Record ID: SF-4777D4
Object type: SHOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval lead dumb-bell shot dating to circa AD 1600-1800. Cast in one piece, it consists of two D-shaped terminals joined by a narrowed and constricted mid section. It has a creamy white patina.  Similar examples are recorded under SWYOR-D23605 and BERK-47F5A9
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-25F2C3
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a lead alloy ingot. It is slightly wider at the base than the top, and narrow along its length. There are no distinguishing marks, and has an even brown patina. There is no indication that it was used by suspension, although half of it is missing.The shape would suggest a relatively modern origin. Dimensions: 34m wide and 32mm long, 21mm high, it weighs 199.84g
Created on: Friday 20th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-EC3D11
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval lead-alloy token dating to circa AD 1600-1800. It is discoidal in plan with uniface decoration. In the centre is a raised pellet with a cross and saltire through it. The terminals of the cross are fleur de lis.  The token is consistent with Powell Type 14
Created on: Thursday 5th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-40FEC6
Object type: TOBACCO HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Post Medieval cast lead alloy handle for a tobacco box, c.AD 1600-1790. The handle is broadly oval in plan and irregular in profile. The central handle is broadly decorated as a flower. It has a central raised boss, which expands into a series of eight radiating lentoid shaped petals. The neck below the handle becomes narrow before expanding outwards in a slanting platform with the remains of a rivet protruding from underneath. Similar examples are illustrated in G Bailey's 'Detector Finds', number 4 page 62, which he dates to the middle of the 17th century and s…
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 12th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-40FB3C
Object type: TOY
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Post Medieval cast lead alloy possible toy gun, c.AD 1800-1900. This is likely to be one half of the cast grip from a miniature toy pistol, with moulded detail representing a handle textured with rhomboids, extending from a flat butt with a lug containing a rivet hole to the proximal edge of a plate with beaded border, which would be next to the lock of a flintlock gun. On the flat reverse, a single oval inset appears, where the decoration on the obverse rises up. The entire fragment is patinated. The antique form may be an unreliable guide to the date …
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-272CEC
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy post-medieval button. Discoidal with much of the shank missing. The outer face is decorated with a central pellet with lines radiating outwards from it, although this is heavily obscured by corrosion and sections are missing from the edges.  See Read 2005, 73, no.270 for comparison. Read (ibid.) dates this to the 16th to early 17th century, but other examples in the group span both centuries
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2724C3
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy post-medieval button. Discoidal with much of the shank missing. The outer face is decorated with a central pellet with lines radiating outwards from it. The metal is heavily corroded and sections are missing from the edges.  See Read 2005, 73, no.270 for comparison. Read (ibid.) dates this to the 16th to early 17th century, but other examples in the group span both centuries. 
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E76099
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy button of post-medieval. The front of the head is domed to a rounded point with recessed lines radiating outwards from the centre. There is an integral attachment projecting 4.21mm from the reverse, but the loop is missing. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded. See Read (2010, 69-75) for numerous examples, most of which seem to be of 16th or 17th century date.
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E3395E
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a lead-alloy cloth seal of probable post-medieval date. Originally this would have comprised two discs attached together via a lug projecting from the reverse of on and passing through a hole in the centre of the other. Now all that remains is the lug, squashed flat, with part of an unclear heraldic design on its outer end where it would have sat through the hole. The surface of the metal is hevaily corroded and the details are unclear. The design suggests a post-medieval date. Egan writes 'stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile industry during t…
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Peasenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-690B7C
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead Post Medieval two-part cloth seal. It is a double disc seal, which is folded along a narrow connecting strip. The seal has been squashed.  One disc has a stamped decoration slightly off center of the middle; the decoration consists of a gate comprised of a raised square with nine squares within it. The second disc is undecorated and the rivet can be seen in the centre.
Created on: Thursday 6th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 30th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: SF-9A8EC8
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval lead-lloy palm guard dating to circa AD 1600-1800. It is discoidal in plan and plano-convex in section.  
Created on: Monday 26th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 26th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Tattingstone', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-467712
Object type: BRIDLE FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval cast lead-alloy decorated mount, possibly a horse bridle boss, c. 1700-1850 AD. The object is discoidal in plan. It consists of three roundles surrounding a domed centre. The innermost roundel carries floral decoration. The middle roundel is finished with a white metal coating  whilst the outer roundel contains longitudinal incised grooves running around the circumference.  On the reverse project three iron protrusions at the apex, bottom and middle. Only one survives intact as a circular-sectioned prong. The iron elements were likely use…
Created on: Thursday 22nd June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Polstead', 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.

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Record ID: SF-CDE451
Object type: MUSKET BALL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single pherical lead musket ball of post-medieval date, c.AD 1500-1850. Diameter: 11.47mm, weight: 8.23g
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Benacre', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-6CBAE5
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete probable Post Medieval lead-alloy weight dating to circa AD 1550-1700. It is discoidal in plan with flat edges. Each face is plain. Now bent out of shape, both faces exhibit post-depositional plough damage.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sternfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-38B589
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval lead-alloy cloth seal dating to circa AD 1649-1660. The extant piece consists of one disc of a probable 4 disc alnage seal. One face bear the arms of the Commonwealth (shields of St George and harp for England and Ireland respectively). The other has a raised pellet in the centre. The tab for the seal is now survived by a short stub protruding from 12 o'clock of the front face.  Similar examples are recorded under: LVPL-13A655; LEIC-BD1E08 and  NMS-A1C53A Diameter: 14mm; Thickness: 1.6mm; Weight: 1.35g.
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Harkstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-EDDACD
Object type: TOBACCO HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead alloy tobacco box lid handle of post medieval date ( AD 1600-1850 ). The handle is oval in plan with a central raised boss and has no decoration. The neck below the handle becomes narrow before expanding outwards in a slanting platform with a rivet protruding from underneath. The artefact is in good condition. Similar examples are illustrated in G Bailey's 'Detector Finds', number 4 page 62, which he dates to the middle of the 17th century and states that the lead boxes were used to keep moist tobacco inside. It is likely that this form …
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-E970CA
Object type: TOBACCO HOLDER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast and decorated lead alloy tobacco box lid handle. The handle is broadly oval in plan and irregular in profile. The central handle is broadly decorated as a flower. It has a central raised boss, which expands into a series of eight radiating lentoid shaped petals. The neck below the handle becomes narrow before expanding outwards in a slanting platform with the remains of a rivet protruding from underneath. There is some corroded iron attached to the rivet. The artefact is in good condition. Similar examples are illustrated in G Bailey's 'Detector Finds…
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-A0F87D
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead medieval token of the Boy Bishop type, dating to the period AD 1480-15300. The obverse depicts a mitre surrounded by a crude legend. There is a shield on the reverse, divided into quarters and with a letter in each quadrant, surrounded by a crude legend. It probably imitated a penny of Henry VII c.f. Fletcher's Leaden Tokens and Tallies, p29. During medieval winter solstices it became a Christian tradition for each town to elect a Boy Bishop who was paraded around in processions during which lead tokens were handed out to the cro…
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2022
Last updated: Monday 19th December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-D61664
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post medieval lead-alloy cloth seal dating to circa AD 1550-1725. One disc is is inscribed HH/IE surrounded by a swirling ribbon motif in relief. The second disc is stamped with the letter C. Diameter: 21.6mm; Thickness: 4mm; Weight: 4.81g.
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 27th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.