Record ID: SF-FE172A
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy post-medieval pin terminal. The object is flattened and crudely crucifom in shape with a raised cruciform ridge on one face and cruciform groove on the other. There is a break in the centre of the outer end of one arm, presumably where a shaft would have projected originally.  Other examples recorded on the PAS database have been attributed a post-medieval date: LON-A9B8F7, LON-A9B8F7 Length: 25.32mm, width: 19.91mm, thickness: 3.25mm, weight: 3.84g
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-472974
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy mount of probable post-medieval date. It is a narrow strip shape with a complete terminal to one end, a break at the other end and a hooked section projecting at a right-angle from the outer face towards the break. The terminal consists of a rounded knop pierced with a small circular hole and a longer knop projecting from the centre of its outer end. The section of the strip between the terminal and the hook is D-shaped in cross-section with a rounded outer face while the remainder beyond the hook has a narrower rectangular cross-section. The surface of the m…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashfield cum Thorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B8190D
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:  A complete Medieval to Post Medieval gilt silver hat badge (dress hook) dating to circa AD 1500-1550. It consists of a discoidal plate with recessed panel and separately made soldered S-shape hook projecting from the reverse. The S-shaped hook tapers into a point and is now flattened. The plate contains a border of two concentric circles of moulded twisted rope design. The interior has a recessed circular cell which would have carried incised decoration but is now very heavily worn and this cannot be discerned with clarity. There are possibly two opposed initials or …
Created on: Friday 27th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-937808
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy medieval to post-medieval purse frame. Only the attachment loop survives. This is oval in shape and horizontally flattened in cross-section with a short bar, circular in cross-section, projecting from its lower end culminating in a cylindrical knop. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded. It is not clear whether it belongs to Ward Perkins (1967, 167, fig.50-52) Type A or B because the bar is missing. Length: 44.77mm, width: 16.85mm, thickness: 6.46mm, weight: 5.33g
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashfield cum Thorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D0745C
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy late medieval to post-medieval shield-shaped mount. It is shield-shaped with a raised ridge running longitudinally down the centre of the outer face - the same ridge concave to its reverse. To either side of this the outer face is decorated with alternating wide diagonal ridges and recesses, the recesses filled with cross-hatching - probably an armorial design. There are small circular attachment holes in the centre of the lower end and to either side of the upper end - the latter two filled with iron corrosion.  Its style, decoration and pa…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snape', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D02881
Object type: COIN WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy post-medieval lozenge-shaped coin weight issued for uncertain denomination. Uniface, featuring a male bust right with long hair and cap. Probably continental. Length: 14.90mm, width: 15.35mm, thickness: 3.31mm, weight: 4.62g
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Benhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-80690A
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete enamelled copper-alloy post-medieval button. The button is discoidal with a convex outer face and concave reverse. The remains of a small integral attachment loop project from the centre of the reverse. The reverse is decorated with the raise arms of the Commonwealth comprising the shields England (St George) and Ireland (the Harp) placed next to one another, dating the object to the Commonwealth period - AD 1649-60. Traces of enamel can be seen within and surrounding this design, but this is now too corroded for the colours to be seen clearly. Traces of a white metal c…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boxted', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-54B7B4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead medieval to early post-medieval penny sized 'Boy Bishop' token, dating to the period c.1470-1539 AD. Rigold's (1978, 95) Bury Series I ('neat, inscribed Bury series). Obverse: [S]ANTVS NICHOLAVS - Mitre Reverse: AVE/ REX/ GEN/TIS.  - Long cross dividing the legend with three pellets in each quarter. Diameter: 16.75mm, thickness: 1.59mm, weight: 1.91g
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C47FD7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete gilded silver post-medieval dress hook. The object consists of a composite, ornately moulded, sub-circular central section with a sub-rectangular silver wire attachment loop projecting to one end of its reverse and a silver sharp rear-facing hook to the other end. The central section is composed of a separate circular, annular-shaped border, eight knops projecting from regular intervals around its edge, with a flower-shaped disc and then a smaller flower-shaped boss attached via a silver rivet to the centre of its outer face and a solid disc-shaped plate coverin…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Troston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5825E2
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete gilded silver openwork eye-element of a two-piece hooked clasp or dress fastener. The object is very roughly D-shaped with a curved outer edge and straight inner edge. It is pierced with two longitudinally aligned rows of small circular holes flanking a moulded heart design in the centre of the outer face. Moulded foliage decorates the remainder of the outer face, weaving between the holes and two very small knops project from the centre of the outer edge. The curved outer edge is wavy and a circular loop projects from the centre of the outer edge. It survives i…
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Troston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-32E65E
Object type: MUSKET BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Six lead post-medieval musket balls.  Weights: 15.85g, 22.65g, 17.49g, 19.39g, 6.80g, 4.51g
Created on: Monday 21st August 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hoxne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2B9F21
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy post-medieval token farthing issued by a Cambridge trader in the seventeenth century. No precise parallel for this example has been found. Obv: - [...] - A HALFE [PEN]Y in the centre in three lines Rev: IN CAMBRID[...]
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th November 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SF-D4F25D
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, but damaged, copper-alloy late medieval to post-medieval composite pin. The head is made from two dished disc-shaped sections of sheet metal soldered together. A simple wire shank, tapering to a point at its lower end, is attached separately to the centre of the lower disc. The head feels heavy given its construction, suggesting that it may be filled with lead. The shank is bent at an angle and there is a small indentation to one side of the head. See parallels from excavations in  London (Egan 2005, nos. 221&224) suggesting a possible 15th-17t…
Created on: Thursday 29th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-05078F
Object type: WHISTLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy whistle dating to the modern period. The object appears to have been rolled into a cylinder, with one end cut and folded to create a D-shaped mouth-piece. The object has been slightly bent out of shape. There is a casting seem running along the bottom up to the mouthpiece and a separate in situ lead-alloy reed extending 10.80mm out from the lower part of the whistle. 
Created on: Monday 19th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wrentham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-021704
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy trade weight of post-medieval to modern date. The weight is circular in shape with a raised rim around the outer edge of the outer face, measuring 3.86mm in thickness. Set in the centre of the front face is a recessed circular panel. SUFFOLK is inscribed towards one end with a horizontal T-shape in the centre and the letters 'DT L' within an oval border below. The reverse has a circular pit in the centre surrounded by a circular depression.  Shares similarities on the database with SF-E89163. 
Created on: Monday 19th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pakefield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C72655
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead post-medieval double cloth seal. It is formed from two double discs of lead joined to one side via an integral loop while an integral rivet projects from the reverse of one of the outermost discs, passing through a hole in the other outermost disc. Decoration seems to be restricted to the outer faces of the innermost discs. One has the raised design of a harp and the other raised lettering in three lines: 'M []//FA X//[][] The style of lettering suggests a 16th or 17th century date. Egan writes 'stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile …
Created on: Friday 16th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Benacre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F030D4
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead groat-sized boy Boy Bishop token, dating to the period c.1470-1539 AD. Rigold's (1978, 95, pl.IX,k) uninscribed Bury Series, crude, garbled Type B6. c.f. Rigold 1978, 98.  Obverse: chevrons and scrolls - mitre and crozier Reverse: long cross dividing the legend with three pellets in each quarter and no outer decoration. Diameter: 26.11mm, thickness: 1.60mm, weight: 4.67g
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kennett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0A38DB
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy post-medieval openwork harness pendant. Only a fragment of the upper end survives. This has a curved outer edge with an elongated suspension loop projecting at a right-angle from its centre. Behind this there is a solid sub-oval section, its upper end connected to the edge behind the suspension loop and its left edge connected via a narrow strip. Another curved strip projects below this, its outer end terminating in a break. Traces of a central rocker-arm engraved motif can be seen on the outer face of the outer edge while the outer face of the oval section is d…
Created on: Friday 26th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A66067
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead penny-sized boy Boy Bishop token, dating to the period c.1470-1539 AD. Rigold's (1978, 94) Bury Series 1F. Obverse: :SANCTVS: NICHOLAVS[...] - Mitre Reverse: AVE/ REX/ [GEN/TIS] - Long cross dividing the legend with three pellets in each quarter. Diameter: 17.00mm, thickness: 1.10mm, weight: 1.59g
Created on: Thursday 27th April 2023
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7C9922
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
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 longitudinally along its centre to create a u-shape in cross-section culminating in a the remains of a right-angle terminal at one end and a worn break at the other. There is a small circular hole through one edge with three conjoined holes, their outer edges missing, slightly further along. These would have held the fabric of the purse in place originally. The metal is heavily corroded with much of the original surface missing, obscuring any potential …
Created on: Tuesday 25th April 2023
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Buckenham', grid reference and parish protected.