these fragments of frame are difficult to date more precisely than mid-15th to early 17th century (see Williams 2018, 11). A very simila…
Created on: Thursday 31st March 2022
Last updated: Monday 11th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A00069
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy purse frame of late medieval to post-medieval date. It consists of a strip of metal folded along its centre into a u-shape in cross-section. This has then been bent into a spiral cross-section, which is probably due to post-deposition damage. There is one small circular hole through the edge of one side and the edge of a further hole is visible in one break. The opposite outer face is decorated with double zigzag engraved lines. There is a worn break at each end. Without the purse bar these fragments of frame are dif…
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-9C9C07
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy late medieval to early post-medieval anonymous 'ship-penny' jetton, dating to c.AD 1490-1550. Heavily corroded. Obv: Profile of a ship sailing, but details unclear - [...] Rev: Four fleur de lis in a lozenge, detailed very unclear - [..] Mitchiner 1988, 365-376 Diameter: 23.87mm, thickness: 0.79mm, weight: 1.41g
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5DF44B
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-medieval copper-alloy and iron knife or other item of cutlery. Consisting of an openwork decorative copper-alloy handle with a corroded iron fragment protruding from its lower end. The handle is moulded to form an upright crowned lion holding a shield in its front paws, the lower end of which rests on the ground. The crown is openwork with a single arch, the lion has human-like features and scale-like mouldings representing its mane. Unclear decoration is visible on the outer surface of the shield. A hole passes through the lion's jaws where a copp…
Created on: Monday 7th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0C4205
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete (clipped) silver post-medieval half crown of Charles I, dating to the period AD 1625-49. Unclear initial mark and group. c.f. North vol.II, no.2200ff
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-0C15D4
Object type: MEDALLION
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post-medieval copper-alloy medalet from the end of the Peninsula War campaign commemorating the restoration of Louis XVIII and the Bourbon Dynasty and the exile of Napoleon to Elba in AD 1814. Pierced with a small circular hole at the 12 o'clock position to allow suspension. Obverse: [INSEPARABLE FRIENDS / TO ELBA] -Napoleon sitting backwards on a donkey being led by the Devil Reverse: WE CONQUER TO SET FREE with EMP/ OF RUSSIA/ K OF PRUSSIA/ MARQUIS/ WELLINGTON/ PRINCE/ SCWARTZEN/BERG in the centre Diameter: 24.93mm, thickness: 1.37mm, weight: 4.48g
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2022
Last updated: Friday 4th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-09D4E2
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy post-medieval dress hook. The main body is a circular disc-shape with a moulded rose design on its outer face and slightly convex, undecorated reverse. A trapezoidal attachment loop projects from the upper end and the remains of a rear-facing hook from the lower end, most of which is missing. Several similar examples are illustrated by Read (2008, 95-96) who suggests that their main phase of use was from c.AD 1500-50, but that they may have continued to be used into the 17th century. Length: 23.75mm, width: 14.01mm, thickness: 2.71mm, weight: 1.94g
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blythburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-095F66
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gilded copper-alloy medieval harness pendant. Originally the pendant would have been quatrefoil shaped, but only a section of the upper end now survives. A flat triangular section culminating in a suspension loop projects from the centre of the upper edge. The outer face is decorated with parallel engraved zigzag lines in an unclear - perhaps a cross pattee - design. A tiny trace of gilding survives to one side. The simple engraved and gilded design on the outer face is similar to that seen on several pendants illustrated by Ashley (2002, 5-6, figs.5-7), which …
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blythburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-093DEC
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy purse frame of late medieval to post-medieval date. It consists of a strip of metal folded along its centre into a u-shape in cross-section. There is a small circular hole through the centre of one face where the fabric of the purse would have been held in place. The other face is decorated with zigzag engraved double lines. The breaks at either end are well worn. Without the purse bar these fragments of frame are difficult to date more precisely than mid-15th to early 17th century (see Williams 2018, 11). A very similar, but larger, fragment from Nor…
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blythburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8D2F26
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver coin, probably of post-medieval date, bent into a shallow S-shaped profile to form a love token. No details or traces of legend survive on either face. 
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blythburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8CEBAD
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval harness pendant. It is disc-shaped with a small stub projecting from the centre of the upper edge, which is all that remains of a suspension loop. The outer face is decorated with the raised outline of a 'pelican in her piety' standing on the edge of her nest, plucking her breast to feed three small chicks with her own blood. Surround this is a raised scroll and foliage design. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded and the breaks are well worn. Other pendants of this type are often gilded, but no trace of gilding remains on the surface…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blythburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-8CDDE5
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy post-medieval traders token, issued by Thomas Postle of Southwold in 1652. Obv: THOMAS . POSTLE - The Grocer's Arms Rev: IN. SOVTHWOLD . 1652 - A heart. T . P, small crescent and star. Williamson 1967, 1099 Diameter: 16.05mm, thickness: 0.86mm, weight: 1.01g
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Monday 6th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blythburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-8CCDA4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy post-medieval token farthing issued by the town of Kings Lynn in 1668. Obv: KINGS . LYN . FARTHING . 1668 - roses and pellets above and below Rev: Arms of Lynn; three conger eels' heads erect, in the mouth of each a cross crosslet fitchee. Williamson 1967, 847, no.63 Diameter: 21.37mm, thickness: 1.41mm, weight: 2.26g
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Monday 6th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blythburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8C8676
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy post-medieval token halfpenny of Beccles, Suffolk, issued AD 1795. Obv: [B'ECCLESIÆ] - South porch of the church. Rev: COMMUNITATE AUCTA 1795 - View of ancient Beccles bridge. Lettering and date above, FSU on a label below Diameter: 28.35mm, thickness: 2.08mm, weight: 9.79g
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blythburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E7F699
Object type: BODKIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A fragment of a silver post-medieval bodkin. The surviving section of the main body is rectangular in cross-section and an hourglass-shaped terminal projects from its outer end. There is a rectangular hole extending inwards from behind the lower break and above this a solid section, either face of which is decorated with two incised transverse lines followed by an outwards facing V-shape. The inner part of the terminal is pierced with a small circular hole, while the outer section has one concave face and one convex face creating an small spoon or scoop. The object is slig…
Created on: Friday 12th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 27th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-BA4C20
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of the handle of a medieval to post-medieval chafing dish handle. Only the outer edge consisting of two adjoining curved sections remains. These are rectangular in cross-section. There is a break at either end where two straight sides would have attached. Chafing dishes were made from both metal and pottery and were used to contain hot charcoal to cook food or keep it warm at the table. This is of 16th or 17th century date.  Length: 46.31mm, width: 18.99mm, thickness: 5.09mm, weight: 9.94g
Created on: Wednesday 10th November 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-6869B8
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy post-medieval miniature toy cannon. The barrel tapers gently towards its outer end with a bulbous cascable projecting from its closed wider end and three moulded binding rings midway along its length. A trunnion, square in section, projects from one side of the larger ring, while the one on the opposite side is missing. These would have allowed it to be mounted onto a wooden base originally. The touch hole is drilled and the cannon would have been functional. Forsyth & Egan (2005, 78-80) Type 2. Length: 40.95mm, width: 14.4…
Created on: Monday 25th October 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashbocking', grid reference and parish protected.